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Northern Ireland police faced a barrage of petrol bombs and rocks on Thursday, an AFP journalist said, as violence once again flared in Belfast despite pleas for calm. Riot police on the republican side of the divided city were pelted with projectiles as they tried to prevent a crowd moving towards pro-UK unionists. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish counterpart Micheal Martin had earlier called for “calm” following days of violence that included a petrol-bomb attack on a moving bus. Martin and Johnson held telephone talks in which they stressed that “violence is unacceptable” and “called for calm”, the...

JOHANNESBURG - It is now legal to use Ivermectin to treat COVID-19.In January, Dr Naseeba Kathrada was one of 700 doctors who wrote a letter to the President, calling for the go-ahead to use the drug.Kathrada says the drug can be used for prophylaxis, in the early treatment of COVID-19 patients. Ivermectin can now be legally used to treat COVID-19. In January Dr Naseeba Kathrada was one of 700 doctors who wrote a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa calling for the go-ahead to use the drug. Courtesy #DStv403 pic.twitter.com/klTMZPnhNP— eNCA (@eNCA) April 8, 2021Meanwhile, the Department of Health has reported...

After covering for the Bidens before the 2020 Election, the media is finally touching upon the Hunter Biden saga. Kyle Becker at Trending Politics notes today: The mainstream news media covered for future president Joe Biden during his election campaign by referring to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal as likely “Russian disinformation.” Twitter even went so far as to block the New York Post’s story on its account, despite the evidence that the report was authentic. Now, the Daily Mail has come forward with a forensic audit that shows the “Hunter Biden laptop” is indeed Hunter Biden’s. The Daily Mail...

Neuralink demonstrates how it used its sensor hardware and brain implant to record a baseline of activity from this macaque (named ‘Pager’) as it played a game on-screen where it had to move a token to different squares using a joystick with its hand. Using that baseline data, Neuralink was able to use machine learning to anticipate where Pager was going to be moving the physical controller, and was eventually able to predict it accurately before the move was actually made. Researchers then removed the paddle entirely, and eventually did the same thing with Pong, ultimately ending up at a...

“Rand Paul has done a fantastic job for our Country, and for the incredible people of Kentucky. He fights against the Swamp in Washington, the Radical Left Liberals, and especially the destructive RINOS, of which there are far too many, in Congress,” Trump said in a statement sent by released by his political action committee, Save America 45.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.Tenting Tonight Civil War Music Video Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall Isaiah 40:30 (NIV)

COVID-19 hot spot graphic (via The TODAY Show, https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1380134029765263360 )Looks like The Today Show just may have committed what Rush Limbaugh used to call a “random act of journalism,” as Townhall reports. They did a piece wondering why some of the states with the strictest restrictions in the country, like Michigan and New York, were now experiencing surges in the Wuhan coronavirus while the places which removed restrictions and dropped mandates, like Texas and Arkansas, had decreasing cases?Some states with stricter rules are now seeing surges in COVID-19 cases, while many others that rushed to reopen are experiencing sizable drops....

If you’ve been wanting to tote a gun in the state of Tennessee, your options just got a little more…open.On Thursday, Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill that’ll change things for firearms owners in The Volunteer State who’d like to keep their sidearm at their side.The law — which takes effect July 1st — will allow both concealed and open carry without a permit.Such a thing — as you may know — is often called “constitutional carry.”Via Twitter, the governor thanked the state legislature as well as the National Rifle Association:“I signed constitutional carry today because it shouldn’t be hard...

Megan Rapinoe expanded on her criticism of Draymond Green on Wednesday, saying that his recent comments on women's sports and equal pay were "frustrating" and "not acceptable at all."

When several Christian colleges sued to stop the Obama administration's proposed contraceptive mandate in 2013, their trade association briefly had their back. Forcing faith-based institutions to cover abortifacient drugs under the Affordable Care Act threatens "the religious liberty of all people and the entire nation," Edward Blews, then-president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, told the feds. When the final rule was released a few months later, however, the CCCU was reportedly silent. Several years later, not only the CCCU but some of its highest profile members are staying quiet about another potential infringement of their religious liberty:...

UN says tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur kill 40 over 3 daysBy Samy Magdy | APApril 5, 2021 at 3:42 p.m. EDTCAIRO — Tribal clashes that erupted over the weekend between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s western Darfur region have killed at least 40 people and wounded around 60 others, the U.N. said Monday.The violence was between the Arab Rizeigat and the Masalit tribes in Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur province. It happened after unknown armed men on Saturday shot dead two people from the Masalit, according to the U.N. humanitarian affairs agency.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/medical-group-says-tribal-clashes-in-sudans-darfur-kill-18/2021/04/05/632a566c-9604-11eb-8f0a-3384cf4fb399_story.htmlClashes between Arabs, non-Arabs in Sudan...

The island of St. Vincent, located in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea, issued an evacuation order Thursday after seismologists said the La Soufrière volcano showed signs of imminent eruption. The order from Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves comes after several days of increased seismic activity,,, La Soufrière's most devastating eruption was in 1902, killing around 1,600 people, according to the Guardian. Its last eruption was in April 1979. Videos posted on social media show smoke billowing out the top of the volcano. St. Vincent has a population of more than 110,000 people. An increase in La Soufrière's activity has...

New York’s top business leaders are gearing up for a potential mass exodus as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers prepare to raise their taxes. With the state budget set to increase the personal income tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers as well as hiking corporate taxes, some executives who fled the city for Florida temporarily due to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns are considering permanent relocation, according to business leaders briefed on the matter. Wealthy business leaders who have historically resisted moving at least some of their resources to Florida or other less-taxed states explained to CNBC that they are now...

The FBI is again requesting delays in their lawfully required efforts to produce all documents in the Seth Rich case. This has gone on for years with no penalty to the FBI or DOJ. They get to it when they can. Today the legal team, including Ty Clevenger, received a document from the FBI and DOJ where they again make excuses and request additional time to produce documents it has related to Seth Rich. They now are saying they have at least 1,563 pages of potentially responsive information that they need more time to get through: (FBI statement) In December,...

British media released new evidence of Hunter Biden’s sexual and drug escapades. According to the Daily Mail Thursday, Biden’s new book was designed to gloss over his immoral lifestyle while omitting key details of his illegal activities. The Mail found thousands of text messages dating back to 2019, which showed Hunter Biden begging his father Joe to run for president in order to save Hunter’s reputation. The texts also showed how Hunter repeatedly avoided police action over his purported ties to drug dealers. He apparently used the Secret Service to cover up his alleged binges with drugs and prostitutes back...

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sharp swings in the economy over the past year, thrusting many businesses and families into economic uncertainty and in some cases outright collapse. Even so, the number of national bankruptcies filed in 2020 was the lowest since 1986 and nearly 30 percent lower than in 2019. But many experts expect bankruptcies to increase in the coming years. The federal court system was closed near the beginning of the pandemic, which delayed filings for months. Moreover, bankruptcies also tend to be "lagging indicators" of economic distress because of the complex legal process involved; the Great Recession...

Are Christians, at long last, aware of this horrible reality?’April 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Christian conservative leader James Dobson is urging Americans to take a public stand before it’s “too late” against President Joe Biden’s “radically-left agenda” that has brought the nation to a point where it is “teetering on the edge.” “It’s more clear than ever that our nation is teetering on the edge,” said Dobson, who has advised five presidents on faith and family matters over four decades, in a March 26 piece published on his website. “Are Christians, at long last, aware of this horrible reality? And...

BERLIN/ZURICH (Reuters) - Instances of a very rare clotting condition in women aged under 60 who received AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine were 20 times higher than would normally be expected, Christian Bogdan, a member of Germany's vaccine committee, said on Wednesday. His comments came as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Britain's medical regulator acknowledged a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine to rare blood clots with low blood platelet counts.

Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - The possible introduction of a change of the liturgical calendar to allow all Christians in the world to celebrate Easter on the same day "is not on the agenda of the Orthodox Church, or at least it is not on the agenda of the Russian Orthodox Church", and in any case the Russian Orthodox have "no intention" of changing the traditional system with which the date for the Easter celebration is fixed in their Church. This was stated in a recent television interview by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External...

Brothers All. But With the Muslims, for Francis, All Is More ComplicatedFraternal dialogue among all the religions and doors open to immigrants of any faith. These are the two main avenues of the religious geopolitics of the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.The first was put to the test with the pope's trip to Iraq, from March 5 to 8. And it had its culminating moments in the visit of Francis to Shiite grand ayatollah Al-Sistani and in the meeting in Ur between “the sons of Abraham” (see photo).But in Ur the Jews were missing, due to a veto by the...