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A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday. The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting suspicious, Superintendent Woodrow Jones II told a news conference. The first caller said he thought the person had a gun, left a telephone number but didn't give an address before hanging up, Jones said. A second caller gave a street address for the suspicious person that was a short distance from the Leonardtown barracks, but...

“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established” (Proverbs 15:22).

Join together 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 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

I’m sorry your sensitive soul is triggered. You’ve spent 60 years being a professional liar. https://t.co/mC6Qg2x3WO— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 14, 2021When Cotton or Cruz trends on Twitter it should come with a trigger warning.— Dan Rather (@DanRather) April 14, 2021

Francis "Strongly Believes" In Abu Dhabi HeresyOnly four people knew about the heretical February 2019 Abu Dhabi Declaration before it was completed, writes Judge Mohamed Abdel Salam in the 2021 book The Pope and the Grand Imam: A Thorny Path.The four persons were Francis, his former secretary Yoannis Lahzi, the Cairo Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb, and Mohamed Abdel Salam.The first draft was written by the Imam, and revised by Francis. The Imam wrote a second draft, and Francis gave again his input.During an October 2018 meeting - it was their fourth - Francis told the Imam and Salam, “I strongly...

Dr. Richard Fleming says the vaccine companies own data, from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, all show they make zero difference in stopping covid. The Emergency Use Authorization data “shows there is no difference.”

The federal government program designed to help cover funeral costs for people who have died of COVID-19 was inundated with more than 1 million calls on its launch day. The Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) rolled out its hotline Monday, inviting Americans to apply for up to $9,000 per funeral and up to $35,500 per applicant to help with expenses related to coronavirus deaths occurring after January 20, 2020.... ..."This is going to be a nightmare on fraud," Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told CBS News. "FEMA didn't willingly undertake this. Congress directed it."

Checks headed to families eligible for the child tax credit are on track to go out starting in July. The Internal Revenue Service commissioner confirmed the agency expects to launch its portal for the credit on July 1, despite concerns about the challenges the IRS would face implementing a program... ...As part of the COVID relief package signed into law by President Joe Biden in March, the child tax credit was increased for one year with children ages 6 to 17 eligible for a $3,000 credit and children under 6 getting $3,600. The legislation also makes the benefit fully refundable...

...First, the company is offering a $100 “Vaccine Support Payment.” Other companies have decided to do this, but Bridgestone will be tracking that information in Workday, their enterprise management system. If employees do not apply for the payment, they must report their vaccine status to the Human Resources Business Partner, who will enter it into the system. According to the policy, employees may be asked to present their government-issued COVID-19 vaccination record as evidence of complete vaccination.... Under HIPAA, vaccination status is considered protected health information according to Abbye Alexander, JD, Partner, Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, Orlando... It is unclear...

Is it better to punish perceived racism so harshly that it practically disappears, or to improve the confidence of minorities so that racist incidents don't bother them? White liberals prefer the punitive approach to the "resilience option" by more than two to one (71-29%), according to a new report by a politics professor based on nearly three years of original surveys of Americans. In contrast, a majority of blacks (53%) favors resilience — a society where "racially offensive remarks no longer affect them" because of their increased confidence — rather than harsh punishment (47%). Developing that confidence is less likely,...

On this date in 1905, in the midst of Germany’s genocidal destruction of the Herero people in its Southwest Africa colony (present-day Namibia), the Otjosazu chief Sacharias Kamaituara Kukuri was hanged in Windhoek. More than half the Herero population perished following an abortive attempt to resist German colonization during this unfortunately little-remembered period, perhaps the very first of the 20th century’s ample store of genocides. Our man’s execution occurred at the moment of a policy pivot: after the horrific extermination policy initially practiced by General Lothar von Trotha, Germany’s Herero policy was “moderating”. Von Trotha’s extermination order had been officially...

...John Swanson, 81, of Genesee County, New York, like so many elderly Americans, was given no legitimate preventive or early treatment options for this now very predictable inflammatory response to COVID-19. He wound up on a ventilator at the United Memorial Medical Center in Batavia and, according to the court affidavit, was "on death's doorstep." The Buffalo News reports that, according to attorney Ralph C. Lorigo, Swanson was given one dose of ivermectin and began breathing on his own, was then taken off the ventilator, and began to show great progress. However, the hospital, with no other legitimate treatment options...

TAIPEI—Taiwan said on Wednesday its chip companies will adhere to U.S. rules after Washington added seven Chinese supercomputing entities last week to an economic blacklist and after a Taipei-based chipmaker halted orders from one of the entities named. The U.S. Commerce Department said the seven Chinese entities were “involved with building supercomputers used by China’s military actors, its destabilizing military modernization efforts, and/or weapons of mass destruction programs.” Companies or others listed on the U.S. Entity List are required to apply for licenses from the Commerce Department that face tough scrutiny when they seek permission to receive items from U.S....

The first batch of German-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in mainland China on April 13 and was made available to Chinese people for vaccination with a fee. This is the first time that the Chinese regime allowed Chinese people to receive an imported COVID-19 vaccine. The importer, Fosun Pharma from Shanghai China, ordered 100 million doses of the effective German-made COVID-19 vaccine for the mainland in December 2020. It’s unclear how many doses are available in this first batch. The Chinese regime has approved five locally made vaccines for emergency use, and vaccinated people without charging a fee. At the...

This article appears first and formost on American Greatness. The Wall Street Journal on Friday published an editorial headlined "The GOP’s Trump Problem." It gets things terribly wrong. The GOP is Trump’s party and it is The Wall Street Journal that has the Trump problem. Having been commendably supportive of the former president through most of his term, the Journal joined in the general embarkation of NeverTrumpers over the ostensible election results. The theory that inspired this headline is Trump had his chance but lost the election in a manner practically indistinguishable from defeated incumbents Jimmy Carter in 1980 and...

Question Asked 21st Jun, 2020 Prashant Sharma Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) People say that LENR will change the geo political and geo economic scenarios of the world...Is this technology really that great and capable...??? Nuclear Engineering Share ResearchGate Logo Get help with your research Join ResearchGate to ask questions, get input, and advance your work. Join for free Log in All Answers (3) 7th Jul, 2020 Kenneth Ricci Adelphi Technology Inc. Research into Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (also related to topics "Cold Fusion" and "Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions) is controversial, mainly because some physicists, chemists,...

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has issued an executive order banning the development or use of vaccine passports in Montana. Vaccine passports are documents that could be used to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop, and dine. The move by Gianforte on Tuesday comes as vaccine passports have drawn criticism as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. Gianforte says in a statement that he encourages all Montana residents to get vaccinated but that it is “entirely voluntary.” Vaccine passports have been implemented in New York but the White House has...

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- At least 39 fully vaccinated people in Sonoma County have come down with coronavirus over the course of the last two and a half months, according to county officials. However, doctors are cautioning against that headline, saying the efficacy rates actually appear to be very strong, and this is not a surprise. "That is exactly what we expected and in fact it's probably better than expected," says Dr. Peter Chin-Hong of UCSF.... "We are not invulnerable just because we are vaccinated, so the vaccine is about 90% effective in preventing any infection, but that is...

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill that aims to ban so-called “vaccine passports” on a state level. The legislation would also take away public health powers from county boards of health. The bill, named SB0858/HB0575, is sponsored by state Sen. Janice Bowling and state Rep. John Ragan, both Republican. If the bill makes it through the state House, it will depend on the governor to sign it into law. Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee expressed his disapproval for vaccine passports earlier this month on Twitter. “I oppose vaccine passports. The COVID-19 vaccine should be a personal health choice, not a...

A breastfeeding new mum said she has no choice but to take her eight week old baby to court - after her request to defer jury duty was denied. Zoe Stacey, 36, was told giving birth to baby William just two months ago is not an excuse not to sit on a jury. She attempted to appeal and change the dates - but was told she’ll be expected to turn up to Winchester Crown Court next month. Full-time mum Zoe said she’s still breastfeeding - so will have no choice but to bring baby William into the jury box. She...