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“The Biden administration’s first major move on Cuba is the strongest signal yet it has little appetite to reverse Trump-era policies toward the island nation…The State Department this past week listed Cuba as among those 'not cooperating fully with United States antiterrorism efforts,' renewing a determination first made in 2020 [by Trump administration], reported The Hill. Well, well. You’d like to think the Biden team’s (backhanded) compliment to the Trump team might issue from an actual analysis of how Trump’s Cuba policy protected U.S. interests. Alas, it’s probably nothing more than domestic realpolitik—i.e. an abashed recognition by Democrats of how...

Thursday, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) spoke about the Biden administration’s decision to close Mount Rushmore for the Fourth of July festivities, a contrast to a year earlier when then-President Donald Trump spoke before a fireworks display. The South Dakota Republican slammed the move, claiming it was part of the “radical left’s agenda.” “You know, the decision was really arbitrary,” she said. “That’s why we’ll be appealing this decision, and the fight isn’t over. There wasn’t specific reasons that had credibility, and we call this an unlawful act to not make sure that we can conduct our celebration on July 3...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, 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. TRUE FREEDOM CAN ONLY BE EXPERIENCED BY ONE’S BELIEVING, TRUSTING, AND PROCLAIMING JESUS AS LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOR

When I taught English to students in Beijing, the most important lesson was one I learned: Government censorship works. My class was conducted in the evenings for adults ranging from college students to middle-aged white-collar workers. We often talked about world events. One day, the topic of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing came up. Older students spoke of the event in hushed tones, knowing it was taboo to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's massacre of pro-democracy students. But younger students? They had little knowledge of the infamous event at all. The Chinese communist government had gone to great...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth” amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution. Guterres launched the action on Friday to commemorate World Environment Day (WED) observed annually on June 5, to create awareness and actions for the protection of the environment. Kicking off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, he said the planet was rapidly reaching a “point of no return” cutting down forests, polluting rivers and oceans and ploughing grasslands into oblivion. The UN chief warned in his message for WED that we were ravaging the...

A PARTICIPATORY REPUBLIC. By the Providence and blessing of Almighty God, the United States was founded as a Constitutional Republic, and as a Participatory Republic. Our Baptist forefathers, after experiencing more than a century of persecution in the Colonies, did participate in the new Republic by their witness in writing and personal communications with presidents, members of Congress, and other statesmen. The annals are replete with the record. Whole libraries can be filled with the history of Christian participation. Out of many resources available, we recommend the complete library of the Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE) in Chesapeake, Virginia,...

“It’s up 300%, 400%. Be prepared. They’re coming,” according to a new report from border expert Todd Bensman, who has been charting the historic traffic of illegal immigrants since Biden took office. Bensman’s latest report for the Center for Immigration Studies comes from a well-known passage area in Panama where suspected terrorists and others unable to legally get into the United States travel through. He quoted a House lawmaker and two journalists who charted the trafficking surge. “The numbers are the highest ever this month. They have dramatically, dramatically, dramatically increased,” journalist Michael Yon told him from Panama.....“It’s so easy...

Numerous respected journals have published new information showing the potential for the spike protein in the vaccines to travel throughout the body and serve as a toxic agent. Dr. Ryan Cole, a Mayo Clinic-trained anatomic and clinical pathologist who runs the largest independent laboratory in Idaho, shares this information and other concerns about the vaccine. He believes everyone needs to be screened before vaccination and that it should really be limited to those at risk who have not already been infected. He fears the long-term consequences of the gene sequence messing with our immune system, particularly in children.

Newly released emails have revealed Dr. Anthony Fauci's enthusiasm for partnering with Bill Gates to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, shedding light on the federal government's close work with the billionaire. Fauci, the top medical advisor to the White House, referred to a April 1, 2020 phone call with Gates in an email exchange with an executive at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 'As I had mentioned to Bill yesterday evening, I am enthusiastic about moving towards a collaborative and hopefully synergistic approach to COVID-19,' Fauci told Emilio Emini, the director of the Gates Foundation's tuberculosis and HIV program. The...

A four-star U.S. Air Force general is warning Washington's Indo-Pacific allies.....“They don’t believe there can be multiple superpowers, they believe that there can only be one, and they want to return back to the glory days of [imperial] China where everybody else was a vassal state and everybody [kowtowed] to the emperor,” U.S. Pacific Air Forces Command chief Kenneth Wilsbach told reporters Friday. “And the emperor now is the Chinese Communist Party.” China has claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, in defiance of an international ruling and the sovereignty claims of U.S. allies in the region. Chinese...

Border authorities in Del Rio, Texas, on May 26 announced their sector had experienced a 3,166% increase in the apprehension of convicted sex offenders, compared to numbers from the same time frame last year. A total of 95 border crossers *previously found guilty* of sexual crimes have been apprehended in the area so far. The shocking figures were included in a bulletin, which stated that agents caught 10 convicted sex offenders who illegally entered the US from May 17 to May 24. Among them were Mexican nationals who had been found guilty of lewd and lascivious acts with a child,...

Two more attorneys general have announced their respective states are joining a lawsuit against the Biden administration and its “illegal” cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. “The Constitution is clear that presidents do not have the power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce or to unilaterally undo an act of Congress,” said Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, announcing that Alaska and Florida are joining the legal fight. In the statement, Knudsen said U.S. consumers would benefit the most by the construction of the pipeline — and are subsequently hurt the most by its cancellation. “The fallout from the Colonial pipeline...

Despite signaling for weeks that June 15 would mark a return to a pre-pandemic normal in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested otherwise during an often tense Friday press conference. After announcing the first wave of prizes in the state's vaccine lottery, Newsom took questions from the state's political reporters and when addressing three separate policy areas — new workplace mask rules, indoor capacity restrictions and emergency powers — cast doubt on the idea that June 15 would be a return to normalcy (the press conference took a combative turn right from the get-go after the first question from the Sacramento...

Democrats face not only the 60-vote hurdle that will allow Republicans to block most bills, but they are also grappling with internal divisions that could stop Democratic lawmakers from ridding the Senate of the filibuster or otherwise circumventing GOP opposition on key legislation, including a significant election reform bill and a major infrastructure measure. Democrats face a filibuster as early as next week, when Schumer said he plans to call up the House-passed Paycheck Fairness Act...If the GOP filibusters the Paycheck Fairness Act next week, it will be the second time this year Republicans used the 60-vote threshold to kill...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Friday his family had received five telephoned death threats over his recent confrontations with White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci — and over Paul’s vocal opposition to gain-of-function research “This week, I’ve had five death threats just for being outspoken on it,” the Republican told Fox News’ “Hannity”. “I don’t know what the world’s coming to, you can’t ask honest, difficult questions that in the end have proved out that Dr. Fauci was not being honest with us, but as a repercussion, my family had white powder sent to our house, and five...

ST. PETERSBURG —Less than two weeks from a first face-to-face with President Biden in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized the U.S. prosecution of rioters who took part in the January attack on the Capitol, calling it an example of American "double standards."...That differed from Biden’s preview of the summit last week, when he said he would press Putin on human rights abuses such as Russia’s treatment of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. In response, the Kremlin has attempted to draw an equivalency to the U.S. treatment of the Capitol rioters. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it...

Blockbuster — U.S. Intel believes China is trying to produce Covid variants to cover up ‘lab origin’Also...US intelligence believes China is trying to produce variants that suggest it came from bats to cover up that it originally came from a lab. The belief is still that it escaped accidentally, but was allowed to spread.— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) June 4, 2021 High-Ranking Chinese Defector Has ‘Direct Knowledge’ of Chinese Bio Weapons Programs A person believed to be the highest-ranking defector ever to the United States from the People’s Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for...

Its Saturday in Australia and police using overwhelming force during an attempt by small business owners to protest the coronavirus lockdown in Melbourne, Victoria... Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is 'leaning heavily' towards making coronavirus vaccination mandatory for aged care workers... "They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately we will win. Our country can't take this abuse anymore" Part of the reaction from President Trump as he was handed a two-year ban on Facebook and Instagram... Facebook also moving to censor politicians announcing it will subject politicians to the same moderation...

“Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:6-8).

Dr. Rachel Levine's Message on Mental Health Video...