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Usain Bolt will not be competing in the Tokyo Olympics this summer, but he does have another life milestone to celebrate. Bolt, an eight-time Olympic gold medalist, and his partner Kasi Bennett announced the arrival of twins recently with posts on Instagram for Father's Day. And as with their oldest daughter, Olympia Lightning, the two carry fitting names. Welcome Saint Leo Bolt and Thunder Bolt. He retired from Olympic competition following the 2016 Rio games. It will be the first Olympics since 2000 in which the Jamaican will not be on the track.

An illegal alien is in custody on a $1 million bail after allegedly raping an elderly woman at a senior living facility in Stuart, Florida. Marvin Ailon-Mendoza, a 20-year-old illegal alien who entered the United States as an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) via the U.S.-Mexico border, was arrested and charged with raping an 82-year-old woman last month. According to law enforcement, Ailon-Mendoza broke into the senior living facility and raped the elderly woman. A federal source who spoke to a local media outlet confirmed that Ailon-Mendoza was an illegal alien in the U.S. and first entered as a UAC. “I...

That opens the silver and bronze medals wide open. Among the major contenders for those spots are the American Sarah Robles, whose best total is 290kg but who tends to total in the 280kg range, Emily Campbell from Britain, who just made 276kg at the European Championships and looks good for another 10kg at the Olympic Games. The deadline for weightlifters to qualify for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is tomorrow (May 31) and there is no doubt about who, among the qualifiers, wins the gold medal for attracting publicity. That award goes to someone who was unknown in...

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 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

Whether we are talking about COVID-19 in regards to its origin, vaccines and treatments; or whether we are talking about the fact that the FBI organized the events of January 6th; or whether we are talking about the massive voter fraud that stole the 2020 Election from Donald Trump, the evidence continues to mount that we are going up against a massive globalist cabal that will lie, cheat and steal in order to destroy America by any means necessary. 2020 was the year of conspiracy theories. We saw the fraudulent Impeachment proceedings… twice! We witnessed the outbreak of COVID-19 and...

New Mexico is an oil and gas colony. The fossil fuel industry has operated in our state for more than a century, removing hundreds of billions of dollars of profit from New Mexico while leaving an expensive mess for New Mexicans to clean up. While industry leaders crow about their contributions to New Mexico’s budget, the cost to clean up the mess they’ve left us pales in comparison to their contributions. There are an estimated 60,000 inactive wells statewide. They contaminate our groundwater, leak methane into the atmosphere, impact wildlife habitat and endanger the health of our people. It is...

LONDON, England, June 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The death rate from the Delta COVID variant is six times higher among those who were fully vaccinated for two weeks or longer than among those who never received a shot, according to data published by Public Health England on Friday. Twenty-six people died among 4,087 who were fully vaccinated 14 days or more before testing positive for the Delta COVID variant. This equates to a death rate of 0.00636 percent, which is 6.6 times higher than the rate of 0.000957 deaths – or 34 deaths among 35,521 positive Delta cases among the...

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Police in Long Branch responded to a post-Juneteenth beach party in the area of Pier Village after reports of fights and vandalism had local residents, tourists and businesses concerned. Police in the city were supported by surrounding agencies after things got out of control. Police reported four arrests. “Yesterday, a beach party of what turned out to be thousands of young people from all over the state gathered along the beachfront around Pier Village,” the city’s Public Safety Director wrote in a statement. “The gathering started as a social media post which enticed young people to...

A Video This is just a taste of what will be at the Second Trumpet. Note: all coastal cities will be wiped out by the meteor-induced tsunami (Rev. 8:8). This absolutely horrific event will take place before the Mark of the Beast is instituted (Rev. 13). Note that the Seal and Trumpet Judgments (Rev. 6-9) take place before the reign of the Anti-Christ at the last 42 months of the 7 year tribulation period (Rev. 13). The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — An angry Florida man pulled a gun on a drive-thru worker because they forgot the cream cheese with his bagel, according to Miami Gardens Police. The employee just happened to be the daughter of the police chief. Police said the man became angry at a Starbucks drive-thru when they messed up his order earlier this week. He returned to the window, screaming at the employee. She asked whether he had paid for the cream cheese, at which point he became enraged and pulled out a gun, according to an arrest report. Chief Delma Noel-Pratt told...

The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) confirmed it has reinstated its chief of diversity and inclusion, Richard Torres-Estrada, following an investigation into politically charged social media posts he made, including one that compared former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. SOCOM reassigned Torres-Estrada in late March after some of his social media posts drew attention for their anti-Trump and anti-Republican leanings. For example, on June 2, 2020, he tweeted a meme that criticized Trump by comparing a photo of him to a doctored photo of Hitler. He added the caption: “Here I leave this and slowly retire (to continue...

Summer months are here and national parks across the country are getting an influx of visitors. In some cases, it's been so many that some parks have been forced to close their gates. For example, Arches National Park in Grand County, Utah, welcomed about 194,000 people in April — up 15% from April 2019, The Wall Street Journal reports. Since the beginning of this year, the park has closed its gates over 80 times. If the rate continues, this will be the park's busiest year ever, according to The Associated Press. ...With the crowds comes a mixed reaction from locals,...

Iran's sole nuclear power plant has undergone an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown. An official from state electric company Tavanir, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show on Sunday that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last "for three to four days". Without elaborating, he said that power outages could result.

Jericho Green's take on Juneteenth and politicians. Also, white guilt and "be a slave for a day".

SANTA FE – New Mexico lawmakers can expect a clean fuel standard on their 2022 agenda – a priority Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration pitched Monday as a matter of economic development. The proposal would require a 10% reduction in the carbon intensity of fuel used for transportation by 2030 and 28% by 2040. But companies that make, produce or refine fuels would also have the option of buying credits from producers of hydrogen or other low-carbon fuels or from businesses that reduce their emissions – creating a market, supporters say, that would spur investment in clean energy. Economic Development...

As COVID cases remain low and vaccination rates rise along with June’s daily temperatures, high school players ... have good reason to wonder why they are still required to wear a mask as they face an opponent ... Unlike other states, New Mexico isn’t ready to let youths breathe freely as they play spring sports in the great, wide-open outdoors. “In the Department of Health’s view, not enough kids are vaccinated yet,” says Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spokesman Tripp Stelnicki. “We’re not at the point where they feel comfortable removing that requirement.” He adds the “hope” is that the mandate...

The organizer of the out-of-control raves which have plagued New York's Washington Square Park has insisted that the parties will continue every night through the summer, and says that it is his constitutional right to be there despite violent crime that has turned park into a no-go zone for locals. Hundreds of people returned to the park again on Saturday night for another rave, just 24 hours after a woman was trampled by terrified crowds trying to flee a man armed with a large knife and a taser. It is the latest in a series of nightly parties thrown in...

One thing about receiving your healing from God is knowing how he operates, because when you know how he operates then you can cooperate with him. And in 1Corinthians 1:28 it tells you, God has chosen things which are not, to bring to nought(nothing) things that are. When it says things that are not it is not talking about things that don't exist, it's talking about things that are not manifested because if it didn't exist you couldn't call it a thing. So, God has chosen things that are not manifested (spiritual) to bring to nothing things that are manifested...

ON GLOBAL GOVERNMENT: Community, Hierarchy, and Fratelli TuttiThe distribution and balance of power found in Western governments is attributable in part, the late Brian Tierney argued, to the Catholic Church. One Catholic contribution identified by Tierney was the corporate form of authority exercised in medieval institutions like monasteries and cathedral chapters. The fact the head of such an institution was selected by the members and existed to serve them, "ensured that community always offered an alternative to hierarchy as a model of right order in human societies." Religion, law and the growth of constitutional thought 1150-1650, 106 (Cambridge University Press,...

Last week, Casey Garcia walked straight into an El Paso middle school. She later greeted the principal and faculty, ate lunch in the cafeteria without a mask and made it almost all the way to the last class period. Only then, Garcia said in a video, did a teacher notice she was not actually a student — she was the 30-year-old mother of one of the seventh-graders. Garcia was arrested on Friday after social media posts she made about the incident went viral. She was charged with criminal trespass and tampering with government records, jail records show. But the Texas...