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While the U.S. media frequently look the other way at President Joe Biden’s verbal and intellectual foibles, foreign media have questioned the president’s mental acuity. Australian reporters have lamented that “the leader of the free world” is “struggling,” “barely cogent,” and a “human corpse” who has sunken deep into “cognitive decline.” Those quotations come from Sky News Australia, the center-right cable news network launched in 1996 by NewsCorp Australia. Its collection of hosts and journalists have told their growing audience what many in the U.S. media have refused to say: Joe Biden’s declining intellectual capabilities threaten all Western democracies. In...

“The simplest definition of mental illness (and insanity) is the inability to recognize and comply with reality.” (My college statistics instructor who was a professor of psychology) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom” – Psalm 111:10 I often reflect on the nature of culture and nationhood, never more contemplatively than on the Fourth of July when I re-read and consider the observations within the Declaration of Independence. In so doing I recognize that, according to my statistics instructor, we are living in an Age of Insanity. As our nation is seemingly rife with incurious, gullible...

The Acting House Sergeant at Arms appeared before a House committee and appears to have named Ashli Babbitt’s shooter. Timothy Blodgett, in an exchange with Rep. Herrera-Buetler during a hearing on Jan. 6 that appeared on C-SPAN, seems to have casually dropped the name. “The situation where you discussed, where Officer [Byrd] was at the door when Ms. Babbitt was shot, it was our Sergeant at Arms employee who rendered the aid.” It is interesting that Blodgett names an “Officer Byrd” in the context of Ashli Babbitt’s shooting. An African-American Lieutenant Mike Byrd was reported by Roll Call as having...

ransomnote: Someone spent alot of time assembling videos and images of the history of the USS Wisconsin. I found the many historical photos at the link interesting and wanted to share it with others this Fourth of July.4th of July: USS Wisconsin- aka "Wisky" - GIFs - ImgurUSS Wisconsin, fourth and final member of the Iowa class battleships, and the last commissioned American battleship. In the water in 1943, served in three wars, and was only permanently out of commission as of 2009 when it was no longer required that she be kept in readiness even as a museum ship....

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Cobb County police are investigating a triple homicide at a country club Saturday afternoon. Police say Pinetree Country Club employee Paul Siller was found with a gunshot wound to the head at the 10th hole. Investigators also found a white Ram 3500 pick-up truck parked on the green. Two other bodies were found in the bed of the truck. Both had been shot. One of the two bodies found in the truck’s bed was identified as Paul Pierson, the registered owner of the truck. The third victim has not yet been identified. There is no word...

pResident Joe Biden sends his greetings to all as we celebrate the 4th of July on the 5th of July. Press Secretary Jan Pissawki says celebrating July 4th on the 5th is entirely permissible since the Indians, whom the Pilgrims defeated at the Battle of Plymouth Rock, had never heard of a calendar. She added that Plymouth Rock was where the Cleveland Indians were first defeated. Mr. Biden baked a turkey this year to commemorate a feast, held July 4th, 1620 on Nantucket Island due to rising sea levels on the mainland. The Plymouth Rock landing site of the Jamestown...

With a new initiative, Defending America, The Epoch Times seeks to remind Americans of the goodness of our country. Such a reminder should not be needed. From its beginnings, America has offered its citizens the most important freedom: freedom of belief. It has been a nation where the faithful can practice their religion without fear of persecution. By protecting fundamental rights, Americans have asserted the dignity of each individual, and have guaranteed the rights of speech, press, assembly and protest, and property, among others. And so have opened the door to individuals to seek to better themselves. With everyone free...

Joe Biden awkwardly fumbled with notes in his suit jacket pocket to answer a reporter's question on something he was briefed on just moments before – as the former White House physician to Donald Trump insists the president take a cognitive test. 'With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means –' a reporter began asking Biden as he checked out from King Orchards farm store in Central Lake, Michigan on Saturday. The 78-year-old president, however, cut off the reporter, saying U.S. intelligence is not sure if the hack came from the Kremlin. 'We're not...

This looks like it would work well in a garage, too!Better quality video at the link which includes many photos of the project in progress:Homemade Murphy desk in 3 days - GIFs - Imgur

In a shocking new report on the COVID-19 vaccines, it has been discovered that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may have long term health effects not previously disclosed, including “ALS, Alzheimer’s, and other neurological degenerative diseases.” “The current RNA based SARSCoV-2 vaccines were approved in the US using an emergency order without extensive long term safety testing,” the report declares. “In this paper the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was evaluated for the potential to induce prion-based disease in vaccine recipients.” Prion-based diseases are, according to the CDC, a form of neurodegenerative diseases, meaning that the Pfizer vaccine is potentially likely to cause...

This site was mentioned in the Open VARES thread. I thought it useful enough to share with all FReepers. Enter your street address and get a list of all the folks who represent you: local, county, state and federal. Handy. FWIW, all my reps are R except for the two Ds in Washington, DC. Hopefully the two Ds will be gone soon.

Now, why oh why would Twitter NOT want a critic of the CCP to have a voice on their platform? Would appear renowned scholar and CCP critic Anne-Marie Brady has been ‘temporarily restricted’ on Twitter. Restricted for unknown reasons. Hrm.

The Beijing-based university – headed by a former Chinese Communist Party spy agency leader – has seen its American graduates questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over fears of students getting “co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.”Financial supporters of Peking University’s School of Transnational Law (STL) also include Thomson Reuters and the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) – the leading influence group in the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front propaganda outfit.‘School of Transnational Law’.According to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the United Front seeks to “neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its...

Mike Lindell promises that a ‘Cyber Symposium’ on Election Fraud will ‘Change History,’ and that Trump will be reinstated. Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, claims that his next “cyber symposium” in August would “alter history” by revealing evidence of election fraud that will lead to former President Donald Trump’s loss in November 2020. The notorious conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter has stated numerous times that he had proof that Trump will win the 2020 election. These false allegations, which were propagated by the former president and many of his supporters, have been carefully investigated and disproved. Lindell, on the...

New Yorkers have a surprise gift to look forward to for this Independence Day: a second Statue of Liberty sent by France. This new bronze statue, nicknamed the "little sister," is one-sixteenth the size of the world-famous one that stands on Liberty Island. On Monday, during a special ceremony, the smaller sibling was lifted and loaded into a special container at the National Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) in central Paris, where it has been installed since 2011 in the museum's garden. It will be erected on Ellis Island, just across the water from the original, from July 1...

The number of people who don't turn up to their Covid vaccination appointment in Germany is increasing, leading to politicians from the government to start discussing the possibility of fines for people who make an appointment but don't show up. Politicians from the governing SPD and CDU/CSU parties have called for fines for people who fail to attend their Covid vaccination appointments. “It would be right if there were a penalty for those who don’t even cancel their appointment,” SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach told the Bild am Sonntag. No shows at vaccine centres mean “that we vaccinate slower than...

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reluctantly repeated its tradition of staff reading the Declaration of Independence, this year framing its report to point out the “flaws” and racist elements of one of the most cherished U.S. documents. The left-wing media outlet said it started the tradition as “a way of marking Independence Day”: NPR included remarks from author David Treuer, who is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation. “But a deeper look at history also shows that one of the reasons why the colonists wanted to rise up against the British — and wage the Revolutionary War — was over the...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Biden Admin Missed their goal of 70% of Adults with a first shot by July 4th - came in at 67.1% - Vaccination slow on this Holiday weekend report - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths remain low, but may be starting to bend upward a bit - could be the Delta variant starting its run) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 383,068,740 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 330,604,253 (12,617,454 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 182,412,776 Fully Vaccinated: 157,323,738

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The Statue of Liberty is a “symbol of hypocrisy or unfulfilled promises” the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott said in an essay published Saturday. In his piece titled “Maybe it’s time to admit the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up,” the art and architecture critic wrote: Try looking for Lady Liberty at an exhibition of Chicano graphic art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for example, where familiar images — flags, maps, military recruiting posters — are repurposed. You will find the statue almost or entirely absent. Maybe that’s because, compared with other icons of national identity, it is...