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Now, one would assume that South Asian population cities such as Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester would heavily disagree with the nation’s decision. But the fascinating thing that I had uncovered while doing research, was that a majority of South Asians actually voted for leaving the EU. According to blogger Asad Abbasi, who wrote an article for the London School of Economics why South Asians voted for Brexit, the numbers outside London are astounding. “Outside London, nearly every constituency with a double-digit South Asian population voted Leave. Luton has a 25 percent Asian population; Leave won there with a 19 percent...

While parts of Australia are opening up, others are facing longer lockdowns. The lockdown has ended in Brisbane and Perth, but strict mask rules are in still place. In Sydney, St George Dragons rugby league stars have been caught at a house party in a major breach of COVID rules

Jean Shepherd the famous writer of "The Christmas Story", as an older "Ralph," recalls his memory of a particular Fourth of July from his high-school years in Hollman, Indiana. Ralph plays the sousaphone in the high-school band to the instructions of the baton-twirling drum master Wilbur Duckworth. Ralph is grudgingly set up on a blind date, only to find himself in the company of the gorgeous Miss Junior Corn Blossom, who rejects his advances. On the Fourth of July Duckworth causes a power outage by twirling his baton onto an electrical line during a parade; the town drunk Ludlow Kissel...

Mark Zuckerberg posted a cringeworthy clip to his Instagram account on July 4 in which he rides above the water on an electronic surfboard while holding an American flag to the tune of John Denver's hit song Take Me Home, Country Roads. Zuckerberg, who is worth about $128 billion, has often been photographed in meme-worthy situations. The Independence Day post alone has been watched nearly 470,000 times within three hours of having been posted. 'Happy July 4th!' Zuckerberg, 37, wrote in the caption. According to the website WindFoilZone.com, a complete eFoil setup can 'vary in price anywhere from $4,000 to...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 6:1-6 Friends, today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous. Think for just a moment what would happen to you if you consistently and publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke...

Watch the controlled demolition of what remains of Champlain Towers South. Video Here.

I have returned from a much-needed 12-day break from the news, returning to California and finding little has changed from the mask-mad mandates that have been imposed for over a year. Reviewing recent reports, I have noted that our media seems to be relatively silent on a factor that may be significant in assessing risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19: obesity. For example, [SNIP] two new, large studies from England and Mexico provide new details on obesity as a risk factor for poor COVID-19–related outcomes. In the first study, published yesterday in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, University of...

This is insanity, driving local public outrage and vows to avoid these establishments: high-end restaurants in Chicago are still blaming COVID social distancing polices for a strictly enforced policy of a $100 minimum for each person to dine. “A Chicago man was outraged when he was faced with a minimum payment to eat at a restaurant, and he thinks the rule should go away now that the city is opening back up,” a local CBS affiliate reports. But the rule isn’t going away, many restaurants say while claiming the continued requirement is toward ensuring operations are in line with COVID-related...

Governor Kate Brown (D-OR) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that it was “absolutely unacceptable” that FEMA did not provide aid or assistance to undocumented families.

The crowd will be back at Ft. Marcy Park in Santa Fe for the 97th annual Burning of Zozobra. Ray Sandoval, Zozobra event chairman with the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, said the Sept. 3 event will be back to normal this year. In 2020, the Burning of Zozbra was done for a virtual audience. "We are inviting everybody to go and purchase your ticket and come together and celebrate the end of COVID restrictions, and the end of summer with the biggest 1980's dance party that you can possibly imagine-- that culminates with all of us burning away our...

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

Oil prices fell on Monday, with Brent dropping after four days of gains, as investors and traders awaited crucial talks by OPEC+ following disagreement within the group that could lead to major producers pumping up volumes to grab market share. Brent crude was down by 40 cents, or 0.5per cent, at US$75.77 a barrel by 0131 GMT, after falling 1 cent last week, the first weekly decline in six. U.S. oil was down by 30 cents, or 0.4per cent, at US$74.86 a barrel, having risen 1.5per cent last week, the sixth consecutive week of gains for the contract. The Organization...

News AnalysisEditor’s Note: Some of the accounts in this article contain graphic and disturbing details of torture and other forms of degrading treatment.Founded in July 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has wreaked death and destruction on the Chinese populace for a century.Armed with the Marxist ideology of “struggle” as its guiding principle, the CCP has launched scores of movements targeting a long list of enemy groups: spies, landlords, intellectuals, disloyal officials, pro-democracy students, religious believers, and ethnic minorities.With each campaign, the Party’s purported goal has been to create a “communist heaven on earth.” But time and again, the results...

Most Asian stocks gained on Monday, extending the rally that took global equities to a record high after a U.S. jobs report signalled the economic recovery remained intact but didn't yet warrant any immediate withdrawal of Federal Reserve stimulus. Japanese markets, however, bucked the trend, with the Nikkei falling 0.5per cent following a surge in COVID-19 infections in Tokyo, just weeks before the city hosts the Olympics. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.3per cent, led by a 1per cent gain in Taiwan. Chinese blue chips added 0.1per cent.

White flags could be seen flying outside homes and poverty relief organisations across Malaysia this past week as citizens cried out for food and other assistance amid the country's latest Covid-19 lockdown. The surreal scenes, reminiscent of similar protests that swept the South American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador last year, emerged from a grass-roots social media campaign centred on the #benderaputih (white flag) hashtag that began trending on Monday. Community organisers told This Week in Asia the campaign was the clearest sign yet of the economic despair that hundreds of thousands of Malaysia's lower-income families have experienced amid...

Happy Fourth of July everyone. Been a long time since I have been on here - I hope I am a bit wiser and kinder today (but who knows). Strange times we are in with people being unpersoned for not admiring Biden's new clothes - but it is the Fourth, and they can't take that away from us!

Well folks, when it comes to politics, during the last administration we poked the bear from on stage and in some videos, and now it’s time to have a little fun with the other side. Enjoy!

Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) Tweeted: As the UN Human Rights Council marks its 15th anniversary, let the record show that no country in the world has sat longer on this body than 🇨🇺 Cuba's oppressive regime, which won repeated election to 3-year terms in 2006, 2009, 2014, 2017 & 2020. @mbachelet, why are you silent? https://t.co/1yaoO5GCSy

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities said Thursday they have arrested four more suspects in the weekend shootings in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa that killed 19 people, 15 of whom appeared to be innocent bystanders. Another suspect was detained earlier after being wounded during the apparently random gun attacks Saturday. Prosecutors in the border state of Tamaulipas said the latest arrests came during raids that also freed 18 kidnap victims, four of whom are believed to be U.S. citizens. In one raid on a house east of Reynosa, police found 10 kidnap victims, two of them Americans. One...

Recent legal battles over churches' religious liberties in California and other states raise serious questions about the freedom to worship in America. So when our Founders came up with the First Amendment, were they trying to keep government free from religion? Or religion free from government? These days, the phrase "wall of separation between church and state" has come to mean keeping God or His believers from having a big effect on government and public life. But that’s far, far from what the Founding Fathers were thinking of when they were separating church and state.Fear of an All-Powerful State Church...