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A man was in custody after he allegedly attacked a woman inside the King County courthouse Thursday morning, another incident expected to raise more questions about security around the building and a homeless encampment that has taken root next door. Seattle Police Department Sgt. Randy Huserik said Clint James Jory, 35, was being questioned and expected to be booked into the King County Jail after that. He is under investigation for attempted rape. The woman, who worked in the Department of Public Defense, was taken home by a relative after the attack. He said the call was initially referred to...

Scientists have accidentally discovered details about a "very exciting" planet orbiting a nearby star system, which is thought to contain more water than Earth.... ...It orbits a sun-like star around 50 light years away from us that is visible with the naked eye, has a mild atmospheric temperature and appears to contain a large amount of water. Researchers already knew that the planet was there because previous studies of the star, called Nu2 Lupi, showed that it had three planets orbiting it called b, c, and d. ...Using Cheops, researchers determined that planet d has a radius 2.5 times bigger...

One hundred years ago, Boston had its last epidemic of smallpox. We describe this final epidemic, the controversy over compulsory vaccination, and ethical issues that remain relevant today. Epidemiology and Protection through VaccinationIn May 1901, an outbreak of smallpox, initially unrecognized, was followed by a series of outbreaks in various neighborhoods of Boston.1 From 1901 to 1903, there were 1596 cases of smallpox (Figure 1), with 270 deaths,1-3 in a city with a population of approximately 560,900. The attack rate was 3 cases per 1000 persons, with a case fatality rate of 17 percent. Distribution of Smallpox Cases in Boston...

A few days ago, we shared some analysis from Goldman Sachs and other investment banks projecting that the surge across the US in newly diagnosed COVID cases attributed to the delta variant would soon fade, just as outbreaks in the UK, Continental Europe and India all have. They've been closely monitoring the situation because it's now a key factor in their economic growth projections, and most expect delta will have a mild impact in heavily vaccinated Europe.Now, Bloomberg has apparently caught on.While hospitalizations and deaths are clearly higher in areas where vaccination rates are lower, rates are still well below...

I was Perusing FR and reading the frightening articles about the ever expanding, global CoupFlu tyranny and this song started playing on my phone. I love this song and the lyrics of the choir at the end are apropos: “Freedom, freedom, we will not obey. Freedom, freedom, take the wall away.” The Alan Parsons Project- “Breakdown” https://youtu.be/KJBTOC3Mfpk

The eviction moratorium ends July 31. Millions of households are behind with no confidence in making payments.With millions of renters at risk Biden Asks Congress to Extend Federal Eviction MoratoriumState and local governments have struggled to distribute $47 billion in federal money aimed at helping tenants who can’t pay rent because of the pandemic-triggered downturn, leaving many people at risk of being forced out of their homes when the moratorium expires.Just $3 billion of the aid authorized by Congress in December and March had been delivered to landlords and tenants as of June 30, the Treasury Department said in a...

Covid cases continued to rise in Los Angeles County on Thursday, albeit more slowly. The raw number of daily cases rose 17% in the past week, to 3,248. That’s roughly half of the 7,458 cases recorded in California on Thursday, even though Los Angeles County’s population accounts for only roughly 25% of the state’s residents. Driving this rise, according to Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, have been more affluent communities on the West Side including Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Beverly Crest, Venice, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino. The winter surge was driven by higher case rates in Central...

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which was taken off the blacklist by the Biden administration in May, became the world’s second-largest smartphone maker in the second quarter of 2021, overtaking Huawei domestically and Apple globally, by expanding its overseas business through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). According to a July 15 report by market research firm Canalys Research, Samsung ranked first with 19 percent, Xiaomi second with 17 percent, and Apple third with 14 percent in global smartphone market share in the second quarter of this year. The other two Chinese brands, Vivo and OPPO, ranked fourth and fifth respectively....

American Sunisa Lee became the new Olympic women’s all-around champion Thursday, following the stunning departure of her fellow Team USA teammate from the competition. Lee scored 57.433 to finish ahead of Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who got second-place, and Russia’s Angelina Melnikova, who got third. Her victory extended the United States’ domination of the all-around event following Olympic gold medal champions Carly Patterson in 2004, Nastia Liukin in 2008, Gabby Douglas in 2012, and Simone Biles in 2016. “Coming into this competition I didn’t even think I could be competing for a gold medal,” Lee said afterward. “I was competing for...

Hunter Biden has two words for those who think his artwork is overpriced: “F--- ’em.” Eleven paintings by the President’s son are being shown by the George Bergès Gallery, which has estimated the work at a whopping $75,000 to $500,000. According to the Washington Post, White House officials helped draft a document to keep purchasers confidential — including from Hunter himself — to stave off efforts to curry favor with the administration. When asked during an appearance on the art-world-fave podcast, “Note Bene,” about his response to the hubbub and headlines over the prices and potential favor-seeking collectors, Biden quipped,...

Menstrual America has gained the upper hand. Feminized America has been on display in all her undignified inauthenticity, in the crybabies of Congress and in the loud and proud quitting at the 2020 Olympics. In Menstrual America, medals go to congressmen and cops who wail the loudest when recounting their professional failings of Jan. 6, 2021. And props are given not to athletes who "bring it" despite the jitters; but to those who crumble and quit, and then crow about the authenticity of it all. Menstrual America's rich and famous belong to a fraternity of foolish, showy killjoys. They take...

Twelve Republican Governors, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, filed a brief with the Supreme Court requesting the overturn of Roe v. Wade.The baby killing Leftists worst nightmare has become a reality.From the Tampa Bay Times:Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida on to an effort to have two of the most important abortion cases in U.S. history overturned by the nation’s highest court.In a Thursday brief, DeSantis, along with ten other Republican governors, argued the Supreme Court should reconsider past decisions on the 1973 case Roe v. Wade and the 1992 case Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey. Roe established the...

One of Joe Biden’s handlers should really reign him in. He made a series of remarks today that ranged from head-scratching to anger-inducing. At one point, Fox News’ Peter Doocy pinned him down on his previous statements on vaccinations and masks, noting that the president is now saying the opposite. That led to a flailing claim that he didn’t say what he said while insisting the science on masks has changed when it simply hasn’t.But one comment involving the vaccines may be Biden’s most ill-advised yet. After being asked about businesses and local communities mandating vaccines, the president opened the...

A prominent Chinese billionaire has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, the latest in a string of punishments against outspoken corporate bosses. Sun Dawu runs one of the country's largest private agricultural businesses in the northern province of Hebei. Sun, 67, has in the past spoken out about human rights and politically sensitive topics. He was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"-a charge often used against activists. Other charges against him include illegally occupying farmland, assembling a crowd to attack state agencies and obstructing government workers from performing their duties. He was also fined 3.11 million yuan...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield witnesses the before-and-after of an important restoration effort in the Russian North. Tsypino. Church of Elijah the Prophet. Northwest view. June 1, 2014 William Brumfield In the summer of 1909, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took an extended journey through the Russian North. He traveled to the region again in 1916 on his last major expedition before leaving Russia in 1918. His photographs from this period include several wooden churches and chapels, almost none of which have survived. A lost monumentPetrozavodsk. Church of Sts. Peter & Paul, southwest view. Destroyed by lightning 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 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand The Wise and Foolish Builders “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like...

Great questions from Harrison Smith!Can the government inject anything into our veins without our informed consent?What mitigating factor at all is there in a mandated vaccine order?What threshold have we reached that makes it an appropriate response now and not later?If you can't consent to the jab, and it's being force on you anyway. Do you have to know about it? After all you can't reject it?If you know about it or you do not know about it. You are still getting the shot so why should they have to tell you?Can they administer anything to you that way if...

CDC/FDA are confessing there has been a PROBLEM with the PCR test which has been used to detect the virus, starting in February of 2020—-right up to this minute. In other words, the millions and millions of “COVID cases” based on the PCR test in use are all suspect. To confirm this, the CDC document links to an FDA release titled, “SARS-CoV-2 Reference Panel Comparative Data.” Here is a killer quote: Killer Quote “During the early months of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, clinical specimens [of the virus] were not readily available to developers of IVDs [in vitro diagnostics]...

Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years, an international team reported on Wednesday. The find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in North Africa of the Acheulian stone tool industry associated with a key human ancestor, Homo erectus, researchers on the team told journalists in Rabat Before the find, the presence in Morocco of the Acheulian stone tool industry was thought to date back 700,000 years. New finds at the Thomas Quarry I site, first made famous in 1969 when a...