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Stars descended on Martha’s Vineyard Friday ahead of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party, after his spokeswoman claimed the Saturday bash would be scaled back to include “only family and close friends” amid COVID-19 concerns. Celebrity couples such as John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union were spotted arriving on the Massachusetts island in pictures obtained by The Post. Teigen, who has recently come under fire for past bullying comments, was seen cradling the couple’s 3-year-old son Miles, as her singer hubby helped unload a white van.

Nike CEO John Donahoe responded to a question on why Nike hasn’t been more vocal on human rights issues in China by stating they participate “in sport all over the world, including China. China’s a very important market for us.” And maintained that they have “a very responsible global supply chain.” Co-host Sara Eisen asked, “Some are wondering why you have not been more vocal around some of the human rights abuses in China, when you have been so out front on societal and social issues here in the U.S.?” Donahoe responded, “We think sport’s a global phenomenon We participate...

The Biden Administration will begin mandating Chinese coronavirus vaccines for all White House visitors, including journalists, on August 8, according to an email from White House Communications Agency President Steven Portnoy. The Biden Administration “is also now imposing a similar requirement for all visitors to the White House, beginning this coming Sunday. Per the below memo from the White House, all who enter the complex are being asked to fill out the attached form attesting to their vaccination status,” according to the email, which CNN’s Oliver Darcy tweeted on Friday. “This requirement will include journalists,” Portnoy continued: WHCA obtained vaccination...

The readings at daily Mass this week are from Exodus and say that Moses wore a veil to cover the afterglow of God radiating from his face. In most traditional Catholic settings, we think of the veil as something a woman wears as a sign of traditional modesty. In this sense most of us consider it something good and positive. In Exodus, however, the veil is presented in far more ambivalent terms:As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become...

Owners of Subway franchises are asking the company's bosses to pull adverts featuring soccer star Megan Rapinoe, because customers are complaining about her political activism. Rapinoe, 36, is as well known for her outspoken views and purple hair as she is for her soccer skills. In Tokyo for her third Olympics, Rapinoe took a knee during the National Anthem, before their bronze-winning game. Donald Trump issued a statement mocking Rapinoe for failing to bring hold the gold. 'The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job,'...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) scolded the unvaccinated, dismissing their concerns while accusing them of “willfully” putting others at risk and demanding they suck it up and “get the damn vaccine.” “I don’t care what misinformation you have heard. The simple fact is that these vaccines are working,” Hogan said, informing the unvaccinated that the majority of those who are hospitalized because of the Chinese coronavirus are unvaccinated. “Those who refuse to get vaccinated at this point are willfully and unnecessarily putting yourself and others at risk of hospitalization and death,” he scolded, accusing them of threatening freedoms. “You are...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former South Florida talk show host Dick Farrel, known and beloved by fans for his over-the-top right-wing opinions, has died from complications from COVID-19. On Facebook, Farrel advocated against getting the coronavirus vaccine and was skeptical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and his recommendations concerning the coronavirus. Friends said after contracting the virus he changed his point of view. "COVID took one of my best friends! RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot. He texted me and told me to 'Get...

August 8th , 2021 Memorial of the blessed Virgin Mary Church of the Assumption, Nashville, Tennessee Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingDeuteronomy 6:4-13 ©You shall love the Lord your God with all your heartMoses said to the people: ‘Listen, Israel: the Lord our God is the one Lord. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart. You shall repeat them to your children and say them over to them whether at rest in your house...

“Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows" (Proverbs 7:12-14).

A store owner kept his cool as he rejected demands from a transgender man in his store. The store owner has a sign inside his store that says “If you’re born with a dick, you’re not a chick.” The transgender man called the store owner a bigot, and said, “I’m living my life the way I want to live it.” Store owner Don Sucher said, "The sign says “If you’re born with a dick, you’re not a chick,” adding “nine out of ten customers come in and they are on my side of this.” “Nobody confronts your ass because you...

Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized vaccines for COVID-19, and their distribution has begun, Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., senior director of infection prevention, and Gabor Kelen, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, review some common myths circulating about the vaccine and clear up confusion with reliable facts.MYTH: The COVID-19 vaccine can affect women’s fertility.FACT: The COVID-19 vaccine will not affect fertility. The truth is that the COVID-19 vaccine encourages the body to create copies of the spike protein found on the coronavirus’s surface. This “teaches” the body’s immune system...

ATLANTA — A local woman says her father was fully vaccinated but still died from COVID-19. Tanya Washington talked about her father’s death at an event Friday for National COVID Awareness Day. Washington says her father, Carey Washington, 80, was fully vaccinated but was exposed to someone who was not. Now she’s encouraging more people to get the shot and mask up.

It infuriates me how this has been corrupted by leftists politicians , science, media and big tech. How many people did they kill in their thirst to destroy Trump over Covid and exploit all of this for fraudulent mail in ballots which obviously worked ? I obtained early on a reserve of hydroxchloroquine which I was used to taking from malaria and dengue days in the 80s in my life in the tropical third world Myself and much of my family took the malaria prophylaxis and when when we were exposed to China virus via a private Corp jet pilot...

Lewiston, NY Aug 6, 2021, approx. 8:30 pm: This YouTube Link shows an approximately 3.7 mile traffic jam of mostly waiting to cross an International bridge from Lewiston New York to Queeston, Ontario (see map below where this video was taken. There was a report from Buffalo NY of a similar traffic jam of trucks waiting to cross the Peace Bridge into Fort Erie, ON at the same time.Local news say the Canadian union wants better protection for staff and other things... So to make their point they are asking each person every question in the manual.Late word that the...

Join together 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.

The end, we are told, is in sight. Yet the issue of Covid-19 vaccines continues to tear the music world apart...there’s a growing schism emerging between musicians, fans and promoters who believe universal vaccinations are the best way to combat the deadly pandemic and those who don’t. And there’s no middle ground.......So why are vaccines so un-rock ’n’ roll to so many people? Largely, because people don’t like being told what to do. Artists are libertarians. They support personal rights and freedoms. Fans, too. As Parada suggests, there’s an inherent distrust of The Man and big corporations. Add to this...

As Beijing struggles to suppress China's most broad-based COVID outbreak since the original wave that swept the globe in late 2019-early 2020, the CCP's ministry of propaganda is ramping up efforts to spread a conspiracy theory blaming COVID on the US military, CNN reports.As we have previously reported, the conspiracy theory alleges that the virus originated at a military lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland. While that might seem outlandish to most Americans, plenty of Chinese citizens are taking the reports at face value. In fact, the reports have elicited enough of an impassioned response from Chinese citizens that half...

A woman who says she began her career as an intensive care unit nurse months after the COVID-19 pandemic began is speaking out about the toll of learning the job while being inundated with severely sick patients as hospital beds now fill up again.... Kathryn Ivey, who reportedly works in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital, posted a powerful Twitter thread this week describing how her feelings of helplessness in earlier stages of the pandemic have transitioned to anger... ... Ivey’s reflections offer a glimpse into the grief being shouldered by health care workers on the front lines.... “Walking through the much...

The Manhattan Project didn't look like America. Undertaken today, it would be criticized for failing to meet diversity and inclusion guidelines. Today's human resources department professionals would be triggered if they looked at the list of physicists hired to produce what President Franklin Roosevelt was told could be a uranium-based bomb "with a destructiveness vastly greater than anything now known." They would be astounded that the president, in his haste to develop such a weapon, as he put it, "before Hitler got it," authorized the hiring of scientists without any attempt to match the diversity of the American population. They...