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Obamacare set the stage for our medical slavery. Ten years ago, when Tea Party Patriot groups were popping up all over America to fight back against Obamacare's socialized medicine and its expansion of the welfare state, it was common to hear the battle framed as one between "makers" and "takers," a rebuke by working-class Americans who knew they would ultimately be paying more in taxes for worse health care so that Americans who paid no taxes at all could have their "fair share." When people called out Obama and his medical mandates (you must have Obamacare, and Obamacare must cover...

Perhaps if there was some way we could break down how it all began, how the magic spell that has been cast has worked and how the pharmakeia is perhaps the evil it proports to be. Now remember, pharmakeia is not just the use of poisons to alter the body with witchcraft and mind control, it convinces the user that it is the only way to avoid death. Remember it began with the lie — it would just be two weeks of lockdown. Just two weeks of staying 3 feet apart, then it was six feet. Then it was don’t...

Aibak, capital of Afghanistan's Samangan province, has fallen to the Taliban Regional governor said Islamists are now in 'full control' of the northern city It marks the sixth regional capital that the Taliban has captured in less than a week, after Kunduz, Sar-e-Pul, Taloqan, Zaranj and Sheberghan also fell Meanwhile it was revealed that pilots are abandoning the Afghan air force after being targeted for assassination, leaving troops without air support ...Eight pilots have been killed in recent weeks, with Hamidullah Azimi - a Black Hawk pilot - the latest to die after being blown up near the capital Kabul...

There stands Sweden, openly mocking the leftists’ most sacred orthodoxy of the moment. Earlier this year, Sweden’s top health official, Johan Carlson, felt obligated to tell the world how wrong everyone else was. “Some believed that it was possible to eliminate disease transmission by shutting down society,” he said. “We did not believe that and we have been proven right.” Is he right? The three-day moving average for COVID deaths in Sweden is frequently zero these days, and hasn’t been in double digits since May. Sweden has seen a lower mortality rate than most of Europe in 2020. That wasn’t...

It was a scandal, a disgusting scandal that swept through Major League Baseball (MLB) over the weekend – some horrible, horrible, probably Republican voting, definitely Trump supporting monster started screaming the N-word at a black player in the 9th inning of the Colorado Rockies vs. Miami Marlins game. What a jerk, right? Only it wasn’t true, it didn’t happen. But what did happen is it gave everyone a look at how leftists view the rest of us and the country. Remember that video a couple of years ago that just had one word repeated over and over, either “yanny” or...

The question that keeps occurring to a confirmed regime opponent like myself in this First Year of the Great Biden Era is this: What is really going on? Is the ruling class executing on a brilliant strategy to transform the political landscape for the next generation? Are they just fumbling along, trying to keep ahead of their wokist crazies? Or are they executing another of Baldrick’s Cunning Plans that will inevitably blow up in their faces? Let’s look at Option One. The closest thing I have ever seen to a brilliant strategy is Bill Clinton’s 1992 “New Democrat” campaign: nobody...

The best friend of New Zealand Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore says there were no signs she was struggling with her mental health, as he fought back tears at an emotional media conference following her shock death. Olympic rower Eric Murray fronted cameras on behalf of the 24-year-old's devastated family on Tuesday, describing how nothing appeared to be wrong when he spent time with her on the day she ended her own life. Podmore, who competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, shared a grinning selfie at an airport along with a chilling Instagram message about the pressures of competing,...

Bipartisan surrender by f@#$ing RINOs. Chuck Schumer gloats shamelessly, announces all his evil plans.

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. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness” . . . In the day that God created man, He...

Gov. Greg Abbott appealed for out-of-state help Monday to fight the third wave of COVID-19 in Texas. The request came as a county-owned hospital in Houston raised tents to accommodate their COVID-19 overflow. Private hospitals in the county already were requiring their staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.... ...Abbott has directed the Texas Department of State Health Services to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff from beyond the state’s borders as the delta wave began to overwhelm its present staffing resources. He also has sent a letter to the Texas Hospital Association to request that hospitals postpone...

The people of Easter Island appeared to drink directly from the sea, European explorers reported in the late 1700s. And today, you can see animals—most famously horses—do the same thing. What's going on? While surrounded by a vast ocean, fresh water is a scarce commodity on Rapa Nui, as the island is known to its native inhabitants. No rivers or streams cross its surface, and it sports only three small crater lakes that can dry up during periodic droughts. Due to a quirk of geology, rainwater immediately sinks down through the porous bedrock, where it feeds an underground aquifer, explained...

August 10th , 2021 Memorial of St. Laurence St. Laurence, Indianapolis Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red First reading2 Corinthians 9:6-10 ©God loves a cheerful giverDo not forget: thin sowing means thin reaping; the more you sow, the more you reap. Each one should give what he has decided in his own mind, not grudgingly or because he is made to, for God loves a cheerful giver. And there is no limit to the blessings which God can send you – he will make sure that you will always have all you need for yourselves in every possible circumstance, and still...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday suggested the Biden administration had engaged in “gamesmanship” by renewing a freeze on evictions despite an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling. During a 30-minute hearing, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich questioned why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed an eviction moratorium last week after officials had publicly expressed doubts about the administration’s legal authority to do so.... ...One central issue in Monday’s hearing was which of two higher court rulings — one from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and another from the Supreme Court — should guide Friedrich’s decision,...

Mike Adams joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the evidence of Covid-19 being the greatest public hoax in history. Video...

I recommend all to watch the first 7-minutes of this video

LONDON (AFP, REUTERS) - London’s Tower Bridge reopened Tuesday (Aug 10) to traffic, after a “technical failure” left the 19th-century landmark’s arms pointing skyward for almost twelve hours. The two sections of the bridge had been stuck since mid-afternoon on Monday, when they had been due to open for a tall wooden ship, the Sailing Vessel Tenacious, according to the bridge’s schedule. The bridge, which allows boats to pass underneath by raising the road which crosses it, got stuck shortly before 2:45pm (1345 GMT), a spokeswoman for the City of London police force said. It is the second time in...

An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country. The boy’s family is in hiding and many of the Hindu community in the conservative district of Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab, have fled their homes after a Muslim crowd attacked a Hindu temple after the boy’s release on bail last week. Troops were deployed to the area to quell any further unrest. On Saturday, 20 people were arrested in connection with the temple attack. The boy is accused of intentionally urinating...

Palestinian Salafists protest against the Egyptian and Syrian regimes, in Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, Islamic State-inspired actors threatened venue, and attacked it after threats went unheeded A luxurious seaside resort in the Gaza Strip was attacked with an explosive device, reportedly due to it holding events with male and female guests. The Bianco Resort was accused by hardline Muslims of failing to maintain gender segregation, and on Thursday was targeted in an explosion that caused no casualties but damaged a surrounding wall, The Jerusalem Post reported. Salafist groups active in the Gaza Strip were accused by Palestinians of...

Believe What Jesus Says – A Homily for the 19th Sunday of the YearThe Gospel this Sunday amounts to a summons to faith by Jesus. He is summoning us to faith in Himself and in the truth He proclaims about His presence in the Holy Eucharist. Last week’s Gospel ended with Jesus declaring that He was the bread come down from Heaven. This Sunday’s Gospel opens with His Jewish listeners grumbling because He claims to have come from Heaven. Throughout the Gospel Jesus stands firm in His call to faith; He teaches them of the necessity of faith, its origins,...

In an exclusive conversation with UCR, Gene Simmons revealed his thoughts on touring during the COVID-19 pandemic. “My druthers would be that everybody is mandated to get vaccines,” the Kiss bassist confesses. “I hope everybody is going to be wearing their masks. But we can only control what we can control and different states and different countries have different rules.” Kiss is currently slated to resume their End of the Road tour on Aug. 18. The trek spans deep into 2022, with Simmons estimating that the band will add “anywhere between 150 to 200 cities additionally.” In years past, the...