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President Trump speaks out on the killing of Ashli Babbitt at the US Capitol on January 6th and Australia's capital city joins the increasing list of lockdown zones Down Under but first... A COVID outbreak at an immigration detention facility ib Tacoma Washington... Israel's coronavirus cabinet ramping up new restrictions... Fear of the "Delta Variant" causing some returning Australian Olympic team members to be subject to a 28-day quarantine... Tightened up restrictions in the French Caribbean island territory of Guadeloupe... The US government winning with the British High Court getting to make its appeal seeking Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition...

The owner of a Santa Barbara surf school stabbed his 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son to death at a Mexican hotel and then left their mutilated bodies and headed for home, according to police. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, trying to cross back into California from Tijuana, Mexico, after his wife, Abby, reported him and their children missing... Mexican officials tracked the three to the City Express Hotel in Rosarito on Saturday and video footage shows them leaving early Monday morning. Coleman returned alone later that morning and...

On Tuesday, August 10, AD 2021, the U.S. Senate passed an “infrastructure” bill, of which less than half was actually infrastructure, and which contains a siphon clause that enables the administration to largely disregard the law entirely and spend the money on whatever it wants to. It is less a spending bill than a blank check bill. But the part of this operation that may need the most comment is the aspect that furthers the so-called Green New Deal, both in this bill and a follow-up spending bill, also inaccurately being passed off as an infrastructure bill. The issue at...

The top lawyer at a Queens public defender’s office is patient zero of a COVID-19 outbreak — sparking an ongoing conflict over her decision to keep colleagues in the dark about her diagnosis for three days, the Daily News has learned. Lori Zeno, the embattled executive director of Queens Defenders, informed her office Sunday that a staff member had tested positive for COVID. It wasn’t until Tuesday that she admitted she was actually the infected staffer. ...After Zeno tested positive, four other Queens Defenders also got COVID, three of them attorneys who shared their names with the rest of the...

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

The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate. Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.

Is it illegal to dress up in a Hazmat suit and mark driveways with red-X's?

The coronavirus cabinet approved Wednesday night a set of restrictions on gatherings, hoping to curb an ever-growing surge of COVID-19 infections nationwide in what looked like a last-ditch effort to avoid going into a devastating lockdown. The news measures include expansion of the Green Pass mandate, which requires people to present proof of vaccination or recovery at the entrance of public facilities, to include all Israelis from the age of 3 starting next Wednesday August 18...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to require proof of getting the Chinese coronavirus vaccine in order to be allowed indoors at restaurants, gyms, and other spaces, according to a report. The vote was to direct the city attorney to draft an ordinance requiring patrons who wish to enter any indoor public spaces to have at least one dose of the vaccination, according to KTLA. As of now, it is unclear how the ordinance will look, but the attorney will have to prepare a draft for the city council to approve then. The motion for the ordinance...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations moderate today - Cases and Deaths grew further on this daily report - Hospitalizations level) Administered: 353,205,544 (13,746,323 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 196,077,952 Fully Vaccinated: 167,105,507

A report on a survey of 214 religious education teachers in Ireland is raising alarm that students who practice a religion, particularly Catholicism, are being bullied for their beliefs. In Ireland, religious education is a compulsory subject for all pupils. The survey studied teachers in post-primary schools, which are typically schools for children over the age of 12. The report, “Inclusive Religious Education: The Voices of Religious Education Teachers in Post Primary Schools in Ireland, Identity, bullying and inclusion” was authored by Dr. Amalee Meehan and Derek A. Laffan, MSc. The National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre and Dublin City...

You are Christians, and your God shall take care of your family!” That’s what Vietnamese authorities told 18 Christian families in northern Vietnam after denying them COVID-19 aid, according to Open Doors USA. Government aid was supposed to help families hit hardest by the pandemic. But not, it seems, those families who were Christian. Open Doors reports, “When they learned that the government’s support was coming to their district, they were so happy—only to find out that they were not on the list because they are Christians.” Recent coronavirus outbreaks have led Vietnam to impose harsher restrictions to protect the...

Newsweek reported: A federal judge Wednesday ordered that three defamation lawsuits of $1.3 billion each filed by Dominion Voting Systems be allowed to continue after allies of former President Donald Trump filed requests that they be dismissed. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell are all named as defendants in lawsuits that will proceed, alleging that each of these parties made claims without evidence that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged the results of the 2020 presidential election by manipulating voting numbers. United States District Court Judge Carl Nichols, who is a Trump...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Businesses and restaurants across the country are doing whatever they can to stay open while keeping customers safe. Kansas City’s Hamburger Mary’s, Woody’s KC, recordBar, and KC Improv have decided the best way to do that is to require customers and staff to be fully vaccinated.Now businesses can include any requirement, along with additional safety measures underway, on Yelp listings. According to Yelp’s blog, it allows businesses to add information such as “proof of vaccination required” or “all staff fully vaccinated” on their individual pages.But the options are also causing a lot of backlash against some...

Heaven can wait, maybe, but not a phone call for the popeVatican City — Maybe heaven can wait, but a phone call for the pope could not. In a decidedly unusual break from protocol, Pope Francis took a cellphone from an aide while standing at center stage in a Vatican auditorium for his weekly Wednesday audience with the public on Aug. 11. Francis, who had blessed the attendees near the event's end, chatted animatedly for a couple of minutes with whomever was on the other end.The pope gestured with his free hand as if the caller could see him --...

The roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package moving through the Senate lacks the big ticket items many progressive activists want, leaving them “caught somewhere between deflated and enraged,” as Politico recently reported. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat from New York, threatened to torpedo the bill if it doesn’t move in tandem with a $3.5 trillion follow-up package addressing progressives’ priorities.Ocasio-Cortez’s disappointment is understandable. The world is literally on fire from the crisis of climate change, while four years of cruelty and incompetence under the Trump Administration have left millions of Americans suffering. Progressives are impatient to address not only climate change,...

Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly been awarded a secret cloud computing contract from the NSA worth up to $10 billion. Nextgov reports that the tech giant Amazon has been awarded a $10 billion cloud-computing contract from the National Security Agency (NSA). According to protest filings obtained by Nextgov, the contract is named “WildandStormy” and appears to be part of an initiative by the NSA to modernize its storage of classified data. Microsoft has challenged the awarding of the contract, according to Government Accountability Office records. An NSA spokesperson commented: “NSA recently awarded a contract for cloud computing services...

A Saskatchewan man took his craving for ice cream to a whole new level on the weekend. According to the Tisdale RCMP, a man landed his helicopter in a high traffic parking lot at around 5 pm on July 31.The RCMP stepped in after realizing it was not an emergency landing, but rather the pilot simply wanted to go into Dairy Queen to pick up an ice cream cake.Source: RCMP "When it landed, the helicopter blew up dust and debris through the area, which includes schools, an aquatic centre and more," explained an RCMP release. "Officers determined the pilot, a...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate. Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched. But Mr. Lindell’s lead...

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec WATCH: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alexander Vindman tell Americans: “Screw your freedoms” 1:07 255.4K views 7:01 PM · Aug 11, 2021