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A man suspected of killing five people in Plymouth before turning the gun on himself has been named locally as Jake Davison. Three females and two males were shot in the Keyham area of the city on Thursday evening. Police said the incident, the worst mass shooting in Britain since 2010, is not terror-related. Five people died at the scene and one died later in hospital. An MP has said one victim was a child. Emergency services were called to Biddick Drive shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday. Devon and Cornwall Police said two females and the three males died...

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Latino groups are trying to excite Latinos about redistricting amid a census that some say undercounted many of their communities. Here and there around the country, Latino advocacy groups have been instructing people on money and political power — and how to get it. The groups are trying to help growing communities of Latinos understand the next step following the 2020 census results: having a say in how their neighborhoods, towns, cities, counties, regions and states will be thrown together or split apart in the highly partisan redistricting process. The task is not an easy one. Redistricting is wonky and...

Mike Adams of Natural News joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the Chinese controlled Pentagon's declaration of war on on the US troops by forcing them to submit to bioweapon injections. Video...

August 13th , 2021Memorial of St. Maximus the Confessor St. Joseph's church, Lawrence County, Tennessee Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJoshua 24:1-13 ©I gave you a land where you never toiled, vineyards and olive-groves you never plantedJoshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; then he called the elders, leaders, judges and scribes of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. Then Joshua said to all the people: ‘The Lord, the God of Israel says this, “In ancient days your ancestors lived beyond the River – such was Terah the father of Abraham and of Nahor –...

Page Six has learned that Broadway superstar Laura Osnes has been let go from a Hamptons show because she refuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Osnes — who shot to fame when she won the talent search show “Grease: You’re the One That I Want!” in 2008, and has gone on to have a heavyweight Broadway career — was set to perform in front of a star-studded audience for a one-night production of “Crazy For You” at the Guild Hall in East Hampton on August 29. But the theater tells Page Six that it requires staff and performers to be...

* "Rashida Tlaib wrote column for Louis Farrakhan publication in 2006." Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News. Feb 12, 2019. * _____ * Rashida Tlaib’s History of Antisemitism," J Pollack, Breitbart, July 26, 2019. *... Tlaib’s extreme anti-Israel rhetoric, some of which has arguably crossed the line into antisemitism, CNN might do better to ask about the Democratic Party’s failure to address the rise of antisemitism in its midst. Here is a summary of Tlaib’s record: Opposing Israel’s right to exist: Tlaib does not believe Israel has a right to exist. She advocates for a “one-state solution” in which a Palestinian state...

The ​​Census Bureau unveiled its population data used to draft congressional and state legislative district lines on Thursday, teeing up redistricting battles across the country that could set the stage over which party has an electoral edge in controlling the House ahead of the midterm election cycle.

...New research offers encouraging evidence about how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine stacks up against its competitors — and the delta variant... Earlier clinical trials showed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 66 percent effective overall in preventing moderate to severe disease four weeks after the shot, with effectiveness varying depending on location. Its competitors from Pfizer and Moderna, on the other hand, recorded 90 percent-plus effectiveness against the coronavirus.... ...A trial out of South Africa has caught the attention of people, particularly infectious-disease experts, with regard to the effectiveness of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine against the delta variant. The...

...Despite the federal government spending a staggering $5.3 trillion since March 2020 and the passage of a $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill, Biden and his fellow Democrats are pushing additional spending as part of a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package. An independent analysis by the nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the real costs of that package are over $5 trillion if scored honestly. Those numbers aren’t just staggering, they are all but unfathomable... It doesn’t take an economist to see the inflationary impact. Restaurant Business, an industry publication, recently ran an article bluntly titled “Yes, It’s OK...

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Biden has been reduced to bribing the Taliban with foreign aid in exchange for a promise not to attack the United States embassy in Kabul. The proposal to fund terrorists is criminally treasonous and since the ranks of the Taliban include any number of Jihadis, and their old Al Qaeda allies have a presence in Afghanistan, that’s setting up our diplomats to be killed. Now 3,000 soldiers are heading back to Afghanistan to help evacuate Americans.Another 3,500 soldiers will be on standby in case the situation continues to worsen.Biden is sending more soldiers back to Afghanistan than he withdrew to...

This is a quick, basic example of how to post a thread for those interested in learning how to do so. I have learned through trial and error (and more errors), so if I need to change the instructions, please post the corrections on the thread for me to include in an update.PART A: In the upper right corner of the forum, search Free Republic to see if the article you want to post has already been posted.1. Select 'title' in the drop down menu.2. Then copy and paste the title of the article into the search window, and click...

A seven-day state-wide lockdown in Australia was not based on science but a lie that COVID-19 was found in wastewater, an official admitted.Australians are airing their grievances with Victoria Premier Dan Andrews after he admitted he cited non-existent coronavirus-tainted sewage in his decision to lock down the state.Andrews announced a seven-day statewide shut down on August 5 in response to the “wastewater detection” of Covid-19 in Wangaratta, a rural city about 236km (147 miles) from Melbourne.MORE AT LINK

Former President Trump on Thursday slammed his successor’s handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and suggested that had he been commander in chief, the insurgent Taliban would be behaving much differently. In a statement Thursday morning, Mr. Trump — who during his time in office authorized direct diplomatic negotiations with the Taliban that culminated in a February 2020 U.S. military withdrawal agreement — said President Biden‘s decision to proceed with the U.S. exit despite escalating Taliban violence is a mistake.... Foreign policy analysts generally agree that the Taliban intends to continue its violent offensive in order to gain...

As the COVID Delta wave rages across the globe, China’s role in creating the pandemic is once again under scrutiny. The Washington Post is now reporting that Ben Embarek, head of the World Health Organization’s origin investigation into COVID-19, is admitting that CCP officials essentially dictated what was to be put in the report.Part of that appears to be a clear attempt to cover up the lab leak theory, framing it as a distant possibility with no evidentiary backing. So, the Washington Post is reporting that the head of the WHO origins investigation team now says they essentially got dictated...

When the New York Times stepped into the ring with Project Veritas, it thought it would be a pretty easy victory, but the group known for undercover videos and on the scene fact-finding is a lot scrappier than the “paper of record” anticipated. Now, after a recent court decision, the Times is on the backfoot.According to the Project Veritas website, Justice Charles D. Wood of the Supreme Court of New York in Westchester County handed down a ruling on Wednesday that the New York Times’ motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit against them by Project Veritas is denied.It all started...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes. But the new mandate has opened the door for those opposed to getting the vaccine to cheat the system, according to interviews with students, education and law enforcement officials. Both faculty and students at dozens of schools interviewed by The Associated Press say they are concerned about how easy it is to get fake vaccine cards. Across the internet, a cottage industry has sprung...

American imperialism has said and done many obscene things over the decades. And right up there is the response of the Biden administration to the Taliban’s surge following the staggered withdrawal of American and NATO forces. ‘They’ve got to fight for themselves’, President Biden said of the Afghan people. They must ‘fight for their nation’, he continued. There was a chastising tone to his comments. ‘Get your act together’, he was essentially saying. ‘Do something.’ It is difficult to fathom the levels of arrogance it must require to leave a country ruined, and effectively to pave the way for the...