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Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the ultimate in explicit racism: It has race at the very center of its name, and at the core of its curriculum. Its corrupting influence on education, government, our military, and organizational principles of all kinds, public and private, is becoming pervasive. CRT threatens to turn our country into something so corrupt that it becomes a grotesque caricaturey of its founding principles, purposes, and standing as the greatest country in the history of humanity and the world. There is a simple way to prevent this. Here, I must note that “simple” is not the same...

Data from the United Kingdom indicates that while those that have been fully vaccinated have been less likely to catch COVID they are more likely to die of it. Since February of this year there have been 47,008 cases of COVID among the fully-vaccinated and 151,054 cases among the unvaccinated. Of the fully-vaccinated cases, 402 have died (0.86%). Of the unvaccinated cases 253 have died (0.17%). The vaccinated are five times more likely to die of COVID if they catch the disease than the unvaccinated are. These statistics would seem to cast doubt on the assertion that public health requires...

United States Marine Hunter Lopez, 22-years-old, has been identified as one of 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan. As Breitbart News reported, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Kabul that killed 10 U.S. Marines, one U.S. Navy medic, and another two service members, along with at least 90 others, and has left at least 150 wounded. Lopez, from the Coachella Valley area of California, was killed in the attacks as he was stationed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul as part of...

A Texas man who had organized a “Freedom Rally” in protest of COVID-19 restrictions is now on a ventilator after becoming infected with COVID, according to his pregnant wife. ...The San Angelo Standard-Times had reported that Caleb had been hospitalized with COVID for more than a month, with Wallace telling the paper that her husband initially refused to get tested for the virus and tried his own vitamin regimen to treat himself rather than seeing a doctor. Most days his wife said that she and her three daughters FaceTime him in the hospital with the help of a nurse, though...

On Thursday morning, amid the mounting chaos at the Kabul airport, a deadly suicide bombing at a US checkpoint killed at least 170 Afghans and 13 American soldiers in a matter of moments... ..Though the Department of Defense has not yet released an official list of the victims, names of the fallen soldiers began to circulate on Friday as families and lawmakers confirmed their deaths in mournful social media posts and media accounts. The identities of all 13 US service members have not yet been made available to the public. Here is what we know about the victims so far....

resident Joe Biden has vowed to continue the investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and pushed China to release "critical information" that's being withheld. Beijing has vehemently denied the pandemic began as the result of a laboratory accident and condemned those who pushed the possibility for seeking to push an anti-China agenda. After Biden asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to find the origin, Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-run newspaper the Global Times, called for China to ramp up its nuclear program. The Global Times also called it "ridiculous" for the Intelligence Community to...

This is the most stunning piece of video I have ever seen. It is still up on Youtube which is even more amazing.. Bret & Heather 80th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: What Covid Reveals about our Leaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxTODvTNHlw&t=3288s Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (Both Ph.D.’s in Biology) formerly of Evergreen University fame, have a long-running series of discussions about various topics. The topic of this PAINFUL 1:38 hour podcast is Ivermectin and digs into the evidence and the raw evidence that it is being suppressed so that the EUL that makes the Vaccine Mandates possible could go forward. This is the...

An unclassified summary of the US intelligence community report on COVID-19 origins says it’s “plausible” the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that it might be genetically engineered — but that investigators remain “divided.” President Biden requested the review under pressure in May and said in a Friday afternoon statement that he wants China “to fully share information,” without identifying any coercive steps to achieve cooperation. “The world deserves answers, and I will not rest until we get them,” Biden said. “Responsible nations do not shirk these kinds of responsibilities to the rest of the world. Pandemics...

“When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden” (Proverbs 28:12).

A politician who came to power on a ticket of competence, empathy, foreign policy experience and simply not being Donald Trump has been found out. And some of his former supporters now think that even Trump might have made a better fist of America's catastrophic departure from Afghanistan. In my 15 years of reporting from America, I have seldom seen such a sense of shock and disappointment. Where there was hope, now I see concern — genuine fear that Biden, flailing already at the age of 78, will be here for another three years.

We think we know how he did it, but we're not going to explain it yet. Don't want to give others ideas. Meanwhile, we've temporarily disabled the login program while John makes some changes tonight to try to block bots. Hopefully, he'll have the programming complete tonight. Sorry about the mess, but looks like the mods have most of it deleted.

Denmark is to lift all its remaining Covid-19 restrictions by 10 September after the health ministry declared the virus “no longer a critical threat to society” because of the country’s high level of vaccination. “The epidemic is under control, we have record vaccination levels,” the health minister, Magnus Heunicke, said in a statement on Friday. “That is why we can drop the special rules we had to introduce in the fight against Covid-19.” He warned, however, that even if the country was “in a good place right now”, the epidemic was not over and the government would not hesitate to...

Hurricane Ida, after making two landfalls over western Cuba later during the day on Friday, was barreling into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters warned that Ida, headed over exceptionally warm waters, was likely to rapidly intensify and approach the U.S. coast as Category 4 hurricane. Meteorologists warned residents along the central Gulf Coast that time is running out to prepare for the storm or evacuate the storm's projected path. -snip-The latest forecast from AccuWeather meteorologists indicates that the storm will continue to increase in strength and take a path into the central Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters expect...

Consider they say they care about the health of people, they say they want to save lives. These very people just abandoned thousands of Americans in Afghanistan after a rapid pullout of the entire country, with no plans to get them out after tomorrow. But hey, they care about people, that's what they say motivates them. These very people left afghan folks working with us there and left the means for the taliban to identify ghem for roundup and execution, tens of thousands and their families. But hey,these very people claim to care about people and their survival, that's what...

Fair warning: Do NOT update passwords until advised by FR admins that the site is back to normal. After seeing the raft of posts, I believe that the server was either mirrored or hijacked. I just now recalled that about an hour or so ago my screen header said 'sign in'. I hit refresh a couple of times and didn't pay any attention to it. I now believe that those who signed in exposed their accounts.

A government watchdog group says the U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 aircraft in Afghanistan as forces evacuate the country after a 20-year war. We’ve made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.” [snip] “We built them a pretty amazing war chest and now all of it is in the hands of the Taliban,” said...

Sorry for the vanity. I've seen at least three accounts spamming the forum as if they were automated, very fast.

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller of the United States Marine Corps revealed Friday afternoon that he has been relieved of duty for posting a video criticizing military leaders for failing to take responsibility for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.In the video, Scheller, a 17-year Marine Corps officer, said that he knew he was risking his career by speaking out, but that he wanted to explain why so many service members were frustrated, in the wake of the terror attack on U.S. forces in Kabul on Thursday.“The reason people are so upset on social media right now is not because the Marine...

The FDA authorized monoclonal antibody drugs from the companies Regeneron and Eli Lilly in November 2020, but only recently have they attracted more attention as the Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 surges across the U.S. Clinical trials show that Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment, a combination of two antibodies called casirivimab and imdevimab, reduces COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients by about 70%. And when given to an exposed person -- like someone living with an infected person -- monoclonal antibodies reduced their risk of developing an infection with symptoms by 80%.If you or a loved one...

During December 14, 2020–April 10, 2021, data from the HEROES-RECOVER Cohorts,* a network of prospective cohorts among frontline workers, showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were approximately 90% effective in preventing symptomatic and asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in real-world conditions (1,2). This report updates vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates including all COVID-19 vaccines available through August 14, 2021, and examines whether VE differs for adults with increasing time since completion of all recommended vaccine doses. VE before and during SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant predominance, which coincided with an increase in reported COVID-19 vaccine...