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Australian Labor party Leader Daniel Andrews and Premier of Victoria made headlines again this weekend over his latest outrageous pandemic rule. Daniel Andrews told Australians they would receive no healthcare unless they were vaccinated for the coronavirus.

Dear Freepers I have been going through very hard times in the last 5 years. This is especially so since the "Plandemic" and even worse with the introduction of the "vaccine mandate" in the last few weeks. Being the sole provider in my family, I have been experiencing financial issues lately. Switching jobs is more difficult with the "vaccine mandate". Mark of the Beast or job? With all the bad news going around, it is hard to even hope. I am really praying for a miracle to happen. When I was 7, I prayed very hard to God. He granted...

In brief: Online anonymity may become illegal. Crackdown on "abuses." Will have to use ID to use social media. Deter people from engaging in bad behavior.

<p>After meeting Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis during the 1988 Iowa caucuses, I devoted myself to Democratic candidates and progressive causes. I completed internships at the White House, during the Clinton administration, and the United Nations. I worked for Democratic candidates, Al Gore’s presidential campaign, a United Nations charity, and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.).</p>

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A Greenville woman was arrested Monday after deputies said she was responsible for shooting at a group of people. Deputies identified Judy Lozano as the suspect and charged her with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and one count of shooting a weapon into an occupied dwelling. The shooting happened around 10:51 p.m. Sunday. We’re told that one of the bullets fired from the suspect’s car hit a home on Barrus Construction Road. No one was injured. Deputies say the handgun used by Lozano was recovered and the vehicle...

WASHINGTON — The House Science Committee will mark up its portion of a multitrillion-dollar spending bill this week that includes several billion dollars for NASA infrastructure but nothing for lunar lander development. The committee will allocate $45.51 billion in spending for agencies under its jurisdiction, such as NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation. That will be combined with portions of the bill assigned to other committees into the final version to be considered by the full House. An updated draft of the bill, dated Sept. 4, offers good and bad news for NASA. It...

SOT, Anetter Detering, Former Green party politician and GayChurch Berlin activist (German): "God we need your powerful love to support the fight for freedom of LGBT people in Poland, Russia, and Hungary as a fight for our freedom from ourselves."Berlin's Gethsemane Church held a service under the motto 'homophobia is a sin,' on Saturday, ahead of a Pride march in the German capital. Sign says: "Homophobia is a sin."Wolfgang Beyer from GayChurch Berlin spoke at the service saying, "God is not the problem, he does not hate homosexuality because it comes from him, nothing can be taken from him when...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina hospitals would be required to let a pastor or other clergy member visit a patient even during a declared emergency like a pandemic under legislation that received final General Assembly approval on Wednesday.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Fort Knox, KentuckyFort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence, including the Army Human Resources Command. It is named in honor of Henry Knox, Chief of Artillery in the American Revolutionary War and the first United States Secretary of War.The United States Army...

THOUSANDS OF CATHOLICS IN VIETNAM have experienced discrimination because of their faith in the country’s northwest province of Dien Bien, where communist forces defeated French troops in 1954. The province is home to three parishes and many mission stations serving some 3,000 Catholics, including Hmong people. They use their own homes as chapels. Authorities refuse to recognize local people’s religious needs. They have only approved Dien Bien parish and allowed just one priest to provide pastoral care for local people.Mary Nguyen (not her real name) serves as a choir conductor and leads prayers at a mission station that ministers to...

At a Nato summit in May 2017, the French president dug his fingertips into President Trump's hand, staring him in the face. "It wasn't innocent", Mr Macron later said. "In my bilateral dialogues, I won't let anything pass." Roll forward four years to the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Joe Biden's first as US president, and again Mr Macron grasped the moment. As the cameras snapped, he walked across the beach with his arm around Mr Biden. The body language shift was clear: the two sides arm-in-arm once again. But in capitals across Europe, from London to Berlin, Afghanistan has...

The Irish Bishops have signalled their intention to use the Revised New Jerusalem Bible as the basis for the new Lectionary for Mass. In a statement on Friday, they revealed that their consultation process on the Lectionary had drawn more than 200 relevant submissions from individuals and another 20 from different organisations, the vast majority of whom expressed a preference for the RNJB. The current lectionary is based on the 1966 Jerusalem Bible. More than 150 of the individuals who made submissions and virtually all of the organisations believed the RNJB “struck the right balance in regard to ‘inclusive language’...

Senate Democrats are considering several ways to tax Americans in order to pay for their leftist wishlist, otherwise known as the $3.5 trillion budget resolution. According to a four-page document obtained by NBC News, one of the ways Democrats propose to pay for their wildly expensive plan, which includes carveouts for a civilian climate corps, universal pre-K, and other woke legislation, is through a “plastics excise tax

Adding to the litany of mea culpas regarding the use of ivermectin – a still unproven alternative treatment for the coronavirus – the Associated Press recently issued a correction to a report alleging that 70% of poison control cases in Mississippi were linked to the drug’s ingestion. Published in late August, the original article said that up to 70% of calls to Mississippi Poison Control were related to the use of ivermectin. Several days later, the Associated Press issued a correction putting the actual number at 2%.

Hypertension or high blood pressure (BP) is highly prevalent in the aging population. Notably, diet and lifestyle have a strong influence on BP. We investigated the association between dietary factors and BP in older adults. This cross-sectional study included 128 participants, aged 65–80 years. Multiple linear regressions were conducted to examine the associations between diet, including meats, vegetables, grains, fruits, dairy, fats, and added sugar, and BP. There was a significant association between intake of added sugar and systolic BP and diastolic BP in females after controlling for age, income, body mass index, physical activity levels, daily calorie intake, and...

Biden is pure evil. I've been a dedicated TRUMP supporter, but, not a blind follower. Both TRUMP and BIDEN had their own plans. Both of them (TRUMP & BIDEN) did not gave a damn about what the people (of Afghanistan) wanted. After TRUMP signed peace deal with TALIBAN, were the people of any AFGHAN province were asked: 1.Whether They accept TRUMP,’s deal with TALIBAN? 2. Whether they want to be independent or be a part of TALIBAN nation? ***Before United States took over Afghanistan, 40%(approx.) of the country was beyond Taliban's control. After United States withdrawl, 100% Taliban control.***

A recent poll came out that shows that 48% of Americans disapprove of the job Vice President Kamala Harris is doing in office. Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson talked with students in Georgetown to see if they approved of the job she was doing. Students Are SO PROUD Of Kamala Harris For... Well... They Don't Know [video]

Police have arrested Tetsuo Urata on suspicion of stealing 730 pieces of women’s underwear from coin laundries, after a 21-year-old college student alerted authorities that six pairs of her underwear had disappeared. Authorities in the southern Japanese city of Beppu raided 56-year-old Tetsuo Urata’s home in late August and told media they “haven’t confiscated such a large number of panties in years.” Police seized 730 pieces of female underwear during the search, which followed accusations towards Tetsuo from an unnamed 21-year-old female college student. She told police Tetsuo had pilfered six pairs of her underwear in a laundromat on August...

Psaki said "Plandemic" instead of "Pandemic"

Lord Trimble has urged Joe Biden to drop his support for the Northern Ireland Protocol, warning the post-Brexit border rules “risk a return to sectarian strife”. The architect of the Good Friday Agreement accused the White House of “contributing to the damage being caused” to the peace treaty by siding with the European Union on the issue. He said in a letter to the US President that the “political promises of the Belfast Agreement have been flippantly dismissed” because of the protocol. The protocol, agreed as part of the Brexit deal, requires checks on goods traveling from GB to Northern...