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President Joe Biden stumbled through parts of his Tuesday briefing on Hurricane Ida, leaving the definition of a tornado unclear. Biden visited New York and New Jersey to observe the damage caused in recent days by Hurricane Ida. He discussed the impact of the storm, as well as other devastating weather incidents around the nation and how they relate to climate change. Biden began to describe damage from tornadoes to communities in the middle of the country. "The members of Congress know, from their colleagues in Congress that, uh, you know, the, looks like a tornado, they don't call them...

The Biden administration’s decision to stop the importation of ammunition from Russia has some supporters of the right to arms chafing, but its effect can easily be minimized.The Biden administration’s decision to stop the importation of ammunition from Russia—which it claims is in retaliation for that country’s attempted assassination of a political opposition figure—has some supporters of the right to arms chafing. However, it is relatively inconsequential, the ammunition shortage it compounds has been mostly the fault of hoarders, and its effect can easily be minimized.Biden’s decision is relatively inconsequential because, first, it pales in comparison to everything else he,...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths attributed to many other health conditions have spiked in the U.S.: Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, for example, have killed far more Americans than would be expected in a pre-pandemic year. This "excess mortality" data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) underpins a new dashboard created by Rice humanities computing researcher John Mulligan that sheds light on this troubling trend. "COVID numbers are not the end of the story," Mulligan said. In Texas, for example, when you tally the number of people who died of heart disease or hypertension between...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century. One of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, the equestrian statue was lowered to the ground just before 9 a.m., after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, “Three, two, one!” to jubilant shouts from a crowd of hundreds. A work crew then began cutting it into...

The secret to former President Donald Trump looking good at 75? Agita. Donald Trump Jr. said “stress fuels him” and pointed out that his father has had to take “more crap than other presidents.” The president’s eldest son posted a photo of his father next to a remark from conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, asking: “How is he getting younger?” “He got younger,” Trump Jr. claimed. ​ “There’s some truth to this. He takes the stress and it fuels him, and in all fairness he took more crap than any other president times about 1000,” Trump Jr. wrote on Instagram. “Others...

Latest news reports of a cluster of ivermectin overdoses in Oklahoma were debunked by the hospital. Not one such case. The doctor who fabricated the story hadn’t work there in two months.On February 4, 2021, Merck, which is readying release of its new COVID-19 treatment drug, molnupiravir, issued a press release about that new drug’s competition, ivermectin.1 Merck itself had developed ivermectin, now off-patent, for human use, securing FDA approval in 1987, and distributed most of its 3.7 billion doses safely used worldwide since.2-4 It was thus curious that Merck’s press release about use of ivermectin for COVID expressed “a...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Arizona's primary elections are still 11 months away but the gloves are already coming off. A group supporting former Congressman Matt Salmon for governor is set this week to launch its first attack ad against one of his main opponents in the GOP primary. The 30-second spot questions the conservative credentials of former local TV news anchor turned GOP gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake. "Lake's a fake who Supported Obama" the narrator of the advertisement says, "No on Lake, we can't trust her." "The important thing is to define who Kari Lake actually is rather than let...

KENILWORTH, N.J., Feb. 4, 2021 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified:No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and; A concerning lack of safety...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the U.S. is on track to default on the national debt in October if the White House and Congress are unable to raise the debt limit. In a Wednesday letter, Yellen said that the Treasury Department would likely run out of cash and exhaust “extraordinary” measures to keep the federal government within its legal borrowing limit at some point next month. "Once all available measures and cash on hand are fully exhausted, the United States of America would be unable to meet its obligations for the first time in our...

A Millbrook resident, Van De Water was a litigation attorney in Poughkeepsie and provided legal services to the U.S. Army Reserves, the Times Union reported when he campaigned for the House seat last year. Van De Water was an active duty member of the Army from 2006 to 2014 and was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan. He graduated from Albany Law School and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Details concerning circumstances surrounding his death were unclear Tuesday night. His body was reportedly found in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.

Podcaster Joe Rogan slammed CNN for the network's coverage of his recent coronavirus diagnosis and revelation that he's taking ivermectin among a number of other drugs to treat the disease. “Bro, do I have to sue CNN?” Rogan asked during a recent episode of his podcast. “They’re making sh*t up. They keep saying I’m taking horse dewormer. I literally got it from a doctor. It’s an American company. They won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for use in human beings and CNN is saying I’m taking horse dewormer. They must know that’s a lie.” Rogan last week said in a...

Klimov: Power Balance in Water Plasma Reactor Klimov A., Belov N., Klimova T., Temirbulatov V., Tolkunov B. Technical State University “ MPEI”, Russia, Moscow, 111250, Krasnokazarmennaya str. 14 klimov.anatoly@gmail.com Physical parameters and characteristics of a heterogeneous plasmoid (HP) created by pulse repetitive discharge in a water plasma reactor (PVR) have been considered in our previous works [1-3]. This work is continuation of the previous one. It was revealed that there is a large extra-power release in the HP in water at metal nano-cluster- hydrogen atom interaction (products of water molecule’s dissociation and cathode’s erosion). This thermal power was much higher...

‘Covid & Marijuana – The Shocking Link Exposed’ – The Michael Savage Show – Tuesday September 7, 2021 "In this blockbuster podcast, Savage leaves behind a world in collapse due to Biden’s merry pranksters, and takes on something that may be far more important! Information of VITAL importance to the health of you and those you love. There is a clear connection between Covid and Marijuana. It has long been known that marijuana suppresses the immune system. Savage cites several research studies, including one from 2003 which came out long before pot was turned into a multi-billion-dollar business thanks to...

“[I]f ever there were a structure systemically keeping African-Americans from getting ahead, it would surely be America’s big-city public-school systems,” writes the Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. Look, for example, at the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s report card. For the past 20 years, achievement has been broken down by school district level in its Trial Urban District Assessment. Of the 27 U.S. urban school districts that reported their results for 2019—from Boston and Chicago to Fort Worth, Texas, and Los Angeles—not a single one can say a majority of the black eighth...

Minnesota state Sen. Paul Gazelka (R-East Gull Lake) announced his candidacy for governor Wednesday. Last week Gazelka announced he would be resigning as Senate majority leader. He formally announced his campaign at an event at the Capitol on Wednesday. Gazelka faces a crowded field for the GOP primary. Already in the race include state Sen. Michelle Benson, former state Sen. Scott Jensen, dermatologist Neil Shah, businessman Mike Marti, and Lexington Mayor Mike Murphy. Gov. Tim Walz has not yet formally announced whether he will run for re-election.

This fight is real, it's here, and it's coming for every Christian and pro-lifer who opens his mouth. But we have to keep speaking and accept the price of doing so.The city of Portland moved to ban official business with — and travel to — Texas Friday, after a Lone Star State law went into effect protecting babies with a heart beat from being aborted. It’s not surprising; Portland’s been flirting with dangerously illiberal secessionist thinking for a while now. Just last year, they allowed the federal government’s courthouse and officers to come under violence siege for weeks, even referring...

RALEIGH, NC — North Carolina health officials on Tuesday released a report showing 170 ongoing COVID-19 clusters in K-12 schools or child care settings. While the state Department of Health and Human Services said it does not have data on the number of pupils quarantined statewide or the share of those forced to miss school without a remote learning option, districts without mask-wearing requirements are seeing substantially more spread of the virus and hours of lost learning among students. Union County Public Schools, which voted down a proposal last month to require mask wearing in the state’s sixth-largest public school...

DELAND — Volusia County Councilman Fred Lowry is hospitalized with COVID-19, County Chair Jeff Brower announced Tuesday. "He is in the hospital wrestling with COVID-19," Brower said as Tuesday's council meeting kicked off with Lowry's chair empty for the second consecutive week. "He's pretty darned sick," Councilwoman Billie Wheeler added in the late afternoon, saying Lowry had texted her an update. Wheeler told The News-Journal that Lowry was hospitalized Monday night after being treated with monoclonal antibodies last Friday. "He has been sick for around two weeks and got the antibody (treatment) last Friday and went to the emergency room...

Cool site with video news clips in slow and simple Finnish. Closed captioning too. Something like VOA's Special English TV. To BRL and other Freepers learning Finnish. Study hard. Master these languages and make friends. Communists are global, so the right needs to be linked up as well to trade notes and concentrate efforts against the globalist conspiracy. Meanwhile, never stop delving deeper into English. In this degenerate era of lame education & literature, we all have gaps in our English, no matter how much we may believe otherwise. And opposehigh rising terminal (HRT) (uptalk), infantile "verbing", and other attacks...

NEW YORK (AP) — There will be something missing at two Whole Foods stores opening next year: the rows of cashiers. Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, said Wednesday that it will bring its cashier-less technology to two Whole Foods stores for the first time, letting shoppers grab what they need and leave without having to open their wallets. Cameras and sensors track what’s taken off shelves. Items are charged to an Amazon account after customers leave the store with them. But there will be an option for those who want to shop the old-fashioned way: Self-checkout lanes will be...