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Understanding of the Covid pandemic is impeded when essential facts about it are kept from the public and too many violations against common sense are committed by government and corporate officials intent on “ensuring safety.” Essential facts regarding this pandemic are being overlooked or missed entirely. Much of what has fallen off the radar should be common knowledge but isn’t, thanks to a mainstream media that will not report what is missing from the accounts, not because they aren’t relevant but because they don’t fit “the official narrative.” Before getting into what may be gleaned about the Covid pandemic, despite...

China expressed outrage Friday at comments by President Joe Biden, blasting his assertions that the U.S. would defend Taiwan in the case of a Chinese invasion, despite swift White House denials of any policy change. Speaking at a CNN town hall event Thursday, Biden said in response to the question, "Are you saying that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense if China attacked?" with "Yes, we have a commitment to do that." The statement, though seemingly benign, appeared to refute long-standing but tenuous agreements between Washington and Beijing that have ultimately limited U.S. support for Taiwan to helping...

In his weekly press briefing Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville answered a question about the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “I want to know what we knew,” Tuberville said. “Hopefully, they get Nancy Pelosi and put her on the stand and ask her, ‘Did you know? Were you warned by the FBI?’ Because you, Nancy Pelosi, are in charge of the Capitol. You’re in charge of the security of the Capitol. We never hear anything like that.” Tuberville said the House panel investigating Jan. 6 is partisan and invalid. “The first thing I...

Although Virginia has been a politically blue state for years, this year's election has the Democrats' governor facing a serious challenge. One of the reasons is that many Virginia parents are outraged by the "woke" propaganda their children are being subjected to in the public schools -- and the governor has sided with the education bureaucrats and the teachers union. Very few politicians in any state dare to go against the teachers unions, which have millions of votes and millions of dollars in campaign contributions. This is one battle in a much bigger war, and the stakes are far higher...

Now that I am seven episodes in, I feel confident saying that “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” airing Tuesday evenings on FX, is the fairest and arguably the best real-life political drama Hollywood has ever produced. What mystifies me is that no one on the Right appears to be talking about it. The third in the “American Crime Story” series, this 10-part drama faithfully tracks the perjury and obstruction of justice scandal that very nearly ended the Bill Clinton presidency. While the first two in the series -- “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” and “Versace” -- dealt candidly with the issues...

In a rare move, federal labor officials have threatened to take over three states’ workplace safety programs because they failed to adopt emergency COVID-19 rules to protect healthcare workers. That admonition, labor advocates say, also serves as a thinly veiled warning that resisting the forthcoming federal vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers and employees at large companies likewise could cost states their regulatory power over workplace safety. “This is definitely an effort to send a message that [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration] is going to take any defiance of the next standard very seriously,” said Jordan Barab, who served...

While testifying under oath at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing last May, Dr. Anthony Fauci, world's most trusted expert on viral diseases, categorically denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had ever funded "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This was in spite of the fact that Fauci is a big supporter of gain of function research "because the knowledge we could obtain is well worth the risk of setting off a pandemic that could kill millions of people." This week the NIH confirmed that funds it provided to Peter Daszak...

A U.S. Marine veteran appeared on Fox News Friday to relay his account of how he stopped armed robbers from knocking off a convenience store, but wandered way off topic at the conclusion of the segment by declaring that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide. James Kilcer was at a Chevron convenience store in Yuma, Arizona early Thursday morning when two robbers entered. One of them pointed a gun toward Kilcer and the store clerk and that’s about as far as they got before the vet disarmed him with his bare hands. A third suspect was on the scene but the...

A bipartisan letter demands answers from the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical adviser. The White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out that U.S. taxpayers were being used to fund the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, have now turned their sights on Anthony Fauci on another animal-testing-related matter – infecting dozens of beagles with disease-causing parasites in order to test an experimental drug on them. House members, most of whom are Republicans, want Fauci to explain himself in response to allegations brought on by the White Coat...

REvil, the ransomware group that hacked the U.S. Colonial Pipeline this past May, was itself hacked and shut down by a multinational cyber operation, according to Reuters. The Russia-based organization was reportedly hacked using the same technique that they had used to bring down the pipeline. Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked alongside investigative arms from multiple other countries,,,

It was a fabled kingdom known in ancient times as the Island of Gold, a civilisation with untold wealth that explorers tried in vain to find long after its unexplained disappearance from history around the 14th century. The site of Srivijaya may finally have been found – by local fishing crews carrying out night-time dives on the Musi River near Palembang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Their extraordinary catches are treasures ranging from a lifesize eighth-century Buddhist statue studded with precious gems – worth millions of pounds – to jewels worthy of kings....

Remember the dog days of summer, when there was near consensus in the media that Florida was led by a madman whose reckless Covid policies represented a grave threat to the nation? Those hyperbolic claims have been quietly shelved, now that the number of new Covid cases in Florida has plummeted from 151,748 for the week ending August 20 to 19,519 as of October 8, according to the Florida Department of Health’s weekly Covid situation report. According to the New York Times Covid Tracker, Florida now has the second-lowest per capita Covid rate of any state: 12 per 100,000, behind...

....Though infamously intolerant of those not adhering to its ultraconservative brand of Sunni Islam, ISIS has opened its arms to members of all ethnic backgrounds, from East to West. Now, as ISIS entrenches itself in Afghanistan, the group appears to be exploiting existing divisions to challenge neighboring countries, with China high on the list. "The message being sent is political and geo-strategic," Yun Sun, co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, told Newsweek. "It is messaging that ISKP is continuing the course in Afghanistan against foreign enemies. It is putting China...

There’s more trouble in Zuck-town. A new Facebook whistleblower has reportedly emerged, dishing to US regulators that an official at the social network in 2017 blew off concerns about hate speech as a “flash in the pan,” adding that while “some legislators will get pissy” Facebook is “printing money in the basement.” The new whistleblower told the Securities and Exchange Commission under penalty of perjury that the company has constantly shrugged off concerns about hate speech and misinformation in pursuit of growth, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Like Frances Haugen, another former Facebook employee-turned-whisteblower who testified in Congress earlier...

“Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words” (Proverbs 23:9).

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, 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) IF THE DEVIL IS KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR, LET JESUS ANSWER IT.

A federal court on Thursday nixed a Trump-era rule that limited state and tribal authority to block projects that could impact their waters, including pipelines. California Federal Judge William Alsup vacated the rule and sent it back to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for further proceedings. The Clinton appointee's move came after the agency asked the court to remand the issue back to the EPA amid litigation filed by states and environmental groups... ...The now-vacated rule had limited states’ authorities to block projects by giving them a strict one-year time limit to do so before the federal government could decide...

Liberal Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shocked the Twitterverse with a warning about impending hyperinflation in the world, and predicted it would soon hit the United States. Dorsey, who oversees one of the largest offenders of Big Tech censorship, didn’t pull any punches about the danger: “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening.” Twitter went berserk, with over 3,600 retweets and over 15,000 likes just over an hour after the tweet was posted.

The studio version has long been recognized as the jazz saxophonist’s masterwork. But a recently unearthed live recording is nothing short of a revelation.ltrane stood apart for his indifference to the scene. While Miles Davis socialized with Harry Belafonte and Marlon Brando at uptown galas, and the pianist Cecil Taylor and Coleman mingled with bohemian painters and poets on the Lower East Side, Coltrane lived with his family in the middle-class suburb of Dix Hills, Long Island, and kept to himself. He projected selfless dedication, purpose, and—as the alto saxophonist Darius Jones recently put it to me—“service.” Service—or, more precisely,...