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Will he? Won't he? Is there a possibility he might? Or perhaps he won't? What seems to be his latest attitude? Welcome to the absurdly obsessive world of Politico reading the Senator Joe Manchin tea leaves trying to find a clue as to how the Reconciliation bill negotiations are going. The latest example of Politico microanalyzing Manchin came on Monday This obsession was reflected in at least SEVENTEEN (17) Politico stories featuring Manchin in one day.It's almost as if they're a staff full of Democrats who are deeply invested in the belief that the rise or fall of the Party...

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved drug trial experiments on hundreds of AIDS orphans in New York City. Over 200 of the orphans died during or after the experiments, according to Liam Scheff, the investigative reporter who broke the story. The Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) “began testing drugs on its orphan population in 1992, the same year they became a subsidiary of Columbia University’s Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Unit, under Dr. Anne Gershon,” Scheff noted. “In 2003, I went undercover inside the facility and saw the effects of the drugs on the children myself.” Scheff broke the...

A Jewish civil rights organization is calling out the University of Massachusetts, Boston for its inaction on an investigation into a campus organization for hosting a pro-Palestine rally that turned violent. The Louis D. Brandeis Center sent a letter to the university on Tuesday demanding that it open an investigation into the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, which hosted the rally on June 24, as well as any students involved in the incident.... ... Van Zile said that while he was lucky to go on with his life after the event, students at the University of Massachusetts, Boston may...

The tacit premise of Wokeness is that minorities are intellectually deficient and hopelessly oppressed by everything around them (thanks to the inherent racism of all White people and the irredeemably xenophobic the institutions that they created). The problem with calling Wokeness an anti-racism movement is self-evident. Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are not dumber than White people. Some of my favorite brainy individuals could never be mistaken for a White Supremacists (except maybe by the delusional NPR). Moreover, of all the minorities I've known and befriended during my lifetime, not a single one has ever expressed any belief that...

Over seven in 10 people in the Netherlands think the government should bring in specific measures to deal with the number of people who have not been vaccinated against coronavirus, according to a poll of 28,000 people by television current affairs show EenVandaag. Some 60% of those polled said that people who have not been vaccinated should pay for the tests they need to take to access bars and restaurants themselves, EenVandaag found. The tests are currently free. The government is due to announce next Tuesday what it plans to do to cope with the rise in coronavirus cases and...

Crew members had gone ”plinking“ and returned the gun to the set, an insider tells TheWrap The gun that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last Thursday was used by crew members that morning for live-ammunition target practice, an individual with knowledge of the set told TheWrap. A number of crew members had taken prop guns from the New Mexico set of the indie Western — including the gun that killed Hutchins — to go “plinking,” a hobby in which people shoot at beer cans with live ammunition to pass the time, the insider said. The shooting happened just a few...

Prince Andrew’s lawyer asked a New York judge Tuesday to keep sealed a 2009 legal agreement that he says can protect the prince against a lawsuit's claims that he sexually assaulted an American woman when she was under 18. The request was made in court papers in Manhattan federal court, where U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan is presiding over an August lawsuit filed on behalf of Virginia Giuffre. The lawsuit said the prince abused her on multiple occasions in 2001 when she was 17 and a minor under U.S. law. Attorney Andrew Brettler, representing Andrew, said he is preparing...

A second recall effort launched against San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin demonstrates how residents are "fed up" with his progressive policies, as his push to reduce jail funding and refusal to prosecute repeat offenders ensures the streets remain marred with open-air drug dealing and violent crime now stretching into the suburbs, a leader of the prominent local police union tells Fox News. Last week, the first Republican-backed recall effort fell just 1,714 signatures short of the 51,325 required to trigger a special election to bring the question of ousting Boudin before voters. Now a second recall effort is being...

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he is asked 'every day' about switching to the GOP. When asked on Tuesday if he thinks it would be easier if he just 'shifted to being a Republican' the senator replied: 'Oh, it would be much easier, my goodness.' In an interview with billionaire David Rubenstein at a breakfast event for The Economic Club Manchin said: 'What I'm telling you now is who I am. Do you think by having a "D" or an "I" or an "R" is going to change who I am?'

Portland's police chief branded the woke-but-crime-ravaged city's 54 shootings over a 19 hour period 'stunning' and attacked calls to to defund his department. ‘The ongoing tragedy of gun violence is on my mind tonight after a terrible weekend of violence in our city. A double murder this weekend. Nineteen shootings in 54 hours. Stunning,’ Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell tweeted on Monday night. Officers are investigating 19 shootings that took place between early Friday morning and Sunday evening, which resulted in four arrests and numerous injuries.

Parents have demanded that a Virginia superintendent and school board resign after accusing them of lying to cover up an alleged sexual assault in order to push their pro-transgender policies. At a Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) board meeting on Tuesday enraged parents cited an email that surfaced last week where Superintendent Scott Ziegler reported an alleged sexual assault in the girls' bathroom. The email, which was sent on May 28, 2021, contradicted a statement Ziegler made the month before when he publicly said that he had no record of bathroom assaults.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a quartet of former senators and widows of former senators to key ambassadorial posts, in a rare move by the chamber to approve some of President Biden’s diplomatic nominees. The Senate unanimously confirmed former senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as U.S. ambassador to Turkey; former senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) as ambassador to New Zealand; Victoria Reggie Kennedy as ambassador to Austria; and Cindy McCain as ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, which encompasses three U.N. agencies.... ...Tuesday’s votes came as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has threatened to delay the confirmations of dozens...

George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” His adage now applies to anyone associated with academia in any capacity. The New York Times ran a report the other day on the canceling of University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot for his dissenting views on affirmative action. The paper quoted a Williams College geosciences professor, Phoebe A. Cohen, who supports Abbot’s shunning. She explained her dim view of academic freedom thusly: “This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white...

An early preview of the 1921 census papers is set to be released on Wednesday showing how our ancestors lived and worked in the wake of WWI and the Spanish flu pandemic. A sneak peek of the 100-year-old records, which were taken on June 19 1921, will be shown on the family history website Findmypast and hold information about nearly 38 million people who lived in England and Wales. Under the 1920 Census Act, the 1921 census can't be published online until more than a hundred years have passed. The public will able to learn more about how their ancestors...

Lesbians claimed they get abuse if they do not wish to sleep with trans women Some claim they've been pressured to have sex with trans women with penises Transgender rights activists believe having genital preference is discriminatory 'Young women feel pressured to sleep with trans women 'to prove I am not a terf'.' The term 'terf', which stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, is often used to attack feminists calling to protect women-only spaces, and sex-based rights rather than gender-based rights, in opposition to advice from LGBT lobby group Stonewall. The same 'terf' term was levelled at JK Rowling after...

Joe Biden has framed a nail-bitingly close race for governor of Virginia as a referendum on his young presidency and an opportunity to rebuke his predecessor, Donald Trump. Seemingly liberated from the formal trappings of office by a return to the campaign trail, Biden used a rally in Arlington, Virginia, to launch an unusually scathing and sustained attack on the former president. Biden had made the short journey from Washington to speak in support of the Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who faces a tight election against the Republican Glenn Youngkin next week. “Just remember this: I ran against Donald Trump,” he...

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) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love...

Fox News host is 'glad that's clear to everyone right now' amid comments Obama made after a biological male was found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl in a bathroom

@declassifiedUK BREAKING: MI5 refuses to give info to Manchester bombing enquiry on links between father of bomber and Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. LIFG was armed with UK backing by Qatar in the war of 2011 and previously financed by the UK to kill Gadaffi in 1996. @declassifiedUK Manchester enquiry is told a JTAC assessment in December 2010 concluded there was an issue of Islamist extremism in Manchester. Yet Libyan radicals there were reportedly encouraged by MI5 & MI6 to fight in Libya just a few months after. @declassifiedUK Some further background on the links between the UK covert/overt war in...

A Lattice Energy Converter Frank E. Gordon* and Harper J. Whitehouse E-mail: feg@inovl.com As previously reported, a Lattice Energy Converter is capable of spontaneous-initiation and self-sustained production of ionizing radiation and the conduction of electricity from a specially prepared palladium electrode that is occluded with hydrogen without the use of naturally radioactive materials. While the LEC is relatively simple to construct and the experimental results have been replicated, the underlying processes are complex. In this paper, we will present experimental results along with analysis based on more than 150 years of research into the metal-hydride system and more than 120...