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On November 9, the New York Times published a new defense of the 1619 Project by Jake Silverstein, editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine (“The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History”). Silverstein’s purpose was to prepare public opinion for the release of a book version of the project titled The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, which was released on November 16. The original magazine edition, masterminded by Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, suffered devastating criticism after its release in August 2019—criticism that began with the WSWS. Silverstein has staked his reputation on the 1619 Project....

As an Apollo-class asteroid, Nereus’ orbit frequently puts it close to Earth. Its orbital resonance is approximately 2:1, meaning that it orbits almost twice for every orbit of the Earth. This makes a mission to explore the asteroid very feasible. Nereus will come the closest to our planet it has been in the past 20 years, yet it set to pass 7.4 million km away, which is about 10 times the distance between the Moon and Earth. No missions are currently known to be ready to explore Nereus, however it has been considered before. Both NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker (NEAR)...

COVID rules are being blamed for a disturbing 23 percent fall in young children’s development and cognitive test results. Social distancing measures including face masks are suspected of causing young children’s development to have drop by up to 23 per cent during the COVID pandemic, according to a new study. Brown University scientists Sean CL Deoni, Jennifer Beauchemin, Alexandra Volpe, and Viren D’Sa, penned the review, in conjunction with the global consulting firm Resonance, collecting data from 1,600 children – and their caregivers – who have been enrolled in the study between the ages of 0 and 5 on a...

Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully penned the following essay on Gil Hodges, who is a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Golden Days Era Ballot. The 10-name Golden Days Era Committee ballot features candidates whose primary contribution to the game came from 1950-69. A 16-member committee is scheduled to meet on Sunday to discuss each candidate’s credentials for enshrinement, with any one candidate needing 12 votes to be elected to the Hall of Fame.April 18, 1950. It was Opening Day and my first day working as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcast team. That afternoon, the Dodgers...

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s administration will extend requirements for travelers to wear masks on airplanes, trains and buses and at airports and train stations through mid-March to address ongoing COVID-19 risks, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. A formal announcement extending the requirements through March 18 is expected on Thursday, the sources said.

A man who worked with Jussie Smollett testified Wednesday that the former “Empire” actor recruited him and his brother to fake a homophobic and racist attack on him in downtown Chicago nearly three years ago. Abimbola Osundairo said Smollett asked him and his brother “to fake beat him up” and instructed them on how to carry out the January 2019 hoax. Smollett planned a “dry run” and gave him a $100 bill to buy supplies for the staged attack, Osundairo said. He said he and his brother agreed because Osundairo, who worked as a stand-in on “Empire,” felt indebted to...

1. Get vaccinated against COVID-19. 2. If you're already vaccinated, get a booster shot. 3. Use masks. 4. Avoid crowded places. 5. Gather outdoors when possible. 6. Socially distance from others. 7. Get tested. 8. Isolate from others if you test positive for COVID-19. "These things we have been doing, we need to keep doing them," Fauci said.

[H/T LilFarmer] Here's the link: 5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf (phmpt.org) Posted on 1:59 PM · Dec 1st, 2021

Over recent months, a huge amount of misinformation about Australia has been circulating on Freerepublic. In most cases, the person sharing it probably didn't know it was misinformation - they were sincerely and honestly passing on things they'd been told were true. But that doesn't change the fact that a lot of misleading material is being shared and a false narrative is being created that Australia has turned into some sort of neo-fascist state. I've attempted to provide accurate information, and I know I'm not the only Australian doing so, but it's a deeply frustrating uphill battle.Please note - I...

San Francisco’s Union Square, the high-end shopping district at the center of the city, is boarding up for the Christmas shopping season after a string of “mass looting” events that began on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Normally, Union Square is festive and bright in December. Its giant Christmas tree and menorah attract visitors from across the region, as does its outdoor ice skating rink. Situated alongside the city’s famous cable car, it is an oasis of prosperity in a gritty downtown. However, this year is different, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports: As San Francisco approached the critical December shopping...

ransomnote: Audio at link. Yes, Brandon really said that. I guess those instructing him what to do now give their orders formatted in such a way that it will sound like they are his thoughts if he repeats them aloud.8:44 AM · Nov 30, 2021·Twitter Web AppDisclose.tv on Twitter: "NOW - Biden: "Alright, here we go. Amend title—eh, I'm not gonna read it all. I'll just sign it." https://t.co/z9Q8s5YuAe" / Twitter

A couple in their 90s - who weren't able to celebrate when they first got married 77 years ago - were finally able to have the wedding they always dreamed of, thanks to their hospice-carers. Devoted couple Royce and Frankie King, both 98, didn't have wedding photos taken when they first tied the knot on September 16, 1944 - since they had to squeeze in their nuptials before Royce went off to fight in the war. Back in 1944, Frankie, who didn't even have time to get a wedding gown, wore a white dress she already owned, while Royce donned...

Considered a reproduction and purchased for just $30, a drawing by German master Albrecht Dürer is now estimated at $50 million. It is currently being exhibited in London. In 2016, during a garage sale in Concord, near Boston, a bargain hunter stumbled upon a design bearing the famous monogram of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The sellers, who had inherited the work, assumed it was a modern reproduction and sold it to him for $30. Three years later, Clifford Schorer, an associate at Agnews Gallery in London, heard of the story during a stay in Boston. He immediately knew he had...

Explanation: What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Yancheng, China -- has been digitally processed to equalize the Moon's brightness and exaggerate the colors. The gray color of the bottom right is the Moon's natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The upper left part of the Moon is not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed -- it in the Earth's shadow. It is faintly lit, though,...

Hallucinations, anxiety, sleep disorders, psychosis, and suicide are some of the several psychiatric disorders following COVID shots that were reported in more than 100,000 cases.Contents [hide]1 Acute Psychosis2 Communicating with the Dead3 Nihilistic Delusions4 Living in Pure Hell5 Psychosis ending in Suicide6 121,559 Psychiatric Disorders7 Cytokine Storm can trigger Psychosis8 Vaccine induced Neurodegenerative DiseasesAcute PsychosisAs reported by GreatGameIndia earlier, a shocking case of vaccine adverse event was documented where a healthy 20 year old young woman suffered acute psychosis one week after receiving Pfizer COVID vaccine.Her blood pressure was high and she still had a racing heart, so she was...

On the Finnmark plateau, between Kautokeino and Karasjok, temperatures dropped down to -35°C on Sunday. The forecast for the coming week shows a temperature anomaly for the last days of November of 10°C below the reference period 1961-1990, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute informs. Coldest out is Nikkaluokta near Gällivare in Norrbotten with -36°C. In times of climate change, the current freeze comes in sharp contrast to last fall, when meteorologists reported about the hottest October and early November ever measured, with an average of 6,7°C above normal across the Arctic. Cold weather even sweeps the coast of northernmost...

Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act expose Dr Fauci’s secret island of monkeys procured for bizarre experiments involving injecting monkeys with various kinds of infectious diseases such as Lassa and the Ebola virus which led to hemorrhaging, pain, brain damage and loss of motor control and organ failure among multitudes of other things.Contents [hide]1 Morgan Island, South Carolina2 Charles River Laboratory3 Fear Experiments4 Dr Fauci Abusing Animals Since 40 Years5 Notoriously Unreliable Vaccine ResearchMorgan Island, South CarolinaA group that set out to investigate taxpayer-funded animal experiments has unveiled a document exposing the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’...

A letter from Catherine the Great supporting mass immunization against smallpox sold at auction Wednesday in London. In the letter, dated April 20, 1787, the Russian empress instructs a governor-general of what is now Ukraine to make immunizing the public a priority and says that “such inoculation should be common everywhere.” Grandma Loves Me To The Moon And Back Casual Crew Neck Shirts & Tops White/XXL The letter sold at the MacDougall’s auction house along with a portrait of the empress painted by Dmitry Levitsky, for a total of ₤951,000. MacDougall’s said the letter reveals “the statecraft and foresight shown...

Tired of my vanitys???? I thought FR was supposed to be an open forum to discuss things. I've brought pertinent articles and discussion items to the forefront. To me, what you did was no better than what Twitter and Facebook does on their website. Federal employees and military members deserve to know what's going on, and you shut me down, cancel my posting? Admin Moderator, I believe you have some explaining to do!

Age readjusted Scottish Death Rate figures from Public Health Scotland combine with age stratified English Infection Rate Figures from the UK Health Security Agency in a Grand Union to show that fully vaccinated over 30s are over 286% more likely to die of Covid-19 than unvaccinated over 30s.By a concerned readerPHS Cases and Deaths by Vaccination in Scotland from the PHS Covid-19 Statistical Reports published on November 17 and November 24We see 54 deaths and 28,711 cases from 1.6m unvaccinated Scots, and 442 deaths and 45,051 cases from 3.8m fully vaccinated Scots. * Denotes data taken from the November 17th...