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New York’s governor said Monday that her administration will not seek to compel counties to comply with her new mask mandate, which took effect on Dec. 13. “I do hope that the businesses will enforce this, and individuals will understand how important it is,” Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters at a briefing in New York City. “We have left it to the counties to enforce, so counties can choose not to enforce. But we hope counties are enforcing,” she added later. Hochul, a Democrat who replaced Andrew Cuomo when he resigned earlier this year, on Friday announced that masks would...

Peter Schiff and Tucker Carlson discuss how 2021 real inflation rate was the worst in US history and why it's about to get much worse. Housing prices are soaring, production is tanking, energy prices are surging, and the cost of living is far outpacing wage growth. Video...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Keesler Air Force Base, MississippiKeesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city along the Gulf Coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. The base is named in honor of aviator 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler Jr., a Mississippi native killed in France during the First World War. The base is home of Headquarters, Second Air Force (2 AF) and the 81st Training Wing (81 TW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The base has specialized in ground trade training since its opening in...

Abstract A key driver in biopharmaceutical investment decisions is the probability of success of a drug development program. We estimate the probabilities of success (PoSs) of clinical trials for vaccines and other anti-infective therapeutics using 43,414 unique triplets of clinical trial, drug, and disease between January 1, 2000, and January 7, 2020, yielding 2,544 vaccine programs and 6,829 nonvaccine programs targeting infectious diseases. The overall estimated PoS for an industry-sponsored vaccine program is 39.6%, and 16.3% for an industry-sponsored anti-infective therapeutic....We plot the number of development programs known to start in each month from January 2000 through December 2019 in...

Let’s say it straight: Every Georgia Republican who votes for former Sen. David Perdue in next year’s gubernatorial primary is voting to strangle American democracy and replace it with an arrangement in which elections can be overturned on a whim, just because somebody says so. There is no other rationale for Perdue’s candidacy, no other reason for him to have launched a campaign against an incumbent governor of his own party. That, and to try to placate the implacable Donald Trump. That incumbent, Brian Kemp, has served for almost 20 years as a Republican state senator, a Republican secretary of...

The state of California is having another Covid-19 surge despite the most draconian lockdowns in the nation. To fight this, the communist government has initiated another statewide face mask mandate for everyone who is indoors regardless of whether they’ve been injected or not with the Covid-19 experimental drugs, often referred to as “vaccines.”According to Fox News: California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced the updated policy Monday, citing an increase in COVID-19 cases in the state since the Thanksgiving holiday.“This is a critical time,” Ghaly said Monday. “We have a tool we know has worked and can...

This weekend my wife and I watched a feature length Japanese movie on TV Japan entitled The Great War of Archimedes, a movie that has nothing to do with Archimedes, and there's actually only one -- terrific -- intense battle simulation scene in the flick. I'll do my best here to convince you FReepers that this is a great choice to watch (in English subtitles) -- and try to not give the plot away. What the Movie IS and IS NOT: It is NOT a War movie, though the first few minutes of his movie show a highly realistic and...

ATLANTA, Georgia — Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), who is backed by former President Donald Trump in his gubernatorial bid, holds a sizable lead early in his campaign over Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a poll from Trump’s pollster Tony Fabrizio provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows. The headline of the polling memo—“Perdue Primed to Defeat Kemp”—says it all. “We found that incumbent Governor Brian Kemp has overstayed his welcome with the Republican electorate and a plurality back another candidate, chiefly David Perdue,” the polling memo states. “Furthermore, President Trump’s endorsement of Sen. Perdue serves to further solidify his advantage over...

John Paul II would never have accepted abortion-tainted COVID jab. Here’s whyAccepting into one’s own body one of the four most prominent alleged COVID vaccines fails to meet the demands of the personalistic norm, which is the norm of the philosophical foundation of Christ’s commandment to love. (LifeSiteNews) — I have been following the LifeSiteNews stories on the morality of accepting the so-called “vaccines,” and just finished reading this article, posted June 23, 2021, with the following headline and caption: Priest: Using abortion-tainted COVID vaccine is moral complicity in organ harvesting ‘The Nazis were bad? The Chinese were bad? We...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Georgia legislator has introduced a bill that would eliminate absentee ballot drop boxes, a favored and highly-used tool last November that allowed voters to safely cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic. Butch Miller, the No.2 Republican in Georgia's Republican-controlled senate and a candidate for lieutenant governor in the 2022 elections, said drop boxes were a “weak link” in guarding against voter fraud, according to a statement released by his office.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A man was arrested in a North Carolina park after using a rebar pole to fight a man who hit a woman, according to the Asheville Police Department Timothy Faillace, 32, of Florida, and William Paap, 49, of Asheville, were both arrested by Asheville Police Department officers around 3 p.m. Friday following an investigation of a physical altercation at Pritchard Park, officers say. Officers say Faillace struck Paap with the rebar pole just after Paap punched a female victim in the face. Officers also say they found Faillace holding Paap down on a park bench with his...

Montreal Police have arrested six people in connection with a slew of online threats targeting schools in the Greater Montreal area. The individuals are all students between the ages of 13 and 17 years old. The arrests on Monday come after the cyber unit of Montreal Police conducted an extensive online investigation over the weekend. According to Manuel Couture, spokesperson for the SPVM, the investigation was prompted after a number of concerning online threats toward schools and officials began circulating on social media platforms last week. “It began when the teacher got stabbed on Thursday. After that, we began to...

Introduction. In October 2020 I wrote about the US healthcare system and how it is a total failure on Covid, allowing people to die without simple treatments for the Bioweapon dubbed Covid. A year later we have increased our hold on #1 slot on healthcare expenditures per capita. Nothing has improved and in many ways our healthcare establishment has gotten worse. Much worse. And, now we have the smoking gun case of Africa proving the possibly intentional manslaughter of people in the name of bad science, profiteering or worse – depopulation…. The most expensive healthcare system in the world (by...

Women were left covered in nachos after an ugly brawl broke out at the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving match against the Las Vegas Raiders. Footage appears to show a woman jumping over the food counter at AT&T stadium in Texas as she appears to be chasing down another female. Within seconds of hurling herself over the counter, she fell to the ground as the floor was covered in nachos and food boxes. Another woman then punched her in the face, knocking her blue baseball cap off. The women were brawling and pulling each other’s hair. It’s not known what caused the...

The censorship campaign on ivermectin took a disturbing turn with the latest developments.The FDA is now being accused of attempting to confiscate and destroy packages containing ivermectin being shipped to Americans.With the help of the United States Postal Service (USPS), the FDA intends to withhold the safe, effective drug from COVID-19 patients, that is according to recent reports published online.While the FDA wastes time intercepting packages, they should be releasing the documents to the Pfizer COVID-19 data.I think that’s what many Americans would appreciate much more.

[Catholic Caucus] New Ways Ministry Responds to Apology from Official at Vatican's Synod OfficeThe following is a statement from Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, regarding a Vatican official’s apology to LGBTQ people and the organization. For more information about this incident, click here.New Ways Ministry warmly accepts the apology of Thierry Bonaventura, the Communications Manager of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, for removing from their website a link to our video encouraging LGBTQ people to participate in synod consultations. We thank him for recognizing the harm that such a slight would have caused LGBTQ people...

The ongoing, and years-long, fight over the forthcoming Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is heating up. Activists recently released a new set of demands for the project aimed at combating gentrification. They aren’t protesting the center itself, but are working to stop development from displacing them. “We’re not against the center,” Dixon Romeo, an organizer with the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition, told Insider. He added that South Shore residents were among those who sent Obama to Springfield as an Illinois senator and later the White House. “The issue is if you’re not investing in community members and the...

Night-shift workers were in the middle of the holiday rush, cranking out candles at Mayfield Consumer Products, when a tornado closed in on the factory and the word went out to seek shelter, but at least four claim supervisors that they would be fired if they left their shifts early. At least eight people at the factory were killed, among dozens of fatalities across several Kentucky counties. Word of the approaching storm circled for hours with up to 15 of those on shift asking managers if they could leave in order to shelter at their own homes, only to be...

Good news for Budapest, the new safe haven for Western conservatives: Mel Gibson came to town. Around the end of November, locals were happy to see the famous actor around the city. Everybody knows Mel Gibson, and Hungary is no exception. The movie star was in Hungary’s capital to film the John Wick prequel series, The Continental. When browsing the U.S. press for recent articles about him, though, I bumped into some very intriguing headlines. “How Does Mel Gibson Still Have a Career?,” Variety asked. “Mel Gibson Is Living Proof That ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Mostly Bullshit,” the Daily Beast concluded....

Some days, it just doesn't pay to run up on someone and attempt armed robbery. You may pick the wrong home. You may find out the hard way your target is armed. Or in the case of this viral video, the guy you're robbing may think you're a little bitch and respond accordingly. It's a story in three parts. Thug attempts to rob a dude. Dude is all like "seriously?" Thug finds himself eating pavement and squealing like a pig. Make sure the volume is up. https://twitter.com/LoniLove/status/1383403362884874240