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Christmas Day 2021 marks the 163rd Saturday since the first Yellow Vests protests occurred in France. The fear of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant running high all week long Thursday 1.55 million COVID tests in France with around six percent of them coming back positive. The Omicron fear factor could last right up to April's election for president that's when new vaccine batches are expected to emerge that will be more effective against Omicron than existing shots. Politics continuing to be discussed new polling showing Emmanuel Macron the leader of the pack for the first round of presidential election voting...

’Tis the season to recall Christopher Hitchens. One decade ago this month, the Anglo-American journalist died of esophageal cancer at age 62. Commemorations and tributes have marked the sad occasion. Hitchens has been remembered, variously, as "a giant of letters and of social criticism," as an "artist" who "dwarfed his canvas," and as a writer who "delighted readers and listeners with the sense that one could be both educated and epicurean, both cosmopolitan and combative, both bookish and bombastic." But he also has been described as a public intellectual who "chose his crucial causes poorly, winning pyrrhic victories that mostly...

ere's What to Remember: "These analysts see little reason to expect China, historically a continental power, to turn its attentions seaward. But their predictions of Chinese passivity do not hold up under scrutiny. To see why not, consult Mao Zedong, who inscribed his distinctive strategic outlook on contemporary China through his writings on political and military affairs." Western analysts are fond of describing Chinese foreign policy in terms of the Great Wall. Built to halt incursions along China's northern frontier, the wall was clearly meant for defensive purposes. When they deploy the Great Wall metaphor, Western commentators thus imply that...

This Christmas, did you stay 33 feet away from everyone? I didn’t think so. How about six feet, does that seem more reasonable? Guess again. Once a rule is put in place it’s difficult to eliminate it even though the original reasons for its generation are long gone, according to author Roger von Oech. His prime example: In the 1870s the leading manufacturer of typewriters at the time received complaints that too many of the typewriter keys were sticking together if the operator went too fast. In response to this, the company produced the QWERTY type keyboard — a configuration...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, 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.

Only in a world distorted by progressivism could people be pleased—and kept warm—by a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings, yet here we are. Kamala Harris is Biden’s lump, and I doubt even the dancing nurses are cheering up the White House this weekend. Anyway, here’s to your own nuclear-powered holiday week.

The New Jersey pharmaceutical company supplying ivermectin to a UK trial that was paused for a short period of time, says there are no supply issues with its pills.Ivermectin is being investigated as part of the government-backed Platform Randomised Trial of Treatments in the Community for Epidemic and Pandemic Illnesses (PRINCIPLE) in the United Kingdom as a possible home treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The trial was put on hold due to “temporary supply issues” as reported by Medpage Today on Dec. 14.Details were not provided on the cause of the supply...

With the spread of Omicron for the last couple of months, members of the Branch Covidian Cult have been freebasing their latest fix for panic, fed to them by their dealers and the other members of the fear cartel. As they froth at the mouth, demanding that we partake of their mind-altering drug-of-choice, their monotonal chant drones on, demanding we “follow the science” and “trust the scientists” absent a single study supporting their fear, without identifying a single scientist whom we should trust, and, more importantly, why we should trust them. Fauci has become a meme of himself in recent...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — A man from Boca Raton is accused of shooting his neighbor over loud music, according to deputies. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office responded to shooting on Christmas Eve at a home near Neptune Road and Shady Pound Lane. Deputies say upon arrival, two men where holding the suspect down, 31-year-old Zachary Moncada, in their front yard. According to PBSO, Moncada shot the victim in the back over loud music.

Back in April, my colleague Duke wrote about “The Chosen” and how meaningful the Christian streaming series has been on his walk as a believer in Christ (see Come and See: The Best Show Ever About Jesus Christ, The Chosen)At the time, the series’ second season had just launched.He wrote:Thank the Lord that during this time I found a show about the life of Jesus Christ and His Apostles called “The Chosen” and it is one of the best things I have ever watched.Ever.In the history of my limited time in the world.The concept is incredibly simple but altogether unique....

Yesterday, perhaps the greatest “Let’s Go, Brandon” troll since the inception of the phrase occurred. Joe and Jill Biden were calling children to wish them a merry Christmas when a father on one of the calls managed to slip in a “Let’s Go, Brandon” before things were shut down.The president then repeated it and say “I agree,” in an awkward moment where he appeared to not be aware of what was happening. Here’s what that looked like if you haven’t seen it.BREAKING: Joe Biden was taking calls from the NORAD Santa tracking program and a dad ended the call with...

So I'm on this debate on Twitter. Here, fellow FReepers is the God's honest truth. I am 53 years old. I'm not a recluse. I have family, friends, co-workers, all over the United States. I'm socially active. I do not know a single person who has died from Covid. I do not know a single person who has been hospitalized with Covid. I have not once received a phone call that someone I know has died from this. I DO KNOW several people who have gotten Covid, all have recovered. Most said it felt like a weird cold. One friend...

Some nations seem to know what they are doing on the COVID response front, and some don't.Amazingly, it's not the ones you'd think they are.Here's the news from South Africa, as reported by the New York Post:South Africa will no longer impose COVID-19 quarantines and stop most contact tracing — now that as much as 80 percent of the country has gained immunity from previous infections, health officials said.Director General of Health Dr. Sandile Buthelezi announced Thursday in a release that the country will change its strategy to focus on mitigation efforts, the South African reported.“Quarantine has been costly to...

New Mexico officials admit they were wrong: Two people died from covid. NOT from ivermectin. Yet the CDC generated the nation's highest health alert and a thousand fake headlines on false cases.Linda Bonvie and Mary Beth PfeifferWhen a Texas cattleman, seventy-nine, died last September in New Mexico after contracting covid, his family never anticipated the worldwide headlines that would ensue.In a ballyhooed press conference, New Mexico Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase, the state’s top health chief, announced New Mexico’s first ivermectin “overdose,” soon adding a second fatality allegedly from “ivermectin toxicity.”An ornament with a photo of the Texas cattleman,...

The Vatican says receiving an abortion-tainted shot that does not stop viral transmission is an ‘act of love.’ROME (LifeSiteNews) – Just in time for Christmas, the Holy See has doubled down on its vaccine segregation policy that will make it harder for those who have decided not to take an abortion-tainted and experimental COVID shot to visit the resting place of Saint Peter. Earlier this month, Italy “reinforced” its green pass, coming out with the “super green pass.” For the unaware, the former green pass allowed those who had received COVID injections, those who had tested negative within a certain...

Speaking at his annual press-conference marathon, held December 23, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin focused on traditional values, among other things. A journalist’s question was about the President’s attitude to the modernist ethical values spreading over Western countries, involving gender identity and family issues. He also asked the President how big the chances are that these new fads would come to Russia. “The modernist ethics, like an infection, like the new virus, is bound to come to Russia,” Vladimir Putin observed. “What we can do is to use an antidote that would work.” “As for me, I am an adherent...

ROME — Pope Francis once again failed to mention the genocide of Uighur Muslims in China Saturday in his annual virtual tour of injustices around the world. In his Christmas Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message the pope gave a shout out to the people of Syria, “who for more than a decade have experienced a war that has resulted in many victims and an untold number of displaced persons.” He drew attention to Iraq, “which still struggles to recover from a lengthy conflict,” and urged his hearers to “listen to the cry of children arising...

In July election integrity group Voter GA released their much anticipated report on the Fulton County recount results. VoterGA found that the Fulton County Georgia recount included a 60% error reporting rate. This was a huge discrepancy. In June Georgia COO/CFO Gabe Sterling insisted there were NO multiple ballots in the 2020 Georgia election (Tweet has been deleted). On July 13 evidence was produced that batches of ballots were scanned several times in Fulton County, Georgia. Videos of the duplicate votes were released to the public. There is NO QUESTION that the ballots involved were duplicate ballots. Via Heather Mullins...

Deputy State Fire Marshals arrested a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania man early Christmas Eve after setting multiple Christmas wreaths on fire at a local Hagerstown cemetery. Peter J. Custer, 43, is charged with Second Degree Malicious Burning, Malicious Destruction of Property Under $1,000, and Trespassing on Private Property. Witnesses called 911 just after 1:00 a.m., after driving by Cedar Lawn Memorial Park in Hagerstown and saw Custer standing by a fire. Washington County Sheriff's Office and the Office of the State Fire Marshal responded and concluded that Custer took plastic wreaths from three or more burial plots, placed them on an access...

An Oregon dad who told President Biden “Let’s go Brandon” during the annual White House NORAD Santa-tracking phone call claims he used the coded vulgarity as “a joke,” according to a report. The anti-Biden phrase has become popular in conservative circles as a stand-in for “F— Joe Biden,” but Jared Schmeck, 35, said he meant “no disrespect” to the president when he snuck the slogan in during the final seconds of the Friday call.