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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded “like Hitler” when he made comments about leaders facing a choice on whether or not to “tolerate” people who aren’t vaccinated and also negatively cited Trudeau saying that the trucker protesters in the country had “unacceptable” points of view. Maher stated, “I mean, Justin Trudeau…I mean, I thought he was kind of a cool guy, then I started to read what he said — this is a couple of weeks ago, he was — or maybe this was September, but he was...

Super Bowl LVI Live Thread Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit” (Proverbs 12:4-5 KJV).

The bad news out of Australia is well known to Freepers. But there are enough of us fighting back for there to be hope. Clive Palmer's United Australia Party will run candidates in all seats in the upcoming Federal election. They swung the 2019 election towards the conservative side of politics here. This time he is campaigning on the promise to end lockdown and mandate madness and to push for a bill of rights in the constitution. Not easy to do here. but he has a shot at getting the balance of power in the Senate and then being in...

A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people. Researchers found that a human polyomavirus (HPyV9) was associated with the deaths of three solid organ transplant recipients who developed a severe skin rash and then died about a year later from pulmonary and multiorgan failure. Alhough HPyV9 has been found in the blood of transplant recipients—and may be present in up to 30% of the general population—it has not been previously linked to a human disease. The deaths of the organ transplant recipients were initially a mystery....

Austria and the four powers agreed to Austrian neutrality in 1955, which has proved remarkably successful....Could Ukraine follow Austria’s lead to resolve the current crisis? To be sure, the circumstances of post-World War II Austria differ from the current moment...Ukrainian citizens are desperately preparing—for what? No one knows, given the uncertain course of the current crisis. What it might look like..... No foreign military forces should be allowed on Ukrainian territory, and the military forces of neighboring countries should be deployed away from the borders. Ukraine’s military personnel and weaponry should be limited to that which is necessary to address...

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of cerebral circulatory disorder that, unlike classic stroke, more often affects younger people. For unknown reasons, blood clots (thrombi) form in cerebral veins, obstructing blood flow and causing damage to brain tissue. In the spring of 2021, cerebral vein thrombosis came to public attention as a very rare side effect of Corona vaccination with vector-based vaccines. In the meantime, however, epidemiological studies have shown that patients with COVID-19 are at a much higher risk for this serious complication. The researchers specifically sought active substances to block such cerebral vein thromboses. A blood clot...

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) LET FREEDOM RING!

Absolutely incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocULvVMeFm4

Another lost rock gem of the 1980s.

a new fund to support Ukraine and locally-based initiatives by diaspora organizations. The Community Development and Advocacy Fund will provide co-financing for a range of projects, including those that support local diaspora community development and youth development, promote an accurate understanding of Ukraine and its people, and inform about Ukraine’s history, culture, and current geopolitical standing. Money is also available for organized efforts to foster female leadership and promote Ukrainian schooling.

Participants from all four countries remain committed to the 2015 'Minsk' peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow on the separatist conflict, and will "continue to work with vigour on implementing it", they said. They have agreed to meet again in March 'after' the next meetings of the so-called Trilateral Contact Group, which includes representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

On Feb 1, the New York Times ran an article warning that the national debt had topped $30 trillion for the first time, leaving us in so much debt that “the government would need to spend an amount larger than America’s entire annual economy in order to pay it off." That’s a problem. Five days later, the same paper ran a puff piece touting Modern Monetary Theory and its claim that you can just print as much money as you want to fund an infinite welfare state. The “economic theory” embraced by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Starbucks hipsters everywhere “posits...

A study released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccine lose substantial effectiveness after about four months but still provide protection against hospitalization.According to the study, researchers found that boosters were effective against cases of moderate and severe COVID-19 for two months after the dose. The effectiveness dropped by the fourth month after the booster dose. But, the booster shots still provided protection in keeping people out of hospitals during the Delta and Omicron variant surge.The booster was 91 percent effective in preventing a vaccinated person...

According to a recent survey conducted by the Freedom Forum, fewer people in our country consider religious freedom as the first and most foundational freedom.It’s indeed alarming to see there’s waning knowledge about religious liberty being the cornerstone of a free society, the wellspring from which all other liberties flow.We’re at a point in our nation’s history when religious freedoms — indeed all of our constitutional rights and freedoms — are under attack like never before. A scan of headlines will quickly show that people of faith nationwide are being censored, alienated, and even fired because they’re living out or...

And tonight with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying "everything is on the table" and a State of Emergency set to begin in Ontario where the Sarnia, Windsor and Ottawa Freedom Convoy protests are taking place at Midnight local time less than an hour from now we await what comes next but here is a roundup of Freedom Convoy News from Canada and other nations tonight. News Alert: French Police Ban Freedom Convoy In Paris, Promise Fines And Jail Late Friday night the scene in Troyes, France just over 100 miles from Paris as a Freedom Convoy prepared to leave......

New confirmed daily Covid cases for February 10 reached 43,477. Ukraine is currently experiencing a peak in cases, Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Lyashko confirmed, with the daily average for the last seven days reaching 37,409, official data shows. Speaking on Feb. 10, Lyashko said that “we’re already at the peak of incidence, as we are recording 41,000 cases a day.” The number of new cases is growing, but not the new number of people being hospitalized, which reduces the burden on care in hospitals, Lyashko added.

Vice President Pence has spoken out on January 6, 2021. He announced that President Trump said that Pence had the power to overturn the election that day, and that he should have done so… But he didn’t do it. Vice President Pence is winning considerable points with the mass media and the RINOs for saying that President Trump was wrong; Pence, in fact, did not have the power to overturn the election. In truth, this is a typical example of the Left, and of the Left’s enablers, capitalizing on an example when President Trump was correct in fact, but used...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is set to evacuate its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent. U.S. officials say the State Department plans to announce early Saturday that all American staff at the Kyiv embassy will be required to leave the country ahead of a feared Russian invasion. The State Department would not comment.

Joe Biden has reportedly narrowed down his search for his Supreme Court nominee down to four potential candidates.“What I’ve done is I’ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on them, meaning these thorough background checks, and see if there’s anything in the background that would make them not qualified,” Biden told NBC news anchor Lester Holt in a recent interview.It’s not said who these four candidates are, but among those reportedly under consideration are U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs; Ketanji Brown Jackson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...