Free Republic

Thursday, February 25, 1999 It has been nearly 47 years since Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee and denounced eight colleagues as onetime Communists. An age ago in a different world, perhaps, but not long enough for those stung by his betrayal to forgive or forget. So, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences prepares to honor the 89-year-old director of "On the Waterfront," "Gentleman's Agreement" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a special Oscar for his body of work, a quiet protest is slowly gathering force in Hollywood against the planned accolade....

As of 4 March, five of Zaporizhzhia’s six reactors had been shut down, Grossi reported. But even powered down, a reactor that’s still loaded with fuel is not completely devoid of risk. Under normal operations, uranium nuclei in the fuel rods fission, or break up, leaving behind nuclei of lighter elements. These isotopes accumulate during the lifetime of the rods, and many of them are highly radioactive, which continues to produce heat even after shutdown. One reactor left on provides cooling power to safely shut down the other 5.

The White House distanced President Biden on Friday from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposal that someone in the Russian government assassinate President Vladimir Putin, saying “that is not the position of the United States government.” Press secretary Jen Psaki emphasized the administration position during the daily press briefing after she was pressed on whether the White House considered the South Carolina Republican’s proposal “helpful.”

President Biden scoffed at a Senate-passed bill to end the coronavirus national emergency, calling the Republican attempt a 'reckless and costly mistake.' The bill to terminate the declaration under the National Emergencies Act passed the Senate 48-47, with three Democrats and two Republicans absent from the vote. The national emergency was first enacted in March 2020 under President Trump. The White House said that if the bill were to reach the president's desk. It said that the national emergency declaration is needed for 'ensuring that necessary supplies are promptly available to respond to the virus and facilitating the delivery of...

Gasoline prices accelerated at a stunning pace on Friday, jumping more than 11 cents from the day before. On Friday, the national average gas price jumped to $3.837. That is as much as they rose in the entire week through Thursday, when they rose to $3.72 from $3.62 a week before. A week ago, gas prices were $3.572, so Friday’s gas price is 7.4 percent higher over the week.

Some 74% of Americans – including solid majorities of Republicans and Democrats – said the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine, the poll found. An equally bipartisan 80% of Americans said the United States should stop buying Russian oil. The White House on Friday said it was weighing cuts to U.S. imports of Russian oil, though it is proceeding cautiously, concerned about a spike in gasoline prices that would add to high inflation. Moreover, 81% of Americans think Washington should impose additional sanctions on Russia, up from 77%...

An Asian woman who was struck in the head with a rock in Queens has died from her injuries nearly three months later. GuiYing Ma, 61, died at Elmhurst Hospital from the head injuries she suffered in the Nov. 26 attack. Before her death, Ma’s loved ones thought she was making progress. “We told her to wave her hand, and she waved her hand,” Yihung Hsieh, 46, told The Post. Elisual Perez attacked Ma after getting into a dispute with her on a sidewalk . Elisual Perez allegedly attacked Ma after getting into a dispute with her on a sidewalk...

Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that pushed the pro-Russian hashtag #IStandWithPutin for participating in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” days after the hashtag trended on Twitter amid the invasion in Ukraine. A Twitter spokesperson said on Friday that it is still investigating the origins and links between the accounts, and that it banned the accounts for violating its “platform manipulation and spam policy." The accounts with the most retweets about the hashtag on Wednesday only had a few dozen followers and used stock photos as profile pictures, which led disinformation researchers to question how the tweets went viral. It’s an...

The Russian flag has now been raised over the ruins of Schastia. In Volnovakha, the attack is still so intense that dead bodies lie uncollected, says local MP Dmytro Lubinets. Ukrainians still brave enough to run rescue missions are going back only for the living. Thousands of them are trapped in basements, with dwindling supplies of food and water, sheltering from an apparently senseless attack on a town Lubinets says has no military defenders in its centre. The line of contact is 20km away, he says. “It never stops, every five minutes there is a mortar landing or artillery shells,...

Hello guys, Just came back from Ikea. I didn’t plan to film today, It was a planned trip. There was no plan to buy many things. We wanted to buy an oven and our friends asked us to buy them various little things. Ikea says it's temporary (about 3 months. More detailed video tomorrow…

On Thursday’s “Pod Save America,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain argued that sanctioning Russia’s oil and gas would make it difficult to keep the coalition the U.S. has assembled to sanction Russia together, and “The unity is what makes the sanctions work.” Co-host Jon Favreau asked, “Some Republicans are now saying that what would really hurt their economy and their ability to fight this war is ending oil and gas imports. If Russia continues to escalate, are energy sanctions on the table?” AD Klain responded, “I think we start from the premise that the goal is to cripple...

Former Attorney General William Barr believes that former President Donald Trump was responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, in that it appears that part of the plan was to send this group up to the Hill,” Barr told NBC News host Lester Holt in an interview that is scheduled to air on Sunday. “I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress. And I think that that was wrong.” But Barr added that he has not seen evidence that Trump was...

Man Goes On Facebook Live After His Own Mother Shoots Him

On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.

The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty sentence imposed on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The death sentence had been tossed out earlier by a federal appeals court. “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed heinous crimes,” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion. The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty sentence imposed on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing a lower federal appeals court ruling that had voided that punishment. In its 6-3 ruling, the high court rejected arguments by Tsarnaev’s lawyers that his trial judge erred in barring certain questions to prospective jurors, and in blocking...

Professors at a New York university support an “inclusive” policy that prioritizes student participation based on their race and gender. Binghamton University sociology professor Ana Maria Candela’s syllabus forced white male students to take a back seat to other students because of her “progressive stacking” policy, according to a screenshot posted by Libs of Tik Tok on Twitter. “This means that we try to give priority to non-white folks, to women, and to shy and quiet people who rarely raise their hands,” the syllabus states. “It also means that if you are white, male, or someone privileged by the racial...

Drinking just a glass of wine or pint of beer each night in middle-age may age your brain by two years, a study claims. Researchers analysed MRI scans of 36,000 adults to calculate their brain size, and then compared the alcohol intake of the volunteers. Their results suggested a 50-year-old who drank one unit a day — the equivalent of half a lower-strength lager beer — would have a brain six months older than if they kept off the booze. University of Pennsylvania researchers found the link grew even stronger the more people drank. Middle-aged adults who consumed two units...

Since the previous week: New Cases down 28.5% New Hospitalizations down 30.3% Deaths down 8.9% Test Positivity Rate was 3.8% Variants: Omicron is predicted to be around 100% of new cases. Omicron sub-variant BA.2 is projected to be 8.3% of those. BA.2 is now growing its share, of the shrinking number of cases. Vaccinations: 65.0% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated (75.1% of adults). The increase from last week is around 0.1%.

Bill Clinton is set to relaunch his Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting - the gathering of A listers from business, government and charity that he shuttered during Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign amid questions about fundraising. The Clinton Global Initiative hosted annual meetings from 2005 to 2016 but they were closed down in August 2016 as Hillary Clinton battled Donald Trump for the presidency. During the 2016 questions were raised about donors to the former president's charity and whether the Clinton Foundation benefited from Clinton's role as secretary of state in the Obama administration. Overall fundraising for the Clinton Foundation, which...

On Thursday, USSG Murthy illegally demanded that all major US tech companies must provide the federal government with data on Americans who are engaged in peddling what has been deemed ‘misinformation,’ especially surrounding Covid-19 or the stolen 2020 election, according to a new report by the New York Times.In a formal request sent by the USSG office, Murthy called on US Big Tech platforms to gather data from social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms, and instant messaging systems about the prevalence and scale of COVID-19 “misinformation” and turn it over to Biden’s administration no later than May 2nd.