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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 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Purim, March 16-17, 2022 Overview: Esther He will not let your foot slip— He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel...

ABC News’ Jon Karl said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “echoing” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “classic propaganda.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “During Tucker Carlson’s show, Tucker Carlson led with and amplified, he chose to start his very, very highly rated program by amplifying Russia’s false claims that Jennifer Griffin, Fox News national security correspondent, knocks down.”

The National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), which was a hotbed of early nuclear research in the former Soviet Union and currently hosts a newly installed neutron source, has suffered significant damage from Russia’s relentless attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Rockets and bombs have damaged buildings and left civilians wounded, says Oleksandr Bakai, who heads the department of condensed matter and nuclear theory at KIPT and lives near the institute. The damaged facilities include the constructed but not fully operational Ukraine Neutron Source, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. After saying in...

Politicians and social media users call it 'unnecessary,' 'crazy' and a 'bad idea' A Catholic politician’s demand that the state government in Tamil Nadu keep liquor shops closed on Good Friday has triggered a backlash on social media. Peter Alphonse, the chairperson of Tamil Nadu Minorities Commission, wrote to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on March 3 urging him to close all government liquor shops on April 15. He said the liquor shops should be closed as a mark of respect and solidarity with the Christian community, which commemorates on Good Friday the passion and death of Jesus Christ with fasting...

The Russian terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians continues unabated even as its military operations resemble something dreamed up by the Three Stooges. On Wednesday, the Russian Air Force bombed a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol. They claimed that a very pregnant wounded woman, who happens to be a Ukrainian beauty blogger was a “crisis actor” (Alex Jones needs to demand royalties for this) before deleting their tweet. The Russians are claiming, without a shred of evidence, that the hospital was used for military purposes, that they had notified the UN (apparently in secret) that the hospital was...

The stinging mosquito; the blood-sucking beast; the destroyer of your evening peace; and the silent killer of your midnight sleep. Who knew these pesky little super-spreader of diseases could be transformed into flying vaccine-carrying syringes.Turning killers into savioursThe story goes back 11 years ago when a group of Japanese researchers genetically engineered mosquitoes that spread vaccines instead of disease. Now normally when mosquitoes bite, they inject a tiny drop of saliva that prevents your blood from clotting. What this group did was add an antigen--a compound that triggers an immune response--to the mix of proteins in their saliva.For their study,...

According to ZN.UA, obtained from reliable diplomatic sources, Russia put forward 6 demands to Ukraine. The first five of them, as Putin sees it, should be enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine. 1. Refusal to move to NATO. Neutral status of Ukraine. Russia, which attacked our country, is ready to become one of the guarantors. 2. Russian is the second state language. The abolition of all laws that infringe on it. 3. Recognition of Crimea by Ukraine as Russian. 4. Recognition by Ukraine of the independence of the DPR and LPR within the administrative boundaries of the regions (including the...

Sesame Street star Emilio Delgado, who played the role of Luis the Fix-It Shop owner on the iconic show, died at 81 Thursday at his New York City home. Delgado's wife Carol told TMZ that the actor was at home with his family when he passed away. Delgado had been diagnosed with the blood cancer Multiple Myeloma in December of 2020, according to the outlet, and had been in hospice care as of late. Carol said that prior to the pandemic shutdown two years ago, Delgado had been consistently working, including the lead role in a theatrical production called Quixote...

Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who was relieved Wednesday of his office as Bishop of Arecibo, said that he feels "blessed to suffer persecution and calumny." In a letter published on the Diocese of Arecibos’ website shortly after the Holy See Press Office announced the Pope's decision, Bishop Fernández Torres, 57, stated that "today I can hold my head high and even being imperfect and sinful, know that I have done the right thing and that gives me a lot of inner peace.” The bishop stressed that this experience “has helped me realize in a new way the grave responsibility that...

When state public health officials publish Monday's report about the latest COVID-19 impacts on Massachusetts, the cumulative death toll through two years of the pandemic will suddenly stand about 15% lower. The Baker administration will start using a new public health surveillance definition next week, narrowing the window of time between a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and death required for the fatality to get attributed to the highly infectious virus. Saying the Bay State's earlier methodology led to a "significant overcount of deaths," officials said Thursday they will adopt a new system recommended by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists....

Satellite images taken on Thursday show that a large Russian military convoy, last seen northwest of Antonov airport, has largely dispersed and redeployed, US company Maxar Technologies said...

So far DC Health does not seem to have granted a single request for religious exemption from the vaccine mandate despite the paramount rights and guarantees under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.Sr. Deidre Byrne at the Republican National Convention, 2020.(Thomas More Society) – A beloved Roman Catholic nun, who is also a physician-surgeon and a retired U.S. Army colonel, is suing Washington, DC, over its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers. Thomas More Society attorneys filed suit on March 9, 2022, in the federal United States District Court for the...

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The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.The pandemic has given Americans ample reason to be skeptical of pronouncements by the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC). A press release the CDC issued today reminds us that the agency's habit of misleading the public began long before anyone had heard of COVID-19. According to the latest results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), the CDC says, "about 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students reported current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product in 2021."...

The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra scrubbed the famed composer from an upcoming program, calling his music "inappropriate at this time."In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those gestures look increasingly like performance art. The latest utterly pointless sanction is the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's announcement that it would remove music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the Russian composer, from its all-Tchaikovsky concert, calling it "inappropriate at this time." In the last week, conductor Valery Gergiev and superstar soprano Anna Netrebko...

Democrats Cori Bush (Mo.) Ilhan Omar (Minn.) Omar said in an appearance on Hill.TV’s “Rising” on Tuesday that she would vote against the bill due to the impact it would have on other countries. "That's not only going to have a devastating impact on the people of Russia, but on Europe as well," Omar said. "When we're having these conversations, they can't be about just the immediate, gratifying response that we want to come up with." Republicans Andy Biggs (Ariz.) Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) Louie Gohmert (Texas) Dan Bishop (N.C.) Glenn Grothman (Wis.) Lauren Boebert (Colo.) Tom Tiffany (Wis.) Matt...

On March 9, Congress released its proposed final appropriations package for fiscal year 2022. If approved, it will drastically reduce money that lawmakers proposed last year for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help prevent HIV/AIDS and overdose, as the United States endures the worst overdose crisis in its history.

MSNBC economic analyst and former Obama adviser Steven Rattner took President Biden to task on Thursday for claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is responsible for the soaring inflation Americans are facing at home. Biden reacted to the staggering consumer price index report from the Labor Department in a statement Thursday, where he attempted to blame Putin for the documented 7.9% spike in consumer prices over the last 12 months. "Today's inflation report is a reminder that Americans' budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin's price hike,"...

Shortly after being ordered into custody to begin serving 150 days in jail on Thursday, actor Jussie Smollett finally started to speak. He was innocent, he said. He was not suicidal. Then the former “Empire” actor stood up at the defense table and began talking directly to Judge James Linn, something he’d declined to do before learning the sentence.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), without much fanfare, announced last month that samples obtained through PCR nasal swab tests have been sent to labs for genomic sequencing. With an unassuming Tweet, the CDC stated: “Remember that #COVID19 nose swab test you took? What happened to the swab? If it was processed with a PCR test, there’s a 10% chance that it ended up in a lab for genomic sequencing analysis.” What does that mean? Some individuals responded to that admission. “Well, this is a concerning development. Was the intent provided upfront in a disclosure? I would not have agreed...