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Does anybody still think totalitarianism can't happen here? Ask yourself how many of these steps we've already galloped past. (1) Destruction of ReligionAny belief in a higher power is threatening to the State. If there is a "higher law" that takes precedence over government orders, then personal morality is a justifiable reason for disobeying the State. America's founding was a product of the Enlightenment's understanding that natural rights and liberties exist apart from and superior to the State's edicts. These God-given rights, some of which are recorded in the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution as the Bill of...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has accused the United Kingdom for the Bucha massacre. Lukashenko made the remarks in the joint press conference. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday levelled accusations against the United Kingdom over the massacre in Ukraine's Bucha last week. He called the slayings of civilians in Ukraine's Bucha a "British special operation," Nexta TV reported. Speaking at a news conference after talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko claimed that Russia's Federal Service could provide proof regarding the allegation. In his address, the Belarusian President mentioned the Bucha incident and added that he discussed the same...

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Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams called for a national response on gun control Tuesday following a shooting in a Brooklyn subway station. At least 10 people were shot in the incident, including seven males and three females, according to authorities. Thirteen people suffered injuries from smoke inhalation, falling down or suffering from a panic attack. Five people were in critical condition but were expected to survive. At least 29 in all were treated at hospitals for gunshot wounds, smoke inhalation, and other conditions. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. "Every day I wake up to protect...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned that Europe is about to witness the biggest tank battle on the continent since World War II. In a speech during a press conference with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Monday, Morawiecki said a tank battle in Ukraine is "imminent," as reported by Bloomberg. Morawiecki then called for EU member states to offer more military support to Kyiv, as international observers expect Russia to launch an attack in the eastern region of Donbas soon. "The most decisive battle is about to begin, and at the same time the largest tank battle...

He makes it within 5 miles of Platt and his wife and suddenly comes under artillery fire. He is forced to abort the rescue. Stern tries again and again. Finally, one morning at 4 o'clock, Platt gets a text message from him. "Be ready to leave in 20 minutes." Under the cover of darkness, Platt, his wife and two of their six cats take logging trails through a national forest out of their suburb. They make it out. "The whole two, three weeks we were stuck, artillery, mortar fire, it was falling all around us," Platt told NPR after crossing...

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday received an unwelcomed surprise in Iowa when a bird appeared to poop on his suit as he delivered his speech on inflation and the state of the American economy. According to a viral video on social media, Mr Biden was unveiling plans to trim gas prices and “putting rural America at the centre of our efforts to build a future that's made in America” when a white substance fell on his jacket - right above his American flag pin. “It's about being made in America,” the US President said moments prior to the poop...

Pressure was mounting on Germany to up its game over the war in Ukraine on Tuesday as Kyiv snubbed the country's president and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was accused of a weak response to the crisis. On a visit to Poland, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted he had offered to visit Ukraine with other EU leaders, but Kyiv had told him he was not welcome right now. "I was prepared to do this, but apparently, and I must take note of this, this was not wanted in Kyiv," Steinmeier told reporters. Steinmeier, a former foreign minister, has faced growing criticism since Russia...

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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) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love...

The nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) now promises it will refrain from funding midterm elections in the fall. However, CTCL also announced on Monday its “nonpartisan collaborative” to “help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.” CTCL benefitted from approximately $350 million in donations from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, helping the 2020 Biden win in critical cities across the nation. Much of the money was sent to democrat strongholds in swing states, distributed in the form of grants. In the end, however,...

A Saudi Arabia television show has mocked Joe Biden and his VP Kamala Harris in a Saturday Night Live style skit by poking fun at the president’s mental fitness as he falls asleep at the podium and confuses certain countries. See video at link.

You just can’t make this stuff up. In Biden’s America a creepy Vindman twin will oversee the court-martial of an American soldier who refused to comply with COVID-19 testing and masking requirements. The Defender reports: An Army lieutenant in Maryland is facing a court-martial for his refusal to comply with COVID-19 testing and masking requirements. The case, United States v 1LT Mark C. Bashaw, will be heard on April 28 – 29 at the Army Public Health Center (APHC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The defendant, 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw, is being charged under Article 92: Failure to Obey an Order....

"And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus." "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which...

On this date in 1652, Joan Peterson was hanged at Tyburn for witchcraft. Joan is a long time in the ground, and her dying refusal to be cowed by the officious prelate ordained to badger her into self-incrimination would alone stand her in very worthy stead in these pages. Even the hangman got annoyed when Joan, at the gallows, was by the Ordinary nine on ten times earnestly pressed to confesse something against the said Mrs. Levingstone: Whereupon the Executioner told the Ordinary, he might be ashamed to trouble a dying woman so much, to which he replyed, he was...

NBC News recently compared several polls to find huge shifts from Democrats to Republicans in 2022 midterm voter preferences. The big exception to these shifts across many demographics was college-educated women, who in NBC’s aggregation showed even stronger support for Democrats now than ahead of the last midterm election. Here’s the key graphic, which zoomed around social media Sunday, and below that the NBC segment. In trying to understand what might account for this, it’s important to note what we don’t know about these numbers. The two publicly available 2022 NBC polling releases that presumably went into NBC’s aggregation here...

Puerto Rican Imam Ben Shaban Praises Perpetrator Of Tel Aviv Terrorist Attack: This Was A Man Who Was Worth 1,000 Men; He Single-Handedly Made Tel Aviv Stand Still; Men Like This Will Liberate Palestine, Restore The Muslims' Honor #9495 | 02:11 Source: The Internet - "Imam Shaban on YouTube" In a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on April 8, 2022, Palestinian-Puerto Rican imam Ben Shaban praised Raad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who killed three Israelis and injured several others in a shooting in a Tel Aviv bar the previous day. Citing a hadith from the Prophet Muhammad,...

Tucker takes the Dems/Fake News/Big Tech apart over their clearly well organized, coordinated, panic induced, moronic, hysterical attacks on Elon Musk, over his possible take over and liberation of Twitter. There is the usual bile from the deranged “Joy” Reid who didn't take long to start screaming “racist” at Musk, even as she brought in a certifiably insane black guest who screeched, “Musk is missing the Apartheid regime in South Africa (where he comes from) and wants to bring Apartheid to America” , to the abnormal Brian Stelter on CNN moaning about non existent Tweets from Musk against the dreaded...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republican voters on Tuesday to not take victory for granted in the upcoming midterm elections. Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said that although the political environment heavily favored the GOP this cycle, it was still possible to “screw this up” by nominating flawed candidates. “We’ve had some experience with that in the past,” Mr. McConnell said at an event hosted by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. “In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election.”...