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Not only citizens of Ukraine will be able to use free train travel on local routes in Lithuania, all people fleeing Ukraine from war with Russia to Lithuania will be able to use free train travel Lithuanian Railways (LTG) said in a statement.

Guayule is an evergreen shrub that originated in the arid zone from the southwestern part of the USA to northern Mexico and therefore can be grown in environments totally different from those suited for para rubber trees (the current primary source of natural rubber (*1)). Also, the rubber constituent contained therein is very similar to that of para rubber trees. Given these factors, guayule is expected to become a new source of natural rubber. *1Hevea brasiliensis, Euphorbiaceae; evergreen tree originated in Brazil. Latex extracted from the tree contains natural rubber.

As this Census Bureau information from 2020 shows in stark terms, quite a few ethnic groups in this country do better than the average American, and of those non-Whites, many are far above the average. If racist practices were the predominant factor determining success or failure in this country, the truth of the data in this graph would be inconceivable. Note also the statistics in the chart insert that many ethnic minorities (non-Caucasians) do far better on higher level education than the US average. Again, if America was systemically racist, those people would be at the bottom, not at the...

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However, Oliver then questioned if the delays in fixing the problems had anything to do with “who’s been getting hit the hardest.” “You have to believe that if monkeypox was spreading largely through heterosexual sex things would be drastically different,” Oliver said. “It is not homophobic to acknowledge who is currently most affected, which is gay and bisexual men, sex workers, and people who participate in sex with multiple partners. What is homophobic is when you blame or shame the people who are suffering or when you decide you don’t need to care about this because you don’t see their...

“Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold” (Proverbs 8:10 KJV).

A South Carolina couple has been arrested in connection with a grisly cold-case murder of a 19-year-old college student, whose body was found in a culvert in rural Kansas in 2010. The Butler County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday announced the arrests of Kristopher Valadez and Candace Valadez, both 32, in Simpsonville, South Carolina, in the killing of German Clerici. According to the law enforcement agency, in early February 2010, Clerici’s mother reported the college student missing after not hearing from him in several days.

David Muse, best-known as the long-tenured multi-instrumentalist in Firefall, has died at the age of 73. “It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that our friend and loved one, David Muse, has lost his ongoing battle with cancer,” noted a message on the band’s official Facebook page. “David passed peacefully at home on Saturday morning with his wife Patty at his side. While we are heartbroken, we take solace in the knowledge that he is no longer in pain. His love and wonderful memories will stay with us forever and he will never be forgotten.” Muse was...

Coyotes have become practically ubiquitous across the lower 48 United States, and they’re increasingly turning up in cities. The draws are abundant food and green space in urban areas. At first these appearances were novelties, like the hot summer day in 2007 when a coyote wandered into a Chicago Quiznos sub shop and jumped into the beverage cooler. Within a few years, however, coyote sightings became common in the Bronx and Manhattan. In 2021 a coyote strolled into a Los Angeles Catholic school classroom. They’re also appearing in Canadian cities.

China's Hainan, an island province dependent on tourism, locked down more areas on Monday (Aug 8), Reuters calculations based on state media reports show, as it battles its worst COVID-19 outbreak after seeing very few cases over the past two years. The island in the South China Sea, which recorded just two local symptomatic COVID-19 cases last year, has reported more than 1,400 domestically transmitted infections this month, including 982 symptomatic ones. Although that is small by global standards, it is the province's biggest outbreak since the virus was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late...

Carl was just a kid here. But he kept up. Glen is funny at the beginning.

Patients with migraine with aura (MwA) have significantly higher artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) atrial fibrillation (AF) prediction model output, according to a study. Chia-Chun Chiang, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues compared AI-ECG AF prediction model output in adult patients with MwA and migraine without aura (MwoA). Adult patients with an MwA or MwoA diagnosis and at least one ECG with normal sinus rhythm within the past 20 years were identified. A total of 40,002 patients (17,840 with MwA and 22,162 with MwoA) were included in the final analysis. The researchers found that compared with the...

People across the UK have been warned not to take part in a growing civil disobedience campaign against the soaring costs of gas and electricity. Tens of thousands of Brits have pledged to take part in Don't Pay, which involves cancelling direct debits and ignoring bills from energy companies from 1 October if the situation hasn't changed by then. The protest was already gaining traction after the energy price cap jump in April, which went from £1277 to £1971. Once again, the cap is predicted to rise this coming October, this time from £1,971 to £2,980.

A clinical trial to test whether three proven smoking cessation treatments could also reduce alcohol intake found no differences between the medications, but the rates of behavior change for alcohol consumption and smoking were high in all treatment groups. Results suggest these medications could play an important role to reduce alcohol use and smoking at the same time. Unexpectedly, nicotine replacement therapy performed as well as the prescription drugs varenicline and cytisine. The study showed that after three months, alcohol consumption decreased regardless of whether participants were given nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline or cytisine. The main outcome was number of...

Join together 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.Psalm 5:11Let All who Take Refuge in You be Glad,Let them Ever Sing for Joy;And May You Shelter them,That those who Love Your Name May Exult in You.

@CitizenFreePress Joe Rogan on the rumors that Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro: "That is wild. Hey bro, you need a 23andMe, right away sir. It's wild how close he looks. If it's not his dad, boy if I was the father I'd be f---ing suspicious as sh*t. * Bad Language *Clip ...

A few years ago, you would have unfolded your newspaper and read opinion and analysis like this. Those days are gone.As Visual Capitalist's Avery Koop details below, most people today - more than 8 in 10 Americans - get their news via digital devices, doing their reading on apps, listening to podcasts, or scrolling through social media feeds.It’s no surprise then that over the last year, only one U.S. newspaper of the top 25 most popular in the country saw positive growth in their daily print circulations.Based on data from Press Gazette, this visual stacks up the amount of daily...

Nearly half of U.S. mortgage payers own at least 50 percent equity, according to ATTOM’s Q2 2022 Home Equity & Underwater Report. This means that the balance of loans taken out against the home is less than half the estimated market value of the property.As Statista's Anna Fleck notes, the share of equity-rich homeowners has been rising continuously for the past nine quarters. While it hit 34.4 percent in Q2 of 2021, it rose to 44.9 percent in Q1 of 2022, and finally to today’s figure of 48.1 percent for Q2 2022.You will find more infographics at StatistaAccording to ATTOM,...

The Select Committee to Investigate January 6 has adjourned for a well-deserved summer break. Misleading the public is exhausting work.A careful review of the official transcripts of its eight long hearings shows the committee repeatedly made connections that weren’t there, took events and quotes out of context, exaggerated the violence of the Capitol rioters, and omitted key exculpatory evidence otherwise absolving former President Donald Trump of guilt. While in some cases it lied by omission, in others it lied outright. It also made a number of unsubstantiated charges based on the secondhand accounts—hearsay testimony—of a young witness with serious credibility...

As we reported earlier, there’s an ongoing “vote-a-rama” happening on the Manchin-Schumer deal, where the Republicans are trying to offer amendments to blunt the harm of the bill and expose the Democratic lies about it. Democrats claimed the additional 87,000 IRS agents were about going after billionaires. But when an amendment was introduced to restrict the application of the bill to those making over $400,000, Democrats voted it down.But now, there was a last-minute roadblock with the bill, and it came from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).Let me try to explain this in short bursts.1. The bill does NOT have 50...