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New COVID-19 boosters targeting the omicron variants are here at the same time as this year’s flu vaccine, leaving hospitals, community health centers and pharmacists to calculate how much of each vaccine they’ll need. Demand for the new COVID-19 booster is strong across Greater Cleveland, but interest in the flu vaccine is lagging, according to some vaccine providers. Health experts say both immunizations are important. “We are encouraging everyone eligible to receive both vaccinations as we head into the colder months and expect activity of both viruses to increase,” the Cleveland Clinic said. At Discount Drug Mart, demand for the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The US Air Force will unveil its next-generation stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, during the first week of December, lifting the tight cloak of secrecy that has surrounded the aircraft's development. Northrop Grumman and the Air Force confirmed the timeline for unveiling the B-21 on Tuesday, saying that it will offer an 'exclusive view' of the aircraft at the company's facility in Palmdale, California. The bomber, which will be nuclear-capable, will cost about $639 million per plane, and the Pentagon plans to buy at least 100 of them to complement and eventually replace the aging B-2 Spirit. 'The B-21 is...

This video from the South China Morning Post is almost a year old, but I only now just caught up to it. It shows a row of electric buses in China combusting rather dramatically: [Youtube video] Imagine if you were a passenger on the first bus as it was going down the street, or even stopped at a pickup point, when it combusted. You likely wouldn’t make it out. The point: if not for the hysteria over climate change, and the romanticizing of electric-everything, our various transportation- and safety-czars in the government would never allow these vehicles to be brought...

Andrey Kartapolov: There will be no general mobilization in Russia Subject: Military operation in Ukraine The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense spoke about new punishments for crimes during wartimeMilitary operation in Ukraine Russia has decided to tighten responsibility for crimes committed against military service during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime. The corresponding package of amendments to the Criminal Code was adopted by the State Duma on September 20 immediately in the second and third readings. Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, told in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper...

One of the many plots the administrative state and left have to frame and persecute President Donald J. Trump is over a phone call made during the aftermath of the highly curious 2020 elections, at a time where it was obvious that powerful politicians and their allies in the media were colluding to set a narrative about what happened- that conflicted with people’s ability to apply logic. But the administrative-‘deepstate’ persisted in 2020, nonetheless refusing transparency for the American people and boxing Trump into corners to take their abuse for asking questions that needed to be asked. Trump was almost...

In early September, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon approved Trump’s request for a special master to oversee the review of all the evidence seized in the raid and also temporarily blocked parts of the DOJ investigation pending the appointment of the special master. She ultimately appointed Judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to review the details and legality of the raid on Trump’s private Florida estate. Judge Cannon had ruled against a DOJ request to delay the proceedings and continue to look at the documents separately from the special master. During the raid, passports belonging to former President Trump...

The left is unwilling to accept the testimony of an FBI whistleblower, no matter what US Rep. Jim Jordan says about the information that has been collected to show that the FBI is acting on highly politicized cases over issues of national security. No matter what anyone says the left do not want to investigate any claim, they only want to blame Republicans. Nonetheless, Jordan appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson recently and laid out a chilling story: “Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a whistleblower in the FBI had provided information...

To the south of the causeway of King Unas in Saqqara necropolis... the sarcophagus of Ptahemwia from the reign of King Ramses II... was discovered last year in Saqqara.Mostafa Waziry, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Ptahemwia holds several titles, including the royal scribe, the great overseer of the cattle in the temple of Ramses II, the head of the treasury, and the one responsible for the offerings of all gods of Lower and Upper Egypt...The subterranean burial chamber opened on the west side of the shaft at the depth of 7 m. It led to a square...

New York attorney general Letitia James has said her office is set to make a “major announcement” within hours. The state’s top lawyer has rejected at least one settlement offer from former president Donald Trump, who her office has been investigating for the past three years. But she has given no details of why she called the press conference for 10.30am ET, to which press have been invited. During the course of her probe into the Trump Organization, Ms James has alleged that Mr Trump inflated or devalued the value of his properties in paperwork to secure hundreds of millions...

Italian artillerist Amos Pampaloni, the real-life model for the title character of the novel and film Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, miraculously survived execution on this date in 1943. It occurred at the outset of the Cephalonia Massacre on September 21, 1943, which began a dayslong slaughter on that Greek island by German soldiers of their former Italian comrades. With some 5,000 victims, it’s one of the largest POW massacres of the Second World War. Captain Pampaloni was among 500-odd officers deployed with the 12,000-strong Acqui Infantry Division. This formation had been part of fascist Italy’s invasion of Greece in 1940-41; after...

If it’s a conspiracy theory, it is one that has a lot of evidence to back it up.A whistleblower from the EcoHealth Alliance has come forward with an allegation that COVID was manufactured in a lab–and the funding came from the CDC and was funneled through the EcoHealth Alliance. The whistleblower is no low-level factotum: it comes from the former Vice President of the organization himself.A former vice president for the EcoHealth Alliance, a major funder of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, claims that his organization “developed” SARS-CoV-2 through gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous.“The process of developing SARS-COV2...

For all of the scandals that have rocked the world of elite chess in recent years, rumors that a 19-year-old grandmaster used anal beads and artificial intelligence to beat the world's top player might be the most bizarre. Speculation has grown online that San Francisco-born Hans Niemann, a relative newcomer to the sport, inserted wireless vibrating anal beads into his body before his victorious match against World No. 1 grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, last week. Chess fans have speculated that an accomplice watching the match at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis used a chess program to determine the perfect...

Russia’s State Duma stated that enacted "military" laws do not mean the announcement of a general mobilization. It was stated in "Parlament newspaper" by Andriy Kartapolov - Head of the State Duma Defense Committee and one of the authors of the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation introducing the concepts of "mobilization," "martial law" and "wartime", informs Censor.NЕТ. "There will be no general mobilization. The president has said this more than once, and directly says it through the mouth of his press secretary Dmitry Peskov and many other politicians at the federal level. "The law" does not...

Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master overseeing the seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago, signaled on Tuesday to lawyers for former President Donald Trump that if they don't make a case that any of the documents were declassified, he would determine that they're classified. Out of court, Trump has pushed the claim he declassified all the documents, and his lawyers have raised that possibility in court papers, though they have never explicitly argued that anything was declassified. Federal prosecutors have argued for weeks that documents seized from Mar-a-Lago that contain classification markings -- like "top secret" -- should be treated as...

Some personal history about the Prat & Whitney J58 Engine (SR-71 power plant) from one of the Engineers that helped develop it. All of you Gearheads pay attention at about the 14:45 Time Stamp. The Air Zoo is a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with over 100 air and space artifacts, inspiring interactive exhibits, full-motion flight simulators, indoor amusement park rides, a theater and over 100 education programs!.

In this episode of President Unity and a Time for Healing in America…As was the case with his then-boss Barack “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” Obama, Joe Biden rules America primarily by executive decree, be they illegal, unconstitutional, or both. As the Healer in Chief nears the 100 mark in executive orders, it’s estimated that he’s already cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $1.5 trillion. Less than halfway through his disastrous first term, he’s already eclipsed Obama’s entire first year.As reported by Fox News, Biden sits at 99 executive orders since taking office. His frenzied pace of E.O.s...

Meanwhile, a much simpler model may be able to answer some of the questions about the Russia-Ukraine war, such as why the Russians were so ineffective and what will likely happen as the war continues. This simple combat model is based on the Lanchester equations, which were developed in 1916. The Lanchester equations consist of a series of differential equations that approximate the rate of combat losses for two opposing armies. Although somewhat basic, these equations have been successfully used over the last century to model attrition warfare, similar to the conflict in Ukraine. ... When the differential equations are...

"We are nearing a big armed conflict" Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaking in a media interview... The US Justice Department accusing 47 people... In a federal courtroom today the legal wrangling over documents seized during the FBI raid on President Trump's... In the Netherlands the farmers protest against climate change cow gas rules continues. Today thousands in the streets of the Dutch capital city... The fall on Wall Street... There was also an extremely sharp decline on Russia's stock markets today... In Canada the spin is that inflation is "cooling"... In Germany nationalization of the energy company "Uniper" expected tomorrow......

Despite their similarities, being pursued and being simped for couldn’t be more different. We’ll be honest: We, as women, really enjoy being pursued. We like knowing that the guy we’ve had our eye on is interested. We love feeling like the object of someone’s affection. We enjoy the thought of him deciding to ask us out, planning a romantic date, and opening a door for us. More than anything, we like to be pursued because it lets us know that we’re special, chosen, and sought after. But maybe you’ve experienced a guy who was a little too eager to get...