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A disturbing video has surfaced online showing a woman being brutally beaten and dragged off a D.C. bus. The footage was taken this week, showing the woman, now identified as Kyla Thurston, on the floor of the bus being kicked, punched, and even choked by a group of teenagers and at least one adult. They dragged the woman off the Metrobus when it came to a stop as other passengers watched in horror. The unidentified witness who recorded the incident says the victim had given up her seat to allow her family to sit. When Thurston asked a group of...

Is it a comeback, or just a fantasy? Is it in the “national interest,” or in personal ambition only momentarily thwarted?Whatever it is, it’s apparently on like Donkey Kong now that Liz Truss has resigned as UK PM, according to the Times of London’s Ragip Soylu. Once-and-future-PM Boris Johnson is already taking “soundings” and lining up support now that Truss’ government has collapsed:BREAKING: Boris Johnson is expected to stand in the contest to replace Liz Truss as PM and believes it is a matter of “national interest” — The Times— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 20, 2022Boris Johnson is expected to...

NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams declared an emergency after just getting several thousand illegal aliens sent to his city. Meanwhile, 203,597 illegal aliens have crossed our southern border in just August 2022 alone, and the media isn’t focused on that. Adams has now set up a tent city on Randall’s Island to deal with the influx. The first group of 500 single men was expected on Wednesday this week.What do they have to look forward to in the tent accommodations?The city unveiled Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial tent city on Tuesday — detailing how migrants staying there will be given three meals...

SNIP Her successor – due to be announced next week – will be the country´s third Prime Minister this year. So what on earth caused this mess? There are a number of reasons. But some of them are ones that America could learn from. SNIP All of the Western world is now suffering economic turmoil and cost of living crises. Nobody who is in power is going to look good at such a time. But it was the choice of politicians in Britain – as it was in America – to pump out free money since 2008. We did so...

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 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Johnny Cash Animation - I Am The Nation Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your...

Conservative US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday declined to block President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive $400 billion in student loans less than a week after the White House began accepting applications for relief program. Barrett, who is responsible for acting on emergency matters arising in Wisconsin, rejected a request from the state’s Brown County Taxpayers Association to halt the White House’s historic program. The justice did not provide a reason for blocking the organization’s lawsuit. Barrett also did not ask Biden’s administration for a response to the group’s request or consult other justices before handing down...

[Catholic Caucus] “Cursed Cultus or Worthy Worship: The Choice that Faces Us” — Dr. Kwasniewski's Presentation in Arlington, VA Sophia Institute Press held a booklaunch for Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s The Catholic Mass, in Arlington, VA on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Diane Montagna was the moderator. Bishop Schneider delivered a talk on the centrality of Christ in the Mass. (When this talk becomes available, I will share it.)As part of the event, I gave a 30-minute presentation entitled “Cursed Cultus or Worthy Worship: The Choice that Faces Us.” This is now available on YouTube: Excerpt:“Tradition is not the lazy repetition of...

On Monday morning at around 7.30 a.m. the woman was caught on camera by appalled locals posing for pictures with just a red strip of material covering her front, in front of the cathedral doors, which were cast in 1067 in the-then Constantinople, and beneath a mosaic of St. Andrew, whose relics are said to be housed inside. The location of the shoot was particularly hurtful to members of the community, said art historian and writer Laura Thayer, who who lives in Amalfi "The Duomo is a place of worship and a place very close to the hearts of the...

The San Francisco 49ers are sending second-, third- and fourth-round picks in 2023 and a fifth-round pick in 2024 to the Carolina Panthers for star running back Christian McCaffrey, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Thursday night. The deal gives San Francisco the offensive weapon needed to compete for a Super Bowl. It also gives McCaffrey a chance to be on a winning team for the first time since his rookie season in 2017 when Carolina went 11-5 and return to the Bay Area where he starred in college at Stanford. When healthy, McCaffrey is one of the best dual...

The Moscow-installed authorities of the port city of Mariupol, which fell to Russian forces after a devastating siege earlier in the year, took down a monument to Ukrainian victims of Stalin's famine on Wednesday. Kyiv has been calling the 1930s man-made hunger under Josef Stalin a "genocide," while Moscow has been downplaying it as an episode of famine all over the Soviet Union. The state-run RIA Novosti news agency published a video of a truck uprooting the monument in Mariupol. "We are not taking out a memorial, we are getting rid of a symbol of the political disinformation of the...

I found these images on my hard drive. Thought I would share them. Cannot say how old they are, since they were in a file marked Old Windows Images, and I have been using a MAC for 5 years. In this series of photos, you will see a polar bear come upon some sled dogs tethered to a stake. Oh boy…..Normally you would think that a dog tethered to a stake would be lunch for a polar bear, but these pictures tell a completely different story. From what I can see, the polar bear just wanted to play and...

Researchers from were able to identify a new approach for the therapy of colorectal cancer (CRC). In preclinical models as well as in studies on human immune cells, they found that urolithin A, a metabolite product of the pomegranate, sustainably improves the function of immune cells in their combat against cancer. After treatment with urolithin A, tumor-fighting immune cells, so-called cytotoxic T cells, become T memory stem cells: Potent immune stem cells that, due to their ability to divide, constantly supply the immune system with rejuvenated, non-exhausted T cells. This inhibits cancer growth by directly modulating the immune system. Current...

Germany's national network regulator says gas consumption last week was down 31% compared to figures from 2018-2021. Officials say that has to do with unseasonably warm weather as well as heightened consumer awareness. According to the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's federal network regulator, households and light industry in the country consumed less gas last week than the average for the same period between 2018-2021. The news followed a similar find from the week prior. Agency President Klaus Müller said households consumed an average of 608 gigawatt-hours per day in calendar week 41, compared to 881 GWh/day in previous years — a drop...

Transvestites: Weekly Feast For Francis' EyesFrancis receives a group of transvestites [who work as homosexual prostitutes] every Wednesday at his empty general audiences, writes Vatican newspaper OsservatoreRomano.va (19 October).They are led by the notorious parish-priest of Torvaianica Andrea Conocchia and Sister Geneviève Jeanningros. Both encourage the homosexuals to continue with prostitution.Jeanningros said it was an "extraordinary experience" for the prostitutes to "feel welcomed by the Pope", as if this would change something about their misery.Conocchia added that it is a "gift of encounter, welcome and listening" that "touches" the hearts of the prostitutes.Before the homosexual Novus Ordo clergy undermined the...

A team of researchers investigated the impact of whole and ground almonds on the composition of gut microbes. The gut microbiome consists of thousands of micro-organisms living in the gut. These play a vital role in digesting nutrients and can have a positive or negative influence on our health, including our digestive and immune systems. Researchers recruited 87 healthy adults who were already eating less than the recommended amount of dietary fiber and who snacked on typical unhealthy snacks (e.g. chocolate, crisps). Participants were split into three groups: one group changed their snacks for 56 g of whole almonds a...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Democrats elected their political future in 2018. Now, that bench of potential statewideleaders could get wiped out. The last midterm election saw a slate of Democratic rising stars roll into Congress on a wave of anti-Trump resentment and fundraising prowess built on top of that backlash. Now, with a few House terms under their belts, they are prime candidates to run statewide in the future - but first, they must survive their first election that isn’t dominated by former President Donald Trump. “Everyone” in Michigan thinks Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), will “run statewide,” said Jason Cabel Roe,...

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro.’s overflowing campaign coffers underscore the importance of Pennsylvania to national politics—and the influence of government unions in elections. With four weeks remaining until the mid-term elections, Shapiro reported raising a whopping $25.4 million in his latest campaign-finance report, bringing his total to a record $50.9 million since the beginning of 2021. This represents 47 percent more than Governor Tom Wolf raised in four years as an incumbent running for reelection. By contrast, Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano has raised just over $5 million since the beginning of 2021. Slightly more than half of Shapiro’s total...

Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old Grandmaster embroiled in a cheating scandal, filed a lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, and others, seeking $100 million in damages. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of slander, libel, unlawful group boycott, tortious interference with business, and civil conspiracy. Niemann defeated Carlsen in an over-the-board match at the Sinquefield Cup in Missouri in early September. Afterward, Carlsen withdrew from the tournament, posting a vague tweet that implied he couldn't say more about his reasons for withdrawing. Weeks later, during an online match against Niemann at the Julius Baer Cup, Carlsen quit after...

Poopy-pants did it AGAIN. This is becoming a regular occurrence, where the leader of the Free World, seriously, does not know where he is: HOW SENILE LOOKS ON THE WORLD STAGE

Twenty days out from the general election, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina took Democrats and the media to task for trying to sweep an incident, in which Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman held an innocent black jogger at gunpoint, under the rug. "I can't even believe it," Scott said during a town hall hosted by Sean Hannity in York, Pennsylvania, that was broadcast on Fox News Channel. "A person puts a shotgun in a man's chest — an innocent man," Scott noted. "Imagine it being a white Republican putting a shotgun in the chest of a black...