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Australia will remove Chinese-made surveillance cameras from defence sites over national security fears. It comes after an audit found 900 pieces of surveillance equipment built by companies Hikvision and Dahua on government estates. The audit of Australian government sites found the cameras and security gear were located on more than 200 buildings, in almost every department - including the foreign affairs and attorney general's departments. At least one unit was also found in the defence department, but the total number at defence sites is unknown. Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on Thursday said the government would find...

WASHINGTON (AP) - resident Joe Biden sparked a firestorm in energy circles when he said in Tuesday’s State of the Union address that the United States will need oil “for at least another decade.″ Republicans in the House chamber laughed in derision at Biden’s off-the-cuff remark, which was not in his scripted speech. GOP lawmakers accused the Democratic resident of refusing to accept reality and “living in a green hallucination,″ as Montana Sen. Steve Daines put it. “resident Biden implied tonight America would not produce oil beyond the next decade. If you believe that, you have missed a lot and...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has taken his most significant step yet in exploring a White House bid, launching a national political organization that’s a popular tool for prospective presidential candidates testing the waters. The governor first confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that he had formed the "Live Free or Die" committee (borrowed from his state’s nickname), a 501(c)(4) organization where politicians can raise unlimited funds. The donations don't have to be disclosed, and prospective candidates often use these political nonprofits as a way to gauge interest from donors.

A city bus driver is facing first-degree murder charges after his vehicle rammed into a daycare center in a Montreal suburb on Wednesday, killing two children and injuring six others. Police did not give a cause for the crash but filed murder and assault charges against Pierre Ny St-Amand, 51. Authorities said the driver has worked for the transit system for 10 years and does not have a criminal record. The six children who were taken to hospital did not have life-threatening injuries, police said. The incident happened at about 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT), when kids are usually dropped off...

[Catholic Caucus] Germany’s Synodal Way Leader: Exclusion of Women From Ordination Drives Women From ChurchThe final documents produced by the synod assembly in Europe underway this week will influence what priorities and themes should be taken up in the Synod of Bishops taking place at the Vatican this fall.A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe’s synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church.Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), addressed delegates in the meeting in Prague on Feb. 8.“The stubborn...

@JackPosobiec BREAKING: John Fetterman has been rushed to a DC hospital. Doctors fear he may have suffered another stroke

As a yoga teacher, Dina Pinelli exercised and had a healthy diet. That didn't prevent her from having three heart attacks in less than a month when she was 45. She thought her symptoms were anxiety or allergies, but has learned to advocate for her health.

What if Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and I blocked and banned at any point in the last three years?That just happened.His article in Cell - “Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses” - says it as plainly as possible: the COVID vaccine did not work because it could not work.Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in an illustration image. (Shutterstock)First some review from what we knew before this whole fiasco began.Vaccines are not suitable for coronaviruses. Such respiratory viruses spread and mutate too quickly. This is why there has...

Young blood plasma transfusions for anti-aging are popular with some wealthy elites. There are claims that young blood rejuvenates the body's organs. But turning back the body's clock with transfusions might not need to be done anymore following research from Columbia University in New York that states an anti-inflammatory drug can rejuvenate the body and possibly increase the human lifespan by decades. "An aging blood system, because it's a vector for a lot of proteins, cytokines, and cells, has a lot of bad consequences for the organism," Emmanuelle Passegué, Ph.D., director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, who's been studying...

The Constitution requires that a president deliver a State of the Union address to Congress once a year. Since we have a fraudulent occupant in the Oval Office at the moment, it is perhaps not surprising that his take on the State of the Union is equally false. The actual state of the union, today, is much darker, much more vulnerable, than most people want to admit. And in our hearts, we all know it. What is the state of the union today, in 2023? The federal government is joining with the corrupt local administrators of dozens of America’s big...

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. 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

Remember when we were told that the army of new IRS agents Biden wants to hire was only going to go after billionaires? Good times. If that’s the case, somebody should check to see if Bill Gates and Elon Musk have taken some side gigs slinging hash at a diner somewhere. (Of course, in Musk’s case it may come to that if he can’t get 10 million more people to sign up for Twitter Blue.) As it turns out, the Tax Man is launching a new program to crack down on tips received by wait staff in the food and...

A newish president of the United States takes the rostrum of the House of Representatives to give his second State of the Union address. Fair or not, many Americans harbor doubts about the validity of his election, and most seriously, his mettle for the job. His country is at war, although it doesn't exactly look like wars past, and it is halfway around the planet. The war is popular, but only so much, with no clear endgame and no pretty way to spin the demonization of the war's domestic opponents. The economy is sort of fine, though maybe really not,...

This excellent article from The American Thinker is a discussion of the merits of criticisms leveled by the Left at the Disney movie from the Sixties Song Of The South. "In celebrating Black history month this year, I thought it would be fitting to finally recognize a triumph of African American literature that has, ironically, been falsely accused of racism. That achievement is embodied in a 1946 Walt Disney movie entitled Song of the South. I assume many of you have not seen the film because Disney has succumbed to the accusations of racism by refusing to re-release it in...

Meghan Markle this week was denied a motion to stay discovery in a defamation lawsuit brought by her estranged half-sister Samantha Markle over the Duchess of Sussex's 2021 tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan Markle "does not show that unusual circumstances justify the requested stay, or that prejudice or an undue burden will result if the Court does not impose a stay," Florida judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell said Tuesday in court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Markle had requested the stay on discovery in the case "pending a resolution" on her motion to have the lawsuit dismissed but her...

I had no idea things were so desperate, and that’s after knowing what miserable shape the country is in.Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s power blackouts.Last week the grim extent of the outages was laid bare when South Africans were advised to bury dead loved ones within four days.In a public statement, the South African Funeral Practitioners Association warned that bodies in mortuaries were rapidly decomposing because of the unrelenting electricity outages, putting huge pressure on funeral parlors struggling to process corpses.The load-shedding outages have become so...

New research has found that low-dose aspirin may improve ovarian cancer survival. The study followed more than 900 Australian women newly-diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and asked them how often they used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin. Dr. Azam Majidi said the women who reported taking NSAIDs at least four days a week in the 12 months after diagnosis, lived longer on average than occasional or non-users. Most of the frequent users were taking daily low-dose aspirin. "Our findings suggest that frequent NSAID use might improve survival for women with ovarian cancer, regardless of whether they start taking the...

Love him or hate him, there is no denying him. LeBron James set the NBA record for most points scored when he made a jumper with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder on February 7th, giving him 38,388 points and breaking the record Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held since 1984. Unfortunately for his team’s more immediate concern, the Lakers lost at home to the Thunder 133-130.The game was paused for several minutes as James was honored by NBA commissioner Adam Silver and greeted by his mother, wife, and children. Abdul-Jabbar was also on hand.Entering the game,...

Bishop Strickland reacts to FBI whistleblower’s bombshell report on surveillance of traditional Catholics‘[A]ttacks of violent aggression are antithetical to what it means to be a radically committed traditional Catholic,’ Bishop Strickland told LifeSiteNews.TYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Tyler, Texas spoke out Wednesday in response to news that the FBI is beefing up its surveillance of so-called “radical traditionalist Catholics” in Virginia, saying that “[d]eeply committed Catholics are the last people the authorities should be concerned about.”On Wednesday, former FBI agent turned whistleblower Kyle Seraphin released an eight-page document indicating the federal law enforcement agency is tracking...

The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.The president’s State of the Union Address offered an important opportunity for Joe Biden to set a new tone for his administration. After many years of extreme partisanship in Washington, Biden could have used this high-profile speech to reach across the aisle to Republicans, who are now in charge of the House of Representatives, to find common ground on important issues. Unfortunately, the president chose to go in a radically different direction, directly attacking Republicans, giving vague promises, and repeating the...