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...Misinformation contains content that is false, misleading, or taken out of context but without any intent to deceive. When family members share bogus health claims or political conspiracy theories on Facebook, they’re not trying to trick you—they’re under the impression that they’re passing along legit information. In reality, they’re spreading misinformation. Examples of misinformation Misinformation ran rampant at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Consider claims of false COVID-19 treatments that spread across social media like, well, the virus they claimed to cure. Those who shared inaccurate information and misleading statistics weren’t doing it to harm people. In fact, most...

Gog MGog, The Final ChapterMore of Gog’s Weapons headed to Israel?Poland: hundreds of military vehicles at the port of Gdynia in the framework of the "Atlantic Resolve" missionThe assets were transferred to Poland to reinforce NATO's eastern flank in the face of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian armed forcesHundreds of heavy tanks, armored infantry fighters, light armored vehicles and other military vehicles of all kinds clutter the quay in the port of Gdynia, a Polish city located on the Baltic Sea, in the bay of Gdansk. The vehicles were transferred to Poland as part of the "Atlantic Resolve"...

Ukraine is the hot new thing. I get it. The same people who went full-blown Branch COVIDIAN have now moved on to full-blown BRANCH UKRAINIAN-WAR. Eh, that doesn’t work quite as well (a little clunky) but it still sorta works. Far too many people are looking for a movement to define them as important or meaningful or deep … so they are easily persuaded into going along with whatever narrative, message, or marketing our pals on the Left can come up with. They’ve gone from scolding people for not protecting grandma to attacking their fellow Americans if aren’t all in...

Juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare but often severe and chronic systemic autoimmune disease, includes a large number of patients who are treatment resistant, requiring long term immunosuppressive therapy. A small open-label study shows promise using a targeted biologic therapy called abatacept to treat such patients. In the 24-week trial, ten patients with juvenile dermatomyositis ages 7 years or older with moderate disease activity who all received abatacept therapy had significant improvements in their muscle strength, physical function, endurance and skin rashes, as well as in the amount of muscle inflammation on MRI. In addition, patients were able to lower the daily...

MOSCOW, March 9 – RIA Novosti. The newspaper specifically asked the US administration’s largest commodity traders not to be afraid of deals on the supply of Russian oil, which is bought and sold at a ceiling price. Finance Times With reference to informed sources. According to the publication, representatives of the US Treasury Department met with executives of trading companies Trafigura and Gunvor. While Washington has never objected to the trade of Russian oil within the ceilings agreed by the G7, major oil traders have been wary of the market.

A Rottweiler is being praised in South Africa for protecting its owner from a deadly black mamba snake slithering under the couch in their house. The unnamed owner, living in Queensburgh, a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, became concerned last week when his loyal friend suddenly started pushing him away from the couch that he used to sit on every afternoon

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. The Lord's Prayer Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of...

The American team of Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Jenna Prandini, and TeeTee Terry stunned the star-studded Jamaican squad for a surprising world title in the women's 4x100m relay.Team USA shocks Jamaica for women's 4x100 world title (2022)

A doctor rushes to the side of a patient who has just collapsed on the way to the toilets in the emergency wing. He checks for signs of life—pulse, circulation, breathing. He has never seen the patient before. How serious, he wonders, could this be? The doctor calls out: “Does anyone know anything about her?” The senior nurse, who has just come over, looks shocked. “Him!” she practically shouts at the doctor. “You refer to that patient as him!” And the doctor thinks to himself: “So I’m supposed to check the patient’s pronouns before I check his pulse.” This story—I...

A Florida homeowner who asked not to be identified shot an alligator attacking his dog in his backyard. The man, who lives in Deltona, said he let his dog Winston outside. He noticed the dog sniffing around, so he told FOX 35 Orlando he wanted to see what Winston was interested in. The man spotted the alligator at the same time the reptile spotted his dog. The nearly 8-foot-long gator and homeowner lunged forward at the same time. “The gator got Winston, chomping down on the side of his head, and the homeowner shot the gator four times in the...

James Cagney is the chief exec of Coca-Cola’s West Berlin plant whose ambitious promotion plans are jeopardized when he becomes temporary guardian of his stateside superior’s wild and vacuous daughter. The girl (Pamela Tiffin) slips across the border, weds violently anti-Yankee Horst Buchholz, and before long there’s a bouncing baby Bolshevik on the way. When the home office head man decides to visit his daughter, Cagney masterminds an elaborate masquerade. The screenplay, based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar, is outstanding. It pulls no punches and lands a few political and ideological haymakers on both sides of the...

A doctor violated the law by administering COVID-19 vaccines to children without consent, according to a new lawsuit. Dr. Janine Rethy, chief of community pediatrics at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is being accused of holding two children in a room until she convinced them to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The minors are both children of NaTonya McNeil, a Washington resident who brought the suit in D.C. Superior Court. “Ms. McNeil’s two minor children were held in a room by Defendant until she overcame their will and forcibly vaccinated them while physically preventing them from consulting with their mother, who was...

IQ scores have decreased in the US for the first time in decades, new research from scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Oregon suggests.

Mexico’s president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction. His statement came during a visit to Mexico by Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House homeland security adviser, to discuss the fentanyl crisis. It also comes amid calls by some U.S. Republicans to use the U.S. military to attack drug labs in Mexico. The Mexican government has acknowledged in the past that...

Many of the fires start when people charge bikes overnight, allowing them to overheat ... The fires appear to be concentrated in New York City, where the number of blazes more than doubled last year to 216, according to the New York City Fire Department. Fires from e-bikes and other so-called micromobility devices such as electric scooters have injured 40 people and killed two this year, the fire department said. “These are incredibly dangerous devices if they are unregulated or used improperly,” New York Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said at a press conference in late February. ... Many e-bike fires...

Ukrainian soldiers are being pummelled on three sides by Russian forces who are trying to capture Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donetsk region that has become the focus of the longest and one of the bloodiest battles since the war began. Ukraine’s authorities insist they will continue to try to hold the city despite them suffering an estimated 100-200 casualties a day – with some saying the reason is more political and symbolic than practical. Retreating from the city now, after so many soldiers died fighting to keep it, would be a hard reality to face. The Russian push...

On this date in 1524, the first Reformation martyr of Switzerland was beheaded in Lucerne. Klaus Hottinger (English Wikipedia entry | German), a cobbler by trade, was among Zurich’s early radical reformers — the folks impatient enough for ecclesiastical change to go looking for provocative transgressions. On March 9, 1522 — two years to the day before his martyrdom — Hottinger was among several Zurich denizens who calculatedly broke the Lenten fast by gobbling sausages at a printer‘s home. History charmingly designates this event “the Affair of the Sausages”. It was scandalous precisely because Zwingli, a pastor, made no attempt...

Before the news of events in Israel today comment and analysis. In the small nation of Georgia next to Russia in the last 24 hours protesters have succeeded in thwarting a 76-13 initial parliamentary vote in favor of foreign agents registration legislation. The legislation opposed by the US and US aligned nations in the 'rules based international order' camp. The elected government forced to back down on the legislation called a "Russian bill" by the forces of world order. The bill opposed by the Georgian president who would have had to sign the legislation if it had gotten to final...

Within the next decade, some scientists figure it will be possible to create a viable human egg from a male skin cell — paving the path for same-sex male couples to have their own biological children. The prediction came on the heels of a genome development that saw scientists producing baby mice by generating eggs from male cells. Oh, what a tangled web they weave. The LGBTQ crowd in particular is no doubt cheering this latest evil. After all, if tearing down normal, traditional family structure is the end game of the LGBTQ activists — which it is — well...

[Catholic Caucus] The Bishop of Puerto Rico, who was dismissed by the Pope, breaks his silence: "I still feel the same perplexity" Today marks one year since the dismissal of Monsignor Daniel Fernández as Bishop of Arecibo, in Puerto Rico.On March 9, 2022, the Holy See made public that “the Holy Father relieved HE Mons. Daniel Fernández Torres of the pastoral care of the Diocese of Arecibo (Puerto Rico) and appointed Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the same Diocese HE Bishop Álvaro Corrada del Río, YES, Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez».The news of the dismissal of Monsignor Fernández,...