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VIDEODespite the many ugly rumors out there, Bill Gates absolutely did NOT cause the recent malaria outbreak. It would take a soulless monster with no concern for humanity to cause a malaria outbreak in order to profit from providing a solution. As you can see in this video, Gates is a warm, lovable person chock full of concern who could not possibly do something so monstrous as to help cause a disease in order to profit from the cure.

EASTLAKE, Ohio - Summer is the busiest season at Bill Quinn’s flag store on Vine Street as customers stock up on flags for July 4. In the flag business, Quinn says patriotic holidays like Independence Day, Veterans Day and Memorial Day are the equivalent of the days before Christmas for other shopkeepers.“When you put up an American flag, you say I am an American and proud of it,” says Quinn, who got into the retail flag business after larger stores sold out of American flags after the 9/11 attacks.Nowadays, Quinn’s 5,000 square-foot store in Eastlake has branched out into other...

I grew up in the South, raised by generations of strong, Black women who always told me I'd go to college. I am the first college grad in my family, but to pay for my education, I'm now in so much debt that I can barely imagine the life my degree was supposed to get me. And the Supreme Court just shattered whatever dreams my family and I had about the life I could lead if I graduated college. Just days after Juneteenth—a holiday celebrating Black liberation from literal bondage—six people I've never met decided that my economic freedom, and...

President Joe Biden will be in the Palmetto State this week. Biden will travel to South Carolina on Thursday, almost a week after First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visited Marine Corps graduates in Parris Island. Republican presidential hopefuls have visited the state for weeks with the most recent being former president Donald Trump, who held a campaign rally in Pickens on Saturday. Other Republican hopefuls, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have all made stops in South Carolina in recent months setting the state up to become a battleground in a...

Title: 17-Year-Old Boy Killed in Beach Shooting near Casa Cuba Club in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico Subtitle: Incident Marks Third Tourist Murder in Less than Two Months In a tragic incident on a beach near the Casa Cuba club in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, a 17-year-old boy from Maryland lost his life, while two others were injured in a shooting that took place during the evening hours. The Carolina Municipal Police were quick to respond to the scene after receiving reports of the incident. Preliminary information suggests that the shooting occurred following a heated argument between the three individuals involved....

"Coming to [Christ] as to a living stone" (1 Pet. 2:4). Jesus is the only source of eternal life and the foundation upon which the church is built. Peter's description of Christ as "a living stone" is paradoxical because stones aren't alive. In fact, we sometimes speak of something being "stone dead." Yet Peter's symbolism is profound because it beautifully incorporates three realities about Christ. First, Jesus is the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. The Old Testament referred to the Messiah as a stone, and Peter incorporated those texts into His description of Jesus in 1 Peter 2:6-8: "Behold I lay in...

On June 21, 2023, the Western Journal reported that an undercover journalist working for the O’Keefe Media Group secretly videoed several interviews with a BlackRock recruiter. (Note: BlackRock is the world’s largest investment firm, it has about $10 trillion of assets, and it has more assets than any nation on earth except the U.S. and China. According to the article, the recruiter said BlackRock is known as “the company that owns the world” because they hold and manage a significant number of shares in almost all major corporations in the U.S. and many other parts of the world across all...

In Galatians, the Apostle Paul wrote, “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14, ESV). The crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord is the unique, incomparably central point for all of mankind and all of history. All of history is split before Jesus and after his work on the cross. It radically changed the whole world. However, it not only changed the world, it also radically changed us. So for how many of you is...

Hunter Biden apparently filmed himself smoking crack behind the wheel of a car in 2018 — the same year he took a picture of himself driving 172mph in a Porsche, according to thousands of newly uploaded photos from the first son’s abandoned laptop. Biden, 53, is seen flashing what looks like a crack pipe and smoking it while driving through a residential neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, on June 12, 2018, according to the photos uploaded by Marco Polo, a nonprofit firm headed by former Donald Trump aide Garrett Ziegler. Less than two months later, he was seen racing to Las...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made…“AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL ping!”

How can universities do an end-run around the Supreme Court? Just watch them fight to maintain a system of racial spoils. Lee Bollinger “laments the ruling by America’s Supreme Court against affirmative action. Universities need to pursue diversity by other means, says Columbia’s president.” As I complete 50 years of university leadership, including 21 years as president of Columbia, I am sorry to see the Supreme Court end a process that has greatly benefited American society. I continue to believe that the country’s obligation to remediate past discrimination is far from complete. The Healey-Driscoll Administration, along with over 100 Massachusetts...

President Joe Biden reportedly used his influence to pressure the University of Pennsylvania to admit his granddaughter to college — then appointed the president of the university to a plum ambassadorship. Last week, in reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on racial preferences in college admissions, Biden denounced “practices like legacy admissions and other systems that expand privilege instead of opportunity.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” On July Fourth, we celebrate much more than our independence from Great Britain. Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and reputations in the American Revolution to establish a government based on universal, permanent principles of justice. At the core of these principles was the claim of human equality. By equality, the Founders did not mean all humans possessed the exact same number or level of talents, virtues, or vices. Instead, they declared three basic truths flowing from and describing human equality. First, humans are equal in their...

Model and actress Katerina Pavelek, 41, received her Covid-19 booster shot over a year ago. Like most people, Pavelek thought the jab would improve her immune system – instead, it did the opposite, and she suffered heavily as a result. Pavelek was diagnosed with an incurable chronic neurological illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a long-term illness with a wide range of symptoms that affects daily activities. At times, this condition may confine people to their beds. ME/CFS can worsen if individuals with this illness overwork themselves. The model was also suspected to have respiratory ALS, a neurodegenerative...

If Americans cannot trust uniformed police officers to be honest, then it likely follows that Americans cannot trust secret police officers, the FBI’s undercover operations, the intelligence community, and other government employees to be honest. ome might have heard the phrase, “men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another.” The phrase could be interpreted to imply that division, chaos, suffering, and potential death are the result of lying and the use of misleading information, hoaxes, and other anti-truth actions. SNIP The point of those examples is that...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 18 A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight 35 As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36 When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. 37 They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” 38 He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 39 Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 40 Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to...

The latest Pew Research Center polling suggests that a mere one-third of Americans favor considering race and ethnicity in college admissions. Over 9.65 million California voters rejected a proposal to repeal an existing race-based affirmative-action ban in 2020. Now, with their ruling overturning race-conscious university admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (UNC), America’s highest court has affirmed this broad national consensus against race-preferential government action. The 237-page-long Court decision is a victory for what Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, sees as “the transcendent aims of the Equal Protection...

Seeking a valid U.S. passport for that 2023 trip? Buckle up, wishful traveler, for a very different journey before you step anywhere near an airport. A much-feared backup of U.S passport applications has smashed into a wall of government bureaucracy as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels — with too few humans to handle the load. The result, say aspiring travelers in the U.S. and around the world, is a maddening pre-travel purgatory defined, at best, by costly uncertainty. With family dreams and big money on the line, passport seekers describe a slow-motion agony of waiting, worrying, holding the...

The real story of America is one in which tyranny is repudiated and unjust governments are unwelcome. In writer George R.R. Martin's sprawling fantasy novels that were developed into HBO's successful series Game of Thrones, the people from one of the warring kingdoms commonly remind outsiders, "The North remembers." SNIP As such, when I watch the despots from Davos and D.C. busily engaged in transforming the world into some kind of technocratic dystopia where a few international "elite" monitor and manipulate everyone else, I cannot help but feel that they have sorely underestimated our memories. There are some souls who...