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It's been 75 years since the start of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, the first universal health system available to all, free at the point of delivery.In light of this, Statista's Anna Fleck looks at how different health systems compare around the world, using data from Legatum Prosperity Index, created by The Legatum Institute Foundation, a London think tank.As the following chart shows, the UK ranks in 34th place out of the 167 indexed countries and territories, based on not only its healthcare system (such as access to health services) but also its population’s state of health (including mortality...

Around 60,000-100,000 Danes suffer from a form of chronic diarrhea called bile acid malabsorption or bile acid diarrhea. It is a chronic condition characterized by frequent and sudden diarrhea more than 10 times a day. "A lot of people with chronic diarrhea don't realize that they suffer from bile acid diarrhea and what has caused it. This is a result of lack of knowledge among healthcare workers and the relatively complex and expensive—and for the patient difficult—process of diagnosing the disease," says Filip Krag Knop. The new method means that doctors should be able to determine whether the patient has...

Former President Donald Trump is in a stronger position so far in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race than he was in the 2016 presidential primary cycle, according to former Republican campaign strategist Matthew Dowd.Mr. Dowd, who served as the chief strategist on George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign, evaluated the current Republican presidential primary field during a Tuesday panel discussion on MSNBC’s “Lindsey Reiser Reports” program. Mr. Dowd’s political loyalties have shifted since serving on Mr. Bush’s re-election campaign, and in 2021 he entered the race to become the Texas lieutenant governor, running a failed campaign on the Democratic...

Social media giant Meta’s new "Twitter killer" Threads app is already facing backlash for appearing to censor conservative users, just days after its launch. Meta’s new app that aims to take over parts of Twitter’s microblog market share hit the digital bazaar this week, garnering millions of signups shortly after launch. It didn’t take long, though, for the new Meta platform to get accusations of censorship from conservatives. "I posted a meme about Twitter being better than Threads, and they removed it after ONE MINUTE for ‘incitement to violence,’" conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair tweeted with four laughing emojis. St....

Patriotism in America continues to hover near record lows, according to Gallup’s most recent survey. While this may not be a five-alarm fire for those of us who truly love this country – after all, roughly two-thirds of Americans responded that they were either “extremely” or “very” proud to be Americans – it is certainly a cause for concern that should be addressed. As we celebrate the birth of this great country, it is worth examining potential reasons pride in America is on the decline and rehashing why America is a nation worth loving in the first place. Only 39%...

At age 13, Ash Eskridge was severely under the influence, but not of drugs or alcohol — of TikTok. The brunette told The Post that trendsetters on the popular app wrongfully convinced her that she was transgender. “I saw TikTok videos by influencers saying how that transitioning saved their life,” said Eskridge, now 16, from Missoula, Montana. After becoming depressed at 12, she leaned on the virtual platform as an emotional crutch. “I was struggling and wanted it to save my life, too,” she told South West News Service. It was just after the pandemic that the Gen Zer joined...

Dr. Gal Luft, the Israeli whistleblower who has been on the run since April, detailed his bribery allegations against the Biden family in an extraordinary new video obtained by the New York Post. As American Greatness previously reported, Luft was arrested on weapon trafficking and other charges in Cyprus last February and disappeared after he was let out on bail. After his arrest, the former Israeli army officer tweeted that the Biden administration was out to “bury” him.The Biden Department of Justice had Luft, the founder and executive director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS),...

His name was Nasratullah Ahmadyar and he had lived on an US Army base from the time he was young, working an an interpreter. He and his family escaped the Taliban when the US pulled out of the country. He and his wife and five children were living in Alexandria and he worked as a Lyft driver in and around Washington DC. Monday he was shot and killed by a group of teens who were apparently trying to carjack him.Matthew Butler, who was in the Army from 1990 through 2017 and did five tours in Afghanistan, said Ahmadyar started working...

Is human trafficking one giant right-wing conspiracy? That’s been the insinuation of the left-wing press as they froth at the mouth to attack Sound of Freedom, the surprise box-office hit starring Jim Caveziel.The film, which is based on a true story, centers on a federal agent who rescues a boy from captivity in South America. When he finds out that the boy’s sister was left behind, he quits his day job and embarks on a thrilling extraction mission to get her out. As action movies go, it follows a formula that was once common in Hollywood (you know, before all...

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.

Tucker Carlson joined Russell Brand’s podcast on Friday, and what was revealed has people talking.Carlson told Brand about an interview he conducted before leaving Fox News with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview with Sund, who held his position during the unrest that occurred on January 6th, never aired on the network due to Carlson’s firing.Here’s part of the exchange.Whoa Tucker Carlson Tells @rustyrockets That He Was Able To Interview The Chief Of The Capitol Police On January 6th Steven Sund Sund Claimed In The Interview The Crowd Was Filled With Federal Agents On January 6th Fox News...

Gal Luft talking about Biden foreign dealings and FBI. (Credit: NY Post) The walls seem to be crumbling down around the Biden family foreign dealings scandal as more and more whistleblower information is coming out, revealing not only troubling things about the Bidens but how the FBI and DOJ allegedly failed to investigate the matter properly.We’ve written extensively about the matter, particularly about the Chinese connection. We’ve also reported on whistleblower Dr. Gal Luft, who has some bombshell allegations about the Bidens and the FBI. Luft was the executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security...

The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Libs of TikTok , which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app removed it the same day due to its “hate speech” guidelines, a screenshot shared with the DCNF and posted to Twitter shows. Raichik told the DCNF that the removal was unsurprising because of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s history of conservative censorship on Facebook and...

A manhunt for an escaped murder suspect here in Pennsylvania... "I'm sure that Lindsey Graham knows this, but this would mean American troops on the ground in Ukraine. The American people will not stand by and allow our troops to go die in someone else's war" Reaction from Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert... Joe Biden with a statement today saying the US has destroyed... In Brazil today a deadly building collapse... The US Supreme Court taking up a Second Amendment case this fall... The British tabloid "The Sun" says that a BBC star presenter is accused of paying a teenager for...

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said Wednesday on her show “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that it was “pretty wild” cocaine was found at the White House. Partial transcript as follows: MITCHELL: We have just learned that a formal lab has confirmed the suspicion that that white powdery substance found in the West Wing on Sunday was, in fact, positive for cocaine. The discovery led to a brief evacuation of the White House Sunday night. Joining us now is NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli. So, Mike, where do things stand now? This is so unusual. You and I have covered the White...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s”Deadline” that he believed former President Donald Trump “stole military secrets” and the Democrats should campaign on that in 2024. Swalwell said, “We can’t be too nice with democracy on the line. I think frankly that’s just one of our flaws as a party. We don’t have to lie. We don’t have to be corrupt. We don’t have to make things up. They give us enough material. But a Brit recently said to me, you know, the problem with you Democrats, and this is in a way only a Brit could say it,...

During a portion of an interview with Washington Post columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria set to air on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that was released on Friday, President Joe Biden defended his decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine by stating that Ukraine is “running out” of the ammunition that they need, and “we’re low on it.” Biden said, “[I]t was a very difficult decision on my part. And by the way, I discussed this with our allies. I discussed this with our friends up on the Hill. And we’re in a situation where Ukraine continues...

On this date in 1730, the pirate Olivier Levasseur was hanged at Reunion Island– legendarily hurling into the crowd cryptic directions to his vast hidden treasure. Supposedly a bourgeois son of Calais, Levasseur (English Wikipedia entry | French) made his start on the briny deep as a French naval officer-turned-privateer during the War of Spanish Succession, transitioning to full-time buccaneer after that conflict ended in 1714. By the 1720s — and with a bad eye necessitating that most trite of pirate accessories, the eyepatch — Levasseur had a mixed-race crew raiding the east African coast and the Indian ocean. His...

During Friday's White House briefing, Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if the cocaine found in the White House last weekend belonged to any member of the Biden family. Jean-Pierre didn't say "no," but did provide this attempted alibi: "The Biden family was not here. They were not here. They were at Camp David. They were not here Friday. They were not here Saturday. They were not here Sunday. They were not even here Monday. They came back on Tuesday. So to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible." Here's how that unfolded: KJP says that "irresponsible reporting" is alleging...

We can find dry spells plaguing the lives of godly men and women throughout the Bible. This low period in the spirit comes mostly to those whom God intends to use. Indeed, it is common to everyone he trains to go deeper into his ways. As you look back on some of your own dry spells, ask yourself if those times followed a renewal of the Spirit in your life. Maybe you had experienced a fresh awakening, asking the Lord, “Touch me, Jesus. I feel lukewarm. I know my service to you isn’t moving forward as it should. I’m hungry...