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Democratic staff on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee sent a memo to committee Democrats giving a play-by-play guide to rebut some of the allegations made in the FD-1023 form that alleges Hunter Biden and then Vice President Joe Biden were involved in a foreign bribery scheme. The FBI-generated FD-1023 tip sheet was released last week by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and has been a focal point of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY). In the document, a confidential human source alleges to an FBI informant that both Bidens were paid $5 million by Mykola...

Moscow took sharp action on Friday to curb inflation, fearing the effects of ever higher spending on the war in Ukraine and of a weakening Russian ruble. Russia’s central bank took the unexpected step of raising its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point, to 8.5 percent from 7.5 percent. It was the first large hike in more than a year, and the bank warned that further increases were likely. “It is a surprise and on its face reflects more concern at the central bank about inflation and how the economy is doing than we had appreciated,” said Robert...

Governments start wars in pursuit of various objectives, from conquering territory to changing the regime of a hostile state. Once a war begins, the stakes are immediately raised. It is one of the paradoxes of war that even as its original objectives drift out of reach or are cast aside, the necessity of not being seen as the loser only grows in importance—such importance, in fact, that even if winning is no longer possible, governments will still persevere to show that they have not been beaten. ...All of these dynamics are evident in Russia’s war against Ukraine. r Putin set...

Per Adam Schefter of ESPN, a joint statement has been released from Tyreek Hill’s attorney and the attorney who is representing the man who works at the Marina in which there was an alleged June 18th incident, stating that both sides have resolved the matter. The statement reads, “The parties to the incident which

The Renaissance was the beginning of a great falling away from Jesus Christ (John 1) and the Christian faith. Apostates did not fall away into nothing but into the ancient Mysteries, Hermeticism, mystical Eastern pantheism and evolution and reincarnation, alchemy, magic and more. Coming out of the Renaissance were many occult and diabolically occult secret societies and alchemical magicians such as Hegel and Karl Marx in performance of the Great Work of fusing opposites. In his own time, Teilhard de Chardin also performed the Great Work.Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was an occult evolutionary scientist, New Age Hindu-style pantheist, occult Hermetic...

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. “Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy Glory unto their children.” (Ps. 90:16)

In today’s episode, Becket explores the link between the spiritual realm and gay pride.

Heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.

In San Francisco, we went to the Walgreens that is the #1 spot for theft in all the 9000 US stores, per Walgreens. This is where chains once shut the freezer section. And we saw 3 thefts right in front of us. But across SF, coffee, mustard, nail polish-- are all locked up:

American vigilante action thriller film starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler (who also co-produced).The film takes place in Philadelphia,telling the story of a man driven to seek justice while targeting not only his family's killer but also those who have supported a corrupt criminal justice system, intending to assassinate anyone supporting the system.

A transgender man from South Carolina is alleged to have been murdered by a man he left home to meet for a first date at an amusement park. The body of Jacob Williamson, 18, from Laurens, was found on July 4 by the side of the road in Pageland, some seven miles from where police believe he was killed. Williamson had been writing to a man from North Carolina a month-and-a-half when the pair agreed to meet in person on June 30 - but Williamson never came home after leaving for the park along the border to North Carolina and...

This week marked another terminal chapter in the candidacy of Ron DeSantis. New polling illustrates his continued descent in the 2024 GOP primary. The campaign is virtually bankrupt, with nowhere to turn after a devastatingly low show of support amongst small dollar donors. Yet, Ron refuses to accept reality. Tallahassee’s consultants have read the writing on the wall—but their objective remains unchanged: milk as many dollars as possible.

Earlier this year, masked men in the San Luis Obispo County city of Templeton displayed a white supremacist banner on an overpass on two separate occasions, causing local outrage. Now, the displays have moved beyond Templeton.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) indicated on July 23 that Republicans could soon move to impeach U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland following testimony from two IRS whistleblowers.In an appearance on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Mr. Jordan was asked by host Maria Bartiromo about recent public disclosures made by IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler and whether Republicans will move toward impeaching Mr. Garland.“It sure looks like now, based on the evidence that keeps piling up, based on what Sen. [Chuck] Grassley released this week, the 1023 form, what we heard from the whistleblowers this past week, and...

United States Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen has an incredible job. She writes rubber checks to pay America’s bills. Yet, somehow, the rubber checks don’t bounce. Instead, like magic, they clear.How this all works, considering the nation’s technically insolvent, is quite miraculous. But it works, nonetheless. Again and again, the Treasury borrows money. And Washington spends it.Yellen likely knows that full faith and credit is too good to be true. The U.S. government’s gross fiscal mismanagement should call the veracity of its notes into question. But why focus on it when there’s an abundance to be acquired from weekly Treasury...

Senate Democrats are attempting to sneak an authorization of an outdated gun control law into the "must pass" National Defense Authorization Act, also known as the US Military budget. The law in question is the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act, which was championed by groups like Handgun Control Inc, now known as the Brady Campaign. The Act set the stage for the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Gun Owners of America is working in Congress today to ensure that history does not repeat itself with either of these attacks on your rights. The Act itself bans any firearm that cannot be detected...

This story was already being cited as cause for concern about corporate DEI training even before last week when it took an even darker turn. Earlier this month the National Post reported that retired Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was suing the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over the treatment he received during diversity training sessions.It all began with a DEI course for TDSB administrators that started in April 2021. DEI trainer Kike Ojo-Thompson (the CEO of the KOJO Institute) led a series of sessions for TDSB higher-ups in which she made a number of familiar progressive arguments, according to Bilkszto’s...

There are many possible lessons that can be drawn from this new study on elite college admissions but however you slice the data, it reveals that it’s very good to be rich if you want to get into a top school. Take a look at this graph. The x-axis is parent’s income. The y-axis is half-as-likely to be admitted up to twice-as-likely to be admitted.There are all sorts of caveats here but the basic idea is that people who all scored the same on the SAT have a much higher chance of getting in if they are in the top...

Talk about being sold a bill of duds.Michael Shellenberger (that wonderful, courageous man) had a serious of tweets this afternoon and I could not believe my eyes.People say solar panels don't produce carbon emissions, but they do. And now, a major new investigation by Environmental Progress, drawing on the research of @enricomariutti , finds that solar panels made in China produce at least 3x more carbon emissions than IPCC claims. pic.twitter.com/y4a2dvgyZj— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 24, 2023The report from Environmental Progress points out a fatal flaw in the solar panel data all of this frenzied switch to renewables is based...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said it did not support Ukraine launching attacks inside Russia after two drones from Ukraine damaged buildings in Moscow earlier on Monday."As a general matter we do not support attacks inside of Russia," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in a press briefing.Russia vowed to take harsh retaliatory measures against Ukraine, calling the two drone strikes, including one close to the Defence Ministry's headquarters, a brazen act of terror."This is a war that Russia started. This is their war," Jean-Pierre said. "And they can end it at any time by withdrawing forces from...