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Brothers Or and Yagil Yaakov, who were held hostage by Hamas, exposed the terrorists' violence and barbarism against them while in captivity. Or and Yagil's uncle, Yaniv, said during a meeting with foreign ministers in Europe that his nephews were branded on their legs by what would appear to be an intentional burn by the exhaust of a vehicle, so if they managed to escape their captors, they would be able to identify them, Channel 12 reported on Thursday. The uncle also revealed that the boys were drugged and moved from place to place several times: "We got the boys...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli officials obtained Hamas’ battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. The approximately 40-page document, which Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people. The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical...

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(Reuters) - Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy of its widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. In a complaint filed in a Lubbock County state court, Paxton said it was misleading for Pfizer to claim its vaccine was 95% effective because it offered a "relative risk reduction" for people to who took it Paxton said the claim was based on only two months of clinical trial data, and vaccine recipients' "absolute risk reduction" showed that the vaccine was just 0.85% effective. He also said the pandemic got worse even...

Florida Republican Party Chair Christian Ziegler is the subject of a police investigation that reportedly involves an allegation of sexual battery. The big picture: Nonprofit watchdog news site Florida Trident, citing sources close to the investigation, first reported that a woman alleged she was in a "longstanding consensual" sexual relationship with Ziegler and his wife, Bridget, before being "sexually battered" by Ziegler at her home, without his wife present. .... * Christian Ziegler took over as state GOP chairman in February after serving as a Sarasota County commissioner and years of conservative activism. * The governor appointed Bridget Ziegler to...

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." ☰ Mark 15 1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate....

Lavrov said on Thursday that Moldova, an Eastern European country and former Soviet republic, is putting itself in harm's way in its desire to join the European Union. In June 2022, the EU and its member states offered unwavering support for Moldova and granted it candidate status. The support was reaffirmed in March of this year, with the EU and its members promising to continue to provide security and economic support to Moldova as it awaits its path to accession... On Thursday, the Moldova Foreign Ministry issued a rebuke to Lavrov's comments, calling Russia's invasion of Ukraine "brutal" and saying...

Please don’t mistake Wednesday’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree demonstration for just another unimaginative lashing-out by dyspeptic attention-mongering misfits. It was much more than that. Oh, the usual suspects were there — cossetted Columbia University types; unmoored sociopaths who hate America but who can’t bring themselves to leave; perverse excitement-seekers and the inevitable anti-Semites and associated haters. But that fellow waving a Palestinian flag while atop a pillar in front of 1211 Sixth Avenue — this newspaper’s headquarters — was something else entirely. His was an atavistic celebration of mass murder — this time not at home by hijacked airliner, but...

Change in clinical practice would have clear benefits for patients undergoing major bowel surgery, according to analysis. The study provides evidence that giving iron intravenously before colorectal surgery improves outcomes for patients, reducing the need for blood transfusion by 33%. Anemia is a common problem in patients undergoing bowel surgery due to bleeding from the gut and blood loss during the operation. Anemia is also associated with feeling tired and unwell, a slower recovery and other complications after surgery. Blood transfusion is used when blood levels are low, but there has been concern that colorectal cancer patients may have higher...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that it lacks “credit” to conduct the kind of military campaign necessary to defeat Hamas, saying that the Biden administration would not tolerate large-scale bombing over months in southern Gaza. Blinken’s remarks were leaked to the Israeli press. The Times of Israel quoted a transcript of his meeting with Israel’s war cabinet: Blinken: You can’t operate in southern Gaza in the way you did in the north. There are two million Palestinians there. You need to evacuate fewer people from their homes, be more accurate in the attacks, not hit UN facilities,...

Update from Ukraine | The Big landing operation may Start at any moment | Ukraine takes the ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSoEnad2up0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 29th November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-644-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a long-chain fatty acid found in meat and dairy products from grazing animals such as cows and sheep, improves the ability of CD8+ T cells to infiltrate tumors and kill cancer cells, according to a study. The study also shows that patients with higher levels of TVA circulating in the blood responded better to immunotherapy, suggesting that it could have potential as a nutritional supplement to complement clinical treatments for cancer. For the new study, Hao Fan, Ph.D. and Siyuan Xia, Ph.D., started with a database of around 700 known metabolites. They screened the compounds in this...

Not gonna lie, seeing Disney’s CEO flamed in public to his face is throughly satisfying. More than that, there is reason to believe it was a good day for America. We hear no end of left-wing finger-wagging about what’s ‘good for democracy’. But what Elon just did might actually help put the Republic back on firmer ground.There are two aspects to the F-bomb story. There what he did, and what he refused to do. Both are important in the bigger picture.Elon Musk stood in public and told one of the top-fifty corporations in the country that he didn’t need their...

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to reverse a cellular process triggered by COVID-19 that contributes to premature aging of the brain. Dr. Julio Aguado and a team used synthetic brain organoid models, grown in a laboratory from human stem cells, to study the effect of different SARS-COV-2 variants on brain tissue. "We found COVID-19 accelerates the presence of 'zombie' or senescent cells, which accumulate naturally and gradually in the brain as we get older," Dr. Aguado said. "Senescent cells are known to drive tissue inflammation and degeneration, leaving patients exposed to cognitive impairments like brain fog and...

Outspoken Dan Bongino sticks up for the kid that a leftwing Carron tried shaming. This guy at Deadspin was trying to shame a little kid who had his face painted for the Kansas City Chiefs game and tons of people are calling that guy out - and rightfully so, because it was a totally scumbag move to target a little kid who's actually part Native American. Go figure. Bongino painted his face in support and told cancel culture to stick it up their ass, then flipped then two middle fingers for emphasis. Boom.Bongino said... “So folks sometimes you just gotta...

@RepThomasMassie I’m voting against HR 5961 because there’s no legal or moral authority for us to freeze or steal assets of other countries we are not at war with. It’s also shortsighted for us to use our super-power status to force foreign banks to freeze assets of sovereign countries.

It all started with the tragic death of a teenage boy attending a village dance in southern France. Although the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, members of France’s ultra-right immediately blamed it on “anti-French” sentiment, descending on the region en masse to avenge his death. Witnesses described a rare and frightening scene: A hundred or so ultra-right activists, many of them armed and masked, gathered in the small town of Romans-sur-Isère on Saturday to avenge the death of 16-year-old Thomas. The rugby-playing high-schooler died from his wounds on November 19 after being stabbed in the nearby village of Crépol...

Night-time protests across France over the past few days by ultra-right militants chanting "Islam out of Europe" have been fanned by last week's rioting in Dublin, a French intelligence source and far-right Telegram communications indicate. The demonstrations in protest at the fatal Nov. 19 stabbing of a teenager were an attempt by the far-right "to convince the French public that immigration is the cause of crime," far-right expert and political scientist Jean-Yves Camus said. Far-right politicians framed the murder of the teenager, named Thomas, in the southeastern village of Crepol as an attack on France and what France represents, as...

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. Behold! a Virgin shall concieve & O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion … for the LORD hath created a new thing in...