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The debates stretched late into the evening and sometimes well past midnight. At their offices in Jamaica’s capital city, after the nighttime cleaners had come and gone, Gladstone “Fluney” Hutchinson and his colleague Donald J. Harris would lock horns over technical questions related to the Caribbean nation’s economic development - how to diversify exports, options for tax reform, what might boost worker productivity. Nearly every day for about eight months in 2012, the father of Kamala Harris - now the U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential nominee - worked with Hutchinson to craft what would become a 294-page document laying...

Secretive peace talks between Ukraine and Russia collapsed before they even started following Kyiv's incursion into the Kursk region last week. The two countries were set to hold indirect talks in Qatar on a deal to halt strikes on energy and power infrastructure, in a first step towards a partial-ceasefire. However, Russian officials were said to be furious at Ukraine’s surprise incursion, according to the Washington Post, which revealed the secret Doha talks. Moscow’s delegation described it as “an escalation" and immediately pulled out of the talks this week. A Qatari diplomat said that Russia “didn’t call off the talks,...

Democrats fear smug overconfidence within the party during Vice President Kamala Harris’s honeymoon stage will ruin her chances of withstanding bruising attacks as the November election nears. Democrat strategists understand that Harris, who is a far-left radical West Coast Democrat, will eventually have to answer questions about her record and survive any October surprise or opposition research deployed to derail her campaign. “Every presidential campaign in modern history has had to go through an unanticipated scandal, crisis or world event, and at some point, that political law is going to happen to Kamala Harris’s campaign,” Fernand Amandi, a former President...

KYIV — Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a landmark agreement halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure on both sides, diplomats and officials familiar with the discussions said, in what would have amounted to a partial cease-fire and offered a reprieve for both countries. But the indirect talks, with the Qataris serving as mediators and meeting separately with the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, were derailed by Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region last week, according to the officials. The possible agreement and planned summit have not been previously reported....

Kamala, and these who surround her and support her claim that that gross profit margins are up among food producers and retailers and that is proof that they are gouging consumers. That is BS or pure stupidity. You can tell they never ran a business. Kamala says she is going to focus like a laser beam on grocery stores who are guilty of "price gauging" as she, sic, put it. These people get so aggravated if someone pronounces her name wrong but she can't even read a teleprompter and pronounce "gouging" correctly. They clearly don't understand direct costs and overhead...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Vice President Kamala Harris laid out a “strong progressive agenda” during her economic speech earlier today. When asked for his reaction to the speech, Sanders said, “I think given the fact she has been a candidate for only three weeks I think she’s doing really really well in a whole lot of ways. I think what she laid out today was a strong progressive agenda. Obviously in the weeks and months to come, I think she will add more specificity to some proposals and she’s going to add to...

“Never again” wasn’t supposed to be just some throw-away virtue-signaling statement, but a sobering and intentional commitment to ensuring that the human experimentation, and crimes against humanity seen under the authority of the Third Reich, never again had to be written about in history books—but apparently only *some* of us got the memo. This week, the Manhattan Institute released a new report that detailed some very sickening findings: “Trans” surgeries are being performed on children under the age of 12, with hundreds of little girls already sacrificed on the agenda’s altar. . From a Fox News item by Melissa Rudy...

A 2019 video of a Kamala Harris campaign event made the rounds on the internet Friday night after the Democrat presidential hopeful unveiled some of her economic proposals, including her apparent desire for Soviet-style price controls on groceries. During her ill-fated run for president, the now vice president said she could lower prices on drugs simply by having the government seize patents from pharmaceutical companies and “take over.” That’s not how a free-market economy is supposed to work, but the giddy Harris didn’t care: “My plan, as a candidate for president, on these drug prices is as follows: We are...

The IDF also announced that, earlier in the day, two soldiers were wounded as a result of projectiles launched from Lebanon that landed in the area of Misgav Am. An Israel Air Force drone hit the motorcycle of Hezbollah Commander Hussein Ibrahim in the Tzur area in southern Lebanon on Saturday shortly after Hezbollah fired 55 rockets into northern Israel, the IDF confirmed. Ibrahim was a commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force - a force which has the main goal of infiltrating northern Israel

After 25 days of eluding the press, we have finally been told we can expect a serious press conference after Labor Day. Gee, thanks K – in the meantime prices are still climbing, fuel is off the charts, immigrants are rolling over our citizens with guns and knives, raping, robbing and killing.

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance’s plane made an emergency landing in Milwaukee on Friday due to a malfunction, the Milwaukee International Airport (MKE) confirmed. An airport spokesperson told Headline USA that the Boeing 737 charter aircraft, operated by Eastern Air, returned to the airport around 1:30 p.m. after a potential issue was detected. The aircraft landed safely and taxied without incident under its own power. The spokesperson said the plane left Milwaukee and continued its planned flight to Cincinnati after a brief inspection. Taylor Van Kirk, a spokeswoman for Vance, stated that the pilot informed passengers of a malfunction with...

(AP) — A Russian missile strike sparked a blaze in the Ukrainian city of Sumy Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continued to push into Russia’s Kursk border region. Two people were injured in the Sumy strike, which also damaged cars and nearby buildings, said Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. It said that the hit had involved an Iskander-K cruise missile and an aerial bomb. Ukraine’s air force also said it had shot down 14 Russian drones overnight, including over the Kyiv region.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is warning the Francis Howell School District of many constitutional and statutory rights it risks violating if it adopts two anti-transgender policies at today’s meeting. FFRF’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Kat Grant and Patrick O’Reiley Legal Fellow Hirsh M. Joshi wrote to the district’s board of education that proposed anti-trans policies violate Title IX, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment and Missouri state laws.

Early-stage trials in Alzheimer's disease patients and studies in mouse models of the disease have suggested positive impacts on pathology and symptoms from exposure to light and sound presented at the gamma band frequency of 40 Hz. A new study zeroes in on how 40Hz sensory stimulation helps to sustain an essential process in which the signal-sending branches of neurons, called axons, are wrapped in a fatty insulation called myelin. Often called the brain's "white matter," myelin protects axons and insures better electrical signal transmission in brain circuits. Said Li-Huei Tsai,"This study shows that it's not just gray matter, but...

Special Dispatch to the N.Y. Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 16. Gen. GRANT has disappointed the predictions of the Copperheaded presses, to the effect that the fiasco of the 30th ult. would end the summer campaign. He has again began a formidable, and thus far, most successful and promising, movement against Richmond. On Saturday last a powerful force, under command of Gen. HANCOCK, was thrown across the river at Deep Bottom, the same point at which the same General made his feint movement previous to the late attack. It is known that the Second Corps, which had some time previously been...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that the Democrats’ ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was “classy” while former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) was “trashy.” Host Stephanie Ruhle said, “One of the candidates said, I will focus on cutting needless bureaucracy and unnecessary regulatory red tape and encourage innovative technologies. That candidate was not Donald Trump. So, my question to you is, why do we care over and over that Trump is the pro-business candidate?”

In 2019, the four-year graduation rate of all University of California (UC) undergraduates was 72.9 percent, while that of black UC students lagged behind at 59.9 percent. This disparity was emblematic of broader imbalances in college preparedness: In 2019, 74 percent of Asian Americans, 53.8 percent of whites, 36.1 percent of Latinos, 25.9 percent of American Indians, and 23.7 percent of blacks in California were prepared for college or professional careers according to the state’s “college and career indicator” factors. This unfortunate deficit was a result of persistent achievement gaps at the K-12 level. A CalMatters analysis in 2020 revealed...

Is Pezeshkian the Last Hope for Khamenei’s Regime Amid Rising Protests? With his new cabinet, Pezeshkian has entered a complex political maze, far from the easy days of his candidacy supported by a few reformists. Now, he faces the indifference of old allies and the smiles of new enemies. Energy Crisis in Iran Despite U.S. President Biden easing sanctions and providing the regime with $100 billion to $150 billion in oil revenues, the money has been squandered on repression, warmongering, and corruption. As Pezeshkian’s cabinet forms, it is clear that the treasury is empty, with the regime struggling to pay...

So, Microsoft has been threatening me all year that they're going to force everyone to use "Outlook" on their computers, getting rid of "Mail". I use Outlook on my computer for a 'side hustle' business, and do not want to intermingle my email accounts on one application - and "Mail" does everything I need for my Yahoo/Gmail/etc. accounts. I've tried looking online for some, but can't really find anything that fits the job like the simple, basic "Mail". So, reaching out to the technocrati here at FreeP to see what y'all use for e-mail on a Windows laptop?

Documentarian Michael Moore still fears Democrats could lose big time in November, despite the establishment left’s non-stop euphoria over Kamala Harris. Michael Moore expressed his doubt in an interview this week with Britain’s The Guardian. “It was so depressing for so many weeks and then it was instantly not depressing,” he said. “I am hopeful now but it’s ours to blow – and we have a history of blowing it.”