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What has four legs, hails from Spain, is notoriously difficult to kill, multiplies by 10 each year, and causes an annual $2.5 billion damage to the economy? If you guessed feral hogs, you are correct. An estimated nine million nomadic pigs currently roam America, destroying crops and properties which lay in their path, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Hogs even cause the occasional fatality - either through a rare bloodthirsty attack on a human or by charging across a highway and triggering a road traffic accident. In the most pig-dense states like Texas, law enforcement officials offer bounties...

In a social media post this morning, Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump threw his weight behind a Florida ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults, although he said the state legislature needs to pass laws prohibiting public use. Trump, a Florida resident, had teased for several weeks that he would announce his position on Amendment 3, a proposed constitutional amendment going before Florida voters this November. In a post on Truth Social this morning, Trump wrote: In Florida, like so many other States that have already given their approval, personal amounts of marijuana will be...

Through a collaboration between the Transparency Foundation and Not Me California, a study was conducted that the groups claim debunks an anti-gun group’s assertions. The report based on their research is called “California’s Gun Control Data Deception: California Politicians and Gun Control Activists Misrepresent Data to Promote a False Narrative to Falsely Claim Gun Control Laws Are Working.” [snip] Also in their announcement they lay out some of the contents of the report: Deception 1: Faulty Definition of Gun Crime: Giffords inflates gun violence by 58% by including suicides in their data sets versus just analyzing gun-related violent crimes. Deception...

Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to renegotiate the debate rules on unmuting the microphones for the Sept. 10 debate on ABC News with Donald Trump. This is despite ABC News rejecting her proposal to change the rules a few days ago. Harris posted on her social media on Saturday, "Donald Trump is surrendering to his advisors who won't allow him to debate with a live microphone. If his own team doesn't have confidence in him, the American people definitely can’t."

Hillary Clinton skipped a $100,000 per ticket Kamala Harris event in the Hamptons earlier this week after she fell ill with Covid. According to Page Six, Hillary Clinton sent her husband Bill Clinton to the fundraiser instead. Clinton was one of the many DNC Convention attendees to get Covid after attending the superspreader in Chicago last week. Hillary spoke at the convention last week.

This is a Gazan channel that has gained over the years 1.7 million followers from around the world • After a short time the post was deleted. An anti-Semitic post on the Gaza channel "GAZA NOW". The Gazan channel "Gaza Now" published an anti-Semitic post this evening (Thursday), which included a call for the murder of Israelis in Europe and the US. The post was accompanied by a gray shirt with a print of the Nazi oppressor Adolf Hitler. After a short time, both posts were deleted. "We swear to you that everyone who killed our people will die wherever...

Channel 12 News journalist Omri Maniv has revealed the true numbers behind the Hamas terror group's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. On October 7, 6,000 (not 3,000) terrorists infiltrated Israeli territory, of them, 3,800 were Hamas Nukhba terrorists and another 2,200 were Gazan "civilians" - terrorists and looters, also entered Israel, and 1,000 Hamas terrorists fired towards Israel from within Gaza. In total, 7,000 terrorists fired at and infiltrated Israel over the course of the morning of Simchat Torah (October 7). In addition, the border fence between Gaza and Israel was breached in 119 places (not 60). A total...

An upstate imam urged student activists to “take out” an outspoken, pro-Israel Columbia University professor who’s returning to the embattled Ivy this fall after a year of antisemitic hate. Vassar-educated, Utica-based imam Tom Facchine made the plea about business school professor Shai Davidai during an Aug. 20 webinar called “Islamic Political Activism” with various Columbia student groups which promoted and broadcast it. “That Shai Davidai guy: How do we get him in trouble? How do we create a situation in which he’s in jeopardy?” Facchine, 35, asked. “If you’re able to take out somebody like that and make an example,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police used a tanklike vehicle with a battering ram to smash into a Southern California home and arrest the next-door neighbor of a couple living in a nudist community who were reported missing earlier this week, officials said Friday. Officials believe the bodies of Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband, Daniel, 79, are inside the residence, though they first have to shore up the home to make it safe to search, said Carl Baker, spokesperson for the Redlands Police Department. “We are confident that they are deceased and that they are still here on the property,”...

An environmentalist put a GPS tracker in with her recycling to see where it ended up — and the results were not confidence-inspiring. As Inside Climate News reports in an investigative collaboration with CBS, Houston activist and avid recycler Brandy Deason tossed an Apple Tag in with her bagged plastic waste to take to one of the city's new recycling drop-off sites to see what really happens to recyclables. Deason dropped her secretly-tagged plastic bag off with the Houston Recycling Collaboration, a public-private partnership that launched with the help of Exxon nearly two years ago to address the city's low...

Vice President Kamala Harris excoriated former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday for his visit on Monday to Arlington National Cemetery, where his campaign’s filming of him in a heavily restricted area caused a confrontation between one of his political aides and a cemetery official. In her first public comments on the situation, Ms. Harris said that Mr. Trump had desecrated a solemn place that should be free of politics when he appeared there for a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan during the withdrawal of U.S. troops three years ago....

With its ban of X, which went into effect on Saturday, Brazil joins a small club of countries to have taken similar measures against the social network, most of them run by authoritarian regimes. The suspension was ordered by a top Brazilian judge after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country. Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Musk had been feuding for months over allegations X engaged in obstruction, criminal organization and incitement, namely the decision said, supporting a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court...

Podcaster Joe Rogan tore into Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama's DNC speeches as he branded them hypocrites. The comedian, 57, particularly raged against the Democrats for their speeches focusing on poverty and income inequality, despite their huge personal net worths. '(Oprah) is up there talking about income inequality like, 'Hey lady, you're rich as f***'... how is that equal?' he said on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, on Thursday.

Explanation: Galaxies of the NGC 7771 Group are featured in this intriguing skyscape. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the constellation Pegasus, NGC 7771 is the large, edge-on spiral near center, about 75,000 light-years across, with two smaller galaxies below it. Large spiral NGC 7769 is seen face-on to the right. Galaxies of the NGC 7771 group are interacting, making repeated close passages that will ultimately result in galaxy-galaxy mergers on a cosmic timescale. The interactions can be traced by distortions in the shape of the galaxies themselves and faint streams of stars created by their mutual gravitational tides. But...

The Sheriff’s Office of Pasco County, Florida, harasses people in their homes using a method they call “predictive policing.” The program has unfolded like a dystopian nightmare for the Pasco residents it has ensnared, who have been subjected to near-constant police surveillance and harassment. The Sheriff'sOffice claims the program’s goal is to predict and prevent crime before it happens by targeting people they suspect may commit crimes in the future, dubbing the approach “intelligence-led policing.” This euphemism may make it seem like there’s thoughtfulness to the approach, but there’s nothing fair or smart about it. Using a crude computer-algorithm, the...

Over 40 people accused of running the largest pharmacy burglary stole approximately $12 million worth of controlled substances, according to an indictment. The bust is the largest in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Jonathan D. Ross for the Eastern District of Arkansas said Thursday the group of 42 people worked together to burglarize over 200 pharmacies across 31 states. More than 11 of the affected pharmacies were located in Arkansas, according to Ross. Ross said the group, based in Houston, Texas, targeted independent, non-chain pharmacies in rural locations and would...

Video: Kamala Harris discusses advancements in technology. ‘Plucking words at random’ makes more sense than ‘anything’ Kamala Harris says US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers “gobbledygook” day in and day out, says Sky News host Rowan Dean. “Devoid of meaning, impossible to pin down, and instantly forgettable,” he said. “Even plucking words at random makes more sense and has more genuine meaning than anything the Vice President of the United States says on any topic whatsoever.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked the U.S. Army in a letter Friday for a full report and a briefing on former President Trump’s visit to Arlington cemetery, after reports of a confrontation between his staff and cemetery officials surfaced. Raskin, the ranking member on the House Oversight Commitee, sent the letter, obtained by The Hill, to Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth. The lawmaker asked her to provide a report on the incident, including whether the former president’s staff “violated federal law or Cemetery rules and whether the Trump campaign informed the families of servicemembers buried at the Cemetery that...

Welcome to the PRAYER REQUESTS thread. This daily thread is a listing of prayer requests that have been posted by Freepers to the main forum who wish to have continued prayer. Hopefully this thread will remind us to continually pray for our fellow Freepers’ cares and needs. GOD hears and answers our prayers.

Beloved; Dr.R Congdon does an excellent and beautiful job in simply presenting the 70 weeks of Daniel ( with amazing charts) and the 75 Days which take place after Yeshua’s return; be sure to check out all CMI’s videos ; as well on Congdon Ministries You Tube be page as well; share it dear friends and pass it along! Maranatha my freeps☝️✌️👍 CMI Video intro; Before solving the mystery of the 75-day gap of Daniel 12, the starting date of the Seventy-Weeks prophecy of Daniel 9:25 must be determined. In this video, Dr. Congdon determines that date on which the...