https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:paalgulli/ en-us Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:43:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4283526/posts Eddy Merckx hospitalised after bike crash 79-year-old cycling legend required to undergo surgery on broken hip By Tom Davidson published 8 hours ago Legendary cyclist Eddy Merckx has broken his hip in a “stupid” cycling accident in Belgium, his wife has said. The 79-year-old crashed his bike on Monday afternoon, falling in a town on the outskirts of the city of Mechelen. He was assisted at the scene by onlookers, who phoned for an ambulance for the five-time Tour de France champion. Confirming the news to Belgian publication Het Nieuwsblad, Merckx’s wife Claudine said it was a “stupid accident”. “There... Cycling Weekly https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4283526/posts#comment Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:43:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282928/posts Bill Clinton: Young Americans shocked to learn Arafat turned down Palestinian stateIf 'you walk away from once in a lifetime peace opportunities, you can't complain 25 years later when the doors aren't all still open,' says former US presidentBy ToI Staff 5 December 2024, 7:51 pmFormer US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday said young people in America today "can't believe" that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state during peace negotiations with Israel under his mediation as president..."All [young people in America] know that a lot more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell... The Times of israel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282928/posts#comment Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:03:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4280085/posts Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study FindsDespite the company's claim that its vehicles are "engineered to be the safest in the world," the Model S and Model Y rank among the most dangerous automobiles By Miles Klee, 21 November, 2024 “Teslas are the safest cars on the road, but most people don’t know that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last year. The superlative is typical of the billionaire, and the automaker itself, which boasts that its vehicles “are engineered to be the safest in the world.” But while Tesla’s cars routinely... Rolling Stone https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4280085/posts#comment Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:54:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4272229/posts Lithium Powered Emergency Vehicle Burns Down Fire Station by Steve MacDonald October 19, 2024 First, and more importantly, no one was injured after a fire in a fire station destroyed over 20 million Euros worth of equipment, including a dozen vehicles. The cause is known—lithium batteries connected to a charger. AN EV emergency vehicle on charge achieved thermal runaway and took out an entire fire station. Did I mention that no one was injured in the fire? There has been no word on the emissions released as a result of the incident. As you know, we are keenly interested in... Grok! World https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4272229/posts#comment Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:23:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4256978/posts Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash in Texas Raises Concerns over EV SafetyIn a tragic incident near Houston, Texas, a Tesla Cybertruck owner was incinerated alive after the electric vehicle crashed and burst into flames.KHOU reports that the fatal crash, believed to be the first for the new Tesla Cybertruck, occurred at 1:45 a.m. on Monday, just off the east Texas coast. According to police reports, the trendy but troubled EV veered off Cedar Parkway in the Baytown area for unknown reasons and crashed into a concrete drainage channel or culvert. The intense fire that followed left the owner’s body and the... Breitbart https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4256978/posts#comment Wed, 7 Aug 2024 19:46:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4222892/posts NRA Dethroned as Top Gun Lobby in DCBy Doug Howlett - March 7, 2024 Long a bane of anti-gun politicians, Democrats (typically one and the same) and the mainstream media, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has been often blamed as well as credited, depending on which side of the issue a person falls on, with effectively stopping much of the legislation in Congress that would whittle away citizens’ Second Amendment rights. But with ongoing troubles with its longtime leadership, legal challenges in court, lawsuits and even constituent anger over the organization’s spending and direction on certain issues, NRA is no... The Truth About Guns https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4222892/posts#comment Fri, 8 Mar 2024 17:56:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4213961/posts The Real Story: The Truth About George Floyd’s DeathA new documentary reveals the body camera footage that was hidden from the public.By Jan Jekielek andJeff Minick 1/29/2024 Updated: 1/29/2024In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sits down with Emmy Award-winning reporter Liz Collin, author of “They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd” and producer of the new narrative-busting documentary, “The Fall of Minneapolis.” Ms. Collin breaks down what really happened the day George Floyd died, what the media left out, and what evidence was withheld at the trial.Jan Jekielek: You’ve made... The Epoch Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4213961/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:25:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4199818/posts American Jews Who Worked for a Secular America Made a Fatal Error By Dennis Prager Published November 28, 2023 Since World War II, most American Jews have believed that the more secular American society is, the more secure their status.This has been, as I have argued all of my life, a colossal error. Indeed, it may turn out to be a fatal error. With the outburst of unprecedented levels of antisemitism, American Jews are living the famous warning: "Beware what you wish for; you just may get it."The primary reason American Jews have lived in the most Jew-friendly, even Jew-honoring,... Jewish World Review https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4199818/posts#comment Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:05:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4196402/posts The Gun Control Argument Obliterated in Under One Minute by a Guy Drinking Coffee Rumble https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4196402/posts#comment Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:10:42 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4196318/posts Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from youGoogle goes to great lengths to be your default search engine and keep you from switching. Here’s why you should make your own choice. There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering. How desperate? In 2021 alone, Google paid Apple, Samsung and others $26.3 billion to keep it buried. That’s more money each year than McDonald’s makes selling burgers. This setting affects who gets to track your location and watch what you look up online. It affects the usefulness... The Washington Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4196318/posts#comment Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:51:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192452/posts Yesterday, Freeper Yo-Yo posted an article here about Larry Vickers (Master Sergeant, US Army, retired), a Delta Force bad-ass who pleaded guilty to charges relating to his collection of fully-automatic weapons, most or all of which had at one time he had owned lawfully. Today, an editorial by the Second Amendment Foundation's Lee Williams calls it banana republic justice. ATF pursuit of decorated American soldier about headlines, not justiceby Lee Williams The ATF wants to imprison a decorated American soldier for a series of victimless crimes, even though the federal regulations he’s accused of violating may not be constitutional, and... Buckeye Firearms https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192452/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:27:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4192262/posts It must be nice to be Bud Light and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev. Well, it’s probably not very nice to be the face of transgenderism run amok, to see sales crater because of it, and to lose even more in terms of goodwill with your core customer base. But it must be nice to just be able to throw untold amounts of money at your problems. (That’s not to say it’ll work … but it must be nice.).. ...As news of the new Bud Light partnership spread, so, too, did the generally negative backlash against it. Time to boycott... Western Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4192262/posts#comment Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:19:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192116/posts The UFC has signed a new partnership with Anheuser-Busch that makes Bud Light once again the official beer of the promotion, officials told ESPN on Tuesday. Sources told ESPN that it's the biggest sponsorship deal in UFC history. Terms were not disclosed. The multiyear contract, which begins Jan. 1, 2024, comes on the heels of the UFC merging with WWE under parent company Endeavor to form the new publicly traded company TKO last month. UFC and Anheuser-Busch had been partners for many years until 2017, when the UFC signed with Modelo. "Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light were UFC's original beer sponsors... ESPN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192116/posts#comment Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:26:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192048/posts Let me go fight for Palestine – UFC star pleadsKhamzat Chimaev asked the Chechen leader for his blessing to go join the battle in GazaKhamzat Chimaev, a UFC fighter from Chechnya, addressed the leader of the Russian Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, on Saturday, asking for his permission to join the fight in Palestine in a post-fight interview at UFC 294. In an emotional speech following his victory against former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman, Chimaev, 29, addressed the situation with multiple conflicts raging in the world...." Global Village Space https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192048/posts#comment Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:17:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4187805/posts Lies My President Told MeOctober 6, 2023tags: gun control, political corruptionI understand the graft and corruption that are President Biden’s normal mode of business. What I can’t accept are the President’s lies about us. We are far better than he claims, and I refuse to let my neighbor’s be blamed for our President’s failings.-President Biden said that more children die from being shot than from all other causes. That isn’t true. What the President refused to say is that honest gun owners like you and your neighbors prevented over 30-thousand murders a year because they had a firearm to defend... Slow Facts https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4187805/posts#comment Sun, 8 Oct 2023 01:24:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152484/posts Who are the Palestinian Arabs?Palestinian Arab nationalism originated in Zionism, as a tool to fight Israel's existence. It has no historical or ethnic past.Dr. Alex Grobman May 11 2023 In a speech delivered in March 2023 in France, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich asserted that "the Palestinian people are an invention that is less than 100 years old.” He is a Palestinian he said. Why? Because “my grandfather, who was the 13th generation [of my family] in Jerusalem, is the real Palestinian. My grandmother, who was born in Metula more than 100 years ago to a family of pioneers, is... Israel News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152484/posts#comment Thu, 11 May 2023 18:03:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152478/posts What Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About Mass-Murder NarrativeMay 9, 2023By Lee WilliamsSAF Investigative Journalism ProjectA large group of unsuspecting people was waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, when a Land Rover suddenly blew through a red light and barreled straight into their midst at a high rate of speed. The bus stop was located outside of the Ozoman Center, which provides care for the city’s burgeoning migrant community. Eighteen people where hit, six were killed instantly and two died later. Police said the driver, 34-year-old George Alvarez, has an extensive criminal record.... The Second Amendment Foundation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152478/posts#comment Thu, 11 May 2023 17:49:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152472/posts Twitter https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4152472/posts#comment Thu, 11 May 2023 17:34:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150159/posts They Want A Fight So Let’s Give It To ’em! Written By Dave Workman It will have been one year on June 23 since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and ever since, anti-gun Democrats have been acting like the decision never happened. A state House representative in Olympia, Wash. may have pegged the reason why during an interview with me back in January. His analysis was matter-of-fact, entirely sensible and a little scary. The $10,000 Secret The gun control crowd wants a fight. They are determined... Guns Magazine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150159/posts#comment Tue, 2 May 2023 18:18:42 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150156/posts New research reveals that most child victims of gun violence are innocent bystandersby University of Missouri A University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher examining the circumstances behind pediatric firearm assaults found that most child shooting victims were shot outdoors for unknown reasons and were likely not intentionally targeted. Firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of child deaths in 2020. Assault has become the most common cause of firearm injury among American children and adolescents, surpassing firearm suicide and accidental firearm injuries. However, very little research exists examining the circumstances behind these pediatric assaults. A group... Medical X Press / https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150156/posts#comment Tue, 2 May 2023 18:09:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4147739/posts Navy divers comb a Pacific graveyard, seeking lost World War II airmenBy Michael E. RuaneThe Washington Post • April 22, 2023 ... Earlier this month, a team of elite Navy divers and archaeologists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) ended a five-week, deep-water search of Hansa Bay for the bones of Heaven Can Wait's crew.The project unfolded about 10 miles from an active, 6,000-foot volcano in one part of World War II's vast Pacific Ocean graveyard. It was the deepest underwater recovery mission for the DPAA, the government agency that seeks to account for service members missing in action... Stars and Stripes https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4147739/posts#comment Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:15:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4147546/posts EVs Fall Short of EPA Estimates by a Much Larger Margin Than Gas Cars in Our Real-World Highway TestingWhile internal-combustion cars often match or exceed their EPA highway fuel economy numbers, a new paper using data from C/D's highway tests show that EVs are far worse at meeting expectations. By Caleb MillerPublished: Apr 21, 2023A new paper published by SAE International uses Car and Driver's real-world highway test data to show that electric vehicles underperform on real-world efficiency and range relative to the EPA figures by a much greater margin than internal-combustion vehicles. While the latter typically meet or exceed... Car & Driver https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4147546/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:15:10 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144608/posts Counting the Uncountable Lives Saved by Good Guys with GunsRob Morse, Slow FactsApril 9, 2023We know your armed neighbor protected himself when he scared away the robber in the night. What we don’t know, and often can’t know, is how many other people your neighbor saved that night. It is devilishly hard to measure the good that armed citizens do as they stop violent crime. Sure, we have a pretty good idea how many people own guns. We have a very good idea how many times these gun owners save lives every year. What we don’t know very well is... Slow Facts -dot- Word Press -dot- com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144608/posts#comment Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:19:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144431/posts Last remaining Nuremberg prosecutor dies at 103 Benjamin Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, dies of natural causes in Florida.The last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who secured guilty verdicts from 22 Nazis and dedicated his life to fighting international injustice, has died at age 103, his son told AFP on Saturday. Benjamin Ferencz, an American who at age 27 and with no prior trial experience served as one of the trials' chief prosecutors, would go on to later battle for compensation and the return of stolen goods to victims and survivors of the Holocaust. He... Israel National News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144431/posts#comment Sun, 9 Apr 2023 19:48:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4141361/posts The Convenant School mass murderer didn't use an AR. That's a Kel-Tec SUB2000 9mm parabellum pistol-caliber carbine. source video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPAHCqLyTg Vanity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4141361/posts#comment Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:45:40 GMT