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More than 6.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia first invaded in late February 2022. The European Union has welcomed Ukrainian refugees, allowing them to enter its 27 member countries without visas and live and work there for up to three years. Every day, Europeans have also opened their doors – and pockets – to host Ukrainians and help them find daycare, for example, and other services. But there is still an uncomfortable reality: Ukrainian refugees are also Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political pawns, intended to politically destabilize the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Many...

The formula shortage is finally bringing attention to the FDA’s labeling games that have angered many moms for years.Months after distressed moms have been vocally upset and concerned about the baby formula shortage, the media is finally starting to ask, how could this happen? The short answer is lockdown supply chains and the shutdown of one of the country’s largest formula plants in Michigan over an alleged bacterial outbreak. The long answer is that, unlike the problem of sky-rocketing lumber prices or your West Elm furniture stuck on cargo ships, this crisis is intertwined with an already highly regulated industry...

When Malik Sanchez was sentenced on Wednesday for claiming he had a bomb and telling two women outside a New York City restaurant that he was going to kill them, he apologized to the women and said that his actions were those of an “immature and reckless child.” Manhattan federal court Judge Colleen McMahon stopped him right there and corrected him, saying his action was “that of a sicko.” Nevertheless, she gave him no jail time at all while praising his post-arrest behavior and calling him a “pretrial success story.” Scaring people half to death is no big deal in...

Yearly tradition, one of the top 5 movies ever made.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10664717/Foster-dad-five-Turpin-siblings-charged-molesting-two-sisters.html

A Canadian premier said Saturday the proof of vaccine requirement makes no sense and he will end it in the “not-too-distant future” in his province.Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said in a statement that being vaccinated doesn’t prevent one from getting the virus and the vaccine mandate “makes no sense.”“I want to be clear on how I feel about vaccines. I am fully vaccinated with my booster shot. This did not prevent me from recently contracting COVID-19, but I believe it did keep me from becoming sick,” he said in a statement.COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist...

We are trying to locate a precise report regarding vaccine effectiveness and negative effectiveness. We were listening to WBAP (AM 820), Dallas this morning from southern Indiana. The reception was slightly fair. WBAP broadcast mentioned a report in the Wall Street Journal as follows: Regarding the Omicron Variant: 30 days after being vaccinated, the vaccine is not effective at all. 90 days after, the vaccine has a NEGATIVE effectiveness, making it more likely that a vaccinated person will contract Covid than an unvaccinated person. Has anyone seen the pertinent WSJ report?

new variant "IHU" hits Calif, detected yesterday evening, sourced to "person who arrived from Mexico", has 42 mutations and more infectious than omicron... was also detected in Ghana and France

freepersup here... 1998 FR lurker, 2000 registered user... Looking for commentary on Wash., D. C., Capitol BLDG., BREECH, Jan 6th, 2021, having been there, done that, got the T-shirt, stayed off grounds... etc. Merrick Garland: Model for Tales of the Crypt ghoul.

I’m not confident that Joe Manchin will ultimately hold the line on more spending; however, it is interesting that on the same day Manchin is reported to be casting doubt on more Joe Biden social spending, the Washington Post published a hitjob on him around his family finances {LINK}. Accepting there are no coincidences in politics, it would appear the intelligence agencies are firing a warning shot against Senator Manchin based on his financial connections to the West Virginia coal industry. Every article written about the Build Back Better/Social Spending/Green New Deal bill, carries a totally different price tag. The...

The uniformed officers had just sat down when staff members asked them to leave because the workers felt uncomfortable about the officers’ weapons, the restaurant said. Three uniformed San Francisco police officers sat down for a meal on Friday at an all-day breakfast restaurant. But it was not long before staff members of the restaurant, Hilda and Jesse, “felt uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons” and “politely asked” the officers to leave, the restaurant said on Instagram on Saturday. That request drew widespread attention, with the San Francisco police chief criticizing the move and hundreds of people leaving...

Think of this when buying avocados at the store or ordering them on Mexican food: News Item: Four Bodies were decapitated, then hung from a freeway overpass. (How could that even be done?)

What is contained below is a guide that came down to civilian personnel at the military base I work at. There was no mention that this information is classified or confidential, so I wanted to share this with everyone here. Keep in mind that this information is for Air Force civilian personnel, but could be applicable to other branches as well. I tried to remove all specific contact information, so if you want the actual document with ALL of the information it contains, FreepMail me with your email address and I'll send it to you. Be warned, it's a long...

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/21/21-60845.0.pdf

In the Star Trek Voyager series, the Jem'Hadar were an invincible military force which was genetically engineered to be dependent upon a special nutritional supplement. What if Bill Gates' confident assertion that he's not going to get Covid is based on his having access to a true, complete vaccine against Covid, along with other elites, which all the rest of the population only receives in a partial form that must be renewed every three months?

The theory is simple, the censoring of info by "mainstream" media supposedly caused your local heath officials or Corporate / Company CEO / President to not know about other viable alternative treatments for COVID19. To change this we ALL need to put them on direct notice of the irrefutable information and studies that there are other real world, viable alternative treatments for COVID19 so they can't legally keep saying just because biased CNN and MSNBC etc.. isn't talking about it, viable treatments don't exist. Not that they didn't hear about this a year or more before, they are not off...

The new vaccine is now available and tested on highly dense human populations of 241 MILLION and now also another 277 million ! It doesn't have to be taken before symptoms are felt, but could be. Very low cost compared to other "solutions". If COVID big case spikes UP were happening in these dense populations, and then with this new vaccine quickly distributed to those showing symptoms, and the cases quickly dropped to nothing in weeks, I think that's a pretty good result, don't you? If that happened in your LOCAL County, or at least companies or local officials knew...

Here is what needs to happen for Joe Biden to have a successful domestic legacy: Democrats in Congress need to negotiate with themselves and determine what new social spending they agree on, and how they can agree to pay for it. That may very well happen. But it is not happening at the moment. What’s happening instead is a series of escalating threats. The latest comes from a band of centrist House Democrats, joined by Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who preposterously warn that, if the bipartisan infrastructure bill does not pass the House next week, they will refuse to back any...

A Texas doctor has revealed that he recently performed an abortion in violation of the state's new controversial law that prohibits nearly all abortions after roughly six weeks into a pregnancy, arguing that he “had a duty of care to this patient.” Alan Braid, a San Antonio-based physician, wrote in an op-ed published by The Washington Post Saturday that on Sept. 6, just five days after the Texas abortion ban went into effect, that he “provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state’s new limit.” Braid, who began his obstetrics and...

This picture is of Biden in Boise today. Omg