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A pair of farmers go up against bird flu hysteria and government overreach. MAHA Man to the rescue? Hundreds of healthy ostriches owned by a small family farm in Canada are marked for death — unless U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can win them a stay of execution. Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski's Universal Ostrich Farms in the Kootenay region of British Columbia has become an international touchstone for hysteria over avian flu, government overreach, and the property rights of farmers. Cull me, maybe On Dec. 19, 2024, the couple noticed that one of their...

Rammings, stabbings, shootings, from Belfast to Athens. It's everywhere, and the powers that be refuse to see it as a coordinated campaign. Head in the sand. Isn't life grand. Some footage with audio. Transcript linked below video.

The Colombian government has announced a raft of measures to control its growing population of invasive hippos—descendants of animals introduced to the country by the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. Hippos are native to Africa, but in the 1980s, Escobar smuggled four of the animals into Colombia, keeping them at his luxurious country estate, Hacienda Nápoles, in the municipality of Puerto Triunfo—located east of Medellin—which featured a private zoo. As well as the hippos, the zoo housed numerous exotic creatures, including elephants, ostriches, rhinos, giraffes and zebras. Following the death of Escobar, who was killed by Colombian police during a...

... including over 250 nurses from Kaiser. My post on Twitter about him got over 1M views. Here's his story.Steve Kirsch 4 hr ago My Twitter post on Michael Huang generated over 1M views in just the first two days:Here’s the full 80-minute Rumble video interview of this courageous California physician: Why is he treating hundreds of Kaiser nurses for vaccine injuries? It’s because these nurses can’t get treated at Kaiser because they are gaslighted by Kaiser doctors. It’s really tragic.He remembers one day when he had 10 vax injured nurses in his office and 9 out of 10 had...

“Genyornis was two meters tall and 200 kilos. We don’t know exactly what it would have looked like because it’s been dead for a while and there are few skeletal remains available. It was certainly a flightless bird with some characteristics shared with ostriches, like the big chest and small wings, but it would have looked more like a big goose or duck,” The evidence that humans were eating these large eggs comes from burnt eggshells found among the remains of ancient cultures. Scientists studying these sites find two different types of eggshells, one of which comes from emus and...

  In the wild, ostriches make a “booming” sound to ward off predators.  They also don’t bury their heads in the sand.  An ostrich’s kick can break a lion’s jaw, causing it to starve to death.  These facts separate the American Left from real ostriches.  American liberals (Ignavus Americanus), unlike ostriches (Struthio camelus), do bury their heads in the sand, and emit a rather high-pitched danger call, which in fact attracts predators rather than warns them. Obama sees himself as the hero in a 1980’s John Hughes teen angst movie, giving the climactic “can’t we all just get along” speech...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said that he would not recommend U.S. military airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria until he determines that they have become a direct threat to the U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, speaking to reporters on board a military plane traveling to Afghanistan, said Sunday that he believes the Sunni insurgent group formerly known as ISIS is more of a regional threat and is not currently plotting or planning attacks against the U.S. or Europe.

LUCKNOW: "Do you know that the evolution of mighty whales took place in India around 55 million years before present. And, though the Ostrich is not found in India anymore, but according to scientists, the bird also evolved here about 12 million years before present. Interestingly, these facts are part of a science curriculum in the West, but Indian students are largely unaware of the same. This was revealed by Ashok Sahni, emeritus professor, Chandigarh University, in his lecture delivered at a seminar on "Northward Flight of India in the Mesozoic - Cenozoic: Consequences on Biotic Changes and Basin Evolution",...

Emus and ostriches became fat, flightless birds after dinosaurs died out and were no longer around to chase them, scientists believe.An abundance of food and lack of predators following the mass extinction 65 million years saw previously flighted birds put on so much weight that they had to walk instead, according to research by Australian National University. A molecular dating study revealed that the African ostrich, Australasian emu, South American rhea and New Zealand moa became flightless independently following the disappearance of dinosaurs.

(24/3/09) The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.' ..."

The Obama rump-swab government-run media are so shaken by the persistence of those among the American electorate who would still like to see proof of Obama's Natural-Born American Citizenship that they have adopted the Nazi propaganda tactic of referring to such inquisitive individuals as "conspiracy theorists." In fact, the only true "conspiracy theorists" in the room are the ostrich-imitating media, who use such perjorative and insulting terminology to refer to patriotic Americans who merely request a modicum of assurance that our president is actually our president under the simple and unchallenged rules set forth in the United States Constitution. People...

Obama is getting a complete pass on social issues, and it just might make the difference between a win or a loss for him, as it is clear the "Obamedia" will mention nothing about Obama's extreme left-liberalism on such issues. It was really disturbing to read in the article that Rev Rick Warren is setting up this forum in a way designed to maximize the confusion about where Obama stands on social issues by emphasizing instead: "poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate, and human rights." My reaction: What a disappointing list of topics that will do little or nothing to tell us who...

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live, I am coming.'" Were Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. alive today, he might ascribe that line not to death but to nuclear terrorism. Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have had to live with the knowledge that the next time the terrorists strike, it could be not with airplanes capable of killing thousands but atomic bombs capable of killing hundreds of thousands. The prospect has created a sense of profound vulnerability. It has shaped our view of government policies aimed at combating terrorism (filtered through Jack Bauer). It helped mobilize...

EVAN SAYET I call myself a 9/13 Republican. I grew up a liberal New York Jew; you don't get much more liberal than that--although it was lower-case "l," not what's considered Liberal today. I graduated from high school knowing only one thing about politics: that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil. I tell a story. It's not a true story, but it helps crys­tallize my thinking that brought me to become a conservative. I say: Imagine being in a restaurant with an old friend, and you're catching up, and suddenly he blurts out, "I hate my wife." You chuckle...

>h3>Commentators, Muslims and even our leaders are all refusing to face up to the truth WHEN YOU turned on the radio last Thursday morning was your first thought: “Phew! Great work by the security services”, or: “Here we go! Another stunt by the Government”? In other words, do you believe that the politicians were doing what most of us would put top of their list of duties: protecting the public? Or do you immediately suspect them of behaving like the fat boy in Pickwick Papers, whose catchphrase was: “I wants to make your flesh creep”? Journalists such as Sir Simon...

Are we at war with Islam like the 9/11 commission states and the Quran insists. Does it do anyone any benifit to not speak the unspeakable truth?

Iraq Power Grid Shows U.S. Flaws BAIJI, Iraq (news - web sites) — During the 1991 Persian Gulf War (news - web sites), two Tomahawk cruise missiles slammed into the hulking power complex here, leaving dumpster-sized transformers crumpled like balls of tissue paper. The strike crippled Iraq's largest source of electricity, cutting off almost 10% of the country's power supply. It took two months and 23 days for Iraqi engineers to get the plant running again. During last year's war, the U.S. military carefully avoided attacks on Iraq's electrical infrastructure, and the plant escaped unscathed. After Baghdad fell, U.S....

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Democratic challenger John Kerry charged on Friday that President Bush undermined America's safety by having "rushed off to war" in Iraq without adequate help or "a plan to win the peace." "I believe that the Bush administration -- and I say this carefully and thoughtfully ... made America less safe, not more safe, with their blustery arrogant foreign policy," Kerry said at town hall meeting with military veterans and family members. "I believe our troops are in greater danger today, exposed to more gun fire and more mortar attacks and more ambushes than they had to be if we had...

Most of you have heard that the recently-converted Florida Moslem woman who wanted to have her driver's license photo taken while wearing a full burqa, including a total head covering, lost her case in court. A Florida judge said that a driver's license is for identification purposes, and if all you can see is someone's eyes in the photo, it is useless for that purpose.It's coming to America, folks. Here's a list of items related to a French university's language studies department. Moslems are taking over. Read the full article at WorldNetDaily. Headscarved students demanded a prayer room within the...