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Veteran Jim Rob is struggling to regain strength at the same time he is still serving his country, this time by fighting to get the truth past the gatekeepers and into the hands of Americans. His son Chris is overwhelmed and stressed out.DONATE to finish the FREEpathon so they can rest/recover for Thanks Giving. PRAYERS UP!Reposting Jim Rob's earlier thread update about his health below. PLease Donate and Pray for others to donate so these men can have a respite and recover. Donate by CC or by PayPal or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 -...

Elon Musk's relationship with Google cofounder Larry Page is complicated, to say the least. On the one hand, the two influential tech CEOs are close friends and business associates; on the other hand, Musk is genuinely worried that Page might just lead to the destruction of humanity as we know it. "I'm really worried about this," Musk is quoted as saying in Elon Musk, a new authorized biography of the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. "This," according to the book, refers to the possibility that Page would develop artificially-intelligent robots that could turn evil and have the ability to annihilate...

An Army veteran who served alongside Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the long-captive soldier was deeply frustrated with the mission and had lodged false allegations that their unit had carried out atrocities. Bergdahl “didn’t understand why we were doing more humanitarian aid drops, setting up clinics, and helping the populous instead of hunting the Taliban,” former Spec. Cody Full told lawmakers during a hearing on the exchange of Bergdahl for five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “He wanted to hunt and kill.” (VIDEO-AT-LINK)The Taliban released Bergdahl to U.S. Special Operations forces May 31 after he had...

Ten years ago, science writer Gary Taubes exercised an hour a day. He avoided fat in his diet, never even using milk in his oatmeal. But he kept gaining weight. As an experiment, the self-described carnivore tried the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet - eating bacon and eggs for breakfast, pepperoni with melted mozzarella for lunch, and a steak for dinner - and lost 20 pounds in six weeks. Since then, Taubes, an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, has stuck with the diet and spent countless hours collecting evidence to prove that it's not how much we eat but what we...

MILFORD — A traffic reporter for WTNH-TV in New Haven said she was a "freelance news reporter, and she was doing something on the side" when she walked out of Sears without paying for $105 in merchandise, police said. Desiree Fontaine, 33, was charged with sixth-degree larceny Saturday. Police said Fontaine took a $40 bottle of cologne, two gold earrings worth $3.99 each and $15 necklace from the jewelry department and went into a fitting room. Fontaine left the fitting room without the merchandise, and when store security checked the fitting room, they found the price tags for the jewelry,...