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America’s recent election and the COVID-19 pandemic fueled a gun-buying binge that continued in November, making 2020 into the top year ever for firearms sales — by a country mile.The FBI reported today that it recorded a 42% surge in background checks for firearms in November. Last month, it conducted 3.6 million. In November 2019, it was 2.5 million.And already this year, the FBI has recorded 35.7 million background checks. In all of record-setting 2019, there were 28.3 million checks.(Screenshot via FBI)That means 2020 background checks for guns are already 25% over last year, and there is still a month...

Two women were today stabbed as they shopped in Marks & Spencer just hours after lockdown ended and all non-essential stores reopened in England. A local man, 57, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the attack in Burnley at around 9.30am, Lancashire Police said.

Kolb and his son traveled from their home in San Mateo for a ski trip in Lake Tahoe and were staying at a cabin ... when Kolb woke up before dawn and began pacing around the cabin. He woke up his then 16-year-old son and asked him to get medical help... Kolb’s son called 911 and reported his father was acting odd and was “in a dream-like state,” according to court documents. He told the dispatcher his father had a history of temporal lobe epilepsy and that they had smoked marijuana together before going to bed. Temporal lobe epilepsy can...

An IT engineer put on puberty blockers as a 16-year-old girl has claimed a gender clinic failed to carry out a proper psychiatric assessment before giving them to her. Keira Bell, 23, of Manchester, who is taking legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, suffered from gender dysphoria as a child. She took testosterone, which left her with a deep voice and possibly infertile, and had a double mastectomy - but later realized she had 'gone down the wrong path'.

Prince Harry’s lofty wish is for every person to be the “raindrop that falls from the sky and relieves the parched ground.” Is that so much to ask? “At the end of the day, nature is our life source,” the red-headed royal rebel said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Duke of Sussex also described the COVID-19 pandemic as ecological retribution, urging viewers to consider it a wake-up call.

Hawaii can rest a bit easier this Christmas, thanks to another successful Missile Defense Agency anti-ballistic missile test. On Nov. 16, an SM-3 Block IIA (SM3) missile fired by a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS John Finn, destroyed an "ICBM-representative target" as it plunged toward Hawaii. The SM3 is a kinetic interceptor, hit to kill. Its November kill was exo-atmospheric -- in near space. The target missile had physical characteristics similar to North Korea's advanced ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). Launched from a site in the western Pacific, its flight trajectory mimicked a Nork shot at the Hawaiian Islands. Anyone...

This inspired 6-minute message to the Class of 2017 encourages us today. From the video:NEVER EVER EVER GIVE UP!TURN YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS INTO ACTION!TREAT THE WORD IMPOSSIBLE AS NOTHING MORE THAN MOTIVATION!There will be times in your life you want to quit. NEVER QUIT. NEVER STOP FIGHTING. As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, the YOU WILL NOT FAIL! As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, OUR BEST DAYS ARE YET TO COME!

Proof-of-concept study represents first successful attempt to reverse the aging clock in animals through epigenetic reprogramming. Scientists turned on embryonic genes to reprogram cells of mouse retinas. Approach reversed glaucoma-induced eye damage in animals. Approach also restored age-related vision loss in elderly mice. Work spells promise for using same approach in other tissues, organs beyond the eyes. Success sets stage for treatment of various age-related diseases in humans. ========================================================== ========================================================== Harvard Medical School scientists have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina to recapture youthful gene function. The team’s work,...

The mask is a religious symbol as much as a health precaution. Like saffron robes or a suffocating burka, it marks a true believer — or at least those willing to submit — and protects the wearer from divine wrath. To defy heaven’s mandate is to imperil yourself, your family, your community, and your social credit score. If you’re dumb enough to die with a naked face, the media will mock you as a science-denier for all eternity. When you consider the terrifying warnings pumped into our heads since springtime, often from trusted figures, can anyone be blamed for clinging...

STATEN ISLAND — Weeks after Rep. Max Rose conceded, the Associated Press finally declared Republican Nicole Malliotakis as the winner in New York City’s only swing district. Malliotakis, the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrant parents, previously ran against Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017. She’s a member of the state Assembly who was first elected in 2010. Her win ousted Rep. Max Rose, who was only the second Democrat to represent New York's 11th Congressional District in 30 years. In 2018, Rose, a veteran, had unseated Rep. Dan Donovan. Malliotakis and Rose both released ads attacking each other as...

Posted in memory of the late great Dr Walter Williams. The show’ s descriptor: “We look at a growing movement, the black conservatives, and what a leading black economists thinks. Walter Williams, George Mason University - Guest; Martin Zweig, Louis Holland, Howard P. Colhoun - Panelists. "Wall Street Week is an educational talk show hosted by Louis Rukeyser, who provides viewers with information on finances and the economy and conducts discussions with experts. " https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_394-57np5x9q

"..Joe Biden shows off surgical boot and says he's feeling 'good' after fracturing his foot playing with his German Shepherd Major Biden suffered injury on Saturday .... Dr Kevin O'Connor said in statement that Biden suffered hairline fracture to foot 'It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks,' O'Conner said in the statement In a tweet Sunday evening, President Trump later told Biden to 'get well soon' "

VIDEOIn this video I put on my Sherlock Holmes cap in order to attempt a bit of deductive reasoning to see if I can determine WHO at CNN is the whistleblower for Project Veritas. I finally winnow my list of suspects down to two. In any case please be sure to watch all the Project Veritas videos coming out this week which EXPOSE via the CNN conference calls just how controlling Jeff Zucker is in promoting his personal Hate Trump agenda that he expects the CNN reporters and anchors to follow.

The Trump campaign is pushing for a full signature audit with the GA Secretary of State. Contact him at the link below to press for the full audit https://sos.ga.gov/cgi-bin/email.asp

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I often wonder about Job and his amazing resilience. I wonder how I would react if the calamities that afflicted him came upon me. To accumulate such great wealth, status, and comfort and have it all reduced to nothing in such quick fashion, and then have your loved ones taken away from you in such a devastating manner as he. It must have been crushing for him. I wouldn’t have the resolve or fortitude of Job; I think few would. Yet today, we are all of us like Job. We stand on the very brink of everything we know and...

In November 2020, rumors circulated about the whereabouts of CIA Director Gina Haspel. An article reproduced on the conspiratorial Rumor Mill News, for example, claimed that Haspel was arrested for treason. Others claimed that Haspel had been found dead from natural causes. Both of these rumors are unsubstantiated and are built upon a debunked conspiracy theory about a fictional raid on an election software company in Germany. In the days following the 2020 election, the internet was flooded with conspiracy theories that falsely claimed the election was rigged or fraudulent in some manner. One of the more outlandish theories held...

Reading Time: 1 minute Las Vegas, NV — On Monday, video evidence emerged of a pay for votes scheme in Nevada. The Epoch Times shared the report that shows posts where voters were compensated illegally for voting in the election. The videos were deleted but not before they were captured according to the report. The Nevada Native Vote Project posted the videos on their Facebook page on Election Day. Workers and receivers of the gifts were smiling as they handed out gift cards with various ranges of value for their votes. Other gifts were also given in multiple videos that...

Mrs. Chandler has one year left before she is eligible for Medicare, and we are considering a Medical Sharing Ministry for her. Any suggestions?

Opinion Last night we reported about a video that surfaced on Twitter where a Twitter user name Code MonkeyZ posted a really strange video. In the video, you can Dominion Voting Systems rep engages in extremely *shady* behavior with a USB card & a laptop. The video is taken in Gwinnett County which is a suburban county of Atlanta in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It’s being called a “smoking gun” by Code MonkeyZ. At a minimum, it is very disturbing stuff. He tweeted: A Dominion representative at Gwinnett County Election Central, responsible for tabulating ballots...