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I had Overstock-founder Patrick Byrne on my show recently and he used a term of art that stuck with me – ‘a thousand years of darkness.’ He was of course referring to the fall of Rome, which unleashed the Dark Ages, a thousand years of barbarity and medieval horror. The United States, and the world’s humanity for that matter, are now facing this existential threat. That is, if we do not act now, if we do nothing — the republic will die, and the ‘world’s policeman’, the ‘shining city on the hill’, the place where those ‘huddled masses yearning to...

Pope Francis on Sunday criticized people who traveled abroad during the pandemic “to escape the lockdown,” saying they were ignoring those who were suffering. In his weekly noontime Sunday address, Francis said, “I read in the papers something that quite saddened me: In a country — I don’t remember which — to escape the lockdown and have a good vacation more than 40 planes took off that afternoon.” “Those people are good people, but didn’t they think of those who stayed at home, to the economic problems of many people who have been knocked down by the pandemic, to those...

Corrupt politicians in Georgia are doing all they can to prevent the forensic analysis of absentee ballots in the state.Moments ago, Heather Mullins from Real America’s Voice reported that the hearing set for today to determine if ballots from the November 3rd election could be forensically inspected, as supported by the Georgia Senate vote, was cancelled and the case was to be transferred to another county:https://twitter.com/TalkMullins/status/1346111442412568577A few minutes after the above memo went out, Mullins reports that the hearing was derailed in an attempt to send the case to another county. However, an objection was filed. The problem is the...

Mocks God as rapistDUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Ireland's Catholics are being urged to defund the nation's taxpayer-funded broadcaster after it televised a mock news report on New Year's Eve accusing God of raping the Blessed Virgin Mary. Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) One television issued a weak apology Saturday but refused to delete the clip from the RTÉ Player online catch-up service, stating that it would attach a warning advising viewers that the material may cause offense. The sacrilegious sketch, which features former RTÉ anchor Aengus Mac Grianna describing God as "the latest figure to be implicated in ongoing sexual harassment scandals,"...

In a video posted to YouTube on Monday, Turning Point USA founder and Republican activist Charlie Kirk explained the legal precedent for Vice President Mike Pence to reject state electors on Jan. 6, noting that similar powers have been invoked by Vice Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Richard Nixon. Kirk noted that during the 1960 presidential race between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and then-Vice President Richard Nixon, the state of Hawaii declared Nixon the victor and certified the results as such, prompting a challenge for recount by Kennedy. Though Kennedy eventually won the recount, the state of Hawaii had already selected a...

Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have reached an informal backroom deal to expedite the January 6 challenge in the Electoral College and end it with a simple majority vote after a two hour debate, multiple Capitol Hill sources have confirmed to National File. This comes after National File reported that McCarthy originally planned to work with Pelosi to change the January 6 rules so the challenge would not be allowed. McCarthy denied this, and our Capitol Hill sources now say that McCarthy instead pursued a backroom...

Before delving into why I think that Big Tech is the enemy of freedom, let me start by saying that I hate regulation. Like absolutely, 99%, in almost all situations hate it. In that vein, my thoughts about government intervention in the economy come more or less straight out of Atlas Shrugged and Free Market Revolution. That’s one of the reasons why Trump has had such a successful presidency and will win again in 2020; he has deregulated America to make it great again. But, in some rare circumstances, industry needs to be reigned in so that it doesn’t destroy...

State Senator Melissa Melendez (R -Lake Elsinore) introduced two new bills Monday aiming to protect small businesses from malicious COVID-19 fines.

Researchers have developed nanobots that can be injected using an ordinary hypodermic syringe, according to a new release. The nanobots are microscopic functioning robots with the ability to walk and withstand harsh environments. Each robot has a 70-micron length, which is about the width of a thin human hair, and a million can be produced from a single 4-inch silicon composite wafer.SNIPThese micro-robots feature four legs composed from graphene or platinum and titanium; they’re described by Miskin as “super strong,” enabling the nanobots to carry a body weighing about 8,000 times more than each leg. As well, each leg measures...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, FloridaUnited States Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater (CGAS Clearwater) is the United States Coast Guard's largest air station. It is located at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Clearwater, Florida and is home to nearly 700 USCG aviation and support personnel. As of June 2019, there were ten MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters, one HC-130H Hercules (the Coast Guard's oldest operational HC-130) and three HC-130H7 Hercules aircraft assigned to CGAS Clearwater.[3] Also on static display is USCG 1023, a restored Grumman HU-16 Albatross. The HC-130 first became a part of...

Abortion Wins in Argentina. Argentinian Pope Barely Lifts a Finger in ProtestIn Argentina, feral women — some of them naked and likely intoxicated — are dancing in the streets in celebration of their newly legislated “right” to murder their own children:The crowd of a few thousand burst into raucous cheers and tear-filled hugs as Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who presided over the debate, announced the result, shouting “legal abortion in the hospital!” as the measure was passed.“I am the mother of a girl and I know that she will have more rights tomorrow and that keeps us moving...

WASHINGTON — More than a month after Election Day, the biggest political story for many Americans is how close the presidential race was. President-elect Joe Biden won by more than 4 points, but polls and some observers were expecting a win in the 10-point range.Taking a longer view, however, the relative closeness of the race shouldn't have been a surprise. It was less an outlier than standard operating procedure. In fact, the United States is in its longest run of single-digit popular vote elections in a very long time.Biden's 4.4-point victory in November was the second-largest popular vote win by...

Although I really REALLY want to go to the rally to support President Trump, the fact that I am retirement aged AND have Type 2 diabetes puts me in a higher risk category. Couple that with a scenario of being cheek to jowl in a crowd, even though it's outside, and I sadly have to pass. But I'll be there in SPIRIT, for sure. A friend just called me to ask if I wanted to join a small group who's going. I suggested they take the Light Rail from Baltimore (that's our home 20) to deprive Antifa/Anschmifa & BLM of...

About 87 million miles (140 million kilometers) above the Grand Canyon, an even larger, grander abyss cuts through the gut of the Red Planet. Known as Valles Marineris, this system of deep, vast canyons runs more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) along the Martian equator, spanning nearly a quarter of the planet's circumference. This gash in the bedrock of Mars is nearly 10 times as long as Earth's Grand Canyon and three times deeper, making it the single largest canyon in the solar system — and, according to ongoing research from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, one of...

Phony Kamala Harris completely made up a story about how she participated in a civil rights march in Oakland, California when she was a young child in a stroller in an October interview with Elle Magazine.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still won't say if she plans to launch a bid against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when he runs for reelection as New York senator in 2022 – claiming she is 'indecisive' and still trying to figure out her role within the Democratic Party and Washington politics. 'I'm a no bulls**t kind of person,' Ocasio-Cortez told Punchbowl News in a Q&A published Monday morning. 'I'm not playing coy or anything like that,' she said in reference to dodging questions on potentially primarying Schumer, a three-term senator who served as a U.S. representative from New York for 18 years...

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. ( Joel 1:5-8)The Prophet...

TOKYO (AP) - Tick-Tock-Tick. The countdown clock for the postponed Tokyo Olympics hit 200 days to go on Monday. Tick-Tock-Tick. Also on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he would consider calling a state of emergency as new coronavirus cases surge to record numbers in Tokyo and neighboring prefectures. Japan has never had a lockdown for COVID-19, attempting to juggle the economy and health risks. Tick-Tock-Tick. It’s nearing deadline time for Tokyo Olympic organizers, the International Olympic Committee, and various Japanese government entities as they try to pull off the Games in the middle of a pandemic. Officials have...

Ted Cruz: “This past week, I spent writing out a position and assembling a group that ultimately of 11 senators that we put out yesterday, that we will, together, object to certification in order to force the appointment of an emergency electoral commission to perform an emergency audit of the election results to assess these claims of fraud. I think we can do that. We can do it promptly. We can do it in 10 days before the inauguration, but I think we have an obligation to the voters and we have an obligation to the Constitution to ensure that...

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) announced on Monday that she will object to electoral college votes when lawmakers gather for a joint session in Congress on Jan. 6. “Elections are the bedrock of our democracy and the American people deserve to be 100% confident in our election system and its outcomes. But right now, tens of millions of Americans have real concerns about the way in which the November Presidential election was conducted—and I share their concerns,” she said in a statement. “The American people deserve a platform in Congress, permitted under the Constitution, to have election issues presented so that...