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The Shield of Achilles She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead....

"In this documentary, we present viewers with the known scientific data and facts surrounding the origin of the virus along with experts’ opinions. We don't draw conclusions, but we point out that serious questions remain about the origins of the virus as well as the CCP's handling of the outbreak."

Veterans of the New York City Fire Department are livid after learning the Biden administration has approved COVID-19 vaccines for the mastermind behind 9/11 and other terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay – months before most Americans. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, named as “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks” in the 9/11 Commission Report, three members of the Southeast Asia-based extremist group known as Jemaah Islamiyah, a group responsible for the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people, and nearly forty other detainees could receive a vaccine as early as next week. The Pentagon on Friday signed a memo...

Robinhood Financial has been fined $65 million for misleading its stock market customers about how the company makes its revenue from their trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. The SEC fine comes one day after regulators in Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Robinhood for allegedly targeting young, inexperienced investors with flashy gimmicks on its app that treat stock investing like a game.

On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, SD, was filled with men and women who work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most of these union laborers, welders and pipefitters started their day over a cup of coffee in the hotel’s common room before heading out to their jobs. By 4 p.m., the entire place was cleared out, leaving the historic hotel silent for the first time since owners Laurie and Wally Cox took it over six months ago. “Our whole world turned upside down with the stroke of a pen,” Laurie said....

Around noon, the mountain’s ski patrol responded to a report of an unconscious male skier who had been found upside down in deep snow near where the Redwing and Hully Gully trails intersect, according to a Friday statement from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. The location is near Chair 8 out of Canyon Lodge. Other resort guests were already working to dig the skier out of the snow when the patrol arrived. They began CPR and also used an automated external defibrillator on the down skier because he didn’t have a pulse, according to the statement from the mountain. The skier...

Earlier this year, Anisha Patel, a Stanford University pediatrics professor, started to notice a troubling trend: Child patients at the Atherton California clinic where she works have gained a distressing amount of weight. Since the spring, she says, her patients’ growth curves, which track body mass index, have climbed their clinical charts steeply. In a matter of months, many kids’ chartlines raced past the 85th percentile, which means a patient is overweight. Today, most have broken into the 95th percentile, which is when a child becomes clinically obese. The pattern is so common, Patel says, “that when we do see...

The January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American winter storm, also called the 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard,[14][15][16] was a powerful and historic winter storm, situated around the United States and Canada on Groundhog Day.[14][17][18] During the initial stages of the storm, some meteorologists predicted that the system would affect over 100 million people in the United States.[19][20] The storm brought cold air, heavy snowfall, blowing snow, and mixed precipitation on a path from New Mexico and northern Texas to New England and Eastern Canada. The Chicago area saw between 1 and 2 feet of snow and blizzard conditions, with...

President Donald Trump left office on January 20, 2021. The Democrats hated the man, his family and all of his God loving, Bible reading, hardworking devoted followers spread across this great land. Liberals want you to know just how much they hate Trump so they impeached him a second time just to hate him some more. Ironically, the impeachment is unconstitutional because 1) the president already left office and cannot be removed and 2) John Robert’s will not preside over the impeachment because, well, it’s unconstitutional. Ya think? In a brilliant stroke of genius the Democrats running their think-tank have...

Progressive Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar warned that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is not removed from office by Republican leaders, then “we must do it.” Speaking on SiriusXM’s “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on Thursday, Omar called Taylor Greene "dangerous and violent." Host Dean Obeidallah asked Omar:

“Here we have it. They are going after EVERYONE who has a gun or ammunition. They are deeply concerned about a revolution and they want to know every person who has a gun or ammunition. The object of this bill will be to identify every person who has a gun. They will be able to revoke a license and confiscate the gun under rules to be created by the Attorney General. Biden swore he would end the NRA. He was not joking. Like a diverse license, once they create this federal license, they effectively limit the Second Amendment claiming if...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a press conference on Thursday that Democrat majority in the House and Senate and Joe Biden in the White House means the stars are aligned to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. “Statehood is really the only way that we can fulfill full American citizenship,” Bowser said. “Having one vote [in the House] out of 435 is certainly better than no votes but having two senators is the only way that we can ensure full representation in the American system.” Bowser cited a tweet posted by Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer...

...Citron was one of the Wall Street firms with a significant “short” position in GameStop, meaning his investment would have benefitted by a collapse of GameStop’s stock price, but Citron closed out its short position this week among the frenzy of buying and selling that has had the price move in wild gyrations between $100 and $500 a share. Earlier in the week, Left made a comment in the media that GameStop’s share price would eventually crash back down to $20 share — but it seems like he couldn’t afford to wait for that to happen and has taken a...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sources at the Capitol confirmed today that a significant brouhaha broke out between Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ted Cruz. The incident occurred as Ocasio-Cortez was walking out of the Capitol Building and passed by Cruz, who smiled and shot her a set of cool-guy finger guns. "Howdy, AOC! How's my favorite socialist rep? Haha, just playin' with ya, kid." "Help! I've been shot in a violent attack!" she screamed as Ted Cruz gave her the customary Texas greeting of finger guns. She flopped to the ground and began going into convulsions. "The violence! The horror! He's trying to...

With Joe Biden, There Will Be Hell to PayOn January 22nd, a group of pro-abortion protestors stormed a pro-life Mass being offered by the local bishop in Columbus, Ohio. This Mass was being offered in reparation for the Roe vs. Wade decision that so many years ago ushered in the legal framework for abortion access in the USA. The activists stormed into the Cathedral, and pranced around in front of the altar while Mass was being said, all the while chanting, “Fund abortion, not cops,” and, “Abortion on demand, end Hyde now.” You can see a video of the terrible...

There’s nothing illegal or unethical about what IMG Models did. However, the New York-based modeling agency that has some of the biggest names on its roster suddenly discovered a hidden Cinderella in our midsts: Ella Emhoff, who is Kamala Harris’s 22-year-old stepdaughter. The problem with this amazing discovery is that Emhoff is entirely ordinary and seems somewhat scary. It’s patently clear that IMG is capitalizing on her stepmother’s position and that’s just sleazy.

The barrage of decrees from President Biden prodded the editors at the New York Times to question whether it is an appropriate way to make laws. The editors wondered "whether a polarized nation might be worsened by one-man rule. If we want to build consensus shouldn't proposed laws be debated in Congress? Even if the end result is identical, the image of a law passed by a majority of the people's representatives looks better than what we've seen so far from the Biden Administration." The mere question posed by the editors proved irksome to Biden. "No one can tell me...

Veteran film producer Dallas Sonnier had an odd experience seeking a distributor for his newest film. "Run Hide Fight," glibly called "Die Hard" in a school, follows a determined student (Isabel May) who fights back when gunmen invade the building. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival late last year, but several distributors declined to buy the feature. The conversations didn't end there, though. "I'd get a phone call, 'Dude, that movie is incredible. It's one of the best movies I've seen all year,'" Sonnier recalls. "'I so wish that we could distribute this movie, but I can't risk...

On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden's administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice -- unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday show lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack -- ventured into the White House press room to preview Biden's "equity" initiative.

He warned that an upcoming pandemic could be 10 times worse and that humanity is not prepared for it. He also insisted that people must learn the lesson that COVID-19 is giving us, according to a quote from the RT portal to an interview with the tycoon for a German media . According to the billionaire, "we are not prepared for the next pandemic," in the same way he hopes that this situation will change in a couple of years and indicated the axes of opportunity such as drugs, tests, vaccines, epidemiology, and follow-up. "This pandemic is bad, but a...