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A small struggle, led by technology, is shaping up for Tuesday, as a big earnings week is upon us and COVID-19 worries hover. One distraction right now — the war between short sellers and a group of stock enthusiasts behind GameStop GME, +67.87%. Shares of the videogame retailer are up 23% in premarket trading after Monday’s wild session. To some, this is stirring memories of the dot-com boom and bust, and fears history could repeat. Maybe one day it will be easier, when the robots can do the thinking for us. That brings us to our call of the day,...

Manhattan will be getting a lot less safe if Democratic primary voters embrace any of the more criminal-friendly candidates to replace New York County District Attorney Cy Vance. Vance hasn’t said he’s not running, but he’s raised little cash for a campaign — and looks vulnerable enough that a host of candidates have jumped into the race. We’ve complained about his overly soft approach, particularly regarding quality-of-life violations. But most of his eight would-be successors want to pave the way for lawlessness and violence even worse than what’s now plaguing the city. Most of the eight, for example, brag about...

Systemic Contingencies – The Need For Bill Barr’s Positioning Revealed, 2018Posted on January 31, 2021 by SundanceEverything was essentially a process of systemic contingencies; ‘if this, then that’. If this happens then we react with that. If this is likely to come out, then we proactively respond with this – that allows control. That is the nature of a cover-up operation….By mid-2018 there was a concern amid the deepest part of the deep state. Congress was asking President Trump for declassification of key documents, the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel held control authority over those documents, and -during the prior five months-...

Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers the St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery in Lake Seliger.The St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery sits on the small Stolobny Island in Lake Seliger, near the town of Ostashkov in Tver Region. The monastery possesses a special lyrical appeal in the midsummer, when the shores are fringed with reeds and water lilies. Russian photographer and chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (see box text below) took some of his most breathtaking photographs here in Summer 1910. My own photographic work dates from August 2016. Nilova Pustyn, St. Nilus Stolobensky Monastery. Southeast view from Lake Seliger. Center: bell tower &...

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her political allies have been detained in an early morning raid, a spokesman for her party said. He warned of a possible military coup.Myanmar's powerful military detained the country's leader in an overnight raid, the ruling National League for Democracy said on Monday. Other senior leaders from the party have also been "taken" in an apparent coup."I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law," said spokesman Myo Nyunt, revealing that the 75-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, President...

Deaths up 628% since mask mandate. 7-day infection rate up 700% since mask mandate. **** Only 3 deaths below age 30 **** 48% of deaths age 80 and older. (Age 75 and over represent only 5.7% of the population)

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported a former business partner of Hunter Biden's criminal defense attorney has been picked as a top Justice Department official in President Biden's new administration. It has already been revealed that Nicholas McQuaid, a former federal prosecutor, was picked as acting chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division. Hunter Biden confirmed in early December, after his father won the 2020 election, that he was under federal investigation. Carlson said on his show Friday night that McQuaid worked with Christopher Clark as partners at Latham & Watkins and worked on cases together right until McQuaid took...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Twitter’s attack on free speech: Catholic World Report (CWR) is a respectable Catholic media outlet and a publication of Ignatius Press. On January 24, it received notice from Twitter that its account has been locked for hateful conduct. CWR appealed but lost. What was the alleged hate speech? CWR journalist Matt Hadro posted the following tweet on January 19. “Biden plans to nominate Dr. Rachel Levine, a biological man identifying as a transgender woman who has served as Pennsylvania’s health secretary since 2017, to be HHS Assistant Secretary for Health. Levine is also...

A spirit is sweeping around the world. It is a very ugly spirit that is causing all kinds of negative repercussions. It is a spirit that rejects truth. The Bible predicted it for the end times. It is stated this way: “…because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness” (2 Thess 2:10, NASB). Lack of...

Update: Top users on the Reddit WallStreetBets forum have called on others not to purchase silver, or SLV, saying that it could benefit Citadel LLC, while calling on others to purchase and hold GameStop and related stocks.Earlier Update: Top bullion dealers are encountering shortages.–A number of Reddit users on the popular r/WallStreetBets forum have said they are planning to launch a coordinated effort to target silver as their next short-squeeze target.Posts encouraged individuals to use the IShares Silver Trust, the largest silver exchange-traded fund, and carry out what one user called the “BIGGEST SHORT SQUEEZE IN THE WORLD.”“Silver Bullion Market...

The military, known as the Tatmadaw, charged that there was massive voting fraud in the election, though it has failed to provide proof. The state Union Election Commission last week rejected its allegations. Amid the bickering over the allegations, the military last Tuesday ramped up political tension when a spokesman at its weekly news conference, responding to a reporter’s question, declined to rule out the possibility of a coup. Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun elaborated by saying the military would “follow the laws in accordance with the constitution.” Using similar language, Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing told senior officers...

I recently bought a new flip phone that Verizon was offering a good deal on. It’s an Alcatel Go Flip V. I loved my old LG flip phone but it was not wi-fi compatible so I had to get one that was. The Alcatel is and that’s the single only good thing I have to say about the phone. The phone is flat out awful. It has a terrible selection of ringtones, is difficult to set up, the texting is terrible and you cannot forward texts, the image quality is awful for pictures received (they look like a negative of...

Former President Donald Trump announced his new legal team on Sunday that is tasked with defending him during his Senate impeachment trial, which comes after multiple lawyers parted ways with Trump’s team yesterday. The statement that Trump put out called trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. “highly respected” and said that Schoen had already been working with Trump’s team. The statement suggested that the argument on which Trump’s team will focus is that the impeachment trial is “unconstitutional.” Schoen said, “It is an honor to represent the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, and the United States Constitution.”...

The story of some Reddit investors on a board called Wall Street Bets crushing a hedge fund has tapered off as the weekend has carried on, though they are promising to resume their mission when trading opens on Monday. RedState has covered the story extensively, including how they targeted GameStop (among other stocks) after Wall Street got way out over their skis shorting the stock in hopes of profiting off its demise (see Reddit Trolls Beat the Stock Market, and the Elites Are Really, Really Mad).Whatever your moral opinions on short sellers and hedge funds may be, watching a bunch...

I know I complain about the media a lot but I don’t offer any solutions. So here are the main sources of media that I follow. I'm also interested in what you guys read/watch...

Dutch Baby Pancakes taste like Crepes but in pancake form. The batter puffs up to form a billowy crust with a custard-like center. We also included instructions for making a Berry Dutch Baby and even a Double Dutch. A dutch baby pancake is sometimes referred to as a puff pancake, a dutch puff, or a German pancake. It is essentially a large popover or Yorkshire pudding with a custardy base and crisp tall edges. It is typically served for breakfast.

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Donald Sloat Info from here. Donald P. Sloat (February 6, 1949 - January 17, 1970) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, United States military's highest decoration. His award was made posthumously in 2014 for his actions in the Vietnam War. Rank and organization: Specialist Four, United States Army,...

President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas. “We’re going to see kids fall further and further behind, particularly low-income students of color,” said Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform. “There’s potentially a generational level of harm that students have suffered from being out of school for so long.” Like some other officials and education advocates, Jeffries said powerful teachers unions are standing in the way of...

On today’s episode of “Progressive Heads Explode in 3… 2… 1…”, a retired NFL player has suggested the creation of a separate category for transgender athletes, following Biden’s executive order allowing boys who think they’re girls to play on girls’ sports teams.Former defensive end Marcellus Wiley, a father of three girls, also thinks it’s time to have a national discussion on the issue.“As a father of 3 daughters & the husband to a former collegiate athlete, this hits home in a special way🤯It’s time to create a separate transgender category in competition!“Also think it’s time for me to start a...

Rep. Devin Nunes hammered “socialist revolutionaries” like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) following remarks she made on social media accusing Senator Ted Cruz of attempted murder. Nunes claimed the obscene rhetoric coming from AOC (D-NY) was from a familiar playbook – repeat a lie often enough and the media will make it seem real to their viewers. Essentially, Democrats will repeat comments portraying Republicans as evil and eventually, the message will stick. “The legacy mainstream media will continue to repeat it and it will become the truth out there in the ‘hinterlands’ of Manhattan,” Nunes (R-CA) explained. ... Despite repeated calls...