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Bear versus hog. It’s not something seen every day, but it leaves a big impression once viewed. The power of a wild black bear was witnessed Tuesday near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as it took down a wild hog for a meal right off of the highway where passers-by saw and heard the commotion. A man visiting the Smokies with his friend happened upon the scene just off of Highway 321 near the Pittman Center and knew they were seeing something worth stopping both lanes of traffic: A bear on the hunt with its prey. “It was really...

A leaked list of 1.95 million Chinese Communist Party members, containing apparently thousands of names of individuals living in the West and employed in government or top corporations, includes 123 names of individuals who work for pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and AstraZeneca. Both companies are currently engaged in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination effort.As National File previously reported, a list of nearly 2 million CCP members was leaked to international media outlets in the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, and Sweden earlier this year. The list contains names of individuals currently living and working in the West, including in the British government, and...

Humans understood astronomy 40000 years ago, European caves provide proof According to a scientific study, 40,000-year-old cave paintings indicate the use of complex astronomy. According to experts, the ancient paintings that were believed to be symbols of prehistoric animals are actually ancient star maps. Early cave art reveals that people in the last ice age had a detailed knowledge of the night sky. They were hardly different from us today in terms of intellect. Animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky. A new scientific study revealed that humans had a sophisticated knowledge of stars and constellations more than...

“Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness” (Proverbs 25:5 KJV).

Chinese fans are up in arms after Nike said it would not use cotton from China's disputed Xinjiang region, and they're burning their prized kicks. The sports company faced a massive backlash and boycott on Chinese social media platform Weibo after a statement that it released that highlighted the forced labor of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR)... ...People began posting videos of themselves burning their Nike Air Jordans and Air Force 1s, with some of these videos being reposted over 100,000 times. "I burned all my Nikes. This is a matter of national pride. We will not...

A Pittsburgh man stands accused of tackling and stabbing a 12-year-old boy at a McDonald’s in an attack that police say was racially charged. Charles Edward Turner, a 51-year-old black man, reportedly called police and McDonald’s staff “white devils” and “white n------” as they tried to restrain him after he slashed a 12-year-old child with a box cutter, according to WPXI News. The child was reportedly waiting in line with three of his family members when Turner approached him from behind and stabbed him in the neck...

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling a partnership with existing app vendors to develop his own social media network.One of the vendors under consideration by Trump is a relatively new app called FreeSpace, three sources told Axios.FreeSpace, which launched on Apple and Google’s app stores on Feb. 1, includes many of the features of established social media networks, the report said.The platform allows users to create personal profiles, has a public “Activity Wall” and “rooms” for group messaging.A source told Axios that Trump is still considering other options as well.“It could be any of several companies, with more meetings...

Wealthy Mexican nationals are coming to the United States to get their coronavirus vaccinations amid the disastrous vaccine rollout in Mexico. “They just told you that those in the line who were older than 65 were going to get vaccinated,” said 70-year-old Mexican citizen Mauricio Fernandez, who used his passport as ID when getting vaccinated. “It’s very generous that the Americans could include everyone who was in the line, undocumented migrants, Mexicans, whoever. They weren’t saying ‘this person yes, and this person no.’” Fernandez received his dose of the vaccine in Texas while on vacation with friends, a trend that...

Sarah Hughes, 40, is using diet and exercise to prolong her time with her three kids A mum diagnosed with cancer just months after giving birth to identical twins is attempting to "starve" the disease out of her body. Last month, breast cancer sufferer Sarah Hughes found out she had months to live, after doctors found the rare cancer had spread to her liver. However, the mum-of-three is determined to prolong her time with her children, taking on natural therapies and a special diet designed to help her body "starve" out the cancer. Sarah, 40, was first diagnosed with the...

The shooter who on Monday killed 10 during an attack in Boulder, Colorado had targeted a “Jewish store,” the Loomered.com news site associated with journalist and former Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer reported. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty has said that investigators have not identified a motive for the suspect, who has been identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, from the Denver suburb of Arvada. Alissa was reportedly born in 1999 in Syria. However, Loomered.com reported that the King Soopers market targeted by the shooter is known as a “Jewish store” with a majority Jewish clientele due to the...

In this new video, Paul Watson showcases the world's new 'Climate Czar' Bill Gates -- who preaches about how we all need to transform how we live, while he lavishly indulges in everything from his 66,000 sq ft mansion to his private jets and sports cars. Don't miss it!

A major discovery of a gold mask alongside a treasure trove of artefacts at a Bronze Age site in China has generated online debate about whether there were once aliens in China thousands of years ago. The gold mask, possibly worn by a priest, along with more than 500 artefacts in Sanxingdui, a Bronze Age site in central Sichuan province, have become the talk of China since the news broke on Saturday The mask is similar to previous discoveries of bronze human statues, however, the inhuman and foreign features of the finds have triggered speculation they may belong to a...

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles on Thursday local time for the first time in a nearly year. "We are aware of North Korean missile launches this morning into the East Sea. We will continue to monitor the situation and are consulting closely with our allies and partners," a Department of Defense spokesperson wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner... ...North Korea also test-fired two short-range cruise missiles over the weekend, South Korean defense officials said on Wednesday. The weekend test did not violate United Nations resolutions, which restrict North Korea from developing or launching ballistic missile technologies.

When beer makes a covid test show positive, one has to wonder.

Update (24 March 2021): The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is still insisting there's a flaw in our best model of particle physics. As explained below, previous results comparing the collider's data with what we might expect from the Standard Model threw up a curious discrepancy by around 3 standard deviations, but we needed a lot more information to be confident it truly reflected something new in physics. Newly released data have now pushed us closer to that confidence, putting the results at 3.1 sigma; there's still a 1 in 1,000 possibility that what we're seeing is the result...

Thousands of Catholics, including some leaders of prominent organizations, have signed a document that opposes COVID vaccines developed using fetal cells.Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, highlighted "a call to arms for Catholics and all men and women of good will."The issue is that while COVID vaccines approved for emergency use don't contain cells of aborted infants, some were developed using such cells.The document, "State of Conscience To Awaken Conscience," was produced by a professor, Catherine Pakaluk, to give Catholics "a voice in resisting the so-called consensus from Catholic leaders who have jumped on the COVID-19 vaccine train...”

U.K. band Madness have had several lives in their more than 40 years together, from ska superstars on their 1979 debut, One Step Beyond, to top 10 success with 1982's smash "Our House," to breaking up in 1986, reuniting in 1992 and continuing on the last two decades as a successful touring band. All of those eras are covered on the new U.S. only compilation, Our House: The Very Best Of Madness. The 12-song collection goes from the band's first hit, "The Prince" to 2019's "Bullingdon Boys," which the band's Graham "Suggs" McPherson calls a sort of protest song. I...

“‘Follow Me’: The Crown of Discipleship” (Mark 10:17-22) Today we conclude our series on the “Follow Me” sayings of Jesus in Gospel of Mark. Last week we took up “The Cross of Discipleship.” Today our theme is “The Crown of Discipleship.” And that’s a good order to go, because there is no crown without the cross, and there is no cross we endure that will not be far outweighed by the crown we will receive. And both the cross and the crown come as we follow Jesus. Last week we talked about the cross. Now we take up the crown....

Recently, I had a conversation with someone who endorses the conventional wisdom on COVID. The woman was friendly and intelligent. However, as readers of this column know, I have been at pains over the last year to expose, by way of at least a couple of dozen essays, the flagrant contradictions, misconceptions, unsubstantiated claims, and outright lies that constitute the Official Narrative. So, the friendly and intelligent women and I disagreed.Upon questioning whether I was among those who denied the very existence of COVID, I replied that while I wasn’t necessarily prepared to explicitly deny it, neither am I willing...

A lawmaker's popcorn machine was removed from the North Dakota Capitol after it set off fire alarms twice in one day, officials said. The Capitol's legislative wing was evacuated twice Monday, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, after fire alarms were triggered by a popcorn machine brought in by Rep. Mary Johnson, R-Fargo. Facility Management Director John Boyle said the Bismark Fire Department responded to both calls. Johnson said she had been unaware of a 32-year-old policy from the Office of Management and Policy that bans popcorn machines and other cooking devices from being used outside of...