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Fake or fraudulent coronavirus vaccine cards are growing in popularity as governments and businesses mull the idea of using the documentation as a possible way to begin relaxing pandemic restrictions. The fraudulent proof of COVID-19 prophylaxis could be used as a way for the vaccine-hesitant — or those tired of waiting to qualify for the vaccines — to pass off their verification of immunity. Nearly a third of American adults have said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine if it was available to them, NPR reported. Where are fake vaccine cards being sold? The fake blank cards have been...

If you are a struggling American who has barely gotten by for over a year, Just know that Democrats still do not care. Instead, Democrats are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $20,000 apiece in direct payments related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Plans were announced today to dig a 245-mile long canal from the northern Gulf of California into southwestern Arizona to flood the region with sea water creating new economic opportunities and beach-front housing across thousands of square miles of mostly uninhabited desert. The City of Phoenix could become one of America’s busiest seaports under the plan.

This video has been posted all over the internet, but no one has included a link to the original. Her statement is as dumb as I've ever heard, and I'm curious to hear more from this person. Does anyone know the link to the original? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66gCWI0xAM

European rabbits dug up Stone and Bronze Age artifacts on Skokholm Island. (Image credit: Fiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images) A fluffle of wild rabbits has dug up priceless archaeological treasures on an island off the coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom. The burrowing bunnies unearthed two artifacts — a 9,000-year-old Stone Age tool and a 3,750-year-old pottery piece, likely from a broken Bronze Age urn, according to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which manages Skokholm Island, where the objects were found. ________________________________________________________________ Archaeologists have discovered similar artifacts on the U.K.'s mainland, but these new findings...

On Wednesday, a new conservative coalition launched a website aimed at combatting “woke” capital and cancel culture. StopCorporateTyranny.org aims to educate Americans on the dangers of far-Left advocacy in corporate America and equip them to fight back against the swelling tide of the “woke” inquisition. The coalition, Back to Neutral, includes organizations and leaders fed up with the Left weaponizing big business to achieve its political goals.“We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere,” Justin Danhof, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy...

<p>Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.</p><p>There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.</p><p>1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.</p>

The pandemic has driven chilliheads online, where some have built impressive followings for their hot sauce reviews and daring feats of strength Kate Robertson Thu 1 Apr 2021 04.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 08.07 EDT Shares 134 Carolina Reaper Hot Chilli Peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Two Carolina Reaper peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Photograph: mrsixinthemix/Getty Images/iStockphoto Behind his calm, methodical approach to every hot chilli eating and super spicy food challenge, Dustin “Atomik Menace” Johnson is enduring a kind of...

Last week my husband went out to our back woods to cut down some dead trees to get firewood for use next year, and while he was in the woods working I sat in a folding chair at the edge of the woodlot. Suddenly an animal fell out of a tree just in front of me and landed with a thud! It laid there stunned or dead. Cautiously I went over to check on it. I was going to give a full poor baby a funeral. As I approached, I noticed it was a porcupine! It popped up, and started...

After leftists intent on making election fraud permanent threatened Georgia's big companies with a boycott if they didn't condemn Georgia's election integrity law, Delta was one of the first to cave.According to the Washington Post:Some of Georgia’s biggest companies — including Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines — and Atlanta sports teams the Falcons and the Hawks came out strongly against the state’s new voting law Wednesday amid growing backlash against the business world for failing to do enough to stop the measure from becoming law.Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian condemned the legislation as “unacceptable” and contrary to the company’s...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 31, 2021) – Today, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill that would take on federal gun control, past, present and future, banning the state from participating in the enforcement of a wide-range of acts dating back to 1934. Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R) and Sen. Brandt Smith (R) introduced Senate Bill 298 (SB298) on Feb. 8. The legislation would ban any person, including any public officer or employee of the state and its political subdivisions, from enforcing any past, present or future “federal statute, executive order, or federal agency directive that conflicts with Arkansas Constitution, Article 2,...

Joe Biden said that he was going to pay, partially, for his $2 trillion ten-year slush fund, supposedly for infrastructure, with $1 trillion in new taxes on corporations which will be collected over fifteen years. According to CNBC: President Joe Biden on Wednesday is unveiling his latest plan to boost the post-coronavirus economy — a $2 trillion infrastructure package called the American Jobs Plan. In it, the president calls for billions of dollars for transportation infrastructure, the care of elderly and disabled Americans, drinking water infrastructure, housing, manufacturing and job development and training. To raise the money to pay for...

German bishop involved in Amazon Synod will not suspend priests who bless homosexual couplesBishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said suspending priests who 'bless' homosexual couples in defiance of clear Church teaching and a recent Vatican directive is 'out of the question.'March 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – German Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, who played an important role in preparing for the controversial 2019 Amazon Synod in Rome, has stated that he will not suspend priests in his diocese who continue to bless homosexual couples, in defiance of the new Vatican document against such “blessings.”As the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost first reported, on March 28...

Day three concluded in the murder trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. On Wednesday, four police body camera videos and various surveillance videos were played for the jurors.

Harvesting the spaghetti On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil." The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, "For those who love this dish, there's nothing like real, home-grown...

Street violence can't be fixed overnight, but progress can be made when the left begins to value black lives regardless of what is threatening them.On August 27, 2020, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both candidates at the time, responded to the shooting of Jacob Blake by talking about the constant fear black Americans live with due to systemic racism. Details of the case, specifically the fact that Blake was armed with a knife, were still developing at the time.The news of Blake stood in stark contrast to the public response to a mass shooting that had occurred...

Old Bay — the zesty, saliferous, burnt orange spice synonymous with seasoning shellfish — was invented by Gustav Brunn, a German Jewish refugee who landed in Baltimore after spending two weeks in Buchenwald concentration camp. There are few spice blends as ubiquitous as Old Bay. Packaged in the classic yellow, blue, and red tin can, Old Bay has grown from a Baltimore favorite to a pantry staple across the United States. Before Old Bay was invented in the 1940s, steamed crab, the dish most associated with the blend, was absent from regional cookbooks, including Mrs. B.C. Howard’s Fifty Years in...

In the months since the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Big Tech and Democrats have increasingly used the Capitol riot as a scapegoat to target conservatives. Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter booted President Donald Trump and then they coordinated to destroy Parler. Democrats have plotted a new domestic “war on terror” and tried to blame the riot on Republicans who voted to contest the 2020 election results. Yet something entirely new happened on Sunday. A team of USA Today reporters targeted online crowdfunding platforms that allow people accused of crimes related to the Capitol...

YouTube announced Tuesday it is experimenting with removing the "dislike" count on posts. The company said in a statement that in response "to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count." ... The Gateway Pundit wondered if the move had something to do with President Biden's lack of popularity. The blog previously reported YouTube, which is owned by Google, appeared to have altered the dislikes count on White House videos. A Biden video had been "disliked" 10,000 times at 3:11 p.m., for example, had only 3,100 dislikes...

Democrats in New York are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $27,000 apiece in direct payments for financial hardships related to the coronavirus pandemic. Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is in talks with state lawmakers to create something called the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer direct payments to “undocumented immigrants and formerly incarcerated individuals” who missed out on work opportunities amid the pandemic. “Right now discussions are around eligibility and access,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos told the outlet.