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Things are heating up in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota again tonight, the third night after the police shooting of Daunte Wright.CNN is there with Miguel Marquez and his crew. The BLM ‘protesters’ just attacked one of the crew members. They threw a water bottle, hitting the older gentleman square in the head and you can see him go down, visibly a little stunned. They then laugh at him and mock him, with a couple trying to see if he’s okay. He gets up and seems to want to take them on, but is held back.Protesters throw a water bottle at a...

I feel sorry for those currently in college.For droves of 2020 freshmen, what should’ve been the most exciting time of their lives turned out to be a depressing, disconnected dud, courtesy of culture shock via no in-person classes and no extracurriculars.And even now — over a year past the start of our planetary pandemic — in many cases, a casual walk across the quad can’t check the most basic box of satisfactorily seeing one’s peers.For what may feel like a lifetime, Americans out and about have grown accustomed to everyone hiding in plain sight.Visually, there’s a moratorium on mouths.And in...

Amid delivery delays and concerns over rare but serious blood clots for the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shots, European officials are looking elsewhere for next year's supply. The European Commission has opted against renewing its vaccine contracts with AstraZeneca and J&J once they expire at the end of the year, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed source from the Italian health ministry. Reuters also picked up the story. Both shots have come under scrutiny over rare but serious cases of blood clots in people who had received the vaccines, prompting several countries to halt use...

The round included existing investors as well as the former CEO and COO of Twitter.Fast-growing pizza tech platform Slice has raised $40 million from existing investors as well as two former Twitter executives. The Series D round was led by Cross Creek, with contributions from KKR, GGV Capital and Primary Ventures. But the highlight was the addition of former Twitter CEO Dick Costilo and COO Adam Bain through their 01 Advisors venture. “We are so grateful to Cross Creek for leading this round and giving us the opportunity to bring on the 01 team as we enter this next stage...

CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester explains the logic behind his network’s COVID-19 death toll counter in a sting video Project Veritas released on Wednesday. CNN has capitalized on “panic porn” during the pandemic, promoting fear in a way that Chester said bumps up ratings. “COVID? Gangbusters with ratings, right? Which is why we [CNN] constantly have the [COVID-19] death toll on the side, which I have a major problem with – with how we’re tallying how many people die every day,” Chester says in the video. He explains a perverse incentive regarding the numbers. “Like, why isn’t it high...

On September 11, 2001, four groups of terrorists, associated with Al Qaeda, hijacked domestic airplanes with the intention of crash-landing into four key symbols of the United States, both public and private landmarks. While a patriotic group of passengers in the fourth plane foiled one of the four plans, by the time it was all over, 3000 innocent people in New York and Washington had been murdered, and billions of dollars in property were destroyed. The islamofascist movement – call it what you will: muslim terrorists, Islamic extremists, jihadists, Satanists, whatever – jumped for joy around the globe. Those of...

Democrats in both the House and Senate are reportedly constructing legislation to be released on Thursday to pack the Supreme Court, adding four justices.The Intercept reported, “The bill would add four seats to the high court, bringing the total to 13, from the current 9. The number of justices on the Court has fluctuated widely throughout the course of the nation’s history. Republicans currently hold 6 seats, while Democrats hold just 3 after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the quick confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.”The bill is reportedly being led by Rep. Jerry Nadler, Rep. Hank...

On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs welcomes Tho Bishop onto the show. Tho Bishop is the Assistant Editor of Mises.com and a proud Florida Man. He recently penned an article on a Rothbardian right as an alternative to the paleo-progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt. He believes this to be the fighting ideology that can effectively combat federal overreach and globalist tyranny alike. Listen now to our latest guest episode!

A North Carolina Spanish teacher and coach reportedly had a secret life and was killed during a shootout with a drug cartel last week, according to the police. Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said Barney Harris along with a friend, Steven Alexander Stewart, shot and killed an 18-year-old member of the Sinaloa New Generation Cartel, which led to a shootout with other cartel members, local outlet WSOC-TV reported.... ...Harris, the head coach for his school’s men’s basketball and track team, was attempting to steal drugs and money from the cartel in a mobile home park in...

The lawyers representing the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran slain by Capitol Hill police during the mostly peaceful Capitol Hill protests, is pledging to continue their legal fight for justice over Babbitt’s death after the Department of Justice declined to prosecute – or even name – the officer who fired the shot that ended Babbitt’s life.“Today the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia announced that it will not pursue criminal charges against the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt in our Nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021,” the press release opened. They then lambast...

Cemeteries pay zero property taxes, something the mainstream media will NEVER tell you. That means the funeral home businesses that own that type of property make a fortune off of funerals, but pay no property taxes. I am an old man and just learned that yesterday and I read extensively. Interesting that the media doesn't see fit to print all that is news.

Despite a competitive (if not contentious) 2016 GOP primary battle against former President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has Trump's endorsement in his bid for reelection next year. In fact, the onetime rivals now share a mutual respect. Indeed, Rubio says, he won't even challenge Trump, whom he called "the most popular and most influential Republican in America," should the former president make another run for the White House in 2024. "If he decides to run for the president and the nomination, he's going to be the party's nominee," Rubio told Newsmax TV's "Greg Kelly Reports" on Wednesday. "That's...

Republicans have condemned proposals to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13 - a plan which Democratic members of Congress have said they will introduce on Thursday.

On Wednesday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the Fox News host once again asked why those who have received the COVID-19 vaccine must remain under restrictions and responds to Dr. Anthony Fauci's claims that Carlson's questioning vaccine efficacy is "typical, crazy conspiracy theory." CARLSON: For months now, we have been asking a very straightforward question about the coronavirus vaccine. Why do people who take it -- and by the way, why do people who have been previously infected and show high levels of antibodies -- have to live under the restrictions that the vaccines were supposed to eliminate? Why, for example, does...

When the U.S. government wanted to break into a dead terrorist’s iPhone several years ago, they turned to a little-known cybersecurity startup in Australia to help them do it, a Washington Post investigation has revealed. Azimuth Security, located in Sydney, specializes in providing “best-of-breed technical services” to clients, according to its website.

Deep inside President Joe Biden’s 11,700-word plan to revamp the nation’s infrastructure is one sentence that could transform the way America deals with gun violence.... ...The Biden administration hasn’t offered many details. But researchers have identified several types of community-led programs ... Focused deterrence...The people are called into a meeting and are offered help — jobs, housing, health care — and warned that if they reject the help and are involved in violence, they’ll be targeted for law enforcement crackdowns. ,,,Violence interrupters This method centers on outreach workers — people with street credibility, often people who have spent time in...

Alien hunters are watching the skies over New Jersey. A bizarre device apparently meant to spot UFOs was found inside Wharton State Forest near Saw Dust Pile Rd. in Tabernacle Township last week, said New Jersey State Park Police, who shared a photo of the kooky contraption on their Facebook page. The low-tech gadget consisted of an orange snowplow marker and a soup can stuck to a piece of wood painted silver. The can was “plugged” into the wood ...

N.M.- A New Mexico physicist believes the state has already hit herd immunity. Dr. Jacob Kuriyan wrote an opinion piece in the Albuquerque Journal that said he believes New Mexico hit herd immunity in March. "Herd immunity is a point that is defined in the development of a pandemic or epidemic which says that at some point the number of people infected is less than the number of people that are recovering," he said. Kuriyan has a background in theoretical physics and heads two healthcare software companies in the metro area. New Mexico physicist believes state has technically reached herd...

Summary: Humans cannot live on protein alone - even for the ancient indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest whose diet was once thought to be almost all salmon. Anthropologists argue such a protein-heavy diet would be unsustainable and document the many dietary solutions ancient Pacific Coast people in North America likely employed to avoid 'salmon starvation,' a toxic and potentially fatal condition brought on by eating too much lean protein. Humans cannot live on protein alone -- even for the ancient indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest whose diet was once thought to be almost all salmon. In a new...

President Joe Biden got emotional and paid tribute to his late son Beau when he visited the graves of US troops killed in Afghanistan at Arlington Cemetery. 'I have trouble these days ever showing up at a cemetery and not thinking of my son Beau,' he told reporters as he walked around the gravestones in Section 60 after announcing he would be pulling all American forces from Afghanistan by September 11 - the 20th anniversary of 9/11. 'Hard to believe, isn't it? Biden said as he held a wreatyh in his hands near the burial sites of more than 800...