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This real-life human-driven mech suit can lift a car and climb over boulders, but it wasn’t built for combat — it was built to race

Forget Orwell’s “1984,” let’s talk about something that happened in the actual 1984. That year, the movie “Night of the Comet” appeared in theatres. It was a bad movie but the plot was interesting. In short, a comet passed close to Earth and either vaporized everyone or turned them into zombies. Almost everyone. 18-year-old Regina "Reggie" Belmont, played by actress Catherine Mary Stewart survived because she was in a steel movie projection room inside a theatre. Anyone who spent the night in a steel structure had avoided vaporization and zombification. And so it went. A small group of survivors with...

Following the shooting deaths this week of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, the disproportionate loudmouths in Congress, commonly referred to as “the Squad” repeated their oft-stated absurdity that police are killing unarmed black men and that America would be better off without them. It’s important to note that none of them offered to give up their own police protections made available to them at the Capitol. The woke mobs on social media immediately began to echo their calls anew as well. Within seconds “justice for Wright/Toledo” began to flood uninformed purveyors on Twitter and Instagram. The newer messaging phenomenon in...

I just have to share... I frequent Florida regularly because at 60, I still refuse to grow up. I go several times a year to Kiteboard various favorite spots on both coasts as well as the keys. A familiar landmark!! Ron Jon's Surf Shop is a very large Surf Board and appearal store right smack dab in the center of Cocoa Beachs City's Strand. Well for many moons, as soon as you enter Florida, the landscape is littered with billboards, and I swear 75% of them are sporting poster boys and girls,, blonde haired, blue eyed surfer looking humans,,,. You...

Burning questions remain regarding the COVID epidemic. Where did it come from? How did it spread? Who is responsible? The key question is whether we are dealing with the release, accidental or not, of a lab-created pathogen. The Russian and Chinese press continue to pump out articles holding America guilty, but they serve as a smokescreen for ill-run Chinese labs.In March 2020, the Russian monthly Zvezda ([Red] Star) blamed George Soros for financing "the laboratory in Wuhan, China, that developed and released the coronavirus in late 2019," blaming America by association. The mainstream American media are quick to dismiss that...

Opa Locka Hialeah Flea Market Carnival is going on in Miami-Dade County this month. Things got a little heated on Saturday night when a black mom got angry at a Ferris wheel operator and the two got into a physical altercation. A group of black moms and other people then jumped in, including people in a Charlie Conway “Mighty Ducks” jersey and a Penny Hardaway jersey. The video below shows Opa Locka Hialeah Flea Market Carnival Ferris wheel operator getting pushed by the angry mom and him shoving a kid, shortly after he fights with his coworker and a group...

So far, documented COVID-19 variants are in the U.K., Brazil, South Africa, and Northern California, and I am sure there are others in India and China. So COVID-19 is behaving much like the flu with mutations to new forms going on all the time.Influenza or flu types A and B cause yearly epidemics, and there are over 60 kinds of known flu viruses. Type A and B undergo seasonal changes almost every year. To vaccinate yourself against the flu every year is a waste of time for most since there are just too many mutations, which change every year, and...

The primacy of the individual — that we judge people not by their lineage but by their deeds — is at the very foundation of a free society and of the American experiment. Here, unlike so many other places, including Pakistan, the law and our common culture insists that we see people as individuals who are the product of their character, not their tribe, family, race, or status. This wisdom has come under sustained assault by an ideology that insists that we are, in fact, avatars of various demographic markers — race, gender, sexuality — rather than complex human beings....

Officials say multiple people are dead in a reported active shooter incident in Texas.

SAN DIEGO — A former U.S. Navy sailor who fatally stabbed his wife and hid her body in a freezer for two years before dumping her in San Diego Bay has been sentenced to prison. Matthew Scott Sullivan, 36, was convicted last year of second-degree murder in the October 2014 death of 32-year-old Elizabeth Ricks Sullivan. He was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for the killing. “The jury verdict and the evidence at trial made it clear that Matthew Sullivan brutally murdered his wife, methodically cleaned up the messy murder site, and then hid the body...

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MOSCOW, April 18. /TASS/. The West was obviously seeking to "override" reports about plans of a state coup in Belarus by Prague’s statements about the expulsion of Russian diplomats, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. "It looks like, and such impressions is backed by actual material, that in the information space, first all, Western information space, our Western partners sought to override the importance and topicality of information released by both Russia and Belarus about not simply a plot but an actual plan of a constitutional coup," she said in an interview with the Rossiya-1 television channel...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, acknowledged Sunday that gun violence in the US is a public health emergency. 'Myself, as a public health person, I think you can't run away from that. When you see people getting killed, in this last month it's just been horrifying what's happened. How can you say that's not a public health issue?' he told CNN's Dana Bash on 'State of the Union' when asked if gun violence was a public health emergency.

A Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department neighborhood security team were fired upon early Sunday morning in north Minneapolis. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, at around 4:15 a.m., a light-colored SUV fired shots at a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police team who was providing neighborhood security in the vicinity of Penn Avenue and Broadway Avenue. “I am relieved to know none of our Guardsmen were seriously injured,” said Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke. “This event highlights the volatility and tension in our communities right now. I ask for peace as we work through this difficult time.”...

Russia’s main security agency says it has arrested two Belarusians who it said were preparing a plot to overthrow Belarus’ government and kill authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. One of the men arrested, Aleksandr Feduta, was Lukahsenko’s spokesman when he was first elected in 1994, but later joined the opposition. The other, lawyer Yuras Zyankovich, has dual Belarusian-U.S. citizenship. The Federal Security Service said Saturday that the two have been handed over to Belarus. Russian authorities were alerted to information about the men’s plans by the Belarusian security service, the KGB.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace questioned Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) over his tweet suggesting President Joe Biden is not in charge during this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday.” Wallace asked, “My question, is that helpful to be sending out a tweet questioning President Biden’s mental faculties?” Cornyn replied, “Well, Chris, thank you for the question because I think there’s been a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about that. That actually was a quote from a Politico story that I pasted into a tweet, and then I simply asked a question.” He added, “What I’m trying to do is...

"No one except the top political leadership can set the task of getting rid of a president", Alexander Lukashenko saidMINSK, April 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin focused on the issue of an assassination attempt on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko prepared by US intelligence agencies in a call with US President Joe Biden, Lukashenko said aired by the ONT television channel on Saturday."Another thing that surprises me is why Americans behave like this. Remember that no one except the top political leadership can set the task of getting rid of a president. Only them, not the special services," Lukashenko said."I'll...

In this installment of the weekly conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative comment on the silence from Black Lives Matter and other Defund The Police movements that allege to hate police brutality but are deafeningly silent following 99% of killings. Are we witnessing true outrage or just selective outrage?Parker: I would take the anti-police crowd seriously if they demonstrated a consistent outrage over police shootings and killings. It’s an insane and indefensible position to seek police reform by way of removing their budget or firearms, but at least we would know they mean it. Case...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—To fund the Biden Administration's infrastructure spending bill, Democrats are proposing a new tax on the treasures Americans have laid up in heaven. "It has come to our attention that some Americans have chosen to lay up their treasure in heaven instead of here on earth," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Americans who use heaven as a tax shelter are unpatriotic and aren't paying their fair share. We must address this problem." According to biblical sources, Christians in heaven currently enjoy mansions, crowns, and streets of gold-- all tax-free. Their religious teachings actually encourage them to forgo amassing earthly...

The Irreligious Priorities of the Biden Administration Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s dismissal of a “hierarchy” of rights is telling.One of the marks of modern liberalism is its tendency to promote invented rights while denying real ones. As the Founding Fathers argued, rights derive not from government but from God, and the test of the legitimacy of a government is whether or not it respects those God-given rights. Modern liberalism’s conception of rights rests on a far different philosophy, one that has its source not in God but in the caprice of central planners, government bureaucrats, overreaching judges, and globalist...