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It was so good to go to my supermarket this afternoon and see several people with no masks. Finally, we are dispensing with this nonsense. This was in Danbury, CT. Anyway, it's pretty amazing how much weight (relative to their own weight) that little ants can carry. It's just the weirdest thing. When I smash a big ant on my patio, suddenly a bunch of little ants surround it and carry it away. To where, I have no idea. But they are taking it someplace and they evidently have a purpose. They are quite organized. I often wonder what goes...

A forensic auditor helping conduct an audit of 2020 election machines in Arizona’s largest county disputed on May 20 reports claiming he backtracked on allegations that files were deleted from one of the machines. “My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the ‘Databases’ directory on the EMS Primary Server WAS deleted containing the voting databases. I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes,” Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times by the audit’s liaison.Some...

Israel is still hammering the Gaza Strip with airstrikes Thursday and declared that it will "continue to do so" in response to Hamas rockets "indiscriminately" fired at Israelis despite admonitions from President Biden for a cease-fire. Biden in a Wednesday conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for "significant de-escalation today on a path to a cease-fire" amid reports that the two sides were nearing a potential cease-fire agreement, which the Associated Press reports could come in the next 24 hours. Yet the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday doubled down on its attacks against terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Full Title: 'Our mother lost her life because of this': Harry lashes out over 'unethical' BBC interview with Diana as furious William says Martin Bashir's 'lurid and false claims' to secure it fuelled her 'paranoia and isolation' and drove their parents apartPrince William said the 1995 Panorama Diana interview should 'never be aired again' in unprecedented replySaid 'established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC'Prince Harry responded to Lord Dyson's report into interview, saying his mother was 'unquestionably honest'He said 'the ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — “Tomorrow, Rhode Island — with a few exceptions — will be reopened.” Gov. Dan McKee spoke those words Thursday afternoon as he and other state leaders discussed the imminent lifting of restrictions during their weekly COVID-19 briefing. On Friday, Rhode Island will be the closest to normal that it’s been since before the pandemic, with most businesses and services able to start operating at 100% capacity and the social gathering limit coming to an end.McKee said those changes have been made possible by the downward-trending public health data and rising vaccination rates. “It’s safe for people...

The U.S. is asking other countries to agree to a 15% global minimum corporate tax, as part of international efforts to dissuade companies from seeking lower taxes outside of their home nations, Bloomberg News reported. “A global corporate minimum tax rate would ensure the global economy thrives based on a more level playing field in the taxation of multinational corporations,” the Treasury Department tweeted.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (60% of American Adults have at least a first shot - Back to giving over 2 Million doses per day - 5th week of case numbers trending strongly downward, ~15-20% per week) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 351,955,515 (20,490,400 J&J) Administered: 279,397,250 (9,944,636 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 160,177,820 Fully Vaccinated: 126,605,166

U.S. President Joe Biden made a bizarre appeal to the American people during a signing ceremony for Democrats’ anti-Asian hate crime COVID bill on Wednesday, declaring that viewers should “look around,” “Look in the mirror,” and “Look in the eyes of your children” to fight the bigotry and hatred onstensibly addressed in the bill. “But of all the good the law can do, we have to change our hearts, we have to change the hearts of the American people, hate can, I mean this from the bottom of my heart, hate can be given no safe harbor in America,” Biden...

ABC15 has obtained a copy of a letter sent by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs to Maricopa County in which she threatens to de-certify the county’s election equipment that was handed over to the audit by the Senate subpoena.In the letter, Hobbs said her office “consulted with election technology and security experts, including at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, regarding the appropriate next steps, and each unanimously advised that once election officials lose custody and control over voting systems and components, those devices should not be reused in further elections.”At the end of the...

eteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz and Chelsea Clinton revealed Tuesday that they both cried when receiving their COVID-19 vaccines. During an appearance on Clinton’s podcast “In Fact with Chelsea Clinton,” Luntz, who suffered a stroke early last year, revealed that he started crying when getting inoculated. “I'll acknowledge something to you, I don't even want to look at you when I say this. When I got the vaccine, the first shot in my arm, I started to cry because I had a pre-existing condition, I was damaged from last year, and that shot to me was life itself. It was...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40105/navy-labs-to-reopen-the-case-on-once-taboo-cold-fusion Navy Labs To Reopen The Once Taboo Case On Nuclear Cold Fusion Federal labs are reexamining the DOD’s research into cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions, potentially leading to revolutionary technologies. BY BRETT TINGLEY APRIL 9, 2021 THE WAR ZONE NSWC Reopens Cold FusionDTRA/NSWC/STEVEN KRIVIT/CREATIVE COMMONS SHARE Researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division have reopened the case on low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENRs, largely unexplained phenomena that are at the core of theories about "cold fusion." Five different government-funded laboratories under the control of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and National Institutes of Standards and...

Across the globe, millions of people have now benefited from research and vaccination campaigns, allowing us to make important steps in overcoming this terrible pandemic. Undoubtedly, we owe this to scientists to a substantial degree. They have used mRNA vaccines – also called gene vaccines – to help cells form a spike protein similar to the one that exists on the surface of COVID-19 pathogens. The technology available has led scientists to be able to create safe and effective vaccines that will eventually allow us to resume our normal lives – or at least some new rendition of it. Bluntly...

Dan Bongino and Geraldo interview on Hannity was WILD Fire

Dr. Anthony Fauci clarified Thursday that whether a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot will be needed in the next year remains an open question. "The bottom line is, we don't know if or when we will need booster shots," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC News. "But it would be foolish not to prepare for the eventuality that we might need it." During an Axios event Wednesday that also featured Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Fauci said "I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the...

I saw a video clip of Joe Biden’s inept speech to a Coast Guard Academy graduating class a few days ago, but didn’t get the full impact until I saw the side-by-side comparison below. It turns out that Biden was trying to steal a joke from Ronald Reagan, who used the same line when he addressed a Coast Guard class years ago. Here it is, a master vs. a disaster: Having heard the original quote as delivered by Reagan, I now understand that the problem wasn’t only Biden’s inept delivery. He actually blew the line, rendering it meaningless and suggesting...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was cornered by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy Thursday afternoon when he asked about why President Joe Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States but just green lit the completion of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline through Europe. [snip] Biden signed an executive order halting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline within hours of being sworn in as president on January 20, 2021. In doing so, he killed thousands of high paying, union jobs.(emphasis mine)

A few key F-150 Lightning specs: *The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning is a five-passenger SuperCrew cab with a 5.5-foot bed. These are the same dimensions as its conventional counterpart, meaning common accessories and equipment will work and fit just the same. *Maximum payload of 2,000 pounds, of which 400 pounds can go in the frunk where the engine used to be. *It can tow up to 10,000 pounds. *With extended battery: 563 horsepower, 775 lb-ft of torque, and a driving range of about 300 miles on a single charge. *With standard battery: 426 hp, 775 lb-ft, and a range of...

Some workers don’t trust customers — or their co-workers — to be truthful about their vaccination status since most companies are not requiring proof. Others fear they will be judged if they leave their own masks on, even though their reasons for doing so are varied. [cut] Kroger, the country’s largest grocery chain, became one of the latest to announce that, starting Thursday, workers and customers can stop wearing masks [cut] William Stratford, 29, won’t be fully vaccinated until next month, but shoppers and co-workers at the home improvement store where he works had been coming in without a mask...

CHICAGO -- An unidentified Washington Nationals player who is vaccinated and asymptomatic has tested positive for COVID-19, manager Dave Martinez said Wednesday. That player was deemed to have been in close contact with another Nationals player who is not vaccinated. Martinez said neither player would have been in the starting lineup against the Chicago Cubs and neither was available off the bench.

The federal government has broken the bank with an astounding $6+ trillion in (ostensibly) pandemic-related spending to date, and President Biden wants to spend trillions more. Unfortunately, many Republicans in Congress have been too inconsistent on this issue to protest this spending binge in any meaningful way. But one of the few principled fiscal conservatives left in Washington, Senator Rand Paul, is warning Americans to “wake up” to the “profound repercussions” this big government blowout will have. In a Wednesday interview with Fox Business, Paul argued that mounting inflation levels are a serious cause for concern—not temporary, as proponents of...