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With the continuous and systematic weakening and brainwashing of the U.S. military by the politicians/federal government/etc. and LOTS LOTS LOTS... of domestic and foreign enemies, and with the fast track "march" to communism in the U.S., etc. and "some other things" I say any day now.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) — A suspect facing 30 years in prison in a fatal hit-and-run was deported before he could face a trial, prosecutors confirmed this week. The Florida Highway Patrol located and arrested Edgar Castro, 21, shortly after a January 20, 2020 crash that killed a pedestrian, 27-year-old Matthew Cortina, at Highway 98 and Rose Lane in Panama City Beach. After Cortina was hit Castro allegedly fled the scene. State Attorney Larry Basford said Castro received a $35,000 bond in the case and bonded out of the Bay County Jail. However, he failed to appear at an arraignment...

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London (CNN Business)Covid-19 vaccineshave created at least nine new billionaires after shares in companies producing the shots soared. Topping the list of new billionaires are Moderna(MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of BioNTech (BNTX), which has produced a vaccine with Pfizer (PFE). Both CEOs are now worth around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the People's Vaccine Alliance, a campaign group that includes Oxfam, UNAIDS, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International. Senior executives from China's CanSino Biologics and early investors in Moderna have also become billionaires on paper as shares skyrocketed, partly in expectation of profits...

Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a moral and political philosopher of the twentieth century who wrote and spoke extensively about the threats that secularism, materialism and coercive social engineering by state authorities pose to the democratic experiment. From a Jacques Maritain compendium edited by James P. Kelly III: The American body politic is the only one that was fully and explicitly born of freedom, of the free determination of men to live together and work together at a common task. And in this new political creation, men who belonged to various national stocks and spiritual lineages and religious creeds – and...

Yesterday, we reported that Tim Tebow had signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a tight end, marking his comeback with the NFL after years away from football. While many fans are excited about this, Tebow’s return did not sit well with ESPN host Stephen A. Smith, who slammed it as an example of “white privilege.”

OAKLAND — Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings is spending $3 million to shield Gov. Gavin Newsom from a recall vote in a demonstration of the enormous sums Newsom's allies could marshal in his defense, according to a state filing today.The massive outlay makes Hastings by far the largest donor to Newsom's recall campaign. Under California rules, Newsom can raise unlimited sums to fend off a recall effort that will likely land before voters in the fall, while other gubernatorial candidates are subject to campaign limits of $32,400 per election in their direct accounts. That's because the law treats Newsom's...

India’s export ban on COVID-19 shots risks dragging the battle against the pandemic “back to square one” unless wealthy nations step in to plug a gaping hole in the COVAX global vaccine-sharing scheme, health specialists said on Thursday. COVAX, which is critical for poorer countries, relies on AstraZeneca shots made by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s biggest maker of vaccines. It was already around 100 million doses short of where it had planned to be when India halted exports a month ago amid a surge in infections there.

Recently, I found myself reading a column written by a very-credentialed, highly respected professor named Jennifer Ho ̶ sorry ̶ Jennifer Ho (she/her/hers). The piece was titled, “White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US.” Ready? Here we go. “Anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.” Quite a bank shot, Ms. Ho. She wasn’t done. “White supremacy as the...

Trump spoke on Thursday to conservative talk show host Joe Pags about his future political plans, including running for president again. When asked if he would run for president in the 2024 election, Trump replied: "I don't know exactly when I can say it but it's something I am very very strongly considering." He continued, "Everybody wants me to do it, the polls are all saying I have to do it. I will be making a decision maybe before but possibly more likely right after the 2022 election. "We have the elections coming up, I'm focused on that, we want...

...vaccines aimed at creating immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have potential to cause microvascular injury to brain, heart, liver, kidneys ...does not appear to be assessed in safety trials of these potential drugs. ...100 German patients recovered from COVID-19 revealed significant cardiac involvement on cardiac MRI scans in 78% of them, ...2-1/2 months after their recovery from acute illness. Two-thirds of these patients were never hospitalized, and there was ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60%. ...there is complement-mediated damage even in grossly normal skin of coronavirus-infected individuals. ...that ACE-2 receptor expression is highest in the microvasculature of the brain and...

If you're just joining us, this is Part IV of an ongoing series about how patriots can take back their country (see parts I, II, and III). (Thanks all for joining in the fun in the comments section.) My first thought when I considered how patriots might take back their country was, know thine enemy. You know, Sun-Tzu and all. Seemed sensible enough. So, I threw out a few of my own ideas about Wokism's nature and causes, then wound up mining a classic of political psychology, Erich Fromm's 1941 Escape from Freedom, for any additional insights. Fromm contends that...

Scuba diving ought to be very dangerous. Recreational diving involves submerging to depths of up to 60 feet. If something goes wrong at that depth, a quick return to the surface is not an option. Ascending to the surface too quickly will cause decompression sickness, which can be deadly. The diver needs to solve any problems beneath the surface, where human beings are out of their element. Yet scuba diving is actually quite a safe sport. Divers have a fatal accident about as often as joggers. The reason is that everyone who goes scuba diving must be certified, and certification...

Things are already heating up between Ken Paxton and George P. Bush over the potential Texas Attorney General GOP primary challenge. -snip- Paxton said of Bush. "I know for a fact that he's told people that he was either going to run for governor, lieutenant governor or against me." Paxton said that Bush "hates being land commissioner" and won't challenge Patrick or Abbott because they have too much cash to support their campaign. Paxton speculated Bush is "settling" for the AG run because he doesn't have as much money. "He's not going to run against me on the issues because...

The Ruthless podcast tore into California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner for being a "no show" for a scheduled interview that her campaign initiated weeks ago. On Thursday's episode, the co-hosts began by revealing to listeners that they were supposed to interview the reality TV star-turned-politician on Wednesday but that when they launched the Zoom session, she never showed up despite the podcast's efforts to accommodate her schedule, which resulted in a special third episode this week. "It tells you a few things… You don't reach out to a show that you ultimately don't go on," Josh Holmes told listeners. "You...

May 21 (UPI) -- Restrictions on cemetery visits during the Memorial Day weekend, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were lifted on Friday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. No masks, social distancing requirements or limits on the size of groups will be demanded of any visitors vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, although those not vaccinated are expected to adhere to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. The announcement follows a May 13 order allowing "fully vaccinated NCA [National Cemetery Association] employees, on-site contractors, volunteers, to include honor guards, and visitors" to forego masks. As on Memorial Day weekend in...

It started with a petrified tree, half-buried in the mud of the Mokelumne River watershed in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The site intrigued Greg Francek, a ranger for East Bay Municipal Utility District, as he was walking the valley last summer. He inspected further, and what he recently discovered led to one of the most significant fossil discoveries in California history. Advertisement "I looked around the area further and I found a second tree," Francek said in an EBMUD statement released this week, documenting the discovery. "And then a third and so on. After finding dozens of trees I realized...

A tapeworm has been found to bestow the gift of a long, lazy life on a species of Temnothorax ant ... but it's not all good news [Gilles San Martin/Wikipedia Commons under CC 3.0] ======================================================================== Eternal youth is the first thing many of us might wish for if we stumbled onto a genie or a magic monkey’s paw, but there’s always a catch. Now, scientists have discovered a version of this story playing out in ant nests, as parasites drastically extend the lifespan of worker ants – at a terrible cost. By definition, parasites are bad news for the host,...

With COVID-vaccination programs rolling and life heading toward greater normalcy, many in the United States are thinking about healthcare unrelated to the pandemic. And they should be—understandably, many aspects of health maintenance took a significant hit in the last year. I can understand this issue from a personal perspective. I’m a breast cancer survivor and am supposed to have two breast screenings per year—a mammogram and an MRI. I did manage a (somewhat delayed) mammogram last summer; but the MRI that should have followed six months later is still pending. I wanted to schedule it for early March—but I got...

...Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re entering the Dark Side. As I’ve been observing humanity since the pandemic began I’ve come to the conclusion that the proper name for the age we are currently in is the Age of Coercive Control. Coercive control is a form of abuse. It is defined as “a pattern of controlling behaviors that create an unequal power dynamic in a relationship. These behaviors give the perpetrators power over their partner, making it difficult for them to leave.” Mostly, this term is used when describing...