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Lava Destroyed the Dike! Huge Lava Eruption in Iceland. Fagradalsfjall Volcano Eruption / May 22, 2021. Lava from Geldingadalir has broken through the dike wall and is pouring down into the valley below. Video here.

The company’s spacecraft, named VSS Unity, was carried up to an altitude of about 44,000 feet by a carrier aircraft called VMS Eve. The aircraft then released the spacecraft, which fired its rocket engine and accelerated to more than three times the speed of sound. After performing a slow backflip in microgravity at the edge of space, Unity returned through the atmosphere in a glide, landing back at the runway of Spaceport America in New Mexico that it took off from earlier. Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity is designed to hold up to six passengers along with the two pilots. The...

I see your breakthrough coming your way, Its clear as a mirage on a sunny day, The Lord of The Breakthrough arriving very soon, Like a Tsunami wave pulling the water from a lagoon, Your life's prophecy about to come true, All of My Blessings overtaking you, Dressing you in My Virtue, Holy, Pure sanctified by Me, My glory in you is what the enemy sees, Now as My sword and shield you shall go, Removing darkness and woe, Taking back the stolen redeeming time, Restoring all that is mine, You are My heart light bright and pure, Push through...

The infamous financial crisis in the late 2000s caused a fundamental shift in the role of The Federal Reserve and Federal government. The cause of the financial crisis? One of the root causes was loans to subprime households coupled with the now famous ALT-A (aka, NINJA loans) which helped fuel a price bubble that burst. Home prices in the USA (according to FHFA’s purchase-only index) is growing at 12.2% year-over-year, a rate even higher that during the 2000s housing bubble. Like in 2005, there is a visible spread between home price growth and wage growth. The spread today is even...

A woman in Indiana inspired her community this week with a kind gesture to honor her late son.When Carolyn Mick went to pick up a cake from her local Kroger in Plainfield, Indiana, she discovered someone had already paid for it. The cake also came with a note, signed by "Toni, Tyler’s mom."In the note, Toni explained that her son had died five years ago and she wanted to honor his memory by buying Mick’s cake."Today is my son’s 35th birthday, his 5th one in Heaven," Toni wrote in the note, which was posted online. "In his memory I’ve paid...

Hundreds of angry protesters took to Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home to show their disapproval of her job performance. Over 300 demonstrators gathered outside Lightfoot’s house with signs giving her an “F” grade for police reform, the coronavirus, education, housing, and other things.

The National Portrait Gallery reopened with an addition to its famed exhibition of presidential portraits. Joining the likes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, was Donald Trump, scowling from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Trump looks “pallid and grim” in the photograph, said Paul Staiti, expert on presidential portraits who teaches at Mount Holyoke College. Trump was impeached twice. His refusal to concede the election of Nov. 3, 2020, led a mob of his supporters to storm and vandalize the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The Trump photograph is displayed across the room from a portrait of...

So far as I know, an author known as Z Man at an independent blog called Z Media coined the term “The Compound Eye” in a post of the same name. In his lexicon, the compound eye is a metaphor for the millions of surveillance cameras and other intrusive devices Big Tech and their cohorts have dreamed up to keep us all in line. And the metaphor is a good one at that. If we are going to resist these intrusions and regain some measure of privacy, we are on our own. Looking to Big Tech and our government to...

In the world of Highlander films, there can only be one, and Henry Cavill is vying for the title. According to Deadline, the Man of Steel star is in negotiations for one of the lead roles in Lionsgate's Highlander remake, which will be directed by John Wick's Chad Stahelski. Kerry Williamson wrote the script. Neal H. Moritz and Josh Davis are producing the project. Executive producers will be Amanda Lewis, Patrick Wachsberger, and Gregory Widen. Before his death in February, Peter Davis, the original producer of the first film, was also on board to make. The original Highlander film, released...

Who else but BTS could break a BTS record? With their latest English-language single "Butter," the Korean supergroup shattered their own record for most YouTube views in the first 24-hours of release on Friday, reaching nearly 113 million views by midnight ET, according to the platform's public views tracker. The previous record was set by BTS's 2020 single "Dynamite," their first entirely in English. According to official YouTube figures, the video received 101.1 million views in the first 24 hours, despite having 98.3 million public views.

"Zalmay Niazy once helped the United States and Coalition forces fight terrorism in Afghanistan. Now, Niazy is in a battle to save his new life in Iowa and block a return to a place where he faces serious threats as a traitor."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in a tweet Friday, fired back at Democrats and “woke media” claiming he was attacking the United States military when he criticized the Army’s latest recruitment campaign. “I’m enjoying lefty blue checkmarks losing their minds over this tweet, dishonestly claiming that I’m ‘attacking the military.’ Uh, no. We have the greatest military on earth, but Dem politicians & woke media are trying to turn them into pansies,” he tweeted. He added, “The new Dem videos are terrible,” in reference to the recruitment campaign. The campaign consists of five anime videos highlighting soldiers who are either female,...

On Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's assassination, President Biden prepares to host Floyd's family at the White House. Floyd, 46, died when a police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes during a detention. His death on May 25, 2020, sparked months of demonstrations across the United States against perceived police brutality and racism. Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, said Friday that Biden would observe the day but did not elaborate.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) hinted Thursday that he has a lot more expected for his political future. DeSantis addressed some 750 Republican activists and officials at the Republican Committee of Allegheny County's annual Lincoln Day Dinner. DeSantis was the event's main attraction, boasting of his success and concluding his speech with a suggestion about his future ambitions. “I will assure you this: As governor of Florida, I have just started to fight,” DeSantis said to applause, according to CNN.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged people to refrain from kissing live poultry amid an outbreak of salmonella. The CDC and public health officials are investigating salmonella outbreaks after 163 people were reported ill in 43 states. The infections have been linked to contact with backyard poultry. "Don't kiss or snuggle the birds, as this can spread germs to your mouth and make you sick," the health agency said. It warned that poultry, like chicken and ducks, can carry salmonella germs even if they look healthy and clean, and these germs can easily spread in...

The Biden Administration’s dispersal of illegal immigrant children around the country, dumping them in cities in the middle of the night without food and places to stay faced stern criticisms from Republicans. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) called the midnight unloading of hundreds of immigrants in Chattanooga “absolutely unacceptable. This is not a coherent plan for dealing with this issue. It’s an abuse of power and a human tragedy. What are these immigrants supposed to do in a city where they don’t speak the language, don’t have anyone to help them find a place to stay and get food?” Sen. Bill...

New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated.The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for “Covid19” in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines” are effective at preventing the alleged disease.They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change).The trick is in their reporting of what they call “breakthrough infections” – that is people who are...

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As President Joe Biden considers forgiving $10,000 in student debt per borrower and ending tuition for many students at public colleges, it is worth noting that college graduates already have not paid $435 billion back to the federal government.That’s right, of the government’s $1.4 trillion student loan portfolio, almost one-third is unpaid.That $435 billion is comparable to the $535 billion that private lenders lost on subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis.The figure comes from FI Consulting, hired by the Department of Education, and whose work was checked by accounting firm Deloitte, and is a total of losses over the...

A Georgia judge decided Friday to unseal nearly 150,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County, the state's most populous county, so that prosecutors could look for proof of suspected voter fraud. What are the specifics? According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero is authorising more than 145,000 absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election to be reviewed as part of the investigation.