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THIS is the mysterious moment an anchor-shaped UFO left a trail of smoke in the sky before crashing into the sea in Indonesia. The bizarre footage of the long, black object plunging into the water was filmed at Jangkar Beach in East Java - with some people claiming it was a damaged UFO. The spooky object was swallowed by the waves shortly after crashing into the sea. Facebook user Kh Popeye Watermelon shared the clip and asked: "What is this anchor-like thing that fell from the sky?" Gabriel Notonegoro said: "Maybe it was fairy who lost her wings and forgot...

<p>Yahoo News Rep. Matt Gaetz eyes presidential run in 2024 David Knowles David Knowles·Senior Editor Thu, May 27, 2021, 10:37 AM Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who is currently the subject of a Justice Department investigation into whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl and transported her across state lines in violation of sex trafficking laws, is considering a run for president in 2024.</p>

Taiwan’s foreign minister has warned China is “preparing for war” as the island country braces itself for future conflict. Joseph Wu said Beijing has been trying to “cut off” Taiwan from the world with military actions and international pressure. Beijing regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and has threatened to start a conflict in order to reunite the island with mainland China. Mr. Wu was asked what he believes Beijing’s intentions are in the wake of increased military drills and aggression. The minister said: “I think Beijing has been preparing for war against Taiwan, and that is what we have...

Life as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if lawmakers don’t protect the public against artificial intelligence, Microsoft’s president has warned. Speaking to BBC’s Panorama, Brad Smith said it will be “difficult to catch up” with the rapidly advancing technology. The program explores China’s increasing use of AI to monitor its citizens. Critics fear the state’s dominance in the area could threaten democracy. “If we don’t enact the laws that will protect the public in the future, we are going to find the technology racing ahead, and it’s going to be very difficult to catch...

In the early hours of Wednesday morning (GMT), Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano erupted, prompting the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to set the volcano alert level to a warning. The authority has also raised the aviation color code to red. An AVO and US Geological Survey (USGS) volcanic activity notice read: “A short-duration (1-2 minutes) explosive eruption began at 21:04 AKDT (5:04 UTC 26 May), resulting in an ash cloud up to 15,000 ft asl. “Since that explosion, seismicity has decreased and satellite images show that the ash cloud has detached from the vent and is moving towards the east. “Additional...

Small businesses shut down during the pandemic while "essential" big-box stores remained open... It’s been over a year since “two weeks to slow the spread,” and the pandemic is finally dragging to a finish. Cases are down, herd immunity has more or less arrived, and even in deep-blue Boston, Stop & Shop has announced it will end mask requirements before the month’s out. The pandemic saw a huge amount of power and money transferred to what Michael Lind calls the “overclass” of politicians, corporate managers and bureaucrats. Small businesses shut down while big-box stores deemed “essential” remained open. The laptop...

"I wouldn’t want any other parent to go through what we’ve been through,” said Rachel Hatton, after her 17-year-old son was diagnosed with a heart condition days after receiving the COVID vaccine. ========================================================================== At least 18 teens and young adults in Connecticut have shown symptoms of heart problems after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, acting health commissioner Dr. Deirdre Gifford said Monday. Gifford said all but one of the young adults hospitalized for signs of heart problems have been released. Four of those young residents were hospitalized at Yale New Haven Health and three at Connecticut Children's. Health officials say the...

The convicted killers shared the same cell at Corcoran State Prison. Jaime Osuna, 31, had decapitated and dissected the body of his cellmate, Luis Romero, 44, with a makeshift knife... But after prison guards made their rounds, they reported that both men were alive...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Greenback woman is facing charges after she drove her car through a COVID-19 vaccine event Monday, narrowly missing National Guard and Blount County Health Department personnel. According to a Blount County arrest report, Brown was driving in her SUV at a high rate of speed through a closed cone course and a tent where “at least 15 people” were working in the Foothills Mall parking lot. Witnesses said Brown was yelling “no vaccine” as she sped by just missing seven workers within “inches and feet” of her vehicle.

<p>An employee who fatally shot nine people at a California rail yard before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago, his ex-wife said.</p><p>He had two semiautomatic handguns and 11 loaded magazines, Smith said. A locker at the rail yard believed to be the gunman’s contained “materials for bombs, detonator cords, the precursors to an explosive,” the sheriff said.</p>

Newly confirmed Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke is a thoroughly modern woman. She could never have been confirmed even during the Clinton administration because of her racially-soaked radical worldview. But these are revolutionary times, where skin color has gained newfound importance in a way we haven’t seen since June 1964 when segregationists chased civil rights marchers down the streets of St. Augustine, Florida. If you think the comparison doesn’t work, then you haven’t been paying attention, or you are watching too much MSNBC. I suppose everything old is new again. Content of character is out. Color of...

Pending home sales took a hit in April as the shortage of affordable housing remains a headwind for house hunters. The Pending Home Sales Index dropped 4.4% to a reading of 106.2 for the month as reported by the National Association of Realtors.

Thinking about selling some appreciated investments before the big Biden tax hike kicks in? It may already be too late. President Biden’s blockbuster $6 trillion budget assumes that his proposed capital-gains tax hike took effect in April, according to the Wall Street Journal. Biden has proposed raising the top tax rate on capital gains to 43.4 percent from 23.8 percent for households with income over $1 million. “The effective date for the capital-gains tax rate increase would be tied to Mr. Biden’s announcement of the tax increase as part of his American Families Plan, which includes an expanded child tax...

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is under consideration for a plum ambassadorship in Europe, according to a report. Axios reported President Joe Biden’s consideration of McCaskill, which marks another example of Biden’s willingness to tap his political allies within the Democratic Party instead of donors.

VIDEOYouTube has taken down my May 16 video in which some skepticism was expressed about the 2020 election results. I therefore abjectly apologize to YouTube for the Thought Crime of even hinting that there were election problems even though the video was approved for monetization by a YouTube human reviewer. It was all MY FAULT!I take full responsibility for being in gross violation of YouTube's Presidential Election Integrity Policy in which all skepticism of the election results are correctly handled by banishing such heretical videos.In the future I will fully accept without question whatever the legacy media of CNN, MSNBC...

Bernhard Riemann 1826 - 1866 by David F. Coppedge Let’s turn now to another remarkable Christian mathematician who, like Blaise Pascal, changed the world but never reached his 40th birthday: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced REE-mon). Mathematics is the language of science and the two are almost useless without one another. There are textbooks both in mathematical physics and physical mathematics. Sometimes the scientist presses the mathematician to produce better tools for computation, but sometimes the mathematician opens up new vistas for the scientist to explore. Riemann was such a man. He liberated mathematics from the strictures of Euclidean geometry...

The Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Communist Party-run media outlet Global Times asserted it’s “reasonable to maintain suspicions” about the role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in spawning COVID-19. The comments, coming from a video featuring the outlet’s Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin, were part of a Global Times editorial piece bizarrely calling for an investigation into U.S. biolabs for their alleged role in creating COVID-19. “It’s reasonable to maintain suspicions about the laboratory, but the search’s scope must be expanded,” Hu notes. Despite the mainstream media and Chinese Communist Party-peddled narrative that COVID-19 is traced to a wet market in Wuhan,...

Federal Reserve officials seem to be having some success in calming investor fears over U.S. inflation — the chart below from Deutsche Bank illustrates why that was a tall task.The chart shows U.S. inflation data surprises at their highest in the 20-year history of the series, said strategist Jim Reid, referring to a note by equity strategist Parag Thatte. The last 10 data points were “almost off the chart,” he noted. Investors and economists had long been gearing up for a significant pickup in inflation as vaccine rollouts set the stage for a bout of pent-up demand to meet supply...

Troubled by an influx of critical race theory into the military, a coalition of veterans and congressional Republicans are demanding the Pentagon stop placating left-wing activists and focus on national defense. A July 2020 film by the United States Air Force Academy football team endorsing Black Lives Matter and "antiracism" education prompted retired Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop to speak out against the school’s administrators. Military academies, the 34-year Air Force veteran said, should remain politically neutral, particularly at a time when Black Lives Matter protests have led to riots and violence throughout major cities across the country. "Rather than e...

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