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Earlier this month, they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot (853-meter)-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters). Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, brothers who are training to be rope-access technicians, had been thinking about crossing that void for a year. Highlining is high-altitude slacklining, in which a narrow strip of strong, nylon webbing — usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick — is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam. Completing a line means carefully heel-toeing...

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Out of ControlAmerican workers are trying to make their way in an economy that’s rigged against them. We made this claim many years ago. Today, for fun and for free, we revisit this assertion…starting with the latest from those doing the rigging. This week, after a two day meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) released their statement. Nothing material changed. The Fed will continue to hold the federal funds rate near zero. The Fed will also continue to create at least $120 billion per month from thin air to buy Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. Bond yields spiked and the...

Here is the full statement by current CDC Senior Scientist on Vaccine-Autism questions: Dr. William Thompson. update on the story, soon. I regret that my [CDC] coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the Journal of Pediatrics. My primary job duties while working in the immunization safety branch from 2000 to 2006 were to lead or colead three major vaccine safety studies. The MADDSP MMR-Autism Cases Control Study was being carried out in response to the Wakefield Lancet study that suggested an association between the MMR vaccine and an autism-like health outcome. There were...

In the race for the 2022 GOP nomination to be the attorney general of Texas, the incumbent is being investigated by the state bar association — and it may not hurt him. His main opponent is the grandson of one president who called Texas home and the nephew of another — and it may not help him. The incumbent attorney general is Ken Paxton, and his challenger is Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (son of Jeb, nephew of George W, grandson of H.W.). Republican strategist Jeff Roe calls the looming showdown between the two "the Holy War of Texas."...

As reported earlier this week, back in January Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told “60 Minutes” the state of Georgia, “Had safe, secure, and honest elections.”Of course, NOTHING could be further of the truth.The Gateway Pundit wrote several reports on the likely fraud and corruption in the November 2020 Georgia election.In May, Georgia Judge Brian Amero asked to unseal more than 145,000 Fulton County absentee ballots for an election audit.This was after a Gateway Pundit report exposed Georgia election officials repeatedly feeding thousands of ballots through the voting machines late at night in Atlanta, Georgia after the election observers...

The Pennsylvania state senator in charge of a key election committee is backing an audit of the November presidential contest similar to Arizona’s partisan ballot review, four days after former President Donald Trump called him out and claimed he was dragging his feet. Despite two audits and assurances from every level of government that the election was free of widespread fraud, Sen. David Argall (R., Schuylkill) told Spotlight PA he does not see the “damage in doing it one more time to try to answer the concerns that people have.” But such an effort, particularly if advanced by just one...

As America gears up to celebrate Independence Day and a return to normalcy with most U.S. adults fully vaccinated, annual holiday light shows may be looking a little dim this year as a result of nationwide shortages in the post-pandemic. Youngstown, Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks, the country’s largest consumer-based retail fireworks company, is urging consumers to buy their fireworks sooner rather than later amid supply chain issues and global shipment delays, the company announced on its website.

Current CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson revealed in a shocking statement that top US doctors hid and destroyed data that showed a vaccine-autism link in African-American boys.The doctors actually sat in a room and tossed the hard copies of the documented evidence into a garbage can.Thompson said he was told to destroy the evidence but kept it because he believed it was against the law. Via: https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/06/read-cdc-senior-scientist-we-trashed-data-showing-vaccine-autism-link-in-african-american-boys/

VIDEOLast week, I cooked up three chicken wings in my new 2 qt Bella air fryer they turned out so good that I didn't even wait to finish my meal to go to my computer to order a 4.2 qt Bella air fryer so a to be able to cook a lot more at the same time. In this video I use both fryers to take chicken wings to the next level by preparing air fried garlic parmesan chicken wings.

Instead, Democrats are preparing to vote on a scaled-down guns bill — most likely a curtailed plan to boost background checks for firearm buyers. The goal is to unite the party and pick up a limited number of Republican votes, even as their effort appears headed towards the same doomed fate as previous proposals to curb gun violence. Despite the all-but-certain GOP filibuster facing Democrats on guns, they’re well aware that a unified 50-vote Senate majority is the only way to put unmitigated political pressure on their opponents. It’s a stark contrast with Democrats' approach to their sweeping elections package,...

The town of Evanston, Illinois, part of the Chicago metro area, has determined that there will be no physical July 4 celebration in 2021, however, a Juneteenth concert-style event and a LGBT pride “drive by parade” are offered by the city during the month of June.

Long Branch, NJ police in full riot gear were dispatched to the vicinity of Pier Village Saturday night after a Juneteenth celebration turned violent. According to Domigos Saldidas, public safety director of Long Branch, multiple officers from neighboring towns and State Police responded to help disperse the crowds. “Right now we’re trying to have peace in Long Branch,” Saldidas said. In one video recorded at the scene, people could be seen dancing on top of a moving car. But a video that was sent to us by local residents reveals a lot of violence contrary to local reports. In the...

Space tourism startup Space Perspective successfully completed its first unmanned test flight Friday of a gigantic balloon that will soon take humans to the edge of space. Its Neptune Once spaceship test vehicle took off from the Space Coast Air and Spaceport in Cape Canaveral and hit its planned altitude of 108,409 feet where it hovered for six hours before splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. Space Perspective's Spaceship Neptune will host nine people and a mini bar, all of which will be encased in large windows. The 'cruise' would entail a two-hour ascent into the atmosphere, where it...

While the World War II Chronicle typically focuses on military topics, today's paper (Washington D.C.'s EVENING STAR) mentions two historic events worth discussing -- plus both Joe Louis and Joe DiMaggio will join the Army. The entire newspaper can be read by clicking the links.At the bottom of today's front page we see Joe DiMaggio on the list of baseball players that hit home runs today. DiMaggio treated the Yankee Stadium fans to a 3-for-3 slugfest off Chicago White Sox hurlers Eddie Smith and Buck Ross. DiMaggio has now reached base in 32 consecutive games, which incidentally began on May...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 19. Lieut. WOOLLEY, of the Twenty-fifth New-York, died at the encampment of that regiment this afternoon at 4 o'clock. He was a Supervisor of Albany City. His body will be sent home for interment. The reported return of a regiment of the rebels to Harper's Ferry on Monday was true. They came back for some mechanics proficient in rifle making. Having impressed as many of these mechanics as they could find, the regiment retreated with them under a guard. SUPPLIES FOR THE REBELS. It is ascertained that the rebels have lines of communication across the Potomac from...

Free Republic Inflation June 2021 Posting There are a few of the 20 selected grocery items that have increased in price. At the Food City Chain where I get the price data, there is no across the board increase in prices. In general there is no price increase to report in the June monthly report As a Media Template, Inflation is a major story of the day. As a result of Biden policies, many think there will be inflation. Milton Friedman taught us that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without...

More than 50 House Republicans have called on President Joe Biden to remove Vice President Kamala Harris from leading the effort to address the root causes of the surge in migrants at the US-Mexico border, accusing her of "inaction." In a letter to Biden, 56 Republicans, led by GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, have expressed "serious concerns" about Harris's role in handling what they deem a "crisis" at the southern border. The group cited recent figures released by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which revealed 180,034 migrant encounters at the southern border last month. "Despite being in the...

VENICE, CA — Hunter Biden moved out of his Venice canals rental and is now pushing forward in his art career, he tells Artnet. President Biden's son has been making art since he was a child and although he has no formal training, his work is represented by dealer Georges Bergès. He also has his gallery show debut coming to New York and a private showing in Los Angeles scheduled for this fall. His abstract work highlights patterns, bold color and he tells the New York Times it's "keeping him sane." Biden prefers painting on a tabletop, horizontally. He doesn't...

Today we conclude our two-part series on what the Bible says about wine. Last week we studied the Old Testament, and now we uncork the New, noting the pivotal role wine plays in Jesus’s Messianic ministry. Wine is first mentioned in the New Testament’s first book, the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus says: “‘Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved’” (Matthew 9:17). That “new wine” lesson was also...