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The SR-71 Blackbird remains to this day the only aircraft rated to run in full continuous afterburner. Designed to sustain Mach 3 speeds at over 80,000 ft, the Pratt & Whitney J58 turbojet engine powered the whole Blackbird family: the Lockheed A-12, YF-12 and SR-71. An engineering marvel, the J58 had a single-shaft rotor design with a novel compressor bleed bypass when in extreme high-speed operation. What made this engine so unique is the six bypass tubes, which directed airflow from the compressor stage directly into the afterburner. This allowed the Blackbird to operate at a much higher fuel efficiency...

I hope this is the last column I ever have to write about the state’s Panic snitch line and the mentally ill Karens who keep calling it. Even the Karens’ cult leader, Gov. Charlie Baker, claims to be resisting their desperate pleas to re-impose his idiotic lockdowns and mask nonsense. H.L. Mencken once defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” That’s what the Department of Public Health’s snitch line is all about. The callers — and whatever their gender, they shall all be known as Karen – are obsessed. What drives Karen crazy is the...

Footage shows powerful flashes of light over Norway, followed by what witnesses described as loud bangs on Sunday. Norwegian police say they received a flurry of emergency calls but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The Norwegian Meteor Network says Sunday's fireball was visible for at least five seconds after it appeared at about 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT). Travelling at about 16.3km/s (nearly 36,500mph), the meteor could be seen over large parts of southern Scandinavia, the network says. Norwegian astronomer Vegard Rekaa has told the BBC his wife was awake at the time. She could hear "shaking...

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on ABC’s “This Week” that the way to get more people vaccinated against coronavirus is to make it a “reward-punishment system.” Panelist Margaret Hoover said, “There’s a lot of things we can do without calling it a mandate. Just make it almost impossible for people to live their lives without being protected and protect us.” Emanuel said, “I agree. I’m the son of a pediatrician…The fact is no child can show up at school without showing their immunizations, smallpox and measles. You have to make this familiar to people. Second is, I would close...

"But what seemed at the time like a straight-forward approach to the enforcement of existing gun laws has instead become mired in chronic shortcomings, failing for years to make good on its potential. Successive administrations have vowed to fix the problems, but all have fallen short."

For the second time in his last five events, Jon Rahm has been forced to withdraw because of a positive COVID-19 test. Rahm's positive came in the final round of testing protocols ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, meaning the top player in the world will not compete in his first Games for Spain. Rahm last tested positive during the Memorial Tournament in June, an event at which he held a six-stroke lead after Round 3. Though he had to withdraw, he went onto win his next event at the U.S. Open and recently finished T3 at The Open Championship....

Jackie Mason weighs in on arguably the biggest scandal in Hollywood history, the Harvey Weinstein saga… Jackie says he’s not sure what the outrage is all about, because we’ve seen this kind of thing before. “What did he do? Someone would think that he killed more people in an hour than was ever destroyed in the whole universe!” Jackie says. “It turned out that he did what Bill Clinton did, and made Bill Clinton the most popular man in America!” “Bill Clinton became a sensation all over the world, and Weinstein is wiped out in three days. Can’t even get...

Here is the Trump crowd on Saturday. This is reminiscent of the numbers we all saw over the July 4th weekend. And we saw similar results during the 2020 election. And they want you to believe Joe Biden got 81 million votes? Please!

Dr. Anthony Fauci said there seem to be "two kinds of America" as some people remain skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines even in the face of the more severe delta variant. [cut] To help those individuals, Fauci has suggested that even vaccinated people may need to consider wearing face masks in public indoor spaces. "The CDC agrees with that ability and discretion capability to say, you know, you're in a situation where we're having a lot of dynamics of infection," Fauci explained. "So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask."

German politicians were deeply divided Sunday over a warning by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if COVID-19 infection numbers reach new heights in the coming months. Chief of staff Helge Braun told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he doesn’t expect another coronavirus-related lockdown in Germany. But Braun said that unvaccinated people may be barred from entering venues like restaurants, movie theatres or sports stadiums “because the residual risk is too high.” Braun said getting vaccinated is important to protect against severe disease and because “vaccinated people will definitely have more...

Home » Political Analysis » Financial System Has Come to an End – Martin Armstrong Financial System Has Come to an End – Martin Armstrong By Greg Hunter On July 24, 2021 In Political Analysis 96 Comments By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post) Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong thinks we have come to the end of the line for the financial system, and this is why globalists are on a power grab of epic proportions. Armstrong explains, “The system has come to an end. They know they can no longer borrow indefinitely. So, what is this...

Representative Jim Banks), one of the two GOP lawmakers blocked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi from serving on the January 6 Select Committee, said on this week’s “Fox News Sunday” that the Speaker was trying to avoid questions about her responsible for the “breakdown of security” that allowed for the storming the Capitol. Banks said, “It’s more clear than ever that Nancy Pelosi is not interested in investigation. She’s only interested in a narrative. She claims the reason that she booted me from the committee was because of antics on the part of Jim Jordan and I. In hindsight, what I...

A Texas firefighter has been found dead after his family believes he was kidnapped at a Mexican resort while on vacation to celebrate his wedding anniversary, according to reports. Elijah Snow, who was a firefighter in the city of Arlington, had traveled with his wife, Jamie, last week to an all-inclusive resort in the popular tourist destination of Cancun, news station DFW-TV reported. The couple went to grab drinks at the hotel bar for their first night of the vacation, but at some point in the evening his wife decided to go back to their room, the outlet reported. When...

But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily involved in the Watchmen — including that Iraq veteran — critics say the G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening in the first place. “The FBI knew these people had some beliefs and were egging them on and providing help and ammunition,” Johnson said. “They encouraged, helped instigate and escalated the criminal conduct of those individuals. At the end of the day, there were almost as many FBI agents leading the group as the other people...

A man washed ashore in a cylindrical floating contraption on Saturday after attempting to float all the way to New York. He was not injured. The man told officials he came back to shore after having problems with his vessel. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office reported that the man left St. Augustine in the vessel with the goal of reaching New York.

With a roster full of anthem-kneelers and outspoken social justice advocates, it’s safe to say the United States sent the most woke men’s basketball team in history to the Olympics this year; what is also clear after Sunday is that the U.S. has also sent the worst basketball team in nearly 20 years to the Olympic games. The collection of highly-paid social justice warriors – who for some reason are willing to put the USA across their chest but weren’t willing to stand for the anthem just last year – lost three of five exhibition games while preparing for the...

Public lands have become more trodden and restrictive, but the pandemic-era craziness might not lastIn 2013, I hiked to one of the most beautiful places in the world: a glowing turquoise lake cradled by alpine tundra and framed by 13,000-foot peaks. It was a clear fall day, and I didn’t see another person on the entire 3.5-mile Ice Lakes Trail, in southwest Colorado. I was so enchanted that I returned the following year, and the year after, and every year after that. Each time I saw more and more people as I huffed up the steep switchbacks to Ice Lake,...

More vaccine mandates may be imposed across the US once the Food and Drug Administration gives its final stamp of approval to COVID-19 shots, health experts have predicted. The three vaccines on the market are currently being administered under an emergency use authorization but a full regulatory sign off could remove legal hurdles for businesses and government agencies that want to require shots for their customers and employees, NBC News reported. “I think once the vaccines go through full FDA approval, everything should be on the table, and I think that everything will be on the table at the level...

This is what we’ve heard about the viral video from the liberal media so far! Wisconsin police officer was caught on camera apparently throwing a small plastic bag into a Black man’s car in video shared Saturday on social media. The video, originally shared on Facebook by the man in the car, allegedly shows a Caledonia cop walking up to the car and tossing a baggie into it. The man in the car asks, “Hey bro, what’s that?” The officer acts confused over the question while putting on gloves. The man tells the cop, “I got you on camera, bro.”...

Team USA with Gregg Popovich as Head Coach2019 Pre-FIBA Exhibitions 3-12019 FIBA Bball World Cup 6-2*2021 Pre-Olympic Exhibitions 2-2 2021 Olympics 0-1*7th-place finish was Americans’ worst ever in a major tournament pic.twitter.com/P8i8Ol0JUI— CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) July 25, 2021