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SANTA FE, N.M., Oct 27 (Reuters) - Actor Alec Baldwin fired a 45 caliber Colt pistol loaded with a live lead bullet in last week's accidental fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of his movie "Rust" where filmmakers showed "complacency" toward safety, authorities said on Wednesday.

The US has issued its first-ever passport with an “X” gender designation — in what advocates have praised as a historic win for non-binary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people. The unidentified traveler was allowed to choose an “X” instead of an “F” or “M,” for female or male, in the “sex” section of the federally issued document, the State Department announced Wednesday. “I want to reiterate, on the occasion of this passport issuance, the Department of State’s commitment to promoting the freedom, dignity, and equality of all people — including LGBTQI+ persons,” Ned Price, a spokesman for the department, said in...

File this one under “We Tried to Warn You.” For months, reputable doctors have been suppressed, blacklisted, banned, fired, and shunned by their peers for making one easy prediction: The Covid-19 “vaccines” would cause mutations that render them not only ineffective, but could potential use them as a catalyst for something more deadly. We’ve detailed it here and on other sites multiple times recently by using statistical data to demonstrate that the jabs aren’t working. Time and again we see data that shows the more heavily vaccinated a city, state, or nation is, the more likely they are to have...

Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said China’s test of a hypersonic weapons system is “very concerning” — and “very close” to a Sputnik moment as Beijing rapidly expands its military capabilities. As The Washington Post has reported, national security officials were alarmed by the suspected test in August of a nuclear-capable hypersonic vehicle that partially orbited the globe before hurtling toward Earth. As China is in the midst of a rapid expansion of its strategic and nuclear weapons systems, its demonstration of hypersonic and orbital capabilities — first reported by the Financial Times —...

North Korea has warned its citizens that they must expect to eat less food until the country re-opens its border with China in 2025. North Korea closed its border with China in January 2020 as a precautionary measure against the spread of coronavirus. But the move had a serious impact on the nation's economy - with prices of everyday goods rising sharply as demand outstripped supply. Speaking about the new government guidance, a resident of the city Sinuiju, who wished to remain anonymous, said that people have been warned that the chances of re-opening the border with China before 2025...

The Case for Optimism: 10 Reasons Why the Pro-freedom Right Will Defeat the Anti-Liberty LeftThe case for optimism is easy if you compare the positives of the pro-freedom Right to the abhorrent negatives of the anti-liberty left.J.B. Shurk’s motivational Case for Optimism made the important point that the freedom community on the right side of the political spectrum has to be optimistic simply because the anti-liberty left cannot win this fight.Note the dual meaning. The leftist enemies of freedom and civil rights are such that it makes it impossible for them to win, and while it would be a disaster...

The assistant director on the New Mexico set of Alec Baldwin's "Rust" movie told police that he did not check all the rounds in the barrel of the gun used in last week's deadly shooting to make sure they were all dummy bullets, according to a newly filed court document. Assistant director David Halls told police that when the film's armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed "showed him" the firearm that Baldwin used "before continuing rehearsal, he could only remember seeing three rounds," according to a new affidavit obtained by Insider that was filed Wednesday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court. Halls "advised...

Greene, a Republican from Georgia, purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company linked to Trump’s planned social media platform, according to a financial disclosure. "This transaction was reported in compliance with House rules and provides all required details about the transaction," Greene's office said in a statement to FOX Business.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called the filibuster “unconstitutional” in a new op-ed published on Time on Wednesday. Hoyer claimed that there were only a few times in which the writers of the Constitution could see the need for “extraordinary majorities” - a reference to the 60 votes needed in the Senate to end debate on the majority of legislative pieces: Constitutional amendments, impeachment, approving treaties “negotiated by the executive” and overriding the president’s veto. “However, the drafters of the Constitution discussed but did not include a provision for the passage of legislation to need more than a majority...

US Army bosses are investigating after three service personnel went to get a flu shot on base - only to be given a dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine instead.

The American Medical Association (AMA) wants people to die from the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). The reason we can safely say this is that the trade group is working overtime to restrict Americans’ access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ivermectin, two safe, effective and inexpensive early treatment remedies for the Chinese Virus. Instead of recognizing that each individual has the God-given right to choose what goes into his body, the AMA is taking a position of medical fascism that does not even recognize the right of doctors to prescribe whatever medications they see fit for their patients. In 1996, ivermectin was approved...

Children remain at the center of protests over state vaccination mandates. Parents staged protests last week and even disrupted a Santa Cruz County Office of Education Board meeting; the board has taken steps so it doesn't happen again. Advertisement A virtual town hall meeting is scheduled for Tuesday night. It will provide information to Spanish-speaking parents who have children 5-to-11 years old now eligible for the vaccine. The superintendent doesn't anticipate protests but there will be extra measures in place for future school board meetings. Protestors turned out last Monday at the Santa Cruz Clock tower to say, no to...

Caltrans is on the scene of a rock slide on Highway 1 at Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County. The slide has closed off a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1 stretching from just north of Ragged Point Inn to Fullers Point, just south of Deetjen's Big Sur Inn. "[The rock slide] doesn't look too bad by Big Sur standards," said the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce in an email.

Want to get a glimpse into the future, evidently most of India is already enrolled in "The Mark of the Beast", aka Digital ID system, which allows you to access government services and society in general... First they start with mandatory vaccines, then vaccine passports, then a digital ID/Wallet System that allows you to access government services and society in general....Watch the video at this company's website, it's stupid and silly but scary at the same time...one of the biggest backers of this technology is BILL GATES.... Be glad we have the 2nd Amendment....

Veteran journalist Katie Couric is criticizing CNN for allowing primetime anchor Chris Cuomo to joke with his brother Andrew, then the governor of New York, on air during the coronavirus pandemic. "CNN should be able to say 'we shouldn't allow Chris Cuomo to yuk it up with his brother, the governor of New York with a giant Q-tip in the middle of the pandemic because it's good TV," Couric said Tuesday during an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." "They should say, 'We made a bad decision; that was wrong.' And I think it's important for people to...

The Moon is closer, always has a view of Earth, can exchange signals and deliverables hundreds of times more quickly than can be exchanged between Earth and Mars, and is easier to land on and take off from. On the Moon, solar power is a tremendous asset... In terms of the “bang for your buck” that you get from the Sun, the Moon is more than twice as efficient. In terms of the elements that both worlds are made out of, the chemical compositions of the compounds we find, and the isotope ratios of the materials present, the Moon and...

Unlike Windows and macOS, there is a world of Linux versions, known as distributions, for users to experience. However, those switching to Linux on the desktop usually get pointed in the direction of Ubuntu due to its popularity and large community. That’s a fair suggestion since Ubuntu is frequently updated and supports a lot of hardware. But when there are so many other Linux distros out there, users may be curious about what else might work for them. Fortunately, there is a quick guide...Ubuntu alternativesUbuntu is based on Debian Linux and uses the GNOME desktop environment. A desktop environment can...

A Japanese start-up is hoping to convince motorists to swap their cars for a $680,000 (£495,000) hoverbike. ALI Technologies' XTurismo Limited Edition went on sale in Japan, earlier on Wednesday. Electronics giant Mitsubishi and footballer Keisuke Honda are two backers of the Tokyo-based company. ALI Technologies says the hoverbike can fly for 40 minutes at up to 100km/h (62mph) on a single charge. The company aims to have manufactured 200 single-rider 300kg (47-stone) hoverbikes by mid-2022. Each is equipped with a conventional engine and four battery-powered motors.

Americans have seen tyranny up close now, and most are horrified. Thank God for that. But the elite have rapidly closed in on their goal of subjecting the People to total submission. They’re not about to take their foot off the gas now. And they have nearly unlimited resouces. We must united as free men and women or perish as slaves. With that principle in mind, it’s time we fully repudiate this idea that white Americans are in any way against black Americans. With obvious exceptions to the rule, it is just NOT the case. What IS true, is that...

CLAIM: “Not only that, more people are working today than just before the pandemic started,” President Joe Biden said at campaign event with Terry Mcauliffe in Virginia last. VERDICT: False. This one is not even close. Many people lost their jobs when the pandemic struck and still have not found work. No matter how you count it, there are fewer people working than just before the pandemic. In February 2020, just before the pandemic took hold and lockdowns were issued, there were 158,732,000 people employed in America, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s broadest measure of employment. In September,...