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If I wanted to prepare myself for alien contact, the last people I would turn to would be any priest, rabbi, imam or Greek and Hebrew scholar, as the combined brain power of all of those people wouldn’t get you enough wattage to make a 40-watt lightbulb glow. No sir, that won’t get the job done. If you want to know how to prepare for alien contact, you need to find yourself a King James Bible believer who could show you a few things about fallen angels having sex with human women, creating hybrid monsters who became the Genesis 6...

Joe Biden’s first year as president is almost over, and people are already trying to find a replacement for him. To dampen speculation, Biden said earlier this week that he was primed for another run in 2024 and would “relish” the challenge of going against Donald Trump in a rematch of 2020. But that’s boilerplate. It’s what the president is supposed to say to head off a brutal internecine fight between the radicals and the nearly radical. How much longer he can hang on to the illusion that he will run in 2024 is hard to say. For the moment,...

The steamship Arago, Capt. LINES, from Havre and Southampton on the 12th inst., reached this port yesterday. Off Cowes passed going in a propeller, supposed to be the Saxonia, from New-York. Among the Arago's passengers are Gen. SCOTT and Mr. J. GLANCEY JONES, late United States Minister at Vienna. The Arago left in port at Havre an unusually large fleet of American vessels, numbering 83. The Royal mail steamship Niagara left Liverpool at 8 1/2 A.M. of the 14th, and Queenstown 15th, and arrived at Halifax at 1 1/2 P.M. of Thursday, the 26th inst. The Niagara was boarded off...

VIDEORemember transitory inflation? Many of the so-called economic experts predicted earlier this year that the rising rate was strictly temporary or "transitory" as they assured us. Listen to the experts they told us. Well, the "experts" were proven WRONG yet again.

Top White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci said on CNN Monday morning that Americans should cancel their New Year's Eve parties due to the increasing spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, as Americans struggle to find some normalcy as the pandemic wraps up its second year. "I would stay away from that," Fauci said when asked about the annual parties on CNN's "New Day." "I have been telling people consistently that if you're vaccinated and boosted and you have a family setting, in the home with family and relatives," it's okay to gather, Fauci continued. "But when you're talking about...

A 15-year-old boy reportedly plunged to his death off a cruise ship that was returning to Miami last Wednesday – prompting a chilling series of “man overboard” announcements. The teen fell from the MSC Seashore at about 7:30 p.m. in what the company told Fox News was an apparent suicide. The cruise ship was at the tail end of a five-day journey in the Caribbean.

It certainly appears that more and more Americans are fed up with Dr. Anthony Fauci. A brand new book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was not only on Amazon’s nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Christmas, which began on Dec. 19 but was the number one book on Amazon’s top sellers. The book, “The Real Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” confronts the depiction of Fauci as a “hero” by the “pharma-funded mainstream media,” which Kennedy argues he is “anything but,” according to the publisher’s...

A teenager has died after falling multiple floors on a cruise ship. The incident took place Wednesday, according to Fox News. At around 7:30 p.m. local time, Crew Center reported that a 15-year-old — whose name has not been released — died after plunging on a MSC Cruise ship, which was returning to Miami after a five-night trip in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Citing a source, Crew Center said the young adult fell off a balcony from Deck 16 and landed onto the promenade on Deck 8. In a statement to CBS 4, a spokesperson for MSC Cruises says the...

The first scheduled cruise ship to return to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands is cancelled due to protocols and COVID concerns. After careful consideration and reviews of health and safety protocols, the Cayman Islands has decided to cancel the forthcoming visit of Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam cruise ship, which had been scheduled to visit Grand Cayman on December 28, 2021. This port of call visit had been planned as a test of the popular Caribbean island’s new visitor COVID-19 testing protocols, as was to be the first cruise ship to return to the island since the industry restart. Cayman...

More than 7,300 flights were canceled or delayed in the U.S. on Sunday due to spikes of COVID-19 cases as many people sought to travel home from their Christmas holiday destinations, USA Today reports. Approximately 5,900 flights were delayed as the omicron variant has led to a surge in coronavirus cases nationwide. About 1,400 flights were canceled altogether, according to the news outlet, which gathered its data from the flight-tracking website FlightAware.

Major General Edward Lansdale... spread rumors throughout the Philippines that a deadly vampire was wildly on the loose. Its name was the Aswang, a blood-sucking monstrosity, of which the people of the Philippines lived in complete dread. 1952, the Philippines were in turmoil and chaos, as a result of an uprising by the Hukbalahap – or Huks, as they were also known. Lansdale noted was that the rebels were deathly afraid of the vampiric Aswang and its nocturnal, blood-drinking activities. As the major general recalled: “To the superstitious, the Huk battleground was a haunted place filled with ghosts and eerie...

It’s Christmastime, America, and you know what that means: It’s almost Kwanzaa! It’s also the season when public school classrooms across the fruited plain have pointedly avoided Christmas, but have teemed with lessons about Kwanzaa and a handful of other holidays which aren’t Christmas.

On this date in 1504, three Russians were executed for Judaizing. These were the casualties that marked the end of the Zhidovstvuyushchiye, a little-known late 15th century circle of “Judaizers” or “Jewish-thinking people.” We know them mostly through their enemies so the precise nature of their beliefs is hard to pin down, but they don’t look like actual converts. “There was nothing Jewish about them,” Philip Longworth contends. “‘Judaizer’ was simply a term of ideological abuse, like ‘Trotskyist’ in the 1930s.” According to this thesis by Cambridge Slavonic lecturer Jana Howlett, the term itself dates to a Byzantine (meaning not...

Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state’s roadsides — and the language used to tell them. The increased scrutiny helped prompt a review of all 2,500 markers by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a process that has focused on factual errors, inadequate historical context, and racist or otherwise inappropriate references. So far, the state has removed two markers, revised two and ordered new text for two...

Americans Are Fed Up; Amazon’s #1 Nonfiction Book Is Brutal Exposé of Fauci It certainly appears that more and more Americans are fed up with Dr. Anthony Fauci. A brand new book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was not only on Amazon’s nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Christmas, which began on Dec. 19 but was the number one book on Amazon’s top sellers. The book, “The Real Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” confronts the depiction of Fauci as a “hero” by the “pharma-funded...

The origins of the first Russia dossier go back to 2002 when Don Berlin created Russia collusion stories involving billionaire brothers which were released to the Mainstream Media years later after the brothers became vocal supporters of Brexit. Dan Bongino shared in March 2019 that the Russia collusion scam was actually created a decade before President Trump’s campaign for the Presidency.

The defiant far-right acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks — and extend their power — on Capitol Hill. The effort, backed by Trump and guided by House members such as Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), is part of a broader push by followers of the “Make America Great Again” movement to purge the GOP of those not deemed loyal to the former president and his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe...

Housing in the US is getting “simply unaffordable.” And it has gotten far worse over the past year. Thanks to BAD government policies. While wage growth is positive, inflation is sucking the life from consumers. REAL average hourly earnings growth is -2.0133%. Even worse, home prices are rising at a 14.12% pace in REAL terms. So, wages are losing to inflation and housing is pulling away from renters in terms of affordability.` This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is realwagecs.png So it is not surprising that the University of Michigan consumer survey for “Buying Conditions For...

It’s Monday; I have to keep reminding myself because my internal calendar is totally whacked. It’s still dark out so I don’t know how much but I do know it snowed overnight as I heard the snowplows go through starting at 4:30. So far they’ve done 4 passes, 2 on each side of the street, so I’m guessing a respectable amount. Emma Haworth, Swan LakeThe sun is expected shortly after dawn, before the next storm comes through later this afternoon.Gustaf Fjaestad, Snow Covered Road With FenceAnd wouldn’t you know it, now that Christmas is over along comes this perfect gift:...

A daredevil has broken the slackline world record after walking between two hot air balloons more than a mile above the ground. Rafael Zugno Bridi, 34, balanced precariously on the narrow inch-wide slackline among the clouds over Praia Grande in his native Brazil. The adrenaline junkie was barefoot 6,131ft in the air when he broke the record of the highest ever tightrope walk at more than double the height of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa which stands at 2,722ft.