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There are a lot of good reasons for US songwriters to sell their publishing catalogs right now. There’s the fact that Joe Biden’s tax plans will – if they get through the US legislature – significantly raise capital gains tax for composers whose songs attract a sale price-tag over $1m. There’s also the fact that streaming continues to grow the record industry, leading to rosy projections from the likes of Goldman Sachs… and, in turn, fuelling a frenetic M&A music rights marketplace. And, of course, there’s the fact that acquisition multiples have never been higher, as well-funded players like Hipgnosis...

The truth is out there — or at least that’s what researchers at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute are hoping. While much of the SETI Institute’s research involves scanning space for light and radio signals as indicators of extraterrestrial life, it’s also looking for bigger objects — and specifically alien megastructures. “[It’s] essentially any artificial structure built by an intelligent civilization perhaps for energy harvesting purposes,” Ann Marie Cody, a researcher scientist at NASA Ames and the SETI Institute, told Vice in a fascinating new interview. The method that Cody and her colleagues employ to try...

Just watched this movie everybody at church was talking about. Dark satire, dark humor parable. An embarrassment for our country.

I have a friend who has $150,000 in a CHECKING account. He basically has no bills, house and car paid for, makes good money so bank account is growing significantly each month, and current age is 64

Aliens are coming to Earth, and they're going to eradicate all of our diseases and increase our lifespan, according to Uri Geller. The truth is out there, they say. Let's be real: it's naive to think we're the only intelligent life across the whole universe. Somewhere, across 10 billion lightyears and countless galaxies, there has to be... someone, something, right? Don't take my word for it: Geller, a self-proclaimed physicist most-famous for bending a spoon and clearly a reputable authority on extra-terrestrials, believes an alien invasion is 'imminent', and these 'superior' beings will share their knowledge with us lowly humans....

Newly declassified emails obtained released by the U.S. State Department suggest deep-seated corruption in the Biden family. Despite the impeachment of a sitting president, Donald Trump, for seeking answers on the appearance of impropriety involving Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, the emails now reveal that those shady dealings indeed “undercut” U.S. foreign policy

The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced that it's closing its doors "for the immediate future" after ongoing harassment directed at employees and the center itself. The center, a nonprofit nature reserve nestled near the U.S.-Mexico border, unwittingly became the subject of conservative conspiracy theories and political conflict in recent years, having been locked in a years-long legal battle with the Trump administration and We Build the Wall regarding a planned border wall. The harassment grew so great that it led the board of directors...

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray is claiming that there is no difference in how the FBI has treated Jan. 6 protesters in relation to how ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter forces have been treated.“We have one standard, which is: I don’t care whether you’re upset about an election or upset at our criminal justice system,” Wray said while appearing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley for a speech on Monday night. “Whatever it is you’re upset about, there’s a right way and a wrong way to express your being upset in this country and...

Even as I write this article and give it the title, I know, and any student of Bible Prophecy likely knows, that there are way more than 50 reasons why the Covid-19 vaccine, or should I say … the jab, jab, jab … jab, is not the mark of the beast. When one considers all the events that must actually achieve fulfillment within Daniel’s 70th-week before the Mark event is officially introduced, a student of Bible Prophecy understands 50 reasons is really just a smidgen of what will actually transpire before the Mark becomes an official reality. But when I...

(The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)Most Americans know they are able to claim benefits from Social Security at any age between 62 and 70, where claiming later in life results in higher monthly checks, but fewer of them. Unfortunately, most are unaware that early retirement is by and large a bad decision for the individual, and a poor choice to offer workers approaching retirement.It is a 50-year-old solution to a 50-year-old problem, shaping the way people retire today.By way of background, the rules for early retirement...

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO Tweeted Feb 1, 2022: In a closed door hearing this morning on the Islamic terrorist attack against the Jewish synagogue in Texas, FBI assistant director repeatedly refused to acknowledge the FBI was wrong jn failing to call the attack what it was - terrorism directed against Jewish Americans.Feb 1, 2022 Why is this difficult? Why can’t the FBI acknowledge Islamic terrorism when they see it. And why are they even now defending their original asinine comments saying the attack was “not related to” the Jewish community.

I hear many of my brothers and sisters, and other people as well, increasingly lamenting the times and wishing we could return to “normal.” I think it is safe to assume most are referring to the time before Covid-19. However we may, as individuals, define this life-altering period, it has indeed changed our lives, and – it has changed how we must view the future, in an unprecedented way. Let’s examine that condition, “normal,” and see what was ongoing prior to this period. 1) Unborn humans were/are still being slaughtered by the millions. 2) Every depravity against God’s firmly established...

Ottawa (Reuters)-Police in Ottawa see signs that guns have been brought into a trucker' protest against vaccine mandates that have paralyzed the Canadian capital, the police chief said on Wednesday adding that calling in the military would pose a major risk. "We have had an indication around firearms coming into this jurisdiction as part of this demonstration as much as a week and a half ago," Chief Peter Sloly told a briefing. He said there was evidence of "a significant element from the United States in the funding and organizing" of the protest.... "We are looking at every single option,...

A SUNY professor is under investigation after video clips emerged of him asserting that “it’s a mistake” to think pedophilia is wrong and that there are “evolutionary advantages to child/adult sex.”Yes, really.SUNY Fredonia professor Stephen Kershnar teaches teaches libertarian philosophy and applied ethics at the university.As part of his libertarian philosophy, Kershnar believes that society’s reaction to pedophilia is what’s wrong, and that consenting sexual relationships between adults and children could actually be a good thing.“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held...

Lawmakers in Iowa’s state Legislature have advanced a measure that would allow the use of ivermectin for critically sick COVID-19 patients who request it.Ivermectin has been used for decades to treat parasitic worms in humans, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, some patients and doctors have attested that the drug is effective in relieving symptoms of the disease.The Iowa measure stipulates that COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators should have the option to use ivermectin. Specifically, it expands the state’s “right to try” law, which allows terminally ill patients to access medicines that have been approved under the first phase of...

Billionaire Melinda French Gates will no longer give the bulk of her fortune to the foundation she started with her ex-husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according to a report, which cites people familiar. French Gates had committed to giving the bulk of her personal fortune — estimated at around $11 billion — to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest with more than $50 billion in assets. But now she will spread the money around to other philanthropic causes, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the people familiar with the matter. Her apparent decision follows her...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Yep! Still The Best Looking Navy In The World! 220129-N-PG226-1344 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Jan. 29, 2022) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to the "Dragonslayers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11, conducts a vertical replenishment alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Jan. 29, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security, and defend U.S., allied and partner interests in...

Media critics are calling for Brian Stelter to be fired after failing to report the 'open secret' affair between top boss Jeff Zucker and staffer Allison Gollust. 'The network needs to step up and fire Brian Stelter,' a CNN insider tells DailyMail.com. 'He is allegedly our top media reporter - yet he failed to report on the scoop that everyone in the office knew. And if he wants to say he didn't know, he is truly terrible at his job.' Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN program Reliable Sources. In a statement on...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) called Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) "one of the worst human beings" after the senator sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for the Biden administration to abandon its support for a prospective Ukrainian membership in NATO. "I hate to be so personal, but Hawley is one of the worst human beings, and a self egrandizing con artist," Kinzinger wrote in a post on Twitter. "When Trump goes down I certainly hope this evil will be layed in the open for all to see, and be ashamed of," the congressman added.