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NASA reported this week that a small meteoroid struck the telescope sometime between May 23-25. The object smacked one of the primary mirror segments, which will cause NASA to realign the mirror to reduce distortion caused by the impact. The space agency said it anticipated the telescope would be bombarded with dust-sized particles, and the strike was larger than anticipated. NASA said that the telescope’s beginning-of-life performance is still well above expectations, and the observatory is fully capable of performing the science it was designed to achieve.

I took the Metro Blue Line into Downtown LA yesterday and was greeted by at least 100 LEOs and cast iron riot barriers at the corner of 7th and Figueroa Streets. Lots of black SUVs and police escorts accompanying the "dipsh!ts" er, I mean diplomats, guilt dignitaries and other assorted jackwagons. I asked a security guard outside the fencing what was going on and was told it was the "Summit of the Americas" (aka: the Western Hemisphere's version of the Bildeberg gathering.) I did some video recording on my phone and would like to post it here in the blog/chat...

The team will gather data on "events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena -- from a scientific perspective," NASA said it was interested in UAPs from a security and safety perspective. There was no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin, NASA added. The team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, who is president of the Simons Foundation in New York City. NASA said the limited number of observations of UAPs made it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. A first step for the team would be to...

TIERRA MONTE – The air smells of ash and the landscape is leached of color. Spots of green punctuate the valley floor in places. But along the ridges, the powdery residue of charred trees has fallen like snow, accumulating up to 4 inches deep. These are the slices of forest where the fire burned the hottest, scorching ponderosa pines from crown to root. Once titans, they are now matchsticks. Pola Lopez gestures their way, southward toward Hermits Peak. Before a tsunami of flames ripped through this canyon in Tierra Monte, the canopy was so thick it was impossible to see...

This is an excerpt from Thomas Sowell's 'Dismantling America'

On the streets of Melbourne every Saturday, courageous freedom fighters still speak out against modern tyranny. Their brotherhood and sisterhood is real They March under a red ensign which was more widely known than the blue ensign to many people in Australia's early years as a Federation.

Editor’s Commentary: I have long contended that those in the know among the “elites” have done whatever they can to avoid taking the actual Covid vaccines. I’ve suspected that the higher-ups like Barack Obama and Anthony Fauci are taking their “jabs” but they’re not really the so-called vaccines. Others are trying to buy their way out of getting the jabs by getting fake vax passports. In the article below by Matt Agorist from Free Thought Project, we see the latter in action. This took place in Spain, but we can assume it’s taking place in every western nation. Some people...

The Federal Reserve is going crazy on inflation news! The Fed is expected to raise their target rate to 2.875% by February 2023. With that expectation, mortgage rates (yellow line) are soaring. And with that, University of Michigan’s Buying Conditions for housing has plunged to 43, the lowest levels since 1982 as the US was trying to recover from Carter Malaise. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index just plunged to the LOWEST LEVEL in history on inflation and Fed’s reaction. Average REAL wage growth has now declined to -2.11% YoY. Do Washington DC politicians and bureaucrats feel like we...

Rumble Video One of my favorite people speaks with Jan Markell about the WEF/WHO! Jan Markell talks with Michele Bachmann for the hour. The globalist agenda is not a conspiracy. It is reality. Jan and Michele explain what is happening in the open and behind the scenes this hour. It is following the predicted biblical outline of things to come.

This is going out mainly to the truckers out there, but everyone should start thinking about this: Is there a certain point – a price per gallon if you will, where the wheels start falling off the supply chains, the economy, etc. to the point of no return? A few weeks ago, I was talking with friends both on and offline; trying to calculate a number in which owner-operators and small fleets simply could no longer afford to operate under the current D.O.T. rules. If/When that happens, by logic, we assume one of more the following would take place: 1....

As during Communist control of Soviet Russia, the Jan. 6 Committee’s purpose is to prop up a dying, corrupt regime.. The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 launched the public phase of its proceedings Thursday night in a prime-time hearing with all the fanfare of a Soviet show trial, complete with production assistance from a former president of ABC News. Just as the communists gathered in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 to purge their political opponents in public show trials, nine members of the lower chamber filed into the Cannon House Office Building to demonize their political opponents as domestic...

A string of recent revelations has raised questions about security posture of Capitol under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prior to breach.Even as House Democrats' select committee on Jan. 6, 2021 argued Thursday that former President Trump is to blame for the chaos of that fateful day, explosive new reports collectively paint a very different picture of the Capitol breach, one suggesting the committee may be ignoring a slew of security failures that contributed to the tragic events of that day — and could leave the Capitol vulnerable in the future if unaddressed.With the credibility of the media and political establishment...

5 Reasons Why You Need A Revolver Five reasons why a revolver might be better than you think.

Has anyone seen how many viewers the kangaroo committee actually had? It is interesting that searching for the numbers, nothing definitive comes up. Searching for any other TV event it is fairly easy to get numbers, like premiers, final episodes, Super Bowls, etc. Not so with this show. What are the real numbers?

I just went to buy some lumber. The price has come down about 40% in two weeks. Yes, lumber is crashing even though everything else is going through the roof. Demand is starting to evaporate. Buckle up.

The request was a few months too late. The Meet the Press Show on NBC reached out to Congressman Don Young’s press office to see if the congressman could be on the show on Friday, June 10. “We would love to have him on the program if his schedule allows,” the request read. It may have been an intern who made the ask for the show that is the longest-running television show in history. If so, oops. The communication director for Alaska congressional office for Alaska’s at-large seat took to Twitter to give his deadpanned answer: “Unfortunately, @chucktodd, I don’t...

A longtime staple of the Los Angeles community will close its doors next year, citing escalating costs to operate. The Farmer John meatpacking plant, located in Vernon for more than 90 years, is expected to cease all operations in the early part of 2023 as the parent company, Smithfield Foods, Inc., plans to move most of their business located on the West Coast to different regions. "Smithfield is taking these steps due to the escalating cost of doing business in California," a statement released early Friday morning said. They said that customers on the West Coast would still receive services...

Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million the state legislature had approved in the latest state budget to help build a spring training facility for the Tampa Bay Rays. “I don’t support giving taxpayer dollars to professional sports stadiums, period,” DeSantis said.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) refused on Thursday to release the body cam footage of Paul Pelosi’s DUI arrest because it could “jeopardize” the investigation. “The Public Records Unit (PRU) has determined the Department possesses records responsive to your request,” the CHP said in response to a query from Fox News. “However, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office has advised the release of records would jeopardize an ongoing investigation. As such, records are being withheld pursuant to Government Code section 6254 (f).”

Social Security has a problem. As Democrats push to expand entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is getting paid to Social Security is a financial trainwreck. “The program’s payouts have exceeded revenue since 2010, but the recent past is nowhere near as grim as the future. According to the latest annual report by Social Security’s trustees, the gap between promised benefits and future payroll tax revenue has reached a staggering $59.8 trillion. That gap is $6.8 trillion larger than it was just one year earlier. The biggest driver of that move wasn’t Covid-19, but rather...