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On this date in 1720Nov. 18, 1720, the pirate captain “Calico Jack” Rackham was hanged together with his crew by the British governor of Jamaica. Nicknamed for his flamboyant clothing, the Bristol-born buccaneer plundered the West Indies during the “Golden Age of Piracy”, having ousted his former captain Charles Vane. Rackham is chiefly remembered to history for two who were not hanged with the rest of his crew: Anne Bonny and Mary Read, rare female pirates who served aboard Rackham’s ship. Immortalized by Daniel Defoe in his pseudonymous A General History of the Pyrates, Bonny and Read came to piracy...

November 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Out of the many news headlines that have dominated the year 2020 so far, there is one somber event that is in danger of being forgotten: November 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the first-ever legalization of abortion. Researchers estimate that legal abortion has resulted in about one billion abortions worldwide in the past 100 years, making it what they call the “greatest genocide in history.” On this date 100 years ago, Soviet Russia announced the legalization of abortion in order, according to the state explanation, to combat the growing numbers of women who...

1,483 trading days: The average length of the time that it takes the Dow to carve out a new all-time high after hitting a bear market The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday notched its first all-time high since February, ending a relative fallow period for the blue-chip benchmark, which was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic relative to its peers. But the climb still represents the fastest rebound from a bear-market low for the benchmark in about three decades, according to Dow Jones Market Data.On Monday, the Dow DJIA, +1.59% finished firmly above its Feb. 12 closing high at...

As America gets ready to endure another painful lockdown that will crush the economy and destroy millions of lives, China is opening up their stadiums to tens of thousands of people without masks. The video of Chinese people, reportedly 70,000 of them, in a tightly-packed stadium enjoying their lives at a sporting event is beginning to go viral:

Well first for Mr. Bidet, he's meaningless. Like 'less than zero,' he's 'less than meaningless.' And every time I use the restroom now I see Bidet's smiling-face looking up at me and then I know I'm going to have to ruin his day considerably. But first let's romp through the Trump legacy. Friends it looks like it may be over for Big Orange, hope not but... My take? Donald J Trump from the beginning, it was like I was a kid in a candy store. Just the kind of big britches bitch-slapper the pathetic leftist needed for their enfeebled jaws....

Police in Frankfurt, Germany fired water cannons at Antifa counterprotesters on Saturday as the far-left attempted to shut down an anti-lockdown rally against the government’s Chinese coronavirus restrictions. Approximately 600 Querdenker (lateral thinker) protesters took to the streets of Frankfurt, calling for an end to what they termed the coronavirus “dictatorship”. Around 300 far-left counterprotesters, carrying “bring down the right” Antifa banners, staged a counter-protest, blocking the march route while proclaiming that there is no room for “Nazi propaganda” on the streets, according to the Frankfurter Neue Presse. Despite their open hostility to the nation-state as well as the...

Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton - Dear Mr Fantasy https://youtu.be/ugTaPTv0eQY

Newsmax is carrying Warroom: Pandemic right now; Trump’s litigation is being discussed- and Wash Post inaccurate story

(h/t foldspace)Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of...

Black Lives Matter protesters attacked a man who reportedly exited a San Francisco East Bay suburban restaurant. The protesters pushed the man into a street with moving traffic and knocked him to the ground. Police appeared to ignore the episode.

Vote fraud was predicted before the 2020 election, so it certainly wasn’t a surprise to anyone. In fact, vote fraud is predicted before all elections, because in fact there IS – virtually undeniably – a great deal of vote fraud in every election in the United States. We have a secret ballot, which makes it difficult to build in the kinds of security that we install in every other aspect of our lives. Did you buy that wristwatch, that overcoat, that bottle of wine? Easy... check the receipt, and there’s the proof. Did you pay for a Timex but walk...

Dr. Kelli Ward, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Arizona, provided an update on the state of the presidential race in the Grand Canyon State and assured Arizonans that “this election is far from over.” “Do not lose heart. Do not allow the negativity and the fake news to bring you down. Arizona is in this fight 100 percent. We are out to make sure that our elections in our state have integrity,” Ward said in a Monday video, citing the viral tweets from Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D), who has a history of criticizing President Donald Trump...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos just got to the official end of the line with her efforts to divert $16 million in public school COVID-relief funding to private schools. U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California James Donato signed a permanent injunction–made public Monday–that will formally end litigation begun last summer against the Department of Education (DOE). In July, Judge Donato, a Barack Obama appointee, quoted the late Justice Antonin Scalia when he called DeVos’s justification of the DOE’s pro-private school policy “interpretive jiggery-pokery in the extreme.” The Congressional CARES Act earmarked approximately $16 billion to help elementary...

The Wisconsin Elections Commission is refusing to do a statewide recount unless President Donald Trump pays them $7.9 million upfront beforehand. The $7.9 million is the cost estimate of the cost submitted by Wisconsin county clerks. "We still have not received any indication that there will or will not be a recount,” said Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s chief election official. “But we want Wisconsin’s voters to know we are ready.” Breaking 911 reports that “part of that readiness includes collecting recount cost estimates from all 72 counties and assembling a statewide estimate, which must be paid before any recount can begin.”

Video from Justin Trudeau's Sept. 29 announcement that they would be pledging an additional $400 million to humanitarian aid spending has reemerged, noting Trudeau's use of the word "reset." The announcement was followed by a joint news conference with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Trudeau said funding would go to "to trusted partners on the ground fighting COVID-19," saying that "Canada believes that a strong, coordinated response across the world and across sectors is essential. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset." Justin Trudeau calling the coronavirus pandemic an opportunity...

Despite receiving near-universal proclamations of victory from the corporate media and setting up a verified “transition team” account on Twitter, behind closed doors the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign is begging supporters to raise $30 million for fighting lawsuits regarding election integrity filed by the Donald Trump campaign. Emails from the Democratic National Committee and the Biden campaign were sent out to donors last week that asked for help “re-launching our Biden Fight Fund” to “ensure Trump doesn’t win them just because we don’t have the funds to fight back.” “The crises facing our country are severe from climate change to...

(ATLANTA) – Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a warning to groups that are helping individuals move to Georgia solely for the purpose of voting in the January Senate runoffs elections. Groups that finance or organize such efforts are involved in conspiracy to commit voter fraud and could be charged under Georgia’s Racketeering Conspiracy laws. “Make no mistake about it, I will seek to prosecute those who try to undermine our elections to the fullest extent of the law,” said Raffensperger. “The integrity of our elections is paramount. Outside groups who seek to interfere with democracy in Georgia should be...

At Jesuit agency event, Biden announces he will dramatically raise refugee capWeeks after the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was dropping to a historic low the cap on the maximum number of displaced people the U.S. decides to resettle in a federal fiscal year, President-elect Joe Biden said Nov. 12 he would be heading in a dramatically different direction.Addressing those gathered for a virtual event marking the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service, Biden, in a prerecorded video, said his administration would raise the 15,000 cap set by the Trump administration for fiscal year 2021 to 125,000...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump More reports of voting machines switching Romney votes to Obama. Pay close attention to the machines, don't let your vote be stolen 11:56 AM · Nov 6, 2012·Twitter Web Client 11.2K R

Lin Wood @LLinWood Late this afternoon, I filed an Amended Complaint against GA Secretary of State @GaSecofState , et al. Due process issues are now also raised. The recount is a sham. Tomorrow, I will move for an emergency TRO. @BrianKempGA better come out of his basement. 2020-11-16 Verified Amended Complaint_Wood v. Raffensperger et al.pdf Shared with Dropbox dropbox.com 7:37 PM · Nov 16, 2020