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In a tragic irony, the prospect of another 'life-saving' lockdown has drained some senior citizens of their will to live. Assisted suicides and depression are up.An elderly woman who had experienced strict confinement and isolation in a Toronto nursing home under a previous COVID lockdown has narrowly avoided reliving that experience, although at a horrible cost. Toronto went into Ontario’s most restrictive “grey” tier on Monday, including a near-complete ban on social gatherings. Unlike many others in North America who have packed up their belongings and relocated to less restrictive areas during the COVID-19 outbreak, however, her “escape” from lockdown...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called out President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign for continuing to allege that the election was rigged, claiming that the president is now trying to throw him under the bus after the state was called for Joe Biden. By all accounts, Georgia had a wildly successful and smooth election,” wrote Raffensperger in a Wednesday op-ed for USA Today. “This should be something for Georgians to celebrate, whether their favored presidential candidate won or lost. For those wondering, mine lost — my family voted for him, donated to him, and are now being thrown under...

A former North Korean gymnast claims he leaped over an almost 10-feet high barbed-wire fence to defect to the safety of the South, according to reports. Seoul’s defense authorities have now launched an investigation into the unidentified defector after his escape across the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) failed to set off any alarms, The Korea Herald said. The man, who is described as being in his 20s, told them that he used his gymnastic training to leap over the fence undetected — even jumping twice for officials to prove his athletic prowess, according to the report.

In this election, there were thousands of votes cast for Biden that were illegal because the people casting them were not US citizens. Just Facts discovered that those vote totals were, in some states, quite large. Here are the vote totals that they found: Arizona: 51,081 ± 17,689 Georgia: 54,950 ± 19,025 Michigan: 22,585 ± 7,842 Nevada: 22,021 ± 7,717 North Carolina: 46,218 ± 16,001 Pennsylvania: 32,706 ± 11,332 Wisconsin: 5,010 ± 1,774 When considered alongside the supposed Biden margin of victory in many of those states, it is incredibly concerning that those non-citizens were able to vote for Biden....

Pope Francis lashes out at lockdown protestors: they’d never protest children lacking waterJust days ago, the pope was visiting with professional basketball players while breaking social distancing guidelines and not wearing a mask.November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a rant by Pope Francis where he lets down his guard and allows his leftist colors to show more than in the past, the Pope said of anti-lockdown protestors, “you’ll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd, or joining a demonstration because there are shantytowns where children lack water or education, or because there are whole families who have...

You may be hearing a lot from President Obama these next couple of weeks because he's promoting his new book, "A Promised Land." In an interview with The Breakfast Club, the hosts asked Obama to share some thoughts on the 2020 presidential election. One thing that really irked 44, he shared, was that so many Hispanics voted for the president. Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties. "People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump, but there's a lot of evangelical Hispanics, who, the fact that Trump says racist things...

The Greek government officially requested an urgent purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fifth generation aircraft for the Hellenic Air Force. According to the Greek newspaper Proto Thema, the Director General of Armaments and Investments for the Ministry of National Defense, Theodoros Lagios, sent a formal Letter of Request (LOR) to the U.S. Department of Defense on November 6, 2020.

White dwarf stars in globular cluster NGC 6397. (NASA, ESA, and H. Richer/University of British Columbia) SPACE ====================================================================== When stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives, the object that remains is a white dwarf. This is the star's shrunken, naked core, no longer capable of nuclear fusion. It shines, but only with residual heat, slowly cooling over billions of years until it's completely cold and dark. But not all white dwarfs cool the same way. Last year, astronomers found a certain type of massive white dwarf stars cool more slowly than others, as though they have...

ACOSTA: "He didn’t take questions, as we all know. And it’s worth noting. He has been in this period of dealing with losing to Joe Biden for the last three weeks now. Still has not taken any questions from reporters. So it is hard to put the cereal back in the box after you have gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs, and I think that is the situation over here. Just the strangest, just the weirdest thing I have ever seen in the White House briefing room.”

There’s been enough obloquy thrown Thanksgiving’s way this year without MSNBC’s petty revisionism, no? Yet, there it was on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” on Saturday, this time guest-hosted by Jason Johnson. As the Media Research Center reported, Johnson called Thanksgiving “colonizer Christmas” and then threw it to a panelist who managed to sink lower from there. Johnson began with the usual Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warnings against gathering for Thanksgiving this year — in some jurisdictions, Americans are restricted from gathering by law — and “urging you not to be the turkey who puts your loved ones at risk.”...

A super PAC linked to longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone is calling for Republicans to write-in the president's name in the upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia as retaliation after his re-election bid failed in the once red state. The Committee for American Sovereignty, a group tied to Stone which raised millions pushing disinformation during the 2016 election, launched a new website urging Republican voters to "crush" the "plot to destroy America" by "writing in Trump for the Georgia Senate runoffs."

Everyone knows leftist politicians don't believe their own malarkey, but a new Democratic presidential administration means more "do as I say, not as I do" tyrants are in charge beginning in 2021. Before there were hypocritical politicians flagrantly flouting their own COVID-19 lockdown rules, there were the global warming-alarmists who traversed the Earth in carbon-spewing private jets to lecture regular people about their energy consumption. One such throwback is failed 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry, whom presumptive President-elect Joe Biden has tapped to become "Climate Czar" in his incoming administration.

Say what you will, the 80's were an interesting time musically, post up your memories of the 80s.Killing Joke~ 80's

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump, who he has repeatedly criticized throughout the president’s time in office, for his Operation Warp Speed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Operation Warp Speed is a fast-tracked effort to find a vaccine for the virus in record time. Scarborough noted Trump has had “repeated failures” throughout the pandemic but said if Operation Warp Speed plays out as the pharmaceutical companies believe it will, then the president’s legacy regarding the vaccine “will be a very positive one.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Colossians 3:17 (King James Version) President Trump is fighting the near impossible war of systemic voter fraud. The Dems have cheated inside their cities for so many decades if not centuries and he is trying to unravel this in one. This is the most important war he has ever fought for the freedom of this country. You have one side bringing the most advanced cheating system ever invented and the other trying to fight...

Carla Marinucci @cmarinucci Newsom communications director Click departs, will be replaced by Melgar Newsom communications director Click departs, will be replaced by Melgar politico

Illegal electioneering and ballot harvesting by supposedly nonpartisan groups reached new heights in this election. Last week, I reported on a coordinated and completely illegal votes-for-cash scheme in tribal areas of Nevada, spearheaded by a group called the Nevada Native Vote Project, which is part of a larger effort called Native Vote funded by the National Congress of American Indians, or NCAI.Under the guise of a get-out-the-vote campaign, these nonprofit groups were bribing tribal members to vote, offering them gift cards, electronics, and other “prizes” in exchange for proof that they voted. They documented these efforts through their own social...

Two people were injured and one person arrested at a suspected terror attack at a Swiss department store on Tuesday. Swiss police said a stabbing in a shopping area on Tuesday afternoon in the Italian-speaking city of Lugano is being investigated as a potential terrorist attack, and that the prime suspect arrested at the scene had a background of jihadist extremism. A 28-year-old woman, reported to be a Swiss citizen living locally, attacked two women at the Lugano department store on Tuesday. Swiss media RTS reports she grabbed one around the neck, and stabbed the other with the knife.

Californians push back against autocratic governor Gavin Newsom, a likely Democrat contender for president in 2024. On October 9, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued “Guidance for Private Gatherings,” that limited the number of participants, restricted singing and chanting, and even laid down rules for using the bathroom. The draconian restrictions must have fallen short because last week the governor slapped on a 10 pm-5 am curfew on nearly the entire state of California, home to some 40 million people. As Evan Symon reported in the California Globe, the curfew “was immediately met with resistance from citizens” who took to the...

Young totalitarians now demand that speakers pass their ideological litmus test. With the intellectually arrogant but now regular behavior common on university campuses, Harvard students last week circulated an open letter to President Lawrence Bacow and Harvard University deans and leadership proposing that Harvard take proactive measures to prevent Trump administration officials from securing appointments, fellowships, or speaking opportunities on campus. Clearly indignant at the prospect of someone who worked for an administration they have loathed since inauguration day in 2017, the tendentious students expressed their grave concern “about the impact of the actions of this administration on fundamental democratic...