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John Gilbert Getty — an heir to the Getty oil fortune — reportedly died in Texas on Friday. He was 52.Getty had been found unresponsive in a San Antonio hotel room and foul play is not suspected, law enforcement sources told TMZ.MORE AT LINK

An independent audit of the unemployment benefits system found the administration of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) paid up to $1.5 billion in “fraudulent” claims. Fox 17 reported on the investigation of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) conducted by Deloitte: “The company interviewed 24 UIA and Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) personnel including executive leadership. They reviewed documents, emails, charts, polices, and federal and state UI guidance.” The report found the agency paid $22.9 billion in claims from March 15, 2020, to October 23, 2020, as the unemployment rate skyrocketed from 3.6 percent to 24 percent amid...

Even though U.S. Attorney General William Barr has loosened restrictions on investigating voter fraud, there has been no public announcement of any investigation, according to a story by the Washington Post. “The Justice Department has met President Trump’s fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence,” the Washington Post reported in a story published Saturday. The Department of Justice is “not taking any overt moves” to investigate claims of a worldwide conspiracy to steal the election lobbed by Trump lawyers in statements outside of court, the article said. In a few cases, the DOJ has “quietly...

What many have failed to realize, however, is that over the past several decades, this great nation has slowly been infiltrated by the communist specter. Amid credible allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, America is now on the brink of falling into the communist abyss. The communist specter gave rise to the regimes in the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, and China. Its ideology of totalitarianism seeks control over, rather than the flourishing of, mankind. Its gradual takeover of the West has been carried out in broad daylight. As French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote back in 1864, the “greatest...

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The former data and strategy director for President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign Braynard assembled a team just days after the election to look for inconsistencies in six contested states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada. Braynard said he has signed declarations to go with his work, which is being used in court filings in five states. One of Braynard’s biggest findings involved voters who had submitted a National Change of Address form to the post office, indicating they had moved out of state, yet appeared to have voted in 2020 in the state they moved from. In Georgia,...

Left-wing Hollywood celebrities threw a temper tantrum after President Donald Trump pardoned Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), the day before Thanksgiving. The stars accused the commander in chief of being a “thug and a crook,” and putting Russia first. On Wednesday, President Trump announced that Flynn is receiving a full pardon. “It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!” The White House said that Flynn shouldn’t need to be pardoned because he was...

A memorial dedicated to war veterans was vandalized and a statue was toppled during protests in Portland early Thursday morning. Videos and images showed red paint sprayed onto the column located in the Lone Fir Cemetery with the words: 'F**k USA.' A statue that was mounted on top of the structure was also toppled and seen on the ground covered in red paint.

The minks were culled after 11 people were sickened in mink farms and factories. Minks infected with a mutated strain of the novel coronavirus appeared to rise from the grave this week after thousands were culled in Denmark earlier in the month. The decision to kill the animals was made following the discovery that 11 people had been sickened by the same strain found in mink farms and factories. However, in the haste to dispose of the bodies, Danish authorities reported Thursday that some of the carcasses had risen to the surface of their makeshift graves after gases built up...

England, Germany, Japan, America, Spain, Italy, ... People all over the world are waking up! We call it the great awakening. https://youtu.be/OcVZaLEZuCo

After decades of toiling and dead-ends, the dream of operational laser weaponry is about to become a reality. So, what changed that made what had been bulky systems go from clumsy pipe dreams to hardened, miniaturized, and reliable weapons that will be able to be deployed even in the harshest of conditions? We recently had an in-depth interview with Dr. Rob Afzal, Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, Laser and Sensor Systems, where I pressed him on everything related to laser weaponry and the emerging military applications that go along with it. In the course of answering my maelstrom of queries, Dr....

My latest song. Erik Satie wrote cool jazz fifty years before cool jazz.

From the "Two Mike Show" The General's informative information detailing what has happened in the recent election, along with other tidbits of interesting facts.

King County Council members are calling out Seattle city leaders for not adequately protecting the downtown county courthouse as the council has found itself in the same predicament as many local businesses who are still reeling from recent protests, vandalism and street crime. “It’s gotten way worse again, unfortunately,” said presiding King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers, referring to the number of assaults and crime that have been reported near the courthouse, located at 516 3rd Ave. The Council approved $600,000 in 2019 so the King County Sheriff’s Department could provide added security along the courthouse’s perimeter. But when...

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CITGO employees Tomeu Vadell, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Alirio Jose Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano and Jose Angel Pereira were sentenced to between 8 and 13 years, the source said. The guilty verdicts punctuate a years-long saga that began in November 2017 when the men received a call from the head of Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA summoning them to Caracas for a last-minute budget meeting. When they arrived, armed and masked security agents arrested them on embezzlement charges stemming from a never-executed proposal to refinance some $4 billion in CITGO bonds by offering a 50% stake in the company as collateral....

A super-majority -- 68% of Republicans and GOP primary voting independents -- would love to see President Donald Trump run again in 2024 if he ultimately fails to prevail against Joe Biden in this year’s election, according to a new Newsmax/McLaughlin Associates poll...And to a majority of Americans, 52%, major media outlets in the U.S. have been biased and unfair in their coverage of Trump,...

An analysis of voting data from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Data Source: New York Times and Edison Research. 2/ METHODS🚨 Before diving in to the specific data, I wanted to provide samples of the graphs I have put together to show examples of states with clear victories for each of the candidates. These graphs make it easier to notice anomalies in other states. 3/ BIDEN WIN🚨 Let’s start with Minnesota. Votes after election day should be randomly sampled votes received by mail and the percentage of votes for a specific candidate should stay roughly constant. Here you can see...

The surface of the Sun is a turbulent dance of gravity, plasma, and magnetic fields. Much like the weather on Earth, its behavior can seem unpredictable, but there are patterns to be found when you look closely. The first pattern to be observed on the solar surface was that of sunspots. Sunspots were noticed by a few ancient astronomers, but they have been regularly studied since the 1600s. As astronomers counted the number of spots seen each year, they found the Sun goes through active years and quiet years. There is an 11-year cycle of high and low sunspot counts....