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President Vladimir Putin has ordered the mass vaccination against coronavirus among the Russian population to start late next week, with doctors and teachers first in line to receive the country's Sputnik V jab. The order came hours after Britain became the first western country to issue general-use approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s jab starting next week. “Let’s organize the process so that large-scale vaccination starts late next week,” Putin told Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who is overseeing Russia’s Covid-19 response efforts, in a videoconference Wednesday. Putin said around 2 million Sputnik V vaccine doses have either already been produced or will...

An unusual sequence of numbers drawn in South Africa's national lottery has sparked accusations of fraud after 20 people won a share of the jackpot. Tuesday's PowerBall lottery saw the numbers five, six, seven, eight and nine drawn, while the PowerBall itself was, you have guessed it, 10. The organisers say the sequence is often picked. But some have alleged a scam and an investigation is under way. It is extremely rare for multiple winners to share the jackpot. The organisers said 20 people purchased a winning ticket and won 5.7m rand ($370,000; £278,000) each. Another 79 ticketholders won 6,283...

Before leaving the White House, Trump should do what he should have done as soon as he took office: remove deep-staters wholesale, starting with the FBI and the CIA.Arnaud-Amaury is not exactly a household name in America, but Donald Trump could change that. Arnaud-Amaury was the Cistercian monk who commanded the church’s forces at the Massacre at Béziers, which we do remember (it was the first major battle of the Albigensian Crusade) on July 22, 1209, just 811 years before Trump lost the presidential election by a few hundred thousand ballots, at least some of which were fraudulent, to an...

Salma al-Shimi, who has thousands of followers on Instagram, last week posted images of herself in ancient Egyptian garb with pharaoh-like accessories near the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser, according to the Guardian. The busty model and lensman Houssam Mohammad allegedly took part in the shoot “without authorization in the Saqqara archaeological site,” They were released on bail pending the results of a probe of what local media described as “provocative and offensive” images, according to the outlet. ... Shimi had appeared before a public prosecutor and argued that her goal had been to promote tourism rather than offend Egypt......

Dominion has been named in numerous election fraud theories – many with little or no evidence to back them – has taken aim at comments from one of its biggest detractors. Dominion Voting Systems, which maintains voting machines in Georgia and other states, laid out a long list of claims by attorney Sidney Powell which it said are false. However, neither Dominion nor Sidney Powell gets to decide what is false and who tells the truth. Today another allegation and video surfaced. The video allegedly shows computer hardware was loaded into a truck at Gwinnett County Elections and Voting center....

Columbia Law School announced that former FBI Director James Comey will begin teaching at the school in January. “Comey’s experience represents a broadening of the Mark Initiative’s focus to include leadership of major public institutions, complementing existing offerings relating to corporations and law firms,” the school said in a statement. “In addition to his government work, Comey led the in-house legal teams at major corporations, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Bridgewater Associates, and previously held a senior research appointment with Columbia Law School’s National Security Law Program.”

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the foundation for all social-media sites and e-commerce marketplaces we use every day. Congress enacted Section 230 in 1996, reacting to a ridiculous court ruling holding online bulletin board Prodigy liable for user posts slamming Stratton Oakmont — the pump-and-dump stock brokers portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Street. This law says that a platform’s users — not the platforms themselves — are responsible for the content they post. And it protects a platform from being sued for removing content that the platform deems objectionable to its audience and advertisers. Without Section...

Donald Trump and the Altogether True and Amazing Origin of the United American Counties. 2020 marked an epoch in American history, standing alongside 1865, 1787, and 1776. First there was the COVID-19 pandemic, then there were the racial protests and riots throughout the summer, and then there was the disputed presidential election. Finally and most cataclysmically, though, 2020 witnessed the initial formation of the United American Counties (UACo) within the former United States of America. Five years later, it is only now becoming possible to assess the most important causes and consequences of this momentous development for American political society.As...

provides that "Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members...." Throughout the presidential election of 2020, Senator Kamala Harris was a member of the United States Senate. I believe that the Senate is "the judge" of all the "elections" and "returns" of then member Kamala Harris, even if she chooses to resign after their creation for any reason. As the Senate is "the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members", the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and even the United State Supreme Court have no judicial say whatsoever in any...

Violent carjackings shot up 537% in Minneapolis last month compared to data from last November as the city council continues to push defunding the police.

Prominent stock exchange plans to require “token” women, minorities, and LGBTQ people in listed companies’ leadership. When I walk into my local supermarket, I see products from big companies like Kellogg’s and Campbell’s, from smaller companies like Dave’s Killer Bread and Edward & Sons, and occasionally from local companies just getting started in the business of providing food to the world, or at least to the neighborhood. What I don’t see is Safeway or Kroger issuing edicts to those companies telling them how to run their businesses. And why would they? After all, it’s literally none of their business. Just...

If your job is in the city of Grand Rapids but you’ve been working from your home in the suburbs during the pandemic, you may be looking at a break from paying city income taxes. But mayors of cities, including Grand Rapids, that collect that tax, want legislators to make you pay anyway — even though you’re probably not benefiting from city services.

The Michigan Senate Oversight Committee on Tuesday held a hearing in Lansing on election fraud and irregularities.President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in Michigan on election night when all of a sudden they stopped counting votes.At around 4:30 AM AFTER Election Day, a massive ballot dump of more than 130,000 votes appeared for Joe Biden in Michigan.One GOP elections observer on Tuesday said all of the military ballots she saw looked like “Xerox copies” of each other – none were registered Michigan voters and 100% went for Joe Biden.The witness, Patty, described her experience at the TCF Center on...

What the L? Gov. Cuomo rocked the regional transportation world this week when he cheered a report suggesting that the existing cross-Hudson tunnels between New Jersey and New York don’t need a full shutdown to rebuild them, potentially throwing yet another wrench into the plan to build a new pair of tunnels to boost interstate rail capacity, a $13-billion piece of the Gateway Project. It’s the latest baffling twist in the decade-plus-long saga. On Sunday, the governor suggested that a report done for the Port Authority by consultants London Bridge Associates showed that the existing century-old tunnels could be fixed...

German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regimeAssociated Press, which has described itself as the “marine corps of journalism” (“always the first in and the last out”) was the only western news agency able to stay open in Hitler’s Germany, continuing to operate until the US entered the war in 1941. It thus found itself in the presumably profitable situation of being the prime channel for news reports and pictures out of the totalitarian state. In an article published in academic journal Studies in Contemporary History , historian Harriet...

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that “enough is enough,” adding that President Donald Trump and Republicans needed to accept former Vice President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. In a video, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said, “Even after this office request that President Trump try and quell the violent rhetoric being born out of his continuing claims of winning the states where he obviously lost, he tweeted out, ‘Expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia.’ This is exactly the kind of language that’s at the base for a growing threat environment...

As reported on Tuesday by Cristina Laila — New election fraud whistleblowers came forward on Tuesday, including a postal subcontractor who was told that over 100,000 ballots in Wisconsin were gathered the day after election day and backdated so that they would still be counted.The new information was made public at a press conference with multiple whistleblowers by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a national constitutional litigation organization.Postal subcontractor Nathan Pease says that he was told by two separate postal workers on two separate occasions that the USPS in Wisconsin was gathering over 100,000 ballots on the...

2 committees in the #Georgia state Senate announced they will hold back-to-back #Hearings on #Elections processes on Dec. 3. Georgia will be the 4th state to hold election-related hearings on the heels of #Pennsylvania, #Arizona and #Michigan.

Most “democratic” countries manage their elections on a national level. The United States, however, manages its elections on a “states” level, and the states manage the elections on a “counties” level. Each state has a unique state method for managing elections, and each county has unique county method for managing elections. In most cases, if one were to compare and contrast, the similarities would be “good enough”, and the differences “minor” and “not important”. Ideally, there should be as many similarities as possible, and as few differences as possible. In some “big picture” areas, though, we need new similarities. Given...

We should demand that our pastors mark the Nativity with pomp and refuse to support churches whose leaders cower behind the lie that church is nonessential. The Supreme Court’s ruling last Wednesday against discriminatory targeting of religious groups with COVID-19 restrictions marked a significant victory in the ongoing battle to preserve religious liberty. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, hostile stakeholders in public office have assaulted the first freedom through superciliously labeling religious services “nonessential.” Christians in much of the country now find themselves in the demeaning and intolerable position of being allowed to worship only in the manner and...