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Attorney Lin Wood says he plans to file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, after a federal court denied his appeal in a case seeking to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.“The stakes are high as the case deals with a disputed Presidential election,” Wood said Dec. 6 in an email to The Epoch Times. “I intend to timely file a petition with the United States Supreme Court.”A panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Dec. 5 upheld a Nov. 19 ruling by District Judge Steven Grimberg, a Trump appointee,...

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko says military build-ups by the United States and NATO near the western borders of his country, Russia, and a number of other states in the region is cause for “serious concern.” “Once again, the world is on the brink of an unbridled arms race. The most dangerous phenomena are getting worse, namely a military standoff between global centers of power,” Lukashenko said in a statement at an online session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Wednesday. “We clearly see an increase in systemic events of military nature in Poland and in Baltic states,” he...

It is Pearl Harbour Day now in Australia. My father served in the field ambulance of the 2nd 14th Battalion of the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1945. He camped in Morotai for three weeks in June before sailing to the war’s final major battle, the second Battle of Balikpapan. This story imagines what might have happened if someone like my dad had made friends with General Douglas MacArthur. If we are to be free, than our imaginations must be free.

The biggest debate about 2021 probably isn’t where the market is going. It’s how it gets there.We, and many others, are optimistic on the next 12 months. But there’s less agreement among investors on how these gains will be achieved. With our economists still in the 'V-shaped recovery' camp, we think returns will be powered by strong economic growth, driving an early-cycle, post-recession pattern of returns. Buy what you’re usually supposed to buy following a recession.Others disagree. They think our forecasts for economic growth are too optimistic and expect COVID-19 to take longer to dissipate, with a more serious, longer-lasting...

Turkey’s lira briefly slipped on Friday after U.S. lawmakers included mandatory Turkish sanctions in a defense spending bill that moves Washington a step closer to punishing its NATO ally for buying Russian S-400 missile defenses last year. The final version of the $740 billion annual U.S. defense spending legislation would oblige the White House to select from a list of sanctions over the S-400s, which Washington says are incompatible with NATO operations. U.S. President Donald Trump, who is set to step down next month, has said he will veto the bill over separate provisions. But he may need some support...

ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly pressed Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) about why he can not accept the 2020 presidential race results, Sunday on “This Week.” Stephanopoulos said, “As I said, Joe Biden’s victory has now been certified in states totaling 279 electoral votes. So do you now accept that he’s president-elect?”

<p>I’ve written twice thus far on the setting by Justice Alito of a deadline for the Pennsylvania state defendants to file their response to the Emergency Application for Injunctive relief filed by GOP Congressman Mike Kelly and other Plaintiffs. The Plaintiffs are seeking Supreme Court review of the dismissal of their complaint by the Penn. Supreme Court seeking to declare all “no excuse” mailed in ballots for the November 3 election to be invalid based on the claim that the Pennsylvania statute adopting that voting scheme violated a provision of the Pennsylvania State Constitution.</p>

Gabriel Sterling is a very unhinged and corrupt top elections officials in Georgia. On Thursday when video was produced showing far left criminals dragging out hidden “suitcases” of ballots to count in the State Farm Center after they removed all GOP observers Sterling tried to claim this was standard operating procedure. Gabriel Sterling earlier last week lashed out at President Trump and his supporters after a Dominion operative was caught on video downloading files from a USB during ballot counting. Gabriel Sterling is a corrupt operative. And now there is proof that Sterling had it out for Trump. We know...

If worrying about Chinese, Russian, and Iranian interference in the 2020 General Election here in the United States wasn’t enough, now a US voter rights group has discovered that a Pakistani tech company has connections to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office.True the Vote, an American voter rights group, reported to the US Department of Justice on December 3, 2020, that a link exists between the State of Nevada’s election email system and a Pakistani company named Kavtech Solutions Ltd.Kavtech Solutions Ltd is alleged to have ties to Pakistani military and intelligence entities. This could not be confirmed by National...

The layoff that hit ABC News this week hit correspondents Marci Gonzelez, Clayton Sandell and Kyra Phillips, as well as executive producers Jeanmarie Condon, David Reiter and John Green, according to an individual with knowledge of the network. In addition, Hilary Estey McLaughlin, who oversaw daytime programming like “The View,” was among those who got the pink slip. Others affected included correspondents, executive producers and other executives who oversaw functions like special events and news gathering.

A Dominion Voting advisor sought to “coordinate” efforts to “boost” the “important work” of the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, according to John Podesta emails found on Wikileaks.As reported by Global Banking & Finance in 2018, Dominion Voting was acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm based in New York advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.The emails show that, Kamran S. Bajwa, a partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, met with John Podesta in 2015 to discuss “sharing ideas” and “anything else that can help” the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.“It was a pleasure to meet...

This story is developing… 1230 EST – Antrim County Administrator tries to take pictures and dox forensic team, forced to delete pictures —————————————- 0950 EST – Flynn cyber team has removed Dominion hard drive and is copying, will take 6-8 hours —————————————- UPDATE 0902 EST – Local sheriff tried to prevent Flynn forensics team from entering courthouse in Antrim County – but they are now in! CDMedia has been informed a cyber forensics team will be inside the Antrim County, MI court house examining Dominion Voting Systems devices as ordered by MI judge at 9am CST this morning. The seven...

Congressman Mike Kelly has brought suit in PA contesting the constitutionality of the changes to PA's election laws. The suit started at the lowest PA state court and was rejected at the PA Supreme Court. Kelly immediately petitioned SCOTUS as a congressman who wants to know what to do when he sits in a joint session of congress as to accepting PA's slate of electors; thus his standing in this is critical at a federal level. A similar case reached Alito last month, but the relief being sought was not granted. This is the case where Alito wanted the late...

Should we be worried?The undead have telepathic powers if Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Insider emission is to be believed.Perhaps stung by cruel criticism that the last batch of bleeding-edge Dev Channel releases have been a little light on features, build 20270 arrived overnight and apparently imbued Microsoft's unloved assistant, Cortana, with mindreading abilities.Assuming one's PC has a mind of its own, of course (and judging by the shenanigans that seem to happen every Patch Tuesday, we're starting to wonder). "You can now use Cortana on your PCs to translate their thoughts into direct actions to open and find files and...

One America News (OAN) Network has announced switching from YouTube to the censorship-free alternative Rumble. The shift follows YouTube suspending the conservative news outlet from uploading new videos for a week towards the end of last month and demonetized the increasingly-popular outlet. Many have been seeking censorship-free alternatives to Big Tech so that they can express their views freely and Rumble is a rapidly-growing alternative. Other factors that have helped boost Rumble’s popularity among conservatives include promotion by popular conservative commentator Dan Bongino, who has an ownership stake in both Rumble and the Twitter alternative Parler.

New York City politico Lindsey Boylan said on Twitter Saturday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office was the "most toxic team environment" and that people were "deathly afraid of him." "Most toxic team environment? Working for @NYGovCuomo," Boylan wrote. "I’ve had many jobs. Waitressing at Friendly's as a teenager was an infinitely more respectful environment. Even when I had bad customers who tipped poorly. ... If people weren’t deathly afraid of him, they’d be saying the same thing and you’d already know the stories." Boylan, who describes herself as a progressive on her Twitter account, worked for the governor's...

It’s noteworthy that five of the most libertarian films ever made were produced by Britain’s Ealing Studios in the brief period, 1949-1957. These were among the much-praised “Ealing Comedies” that have become a classic genre in their own right.

A U.S. voter rights group informed the Department of Justice on Dec. 3 of a link between the Nevada election emails system and a Pakistani company with ties to military and intelligence. True the Vote requested the Nevada voter file from the secretary of state after the Nov. 3 election. The state responded with a voter file in an email, but the message was copied to Waqas Butt, CEO of Pakistani-based Kavtech Solutions Ltd.

SORKIN: “The difference between a big box retailer — hold on. The difference between a big box retailer and a restaurant or frankly, even a church, are so different it’s unbelievable. Going into a big box retailer, you’re wearing a mask.” SANTELLI: “I disagree! I disagree! I disagree! You can have your thoughts and I can have mine.” SORKIN: “It’s science. If you’re wearing a mask, it’s a different story.” SANTELLI: “It’s not science! 500 people in a Lowe’s aren’t any safer than 150 people in a restaurant that holds 600. I don’t believe it! Sorry. Don’t believe it.” SORKIN:...

Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing image of the inside of the Eagle Nebula, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillars' end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies...