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============================================================== Little-understood black hole phenomena could be string-theory "fuzzballs," scientists say. The math is still emerging, but the right instruments could maybe detect the fuzzballs. Black holes are enigmatic and require a different kind of thinking in the first place. ============================================================ What if string theorists have been right all along, and black holes are just balls of yarn? These celestial rat kings, scientists say, represent a place where a huge bunch of fundamental strings have tangled together and can’t be extricated. This sounds far out, but we don’t understand a great deal about how black holes work to begin with....

PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST FOR VACCINES: President Donald J. Trump is taking action to provide Americans priority access to our Nation’s COVID-19 vaccines.Today, President Trump is signing an Executive Order to ensure that the American people are first in line to benefit from United States Government COVID-19 vaccines developed or procured using taxpayer resources.Under this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to provide priority access to COVID-19 vaccines to Americans.Through this action, President Trump is putting the health and safety of Americans, the viability of our economy, and the security of our Nation first.The United States has...

HOUSTON — Edward O’Neal was 18 when he first made headlines in 2016 as an alleged devil worshipper charged with murder. Now, O’Neal is in the news again because he’s accused of committing another murder while out on bond for the first case. Houston police say O’Neal, now 23, shot and killed 39-year-old Derrick Mike late last month at an apartment complex on 9601 West Montgomery Road. The motive isn’t clear. In the high-profile 2016 case, O’Neal was charged with stabbing 16-year-old Ryan Roberts to death and leaving his body in a wooded area. Christina Roberts told KHOU at the...

Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Elaine L. Chao, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Lynn Friess, of Wyoming, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Douglas Manchester, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Hannah F. Buchan, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees...

More than a quarter of this censorship occurred between November 30 and December 7. A fresh study into Twitter’s mass censorship of President Trump over the last couple of years has revealed that tweets from Trump and his campaign have been restricted a staggering 436 times between May 31, 2018 and December 7, 2020. The study was conducted by media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC) and found that 111 of these censored tweets (around 25% of the total tweets) were flagged between November 30, 2020 and December 7, 2020. Some of the labeled tweets were simply live streams of Trump’s...

@paulsperry_ BREAKING: FEC records show fired FBI Director James Comey's wife Patrice last year gave at least $10,000 to Stacey Abrams' PAC which financed Abrams' campaign to change voting rules and regs in George and several other swing states, including Democrats' mass mail-in voting scheme

Many people in the UK are fearful of the imposition of WTO-allowed tariffs on future UK exports to the EU. As an American, this is somewhat of a mystery as American exports to the EU are already subject to EU-imposed WTO-level tariffs. There is no audible bellyaching whatsoever in the USA about EU-imposed WTO-level tariffs on American exports to the EU. To allay UK fears, I wish to point out that the effect of EU tariffs on the incomes of UK citizens could be offset by UK Treasury compensatory payments to impacted UK citizens paid out when they retire, financially...

The woman in this little video clip is telling New Yorkers she and others are working with an attorney to sue Cuomo and DeBlasio for infringement of their Constititutional rights with unlawful mask mandates. She stresses they are MANDATES not laws.Link on Twitter

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NEW - #Georgia Republican State veteran legislatures are afraid if they call a special session BLM and Antifa will burn down Atlanta and blame them for it.

Three organizations representing nearly 700 Pennsylvania’s nursing homes are suing Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration in what they term is a fight for some of the facilities’ survival and to protect their residents and staff against the coronavirus. The lawsuit filed on Monday in Commonwealth Court demands the administration direct the more than $153 million allocated to Pennsylvania through the first federal stimulus package, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, to these health providers that care for tens of thousands of the state’s older and vulnerable residents. In Pennsylvania, the state Department of Health reported on Tuesday there are 40,541 resident...

I wish every American could attend a Trump rally. I attended a couple of them in Central Florida as a local media personality, but the Valdosta rally was the first time I got to hang around with with my people in the crowd. It was one of the most exciting and unique experiences you can imagine. Here’s what happened: On Sunday afternoon a friend of mine joined my wife and I on a road trip to Valdosta, Georgia, for the Victory Rally, featuring President Trump and Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Both senators are in runoff elections against...

-- With numerous cruise lines suspending their 2021 seasons into spring – and in some cases, beyond -- is it possible that the companies are simply waiting to restart operations until a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available? It's a plausible theory, although no cruise line executive has said that publicly. As of early December, numerous lines have cancelled voyages into March and April, while some have postponed sailings into June and even the fall for select vessels. While the lines have cited the restart regulations put forward by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the reason for...

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said that China is a "top" security concern and claimed there is "much more" to U.S.-Chinese relations.

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan DISMISSES Flynn case, declaring it moot after Trump’s pardon

Flynn News - Judge Sullivan has granted the DOJ Motion to Dismiss as Moot (due to pardon). Sullivan: "ORDERED that this case is DISMISSED AS MOOT." It's over.

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted to accept a $6.3 million grant from the Mark-Zuckerberg funded Center for Technology and Civic Life “Safe Elections” project at a September 2, 2020 board meeting. It proceeded without asking a single question about the name of the group providing the funding, the origin of the funding, or the details of what the funding would be used for. As Breitbart News reported, a significant chain of custody security concerns surround absentee ballots deposited in the 300 drop boxes across the state approved by the Georgia State Election Board. The office of Georgia Secretary...

**SNIP** Voter Fraud Consequences Voter fraud by American citizens and immigrants does occur. However, the consequences are usually severe enough that many shy away from even attempting these actions. Sometimes, a resident of one state may vote in another without changing his or her registration details. Claims of voter fraud are generally much greater than the actual incidents themselves. The tiny amount of fraud that does occur federally is usually so little in comparison of the billion ballots cast that the outcome is primarily untouched. However, that tenth of a percent could in essence change local, city and state elections...

(Translation) Many independence supporters [in Puerto Rico] have argued that they have not been given the chance to administer public affairs in the island so as to demonstrate that they are different from the [the two main parties] the New Progressive Party (PNP) and the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). What most resembles the central government in size and complexity is the Municipality of San Juan, which has been run for the past 8 years by a pro-independence political leader. The result? The same as, or worse than, what is said of the PNP and PPD, with every reason. It's not...

ABC News, November 3, 2020, 11:34 P.M: “The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home at 10:30 p.m.” This security video from later that night is called, “Corrupt Georgia Election Worker Seen Loading Same Ballots 3 Times into Machine.”On November 3, 2020, at 11:34 P.M., ABC News reported: “The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home at 10:30 p.m.”Original source: https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/1323846118208376834Archived source: https://web.archive.org/web/20201104043502/https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/1323846118208376834However, after they “sent the ballot counters… home,” they continued counting ballots.This security video from later that same night is called, “Corrupt Georgia Election...