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Venezuela's "law against hate" is suddenly a key tool for Nicolás Maduro to repress dissent, particularly online. A Reuters review of over 40 recent arrests found in each case that authorities used the law to detain critics of the president, his aides or allies. Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems. In August, he wrote a state prosecutor and requested an “exhaustive investigation” of his nemesis, Giovanni Urbaneja, a former lawmaker who...

VIDEOMySpace.Com was once a very popular social media site... And then it tumbled fast to near obscurity for a number of reasons. Therefore I propose we turn "MySpace" into a verb and use it for what many of us desire to do to the current social media giants who are engaged in over-the-top censorship and Big Brother monitoring of our personal data. Remember, all of you out there have the power to "MySpace" YouTube and Twitter and Facebook.

If you live in San Francisco, you can now go on a walk with a friend and not be breaking the COVID-19 rules. The SF Department of Public Health updated its stay-at-home order last week to allow two individuals from different households to spend time together outdoors, masked, and physically distanced and in certain outdoor recreation activities with safety protocols in place, officials said. "This change was made to balance the risk of negative impacts on mental health for those in complete isolation of others and the risk of transmission between two masked, distanced individuals who are outdoors," the department...

When Sidney Powell spoke to conservative radio host Howie Carr on Nov. 20, she included Serbia among four countries she accused of interfering with the Nov. 3 Presidential election. Four days earlier, a former member of Serbia's parliament published stunning evidence to support Powell's assertion. Srjdan Nogo not only showed how Serbia manipulated vote totals. He exposed the connections between the highest officials in the Serbian government, Serbian leaders in technology and telecommunications, George Soros, former Vice President Joe Biden, the CIA and other government agencies in the United States. Among the figures Nogo mentions in his articles for the...

A former aide to Andrew Cuomo accused the New York Governor of sexual harassment, saying it took place over many years while she worked in his administration. Lindsey Boylan, who is now running for Manhattan borough president, alleged that the Democrat governor “harassed” her over her looks and criticized her performance, which she says was due to her gender. “Yes, [Andrew Cuomo] sexually harassed me for years,” Boylan wrote in a multiple tweet statement. “Many saw it, and watched.” ... The accusations of sexual harassment and a toxic work environment come as reports have surfaced that President-elect Joe Biden is...

New research has found that 95.5 percent of individuals who died with a coronavirus-positive diagnosis in the Mass General Brigham health system did so in the hospital, according to a letter published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. The data, collected between February 18 and May 18, also revealed that about 40 percent of hospital deaths occurred in the intensive care unit, further highlighting the need for more ICU beds amid the surge of virus cases across the country. Based on the overwhelming number of patients who died in the hospital and ICU, the research noted that it is highly...

‘While most Republican lawmakers remain on the sidelines awaiting President Trump’s legal contests, several leading senators are accepting the results of Monday’s Electoral College. Here are senators: "The orderly transfer of power is a hallmark of our democracy, and although I supported President Trump, the Electoral College vote today makes clear that Joe Biden is now President-elect," said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., claimed he was "disappointed by the results of the Electoral College vote" but said that "we must put aside politics and respect the constitutional process that determines the winner of our presidential election." Senate...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday, calling him the president-elect and saying the Electoral College “has spoken.”

Barron Trump, the 14-year-old son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, may enroll at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale after his father’s presidency ends on Jan. 20. The possibility was raised by the New York Post’s gossip site Page Six, which reported on Sunday that Melania Trump recently toured the school. It attributed the information to a single unidentified source. A school spokeswoman declined to comment. “Pine Crest School does not disclose personal family information related to any stage of our Admission process, including the identity of families who inquire, apply, or enroll,” she said via...

Here are the 10 most important COVID-related questions which the news media is ignoring The recent massive surge of COVID cases here in America and around much of the world has been both shocking and edifying. Clearly, people like me who have promoted the theory on "low-threshold herd immunity" were probably wrong in our overly-optimistic analysis (though it should at least be noted that Sweden's current death rate is WAY below what would be expected based on their sudden dramatic increase in cases, and already rapidly declining).However, based on this new information, the other "side" of this debate also...

Take Action! Scroll Down for Details! With the expressed goal to get Democrats elected in all levels of office, former President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have unleashed an army of trained activists to interfere in redistricting, the electoral map drawing process that takes place in America every ten years based on the results of the census. Aggressively exploiting the infrastructure created during Obama’s presidential campaigns, Obama and Holder are fighting to ensure Democrat wins by redrawing America’s electoral maps in a way that benefits democrats and dilutes the republican vote, a process known as “gerrymandering.” Obama is...

The Pfizer senior vice president who led development of the company's COVID-19 vaccine says beating the virus became personal when she witnessed the death and economic disaster it wreaked near her home in New York City. Kathrin Jansen speaks in her first network television interview and allows 60 Minutes cameras into Pfizer's research labs to tell the story behind its collaboration with the German company BioNTech. "It became very personal. I saw this as-- as an enemy," Jansen says. "The virus. I took this very personally. I wanted to fight it, beat it, fight it down. It was-- nothing else...

As top Washington negotiators reach for a long-delayed agreement on COVID-19 relief, rank-and-file Democrats appear increasingly resigned to having to drop, for now, a scaled-back demand for fiscal relief for states and local governments whose budgets have been thrown out of balance by the pandemic.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin by phone Monday evening and continues to press for help for struggling states and localities. But top Democrat allies of Joe Biden came out in support of a $748 billion plan offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and hinted they won't insist on a...

Donald Trump won the state of Georgia in 2016 by 6 percentage points and over 200,000 votes. President Trump is the most popular Republican in US history. In 2020 he won over 74 million votes that we know of. We also now have evidence that Dominion voting machines were switching votes from President Trump to Joe Biden. ......Snip...... But Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger don’t care.

Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) reacted to President-elect Joe Biden condemning President Donald Trump and the GOP for contesting the 2020 election results over allegations of voter fraud. Coons called the ongoing fight “exhausting,” but noted that even Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Biden to congratulate him on his victory in the election. He went on to criticize the GOP for remaining “enthralled” by Trump’s “endless refusal to accept the will of the people.”

Even as he admits that “It’s impossible to refute Ibrahim [on taqiyya]. He has certainty, where I can offer only ambiguity and nuance.” Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In a longwinded article titled “Hidden Enemies: An American History of Taqiyya” for Cabinet Magazine, the author, “Joshua Craze”—an apparent pseudonym for a self-identified Muslim man—predictably downplays the dangers of taqiyya, an Islamic doctrine which permits Muslims to deceive non-Muslims. Consider the following excerpts: [T]aqiyya had become a central pillar of the far-right’s rendition of Islam. Because I am a masochist, I spent a few...

Newborn deer loses sight of mama, finds human mama to adopt him. Video, 3 minutes & 17 seconds

POTUS: "Tremendous problems being found with voting machines. They are so far off it is ridiculous. Able to take a landslide victory and reduce it to a tight loss. This is not what the USA is all about. Law enforcement shielding machines. DO NOT TAMPER, a crime. Much more to come!"

Just how warm Earth stays this December will determine if 2020 goes down as the hottest year on record. And it’s looking a lot like it will. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calculated Monday that last month globally was the second hottest November on record, behind only 2015. Yet NASA and a European climate monitoring group said it was the hottest November on record. NASA has coverage over the poles that NOAA does not — and both the Arctic and Antarctic were very warm in November, NOAA climate scientist Ahira Sanchez-Lugo said to explain the difference. Earth’s temperature in...