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If President Trump tunes into Fox News this weekend, he may see something unexpected: a point-by-point fact-check to wild election fraud claims made by some of his favorite hosts on the network. After voting technology company Smartmatic sent Fox News a blistering legal threat that accused the network of participating in a "disinformation campaign" against it, the network has started airing a remarkable news package debunking claims its hosts and guests have propagated. The package aired for the first time Friday night on Lou Dobbs' show. Fox News said the same package would air Saturday night on Jeanine Pirro's program...

A man who planned to shoot revellers on New Year's Eve in Melbourne's Federation Square has had his jail sentence increased to 16 years by Victoria's Court of Appeal. In May, Ali Khalif Shire Ali was jailed for 10 years over the botched 2017 terror plan, which Court of Appeal justice Mark Weinberg said was intended to "inflict mass casualties on random members of the public". Justice Weinberg, along with justices Chris Maxwell and Stephen McLeigh ruled the May decision was "manifestly inadequate". Justice Weinberg said the decision to increase the sentence to 16 years, with a non-parole period of...

On Jan. 6 does VP Pence have the power to declare a state's election as UNLAWFUL (based on a court case) at the Electoral College (EC)? If so, does he state the violation of election laws, and just trash all their Elector envelopes, or does he get a confirmation vote from the EC whether a violation occurred before trashing them? If so, start with CA, who left off text required in their election laws to be present on the ballots. ALL their ballots. That shrinks the Electoral College by 55 votes (taken from Biden) and changing 270 to 242 as...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian criminal court acquitted three Muslim men accused of stripping naked an elderly Coptic Christian woman and parading her through the streets of a village in southern Egypt in 2016, the state's official news agency reported. The three had been sentenced to 10 years in absentia in January, before they were detained and stood a retrial for the attack in the southern province of Minya, where an armed Muslim mob had attacked the 70-year-old woman four years ago, after rumors spread that her son was having an affair with a Muslim woman. Such relations are taboo...

Racial tensions in America reached new heights during 2020. The Media constantly covered violent riots and swelling protests as BLM and other agitators capitalized on racial divisions. And while most Americans struggled with government overreach as the nation reeled from knee jerk reactions to a “global pandemic”, many didn’t notice what was happening behind the scene. Namely, the propagation of critical race theory in the U.S. educational system.

The spy fabricated fake evidence of child porn and terrorism to frame Zoom users A former executive at Zoom, who shut down video conferences that were not flattering to China, was exposed as a spy for the Chinese Communist Party, according to the Department of Justice. Xinjiang Jin, aka Julien Jin, was an employee of the American video conferencing company. The 39-year-old, who was based in China's Zhejiang Province, worked as a "security technical leader" for tech company headquartered in San Jose, California. Jin served as a liaison between Zoom and the Chinese government after Beijing blocked the company's service...

A young man, formerly in a deradicalisation programme, was arrested after attacking police officers while armed with two knives in the department of Vaucluse, allegedly yelling “Allahu akbar”. The attacker, 20-year-old Youssouf H., had entered a garden in the commune of Bollène on Wednesday shortly after 9 a.m. and tried to break down the door of a home with a planter. A local alerted police and when two officers arrived, the man, armed with two knives, yelled, “Death to the cops! Allahu Akbar!” and attacked the pair, according to France Bleu. While both police were protected by their bulletproof vests,...

The Bordeaux correctional court ( Gironde ) sentenced, Monday, December 7, a 35-year-old man, a Sudanese refugee. He had yelled "Allahu Akbar" and "Daesh" in the direction of a gendarme, reports Sud Ouest . The facts took place Thursday, December 3, in Blanquefort . Visibly intoxicated, the defendant was on a tram platform when he attacked users and controllers, before insulting the gendarmes called on the spot. He says he has no memoryHe then rushed on one of the soldiers before threatening to "cut off everyone's heads . " The thirty-something was finally arrested and taken into custody. Still very...

A THINK TANK has warned a conflict between Washington and Beijing is just weeks away as tensions in the South China Sea reach boiling point. he South China Sea is a highly contested region and faces claims from China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Diplomatic relations between the nations are already extremely strained. he South China Sea is a highly contested region and faces claims from China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Diplomatic relations between the nations are already extremely strained.

The 2020 Election Results in Arizona clearly make no sense and therefore indicate fraud. We knew the results in Arizona were fraudulent when the totals for the state went on and on before the 2020 Presidential race was finally called for Biden. One outlet claims to have identified over 700,000 fraudulent votes. They did this by reviewing the data being reported the night of the election and the days after. This is similar to the data we used in identifying similar fraudulent activity in other states: The video below explains the 2020 election results in Arizona and identifies the fraudulent...

MOGADISHU: The death toll from a suicide bombing in Somalia has risen to 16, after a number of people hurt in the blast succumbed to their injuries overnight, security sources told AFP on Saturday. Initially, six people including three senior military officials were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a stadium in the Somali city of Galkayo, ahead of the planned arrival of the country’s prime minister. But a local security official told AFP by telephone on Saturday: “The number of people who have died in the blast increased this morning, 16 people, most of them civilians, died,...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he would “object to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections” on January 6, 2021, when Congress is scheduled to certify the electoral college’s vote. He made his remarks during a speech on Saturday at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit event in West Palm Beach, FL. “We are done running plays from the establishment’s losing playbook,” added Gaetz. “It is time to stand and fight.” Gaetz referenced Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)’s previous career as a football coach when describing his planned opposition to electors from some states on January 6. “The odds may...

A car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least nine people and wounded more than 15, including a member of parliament. The death toll from Sunday’s attack could rise, interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said, adding that the dead included women, children and the elderly. “The terrorists have carried out a terrorist attack in Kabul city,” he said. The attack happened while the convoy of lawmaker Khan Mohammad Wardak was passing through an intersection in Kabul’s Khoshal Khan neighbourhood. The blast set afire surrounding civilian vehicles, as well as damaging nearby buildings and shops. A security source...

“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace said on this week’s broadcast of his program that the “fuss” over Jill Biden’s title of “doctor” had not been applied to “Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.” Wallace said, “There has been some criticism recently from conservatives, including some conservatives on Fox News about the fact that First Lady-to-be Jill Biden goes by the title doctor. I wonder what is the Biden’s reaction to that, especially given the fact that so many people over the years — I think of Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King have...

There were "raised voice levels and animated conversation" during a chaotic Friday night meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, a source familiar with the meeting tells Axios. Driving the news: As the N.Y. Times first reported yesterday, the meeting included — at various times — Rudy Giuliani, Gen. Michael Flynn and conspiracy-minded election lawyer Sidney Powell. Chief of staff Mark Meadows and counsel Pat Cipollone pushed back strenuously on some of the more far-out ideas, including impounding voting machines and making Powell special counsel for election fraud. "It's basically Sidney versus everybody," the source said. "That is why...

Almost 35 civilians were kidnapped and one woman was killed in the second attack which took place in the northeast Borno state In yet another attack on Nigeria, a group of jihadist gunmen attacked a military convoy and killed nearly five soldiers, military sources reported on Sunday. Terrorism-hit Nigeria saw two different attacks. Almost 35 civilians were kidnapped and one woman was killed in the second attack which took place in the northeast Borno state. A group of armed men attacked a transport envoy on Saturday and kidnapped civilians by faking a checkpoint. "The ISWAP terrorists who were dressed in...

An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “team” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers. Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with, demonetize news organisations and ban news outlets entirely. The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “non-partisan” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process. International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca...

Steve Milloy @JunkScience WaPo prints cartoon straight from anti-semitic Nazi propaganda. Dehumanizes @realDonaldTrump supporters as rats. View at: https://mobile.twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1340668648130818055

When we come across false information on social media, it is only natural to feel the need to call it out or argue with it. But my research suggests this might do more harm than good. It might seem counterintuitive, but the best way to react to fake news—and reduce its impact—may be to do nothing at all. False information on social media is a big problem. A UK parliament committee said online misinformation was a threat to "the very fabric of our democracy". It can exploit and exacerbate divisions in society. There are many examples of it leading to...

I have consumed a great many holiday baked goods in my time—some of them very good, but far more of them bad. I have slogged through loaves of bone-dry panettone, plunged elbow-deep into lackluster caramel popcorn tubs, and conducted exactly one informal scientific inquiry titled “Yule Logs: Why?” Please know that I am not snobbish about baked goods. I have the sweet tooth of an 8-year-old. But there’s something about the holidays that brings out the absolute worst in baked goods. I think it’s because, in a lot of ways, traditional holiday pies set the baker up to fail. Volunteer...