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This month, tens of thousands of grieving families of victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran received a major boost for their calls for justice. Half a dozen UN experts made public a report that describes the massacre as a “crime against humanity” and deserving of an international investigation. This is a major blow to the Iranian regime and heralds a new era that would see an end to the climate of impunity for the regime’s murderers. After launching a reign of terror and violence against dissent during the 1980s in Iran, in 1988 the ruling mullahs rounded up thousands...

The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumped out of the basement; AT&T said there was still water on the second floor as of Monday. The immediate repercussions were surprisingly widespread. AT&T customers lost service — phones, internet or video — across large parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. There were...

Bitcoin ended 2019 at 7,500 For most of 2020 Bitcoin prices wandered upwards until it took off during the week of September 28th when it was 10,500. As we close out 2020 Bitcoin is 29,000. While it will not close above 30,000 in 2020, it is quite impressive to see Bitcoin almost triple in price during the last quarter of 2020.

I'm looking for a thread about a UK "man on the street" view of the Presidential election. I forgot to bookmark it.The post linked to the site, where the author linked to the acutal post on a UK man on the street view. The writer in eloquent British style (He's British, of course he's a wordsmith) made several points about how the U.S. and rest of the world view each other that are not brought up in the American news media. It pointed out how insulated Americans are from the rest of the world, how much of the world is...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are pushing President Trump to grant clemency to whistleblower Edward Snowden amid a blitz of pardons during his final weeks in the White House, according to a new report. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), as well as recently pardoned Trump associate Roger Stone, have all asked the president in recent days to drop the criminal charges against the former National Security Agency contractor, Politico reported Thursday. The president’s allies reportedly see Trump as increasingly amenable to the controversial idea and have pitched Snowden as someone who was unfairly persecuted after exposing...

For fighting COVID-19, one size does not fit all, and we must recognize that our state leaders face very different situations.The coronavirus epidemic is surging and taking with it the economy, our ability to gather with friends and family, and our hopes for the future. We need to get it over with. But in the midst of the explosion in new cases, some states are experiencing declines in the number of new cases while other states are witnessing increases. Changes in the rate of infections have been attributed to political affiliation, defiant lifestyles, and irresponsible leadership. But there may be...

Bulgarian cardiologist Prof. Ivo Petrov is of the opinion that thanks to vaccines, billions of people will be saved. He was adamant that the benefits of vaccines are by far more important than the risks. According to the professor, doctors should be vaccinated because that would be responsible behavior. "The total number of people cured and those who have received some immunity plus those who have been vaccinated will break the chain of infection," the cardiologist added. He is convinced that no regulatory body will allow people to get a vaccine that endangers their health and lives. Petrov also commented...

A court in China has evicted an American woman from her house in Beijing even as the Chinese authorities refuse to allow her to leave the country, despite public appeals and private lobbying from the United States.

L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn has written to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to ask that he request the return of the hospital ship U.S.N.S. Mercy to provide additional hospital bed capacity as the area struggles with an ongoing coronavirus surge.

On New Year’s Day 2021 the 105th Annual Rose Bowl was supposed to be played in Pasadena, California. Instead, it will be played 270 miles north of Pasadena—Pasadena, Texas that is, in the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. California’s on a losing streak and the eventual loser might well be the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom. Just in the past few weeks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Oracle moved from Silicon Valley to Texas. Elon Musk moved to Texas.

A stunning 26 GA GOP State Senators Who Refused To Call A Special Session To Pursue The Truth on GA Election Fraud Allegations: Contact these state senators today and tell them to stop the fraud 1. John Albers Capitol Address 421-C State Capitol Atlanta, GA 30334 Office: (404) 463-8055 District Address 101 Vickery St Roswell, GA 30075 Office: (678) 667-3656 Email john.albers@senate.ga.gov Staff Ali Farmer 2. Lee Anderson Capitol Address 325-B Coverdell Legislative Office Bldg. Atlanta, GA 30334 Office: (404) 656-5114 District Address 160 Louisville Road Grovetown, Ga 30813 Email lee.anderson@senate.ga.gov Staff Leighton Kennedy 3. Ellis Black Capitol Address 303-B...

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul brought to light a $6.9 million provision for a “smart toilet” that was part of his annual federal government waste report that tabulated $54.7 billion in government waste in the past year.

The woke left rejects Homer, and the rest of the Western canon, because they hate any art that doesn’t reinforce their narrow-minded ideology.The woke are succeeding where Plato failed. In Plato’s most famous dialogue, the “Republic,” the character of Socrates argues the ideal polity will exclude Homer and the rest of the Greek poets and dramatists. But Plato, who loved the poets, leaves the door open for their return. As with much else in Plato’s work, the proposed ban on Homer should perhaps be taken seriously, not literally. Today’s cultural radicals, however, have no such subtlety. When they say we...

A grand jury indicted officer Andre Maurice Pringle on one count of second-degree assault and one count of misconduct in office. A Baltimore police officer was indicted on a charge of assaulting a man on crutches who allegedly refused to properly wear his face mask. A grand jury indicted officer Andre Maurice Pringle on one count of second-degree assault and one count of misconduct in office after he shoved and slammed Brandon Walker on the ground outside of a Shoppers grocery store on April 19. The incident happened after Walker allegedly entered the store with his face mask on top...

Dear Friends, as some of you will know: my twin brother Thomas has been dangerously ill for many days with COVID. I posted a prayer thread, and you were very generous with your prayers. Thank you! Well now to this current thread. Tom has been on an intubator for a week. Today they drained his lungs and discovered lung scarring (fibrosis). They have taken him off intubation to see if he can breath without it. They put him onto an oxygen pressure mask. His O2 sats went down. They moved him to a ventilator: his oxygen seemed promising on the...

I have watched many of the numerous hearings held in several states and have listened to the sworn testimonies of poll workers and legal voters. I have heard and read the mathematical, statistical, and technological voting analyses and reports of numerous professionals in their fields. I am appalled by the offensive, blatant, election fraud that has been proven to have occurred in numerous states and have attempted to contact each of my state’s senators and congressmen.

Dear Sisters, We have car insurance in case we get into a car accident. We have life insurance should something happen to us and our daughter needs to be taken care of. We have house insurance should we have a fire or storm and need to rebuild. We have health insurance should we need to be hospitalized or see a doctor. But another insurance that is a necessity for us is food insurance. We have food insurance in case of sickness, unemployment, or a tough season. Both of my grandmothers always had food insurance living in N.H. with the threat...

The much-discussed new strain of COVID-19 — which is reportedly more contagious than the initial strain that swept the world in 2020 — has been detected in states like California and Colorado, leaving many Americans to wonder when it might emerge in their state and how the country will fight it. Public health experts have largely agreed that the recently approved vaccines will be able to fight the mutated COVID-19 strain effectively, noting that viruses mutate constantly.

Kwanzaa has nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s.Spanning from Dec. 26 to the first of January is Kwanzaa, the invented African American holiday celebrated solely by white liberals and clueless public school teachers. Overblown by leftist claiming the holiday has immense cultural significance, a survey by the National Retail Foundation discovered only 1.6 percent of Americans celebrate Kwanzaa. The “holiday” was created in 1966 by Ron Karenga, who renamed himself Maulana. Karenga, the founder of the United Slaves, a violent rival organization to the Black Panthers, created the holiday for black Americans...

Dec. 31 (UPI) — Close to 800,000 more U.S. workers have filed new unemployment claims, the Labor Department said Thursday in its weekly report. The department said about 787,000 Americans filed new claims for the week ending last Saturday, a decrease of 19,000 from the previous week.