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You've finally made it. A record label recognized your exceptional talent and offered you what seems like the deal of a lifetime. But before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you actually understand what you're signing so your dreams of fame and fortune don't turn into a nightmare like it did for Robert Henderson (you never heard of him and there's a reason for that, as he could have been bigger than John Cougar). Here are five tips every artist should consider before signing their first recording contract. 1. Watch out for contracts with an initial term lasting...

A new bill in the New York State Assembly seeks to give one of the nation’s worst governors, Andrew Cuomo, even more power. It is currently sitting in committee, and hopefully, New Yorkers will see it die there. Assembly Bill A416 is scheduled for the 2021-22 legislative session. It amends the public health law to give the governor additional powers after they declare a state of health emergency due to an epidemic. I guess that means now. The additions to the law allow the governor, after consulting with the health commissioner, to order the removal or detention of groups or...

President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions. The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.” Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that...

A loose “network” of about 400 former investigators and intelligence operatives from the FBI, CIA, NSA, and several other agencies are investigating the 2020 election to determine if there was any election fraud, according to an exclusive story in The Epoch Times.A former CIA intelligence officer-turned private agent for a “strategic planning, technologies and foreign and domestic” group under President George H.W. Bush says he’s been a part of a network of such investigators since 2014 but the group is increasing in size because of the shady antics surrounding the 2020 presidential election results.Robert Caron told The Epoch Times that...

According to Wired, a new bovine burp mask fitted with a catalytic converter catches methane expelled from cattle and converts it to CO2 and water. Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.~~~SNIP~~~There are 1.6 billion cattle on Earth, and their burps and farts are becoming a big problem. Cows expel methane, a colourless and odourless gas which is approximately 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet.Zelp, a UK-based company, has developed a potential solution in the form of a burp-catching face mask for cows, designed to reduce methane emissions from cattle...

Trump demanded in an hour-long rambling call with Georgia's Republican Secretary of State that he 'find' a way to overturn Joe Biden's win 'All I want to do is this – I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,' Trump said on the call A recording of the phone conversation was obtained by The Washington Post Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told President Donald Trump on the Saturday call that Biden's win in the Peach State is legitimate ~~~~~~~~~~ Donald Trump, in a rambling, unprecedented hour-long call with...

The travesty in Georgia continues. President Trump held a one-hour long phone call on Saturday with crooked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and state election officials on the 2020 election in his state that was wrought with fraud. ’s not clear if Ruby Freeman or Ralph Jones, Sr. were on the call. In the one-hour phone call on Saturday, President Trump insisted he won the state and threatened vague legal consequences. Raffensperger’s team leaked the call to the far left Washington Post. It took 24 hours for the Washington Post to publish this trash.

The political coup by President Donald Trump and his GOP co-conspirators to overturn the 2020 election is not over. The next apparent plot to impose Trump as president despite losing the election comes Jan. 6 when Congress holds a joint session to conduct the traditionally perfunctory event of counting the electoral votes already lawfully cast for President-elect Joe Biden. But this time, some GOP members of Congress have indicated they will - or are considering - objecting to counting the electoral votes from key battleground states, claiming without proof that there was widespread voter irregularities or fraud that renders the...

America has a food diversity problem. Chicken, pork, and beef account for many of the animal proteins found on our dinner table—the product of decades of agricultural industrialization—and this has left us with cheaper but more limited options at the butcher’s counter. Once a year we all sit down to eat turkey, but when was the last time you had snipe, mutton, or rabbit? Perhaps the mightiest protein to fall out of favor, though, is turtle. From the earliest colonial days, Americans were smitten with this four-legged reptile, and turtle soup—its most common preparation—was a restaurant norm into the 1970s...

The great secret of identity politics lies in its capacity to convince people to continue to vote for self-destructive policies and to overlook the shortcomings of their elected officials. Convince the voters that their woes are all do to the work of some group of outsiders and they will circle the wagons and express their solidarity, ignoring the fraud, corruption and incompetence around them. It is an age old trick, but it has perhaps been perfected as an artform by big city Democratic mayors in American cities. Decade after decade they maintain their grip on power, based on the almost...

MATT BRACKEN LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION. Watch live or replay later at the same link. The Modern Survivalist with Fernando Aguirre (FerFAL) and guest Matt Bracken (Free Republic's Travis McGee) discuss cultural instability, self defense, preparation and survival skills. The show starts live at 3PM EST and is archived if you want to watch later. The broadcast usually lasts two hours.

Following the ruling, Gohmert, a Texas Republican, told Newsmax: 'But if bottom line is, the court is saying, 'We're not going to touch this. You have no remedy' - basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM.' 'I have not encouraged and unequivocally do not advocate for violence,' he said. 'I have long advocated for following and teach the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of peaceful protest.' 'That does not keep me from recognizing what lies ahead when the institutions created by a self-governing...

Jesse Binnall, a lawyer who represented the Trump campaign in Nevada, said he uncovered tens of thousands of fraudulent votes including 42,000 people who had voted twice and a few thousand undocumented immigrants who voted. Mr. Biden won Nevada by 33,596 votes or 2.4%. “Transparency is not political,” Mr. Binnall said. “That’s what we were denied in Nevada.” Part of the transcript from the hearing: Mr. Binnall: (01:03:45) 1,506 votes from dead voters. 19,218 votes from non-Nevadans. And particularly striking is 42,284 votes from double voters. That number right there is more than the gulf between vice-president Biden and President...

China has revised its National Defence Law, expanding the power of its armed forces headed by President Xi Jinping to mobilise military and civilian resources to defend its national interests both at home and abroad. The new law, effective from January 1, weakens the role of the State Council, China's Cabinet headed by Premier Li Keqiang, in formulating military policy, handing decision-making powers to the Central Military Commission (CMC), the overall high-command of the two million-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) headed by Xi, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Sunday. Xi, 67, has emerged as the Communist Party...

On Sunday morning President Trump posted a tweet on the exaggerated COVID numbers by the CDC in the United States. President Trump: The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of CDC’s ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low. “When in doubt, call it Covid.” Fake News! The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov’s ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely,...

And therein is the crux. Boxes? Who puts people in boxes? Well, racists do, because they think all black people are alike in certain ways. And sexists. And homophobes. Lots of people, and it’s never a good thing. It leads to individuals being treated unfairly because they have been forced into a box that does not fit them. In today’s woke society, progressives, however, are the worst transgressors. “Basket of deplorables.” “Toxic masculinity.” “Fascists.” (Seriously, have they ever looked up what that word means?) “Teabagger.” These are boxes they put other people in, and once you’re in the box, it...

When Lee Hazlewood died from renal cancer in 2007, his obituarists had a complicated story to tell: his enormous success as a hitmaker for Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s, his relocation to Sweden in the 70s, his neglected solo career, his long semi-retirement and his belated return to the music industry, feted by the likes of Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Sonic Youth. The pieces didn't quite fit together. He was funny, charismatic and supportive but he could also be cold, vengeful and mean. Like Serge Gainsbourg, he made both exquisitely subversive pop music and cynical kitsch, and gave the...

A Little Bit of West Texas Wyman Meinzer is the photographer. He once lived in the old jail in Benjamin, TX . The photo of the coiled rattlesnake appeared on the cover of a wildlife magazine in the 80s. He said there were times he crawled a long way on his belly to get a good shot of a wild animal. And the music is perfect. It was a pleasure to see so many living deer with such amazing antlers. These old fellows have been around a long time to grow horns like that. The music is by Doug Smith....

President Donald Trump said that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was unable to answer questions about boxes of ballots being wheeled out from under a table after Republican poll workers were told by Fulton County officials that vote-counting was done for the night on Nov. 3. “I spoke to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger yesterday about Fulton County and voter fraud in Georgia,” Trump wrote on Sunday morning on Twitter. The president said Raffensperger “was unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the ‘ballots under table’ scam, ballot destruction, out of state ‘voters,’ dead voters, and more. He...

The returning GI's from WW11 rebelled against local county corruption. Look it up. Took place in Athens, TN in 1946. I wonder how long this country will put up with the existing national corruption.