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A former chief of a big Chinese state lender was sentenced to death on Tuesday for bribery, corruption and bigamy, in a rare and dramatic example of Beijing’s use of capital punishment for economic crimes. Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong Asset Management, was found guilty by a court in the coastal city of Tianjin of receiving some $277 million in bribes between 2008 and 2018. The government will confiscate his personal assets, it said. Mr. Lai was “lawless and extremely greedy,” the Secondary Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin said Tuesday in a statement, which added that his actions...

Loeffler does not concede in a brief speech on election night, says she has a path to victory and promises "we're going to get this done." #GASenateRaces

In the November race, Doug Collins and Kelly Loeffler earned 1.1 million more votes than Warnock. Decision Desk HQ Projects @ReverendWarnock (D) has won the Georgia Special Senate Runoff ElectionRace Called: 11:13PM EST 01.05.21All Results: https://t.co/AOgwtoMxNF— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) January 6, 2021 The Perdue Ossoff race has not been called but the odds give Ossoff a 96% chance of winning.

Democrat Raphael Warnock edged ahead of incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs on Tuesday, lifting the party’s hopes for retaking the chamber from the GOP. Late Tuesday night, Newsmax and partner Decision HQ made the call for Warnock. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat seeking to unseat Sen. David Perdue, picked up more than 112,000 votes from DeKalb County outside Atlanta, narrowing the incumbent’s lead to about 3,000 votes. About 95% of the vote had been counted. The two Georgia runoff races will determine control of the U.S. Senate and the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda...

Joel Pollak @joelpollak For this alone, @GaSecofState Raffensperger should be impeached: yet again, someone is stopping the vote count with Republicans ahead, and planning to come back the next morning. It may not be fraud, but it fuels suspicions, and there is no excuse for allowing it to happen twice.

The key to the coup attempts is Hammer/Scorecard and the use of these tools to collect data on judges, lawyers, congressional representatives, by Obama via Brennan, Clapper, and intel worker bees. The linked video is an expose by my Pastor and in the end suggests we the people contact our President to implore him to declassify the information on Dennis Montgomery's creation, Hammer (the super computer) and Scorecard (the software program) which were commandeered by Obama to spy on Americans and build blackmail files. This was just the starting gate the enemies of America used. What Montgomery created is now...

Q&A: What happens if the U.S. Senate is equally split after Georgia’s runoffs?...Who runs the Senate, if no party has a majority? The party that holds the vice presidency. The Constitution makes the vice president the president of the Senate, with the power to cast the decisive vote in cases of a tie.

The Pope’s Religious Indifferentism Isn’t Just Wrong, It’s Downright PuzzlingI’ve written before about the rather significant indications that Pope Francis is a religious indifferentist, and why that’s a bad thing. Regular readers will require no additional explanation.In fact, most of us are absolutely sick to death of talking about him. He’s bad, we know it, and there’s not much we can do about it. Many have taken to just ignoring him, and that’s probably for the best at this point.But there’s a new “pope video” out today, and aside from making me wonder why the heck it shows people of...

These guys are on the street in DC now. LINKWarning:language at times.

Video at link! 2,130,535 votes... a few seconds go by and then.. Is at 2,125,535 votes. How do votes go down 5,000?

I will personally work to defeat every single Republican Senator / Congressman who doesn’t stand up against this fraud - they will be primaried in their next election and they will lose.

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French criminal turned seminal criminologist Eugene Francois Vidocq on this date in 1806 witnessed the fate he might have shared when his former underworld collaborator went under the guillotine at Paris for murder. The son of an Arras baker, the young Vidocq (English Wikipedia entry | French) presented as an incipient Villonesque picaro. He had the first of his many theft-and-arrest events at the tender age of 13 courtesy of his father who summoned the gendarmes when he stole the family silver. Nothing daunted, Vidocq robbed the house again a few months later and ran away to join troupes of...

I think it’s worth offering some historical context for our yearlong medical nightmare. We need to hear from the people who for years have contended that certain types of virus experimentation might lead to a disastrous pandemic like this one. And we need to stop hunting for new exotic diseases in the wild, shipping them back to laboratories, and hot-wiring their genomes to prove how dangerous to human life they might become. Over the past few decades, scientists have developed ingenious methods of evolutionary acceleration and recombination, and they’ve learned how to trick viruses, coronaviruses in particular, those spiky hairballs...

HARRISBURG — The new session of the Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start Tuesday, with Republicans refusing to seat a Democratic senator whose election victory has been certified by state officials. Amid high emotions and partisan finger-pointing, Republicans also took the rare step of removing the Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, from presiding over the session. They apparently did so because they did not believe Fetterman was following the rules and recognizing their legislative motions. Democrats, in turn, responded by refusing to back Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) from assuming the chamber’s top leadership position — an unusual...

Vice President Mike Pence reportedly told President Trump Tuesday that he does not possess the power to block the certification of the election — a remark that followed Trump asserting the vice president, who is presiding over Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, has the “power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” According to a report from the New York Times, Pence reportedly told Trump “he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump’s baseless insistence that he did, people briefed on the conversation said.” The...

Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are risking throwing away Georgia's two Republican seats by playing "parliamentary games" with President Donald Trump's call for $2,000 COVID relief checks, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "It (is) important for the Senate Republicans to get a grip, and not try to play parliamentary games with the president's $2,000 payment," Gingrich, a Fox News contributor, said on "America's Newsroom," pointing out that both GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are fighting for reelection in next week's runoff races, said they favor Trump's proposal. McConnell's proposal, which does not...

Rep. Matt Gaetz @RepMattGaetz Disturbing news from negotiations my colleagues and I have just had with GOP leadership: Republican leadership is contemplating taking the one hour we have to present our objections on each state and giving part of that time away to Republicans who don't support the objections.

In an interview with KPRC, James said a man and a woman came into the store looking at different dogs and landed on a $10,000 exotic bulldog puppy who was 7-months-old at the time. However, James said the pair took off with the puppy when she went upstairs to grab paperwork for a UPS driver. Surveillance video shows the couple leaving with James running after them. She told KPRC that the puppy had surgery just days prior and was in need of special medication. James explained that the man was driving the vehicle and when he “very aggressively” lurched the...