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Argument about US voter fraud is ‘not a conspiracy’: Alan Jones 01/02/2021|11min Sky News host Alan Jones says the allegations about voter fraud in the US Presidential Election are “not a conspiracy”. “According to the American electoral system, for all its imperfections, Joe Biden is the president of the United States and the leader of the free world,” Mr Jones said. “In America, voting takes place under 50 different state systems … in the recent American election, absentee voting was expanded to 118 million voters in 34 states ad mail-in ballots were sent to all 44 million voters in nine...

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Tuesday, predicting six more weeks of winter. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, revelers weren’t able to see Phil and celebrate in person: This year, it was all virtual. The livestream from Gobbler’s Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney, was made possible by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office’s Holi-stay PA. The event there — always Feb. 2 — dates back to 1887. “Whether you’re hoping for six more weeks of winter fun or an early spring, we could all use some extra happiness this year,” said department spokesperson Carrie Lepore in a release. Phil this year,...

Wearing masks, gloves and face shields, voters across Myanmar on November 8 braved surging coronavirus infections as they turned out en masse to cast their ballots in the country’s second democratic vote since the end of military rule in 2011. At polling stations in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, the enthusiasm was palpable. ----snip-- Trouble, however, was already brewing. Just days before the polls, Myanmar’s powerful military chief Min Aung Hlaing had raised the possibility the army may not accept the outcome of the election. Accusing Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s government of “unacceptable mistakes”, he told a local news...

Some House Democrats hope to pass legislation this year that would give voters the option to list their choices in order of preference in future federal elections, a practice known as ranked-choice voting. It’s part of a package of reforms designed to reduce extremism in politics, making politicians more responsive to the majority of voters rather than the noisy minorities in both parties. Advocates also want to increase the number of House members for the first time in over 100 years, and to move to multimember congressional districts. “The most likely piece, which I hope we can pass this year,...

Democrats have reached the point where they’re now so routinely using Nazi analogies that they’re likely unaware that they’re doing it, the way people swear more when they’re drunk. In this case, Democrats are drunk with power and not only can they not control themselves, thanks to the media going along with them for the ride, they have no reason to control themselves. And it’s going to get much worse before it gets any better, if it ever gets better at all. One phrase you hear often is “the Big Lie.” It comes from Adolf Hitler himself, the left’s favorite...

Why the specter of Donald Trump haunts the left. “Mindlessness and moral idiocy are not characteristically human attributes; they are symptoms of herd-poisoning” - Aldous Huxley Has there ever been a situation throughout all of American history where the Democrat party is so terrified of one man and his supporters that they set out to destroy him unrelentingly from the moment he won an election, throughout his four-year term in office and after he has left office? No. Never. But the left is so frightened of Donald Trump that they mean to literally erase evidence of his existence. -They want...

Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendor and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night. Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men” (1976); an achingly grandfatherly character in “Into the Wild” (2007), for which he received...

Police in San Francisco arrested a 19-year-old Daly City man on suspicion of murder for a brazen attack last week on an 84-year-old man in the city’s Anza Vista neighborhood, officials said Sunday. San Francisco police arrested Antoine Watson on Saturday after serving a warrant at a home in Daly City. He was booked on suspicion of murder, elder abuse, and assault with a deadly weapon. The CCTV footage captured the shocking moment when 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was mortally wounded in Daly City, San Francisco on Thursday. He died two days later at a hospital. His family said Vicha was...

Wait, she gets the questions in advance and she’s still this awful? – If this story surprises you, you must have slept through the presidential campaign. The very, very, very leftist Daily Beast reports that White House Communications Team staffers have been pre-interviewing compliant members of the fake White House press corps to get their questions in advance of press briefings. No doubt, they realize just how truly, incredibly terrible Press Secretary Jen Psaki is at her job, and needs all the help she can get.

It’s just the flu, bro. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3930730/posts Two layer masks, or two masks, mandatory for travel now, according to the CDC. Who will be the mask inspector? When I am required to wear a mask, I wear a double cloth thin mask with the inner lining removed using scissors. This essentially renders it into a single ply mask and it is much more comfortable. If I am caught by a mask inspector for my subterfuge will my face and story be published in the media? Will I be characterized as the terrorist who secretly removed a layer from his two ply...

WASHINGTON - The Senate is poised to approve Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, the first openly gay person ever confirmed to a Cabinet post, tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging agenda of rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and fighting climate change. Buttigieg’s nomination was set for a final vote Tuesday in the full Senate, after the 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Biden’s one-time rival in the Democratic presidential primaries received bipartisan praise at his confirmation hearing last week. Praised by Biden as bringing a “new voice” to the administration, Buttigieg would take over a Transportation Department...

February 2 2021 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Westminster Cathedral, London, England Lectionary 524Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.First readingMalachi 3:1-4 ©The Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his TempleThe Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing...

Either through dereliction or malicious intent, the Supreme Court justices have failed to interdict the approaching threats to the Constitution. We’ve heard repeated claims over the course of the Trump presidency that we’re facing a constitutional crisis. We’ve been told that everything from executive orders to impeachment proceedings were such a crisis. Those claims were utter nonsense. But what about when the Constitution is ignored rather than respected? In that case it will cease being a guarantee of our rights or a constraint on government overreach. Under those circumstances the Constitution will no longer have any bearing on how we...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Revelation 6The Seals 6 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. 3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider...

WASHINGTON - Less than two weeks in office, President Joe Biden is facing two critical tests of whether the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol has damaged America’s standing as a beacon for democracy. Protests in Russia and a military coup in Myanmar come as American credibility on the world stage has plummeted after last month’s storming of the Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob looking to stop the certification of Biden’s election victory. That adds to the weight on Biden as he seeks to fulfill a campaign pledge to dramatically reposition the U.S. as a global leader following four...

The last survivors of the German 6th Army surrender to Soviet forces in Stalingrad. Of the 91,000 German POWs, captured at Stalingrad, only 6,000 would live to see Germany again.

The ruling class, for all its power and its domination and hegemony, is terrified by the barbarians at the gates. I’ve never been much of a poker player, but I understand that expert players can read the “tell” on their opponents’ faces. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think the “tell” on the actions of our Democratic friends informs us that they are afraid. Why would President Biden shovel out a boatload of executive orders in the first week of his presidency advancing climate change and fighting systemic racism? Why would the Deep State sic the FBI on candidate and then...

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission will begin forming the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee to come up with a plan to pay reparations to residents who are descendants of slaves, HRC officials said Monday. The commission is now accepting applications for the task force, which will be made up of 15 residents. The creation of the task force is the result of efforts by Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton and the San Francisco branch of the NAACP. Last year, Walton introduced legislation calling for reparations for African-American residents, possibly using income from the city's hotel and marijuana...

The San Francisco public school arts department — whose board decided last week to rename 44 schools that honored figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington — have decided to take on their next target: acronyms. The director of the district’s arts department told local ABC7 news that a decision has been made to change the name of their department, “VAPA,” which is short for visual and performing arts. The new name will be SFUSD Arts Department. “We are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work,” the director, Sam Bass, told the network. “The use of so many acronyms...

It should come as no surprise that Bush-era Republicans are frustrated with the middle class “America First” crowd that supports President Trump and the MAGA movement. The cocktail party GOPe have always looked down their noses at the base of supporters; now they report -via Reuters- that they will abandon the Republican party.