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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this week sold nearly $2 billion worth of shares in his company, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission compiled by OpenInsider. Bezos sold roughly $684 million worth of Amazon shares on Tuesday, the filings show, after unloading about $1.27 billion worth of stock on Monday. That means he’s sold about $1.95 billion worth of Amazon shares over the past two days. The transactions were made as part of a prearranged 10b5-1 trading plan, according to the filings. Representatives from Amazon weren’t immediately available to comment on the latest sale. The Amazon founder previously...

Arizona’s top elections officer Katie Hobbs on Wednesday alleged multiple points of concern regarding the forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election currently underway in Maricopa County. The Epoch Times In a letter to former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a Republican who is the state Senate’s liaison for the audit, Hobbs outlined 13 points of concern over how the audit is being run. This included seven points of concern over counting procedures that the state Senate and audit contractor Cyber Ninjas disclosed, as well as six points of concern over what her observers saw at the audit site. Under...

A toddler laid to rest with their head on a pillow in a cave in eastern Kenya is thought to be the oldest human burial ever found in Africa. The remains of the child, who was between 2 ½ and 3 years old, date back 78,000 years and were found buried at the mouth of the Panga ya Saidi cave. Early Homo sapiens have been found in Europe and the Middle East dating back 120,000 years, the child's skeleton represents the earliest evidence of intentional burial in Africa.

Washington state now has vaccine passports, thanks to Governor Jay Inslee. He won’t call them vaccine passports because it’s politically unpopular. But under his newly unveiled guidance, Washingtonians would have to quite literally show their vaccine papers to enjoy special privileges or basic rights like the public education you’ve paid for. Under the power of the state, the Inslee administration is encouraging private organizations and religious institutions to create vaccinated-only sections in their venues. Inslee is not merely promoting vaccine segregation; he’s even forcing people to use separate entrances when entering venues. Inslee is even allowing public and private schools...

Sidney Powell: America is now a 'Communist regime' One of the lawyers who fought, without a lot of success, to have evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election reviewed by the courts in America has delivered a harsh verdict on the state of the nation under President Joe Biden. Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor, worked on cases that, had they succeeded, would have been to the benefit of President Trump. They argued various state election systems mishandled mailed ballots, absentee ballots and even suggested fraudulent ballots, with huge dumps of votes all for Biden sometimes appearing in the...

Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have described themselves as devout Catholics, a description enthusiastically repeated by his press secretary and the media. But now Pelosi's hometown bishop is taking a not-so-subtle jab at her and Biden's abortion advocacy, arguing that self-identified Catholics should refrain from publicly promoting the practice or face potential exclusion from Holy Communion. "If you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion, you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion," said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in a pastoral letter.

It’s pretty clear the Democrats and their Deep State will do anything to stop the ongoing 2020 Election forensic audit in Maricopa County. They’ve tried using the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the Democrat Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, their attorneys, and their Non Profits. Now they’re bringing out their biggest guns. To Republicans and onlookers who don’t fully understand what is going on in Maricopa County, Arizona – This is WAR! Joe Biden supposedly won Maricopa County in the 2020 election by 40,000 votes. He was the first Democrat to win the county since Harry Truman. This miracle happened...

1:03 On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said that people can dance at weddings “if you’re socially distanced and you’re wearing a mask and you meet the other requirements with our level of vaccinations,” and praised D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who has implemented an outright ban on dancing at wedding receptions, by stating that “it takes courage to be really clear about what constitutes high-risk activities and behaviors.” Host Alisyn Camerota asked, “Is there dancing allowed in New Mexico, governor?

tintinnabulation - noun tin·​tin·​nab·​u·​la·​tion | \ ˌtin-tə-ˌna-byə-ˈlā-shən \ Definition of tintinnabulation: 1: the ringing or sounding of bells 2: a jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells Synonyms: chime(s), jingle, tinkleVisit the Thesaurus for More Did You Know? If the sound of tintinnabulation rings a bell, that may be because it traces to a Latin interpretation of the sound a ringing bell makes. Our English word derives from tintinnabulum, the Latin word for "bell." That Latin word, in turn, comes from the verb tintinnare, which means "to ring, clang, or jingle." Like the English terms "ting" and "tinkle," tintinnare...

.. J E S U S I N … T H E T E M P L E , T E A C H I N G . L U K E .. 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read LUKE 2 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels 5 B. C. Bible Timeline. LUKE, Chapter 2 41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the...

DHS Chief: We Should Not See Borders as National Boundaries and Divide Us — “Rather than viewing borders solely as the lines that mark national boundaries and that divide us from one another, we should see borders as a point of connection, as the place where the flow of people and goods from different countries interact and intersect,” Mayorkas declared during the annual conference hosted by the Council of the Americas (COA) on Tuesday. - Imagine there’s no bordersThe origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? — The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world...

Federal authorities this week charged an Antioch man who worked for the FBI with sexual exploitation of children and receiving child pornography. According to a press release, that man, Justin D. Carroll, 38, worked for the FBI as an electronics technician. Agents arrested Carroll as he arrived to work at the Nashville FBI office, said a press release for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Caitlyn Jenner has announced that she is running for governor of California, to replace the unpopular Gavin Newsom, whose recall will be on the state ballot this fall. Her first campaign commercial dropped earlier this week, and it's really something. Jenner appeals to Californians' best sense of themselves. In a tongue-in-cheek reference to the state's pro sports teams, she characterizes California citizens as "warriors," "kings" and "angels," as well as "trailblazers" and "innovators." She taps into the state's history. "California was once the envy of the world," she says. "We had what everyone else wanted. The American dream grew up...

Colorado state Representative calls another ‘Buckwheat’ during session by: Matt Mauro Posted: May 5, 2021 DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado state representative is drawing fire after referring to a colleague as “Buckwheat” during the House session Wednesday morning. Rep. Richard Holtorf, a Republican who represents the northeastern part of Colorado, was speaking to the House. He was talking about military rules of engagement and the law of proportionality, when he apparently responded to another legislator and said, “I’m getting there. Don’t worry Buckwheat. I’m getting there.” A moment later Holtorf said, “That’s an endearing term, by the way.” Holtorf then...

Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 @kelliwardaz These are the servers for Maricopa Co elections. The external drives that were loaded w/ nightly early vote totals are circled. Scott Jarrett said they were taken to an offsite “undisclosed location” nightly “for safety” by an employee or a Dominion contractor working for MC. 🤔 ======================================================== https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/05/05/u-s-department-of-justice-asks-senate-to-respond-to-concerns-about-arizona-election-audit/4965675001/ SOURCE The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is asking Arizona Senate President Karen Fann to respond to concerns the department has about the security of ballots and potential voter intimidation as the Senate’s contractors perform an audit of November’s presidential election in Maricopa County. In...

In a sign of our distraction, the feds indicted not one but two aldermen last Friday and hardly anyone around here batted an eye. Let’s see . . . Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson of the fabled Bridgeport-based 11th Ward got charged in a convoluted tax-evasion scheme. The central accusation being that Thompson deducted from his federal income taxes about $171,000 in interest on a loan that he never, in fact, paid. The interest or the loan. Thompson says he’s innocent of all charges. But I can’t wait to hear him explain the interest-deduction thing. Alderman Thompson is, of course, the...

How Muslim terrorists “justify” their cowardly deeds. The Islamic State in Sinai recently executed another Christian on video. In a clip recorded before the execution, the slain Copt, Nabil H. Salama, 62, “confessed” to his crime: building the only church in Bir al-Abd in Sinai—a church which was supposedly “cooperating with the Egyptian army’s and intelligence’s war on the Islamic State.” Although Salama offered this “confession” only after being tortured—after his front teeth were busted out of his mouth—the charge that Coptic churches are actively and nefariously working to undermine the Islamic order is as widespread among Egypt’s Islamists as...

At least 74 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Everyone I know believes the number was actually much higher, but 74 million is the number the biased, "fake news" media counts as fact. This is the base of the Republican Party. I know what these 74 million (and probably a few more million) voters believe in. How? Because I tested my beliefs at three major GOP events in the past month where I was the keynote speaker. And I got wild, enthusiastic standing ovations at all three. What's amazing is that the GOP leadership in Washington,...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 5. Gen. BUTLER has been engaged here for two days, with Gen. SCOTT and the Secretary of War, arranging the details of some important movements. When the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment were ordered yesterday to prepare for a march at any hour after 2 o'clock in the morning, no one knew in which direction they were to go, and the anxiety to learn their destination, with the hurry and confusion of so sudden a preparation for march, made the scene last evening in their quarters a very exciting and novel one. The men seemed much to prefer something...

In his address to a joint session of Congress last week, the most dangerous and delusional thing the president said was when he equated the policies of his administration with the will of the American people. Biden: “Our Constitution opens with the words, ‘We the People.’ It’s time we remembered that we the people are the government.” In other words, the people are synonymous with the people in power. At least he got the words (all three of them) right. During the 2020 campaign, he mangled the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, which came out: “We hold these truths...