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State Sen. David Argall, who heads a committee that oversees elections, told local news outlets he favors a forensic audit of the contest that state and federal officials insist was secure. The Republican, under pressure by former President Donald Trump to take action, told the Capital-Star the audit is now a “very real possibility." The report said he is considering subpoenas for ballot information and which jurisdictions to send them. “There are a lot of things under consideration right now, and I told them to check back in a week or two, and we hope to have some more detail,”...

China officially further relaxed its family planning policy, allowing couples to give birth to three children," the Communist Party's Global Times announced on May 31. "The move aims to improve China's population structure and actively respond to the country's aging problem." No, the move won't do that. A three-child policy will be even less successful than China's two-child policy, which itself was a complete flop. So watch out: Beijing could—and probably will—take the next step and outright force couples to have children. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, believed there should be as many Chinese in...

Evidence shows more than half of the 10 most severely affected countries by the CCP virus in the world have used Chinese vaccines.Our World in Data, an online database created by the UK’s Oxford University, provides data on the number of infections per day per 1 million people.As of June 16, the top 10 hard-hit countries and their relevant figures were: Seychelles (1,690), Uruguay (827), Mongolia (729), Colombia (551), Maldives (508), Bahrain (506), Argentina (506), Suriname (437), Kuwait (365), and Chile (342).In Seychelles, 57 percent of its vaccines are from China’s Sinopharm for the 18 to 60 age group, the...

As California’s population drops due to a mass exodus of residents escaping high taxes, exorbitant housing costs, and increasing homelessness, there’s another factor that’s been quietly contributing to the downturn: the declining birth rate.Data shows that while the Golden State’s population continues to grow old, young adults are having fewer kids.John Moorlach, a former state senator and Orange County supervisor, told The Epoch Times that the long-term impact of the state’s dropping birth rate is “hard to predict,” because the current administration’s border policy has made immigration numbers unclear.But if immigration is minimized and there is zero growth, Moorlach said...

The Lies and Reality of the USCCB VoteAs I’ve been saying ever since the letter trying to squash the forming of a document on “Eucharistic Coherence”, the loud crowd is in the minority. There is no “split down the middle.” Let’s look at the vote on drafting that document: 168 yea, 55 nay, and 6 abstentions. The club that wants to give Communion to whoever walks up to receive didn’t even retain their supposed 67! I don’t know why a bigger deal hasn’t been made about that, but more than one person who supposedly signed said they didn’t at all....

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson claims the Wuhan lab researchers deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility.The Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to handle the world’s most dangerous pathogens. The lab is just a few miles from a major seafood market in the city that Beijing first identified as the source of the virus.The possibility of an accidental laboratory leak from the Chinese lab was quickly shut down at...

Have a question for Freepers. Are appointments still needed for barber shops and hair salons? I called my barber yesterday to make an appointment for a haircut. I was told it was no longer required to make an appointment. I live in California and not in a homeless area. Temp. today was 108 degrees

A spoof of a Biden Press Conference It would be funnier if it were not so close to being true.

Okay I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but in our industry. Ok just found this article that I linked to.

Earlier this month, a nine-member state reparations task force met for the first time to study the consequences of slavery and systemic racism against African Americans in California. The state committee is planning to spend the first year studying the lasting impacts of slavery, while recommending how the state should make amends in its second year.

The final report for the 2020 election audit taking place in Arizona’s largest county is not expected to be out until mid-August, an official involved with the work says. Led by Cyber Ninjas, which was hired by the Arizona Senate, auditors are working on evaluating ballots after finishing their ballot recount.The ballot evaluation is supposed to wrap up by the end of June—the Senate is slated to vacate the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the audit is taking place, by July 1—but there will be a few weeks worth of additional work after that, Ken Bennett, a former Arizona Republican secretary...

@alisonannyoung My latest in ⁦@USATODAY: Fauci describes backstory of secretive Feb. 2020 meeting where an elite, international group of scientists discussed concerns the Covid-19 virus may have been engineered.

Lest we forget - The Flag of June 19th, 1865. Thirty-five stars. Missing were: Nevada Nebraska Colorado North Dakota South Dakota Montana Washington Idaho Wyoming Utah Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona Alaska Hawaii

ZURICH (AP) — Mexico’s soccer team will play two home games in empty stadiums as part of a FIFA punishment on Friday for fans chanting anti-gay slurs at an Olympic qualifying tournament. FIFA said the Mexican Football Association must also pay a 60,000 Swiss francs ($65,000) fine. Mexican fans persist in aiming the chant at opposing teams’ goalkeepers despite regular FIFA fines and efforts by the FA to curb the insults. The latest incidents were during games against the United States and Dominican Republic in March at the qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Olympics that Mexico hosted in Guadalajara.

The new fundraiser will bring the cathedral into the 21st century. The Archdiocese of Paris is asking for more funds to help bring much needed updates to Notre Dame. The campaign is seeking between 5 and 6 million euros to help modernize the interior. Notre Dame de Paris was devastated by fire in April, 2019. Even as it was burning, Catholics around the world were pledging donations to restore the iconic French church. The Archdiocese reportedly raised over 800 million euros, but this money is limited in its use. The regulations around Notre Dame’s funds are due to a law...

Native American ministry was an action item for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Thursday, as the relevant subcommittee sought approval for a new statement and a “comprehensive vision” for indigenous Catholics and those who serve them. “There is at present no guide for the Catholic Church in the U.S. in approaching, understanding and promoting Catholic Native ministry,” said Bishop James Wall of Gallup, head of the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs under the U.S. bishops’ Standing Committee for Cultural Diversity. In his June 17 remarks to the bishops’ spring assembly and in an interview with CNA, Wall outlined...

OK, so this is mostly just a blowing-off-steam thread. (PLEASE feel free to post your steam!) I'm disgusted by this nonsense. This is nothing but a "stick it to white Americans" ploy. Another childish, babyish action with zero background. Suddenly some local-yokel thing even blacks didn't know about is a national celebration. When I kept hearing fireworks tonight around our neighborhood, it finally occurred to me it's probably about "Juneteenth"!

Florida wins its lawsuit against the CDC to overrule the Conditional Sailing Order to allow cruises to resume. The federal Judge has finally decided in the lawsuit filed by the State of Florida against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to lift the Conditional Sailing Order (CSO). This news comes after Florida and the CDC failed to work out their differences under mediation, and cruises out of Florida have remained on hold for 15 months. However, the CDC has been working to resume cruises safely with the cruise lines more recently. Florida Overrules CDC, Cruises Can Resume...

Shocking surveillance footage captured the moment two young children were trampled by a man as he tried to escape from a shooter who fired nearly a dozen bullets in the middle of a Bronx street and pointed his gun at the terrified kids. The NYPD released the video on Friday afternoon and asked for the public's help in identifying the gunman in the latest of nearly 150 shootings across the city this month. The video opens with a boy and girl - believed to be around the ages of five and 10 - walking on a sidewalk before people scatter...