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Ex-DoD employee gave terrorist group info on Soleimani targeters The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of a Pentagon staffer who provided Hezbollah with sensitive information related to individuals who helped the United States target Iranian warlord Qassem Soleimani. Mariam Taha Thompson, a former Department of Defense linguist in Iraq, transferred dozens of files containing personal information, background, and photographs of human assets who assisted in planning the airstrike that killed Soleimani to a co-conspirator. Thompson, who was romantically interested in the co-conspirator, thought the information would end up in the hands of Lebanese Hezbollah forces. The Department of Justice...

The Absolute Amazing Background to ‘The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11' - By Dr. John Whitcomb - Link to Dr. Whitcomb's audio Bible study on the Two Witnesses. Beloved, the dearest most amazing man that Almighty God has used in the 20th century has to be Dr. John Whitcomb. A dear, sweet down to earth man who gave all of his genetic genius to his ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator and Savior to use for His ETERNAL glory (Gal. 2:20). I got to meet Dr. Whitcomb and pick him up at the airport many times and found him always down to earth,...

Coca-Cola thought personalized bottles might bring some summer fun to its fans. Instead, it met the internet. The company's make-your-own label promotion lets customers write short messages on custom Coke bottles. Although Coca-Cola tried to block some slurs and trademarks, social media users were quick to discover that the company's restrictions were hardly comprehensive — and in some cases blocked inoffensive terms. For example, "Black Lives Matter," is blocked. But "White Lives Matter" isn't. Coke included a special rainbow label for pride month, but you can't write "Gay Pride" on the bottle. However, you can write "I hate gays." "Hitler"...

An investigation found that California Governor Gavin Newsom grossly exaggerated the amount of fuel reduction projects that have been completed on state lands, and he reduced the fire prevention budget. From Capradio, June 23, 2021: “An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority...

Law firm run by Lincoln Project donors concludes review of scandal-plagued super PAC Paul Hastings, the law firm run by Lincoln Project donors that was hired to review the Lincoln Project's "operations and culture" following the John Weaver sex pest scandal, has concluded its investigation. In a carefully worded memo to Lincoln Project donors—obtained by Mediaite—the scandal-plagued super PAC boasts that the law firm found "no evidence" Lincoln Project executives were aware that any of Weaver's victims were underage. Additionally, the memo says the firm discovered "no communications nor conduct reported to The Lincoln Project or its leadership involving Mr....

Two prominent Democrat politicians who sit on the House Intelligence Committee have alerted the news media that they were informed by the Apple corporation back on May 5 that their phone records had been targeted by a subpoena issued by a grand jury as part of a federal investigation into criminal leaking of classified material. Apple said in a released statement that a non-disclosure order from a federal judge prevented them for more than three years from alerting any of the affected phone and email accounts that their records had been accessed by the federal grand jury. Both Rep. Adam...

As the homicide rate hits a record high in Washington D.C. the city elects a convicted murderer to public office in a unique election featuring all inmate candidates. The freshly elected public official, Joel Caston, has been in prison 26 years and is currently incarcerated at the District of Columbia Jail. In 1996 Caston was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder for ambushing and killing a man in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood. Court records obtained by Judicial Watch indicate that a 2016 appeal was denied. In the document, Caston’s attorneys name the victim, which is not common practice today....

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is extending the COVID-19-related restrictions on nonessential travel between the United States, Mexico, and Canada until July 21.“To reduce the spread of [COVID-19], the United States is extending restrictions on non-essential travel at our land and ferry crossings with Canada and Mexico through July 21, while ensuring access for essential trade & travel,” the department wrote on Twitter on June 20.

"I want to wait and watch."This is a peculiar response I receive from my friends and some family members in the United States when I ask them about their thoughts on COVID-19 vaccination. This is a peculiar response for a couple of reasons: COVID-19 vaccines are exceptionally effective, are now readily available and are the best way to end the pandemic and return to normalcy.This skeptical response is reflective of broader trends in the United States: An NPR/Marist poll this spring revealed that up to one-fourth of the national population would decline to get vaccinated even when offered.This is also...

Key points: 1. You have to include 100% of all ballots in your forensic audit. This is because the fraud may be hidden in only one area out of a hundred. You will miss identifying the total amount of fraudulent ballots if you sample [i.e. statistical sampling]. He provided a picture to show what he means. If only one out of a hundred or 6 out of six hundred cases are fraudulent, you will likely not capture the full amount of fraud when sampling. If you audit using sampling or fractions, the fraudulent cases may never be captured, especially if...

Event intended to highlight immigrant chefs apologizes for including Israeli food truck A Philadelphia organization that works to feature immigrant chefs canceled a planned food truck festival over social media criticism that an Israeli vendor would be included. Eat Up the Borders, which operates a recurring food festival featuring immigrant chefs, axed their event after receiving criticism for including Moshava, a food truck and catering company run by an Israeli immigrant. The organizers said it would be wrong to include Moshava without also featuring a Palestinian truck. Moshava's Brandon Ferrio, who cofounded the business with Israeli immigrant Nir Sheynfeld, said...

{OLD - FROM 2017!!! - news, but still relevant to use against today's 'dem-witted' party:} "GoLocalProv.com News Editor Kate Nagle finally caught up with U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to ask him about his family’s membership in the exclusive and all-white Bailey’s Beach Club. In 2006, when Whitehouse ran for the United States Senate, he reportedly promised to quit his memberships in Bailey's, as well as the all-male, all-white Bellevue Avenue Reading Room. However, eleven years later, a GoLocal investigation has uncovered that Whitehouse has consolidated his ownership with his wife in Bailey's, one of America’s oldest and most exclusive...

The half-billion-dollar National Guard price tag to man the U.S. Capitol for more than five months has emptied the Guard's coffers and will affect readiness if Congress does not act, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson said Wednesday. The Guard’s largest and most expensive mission was to protect the .U.S capital, including providing security for the presidential inauguration and the much-criticized militarization of the U.S. Capitol grounds with razor wire and 7-foot nonscalable fences....The peak deployment in the nation’s capital required 26,000 service members from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Without the reimbursement, Hokanson...

When 39-year-old Cabletron co-founder Robert Levine retired in 1997, newspapers called him “eccentric” — he did, after all, wear ostrich-skin boots and chase off a pizza delivery boy in his armored tank, as he told it — but he was just getting started. The mansion has an indoor and an outdoor shooting range. “You never really even have to leave the estate to have fun. I don’t know of another place like it,” The 25,000-square-foot recreation center called “the Lodge” includes a five-story rock climbing wall, an elevator, an indoor shooting range, a teppanyaki (similar to Hibachi) dining area, a...

A human resources official defends use of eliminationist rhetoric in email to Jewish employee Google’s human resources department earlier this week sanctioned an employee’s use of the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," the eliminationist call-to-arms frequently employed by anti-Israel activists. The company's determination came after a Jewish employee raised concerns about the anti-Semitic slogan by a top Google union official on an internal company profile. The company maintains an internal database containing contact information and personal profiles that appear in emails and other internal Google communications. "The Googler who shared this phrase on his...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) confirmed this week that he is negotiating an amnesty deal for likely millions of illegal aliens with Senate Democrats. In statements to PunchBowl News, Cornyn confirmed that he is hammering out the details of an expansive amnesty deal with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) that could give green cards, and eventually American citizenship, to illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, those given Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and illegal aliens who work on farms. Right now, there’s a proposal to deal with DACA, a bipartisan border solutions bill,...

Inadvertently, President Joe Biden just made one of the most convincing arguments for gun rights. In fact, he was quite possibly more convincing than any other president in U.S. history.... ...The president began by saying “most responsible gun owners” agree that “no possible justification for having 100 rounds in a magazine.” ... ...“If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”... ...Biden’s claim that these weapons aren’t powerful enough to take on the U.S. government isn’t quite making the case he hopes. In fact, that sort of argument...

A quirk of a 19th-century Congressional resolution could allow Texas to split up into five states Before John Nance Garner became Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president, and before he declared the job “isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit,” the cow-punching, whiskey-drinking, poker-dealing Texas congressman pushed a plan to grab even more clout for his already enormous state.... “Cactus Jack” argued that Texas could, and should, split itself into five states. “An area twice as large and rapidly becoming as populous as New England should have at least ten Senators,” Garner told The New York Times in April 1921, “and the...

The World Health Organization overhauled a webpage on the COVID-19 vaccines that had recommended against children getting vaccinated following online confusion about the difference between its guidance and that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On a previous version of its website, the WHO stated that “children should not be vaccinated at the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19.” The recommendation, which had been online for months, drew notice earlier this week from U.S. vaccine skeptics. Rep. Marjorie...