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The largest newspaper in Arizona announced Thursday that it has filed lawsuit to obtain financial records and communications from the Republican-led state Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the private firm that has overseen a highly irregular recount of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. "Arizona law entitles the public to know how this audit is being conducted and funded," David Bodney, an attorney for The Arizona Republic, said in a statement. In a June 30 complaint, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, the newspaper argues that it is entitled to the records under the state's public records law. The lawsuit comes...

Plasmonic Condensed Matter Nuclear Fusion Katsuaki Tanabe Kyoto University, Japan E-mail: tanabe@cheme.kyoto-u.ac.jp The intensity and density of the triggering energy supplied to activate the nuclear fusion reaction are key factors to produce a smooth and reproducible initiation of the reaction. We previously proposed and numerically analyzed a scheme to provide high-density optical or electromagnetic energy to fusion-fuel materials by lasers and plasmonic field-enhancement effects, to significantly increase the reaction probability [1–6]. Large degrees of field enhancements, or energy focusing, were observed around metal nanoparticles and nanoshells [1], planar metal surfaces [2,3], metal/oxide interfaces [5], sharp metal tips [4], and metal...

During this year's Louisiana Legislative Session, the debate involving a bill on domestic violence nearly led to violence inside the capitol. Louisiana State Representative Alan Seabaugh says that during dialog over a bill in Baton Rouge, fellow State Representative Malinda White threatened to shoot him. Seabaugh told KEEL News: "This is exactly what I said, I said, 'I understand you're not a lawyer and you may not get the difference.' That's all I said and she absolutely went nuts. She stood up and she grabbed my arm, and she said, 'I'm gonna go get my gun and finish this,' or,...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 (Reuters) - A Republican-led drive to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, will go to a special vote on Sept. 14, the lieutenant governor declared on Thursday, shortly after the state's top election official certified the recall petition. **SNIP** In California, a recall - a process by which elected officials or judges can be removed from office before the end of their terms - entails a two-part ballot. Voters decide whether they want to remove the sitting governor and then on the same ballot choose a replacement. If more than 50% choose to end Newsom's...

Yeonmi Park, a North Korean human rights activist who escaped North Korea, says the attitude of hatred she observed while studying at Columbia University reminded her of North Korea. See video at link.

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - Starting July 1, all small firearms and ammunition bought in West Virginia will no longer contain a sales tax. “If you are going to buy that $2,000 riffle, it’s going to be $120 cheaper here in West Virginia than compared to our neighboring states,” said Delegate Gary Howell, (R) District 56. This law was formed in House Bill 2499, which was passed during this year’s legislative session to promote business by exempting sales taxes for consumers. With more than 5 million first-time new gun owners in just 2020, gun stores like this in West Virginia hope...

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July 02 , 2021 Memorial of St. Bernardino Realino Saints Laurentius and Elizabeth Cathedral, Rotterdam, Netherlands Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGenesis 23:1-4,19,24:1-8,62-67 ©'Choose a wife for my son Isaac'The length of Sarah’s life was a hundred and twenty-seven years. She died at Kiriath-arba, or Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn and grieve for her. Then leaving his dead, Abraham spoke to the sons of Heth: ‘I am a stranger and a settler among you,’ he said. ‘Let me own a burial-plot among you, so that I may take my dead wife and...

Maybe it’s time to admit that the whole “green” energy push is one big farce Six months after a historic failure in the Texas power grid which collapsed when various “renewable” sources of electricity failed concurrently and dragged down the entire network, California – that liberal utopia powered by renewable power and/or unicorn flatulence – realizes it is about to get Enroned, and has made an urgent request for additional power supplies to avoid blackouts this summer, an extraordinary step after suffering from rolling outages less than a year ago. State energy officials asked the California Independent System Operator, which...

By LUKE MONEY, RONG-GONG LIN II JULY 1, 2021 UPDATED 4:41 PM PT Los Angeles County’s top public health official expressed growing alarm about increasing circulation of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, particularly as the region grapples with an uptick in new infections. While the situation in the nation’s most populous county is nowhere near as dire as over the fall and winter, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the increases seen recently are nevertheless concerning — and are at the heart of this week’s recommendation that even residents vaccinated for COVID-19 should resume wearing face coverings...

Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, is an active duty astronautical engineer in the US Air Force.The WOKE brass in the US military thought Fram's story of transition was so amazing, they decided to put out a short video to the public to let all the other future soldiers with gender dysphoria know, they have a place in the US military.If you notice, since Biden took over and occupied the White House, not a single video showing a wounded warrior or soldier who performed acts of extreme heroics on the battlefield has been featured in a video. No, nowadays, we get trans...

Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who sparked outrage by turning her back on the national anthem on the podium on Sunday, is being sponsored by an activist group which campaigns to defund the police. Berry, 31, turned her back on Sunday when the national anthem was being played after her Olympic qualifier. She said she was tricked into being there at that moment, and was enraged and confused, insisting the anthem did not represent her - but she still loves the United States.

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"The quadcopter was flying between Zero Line and the border fence. It was fired upon by the alert BSF personnel... We have searched the area and have found no arms and ammunition," NS Jamwal, BSF's Jammu frontier inspector general, said. The sighting of the quadcopter comes five days after the drone attack was carried out on the Indian Air Force station in Jammu on Sunday. At least two personnel were injured in the attack. The attack was the first-ever offensive use of drones to target an Indian military facility. The technology used in the aerial attack in Jammu indicated “state...

Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 9:1-8 Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus heals a paralytic, but not before first forgiving his sins: “People brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.’” Jesus read the hearts of scribes who had decided he was blaspheming, and so he replied, “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk?’” When no reply came, Jesus sent the man off home carrying his stretcher. The story affirms that Jesus offers us...

"This is the video showing Tyler Cox hitting the helmet off the officer’s face at the antifa riot. Cox is now suing for damages." Video: Andy Ngo Twitter

"3 black boys kick and jump on a white boy's head and they take great delight in doing so. An adult black male films it. I think that's his bike one of them uses to run him over also." Video at link: Clown World Twitter

On Wednesday, trustees for the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill voted to grant tenure to New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the notorious “1619 Project.” UNC had earlier revoked the offer of tenure, which usually forms part of the deal for a Knight Chair professorship. Conservatives spoke out against UNC’s move hiring Hannah-Jones, whose project pushes Marxist critical race theory, divides Americans by race, and arguably helped inspire the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots last summer. The 1619 Project twists American history along the lines of Marxist critical race theory, reframing many aspects of...

The Justin Trudeau-led Government of Canada has announced that one month is not sufficient for the celebration of LGBT pride, and that the festivities will be extended to cover the whole season. “1 month isn’t enough to celebrate Pride in Canada!” declared his Twitter-verified ‘Free to be me’ account, an official account of the Government of Canada, alongside an emoji rainbow, gay pride flag emoji, and transgender flag emoji. “#PrideSeason takes place from June to September with local events across the country celebrating the resilience and spirit of #LGBTQ2 people in Canada. Follow us as we highlight Pride celebrations all...