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California on Thursday scheduled a Sept. 14 recall election that could drive Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, the result of a political uprising largely driven by angst over state coronavirus orders that shuttered schools and businesses and upended life for millions of Californians. Meanwhile, conservative talk show host Larry Elder, 69, issued a brief statement Wednesday night saying he was seriously considering entering the race and would announce his decision early next week. His entry into the race would give the Republican field a jolt of celebrity sparkle and a name on the ticket known through his nationally syndicated...

Liz Harris is apparently a volunteer for the Maricopa County audit having previously been a candidate herself. In this interview Ms. Harris, while qualifying her statements with the non-disclosure agreement, gives an overview of what the audit team has likely uncovered so far. Additionally, as CTH has previously highlighted, the canvas is the important aspect to the physical ballot review.Ms. Harris discusses -in broad terms- how the canvassing is being done and how commercials are being deployed throughout the region by “Protect Democracy” the leftist activist group. It appears the DNC affiliate is running ads in an effort to get...

The corrupt way in which California Governor Gavin Newsom rigged his recall election once again confirms why 1.7 million state voters signed the recall petition against him. Newsom and his fellow Democrats reduced the state to the Banana Republic of California with their shameful moves leading to the September 14 recall date. Ballots will begin flooding to Californians’ mail boxes — whether they asked for them or not under COVID-19 “emergency” rules — in mid-August because Newsom and his cronies changed the rules to move up the election by 30 days. ... Changing the date of the election to a...

Click here to read the full articleJoe Biden enter­tained his son’s busi­ness asso­ciates in the vice pres­i­den­t’s office, includ­ing Mex­i­can bil­lion­aires Car­los Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.The then-vice pres­i­dent also flew Hunter and his part­ner Jeff Coop­er on Air Force 2 to Mex­i­co City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán’s son for meet­ings over a ‘flip­pin gigan­tic’ busi­ness deal.The rev­e­la­tions, laid bare in pho­tographs and emails on Hunter’s aban­doned lap­top, are the lat­est in a grow­ing body of evi­dence call­ing into ques­tion the president’s claim that he nev­er spoke about busi­ness with Hunter.In the light of shock­ing doc­u­ments...

Click here to read the full articleDr. Kan­diss Tay­lor released a report yes­ter­day iden­ti­fy­ing over 168,000 bal­lots in Cobb Coun­ty, Geor­gia, miss­ing required chain of cus­tody documentation.In a press release from Dr. Kan­diss Tay­lor yes­ter­day, Tay­lor, a can­di­date for gov­er­nor, claims that there is suf­fi­cient evi­dence of process vio­la­tions and malfea­sance that would be ade­quate to place in doubt the results of the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Tay­lor writes:The prop­er process of clos­ing a precinct for advanced ear­ly vot­ing or elec­tion day vot­ing includes the print­ing of tab­u­la­tion tapes from each bal­lot scan­ner where votes are cast. This pro­vides the start­ing counter...

There was a glaring contradiction in today's jobs report which on one hand indicated an impressive gain in payrolls (measured by the Establishment survey), which rose 850K in June, and well above expectations, while on the other hand, the number of employed people (measured by the Household survey) actually declined by 18K to 151.602MM. While we assume this discrepancy was due to seasonal adjustments in the Establishment survey and will be revised in coming months, we take a look at the job sectors that moved the most in the month of June.In keeping with tradition, one of the biggest jumps...

SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - A Salisbury man told police that he thought he had been shot in the behind by a Roman candle. It turns out he was shot with a gun and there was a bullet lodged in his buttocks. According to the police report, the 53-year-old man said that he was at the Sports Complex on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue on Friday at approximately 1:00 a.m. He said that some boys were there shooting fireworks. The man said he felt something hit his left buttock, but “didn’t think much about it.” The next morning when he...

A major bitcoin investor has suddenly died, leaving behind a cryptocurrency fortune reportedly worth more than $2 billion. Mircea Popescu, a Romanian national, drowned last week off the coast of Costa Rica, local reports said. He was 41. Popescu drowned at Playa Hermosa, according to Teletica.com, which reported that Popescu was swept away by the current and died. His death has prompted questions surrounding what will now happen to Popescu's enormous bitcoin fortune. Popescu, a controversial figure sometimes referred to as "the father of bitcoin toxicity," is known for launching a "bitcoin securities exchange" called MPEx in 2012, according to...

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Friday in the first visit by a sports team since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event in the White House East Room honored the Major League Baseball team for its October World Series victory. “I think what we discovered [during the pandemic] is that we need sports more than we ever realized,” Biden said. Biden said the “sense of community and pride” from sports is a “uniting feature.”

Nancy Wilson - "Something Wonderful Happens" (1960)

MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Much headway has been made at the negotiations on reinstating the Iran nuclear deal, however, the U.S. return to this agreement will require the unconditional resumption of its every obligation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "Indeed, the assessments made by the negotiating parties over the past month or even two, as long as the talks have been on, demonstrate significant progress. Lots of things have been coordinated, but not all of them," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow. "Speaking of a brief account of what has been obstructing the agreement,...

The flavor of a tomato is an interaction between its taste and aroma. Now, researchers from Japan and the United States have revealed that the pigments that determine the colors of tomatoes also affect their flavor. In a study published this month, researchers from University of Tsukuba developed a new method to rapidly measure the pigment profiles of tomatoes and used the technique to explore how pigments affect the taste and aroma of different tomato varieties. The color of tomatoes is produced by combinations of different types of pigments, including carotenoids and chlorophylls. These pigments can also affect the accumulation...

In 6 months of administration, Covid 'vaccines' have contributed 1 out of every 3 reports of adverse events the CDC has published to it's VAERS database in the past 30 years. The CDC is withholding a large number of reports from publication. Less than 1% of actual adverse events following vaccination are ever reported to the CDC. These numbers (below) are just the tip of the iceberg for these devastating 'vaccines'.Blood Clot and Stroke: Total 10,400Through June 25, 2021TEXT VERSIONVAERS COVID Vaccine Data(Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, USA)411,931 ReportsThrough June 25, 20216,985 DEATHS23,257 HOSPITALIZATIONS54,606 URGENT CARE77,821 OFFICE VISITS1,775 ANAPHYLAXIS2,081 BELL’S...

Beth Palmer was 17 and dreaming of becoming a singer in March 2020 when the United Kingdom went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. One month later, she was dead. "She was a wonderful, wonderful daughter. She was just funny, she lit up the room.," said Mike Palmer, Beth’s father. "She was so affectionate and loving as well. She basically had the world at her feet. She had everything, everything to live for.” Palmer didn’t die of the coronavirus. She took her own life. An aspiring singer and vocal student at the Access Creative College in Manchester, Palmer crumbled in...

California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated, a development that has health officials on edge and already has prompted Los Angeles County to strongly recommend everyone resume wearing masks inside. The nation’s most populous state is averaging close to 1,000 additional cases reported daily, an increase of about 17% in the last 14 days. Officials expected an increase when capacity limits were lifted for businesses and most mask restrictions and social distancing requirements were eliminated for vaccinated people.

A federal judge ruled that a provision in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief law limiting states from cutting taxes is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Douglas Cole issued the permanent injunction requested by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican who argued the administration was trying to impose a “tax mandate” on states. “The Biden administration reached too far, seized too much and got its hand slapped,” Mr. Yost said. “This is a monumental win for the preservation of the U.S. Constitution — the separation of powers is real, and it exists for a reason.” Mr. Yost had filed a...

“In virtue of Our Apostolic authority, We grant and concede in perpetuity that, for the chanting or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever, this Missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used.” —Pope Saint Pius V taken from Quo Primum, AD 1570Once again, there are sad rumblings coming from Rome of yet another attempt to hamper the usage of the traditional Tridentine Mass. Anyone paying attention is aware that the traditional Catholic movement is growing quickly and is...

Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed criticism that his $98.7 billion budget — the largest in the city’s history — is nearly the same as the spending plan for the entire state of Florida. “I don’t pray at the altar of the fiscal conservatives and the budget hawks and the pro-austerity forces that have led us astray so many times and didn’t want to ever invest in working people,” de Blasio said Friday on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” Lehrer had asked de Blasio about criticism from “fiscal conservatives and deficit hawks,” who’ve made the comparison even though “Florida is a...

"People want to see him," Andrew Wyatt told reporters.Bill Cosby’s next step could be a comedy tour. The newly freed comedian’s spokesperson Andrew Wyatt told reporters Thursday, including from the The Philadelphia Inquirer, that Cosby has been “been talking to a number of promoters and comedy club owners” and “is just excited the way the world is welcoming him back.” Wyatt added to Inside Edition, “A number of promoters have called. Comedy club owners have called. People want to see him.” The 83-year-old Cosby was freed Wednesday after serving more than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence at a state...

.....Additionally, Cuomo required group homes for people with intellectual disabilities to take COVID-19 patients and attempted to issue a blanket DNR guideline for all cardiac patients in New York City. He also denied nursing homes’ requests for testing kits, ignored the concerns of families, and gave immunity to nursing home executives. This resulted in the deaths of nearly 15,000 long-term-care patients. These deaths did not occur because Cuomo ignored scientists and researchers. They occurred precisely because Cuomo was adhering to predictions from his team of experts who projected the need for 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 ICUs. Ultimately, New York’s...