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Through five days of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, NBC’s average primetime audience of 15.2 million viewers is down 47% from Rio in 2016 and 57% from London in 2012. The opening ceremony, delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, drew 16.7 million viewers for NBC on Friday, the smallest audience for the network broadcast since the 1988 Seoul Games. "We had a little bit of bad luck and this drumbeat of negativity," Shell said during an earnings call with investors. Earlier this week, Outkick founder Clay Travis told Fox News that a variety of issues are plaguing the Tokyo...

A ( Pennsylvania) senator is preparing to ask a panel he chairs for the authority to issue subpoenas to compel counties to cooperate with his effort to investigate the 2020 election.“We’re eagerly awaiting my committee coming together when I can get a quorum, get everyone’s calendars matched up—it is summertime. As soon as I get a quorum, we will have a meeting, we will vote on subpoenas, and let the fun begin,” Pennsylvania Sen. (Doug Mastriano,) a Republican who chairs the state Senate’s Intergovernmental Operations Committee, said on One America News this week.

he Dominion voting machines arrived in Stark County this week into the Board of Elections. The purchase was very controversial considering the attention the Dominion company received following the suspect 2020 election. The county is being charged $6.17 million up front. Via CodeMonkeyZ: The purchase includes 1,450 ImageCast X voting machines at $3,500 each. 1,450 voting machine leg stands at $350 each. Four mail-in and paper ballot scanners at $25,000 each. Tabulation server for $17,000. Software to run the equipment for $170,000. Software to examine filled-in paper ballots to evaluate voter intent for $35,000. For some reason, the county officials...

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In the early hours of November 4th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a batch of 143,379 ballots, all for Joe Biden were dropped. We’ve unearthed an email that shows the culprits behind the ‘drop’ were laughing about it. .... Snip..... Today we uncovered an email to Claire Woodall-Vogg, the executive director for elections in Milwaukee. In the email the sender, Ryan Chew, from the Election Group shared: Damn, Claire, you have a flair for drama, delivering just the margin needed at 3:00 am. I bet you had those votes counted at midnight, and just wanted to keep the world waiting.”

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium is in place until July 31st, but the Supreme Court’s ruling made clear that CDC cannot extend the moratorium past its current expiration date. In light of that decision, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking steps to protect renters at risk of eviction. Today, at the President’s request, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) have extended their foreclosure-related eviction moratoria until September 30, 2021."

The following is a transcript from the docuMovie Absolute PerilMy name is Lawrence Sellin. I have a doctoral degree in human physiology from a medical school. I spent over 20 years doing basic and clinical research. I worked at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. I also spent 29 years in the US Army Reserve and I'm a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, everyone is fully aware of the terrible consequences of the COVID19 pandemic. I think the first and most important thing we must do is stop debating the origin of...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that people unwilling to wear face masks indoors are “encroaching” on other individual rights because you’re making them vulnerable to getting infected with COVID-19.

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is facing an upcoming recall effort in September, said during an interview on Thursday that the Democrats could face “profound consequences nationwide” in the midterm elections next year if the recall effort against him is successful. Newsom predicted that nationwide, Democrats would see “consequences” from his recall effort for “many, many years,” and it might help Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. During the interview with the editorial boards of the McClatchy Newspapers, Newsom also noted that he does not think the Democrats are considering the consequences of him possibly losing. “I don’t think...

Nearly 400 children between the ages of 12 and 17 were diagnosed with heart inflammation after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study published by the CDC on July 30. The condition, also known as myocarditis, occurred mostly in young boys, the study found. Heart inflammation was not identified as an adverse reaction during the safety trials for the vaccine. The CDC conducted the study by reviewing reports of adverse reactions to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 16, 2021. Of the 8.9 million children who received the vaccine as of...

Free Trump Gear Photos and video from last week show the first family of Kentucky chatting it up with the Commander-in-Chief Wednesday at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Beshear was accompanied by first lady Britainy Beshear and their two children. Beshear greeted Biden as soon as the president walked down Air Force One. While there is no sound of them talking on the tarmac, the video shows the group talking, smiling, and laughing next to one of the president’s vehicles. The mainstream media reported that this was supposed to be a routine talk between the POTUS and the Kentucky Governor,...

A shipment of radioactive material being transported between facilities in Ohio and Michigan has gone missing, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In a "Current Event Notification" report published on Thursday, the NRC said it had received an email from the Ohio Bureau of Radiation Protection stating that a shipment of Iridium-192 had not arrived at its destination in Michigan. The report said the carrier believed the package had been delayed at their facility but later said it could not be located."Category 2 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person...

It seems a**holes are not limited to the democrat party. Kevin Cramer is a Republican Senator from North Dakota. In an interview, he said he's "grateful" that Ashli Babbitt was murdered by a Capitol cop. While fielding questions as part of a radio program, North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Cramer called 14-year Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt a “criminal,” and said he’s “grateful” for the Capitol Police Officer who killed the unarmed January 6th protestor for “not complying” with his orders from the other side of a barricaded door. He is a a**hole. But then he said something that caught...

How can you have a "Delta Variant Surge" if you cannot test for the "Delta" variant???? More lies and fakery to scare the masses. So now they will be shoving a booster shot at people for a variant they can't test for??? If you cannot test to see if someone has the so called fake "Delta" variant then how do you know to give them a booster for it??? IT IS ALL BULLSHIT. Source: Tim Truth 1 million or more dead. Their screams are being silenced by the media. It is murder. It is GENOCIDE: LAB-WE CAN ONLY TEST FOR...

New cases (Sat): - Unvaccinated: 1,006 - Partially vaccinated: 39 - Fully vaccinated: 1,049 Seriously ill: - Unvaccinated: 71 - Partially vaccinated: 7 - Fully vaccinated: 133

It was the night of March 8, 1994. Working at the National Weather Service, Bushong’s radar was lighting up with stuff he’d never seen before. He was on the phone with an Ottawa County emergency dispatcher who was looking for help identifying lights in the sky over Holland. The dispatcher was getting a lot of calls. Police officers were calling in, too. Bushong was seeing images on his radar that corresponded to what people were calling in from the ground. He had to control his radar by hand to zero in on the sky south of his station in Muskegon....

The Monthly Fiber Arts Thread is a monthly gathering of people that love yarn and fabric of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first project, to experienced fiber artists and beyond, we would love to hear from you. It is impossible to hijack the Monthly Fiber Arts Thread. Knitting, crochet, quilting, weaving, general crafting - there is no telling where it will go, and that is part of the fun and interest. Jump in and join us! Send a Private Message to Diana in Wisconsin if you'd like to be added to our Fiber Arts...

China is the only major economy in the world not to approve or distribute COVID-19 vaccines that use the mRNA technology proven to be one of the most effective tools in preventing the spread of COVID-19. But China’s mRNA stance may be changing. On Thursday, Chinese media outlet Caixin reported that Chinese regulators had completed a review of the COVID-19 jab developed by German mRNA vaccine maker BioNTech and distributed locally via China’s Fosun Pharma. Fosun is still awaiting final approval from regulators, but, once approved, Fosun could deploy the 100 million doses it acquired from BioNTech last December to...

Kuznetsov was introduced in 1991, but did not become fully operational until the mid 1990s. Despite suffering several problems involving arguable degrees of human error, the carrier served largely uneventfully through the mid-2010s. It was not until Russia’s 2016 Syrian campaign that the Western world was offered its first glimpse into Kuznetsov’s numerous problems, with the carrier crashing two fighters within less than three weeks of one another.

Ok. Wow. I have watched these two, for years. Years. I also lived in China (quite some time ago) They are always interesting. But I an almost unable to describe how I feel after watching the first hour of this particular video. I will just link to it here. Take a look at it, make up your own minds... (Can someone please post the actual url, I am on my phone) Thanks. Just wow. First hour.