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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo – Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced during a zoom Thursday, her office would be decertifying Mesa County elections immediately. The Secretary of State’s office found enough evidence during its investigation of a recent security breach in which passwords to elections systems were posted on social media.

[H/T Fractal Trader ]ransomnote: excellent information packed video worth watching all the way through. I just caught whatever notes I could as I listened to the video without pausing it so I missed a lot. Updates on Renz's lawsuit regarding whistleblower's statement that 45 thousand deaths following Covid vaccinations are unreported in VAERS, but currently sitting in the CMS system (Medicare). Stew and Renz discuss the fact that there are 12 systems that store information about deaths following 'vaccination', but the public only has access to one. Renz describes Kentucky's Governor Bashir's recent EO which states that fully vaccinated people...

A Florida county is urging residents to call 911 sparingly as hospitals experience an influx of COVID-19 patients. Brevard County Fire Chief Mark Schollmeyer said residents should consider other options such as contacting a primary care physician before calling ambulance services, CBS reported. “Leave emergency room and ambulance trips for those with life-threatening or serious emergencies,” Schollmeyer told the outlet. Schollmeyer said emergency rooms have been inundated amid the recent surges of coronavirus infections. “There is a capacity issue at our local hospitals dealing with this new surge in COVID-19,” Schollmeyer told the outlet. “Crowding in the ERs has caused...

Mr. Khalilzad is hoping to convince Taliban leaders that the embassy must remain open, and secure, if the group hopes to receive American financial aid and other assistance as part of a future Afghan government. The Taliban leadership has said it wants to be seen as a legitimate steward of the country, and is seeking relations with other global powers, including Russia and China, in part to receive economic support.Two officials confirmed Mr. Khalilzad’s efforts, which have not been previously reported, on condition of anonymity to discuss the delicate negotiations. The State Department’s spokesman, Ned Price, declined to comment on...

With security in Afghanistan deteriorating rapidly, U.S. troops were dispatched Thursday to evacuate personnel from the embassy in Kabul, according to a U.S. official. U.S. troops are being sent to the Kabul airport where they will provide air and ground support to help process Americans hastily exiting the country. The move comes alongside news that the Taliban have seized the country's third largest city of Heart, a strategic provincial capital near Kabul.

Several lobbying firms with connections to President Biden experienced a sharp increase in cash during the first six months of 2021, with some raking in four times as much revenue over the same time period in 2020. One firm cashing in on the Biden administration is headed by the brother of a senior White House official, and another bought a lobbying group owned by a top official from the presidential campaign. Two other firms are linked to lobbyists who worked under Biden when he served in previous offices. The influx of cash to these firms “illustrates the extent to which...

Hellyer was also a member of the Canadian Parliament for several years and served in various government roles for almost 40 years. He served as Defence Minister from 1963 to 1967. He became well known in the UFO research community in 2005 when he told an audience at the Toronto Symposium on UFO Disclosure and Planetary Directions at the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall, “UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head. That is my unequivocal conclusion.” Viggiani writes that “as Minister of Defence, (Hellyer) oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal...

The Center Square) – A digital civil rights group says Illinois’ “Vax Verify” program is a step in the wrong direction, and the worst they’ve seen yet. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced the new digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate Wednesday. “As more businesses, events, organizations, and others require proof of vaccination, Illinois residents will be able to confirm using Vax Verify that they have been vaccinated for COVID-19,” IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said in a statement announcing the program. “With the current surge in cases, more people are making the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine and this...

Glenn Greenwald has been making new enemies lately. Once feted on the left for his reporting on government surveillance – based on documents leaked to him by the intelligence analyst Edward Snowden – America’s most conspicuous journalist spent much of the last few years taking issue with liberal suspicions of a plot between Donald Trump & Russia. The result of this impudence was Greenwald’s disappearance from liberal news networks such as MSNBC. He became instead a frequent guest on conservative network Fox News. Under normal circumstances, within the factional landscape of US political discourse, this fraternising with the right would...

Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Expanded Monoclonal Antibody Access in Florida with New Monoclonal Antibody CentersAugust 12, 2021 ~ Monoclonal antibody strike teams will deploy directly to long-term care facilities ~ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida is increasing the availability of monoclonal antibody therapies by opening a rapid response unit to administer this lifesaving treatment in Jacksonville. I am proud to announce the opening of this rapid response unit to offer lifesaving monoclonal antibody therapies for Floridians,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “We also look forward to setting up a long-term site at the Jacksonville Public Library...

As the US struggles to suppress the rapidly advancing coronavirus Delta variant, new evidence has emerged that the latest Lambda mutation — ravaging parts of South America — won’t be slowed by vaccines. In a July 28 report appearing on bioRxiv, where the study awaits peer review prior to getting published, researchers in Japan are sounding the alarm on the C.37 variant, dubbed Lambda. And it’s proven just as virulent as Delta thanks to a similar mutation making them even more contagious. The strain has been contained in 26 countries, including substantial outbreaks in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador. “Notably,...

Santa Claus isn't supposed to see smoke. For the first time in recorded history, hazy smoke from raging wildfires in the Arctic has reached the North Pole, and NASA satellites have the images to prove it. On Aug. 6, the space agency's MODIS, an imaging sensor on the Aqua satellite, captured true-color images of what NASA called a "vast, thick, and acrid blanket of smoke" that clouded the North Pole. The smoke originated from enormous blazes in the Siberian region of northern Russia. According to China's Xinhua news agency, the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar was blanketed in "white smoke,"...

Cardinal Parolin praises Chinese Catholics’ witness of faithIn an interview with an online newspaper from Trentino, where he vacationing, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin addresses a number of current issues: from relations with China, to the Pope's recovery from surgery, to the esteem that binds him to Italian President Mattarella, who is nearing the end of his mandate.By Vatican NewsThe period of Ferragosto - the Italian summer holiday season – sees Church leaders with less hectic schedules, but their work does not come to a complete stop. So it happens that, even away from his office and from the...

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday said he had serious concerns about Senate Democrats' planned $3.5 trillion spending plan, potentially gumming up efforts to move ahead with President Joe Biden's top priorities. The Democrat-led Senate approved a blueprint for the plan early on Wednesday morning in a 50-49 vote along party lines, after lawmakers sparred over the need for huge spending to fight climate change and poverty. Now Biden's Democratic Party embarks on weeks of debates about priorities including universal preschool, affordable housing and climate-friendly technologies, with progressives like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeking robust action on climate change and moderates...

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell told attendees at his “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls Thursday that he was "attacked" Wednesday night at his hotel, but the police department said they haven't received a report. Lindell briefly told attendees he was "attacked" but did not go into detail about the incident while on stage at his “cyber symposium” event at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance. "I’m OK. It hurts a little bit,” Lindell said. “I just want everyone to know all the evil that’s out there.”

Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky repeatedly referred to “pregnant people,” instead of “pregnant women,” during a press briefing Thursday. “For pregnant people who are at a higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19, we are strengthening our guidance and recommending that all pregnant people or people thinking about becoming pregnant get vaccinated,” she said. Walensky said the CDC has obtained new data about “people who were pregnant,” ensuring the vaccines are safe for “pregnant people.”

John Haltiwanger Thu, August 12, 2021, 12:31 PM·3 min read Taliban Taliban fighters have been seizing territory across Afghanistan. Allauddin Khan/AP The US embassy in Kabul is reportedly considering relocating employees to the airport. The embassy is set to be evacuated as the Taliban makes rapid gains. The US will temporarily send in 3,000 additional troops to help with the process. The US is taking steps to pull personnel from the US embassy in Kabul, the State Department confirmed on Thursday, and additional troops will be sent in to assist with the process. "We are further reducing our civilian footprint...

Bishops’ differing approaches to Traditionis custodesThe heat and fallout from the nuke that fell on the anniversary of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, a date chosen perhaps to add insult to injury by the fact that it was the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, are beginning to clear.A few tradition despising (can one conclude otherwise?) bishops rushed immediately to issue harsh edicts in the wake of the confused and confusing Motu Proprio Traditionis custodes (the Church’s Plessy v. Ferguson following Benedict XVI’s Emancipation Proclamation), generally viewed by good canonists to be, at best, a mess. Most...

Last Friday, the Department of Education announced another extension of COVID-19 emergency student loan forbearance, which allows the 92 percent of student debtors whose loans are backed by the federal government an additional six months without making any payments. Loan forgiveness is often packaged as a benefit for those on the lower half of the income spectrum. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, tweeted her two cents on Monday, calling for “#CancelStudentDebt.” During her failed run for the presidency, her campaign website justified total cancellation as a benefit to the working and middle classes. Avowed class warrior Bernie Sanders has also...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Wednesday that local authorities who attempt to undermine his executive order prohibiting government entities from mandating face coverings “will be taken to court.”“Any school district, public university, or local government official that decides to defy GA-38 — which prohibits gov’t entities from mandating masks — will be taken to court,” Abbott wrote in a tweet:https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1425590094786965505“The path forward relies on personal responsibility—not government mandates,” he added.Abbott’s tweet, which included statements from him and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, came in response to an executive order Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins signed, which mandates face masks...