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Executioners in Arizona needed 25 minutes to get an IV into a death row inmate to administer a legal injection in what one expert says is the sign of an 'unqualified executioner'. Clarence Dixon, 66, was put to death on Wednesday at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the 1978 killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. He was the first inmate to be executed in the state since 2014. It appeared to follow the state's execution protocol. After the drug was injected, Dixon's mouth stayed open and his body did not move. He...

The death has been confirmed of the last major Rwandan fugitive indicted by a war crimes court for his role in the 1994 genocide.Protais Mpiranya was head of the presidential guard and was accused of ordering the murder of the then-Prime Minister, Agathe Uwilingiyimana. His officers also murdered the 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers guarding her. Investigators tracked him down to Zimbabwe, where a recently exhumed grave confirmed he had died in 2006.

A Georgia death row inmate set to be executed for the 1976 murder of an 8-year-old girl and rape of a 10-year-old girl has made his last meal request, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr. is scheduled to be executed on May 17 at 7 p.m. Presnell, 68, was accused of abducting and attacking the two girls as they walked home from school in Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, on May 4, 1976. Presnell asked for four hamburgers, four French fries, two vanilla milkshakes, four sodas, and 8-piece bucket of chicken, potato salad and two...

My song this week is the modulated sound of a supermassive black hole. No foolin'. (Thanks to freeper Gene Eric for pinging me to the original story.)

A 58-year-old Palo Alto man died after falling out of a boat into the chilly waters of Lake Tahoe on Thursday, May 5, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said. Theodore Fletcher, 58, was on the boat with another person whom officials did not identify near Meeks Bay when they both fell into the water, a statement from the sheriff's office said. Rescue crews with the U.S. Coast Guard, El Dorado County Sheriff's Office and firefighters responded to the scene at 9:20 a.m. and found Fletcher at the bottom of the lake under about 15 feet of water. The other...

Microsoft released Windows 11 last year with a long list of system requirements. Of the listed ones, two controversial requirements were the supported CPUs and TPM. As a result, several users ended up modifying the Registry files to install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs. In the recent update, Microsoft has now started adding a watermark to the desktop and Settings app for those using Windows 11 on PCs that don’t meet the official system requirements. In this article, we have detailed the steps for how you can remove the “system requirements not met” watermark in Windows 11.

Let's take a look at some of the long lost classic foods of the 1980s! Times have changed and some of them wouldn't work today but I do feel some of them need to be brought back

“A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame” (Proverbs 13:5).

Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim. In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to "... rejecting Hitler's or Stalin's worldviews." In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person "deformed" and "demonic." (snip) "You are not a racist if you...

Coffee futures in New York jumped Wednesday as new weather forecasts show the world’s largest producer has increased frost risks in top growing areas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published new forecasts that show low temperatures in Cerrado, Parana state, and Mogiana could record below 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) by May 16. In the south of Minas Gerais and Guaxupe, temperatures may trend even lower through May 19. All of the regions listed are top-producing areas for arabica beans. Global coffee reporter & independent analyst Maja Wallengren said, “intense new cold front starting to move into all...

A storage room stacked with food is seen at a preppers ranch in Mathias, West Virginia, on March 13, 2020. Most people don’t bother to prepare for uncertain times until it’s too late. It’s the “ant and the grasshopper” parable written on a human scale. “The problem is that while fear is a great motivator, it isn’t conducive to smart decisions,” said Diane Vukovic at Primalsurvivor.com, an online personal preparedness website. “No matter how terrified you are about a certain event happening, you still need to go about prepping in a calm, logical way,” Vukovic told The Epoch Times. Once...

“They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border. Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we cannot find baby formula.” — Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), on social media, May 12 “While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans.”....... At issue is something called the Flores consent decree, which...

Hours after a draft suggesting that the US Supreme Court is likely to quash the historic Roe v. Wade judgment that had awarded women the right to abortion, surfaced, Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the leak. Meanwhile, social media was abuzz with the identity of the person behind the leak of the draft. As reported earlier, the leaked draft of the opinion of the justices showed that as many as five supported striking down the landmark verdict, including Justice Samuel Alito, who penned the draft, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney. Three...

A North Texas teenager disappeared after going to the bathroom at a Dallas Mavericks game. A week later, her parents found her on nude advertisements for sex trafficking online in Oklahoma City. The harrowing incident is the basis for a lawsuit by the family against numerous organizations they said could have stopped the crime but didn't. The 15-year-old went to the game with her father on April 8 at the American Airlines Center. She went missing after leaving to go the bathroom right before halftime, and surveillance video captured her leaving with a man. The parents of the teenager said...

Mike Cernovich spoke about the radical pro-abortion protests taking place, Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, and the American Left who “worship communists” and are “pushing genocide against Christians.” Cernovich noted that the protests “aren’t organic” and do more harm than good to Democrats. “The Democrats don’t want these people because remember, these protests aren’t organic,” he said. "This is all bad for them.” The conversation switched gears to Elon Musk’s upcoming takeover of Twitter. “We’ll see. But the E.U.’s lobbying him, some E.U. honcho went over to Texas already and is trying to intimidate an American citizen,” he added. Cernovich's thoughts...

First I would like to say many of us only learned about this very critical issue in the beginning of last week, and today is now 5-12-22. We have new information and an update as of today. URGENT as we only have from now until May 13, 2022 to submit a written comment to stop USA Dept of HHS from turning over our National Soverignity to the W.H.O. and it’’ s governing body World Health Assembly. Submitting docs below … Frank Gaffney & Michelle Bachman have submitted permission to register and Rsvp to speak in person publicly, May 13, 2022...

I just caught the end of an interview with her, and she spoke with a foreign accent. She is from Ukraine. I am not kidding. I was quite taken aback. She might be a great Rep. but hearing a Congresswoman with foreign accent was kind of weird. And if Dr. Oz wins next week you could have a Turk in the Senate. You have to wonder where their loyalties truly lie...... What's going on ?

Sean Hannity rips Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette as 'unelectable' on 'Hannity.'

British film actress Zara Phythian – who appeared in Doctor Strange alongside Benedict Cumberbatch – has been found guilty of grooming and sexually abusing a girl in tandem with her husband Victor Marke. The latter was also found to have sexually abused another girl on his own. The Times reports Phythian, who is 37, was found guilty of 14 sexual offences at Nottingham Crown Court while her husband, who is 59, was found guilty of 18. The court heard the couple met when he was her martial arts instructor, and she went on to have a successful career in martial...

The marketing department of the U.S. Army’s Psychological Warfare division just released a stunning recruitment video. They want you to know that they are ghosts in the machine, watching and warping everything, and that if you want to be part of the A-Team as the world is dragged into the hell of global war, you can jump on board.It’s quite alluring. Slick editing. Bewitching music. Absorbingly dark in tone, and sufficiently ambiguous. It is superb psyop theatre, and as one commenter replied, ‘I suddenly want to die for oligarchs. This sure is effective!’Your tax dollars at work.There’s plenty of analysis...