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The trouble in Arizona's ballot-count and electoral integrity issues can be found in three distinctive areas... It appears that Democrat candidates won most of the Arizona midterm political contests, and that is a fact we should all accept. However, many citizens have doubts about whether it was fairly counted, and those doubts will not be resolved without analysis, testing, and transparent reporting. Standard ballot recounts will not suffice. Therefore, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and Mark Finchem, three contending Republicans who lost their elections despite polls favoring them, should consider taking the following actions, to the extent feasible and lawful: 1....

2 December 2022Friday of the 1st week of Advent Saint Bibiana Church, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 29:17-24 ©In a very short time, the deaf will hear and the eyes of the blind will seeThe Lord says this:In a short time, a very short time,shall not Lebanon become fertile landand fertile land turn into forest?The deaf, that day,will hear the words of a bookand, after shadow and darkness,the eyes of the blind will see.But the lowly will rejoice in the Lord even moreand the poorest exult in the Holy One of Israel;for tyrants shall be...

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While we await Elon Musk’s promised release of the “Twitter Files,” detailing the 2020 censorship of the New York Post, he has been busy fending off threats to destroy his new $44 billion acquisition unless he drops his commitment to free speech. He tweeted a video Wednesday afternoon of Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, where he was strolling around the HQ pond in conversation with Apple CEO Tim Cook, whom he has accused of threatening to drop Twitter from the App Store. **SNIP** Colluding with FBI This was election interference. As Musk confirmed in a tweet Wednesday, Twitter “has interfered in...

James Williams, 36, opened fire on the robbery suspects as they were fleeing before one fatally shot him in the leg and chest, authorities said A man accused of killing a California gas station clerk during a "botched" robbery will not face a murder charge because the victim had opened fire on the suspect despite his life not being in danger, officials said Thursday. James Williams, 36, was killed during an early Saturday morning gunfight with Ronald Jackson Jr., 20, at a Chevron in Antioch, Fox San Francisco reported. The Antioch Police Department said a gas station employee called to...

Several Ukrainian embassies abroad have received "bloody packages" containing animal eyes, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Friday, after a series of letter bombs were sent to sites in Spain including Ukraine's embassy in Madrid. The packages, soaked in a liquid with a distinctive colour and smell, were sent to Kyiv's embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, to general consulates in Naples and Krakow, and the consulate in Brno, spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Facebook.

WASHINGTON - President Biden ignored a reporter’s question Thursday about whether he had a message for protesters challenging China’s authoritarian government - while first son Hunter Biden reportedly still co-owns a Chinese state-backed investment fund. NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked Biden at the end of a White House press conference with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron if he would share a message with demonstrators calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 lockdowns and, in some instances, the resignation of “president for life” Xi Jinping. “Sir, do you have a message to protesters in China? You spoke about [recent protests in]...

As climate policy moves forward and the world's food and energy supplies implode people will starve and freeze to death. The other week Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic expressed his belief that some people will not make it through next winter. He did not cite climate policy in connection with this... But other factors are in play that give cover as power plants are shut down and farms are closed to prevent cow gas emissions and the list goes on. These factors alone are causing deaths but more deaths will follow as climate policy takes hold. The conflict with Russia over...

The Secret Service has located hundreds of pages of records tied to the investigation of a gun belonging to Hunter Biden – despite having denied they existed, a government watchdog group said Thursday. Judicial Watch is investigating whether the Secret Service intervened on behalf of President Biden’s son after the incident, and it has sued the agency for all materials related to the reported purchase, possession, and disposal of the firearm owned by Hunter Biden. The group has accused the Secret Service of repeatedly changing its position on whether it has any documents related to the investigation. “The Secret Service’s...

The asset managers have imposed limits on withdrawals as pension funds seek to reduce exposure to real estate BlackRock, Columbia Threadneedle and Schroders have put limits on the amount large investors can withdraw from their UK property funds, as pension clients look to cash in their holdings in less-liquid assets. The move means pension funds — many of them having requested to pull their money from these property funds months ago in the wake of volatile markets and rising interest rates — will have to wait longer to be paid. Columbia...(paywall)

*snip* In the midst of a terrible economy and a crime wave, Democrats were boosted by a demographic least likely to share adult concerns about the economy, schools and public safety, and most likely to be animated by phantom ideological narratives about social justice, abortion and global warming. Democrats enjoyed the highest turnout for younger voters in a generation with a 31% turnout. Especially in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan. That doesn’t just happen. Rock the Vote, which claims to be nonpartisan and can only operate only on the condition of not expressing a party preference, published an officially branded table,...

Rishi Sunak suffered a bloody nose today as Labour boosted its majority in the Chester by-election - while the Tories recorded their worst performance in the seat for 190 years. In the PM's first major electoral test, local councillor Samantha Dixon emerged victorious by a 10,974 vote margin - well up on the 6,100 secured in 2019. Although Labour was expected to win, the swing of nearly 14 per cent from the Conservatives will set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street.

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THE Moon destroyed a forest on Earth just by wobbling, according to a new study. The theory solves a mystery from 2015 which involved tens of millions of mangrove trees dying in Australia.... ...The researchers used 30 years of national satellite data to conduct their research and correlate the Moon's behavior with the mass tree death. This helped them spot a pattern of trees dying every 18 to 19 years, which is in keeping with the Moon wobble timeline....

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He said the social media platform had become a "cesspool of racism, anti-semitism, disinformation, and dimwitted alt-right hate"Moby has quit Twitter in protest of Elon Musk. The musician sent his last tweet on Tuesday (November 29) before he exited the social media platform. He wrote: “This will be my last tweet. Last night @elonmusk posted an alt-right anti-Semitic meme, a fake @cnn story, and an image of guns on his bedside table. @Twitter has become a cesspool of racism, anti-semitism, disinformation, and dimwitted alt-right hate, and it’s time to leave.” His exit came on the same day actor Jim Carrey...

Hunter Biden attended the event along with Republican leaders who plan to launch an investigation into the tax affairs of the president's son President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted the first state dinner of their administration at the White House on Thursday, welcoming not only French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, but more than 350 others including fashion icons, celebrities, Republicans, and Hunter Biden.... ... according to the Daily Mail, McCarthy brushed off a question about any awkwardness attending the dinner with Hunter. "I’m at a dinner with my mom so I’m going to have...

<p>Even on Elon Musk’s Twitter, there are red lines for permissible content, and Kanye West, who now calls himself Ye, crossed one of them with a late Thursday night post that prompted the network to suspend his account.</p><p>The artist tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service. In its place was a message saying the post violated Twitter Inc.’s rules and a link to its policy page explaining enforcement actions. Since then, the entire account has been suspended, with all of its tweets now obscured. Ye had 32.2 million followers before the suspension.</p>

Kanye Ye West has been suspended from Twitter, the suspension coming after the rapper had tweeted a now deleted post featuring a swastika on Thursday evening. After a chaotic day that saw Ye appear on Alex Jones’ Infowars show and repeatedly say he liked Adolf Hitler, the rapper posted a series of controversial tweets, including supposed text messages between himself and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Among the tweets, which included praise and support for Balenciaga following the recent backlash against the company, Ye posted a picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David.... ..Musk, a self-described free speech...

Tesla Model Y Is 1 Top Selling Car In China, 1 Top Selling EV In Europe — Why? Without a doubt, the Tesla Model Y is in high demand. It's similar to the Model 3 in a lot of ways, but a bit bigger, falling into that much loved 'crossover' category that adds