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Only 7:35 long. Video evidence of example after example of ballot fraud, side by side with fake news CNN, Schumer etc insisting there is no evidence of ballot fraud at all. Worth watching.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system, aka BART, has been shut down by a workers' strike that started at midnight. That means that the system's 400,000 daily riders have to find alternate ways to get to work. Naturally, a lot of them are driving. San Francisco already has some of the worst traffic in the country, and now things have gotten a lot worse. Here's what the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge looked like early this morning: [CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE PHOTO]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is considering all options to create jobs, including another stimulus package, while trying to pull the economy out of a deep recession and deal with a record deficit, White House advisers said Sunday. ... "You've got this huge national deficit and we've got to do what we can to bring that down. At the same time, it's important to stimulate the economy," Jarrett said. "Let's wait and see. Let's let the recovery bill do its job." Unemployment stands at 9.8 percent, with more than 4 million jobs lost this year. The deficit has reached $1.4...

President Barack Obama is creating a White House council to handle issues that affect American communities and workers tied to the automotive industry. The White House says Obama will sign an executive order Tuesday to establish the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers. The council will be chaired by the president's economic adviser, Larry Summers, and his labor secretary, Hilda Solis.

WASHINGTON - With concerns about global warming rising along with the planet's temperature, the head of the federal agency in change of weather research and forecasting is proposing creation of a new National Climate Service. Conrad C. Lautenbacher said Tuesday a climate service within his agency could combine data from the research and analysis work done by several agencies, as well as coordinate climate information for the government. "In the future I think it would make a lot of sense for us to separate the science from the political furball of policy," he said. Lautenbacher is head of the National...

Rear Adm. Mark Fox, acting Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, and Brig. Gen. Terry Wolff, commanding general, Coalition Military Assistance and Training Team speak to the press about the coming changes and ongoing challenges in Iraq. Photo By U.S. Army Spc. Jennifer Fulk, Combined Press Information Center. BAGHDAD -- A joint press conference was held at the Combined Press Information Center in the International Zone Wednesday to discuss security operations and training in Iraq.Rear Adm. Mark Fox, acting Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, and Brig. Gen. Terry Wolff, commanding general Coalition Military Assistance and Training Team, both touched on how progress was being made...

In any war, good intelligence is critical. It's difficult to defeat an enemy if you don't know what the enemy is planning to do. Yet, more than five years into the long war against terrorism, we still don't even know exactly how many enemy fighters we're up against. The recent leak of a portion of the National Intelligence Estimate led to newspaper headlines proclaiming that the war on terror is "creating more terrorists" than it's getting rid of. Then, when more of the estimate was declassified, many were left wondering, "How would we know that, and what does it mean?"...

Scientists debate role climate change plays in creating civilizations Tuesday, July 04, 2006 BRADLEY T . LEPPER One of archaeology’s "big questions" is explaining the origins of civilization. In anthropology, "civilization" has a technical definition. To qualify as a civilization, a society must have all or most of the following characteristics: cities with large populations; a hierarchical social organization, with a king, pharaoh or president at the top of the organizational chart; an economy based on agriculture; monumental architecture; and a system of record-keeping. The earliest civilizations arose in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley and northern China. Based on this...

At the front edge of the rainy season, flood-control channels countywide are choked by silt, reeds and brush. In years past, maintenance crews would have cleared the channels as part of routine cleanup programs. But state and federal agencies are clamping down on cities' flood-control maintenance and emphasizing that wetland protections extend to floodways. The regulators' goal is to curtail the once-common practice of dredging San Diego County's waterways without permits. Hundreds of miles of creeks and rivers drain the region's watershed to the ocean. Some are natural waterways and others are lined by concrete. The regulators contend that some...