Saturday, January 02, 2021

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A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission. Cruz and the other senators claim the Nov. 3 election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud and illegal conduct." Joining Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Ja
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Ponder that the most popular man in America allegedly just lost an election to a man who polled one third his score in a popularity contest. It’s just a poll but Trump ranked first with 18% of Americans in the Gallup poll. This occurred while almost all the media were describing him as a delusional sore loser trying to overthrow democracy. Joe Biden, on the other hand, won just 6% while he is rid
The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents. Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by t

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The end of 2020 was seen as a positive for many, but it was bittersweet in at least one way: Adobe finally, officially killed Flash Player . This didn't come as a surprise, as Adobe had announced Flash would die with three years' advance warning . It marks the end of a long era, one that at its peak gave bored teenagers ways to keep themselves entertained in the computer lab at high school. Befor
The PlayStation 5 has been notoriously hard to get since its November 2020 launch, but a Russian luxury company just jacked it up to the highest difficulty level. Caviar , a company perhaps best known for selling extremely expensive gold iPhones, is giving the PS5 its usual treatment. The new and very rare "Golden Rock" PS5 brings a rocky textured custom plating to the PS5's exterior. An importan
Pilot Bob Richards recently snapped a new image showing some of the base's buildings and runways. There are few places on Earth as notoriously secreti...
The recently decommissioned observatory could rise from the rubble thanks to a new $8M government pledge. Situated in Puerto Rico and constructed duri...

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Headteachers take legal action against government as UK’s largest teaching union says members should not go back Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government faces a major revolt from teachers and headteachers over its plans to reopen schools. Headteachers began legal action against the Department for Education on Saturday, in an attempt to force ministers to revea
Republicans say they will reject presidential electors from states where Trump campaign contested results unless audit completed Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and nine other Republican US senators or senators-elect said on Saturday they will reject presidential electors from states where Donald Trump has contested his defeat by Joe Biden, “unless and until [an] emergency 10-day audi
Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the press during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images At least 12 Republican senators will object to certifying the results of the 2020 election. On Saturday, 11 current and incoming Republican senators announced in a joint statement that they would object to the congressional certification of President-elect Jo
Republican leaders are worried that Trump's repeated attacks on the integrity of the election could push his supporters to stay home in the runoffs.
We can't repeat President Obama's mistakes: There's no way to move forward without addressing the damage done
The senators and senators-elect say there has to be an audit of results “in the disputed states.”

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If there are other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, they are probably much closer than we are to the galactic center, and fairly young.
As the coronavirus claims more victims, a once-rare diagnosis is receiving new attention from scientists, who fear it may affect nutrition and mental health.
The new strain, which likely originated in the U.K. in September, has spread to more than 30 countries across several continents. Meanwhile, the U.S. saw record COVID-19 deaths in December. (Image credit: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images)
The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought.
Director Guy Moshe talks about the ambitious scale and preternatural timeliness of his new sci-fi film.
I thought I would be cute and shoot the product shots for this review on film. Then, I promptly ruined the roll of film, so here's a stock shot. Sorry. (Hasselblad/) Shooting photos with an old-school Hasselblad film camera is a truly wonderful analog experience. They typically employ a waist-level finder, which means you look down at the top of the camera to compose your shot and focus. The lens

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Iran's revenge will go way beyond last year's rocket strike.
An entire structure of Republican Party politicos coluded with Trump to usher in the deadliest year in American history.
Illegal guns, fake AntiFa protesters, the Proud Boys say they are planning an armed assault on Congress and the homes of key government officials...families to be taken hostage, "citizens arrests" and there are no police to stop them.
Jim W. Dean - Twitter seems to be the best that Trump's lazy followers can do for an information source.
Jim W. Dean - There of some people, like inside VT, who think that the developers of cyber security have long been penetrated. It's a no-brainer.
There is a mass of data on deaths from COVID and their impact on overall excess deaths. The chart above, posted again here, makes this clear.

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Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost for centuries under the waves, from mysterious underwater pyramids off the coast of Japan to the fabled city of Atlantis itself. Using cutting-edge graphics to reveal what's actually lying on the seafloor, and insight from the world's top marine archaeologists, Drain the Oceans finds the answers. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About Nati
The Maya - their soaring pyramids, monumental cities and mythical mastery of astronomy and mathematics have captured our imaginations and spurred generations of explorers into the jungles of Central America on a quest to understand them. Lost World of the Maya surveys their dramatic rise to prominence in the 'pre-classic era' of the Maya as well as new evidence of the collapse of their civilizati

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Eleven US senators including Ted Cruz say they will object to vote result certification unless a new audit is launched.
New data shows the global climate-related death risk has dropped by over 99% since 1920. Despite the near constant caterwauling from climate alarmists that we are in a “climate emergency”,…
Many climate alarmist's failed predictions were centered around 2020. This video examines just ten, and argues that they were produced not by science, but by ideology.
Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast near Somali capital that killed at least five people and injured 14.
Covid rates are accelerating and there's no sign tier four, announced with plenty of fanfare , is depressing the infection. With the new variant running amok in London and the South East, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the country follows suit . Unless, that is, if the loopholes left in the government's lockdown measures are eliminated. This means going back to what we went through
According to VP Mike Pence, personnel serving in the U.S. Space Force will henceforth be known as "Guardians"! The post appeared first on Universe Today .