By Li Hai A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that UBS Securities LLC arranged a private placement of $400 million with Staple Street Capital III, L.P. on October 8, 2020. Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm located in New York, purchased Dominion Voting systems on July 17, 2018, for an undisclosed amount. The securities firm […]
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Supreme Court Orders Review of California Restrictions on Churches
By Zachary Stieber The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a review of restrictions the state of California has imposed on churches amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an unsigned order, justices said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should reconsider a lawsuit brought by Harvest Rock Church against California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, over his harsh restrictions. Justices said […]
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Ex-CIA Officer Alleges That Election Irregularities Could Be Part of a Big Scheme
By Allen Zhong Gary Berntsen, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) career officer who worked on various counterterrorism deployments, worries that the irregularities that happened during the November election may be part of a larger scheme. “If you want to steal an election of the United States, what do you do? You go into the swing states, […]
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Americans Are Suffering ‘Delusional Psychosis’ About CCP Virus, Psychiatrist Claims
By Mark Tapscott So much misinformation and exaggeration about the lethality of the CCP virus—also known as the novel coronavirus—has been broadcast by government officials and the media that many Americans are suffering from a “delusional psychosis,” according to Los Angeles child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald. What began as fear of a then-unknown disease called […]
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2020 Election Boosts GOP State Legislator Advantage by 67 Percent
By Petr Svab Republicans expanded their control of state legislatures in the 2020 election, flipping both chambers in one state while gaining more than 160 seats overall. Their lead over Democrats thus increased to more than 700 seats (about 67 percent) from over 400, although that number can still change with some remaining contests still […]
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers See ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Over Election Certification
By Charlotte Cuthbertson Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature are looking at every legal avenue that would reclaim their authority over election procedures and dispute the 2020 election results until claims of widespread fraud have been resolved. “We’re in extraordinary times, and we’re doing an extraordinary amount of research to see what the possibilities are,” state […]
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Study Finds Pervasive Negativity in Media Coverage of CCP Virus
By Mark Tapscott A deep-dive analysis of major media coverage of the CCP virus—also known as the novel coronavirus—by three Ivy League analysts found that virtually all stories on the issue since January have been negative. “Ninety-one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus 54 percent for non-U.S. major sources and 65 […]
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Florida Governor Calls on Congress to Pass Unemployment Relief
By Isabel Van Brugen Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has called on Congress to provide more aid for people who were made unemployed due to the ongoing CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. Speaking to reporters from Kissimmee on Monday, DeSantis said that Congress should have voted on relief legislation “months ago.” The central Florida city is home […]
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Up to 280,000 Ballots ‘Disappeared’ After Trip to Pennsylvania From NY: Amistad Project Director
By Jack Phillips As many as 288,000 ballots for the 2020 U.S. election “disappeared” in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after being transported by truck from New York, according to Phill Kline, the director of the legal group Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project. Kline, a former district attorney and Kansas attorney general, said he received evidence that between “130,000 to 280,000 completed […]
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Crime Hiding Crime: A Motive for Stealing the Election
By Roger Kimball Commentary What motivates people? The philosopher Thomas Hobbes thought that, at bottom, there were two things: the desire for power (an expression of a more general desire for self-perpetuation) and fear, also an expression, though a negative one, of the desire for life. In a famous passage of “Leviathan,” Hobbes writes, “I put […]
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Nearly a Third of NY, NJ Small Businesses Shuttered Since January: Report
By Tom Ozimek Nearly one-third of small businesses in New York and New Jersey have remained closed since January, according to a Harvard-run database that tracks the economic impact of the pandemic. In New York, 27.8 percent of small businesses haven’t reopened, while 31.2 percent remain closed in New Jersey as of Nov. 16, according to TrackTheRecovery.org. At the […]
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Three Ways America’s Mainstream Media Resemble Communist Media
By Diana Zhang On Thanksgiving day, President Donald Trump held a press conference, and the media relentlessly pressured him with questions about whether he would leave the White House, in effect repeatedly calling on him to concede. The scene reminded me of the Cultural Revolution in China and how the media attacked Liu Shaoqi. Li Shaoqi, the president of […]
