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By James Lynch

https://dailycaller.com/author/JLynch/

Former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent statement about donating “dark money” to Republican campaigns is “flatly untrue” according to Puck News.

Bankman-Fried told crypto YouTuber Tiffany Fong in a Nov. 29 interview “all my Republican donations were dark” and “reporters freak the fuck out if you donate to a Republican.” He gave “about the same amount” to Republicans, without specifying any further details.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/03/report-sam-bankman-frieds-claim-about-dark-money-gop-donations-flatly-untrue/

By Micaela Burrow

https://dailycaller.com/author/micaelaburrow/

Congress and the White House are mulling proposals from top lawmakers to repeal the U.S. military’s vaccine mandate several months after President Joe Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be “over,” according to recent media reports.

Congress’ annual defense bill, the text of which is set to be published next week, may include a compromise amendment scrapping the military vaccine requirement, Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington told Politico on Saturday. Smith’s comments followed prospective House leader Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s claims on Friday that House and Senate leaders had come to an agreement, which the White House is considering, on overturning the Biden administration’s service-wide mandate, according to Reuters.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/03/congress-white-house-vaccine-mandate/

By Brianna Lyman

https://dailycaller.com/author/brianna@dailycaller.com/

Comedian Bill Maher said on an upcoming episode of his “Club Random” podcast that teens talking about climate change should “shut the fuck up,” since they’re polluting just as much as Maher’s generation.

Maher and comedian Dana Carvey were discussing travel when Maher said he enjoys flying private and “the only people who don’t like private are the ones who can’t.”

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/02/bill-maher-greta-thunberg-climate-change-dana-carvey/

By: Corva Corvax

December 2, 2022 - The California Secretary of State sent out 50,251 more ballots to alleged voters in Los Angeles County than the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder says there are registered voters. Lavote.gov says there are 5,627,796 registered voters in the county. The Secretary of state at elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov says that 5,678,047 vote-by-mail ballots were sent to the county.

Before the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, citizens had to apply to receive a vote-by-mail ballot. Everyone else needed to show up in person at their neighborhood precinct polling station. At the polls, citizens signed their names on the rolls to indicate they had voted.

Today, thanks to first emergency measures signed by California Governor Newsom and then to an enshrinement in law by the California legislature, ballots are mailed to every registered voter preemptively, whether or not they request one. Some election advocates applaud the universal mailings, claiming they enable and encourage more people to vote. Other election safety advocates worry about the potential for ballot harvesting from the vulnerable and elderly who receive ballots but are mentally incapable of filling them out.

An excess of 50,000 ballots over the number or true registered voters poses serious risks of fraud via various avenues. Are these residents who have moved away from the area? Is the ballot getting forwarded to people now resident in another state, and they are now able to vote in both elections, in LA County and their new abode? Or perhaps the ballots are going to deceased individuals. My neighbor, who had been dead well over a year, received a ballot for the June primary.

All one needs to vote at a vote center is that ballot, with the individual's name. No identification or signature is required. Anyone in possession of a ballot that is unclaimed has the possibility of voting in their name.

But perhaps the excess ballot belong to individuals that will be weeded out of the vote count during some reconciliation process. Unlikley but possible. However, there is no way of knowing since the SecrePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

By Ethan Letkeman

https://www.breitbart.com/author/ethan-letkeman/

A 62-year-old American woman was pronounced dead after a “rogue wave” slammed into a Viking cruise ship en route to Antarctica.

The “rogue wave incident” occurred at around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday as the Viking Polaris was sailing to Ushuaia, Argentina–approximately 2,000 miles south of Buenos Aries–before departing for Antarctica next week, Viking said in a statement.

The woman was struck by glass after the giant wave broke cabin windows, according to Argentine authorities via an Associated Press report. The ship suffered minimal damage and arrived at the port the following day.

https://www.breitbart.com/weather/2022/12/03/rorogue-wave-kills-american-tourist-aboard-antarctic-cruise-ship/

By: Tyler Durden

For over a decade there has been an open globalist obsession with the Chinese governmental model – A love affair, if you will. Many top proponents of global centralization including Henry Kissinger and George Soros have praised China in the past and hinted that the communist country is burgeoning into a major player within the New World Order. Soros expressed this exact sentiment way back in 2009, around the time that China began courting the IMF and issuing trillions in Yuan based treasury debt in order to join their global currency initiative.

Several years later, China was inducted into the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights basket. The CCP now avidly supports the creation of a new global currency system with the IMF in control.

This is a reality I have been writing about for many years: China does NOT stand in opposition to global centralization under the control of western oligarchs. All they want is a prominent seat at the table when the “Great Reset” kicks off and total centralization begins. But the above information only suggests an economic relationship between China and the globalists. Does the alliance go even further than that?

Recently, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum gave an interview to the Chinese government controlled CGTN at the APEC Summit. In that interview, Schwab praises China as a role model for many other nations. This might shock some people considering China’s economy is faltering, with their global exports plunging in 2022 and their housing market in shambles. This decline is in large part due to global stagflation, but also due to their insane “zero covid” policy which has kept the nation under pandemic lockdown for years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-china-sucks-its-beta-test-new-world-order

By: Sarah Arnold

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has implemented a ban on TikTok for all state employees on their government-issued devices over speculation that the app is used by the Chinese government to gather Americans’ personal information.

Executive Order 2022-10, would ban federal workers, agencies, and contractors from downloading the app onto their phones or visiting the website.

In a statement, Noem criticized the Chinese Communist Party, saying that her state will have no part of it.

>>“South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us,” Noem said, adding “the Chinese Communist Party uses information that it gathers on TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they gather data of the devices that access the platform.”

>>“Because of our serious duty to protect the private data of South Dakota citizens, we must take this action immediately. I hope other states will follow South Dakota’s lead, and Congress should take broader action, as well,” Noem continued.

TikTok, which is owned by a Beijing-based company, has been scrutinized by Republicans over the ability of the Chinese government to use the app to access American’s online user data.

More than 700 million people use the China-owned app worldwide, with at least 100 million being in the U.S.

>>“Tiktok is owned by ByteDance, ByteDance is controlled by the CCP. That means the CCP can track your location, it can track your keystrokes, it can censor your news — why would we give our foremost adversary that amount of power?” Gallagher said, adding “and just like actual fentanyl, it ultimately goes back to the Chinese Communist Party.”

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By: John Lewis-Stempel

Planning the Christmas lunch yet? If you are vegan you’ve doubtless got tofu in there somewhere, perhaps served up with a sauce made piquant with a tablespoon of smugness. After all, going “plant-based” will save the planet from climate change, whereas we meat-eating ignorati are murdering you, and nature, and the air we breathe. Britain’s very own Climate Tsar, Alok Sharma, when asked on BBC Newscast recently about his family’s personal contribution to fighting global warming, flailed around before playing the get-out-of-jail-free, no-meat card.

Is it not curious how carnivorism is subject to endless negative news and analysis, whereas the same rules do not apply to vegan food? As a keeper of livestock in sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming systems, may I say I find it hypocritical to be lectured by those who fly on polluting jets to Egypt, Mexico, Peru and other places I will never see? Has the COP jamboree not discovered Zoom yet? So, for once, let us turn the dinner tables, put vegan food under the knife and fork, and examine its impact on the environment. Where better to start than with tofu?

An ancient, soya-based ingredient in Asian cuisine, tofu came to the West with stoned returning hippies, and was an obscure item in Whole Food shops until the early 21st century, when it started to appear on the shelves of every middle-class supermarket as the meat-free, climate-healing superfood. Suella Braverman’s recent rant about “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” was not without its truth; tofu is as much a right-on political choice as a potential ingredient in tonight’s family dinner.

https://unherd.com/2022/12/why-tofu-wont-save-the-planet/

By John Hugh DeMastri

https://dailycaller.com/author/John DeMastri/

Matt Taibbi, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, released what Elon Musk has referred to as “The Twitter Files,” Friday afternoon detailing how the social media platform suppressed a New York Post story regarding a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.

The NYP story revealed an email — which was verified soon after by the Daily Caller News Foundation — that connected President Joe Biden with an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, with the executive thanking the president’s son for “giving me an opportunity to meet your father.” Taibbi alleged that former head of legal, policy and trust Viyaja Gadde played a “key role,” in the decision to suppress the story, which was made without the knowledge of then-CEO Jack Dorsey, but without any government involvement.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/02/musk-twitter-censor-hunter-nyp/

By: Constitutional Nobody

A horrific shooting happened in front of a young elementary-aged child in Puyallup. Police believe this is a targeted incident because no merchandise was stolen from the business.

A barbershop owner, Jose Valez, was shot and killed in his own shop while he was in the middle of cutting an 8-year-old child’s hair. Police said that the 43-year-old barber was shot multiple times by an unknown male suspect dressed in all black, and the child was not harmed in the shooting.

The suspect remained at large when police shared their latest update, and no arrests had been made. He is described as 5’8″ tall man. He was seen wearing “black pants, a black jacket, and possibly a mask.” After the shooting, the man fled the area on foot.

Officers conducted an extensive search of the area for the suspect aided by at least one police canine unit. The Puyallup Police Department is asking people to check their security cameras for any information regarding this shooting. They are asking anyone who sees someone matching the suspect’s description to contact them.

https://ussanews.com/2022/12/02/barber-shot-to-death-in-targeted-shooting-while-cutting-8-year-olds-hair/

By: Cristina Laila

A federal appeals court on Thursday halted Judge Aileen Cannon’s special master review in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case.

In September, Judge Cannon appointed a special master to review the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.

Biden’s corrupt Justice Department argued that a special master didn’t have a right to filter out the seized documents.

The court blasted Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, and said she erred in appointing Raymond Dearie as a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

https://nworeport.me/2022/12/02/court-throws-out-special-master-for-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents-case/

By: Hannah Poling

The Ohio House passed a bill Wednesday, with bipartisan support, that would decriminalize fentanyl testing strips, pushing forward with a proposal that supporters claim will help prevent fatal overdoses and save lives.

In the state of Ohio, fentanyl drug testing strips are considered drug paraphernalia and it’s illegal for someone to be in possession of them.

House Bill (HB) 456 sponsored by state Representative Kristin Boggs (D-Columbus) and co-sponsored by 26 supporting bipartisan lawmakers, would remove the classification of illegal drug paraphernalia under the measure.

Free fentanyl drug testing strips which individuals use to detect the powerful synthetic opioid often found laced in other drugs, have become increasingly common in many cities across the state. Health departments and organizations all across the state have been providing these resources.

Even though city officials promote the strips those in possession of them can get in trouble.

If an individual possesses or uses the strips, they could be charged with a fourth-degree misdemeanor, according to current state law. That could be up to thirty days in jail and a fine of up to $250.

“HB 456 would help create widespread access to fentanyl drug testing strips. This is a critical step forward to prevent more Ohioans from dying from fentanyl drug overdoses,” Boggs said.

According to state data, fentanyl, the highly addictive synthetic opioid, is the leading cause of drug-related deaths in Ohio.

https://tennesseestar.com/2022/12/02/ohio-house-passes-bill-to-decriminalize-fentanyl-test-strips/

By: WND Staff

InfoWars entertainer Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy amid court orders that he pay about $1 billion to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that happened years ago.

Just the News reported the families of those child victims reported they were harassed after Jones claimed that the massacre was a fraud, that it was staged.

He later said it was, in fact, real.

His filing this week was for personal bankruptcy, as his company already has filed.

He was ordered by juries this year to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the relatives of those killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs told CNBC that the move “will not work.”

Twenty children and six staff members were shot and killed at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.

https://thelibertyloft.com/2022/12/02/alex-jones-files-for-personal-bankruptcy-amid-court-orders-to-pay-1-billion/

By: Daniel_g

“An FBI agent testified to Republican attorneys general this week that the FBI held weekly meetings with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley ahead of the 2020 presidential election to discuss ‘disinformation’ on social media and ask about efforts to censor that information,” Fox News reports.

Lawyers from the offices of Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana deposed FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan as part of their lawsuit against the Biden Administration.

Chan was questioned under oath by court order about his alleged “critical role” in “coordinating with social-media platforms relating to censorship and suppression of speech on their platforms.”

https://welovetrump.com/2022/12/02/fbi-met-weekly-with-big-tech-ahead-of-2020-election-about-censoring-information-agent-says/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fbi-met-weekly-with-big-tech-ahead-of-2020-election-about-censoring-information-agent-says

By: Ashley Oliver

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) is leading a group of nearly a dozen House Republican lawmakers in vowing to vote against a new government spending package unless President Joe Biden takes steps to improve southern border security.

The Republicans sent a letter, obtained by Breitbart News, to Biden on Friday outlining four border-related demands amid a looming government shutdown, set to take place as early as December 16, when current government funding runs out.

The letter, heavily focused on the fentanyl epidemic, comes ahead of an anticipated congressional fight about whether to pass a continuing resolution to extend current funding into next year or to pass a new omnibus bill, which Democrats are angling to do before the lame duck session concludes.

“We cannot, and will not, support any appropriations package for FY2023 unless you immediately take action to strengthen and restore the integrity of the southern border and protect the American people, especially our children, from deadly fentanyl,” the Republicans wrote.

Read a copy of the letter below:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/02/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-pledge-vote-against-spending-bill-unless-biden-takes-action-to-secure-border/