Cynthia Phillips was mesmerized when she saw the latest pictures of her favorite moon. Here at last was a fresh look at Europa, an icy satellite of Jupiter. The moon resembles a truffle drizzled haphazardly with strips of melted white chocolate, as if the universe had rushed to finish a baking-show challenge. The images gave us a new sense of Europa’s topography, its collection of ridges and troughs appearing more intricate than ever. The lighting was different this time, Phillips told me, and the shadows brought out dramatic shapes in the terrain.
The images were taken by a Jupiter-observing spacecraft as it swept past Europa last week, coming within just 222 miles (358 kilometers) of the frozen surface. Phillips, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, immediately reached for the Europa globe on her desk and began comparing the real-world views with the topography stretched over the plastic orb. The last probe to come this close to Europa was disposed of in 2003, when NASA deliberately plunged it into Jupiter’s atmosphere after the mission started running low on fuel. “We haven’t seen Europa’s surface in this level of detail for 20 years,” Phillips said.
Europa might be the best place to search for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists are almost certain that beneath the Jovian moon’s frozen surface is a salty ocean with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. And such a watery subsurface environment could provide a comfortable home for small Europan life forms.
[Read: Jupiter’s frozen moon is studded with 50-foot blades of ice]
Two years from now, another NASA spacecraft will depart for the Jupiter system, specifically designed to study Europa. The probe will swing past the moon dozens of times, sometimes coasting just 16 miles (25 kilometers) above the surface. Each pass will bring scientists closer to understanding the workings of this celestial truffle and its mysterious interior. Beneath that frosty coating could be the answer to one of our biggest questions: Is there life anywhere else in the universe?
Europa is enveloped in a thick coat of water ice. (Some other moons in our solar system have ice made of methane and nitrogen—the cosmos is a weird place.) The criss-crossing lines visible in the new pictures are actually cracks and fissures in that frozen exterior. Scientists suspect that they’re caused by the stretching and squashing that Europa experiences as it orbits giant Jupiter. The moon’s terrain is sprinkled with chemical compounds such as sodium chloride and magnesium sulfate—more commonly known to Earthlings as table salt and Epsom salt—and they could indicate briny waters below.
A close-up view of Europa’s textured surface (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SWRI / MSSS
Scientists got their best evidence that a Europan ocean might exist two decades ago, when that earlier NASA spacecraft detected a magnetic connection between Europa and Jupiter that could easily be explained by the presence of a salty, global sea. This deep into the solar system, Europa’s underground ocean wouldn’t feel the warmth of the sun; it would stay liquid because of Jupiter’s gravitational tugging. In recent years, telescopes have detected signs of plumes of water vapor spewing out of the cracks and into space. Scientists believe that Europa’s ocean could be as old as the moon itself, about 4 billion years or so, which would give life plenty of time and a stable environment in which to evolve, Phillips said.
[Read: Europa’s mysterious glow]
The data suggest that Europa has a rocky mantle—the layer between the moon’s crust and core—and when rock and water come together, magical things can happen: Chemical interactions between them are known to produce hydrogen-rich materials for tiny creatures to metabolize. “On our own planet, hydrothermal systems at the seafloor provide energy for communities of microorganisms,” Samantha Trumbo, a planetary scientist at Cornell who studies icy ocean worlds like Europa, told me.
The upcoming NASA mission, named Clipper—a nod to the speedy, lightweight vessels favored by 19th-century merchants—will study nearly every bit of the Europan surface. If it gets lucky, the spacecraft could fly through some plume particles, take a sip, and analyze the contents. Alyssa Rhoden, a planetary geophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute who studies Europa, is most excited about a Clipper instrument designed to detect warmer-than-usual spots on the moon’s surface. “When you look at Europa’s surface, you can see a lot of pits where the surface seems to have dropped down a little bit, places where the surface has been disrupted,” Rhoden told me. “We think that that’s happening from heating coming from below.” That signature could simply indicate the presence of melted bits of ice near the frigid crust—or it could mean a roiling sea has floated toward the surface, perhaps bringing any tiny inhabitants with it.
[Read: Exploring the oceans of the outer solar system]
The Clipper mission is not meant to find definitive proof that life exists on Europa, only explore whether the moon has the right conditions and chemistry to make life possible. Evidence of life will require more missions, guided by Clipper’s data, that could land on the Europan surface and drill into the ice. NASA is also searching for life elsewhere in the solar system, notably on Mars, where a rover is collecting samples from a dried-up river delta. But Europa is a more tantalizing target, and so are the other ocean moons sprinkled across the solar system, such as Enceladus and Titan, which orbit Saturn, and Triton, around Neptune. The Mars mission is designed to search for signs of fossilized life that existed several billion years ago, when water once flowed on the planet. “It’s quite possible that Mars could have had life in the past, in a warmer-weather era, and it’s possible that there are subsurface pockets on Mars that could have remnants of this living biosphere,” Phillips said. “But on somewhere like Europa, life could exist there now.”
And what might humanity, by way of carefully engineered machines, find on Europa, once we’ve figured out which melty bits to inspect? “I would love for there to be Europan whales swimming around in that ocean,” Phillips said with a laugh. But alien life, if it exists, is likely to be small and simple. Energy sources are limited in the Europan depths, and scientists don’t think the environment can support the development of more complex organisms, Phillips said. Still, even the discovery of a single microbe would mark an explosive event in human history. It would mean that life had managed to spring up in two different places around the same star—in a universe absolutely brimming with stars. If it happened more than once here, in our own solar system, it’s likely happened elsewhere in the cosmos, around someone else’s sun. This is why scientists are so eager to catch a glimpse of Europa, and prepare as much as they can for the exploration to come. “We all want it to be water,” Rhoden said. “We all want it to be a cool plumbing system in the shell with lots of activity, and someday we’ll get down there and find little Europan sea urchins clinging to the bottom of the ice.”
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Looking Beyond the Female Firsts of Science History
Two authors ask readers to change their understanding of what science is and who gets to participate.
Stamped in relief on the back of the heavy gold medal given to Nobel Prize recipients in the sciences is the image of two women. One, bare-breasted and holding a cornucopia, represents Nature. Pulling back her veil and bearing a torch of knowledge is Science, who reveals Nature and illuminates her secrets. It is an allegory as old as science itself, drawn from even older representation traditions, and it adorns the most prestigious prize in science as a reminder of the high ideals of discovery and truth. But it is an image that obscures more than it illuminates.
The figure of Science is not herself a scientist, merely a vision of the beauty of truth and discovery. It tells us a lot about the culture of science and very little about the role that women played in pushing back against that culture or bending it to their own ambitions. The real women of science—women who worked with their hands, calculated the path of planets, theorized about the nature of the universe, cared for their communities and evaded wars and fascists to pursue their work—are often as underrepresented in our histories of science as they are among Nobel winners, of which there are only 22. Often, it is only when women win Nobels that the world pays attention then at all. . . .
‘American Traitor’ Shows What Happens When the Bullies are in Charge
Treason is an ugly thing — it sullies both the traitor and those betrayed. Turncoats must lie, of necessity, spreading misinformation, fanning grievances and hatred, and disguising their true intentions in order to turn citizens against one another. Of course, this man’s traitor might be that woman’s patriot, because when words are weapons, who can say which exact phrase will cause a particular person to abuse, attack, imprison, or exterminate another human being.
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally wrestles with this conundrum by revisiting the real-life case of Mildred Gillars, a wannabe Broadway star who settled for the role of dulcet-toned Nazi propagandist and ended up being tried for treason against the United States. . . . .
. . .Sally’s meandering singing voice dovetailed with the flatlined German jazz that provided musical breaks between her monologues ridiculing the leader of the country she was born in: “This is Berlin calling. Berlin calling the American mothers and wives. It’s a disgrace to the American public that they don’t wake up to the fact of what Franklin Roosevelt is doing to the gentiles of your country and my country.” She read dialogue that was always written by others, sometimes by the minister of propaganda himself, Joseph Goebbels. When Sally goes off script and substitutes “unbeatable” for “invincible” to describe the German army and how it will slaughter any invaders, the Nazi overlord rapes her for overstepping, while musicians and her own boyfriend avert their eyes from the crime unfolding behind the recording booth’s glass.
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In the American trial, Sally was represented by the flamboyant James J. Laughlin, a lawyer known for antagonizing prosecutors and judges alike. Al Pacino is no stranger to courtroom dramas (And Justice for All, The Devil’s Advocate), but here, disheveled and hunched, he tells his assistant, “I cannot stand that damn Gillars broad. Did you see the way she walked in, like she was Betty Davis or something? I don’t want anything to do with her for the rest of the trial.” Laughlin, we learn later, has lost a son in the war, but that does not stop him from ultimately defending his unsympathetic client. His aversion to the then 48-year-old Gillars was shared by many Americans. Reporting on the trial, in early 1949, Richard Rovere had this to say in his “Letter From Washington” column for The New Yorker: “In all this weird collection of war surplus, the weirdest item by far, and most incongruous, is Miss Gillars herself.” He goes on to describe her “Miami Beach tan, the cosmetic nature of which is given away by the prison pallor of her hands.” As Gillars, Meadows conveys a woman who lunged for the brass ring of stardom but found herself spouting the nasty dross written for her by the likes of Goebbels, a writer rejected by publishers until the Nazi party’s own presses printed his novel, Michael, which sold well as his star in the regime rose. Likewise an artistic mediocrity, Sally found herself in a land where innovation, imagination, or any form of veering from the official dictates was dangerous. When the bullies and thugs rule, art serves only their purposes and only at their pleasure. . . . .
From The Desk Of Donald J. Trump
Why are the Radical Left Democrats in Georgia fighting so hard that there not be a Forensic Audit of 150,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County? There can be only one reason, and that is because they know the vote was corrupt and the audit will show it. Republicans must fight hard and win!
Daily Beast Boss Quashed ‘Sex Assault’ Allegations.
Barry Diller, who leads the parent group of left-wing outlet The Daily Beast, reportedly helped quash sexual assault allegations involving a Tinder executive as part of a ploy to lowball the company’s value.
BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors to Step Down Following DCNF Reports of Potential Self-Dealing
Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, will depart from her role as the organization’s executive director, the charity announced Thursday.
Cullors’ abrupt departure from the charity, which serves as the national arm of the BLM movement, came three weeks after the Daily Caller News Foundation reported that she had used her position as the charity’s leader to funnel business to an art company led by the father of her only child. Charity experts said BLM’s arrangement with the art company, Trap Heals, amounts to self-dealing and raises ethical and legal questions.
BLM Global Network did not provide an explanation in its statement Thursday for Cullors’ sudden departure. The statement said Cullors would be replaced by two senior executives who will lead the group until it “finds a new permanent team.”
Cullors told the Associated Press on Thursday that she is leaving BLM Global Network to focus on other projects, including the release of her second book and a multi-year Warner Bros. television deal.
Cullors “decried what she called a smear campaign from a far-right group, but said neither that nor recent criticism from other Black organizers influenced her departure,” the AP reported.
BLM Global Network had previously offered a vigorous defense for Cullors in April after reports revealed she had purchased four homes across the country for a total of $3.2 million since 2016.
Two other activist groups co-founded and led by Cullors — Black Lives Matter PAC and Reform LA Jails — also made payments to Trap Heals under her leadership, according to campaign finance records previously reported by the DCNF.
BLM PAC paid Trap Heals $148,000 in November to co-produce an election night live stream event on her personal YouTube channel that, according to industry experts, should have cost a fraction of that price to produce, the DCNF previously reported.
The BLM PAC live stream was so poorly produced and riddled with so many technical issues that a conservative watchdog group told the DCNF it is considering filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the “excessive payments.”
Audio and technical issues persisted when Cullors’ second guest attempted to join the stream.
Remember: A company run by the father of Cullors’ only child received $148,300 from BLM PAC to co-produce this show.
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— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) May 20, 2021
BLM Global Network’s statement did not say if Cullors will depart from her role as chairwoman of BLM PAC.
“With smart, experienced and committed people supporting the organization during this transition, I know that BLMGNF is in good hands,” Cullors said in the statement. “The foundation’s agenda remains the same — eradicate white supremacy and build life-affirming institutions.”
“Between the two Senior Executives and BLM Grassroots Co-Director Melina Abdullah, who is an original member of BLM and co-founder of its first chapter in Los Angeles, their immense talent will build a future where Black lives do more than matter — they will truly thrive,” Cullors said.
After almost 8 years, we say see you later to the last of our founders, Patrisse Cullors, who’s served BLM whole-heartedly. We reflect on the impact Patrisse had on BLM, & we are in deep gratitude.
Patrisse, we are in awe of you always. #ThankYouPatrisse
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— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) May 27, 2021
BLM Global Network came to Cullors’ defense in an April 13 statement after New York-based black activist Hawk Newsome had called for an “independent investigation” into the group’s finances following reports of Cullors’ multimillion-dollar real estate buying spree.
BLM Global Network said Cullors had received a total of $120,000 from the charity since 2013 and had not received any compensation after 2019.
“To be abundantly clear, as a registered 501c3, BLMGNF cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer,” the statement read.
BLM Global Network did not immediately return a request for comment asking if the DCNF’s reporting on its dealings with Trap Heals played a factor in Cullors’ sudden departure.
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Andrew Kerr is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Patrisse Cullors” by Patrisse Cullors.
Israeli Bombs Killed 66 Kids in Gaza Including 12 Who Were Getting Help for Trauma from Past Attacks
As the United Nations human rights chief warns Israel may have committed war crimes in Gaza, we look at how Israel killed 12 Palestinian children being treated for trauma from past Israeli bombings. Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says Gaza has become “the home of hopelessness,” particularly for young people in the besieged territory. “We humanitarian workers are sick and tired of building and rebuilding and see it all torn down again,” Egeland says of Israel’s repeated attacks on Gaza. “We are accumulating rubble, we’re accumulating dead children, and we’re accumulating hopelessness, if it continues like this.”
AP launches local news AI project with Knight Foundation
With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, AP will launch a two-year project to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in local newsrooms.
The goal is to expand local news organizations’ adoption of AI tools and automation technologies in ways that support their business.
AP will create an educational program to help news outlets understand how they might apply AI. Working with the Knight Lab at Northwestern University Medill, AP will also provide strategic consulting and help with prototype development in select newsrooms.
“AP has been a leader in automation and AI technologies since 2014, when we rolled out automated corporate earnings reports,” said Jim Kennedy, AP senior vice president for strategy and enterprise development. “We’ve learned many lessons since then about how AI can support the future of the news business, and this program will enable us to share that learning with local news outlets across the country.”
AP’s program will establish a scorecard for AI readiness and a curriculum for exploring a full range of applications for journalism, product development and audience engagement. In the latter stages of the two-year initiative, the program aims to help a select number of outlets implement their own innovative AI solutions. . . .
Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners
The plans will be a blow to U.S. miners who had hoped Biden would rely primarily on domestically sourced metals, as his campaign had signalled last autumn, to help fulfill his ambitions for a less carbon-intensive economy.
Rather than focus on permitting more U.S. mines, Biden’s team is more focused on creating jobs that process minerals domestically into electric vehicle (EV) battery parts, according to the people.
Myanmar: Cease persecution of journalists
The Real Curse To All Americans Is The Establishment Left & Right | Defund The Police Maxine Waters Even Used Federal Marshals To Protect Her | “Congress’s VIP Air Marshal Program Canceled after Maxine Waters Debacle”
A scandal-plagued “VIP” program that provided members of Congress with Federal Air Marshals (FAM) often yanked from high-risk fights has been canceled after Judicial Watch exposed it earlier this month. . . . In many instances FAM were plucked from high-risk flights to accompany an elected official, leaving the high-risk plane with no coverage.
That was the case during Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ recent trip to Minnesota. Two FAM were pulled from a high-risk fight to accompany the California Democrat on the mid-April jaunt, though she was already covered by a four-man detail, according to multiple law enforcement sources interviewed by Judicial Watch. The veteran FAM sources say the politician had two air marshals reassigned to a plane that would otherwise not qualify because it was not considered high-risk. The transfer forced the high-risk flight to complete its trip without the two air marshals originally assigned to it. Waters received the extra security while traveling to Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb, after police shot and killed a black man with an open warrant related to an aggravated armed robbery. The Derek Chauvin trial was wrapping up around 10 miles away and the 82-year-old lawmaker incited the crowd, encouraging protestors to “get more confrontational” if the former Minneapolis cop was not convicted of murder for George Floyd’s death. “We gotta stay on the street, we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational, we’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” Waters said ahead of closing arguments in Chauvin’s trial. The former officer was convicted and the judge presiding over the trial called the congresswoman’s comments “abhorrent.” Last month Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the chairman of the House Office of Congressional Ethics against Waters for violating House ethics rules by encouraging violence and attempting to intimidate the jury in the Chauvin trial.
Coverage of Waters’ abuse of the VIP air marshal service apparently led to the program’s cancelation, according to numerous government officials interviewed by Judicial Watch. “They were not scheduling us to make sure we were available for the VIPs,” said a longtime air marshal, who is celebrating that the program is finally “done.” FAM are federal law enforcement officers whose primary function is to protect commercial passenger flights by deterring and countering the risk of terrorist activity, aircraft piracy and other crimes to protect the nation’s transportation infrastructure. The VIP service for Congress “left a glaring hole in America’s aviation security,” according to a whistleblower complaint filed this year by the Air Marshal National Council with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. The group represents around 2,000 air marshals nationwide. In an interview with Judicial Watch, the group’s president, David Londo, called the VIP program “scandalous.” A veteran air marshal said he and many colleagues on the force often asked: “Why are we really here? To protect against terrorism or babysitting?”
Bannon’s War Room | Saturday Edition Hour 2 | Recorded May 29, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 18 Seconds
Episode 986–The American Generals Speak Part III (w/ MG Arbuckle, BG Bolduc, BG Welch, RADM Bayless). “We’re in an age of the death of reason and the death of common sense,” he said. “We’re in a fight for our nation. We’re the modern minute men today.” Guests are: Frank Gaffney, MG Joseph Arbuckle, BG Don Bolduc, BG Bill Welch, RADM Jon Bayless.
U.S. Announces Sanctions on Belarus Over Journalist’s Detention
The Biden administration announced it would re-impose sanctions against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises and is developing additional penalties to target officials in the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko over the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc jetliner and the arrest of a dissident journalist.
Punished in Hong Kong for Texting the Press
China wants to silence Hong Kongers even as it persecutes them. A court judgment released Friday shows that a judge penalized former pro-democracy lawmaker and journalist Claudia Mo for speaking to Western journalists, including our own Jillian Melchior.
Police arrested Ms. Mo, along with nearly the entire opposition movement, in January. She and 46 others are charged with conspiracy to commit subversion under the national security law for organizing or participating in an informal pro-democracy primary election last July. Judge Esther Toh denied Ms. Mo bail in April, and the world learned why on Friday.
The national security law prohibits “collusion” with vaguely defined foreign forces and states that defendants may not receive bail “unless the judge has sufficient grounds” to believe that they “will not continue to commit acts endangering national security.” As a reason to keep Ms. Mo behind bars, prosecutor Maggie Yang described Ms. Mo’s WhatsApp correspondence with these pages, the New York Times, Bloomberg and the BBC. . .
Investigative Journalist and Author Sharri Markson Reveals How Dr. Fauci Restarted Gain of Function Research After Obama Administration Stopped it
Perhaps the last half of this interview explains why the mainstream media are now willing to let Anthony Fauci take the heat for the Wuhan Bio-Lab leak. The entire interview with Australian investigative journalist Sharri Markson is well worth watching. The first major point was how Anthony Fauci was arguing against scientific consensus to keep allowing “gain of function” biological experimentation with deadly viruses. Fauci advocated for weaponization research in 2012, the scientific community was against it because of the inherent risks.
The second major point was President Obama stopping gain of function research in 2014 due to the global risk of a leak from a lab. Then in 2017, in the first year of the Trump administration, unbeknownst to senior officials in the administration, NIH Director Anthony Fauci pushed through a restart of the dangerous research.
Obama stopping and Fauci unilaterally starting would explain why the media are willing to step aside and let Fauci take the fall. Defending and protecting President Obama are the primary objectives of the MSM and operatives embedded in the administrative state. Now the sudden shift makes sense. Those in the umbrella intelligence apparatus knew this type of investigative evidence was going to surface.
Rutgers leaders forced to apologize for statement condemning anti-Semitism
The chancellor and provost of Rutgers University apologized Thursday for issuing a statement that denounced the recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks because he said it “failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members.”
The initial statement from Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Provost Francine Conway Wednesday said they were “saddened by and greatly concerned about the sharp rise in hostile sentiments and anti-Semitic violence in the United States.”
The Thursday statement, titled “An Apology,” included the message that “our diversity must be supported by equity, inclusion, antiracism, and the condemnation of all forms of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
“As we grow in our personal and institutional understanding, we will take the lesson learned here to heart, and pledge our commitment to doing better,” Molloy and Conway continued. “We will work to regain your trust, and make sure that our communications going forward are much more sensitive and balanced.”
Earlier Thursday, the Rutgers chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine issued a lengthy denunciation of Molloy and Conway’s initial statement.
ARIZONA: State Senator Wendy Rogers Reports From Maricopa Audit Floor, Says Results Could Be ‘Legally Actionable’
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers toured the floor of the Maricopa County forensic audit on Thursday, confirming that the results will probably be “legally actionable.”
Rogers, one of the most pro-America First members of the Arizona legislature, toured the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results is currently taking place, and was able to report back to her constitutents, and the rest of America, the current state of the audit on the ground.
I am on the audit floor at https://t.co/cBR8fVXGtY camera 6, 7 or 8. Do you see me? pic.twitter.com/xBtoNGZS8Y
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) May 28, 2021
In a series of posts on social media, Rogers revealed in detail exactly what she had seen, and was able to dispel some myths about the Maricopa audit that had been put forward by the mainstream media and Arizona Democrats.
From the start of the audit, Rogers noted that the capabilities of the audit had about doubled in the capacity, with a much increased number of paper inspection tables and counting tables, allowing far more votes to be audited in a shorter amount of time. The CEO of CyberNinjas, the company hired to conduct the audit, had informed the audience that the physical data collection would now be completed by the end of June, with the full report to follow “sometime later.”
Rogers was able to describe the procedures on the floor of the audit, confirming that security was taken incredibly seriously by the volunteers and organisers. Tally sheets and ballots were only allowed to be moved if there were three things present, that being people, papers, and cameras. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the data collection system used by CyFIR was “read only,” and couldn’t change any votes, with everything at the site also being videoed, Rogers said.
A retired USAF pilot who is serving as a volunteer for the audit also informed her that the chain of custody procedures for the ballots “are as precise and flawless as Strategic Air Command’s.” He further slammed Hobbs, saying it was “laughable” that she claimed the machines were compromised, when she initally claimed that they were unhackable.
In further contrast to the claims of the media, the Maricopa audit does have the databases folder that was really deleted. As National File previously reported, former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett tweeted that the directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle was deleted by Maricopa County officials only “days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit,” despite being under a subpoena at the time. According to Bennett, this constitutes “spoliation of evidence.”
Breaking Update: Maricopa County deleted a directory full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit. This is spoliation of evidence! pic.twitter.com/mY0fmmFXAm
— Maricopa Arizona Audit (@ArizonaAudit) May 13, 2021
With some questioning whether the audit would be “enough,” Rogers said that the results from the audit could potentially be “legally actionable,” as it would be able to determine whether errors were down to “accidental sloppiness” or deliberate intent. At the absolute minimum, the audit would be able to “inform legislation necessary to plug the gaps to restore the public’s confidence in Arizona’s elections.
“The left redefines ‘evidence’ to be proof,” Rogers said. “The way it really goes is you have enough evidence to proceed with investigation and discovery. Then you determine the conclusion based upon proof. Example: You go outside and the ground is wet. Was it due to rain? Was it your neighbor’s sprinklers? Was it morning dew? One needs more information for proof. If the courts and media stop you, then you will never discover the proof to know the truth.”
In a later tweet, Rogers described the audit in Maricopa as the “gold standard that can be used in other states where there are questions about election integrity,” adding that audits “should be more mainstream, and used more often as a check and balance,” saying that the Founding Fathers would have supported such moves.
What we are doing in Maricopa is the gold standard that can be used in other states where there are questions about election integrity. Audits should be more mainstream and used more often as a check and balance! Our Founders would want it to be so.
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) May 28, 2021
No Mask Requirement at Summer Camps If Everyone Is Fully-Vaccinated: CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new guidance for summer camps on Friday, loosening requirements on masks and social distancing.
Camps may return to full capacity without mask and physical distancing requirements if everyone is fully vaccinated before the start of the camp, unless federal, state, or local required otherwise, according to the new guidance.
“It’s going to be a camp experience that is much more like (before the pandemic),” said Erin Sauber-Schatz, who leads the CDC task force that prepares recommendations for Americans against COVID-19, the disease the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
For staff and children who are not fully vaccinated, they should keep a distance between 3 to 6 feet and wear masks indoors or outdoors, the CDC guidance states.
Report Suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci Believed Experimenting on Contagious Viruses Worth the Risk of a Lab Accident
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, allegedly justified experimenting on contagious viruses as worth the risk of a laboratory accident, such as a global pandemic, outlining his view in an American Society for Microbiology analysis in October 2012, according to a report from The Australian.
Fauci, whose alleged remarks were highlighted by The Australian, “argued that the benefits of experimenting on contagious viruses – manipulating and heightening their infectious potency – was worth the risk of a laboratory accident sparking a pandemic.”
Ex-mailman Admits to Dumping Mail, Ballots
A former USPS mail carrier has admitted that he dumped close to 2,000 pieces of mail in just three days last year. They include close to 100 election ballots.
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It’s Apparent What The Establishment, Big Tech & Mainstream Media Mean By A Perfect Election | “I challenge you (the poll worker) for filling in the Democrat straight ticket (for voters not present). Can I challenge that? (They reply) ‘No, it’s not a challenge. No document. Just push it through.’ That’s what they did” ~ Eyewitness Poll Observer | Video: 2 Minutes 47 Seconds
ARCHIVE: For the first time, Rudy Giuliani and the brave whistleblowers of our nation testify before a bipartisan group of legislators to discuss alleged election irregularities and fraud during the November presidential election.
CNN Pushes Bizarre Conspiracy Theory That Arizona’s Live Audit Cameras Are Controlled By One America News | “Ariz. Senate President Karen Fann stands her ground during CNN ambush interview” | Video: 3 Minutes 33 Seconds
CNN continues to push Democrat propaganda about the 2020 election and ongoing audits, even falsely claiming cameras at the Arizona audit are controlled by OAN. One America’s Christina Bobb has more from Phoenix.
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May 28, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 52 Minutes 08 Seconds
300+ Local Govs Buy From Banned Chinese Firms. Senate Republicans block a bill with the first successful filibuster during the Biden administration, President Joe Biden just revealed a massive $6 trillion budget for the 2022 fiscal year, and the White House sends mixed messages on vaccine passports.
“Paul Ryan is a gutless coward” ~ Steve Bannon | “Paul Ryan is a loser. . . a path to losing for the Republican party. . . a front man for the Uniparty.” ~ Matt Gaetz | Video 8 Minutes 41 Seconds
Matt Gaetz calls out Paul Ryan for not understanding the MAGA movement and choosing the elites over Americans.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded May 28, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 32 Seconds
Episode 982 – Leave the Dead to Bury the Dead … Paul Ryan’s Dead GOP. “You saw people at a Yankees game unfurling a banner that said ‘Trump won,’” Fredericks said. “Finally the fake news media is starting to catch up because they can’t hide it, they can’t bury it, they can’t pretend it’s not there.” Guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Raheem Kassam, John Fredericks, Morgan Kahmann.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded May 28, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 50 Seconds
Episode 983 – Lock Step of Tyrants … Dr. Naomi Wolf on Vaccine Passports. “A nation must control its borders and decide who comes in or it’s not a functioning nation state,” Farage said. Guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Naomi Wolf, Chief Jarome Bell, Nigel Farage.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded May 28, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 984 – Doug Ducey’s Petty Dictator Move and Another Smoking Gun on Dr. Fauci. Guests are: Cpt. Maureen Bannon, Mark Finchem, Dr. Navarro, Sharri Markson, Jack Francis.
The Real Story – OAN Election Integrity with Sen. Doug Mastriano | Video: 8 Minutes 20 Seconds
Doug Mastriano, State Senator for Pennsylvania’s 33rd district, gives us The Real Story on why his state’s GOP advances measures limiting the Governors pandemic powers.
If You’re An American Who Witnessed Voter Fraud, You Will Get A Government Official Call and Let You Know, “I’m not scaring you. But, I am scaring you.” | United States Postal Service Whistleblower Being Coerced | Video: 2 Minutes 18 Seconds
“USPS investigator Russell Strasser coerced Hopkins into doubting his original story, using psychological tactics to pretend there was a friendly and honest conversation taking place,” said James O’Keefe, the founder and CEO of Project Veritas.
“Strasser had absolutely no intention of investigating the very serious and valid claims of voter fraud brought forward by Richard Hopkins,” he said.
“What we are seeing here is not an investigation into voter fraud. This is plain and simple witness intimidation, and something must be done to prevent anyone from ever going through what Richard Hopkins has been put through,” he said.
Hopkins cooperated fully with the USPS investigators during the interview, which led the investigators to believe they could get away with nefarious behavior, he said.
Black Lives Matter Founder Calls for “The End” of Israel.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors called for the “end” of Israel at a 2015 panel hosted a Harvard Law School. Unearthed by The National Pulse, the clip comes from…
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Former Astronaut Pleads Guilty in Crash That Killed 2 Young Girls
A former NASA space shuttle commander, who had been indicted on murder and assault charges for his role in a 2016 car crash that killed two young sisters in Alabama, pleaded guilty to lesser charges on Thursday and was sentenced to four years in prison followed by 10 years of probation.
At the time of the crash, the former astronaut, James Halsell Jr., 64, was on probation for an earlier crash in California that had occurred while he was under the influence of alcohol, prosecutors said.
The June 6, 2016, crash in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., killed Niomi James, 11 and her sister, Jayla Parler, 13, who were riding in a car driven by their father. Mr. Halsell had refused to allow law enforcement officials to check his blood for alcohol or controlled substances, prosecutors said. Officials acquired a court order to check his blood hours later; it showed no alcohol in his system.
At a hearing on Thursday in the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, Mr. Halsell, of Huntsville, Ala., pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and two counts of first-degree assault.
If Mr. Halsell violates the terms of his probation, he can be sentenced to up to 16 years in prison, according to prosecutors in Alabama. . .
NYT COVID reporter’s claim of lab-leak theory’s ‘racist roots’ hints at paper’s news priorities
A New York Times reporter’s flippant dismissal of the increasingly popular “lab-leak” COVID-19 origin theory offers a revealing glimpse into the newspaper’s pandemic news priorities 18 months into the health crisis that has pervaded world media coverage since early last year.
Apoorva Mandavilli, a longtime science reporter who has been a full-time writer at the Times since May of last year, suggested on Wednesday that growing suspicions that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese virology lab are both misguided and bigoted.
“Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots,” she wrote on Twitter. “But alas, that day is not yet here.”
Mandavilli subsequently deleted that tweet. In a followup post she did not retract her earlier claim about the theory’s “racist roots” but rather said that it had been “badly phrased.”
“The origin of the pandemic is an important line of reporting that my colleagues are covering aggressively,” she wrote.
By Thursday evening Mandavilli’s Twitter account appeared to be no longer active. She did not respond to inquiries seeking more information about her opinions on the theory and the reason for her account’s disappearance.
Yet her suggestion that the lab-leak theory is both “racist” and unworthy of the discussion it has provoked may shed light on the pandemic coverage priorities of one of the world’s most influential papers. . .
May 27, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 53 Minutes 11 Seconds
Nine victims of California’s massive shooting were honored at a press conference, 22 state attorneys general take issue with President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Texas works to tackle the influx of the deadly drug fentanyl coming from Mexico. Cuban Star Defects to US.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded May 27, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 19 Seconds
Episode 979 – The HQ of the Runaway Train … Rachel Maddow’s Anna Karenina Moment. Guests are: Sean Parnell, Boris Epshteyn, Rudy Giuliani.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded May 27, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 30 Seconds
Episode 980–The Border Tipping Point…Peter Navarro on the Stolen Election and Desperation in Del Rio. Guests are: Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Peter Navarro, Ben Bergquam, Mike Miller.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded May 27, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Episode 981 – Never Trump’s No Personality Cult … MTG and Gaetz Say Populism is GOP’s Future in GA. Ryan says it is a “cult of personality” “just because Paul Ryan has no personality,” Gaetz said. Guests are: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Raheem Kassam, Matt Gaetz, Heather Mullins, Suarabh Sharma.
The Real Story – OAN America’s Audit Resumes with Ken Bennet
Ken Bennet, Arizona Audit Liaison, gives The Real Story on the Maricopa County Audit and why Democrats all of a sudden want one too.
May 26, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 53 Minutes 11 Seconds
9 Killed in San Jose Rail Yard Shooting; Judge Dismisses Steve Bannon Indictment. FBI agents, firefighters, and the sheriff’s department respond to a shooting in Silicon Valley, ATF director nominee David Chipman said he supports banning America’s most popular rifle, and bipartisan skepticism persists in the Senate for the Endless Frontier Act.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded May 26, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 28 Seconds
Episode 976 – Willie Sutton’s Anti-Bank Robbery Commission. Guests are: Rudy Giuliani, Nigel Farage, Sheriff Mark Lamb.
Dr. Marty Makary on the U.S. Health Care System | Video: 1 Hour 21 Seconds
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded May 26, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 51 Seconds
Episode 977 – The Uncontrolled Opposition… Marjorie Taylor Greene on Why the Establishment Fears Her. “If they’re that afraid to talk to me, you think they can talk to a Democrat?” he said. “How can they have any kind of courage? They’re cowards, both of them are cowards. Either that or they’re hiding something that’s so beyond anything we can imagine.” Guests are: Mike Lindell, Mary Ann Mendoza, C.L. Bryant, Marjorie Taylor Greene.