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China’s Freedom Fighters Explain Why CCP Secret Agents Launched Arson Attack in California

Yermo is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County in the California’s Mojave Desert. Highway 15 runs east-west through the area. On the south side of the highway lies Liberty Sculpture Park, where the arson attack happened in July 2021. The fire is alleged to have been started by a Chinese secret police agent.

Showcasing giant sculptures and other artistic pieces of the many different aspects of Chinese people’s fight for freedom and democracy in recent years, many tourists have traveled on Highway 15 from either Los Angeles or Las Vegas to visit the park.
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In the early evening on July 24, 2021, one sculpture in Liberty Sculpture Park was destroyed by fire. It was a giant human-head shaped sculpture named “CCP virus.”
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The front portion of the sculpture consisted of half of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s face, while the other half was the face of an evil-looking skeleton. There were pins depicting COVID-19 spike proteins all around the sculpture’s cranium.

The sculpture was completed on June 4, 2021—the 32th anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. It was about 6 feet in height, and made of steel and fiberglass. It was on display for only two months before it was destroyed by the fire.

Yuan said he noticed signs that the arson attack was coming, having reported suspicious activities to the local police a week before the fire.
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To Yuan, it looked as if someone had tried to use a car and the steel cable connected to the sculpture to pull the statue down because the D-ring was broken. After that, staff at the park were prepared for another attempt at vandalism. But they did not know when and how things would happen.

The Chinese secret police came back and set the park on fire on July 24. The arson took place on a Friday at dinner time when the park was closed.
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“The communist regime is afraid of two things: large-scale uprising and international embarrassment,” Yuan said on why he believes the Chinese secret agents came to destroy the virus sculpture.

Widespread Power Outage in North Carolina Investigated as a ‘Criminal Occurrence’

Authorities in North Carolina said on Dec. 3 that a power outage affecting tens of thousands of people is being investigated as a “criminal occurrence.”

Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement on Dec. 4 about the outages and said that an investigation is underway.
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“As utility companies began responding to the different substations, evidence was discovered that indicated that intentional vandalism had occurred at multiple sites,” the sheriff’s office said.
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It appears that no suspects have been arrested or identified in connection to the incident. No motive has been publicly revealed.

Nearly 40,000 customers were without power in Moore County as of Dec. 4, according to an outage map provided by utility Duke Energy. Moore County is located near the city of Fayetteville.
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Authorities also told residents that some sewer services in the area aren’t working and to stay off the roads. The reason why, officials said, is because some traffic lights aren’t working.

Another source makes the following claim:

The sheriff gave a few more details about the situation, saying there was extensive damage found at two substations caused by multiple gunshots, which caused power outages primarily in the central and northern portions of the county.

Elon Musk says he faces 'quite significant' risk of being assassinated

Elon Musk said Saturday evening that there is "definitely some risk" to his personal safety during an extensive discussion about free speech, changes he has made to Twitter, and the release of internal communications from the fall of 2020 about what led the tech giant to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.

"Frankly the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant. I'm definitely not going to be doing any open air car parades, let me put it that way," Musk said in a Twitter Spaces discussion.

"It's not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to, so hopefully they don't."
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"Throughout history, free speech has been highly unusual, not common. So we have to fight really hard to keep that because it's such a rare thing and it's by no means something that's default," Musk said. "Controlled speech is the default, not free speech."

Saturday Night Live jokes Biden has brain damage during Weekend Update segment

"President Biden signed a measure that would force railway workers to accept a deal that averts a strike but does not include paid sick leave. But how do you expect Biden to care about sick leave when he shows up to work every day with full-blown CTE?" Che joked.

CTE is an acronym for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease usually following a history of brain trauma. Patients with CTE commonly experience symptoms such as short-term memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment and even dementia.
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Though Biden’s gaffes have been frequently ridiculed by social media, "Saturday Night Live" has largely avoided satirizing the president throughout his first years in office.

In October, however, the sketch comedy show began poking fun at Biden’s gaffes and his frequent avoidance of reporters during appearances. During one "Weekend Update" segment, host Colin Jost mocked Biden’s flub while giving a speech in a car factory.
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"On Thursday, Biden said we are closer to nuclear Armageddon than we’ve been in 60 years," the game show host, played by Bowen Yang, read. He added, "When Joe Biden was born, we didn't have highways."