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2 video clips, 3 news articles I think are more noteworthy, they dive into more interesting details  1) washington post - interesting comments from her coach on her samādhi 2) nytimes 3) nbcsports: about Alysa and her dad in Chinese Spy Case. CCP has a history of human rights violations and spying on ex Chinese internationally, often bribing, military force to coerce foreign governments into assisting these illegal activities. Alysa's dad was a protester in Tiananmen square in the 1980's, was a political refugee who settled in Oakland, CA, USA. 9 min video: her winning program to win 2025 world championship: 7 min. vid: her winning short program from two days ago:  7 min. vid: 14 yr old Alyssa from 5 years ago Interviewed on national "tonight show" as 14 yr old youngest U.S. Women's champion Interview also has Alyssa's dad Arthur - she gave her gold medal to him from washingtonpost.com In a stunner, Alysa Liu completes return to skating with gold at worlds htt...

  Awesome free independent noncommercial service comparing monthly rate for all cel phone services. be sure to check out the plan finder on there to filter and set parameters for what kind of usage you're searching for https://prepaidcompare.net/ thread on cheapest annual plan with low minutes, just to keep phone number alive https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/1jl8obd/what_is_cheapest_annual_price_to_maintain_a/ cheapest prepaid annual plan with unlimited voice, text, some 5g data for between 60$-100$/year https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/1jl46by/99_for_5g_moto_phone_1_yr_unlimited_talk_and_text/ tracphone (they use verizon network) also includes free new moto G play 5g phone. Seems like you'll get the best deal if you just by a new phone+unlimited 1 year plan every year between nov. black friday and end of december Not sure if you'll be able to smoothly port and keep your cel phone number doing that. Services I use: 1) Page+plus, uses verizon network,...

frankk comment: What's really interesting to me is how the 81 yr old rapist,  who has a terminal illness, what need does he have to still publicly lie about his crimes? He partially admitted blame,  but to me this just shows how hard ego and pride are to eradicate, even for the worst criminals. Who do they think they're fooling? You have to at least respect pedophiles who know they're guilty, admit their crimes fully,  realize they are sick and want to change for the better. The second interesting thing is how it almost never came to public light. It took one victim confessing to another, and her reporting to the police to  finally get the wheel of justice turning and finding out there were maybe dozens more victims for a period of decades. In an earlier time, before the internet, cel phone cameras, and social media, these kinds of mass pedophile rings never get exposed. Harvey Weinstein (hollywood power brokers), Catholic Church, Bill Cosby, Larry Nassir, (women's o...

A convicted felon can't be a police officer or vote. But they can be elected as President of United States. Why? Trump finds a new way for foreign governments to pay him off: Crypto

  * Trump insiders own about 80 percent of the [Trump memecoin] tokens,  which means on paper they have made tens of billions of dollars for doing precisely nothing.   * Even without needing to sell a single coin from their reserve, on the first day the Trump team banked an estimated $58 million on trading fees alone . https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/21/trump-crypto-ponzi-scheme/ Democracy Dies in Darkness Opinion Catherine Rampell Trump’s crypto coin is little more than a whizbang Ponzi scheme. January 21, 2025  The era of the Shakedown Economy has officially begun — and it started with something called a presidential “sh--coin.” No, I am not making this up. Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter Two days before his inauguration, Donald Trump abruptly launched a new cryptocurrency,  traded as “$TRUMP.”  For those unfamiliar, this kind of crypto token or “memecoin” is released and traded on public markets, sort ...