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Sam Bankman-Fried flown to the US... There will be an emergency court hearing in Mohave County, Arizona tomorrow morning. Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh is being challenged by Maricopa County on his request to inspect ballots... Also in Arizona the two-day trial for Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election challenge... The FBI taking shots at the Twitter Files revelations... The commander of the US Navy's Seal Team 1 found dead in his San Diego home... In Israel Benjamin Netanyahu says he has formed a new government... In France railroad controllers going on strike Friday... Thanks to gasoline prices an...

In Australia, the most outspoken critic of the false imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell (https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2021/10/05/australia-is-not-a-free-country/) was the conservative columnist and television host Andrew Bolt. Bolt is an atheist. I believe that, if all the Christians, who knew that what was done to Pell was wrong, had spoken up as Bolt did, then the cowardly bullies of the Socialist Left government, whose politicized police force attacked Pell, would have backed down. But with a few exceptions (Fathers Kevin Donnelly and Frank Brennan and Bishop Anthony Fisher) the churches and clergy were spectacularly silent. Such attacks will continue in places like Australia...

Memo to Drudge, et al: It's Not About Me, It's About the War (134 comments ) Even after my repeated attempts to keep the focus of my protest on the war, the Drudge Report and others continue to try to make the issue about me. But I am not the issue. The issue is a disastrous war that's killing our sons and daughters and making our country less secure. They attack me because they can no longer defend this war. I've come to Crawford to bring to the president's doorstep the harsh realities of a war he's been trying so...

This Week began with Steph interviewing Colin Powell, who is in Kenya for the signing of a Sudanese peace treaty. Powell is still dealing with the diplomatic details of rushing aid to the tsunami-battered Southeast Asian region. Predictably, he said US relief officials on the ground are doing a great job, but refused to guess what the final death toll will be -- though he did admit a final accurate estimate may be impossible. The pleassantries ended when George turned to supposed coming Iraqi elections, including a prediction by one Iraqi official of "incipient civil war" along ethnic lines following...