A businesswoman who brandished an AR-15 assault rifle and peddled unfounded conspiracy theories about Muslims and Jews in campaign videos was elected to Congress on Tuesday.
Marjorie Taylor Greene won a vacant seat for the Republicans in a conservative-supporting district in Georgia in an unsurprising result.
Ms Taylor Greene, 46, who President Donald Trump called a future Republican star, was described as the only supporter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory to be elected to the House of Representatives.
The QAnon movement espouses claims that paedophiles and child traffickers in government, business and the media are plotting to overthrow the Trump administration.
Despite its baffling nature, the central premise, along with hundreds of other disparate theories, is propagated by hundreds of thousands of social media users.
Ms Taylor Greene herself has alleged an “Islamic invasion” of government offices and claimed the billionaire American-Hungarian financier George Soros, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is a Nazi.
She has reiterated the central QAnon theory that a “global cabal of Satan-worshiping paedophiles” threatens America’s current government and society.
In June, in a campaign video, she locked and loaded an assault rifle and warned members of the anti-fascist Antifa movement, who were protesting against the police shootings of black suspects, to “stay the hell out of north-west Georgia”.
In September, she again shared an image on Facebook of herself holding a rifle alongside a collage of pictures of Democrat congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
The stunt was denounced by Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “dangerous threat of violence”.
Ms Taylor Greene has recently backtracked from her embrace of QAnon but remains a highly divisive figure.
Her campaign was given support by groups related to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and a number of major Republican donors.
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- Priority access to new homes from participating developers
- Discounts on sales price of off-plan units
- Flexible payment plans from developers
- Mortgages with better interest rates, faster approval times and reduced fees
- DLD registration fee can be paid through banks or credit cards at zero interest rates
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- Use the existing EU budget to direct more funds towards defence-related investment
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4pm: Mahab Al Shimaal Group 3 | US$350,000 | (Dirt) | 1,200m
4.35pm: Al Bastakiya Listed | $300,000 | (D) | 1,900m
5.10pm: Nad Al Sheba Turf Group 3 | $350,000 | (Turf) | 1,200m
5.45pm: Burj Nahaar Group 3 | $350,000 | (D) | 1,600m
6.20pm: Dubai City of Gold Group 2 | $300,000 | (T) | 2,410m
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Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (captain), Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Liton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Mehedi Hasan, Shafiul Islam, Taijul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed.
Australia: Steve Smith (captain), David Warner, Ashton Agar, Hilton Cartwright, Pat Cummins, Peter Handscomb, Matthew Wade, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Renshaw, Mitchell Swepson and Jackson Bird.
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- Unregulated structured products or complex investments often used to bypass traditional safeguards.
- Lack of clear information, vague language, no access to audited financials.
- Overseas companies targeting investors in other jurisdictions - this can make legal recovery difficult.
- Hard-selling tactics - creating urgency, offering 'exclusive' deals.
Courtesy: Carol Glynn, founder of Conscious Finance Coaching
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Brown rice: consume an amount that fits in the palm of your hand
Non-starchy vegetables, such as broccoli: consume raw or at low temperatures, and don’t reheat
Oatmeal: look out for pure whole oat grains or kernels, which are locally grown and packaged; avoid those that have travelled from afar
Fruit: a medium bowl a day and no more, and never fruit juices
Lentils and lentil pasta: soak these well and cook them at a low temperature; refrain from eating highly processed pasta variants
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