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Earlier this week, the bitcoin community was shocked when a digital wallet containing roughly $1 billion in bitcoin...was emptied by an unknown individual. The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had seized the wallet’s contents as part of a civil forfeiture case targeting the Silk Road. The government said it retrieved the roughly 70,000 bitcoins with the help of an unnamed hacker, whose identity is known to the government but who is simply referred to as “Individual X” in court documents. “Individual X” allegedly hacked the Silk Road’s payments system some time in 2012 or 2013. The government...

Once upon a time, prairie was the primary ecosystem in Indiana, but in the last 200 years, almost all of it has been plowed under for agriculture. Today, less than 1 percent of original, native prairie remains. The Nature Conservancy has been working to convert 7000 acres of row-crop farmland back into diverse prairie for the last 20 years. There are now over 750 species of plants and 250 species of butterflies on the newly restored chunk of prairie, called the Kankakee Sands Nature Preserve. Most of the native plants and insects were able to find their way back “home”...

Scott Adams also reviews the current state of the election and concludes Trump is 50% more likely to win despite Biden being crowned president-elect by the media. WATCH NOW...

...It’s not unusual for voters to tell pollsters early in an election cycle that they are undecided on complex ballot initiatives. What was notable was how, in several California initiatives, virtually all those undecideds eventually voted against them, suggesting that voters may simply have been reluctant to tell pollsters how they really intended to vote. Both Prop. 21, which would have expanded local rent control in the Golden State, and Prop. 25, which would have ended cash bail for those awaiting trial, were leading in polls throughout the fall, but with a heavy percentage of voters saying that they hadn’t...

Believing they have won the presidential race, Democrats are compiling lists of Trump supporters to harass, keep from paid employment, ban from book and television deals, and more. One day after declaring victory in the U.S. presidential race, Democrats started making Enemy of the State political dissident lists of Donald Trump supporters for public heretic and disloyalty trials. Haven’t we had enough over-the-top political rhetoric in the last four years? Well, leftwing voices sure didn’t get the memo. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin tweeted, “Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will...

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said a coronavirus vaccine approval process must be guided by science so the public can have confidence it is safe and effective, warning that the United States is still facing a very dark winter and that a vaccine likely won’t be available for months. “I implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement,” adding that he would spare no effort to turn the pandemic around once he is sworn in.

"Democratic Campaign Workers Forged Absentee Ballots... They Used the Names of People Who Were Serving Time in Prison" Mon Nov 9, 2020 Daniel Greenfield Don't get too excited. This is from Philly. But it's also from 1994 when a crucial election flipped the State Senate to the Republicans because of Democrat voter fraud. In writing today's article, American Coup, I mentioned how prevalent and blatant the voter fraud is in Philly. In 1994, the fraud in one Philly election was so bad that a federal judge ruled that a Democrat State Senator had to be replaced by a Republican shifting control of...

President Donald Trump's MAGA era is coming to an end after his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. And Joe jokingly marked his administration's new era with a new hat—one that Twitter and TikTok are seeing as a clever troll of the last four years of MAGA hats flooding the market and country.

There’s been a bizarre and grisly death at one of Hollywood’s most exclusive and star-studded buildings, Page Six has learned. We hear a prospective buyer was viewing a multimillion-dollar apartment on one of the highest floors of the 31-story Sierra Towers on Monday afternoon — and, when the Realtor’s back was turned, they climbed over the wall of a balcony and jumped to their death. Sources say that at least one of the many famous residents of the building saw the body on the ground, and the chilling incident has been the main topic of conversation among neighbors in the...

Democrats expected Jewish voters to help them flip Florida. Instead, Jewish voters disappointed them. COLUMN DANIEL GREENFIELD Democrats’ anti-Semitism cost them in Florida and Georgia Democrats expected Jewish voters to help them flip Florida. Instead, Jewish voters disappointed them. Republish this article Spread the word. Help JNS grow! Share now: FACEBOOK TWITTER WHATSAPP EMAIL PRINT (November 8, 2020 / JNS) Before the election, Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute marked Georgia, along with Florida, as one of the states where the Jewish vote could help decide the election. Georgia has 103,000 Jewish voters, and Democrats had been counting on them...

Federal Election Commission (FEC) records revealed that liberal billionaire globalist George Soros gave $1 million through his super PAC to a major Big Tech scheme to oust President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. A recent report showed that Democratic super PAC Future Forward was quietly unleashing a barrage of television spending in the last weeks of the presidential race in order to try to defeat Trump. The group is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest donors. Vox Recode had reported that the super PAC was “spending more than $100 million on television and digital in the final month...

Trust me, you’re gonna like the way this story ends. “You can’t just tell the people, you have to SHOW them.” Remember that. A great show is being played out on the national stage right now, and the Democrats drastically overplayed their hand and cheated because they are TERRIFIED of Trump winning a second term. But all is being exposed. Starting with a software “glitch” called Dominion. You can’t make this stuff up! Dominion? Do we really want a software system called “Dominion” and probably created or funded by Soros and his ilk running our elections? No way! This is...

Joe Biden announced his plans to fight the Coronavirus pandemic on Monday. Joe Biden’s plans include a mandatory mask mandate (unconstitutional), nationwide lockdowns (unconstitutional), Covid testing and contact tracing and restoring the US’s relationship with the corrupt, Chinese-controlled WHO

As significant as the ‘hanging chads’ were in 2000, ballot creep has emerged as the determining issue in 2020. It’s a skill that Democrats perfected in past elections. If we thought “hanging chads” were damaging to electoral confidence back in 2000, then buckle your seat belt. The year 2020 that’s already brought us a pandemic and riots has suddenly lurched toward a dangerous curve that poses an unprecedented risk to the American electoral process and our faith in it. Twenty years ago we were glued to our televisions as vote-counting unfolded in the crucial state of Florida. A huge magnifying...

First Energy, one of the region’s most prominent energy suppliers, today announced a pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The company also set an interim goal of 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gases within the company’s direct operational control by 2030, based on 2019 levels. First Energy is a major source for power customers in West Virginia through Monongahela Power Company, commonly called Mon Power, and Potomac Edison Company. There are 986,800 people in First Energy’s service territory in West Virginia. Electric power is provided to FirstEnergy’s West Virginia service area by: Potomac Edison Company Monongahela Power Company (Mon...

Clarence Thomas: I haven't forgotten, Joe.

Gun control is predicated on the belief that private citizens cannot be trusted with firearms. That the state should have a "monopoly on violence" because it is less violent than individuals. And that firearms should be taken away from private citizens because only the state is responsible enough to handle them. There is, however, a major problem with this: States are statistically far more violent than individuals. After all, in the 20th century alone, 262 MILLION people died at the hands of their own governments. The term for this sort of atrocity is “democide.” It is one of the reasons...

We and many others were warning months ago that the Democrats were going to try to steal the 2020 election. When the counting, recounting, and lawsuits are done, they might well have succeeded. It’s simply in their nature to do whatever they believe is necessary to further their agenda. The belief in one’s own moral superiority eventually erases the conscience. After all, if one is morally superior to others, then no conscience is needed. All actions and behaviors are acceptable because they’re done in an effort to make the world a better place. C.S. Lewis explained this in his 1948...

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for a major government inquiry into the tight ownership of Australian media by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, securing almost 140,000 signatures on a petition after just three days. Mr Rudd, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and briefly in 2013, filed a petition calling on parliament to set up a royal commission to investigate what he called the "abuse of media monopoly in Australia in particular by the Murdoch media". "The truth is Murdoch has become a cancer, an arrogant cancer on our democracy," Mr Rudd said in a video...

With several races still unresolved, Republicans are on track to make major gains in the House of Representatives — with women definitely leading the way. Female candidates account for most of the seats that the GOP has wrested from the Democrats so far, and this year is likely to set a new record for the number of Republican women elected to the House (beating 2004’s 25). Two dozen have won already, and another seven may yet be declared the victors. “The story of the night is the success of Republican women at the ballot box,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY),...