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It appears Jayson Chambers, one of the key FBI Agents involved in the entrapment effort, did just that. Why? n 2017, Steven Crowder, a conservative activist and host of a popular YouTube channel, infiltrated Antifa with his producer. Weeks before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro at the University of Utah—an event Antifa planned to disrupt violently—Crowder worked his way into the group through the use of burner phones and encrypted chats. Crowder secretly recorded discussions between Antifa thugs promising to use “plain clothes and hard tactics” to shut down Shapiro’s speech on September 28, 2017. This included distributing weapons...

@JDVance1 Calling J6 a “terrorist attack” is just insane. And from 60 Minutes, nothing about the FBI entrapment in Michigan or the fact that the bureau colluded with the media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Time to investigate the corrupt leadership of this organization.

A Russian court on Tuesday hit Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta with a fine for refusing to take down LBGT content.Attacks on the LGBT community are relatively frequent in Russia, where conservative and religious circles take a dim view of the community.

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Every day you read how the “climate crisis” is real, and rapidly getting worse. Humans burning fossil fuels to support out-of-control consumerism have brought the earth to the brink of disaster. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and plagues of every sort are proliferating. Of course, you are feeling all the natural human reactions: fear, dread, not to mention overwhelming guilt at your own role in causing the crisis through the grave sin of enjoying your life. In short, you have entered the state known to the experts as “climate anxiety.” The New York Times, as usual, was way out front...

What if you lost access to your servers overnight? This is what Moscow threatened because of data. After the Ukraine conflict began, many Western technology companies left Russia. This led to a cloud crisis, leaving Russia with only two months of data storage capacity. To alleviate this, the Russian government threatened to seize the servers of those companies that had exited. The case of Russia's cloud problem goes well beyond Ukraine-Russia geopolitics. It has to do with a new era of globalization that has already begun. As the technology revolution continues, countries are being pulled apart from one another. Instead...

CHICAGO, Friday, April 25. A special to the Times, dated Cairo to-day, says that passengers by the Bells of Memphis say that at Savanna they heard heavy firing in the direction of Pittsburgh. The cannonading was brisk, and gradually grew louder, being heard for miles this side of Savanna. The belief was that a general engagement had taken place, and this was strengthened by the fact that on Wednesday significant preparations were made by Gen. Halleck for an attack. Our gunboats on the Tennessee River had effected a passage over the Muscle Shoals, and penetrated as far as Huntsville, Ala.,...

If you want the best brain surgeon to operate on you, or the best pilot to fly your plane, too bad. You'll get the most diverse one instead. Joe Biden is overseeing massive sociological damage. Meritocracy and competence, bulwarks of our society, are being replaced with diversity and equity. Biden has surrendered to the extreme left wing of the Democrat party, which endorses the replacement of meritocracy with race-based criteria for advancement. "If you're black or Pacific Islander or Hispanic, go to the head of the line for a job, a promotion, a place at Harvard," said author David Horowitz....

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." So wrote William Butler Yeats in the wake of the Great War of 1914-1918 that had ravaged the Christian civilization he had known. In France on Sunday, the center held, as President Emmanuel Macron rolled up a crushing 59% to 41% victory in the runoff election against ethno-nationalist Marine Le Pen. Four years ago, Le Pen got 34% in the runoff. And the highest vote that her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, ever received was 18%. While Marine Le Pen lost Sunday, her positions continue to attract converts. So...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 14The Lamb and the 144,000 14 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song...

The "utopian" visions of the weird global elites keep getting creepier. In a rare moment of honesty, a high-profile Democrat revealed the left's vision for governing in the future, and it is just as disturbing as you can imagine. Eric Schmidt is your prototypical coastal elite whose God complex may rival Barack Obama's. The former Google CEO and Hillary Clinton crony shared the horrifying details of America's future when discussing his new book about artificial intelligence. Schmidt explains how a computer program called AlphaZero dominated the previous robotic chess champion, Stockfish. What impresses Schmidt is that the AlphaZero program came...

You've probably heard of the high-flying Big Tech FAANG stocks -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google. Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth is larger than the entire annual output of India, with more than 1 billion people. These companies got so big and profitable so fast that politicians on the left, right and center started accusing them of monopolistic behavior. "Break them up!" shouted Democratic Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar. Some Republicans,...

One of the most insidious initiatives from the left has been the insertion of political factors into investment criteria that govern the allocation of capital. So-called “ESG” (environment, social, governance) criteria for judging the creditworthiness of securities have been embraced by credit rating agencies like Standard and Poors (S&P) in issuing ratings that determine the interest rates that bond issuers must pay when they seek to borrow funds. Bond ratings are supposed to tell investors about the risk they face if they buy a bond, based on quantifiable information and objective factors. Aside from the fact ESG has nothing to...

South Korea has long stood out as a geopolitical anomaly – a rising power curiously punching well below its weight. A long-time US treaty ally, the Northeast Asian nation has at the same time cultivated extremely cordial, if not at times subservient, relations with neighboring China, a top trading partner. Despite being a global economic dynamo and a leading military equipment exporter, South Korea has remained largely marginal in shaping the geopolitical landscape in its own Asian neighborhood. Outgoing President Moon Jae-in’s chief foreign policy focus, if not obsession, has been his largely ineffectual engagement with North Korea, which has...

@SadiqKhan Free speech cannot mean a free pass for hatred. We must not forget the impacts of online hate speech, which fans the flames of prejudice and leads to appalling and tragic real-world violence. Social media companies must do more, not less, to protect their communities.

To crush the enemies of free speech, to see them driven mad before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women, both real and trans. By the time you read this, you’ll already have known for some time that the Twitter board (probably cowed by the prospect of a breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit should it reject a hugely profitable offer for Twitter shareholders) accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter. How the sale ultimately works out remains to be seen. What’s enormously fun, though, is watching the response from leftists. It is detestable, of course, that we are...

Nikki Haley has been busy. The former ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor has spent the past few months not discussing herself but rather conservative candidates running for office with voters across the country. Her goal is to encourage people to vote for candidates she believes best embody the populist conservative coalition. It's a coalition in which she has been active since she first ran for governor of South Carolina in a 2010 primary against four establishment rivals, right at the dawn of the Tea Party movement. "We're traveling all over the country, helping other candidates get...

1952 While steaming at night in formation 700 miles west of the Azores, USS Hobson (DD 464) and USS Wasp (CV 18) collide as Hobson crossed the carriers bow from starboard to port and was struck amidships, breaking her in two. Hobson and 176 of her crew are lost, including her commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. W. J. Tierney.

In the hours after the January 6 Capitol riot, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped into President Donald Trump and vowed to take down far-right candidates who ran in the 2022 midterms, according to a forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin. As the Kentucky Republican was preparing to leave the Capitol in the early morning of January 7, 2021, he pulled Martin aside and spoke briefly about his intentions to quash Trump's influence within the GOP. "He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger," McConnell said of Trump's role on January...

Topline Authorities in Transnistria, a Moscow-backed breakaway region of Moldova that borders Ukraine, reported two explosions on Tuesday morning, the second instance of violence reported in as many days amid fears the region could be dragged into Russia’s war with Ukraine. Transnistria’s interior ministry said the explosions targeted a broadcasting center in the village of Mayak near the border with Ukraine. The blasts knocked down two powerful radio antennae that rebroadcast Russian radio in the region, which is supported by Russia but not recognized internationally, the ministry said in a statement. There were no injuries among employees or local residents,...