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BEIJING -- China is clamping down on the misappropriation of funds inside the national chip industry as its rivalry with the U.S. in semiconductors heats up and an important Communist Party national congress is just a few months away. Authorities have launched a barrage of investigations against semiconductor executives in recent weeks. The white collar busts are happening during the run-up to this fall's twice-a-decade Communist Party congress. The timing suggests that the central leadership is frustrated that China's semiconductor industry is not growing as fast as anticipated. The country's largest state-backed chip fund has become a "hotbed of corruption"...

Al Capone makes a statement on the Chicago massacre Cardinal Al Capone of the Chicago Outfit has issued a statement concerning the suppression of the North Side Institute on Febuary 14th (the St Valentine's Day Mass-acre). Cardinal Capone tries to look inconspicuous. "On February 14th, seven members of the North Side Community communicated to the archdiocese that they had decided to stop breathing and instead bleed to death through certain holes in their bodies. It was their choice to do so." "They were not killed. We did not shoot them. They chose to discontinue altogether." "The community had the...

Why would you chase and lunge at, or otherwise attack, a young man who's carrying a semi-automatic rifle? This is what happened last August 25 in the Kyle Rittenhouse affair, and it's crazy behavior. With respect to at least one of the three men shot in self-defense by Rittenhouse, Joseph Rosenbaum, there may be a logical explanation for such craziness: Rosenbaum really was, clinically speaking, crazy.

Longshot challenger Suraj Patel came out swinging in the Democratic primary debate for the race to represent Manhattan’s Upper West and Upper East sides, saying it’s time to retire septuagenarian Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney. The call for new blood from the 38-year-old came right after Nadler stumbled badly through his own opening statement. “It’s 2022. It’s time to turn the page on 1992,” Patel, 38, said in a swipe at Nadler, 75, and Maloney, 76, during his introductory statement in the debate co-sponsored by NY1 and WNYC. Nadler’s delivery was halting during his initial presentation and he misspoke...

Anne Heche was involved in a fiery car crash on Friday that has left her “severely burned” and “intubated” in the hospital, TMZ reports. The “Vanished” actress, 53, was reportedly driving her blue Mini Cooper down a suburban street in Los Angeles around noon when she crashed into the garage of an apartment complex...

Anne Heche was involved in a wild crash in L.A. Friday, and has been taken away by ambulance in a stretcher. The crash went down just after noon in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles. Witnesses tell TMZ, she was driving a blue Mini Cooper and crashed into the garage of an apartment complex. Residents of the apartment complex tried getting Anne out of the vehicle but she put the car in reverse and then sped off. A short time later, she crashed into a nearby home, igniting a fire. The fire was significant and engulfed the house.

A horrific car crash in Los Angeles, California, left six people dead and sent eight people, including the driver, to the hospital. At approximately 1:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, a black Mercedes-Benz speeding down South La Brea Avenue, going at least 50 mph, ran a red light at Slauson Avenue and crashed into several cars. Some of the cars burst into flames and slammed into a gas station sign on the corner. The crash was caught on a CCTV camera. WARNING: The video is graphic.

VIDEOLast year Arizona's Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs gave an apology for firing a black staffer when she was in the State Senate. Of course, the apology was done for entirely political reasons as the aggrieved party stated.

U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages - on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded - for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided on Friday. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, separated parents of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, testified that followers of Jones harassed them and sent them death threats for years in the false belief that they were lying about their son's death in the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting that killed 20 children and...

The bra, known as the Army Tactical Brassiere, is still in development at the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Solider Center, also known as DEVCOM, in Natick, Massachusetts. If approved by the Army Uniform Board, it will be the first official uniform bra the Army has offered its female soldiers in its history.

Welcome to your worst nightmare- your own armed IRS agent, auditing you year after year. Biden's bill, laughably named the Inflation Reduction Act, includes an $80 billion "investment" in the IRS with nearly $46 billion going to enforcement. That includes the hiring of 87,000 new agents. That's literally an army. Literally. And they will be armed. With real bullets. 5 million of them. Contrary to Biden's assurances, the IRA bill will raise taxes on nearly everyone in 2023 and have barely any impact on inflation. That means year by year with inflation running about 8-10% under Biden you will be...

China on Friday imposed sanctions on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family in response to what the Foreign Ministry described as an “egregious provocation.” Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this week, in what was a highly controversial move. China views the island as part of its territory, but Taiwan has been governed independently since 1949, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. China repeatedly voiced its opposition to Pelosi’s trip to the disputed island, but the U.S. official decided not to cancel her plans. “In disregard of China’s grave concerns and firm opposition, Speaker of the U.S. House...

(CNS News) -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he supported House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) trip to Taiwan and stressed that the trip was “necessary” to “reinforce a relationship between us and Taiwan” and tell China “we’re not going to be bullied.” At the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 2, CNS News asked Sen. Graham, “Should Speaker Pelosi have gone to Taiwan?” “Yeah, I think so,” said Graham. “I really appreciate what she did. I’m glad she went. If she’d backed off, it’d have been a disaster. Her visit was necessary, it reinforces a relationship between us and Taiwan.”

Wyoming’s senior U.S. Senator last week introduced legislation to keep China out of American oil reserves, days after the U.S. agreed to sell nearly one million barrels of stockpiled oil to China. Sen. John Barrasso is the lead sponsor on a bill requiring the U.S. Secretary of Energy not to sell oil to America’s geopolitical foes, or to state-owned groups working with those countries. “The (Energy) Department’s sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to a company owned by China… is inexcusable,” Barrasso wrote in a July 21 letter to Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Energy Secretary.The department on...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky savaged an Amnesty International report that accused his forces of endangering civilians by deliberately setting up bases in residential areas. During his nightly video address to the Ukrainian people on Thursday, he accused Amnesty International of seeking to "shift responsibility from the aggressor to the victim." The Amnesty report, titled "Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians," was released on Thursday. It accused the Ukrainian military of having "put civilians in harm's way," while resisting the Russian invasion "by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas." Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general, accused Ukrainian...

The FCC may have just advanced the industrialization of space. Commissioners have voted in favor of an inquiry that will explore in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM). The move would both help officials understand the demands and risks of current in-space production technology while facilitating new projects. This could help companies build satellites and stations in orbit, for instance, while finding new ways to deal with growing volumes of space debris. The vote helps open a new "Space Innovation" docket at the FCC. It also comes two days after the regulator updated its rules to create more breathing room for...

For calling out child sexualization. The account for his company is still up. But Lindsay has done more than any other single person to outline what we are dealing with. He was mass reported by Trans-actvists.

A photo tweeted by a famous French physicist supposedly of Proxima Centauri by the James Webb Space Telescope was actually a slice of chorizo. Étienne Klein, research director at France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission posted the photo last week, claiming it showed the closest star to the sun. “This level of detail,” Klein wrote. “A new world is revealed day after day.” But a few days later, Klein revealed that the photo he tweeted was not the work of the world’s most powerful space telescope, as he had in fact tweeted a slice of chorizo sausage. “According to...

An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has filed a federal lawsuit accusing two Columbus police officers of using excessive force against him while he was working in his official capacity. James Burk, a 16-year veteran of the ATF, went to a house in the 3300 block of Edgebrook Drive near Dublin to take a shotgun from someone who allegedly wasn’t allowed to have a gun, even do it wasn’t confirmed by the police if the man wasn’t allowed to have a gun ! Nothing else was reported about the ATF agent’s mission. When Burk knocked on...

Fox News' decision to ignore or shun former President Donald Trump is "not surprising," roving media critic and former New York City Commissioner Brian Andersson says.Last Friday, The New York Times reported Fox News has decided to downplay Trump and has not had him on-air for over 100 days."I would say they are shunning him," Andersson told Newsmax's "John Bachman Now," predicting Fox News will very occasionally have Trump on air."Don't be surprised if he's back on this week just to show he's not banned, but he's effectively banned."Andersson said he was shocked Fox News would cancel Trump, as he...