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It started with soprano Anna Netrebko. In March, the superstar failed to condemn the war in Ukraine in terms explicit enough to satisfy Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb. It did not matter that reciting the Met’s required denunciation in coercive conditions would likely be false and worthless. It did not matter that critics within Russia, where Ms. Netrebko remains a citizen, can now be punished with up to 15 years imprisonment for criticizing the government. It did not matter that her family members in Russia could be made to suffer if she complied with the Met’s diktat. It did...

Podcast icon Tim Pool slapped leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard for making “false and misleading statements” about his website. Pool took to Twitter to blast NewsGuard for its sloppy work: “News Guard has had to issue several corrections already on their false and misleading statements about Timcast.com.” In addition, Pool said the firm “fabricated a quote from me and they have not issued a correction notice in violation of their own correction policy.” NewsGuard’s label, which rates Timcast.com with a 82/100, rebuked the website for allegedly not gathering and presenting information “responsibly.” Talk about irony.

- The Washington Times - Wednesday, August 10, 2022 President Biden said Wednesday’s Labor Department figures showing unchanged price increases for July and a cooling annual inflation rate offer proof that his economic plan “is working.” Last month’s annual inflation rate of 8.5% is still elevated, but lower than the 41-year high of 9.1% reached in June. “Today we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July,” Mr. Biden said in remarks at a bill-signing ceremony at the White House. “When you couple that with last week’s booming jobs report of 520,000 jobs created last...

The FBI’s raid of his (Trumps) Mar-a-Lago home represents an unforgivable politicization of our justice system. The proof rests in the peaceful, undisturbed abodes of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Comey, Stefan Halper, Rodney Joffe and every other partisan the FBI investigated without violating the sanctuary of their homes.......America should see the Bureau’s raid as an affront to equal justice under the law and the weaponization of the DOJ against its political enemies. Against this two-pronged approach to justice, Americans need not lean conservative or support Trump to spot the scandal. And Americans need not care about politics...

A Port Townsend woman has been permanently banned from the Mountain View Pool on Blaine Street after she confronted a transgender YMCA employee in the facility’s changing rooms and refused to leave the property until pool staff called the police. Since the incident, protests and subsequent counter-protests have occurred over the past week outside Mountain View Pool, which is managed and operated by the Olympic Peninsula YMCA. And with a spate of harassing and disturbing phones calls and emails — most coming from out of the county — YMCA officials decided to close the Mountain View Pool and the YMCA’s...

I just read that there were Secret Service agents present at the time of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.I also read that a warrant was never produced.What was the SS supposed to do . . . who has the power to do what at a time like this ?

House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to Facebook Wednesday to shame those Republicans remaining quiet “while Democrats in Washington are abusing their power[.]” The McCarthy post comes in the wake of Monday night’s outrageous and unprecedented raid of former President Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago. The next day the feds seized Rep. Scott Perry’s (R-PA) cellphone.

Rachel Maddow called the raid on Trump both astonishing and inevitable.

The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) decreased 2.0 points in June to 62.8, its second-lowest reading in a decade, according to their latest report. Surveyed consumers continue to express pessimism about homebuying conditions, with only 17% (down from 20%) of respondents reporting it’s a good time to buy a home, while the percentage of consumers who believe it’s a “Good Time to Sell” fell from 68% to 67% this month.

The global drive to replace fossil fuels with climate-friendly energy alternatives has powered demand for rare earth minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines, with major U.S. companies importing rare earths from Asia. In Myanmar, the process of mining these rare earths has produced environmental damage and human rights abuses, an Associated Press investigation found. Chinese firms took advantage of the exploding rare earths industry until the government in 2012 tightened regulations on domestic mining, both to prevent deforestation from the mines and maintain Chinese reserves to help it stay competitive against the U.S., the investigation, dated Aug....

The galactic supernova remnant G261.9+5.5. (Wasim Raja/CSIRO; Pascal Elah/Pawsey) Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australia's newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope observations, including a highly detailed image of a supernova remnant. The very high data rates and the enormous data volumes from new-generation radio telescopes such as ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) need highly capable software running on supercomputers. This is where the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre comes into play, with a newly launched supercomputer called Setonix – named after Western Australia's favorite animal, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus). ASKAP, which...

By some estimates, there are over 100,000 federal laws and regulations that carry criminal penalties. It’s a confusing and tangled mess. So it would have been almost impossible for Obama to not have broken at least one of them, even accidentally, when he was president. Why didn’t Trump investigate that? Why didn’t he send the FBI to raid Obama’s residence? It’s because Trump is a patriot and a gentleman.

Unvaccinated Canadians were able to take a domestic flight once again on June 20, but for some, the damage had already been done, after having missed key life moments due to the vaccine mandate. Not being there for a loved one in times of need, missing a funeral, and couples living across the border not being able to see each other are some of the stories heard by The Epoch Times. A review of the court documents pertaining to four lawsuits challenging the travel mandate shed light on the government’s rationale for not allowing compassionate exemptions for unvaccinated Canadians to...

Former President Donald Trump “probably” will be indicted on criminal charges along with officials in his White House as part of a Justice Department investigation of efforts to reverse the 2020 election results nationally, ex-Attorney General Eric Holder said in an interview Thursday. But Holder suggested that before that happens, Trump is more likely to first face possible criminal charges from the Georgia state prosecutor who is investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to undo President Joe Biden’s win there in 2020. Holder, who led the Justice Department during the Obama administration, made those predictions during an interview with...

Spending time on Twitter can be illuminating. Never have I seen so much spamming going on from the left all about how Trump "stole" classified documents. You could call it the "Crapper Caper." I have repeatedly pointed out that the President can declassify anything he chooses. But it's not about that. It's about something very different. Trump and his lawyers were cooperating with the National Archives and had already returned 15 boxes of materials. Than came a June meeting: Trump's attorneys were present at that meeting and the sources say the former president himself stopped in to say hello for...

From the early days of the pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been trying to hold U.S. public health agencies accountable on many issues, including why the agencies censored early treatment options for COVID-19, pushed vaccine mandates, and demonstrated a lack of integrity and transparency involving the vaccine data and reporting. After conducting two years of oversight, Johnson said that the U.S. medical system has been compromised by money from Big Pharma. “We have a corrupt medical system in this country,” Johnson said in a recent interview for NTD’s “Capitol Report” program. “From the pharmaceutical companies down to the federal...

(Dr Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History) In the case of future catastrophe, it's often said cockroaches will be the last lifeform left standing on Earth. But there's another, more mysterious bug living in the deep that could give roaches a run for their money. A group of football-sized isopods have been roaming the seafloor like giant, blown-up roly-poly bugs for 200 or 300 million years, even through the dinosaur extinction event. One of the largest living species today, Bathynomus giganteus, can be found at depths of more than 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). It was first caught off the Gulf...

Researchers identified and synthesized a small molecule that could be a more accessible and effective alternative to an antibody that is successfully used to treat a range of cancers. A small molecule that could be a more accessible and effective alternative to an antibody that is successfully used to treat a range of cancers has been identified and synthesized by scientists at Tel Aviv University and the University of Lisbon. The results of the study were published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. Behind the groundbreaking development is an international team of researchers. They were led by Prof. Ronit...

Eric Trump revealed FBI agents refused to hand over the search warrant for their raid on Mar-a-Lago and kicked an attorney off the property in a new, incisive account of the Monday operation at the Florida estate. Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, the former president's son said the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off – but they refused. The bureau, he said, also brought safe crackers in to break into his father's safe, and he slammed the investigators for rummaging former first lady Melania's wardrobe and searching through clothing. He called the raid...

Add fighting cancer to the list of Joe Biden’s broken promises in the Democrats’ new big government socialist, tax and spend bill. A University of Chicago analysis estimated that the total reduction in research and development into cancer therapies caused by the bill would by nine times higher than the increase proposed by President Biden’s so-called Cancer Moonshot. This study also projected that this $663 billion reduction in research and development would lead to 135 fewer drugs and treatments reaching patients through 2039. A study from Vital Transformation took a different approach, estimating the impact today if the Democrats’ price...