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News that the Pentagon was tracking a Chinese communist spy balloon hovering over the United States this week is raising concerns about the extent of China’s espionage efforts against America and its citizens.But just how far is the regime willing to go in order to spy on and undermine the United States?The espionage efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, go much broader and deeper than mere sensor balloons. Such efforts include human intelligence gathering, transnational repression schemes, cyber theft and hacking, intellectual property theft, and even the harvesting of Americans’ genetic material.In...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement Monday that the Big Apple is dropping its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public employees—but also said that the nearly 2,000 people fired for refusing the vax will not automatically get their jobs back and instead will have to reapply.It’s exactly this kind of capricious and cruel response that has made so many Americans distrustful of COVID policies from the Federal Government to the local level.Adams tweeted out the news:With more than 96 percent of city workers and more than 80 percent of New Yorkers having received their primary #COVID19...

The New York Post reported on this action today by John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer store repairman, whose life changed late one Friday in 2019 when Hunter stumbled into his store drunk and high and dropped off his laptop computers. Now John Paul Mac Isaac’s are threatening legal action against Hunter Biden for “knowingly using false information” to smear Mac Isaac to report an alleged crime. Hunter Biden and his attorneys may have broken the law by using false information last week to report that his laptop had been “stolen”, claim lawyers for John Paul Mac Isaac —...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he is “tired of caving” on the debt limit and is dialing up the pressure on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) not to swoop in to strike a last-minute deal with President Biden. Scott’s full-court press on McConnell is an extension of their battle last year over the leadership of the Senate GOP conference, which McConnell won in a closed-door leadership election in November. Scott tried to oust McConnell from the top Senate Republican leader’s spot after Republicans failed to win the Senate majority in November and helped lead the fight against passing the...

The narrative about "free, safe, secure elections" changed 180 degrees since November 2022. Almost nobody is crazy enough to say America has free, fair elections. After Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, the most wimpish George Bush RINO hesitates to say "elections are fair." Since our team processed billions of election roll "snapshots" taken since 2020, we run the largest election database in the world. We concluded that U.S. elections are rigged by both parties, and they are rigged with the active help of election officials or their acquiescence.

For all of New York Mayor Eric Adams's whining about migrants rolling into his sanctuary city, inflicting unbearable costs onto taxpayers, he's quietly decided to play the same game the Texas border cities are playing. He's sending the migrants to someplace else. According to the New York Post: Disgruntled migrants fed up with the Big Apple’s crime and grime are taking off to the Great White North — on bus rides paid for by New York taxpayers, The Post has learned. National Guard soldiers have been helping distribute tickets at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan to migrants who...

We are sadly in the full swing of award show season, and Sunday night the Grammys held their annual bacchanalia and anti-fashion extravaganza. The event was capped off with the devil performing live onstage. Now, I was under the mistaken impression that the Grammys was about music awards. So naturally, you would expect musicians to show up. Nope, the evening’s tone was set when Dylan Mulvaney, who is Joe Biden’s favorite “woman” (not that Joe knows what a woman is anymore) showed up to show off his new surgically altered feminized face. And the comments are just gushing and raving...

Everything has changed in Washington since the Republicans won back the House, and Comer, as chairman of the Oversight Committee, is champing at the bit to hold the Biden administration accountable. That includes getting to the bottom of the Biden family corruption as revealed in Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, and elsewhere, using the awesome power of Congress. “This is not about Hunter Biden,” Comer said last week in a broad-ranging interview with The Post. “It’s about Joe Biden.” He aims to “prove Joe benefited financially and prove he made decisions against the best interests of the United States.” Comer is...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is now recommending charges against the man accused of beating a shark with a hammer. A FWC spokesman confirmed its recommendation to News 6 Thursday afternoon. The agency has not yet said what charges the man could face, but a news release from FWC is expected sometime on Thursday. News 6 has reached out to the state attorney’s office to see if prosecutors have decided to pursue charges against the man. We are still waiting to hear back. News 6 has decided not to identify the man accused...

Defence sources warn Britain will be unable "credibly" to offer as many troops as NATO allies would expect to a major new force structure being drawn up by the alliance to bolster its defences. At the same time, the sources said a "refresh" of UK defence policy - that was meant to inform the spending plans of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - could be delayed until after the March budget because an initial draft failed to reflect sufficiently the transformed security environment in Europe, where a land war is raging. "It is not very joined up...

"They are a threat to our democracy" Twitter owner Elon Musk says that the US State Department's "Global Engagement Center" (GEC) is the "worst offender" in the US government when it comes to censorship and media manipulation... The FBI making arrests following an operation involving undercover activity by the agency... In the midst of record levels of inflation in the UK that exceed 10 percent several local councils have been given special permission to raise taxes... In Germany this evening thousands protesting government policies from COVID to the economy to Russia... In France's National Assembly the debate on pension reform...

Russia plans to launch a new large-scale offensive within the next 10 days.Source: Financial Times with reference to an unnamed adviser to the Armed Forces of UkraineDetails: The Financial Times writes that Kyiv has obtained "very solid intelligence of intent" by Russia to launch a new attack.The Russian offensive will likely aim to capture the entire Donbas region and may begin in the west of Luhansk Oblast, near the cities of Kreminna and Lyman, where Russia has been assembling forces for several weeks.The Financial Times also notes that Russia is building up its troops in the south of Donetsk Oblast,...

NORAD, the Pentagon‘s command defending North America, was tracking the Chinese surveillance balloon well before it entered U.S. or Canadian airspace, its commander said Monday, noting that at about 200 feet tall and carrying a payload the size of a jet airliner, it would have been hard for trackers to miss. But Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of NORAD, said that as the suspected spy surveillance craft made its way across Alaska and Canada before crossing back into U.S. territory last week, there wasn’t much the military could do without a presidential order to act, given there was no...

[Catholic Caucus] We now have the document that illegally attempts to strongarm bishops against invoking Canon 87 to allow TLMs to continue in parish churches.To be clear: As the guardians and promoters of the liturgy of their diocese, bishops have EVERY right to invoke Canon 87 under TC.

It’s hard to be a proud American these days. We can still admire our great history, our high standard of living, and our incredible landscapes, but none of that changes the grim state of the nation. Walking around in an airport or a mall can make any conservative feel like a stranger in a strange land. I hear constantly about right-wing students at elite universities and law schools who think America is over and want something new. They want to tear things down and start again. Out with the old, in with the new. That may have some appeal in...

@julie_kelly2 And can any Posse Comitatus experts explain how Milley didn’t violate this law—repeatedly? He was extensively involved in assessing and even attempting to manage local law enforcement response on January 6. Why is he asking these agencies if they wanted military assistance? Transcript...

Washington D.C., Feb 4, 2023 / 10:00 am Congress will begin investigating what Republicans call the “weaponization” of the federal government against pro-life advocates and Christians next Thursday, according to announcements from leading House members. After a House vote authorized the creation of the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Republicans have said they are committed to providing “oversight” and “accountability” to federal agencies that have been targeting parents, anti-abortion protesters, and Christians. The investigation will operate under the House Judiciary Committee and be chaired by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan. A primary focus of the investigation will...

The Holy Father emphasized that the Catechism teaches that people with same-sex attraction should not be marginalized.On his return flight from South Sudan on Sunday, Pope Francis said that God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction. When asked by a journalist what the Pope would say to families in Congo and South Sudan who reject their children because they are homosexual, Pope Francis responded that the Catechism teaches that people with same-sex attraction should not be marginalized. “People with homosexual tendencies are children of God. God loves them. God accompanies them,” the Pope said during an in-flight press conference...

The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) released a statement this weekend denouncing China’s spy balloon over the United States as an intolerable offense against international law and sovereignty. “Such actions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government contravene international law, breach the airspace of other countries, and violate their sovereignty,” MOFA said. “The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) notes that these instances should not be tolerated by the civilized international community. The CCP regime should immediately cease conduct of this kind that encroaches on other countries and causes regional instability,” the statement concluded. Taiwan is naturally very...

Pope Francis once again championed the notion of 'fraternity' through interreligious action in various ecumenical speeches over the weekend.JUBA, South Sudan (LifeSiteNews) –– Both in his ecumenical “pilgrimage of peace” and in his message for the International Day of Human Fraternity, Pope Francis recently called for religions to “increasingly intertwine” in the “service of brotherhood.” Over the past few days, Pope Francis has once more renewed his oft-spoken calls for increased interreligious dialogue and activity, reawakening concerns that leading prelates have made in the wake of such statements over the years. Religions must ‘increasingly intertwine’ to promote ‘fraternity’The first came...