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Pakistani police have arrested a Chinese citizen on blasphemy charges after he allegedly insulted Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, authorities say. Under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws, a conviction for the offence carries the death penalty. Police identified the man only as Mr Tian from China and said he was arrested on Sunday night, hours after hundreds of residents and labourers working on a dam project blocked a key highway and rallied to demand his arrest. The rally took place in the town of Komela - located close to the site of the Dasu Dam, the biggest hydropower project in Pakistan...

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(Warning: The Following May Be Offensive) Having grown up with too much pornography in the picture, the notion of a lesbian was inevitably associated with extreme sex acts I found repulsive early in my life less so as the porn proliferated and I consumed it. In the religious subculture at the university I went to I remember a woman resembling Rachel Maddow was in the picture... I've learned over the decades that my lesbian friends and acquaintances have stories of being hurt including sexual harm done to them. Child abuse is also a part of their experience including sexual abuse....

Google released Bard in March, an artificial intelligence tool touted as ChatGPT's rival. Just weeks into this public experiment, Bard has already defied expectations and ethical boundaries. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted that there is a degree of impenetrability regarding generative AI chatbots' reasoning. "There is an aspect of this which we call ... a 'black box.' You know, you don't fully understand," said Pichai. "You can't quite tell why it said this or why it got wrong. We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better...

@paulsperry_ NEW: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn't just support anti-Semite Farrakhan in college but also embraced Marxism, demonizing "this country's capitalist system" & advocating for "the redistribution of wealth" for "collective ends." Democrats nominated Jeffries for Speaker

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is a brave man. Years ago, his network went woke. ESPN, which is owned by Disney, began injecting race into just about every discussion of every sport, pushing gun control, pushing the left’s agenda where it clearly doesn’t and never will belong. Game highlights and analysis took a back seat to political pontificating. Smith didn’t publicly resist that, but he didn’t really go along either. He’s never really seemed interested in wokeness. He has frequently appeared on Fox with Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters, which is usually two strikes against anyone who wants to avoid being...

@JustStop_Oil This time last year, #JustStopOil supporters blocked key oil terminals at 10 sites in the UK, stopping oil supply to London and the South East. In 7 days, we return to block roads in the capital until this government halts all new oil and gas projects.

From Russia smears to fake news to a lawsuit accusing former President Trump of rape, the money behind some of the dirtiest Dem tactics come from an obscure Big Tech billionaire.When E. Jean Carroll first accused Trump of rape, the media quickly backed away. It didn’t help that she told media outlets that “most people think of rape as being sexy” and “it’s the responsibility of the woman, too. It’s equal. Men can’t control themselves.” But after a fitful attempt at using the story to sell books, Carroll vanished and then returned with a lawsuit.In a deposition last year, Carroll...

The pandemic was probably the result of a "research-related incident" at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a lengthy US Senate report concluded. It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the "presumption of accuracy". The 300-page report, released to Axios, was the full version of a 35-page summary published in October by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. It said: "The Covid-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. "New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. "However, the hypothesis...

An Illinois state senator defended the Chicago "Teen Takeover" that unfolded Saturday night and left multiple boys shot, claiming it was simply "a mass protest against poverty and segregation." Robert Peters, who represents parts of Chicago, responded to the chaotic scene that saw hundreds of local youth smashing car windows, jumping on surrounding vehicles, and firing guns in the streets. Rather than condemn the chaos that left tourists running in fear, Peters suggested it was a "mass protest." "Since I’m a glutton for punishment and I’m sure I’m gonna get the most unhinged, crime weirdo replies but: I would look...

Bob Nardelli, the former CEO of Home Depot, is warning about more bankruptcies hitting the U.S. economy, and blames lawmakers for their delay in coming to terms regarding the country’s debt ceiling.“I think we’re going to see a lot of bankruptcies. Like Bed, Bath, and Beyond. We got Walmart not only laying people off but closing stores. We got Accenture laying people off. We got Amazon closing distribution centers. So, I think there’s a tremendous-mixed message,” Nardelli said in an April 14 interview with Fox. At present, the “complexity” of the American economy is “different than anything I have seen...

Pete Buttigieg, our Transportation Secretary, hates roads.He has a point, though: roads are racist. They hate Black and Indigenous people. They hate Black people so much that they kill them at higher rates than White people.I think Ku Klux Krashsites would have worked better but alas, no edit button. 😢— Gordon "Soros-Backed" Kushner (@Gordon_Kushner) April 17, 2023Racism. Is there nothing it can’t do?Some wag on Twitter noted that the rambling discourse from Mayor Pete was so absurd that even Al Sharpton appeared not to buy it.Perhaps, but Sharpton always looks sour and I won’t pretend to be able to read...

Another day another store going out of business in Portland. Last week I wrote about a coffee shop closing a downtown location because of rising crime and problems with violent street people. Today, outdoor retailer REI announced it was closing its only Portland store because of increased crime and theft in the area.In a letter to REI members, the company cited concerns over safety and an increase in crime over the last few years as reasons for the closure.“The safety of our employees, members and customers is always our number one priority. In recent years, Portland has been dealing with...

There is a war on food.No, that is not an overstatement. It is a fact. A fact for which the evidence is so overwhelming that only a liberal could deny it.You already know about the war on beef…all meat, in fact. That’s the reasoning behind the push to normalize eating insects.There is a war on farming as well. What do you think those Dutch farmers are protesting about? The forced closures of farms, which is justified by the effects of farming on global warming.Now we are being told by the Left that it’s time to go to war against rice....

Welp, this just got interesting.The Pentagon, on Monday, warned that Joe Biden’s overreaching so-called “green energy” plans pose national security risks, as reported by Fox News. So now what’s a fossil-fuel-loathing, EV-loving president to do?According to Fox, the Department of Defense (DoD) recently warned the White House that the administration’s ridiculous offshore wind farm development goals could significantly impede U.S. Naval operations. Pentagon spokesperson Kelly Flynn told Fox News Digital:The initial assessment performed by DoD found complicated compatibility challenges with wind turbines near Navy and Air Force training. The DoD continues to work with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,...

RedState has reported extensively on the investigation of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee into the questionable business dealings of Hunter Biden and numerous Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) generated in relation to them. As noted by the Oversight Committee in January:According to media reports, more than 150 of Hunter Biden and the Biden network’s international business transactions have generated suspicious activity reports (SARs) by U.S. banks for further review by the Treasury Department to determine if there is illegal activity or a threat to national security. The Treasury Department’s longstanding practice was to provide these reports to Congress, but the...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) will file a privileged resolution on Monday to force President Joe Biden to reveal how many American troops are deployed in Ukraine, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. Gaetz’s resolution comes after a leak of classified documents from the Pentagon indicated there were at least 29 Department of Defense personnel there last month, including 14 U.S. special operations forces. Biden has repeatedly implied that he would not send U.S. troops to Ukraine to take part in the war, going as far as to say that would be “World War III.” “The Biden Administration and other allied countries...

The woman, surnamed Sun, fell during a flying-trapeze performance in the city of Suzhou in central Anhui province. Footage shared online shows the gymnast falling on to a hard stage after a routine went wrong with her acrobatic partner, who is also her husband. She was taken to hospital where efforts by doctors to save her life failed. The popular news website The Paper reported that she leaves behind two children. Officials say an investigation is under way into the incident. According to The Paper, Ms Sun and her husband, surnamed Zhang, had worked together for many years and had...

COLUMBUS, Ohio. (WSYX) - A family from Columbus, Ohio is dealing with a horrific tragedy. Their 13-year-old son, Jacob, died after he overdosed on an over-the-counter medicine. The family says their son was trying to copy a TikTok challenge. “I am going to do everything I can to try to make sure another child doesn’t go through it,” Jacob’s grandmother, Dianna Stevens, said.

A 3D animated short film about not too distant but a dystopian future. It speculates on the potential consequences of the infamous Great Reset, medical tyranny, woke culture, and green agenda. Everything, that World Economic Forum (WEF) is planning for us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkepoLUZfs