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A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are attempting large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies and infrastructure — with hackers of one company claiming to be able to target users of Microsoft, Apple and Google. The cache — containing more than 570 files, images and chat logs — offers an unprecedented look inside the operations of one of the firms that Chinese government agencies hire for on-demand, mass data-collecting operations. The files — posted to GitHub last week and deemed credible by cybersecurity experts, although the source...

Christendom is a word I view as designed by secularists of the world to encompass their misunderstood view of what comprises True Christianity. Under this misunderstanding, all who claim to be Christians are, according to this worldly definition, Christians. All fall under the term Christendom. There are many sects, faiths, and religious systems that the secularists include within their favored term to encapsulate, to one degree or the other, religious belief in and spiritual embrace of the figure called Jesus Christ. These are each and every one false. In my own view of what it means to be a Christian,...

Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on its website, the company’s leadership announced this week. CEO Bruce Dixon said, “It is no longer cost effective to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” in a memo sent to employees and shared with several media outlets Thursday. Vice is the latest in a slew of digital media companies that have been forced to lay off staff as a cost-cutting measure in an increasingly tough digital advertising market, increased fragmentation across the media landscape and fast-changing news consumption habits.

A woman has claimed her DoorDash order came with a free side of fat-shaming — in the form of a passive aggressive note. A TikTok user who goes by Marina, 26, blasted the food delivery service after she found a personal note in the bag of junk food her girlfriend had ordered, which read “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” alongside an apple. In the clip, which has been viewed over 10,000 times, Marina said her girlfriend — who didn’t want to be on camera — has digestive issues and was told to gain weight. So, she ordered...

Brandi Glanville is accusing Bravo head honcho Andy Cohen of sexually harassing her, according to a scathing letter her attorneys sent NBC, Shed Media and Warner Bros. and obtained by Page Six. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 51, claims the “Watch What Happens Live” host, 55, allegedly sent her a video in 2022, in which he appeared “obviously inebriated.” Cohen allegedly “boasted” in the clip that he wanted to “sleep with another Bravo star” while “thinking” of Glanville, per the letter, and allegedly invited the former “Housewife” to watch him engage in the sexual act via FaceTime. The...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Board of Education made a decision Thursday on CPS school resource officers. In a unanimous vote, Chicago's Board of Education approved a plan to remove police officers from Chicago Public Schools, starting next school year. Dozens of students who want to see police out of their schools rallied outside CPS headquarters Thursday morning. CPS students from "Cops Out CPS" gathered to call on the Board of Education to remove police from schools and re-invest more than $10 million spent on police in school programs and resources. Many students said the student resource officers are costly, ineffective...

One Israeli was murdered and six were wounded in a shooting attack by three terrorists at a checkpoint at the town of Ma’ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, on Thursday morning. The wounded, including three in serious condition, were evacuated to hospitals in nearby Jerusalem. The police said three Palestinians approached the A'zaim checkpoint, between Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem, and opened automatic gunfire at Israelis in their cars who were waiting in traffic before the checkpoint. Two terrorists were shot and killed by nearby security forces, while the third, at first, fled before being shot shortly after when police searched and located...

Britain’s House of Commons was thrown into chaos last night, and its Speaker is under heavy attack for violating arcane procedural customs having to do with amendments on “Opposition Day.” I won’t try to untangle the procedural questions; what is relevant is what caused the House to be tied up in knots.Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was trying to save Labour members from potentially having to vote against a resolution by the Scottish Independence Party that “called for an immediate ceasefire [in Gaza] and condemned the ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians.” Why was Hoyle trying to avert the necessity to vote on that...

DONETSK, February 22. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops killed wounded foreign mercenaries who were unable to leave Avdeyevka on their own, Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, told TASS. "The bodies of foreign mercenaries were found in Avdeyevka. Apparently, these people were first seriously wounded and then shot with guns," the advisor said, adding that most of those found had blast injuries. Kimakovsky pointed out that the bodies were found on the outskirts of the city in the direction of the settlement of Lastochkino. According to him, this rules out the possibility that the mercenaries were killed...

Newsletter reveals corporate arrogance behind Mouse House's fallFew would deny Disney is in serious trouble.Stock woes. Box office flops (“Wish,” “Haunted Mansion,” “The Marvels“). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, “Star Wars,” the MCU).There’s a cottage industry of alternative media outlets documenting Disney’s decline. - Nerdrotic - The Critical Drinker - The Quartering - Film Threat What went wrong? The company’s hard-Left turn, for starters. Disney declared war on popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pushed a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and embraced DEI principles behind closed doors.

Joe Biden is using the presidency to turn nearly the entire federal government into a DNC voter registration machine ahead of the 2024 election, with a special focus on mass registering “voters of color.” The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project revealed in a thread on X that “the rigging of the 2024 election is well underway,” as “Biden has tasked the entirety of the federal government to work directly with Democrat Get-Out-The-Vote operations” – which are now giving instructions to federal employees as they use taxpayer dollars to hit their goal of registering 3 million new Democrat voters per year. The...

"Liberalism moves, therefore, toward radical individualism and the corruption of standards that movement entails. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified... Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos."Those near-prophetic words were written nearly three decades ago by the late great Robert Bork in his landmark book,...

A link to the coverage of the landing due at 6:24pm (EST) Also here is a Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Pro-life researchers whose studies related to abortion were pulled by Sage Journals on account of alleged failures to disclose "conflicts of interest" have announced that they are taking legal action. Lead researcher and Charlotte Lozier Institute Vice President James Studnicki accused the publication of employing "blatant double standards," pointing out that while it went after him and his team for their not going far enough in divulging their ties to pro-life organizations, it has not employed the same level of scrutiny to abortion-related researchers linked to pro-choice groups. In a statement to The College Fix, the Charlotte Lozier Institute confirmed...

Hours after multiple staffers expressed concern that Vice Media was considering shuttering or gutting its flagship news website following the brand’s sale to a consortium of its former bankruptcy lenders, the CEO of the company weighed in with a memo (below) detailing sweeping change. Vice Media chief Bruce Dixon confirmed that “several hundred” staffers would be laid off and “we will no longer publish content on vice.com” as the company transitions to a “studio model” to sell its content to other outlets. Earlier in the day, editors from different parts of Vice met with their staffs and informed them that...

Russia's President Putin has promised sanctions against the U.S. Department of Justice personnel. President Putin promised sanctions when Julian Paul Assange is murdered by the DOJ upon his extradition from the UK. Putin based his promise on the given history of the DOJ's killing prisoners who proved embarrassing to the DOJ and the elite of the government (Epstein, Bolger, etc.). The sanctions are expected to be imposed within a couple of weeks at the latest based upon the UK's history of folding to the U.S.'s demands.

ATLANTA – Legislation that would create a state council to set standards for books that could be banned from public school libraries as obscene cleared a Georgia Senate committee late Wednesday. “This bill is about making sure our public school libraries are not places for kids to be exposed to sexually explicit materials,” Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Buford, chairman of the Senate Education and Youth Committee and the bill’s chief sponsor, said before the vote. Senate Bill 394 would create the Georgia Council of Library Materials Standards, whose members would be appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House,...

Judge Arthur Engoron has rejected a bid from former President Donald Trump's legal team to delay payment of the roughly $355 million in fines and $100 million in interest stemming from New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James's civil fraud case. "You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay... I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights," Engoron wrote to Trump attorney Clifford Robert in an email CBS obtained. Trump on Wednesday asked Engoron for a 30-day extension to pay the sum, asserting that "[g]iven that the court-appointed monitor continues to...

A New York judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has denied his legal team’s request to avoid paying a $355 million penalty in the case. Trump lawyers had asked Judge Arthur Engoron to delay enforcement of the payment by 30 days to allow time for an "orderly post-judgement process." James said Monday she was prepared to seize former President Donald Trump's assets if he is unable to pay the massive judgment handed down in his civil fraud case. Trump's promised appeal is likely to halt collection of his penalty while the process plays out.

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