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A ninth US telecom firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and telephone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said on Friday. Officials from the administration of US President Joe Biden this month said that at least eight telecommunications companies, as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon. US Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technologies Anne Neuberger on Friday told reporters that a...

In Trump ‘45, the President had a showdown with the Tennessee Valley Authority over 200 American jobs that TVA had switched to H1Bs.. In the run-up to Christmas, TVA fired these 200 Americans - and had them train their foreign replacements on the way out. They did this despite the fact that TVA is (1) a government agency; (2) founded to improve the material station of poor Americans, and (3) manages critical energy infrastructure for a large swath of the country. My team and I proposed a plan to President Trump to reinstate the terminated American workers. Because the President...

This week many of the same old names and faces as New Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced his cabinet Monday. Emmanuel Macron loyalists Sebastien Lecornu and Stephane Sejourne remaining in place as Defense and Foreign ministers... In another sign of declining French influence in Africa Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko announcing the closure of foreign military bases 'in the very near future'. This would mean an end to the French military presence in Senegal. French military forces in recent years kicked out of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger just days ago leaving a based in Chad... As far as protests...

Feb 04, 2015 About 500 IT jobs are cut at utility through layoffs and voluntary departures Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs. The employees are upset and say they can’t understand how H-1B guest workers can be used to replace them. The IT organization’s “transition effort” is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with “another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily,” SCE said in a statement. The “transition,” which began in...

Early treatment of pediatric Crohn's disease with anti-tumor necrosis factor medications can substantially reduce the risk of perianal fistulas, a particularly debilitating complication of Crohn's disease. Researchers confirmed this using prospective data. Around 40,000 children in the United States suffer from Crohn's disease. Around 1 in 3 will develop perianal fistulas. Perianal fistulas are tunnels that develop near the anus. Standard treatment for perianal fistulas involves anti-TNF drugs at higher doses than would be prescribed before complications begin. There's also no guarantee that treatment can completely solve the problem. Around 70% of such patients require at least one surgical procedure....

There’s a raging debate on X right now about H1B visas and Vivek Ramaswamy is getting slammed for suggesting American culture is bad and thus can’t product high level talent that top tech companies want.Let’s start back from the beginning:THE HILL – Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-elect Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” are defending the tech industry’s reliance on foreign-born engineers as the incoming Trump administration prepares to crack down on immigration.Musk and Ramaswamy both pointed to a lack of engineers stateside.“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA...

Earlier this year, Rep. James E. Clyburn met President Joe Biden at the White House to deliver a stern message: Biden had to find a way to revitalize his flagging campaign. Clyburn, who had been pivotal to Biden’s 2020 victory, also made a confession about his own long-standing belief that substance is more important than style in politics. “I have come to the conclusion in recent days that I’m wrong about that,” the South Carolina Democrat, 84, remembers telling Biden. “The new environment that we currently live in — style seems to carry the day more than substance.” “Your style,”...

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In my first post in this series, I introduced the topic of chlorine dioxide as a therapeutic within its “political” context, not scientific. After a cursory introduction regarding its safety along with a few citations of its efficacy, I highlighted the regulatory, media, and judicial attacks against any who manufacture, recommend and/or sell chlorine dioxide for medicinal purposes via oral ingestion. A key point I brought attention to is the bizarre prohibition against “oral ingestion” that “they” are trying to block at all costs (despite studies of both oral and IV administration showing little to no toxicity and the fact...

Political commentator Tucker Carlson revealed one of his children suffered from a vaccine injury in an interview released Friday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer, Aaron Siri. Carlson was “shocked and revolted” as he and Siri discussed the use of aborted fetal tissue in vaccines, which prompted the former Fox News host to share his child’s resulting health issue from vaccination.👀 Tucker is Horrified to Learn How Aborted Fetal Tissue is Used in the Development of Some Vaccines, Reveals His Child is Vaccine Injured “I’m about as uncomfortable as I’ve ever been in an interview right now. This is like...

America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a...

Federal public health agencies are known for black-and-white public service announcements that portray their favorite COVID-19 treatments as universally beneficial without providing supporting data, particularly the effectiveness of each new vaccine formulation. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner-nominee Marty Makary once accused the current officeholder, Robert Califf, of wildly exaggerating data in claiming that since-rescinded bivalent vaccines, which targeted two COVID strains, showed a "significant reduction in hospitalization and death in all populations examined, which is clinically meaningful." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which similarly claims COVID vaccines are safer than infections for all populations, has now been caught...

Vladimir Putin’s embrace of Islam reflects a broader ‘Red-Green Axis’—a dangerous alliance between authoritarian regimes and Islamic movements. Russia’s descent into deeper Islamization under Vladimir Putin’s leadership signals a dangerous convergence of authoritarianism and religious extremism, forming a “Red-Green Axis” that imperils the nation’s cultural integrity and security. This troubling alliance between Putin’s regime and Islamic authorities, exemplified by a decree from Russia’s highest Islamic council allowing religious polygamy, should alarm anyone concerned with the preservation of secular governance and national stability. Polygamy by Stealth: Eroding Russian Law Despite Russia’s legal prohibition of polygamy, Grand Mufti Ildar Alyautdinov’s recent decree...

A 26-year-old Memphis woman was arrested on Christmas Eve after allegedly assaulting a nurse at Methodist South Hospital, stating she did not want to be treated by a white attendant. The incident occurred on Tuesday when the woman, Dashawna Williams, reportedly punched a nurse in the face with a closed fist while receiving treatment at the hospital. According to law enforcement, Williams admitted to striking the nurse because of her race. Officers responded to the scene and took Williams into custody. She has been charged with assault. Authorities noted that Williams is believed to have mental health conditions, and crisis...

GIVING There is a story of two young men who were working their way through Stanford University. The day came when they were broke, and something had to be done. One of them had an idea. They would engage the great Paderewski for a piano recital and put their profits toward their board and tuition. All they had to do was guarantee two thousand dollars. The recital was held but only sixteen hundred dollars was raised. Following the performance, the two young men went to Paderewski, offered him the $1600 and added a promissory note for $400 which indicated...

Nobody was home at the time of the incident Friday night, and Doncic filed a police report.. Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks is the latest professional athlete whose home has been burglarized. The star guard's business manager told multiple media outlets Saturday there was a break-in at Doncic's home. Lara Beth Seager said nobody was home at the time of the incident Friday night, and Doncic filed a police report. Jewelry valued at about $30,000 was stolen... Doncic, 25, who is from Slovenia, is the sixth known pro athlete in the U.S. whose home was burglarized since October. Star...

The raccoon tested negative for rabies. Officials do not know how it got into the home.. A child was hospitalized after a raccoon attack inside the family's home... The incident happened on Monday in Cassia County after the child's mom had just returned home with the infant still in the carrier... The mother then heard a loud noise in the home and ran to the infant to find a raccoon attacking him.. “The mother found a raccoon attacking her infant. She was able to grab the animal to stop the attack,” .. The child was taken to the Cassia Regional...

New York Times Highlights Christian and Jewish ‘Blessings’ for Abortion ClinicsThe New York Times has published a glowing article in praise of Christian and Jewish ministers who conduct “blessings” of abortion clinics in America.A Baptist minister, a Presbyterian pastor, and a Jewish cantor walked quietly through an abortion clinic where they “blessed the exam tables and their stirrups, the boxes of disposable gowns and the cushioned chairs in the recovery room,” the Times notes approvingly in Friday’s article.“Through a ritual blessing of the year-old clinic,” the piece states, the faith leaders “wanted to show that religion could be a source...

Wokeness is in retreat, but its stench will be hard to eliminate. Consider the curious case of the bone-headed “Nasdaq diversity rules” — edicts by the stock market giant to force every company that “lists” there to choose a board of directors that stresses intersectionality — racial, sexual and gender diversity — as opposed to competence.*** Forcing it on corporate boards as Nasdaq has been doing since 2020 is particularly scary. And now it’s illegal. *** Nasdaq turned decades of corporate law on its head at the height of the so-called social justice movement. It came at a particular hysterical...