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Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported on a new exposé from James O’Keefe’s OMG that showed Jamie Mannina, a former FBI agent, Hillary Clinton campaign staffer and a just-fired Senior Advisor to the Joint Staff of the Department of Defense spilling the beans on high-level efforts to subvert President Trump’s next term in the Oval Office. Mannina mentioned he worked for a “top consulting firm”, which the video states is Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), one of the largest contractors for the United States government. In 2022, BAH was the 6th largest government contractor with $5.9 billion in government contracts....

The saga of a disturbing hack into Disney World Resort's menu system has finally ended as the man responsible has pled guilty to his crimes. Michael Scheuer, a former employee at the Florida park, pled guilty to hacking into the company's computer systems and changing their menu items on Friday. Scheuer was fired from Disney on June 13, 2024, from his role as the park's Menu Production Manager, according to a criminal complaint. After a 'contentious' firing over misconduct, Scheuer accessed the company's menu system, Menu Creator, from a personal device. He changed fonts, added profanities, altered prices, and inserted...

Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a virus that lives in the respiratory tract. This virus was first discovered in 2001, and has since become one of the causes of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). HMPV is very similar to the RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) virus, which often infects children and can cause lung disease. ... the elderly, and those with lung or heart disease, are more susceptible to more serious infections.[...] The following are symptoms commonly experienced by HMPV sufferers: Dry or phlegmy cough Cough is the main symptom of HMPV, it can be a dry or phlegmy cough. This condition...

A surge in cases of the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China has raised fears of another Covid-style pandemic. [...] but health experts say HMPV is not like Covid, and point out it has been around for many years. They say China and other countries are simply experiencing the seasonal increase in HMPV typically seen in winter. First identified in the Netherlands in 2001, HMPV spreads through direct contact between people, or when someone touches a contaminated surface. The virus leads to a mild upper respiratory tract infection for most people. It is usually almost indistinguishable from flu. Symptoms for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an attempt to elevate the level of discourse in Senate Confirmation hearings, all of the female Democratic Senators will be replaced with screaming, rabid hyenas. After the initial Senate hearings descended into hours of hysterical, unintelligible screeching, Congress felt it owed the country to do better by replacing the offending women with crazed hyenas. "This will be a huge improvement," said Senate aide Chandler McKinnon. "We believe replacing these Democrat women with hyenas whose brains are being eaten by the rabies virus will greatly lessen the amount of shrieking and fighting going on. The hardest part...

LOS ANGELES, CA — In a daring and heroic act of selfless bravery, California Governor Gavin Newsom rushed headlong into a blazing fire to inform the trapped victims that Trump is bad. Eyewitnesses reported seeing Newsom going from house to house in the blazing Palisades, courageously running into buildings to remind everyone inside that Trump was not an ideal President and that they should avoid liking him at all costs. "Trump bad! Trump bad, folks!" cried Newsom to one screaming victim. "But do not worry, I just passed another law to fight Trump and make sure he doesn't ruin your...

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has informed Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a GOP leadership source and a Republican lawmaker familiar with the matter.The lawmaker said Turner informed him Wednesday that he would not be staying on as head of the critical committee.The top post on the Intelligence Committee is one of the few positions directly chosen by the speaker of the House at the start of a new Congress.Johnson's office had no comment. A Turner spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.House Republican sources said...

A federal judge in the District of Vermont sentenced a Mexican national to prison following his conviction for smuggling nearly 100 migrants across the Canadian border into the U.S. The Mexican national received approximately $500,000 in smuggling fees during a five-month period. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New York announced that District Court Judge Mary Kay Lantheir sentenced Luis Fernando Barragan-Palacios, 29, of Queens, New York, to federal prison for a term of 18 months. Barragan-Palacios, originally of Oaxaca, Mexico, is expected to be deported upon the completion of his sentence. ... According to prosecutors, Barragan-Palacios failed...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis all but confirms he chose not to expose Vatican ‘corruption’ and ‘wrongdoing’In his new memoir 'Hope,' Pope Francis reveals that Benedict XVI had presented him with documents 'relating to the most difficult and painful situations: cases of abuse, corruption, dark dealings, wrongdoings.' Yet he has not fought that corruption.(Catholic Culture) — This week, with the publication of his new book, Pope Francis has added one important link to the chain of evidence regarding the fight against Vatican corruption.In April 2012, Pope Benedict created a special commission of three senior cardinals (Herranz, Tomko, and DeGiorgi) to investigate...

Tubi will stream Super Bowl LIX in February for free on its platform using FOX’s feed of the game, the company announced. Viewers will be able to watch the game on Feb. 9 when they sign up via email registration. There will be no Multichannel Video Programming Distributor authentication or credit card sign-up needed to be able to watch it. The FOX Sports pregame show will also be available for fans tuning in to watch the game. A second stream on Tubi will also include the Tubi Red Carpet event, hosted by Olivia Culpo at 3:30 p.m. ET, and the...

Los Angeles police arrest an arsonist and share footage of alleged looters in a Pacific Palisades home. ... Arrested then released ... He is literally standing next to a fire he lit lol ... another illegal ... Unless his first and last name is Mr. Climate Change the left is pissing up a rope. It's called arson, NOT climate change. ... arsonist are climate change now ... It was all planned. It's terrible how they just don't care about anything but their own goals. ... they voted for open borders! let them eat cake!

Less than three months before the Eaton fire, state utility safety regulators questioned whether Southern California Edison’s repairs to its aging transmission lines were holding up.The utility’s visual inspections of splices in its transmission lines sometimes failed to find dangerous conditions, officials found.The company says its work has reduced the risk that its equipment might cause wildfires by more than 85%. It said its own analysis showed its equipment didn’t start the Eaton fire. State regulators criticized Southern California Edison for falling behind in inspecting transmission lines in areas at high risk of wildfires just months before the deadly Eaton...

The homes of professional athletes have become the target of a recent burglary spree that has hit players from the NFL, NBA, and now, the NHL. Evgeny Malkin, the longtime star and Stanley Cup champion center for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was burglarized on January 11 at his home in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, while playing a game in Pittsburgh, TMZ Sports reports. According to TMZ Sports, the security system at Malikn’s home was not functioning during the break-in. All three of Malkin’s Stanley Cup rings were stolen. As of this writing, no arrests have been made ... The burglary spree has targeted...

“It’s ok, you can just rebuild.” “At least not that many people died.” These are the things people say to try to make it better. The truth is, Pacific Palisades will never be the same after the deadly January 2025 wildfires that destroyed entire neighborhoods this past week. The latest official update says as many as 10,000 structures have been destroyed in the Palisades Fire, which is expected to be the costliest in U.S. history. Pacific Palisades, the small ocean community wedged between Santa Monica to the south and Malibu to the north, is a little slice of heaven. Our...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok ban-or-sale law for 60 to 90 days, hoping a brief reprieve for the Chinese-owned app will net him an early victory.Trump has been mulling ways to save the day for the wildly popular video app, talking through unconventional dealmaking and legal maneuvers; these include the executive order that could unravel the Biden administration’s nationwide ban of the app now scheduled for Sunday, according to two people familiar with the deliberations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.Trump...

Making the Department of Defense great again starts with making the habit of trading senior military honors for dollars shameful.Amid the Democrat senatorial clown show of Tuesday’s secretary of defense confirmation hearings, one confrontation between Pete Hegseth and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., resonated particularly strongly with me as a retired Army officer. It was when Warren challenged Hegseth with his past writings that “generals should be banned from working for the defense industry for 10 years.” Warren tried to put Hegseth in a twist by asserting that he would not follow his own rule, but Hegseth defused the situation masterfully...

Nearly four weeks since the start of the PowerSchool data breach began families, teachers and school districts remain in the dark about the scope of the breach compromising personal information uploaded on the platform.PowerSchool, a cloud-based platform that tens of thousands of schools use all over the country, has been the official student information system (SIS) since 2009 in South Carolina and 2013 in North Carolina.

CLEVELAND — Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur slated to help oversee President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to cut government spending, is in discussions about filling Vice President-elect JD Vance’s Senate seat in Ohio, two people briefed on the process told NBC News.The development is a reversal for Ramaswamy, who in November said his work alongside billionaire Elon Musk at Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency would remove him from consideration for the Senate job.But Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who will appoint an interim successor to take over Vance's seat, chatted with Ramaswamy about the Senate vacancy during a meeting last weekend at...

Position Paper: A Fundamentally Reformed Tax System: Shifting Federal Revenue Generation to State-Collected Business Taxes Executive Summary: This paper proposes a fundamental reform of the United States tax system, shifting the responsibility for generating federal revenue entirely to businesses through taxes collected at the state level. Under this system, the federal government would determine each state's total business revenue and levy a flat percentage tax on that amount. States would then have complete autonomy in designing their own business tax systems to collect these funds, eliminating the need for federal corporate or individual income taxes. This proposal aims to simplify...

The Pentagon inspector general says the handling of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year increased national security threats but acknowledged the matter did not result in any such breech. "Although we found no adverse consequences to Defense Department operations arising from how the hospitalizations we reviewed were handled, the risks to our national defense, including the command and control of the Defense Department's critical national security operations, were increased unnecessarily," Inspector General Robert Storch said, according to a CBS News report Wednesday.Austin was reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer in early-December 2023, had the surgery Dec. 22, started having severe...