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he official name of the CDC is the Centers for Disease Control “and Prevention.” Tasked with prevention of disease is an agency that does not appear in the CDC’s flow chart, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). According to the CDC: EIS officers are CDC’s disease detectives who learn from and work alongside subject matter experts while providing service to domestic and international partner… Worn-out shoe leather with a prominent hole worn through has been a recurring visual theme of EIS through the decades, a reference to the practice of EIS officers personally investigating disease outbreaks at the local population level,...

When pundits say that the United States — or the West, more generally — is “in decline,” what do they mean? Are they talking about Western nations’ rising and unsustainable sovereign debts, including a U.S. national debt of over forty trillion dollars? Are they acknowledging that forty-plus years of “free trade deals” have hollowed out once-bustling manufacturing and industrial towns and left tens of millions of blue-collar workers unemployed and dependent upon government welfare? Are they admitting that a century-long public policy campaign designed to arrest population growth by discouraging marriage and families and encouraging promiscuity and abortions has created...

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At first glance, the bright blue data dashboard looks like any other – a series of graphs, charts, numbers and menus belying its darker purpose. But The Telegraph can reveal that this platform is how China’s security apparatus can track foreigners and anyone deemed “of interest” to the state within the country. Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/18/leaked-secret-chinese-surveillance-programme-tracks-foreign/

When I talk about post-viability abortions, a lot of pro-choice people claim those only happen for medical emergencies, meaning either the woman’s life is in danger or the fetus has some kind of fatal genetic abnormality. This is a myth, a pleasant fiction to help pro-choice people be comfortable with their stance. The reality is that there are multiple places in the country where people can get abortions at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. We have plenty of evidence to show that they will get abortions after viability on healthy fetuses carried by healthy women for no medical...

Results from a recent global assessment indicate that reading scores for American high school students have dropped over the past three years, while math and science performance still falls behind their peers in several other developed countries.The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests 15-year-olds in math, science, and reading proficiency as metrics for college and career readiness, conducted its last tests in 2025.The initial findings, released on Sept. 8, indicate that children from Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom continue to outperform American public-school children in those three subjects.PISA has not yet shared comprehensive...

One of Anthropic’s top safety researchers says there is a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill every human within the next decade. The extraordinary warning came after a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher resigned, accusing both companies of racing toward superintelligence without a credible plan to control it.A Resignation Exposes the Fear Inside AI LabsJacob Coxon, who spent three years conducting pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation this week in a lengthy post on X. His explanation went far beyond a disagreement over corporate policy, raising questions about what researchers inside the world’s leading...

President Trump pledged a $5,000 payout to U.S. adults on Wednesday, but only if Republicans hold onto their majority in Congress come November. “Here is my promise: if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them … because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” he said at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. The legality of this disbursal is unclear. There are about 270 million adults in the U.S. Trump told attendees Wednesday that...

Barry Melrose, a former NHL player and coach who was a beloved hockey analyst for ESPN for over 25 years, died Wednesday, his wife, Cindy, told ESPN's Steve Levy. He was 70. Melrose was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2023, leading to his retirement from ESPN. He joined the network in 1996. "For decades, Barry Melrose was one of the most distinctive and trusted voices in hockey," ESPN said in a statement. "His knowledge of the game was deep, his candor was refreshing, and his passion was unmistakable. He was a foundational part of ESPN's hockey coverage, and fans and...

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Evil is out there. But so are the signs of good. Am I the only one who thinks that mothers shouldn’t be killing their young children? Yet it’s happening more often and even amoral morons are championing these evil parents as victims. Does the name Andrea Yates mean anything anymore? In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the tub, and a jury acquitted her by reason of insanity. In 2026, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three young children then tried to commit suicide. She is on trial now and her supporters are loud and idiotic. Both of these...

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region's cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land. As tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to build server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects in initial stages in Argentina are ​developing without much public attention. Since Argentines have yet to be impacted by large data centers, the country lacks a backlash against the server farms as in the U.S., where critics say they strain local...

On July 14, 2025, United States Marshalls entered the home of 49-year-old Tennessee woman Angela Lipps and arrested her in front of four young children that she was babysitting. Authorities believed that Lipps had defrauded a series of North Dakota banks. That’s because the West Fargo Police Department had fed a photo ID used by the suspect into Clearview AI—a database with billions of pictures, many scraped from the internet, intended to aid law enforcement investigation. Lipps had been flagged as a match. But the Tennessee grandmother had never even been to North Dakota. And so for five months, she...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - An Alabama woman has won a lawsuit against a Church’s Chicken location in Midfield after a bench trial this week. According to the lawsuit and her attorney, Yolanda Jackson was burned by a Church’s chicken pot pie in January 2020 that she ordered in the drive-thru. According to court records, “Church’s sold chicken to Yolanda Jackson that was too hot for human consumption”. Jackson suffered serious injuries to her mouth, face, lip, left wrist and body, including second degree burns, according to the lawsuit. “What bothered her the most was that she was left scarred,...

The GOP still has a loser mentality JD Vance’s child care proposal would redirect existing federal funds toward stay-at-home parents. The conservative backlash exposes a deeper fight over how the right uses power. The Trump administration recently revealed it is drafting a proposal, championed by Vice President JD Vance, to change how the government distributes money already earmarked for child care. The plan would tap the roughly $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund and make some of that money available to married couples with a stay-at-home parent. No new appropriation is involved.After months of conservative outrage over fraud...

Most Christians believe the universe is billions of years old. Some treat the six days of creation as a metaphor. Others latch onto explanations such as Gap Theory or Day-Age Theory to reconcile. But there is one theory that I’ve found after years of on-and-off research that has legs. In fact, it has fewer scientific and mathematical holes than the Big Bang Theory itself. The distant starlight argument is the favorite club skeptics swing at Genesis. Light from a galaxy ten billion light-years away cannot reach Earth in six thousand years if light crawls at 186,000 miles per second. Therefore,...

Bonds sharply sold off and stocks tumbled Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s latest effort to tamp down what he called market “fever” backfired. At 11 a.m. ET, the Treasury Department announced that it would repurchase $6 billion worth of 10- to 20-year government bonds, in the hope that fewer bonds on the market would drive up demand, pushing down rates, or yields, that have soared to levels not seen in decades. But that’s not what happened. Instead, most Treasury yields sharply jumped on the announcement. The 10-year bond yield surged to as high as 4.85%, its highest since November...

A St. Louis postal worker has been federally indicted after allegedly dumping an astonishing 30,000 pieces of Americans’ mail in overgrown vacant lots instead of delivering it. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, 54-year-old Armond Paige was indicted on September 2 on one count of delaying or destroying mail while employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Federal prosecutors allege Paige discarded the mail in vacant, weed-covered lots across St. Louis from approximately 2024 through April 29, 2026. At the time of the alleged scheme, Paige was working out of the Maryville Gardens Post Office...

TODAY'S NEWS, September 8-9, 2026 HEADLINES: Courts juggle election issues; Ds tell Talarico to shut up; Trump will strip tax-free status from schools practicing DEI The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

https://x.com/j6commission/status/2097411024844476571ransomnote: On rumble, the text description of the above video is as follows: "The footage in this video is from a west-facing camera at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. This camera footage is the first of many the Committee on House Administration, Subcommittee on Oversight will be posting exclusively on Rumble."https://x.com/j6commission/status/2097671362257297755 J6 Commission@j6commissionEXCLUSIVE: Scrubber thumbnails were recovered from US Capitol CCTV footage published by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight via Rumble.The frames appear to show two individuals who place gear bags near the Memorial Door. These stills have been strung together to create a stop motion...