Source: Daily Wire Date: 5/25/2021 A year after the death of George Floyd, elected officials of major cities are walking back commitments to cut police funding amid spiking crime rates. Elected leaders in places such a Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles are now pushing to increase funding to police departments after months of budget cuts and low morale have gutted law enforcement ranks. At the same time, major cities across the U.S. are suffering spikes in violent crime. “The violence needs to stop, its unacceptable. People deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve...

Source: Daily Wire Date: 5/25/2021 On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis triggered a standing ovation at a ceremony in Miami when a reporter asked him if the bill he signed limiting Big Tech from censoring political opinions was for the benefit of former President Trump, and DeSantis fired back a blistering response. The reporter stated, “Governor, I want to ask you about the bill you’re signing here today.” Then she pressed, “You’re a loyal supporter of former President Donald Trump; Donald Trump is now a resident in Florida and he was deplatformed. Is this bill for him?” DeSantis began,...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/24/2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on May 23 that he would support legislation that would prevent cities from issuing directives or voting to reduce funding to police departments—coming in the wake of Black Lives Matter protesters’ calls to “defund the police” last year. In a tweet, the Republican governor highlighted an incident in Austin where there were no police units available for 12 minutes following a shooting that left a victim critically wounded. “This is what defunding the police looks like,” he wrote in reference to the incident. “Austin is incapable...

Source: Resist the Mainstream Date: 5/22/2021 Red states, along with lone Democrat-controlled Vermont, topped the charts in lowest unemployment rates in April, while blue states recorded the highest jobless rates, according to the Commerce Department. In a Friday release, the Commerce Department announced that the top five states with the highest unemployment rates in April were Hawaii (8.5 percent), followed by California (8.3 percent), New Mexico and New York (8.2 percent each), and Connecticut (8.1 percent). All five states have Democrat trifectas, meaning that the state houses and senates,...

Source: Reuters Date: 5/23/2021 An Egyptian court on Sunday rejected a complaint by the Japanese owner of a container ship that blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for six days in March against the vessel's continued detention by canal authorities, a lawyer said. The Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, became jammed across the canal in high winds on March 23, halting traffic in both directions and disrupting global trade. read more The complaint was attached to a case at the economic appeals court in Ismailia in which the Suez Canal Authority is seeking $916 million in...

Source: Gateway Pundit Date: 5/22/2021 Colleges are beginning to feel the effects of their far-left bias. According to a new study the average institutional tuition discount rate of private, nonprofit colleges and universities hit 53.9%. That is a record high. These private, nonprofit colleges and universities are losing around half of their revenue in an effort to entice students to come. Tax Professor Blog wrote:  Private colleges and universities significantly discounted listed tuition and fee prices for most students in 2020-21—continuing a long upward march in discount rates that...

Source: The Hill Date: 5/22/2021 The Texas Senate on Saturday passed legislation that would ban schools from requiring staff to discuss or teach critical race theory. The legislation passed the state's lower chamber on May 11, but the state House will have to approve it again after changes were made in the state Senate, according to KXAN. Critical race theory holds that racism is systemic and has been present in institutions, including the law, the economy and schooling, since the nation's founding. "House Bill 3979 makes certain that critical race philosophies, including the 1619...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/19/2021 Commentary Predictably, a public hearing on the implementation of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) yielded little information about how much the massive environmental bill is going to cost New Yorkers. The size and scope of the bill is enormous, and the measures contained would completely overhaul the state’s energy sector. Members of the Assembly Minority Conference have been asking for answers about the cost of the act’s implementation since it was passed in 2019, but so far those efforts have been repeatedly rebuffed....

Source: Wall Street on Parade Date: 5/5/2021 The House Financial Services Committee has released its official Memorandum outlining the general topics it wants to cover in tomorrow’s hearing on the wild trading action in GameStop and other meme stocks in January that has raised serious questions about U.S. market integrity. The implosion of the Archegos Capital Management family office hedge fund in March, which has generated losses of more than $10 billion thus far at global systemically important banks, will likely be a key topic when the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees...

Source: The BL Date: 4/10/2021 According to a recent report, several senior employees within the New York Times were previously employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)–owned English-language newspaper, China Daily. Over the past several years, China Daily has made a significant effort to publish its CCP–controlled news stories in U.S. newspapers.  Current New York Times employees who previously worked for the Chinese state-owned media outlet include; Jonah Kessel, the Times’ director of cinematography; Diarmuid McDermott, current editor and designer; and European culture reporter Alex...

Source: Brass Balls Date: 5/22/2021 Christine Grady, RN, Ph.D., and her husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci (left). She heads the Dept. of Bioethics at NIH (National Institute of Health). Learn More

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/17/2021 Commentary Like “black criminality,” “Jewish shrewdness,” “Italian mafiosity,” and “Irish drunkenness,” “white fragility” is a racist concept. Identifying a particular derogatory characteristic, or even a positive characteristic, with a racial or ethnic group, as if it accurately describes each and every individual in that category, is racist. Racism is treating people as members of racial or ethnic categories rather than as individuals with individual characteristics, motivations, and agency. Wait, I know that radical sociologists and race...

Source: RF Angle Date: 5/16/2021 CNN Freelance Contributor Adeel Raja praised Hitler on Twitter, saying that “The world today needs a Hitler” in a now-deleted Tweet. Raja has had a history of praising Hitler and calling for the death of Jews. Despite this, CNN still continued to allow his articles on their website. As of the writing of this article, the three Tweets above are still up.  

Source: ZeroHedge Date: 5/15/2021 Say it’s 2014 and you’ve had this idea for a technocratic Great Reset of the world economy for some time now, but it only works if the entire planet is rocked by a pandemic. How do you go about selling your idea? “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future” — Klaus Schwab, WEF If you are World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder Klaus Schwab, you attempt to sell your vision of a global Utopia via a Great Reset of the world order...

Source: New York Post Date: 5/16/2021 Bill Gates allegedly had an affair with a Microsoft employee — and the tryst was being probed by the company’s board last year when Gates stepped down, a report said Sunday. The company’s board became aware in 2019 that a Microsoft engineer penned a letter alleging that she and Gates had a sexual relationship over the years, the Wall Street Journal reported. The woman demanded changes to her Microsoft job and also asked that Gates’ now-estranged wife, Melinda, read her letter — though it’s unclear if that happened. Board members hired a law firm to...

Source: Western Journal Date: 5/15/2021 A U.S. tax court judge has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to disclose if it criminally investigated the Clinton Foundation. This ruling was part of an ongoing case involving whistleblowers who have long alleged wrongdoing on the part of the charity that bears the name of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Judge David Gustafson pointed to a “gap” in IRS records and said that the agency’s claim to have never criminally investigated the Clintons’ charity “was not supported by the administrative...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/10/2021 LOS ANGELES—NBC said on Monday it will not broadcast Hollywood’s Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 following complaints about ethical lapses and lack of diversity among the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television. The decision came despite a plan approved last week by the small Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which hands out the awards, to recruit more black members and make other changes over the next year. NBC said in a statement on Monday that the reforms were not quick enough. “Change of this magnitude takes...

Source: Breitbart Date: 5/9/2021 Hackers stole data during the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack Thursday ahead of the pipeline operator shutting down from the apparent attack, according to news reports. The hackers of the 5,500 miles pipeline reportedly started their attack Thursday, “stealing a large amount of data before locking computers with ransomware and demanding payment,” according to people familiar with the matter who spoke with Bloomberg. Reportedly, the hackers are from DarkSide, a cybercrime gang. They stole nearly 100 gigabytes of data within two hours from the company network,...

Source: Entrepreneur Date: 5/4/2021 The British company Oxitec is deploying a total of 144,000 genetically modified mosquitoes to study how to control their reproduction and thus stop the spread of dengue, Zika, and other types of ailments in humans and animals. As reported by Axios , the company, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , released the mosquitoes a week ago from the Florida Keys. In a statement, Oxitec explained that this experiment seeks to study ways to stop the reproduction of Aedes aegypti , the main transmitters of potentially fatal diseases. Why are...

Source: CNBC Date: 5/12/2021 The United Nations has called for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Palestinians, warning that the devastating violence is on the cusp of spiraling out of control. The most severe outbreak of violence between Israel and the Palestinians since the 2014 war in Gaza has prompted a deepening sense of international concern, with ostensibly no end in sight to the crisis. “Stop the fire immediately. We’re escalating towards a full scale war,” Tor Wennesland, United Nations Middle East envoy, said via Twitter late Tuesday. “Leaders on all sides have to...

Source: New York Times Date: 5/15/2021 WASHINGTON — The operator of a critical fuel pipeline on the East Coast paid extortionists roughly 75 Bitcoin — or nearly $5 million — to recover its stolen data, according to people briefed on the transaction, clearing the way for gas to begin flowing again but complicating President Biden’s efforts to deter future attacks. Colonial Pipeline made the ransom payment to the hacking group DarkSide after the cybercriminals last week held up the company’s business networks with ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts data until the victim pays, and...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/11/2021 Commentary Although Donald Trump has made few public appearances since leaving the White House on Jan. 20, he has made his presence felt in other ways. One of the biggest impacts that Trump has had on the country both as president and as a private citizen has been awakening millions of Americans to the very real danger of a media and political elite class that has been subverting Constitutional and legal processes in the states to increase their own power and control. This is especially true of America’s election systems. For the past six...

Source: RT Date: 5/14/2021 A cyberattack that crippled fuel supplies on the East Coast of the US and sent gas prices soaring could have been an inside job conducted by American spooks, rather than foreign hackers, a prominent Russian IT expert has claimed. After a massive systems failure caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down, Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as one of Russia’s wealthiest women, made the explosive suggestions in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday. She alleges that the US’ top foreign intelligence agency,...

Source: Resist the Mainstream Date: 5/15/2021 Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post Friday that she believed Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is “deeply unwell” and has questionable “perceptions of reality.” When a reporter asked Ocasio-Cortez about Greene, who challenged her to a debate on the Green New Deal in April, the representative said that other members of the House of Representatives were concerned about Greene and that she needed to be evaluated by a professional. “I mean, this is a woman that’s deeply unwell,” Ocasio-Cortez told...

Source: Just The News Date: 5/9/2021 According to the Navy there were "dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades launchers." The U.S. Navy seized thousands of weapons discovered aboard a vessel in the North Arabian Sea, the service announced. "The cache of weapons included dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/9/2021 Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was censured over the weekend by the Weber County, Utah, Republican Party for voting to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate’s second impeachment trial earlier this year. The resolution to censure Romney, a former presidential candidate, was passed 116-97 by members of the Weber County GOP, County Party Secretary Jill Koford told the Salt Lake Tribune. “The Weber County Republican Convention censures Mitt Romney for his votes to convict President Trump in two U.S. Senate impeachment trials which denied...

Source: Conservative Brief Date: 5/7/2021 Joe Biden is trying to sell his next, massive spending bill. He says it’s for “infrastructure” to convince Americans it will be for much-needed projects. But it has become clear to many that Biden’s nearly $2 trillion deal is hardly about building and fixing roads, bridges, and buildings and more about giving liberals goodies they want paid for by taxpayers. Of note, the current bill would give $250,000 to expand the Michelle Obama Library in California. Fox News reports: $1,750,000 to spruce up the Japanese Garden in Portland. $436,100 for a...

Source: Conservative Fighters Date: 5/2/2021 A service is being held Saturday in Maine for a 50-year-old secret service agent who died while training during his shift at the Bush family compound at Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport. Keith Mills, a Secret Service officer who protected the late President George H.W. Bush and former President George W. Bush, died Sunday during training, said his brother Todd Mills of Gorham. An autopsy has been conducted, but the cause of death was not released. Mills’ death is considered a line-of-duty death. The Portland Press Herald reports a service is being...

Source: NY Post Date: 5/6/2021 Jonathan Bush, the younger brother of the late President George H.W. Bush and uncle of former President George W. Bush, has died. He was 89. Jonathan Bush died Wednesday at his home in Jupiter, Florida, according to a spokesman for the Texas-based George & Barbara Bush Foundation. He would have turned 90 on Thursday. In a post on Twitter, the foundation said he was “a fine gentleman and a noble soul,” adding that he was “a great song and dance man — without a doubt the best dancer of his siblings.” Bush, who worked in finance, was the last surviving of...

Source: FCCED Date: 5/3/2021 Prosecutors in the Bay Area have secured a federal indictment against a former FBI agent, charging him with filing false financial disclosure forms to cover up bribes he allegedly received from an attorney with ties to organized crime. Babak Broumand, of Lafayette, was charged with three counts of making false statements to a government agency to cover up bribes he allegedly received in 2015 and 2016 from a Beverly Hills-area attorney named Edgar Sargsyan. The new indictment comes a year after federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Broumand with conspiracy...