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Washington (CNN Business)Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history.
A vulnerability in Poly Network allowed the thief to make off with the funds, the platform said Tuesday, begging the attacker to return the money. Continue reading “$600 million gone: The biggest crypto theft in history”
Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson
A new report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has found that the most highly educated Americans are also the most vaccine hesitant.
The researchers canvassed no fewer than 5 million Americans who responded to surveys on whether they were “probably” or “definitely not planning on getting a COVID vaccine. Continue reading “Study Finds Most Highly Educated Americans Are Also the Most Vaccine Hesitant”
Tech giant Amazon has received $10 billion in a taxpayer-funded federal contract to help the blatantly unconstitutional National Security Agency (NSA) illegally spy on American citizens.
In another example of how Big Tech supremacy hurts the freedoms of the American people, Amazon signed the contract “WildandStormy” to provide cloud computing services for the spying monolith that has made a mockery of the 4th Amendment. Continue reading “Tech Giant Amazon Gets $10 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Contract to Help NSA Spy on American Citizens”
CNet – by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
The human brain is truly awesome.
A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Each synapse functions like a microprocessor, and tens of thousands of them can connect a single neuron to other nerve cells. In the cerebral cortex alone, there are roughly 125 trillion synapses, which is about how many stars fill 1,500 Milky Way galaxies.
Continue reading “Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth”
The presidents of Burundi, Swaziland/Eswatini, Tanzania, Ivory Coast and Haiti all opposed the main stream narrative on Covid and kicked against vaccines, they have all died!
“Coincidences” always seem to favor the globalists. Continue reading “Five Presidents Who Opposed Covid Vaccines Have Conveniently Died, Been Replaced by Pro-Vaxxers”
You thought you had a great weekend. Did you see what Barack Obama did? It was way more fun than anything that happened at your house Saturday night. For his 60th birthday, Obama threw himself a party at his estate on Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.
Obama’s place is on the ocean, naturally, but unlike your oceanfront property in, say, Destin, Obama’s has been declared eternally exempt from the devastating rise in sea levels that will inevitably accompany the existential crisis of climate change, which by the way you caused. So no matter what happens to the global climate, Obama will be safe there, even if you continue to eat steak or use air conditioning, both of which will soon be banned.
Continue reading “Tucker Carlson: You can be sophisticated or a superspreader”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today. It is Laura’s birthday.
Our children surprised us. They are all here with our grandchildren. I guess 60 is a benchmark when one should be surrounded by those that love them.
Be back up tomorrow.
The Senate on Tuesday passed a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, a significant win for President Biden and the first step on his top legislative priority.
Senators voted 69-30 on the bill, which was spearheaded by a bipartisan group of senators led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Nineteen GOP senators voted with all Democrats to pass the legislation. Continue reading “Senate passes $1T bipartisan infrastructure bill in major victory for Biden”
Epoch Times – by Jack Phillips
Some employers are starting to tack on a $20 to $50 monthly surcharge to their unvaccinated workers, according to a health benefits consultant group.
“Employers have tried encouraging employees to get vaccinated through offering incentives like paid time off and cash, but with the Delta variant driving up infections and hospitalizations throughout the country—at the same time that vaccination rates have stalled—we have received inquiries from at least 20 employers over the past few weeks who are giving consideration to adding health coverage surcharges for the unvaccinated as a way to drive up vaccination rates in their workforce,” Wade Symons, with consultancy group Mercer, told Forbes magazine on Aug. 8. Continue reading “Companies Now Deducting $50 From Unvaccinated Workers’ Monthly Paychecks: Consultancy Firm”
The independent watchdog agency which investigates potential wrongdoing by the National Security Agency (NSA) announced on Tuesday morning that it has opened an investigation into “recent allegations that the NSA improperly targeted the communications of a member of the U.S. news media.” Though the oversight unit, the NSA’s Office of the Inspector General, did not specify the journalist in question, the statement leaves no doubt that the investigation pertains to news reports that the identity of Fox News host Tucker Carlson had been improperly “unmasked” and illegally revealed within the intelligence community. Continue reading “The NSA’s Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson”
New York Post – by Aaron Feis and Sam Raskin
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation on Tuesday under threat of impeachment following the release of a scathing Attorney General report in which investigators concluded that he sexually harassed several women in violation of state and federal law.
“I think that given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside,” Cuomo said from his Manhattan office. Continue reading “Andrew Cuomo resigns as governor of New York”
WASHINGTON – FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this summer.
The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests will begin at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 11. Continue reading “FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Aug. 11”
Several schools in Tennessee are under lockdown Tuesday morning after an “emergency situation” at Volunteer High School in Church Hill, about 80 miles northeast of Knoxville, near the border of Virginia.
Unconfirmed reports indicate a shooting happened at the high school with at least one person injured. Police have not yet released any information. Continue reading “Several schools on lockdown after reported shooting at Tennessee high school”
Wow was this weird. Bill Gates acts like he is some sort of COVID king and smiles when it’s suggested that the elderly should be withheld their social security checks if they refuse to get vaccinated.
In a recent tweet of an interview, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, acts like he is President and king of COVID. He smiles when it’s suggested that the elderly should be withheld their social security checks until they get vaccinated with the COVID vaccine. Continue reading “Bill Gates Smiles When Suggesting the Nonvaccinated Should Be Withheld Their Social Security Benefits”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Bird-in-Hand, PA — Amos Miller and his family has been running Miller’s Organic Farm for over a century, providing willing and highly satisfied customers with milk, chicken, beef, and eggs. All of the food coming from Miller’s farm is beyond organic, humanely raised in a non-factory setting and the animals treated with dignity as they spend their entire lives naturally and stress-free out on pasture. By any moral standard, Miller’s farm is the leading example of what farming in America should look like. Continue reading “Amish Farm Fined $250K, Facing Jail Time for Humanely Raising and Selling Food to Willing Customers”
Most people will associate gang fights with movies and shows but they have become a reality on the streets of Thailand. However, the brawl is not among humans but rival gangs of monkeys instead! The fight was so epic that it even halted traffic and caused a jam. Now, the crazy footage captured by an onlooker is going viral.
In videos going viral, two big group of monkeys were seen charging at each other fiercely, terrifying commuters at a junction. As the simians continued their face-off, people on motorbikes and cars were seen waiting while a few tried to steer away from the commotion, fearing they could get caught in the fight. Continue reading “Hundreds of monkeys clash on a road in Thailand, bring traffic to halt”
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) claimed guns and “the violence they bring” are responsible for the death of Chicago police officer Ella French.
Twenty-nine-year-old French, a three-and-a-half-year veteran of the force, died over the weekend after she was shot during a traffic stop. French is the first officer to be shot and killed in the line of duty since Lightfoot took office in 2019, and the first female officer to be killed since 1988. Continue reading “Chicago Mayor Blames Guns After Female Police Officer Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
A bill proposed in Florida, which is receiving widespread support from police, House Bill 11, filed by Rep. Alex Rizo, (R-Hialeah), could be yet another massive blow to your right to film the police.
According to the bill, anyone who is “hindering” law enforcement in their duties, which could include filming them with a cellphone, could be arrested, fined, and even imprisoned. Continue reading “Proposed Bill Could Soon Land You in Prison for Filming the Police”
BBC studios at Television Centre in West London were targeted by an agitated group of protesters opposing the government’s Covid-19 plans. The crowd attempted to break into the building, causing clashes with police.
The dramatic confrontation at the entrance of the BBC studios was filmed by witnesses at the scene. The footage showed a dozen or so Metropolitan Police officers rushing to stop the demonstrators, who appeared intent on forcing their way in. Continue reading “BBC studios STORMED by anti-Covid passport protesters, VIDEO shows clashes with police amid attempted break-in”
The so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill, backed by Senate Democrats and 18 Senate Republicans, would reward blue states with federal money for driving up immigration levels to the United States.
The bill, among other things, includes the Digital Equity Act that would help expand broadband to American communities that currently lack access to the internet. Continue reading “Infrastructure Bill Rewards Blue States for Driving Up Immigration Levels to U.S.”