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Whether Putin Attacks Ukraine or Not, He’s Already Won
President Joe Biden and Russian bad boy Vladimir Putin have now had their two-hour virtual parley about the Ukraine crisis. Is there any clear sense on how this will all end? No. The readout from the White House looked thinner than Christmas tissue paper, but from what can be gleaned, the U.S. side put nothing more… -
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Consumer Group Warns 10 States With Most Pension Dollars Invested in China-Connected BlackRock
A consumer group has warned a bipartisan group of governors against investing state pension funds in BlackRock, one of the world’s largest money management corporations, because of its close links to China. Consumers’ Research sent a letter Thursday to the governors of the top 10 states investing public pension funds in BlackRock. The letter refers… -
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Australian Woman Recounts Harrowing Experience of Being Held in COVID-19 Quarantine Camp
Hayley Hodgson, a 26-year-old Australian woman, recounted her two-week confinement in a COVID-19 quarantine camp in an interview Thursday. “You feel like you’re in prison. You feel like you’ve done something wrong. It’s inhumane what they’re doing,” Hodgson said in an interview with UnHerd. “You are so small, they just overpower you.” Hodgson told UnHerd that she was ordered… -
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Russia’s Influence in Azerbaijan Makes Lasting Peace Unlikely
More than one year after the 2020 cease-fire agreement that brought the Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia to an end, tensions remain high between the two. Just like the 1994 cease-fire that brought the first round of fighting to an end, Russia also brokered this cease-fire, and in so doing has dramatically expanded… -
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Unproductive Xi-Biden Summit Sets Stage for Deeper Rift in US-Chinese Relations
Given the low expectations each side brought to the virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, it is not surprising that little appears to have been achieved in the course of the three and a half hour meeting. No agreements were planned or emerged. Indeed, a number of topics… -
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6 Takeaways From Emails Revealing White House Role in Targeting Parents Who Disagree With School Boards
The president of the National School Boards Association says that a White House meeting prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to direct the FBI to investigate parents who disagree with their local school boards over issues such as critical race theory, gender identity, and mask mandates. Members of the NSBA board speculated among themselves that the… -
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Consumer Group Exposes BlackRock’s Ties to Chinese Communist Party
Nike, Coca-Cola, and American Airlines are just a few of the companies Consumers’ Research is targeting over their woke business practices. Consumers’ Research, an educational organization seeking to highlight issues concerning to consumers, now has a new target: American investment firm BlackRock and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “Where [is BlackRock] investing your… -
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UN Climate Conference Carbon Footprint Double That of Previous Summit
The carbon footprint of COP26, the ongoing United Nations climate summit, is expected to double that of the previous conference held in 2019, according to a report. The two-week COP26 conference, which ends Nov. 12 in Scotland, is projected to lead to about 102,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide in emissions, according to a preliminary assessment commissioned by the… -
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China’s New Strategic Weapon Has ‘Unlimited Range.’ Here’s What That Means for US.
China has reportedly tested a new strategic weapon: a fractional orbital bombardment system armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle. What exactly does this weapon do and what is the threat to the United States? Peter Brookes, a senior research fellow focusing on weapons of mass destruction and counterproliferation at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily… -
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Principal at Fairfax County High School Told Mom Who Exposed Pornographic Books That Parents Aren’t Allowed in District’s Libraries
Editor's note: This article describes graphic sexual content in a book. A Fairfax County, Virginia, mother told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the principal at her son’s school told her that parents are not allowed to check out books at its library. On Oct. 27, Stacy Langton, a mother of six kids, went to… -
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4 Things to Know About Politically Connected, Activist BlackRock and Its China Investments
BlackRock Inc., the largest money management corporation not only in America but the world, has emerged as a big promoter of social and environmental investing and of sending billions of U.S. dollars to China. A consumer advocacy group asserts that New York-based BlackRock’s push for investing in “environmental, social, and governance” issues, known as ESG,… -
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Pentagon’s China Military Power Report Confirms Beijing’s Nuclear Ambitions
The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military capabilities confirms that Beijing’s days of maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrent are over. Along with several other concerning military developments, the report makes clear that China is headed toward becoming a nuclear peer (or surpassing) the United States and Russia—a state of affairs for which U.S. nuclear forces… -
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UN Expert Calls for Countries to Embrace Radical Gender Theory
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations’ independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, delivered his latest report to the U.N. General Assembly last week that should set off alarm bells around the world. The report concludes that the world must choose between a path of “exclusionary narratives” advanced by “ultraconservative political leaders and religious groups”… -
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As Russia Invests in Arctic, America Falls Behind
Even though the U.S. is one of eight Arctic nations, America has not adequately invested in the region and, as a result, has not yet fully embraced its status as an Arctic power. The opposite can be said of Russia, an Arctic nation that has invested heavily in the region. Russia recently installed a fiber… -
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‘Our Broken Elections’: Who Broke Them and Why, and How to Fix Them
“Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote” by Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund (Encounter Books) is a deep dive into the issues that threaten America’s elections today and proposes remedies and solutions to fix our broken system. The book, being released Nov. 2, can be obtained here and elsewhere. The following excerpt is from the “Introduction”… -
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Russia, China Leaders Total No-Shows at UN Climate Conference
The leaders of Russia and China plan to give the United Nations climate conference the cold shoulder despite being among the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. Russia and China, which account for about 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions, have largely backed out of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in the U.K. where leaders… -
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‘One China,’ 2 National Days, and 152 Warplanes
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 10, the world witnessed the full extent of the divergent paths China and Taiwan are on. Those 10 days saw differing understandings of Chinese history and national values communicated in speeches, op-eds, ceremonies, and military incursions. If the gravity of the situation in the Taiwan Strait wasn’t clear before, it… -
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China’s Surveillance State Has Killed Privacy
The Chinese Communist Party’s system of mass surveillance is like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel, destroying any semblance of privacy in the country for both individuals and businesses. In a recent international incident, popular job networking site LinkedIn shut down operations in China after the strain of working with the authoritarian government became… -
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George Soros Teams Up With Billionaire Who Backed Liberal Disinformation Efforts to Fund Anti-Disinformation Media Venture
Liberal tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, a funder of numerous disinformation projects, is backing a new media venture launched Tuesday that seeks to combat disinformation, according to a report. Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, joined ranks with financier George Soros to fund Good Information Inc., which will “fund and scale businesses that cut through eco chambers… -
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China’s New Weapon Just Upped Global Threat Level
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, no—it’s a Chinese fractional orbital bombardment system. A what?! Yes, a Chinese fractional orbital bombardment system—armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle. It was revealed in mid-October that China has conducted two tests of this new strategic weapon system during the summer—a development that should seriously concern U.S. defense…