Tag: The Epoch Times

Conrad Black, The Swamp Must Be Drained

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Conrad Black The Democrats are increasingly desperate as the return of Donald Trump becomes more likely each week. They are muddling the sequence of events that got us to the present impasse: Trump ran against the corrupt back-scratching, log-rolling society of the OBushintons—the Clinton pay-to-play schemes, the Biden sales of influence and access, the semi-disguised socialist racism elitism of the Obamas, and the flabby sameness and ineffectuality of the Bush–McCain–Romney–McConnell–Ryan Republicans. Trump sensed the people were dissatisfied with the bipartisan Swamp, and he ran as strenuously against the Bushes and McCain and…

Democrats Silent as Republicans Rip Into Secret Royalty Checks to Fauci, Hundreds of NIH Scientists

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By Mark Tapscott Top Democratic leaders with oversight of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) are keeping quiet about the $350 million in secret payments to agency leaders like Dr. Anthony Fauci and hundreds of its scientists. The Epoch Times received no responses from multiple requests to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) for comment on a report by a non-profit government watchdog estimating that Fauci, former NIH director Francis Collins, and hundreds of NIH scientists got as much as $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments from…

Police Smash Truck Windows, Push Back Protesters on 2nd Day of Massive Ottawa Operation

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By Limin Zhou OTTAWA, Canada—Police smashed truck windows and pushed back against protesters on Feb. 19 as law enforcement continues to close in on the main site of the protest in downtown Ottawa. Ottawa police said around 1 p.m. on Feb. 19 that 47 people had been arrested and 38 vehicles towed. A heavy police presence remains in downtown Ottawa, a day after law enforcement escalated operations against protesters opposed to COVID-19 mandates in order to clear demonstrations around the area of Canada’s Parliament Buildings. Police have cleared many trucks and vehicles from…

Police Beating of Unconscious Trump Supporter Was ‘Objectively Reasonable,’ Department Rules

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By Joseph M. Hanneman Internal Affairs Bureau conducted probe in response to a police-brutality complaint The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer on January 6 was deemed to be “objectively reasonable” after an investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, The Epoch Times has learned. The Internal Affairs investigation was opened in September 2021 based on a complaint filed by a Texas man who assembled video evidence of the officer striking an unconscious Rosanne Boyland with a steel baton and a large wooden stick at the entrance…

GoFundMe Says All Donations to Trucker Convoy Will Be Automatically Refunded; Florida to Investigate

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By Zachary Stieber [Editor’s note: Calling out the blatant theft of funds from donors to the truckers’ protest has led GoFundMe to reverse course and (now) declare it will automatically refund those donations, but they have exposed their hand as grotesquely corrupt and politically biased. I have added the “Truckers’ Declaration” just published by State of the Nation.]    The GoFundMe fundraising platform said Feb. 5 it will automatically refund donations made to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates after backlash. GoFundMe said Friday it was preventing the funds from…

GoFundMe Seizes $10 Million of Trucker Protest Fundraising, Will Give to Charities Instead

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By Omid Ghoreishi [Editor’s note: This appears to be a blatantly illegal action by GoFundMe. The money does not belong to GoFundMe. If they are going to (wrongfully) cut off the Truckers, they can send it back to the donors (who. contributed): they cannot decide to treat it as their own and give it away, as they plan to do. They know what they are doing is illegal, but the mischief occurs between the time an illegal (or unconstitutional) act is taken and the time it takes to be held…

Who Benefits From Cancelling Achievement Standards?

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Philip Carl Salzman In 2021 there’s an outright holy war against scholastic achievement.   Oregon has passed a bill that suspends the requirement that students must be able to read, write, and do math to graduate from high school. Mathematics should be replaced, we are told, by “social justice” mathematics, in which there are no correct answers, and students must not be asked to show the calculations that led to their conclusions. Standard American English should no longer be the standard, and students should not be judged on the quality of…

Woke Ideology Mimics Precursors to Totalitarian Slaughter, Experts Say

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BY PETR SVAB Some of the core tenets of the “woke” ideology spreading around the country mimic ideas used to justify many of the most horrendous atrocities of the past century, according to several experts. A recently released documentary exploring the topic, called “Better Left Unsaid,” concludes that the self-identified “radical left” endorses four fundamental “truths” that they “hold to be self-evident,” noting that these tenets have also been used to justify and incite many of the worst massacres of the 20th century. The first of the four claims is…

The ‘Defund the Police’ Movement Has a Broader Agenda and Its Not to Stop the Killing of Black People

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BY MASOOMA HAQ AND JAN JEKIELEK [Editor’s note: Further proof that Brandon Tatum’s “got it right” comes from crime statistics based on race, where this is a typical example from 2013: While those devious bastards behind his movement may want to federalize the police, the riots, looting and arson that has come in its wake has convinced every observant American that they cannot count on local police for assistance when they need it and have to be capable of defending themselves, which is why as an unintended consequence it has all but…

‘Hypocrisy’: Trump Team Shows Videos of Democrat Lawmakers During Impeachment Trial

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BY ZACHARY STIEBER Former President Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday accused legislators of hypocrisy as they played lengthy video montages of elected officials speaking about committing assault against Trump, threatening his supporters, and backing protests last year that regularly turned violent. Going on the offense in their first day of presentations during Trump’s second impeachment trial, the attorneys used a strategy pushed by many conservatives. Michael van der Veen argued that Trump did not use any inciting language on Jan. 6 before the breach of the Capitol, but that numerous members of…