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Attorney representing Ray Epps was an FBI agent for 9 years

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© Screenshot/The Epoch TimesRay Epps exhorts the crowd at the Jan 6 protests in Washington D.C.
Democrats and the crooked DOJ have gone out of their way to protect the MAGA hat-wearing Ray Epps, but the question just won't go away — Who is Ray Epps, and what was his role on Jan. 6 and the days preceding the "insurrection" at the US Capitol?

Videos of Ray Epps leading J6 protestors have gone viral on social media, but for some odd reason, he has not been arrested. He has been protected when others have been prosecuted for lesser offenses. Is he an FBI informant? Is he an FBI agent?

Comment: For more background on the mysterious Mr. Epps, see Revolver's excellent investigative pieces:


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Fury over Government plans to bring back Covid-era measures to avoid full-blown NHS meltdown- zealots demand return of masks, WFH, and social distancing

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People wear face masks on the London Underground today after new advice has been given to curb rising infections as flu and Covid number increase
Ministers were today begged not to reintroduce any Covid-era restrictions amid claims face mask and work from home guidance could be adopted to stop the NHS from meltdown.

Hospitals are buckling under winter demand, soaring rates of flu, staff shortages and bed-blockers. Covid's resurgence and the emergence of the XBB.1.5 'Kraken' variant could cause even more chaos.

Health chiefs and scientists have already advised adults and pupils to stay at home if they are unwell and to wear masks if they must venture outside when sick. They also called for the booster rollout to be widened in a bid to protect the NHS.

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Hack attack on Twitter reportedly results in data dump exposing info of over 200 million users

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's tenure at Twitter, launched when he bought the social network site last October for $44Bln, has been marked by the firing of top executives and almost half of its workforce, new hiring rules, and a slew of other contraversial changes. Reports of data-breach are yet another headache facing Twitter.

Over 200 million Twitter users' names, e-mail addresses, screen names, number of followers and phone numbers have reportedly been stolen in a massive hack attack, with the data dump now posted on the dark web.

The data breach, which took place as early as 2021, "will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing," according to Israel-based Hudson Rock cybersecurity-monitoring firm.

It added this could turn out to be "one of the most significant" data leaks yet recorded by the firm.

NPC

Canada to re-educate Jordan Peterson for 'wrongthink'

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Wokeism has destroyed Canada. We knew the situation was bad when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protesters in order to silence political action against his regime's appalling abuses of human rights. It became unsalvageable when Trudeau followed up this behaviour by speaking about his love of China's dictatorial powers over citizens.

Long gone are the days of suffocating niceness from our northern cousins. Now, professionals who disagree on social media with Canada's ruling elite find themselves ruthlessly threatened by institutions that are meant to stand for liberty of thought.

That 'stuffy' and outdated value is scorned by the younger generation who prefer the comfort of 'approved truth' and safe nests feathered with media 'consensus'.

While most Western regimes find themselves under attack from a mixture of neo-Marxism, eco-fascism, gender extremism, and whatever 'ism' TikTok culture involves - it is Canada that leads the way on policing 'wrongthink'. They have readily embraced the insidious idea that the government and its bureaucracies have a right to 're-educate' those who dissent.

Comment: See also: Ontario College Of Psychologists attempt to strip Jordan Peterson of his license

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Protests reignite in Peru, call for removal of new President who came to power following coup and amidst US meddling

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© Sebastian Castaneda/ReutersPeople walk during a march asking for peace, in Lima, January 3, 2023
Anti-government demonstrations and roadblocks have resumed in Peru after a two-week pause as the South American nation continues to reel from last month's impeachment, arrest and detention of former President Pedro Castillo.

Peruvian protesters on Wednesday used stones and burning tyres to barricade main routes in the southern regions of Puno, Cusco, Apurimac and Arequipa, as well as in Junin, a department in the centre of the country.

The crowds chanted for the removal of President Dina Boluarte, who took over on December 7 after the country's opposition-held Congress overwhelmingly voted to remove Castillo.

Comment: See also: 2 days before coup in Peru the US ambassador, who's also a veteran CIA agent, met with the country's defense minister


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Best of the Web: Central banks buy gold at fastest pace in 55 years as nations prepare to ditch the dollar

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Central banks are scooping up gold at the fastest pace since 1967, with analysts pinning China and Russia as big buyers in an indication that some nations are keen to diversify their reserves away from the dollar.

Data compiled by the World Gold Council (WGC), an industry-funded group, has shown demand for the precious metal has outstripped any annual amount in the past 55 years. Last month's estimates are also far larger than central banks' official reported figures, sparking speculation in the industry over the identity of the buyers and their motivations.

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Ireland's farms to be surveilled by 4 satellites every 5 days to check for 'non-compliance'

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New EU satellites will inspect all farms in Ireland every five days this year, according to The Irish Farmers Journal.

Four powerful polar-orbiting satellites will inspect all Irish farms every five days in 2023.

The newly intensified monitoring will identify non-compliance such as the presence of ineligible structures, incorrectly categorised forage areas, and ineligible land use, such as scrub claimed as forage area.

Comment: Rather than this being some petty revenue making scheme for the EU, this appears to be yet another move by the establishment, in their Europe-wide attack on farmers, to put as many out of business as possible; ostensibly done under guise of 'green policies', but with the more obvious consequence being to exacerbate the burgeoning food shortages: Netherlands to shut down 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules despite UN warning of looming global food shortages

This report also brings to mind a new policy in France which will also use satellites to surveil the property of citizens, this time to check whether they have a swimming pool or not, so the right taxes can be charged.

Considering the tyrannical and totalitarian maneuvers of governments across the planet during the lockdowns, these are (yet more) particularly sinister developments.


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Ideological capture: Wharton's majoring in woke capitalism. Some are taking an elective in dissent

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One of America's storied Ivy League executive training grounds is elevating a view of capitalism that shuns the very enterprises from which its namesake made his fortune: In 2023, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School will offer a new major called Environmental, Social and Governance Factors for Business.

The nation's first business school was founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, an industrialist who made a killing in mining and manufacturing, the sorts of "dirty" industries that ESG proponents disfavor. Now, the school that bears his name will have the distinction of becoming the first prominent institution to offer an ESG degree.

Skeptics, including former faculty and alumni of the school, many of whom spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of recriminations, fear the MBA program could serve as progressivism in business sheepskin clothing. One recent graduate warned against a one-sided presentation of left-wing politics used "to justify increasing the power of the state in markets and firms while demonizing capitalism."

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Why has there been no reckoning over Rotherham?

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© Getty ImagesThe number of victims in Rotherham alone
dwarfs the number of victims abused by Jimmy Savile.
GB News broke a remarkable story this week as part of their ongoing investigation into UK grooming gangs — an issue that may not be occupying the headlines as much as it once did, but which has certainly not gone away.

Mahroof Hussain is a former Labour Party politician who was forced to resign from his cabinet position at Rotherham Council in 2015 after the Casey Report named him as one of the figures who had "suppressed discussion" of grooming gangs operating in the town.

And yet, despite his disgrace, it is reported that Hussein has succeeded in reinventing himself as an anti-Islamophobia activist, working with groups including Tell MAMA and Faith Matters. And, in an extraordinary example of failing upwards, in October 2020 Hussain was appointed as the NHS Health Education England Regional Diversity & Inclusion Manager for the Midlands. In September 2022, he was promoted to become the national lead.

Comment: Why indeed? This travesty has deep roots and purposely ineffective repercussions.

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Israeli army kills 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem

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© Ahmad Tayem ApaimagesFuneral for Adam Ayyad, 15, in Bethlehem's Dheisheh refugee camp, West Bank
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli army forces Tuesday morning in the occupied West Bank, making him the third Palestinian killed since the start of the new year.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Adam Ayyad, 15, was shot with live ammunition in the chest, and was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning at a hospital in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Ayyad was a resident of the Dheisheh refugee camp, the largest of three Palestinian refugee camps in the city of Bethlehem, and was shot during an Israeli military raid into the camp.

Locals from the camp told Mondoweiss that confrontations began shortly after 4 a.m., after Israeli special forces entered the camp in civilian vehicles, followed by a large number of military troops.
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© TwitterAdam Ayyad

Comment: The new Netanyahu regime aims to double down on eradicating West Bank of all Palestinians, kill orders standing. The worst is yet to come.

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