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NPR’s Tearjerker Flop: Spins Illegal Immigrant’s Arrest as a Sob Story, Ignores His Street-Blocking Stunt

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: THE NEWS, Twitchy

WATCH: Anti-Semitic Acts of Terror Are a ‘Direct Result’ of US Support to Israel, Mahmoud Khalil Says

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Washington Free Beacon

In his first broadcast interview since his release from detention, Mahmoud Khalil blamed the United States’ “unconditional support” of Israel for the recent string of anti-Semitic attacks.

“What is happening is a direct result of the U.S. unconditional [sic] support to Israel. People want to be heard. And unfortunately, they are [resorting] to violence to do that,” Khalil told ABC News anchor Linsey Davis on Monday. Khalil initially condemned violence, but immediately pivoted and excused it.

Davis asked Khalil if he agreed that “it is never okay to use violence to express yourself.” He said “definitely,” but added that anti-Semitic attacks are “desperate attempts to be heard.”

“There is no place for any form of racism, including anti-blackness, anti-Semitism in the Palestine movement,” Khalil said.

Anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. have risen exponentially since Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault, including a recent string of high-profile terror attacks motivated by the pro-Palestinian movement. In the past month, a shooter killed two Israeli embassy employees, and a firebomber injured 15 peaceful Israeli hostage supporters. In April, an arsonist set Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s residence ablaze

Khalil himself was a leader in anti-Semitic protests at Columbia University, serving as a negotiator during spring 2024 encampments. Video footage placed him at an illegal protest at Barnard College—during which agitators disseminated Hamas propaganda—just days before his March arrest.

Khalil, a Syrian native and Algerian national who worked for the Hamas-tied United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees during the Oct. 7 attack, was released on bail Friday after spending more than three months in ICE custody, though deportation proceedings are ongoing. The Trump administration had revoked his visa and green card as part of its crackdown on student visa holders who support terror groups.

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AC/DC fans urge band to ‘retire’ after lackluster concert footage goes viral

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: NY Post, THE NEWS

Concert footage from one of AC/DC’s recent live shows has sparked fierce fan debate on social media, with some urging the legendary rockers to pack up their guitars for good.

How CISOs became the gatekeepers of $309B AI infrastructure spending

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Venture Beat


Security vendors race to control $309B AI infrastructure market. How AgenticOps, eBPF and silicon-speed security will determine the winners.Read More

Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: BUSINESS, Venture Beat

Engineer works on laptop at desk below network of orange pipelines against blue backdrop in flat AI watercolor style illustration


EXCLUSIVE: New York City based startup Emergence AI, founded by former IBM researchers, previously made headlines for its impressive automated system that allows enterprises to type in a requested task in plain natural language and automatically create a fleet of agents to help complete it. But that’s not all the company has up its sleeve whe…Read More

‘First breath of fresh, non-radioactive air’: Arab journalists, liberals, praise U.S. strike for ending Iran threat

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: THE NEWS, WND

Seven B-2A Spirit bombers prepare to depart Whiteman AFB, Missouri, for Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER to strike Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Courtesy 509th Bomb Wing)

Seven B-2A Spirit bombers prepare to depart Whiteman AFB, Missouri, for Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER to strike Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Courtesy 509th Bomb Wing)
Seven B-2A Spirit bombers prepare to depart Whiteman AFB, Missouri, for Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER to strike Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Courtesy 509th Bomb Wing)

Key voices in the Arab community in the Middle East, those voices described as liberal, have praised the United States strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, with one going so far as to share an image of Iranian chief Ali Khamenei costumed as a “clown” and call for his death.

The comments were compiled b the Middle East Media Research Institute, which documented how that ridicule of the radical Islamic regime leader came from Amr Bakley, an Egyptian liberal based in the U.S.

MEMRI reported, “The June 22, 2025 U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was met with approval and satisfaction by many Arab journalists and liberals, who took to X to express their support for it. Some thanked U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he had ‘made history’ and ‘saved humanity’ from the nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Others expressed hope for the downfall of this regime, and several mocked Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling on him to surrender unconditionally or else face a grim fate. It should be mentioned that some of these writers also expressed support for Israel’s attack on Iran, launched on June 13, stating that this country was not defending only itself but the entire Middle East.”

“The dream, the danger and the Iranian nuclear project have come to an end for a long time. Iran wasted billions that went down the drain at the expense of its people’s livelihood. Will reason prevail, with Iran launching an economic development project instead of a military one of nukes and missiles?” wrote Saudi journalist Abd al-Aziz Al-Khames.

Another Saudi journalist, Wafa Al-Rashid, released a series of posts, including, “Some regimes are not only a burden on their own people but on all of humanity! They feed on oppression, export chaos, impoverish the world and destroy the people. Their existence is not a ‘sovereign decision’ but a danger to the future of the world.”

Dalia Ziada, a liberal Egyptian researcher who lives in the U.S., explained, “President Trump has made history in the Middle East… for the second time. God bless America! I pray this will trigger the geopolitical reset that the Middle East has been craving since 1979. In case you are wondering, the first time president Trump made history in the Middle East was the Abraham Accords in 2020.”

Emirati liberal Amjad Taha was effusive in praise of President Donald Trump.

“To those still struggling with English or math: the U.S. won. Israel won. The Islamist in Iran lost. The Middle East just took its first breath of fresh, non-radioactive air. Trump didn’t just send missiles, he sent a message. No nukes. No bullies. No threats to America’s allies, especially Israel. This wasn’t just war. This was diplomacy with a spine, a masterclass in keeping promises and crushing bad deals. Fordo was flattened. Natanz was neutralized. Esfahan was erased. These weren’t peace-loving labs. They were ticking bombs. And now, they’re gone with precision.”

Taha continued, “God bless America. God save lives. As for Tehran’s hardliners, someone please bring them chamomile tea, a therapist, and a globe. It’s time they realize the world isn’t flat, and it doesn’t revolve around them. In the end, peace isn’t given. It’s earned, protected, and sometimes enforced. And those who chase destruction always forget.. justice doesn’t knock. It lands.”

Baghdad Post website chief Sufian Al-Samarrai wrote, “[Trump] did it along with the Lord of the World and saved humanity from the nuclear [program] of the extremist Nazi Islam.”

Ahdeya Ahmed Al-Sayed, Bahraini liberal, wrote, “It is a historic turning point that will transform the Middle East, [leading to] a future in which the terror of the ‘rule of the jurisprudent’ [i.e., the Iranian regime] no longer threatens the region. With this step America fulfilled its obligation and put an end to the matter.”

Sam Altman Is Heavy on the Promise, Light on Problems with Coming Singularity

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

The warnings and prognostications from tech experts on what could be coming soon with artificial intelligence have been many, but the message from the head of a leading chatbot model painted a dizzyingly rosy picture. 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman illuminated AI’s promise in a piece he headlined “The Gentle Singularity.”

“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started,” Altman began. “Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. … [And] we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output of people using them.”

Then came the promise from Altman:

“AI will contribute to the world in many ways, but the gains to quality of life from AI driving faster scientific progress and increased productivity will be enormous; the future can be vastly better than the present. Scientific progress is the biggest driver of overall progress; it’s hugely exciting to think about how much more we could have. … 

“[T]he 2030s are likely going to be wildly different from any time that has come before. We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out. …

“The rate of new wonders being achieved will be immense. It’s hard to even imagine today what we will have discovered by 2035; maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next year; or from a major materials science breakthrough one year to true high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces the next year. Many people will choose to live their lives in much the same way, but at least some people will probably decide to ‘plug in’.”

And to Altman’s point, from news rooms to toy manufacturers, society is already adopting AI technology at a rapid pace. According to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in its 2025 Digital News Report, “AI chatbots and interfaces [are] emerging as a source of news as search engines and other platforms integrate real-time news,” with seven percent saying they use AI for news each week. And that number is “much higher with under-25s (15%).”

Later pivoting to potential pitfalls, Altman, like others, mentioned the difficulty that will come from “whole classes of jobs going away,” but unlike most, he quickly dismisses this, contending we will all be so much “richer” as a result of technological advancement. What then are the “serious challenges” humanity will face going forward, according to Altman?

Altman mentions two: (1) Safety issues, or what he refers to as the “alignment problem,” whether “we can robustly guarantee that we get AI systems to learn and act towards what we collectively really want over the long-term[;]” and (2) making sure to “widely distribute access to superintelligence given the economic implications.”

Both appear at first to be laudable goals, and indeed, Altman is correct in asserting that wide accessibility is paramount. But what if the vast majority of people do “decide to ‘plug in’”?

In building on the previous installment from this column, it becomes glaringly clear the problems with both Atlman’s notion of how to solve the “alignment problem” and with making sure there is wide distribution so that everyone is able to “plug in.”

Starting with wide distribution, society is already revealing cracks in the promise Altman sees with AI.

Earlier this year, AI “deepfakes” — among other pressures — led to the passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a federal law prohibiting the nonconsensual publication of intimate images, which includes “digital forgeries” using AI, according to the Congressional Research Service Legal Sidebar.

Just this past weekend, news out of the UK revealed that thousands of university students had been caught cheating using AI. “A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students,” reported The Guardian. “That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.”

Have you heard the new startling relationship news? In a CBS Saturday Morning report, ChatGPT user Chris Smith told the outlet that he actually thinks he fell in “love” with a chatbot named “Sol” that he programmed and affectionately refers to as a “her.” 

The kicker: Much like how many have become so reliant on tech that they can’t travel to the grocery store and back home without using a GPS, is it even a surprise that AI may be eroding our critical thinking skills? TIME reported Tuesday that “[a] new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.” The results? “Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels,’ according to TIME. “Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.” 

But that’s not even the alarming part.

As far as the “alignment problem” goes, who decides what AI systems learn and act towards?

Like with any new technology, how the tool is used determines the vastness of its utility for good or for evil … which is precisely the point, and the problem.

Altman claims the solution is for the “collective” to decide, which sounds like a remark straight out of the communist playbook. 

And let’s not forget, then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s seemingly unwittingly let slip the biggest problem with AI: that AI could be used as a tool to determine people’s opinions if fed certain information during the input process.

As American Family News Reporter/Anchor Steve Jordahl put it in a recent piece, “It’s all about who’s pulling the strings.”

And right now, as numerous MRC Free Speech America reports have consistently shown, that means the left is pulling the strings. Billionaire AI owner Elon Musk recently admitted in an X post that even “Grok is parroting legacy media.”

Free speech advocates the world over have their work cut out for them. The free speech battle has just reached another phase, and the MRC will continue to take it on at every turn.

Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Kohberger’s former jail guard called to testify in quadruple murder case as witness list grows

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: Fox News, THE NEWS

US Oil Producers Rushed To Hedge… Just In Time

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: THE NEWS, Zerohedge

US Oil Producers Rushed To Hedge… Just In Time

Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,

  • U.S. oil producers rapidly increased hedging activities to lock in higher prices following a surge triggered by Israel’s strike on Iranian facilities.

  • Hedge trades hit record highs on platforms like Aegis Hedging as producers anticipated short-term price spikes, aiming to protect profits amid geopolitical risks.

  • With a ceasefire now easing geopolitical tensions, the window for securing higher oil prices has quickly closed, returning WTI to pre-conflict levels around $65 per barrel.

U.S. oil producers flocked to hedge higher prices for their output for the rest of the year and early into 2026 as international crude oil prices surged earlier this month.

Early on June 13 local time, Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and military leadership in coordinated strikes that sent oil prices surging amid concerns that an escalating conflict could disrupt oil flows from the Middle East.

On the night of June 12 and the following morning, Texas-based Aegis Hedging Solutions – a company with a platform for oil producers’ hedging – registered its highest-ever number of hedge trades, Aegis Hedging’s president Matt Marshall told Bloomberg.

U.S. shale producers, who were under-hedged going into this spring, saw a major opportunity to lock in higher prices for the next few months as WTI crude prices surged out of the high $50s – low $60s per barrel price range and hit the $75 mark last week. 

Oil prices had lingered into the low $60s for the three months between early April and early June, as the U.S. tariff blitz and the OPEC+ production hikes weighed on market sentiment with fears of oversupply.

As of March, a survey by Standard Chartered of 40 independent U.S. oil and gas companies revealed they had little protection, with a 2025 oil hedge ratio of just 21% for their combined 5.03 million barrels per day (bpd) of production and a 2026 hedge ratio of just 4%.

To compare, the U.S. shale industry entered 2020 with an oil hedge ratio of 51.7%, which provided significant support when oil prices collapsed during the pandemic. 

As of the end of 2024, independent North American oil and gas producers had more than 80% of their first-half 2025 oil production unhedged, leaving them exposed as OPEC+ supply hikes and concerns about a global recession weighed on the market, data from Evaluate Energy showed in April. 

Hedging activity, however, spiked on June 12-13 to a record high on the Aegis Hedging platform as producers rushed to lock in higher prices in the short term amid the geopolitics-driven jump in WTI prices.

Such war premium-related spikes in oil prices tend to lift the front of the futures curve more than contracts further out in time, unlike in price jumps related to fundamentals.

In the case with the Middle East conflict, the hedging strategy was geared more toward the short term, Aegis Hedging says. 

“In this case it was probably a six-month effect,” Aegis Hedging’s Marshall told Reuters.

“Producers recognized that this could be a fleeting issue and so they saw a price that was above their budget for the first time in a few months, and instead of doing a structure that would give them a floor which is below market, they opted to be aggressive and lock in,” Marshall added.   

U.S. oil and gas executives polled in the Dallas Fed Energy Survey in Q1 indicated that their companies need an average $65 per barrel to profitably drill a new well. 

Oil companies that hedged production probably did so just in time. The tentative ceasefire between Iran and Israel, which was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump as “complete and total,” has deflated the geopolitical risk premium and brought WTI oil back to $65 per barrel, roughly the level where it traded at before the Israeli strike on Iran.

Tyler Durden
Tue, 06/24/2025 – 11:40

Trump’s Epic Takedown: Calls AOC ‘The Mouse,’ Roasts Her Squad, and Tells Her to Clean Up Queens

June 24, 2025 Ogghy Filed Under: THE NEWS, Twitchy

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