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A Russian prosecutor has ordered the network of offices supporting jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny to suspend all activities across Russia. The Moscow prosecutor also applied to a court to suspend the work of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). They are moving to label the groups as "extremist", which would allow the authorities to jail activists and freeze the groups' bank accounts.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it will move to grant California permission to set stricter climate requirements for cars and SUVs, a reversal of a key Trump administration policy. The step, coming days after the Transportation Department withdrew Trump-era restrictions of state tailpipe emission rules, could help pave the way for a broader climate deal with the nation’s automakers. The EPA will hold a virtual public hearing on its proposal on June 2, and will take comment on the plan until July 6. Alliance For Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella, whose members produce nearly all of the cars...

Central Florida still has the most strikes per kilometer, however. A lack of lightning in South Florida and the Panhandle bring Florida’s average down. Florida always had a reputation for having the most lightning strikes — at least until now. Oklahoma has overtaken the Sunshine State with slightly more lightning bolts per square kilometer over the last five years, according to Vaisala, a Finnish environmental monitoring company. The margin between the states was slim. Florida’s 82.8 strikes per kilometer over the last five years barely edged Oklahoma’s 83.4 flashes. Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with Vaisala, told the Washington Post that...

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....Body camera footage shows the teenager approaching a young woman while holding a knife, which is when police reportedly opened fire. Bryant’s aunt has said that Ma’Khia made one of the two 911 calls placed prior to the police arriving on the scene, but law enforcement has not yet confirmed the identity of either caller. But according to Fox 8, the woman Bryant appeared to be lunging at when police shot her was identified and doxed by people online. After her address and photo began circulating on social media, the woman reportedly told police she was receiving death threats. Fox...

Twitter said it would not take action on a tweet posted by basketball player LeBron James targeting a Columbus police officer who fatally shot an knife-wielding assailant attacking an unidentified woman in Columbus, Ohio last week. The company claims its hands are tied because James deleted his tweet before the company could decide if it broke the rules. “YOU’RE NEXT, #ACCOUNTABILITY” tweeted James last week, along with a picture of the police officer’s face, after news of the shooting emerged. Video footage later revealed that the police officer took a split-second decision to discharge his firearm, as the assailant, 16-year...

Here you will find a collection of useful training materials. I will attempt to post more as I get them. If you find this library valuable, please put a couple of bucks in the Patreon fund. This will make it easier for me to expand this library. 3-25 Land Navigation DOWNLOAD FM 4-25 Field Sanitation Team DOWNLOAD FM 5-103 Survivability DOWNLOAD FM 5-151968 Field Fortifications DOWNLOAD FM5-201968 Camoflauge DOWNLOAD FM 6-22.5 Stress DOWNLOAD FM 7-1 Battle training DOWNLOAD FM 12-25 Guerrillas & how to fight them DOWNLOAD FM 12-80 Kill or be killed DOWNLOAD FM 20-3 Camouflage & concealment DOWNLOAD...

PAWTUCKET, RI—Hasbro announced today an exciting new playset for kids and little innocent babies: "My First Knife Fight," to be released under its Playskool brand aimed at toddlers.The playset features real shivs kids can use to stab each other in an innocent street fight. Including a variety of knives, from makeshift shivs made out of toothbrushes and razor blades to switchblades and kitchen knives, the playset is designed to entertain kids of all ages."Raise your kids right with My First Knife Fight!" says the voiceover in a new commercial for the product. "As everyone knows, all sweet and innocent children...

Boris Johnson has denied that he would rather “let the bodies pile in their thousands” than order the third lockdown, as was claimed he had said, amid a briefing war between Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings, and possibly other actors unknown in the heart of government.

Rep. Val Demings says she believes the police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant last week was acting in accordance with his training, as body camera footage appears to show the teen was about to stab another girl. Demings (D-Fla.), the former chief of police in Orlando, made the comments to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday after being asked about the fatal police shooting in Columbus, Ohio. “I also was a patrol officer who was out there on the street having to make those split-second decisions,” the Florida lawmaker explained. “Everybody has the benefit of slowing the video...

A legal battle could possibly be avoided between NHL’s Kraken and The Kraken Bar & Lounge in the U-District as Seattle Hockey Partners announced Friday night that it is changing the name of its practice facility restaurant, according to a statement sent to KIRO 7. The University District punk rock bar said it was suing Seattle’s new hockey team for $3.5 million, accusing it of trademark infringement and alleging that the organization is harming its brand. According to court documents filed Thursday afternoon, the punk rock bar said the NHL’s new team name, Seattle Kraken, has caused confusion, leading some...

America is on the verge of anarchy. Every time a black man is killed by police the community finds itself on the edge and the nation wonders if an inferno is about to erupt. This reality dovetailed with a meme I saw a few days ago: “The Biggest Change Since Rodney King is the Video Quality”. While video quality has improved, one thing that hasn’t changed is negative outcomes from resisting arrest. Some of the names Americans know that demonstrate that include: George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Rayshard Brooks and Michael Brown. If the media were being honest they would characterize...

A Florida woman who spent time in prison for a fatal crash years ago was traveling over 100 mph Sunday morning when she caused another terrifying wreck, killing one of her passengers and leaving two others seriously hurt, authorities said. Jennifer Carvajal, 24, was driving on Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County around 1:30 a.m. when she sped past a state trooper who clocked her three times going at 111 mph, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. As the trooper was trying to pull her over, the Tampa woman made a right turn and crashed her Hyundai Elantra into the shoulder....

Noah Pollak John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. Let that sink in. Wow. https://nytimes.com/2021/04/25/world/asia/iran-suleimani-zarif.html

Vice President Kamala Harris has a lower approval rating than former Vice President Mike Pence by a one point margin in their respective first 100 days in office. When a Fox News poll asked respondents Sunday whether they have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of the first female Vice President, Harris received a 49 percent approval rating.

Officials in northern Spain’s Pamplona have called off the famed San Fermín bull-running festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pamplona Mayor Enrique Maya cited a prevalence of coronavirus outbreaks, a high occupancy rate in hospitals and a slow rollout of vaccines as reasons to call off this summer’s celebration. “The festival cannot be organized overnight,” Maya said Monday during a news conference. “This is very hard. I never thought that this could happen.” The nine-day festival in July is easily Spain’s most international event. The festival was popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel...

Former Democrat Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on Twitter Sunday asking people to stop what she describes as “racialization” and “racialism,” and instead look at all individuals as “part of the human family.” “Please, please let us stop the racialization of everyone and everything — racialism,” Gabbard said in the 1-minute video.

The intent of the Green New Deal is not to "save the planet," but rather to use climate alarmism as an excuse to destroy America's capitalist economy Twelve years ago, a climate research cheating scandal known as “Climategate 2009” rocked the scientific world to the core. Hacked emails among highly influential scientists at the center of worldwide hysteria over climate change revealed routine data tampering and other instances of flagrant scientific misconduct. Although the scientists implicated denied wrong-doing, emails hacked from computers at their employer, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealed a consistent pattern of...

THIS is the gateway to the New Normal and the Great Reset Last week, I published Dr. Andrew Kaufman’s devastating critique of the claim that SARS-CoV-2 has been discovered. Dr. Kaufman offered a blow-by-blow analysis of a typical description of “virus-isolation.” He showed that no such isolation has occurred. In other words, “here it is,” “we found a new virus”—- false. Unsupportable. Fraudulent.

With the threat of House censure safely behind her, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California went on the offensive against a judge who took issue with comments she made about the Derek Chauvin trial. Last weekend, during an appearance at a protest in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Waters referenced the Chauvin trial prior to the guilty verdicts against the former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd last year. She said at the time that if Chauvin was not found guilty, “We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve...