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What is it with liberal reporters and their inability to be…normal? A Fox News videographer was killed in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv—and some writer at The New Yorker magazine decided to give a wholly inappropriate and unneeded lecture about the outlet. It was reported yesterday that Pierre Zakrzewski was killed, which prompted Susan Glasser to tweet, “What a tragedy. A cameraman died covering the war for a TV network that airs a pro-Putin propagandist as its top-rated primetime host.”

It is not shocking that German journalist Alina Lipp has been labeled a “terrorist” by the Ukrainian government when U.S. President Joe Biden’s government is doing the same thing to individuals against his narratives.Last week RAIR Foundation USA translated a video by a young German journalist living in Donetsk, Alina Lipp. After her video on the Donbas region went viral, she was registered on Ukraine’s official Terrorist website as a “Russian terrorist.” Lipp is neither a Russian citizen nor does she have a Russian passport.Lipp’s pro-Donbas reporting is believed to be why she was classified as a terrorist. She has...

Six students and their coach were killed, along with two others, when a van carrying members of a New Mexico university’s golf teams and a pickup collided Tuesday night in West Texas, officials said. Two more students were critically injured in the crash involving members of the University of the Southwest’s men’s and women’s golf teams, according to the school. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Steven Blanco said the collision happened around 8:17 p.m. on a two-lane road about nine miles from the city of Andrews, northwest of Midland-Odessa. "For unknown reasons, the Dodge pickup drove into the northbound...

Watch the video (at link), the host gets more disturbed with each comment coming from colonel. MacGregor reminds me of officers I served under while in the USMC. They are mission-driven and could care less about opinions outside the theater of war. Long before this Russia/Ukraine conflict started he predicted the onset of it. His prediction came at the beginning of this year. He argues that the United States teaming up with NATO to push Putin into a corner and that’s one of the major things that has started this conflict. Back in January of 2022, The Gray Zone reported...

An international team of researchers has revealed that tropical terrestrial methane (CH4) emissions explain more than 80% of the observed changes in the global atmospheric methane growth rate over 2010–2019. The study was published in Nature Communications on March 16. CH4 is the primary non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas. "On the 20-year scale, the warming effect of CH4 is 84 times that of CO2," said Prof. Liu Yi from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Methane has a short life (about one-tenth of carbon dioxide), and its emission reduction can achieve the purpose of...

The largest of the two voids is located just above the grand gallery — a passageway that leads to what may be the chamber of the pharaoh Khufu — and is about 98 feet (30 meters) long and 20 feet (6 m) in height, according to previous pyramid scans. Archaeologists are uncertain as to what they will find in the void, which could be one large area or several small rooms, they said. They also hope to find out the function of that void; the most fantastic possibility is that the opening is the hidden burial chamber of Khufu. A...

A Republican businessman running for governor says taxes are too high in Illinois. If he wins, Gary Rabine would take over a state agency that has unsuccessfully tried to collect more than $10,000 in delinquent taxes from one of his dissolved companies. Tax records show the Illinois Department of Employment Security filed a tax lien for $10,262 against Rabine Utility Pavements, LLC, in 2017. Rabine dissolved that company in 2019, according to records filed with the Illinois Secretary of State, but the bill remains unpaid. The tax lien has no mailing address listed on it, which raised questions about whether...

A little-known Republican congressman from Nebraska will begin a high-profile trial Wednesday in California over accusations by federal prosecutors that he lied about illegal campaign contributions from a Nigerian billionaire. The trial of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry in Los Angeles will be the first of a sitting member of Congress in 21 years and could all but end the political career of a congressman seen as a reliable conservative who coasted to easy wins but isn't a familiar name outside of Nebraska.

A woman nominated Friday to Florida’s Board of Education once petitioned deceased talk show host Rush Limbaugh for books for her local elementary school to be used by students as props for her husband’s state House campaign.The move offers a glimpse into what her approach to curriculum might be like for some and potentially will bring renewed scrutiny to the nomination from others.Esther Byrd, one of two names advanced for Senate confirmation Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis, posted a plea for a classroom set of books on the Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network Facebook Group.Noting that Cord Byrd (a...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that officials “have real concerns” that Russia could use chemical weapons during its invasion of Ukraine, even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russian threats a “bluff.” During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Blinken was asked how real the risk was for the conflict in Ukraine to turn into a nuclear war.

Scott Charmoli's patients' teeth were just fine, but fine wasn't making him enough money. So the dentist in Jackson, Wis., drilled into and broke his patients' teeth in order to charge them for fixing the damage he'd caused, according to federal prosecutors. By doing so, Charmoli went from pulling in $1.4 million and affixing 434 crowns in 2014 to raking in $2.5 million and performing more than 1,000 crown procedures a year later.

There is nothing as specious as a a pontificating politician. Take James-no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case-Comey for example; here he is preaching the benefits of “deterrence” to us. But the Jan. 6 investigation is mostly about something you might not think about much in your normal caseload: general deterrence. It is about sending a message—a shock wave of deterrence—so future Americans, whether misled by a lying demagogue or rightfully concerned about the loss of their rights, never again assault the institutions of government. That means that even those who “merely” trespassed by following the crowd inside must...

As Ed pointed out earlier today, it’s already obvious how insane it is (the appropriate word) for the United States to be offering sanctions relief to Russia in the middle of a war in exchange for getting Iran to sign off on a meaningless and largely unenforceable deal. That’s particularly true when you consider that Iran just dropped a number of missiles around one of our facilities in Iraq. But it’s not just pundits and foreign leaders who are confused by the Biden strategy (to put it charitably) in these negotiations. ---SNIP--- You’ll notice that she repeats variations of the...

t's hardly the first time mask and vaccine mandates have proved confusingly illogical, but the scene that played out at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn over the weekend put an exclamation point on two years of back-and-forth guidance that sidelined those who choose not to get vaccinated or go along with the theatrics COVID has wrought. Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving attended Saturday's game to support his teammates and was free to enjoy the game...but only from his courtside seat rather than his team's bench. Because Irving has chosen not to get vaccinated, a New York City mandate for private...

Sometimes, events in the news become instant comedy without even trying. This is one of those times. A logo for the "Women's Network" feminist group in Australia has been yanked after being mercilessly mocked for its apparent likeness to male genitalia. "Some things you simply cannot make up," noted Hailey Sanibel at Blue State Conservative. "If the Babylon Bee had produced a logo for a dyed-in-the-wool feminist organization and meant to subvert it, it could not have a done a better job."

How Xi Jinping's dogmatic pursuit of zero Covid policy in China risks sparking ANOTHER global supply chain crisis by shutting down major manufacturing hubs causing shortages of iPhones, cars and other gadgets Authorities across China are trying to stem the spread of the country's worst Covid outbreak in two years Some of the toughest measures seen in key manufacturing hubs of Shenzhen, Dongguan and Changchun Regions' factories supply everything from electric scooters and toys to air conditioning units and USB sticks New Chinese lockdowns prompted by President Xi's zero Covid policy risk sparking another global supply chain crisis and causing...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Zelensky requests a No Fly Zone from US Congress, requiring US fighters to attack the Russian military 6:33 AM · Mar 16, 2022·Twitter Web App

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Congress for help directly Wednesday, telling US lawmakers "we need you right now" as he invoked tragedies in American history like the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attack. Zelensky addressed President Joe Biden directly in the historic speech, "You are the leader of your grand nation. I wish you to be the leader of the world. Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace," he said at the conclusion of his remarks, which were met with a standing ovation from lawmakers.

The third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is covered in the fog of war and that can be confusing. In this episode we investigate some of the Russian claims of victories and advances around the country to avoid falling into a cognitive bias trap. I suggest that we're living in a bubble thanks to the social media platforms that are pushing us more of what we want to see and not what we need to see.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Monday came out against the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin for a top position on the Federal Reserve, saying that he's "unable" to support Raskin over her stance on inflation and energy costs. "I have carefully reviewed Sarah Bloom Raskin's qualifications and previous public statements," Manchin said in a statement. "Her previous public statements have failed to satisfactorily address my concerns about the critical importance of financing an all-of-the-above energy policy to meet our nation's critical energy needs," "I have come to the conclusion that I am unable to support her nomination to serve as...