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WASHINGTON, Monday, March 17. NEW MILITARY DEPARTMENT. A new Military Department has been created, composed of the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and Major-Gen. HUNTER has been assigned to its command. The headquarters are at Beaufort. Gen. HUNTER will rank Gen. SHERMAN, but this is not considered in a military sense as a supersedure of Gen. SHERMAN. Gen. FREMONT has had an interview with the President and the Secretary of War. He will press his affairs for promptly starting to his Department. His staff will therefore be determined on at an early day. His headquarters will be in...

President Joe Biden’s deputies are taking $377 million from GOP-run heartland states to aid landlords in four Democrat-run states that use illegal migration to inflate their economies, according to a report in the New York Times. White House officials have already pressured governors in states to shift $875 million for poor renters into urban districts, the newspaper reported March 16, adding: Now they are going one step further, pulling back [$377 million in] cash from states with relatively few tenants — like Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming — or localities that failed to efficiently distribute the aid, including Alabama,...

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Letting the world know that the Democrats fear him more than Donald Trump at the top of the 2024 presidential ticket. It would be hard to find a person who better represents the liberal media establishment than Thomas B. Edsall, whose career includes the Washington Post, New York Times and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In his latest column for the Times, he attempts to slam Ron DeSantis, letting the world know that the Democrats fear him more than Donald Trump at the top of the 2024 presidential ticket. But in the process of doing so, far from...

In a logic of digitizing and centralizing everything, the Ukrainian government launched in 2020 an application called Diia which brings together identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements, social benefits, and more of millions of Ukraine residents. Such a model is only known so far in China with the famous social credit. Ukraine is the champion of digital identity with the Diia app As you all know here, governments want to move towards digitization of everyday life by bringing together almost all services on your telephone. While the European Union had announced a test to digitize the...

European air safety group warns unidentified source is disrupting GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine Jake Epstein,Taylor Rains Fri, March 18, 2022, 4:10 AM·2 min read The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine are being impacted by an unidentified source. Disruptions have occurred in places around the Black Sea, eastern Finland, and the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. The warning comes as sanctions block parts, maintenance, and support to Russian airlines. A European aviation safety regulator on Thursday issued a warning that an unidentified source is disrupting GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine....

Nebraska Constitutional Carry (permitless carry) is advancing in the Nebraska Senate. On March 11, 2022, the Senate (Nebraska is the only state with a unicameral legislature) voted for Cloture on LB 773. Cloture votes in Nebraska are required after 8 hours of debate in this stage of the legislative process, which is designated a General File. The General File vote is considered the most difficult hurdle for a bill to overcome on the way to becoming law in Nebraska. The cloture vote needed 33 votes, or two-thirds of the senate, to proceed. There are 49 senators in the Nebraska Senate....

Poor President Zelensky. Not only must he risk constant assassination attempts and an effort by the Russian military to take over his entire country. On top of that, when he appeals to his friends and allies he seems to imagine that we are something we are not. On Wednesday morning, when the Ukrainian president addressed the US Congress he tried to appeal to Americans. He spoke of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and 9/11. And he tried to summon up the foundational ideals of this country. He said that “Just like anyone else in the United States I remember your...

A massive dust storm originating from the Sahara Desert in Africa has covered parts of Western and Central Europe this week. Strong winds from Storm Celia whipped up sand from the northwest coast of Africa and blanketed much of Portugal, Spain, and France, transforming skies into eerie shades of blood orange, worsening air quality, and leaving a layer of dust on everything. On Tuesday, the European Environment Agency said dust concentrations in Spain were five times over their recommended limit for air quality. “Air quality is recognized as being vital to human health as high concentrations of dust can have...

A new "warning" on CO2 levels accidentally makes the case for more of the plant gowth-enhancing gas in the atmosphere. We are constantly told we have only a few years to solve the problem of global warming climate change, yet this report projects allergy problems in the year 2100.The problem appears to be that we will have too many plants thriving because of CO2. Allergy season will start much earlier than normal and be far more intense because of climate crisis, study suggests The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found by the end of the century, pollen...

Krakow, Poland – In four weeks of war, three million people have left war-ravaged Ukraine with the majority crossing into Poland. While the welcome from the government and civil society has been open-armed, space is running out for the newcomers. ... About 150,000 Ukrainians have so far travelled to Krakow. Local authorities have turned every available space – sports halls, dormitories and hotels – into shelters, and it is currently near impossible to find a flat or an affordable hotel room in the city of 700,000. The city council’s crisis response fund was 19 million zloty ($4.5m); it has already...

President Biden will tell Chinese President Xi Jinping during their phone call on Friday that if China takes any steps to help Russia’s war against Ukraine, it will face consequences. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters at the State Department that Biden “will make clear that China will bear responsibility for any actions it takes to support Russia’s aggression, and we will not hesitate to impose costs.” The phone conversation is scheduled to take place four days after National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Rome with the Chinese Communist Party’s top foreign affairs official, Yang Jiechi, and delivered...

There’s a consistent pattern lately of leftists being excessively interested in children’s sexuality and giving groomers and pedophiles access to children. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he leaves the Supreme Court. Biden selected her because she’s a Black woman. He might wish he’d vetted her better than that. It turns out that Jackson, like so many leftists, has a completely unwholesome interest in children and sex. In Jackson’s case, this takes the form of desperately trying to lessen sentences for pedophiles and child pornographers. I must admit that, when I first...

Residents of Greece would have had to pay approximately six percent of their average monthly wage for a full tank of gas this past Monday due to the price hike connected to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. As Statista’s Florian Zandft details below, this is the highest figure among all OECD countries. Even with the United States seeing record highs of more than $4 per gallon last week, the nation still comes in last in terms of the average monthly wage share needed for a full refueling as Statista’s chart shows. You will find more infographics at StatistaAccording to combined...

Many were shocked to witness the Canadian government’s brutal suppression of the truckers’ protest against vaccine mandates. Previously, draconian lockdowns oppressed many more Canadians, resulting in the arrest of pastors for holding church services. A decade before that, Mark Steyn, a critic of militant Islam, had endured his own government’s “show trial” under Canadian bureaucrats. How could such things happen in the land of those polite, mild Canadians? The stereotype of Canadians as polite, cooperative people seems to be widely accepted. They often view themselves that way. One Canadian joke goes, “How do you get a hundred drunk and rowdy...

As the conflict in Ukraine rages, residents of a region in northern Poland that will house a US missile facility worry they could become Russian targets in case of a wider conflict. "If a serious armed conflict breaks out, the first strike will target our shield," said Ryszard Kwiatkowski, the former deputy mayor of the town of Slupsk, home to around 90,000 people. Washington has said the facility in the nearby village of Redzikowo, which will become operational this year, is intended to defend the West from ballistic missiles fired by countries like Iran. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has...

If Putin has underestimated the moxie of his political peer in Ukraine, he is at no such loss with Joe Biden. The Treaty of Versailles, doling out spoils to the victors at the end of the First World War, was a Carthaginian peace that sliced and diced Germany, surrendering provinces to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and cutting homeland ties to seven million ethnic Germans. Three and a half million landed in the eastern region of the former Czechoslovakia, then called Sudetenland. A postwar, impoverished, and decadent Weimar Republic gave rise to Adolf Hitler, who viewed the Sudeten expats as a...

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Did you ever wonder what happened to Dmitry Medvedev? He was co-leader of Russia with Vladimir Putin between 2008 and 2018 and was seen as a moderate and somewhat pro-western compared to Putin. Under their constitution, Putin could not run for the presidency in 2008 and Medvedev succeeded him, promptly nominating him as prime minister. Medvedev revealed later that they had struck a deal, whereby Putin could run again as president in 2012. The term limits were increased to six years, Putin and Medvedev switched jobs, and continued to collaborate on a wide range of initiatives. The 2018 presidential election...

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