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The Admiral Makarov is one of only three ships of its class in Russia's Black Sea fleet and its sinking would be a blow to Vladimir Putin coming shortly after Moscow lost its flagship Pictures emerging on social media reportedly shows smoke rising from Russia's Admiral Makarov warship (Image: Twitter) Russia's massive Admiral Makarov warship has reportedly been hit by Ukrainian missiles causing it to burst into flames. The Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate was on fire this morning in what would be a fresh blow for warmonger Vladimir Putin, a number of reports have said. It was said to be close...

<p>CHICAGO (WGN) — A man is in custody after opening a plane’s emergency exit and walking onto the wing of the moving aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Thursday morning.</p><p>The incident occurred around 4:30 a.m. on United Airlines flight 2478, which had just arrived at O’Hare from San Diego. The aircraft was in the process of taxiing to the airport’s gate.</p>

The Kremlin has denied that it has any information about a reported Ukrainian strike on a Russian warship in the Black Sea. Speculation has been growing on Friday over the fate of the Admiral Makarov which Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said on his Telegram account had been hit in a missile strike and burst into flames. Russian forces sent helicopters to rescue the crew of the ship, according to Ukrainian news site Dumskaya. The vessel was said to have been sailing close to Snake Island in the Black Sea. However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters "we do not have...

[Yo-Yo Note: This is a compilation of several Twitter threads by Will Chamberlain. I have created links to the images that he originally had in his posts. I didn't put the actual images into this post because it made Will's naration too hard to follow. Just click on the links to see the images that he is revering to in each segment.]https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1521685968939630592ThreadWill Chamberlain @willchamberlainMeet Elizabeth Deutsch. She's currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.And, in my humble opinion, she's the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.But first,...

It is a curious twist that many on the left who consider themselves to be refined iconoclasts, who feel obliged to incessantly belabor the flaws of figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, are also among the most fervent idol-worshipers. The latest of these idols is, of course, none other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, now the subject of a cult that, in its amorous overtones, mirrors closely the ill-fated cult of Andrew Cuomo. Conservatives, sick of being told to worship the media-approved Hero of the Day, are understandably skeptical. This skepticism is justified: Zelensky, a comedian in an olive-green...

ohn was a world-class expert and instructor on shooting, firearms, and ammunition. Having been introduced to gun culture at a young age by his uncle Graves Gladney, also of St. Louis, John became a nationally recognized prodigy in shooting and designing firearms and ammunition by the time he graduated from high school. It was a lifelong passion for John, who as an adult became a world-renowned and highly respected expert in many different areas of the global firearms and ammunition industries. His dedication to gun culture and to the history of firearms in America led to his ongoing work as...

DISPATCHES FROM GEN. McCLELLAN. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, May 4 -- 7 P.M. Hon E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Our cavalry and horse-artillery came up with the enemy's rear guard in their intrenchments, about two miles this side of Williamsburgh. A brisk fight ensued just as my Aid left. SMITH'S Division of infantry arrived on the ground, and, I presume, carried his works, though I have not yet heard. The enemy's rear is strong, but I have force enough up there to answer all purposes. We have, thus far, seventy-one heavy guns, and large amounts of tents, ammunition, &c....

There are calls for a #MothersDayStrike. We support it, along with @StrikeForChoice who’s planning a day of walk-outs on Thu May 12. #DefendRoe This is what Mother’s Day should look like. Catholic and Evangelical Churches nationwide:

The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated. Before looking at this cycle's results, a primer on the subject is in order. The first and most important point is that the requirement that districts have equal populations seriously limits the effects of partisan redistricting. That requirement seems to have been on the minds of the framers of the Constitution. The framers mandated a federal census to be conducted every 10 years to determine the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives based on population. Ours was, I believe, the first regularly...

U.S. immigration authorities will increase expulsions of Cubans and Nicaraguans arriving at the southern border back to Mexico... The Washington Post... reported a deal reached with Mexico on April 26 to increase the number of expulsions... A Biden administration official familiar with the matter confirmed the arrangement... A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that Title 42, a public health order by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, remains in place “with respect to single adults and family units...” “Individuals who are not able to be expelled under the CDC’s Title 42 public health Order are processed through...

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It’s interesting and weird for a few minutes. But you gradually come to realise that he is actually crazy. His main point is wrong and so his solutions are wrong too, Brownstone Institute wrote of Bill Gates’s new book ‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’. The main theme is implied in the title. With enough money, intelligence, and power, along with technological know-how at the helm, the next pathogen to come along can be stopped in its tracks. Where the bug goes after that he never explains. Presumably, it just disappears. Like a computer virus, it exists but doesn’t ruin...

The rate of stillbirths in Iceland almost doubled compared with the average for 2011-2020 and first-year infant deaths more than doubled. Taken together there was an 82% increase, as reported by Icelandic daily Frettin based on new data from Statistics Iceland. No infant deaths have been attributed to Covid according to official data. The Mass Covid injection campaign began in early 2021 and by 15 July, 70% of the population had been fully vaccinated. Eleven cases of foetal damage post-Covid injection had been reported to the Icelandic Medicines Agency by the end of April 2022, wrote Thorsteinn Siglaugsson. He continued:...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a vote on a bill codifying abortion's legality so that voters, he contends, can "see where every senator stands." Though Schumer believes this is a political slam dunk for Democrats, it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case. Though many conservatives have rightly avoided prematurely celebrating Justice Samuel Alito's draft decision, many also seem frightened of debating the underlying issue. Indeed, the draft leak is a significant assault on the system, but no more so than Roe v. Wade. For 50 years, our culture and media have treated this flawed...

Liberals are preparing to riot in the streets this summer to make sure that the daily sacrifice to their god Molech doesn’t experience any meaningful disruption. President Joe Biden called the ‘MAGA crowd’ the ‘most extreme political organization in American history’ in a full-throated attack on Republicans and their ‘ultra-MAGA’ agenda in a speech from the White House on Wednesday. He also warned that the GOP could ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned and signaled they could even reverse the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut case that struck down a state law banning the use of...

A new poll found that some voters who didn't attend college also want student loan forgiveness. The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and Data for Progress released a poll Thursday, that asked 1,110 likely voters between April 30 and May 3 about "what actions the federal government should take on student loan debt?" Twenty-three percent of respondents who didn't go to college said the federal government should eliminate all student loan debt for every borrower. Meanwhile, 34 percent said that "some" debt should be eliminated for every borrower, and 34 percent said that any student loan debt shouldn't be eliminated...

Trevor Noah was correct. EVERYTHING is more expensive under Biden. And REAL average hourly earnings YoY keeps declining. REAL average hourly earnings YoY fell further to -3%. Meanwhile, fertilizer prices, a key ingredient to food costs, is up 262% under Biden. Today’s jobs report was better than expected, at 428k jobs added (versus 380k expected). Its just too bad Bidenflation is clubbing American workers to economic death. US labor force participation actually declined in April and struggles to get back to levels pre-Covid and Trump. Here is the jobs market data for April 2022. Its official! I am no longer...

Synchron Inc., which develops a so-called brain-computer interface and competes with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp., enrolled the first patient in its U.S. clinical trial, putting the company’s implant on a path toward possible regulatory approval for wider use in people with paralysis. Wow, I know you got a lot on your end times plate, what with nuclear war looming in Russia, the coming ANTIFA riots this summer, the overturning of abortion in America, the Internet of Bodies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and so much more, but I have to add one more tiny, little thing to the lineup today....

In the biggest drop since 1947, U.S. worker productivity plummeted as inflation skyrocketed for businesses trying to buy raw materials and parts. Meanwhile the Fed is increasing rates into the slowdown – classic stagflation. Only this time, it’s on purpose. In another shocking headline showing the intentional destruction of the American economy, Biden is reportedly buying back oil to fill the strategic petroleum reserve at very high prices, throwing additional costs on the economic dumpster fire. He released all the cheap oil Trump had acquired at record low prices recently. Do you get what the OBiden administration is doing now?...

An old Army bud has observed an uptick in "training tempo"...curious if any freepers in that area observing this also? "Living close to Hunter Army Airfield and Beaufort Marine Air Station I am used to frequent flights of tactical aircraft overhead but the last week or so there has been an extraordinary amount of formation traffic at all hours, every day and night, of F18, F35, F22, etc. I thought money for training was hard to come by these days."