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Even as Biden commits billions more to the conflict in Eastern Europe, the U.S. military is reportedly falling short on compensation for troops amid the higher cost of living.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Monday in Moscow, Belarus state media reported. Russia and Belarus are close allies, with Russia having used bases in Belarus as a staging post for its troops, aircraft and equipment in the invasion of Ukraine.

The trigger-happy oligarchs at the censorship-obsessed Facebook are apparently so dense they don’t understand satire. Satire site The Babylon Bee posted a funny photo of Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis wearing laced collars to honor the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The posted meme was a snapshot of a two-year-old Bee article published Sept. 22, 2020. According to Facebook, the joke was “false information.” The platform linked out to a 2020 fact-check by CheckYourFact.com to rebuke The Babylon Bee. The fact-check was headlined: “FACT CHECK: DID THE LAKERS WEAR LACE COLLARS TO HONOR...

Friday on HBO’s “Real Time,” liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore defied conventional wisdom and predicted a “landslide” victory for Democrats in November’s midterm election. Moore based his prognostication on Republican skepticism of the 2020 presidential election and said voters would show their disapproval of that skepticism at the ballot box. “There are so many signs of this that I think, I honestly think, if we all do our work and we all get people to get out there, and we get out there ourselves,” Moore said. “I think we can throw out a huge number of these Republican traitors in...

While increasing numbers of Americans are wondering how they’re going to pay for both gas and groceries this month, the Biden administration is busy concentrating on what’s really important: celebrating diversity. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported Thursday that “recently released State Department estimates indicate that a majority of those coming to the U.S. via the Diversity Visa Lottery during the next fiscal year (2023) will be Muslims, despite the fact that adherents of that faith account for less than a quarter of the world’s population.” What could possibly go wrong? Surely you don’t object to this, do you?...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 25. It is evident that the rebels have not left the line of the Upper Potomac, but are injuriously operating on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, between Harper's Perry and Cumberland. They recently, it is believed, destroyed some of the important bridges West of Martinsburgh, including that over Black River.THE REBEL LOSSES AT ANTIETAMSpecial Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Sept. 25. Surgeon-Gen. HAMMOND, who has been at Frederick and the battle-field since Sunday, arrived here last night. He furnishes some interesting particulars concerning affairs at the scene of the recent conflict. The loss of the...

We are bizarrely one-tracked in our historical memory. Anything we dislike is compared to the Nazis. So, when Vladimir Putin actually invaded a neighbor, he was inevitably likened to Adolf Hitler. But we don’t have to look far to find an apter parallel. In September 1939, Stalin seized the eastern half of Poland. Unlike his Nazi allies, who simply absorbed the territory they wanted, Stalin made the conquered population vote in sham elections. Two congresses were established in eastern Poland — one supposedly representing ethnic Belarusians, the other ethnic Ukrainians. These two assemblies immediately petitioned to join, respectively, the Belarusian...

A protest has been held in Ordzhonikidze Square, in Yakutsk, Russia, where women came out to demand an "end to the genocide" and to return men home from the war against Ukraine ...a large number of people attended [the protest], many of them coming with their families, mostly women, with grandmothers and daughters.

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As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. Statues and historic buildings are going dark. Bakers who can’t afford to heat their ovens are talking about giving up, while fruit and vegetable growers face letting greenhouses stand idle. In poorer eastern Europe, people are stocking up on firewood, while in wealthier Germany, the wait for an energy-saving heat pump can take half a year. And businesses don’t know how much more they can cut back. “We can’t turn off the lights and make our guests sit in the dark,” said Richard Kovacs,...

VIDEOThere has been a mass callup to induct new recruits into the Russian army. However, as you can see the quality of many of these recruits is of a semi-sober nature.

Washington, D.C. – While on the campaign trail, Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman claims he was “very successful” in reducing crime when he was mayor of Braddock, PA. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, according to publicly available data, crime SKYROCKETED in Braddock while Fetterman was mayor. And, in 2019, the first year in over a decade that Fetterman was not mayor, Braddock’s crime rate dropped by 61 percent.

Global financial firms, still smarting from multi-billion dollar losses in Russia, are now reassessing the risks of doing business in Greater China after an escalation of tensions over Taiwan. Lenders including Societe Generale SA, JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS Group AG have asked their staff to review contingency plans in the past few months to manage exposures, according to people familiar with the matter. Global insurers, meanwhile, are backing away from writing new policies to cover firms investing in China and Taiwan, and costs for political risk coverage have soared more than 60% since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Political risk...

Jim Florio, the former democratic governor of New Jersey, has died at age 85. Florio's death was announced by his law partner, Douglas Steinhardt.

Seven children are among the 13 victims killed by a gunman at a school in central Russia, authorities said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement on Monday that 14 children and seven adults were also injured in the shooting in Izhevsk, west of the Ural Mountains in the Udmurtia region. Governor Alexander Brechalov said: “There are victims among the children, there are wounded too.” The attacker later turned the gun on himself, Brechalov said. Russia’s interior ministry confirmed the shooting on its Telegram feed. The Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same...

The United States today committed an additional $457.5 million in civilian security assistance to enhance the efforts of Ukrainian law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to improve their operational capacity and save lives as they continue to help defend the Ukrainian people, their freedom, and their democracy

After 306 days, DART's mission will come to an end when it slams into a Colosseum-sized asteroid 7 million miles from Earth. VIDEO AT LINK.............. This animation shows what it might look like when DART dives into the Didymos dirt. ESA–ScienceOffice.org In less than 12 hours, NASA's DART spacecraft will be no more. After launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Nov. 24, 2021, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test probe will make its final death dive into the asteroid Dimorphos on Monday, Sept. 26, colliding with the space rock at about 14,000 miles per hour. We've got all the info...

Is politics at play with hurricane IAN models?

In other words, it’s far from fated that China’s rise will track forever upward. The United States and China may never reach the crossover point envisioned by exponents of the “Thucydides Trap”—the point beyond which Chinese power outstrips American, giving Beijing the upper hand in the Western Pacific. But Brands and Beckley argue rightly that an impending stall in China’s rise doesn’t mean the coming years will be free from U.S.-China conflict. In fact, the opposite could well be true. A China on the threshold of decline is a dangerous China—as Clausewitz might prophesy were he among the quick today.