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Despite all of his public bluster, is it possible that Vladimir Putin is getting just a bit desperate in his bid to find some sort of path to something he could call a “victory” in Ukraine? One hint could be found in the fact that he twisted Lukashenko’s arm to pull Belarus into the fighting at this late stage of the game. But another indicator of Russia’s military reaching the bottom of the barrel popped up this week. Yesterday, Tyler Rogoway from The War Zone sent out this alert on social media. It seems that Russia is “modernizing” some of...

Republican candidate Herschel Walker is leading Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's U.S. Senate race, an internal poll released Wednesday shows. Moore Information Group's survey of 800 likely voters has Walker up two percentage points, 46% to 44%, against Warnock. The poll, conducted from Oct. 8 to Oct. 11, also has Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver boasting 4% of the vote.

A DC youtuber's capturing, supposedly, of extended series of loud explosions at FIB headquarters, with the top floor's lights on. There are no first responders on the scene, and seemingly no other news about this.

Former Democrat presidential candidate and Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is campaigning for a Republican Senate candidate: Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc. Tulsi Gabbard announced she was leaving the Democrat party on Tuesday. Michael @helarctos · Follow Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who won the Republican primary and is campaigning against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Gabbard will be stumping for him. Tulsi Gabbard To Stump For GOP Candidate Former 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party this week, will campaign for a Republican Senate candidate ahead of the 2022 midterms. Retired Army...

MOSCOW, October 12. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin quoted Nobel winner Milton Friedman on the reasons for the shortage of goods in the markets, commenting on the Western idea to impose a price cap on Russian energy resources."In this regard, I would like to quote American economist, Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman: ‘We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's...

Pets International, a US-based magazine covering the pet industry around the globe reported in 2017 that Egypt was among the world's ten fastest growing markets. Last year, the Ireland-based Research and Markets, another leading global market survey issued a report saying that the pet food industry in Egypt was worth $284.8 million in 2020 and was bound to grow as more well-off Egyptians are owning pets. "There is usually a balance in terms of the number of customers with dogs and those with cats. But lately, more dog owners come to us and this is normal because dogs usually need...

Two police officers were shot and killed and a third was injured after a gunman allegedly ambushed them at a Bristol, Connecticut, home, according to sources. The Bristol police officers were shot while responding to a 911 call reporting a possible domestic violence incident between two siblings Wednesday night, according to Connecticut State Police. According to police sources, the gunman then carried out an apparent ambush on the officers with an AR-15-style rifle.

In a recent interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, President Biden sat down to assure the nation that while a nuclear war is likely on the way, it will only be "very slight." "Look folks, here's the deal. I don't think there will be a nuclear war with Russia. But if it is, it'll be very a very slight one," said President Joe Biden. "It'll be just a mild armageddon, nothing more." As the broadcast continued, Jake Tapper nodded calmly before staring blankly into the distance, trying to register that the world may or may not be on the brink of...

There are growing indications that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) is struggling to fill vacancies, as approximately 20% of employees have resigned since last summer. CCSAO is so short-staffed that supervisors are assigning prospective attorneys who have not yet passed the bar to handle duties typically conducted by assistant state’s attorneys—like presenting allegations during bail hearings at Chicago’s criminal courthouse.

Treatment involves adult patients with severe alopecia areata Eli Lilly has announced that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorisation for baricitinib – also known as Olumiant – for the treatment of severe alopecia areata in adult patients. Marketing authorisation was based on BRAVE-AA1 and BRAVE-AA2 studies which both used the Severity of Alopecia Tool (SALT) score and both met the primary endpoint among the proportion of patients. Meanwhile, achievement of full regrowth or regrowth with minimal gaps in eyebrow and eyelash hair was also seen, with baricitinib, for patients who at baseline had significant...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday criticized her party for what she sees as a growing sector of the GOP that supports Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages his attacks on Ukraine. “You know, the Republican Party is the party of Reagan, the party that essentially won the Cold War. And you look now at what I think is really a growing Putin wing of the Republican Party,” Cheney said at a McCain Institute event at Arizona State University.

Weber Shandwick is helping run communications around the vaccine program.. But the PR group is already working for Moderna, and has worked for Pfizer.. .. A PR company that represents Pfizer and Moderna has staff 'embedded' in the CDC's vaccine division.. New York-based firm Weber Shandwick has been responsible for elevating Pfizer's profile since at least 2006. It partnered with Moderna ... Yet questions are being raised about a possible conflict of interest as it emerged the company was hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Vaccine makers made more than $34 billion in profits last...

The January 6 Committee with Liz Cheney will reconvene today in Washington DC. .... Snip.... Politico reported: Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election didn’t end on Jan. 6, 2021, or even when he left office. Since then he’s gone to even further lengths to delegitimize his defeat. That ongoing effort will be a centerpiece of the Jan. 6 select committee’s next — and perhaps final — televised pitch to Americans on Thursday. “Tune in for our discussion of Trump’s clear and present danger presented to democracy and freedom in America by a movement that he’s galvanized,” panel member...

Covid-19 patients with a history of cardiovascular disease are at an increased risk of developing severe illness and could benefit most from the Covid-19 treatment Paxlovid – but there’s a catch. Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with some of the most common medications for cardiovascular disease, including certain statins and heart failure therapies, a new paper warns. The review paper, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, lists dozens of cardiovascular medications and whether they are safe to give along with Paxlovid or whether they could have interactions. Some medications such as aspirin are safe to...

Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak and the State of Nevada launched a website that provides information about abortion and encourages Nevadans to report Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) if they are “concerned about misleading services.” “As Governor, I am committed to ensuring Nevadans have access to reproductive health care without fear or shame,” Sisolak said of the website, according to News 4 & Fox 11. “We will not abandon the right to an abortion, and we will protect those in need of care. This website is one more step forward in this work.”

VIDEONo member of the media reporting from Arizona displays as much biased animosity towards Kari Lake as "reporter" (Democrat operative) Vaughn Hillyard of MSNBC. However, his dread of a Kari Lake victory in particular and MAGA in general has caused even him to slam Katie Hobbs as a Debate Coward due to her refusal to appear on the gubernatorial debate stage with Kari Lake. Hillyard knows such debate cowardice is sure to not only doom Hobbs' campaign but threatens to demoralize Democrats statewide to the extent that their lowered turnout as a result could also result in an Arizona MAGA...

BEIJING—Police rushed to a highway bridge in Beijing after a column of dark smoke appeared above protest banners condemning Chinese leader Xi Jinping by name—a rare display of defiance in the capital that came as top Communist Party officials arrived to attend a closely watched political gathering. Video footage and photographs of the smoke and two banners—one of which had “Depose the Traitorous Dictator Xi Jinping” scrawled on it in red—circulated widely on Chinese social-media platforms Thursday. One man told Wall Street Journal reporters he saw the thick smoke and the unfurled banners hanging from the bridge at about 1...

It’s unclear who the FBI and their handlers thought they were dealing with in regards to the Mar-a-Lago raid.Maybe after getting the election snatched from him, they thought President Trump would simply lay over for Biden and his vultures to consume. Well, they’ve learned very quickly that the President is always ready to put up a championship caliber fight at any moment.Within weeks, of the DOJ and FBI raid, the President’s team was able to halt the government’s witch-hunt well into December.A federal judge agreed to appoint a special master to review records seized by the FBI during its search...

Gabbard said the Democratic Party is controlled by 'fanatical ideologues who hate freedom' ... Tulsi Gabbard will hit the campaign trail with Republican New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, after announcing her shocking exit from the Democrat Party because she believes they are "controlled by fanatical ideologues who hate freedom." ... she denounced the "elitist cabal of war-mongers" who make up her former party and divide the country by "racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism." ... Gabbard made headlines Tuesday after she announced she would be leaving the Democratic Party she once represented in Congress, her reason being that...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) was called out by fact checkers for claiming in a campaign ad that her opponent, Republican Adam Laxalt, cheered the loss of Hispanic jobs and businesses. In the ad, Laxalt says, “I think the good news is that now we’re a year, a lot of those jobs never came back, a lot of those Hispanic small businesses never reopened." In Spanish, the add then tells viewers, “Adam Laxalt is not on our side.” A description placed with the ad claims Laxalt called it “‘good news’ that Latino small businesses suffered during the pandemic because he...