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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them. And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine [?!?!} that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally,...

When it comes to music videos, I find that honesty and simplicity is best. Sure, you can spend a million dollar budget showing twerking women riding around in Rolls-Royces and men in pimp clothing sipping on Hennessy making funny looking gang signs and such. But where is the art in that? In this song, Jason Ringenberg plaintively sings about how his beloved town of Nashville has been commoditized by tourism and urban sprawl. The video shot in downtown Nashville is very amateur and done on a budget that wouldn't get you a table for two at the Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville...

Social media has been in an uproar since a member of European Parliament posted a video of a hearing in which a Pfizer director admitted the company never tested whether its Covid mRNA vaccine prevents transmission prior to its approval for emergency use. Though the fact that Covid mRNA vaccines do not prevent transmission was, of course, abundantly clear from the data soon after their implementation, this myth was a primary justification for vaccine passes and a primary cause of the unprecedented venom launched at those who refused Covid vaccines throughout 2021 and continuing through today. Not only did governments...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the January 6 House Select Committee’s work will quell 2020 presidential election conspiracy theories that led to the Capitol riot. Kinzinger said, “Our mandate is to tell the American people the truth, come up with fixes. I know that my kid and I know that the craziest conspiracy theories kid in 10 years is going to believe that it was Donald Trump that started January 6. So all these conspiracies today will go away largely because of the work we’ve done.”

As we reported on October 4, Eugene Yu, a Chinese immigrant and CEO of Konnech, an election software company, was arrested “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [Los Angeles County election] workers,” which officials believed “was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.” The other shocking part of the story was that LA County District Attorney George Gascon, who’s not known as being tough on crime, announced the arrest and extradition and that investigators from his office had been working on the case. One of Konnech’s software offerings is a...

Rumors have been circulating that CNN anchor Jim Acosta is the next boldface name to exit the cable news network in the wake of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but those rumors are “absolute bullsh*t,” as one source so colorfully told Mediaite. There have been a number of major changes since the merger, most notably the shuttering of the CNN+ streaming service after less than a month and the cancellation of Reliable Sources — along with the departure of its host, Brian Stelter. Journalist Jon Nicosia (a former Mediaite managing editor) set the rumor mill churning with Acosta’s name with...

A 22-year-old Dayton man, convicted as a serial robber who hit gas stations from Warren to Greene counties, is going to prison for at least nine years, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said Thursday afternoon. Da’Sean McCleskey pleaded guilty in August to seven felony counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm. County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler sentenced him Thursday to nine to 10-and-a-half years in prison, Fornshell’s office said in a news release. MCleskey committed seven armed robberies of gas stations in Franklin, Moraine, Huber Heights, Beavercreek and Riverside from Dec. 21, 2021 through Jan. 19, 2022, according to...

Media outlets such as The Atlantic, have referred to Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake as the "Leading Lady" of Trumpism. "The way Lake has imitated Trump's rhetoric is obvious, but as I've followed her in the months since, something else has become clear: She is much better at this than Trump's other emulators," Elaine Godfrey at The Atlantic wrote.The Atlantic article, headlined "Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady," stated: "Kari Lake not only won Trump's endorsement but has emerged as his most talented emulator. Is she the new face of the MAGA movement?"Politico has reported that Lake has a...

Ukraine has quickly devolved into a bottomless money pit for the countless nations and corporations that have been bankrolling its war against Russia.On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk hilariously trolled a pro-Ukraine reporter who tweeted that SpaceX may no longer be able to supply its Starlink satellite internet terminals free to Ukraine due to the prohibitive costs of operating them.In response to the Kiev Post correspondent’s tweet noting that the move “comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador @MelnykAndrij told Musk to ‘f*** off,’ the SpaceX founder quipped: “We’re just following his recommendation.” Musk revealed last week that providing Starlink terminals and service...

Overview Newly discovered emails prove beyond all doubt that the “true purpose” of Hunter Biden’s lucrative deal with a Ukrainian energy company was for Hunter to get “high-ranking US officials” to visit Ukraine and persuade the nation’s leaders to “close down” all criminal “cases/pursuits against” the firm’s primary owner, a notoriously corrupt oligarch with ties to Russia. Documentation of this illegal scheme begins with a widely overlooked email on Hunter’s laptop in which a top executive of the Ukrainian firm describes the plan. Now, emails uncovered by Just Facts prove that Hunter and his partners: explicitly agreed to this deal....

Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.Now, with increasing numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Nov. 8 election nears, Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution: his predecessor’s playbook.Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42 -- which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court — to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border.The...

Tenants and advocates across the country are begging the federal government to implement a permanent rental assistance program and permanent eviction protections.

The Business Roundtable—an association of America's leading CEOs—committed itself in 2019 to "modernizing its principles on the role of a corporation." In the past, the group explained, it held that "corporations exist principally to serve their shareholders." But "it has become clear that this language on corporate purpose does not accurately describe the ways in which we and our fellow CEOs endeavor every day to create value for all our stakeholders, whose long-term interests are inseparable."That term—stakeholder—represents a significant shift. But it did not emerge from nowhere. There is an entire historical and political apparatus underlying it that has led...

These are the current Toss Up Senate race candidates from RCP. Consider getting involved or donating to them. State Candidate - Rep. Website Arizona Blake Masters https://www.blakemasters.com/ Alaska Kelly Tshibaka https://www.kellyforak.com/ Nevada Adam Laxalt https://www.adamlaxalt.com/ Pennsylvania Mehmet Oz https://doctoroz.com/ Wisconsin Ron Johnson https://www.ronjohnsonforsenate.com North Carolina Ted Budd https://tedbudd.com/ Georgia Herschel Walker https://www.teamherschel.com/ New Hampshire Don Bolduc https://donbolduc.com/

As we reported on October 4, Eugene Yu, a Chinese immigrant and CEO of Konnech, an election software company, was arrested “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [Los Angeles County election] workers,” which officials believed “was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.” The other shocking part of the story was that LA County District Attorney George Gascon, who’s not known as being tough on crime, announced the arrest and extradition and that investigators from his office had been working on the case. One of Konnech’s software offerings is a...

MSNBC host Tiffany Cross went on a crude rant against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas. During a segment on The Cross Connection, Cross began by going after conservative TV personality Megyn Kelly, calling her a “problematic white woman.” "Yeah, it must be déja vu. Either that or I’m catching body number two," Cross said referring to Kelly, adding “which brings me to another problematic white woman who warrants some attention this week: Clarence Thomas. On this very day in 1991, 'Justice Pubic Hair on my Coke Can' was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and even...

These are the current Toss Up Senate race candidates from RCP. Consider getting involved or donating to them. State Candidate - Rep. Website Arizona Blake Masters https://www.blakemasters.com/ Alaska Kelly Tshibaka https://www.kellyforak.com/ Nevada Adam Laxalt https://www.adamlaxalt.com/ Pennsylvania Mehmet Oz https://doctoroz.com/ Wisconsin Ron Johnson https://www.ronjohnsonforsenate.com North Carolina Ted Budd https://tedbudd.com/ Georgia Herschel Walker https://www.teamherschel.com/ New Hampshire Don Bolduc https://donbolduc.com/

The Swedish Democrats, an insurgent far-right party, has suspended one of their lawmakers from her post in the party and their TV station, according to the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, after she sexualised Anne Frank’s diary, dubbing the Holocaust victim as “immoral” in an Instagram post. The newly-elected Rebecka Fallenkvist posted a picture of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, one of the most widely read books about the Holocaust, saying that “50 pages in and so far Anne Frank has only struck me as immoral. Horniness itself.” After the Swedish Democrats secured 11 seats to become the Riksgag’s...