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Hungary's government does not back a proposal for the European Union to start a training mission for the Ukrainian army as this would risk escalating the war, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, on Monday in Luxembourg, where he noted that he lawfully made himself absent from the vote, the only EU member state representative to do so.The minister noted that his absence had not prevented the proposal from being approved, but Hungary does not want to contribute to the costs of the operation.“Anything leading to escalation is not something we think is a good idea,” he said during a break...

Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel devoted to his love of guns and the Second Amendment. The Kenosha shooter shared his first video Sunday, telling fans he is 'super excited' to create content 'about guns and talking the 2nd amendment.' In a 35-second teaser trailer for the channel, he appears alongside a fellow gun-rights advocate to promote 'great content' to come from his channel. In the channel's bio, the 19-year-old doesn't shy away from mentioning his controversial past. 'You might remember me as the kid who defended himself with a firearm during the 2020 riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin,' Rittenhouse...

For the Pentagon’s FY24 budget: Buy now, and buy a lot A strategy that aims to lessen risk in the 2030s is ignoring the troubling, rising risk now, argues AEI’s John Ferrari. By JOHN FERRARI on October 03, 2022 at 11:06 AM 1-37 Field Artillery at YTC firing a M777 howitzer The shell is clearly visible in this firing of an M777 155mm howitzer by Charlie Battery,1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment at the Yakima Training Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. (U.S. Army photo by Sidney Lee, Enterprise Multimedia Center, JBLM.) Budgets may reflect near-term priorities, but they also reflect long-term...

Megyn Kelly urged former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to join forces with Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in a 2024 White House bid, joking that it would be “the best-looking ticket ever.”

resident Biden has "done the work" to halt inflation, despite the stat continuing to sit at a 40-year high for months, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argues. Jean-Pierre made the comments during a Monday press briefing at the White House, defending the resident's economic record amid scrutiny from Fox News reporter Steve Doocy. The exchange came on the heels of several polls finding that Americans lack confidence in Biden and the Democrats to bring down inflation. "If resident Biden's top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn't he have more to show for it?" Doocy asked. "The resident understands …...

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday is scheduled to campaign for Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, just days after announcing she was leaving the Democratic Party. Lake's campaign said Gabbard would introduce the gubernatorial candidate at a GOP forum in Chandler, Arizona. The dramatic swing to the right comes on the heels of Gabbard, who ran for president as a Democrat in the 2020 election cycle, posting a video statement saying she could no longer remain a member of a party “now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a peculiar image of Earth from space that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere. The dazzling pair may look otherworldly. But in reality, they are the result of two unrelated natural phenomena that just happened to occur at the same time. The first blob of light, which is visible at the bottom of the image, is a massive lightning strike somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand. Lightning strikes are typically hard to see from the ISS, as they're usually covered by clouds. But this...

A Southwest Side alderman accidentally shot himself Monday afternoon in the Ashburn neighborhood, the Sun-Times has learned. Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) suffered a gunshot wound to his wrist around noon while cleaning his gun in the 8200 block of South Christiana Avenue, according to a Chicago police alert.

Democrats have cause for concern that they’re fading at a bad time ahead of the midterm elections after a summer surge fostered optimism that the party could buck historical trends and retain control of Congress. A New York Times-Siena College poll released Monday found Republicans held a 49-45 lead over Democrats in the generic ballot roughly one month before November’s elections. That represents a shift from September, when the same poll found Democrats leading Republicans by 1 percentage point. That poll followed a trend among other surveys that as recently as late September showed Democrats leading Republicans on the generic...

Blow wrote that racist remarks made by the LA city council president worsened his fears New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote Sunday that he was worried "white supremacy" would be replaced by "lite supremacy" after leaked audio revealed Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez making racist remarks. "It is a theory that worries me and that I have written about: that with the browning of America, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of "lite" supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it," Blow wrote in...

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on top law enforcement officials to release records detailing “potential criminal conduct” committed by Hunter and James Biden. “My office has received a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers which have increased since my initial outreach to your offices,” Grassley wrote. “Based on recent protected disclosures to my office, the FBI has within its possession significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden.” Hunter and James Biden, President Joe Biden’s son and brother, respectively, reportedly conducted business through a holding company...

REPORT: Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is flying into Phoenix tomorrow to campaign with Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Via Eric Cartellessa from TIME mag. The Washington Examiner has more. Fresh off announcing her departure from the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard will campaign for rising MAGA star Kari Lake, who is running for Arizona governor. Lake’s campaign announced Gabbard, who used to be a representative from Hawaii, will appear for an Arizona Young Republican Engagement Forum in Chandler, Arizona, on Tuesday. The event, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. local time, will also feature Blake Masters, GOP candidate for...

Perhaps the most influential judge who is up for retention in the current election cycle is Timothy C. Evans, the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. The chief judge does not hear cases, but he heavily influences the county’s justice system through judicial assignments, policy decisions, the operation of an electronic monitoring program for people awaiting trial, and management of the adult probation department and juvenile detention programs. Evans, 79, was a Chicago alderman from 1973 to 1991, when he lost a re-election campaign. He became a Cook County judge in 1992 and rose to chief judge...

Kyle Rittenhouse Welcome to my channel 28K views 1 day ago Hello! I am super excited to announce I will be starting a Youtube channel! I look forward to creating content about guns and talking about the 2nd amendment with all of you! My social media:

After Kanye West unleashed more than three and a half hours of anti-Semitic rants, untruths about George Floyd and hostile comments toward everyone from Trevor Noah to Diddy during a Sunday appearance on Revolt.TV’s “Drink Champs,” interviewer N.O.R.E. apologized for using his platform to have such views aired during a call to the”Breakfast Club” on Monday morning. N.O.R.E. (real name: Victor Santiago), who challenged West only occasionally during the interview, was on the receiving end of many angry social media posts for his tacit acceptance of many of the comments. “I made a mistake doing the Kanye interview,” he said....

MK Bhadrakumar, Former Ambassador (India) Two massive terrorist strikes misfired spectacularly and a terrible beauty is born in the Ukraine war. These two carefully planned attacks in quick succession — on Nord Stream gas pipelines and Crimean Bridge — were intended as a knockout blow to Russia. According to President Vladimir Putin, people ‘who want to finally sever ties between Russia and the EU, weaken Europe’ are behind the Nord Stream blasts. He named the US, Ukraine and Poland as ‘beneficiaries’. India should expect the defeat of the US and NATO, which completes the transition to a multipolar world order....

Link only Bloomberg article that may explain why the chip embargo basically went into place overnight. It's very possible that Xi Jinping will move on Taiwan in the next two years. And that is presumably why Biden has given 3 warnings to China, and Xi is downplaying any new policy on Taiwan. The big game we've been waiting for in the Western Pacific? It's coming. Anyone invested in equities should prepare to assume the position. What position? BOHICA.

Four Oklahoma men who were last seen riding their bicycles more than a week ago before being shot dead and dismembered were planning to commit a crime, police have said. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said the bodies found late last week in the Deep Fork River are those of Mark, 32, and Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29. The men were believed to have left a house in Okmulgee on bicycles the evening of October 9. The police chief said the official cause of death was pending but that all four men had gunshot wounds...

In Canada those hearings continue into the crackdown on the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa opposing restrictive COVID policies earlier this year... US politics the White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre calling a Sunday social media post by President Trump: "antisemitic and insulting"... "MAGA doesn't Vote for stupid people with big mouths. Good luck Joe!" President Trump on social media talking about the Republican US Senate candidate in Colorado Joe O'Dea... This evening in Germany the Monday night protests that started against COVID restrictions and COVID vaccine mandates morphing into opposition to government economic and defense policies including its hostility to...

A New York City man has been arrested after setting fire to a restaurant that got his order wrong. Choephel Norbu, 49, set the blze at the Bangladeshi Ittadi Garden and Grill in Queens in the early morning hours of Sunday. Video released by the Fire Department of New York shows a man, allegedly Norbu, waiting outside the restaurant in the darkness. He is dressed in all black and holds a plastic bag with unknown contents. Several seconds in, he bends over to grab a bucket right next to him. Court records obtained by the New York Post say that...