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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost 600 soldiers after the single Himars attack | Revenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW72aIbSe10 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ SUMMARY Military Maps & Comment here: Invasion Day 310 – Summary- December 31, 2022 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 30th December 2022 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). The last summary of this year is here. Thank you all for staying with us and the site for so long, and see you next year! https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-310-summary/

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is starting the new year making very clear whose side he is on–and it is not Republican voters. After betraying the incoming GOP House majority by negotiating a $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill in the lame duck Congress last month to deny House Republicans the chance to control federal spending this year, McConnell is set to host Joe Biden in Kentucky on Wednesday at a “bipartisan” celebration of Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed in 2021 with help from McConnell. NBC News was first to report on the McConnell-Biden event which will...

Maxwell Frost said he might 'couch surf' after struggling to get DC apartment Frost will earn a $174,000 salary as a congressman next year Opened up about being denied an apartment due to bad credit He was 'denied from apartments... because I have bad credit' Frost said: 'I'm probably just going to have, like, couch surf for a little bit' The first Gen Z member of Congress was elected in the 2022 midterms Maxwell Frost, the first member of Generation Z to be elected to Congress, said he will likely couch surf during his first days as a lawmaker in...

In the battle over language, those who thought that they could sit on the sidelines are discovering that there are no sidelines. This story is a couple of days old, but it still matters enough that it’s worth looking at now: North Carolina State football announcer Gary Hahn was suspended indefinitely for referring to “illegal aliens.” That he dared to mention their existence and refer to them by their legal nomenclature was a bridge too far for the wokesters at NC State. It’s also a reminder that the left is relentlessly limiting the parameters of what we’re allowed to say....

'Hey bro, you were right about everything. I'm sorry...' There has been a lot of talk lately about the “word of the year.” Some say it is “gaslighting,” which happens to be a personal favorite of mine. Others say “goblin mode,” a bizarre term linked to Kanye West and Elon Musk that the Left’s semantic gatekeepers have rushed to redefine from a meme that was funny precisely because it had no obvious definition. In the spirit of New Year’s predictions, I will boldly assert that the same may be true of 2023’s future word of the year, “conspiracy theory.” Like...

Trump was lied to. Covid vaccines were supplied in batches. Some were very bad: https://www.howbadismybatch.com Trump never supported covid vaccine mandates, always leaving it to individuals to decide what’s best for themselves. DeSantis was supporting the vaccines until a few weeks ago: December 2020 DeSantis Signs Executive Order Mandating Vaccine Priority for Seniors ... https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2020/12/23/desantis-executive-order-vaccine-priority-seniors-65-and-older April 2021 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Receives Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-gov-ron-desantis-receives-single-dose-covid-19-vaccine/2423449 July 2021 ‘Vaccines are saving lives’: DeSantis stresses importance of shots ... https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/vaccines-are-saving-lives-desantis-stresses-importance-of-shots-as-florida-covid-cases-spike-criticizes-mask-mandates December 2022 DeSantis Flip-Flops From Covid Vaccine Supporter To Most Powerful Critic: Here’s What Happened https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/12/15/desantis-flip-flops-from-covid-vaccine-supporter-to-most-powerful-critic-heres-what-happened/?sh=5e0bc41a7487 Dozens and dozens more reports...

The victim was just 8 years old when Luis Saavedra Villa kidnapped and viciously sexually assaulted her in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Saavedra Villa, 44, was a registered sex offender and a previously deported illegal alien from Mexico. He was convicted of sexual assault in 2001. The night of the recent assault, Saavedra Villa drove the juvenile victim, who knew him as a family friend, to McDonald’s while her mother was away working. He then sexually assaulted her in his work truck, locking its doors to stop her attempts to escape. (RELATED: Solving America’s Border Crisis Doesn’t Solely Depend On Keeping...

The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House may finally be over. Presidents for decades have brought fresh faces to the White House to coordinate federal responses to threats such as Covid-19, mpox, Ebola, AIDS, and the bird flu. Now, Congress aims to give pandemic response a permanent home at the White House. Next year’s government funding package includes a brand-new White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy that would have a director appointed by the president and up to 25 staff members. “They’re not simply going to retire the role that...

American Jews are feeling vulnerable. The 2018 Tree of Life and 2019 Poway Chabad house synagogue shootings; the Colleyville, Texas hostage standoff in January of this year; and arrests of those threatening to harm Jews in synagogues in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan in recent months contribute to this unease. Coupled with largely unpunished street violence against Jews in Brooklyn and social-media threats worsened by Kanye West’s anti-Semitic ravings, Jews have had to bolster security measures at houses of worship. While President Biden recently announced an interagency taskforce to combat anti-Semitism, and while the governor and mayor of New...

Vice President Harris finds herself at a crossroads as she enters her third year in office. After a bumpy start, which saw a string of missteps and a slew of staff departures, Harris has sought to steady the ship. Now, as President Biden is expected to run for reelection, Harris will need to support him in that effort while making her case that she’s able to step in at a moment’s notice and can follow him to the White House in 2028. “The vice president is at an interesting place,” said one Democratic strategist. “In some ways she still has...

My two millennial sons vouch for the linked article. These are the contributions that Millennials have made to our cuisine. I have had almost none of these foods listed, being an aging Baby Boomer, but those under the age 40 has likely had them all or at least heard of them. The "rolled" ice cream looks interesting. Charcoal Water, not so much. Normally I hate Internet lists like this because it end up being clickbait, with annoying pop-up ads taking over your screen before you can get to the next page. But this article (at least for me) had zero...

A newly released report covering 194 cases of assault against Jews from 2018-2022 revealed the disturbing state of antisemitism in New York City. Americans Against Antisemitism, a grassroots, non-partisan organization launched in 2019, released its 2022 report on antisemitism in New York City, revealing several key findings: Jews not only account for the majority of hate crime victims in NYC (by volume and per capita) but Jews are also attacked on average in more than 70% of police precincts — twice the rate of the next most targeted group. Contrary to common perception, in NYC, the vast majority of perpetrators...

Reversing the Dictatorship of Relativism: Remembering Benedict XVIA couple of months ago I was in a fascinating conversation with a Catholic colleague regarding the papacies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, here in the ninth year of this curious era, 2013-22, when the world was living with, in effect, two popes of sorts, a reigning pope named Francis and a resigned pope — a “Pope Emeritus” — named Benedict XVI. We were wondering if the latter would, ironically, ultimately outlive the former, who few expected to have a papacy this long...Indeed, my good friend and colleague John Gizzi at...

Former President Trump blamed the “abortion issue” for Republicans underperforming expectations in the 2022 midterm elections. Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that many in the GOP handled the issue poorly, especially those who “firmly” insisted on no exceptions to bans on the procedure, including in instances of rape and incest. He also said he is not to blame for the party’s performance, responding to many in the GOP who have pointed to him as a reason for its losses.

Vice President Kamala Harris is requiring any senator or family member or guest of a senator wishing to take a photo with her at Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony for the new Congress to have a negative coronavirus test taken within 24 hours of the picture, Breitbart News has learned. The U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Protocol Office blasted out a message on Thursday to all Senate offices noting that Harris’s office is requiring the coronavirus tests before taking photos with the vice president.

We know what Ray Epps said and did; what’s weird is that neither the FBI nor the January 6 Committee seem to care. o those who still care about science as a process that uses honest data to produce replicable results, the last couple of decades has been disheartening when it comes to everything from so-called “Anthropogenic Climate Change,” to COVID’s origins and treatments, to so-called “transgenderism.” Still, we consoled ourselves that there were certain things so cut-and-dried that they could not yield to politics. For example, how certain diseases affect men and women differently. A monkeypox study in The...

As the PLA seeks to expand the reach of its influence operations around the world and to seize information dominance on the battlefield, it is researching and developing the next evolution of psychological warfare called cognitive domain operation[s] (CDO) that leverages subliminal messaging, deep fakes, overt propaganda, and public sentiment analysis,” the report stated. The report describes CDO as “a more aggressive form of psychological warfare” intended to “affect a target’s cognition, decision making, and behavior.” In short, CDO is the regime’s new methodology for breaking the will of an adversary, or else manipulating them into behaving in a manner...

Sleep is a necessary and universal human activity that is essential for physical and mental well-being. However, the history of sleep and the attitudes surrounding sleep are riddled with racist beliefs, practices, and ideas. When you sleep, you cannot work, unless you are participating in a sleep study. White people have more wealth than black people and other races. Therefore, white people can better afford to sleep. This is one way the distribution of sleep is racist and perpetuates racism. There are only so many sleep studies, and black people cannot perform them all. Another way sleep has racist roots...

The following is a continuation of 10 Ways COVID Changed How People Think About Health–Part 1 6. Citizen Researchers The lack of information on COVID-19 and data on vaccine safety and efficacy has left the public with questions. A survey in October 2021 showed that 3 in 4 Americans (76 percent) leave their doctor’s appointment on a negative note, feeling confused about their health or dissatisfied with the answers. Though this survey was on general health, respondents were surveyed during the pandemic. Many studies highlighted the importance of transparency and trust in COVID-19 messaging (1, 2). Yet studies criticizing the...

Dr. Byram Bridle is an Associate Professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph. He holds a PhD in immunology and a post-doctorate in viral immunology. In 2017, he was awarded tenure at the University of Guelph. He has 74 published peer-reviewed scientific papers in medical literature. They routinely rank in the top 10% of scientific literature in terms of their importance. He is one of the few recognized Canadian scientists with expertise in both immunology and virology. His research at the University of Guelph has focused on developing vaccines to prevent infectious diseases, treat cancers, and studying host...