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(Video) Two of WW2's most famous Polish generals ended up living in poverty in postwar Britain, performing manual labour just to survive. Who were they, and how did this happen? Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several...

Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds’ wife decried the "racist attacks" she and her husband endure from the left, telling the "haters" to "cry harder." Erika Donalds, who is White, tweeted screenshots of online users attacking her over her skin color on Wednesday, pushing back on the racially-motivated online attacks over her marriage to a Black Republican lawmaker. "Byron and I have been together for 23+ years, and the most racist attacks we experience are always from the left," she wrote. "They can’t accept that a free thinking black man achieves success on his own merits, and they sure as heck...

Joe Biden’s private attorney Robert Bauer, former Obama White House Counsel and former Perkins Coie top lawyer, released Saturday morning a timeline of the four incidences of discoveries of classified documents in the private office and home of Biden over the past three months. The timeline offers the clearest admission that Biden, the Department of Justice and the National Archives kept these discoveries of grave breaches of national security from the American people until it was leaked to CBS News last Monday. Media reports state that some of the documents were marked Top Secret/SCI. Bauer’s timeline runs from the initial...

A Cold War British nuclear sub sneaked into a Soviet naval exercise and took closeup underwater pictures of Russia’s new aircraft carrier. n 1977, with the Cold War in full swing, the U.K. Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Swiftsure (S-126) slipped right into the heart of a large-scale Soviet Northern Fleet exercise in the Barents Sea. The British submarine penetrated undetected through the layered escort screens of destroyers and frigates and meticulously approached the Russian aircraft carrier Kiev. The submarine recorded extremely valuable acoustic signatures and took incredible underwater periscope pictures of the Soviet carrier’s hull and propellers. As...

When Ana Belén Montes was arrested as a Cuban spy 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001, the people who knew her best couldn’t believe it. One college friend said such treachery didn’t seem true to Ana’s character. During their time at the University of Virginia, the pal wrote in a newspaper op-ed, “The only secret she ever gave us was her mother’s luscious flan recipe.” But not only was Montes a Cuban spy, she was “one of the most damaging spies in US history,” author Jim Popkin writes in “Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Famous...

118th CONGRESS 1st SessionH. R. 61To prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime and to amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of hate crimes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 9, 2023 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime and to amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of hate crimes. Be it enacted...

Explanation: Perihelion for 2023, Earth's closest approach to the Sun, was on January 4 at 16:17 UTC. That was less than 24 hours after this sharp image of the Sun's disk was recorded with telescope and H-alpha filter from Sydney, Australia, planet Earth. An H-alpha filter transmits a characteristic red light from hydrogen atoms. In views of the Sun it emphasizes the Sun's chromosphere, a region just above the solar photosphere or normally visible solar surface. In this H-alpha image of the increasingly active Sun planet-sized sunspot regions are dominated by bright splotches called plages. Dark filaments of plasma snaking...

[Catholic Caucus] Centralisation: "Synodality"-Francis Demotes Cardinal into Auxiliary BishopFrancis’ Apostolic Constitution In Ecclesiarum communione, places the Roman Diocese under his direct command, writes SilereNonPossum.it (January 6).• Francis turns Rome’s seven auxiliary bishops into “my episcopal Vicars” with “ordinary vicarious power” who make their decisions “within their competence.”• Rome’s Cardinal Vicar Angelo De Donatis is thus reduced to an auxiliary bishop because he may only act “in communion with the Episcopal Council” or “with me.”• Francis personally appoints even the parish-priests and discerns the candidates “for possible admission to Holy Orders” who must be submitted “to me,”.• Francis also wants to...

Democrats are increasingly worried that the controversy surrounding the classified documents found at President Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home and at his former office will loom large over his expected reelection campaign. While Democrats say they remain confident that Biden can overcome the problem, they say the disclosure of numerous batches of classified documents complicates matters for the president ahead of his campaign launch.

Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz is annoyed that workers aren’t in the office. On Wednesday, the coffee company announced that employees who live within commuting distance of its offices would have to go to work three days a week. The policy is slated to take effect on Jan. 30. Starbucks is asking workers near its corporate headquarters in Seattle to go to the office three days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and a third day to be decided by individual teams. Employees living near regional headquarters are also expected to commute three times a week, though the company said local managers...

During an interview with NPR aired on Friday’s “Morning Edition,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued that inflation has been “quite low for the last six months or so,” but she wants to see “inflation come down to much lower levels” over the next year. Yellen said, “Inflation has really been quite moderate, quite low for the last six months or so, importantly, because of lower energy prices. We continue to see improvement in supply chains. Goods prices have actually been falling. And some of the supply chain issues that pushed up the prices of goods and commodities, those have really...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditionis Custodes: Rigid Francis Is Sowing Even More WindThere are indications that Francis is preparing a new Apostolic Constitution because he is dissatisfied with the slow implementation of Traditionis Custodes.With this text, he wants to finally put an end to the Roman Liturgy.Francis chose the form of an Apostolic Constitution to echo Paul VI's Constitution Missale Romanum (1969), in order to emphasise the equal status of the two constitutions.According to Summorum-Pontificum.de (13 January), the constitution contains four main injunctions:1. In no church may the Roman Rite be celebrated exclusively.2. In no church may the Roman Rite be celebrated...

On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Now Tonight,” White House Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein argued that America’s government debt doesn’t weaken the country. Host Jake Ward asked, “For those of us at home, the idea of having debt sounds like a very, very bad thing. … What I want to ask you here is, is [Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)] right, does our debt as a nation make us weak?”

A man serving between 50 years and life in the Wyoming prisons system for murdering a man and confining and sexually assaulting a woman is suing the director of the Wyoming Department of Corrections and certain staffers for taking away his PlayStation and not giving it back. John Hereford, 34, is an inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, according to a legal complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming. Started With A Shakedown Hereford alleges that he was subject to an “all facilities shakedown” search the evening of June 15, 2021. A detention staffer told...

by Ukrainian officials as a harbinger of a renewed Russian attempt to seize ground in Ukraine. The new assault is expected to focus on the south and southeast of the country – territories that Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have annexed to the Russian Federation – although a renewed effort to capture Kyiv could also be part of the plan. A senior Ukrainian security official told The Globe and Mail that Russia’s larger army, and its larger pool of potential conscripts, means the invaders could continue to press forward in the eastern Donbas region – where much of the...

The Biden administration has failed to comply with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of top secret documents after promising the “highest standards of transparency” in United States history. In a letter issued by the president on February 4, 2021, Biden vowed the highest standards of transparency would be “revitalized” and implemented within his administration.

CHICO — A Chico woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District in a matter regarding her daughter and the alleged attempts by a district employee to “facilitate” the daughter’s gender transition. Aurora Regino, whose daughter attended a CUSD elementary school, filed the lawsuit in the Eastern District of California. The suit names CUSD Superintendent Kelly Staley as a defendant, along with school board members Caitlin Dalby, Matt Tennis, Tom Lando, Eileen Robinson and Rebecca Konkin, even though Konkin was just elected to the board in November. All six are named as defendants in their official...

“Enriched in All Speech and Knowledge” (1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42a) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s how I start every sermon I preach, with those words. Where did I get that idea? From St. Paul. That’s how he starts his epistles, with those same words: “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” For example, that’s how Paul begins his epistle to the Corinthians, as you heard. With those words, the apostle Paul is conferring a blessing on his hearers as he begins to...

17-year-old scolded for crying over transgender woman’s penis at YMCA A California teen cried as she recalled seeing “a naked man” in her local YMCA, telling the city council in her San Diego suburb she’d been traumatized by the experience with the person she described as a trans woman. Rebecca Philips, 17, said she was changing after swimming one day last month at the Santee YMCA when she spotted a naked trans woman in the changing rooms. “As I was showering after my workout I saw a naked male in the women’s locker room,’ she told the Santee City Council....

Because heat can affect the structure and immunoreactivity of peanuts, researchers recently tested whether a therapy using sequential doses of boiled peanuts followed by roasted peanuts may help children overcome peanut allergies. Their open label, phase 2, single arm clinical trial, generated promising results. For the trial, 70 children aged 6–18 years old with peanut allergies received 12-hour boiled peanuts for 12 weeks, 2-hour boiled peanuts for 20 weeks, and roasted peanuts for 20 weeks, to a target maintenance dose of 12 roasted peanuts daily. Fifty-six of the 70 (80%) participants became desensitized to peanuts. Treatment-related adverse events were reported...