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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...

The family of an Oakland baker and former publisher who espoused anarchist beliefs believe that the thieves who killed her in a daylight robbery and assault shouldn't go to jail and her death shouldn't be used to argue for more police. Jennifer Angel, 48, founded Angel Cakes bakery in Oakland in 2008. Prior to that, she was a publisher of what she described as 'radical, progressive' magazines and a publicist for authors. On Monday, Angel was leaving her car in front of a bank in uptown Oakland when two robbers smashed her car window and ran off with her belongings,...

The Washington Examiner recently released a two-part report on their investigation of self-proclaimed 'disinformation' tracking organizations that are targeting conservative media. News outlets such as American Thinker, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, Newsmax, Hot Air, Newsbusters, LifeNews, Breitbart, etc. as well as news websites run by Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, etc. and even groups such as Judicial Watch were branded "false/misleading." Townhall.com was branded "offensive" and "reprehensible," while Breitbart TV was branded as "hate speech."

This is the second part of a Washington Examiner investigative series about self-styled 'disinformation' tracking groups that are cracking down on conservative media and part of a lucrative operation that aims to defund disfavored speech. To read part one, click here. The Department of State has funded a deep-pocketed "disinformation" tracking group that is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news organizations vital advertising dollars, the Washington Examiner can confirm. The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups, is feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and...

Former President Trump shared a video insisting that he would have won the 2020 election had The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden not been suppressed by social media and falsely discredited by the mainstream press. Trump shared the footage of New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik — a known favorite — on his Truth Social media platform Saturday morning. “According to polling, of the people who were made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story, 53% would have changed their vote…this is the definition of election meddling…it’s collusion, it’s corruption, and it’s unconstitutional,” Stefanik said in the clip. The House...

Inflation is finally starting to fall, but it would be "dangerous" to assume the problem is fully behind the U.S. economy. That's according to top economist Mohamed El-Erian, who warned in an op-ed for Project Syndicate this week that there is a 75% chance of inflation either remaining abnormally high, or rebounding and spiking again this year. The new year began with a bout of optimism that the painful chapter of high inflation in the U.S. was finally coming to a close after the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index fell 0.1% in the month of December and...

David Sacks is a key advisor to Elon Musk and one of the principal aides to Musk during the purchase and subsequent takeover of Twitter by the billionaire entrepreneur. There has been an ongoing debate about whether Elon Musk was aware of the U.S. government and intelligence community control over Twitter prior to the purchase; with many people saying there is no way that Musk could not know given the scale of the money involved, $42 billion and the due diligence that generally follows such transactions. However, in this interview David Sacks explicitly states Mr. Musk had no idea how...

If you can’t believe in something beyond this life, you’ll struggle to make sense of things here and now. In his 11th thesis in his famous “Theses on Feuerbach” (1888), Karl Marx famously said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” This phrase has been interpreted in several ways by both Marx’s critics and his fans, but one salient reading is that Marx saw philosophy leading fundamentally toward revolutionary change. For earlier Marxists, the goal was principally economic (although the early seeds of the sexual and cultural revolution were sown...

Here’s what Congress should be asking health officials about the handling of the Covid pandemic. In March 2020, American politicians orchestrated what would become the greatest assault against their citizens’ civil liberties in the modern era. Under the guise of “public health,” federal and state officials employed the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus to implement disastrous and ineffective lockdown policies, which crushed American jobs and small businesses, shuttered places of worship, and kept low-risk children out of school. Despite a lack of evidence showing such policies were effective at containing the respiratory virus, politicians and government bureaucrats charged ahead, abusing...

DailyMail.com can reveal the last of the sealed court documents related to 167 of Epstein's associates will finally be made public The papers refer to 'alleged perpetrators' or individuals accused of 'serious wrongdoing' The final batch of court documents containing 'salacious' allegations related to 167 of Jeffrey Epstein's associates, victims, and employees, will finally be unsealed – nearly four years after the disgraced financier's death. The material will be made public in the coming months and, DailyMail.com can reveal, is expected to include information pertaining to at least one 'public figure.' The documents refer to 'alleged perpetrators' or individuals accused...

New Mexico State University announced Friday night its men's basketball program has been indefinitely suspended, according to The Associated Press. The school also placed first-year coach Greg Heiar and his staff on paid administrative leave for "violations of university policy." Though a reason behind the moves was not given, the university did say the decision is unrelated to a deadly shooting involving NMSU power forward Mike Peake on Nov. 19. Peake, 21, was shot in the leg at the University of New Mexico hours before a rivalry game between the two schools. He was reportedly lured to the campus by...

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has said in a rare interview that it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian regions whose capture it has stated as a key goal of the war. Yevgeny Prigozhin said his understanding of Russia's plan was that it needed to fully control the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that Moscow last year claimed as "republics" of Russia, in a move condemned by most countries of the United Nations as illegal. "As far as I understand, we need to close off the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and...

Tory chair of defence committee says cost of replacing kit sent to Ukraine and high inflation had created ‘a really grim picture’ Britain’s armed forces would “last about five days” if there was a war, a senior Conservative MP has claimed, as pressure increases on the chancellor to boost defence spending in next month’s Budget.Tobias Ellwood, Tory chair of the Commons defence committee, told the Financial Times that high inflation and the cost of replacing equipment sent to Ukraine had created “a really grim picture” and left military supplies seriously depleted.Jeremy Hunt has vowed to consider the case for more...

A World War II bomb exploded in the English town of Great Yarmouth on Friday as workers attempted to diffuse it, according to police. The device was discovered Tuesday in a river crossing in Great Yarmouth. It was located by a contractor working on the third crossing over the River Yare. And on Friday, Norfolk Police revealed there had been an “unplanned” detonation. No injuries were reported and police said all army and emergency service personnel were accounted for. Army specialists had been cutting the bomb using a technique that creates a slow burn of the explosives, police said. Workers...

Amid continuing vulnerability of U.S. defenses against surging cybercrime, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — which touts itself as the "quarterback for the federal cybersecurity team" — has sought to carve itself a role as stealth arbiter of domestic political debate about election security through a network of corporate and nonprofit information control surrogates. If cybercrime was measured as a country, it "would be the world's third-largest economy," according to Steve Morgan, the editor-in-chief of Cybercrime Magazine. In 2015, Morgan noted, cybercrime cost $3.5 trillion annually. By 2025, it is estimated to be worth $10.5 trillion. Last year,...

VIDEOIt was January 29, 2023, the first morning at sea of our Celebrity Apex cruise to the Eastern Caribbean with the Steve Kane Radio Show group and I was digging in to my beloved smoked salmon in the Ocean View Café. Suddenly my wife's eyes widened dramatically and her mouth dropped open in astonishment as she looked past my shoulder. I turned to look and what I saw was easily the most BRILLIANT rainbow I have ever seen. Yes, I also saw a rainbow during our Celebrity Equinox cruise to the Southern Caribbean back in September but this latest rainbow...

A day after banishing most of its political prisoners to the United States, Nicaragua has sentenced a Catholic bishop to 26 years in prison. Bishop Rolando Álvarez refused to leave with the rest of the 222 political prisoners flown to the U.S. on Thursday. According to media reports, he stopped at the stairs leading to the airplane and said, "Let the others be free. I will endure their punishment." Álvarez was arrested for opposing the government of President Daniel Ortega and his trial was set for next week. The bishop has called for free elections. Instead, a judge appeared on...

The Biden administration on Friday proposed stricter energy standards for household washing machines, refrigerators and freezers to reduce emissions while also saving consumers money. The Energy Department said the changes to regulations, which have not been updated in over a decade, would save Americans about $3.5 billion a year on energy and water bills while reducing emissions of harmful greenhouse gases. Homeowners would save an average of $295 over the 14-year life of a new clothes washer and $130 over the life of a new refrigerator. Appliance companies, however, would need to invest approximately $2 billion over the next three...

11 February 2023Saturday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Our Lady of Lourdes Metropolitan Cathedral Church, Thrissur, Kerala, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 3:9-24 ©The expulsion from the Garden of EdenThe Lord God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she...

Hunter Biden’s legal team has been at the center of news coverage this month after it appeared to confirm the authenticity of his laptop in a letter (only to try to backtrack 24 hours later). It was a curious and gratuitous move for Biden and his counsel Abbe Lowell as they called for criminal investigations into his critics, suggested lawsuits against media, and even argued that the tax-exempt status of some groups be rescinded by the IRS. Now, however, the team is moving in a far more precarious direction. They seem to be adopting the strategy of Steve Bannon that...