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The Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon The US Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. The 7th Fleet based in Japan said Sunday that the USS Nimitz carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit have been conducting "integrated expeditionary strike force operations" in the South China Sea...

The US intelligence community developed a secret technology to track China’s fleet of surveillance balloons only in the last year ... Although they won’t say how we’re doing it, the sources claim that the US can now even track past balloon flights—which is why the news only recently came out that the lighter-than-air craft crossed American airspace during the Trump administration. Like a scene out of “Back to the Future,” the Pentagon only recently realized that these intrusions had occurred. Despite the Biden administration’s insinuation that somehow Trump knew about these flights and did nothing about them, the truth is...

In a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting—and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology—researchers will unveil findings that suggest pregnant people who do not have diabetes but deliver a large-for-gestational age baby are at an increased risk of developing prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes 10-14 years later. Studies show that diabetes in pregnancy—also known as gestational diabetes—puts a pregnant person at greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life. Gestational diabetes is also a common cause of babies who are large-for-gestational age (LGA)....

Democrats in the Senate are ratcheting up new legislation to promote stricter ethics guidelines for the Supreme Court amid revelations that the justices have tried for years to compromise on a new code of conduct, only to fail on unanimity. On the same day the Washington Post reported the justices had been trying without success to agree on a code of conduct for at least four years, citing sources familiar with the matter, Democrats in the Senate introduced two pieces of legislation that aim to heavily clamp down on the justices' ability to exercise their own discretion on the Code...

CHICAGO, Wednesday, Feb. 11. A special dispatch from Cairo to-day, says that news has been received from Vicksburgh to Saturday. The ram Queen has returned from below. Her trip down the river was most successful. She met three steamers with provisions for the rebels at Vicksburgh, and succeeded in sinking them. She took 56 prisoners, one of whom was a Colonel. The Queen went near enough Port Hudson to draw the fire from their upper battery. CAIRO, Wednesday, Feb. 11. Vicksburgh letters say the brilliant achievements of the Queen running the gauntlet of the rebel batteries has had a most...

There were seven county races within the 584-ballot margin of error in Smith County, Texas.An audit of the 2020 election found a discrepancy of nearly 600 absentee votes in a Texas county, while a hand recount in a Pennsylvania county found a far smaller disparity, as more states seek to implement election reviews.In Smith County, Texas, an audit of the 2020 election showed 584 more absentee voters than absentee ballots, according to KLTV, a local ABC News affiliate. Seven county races were within the 584-vote margin of error, including council races and propositional elections. The audit also found five different...

Canada’s politically and culturally correct Defense Minister Anita Anand held a press conference in Ottawa after a US warplane shot down an unidentified object flying over northern Canada on the orders of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.While reminding Canadians of the vital importance of working to protect the indigenous people of North America, and reminding the nation that all measures will be taken to ensure their safety as the recovery efforts continue, Defense Minister Anand emphasized the importance of the moment stating (06:55), “we detected this object together” with NORAD, and “we defeated this object together.”A rather odd choice of carefully...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Just over a year ago, Canadian oceanographer Will Burt was in Fairbanks, Alaska, teaching college students about the effects of global warming on marine life when a former colleague approached him about a startup seeking to use the ocean to remove carbon from the atmosphere. “I didn’t have to think about it,” Burt said. Eight months later, Burt was on a fishing boat off the shores of Nova Scotia, running experiments with a group of researchers as part of a moonshot effort to curb climate change. The theory goes that by altering seawater chemistry, the ocean’s...

And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 1 Kings 14:24 What would it be like to wake up every morning in the country you hate? What inspiration do you get from destroying businesses, jobs and financial security of tens of millions of people so you can feel good about yourself? These are the two questions every Democrat needs to answer and especially the ones who control Moscow on the Potomac. Anyone who has knocked doors and especially Democrat...

An employee at the marine development authority of Qingdao’s Jimo district said the “relevant authorities” are preparing to bring down the object, the report said. The employee was not informed what the object was. The person said fishermen in the area have been told to be careful about safety, the report added. The United States and Canada brought down three high-altitude airborne objects in February, including one that Washington said was sent deliberately by China for surveillance. Beijing countered that it was a harmless weather-monitoring device that blew off course.

Given the recent events at GBNews, I was very interested to see and hear the Neil Oliver monologue this week, to see if the issues of censorship, control and weaponized cultural Marxism would be part of his focus. In his unique way, Oliver does approach the subject, by targeting the larger social Marxist effort to control speech and language. Oliver talks about how accurate words are diminished by those who overplay them in order to achieve political gains. Additionally, how the politically correct (culturally Marxist) intents of the progressive movement, intentionally downplay very real and dangerous outcomes by ignoring events...

Bidenflation is a terrible tax on America’s middle-class and working class. But thanks to The Federal Reserve’s war on inflation, and it is now bleeding over to mortgage-backed securities yields. The most recent tightening by the Federal Reserve has pushed the federal funds target rate above mortgage-backed securities yields for the first time in history. Though this poses clear challenges of carry for MBS holders, selective investments in specified pool and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) could provide incremental returns. While Biden brags (redundant) about lowering inflation (that his energy policies and massive Federal spending caused), apparently he never learns. Now...

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst said China is "intentionally poisoning" Americans by supplying Mexican cartels with the materials to make the deadly opiate fentanyl, which is then sold in the United States."The Chinese are selling these precursor chemicals into Mexico. Then the Mexican cartels are working on making the fentanyl and distributing it up into the United States," Ernst told CBS News correspondent Catherine Herridge in an interview aired Friday.When Herridge asked whether the flow of chemicals was occurring with approval from the Chinese Communist Party, Ernst responded: "I believe it is. I think that the Chinese are intentionally poisoning...

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles face off Sunday in the Super Bowl, but their competition extends beyond the gridiron to the social media stage, where the two teams are vying, along with the NFL's other 30 franchises, for followers and engagement on TikTok, the controversial video-sharing app that reportedly has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Although spy balloons are currently dominating the headlines, the wildly popular TikTok appears to be China's premier Trojan Horse.With 2.6 million followers (and 46.1 million likes), the Chiefs are the most popular of the 32 NFL teams on the platform,...

Gonzalo Lira asks about the future of nato Their next project, if they choose not to simply call it a day and go home, would almost have to involve attempting to project power across oceans.Now, granted the US has shown some ability to do that, the biggest example is still Okinawa... What nato would be looking at would be more like the full-on invasion of the Japanese home islands that the US was still trying to work up the cajones for when the two atom bombs ended WW2.

The U.S. housing market cooled off pretty dramatically last year, after mortgage rates more than doubled from historic lows. Home prices, however, have been stickier. Prices began falling last June, but are still higher than they were a year ago. Now, as demand appears to be coming back into the market, due to a slight drop in mortgage rates, prices are pushing back. **** Hepp notes that some of the exurban areas that became popular during the first years of the pandemic and saw prices rise sharply are now seeing larger corrections. But she doesn’t expect that will last long....

Due to a significant security threat on the Israeli rescue and relief mission in Turkey, and following a joint situational assessment with the heads of the IDF Home Front Command and Search and Rescue Units which took place on Saturday night, United Hatzalah CEO Eli Pollack and Vice President of Operations Dov Maisel instructed the head of United Hatzalah’s rescue mission Major (res.) Yossi Cohen to end the mission and return to Israel as soon as possible. The team quickly packed up their equipment and gear and made hasty arrangements to fly back to Israel at the earliest opportunity. Due...

This is must-see TV. If you didn't watch it last night, give yourself a treat and watch it today. Friday night's opening monologue on Tucker Carlson Tonight was a further demonstration of why Mr. Carlson is the most important political commentator in the United States. He takes on and explains political issues in ways that clarify what is really going on and uses his considerable dramatic skills to engage and keep a mass audience focused on what can be rather abstract issues. This is not to denigrate other brilliant conservatives such as Victor Davis Hanson — who Tucker recently acknowledged...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:20–22The scribes and Pharisees were masters of the Old Law. Now that the Messiah had arrived, they were unwilling to go deeper and move beyond the Old Testament teachings that they often misrepresented. They preferred a black-and-white approach to morality that had been with them for centuries and did not want to change when presented with Jesus’ new and higher calling.Today’s Gospel continues Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, which...

A long but thorough observation of the facts: from Odessa, to Lvov, to Vlad’s defined strategy to the collective West’s strategy, to the Ukies recent “ Volksturm” mobilization ( 16 year olds forced registration)…. The Western war cheerleaders will not like this dose of reality. ————————— “ Recently, there is a lot of talk about where the escalating spiral will end. Will it conclude in World War III? Will there be a nuclear war? What are the determining factors? And what would indicate World War III is imminent? I’ll go through these questions in detail from a strategic perspective. But,...