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Peering through an infrared scope, a Ukrainian soldier noticed some heads poking over a trench a few dozen yards away. “‘Are there any of our guys in front of us?’” he asked, according to an account of the ensuing firefight by fellow Ukrainian soldiers. There were not. Two Ukrainians crept forward into the muddy wasteland of artillery craters between the two trench lines outside the eastern city of Lyman, eventually reaching the wreckage of an armored personnel carrier. Using it as cover to shoot from an unexpected angle, they forced the Russians to retreat. When it was over, they found...

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UK grocery inflation continued to climb during February to reach a new record high of 17.1%, according to closely-watched industry data. Kantar Worldpanel reported that the increase over the past 12 months meant that families faced a potential £811 annual rise in the cost of their regular shopping basket. It had been hoped that a decline in the pace of grocery prices during December would mark a turning point in that element of the cost of living crisis. Food, along with the cost of many other everyday products, has become more expensive largely due to the surge in energy prices...

For the second time in a month, men who say they are with a mobilized Russian unit deployed to Ukraine have complained about their treatment and commanders. The men are from regiment 1439, which comes from Irkutsk in Siberia. A group from the same regiment issued a similar protest in January. It's unclear whether the new video includes men involved in the previous complaint. In the latest video, published Saturday, the group claimed they had been given “unlawful and criminal orders” from their command and sent to battle without “any support.” “We are the mobilized from Irkutsk oblast (region), regiment...

Thank God for the selfless FBI whistleblowers who are spilling the beans on the rancid ideology that has infected that powerful federal law enforcement agency. The leaks from inside keep coming and they show that the FBI abuses its power in dangerous ways, surveilling and victimizing law-abiding Americans while doing little to control violent crime in our cities or doing anything about the porous border that is allowing industrial quantities of lethal drugs, and millions of illegal migrants, including criminals and terrorists, into the country. Those menaces are not a priority for the Biden administration or Attorney General Merrick Garland’s...

Sharla Sims died in 2021, three days after being attacked by a special education student at Spruce High School. Her family's now suing DISD for its alleged failures. DALLAS — The family of former special education teaching assistant has filed a federal lawsuit against the Dallas Independent School District. The children of Sharla Sims is accusing the district of negligence, after the teaching assistant was attacked by a student in her classroom and later died. “Every teacher in this city, every teacher in this state, every teacher in this country should be able to perform their job without the fear...

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Handbrake has been the best hobby for this old geezer for many many years. At over 2200 videos and 1.5 Terra Bytes of data and growing, the hobby continues to amaze me. First of all, it's been cheap. You would think I would have used top of the line gaming computers - not at all. Our of 4 computers I use, 2 are used at $200 for one and a bit over $300 for the second. My third was a old used HP G4 deskpro for $400 and wait for it, the fourth I bought new, for $700 - my...

Long ago there lived by the banks of the Great River on the edge of Wilderland, a clever-handed and quiet-footed little people, said Gandalf to Frodo,“I guess they were of hobbit-kind (and) the most inquisitous and curious-minded (of them all) was… Sméagol.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien, p.65)

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Open google maps, and zoom in on Epstein Island.Has google been taken over by White Hats?

Racism is indeed getting worse. Anti-White Racism. In "Dames" playing Barbara Hemingway, (1934) Ruby Keeler is quoted as saying the wonderful words at the top of the link in red below the above title. Proud to be white. Why not? I am a white man. This is the culture I love: Shakespeare. Wordsworth. Whitman. Dickens. Twain. Chaplin. Glen Miller. Hank. John, Paul, George and Ringo. Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell. Van Morrison. Michael Martin Murphey. Al Pacino. Steve Bochco. Michael Ciklis. Donald Trump. And Ron DeSantis. Tulsi Gabbard, welcome to this world. So much to be proud of. Praise the Lord.

The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a major security breach this month when hackers broke into and stole data from a computer system that included a trove of personal information about investigative targets and agency employees... The service, a division of the Justice Department, is responsible for the protection of judges, the transportation of federal prisoners and the operation of the federal witness protection program. The witness protection database was not breached, but hackers did gain access to information about some fugitives sought by federal authorities, according to a senior law enforcement official. Justice Department officials have determined that the breach,...

Sad news Monday evening—actor Tom Sizemore’s representative reported that his doctors have “informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end-of-life decision” after he suffered a brain aneurysm last week in Los Angeles.

The co-owner of King Smoke Shop was also shot during the attempted robbery. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he is now in serious condition. SEATTLE — A robbery suspect is dead and another person is left with serious injuries after a shooting in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood Monday afternoon, according to the Seattle Police Department. Police responded to King Smoke Shop at 7758 15th Ave NW just after 4 p.m. to a report of a man shot outside of the business. When officers arrived they discovered the co-owner of the business had also been shot. Seattle police said...

The White House on Monday downplayed and would not confirm a report that the Department of Energy has determined a lab leak was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at this,” John Kirby, a White House national security spokesperson, said at a press briefing, as quoted by The Hill. “There’s not been a definitive conclusion, so it’s difficult for me to say, nor should I feel like I should have to defend press reporting about a possible preliminary indication here,” he continued. “What the president wants...

People around the globe have suffered serious adverse reactions resulting from COVID vaccines, especially from the Pfizer shot. Now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tells us another Pfizer vaccine can cause serious complications in recipients. After receiving Pfizer’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) shot during a clinical trial, two older individuals contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome. This was enough for the FDA to flag the disease as “an important potential risk” from the RSV shot. Yet Pfizer is still seeking approval for general public use. According to the Mayo Clinic, Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare disorder in which your body’s immune system...

On the border of the Odessa region and the Dnieper Moldavian Republic (PMR), the situation is still tense. Ukrainian formations were deployed along the territory with the PMR and set up tent camps for units. ▪️From the environs of Odessa and the Nikolaev region, additional personnel of an unidentified unit were transferred. Now at least one battalion with armored vehicles is located 40 kilometers from Kolbasnoye . ▪️For the first time in recent months, a satellite constellation of NATO countries has filmed objects of the Russian army in Dubossary , Krasnaya Gorka and Vladimirovka in Transnistria. Eight photographs were taken,...

A Muslim preacher who was close to the Manchester bomber had been suspected by MI5 of being a radicaliser more than a decade earlier, the BBC can reveal. A public inquiry into the atrocity will this week report on how Salman Abedi was radicalised, and whether security services missed chances to stop him. The preacher, Mansour Al-Anezi, had been investigated before another close associate of his tried to carry out a suicide bombing in Exeter in 2008. Al-Anezi died before the arena attack. Twenty two people died in the bombing. Secret hearings, which excluded victims' families, discussed evidence from MI5...

The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Inspector General has announced a new audit into Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s excessive use of private jets. Two months ago, Fox News Digital released a report that showed Buttigieg had taken at least 18 flights using taxpayer-funded private jets since he took office in 2021. Meanwhile, the hypocritical transportation secretary calls for aggressive action to combat climate change. The records of Buttigieg’s private jet travel were obtained by the government watchdog group Americans for Public trust (APT). After the report was released, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) requested that the DOT Inspector General open the investigation...