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STEAMER DELAWARE, IN THE GREAT OGERCHEE RIVER, BELOW FORT MCALLISTER, Ga., Tuesday night, March 3, 1863. The tidings of the destruction of the pirateship Nashville in the Ogeechee River, near Fort McAllister, by the iron-clad Montauk, reached us at Port Royal on Sunday morning -- a dispatchboat having been sent up to Admiral DUPONT by Capt. WORDEN. This inspiriting bit of intelligence gave a decided fillip to the preparations which had been going on for some days to renew, on a more formidable scale, the already twice-tried task of reducing the rebel work on the Ogeechee. It was wisely judged...

The race is on to see who hits the green energy wall of impossibility first. California, Germany and the UK (the “Poseurs”) might seem to have leapt early into the lead positions. But New York is now making a strong sprint to catch and surpass them, so it can be the first to splatter its citizens’ flesh and blood all over the impenetrable barricade. The Poseurs accumulate vast green progressive virtue credits for ridiculous promises, but their promises all have dates so far in the future that today’s politicians will be long gone when the crash detonates. Germany promises 100%...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he wants state regulators to decide whether to impose the nation’s first penalty on oil companies for price gouging, pivoting after months of negotiations with legislative leaders failed to reach an agreement on a bill aimed at reining in the state’s notoriously high gas prices. Newsom, a Democrat, responded by asking state lawmakers to pass a law that would impose hefty fines on oil companies if their profits surpassed a certain threshold — with all of the money generated from the fines going back to drivers. The bill was so...

When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the White House touted how the bill's $80 billion in new funding for the IRS would "make our tax code fairer by cracking down on millionaires, billionaires, and corporations that evade their obligations." It now appears that some of those resources—and some of the coming crackdown on tax evasion—will, quite predictably, be aimed at individuals earning considerably less. This week, the Treasury Department and IRS announced plans to overhaul existing programs that track tips earned by service sector workers. The new Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program will...

US General Mark Milley said the MQ-9 Reaper drone sank in an area of the Black Sea where depths are up to 1,500 metres. Recovery of a US surveillance drone that crashed after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets would be challenging given the deep waters in the Black Sea, a senior United States general said, as reports emerged of Russian vessels at the crash site. Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said remains of the uncrewed MQ-9 Reaper drone, which the US claims was brought down by one of two Russian Su-27 jets clipping...

U.S. officials have released video that shows a Russian Su-27 fighter jet colliding with the propeller of a U.S. MQ-9 reaper drone. The video was released by the U.S. military's European Command on Thursday, allowing the public to view the widely-reported aerial incident. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin summarized the incident Wednesday in a press conference, saying, "Two Russian jets dumped fuel on an unmanned U.S. MQ-9 aircraft conducting routine operations in international airspace. And one Russian jet intercepted and hit our MQ-9 aircraft, resulting in a crash." Austin sharply criticized the Russian military for its actions, stating that the Black...

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Russian fighter jet forces down US drone after collision over Black Sea https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/russian-fighter-jet-forces-down-us-drone-after-collision-over-black-sea/ The MQ-9 Reaper was brought down in international waters after its propeller was struck by one of two Russian Su-27 aircraft that conducted an “unsafe and unprofessional intercept,” US European Command (EUCOM) said in a statement. It is believed to be the first time since the height of the Cold War that an American aircraft crashed as a result of an encounter with a Russian warplane. More at link

One of the biggest financial stories of the moment is the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. And now Goldman Sachs is being pulled into the drama. The investment bank is set to receive more than $100 million dollars after the failure of SVB, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That’s because Goldman bought $21.4 billion of debt from the beleaguered bank, which came at a loss of $1.8 billion to SVB. (A spokesperson for Goldman declined to comment to the Times.) Let’s step back a bit: In early March, Moody’s told SVB privately that it was facing a potential...

Video of Russian SU-27 fighter jet colliding with MQ-9 drone as it attempts to spray fuel on it, view from the drone's camera. Shows two passes by Russian jets

Wagner placed a provocative ad on Pornhub to recruit soldiers to private army A woman says in video that Wagner 'is the coolest private army in world' The feared Russian Wagner mercenary group has become so desperate for recruits after heavy losses on the battlefields of Ukraine that it has turned to Pornhub to recruit soldiers. Wagner placed a provocative ad on the porn site in which male viewers were told to stop pleasuring themselves and instead join the private army and fight in Ukraine. In the since deleted ad, a blonde woman wearing red lipstick is seen seductively sucking...

Last week the Senate Democrat majority was hospitalized with Senator John Fetterman dispatched to a psych ward and Senator Dianne Feinstein, who doesn’t seem to know where she is, hospitalized for shingles. Fetterman and Feinstein didn’t let being hospitalized slow them down and went right on co-sponsoring bills even though the former had to be hospitalized because he couldn’t take care of himself and the latter no longer recognized colleagues. Even in the Senate, Fetterman couldn’t understand what was being said and Feinstein wasn’t aware that she had announced her retirement. Despite that there are press releases from their offices...

the rush to rescue depositors of Silicon Valley Bank .., a bank directly associated with Silicon Valley, which he terms as the "Democratic stronghold of the world," is as big a "crony payoff as you possibly can have.".. the Silicon Valley Bank is enjoying a charmed life because it's in Silicon Valley," ... "It's the Democratic stronghold of the world. And 99% of their people are probably Democrats and depositors that raised hell they're all democratic donors, so this is as crony a payoff as you possibly can have." ... Morris's statement comes after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen proclaimed .....

It's no surprise that a bank focusing on woke politics failed, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell ... "whenever you have an administration that is going to completely concentrate on diversity, equity, [and] inclusion-type of programs, you're going to have a huge problem." ... this small bank had 1,500 climate-related loans. ... The New York Times reported that Silicon Valley Bank issued billions of dollars to more than "1,550 technology firms" working in areas such as solar, "hydrogen and battery storage projects." According to the CEO of Arcadia, the largest community solar manager in the country, Kiran Bhatraju,...

When Obama was 'President' he gave a half a billion dollars to startup energy company Solyndra. They created the company, cleared a location, constructed a building, installed factory equipment, purchased inventory, hired workers, and went bankrupt- all within one year. Within 2 days of the bankruptcy announcement, the FBI swooped in and grabbed all the financial records. Instead of returning inventory to suppliers, they bulldozed it. And then it disappeared from history. No financial accounting was ever made, no Congressional hearings, no one was investigated... It all went down the memory hole.

Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology for using a Romani slur on The View She used the term while speaking about Trump and Stormy Daniels hush money 'Gypped' is a common obscenity used against people of Romani heritage Whoopi Goldberg has apologized for using a Romani slur on Wednesday's episode of The View, with the host claiming her age played a factor. Goldberg had been discussing possible criminal charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump in the hush money scandal with porn star Stormy Daniels when she used the word 'gypped.' While speaking with fellow co-hosts the 67-year-old said: 'The...

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer believes that more than half a dozen members of the Biden clan may have been involved in various worldwide business schemes that profited off their family name. Comer, whose committee is investigating the Biden family’s business dealings, shared the insight in a Wednesday night interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “At the end of this I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer (R-Ky.) told Ingraham, referring to his panel’s far-reaching probe. Comer didn’t mention any...

Look at it this way, by reducing carbon dioxide to nil (zero carbon) all plant life dependent for its growth on this natural gas, will die. By extension, all humans and animals dependent upon the oxygen that plants produce, via the conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygen, will also die. Basic biology reveals that is indeed the case.