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A shocking new video out of Crimea shows Russian efforts to recruit and indoctrinate kids by forcing them through military training exercises, including martial arts lessons and rifle-handling classes. Shared by Russian state media, the disturbing recording shows a young boy and girl in Simferopol, the peninsula’s second-largest city, racing to assemble Kalashnikov-style rifles at their desks, according to a report from Business Insider. When the two finish — within moments of each other — another student asks, “Who won?” Then the video cuts to a group of Crimean schoolchildren toting rifles in what looks like the lobby of a...

On Thursday, Florida House and Senate committees endorsed legislation that would introduce a series of contentious amendments affecting public employee unions. The Senate bill (SB 256), greenlit by the Fiscal Policy Committee, is now prepared for consideration by the entire Senate. The House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee approved the House version of the bill (HB 1445) with a 10-5 vote. Republican House sponsor Dean Black echoed talking points that the bill allows employees to know up front that their money is going to support union political causes. In December 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced...

Charles Schwab’s fortune has gone down considerably after SVB’s collapse. No American billionaire lost more than he did in 2023. Ahh…Charles needs to become less WOKE. “According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which monitors the real-time wealth of the richest people on earth, Schwab has personally lost around $3 billion in the wake of SVB’s failure,” reports Yahoo. Charles Schwab Corp. Yahoo reports, Charles, “who founded discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp. in 1971, now has a net worth of $9.99 billion, according to Bloomberg’s estimates, making him the 183rd wealthiest person in the world. “The Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows that...

DONETSK OBLAST – Just days before heading back to fight in the Battle of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr, 54, said he felt ill-prepared. "When they drive us to Bakhmut, I already know I'm being sent to death," Volodymyr told the Kyiv Independent during his brief stay in Kramatorsk, a city in Donetsk Oblast some 25 kilometers west of the front line. Volodymyr, an infantryman from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, said he struggled to eat after fighting in Bakhmut for months. He looked shaken as he talked.

Original video: "Tesla S will not charge in the cold. Stranded on Christmas Eve!" https://www.tiktok.com/@domnatishow/video/7180839253562199338"UPDATE: I received several calls today from @Tesla Motors . They have been very accommodating so far, and are towing my car 2 hours away to Richmond to the service center at their own expense. Also, they delivered a loaner in the meantime." https://www.tiktok.com/@domnatishow/video/7181594117112122666"UPDATE: Shocking interaction with Tesla service! They sent an estimate of nearly $2,000 and said my battery heater is broken. The notification on my screen said the battery is heating which was not true and their response regarding this false notification was very...

This article from the Grio starts out with the following:Black patients modify speech, dress up to reduce medical bias, survey showsBlack Californians report adjusting their appearance, changing behavior, minimizing questions and signaling to providers that they are educated to reduce chance of discrimination in hospitals and doctors’ offices.A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just little things like that to protect myself from being treated unfairly,” she told researchers.I always brush...

Listen very carefully to what he asks and what Yellen says starting at the 1:15 mark. He is asking if Oklahoma community banks will get the same special assessment to be made whole. Also worth listening to them spar about how some of the investors in SVB were the CCP!!! Did Joe Biden just backdoor payoff the CCP? 1:40 a bank only gets that treatment if a 1:44 majority of the FDIC board a super 1:48 majority is super majority of the FED 1:51 board and I in consultation with the 1:55 president determine that the failure to 1:59 protect...

Lame duck Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got a tongue-lashing at a raucous city council meeting Wednesday, with a longtime critic telling the controversial pol to “get the hell out of my city.” Journalist William Kelly, a frequent adversary of Lightfoot, berated the outgoing mayor for her botched leadership, including her response to the COVID-19 pandemic, during a public comment portion of the meeting. “You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” Kelly railed, according to a video posted by Forbes. “You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he said....

Users report that read speeds from SSD have dramatically reduced after the newest Windows 11 update (Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5023706). While the few reported events were thought to be localized to the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB SSD, the issue is found to plague other manufacturers and can be fixed after uninstalling the update. Windows 11 update slows SSDs during data transfers; Microsoft aware of the problem The newest Windows 11 update, which has the codename "Moment 2," is downloading to PCs starting today, with updates to quality of life and the integration of the ChatGPT-based Bing...

It has emerged that Russia is quickly reconditioning hundreds of old T-62 tanks to serve in Ukraine - a tank design 60 years old! Some are being taken from museums! But Russia is not the only country to plunder museums for vehicles and spare parts, as this videos shows.

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie is the mysterious “new Biden” family member who got paid Chinese cash in 2017, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed exclusively to The Post Thursday. Comer said the payments to first son Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law-turned-former lover were revealed in subpoenaed bank records. The records show Hallie Biden received $35,000 over two transfers in 2017 from Biden family associate John “Rob” Walker after he got $3 million on March 1, 2017, from State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy.President Biden, who allegedly was the “big guy” mentioned in communications about...

VIDEO AT LINK............. March 15 (UPI) -- A pair of Alabama fishing guides and their clients unexpectedly reeled in a great white shark in what is believed to be the first time a member of the species has been caught from a beach in the state. Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny, the Pensacola-based owners of fishing guide service Coastal World Wide, said they were on Orange Beach in the early morning hours of March 7 when something started to pull on one of their heavy-duty lines. The men said they initially thought they might have hooked a large tiger shark,...

MK Avigdor Liberman, head of the right-wing secularist Yisrael Beytenu party, expresses concern that religion is gaining too much sway in Israel during the joint press conference with other opposition chiefs. "If we do not separate religion and state, we will not have a state", says the longtime critic of the ultra-Orthodox's influence on the state. "Today it is clear that the main engine for all this crazy legislation, the most rigid, the most extreme element that is not ready for any compromise are the Shas and United Torah Judaism parties," Liberman adds, singling out the Knesset's two ultra-Orthodox factions....

Barney Frank, the former congressman from Massachusetts who helped design the landmark banking safety legislation after the 2008 economic crisis, defended his involvement with the now-defunct Signature Bank, which was taken over by New York state officials this week. “I worked as a member of Congress for a certain objective,” Frank said in an interview with the Financial Times. “And then having retired, not having a pension by my choice, not wanting to be a lobbyist for reasons personal, I need to make some money.”

Former NIAID Director and White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe ” that it was likely a yearly COVID booster shot would be available like the Flu shot is. Co-host Mike Barnicle asked, “How many booster shots we’ll be getting? How long in the future we will be getting booster shots?” Fauci said, “You know, we don’t know definitely the answer to that. It is likely that this thing is not going to disappear, it’s not going to be eradicated, and it’s not going to be eliminated. So it’s going to be around,...

An alleged drunken altercation at an Arizona resort has landed a Canadian Supreme Court justice on paid leave. According to a police case report filed in January, a US Marine Corps veteran claimed that Justice Russell Brown engaged in the "unwanted touching" of a female guest at the resort that month. The veteran said he later punched Mr Brown "a few times" during an argument. Mr Brown has denied the claims and called the account "demonstrably false". Earlier this month, the Canadian Judicial Council announced it was reviewing a complaint received in January into Mr Brown's alleged conduct in Arizona....

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The Lindsey Lobby Seven Republican Senators voted on Wednesday to confirm Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to India and former Los Angeles mayor, despite his ties to individuals belonging to alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front groups. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Steve Daines of Montana, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Todd Young of Indiana voted to confirm Garcetti following a delay of over 20 months arising from allegations that, while in office, he helped cover up sexual assaults committed by his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are moments in history when our nation's elected leaders have had to truly prove their worth during trying times. Today, just such a moment occurred, when members of Congress somberly paused sending all of our tax dollars to Ukraine so they could send them to Silicon Valley Bank instead. "Think of the poor billionaire tech entrepreneurs," said one member of Congress while replacing his lapel's Ukraine pin with a Google logo pin. "We ask that our brothers-in-arms at Lockheed-Martin bear with us until we push this tax hike through while acting like we don't want to...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been accused of attempting to create an anti-press freedom culture in his state. Proposed bills would weaken anti-SLAPP laws, make anonymous sources less credible, and require bloggers to register with the state. Critics have told Newsweek that such legislation would "chill, silence and punish those who criticize public officials and their powerful allies." DeSantis, however, says he wants to "stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates." The governor has yet to confirm whether he will sign the bills into law, but if they are passed, it could trigger a Supreme Court...