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Victoria Nuland, who is at the center of every war, was in Kiev on Thursday. She said that the big Ukraine offensive had been in the planning stage for the past four to five months.On Thursday, the US Secretary of State for political affairs, Victoria Nuland, told an audience in Kiev that Washington has been helping plan the Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russia for almost half a year.The US always planned to keep escalating.She said that even though they are planning the counteroffensive, we are already beginning our discussions with the Ukrainian government and with friends in Kiev, both on the...

Defying a last-minute appeal by former President Donald Trump, the Texas House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, temporarily removing him from office over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. The vote to adopt the 20 articles of impeachment was 121-23. The stunning vote came two days after an investigative committee unveiled the articles — and two days before the close of a biennial legislative session that saw significant right-wing victories, including a ban on transgender health care for minors and new restrictions on public universities' diversity efforts. The vote revealed substantial divisions...

The vote triggers Paxton’s immediate suspension from office pending the outcome of a trial in the state Senate.

Lindsey Graham in Ukraine: "The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."

Polish scientists discovered that Legion X Fretensis, known for its brutal suppression of Jewish uprisings, was stationed in the early 2nd century AD in the Roman fort of Apsaros in Colchis on the Black Sea coast.Until now, researchers were unaware of their presence in such a distant region.This legion of the Imperial Roman army known as the Legio X Fretensis, or "Tenth Legion of the Strait," was formed around 41/40 BC. The legion played a key role in the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66-73), the first of three major Jewish rebellions against the Roman Empire.This finding was made possible through...

High class escorts charging €1,000 an hour aboard luxury vessels afloat in the Riviera The blonde Slovakian call girl who gave her name as Klara was dressed in a revealing thigh split dress, making her look no different to the ranks of models, actresses and Instagram influencers tottering around in high heels as they headed out to film events. EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline investigation reveals 'putes de luxes' flock to Cannes Models, aspiring actresses and some Instagram influencers are invited on board Red carpet film premieres and appearances by Hollywood A listers make it the epitome of glamour and the most prestigious...

When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else."They resembled finger loops like those used by some North and South American spearthrowers," said Garnett, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Kansas.That observation led to his new article, "Exploring the Possible Function of Paleolithic Open Rings as Spearthrower Finger Loops." It examines open-ringed objects discovered in the late 19th century at Le Placard, Petit Cloup Barrat and Cave à Endives. His research hypothesizes that such rings (fabricated from...

Ukraine is prepared to launch its long-awaited counteroffensive on Moscow’s forces, a senior security official said. The Ukrainian assault aiming to take back territory from Russia does not yet have a start date but could begin “tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week,” Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov told the BBC. Danilov went on to emphasize the weight of the decision. “We have to understand that that historic opportunity that is given to us — by God — to our country we cannot lose, so we can truly become an independent, big...

Archaeologists From the University of Alicante Have Discovered Cave Paintings in Penáguila, Spain.The team were conducting a drone survey of the Castellet-Barranc del Salt ravine and Port de Penáguila, revealing Neolithic cave paintings from 7,000-years-ago.The survey is part of a pioneering project, enabling the researchers to study inaccessible mountain shelters by photographing and recording videos of the walls in 18 shallow cavities using small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s).Two of the shelters contained wall paintings, with the most notable being in the del Salt ravine that contains painted figures of anthropomorphic archers, in addition to depictions of deer and goats, some...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Ford Motor Company President and CEO Jim Farley argued that building up the electric vehicle charging infrastructure so people can go wherever they can with a gas-powered car will require retailers to put fast chargers in front of stores, which will require a change in building standards. Co-host Becky Quick asked, “[J]ust the idea of building up the infrastructure and making sure that you can go anywhere that you would with a gasoline-powered vehicle, how long do you think it takes before those problems are really resolved and you don’t run into snags...

...In Europe, it is generally accepted that fire was routinely exploited by hominins at least 350,000 years ago, with some suggestion of fire control being linked to the expansion of a particular stone tool technology known as the Acheulean... there is a concurrent rise in apparent prehistoric "fireplaces", or hearths, and burnt Acheulean artefacts, such as hand-axes made from flint and a sedimentary rock called chert, at lots of European sites dated between 450,000 and 250,000. Many of these also contain charred plant materials and bones...Before the new evidence, the oldest clear evidence of fire control in Europe came from...

Hollywood star Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that “those men” must be arrested and jailed. She also blamed the “patriarchy” and “racism” for global warming. Speaking at a career retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Jane Fonda promoted her radical climate activism efforts, saying the world has “about seven, eight years” to cut fossil fuel consumption in half.

Shocking footage has revealed the scale of Philadelphia's untamed 'tranq' epidemic, which has transformed the city's streets into a drug-infested hellhole. The Kensington neighborhood - known as 'ground zero' for the city's drug crisis - is seen littered with zombie-like addicts, with many shamelessly shooting up in broad daylight. Gruesome scenes in the 'City of Brotherly Love' show droves of homeless addicts aimlessly staggering through the streets, surrounded by tents and scattered trash.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday issued five more vetoes, rejecting Republican-led bills that state officials warned would have undermined and overcomplicated elections in Arizona. With her five new vetoes, Hobbs has so far delivered 99 rejections in her first term as governor, the most of any of her predecessors. One of the vetoes, Senate Bill 1135, would ultimately have forced the state to withdraw from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a multistate coalition that helps states share and keep accurate voter registration rolls. Known as ERIC, the coalition has come under fire from far-right conspiracy theorists who baselessly contend it...

Former first lady Michelle Obama has come under intense scrutiny after her new “health drink” was found to not actually be all that healthy. According to a new Bloomberg report, Michelle Obama’s “Plezi Nutrition” brand of drinks wouldn’t be allowed in schools based on the very same school lunch regulations she championed during her time in the White House. Obama, who is credited as the co-founder and strategic partner with Plezi, is pushing these drinks as a healthier alternative to the various sodas, juices and sugary drinks that are all but unavoidable at the grocery store. Plezi’s first products to...

...in 2019 during the renovation of a structure in the Carmona municipality of Seville... a mausoleum from 2,000 years ago with eight niches... had never been looted. The remains of six members of a wealthy family were interred in the communal grave. And there were various offerings on them, one of which was a quartz container with “a solid mass inside.” They belonged to the niche of a woman in her 40s...One of the amphora’s unique features is that it was carved in quartz, a very hard, resistant, and unusual material......Professor of Organic Chemistry José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola... stresses that...

[H/T mountainlion]ransomnote: Steve Pieczenik @StevePieczenik posted the link to this PDF on Twitter.I tried searching for the book on the CIA.GOV website directly but it was not returned in the search results. Instead, the first search result included Dr. Coleman's defection and speculation that he was an alcoholic womanizer. Google and other sources list and link to the book on CIA.GOV. I haven't read the book yet; this isn't an endorsement. After watching the WEF, Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg 'elites' assemble to direct our lives, I'm curious to know more about those secret societies John F. Kennedy...

Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan border, escalating tensions over water rights The Taliban and Iran have exchanged heavy gunfire on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan ByJON GAMBRELL Associated Press May 27, 2023, 5:58 AM Afghanistan This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo) The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic's border with Afghanistan, killing and wounding troops while sharply escalating rising tensions between the two countries amid a dispute over water rights. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted...

Russia has warned Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine risk escalating the war to levels not seen so far. Andrei Kelin, Russia's ambassador to the UK, told the BBC his country had "enormous resources" and it was yet to "act very seriously". Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Kelin was also questioned on war crimes in Ukraine.

Ukraine has asked Germany to supply it with long-range Taurus cruise missiles capable of hitting Moscow. Volodymyr Zelensky requested the missiles, designed to destroy heavily fortified, “high-value” enemy targets, during his trip to Berlin earlier in May, according to German media. He reportedly used Ukraine’s supplies of Storm Shadow cruise missiles from Britain, which have a slightly shorter range of around 215 miles, to put pressure on Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor. Ukraine has used Storm Shadow to strike Russian supply depots and command posts deep behind the frontline in occupied territory since May.