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As many as 32,000 former prisoners have returned home after their contracts with Russian mercenary group Wagner expired, the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on June 18, as cited by his press office. Prigozhin added that the prisoners whose Wagner contracts expired had committed 83 crimes after they returned to Russia. He claimed that this crime rate is less than for other former convicts. In January Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak, said that nearly 80% of Russian prisoners recruited by Wagner had been killed, injured, or captured by Ukraine.

Just heard a caller on UK's Talkradio stating he's seen "migrants" on the streets selling the TVs from their government-provided hotel rooms. Announcer James Max acted as if it were impossible and shut him down lolz

A Russian foreign ministry official speaking regarding nations that border Ukraine... "We have also made it clear to our American friends that even if the agreements are more limited-they are also unacceptable to us" Those words spoken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... In Israel the High Court with an injunction against a law expanding the powers of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir... Also in Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling an expansion of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria... US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing today. A statement from the...

- as counter-offensive is 'paused' Ukraine's much-anticipated counter-offensive has yielded a mixed response Russia's dominance in the air is having a major impact on Ukraine's counter Putin also resorting to suicide tanks in a bid to restrict Ukrainian advances Russian soldiers are packing tanks with explosives and remotely driving them at Ukranian trenches before detonating in massive fireballs as part of a terrifying new tactic in the Ukraine war. It comes as Kyiv is forced to pause its counter-offensive in the South of the county amid heavy losses of Western armoured vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal. And terrifying...

It seems that hardly a day goes by without reports of another tourist offending local customs on Bali. There are bikini-clad yoginis doing ‘downward dog’ poses in temple gateways and half-naked hooligans arguing with traffic police over their lack of a crash-helmet. While the world asks what’s caused this sudden rush of inappropriate behaviour, travellers who know the island well are wondering why it’s taken so long for Balinese to stand up and say, “enough is enough!” In 1972 the iconic surf-movie Morning of the Earth showed a naked hippy teaching elderly Balinese fishermen how to smoke cannabis. Four centuries...

In 2020, Illinois became the second state (California did it a year earlier) to extend Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants. Activists wanted to extend the plan to everyone but in the end the state went with a plan that was limited to those aged 65 and older.Healthy Illinois pushed state lawmakers to offer health benefits to all low-income immigrants. But the legislature opted instead for a smaller program that covers people 65 and older who are undocumented or have been legal permanent residents, also known as green card holders, for less than five years…Under federal law, undocumented people are generally...

One of the big problems we have in this day and age are felons getting guns. Bad guys with firearms can do bad things. We all know this, even if we figure not everyone who has a gun illegally is going to kill or even shoot another person.The issue is that gun control is supposed to stop that.In Maine, there’s been a lot of talk about anti-Second Amendment regulations. Despite being a pretty blue state, it’s also one with a long history of opposing gun control. Recently, an effort to pass some failed there.Much of this push follows a mass...

When California voters passed a referendum in 2008 to construct a high-speed rail connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco, there was no shortage of skeptics. Forty-seven percent of the state voted against the plan, and a group of think tanks issued a nearly 200-page report that year arguing costs would skyrocket, ridership would not match projections, and the environmental benefits were overstated. The skeptics, of course, have been vindicated. But few thought it would be as bad as it has since turned out to be. Fifteen years, and countless setbacks later, not a single mile of track has been laid,...

Al Shabab [الشباب], vol. 02, no 120 [Oct 26, 1938]. From "Palestinian":Memory of Palestine AmakinDetailsYouth newspaper; Second Year; Issue 120; 26 October 1938; And in it: Allah is the guardian of the people of Palestine who have neither Hitler nor a nation for them; Allal El Fassi, leader of the movement.ذاكرة فلسطين صحيفة الشباب؛ السنة الثانية؛ العدد 120؛ 26 تشرين الأول/ أكتوبر 1938؛ وفيه: الله ولي أهل فلسطين الذين لا هتلر لهم ولا أمّة لهم؛ علال الفاسي زعيم الحركة . __ https://archive.is/3u9Bk/image______From Eltaher site:. The "Ashoura" newspaper license was suspended by the Government of Egypt from August 1931 until January...

Expect to see a lot more of these kinds of stories in the future: a young woman who had her breasts surgically removed at age 13 is suing the hospital and the doctors who performed the operation.Kayla Lovdahl, who goes by the pseudonym Layla Jane, is now 18 and detransitioning—or returning to live her life as a female human. She was born with XX chromosomes and lived her early life as a girl before tumbling headfirst into the world of gender dysphoria. She filed the lawsuit last week in California‘s San Joaquin County Superior Court and accused the ghouls who...

On this day in Kentucky in 1827, a plainly guilty murderer who was on to his third trial received an unconditional pardon. His name was Isaac Desha and his father, Joseph, was the state governor. The murder was committed in 1824. Isaac Desha had separated from his wife, who was reportedly “terrified” of him, and was staying in Richard Dogget’s roadside tavern/inn on the border of Fleming County. On November 2 of that year, Francis Baker showed up and checked himself into the inn. A newspaperman from Mississippi, he was en route to New Jersey where he planned to get...

Pennsylvania governor says collapsed I-95 will reopen within 2 weeks Justin Klawans, Staff writer Sun, June 18, 2023 Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Saturday that the collapsed portion of the I-95 interstate in Philadelphia will be reopened in the next two weeks. Shapiro "[stated] with confidence" during a press briefing that the project would be finished in the next 14 days. He added that Philadelphia was "going to get traffic moving again thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here by these union trade workers." The collapse occurred on June 11 after a tanker truck caught fire...

This one might surprise you. The findings of a new survey revealed that a significant number of Democratic voters would support the next president issuing a pardon for former President Donald Trump if he is convicted by the Justice Department.A majority of voters, as revealed in a survey by Harvard-Harris, believe that former President Donald Trump should be pardoned if he is convicted and sentenced to jail for mishandling classified documents. The poll showed that 53 percent of respondents were in favor of a potential presidential pardon, while 47 percent were against it. The issue of pardoning Trump is largely...

If you’re anything like me, you responded to the news that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is running for president with a gigantic yawn. After he had already embarrassed himself during his failed run in 2016, something told him it would be a good idea to do it again in the upcoming election season. The former governor recently made some remarks that should make anyone question why he is even bothering this time around.During an appearance Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Nation,” Christie expressed his belief that the government should not interfere in decisions made by children and...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) Confronts Anti-Plastics Witness About All The Things She Has Containing Plastic

The headlines for Fox News just keep getting worse in the wake of Tucker Carlson's firing.

President Joe Biden’s recent claim that gay people "can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant" in the afternoon was rated by the fact-checking site PolitiFact as "mostly true" on Friday. During the White House "Pride Month 2023" event on June 10, Biden gave a speech in support of the LGBTQ community. One particular point that drew backlash was his claim that restaurants kick gay people out on the basis of their sexual orientation. "When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something...

Leonid & Friends on tour from Russia perform the Chicago hit “25 or 6 to 4”. Recorded live at The Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 14, 2023. Please leave your thoughts and comments and compare this performance to the original (or current) Chicago band.video

*A Navy base in Mississippi erected a wall of shipping containers to protect itself from stray bullets. *Stray bullets have struck multiple homes on the base and are coming from a nearby apartment complex. *A spokesperson for the base said the barrier is meant as a "temporary solution." A Mississippi military base in the small city of Gulfport put up a wall of shipping containers after stray bullets from a nearby gunfight struck homes on the base. The base first placed more than 20 shipping containers around its perimeter last year after gunfire broke out in the apartment complex across...

Will the center hold in the Virginia General Assembly? Legislative primaries on Tuesday will test the political center of both parties, but especially that of Virginia Senate Democrats, who already face the loss of a generation of leaders to retirements, hastened by a redistricting process that has transformed the state electoral map. Voters around the state on will choose more than 40 nominees for the House of Delegates and state Senate. Many of the nomination fights will be tantamount to election. In November, the fight for control of the House and Senate will likely come down to a handful of...