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Update from Ukraine | How the Counterattack is ongoing? Why is it slow? Can Ukraine win? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0QREhq1u14 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 30th June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). Ukrainian command has decided to create a new army corps in the structure of Ukrainian Ground Forces. 10th Army Corps was created in Poltava, and it groups several Ukrainian mechanized, artillery and other related brigades of Ground Forces of Ukraine. The unit received a military number A4767, and its own insignia. The corps was originally reveled a few months...

President Joe Biden has said he plans on running for a second term in 2024. “Yes,” Biden said when asked by ABC News late last year whether he would run again for the White House. “But look, I’m a great respecter of fate – fate has intervened in my life many, many times. If I’m in the health I’m in now – I’m in good health – then, in fact, I would run again.” Which does leave the door slightly ajar for him to not run again. And The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich argued that is the course he should take...

Erotic Poet Appointed as New Head of Doctrine at the VaticanThe Holy Office is no more.His Holiness has laid the final nail in its coffin.And so it passes like the many other great institutions of Christian Romanitas after the Council.After Pope Francis.When the Protestant heretics tore apart Europe and Christendom, the Vatican created the Holy Office in 1542 as an extension of the Inquisition to do one thing: protect the sheep from the wolves worldwide. Cardinal Ottaviani was once the secretary of the Holy Office. Then Cardinal Ratzinger. Then the other German bulldog, Müller.We might quibble over these later two...

From the Supreme Court to America: Happy Individual Independence Day. OK, the court didn’t actually say that, but its key rulings did. The final cases rang out with a consistent clarity that the Constitution favors individual liberty over group rights and government power. The distinction is what helped make America different from the start, yet to witness the hysterical outcry against the rulings, fewer and fewer Americans understand the founding principles. Either that or they want to trash American exceptionalism so they can force everybody to think alike. You don’t have to read the opinions to see the pattern. You...

Update (June 29, 2023): The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a Pennsylvania postal worker who lost his job for refusing to take Sunday delivery shifts due to his Christian observance of the Sabbath.

"Justice pour Nahel" read a white banner of protest as thousands marched in the Paris suburb of Nanterre Thursday afternoon. On Tuesday morning at 830 17-year-old Nahel was behind the wheel as police attempted to stop him for a traffic violation. As he drove off an officer fired into the vehicle fatally wounding him. Police in France have been pumped up by the government of President Emmanuel Macron who unleashed the forces of "Law and Order" the forces of the "Republican Order" in France to deal with the mass protests of the Yellow Vests in the late fall of 2018....

Dear Amy: Four months before my daughter’s wedding, she told me that her uncle (my brother, “Dave”) would make her feel unsafe if he was a guest. She asked me not to invite him. My daughter is very politically progressive, as are many of her friends, and although she and Dave have always had a good relationship (I thought), he is a conservative voter and has supported candidates we all abhor. Dave has always been very nice, so my daughter’s request surprised me.

On June 29, 2023, a Twitter account called “Erica Marsh” tweeted the following:“Today’s Supreme Court decision is a direct attack on Black people. No Black person will be able to succeed in a merit-based system which is exactly why affirmative-action based programs were needed. Today’s decision is a TRAVESTY!!!”Link to original: https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1674453321078415362Link to archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230629201916/https://twitter.com/ericareport/status/1674453321078415362Here’s screenshot:I can’t tell if this is a real liberal, or a conservative troll trying to make fun of liberals.Of course, regular readers of my blog know that I disagree with the comment. I have always been in favor of high academic standards, and encouraged...

What the Biden administration formally declared as “pride month” has come to an end, leaving behind weeks of controversies as U.S. government agencies, members of the Biden administration, and companies pushed the envelope and the LGBTQQIAAP2S+ agenda on Americans.

The following 19-point time line lays out the data points obtained from whistleblowers, the “Laptop from Hell,” James Comer, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and the Senate 2020 report on the family. One:

A research document published on the White House's website reveals the Biden administration is open to studying how to block sunlight to save the earth from climate change. The congressionally mandated report released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday shows that the team has been researching "geoengineering" methods to keep the sun rays from accelerating global warming. As the University of Oxford notes in its entry on the subject, "geoengineering" is "the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change." According to the report, titled "Congressionally-Mandated Report on Solar Radiation...

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel Admits Company Produced 100,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses In 2019 BEFORE The Pandemic StartedBig Pharma & Big Money run the world, even with crimes against humanity evidence spoken ON CAMERA by the criminals committing the genocide STILL nothing ever gets done.The President does nothing. No World Leader has stepped up to do anything about this. We live under corporate cartel control. There is no equal justice. https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1674946607366930432

BREAKING: Photos have just leaked of Michelle Obama currently vacationing on a massive private yacht on a private island in Greece This means the Obamas were rage-tweeting about being “oppressed” & “victimized” after the SCOTUS Affirmative Action ruling from THIS luxury yacht:

Under the news radar, two ugly power grabs from a pair of would-be Marxist dictators were announced yesterday from South America. From socialist Venezuela: CARACAS (Reuters) -Maria Corina Machado, one of the favorites to win the Venezuelan opposition's nomination for president in an October primary, has been barred from holding public office for 15 years, the country's controller general said in a letter. Machado, a 55-year-old industrial engineer and former lawmaker, is leading polling for the 13-candidate primary, convened to select a unity candidate to face socialist President Nicolas Maduro in a 2024 election. A previous ban placed on her...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights. “Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was insensitive to our customers who were waiting to get home,” Kirby said in a statement issued by the airline. “I sincerely apologize to our customers and our team members who have been working around-the-clock for several days — often through severe weather — to take care of our customers.” Kirby concluded...

Two protesters at Daily Wire host Michael Knowles’ debate on transgenderism at the University of Pittsburgh were indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday. The U.S. Attorney’s office named the two protesters indicted as Brian DiPippa, 36, and his wife, Krystal DiPippa, 40. Both have been charged with conspiracy and obstruction of law enforcement, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release. Brian DiPippa was additionally charged with using an explosive to commit a federal felony. “The DiPippas participated in a protest at the O’Hara Student Center on the University of Pittsburgh campus, at which time Brian DiPippa ignited...

"...when people are backed into a corner, they can choose to do the right thing, or to lash out..." An Ohio woman became furious after Target refused to give her $1000 worth of stuff for free at the Blue Ash location on October 22, 2022. She demanded that Target pay her "reparations." When employees refused, she charged the manager and cornered him in his office before he punched her in the face. Multiple police bodycams and security footage give a clear view of the situation.

The lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden criminal tax case is refusing for now to cooperate with a congressional investigation into IRS whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department substantially interfered with the investigation to spare the president’s son more severe punishment. “I am not at liberty to provide the materials you seek,” Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday in a letter obtained by Just the News. “The whistleblowers’ allegations relate to a criminal investigation that is now being prosecuted in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,” Weiss added....

A leading mind in the development of artificial intelligence is warning that AI has developed a rudimentary capacity to reason and may seek to overthrow humanity. AI systems may develop the desire to seize control from humans as a way of accomplishing other preprogrammed goals, said Geoffrey Hinton, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. “I think we have to take the possibility seriously that if they get smarter than us, which seems quite likely, and they have goals of their own, which seems quite likely, they may well develop the goal of taking control,” Hinton said...

...We're in London during a summer heatwave and the residents of Pimlico are beset by the heat as well as the straitened circumstances of postwar life. We meet PC Spiller (Philip Stainton), the local plod, bank branch manager Wix (Raymond Untley) – the man in the linen suit – and the sunbathing young lady: Molly Reed (Jane Hylton), who works for Huggins, the fishmonger. Other local merchants include the ironmonger Pemberton (Stanley Holloway), his commonsensical wife Connie (Betty Warren), their pretty daughter Shirley (Barbara Murray), and dress shop owner Edie Randall (Hermione Baddeley). In addition to rationing and the heat,...