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Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut will be encircled soon | Ruzzia is in the deep problem | Supplies cut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wALdKCM0ixc The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2nd July 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-494-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

The Great Reset’s worldwide social credit system has arrivedhttps://gregreese.substack.comIn a recent Time Magazine article, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates hedge funds warned that the world is on the brink of disaster. He came to this conclusion based on current events that haven’t happened since the nineteen thirties. The largest amounts of debt and inflation. The biggest gaps in wealth and values resulting in the rise of populism on both the left and the right against the elites. And the greatest international conflict between world powers, most importantly between the U.S. and China.Peter Onge writes that the easy way out of...

Can the Hunter Biden cover-up get any sleazier? After sidelining the IRS investigative team working on the Hunter Biden case, the prosecutors working on it were also apparently sidelined. Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney’s office kicked its most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before it filed minor charges against the president’s son… In a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by...

18-year-old Egg Harbor Township man is in the hospital after a racially motivated stabbing, according to police. Tyler Smith, 38, of Atlantic City is charged with attempted murder, bias intimidation, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses for the "unprovoked attack" Monday evening, police said. Smith is Black, Lt. Kevin Fair confirmed to New Jersey 101.5. Smith is being held at Atlantic County jail as of Tuesday morning. Investigators found that the victim from Egg Harbor Township was standing with a friend on Adriatic Avenue near the Stanley S. Holmes Village housing units in Atlantic City around 6:15 p.m. when Smith walked...

(AP) Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found. The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia, setting an uneasy precedent that some experts say stretches the limits of what the law originally intended. In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to allow doctors to kill patients at their request if they met strict requirements, including having an incurable illness causing “unbearable” physical...

Former Maryland gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox on July 3 said that someone had falsely filed paperwork in his name to run for his state’s 6th Congressional District. “I have not filed. We’ve reported this matter to the FEC for fraud,” Cox wrote on Twitter. “I have made no such filing and Valerie and I have made no decision yet,” the former state delegate wrote in an earlier statement on Facebook. “Apparently a far left new Delegate from Montgomery County has issued a press release that I’ve filed and apparently media says someone has filed my name. I did not do...

MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill said Wednesday on “Deadline” that 2024 hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was “way out of step” with most of Americans views on LGBTQ issues because they have a loved one in that group. Guest anchor Ayman Mohideen asked, “The DeSantis campaign rapid response director tried to downplay the criticism by saying that opposing pride month isn’t homophobic because, and I quote, ‘We wouldn’t support a month to celebrate straight people for sexual orientation either. It is unnecessary and divisive pandering,’ which is what we’ve heard from racists when you want to talk about celebrating black...

Explanation: What if you could see out to the edge of the observable universe? You would see galaxies, galaxies, galaxies, and then, well, quasars, which are the bright centers of distant galaxies. To expand understanding of the very largest scales that humanity can see, a map of the galaxies and quasars found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 2000 to 2020 -- out to near the edge of the observable universe -- has been composed. Featured here, one wedge from this survey encompasses about 200,000 galaxies and quasars out beyond a look-back time of 12 billion years and cosmological...

Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than people could reach. Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when scientists finally looked into the lake’s murky depths, they found not a void, but a mirror. Each line is a sediment layer. 2020 2010 2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 1950 Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than people could reach. Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when scientists finally...

"Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them." - Robbie Robertson (born July 5, 1943) Actress Diana Lynn was such a stunning beauty and was also born on July 5, but in 1926, in Los Angeles. John Curtin died in office as Australian Prime Minister on the same date in 1945. In a defining moment of modern Australian history a few years earlier, Curtin said: "Australia looks to America" in response to Imperial Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. National Security was the first thing on his mind then, but the cultural reasons for Australia to...

Our long slide toward economic oblivion continues, and survey after survey has shown that most Americans are deeply unsatisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy. Inflation is out of control, most Americans are getting poorer due to the rapidly rising cost of living, the housing bubble has started to burst, and the commercial real estate market is a giant mess. But employment is supposed to be our bright spot. The Biden administration continues to tell us that the unemployment rate is less than 4 percent and that there are lot of jobs available for those that want them....

A July 4 parade in a Washington state city had to be re-routed to avoid a fentanyl-riddled homeless encampment for 'everyone's safety'. The 100th anniversary July 4 parade route in Burien, just south of Seattle, was altered to avoid a homeless encampment of up to 20 tents, according to local media. It comes as Burien cannot remove the encampment due to not having the authority to stop people living on city land - as it does not have a law that prohibits camping on public property. Debra George, who leads Discover Burien, a coalition of business owners who made the...

BBC malice Anja Gadgil, in her promoting antisemitic bloodlibel (as if IDF just "wants to" or "happy to", etc.), quoted (on July 4, 2023) the UN in terming the butchers as "children," ... The very infamous UNRWA who shares responsibility in Arab Jihadi crimes on their own people and on Israelis. A day after that vile anti-Semitic slur/idea, Jeremy Bowen "avenging" BBC was in overdrive presenting the gunmen as heroes. From his reporting which was a mishmash of chronology and Shahid propaganda, you might get confused from the rambling that the 18 years old Arabs are "refugees" since 1948 -...

A DoorDash customer who was sworn at on her own porch by an 'entitled' driver for giving a 25 percent tip on a $20 Pizza Hut order is a disabled military veteran. Mom-of-two Lacey Purciful, 38, told DailyMail.com that she was in a head-on collision in March with an alleged drunk driver, and currently has serious injuries to her spinal cord. Because of this, she can't cook and has been relying on DoorDash to feed her family. She was left stunned after Corey, the now-fired worker, suggested someone living in a $500,000 home should have been more generous in a...

After a telemarketer swore at his son nearly 10 years ago, Roger Anderson set out to cause robocallers, telephone fraudsters and scammers as many problems as possible. His solution was to create an artificial intelligence call-deflection system that puts incoming spam calls on the line with a ChatGPT-powered personality, keeping fraudsters talking in circles as they attempt to extract financial information from a chatbot. "This is really an incredibly silly idea," Anderson, who founded the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, told Fox News. "But in a way, I think it's the only way to combat unsolicited telemarketing because we just can't...

The suspected Philadelphia mass shooter told police that his deadly rampage earlier this week was an attempt to fight the city's gun violence crisis. Police say 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker wore a bulletproof vest and was armed with two ghost guns - an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun - as he stalked an area spanning several blocks in the Kingsessing section of Philadelphia, where he allegedly shot seven people, killing five of them. Carriker, a cross-dresser obsessed by guns, was taken into custody 10 minutes after police arrived on the scene and was arraigned Wednesday on five counts of murder. In...

Madrid-based Prisoners Defenders, an NGO focused on Cuban human rights, reported that the Cuban and Russian governments signed an agreement in which Cuba would send soldiers to join the war in Ukraine. Such a development raises many important questions. The Wagner Group’s dramatic failed mutiny displayed something the Kremlin knew long ago: the group, including its leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, has become a problem for Russia, particularly on the Ukrainian front. The group had little military training and served as cannon fodder in the war. Thousands of its fighters fell in battle. Wagner was convenient to Russia, as many of its...

US health officials were criticized today for advocating that trans women can breastfeed — without highlighting the health risks to the baby. Several information pages on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website appear to endorse 'chestfeeding' — a term used to describe feeding an infant milk directly from the breast by trans and non-binary parents. One section, titled 'Health Equity Considerations', claims 'an individual does not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chestfeed.' Another section in a Q&A about breast surgery, titled 'Can transgender parents who have had breast surgery breastfeed or chestfeed their infants?',...

A biological male who was convicted of raping two women has complained about allegedly suffering transphobic abuse after being sent to a male prison. Adam Graham, who began identifying as a female named Isla Bryson after being charged with raping two women, has sent letters to the British media complaining about alleged transphobia within His Majesty’s Prison Edinburgh, which he was sent to after initially being placed in a female prison. Speaking to the Mail on Sunday for a fee of £1,000, the 31-year-old rapist said: “I’m not doing too good because of abuse from the staff members all because...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that the state will no longer recognize a number of out-of-state driver licenses that are given to illegal immigrants, enacting restrictions in legislation passed earlier this year. DeSantis, who is also running for president in 2024, announced that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has published a list of out-of-state license classes that are now invalid in Florida. That list targets certain licenses given to illegal immigrants in Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Vermont. It does not apply to typical driver licenses, but those with certain limitations -- including...