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The late George Shultz, former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan and a Cold Warrior, once advised against proliferating nuclear weapons. He quipped that “proliferation begets proliferation,” which the arms control lobby has used for decades to prevent the U.S. government from developing nukes. But Shultz’s quip is easily falsifiable. A decade of Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and soon Iranian proliferation has not begotten proliferation by the United States. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia went into effect in 2011. It reduced the high-yield (and misguidedly called strategic) nuclear weapons each side has and puts a...

The wheels are coming off the Bidenomics recovery. US job openings (JOLTS) keep declining as The Fed withdraws its Covid sugar splash of monetary stimulus and raise The Fed’s target rate. For those enthralled by the narrative that AI will cause a margin-busting corporate revolution as millions of well-paid, middle-management employees are replaced by a cheap “bullshitting” AI algo, then today’s latest JOLTS report may come as a bigger shock than the big drop in job openings from one month ago. That’s because after unexpectedly dumping by 496K in May (a number which has been revised far worse of course),...

Yesterday Devon Archer confirmed all suspicions about the Bidens. Hunter did put Joe on the phone two dozen times with foreign entities. Joe Biden was "the brand." Joe Biden the "Brand" saved the corrupt Burisma. "Joe the Brand" prostituted his position as VP for cash. But it was Dan Goldman who provided the comedy entertainment for the day. Dan Goldman is the classic rich liberal white boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Miranda Devine: Let me introduce you to Dan Goldman, recently hatched representative of New York’s 10th Congressional District, smarmy heir to the Levi Strauss fortune,...

The State of California is depending on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, to provide electricity during the ongoing summer heat wave, as solar and wind energy are unable to meet demand during peak demand evening hours, especially as the sun begins to set. Fox News reports: The state of California continues to rely heavily upon fossil fuel-fired power plants to ensure its residents and businesses have access to reliable electricity amid the ongoing heat wave. According to data compiled by the California Independent System Operator, more than 40% of the state’s total power grid supply derived from natural gas on...

The picture at the top of this article is one I took myself as we went shopping this weekend at the Outlets Mall on Rt 16 in Saint Augustine. It leapt out as me as we passed by, and I snapped it right away. There are many such stores here in Florida with signs on their windows proclaiming their now-cashless corporate structure. Did you know that many fast food places are testing business models that are 100% takeout and 100% cashless? Chick-fil-a is doing that right now, and they’re not the only ones. One of the things that the pandemic...

For decades there are some who have warned of over-population. It was a popular screed during the 70s. There had to be a way to deal with the problem, especially in light of the sexual revolution of the 1960s with its free love mantra that certainly could lead to an increase in babies. In stepped Planned Parenthood, the organization founded by Margaret Sanger. Sanger was a eugenicist, one who believed certain “lesser quality peoples” shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce.

Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins is turning away from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 presidential campaign, calling DeSantis a "flawed candidate" in a recent Rolling Stone interview. "I don't think it's the campaign's fault at all; it's his," Rollins told the publication. "I think he's been a very flawed candidate. I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people. "But every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn't understand the game. … When you get into these culture wars...

A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate from a laboratory. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the authors wrote in February. Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just...

A talking head on MSNBC has called for a post 9/11 style government crackdown as a means of winning “a battle for hearts and minds” of Americans who might turn against the leftist mindset and become overly patriotic. Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Righteous Media compared the “threat” of such a scenario to the “number one threat” after 9/11, effectively suggesting conservatives and Trump supporters are akin to terrorists. “A lot of Americans are up for grabs. I wouldn’t dismiss it as just something only people on the right or watching Fox News latch...

Flying in the United States is set to become unaffordable for normal Americans with a combination of severe pilot shortages and increasingly-demanding pilot unions causing ticket prices to soar. It is estimated that airlines across North America will suffer shortages of around 30,000 pilots over the next decades, as the U.S. is failing to train enough, with others opting to retire early. “The supply of new pilots will grow, but not enough to offset a continuing wave of retirements,” states the management consulting firm, Oliver Wyman.

The Susan B. Anthony List, a conservative anti-abortion group, is slamming Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for his position on abortion and sidestepping of whether he would support a federal ban on abortion. “A pro-life president has a duty to protect the lives of all Americans,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group, in a statement. She added that DeSantis should be the “National Defender of Life.” “Gov. DeSantis’s dismissal of this task is unacceptable to prolife voters. A consensus is already formed. Intensity for it is palpable and measurable,” Dannenfelser continued. DeSantis, the governor...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

171,994 views Feb 28, 2020 MUSIKPAVILLON FREILICHTBÜHNE PLANTEN UN BLOMEN The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide.

The annual cost of New York’s public health insurance for the needy is set to shatter $100 billion for the first time — and the unrelenting migrant crisis could soon trigger even more of a spike, documents show. The state’s Medicaid program currently enrolls 7.8 million residents, with the staggering price tag for 2023-24 set at $108 billion, according to New York budget estimates. That’s nearly $10 billion more than last fiscal year’s $99 million budget. And beginning in January, the program will start providing medical coverage to an estimated 25,000 undocumented immigrants age 65 and over who are ineligible...

REAL MEDIAN WEEKLY EARNINGS GROWTH FOR MEN was -4.45% In April 2023, while the last reading prior to Covid under Trump was 6.674% YoY in February 2020. So, Bidenomics isn’t even back to Trump levels for men. Women, on the other hand, did show a gain since Carter, but still lower than the last month before Covid struck. Women’s real median weekly earnings growth YoY since Q2 2021 are down -5%. \ So, Bidenomics has been less sucky for women than men.

Reportedly, one of the individuals involved in the torture of the 55-year-old blogger was supposedly rebuked for causing bruising on the blogger's chest, as the instructions had been to avoid leaving any visible marksChilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira, who was detained by Ukrainian intelligence in May due to allegations of having pro-Russian sympathies, resurfaced on the internet on Monday and recounted a distressing tale of physical assaults and blackmail while awaiting a show trial.“I was tortured in two of the four cells I was in—by the other prisoners,” Lira posted in a 25-tweet thread on Monday evening.“I got a cracked rib...

CLAIM: Footage shows former President George H. W. Bush dying on live television. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video clip being misrepresented on social media shows Bush falling ill at a 1992 dinner with Japan’s prime minister. The late Bush died in 2018 at 94. THE FACTS: A conspiracy theory video circulating on social media is falsely purporting to show video of the 41st president dying — nearly three decades before his actual death.

Von Braun admits we could only get to the moon from a space station to refuelAdditionally, we could not even get a live chimpanzee to moon orbit and back because of lethal levels of radiation from Van Allen Radiation Belts…

Gonzalo Lira, and American who has spent months in a Ukrainian jail is reported making his escape from that country. Here is his story - in his own words: 1/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW274f8s-ws&pp=ygUhaSdtIGFib3V0IHRvIGNyb3NzIHRoZSBib3JkZXIgMi8z 2/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvY9l0ShhA&pp=ygUhaSdtIGFib3V0IHRvIGNyb3NzIHRoZSBib3JkZXIgMi8z 3/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jUa45UcOvE&pp=ygUhaSdtIGFib3V0IHRvIGNyb3NzIHRoZSBib3JkZXIgMi8z

The wife of the wannabe Las Vegas rapper charged with abusing his children and keeping at least two of them in cages finally called the police after he allegedly threatened to kill her, documents reveal. Amanda Stamper, 33, called the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department from the stock room of a Walgreens on June 11, where she told dispatchers she was hiding from her pimp husband “because he threatened to kill her,” the arrest warrant obtained by The Post stated. When an officer arrived at the scene, Stamper said she and Travis Doss, 31, initially got into a fight over...