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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday said that Ukraine needed to secure three key "victories" abroad, including the approval of major aid packages from the U.S. Congress and the European Union, and a formal start of accession talks to join the EU. Zelenskiy also announced the latest dismissals in the military, four deputy commanders in the national guard, but gave no reasons for their removal. The president and other officials have vowed to make the military's operations more efficient and responsive to the needs of servicemen. Twenty months into Russia's full-scale invasion, fatigue has crept into the West's relations with Kyiv,...

TULSA, Okla. — A 15-year-old boy is charged with first-degree murder after a shootout led to the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man. The shooting also left three others injured. Tulsa police said the shooting happened at a home near north Harvard and Apache at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 19. The shooting began during a family gathering when an argument broke out between three young men who were invited to the home and family members of the home. Court documents identified the three teens as Tyrell Junior, Michael Thomas, and another boy named "Marco." The three...

I was born in the greatest country in the world, perhaps in history, the United States of America. But now, seventy years later, the U.S. is no longer the land of the free or the home of the brave. Today, you are most definitely not free to speak your mind. In fact, you can lose everything you own or hold dear for having the wrong views. But don’t take my word for it, ask Donald Trump. And forget home of the brave. As the Deep State attempts to crucify our former and perhaps future president in new and ever more...

While White Americans are only 54% of their nation’s population, Whites constitute 80% (nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr/public-school-teachers) of all qualified teachers. Hundreds of thousands of American teachers have resigned since 2020. As of 2023 44% of American school districts lack sufficient numbers of teachers (www.lawdistrict.com/articles/teacher-resignation-crisis), and this trend only continues to worsen. Black male students are 1.5 times more likely than White male students to bring a firearm to school (usafacts.org/articles/how-many-high-schoolers-carry-a-gun/). While Hispanic females are more than twice as likely to bring a gun to school than White females.

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said. Residents were woken by explosions before dawn on Saturday, and for more than six hours, the booms of Kyiv's air defences echoed through the city. There was wave after wave of attacks from the north and east. Officials said that more than 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at the capital, and 74 were shot down. With Russia's dwindling missile stocks, Shahed drones are seen as a cheap alternative. They are slower than ballistic missiles and have...

Developments at Rapidus and TSMC highlight Japan’s attempt to advance to the leading edge of semiconductor manufacturing. It is a comprehensive effort devoid of the financial, social and political difficulties seen in Germany, the US and China. Rapidus, Japan’s advanced semiconductor production venture, will work on 1nm integrated circuit design with the University of Tokyo and the CEA-Leti research institute of France, according to Japanese media reports. This should put it on a process technology development track converging with Intel. TSMC, Taiwan’s industry-leading semiconductor foundry, is reported to be considering 3nm production in Kumamoto on Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu....

Geert Wilders’ surprise victory in last week’s Dutch elections portends an upheaval in European politics long in the offing, but provoked by two pressing events. The first is the mass demonstrations in support of Hamas by Muslim migrants after October 7, a triumphalist assertion of power by a minority that believes that it may become the future majority. This cast a harsh light on uncontrolled mass immigration, now Europe’s top political issue. The failure of the mainstream parties to address the continent’s most pressing problem opens a path to power for an opposition that only months ago was dismissed as...

What is going on here? Why are so many people having absolute freak out meltdowns on airplanes and in airports? I get it, it’s not exactly the best place to spend time… Hostile environments… Hostile employees… But it’s been like that for a while, why are we suddenly seeing a bunch of these freak out sessions? I’m not entirely sure but here’s the latest.

It’s been obvious for many years that electricity generation from the intermittent wind and sun would never work to power a modern economy. But how would the infeasibility of the proposed energy transition finally manifest itself to put an end to the madness? A couple of years ago I began writing about the the upcoming “Renewable Energy Wall,” for example in this piece from December 2021 titled “Which Country Or U.S. State Will Be The First To Hit The Renewable Energy Wall?” I called for readers to place their bets as to which among various jurisdictions would be the first...

The United States government is on the verge of deploying new artificial intelligence technology (AI) weapons that can make decisions on whether to kill human targets. The frightening lethal autonomous weapons, which are being developed in the United States, China, and Israel, will automatically select humans deemed a “threat” to the system and eliminate them. Some critics have voiced fears that the deployment of AI weapons would entrust machines to make decision whether to kill human targets, with no human oversight, The New York Times reported. This is starting to sound like Skynet. The Mirror reported that Numerous countries, including...

This week, Israel’s cabinet approved a peace deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States. The agreement is for the release of hostages that were seized by Hamas on October 7 in exchange for a pause in the fighting in Gaza. What does this truce between Israel and Hamas mean for the current war in Israel and for the future? The agreement will result in the release of about 50 Israeli hostages, consisting of women and children, in exchange for a four-day truce in Israel’s air and ground campaign. There’s a potential for an extension, with ten hostages released...

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People can use the bible to justify any position they want when they take words out of context, or read into the text what is not there. On April 22, 2014, a new attack on the reliability and perspicuity of Scripture was released. “God and the Gay Christian” was a book that sought to teach readers that the Bible condones living a monogamous homosexual lifestyle. That attack continues today in the church. The author was Matthew Vines, openly homosexual man and a professing Christian. Being an openly practicing homosexual and claiming to be a Christian often means the person has...

Harald Hasselbach, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Broncos who also won the CFL’s Gray Cup, died after a battle with cancer... He was 56. Hasselbach had metastatic mucinous adenocarcinoma, a type of cancer, ... We learned he had the illness less than 6 months ago ... The defensive lineman is one of at least 10 players to win championships in the NFL and CFL. ... He never missed a regular season or postseason game (131) during his seven-year career with the Broncos from 1994-2000, making 29 starts. Hasselbach had 17.5 career sacks, including a career-high four in 1995,...

Two men were lynched in the West Bank on Friday after being accused of collaborating with Israel. The alleged "spies" were murdered in the street while others filmed the carnage. Their bodies were then hung from a tower as a large crowd cheered in approval.. Pro-Palestinian accounts on social media celebrated the killings by claiming it was an act of resistance, though no evidence has emerged to confirm the claims that the two men were actually spies working for Israel. ... That this happened in the ostensibly more moderate West Bank says everything about the possibility of a "two-state solution,"...

What do a rock-and-roll kangaroo, dancing otter and diving heron have in common? It might sound like the setup for a silly animal joke, but, in fact, these three adorable wild animals are making headlines as some the winners of the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Judges of the U.K.-based awards narrowed down more than 1,800 images submitted by talented wildlife photographers spanning 85 countries. And the winners are sure to make you chortle, giggle and maybe even guffaw.

@simonateba BREAKING - CHARACTER ASSASSINATION: @FoxNews sister news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, @nypost, attacks @TuckerCarlson and @VivekGRamaswamy and indirectly @elonmusk . In what appeared to be a hit job and a deliberate character assassination to promote @RonDeSantis and @NikkiHaley, two candidates with zero chance of winning the GOP nomination, while indirectly attempting to undermine @realDonaldTrump ahead of the first GOP primary in Iowa, Rupert Murdoch's publication sensationally claimed that Vivek has become a 'conspiracy theorist' like 'Tucker Carlson' for suggesting that the next Republican debate be hosted on X for a bigger audience. The paper writes, "That...

We need your help! Join our growing army and click here to subscribe to ad-free Revolver. Or give a one-time or recurring donation during this critical time. It’s a troubling sign when our military prioritizes diversity over defense. But sadly, this aligns with the progressive obsession for celebrating “firsts”—be it the first female president or the first cross-dressing, luggage-stealing Department of Energy employee. However, the problem with this unprofessional approach is the shift in focus from the actual job that has to get done to aimlessly promoting a laundry list of social issues. When you lose sight of the primary...

@Resist_05 Jacob Rothschild… “My family created Israel”

Conservatives regard Thanksgiving as a Pilgrim achievement but the Marxists in our midst see it differently. To them, Thanksgiving is a stain, a stigma, an opportunity for Marxist exploitation of racial differences to advance a communist revolution.The “progressive” strategist Steve Phillips, author of Barack Hussein Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” strategy of political power, refers to the practice of “land acknowledgment,” or recognizing the indigenous land owners, but he quickly adds the following important note: this “simply doesn’t go far enough in addressing and bringing about justice and reparations for the murder, genocide, and brutality that Native peoples faced at the hands...