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The century intervening from the fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the beginning of the First World War in 1914 is usually regarded as a sort of golden age for Prusso-German militarism. In this period, the Prussian military establishment won a series of spectacular victories over Austria and France, establishing an aura of German military supremacy and realizing the dream of a unified Germany through force of arms. Prussia in this era also produced three of history’s iconic military personalities - Carl von Clausewitz (a theoretician), Helmuth von Moltke (a practitioner), and Hans Delburk (a historian). As the story usually...

When an investment looks like a bad risk, you take your money out of it. When your whole country’s economy looks like a bad risk you do the same thing. And that’s what wealthy Chinese citizens have been doing, stealthily moving their money abroad even though there is a potential risk of going to jail for violating laws against such moves.Since international borders reopened post-pandemic, advisers to the rich report a surge in demand for overseas backup options. Crackdowns on ideologically out-of-favor industries, uncertainty over geopolitical tensions and Xi Jinping’s push for “common prosperity” have spooked the rich and even...

The talking heads at the alphabet networks now have yet another inconvenient bit of data to either ignore or try to explain away as “not a smoking gun” in the ongoing saga of Biden Inc. I previously wrote about a shady $40,000 check that the President received from his brother Jim and his wife for our VIP subscribers and nothing about that transaction looked remotely normal. It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who had questions. A money-laundering investigator who worked for one of the banks handling the series of massive cash transfers leading to that “loan repayment”...

Sky News is doing the work that our own MSM refuses to do. Ever since it emerged, the origins of COVID should have been one of the top two or three stories in the world. After all, the disease itself was ravaging the world, the responses to the virus were doing even more damage, and the people in charge of responding to the virus were, at the very least, suspects in the case. Yet even discussion of the possibility of a lab leak was suppressed, and anybody who brought up the possibility was labeled a conspiracy theorist. Social media sites...

Starved.Women in cages. Children drugged and legs burned on motorcycle exhausts for identification. Prolonged preventing going to restrooms.Children threanted with rifles forced to watch Oct 7 horrors if not quiet.Jewish men beaten with electric wires.________ NOTES: Hamas burned child hostages with motorcycle exhaust pipes to ‘mark’ them, drugged them to keep them complacent: family By Alex Oliveira Published Nov. 30, 2023, 8:18 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/hamas-burned-child-hostages-with-motorcycle-exhaust-pipes-to-mark-them-drugged-them-to-keep-them-complacent-families/_____ Starvation, whispering and psychological terror: Life of captives in Gaza. They were beaten, haven't showered for 50 days, provided with almost no food, held captive in tunnels underground, slept on chairs and barely received...

In a blow to the "ceasefire now" crowd, including clownishly antisemitic politicians like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Hamas leadership has let it be known that they don't want a ceasefire.The first indication of that came on Thursday when Hamas carried out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem, leaving three dead and dozens injured. If that wasn't clear enough, though, Hamas' leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar let it be known on the same day that the October 7th attacks were just a rehearsal. #BREAKING: Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in his first publicized statements since launching Al Aqsa Floods campaign:"The leaders of...

In video from Sderot, a blast can be heard shortly after a “red alert” rocket siren sounds in the town, indicating that there was indeed a rocket attack.

As I write this, the debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis is entering the final stretch, but short of a miracle turnaround, a winner has already emerged. DeSantis has hammered Newsom with facts throughout the night, and to Sean Hannity's credit, he's put up graphics with each question that have helped expose the California governor's continued lies. Once things end, there will be a lot to cover (and a heck of a lot to fact-check on Newsom's part), but one moment was just too good to not go ahead and share. In it, DeSantis began to recollect a conversation...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece was originally published on October 9, 2022, but is being republished after California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed that the state's high gas prices are caused by "gouging" from oil companies during a debate with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom signed even more regulations into law in 2022 and 2023. One law requires oil companies to inform customers about "how much money they're making off Californians on their websites; oil companies are now hitting back by posting QR codes at the pump where customers can learn how much they're paying in taxes and fees.)While gas prices in...

Trump was privately pressing Pence to reject certain votes at the Jan. 6 proceedings and block certification of the election -- and Trump even suggested to Pence that perhaps he should skip the session altogether, Pence allegedly told Smith's team. But, according to sources, Pence told investigators that he "clearly and repeatedly" emphasized to Trump that rejecting certain votes would violate the Constitution. "I told him I thought there was no idea more un-American than the idea that any one person could decide what electoral votes to count," Pence allegedly told Smith's team, echoing what he has said before in...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan is concerned that the U.S. military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft despite its request to ground them until their safety is confirmed after an accident this week, Japan's top government spokesperson said on Friday. Japan, a key U.S. ally, had sought the suspension of all nonemergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan. The Japan Coast Guard has said one person was found and confirmed dead, and the search for the remaining seven aboard continues. The Pentagon said on Thursday that it was still flying...

Sar-El has worked with more than a quarter of a million civilian volunteers in its 40 years, from both outside and from within Israel, Jewish and non-Jewish, young and old. In the past horrendous week, Sar-El CEO Keren Dahan has seen an uptick in civilian requests to volunteer for the IDF, the likes of which are unprecedented. Sar-El is an organization that offers logistical support to the IDF by a cadre of volunteers from around the world. “The war changed everything. We have a huge number of requests coming in,” Dahan told the Magazine. “If the logistics aren’t ready, then...

On this date in 1938, 14 political prisoners of the Romanian Legionary movement were extrajudicially executed — including Corneliu Codreanu, one of the Romanian right’s leading spirits. The son of a Bukovina schoolteacher in what was then Austria-Hungary, Codreanu came to political maturity in the interwar heyday of Greater Romania. It was a moment of national aspiration — the Romanian state had never before grown so large — but it was abutted by the great threats of Germany and Russia, and haunted by nationalism, economic crisis, shaken political authority, and all the other spooks conjured by the first World War....

The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will continue till Saturday morning... An update to the story about that terrorist attack in Israel earlier today... Brazilian intelligence believes that an invasion of Guyana by Venezuela will happen in the coming days... US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky performing the Heimlich Maneuver on fellow Republican Senator Joni Ernst... In France's National Assembly today a Left-Wing member admonishing Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne for vaping in the chamber... Seven OPEC+ countries agreeing to 2.2 million barrels per day production cuts for the first three months of next year... Japan asking...

An Arizona judge on Wednesday denied 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's request to review ballot envelope signatures, concluding it "would have a corrosive effect on public confidence in the electoral process." In September, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah presided over a two-day trial to decide whether Lake's legal team could have access to review the ballot envelope signatures for the 2022 general election in the county. Lake lost the race to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs by less than 1 percent of the vote. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer denied the GOP candidate's request in April, prompting her...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - One Kia owner got so fed up after his car was stolen he decided to dump the vehicle off at the dealership where he bought it and walk four hours back home. On Monday, Behrouz Alimoradi said someone stole his Kia. The incident happened in Federal Way. Alimoradi said police found the car. But as it sat parked in the driveway, he says someone came back and smashed out all the windows. "I’m tired, you know. I swear I’m tired about this car," he said. Alimoradi says in two years, he has dealt with four different...

Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, two honest men who worked on the Twitter Files, exposing how the government collaborated with Twitter to affect the 2020 election, testified before the House today. What they said should terrify you. Beginning in January 2017, under then-president Obama’s direction, the government instituted a social media manipulation system intended to game the 2020 election through censorship and controlled information (which, to my mind, amounts to misinformation). It was unconstitutional, but it worked. And now, using the vehicle of the corrupt criminal action against Trump, the government is bypassing manipulating information and is planning to target...

Brothers Or and Yagil Yaakov, who were held hostage by Hamas, exposed the terrorists' violence and barbarism against them while in captivity. Or and Yagil's uncle, Yaniv, said during a meeting with foreign ministers in Europe that his nephews were branded on their legs by what would appear to be an intentional burn by the exhaust of a vehicle, so if they managed to escape their captors, they would be able to identify them, Channel 12 reported on Thursday. The uncle also revealed that the boys were drugged and moved from place to place several times: "We got the boys...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli officials obtained Hamas’ battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. The approximately 40-page document, which Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people. The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical...

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