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One thousand days into Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, three facts seem to be evident. First, Russia is losing. It is using its soldiers like human ammunition, burning through its economic reserves and mortgaging its future to Beijing. Second, Ukraine is losing faster than Russia. Ukraine’s forces are beleaguered along a too-long front and increasingly reliant on what looks like press-ganging for recruits. The country’s energy infrastructure is 80 percent damaged or destroyed. The third fact: Donald Trump’s election is throwing all the old assumptions about the war into doubt. British chief of the defense staff Sir Tony Radakin’s...

Japan’s $26bn discovery: A deep-sea jackpot with a deep-seated cost. In a discovery that’s got economists giddy and environmentalists reeling, Japan has found something very special deep under the Pacific Ocean. Scientists have uncovered a seabed covered with nodules near Minami-Tori-shima Island worth a staggering $26.29 billion. But while the find promises to turbocharge Japan’s economy for the next decade, critics warn it could sink marine biodiversity into uncharted waters of destruction. A buried fortune unearthed The seabed is 5,700 metres down, glistening with manganese nodules – millions of years in the making – packed with cobalt, nickel, copper, and...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican's Pension Fund In Serious Trouble - Francis Called for "Sacrifices"Francis has appointed Cardinal Kevin Farrell as sole administrator of the Vatican's embattled pension fund.Francis said Thursday in a letter to the College of Cardinals that the Vatican's pension fund faces a "serious imbalance," but did not quantify the extent of the problem.Francis wrote to the cardinals that "urgent structural measures" are needed to deal with the fund's significant deficit. He announced "difficult decisions" and called for "sacrifice on the part of everyone.""This means that the current system will not be able to guarantee the fulfillment of pension...

The state is scheduled to execute Carey Dale Grayson, 50, who was convicted of killing a hitchhiker in 1994. Alabama's use of nitrogen continues to stir debate.An Alabama inmate convicted in a 1994 murder is poised to die Thursday in the state's third nitrogen hypoxia execution this year. The emerging execution method, which involves breathing solely nitrogen gas through a mask while being deprived of oxygen, continues to draw concerns over the possibility of prolonged suffering and whether there is an unconstitutional risk of added pain. But a federal appeals court this week rejected arguments made by the condemned man's...

For as long as we’ve been thinking about journeying to other star systems and the planets and worlds that orbit them, we’ve been compelled to consider just how to keep human beings intact during any journey that would bridge the interstellar distances. While short trips through the zero-gravity environment of space might be feasible for humans, over longer time periods, human bodies suffer from all sorts of maladies: space blindness, bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and much more. While instantaneous teleportation or faster-than-light travel, either through a wormhole or via warp drive, might be satisfactory solutions for science fiction, when...

The Monterey County District Attorney's Office has released a statement in light of allegations resurfacing against President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, over an alleged sexual assault in 2017 at a Monterey Hotel. The Monterey County District Attorney's Office said that they chose not to pursue charges against Hegseth due to a lack of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." Advertisement Pete HegsethPolice report details rape accusations against Trump's nominee for defense secretary A statement given to KSBW 8 reads: "Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni announced today that on January 18, 2018, her office declined to...

Local news just announced that the dumbest Senator in Congress Bob Casey has just conceded .

The left really is having a difficult time coping with Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 elections. Some celebrities have even "moved out" of the country. On Wednesday evening, we learned that comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi have moved to rural England. It's not all that it seems, though, because they already owned the home in Great Britain. But they are selling their Montecito, Calif., estate. Not all celebs who claimed to be worried about a Trump dictatorship are leaving the country, though. Most are just leaving X/Twitter. Over the past couple...

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker. But this common metaphor is misleading, according to a recent meta-analytic review. Researchers at Ohio State University analyzed 154 studies on anger, finding little evidence that venting helps. In some cases, it could increase anger. "I think it's really important to bust the myth that if you're angry you should blow off steam – get it off your chest," said senior author and communication scientist Brad Bushman when the results were published in April. "Venting anger might sound...

Lame duck Joe Biden's gamble on a global warDeparting US president Joe Biden… has taken one of the most provocative, uncalculated decisions of his administration, which risks catastrophic consequences... Joe Biden gave the greenlight to Ukraine to launch the American-made long-range ATACMS missile system deep within Russian territory. WWIII, anyone?Following Donald Trump’s electoral victory this month, the lame duck administration of Joe Biden gave the greenlight to Ukraine to launch the American-made long-range ATACMS missile system deep within Russian territory, according to various news outlets including Reuters and The New York Times.On November 19, Ukrainian news agency RBC-Ukraine reported that...

The Justice Department has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to suspend most searches of passengers at airports and other mass transit hubs after an independent investigation found DEA task forces weren't documenting searches and weren't properly trained, creating a significant risk of constitutional violations and lawsuits. The deputy attorney general directed the DEA on November 12 to halt what are known as "consensual encounter" searches at airports—unless they're part of an existing investigation into a criminal network—after seeing the draft of a Justice Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) memorandum that outlined a decade's worth of "significant concerns" about...

Monstrous killer and Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Ibarra got sentenced Wednesday to life without parole for his February murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. It should have been deathBut Deborah Gonzalez, the leftist prosecutor initially in charge of the case, refused to seek the death penalty. That obscenity was part of a policy she implemented in 2021, claiming that “collateral consequences to undocumented defendants” would determine how she charged them. Collateral consequences to undocumented defendants? SNIP Ibarra, remember, was an illegal migrant invited here and then welcomed by the Biden administration: After jumping the border in 2022, he...

Keir Starmer today insisted Britain only supplies weapons to Ukraine for 'self-defence' after Storm Shadow missiles were fired on Russia for the first time. The PM accused Vladimir Putin of wanting 'destruction not peace' as he defied threats from the Kremlin. The statement in the Commons came as experts have cautioned that the UK should expect 'more sabotage and subversion' after the West scaled up support for Kyiv. Russia this morning apparently fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as part of reprisals against targets in Ukraine. It came the day after Kyiv's forces battered a Russian command headquarters in the Kursk...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian judge upholds blasphemy case against archbishop, painter of sacrilegious exhibitModena Archbishop Erio Castellucci, painter Andrea Saltini, Father Don Carlo Bellini and a laywoman were charged with contempt under the Italian penal code for vilifying a religion in a place of worship or in a public place through insulting objects.Editor’s note: WARNING – The details of this article are disturbing and scandalizing. LifeSiteNews has chosen not to publish any of the images described.An Italian judge refused to dismiss a case brought against the Archbishop of Modena for outraging the religious feelings of a group of faithful Catholics.Dr. Andrea...

This is damning...Not for Israel, but for the impotent sham court flaunting its lack of moral clarity as a badge of honor.

Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske is signaling that he'd like to stay on in his current role as President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term. During a segment about Thanksgiving travel with CBS on Tuesday, Pekoske was clear that he's hoping to stay until his term ends in 2027, saying that he “loves” the role. "It’s important for continuity in TSA to run the second term to its conclusion,” he said, adding that the agency has made numerous investments and increased partnerships not just in air travel but on surface transportation security, too. A TSA spokesperson on Wednesday backstopped...

Ambassador urges Philippines Illegals to self deport from USA.

As part of his new administration, President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to revive Schedule F — an ultimately unsuccessful effort from the end of his first term that sought to remove civil service job protections for potentially tens of thousands of career federal employees. But based on survey data, one famous GOP pollster argued that the public would not support such a policy. Frank Luntz told attendees at a National Academy of Public Administration conference on Nov. 14 that 61% of respondents — including majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans — would prefer a “non-partisan, nonpoliticized civil service...

U.S. President Joe Biden has submitted to Congress a statement of intent to cancel half of Ukraine's economic aid debt, a sum of around $4.65 billion, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press briefing on Nov. 20. The supplemental security assistance package worth $61 billion that Congress provided to Ukraine in April included about $10 billion in economic aid as a loan, rather than a grant. The terms of the offer gave Biden the authority to forgive up to 50 percent of the loan. "We have taken the step that was outlined in the law to cancel...

The Russian media is in a state of panic as inflation soars and the Ruble slumps, leaving many to struggle. Moscow's print news outlets, heavily controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin, were uncharacteristically negative in their coverage as they raised concerns about the economic well-being of ordinary Russians. As reported by the BBC's Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, the front page of Russian newspaper Nezavismaya Gazeta said: "Some products have gone up in price this year by tens of percent." The report highlighted that butter is 6.6% more expensive than it was in September, and 30% more expensive than this time...