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I have searched using my limited ability to find the military education of Pete Hegseth. I cannot find anything except he attended Basic Training at Fort Benning, GA. That is very poor reporting. Officers do not attend Basic Training, they attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course. But I digress. What advanced military schooling has he attended? His actual military experience is quite limited. So I am curious of his capability. I like the guy, but I am curious as to how he would respond to the following questions asked off the cuff. What is CMOC and how is it composed?...

On CNN This Morning, CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston warned that under Trump's proposed tariff increase on China, "when you go to Walmart, you're not going to get something for like $3.99. It's going to be $13.99." That's a 250% price increase! Trump has proposed increasing existing tariffs on Chinese goods by only 10%. So Mark, where's the additional 240% coming from? CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny agreed with Preston's absurd scaremongering: "Exactly." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII “I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE SAYING THIS OUT LOUD;” @NIH Chief Confesses COVID Health Initiatives Were "COMPLETELY MADE UP” "I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID. They don’t.” Adds, "We're all going to learn [about vaccine safety] when it's too late," as Pfizer & Moderna "are just getting a bunch of money… Vaccines were accelerated through the approval.” ‘We fly under the radar of being scrutinized…I don't think I have too much to worry about.’ Trump victory “worse for the NIH.” “It would be better for a Democrat to be in office.” VIDEO...

The grossly obese Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill) used Transgender Awareness Week—November 12 to 19—to announce his intention "to make Illinois the 'go to' location for folks seeking a sex change. This will complement our state's unlimited abortion guarantee that anyone can come here and get a publicly-funded abortion, no questions asked. Other Democrats may try to imitate me, but I'm setting the pace. Voters will see this and choose me as the Party's 2028 nominee for president." Former Biden White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki declared that "state laws seeking to bar men who identify as...

Walt Disney reached an agreement to pay $43.3 million to resolve a lawsuit claiming its California female employees earned $150 million less than their male colleagues over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs’ attorneys confirmed on Monday. A motion has been filed to seek approval of the settlement, which would cover a broad range of salaried Disney employees in California, Variety reports. If the petition is granted, thousands of women who have worked for Disney since April 1, 2015, will receive checks to compensate for the wage disparity.

Joy Behar was the first to respond to the story, saying, “It kind of shows you there’s no such thing as karma, doesn’t it? It’s like the Easter Bunny and affordable housing. It doesn’t exist.” Behar then took a more serious tone and said, “I feel like eventually we will get him out, but it’s going to take a while, and let’s hope there’s not too much damage that he does… I mean, the idea that Kamala Harris says to the American people, ‘I’m going to help you buy a house,’ that did not resonate as much as, ‘They’re eating...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week that his state will intervene if President-election Donald Trump eliminates the electric vehicle tax credit passed under President Joe Biden.“Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement on Monday. “We will intervene if the Trump Administration eliminates the federal tax credit, doubling down on our commitment to clean air and green jobs in California. We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future — we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”Reportedly, if the incoming...

Is President Joe Biden out to start a war? Or are his shadow warmongers Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan responsible? War can potentially explode regardless of who pulled the pin on the grenade. - As the Washington Post acknowledges, “Ukraine’s rocket campaign is reliant on US precision targeting.” In other words, Ukraine is nothing but a launching pad used by the Biden warmongers to attack Russia, a sovereign country not threatening the U.S. and which also happens to have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Has WW III begun? Ukraine’s ex-top general says it has. North Korean troops and...

A recent Russian missile attack followed shortly after Ukraine got approval to use US and NATO-made weapons on Russian territory. Not even a day after Biden approved the use of ATACMS, six were launched, followed by Storm Shadows and SCALPS. President Putin didn't wait for long to respond. A new missile entered into the Ukrainian chat. It was believed and speculated that the dramatic hits were by an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-26 Rubezh or one of its modifications. But it was something new, used in anger for the first time: Oreshnik (Hazel). President Putin said this was the first time...

Most mortals are defined by one or two signature moments. Good or bad, win or lose, we get our 15 minutes of fame — and then we’re done. Take a bow; exit stage right.But Donald Trump has lived three or four lifetimes… in just the past decade! No hyperbole: When 2014 began, Trump was filming season seven of “The Apprentice,” ordering around Gilbert Gottfried, Ian Ziering, and one of the Jonas brothers. Now, I don’t want to be dismissive of those (ahem) celebrity superstars (Ziering is the star of the “Sharknado” franchise, for crying out loud), but Trump’s career trajectory...

The presidential election of 2024 was three weeks ago, but as of Tuesday morning, New Jersey has still counted only 91% of the votes that were cast (or something) there. California and Oregon have only gotten around to counting 93%. And so, several times a day, the popular vote totals for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continue to be adjusted. Trump still has a comfortable lead, but Harris has (surprise, surprise) been steadily narrowing that lead. On what is quaintly still referred to as Election Day, Trump’s popular vote lead was about 4.5 million; now it’s down to 2.4 million...

The concept establishing that a child born in the United States to illegal alien parents is at-birth a United States citizen is false. By all appearances it was at some point in our history created out of whole cloth and apparently perpetrated as truth from somewhere within the bowels of the executive branch of government, not Congress. (Neither did it originate from the Constitution, and has lasted for at least fifty years of which I am aware.) Such a child is, most likely, a citizen of the country of which his/her parents are citizens. Certainly not the United States. The...

Abstract===================================== The Armenians are a culturally isolated population who historically inhabited a region in the Near East bounded by the Mediterranean and Black seas and the Caucasus We find that Armenians form a distinctive cluster linking the Near East, Europe, and the Caucasus. We show that Armenian diversity can be explained by several mixtures of Eurasian populations that occurred between ~3000 and ~2000 bce, a period characterized by major population migrations after the domestication of the horse, appearance of chariots, and the rise of advanced civilizations in the Near East. However, genetic signals of population mixture cease after ~1200 bce...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said a state law requiring a photo ID to vote being upheld in court is a "huge win for election security. The Missouri court’s decision to uphold the voter ID law came after heavy criticism from groups arguing that such requirements could disenfranchise voters. However, Bailey’s office successfully presented evidence supporting the law’s necessity and effectiveness in maintaining the integrity of the voting process. The court’s ruling confirmed that the voter ID law does not impose a burden on voters.

A suggestion by a NATO chief that the alliance should target Russia's missile launch sites has been condemned by the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov responded to remarks made by Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO's military committee, about how the alliance can deal with the threat posed by Russia. During a question-and-answer session after his address at the European Policy Center in Brussels, Bauer said, "The idea was we are a defensive alliance, so we will only sit and wait until we are attacked, and then when we are attacked, we will be able to shoot down the...

NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer from The Netherlands discussed the need for preemptive strikes on Russia in the event of armed conflict. Joe Biden and NATO are hoping for all-out war with Russia, the world’s second largest nuclear power, before President Trump enters office in January. Tucker Carlson calls these recent developments the most evil thing he has seen in his lifetime. JUST IN: Preemptive strike against Russia should be considered, NATO Military Committee Chairman says. pic.twitter.com/R2oQTKQaTU — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) November 25, 2024 The EurAsia Daily reported: NATO is discussing the possibility of preemptive precision strikes on...

VIDEOEnjoy this compilation of dejected liberal utterly demoralized by Jack Smith dropping the Lawfare cases against President Donald Trump. All these liberals with the exception of one have the very depressed sad sads over the fact that a politically weaponized DOJ was unable to stop Trump. Yes, there is one happy liberal who has overdosed on Hopium and now thinks Jack Smith dropping the cases really means something very different from what we all think.

MOSCOW - Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is "absolutely irresponsible", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, in response to a report in the New York Times citing unidentified officials who suggested such a possibility.The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons before he leaves office."Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such...

Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from the accounts of the Greek historian Herodotus, who observed that Armenians were armed in Phrygian fashion when serving in the Persian army. Linguists further supported this theory, suggesting that the Armenian language shares ties with the Thraco-Phrygian subgroup of Indo-European languages.But the first whole-genome study challenges this long-held belief, revealing no significant genetic link between Armenians and the populations in the Balkan region. The study compares newly generated modern Armenian genomes and...

Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season. But prices are still far from the recent peak they reached almost two years ago. And the American Egg Board, a trade group, says egg shortages at grocery stores have been isolated and temporary so far. “Those are being rapidly corrected, sometimes within a day,” said Emily Metz, the Egg Board's president and chief executive officer. The average price for a dozen eggs in U.S. cities was $3.37 in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....