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What the Hell is Happening at West Point? If you’re not up to speed with the recent SNAFU at West Point around @PeteHegseth 's nomination, it’s worth noting. Last Wednesday, ProPublica was on the verge of publishing a bombshell report contradicting Hegseth’s claim that he had been accepted to West Point in 1999. Apparently, ProPublica had been assured by West Point – twice – that Pete had never applied for admission. But this was demonstrably untrue, and when Pete got wind of the pending story, he simply posted his acceptance letter online. Obviously, ProPublica had been misinformed by a government...

Right now, swarms of drones on the eastern seaboard are captivating Americans each night. Spotted in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Maryland, the flying pests often appear near military installations and other national security hotspots. While everyday Americans share videos of the crafts on social media, they are not being dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” or “kooks.” The interlopers hovering in America’s skies have equally intrigued politicians, law enforcement officers, and news reporters. What is most interesting about this event (barring the emergence of little green men from the aerial vehicles before this essay’s publication) is the public’s general disregard...

Summary Russia says avoid US, Canada, EU countries Russia says US hunting down Russians Kremlin: Biden is dialling up tensions ahead of Trump MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that relations with Washington were so confrontational that Russian citizens should not visit the United States, Canada and some EU countries in coming weeks because they risked being "hunted" down by U.S. authorities. Russian and U.S. diplomats say the relationship is worse than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two Cold War superpowers came closest to intentional nuclear war, due to a confrontation...

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The plane was part of a 'super-secret operation'. On a cold, dark night in January 1952, a distress call went out over Death Valley. “Mayday. Mayday. Mayday. This is Air Force 001 bailing out north of Barstow, California,” an official crash report would later read. Seconds later, six men jumped out of a 16-ton, two-engine, SA-16 Albatross plane into total darkness. The plane — with its backdoor hanging open — continued unmanned for a few moments, eventually crashing into a nearby desert mountain. More than 70 years later, the metallic carcass is still there.

The welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare. Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office and all but abdicated—to the relief of his nation and the rest of the world. One reason so many are welcoming Trump’s return is the universally desperate hope that his election spelled an end to a collective madness at...

“When [Christ] had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3). God has exalted Christ above everyone and everything. Christ in His majestic glory is “heir of all things” (Heb. 1:2). That’s why it is His right to have the title deed to the earth, spoken of in Revelation 5:1-7. There He opens that deed and takes possession of what is rightfully His as heir of all things. Hebrews 1 further describes Christ as “the radiance of [God’s] glory and the exact representation of His nature. . . . When...

ABC News host George Stephanopoulos ignored the news about his network’s massive settlement with President-elect Donald Trump on his Sunday show. Fox News Digital first reported on Saturday that ABC News and Stephanopoulos agreed to a settlement to avoid a costly trial over Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the network and anchor. News of the settlement, however, failed to appear on ABC’s "This Week." Instead, Stephanopoulos focused on stories about unidentified drones over New Jersey, ongoing conflicts in Syria and Trump’s cabinet picks. He also deleted his X account over the weekend. Stephanopoulos was the focus of the lawsuit after he...

A California man was mauled to death by his own dogs on a San Diego playground Friday when the three beasts refused to let off their owner despite bystanders’ desperate efforts. Calls started coming into San Diego police around noon Friday reporting a dog attack at the Mesa Viking Neighborhood Park, and when police arrived they found three “XL bullies” sinking their teeth into the defenseless man, according to KTLA. The attack was so vicious one witness thought police were trying to apprehend a violent criminal. “I just saw they had something trapped in the weeds over here. I thought...

Alejandro Mayorkas has said a new Federal Aviation Administration rule may be behind the deluge of drone sightings across New Jersey and the East Coast. The outgoing DHS secretary finally addressed the issue with the press on Sunday, confirming that they could not physically shoot down the drones but that technology to assist in detecting them is on its way. He gave some clarification, however, as to why all of this seemed to be happening all of a sudden. 'In September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night,' Mayorkas...

Poland has become the first EU country to introduce compulsory gun & shooting classes in all its elementary schools Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Polish state wants to familiarize all kids from a young age with weapons Patriotism is a key component of the classes https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1868438030521864280

<p>As Mark Moran was facing another 90-hour week as an investment-banking intern at Credit Suisse in New York, he knew he needed help to survive the rest of the summer. His colleagues gave him a tip: Visit a Wall Street health clinic and tell the staff he had trouble focusing.</p>

Researchers have found definitive proof of a kidney microbiome that influences renal health and kidney stone formation, demonstrating that the urinary tract is not sterile and low levels of bacteria are normal. They also identified certain bacteria within the microbiome that could promote or block kidney stone development and showed that antibiotic misuse (commonly associated with kidney stone development in a hospital setting) skewed the microbiome towards stone-promoting bacteria. The team's methods showed that bacteria living in the urinary tract were not only there because of disease, since they found them in the urinary tract of people without evidence of...

Hilarity ensued on social media Saturday when President-elect Donald Trump posted a meme depicting former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) as the culprit behind the mysterious drone sightings across the northeast. The image, which appears to be AI-generated, shows Christie hunched over a large spread of McDonald’s food while half a dozen drones fly toward him with more fast-food deliveries in tow: Trump shared the picture across several social media platforms, including Instagram, Truth Social, and X, receiving a total of well over one million likes. As he posted the meme uncaptioned, the incoming president left the implications rather...

The short-term boost our brains get after we do exercise persists throughout the following day, suggests a study. The study found that, on average, people aged 50 to 83 who did more moderate to vigorous physical activity than usual on a given day did better in memory tests the day after. More deep (slow-wave) sleep also contributed to memory function, and the research team found this accounted for a small portion of the link between exercise and better next-day memory. The research team looked at data from 76 men and women who wore activity trackers for eight days and took...

A Yuletide greeting/warning/ query to Freepers! We bought a Christmas Tree, a Frazier Spruce at a nursery in Pennsylvania North of Philadelphia. The trees were nice and symetric and full. We got it home and stood it up and my wife noticed it had an uncharacteristic smell--not like spruce, but like a chemical. This morning our Shiba Inu was trembling. Then she became lethargic. Her nose was warm. We wondered if it was the tree. A friend of ours came over and confirmed my wife's suspicion about the smell. I took the tree outside and the stand/basin as well. The...

Colin Cowherd blasted the National Basketball Association’s ratings collapse because the league has failed to give the fans what they want and compared that epic collapse to what has happened with the Democrat Party. In a recent broadcast of his The Herd show, Cowherd noted that NBA commissioner Adam Silver has done a good job addressing CTE problems and has “navigated a multitude of cultural changes.” But Silver’s “tinkering” has strayed so far from what the fans want that TV ratings have collapsed. Cowherd said, “He tinkers, he evolves.” Meanwhile, the NBA ratings are down 48% in the last 12...

In a shocking revelation that has left social media ablaze and even caught the attention of podcast king Joe Rogan, John Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC, has delivered a bombshell theory on a series of mysterious drone sightings. Ferguson, an expert in the field of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), believes these drones are not operating with nefarious intent but are likely searching for something critical on the ground. Speaking in a now-viral TikTok video, Ferguson shared his professional insights into the growing phenomenon, speculating that these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are part of a classified operation aimed at...

The founder of a “socialist apparel” brand who has called online for the death of corporate executives is planning to sell a deck of cards of “most wanted CEOs” — complete with names and faces and decorated with illustrations of gun range targets. Comrade Workwear founder James Harr announced the disturbing project just days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was executed on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. He said it was inspired by the “most-wanted Iraqi” playing card decks famously distributed to US and coalition forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq to help identify key targets in Saddam Hussein’s...