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US president-elect Donald Trump has pushed back his campaign pledge to end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours” to several months, in a shift European partners have interpreted as a sign that his administration will not immediately abandon support for Kyiv. -snip- The incoming administration was also wary of comparisons being made with Joe Biden’s calamitous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was something the Trump camp would not like to see repeated in Ukraine, the official added. -snip- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, has ruled out that Washington would “abandon”...

Add one drop forest mismanagement, one drop water mismanagement, one drop budget cuts, one drop DEI, mix and you have California. And it's only going to get worse. Someone page George Santayana. It seems every fire in California is something brand new to its government. They never seem to learn a thing from history. If it wasn't so tragic it would be a comedy. It's as if they've never heard of Santa Ana winds or adequate water storage. Claims are flying around about water management Rick Caruso, billionaire real estate developer, called into LA local news: “This is like a...

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The incoming Trump administration scored an early but possibly illusory victory last month in its effort to reform government overreach when it successfully pressured Congress to eliminate what it termed “sweetheart provisions for government censors” from a measure to stave off a government shutdown. Funding for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center – which Republicans had attacked as a tool of domestic censorship – was stripped from the final bill, and the center announced that it was closed for good on Dec. 23. Days later, however, reporting emerged that the State Department had devised plans to shift the center’s 51...

Time to refuse to use the word “transgender” anymore. It gets tiring looking at articles that are about the alphabet community which constantly ignore the biological sex of the featured person and instead insist on using their terminology for their mental illnesses. I propose that if an article if about a man pretending to be a woman then they won’t be referred to as “she” but as “Male pretendher”. And vice versa for a woman pretending to be a man. She will now be referred to a “Female pretendhim”. The word “Pretend” - To speak and act so as to...

PERFECT WATER DROP ON SUNSET HOLLYWOOD HILLS FIRE. VIDEO AT LINK....................

Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are planning to introduce legislation to abolish the controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. According to Fox News, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) will introduce the bill, which has earned several prominent co-sponsors, including: Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Bob Onder (R-Mo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Keith Self (R-Texas), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). In a statement announcing the legislation, Congressman Burlison denounced the ATF as an “unconstitutional agency.” “The Constitution makes it very clear that when it comes to the federal government, there...

Astonishingly devastating fires are burning mostly unchecked in Los Angeles, destroying whole neighborhoods, and see if you can spot the problem in this Yahoo News update I found in my inbox this morning: Thousands of acres of fire burning into (and then straight through) neighborhoods; 1,400 firefighters. In Pacific Palisades alone, where the biggest fire started first, we’re below one firefighter per two acres of fire. I’ve spent most of my life in California, and a quite common experience is to be in way-Northern California, say for example, and watch a line of fire engines go racing past from San...

ROME — Pope Francis said Thursday migrants should be valued for their dreams and talents rather than treated as a “problem to me managed.” “I find it greatly disheartening to see that migration is still shrouded in a dark cloud of mistrust, rather than being seen as a source of empowerment,” the pontiff declared in his yearly address to members of the diplomatic corps. “People on the move are seen simply as a problem to be managed,” he lamented, urging that they not be “treated like objects to be moved about.” Migrants “have dignity and resources that they can offer...

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In the future, there will be a demarcation: before and after this disaster. No one knows what comes next for L.A.LOS ANGELES—Last night, our synagogue burned to the ground. I haven’t seen the wreckage. I can’t get there. The synagogue is—was—nestled near the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, the epicenter of the Eaton Canyon fire, one of the three fires pressing down on the city.At the time—this was a little before 10 p.m.—the Palisades fire, 25 miles west of us, was the worst, the biggest, devouring the big, sun-dappled houses overlooking the Pacific, the red, Spanish-tile roofs and infinity...

Europe may soon quietly rejoice that Biden is gone, Trump is back, and they have a strong, loyal, and rowdy friend rather than a simpering enabler. Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed 6 pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup into a festive crowd. He murdered fifteen and hurt over 35. Germany’s fertility rate is scarcely above 1.4—about average for a shrinking European Union....

9 January 2025 Thursday after Epiphany Sunday Saint Adrian Catholic Church, Adrian, MNReadings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 5 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Monday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and choose your local...

Adam Carolla applied to be a firefighter in Los Angeles and was told to wait seven years because he was White. He got a job picking up garbage at construction sites and seven years later he was told to report for an interview with LAFD. Once in line he turned to a black lady behind him and said it took them 7 years to respond and he asked her when she applied—- she replied, “Wednesday.”

A fire official says a blaze that broke out in Hollywood Hills is "rapidly expanding" after a mandatory evacuation order was issued in the area following the spread of the wildfires in Los Angeles. California fire chief David Acuna told the BBC there had been "zero progress" in containing the fires because of high winds and dry conditions. "The wind has been blowing consistently at 60-100mph (95-160km/h) since yesterday morning," Acuna said. "It actually blew harder last night." At least five fires are currently active across Los Angeles, with five people confirmed to have been killed. Wind speeds have dropped...

As winter pressures mount on the NHS, hospitals are buckling as they try to cope with long admission waits and bed shortages. The BBC's Hugh Pym spent two days in A&E at Warwick Hospital where management declared a critical incident, with some staff describing the period as "one of the worst" they'd known. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust said it had experienced "some of the highest" attendances it had ever seen at the emergency department in the past week. Patients have been warned to expect long waiting times while medical staff offer treatment.

Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat: "You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you xxxxxxx get what you get. now that your house is on fire. So here's what's going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they're going to get the...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is under fire for being in Africa as her city erupted in flames this week, last month boasted she was “building a greener L.A.” “We’re building a greener L.A.,” she posted on Facebook, along with a post on X that said: The goal was more than 100,000 green jobs in L.A. by the end of 2025. We hit the goal by the end of 2024. We’re building a greener L.A.

Yes, he was being serious. Joe Biden is a congenital liar who can’t seem to remember anything, so I have no idea whether what he said he did a month ago is true, but apparently…Biden is lamenting his decision to appoint Merrick Garland because the prosecutor failed to persecute Trump quick enough and hard enough: President Joe Biden is quietly expressing regret about appointing Merrick Garland as attorney general. According to a report in The Washington Post, Biden believes Garland was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and allowed for an...

A leading Vladimir Putin propagandist who urged the Kremlin to fire nuclear bombs at Ukraine is in a coma after suffering a "clinical death." Tigran Keosayan, 59, sanctioned by Britain and other Western countries, had urged the Kremlin dictator to use nuclear bombs and vowed Russia will take full control of Ukraine. His powerful wife Margarita Simonyan, 44, who heads the slavish RT international media empire and is also sanctioned, confirmed his condition after rumours swept Moscow. There was speculation that the satirical show host could have been the target of a Ukrainian military intelligence death squad but she insisted...