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The Russians on the "Southern Front" received large reinforcements for half a day via the Crimean bridge The elite Ukrainian units that attempted the "Kherson counter-offensive" for the past six days did not achieve anything, and they paid for that with huge casualties and losses. They briefly took over Blagodatnoe and another smaller settlement and wedged themselves into Russian positions southeast of Suho Stavok, 3-4 kilometers away, but the counterattack was so powerful that they had to return to their starting lines with two captured positions. In the last 24 hours, the Ukris had 230 casualties, and they also lost...

Excuse the Vanity Post, I think some may be interested in a personal friend of mine who passed away recently, whose funeral is tomorrow. My dear friend Hans Heine, was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928 and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 and immediately sent to the Eastern Front to fight against the Russians, he has obviously seen the worst of humanity. In 1958 Hans, his wife and children immigrated to the USA and became citizens, he had a very successful business career and was a true friend, one of his sons joined the USAF and had over...

All of this is mundane stuff. It’s also a prime example of why Die Hard remains the greatest American action movie since it was released 30 years ago this week. Consider everything that the director, John McTiernan, and his screenwriters, Jeb Stuart and Steven E de Souza, set up in this brief little scene. Though Bruce Willis plays McClane as the modern American cowboy, Roy Rogers with an attitude, the film-makers choose to emphasize his vulnerability first. His fear of flying gets us primed for the bumps and bruises he will sustain all night long, when a phalanx of terrorists...

Copenhagen - Police in Denmark arrested a suspected possible suicide bomber Friday following a small explosion at a hotel in central Copenhagen, media reports said. Danish daily Extra Bladet showed on its website a photo of the suspect, who had reportedly attempted to blow himself up. Police did not immediately confirm the report. No one was injured in the explosion at the Jorgensen Hotel. Police handcuffed the man after he was seen running away from the hotel and into the nearby Orstedsparken park. The park was evacuated and the surrounding streets were cordoned off as explosive experts were called in....

To look at it right now, no sane person would think much of Hans Island, a glorified pile of rocks in the Canadian arctic. It’s a tiny, blasted and forsaken island a mere 1.3 km in area, desperately far from any civilization. But, the important thing for Canadians to remember is that Hans Island is our tiny, blasted and forsaken island. And it must stay that way, if we expect any of our international claims of sovereignty over the, now only allegedly, Canadian north to be recognized. Because, the truth is, Hans Island is far more than just a tiny,...

The reason I'm an optimist about the future of America is because I tend to think that MTV does not speak for young Americans. But if I'm wrong, if the MTV generation is as perverted and spiritually impoverished as its namesake, then we might as well elect Drew Barrymore president in a few years and get this country all over with. Miss Barrymore, the 28-year old blond Hollywoodite, is "a repressed voter," she says in her new MTV documentary "The Best Place to Start." As a young person who is admittedly clueless about the whole voting thing, Barrymore wants other...

All FReepers, Lurkers, Protest Warriors and Patriots are invited to join us in giving former U.N. Weapons Inspector Hans Blix the welcome he deserves when he speaks at VCU’s Siegel Center on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. Inspector Gadget is promoting his new book, “Disarming Iraq”, which coincidentally will be on sale at the VCU bookstore that very same day. His appearance is funded by a grant from the NEH (National Endowment for Humanities). That’s right, our tax dollars are going to this man who called his American detractors in Washington bastards. And then there is the...

Hans Blix vs the US: 'I was undermined' By David Usborne in New York 23 April 2003 For the first time since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, confronted the Americans openly yesterday, accusing the Bush administration of lacking credibility in its efforts to hunt down Iraq's banned weapons. Mr Blix, 74, derided by Washington for his failure to find the "smoking gun" that would have convinced the UN to give legal backing to the war, also accused Washington and Britain of deliberately undermining his efforts before the war. He warned the Security Council...

UN Chief Arms Inspector Announces Retirement Stewart Stogel Thursday, March 27, 2003 Hans Blix To Leave UN July 1 New York--United Nations--"My contract expires at the end of June and I do not propose to stay beyond that," said UN Chief Arms Inspector Hans Blixi in an interview with NewsMax Thursday. Blix's intention to call it quits later this year first surfaced in a NewsMax Insider Report earlier this month. Blix joined the UN in March 2000, after serving as Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN atomic watchdog) for 17 years. Before he left the IAEA in...

Being irrelevant is the key The saying, “You can fool some of the people, some of the time, but not all the people all of the time,” use to be applicable. With O.J., Clinton and now Saddam’s defenses, never has the world’s moral compass become so tilted. Finally, comes the realization that the word IS to many, is not really IS. As many embrace the “all is relevant,” defense, facts become irrelevant. So what if O.J. was found guilty in civil court, Clinton was impeached and Saddam is in material breach. What one must realize, being irrelevant is the key....