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  • Massive explosion at Los Angeles oil refinery triggers huge fireball seen for miles

    10/03/2025 4:25:47 AM PDT · by MarlonRando · 53 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10-3-25 | James Cirrone
    The blast took place just outside of the bustling LAX airport and was seen for miles across Los Angeles after it ignited at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo, police said. Firefighters arrived to the scene at around 9:35pm local time, several minutes after people in surrounding areas reported hearing a loud blast.
  • If Mamdani Wins, the Gig (Work) Is Up

    10/03/2025 6:37:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 3 Oct, 2025 | Jonathan Wolfson
    One of Zohran Mamdani’s most harmful proposals is getting the least attention: his plan to restrict “gig” work – the freelancing that’s so popular across the Big Apple. Mamdani wants to wrap freelancing in so much red tape, it’ll be significantly harder for New Yorkers to work for themselves or get side income. New Jersey, too, is flirting with severely limiting independent work. But whether it comes from Gracie Mansion or Trenton, a crackdown on gig work would hurt not just workers and those who hire them, but every New Yorker or New Jerseyan who relies on freelance workers in...
  • World War Imminent, if Kiev's False Flag Sabotage Plans Materialize — Russian MFA

    09/26/2025 10:32:25 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 40 replies
    TASS ^ | 9/26/25
    Maria Zakharova drew attention to reports in several Hungarian media outlets about Vladimir Zelensky's plans to carry out sabotage in Romania and Poland with the aim of blaming RussiaMOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has predicted the imminent outbreak of World War III, if Hungarian media reports about Kiev's plans to stage a false flag operation in Romania and Poland are confirmed. In her Telegram channel, she drew attention to reports in several Hungarian media outlets about Vladimir Zelensky's plans to carry out sabotage in Romania and Poland with the aim of blaming Russia. "His office...
  • If NATO Downs Russian Plane, There Will be War — Ambassador to France

    09/25/2025 12:09:40 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 55 replies
    TASS ^ | 9/25//25
    "Quite a few planes violate Russia's airspace, accidentally and not accidentally. No one shoots them down," Alexey Meshkov emphasizedPARIS, September 25. /TASS/. Russia’s ambassador to France Alexey Meshkov has warned that if NATO were shooting down Russian planes allegedly violating the airspace of the alliance's member countries, that would mean war. "There would be war. What else could there be?" Meshkov said on RTL radio, responding to a question about Russia's possible response. "Quite a few planes violate our airspace, accidentally and not accidentally. No one shoots them down," the ambassador added. Meshkov also stated that Europe has not provided...
  • Putin Ally Fires Nuclear Warning at Trump’s US

    09/25/2025 6:52:28 AM PDT · by McGruff · 44 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Sept 25, 2025 | Shane Croucher
    Top Kremlin official Dmitry Medvedev issued a fiery nuclear warning to the U.S. after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials in Moscow should learn where their nearest bomb shelter is if they don't end Russia's war. Zelensky, in an interview with Axios, said U.S. President Donald Trump had given his explicit backing to Ukrainian strikes on Russian targets such as energy infrastructure and arms factories, and that if Kyiv receives more long-range American weaponry, then "we will use it". "The Kiev drug addict said the Kremlin should know where a bomb shelter is so its occupants can hide when he...
  • Zelenskyy praises 'well-informed' Trump after president's Russia war pivot

    09/24/2025 4:16:06 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 11 replies
    ABC News.com ^ | September 24, 2025 | David Brennan
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his "productive meeting" with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, after which Trump appeared to jettison his long-held skepticism of Kyiv's battlefield ambitions. Shortly after the meeting, Trump wrote on social media, "After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form." (snip) But on Tuesday, the...
  • Midland ISD fires teacher over comments on Charlie Kirk’s death [and likely more to follow - Don't mess with Texas!]

    09/24/2025 11:25:47 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 21 replies
    NewsWest9 ^ | 9/18/2025 | Kelbie Lewis, Sonji Milburn
    MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland Independent School District board voted unanimously on Thursday to terminate Midland High School teacher Lynette Fields after she made controversial comments in the classroom regarding the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. According to MISD Superintendent Dr. Stephanie Howard, Fields told students that Kirk “deserved what he got” and even stated she would celebrate his death. Dr. Howard emphasized that the district is taking the incident seriously and underscored that similar behavior will not be tolerated from district employees. "We have to be careful not to project our feelings, values, and beliefs onto students...
  • Donald Trump: Crazy Like a Fox or Just Plain Crazy?

    09/24/2025 7:33:46 AM PDT · by delta7 · 54 replies
    Sonar 21 ^ | 23 Sep 25 | Larry Johnson
    If you read the latest Trump Truth (that is what he calls his posts on Truth Social) that is posted above, you will come to the reasonable conclusion that Trump has either changed his position on the war in Ukraine and accepted the delusional beliefs of General Kellogg or he is engaged in some massive sarcasm. Well, based on what happened subsequently at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), it looks like Trump was doing sarcasm. Following Trump’s meeting with Zelensky, France, Germany, the UK, and Ukraine proposed a resolution to the UNSC that called for an immediate ceasefire in...
  • Medvedev: Trump has fallen into an alternate reality

    09/24/2025 6:56:49 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 67 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 9/24/2025 | Christian Baha
    Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev responded on Wednesday to United States President Donald Trump's comments about the Ukraine conflict by stating that he "has once again fallen into an alternate reality." The US president "issued a series of political incantations on the theme of 'How weak Russia is'" Medvedev wrote on Telegram. "After meeting with the clowns in Kiev and Paris, he published a colorful post. It mentions Kiev's final victory, a return to the former borders, Russia's failed military economy, queues for gasoline, and a 'paper tiger.'" Moreover, Medvedev went on to suggest that Trump "will return....
  • Finland planning attack on Russia, claims Dmitry Medvedev

    09/09/2025 1:33:21 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 71 replies
    The Times ^ | September 9, 2025 | Marc Bennetts
    A senior security official in Moscow has accused Finland of laying the ground for an attack on Russia by Nato, in comments that echo President Putin’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine. Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and prime minister who is now the deputy head of Russia’s national security council, issued his warning after a visit to Russia’s 830-mile border with Finland. “After joining Nato, under the guise of defence measures, Helsinki is pursuing a confrontational course in preparation for war with Russia, apparently preparing a springboard for an attack on us,” Medvedev wrote in an article that was...
  • WW3 IS INEVITABLE – COMPROMISE ISN’T AN OPTION.

    09/06/2025 6:22:38 AM PDT · by delta7 · 57 replies
    Burning Platform ^ | 5 Sep 25 | Administrator
    Fourth Turnings never fizzle out. They build to a crescendo of death and destruction. Is there any indications whatsoever that we are not on a course towards all-out war? 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 Dmitry Medvedev: “The United Kingdom has sent Ukraine $1.3 billion obtained as profit from the use of frozen Russian assets. This was said by the English idiot Lammy. Well, this means one thing: British thieves have handed over Russian money to the neo-Nazis. The… pic.twitter.com/PcCfPw6kbj — DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) September We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev that if a United Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved...
  • Kim Jong Un says his ‘heart aches’ over North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia, in rare admission of losses

    08/22/2025 6:16:15 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    CNN ^ | Fri August 22, 2025 | Fri August 22, 2025
    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has paid an emotional tribute to soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine, saying his ‘heart aches’ in a rare admission of military losses. Kim made the comments on Thursday at a ceremony in Pyongyang, where he met with commanders of a unit that had fought for Russia in the western Kursk region, according to North Korean state media KCNA. He praised them as “a heroic army,” with state media photos showing Kim pinning commendation badges on soldiers’ uniforms. Photos released by KCNA also showed Kim pinning badges on the...
  • Russia to Join NATO?

    08/21/2025 7:19:38 AM PDT · by delta7 · 75 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 21 Aug 25 | Martin Armstrong
    Congressman Matt Gaetz proposed a radical peacetime solution – allow Russia to join NATO. “Before you suggest I’m crazy for thinking about NATO and Russia as partners, the idea has been floated by foreign policy thinkers on the right and left for some time,” Gaetz added. “In 1997, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on NATO expansion. President Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, reflected on groundbreaking cooperation between NATO and Russia.” The concept never came to fruition as NATO decided that encircling Russia was of paramount concern, and partnering with its greatest enemy was of no interest...
  • Commentary: How the US Weaponised Pakistan Against India

    08/04/2025 1:13:20 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 02 Aug 2025 | Mihir Sharma
    Many in New Delhi welcomed President Donald Trump’s return to power, expecting him to take the Indo-US relationship to new heights. They must wonder where it all went wrong, given that Trump launched an unprecedented broadside against India this week – threatening tariffs of 25 per cent and warning that a surcharge would be added unless India stops buying Russian oil and weapons. He even expressed dissatisfaction with the nation’s participation in the “anti-US” BRICS grouping. Normally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might just overlook a few social media posts. It may be humiliating to wind up with higher tariff rates...
  • Trump is Taking us into World War III listening to the Wrong People

    08/04/2025 9:40:57 AM PDT · by delta7 · 135 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 4 Aug 25 | Martin Armstrong
    This is the problem. Whitaker’s arrogance thinks that the US is so powerful that it can crush Russia without ever firing a shot and calling Putin “sick and twisted” when we started this war, and there were TWO peace deals which the WEST broke – not Russia. I have NEVER in my entire life witnessed such INCOMPETENT diplomacy. The Neocons have been instructing Trump to be strong and yield nothing to Putin, and he will fold. Peace is easy. Just HONOR the Minsk Agreement. But this is a war to destroy Russia, and Trump is a fool who is being...
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens dramatic breakup with Trump over a core base frustration that could upend entire Republican Part

    08/02/2025 9:51:15 AM PDT · by Angelino97 · 136 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | August 2, 2025 | John Michael Raasch
    Six months into Donald Trump's return to the White House Marjorie Taylor Greene has about had it with the Republican Party. The conservative firebrand who surged onto the political scene in 2021 and has been an ever-present figure in the House GOP and MAGA orbit ever since told the Daily Mail in a 45-minute call this week that it may be time for her to walk away. 'I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore,' she revealed. 'I don't know which one it is.' Her...
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens dramatic breakup with Trump over a core base frustration that could upend entire Republican Party

    08/04/2025 8:24:59 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 10 replies
    Saily Mail ^ | August 4, 2025 | Jon Michael Raasch
    Six months into Donald Trump's return to the White House Marjorie Taylor Greene has about had it with the Republican Party. The conservative firebrand who surged onto the political scene in 2021 and has been an ever-present figure in the House GOP and MAGA orbit ever since told the Daily Mail in a 45-minute call this week that it may be time for her to walk away. 'I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore,' she revealed. 'I don't know which one it is.' Her...
  • If Trump and the GOP keep this up, AOC is going to be president

    08/04/2025 8:11:06 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 67 replies
    The Hill ^ | 8/4/25 | Juan Williams
    Say hello to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Say hello to a blue wave in the 2026 midterms. Say hello in 2028 to President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If President Trump and congressional Republicans keep this up, it will only be the start of the progressive takeover. Left-wing populists are already winning over voters by raising hell about the rising price of clothes and groceries due to tariffs. The growing appetite for populist left voices damning the high cost of living made headlines earlier this year in the successful “Fighting Oligarchy,” tour featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez.
  • Russia claims capture of Chasiv Yar after 16-month battle

    07/31/2025 7:58:36 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 19 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 31, 2025 | Mark Trevelyan
    Russia said on Thursday it had captured the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine after nearly 16 months of fighting, opening the way for potential further advances. Russia's Defence Ministry said in a brief statement its forces had "liberated" the town.
  • Russia is making so many Iranian Shahed drones that it could soon launch 2,000 of them in a single night

    07/31/2025 6:38:38 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    Business Insider ^ | Jul 21, 2025 | Matthew Loh
    The Kremlin is building its way toward a reality where it can soon launch 2,000 Shahed one-way attack drones in one night, according to two recent Western assessments. Maj. Gen. Christian Freuding, the German defense ministry's commander of planning and command staff, said in a Bundeswehr interview aired on Saturday that Russia was "striving to further increase production capacity" of its Shaheds. "They want to expand the drone attacks we just talked about," Freuding said. "The ambition is to be able to deploy 2,000 drones simultaneously." "We need to consider intelligent countermeasures," he added. In a separate assessment on Sunday,...