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At first, I thought NSW Liberal Senator Jess Collins was being frivolous when she asked questions in a Senate inquiry about who’s allowed to change a lightbulb on a Defence base in Australia and how much it might cost.Senator Collins is chair of the Management of Defence Estate Assets inquiry, following a Federal Government decision to sell 67 Defence properties because they are too costly to maintain. At the inquiry, Senator Collins suggested that a combat engineer, someone trained in an array of difficult and complicated (and sometimes dangerous) tasks, can’t change a faulty lightbulb on an Australian Defence base...

The U.S. Navy quietly relieved Commander Caitlin Cunningham as commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) on September 27, 2026. Cmdr. Caitlin Cunningham, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), was relieved of her duties on September 27, 2026, over what Navy officials described as a “loss of confidence.” The Navy never publicly announced the dismissal when it happened. The stunning development was first reported Thursday by USNI News, which confirmed the removal with a Navy spokesperson. Cunningham had been in command for less than a year, having taken over the...

Shocking video posted to social media shows a black male beating and kicking a white high school girl on a bus in Youngstown, Ohio, as the driver refused to pull over and intervene. The Boardman Local School District launched an investigation after a black male brutally beat and appeared to choke a white teen girl on a bus transporting students to Mahoning Valley Community School last Friday. The victim, a 10th grade girl, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries. The Gateway Pundit is unable to publish the video but it can be viewed here (warning on disturbing content)....

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hHe was an American Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished eighth in the 5,000 meters and shook Hitler's hand.Six years later his Air Force B-24 crashed into the Pacific. For forty-seven days he drifted on a raft with two other men. One died. Sharks circled every night.Then the Japanese Navy picked him up and sent him to a prison camp in Naoetsu, on the Japan Sea coast.For over two years, a camp guard the prisoners called The Bird beat him with a belt buckle, broke his nose, made him hold a wooden beam over his head for...

TheOrdinaryAmerican@TheOrdAmericanTrump Teams Up With Bukele & Topples London’s Empire In HaitiMY VIDEO NOTES BEGIN~~~Trump and Bukele teaming up fighting proxy war against the City of London. Four El Salvadoran technicians kidnapped. Bukele told the gangs send the techs to me or I'll bring in troops. The gangs gave them 4 dead bodies, Bukele said 'that's not them' and moved 2000 troops to Haiti.Someone asked Trump about it, 'That's terrible, How can El Salvador go in there like that. Let the UN handle it..." And Trump said, 'Hey, he's got to do what he's got to do. He's got to protect...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Wednesday that Supreme Court justices could become impeachment targets when Democrats take control of Congress in January. AOC is accusing the Court of having “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct. The New York Democrat made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju following Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections. She was also asked whether Democrats would pursue the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” she said. “There...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate has only intensified after Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, acknowledged...

Do you know someone who can fix anything, even when everyone else has given up? Their ability may reveal a hidden kind of intelligence that traditional IQ tests were never designed to measure. People who are good at fixing things often think differently, notice details others miss, and find solutions where others see impossible problems. This video explains the psychology behind their remarkable problem-solving abilities. Most people believe intelligence comes from academic achievement, high IQ scores, and being good with words or numbers. But practical intelligence involves much more than that. You'll discover how systems thinking, functional fixedness, tolerance for...

NYC woman, born and lived whole life in the Boroughs, speaks truth of voting Dem all her life. Her light bulb moment was after she voted for Mamdani. She voted Republican in 2026 midterms. Lots of F word, but she has a lot to say calling out election results not just in NYC. Hope you will watch it. Link should be above and I'll put in comment below

Hope some people can chime in... 1. What happened to TPUSA help in the election 2. What did the Dems get for 12 million paid to Marc Elias 3. How can every county in 22 states go blue, really? 4. Can votes not be verified after an election to ensure only legal Americans are voting and votes counts are accurate? 5. Why is Thune being chosen as minority leader? 6. Why is Joe Gruters being endorsed by Trump for RNC Chair again?

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress, who usually begins her day talking to the company's Israeli executives, talks to "Globes" about the chips behind the AI revolution.

President Donald Trump announced that he has directed Vice President JD Vance to drop negotiations to end the war with Iran and instead focus on alleged “CORRUPTION” in Democratic-run states. In a Thursday morning Truth Social post, Trump announced the new assignment for his vice president, who has spent months spearheading diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and recently blamed the war for Republicans’ devastating midterm election losses. "I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue...

A wish for our sitch: MYSIT (pronounced "mice it") Not short for "my situation". An acronym. A heartfelt wish and greeting for all our FRiends: MayYouSurviveInterestingTimes

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·Nov 10In August 1953, as American prisoners of war came home from Korea, a U.S. Army general stood a thin young soldier of Japanese descent in front of the reporters' microphones and told him something the Army had kept secret.He had been awarded the Medal of Honor while he was still a prisoner.They had hidden it on purpose. If his captors had found out, Brig. Gen. Ralph Osborne said, "they might have taken revenge on this young man. He might not have come back."Hiroshi Miyamura was born in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1925, to parents who had come from Japan....

Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley@WhizBuckleyGrp·10hToday I’m honored and humbled to call myself a veteran.Fifteen years in uniform. Combat sorties off the decks of the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Kitty Hawk. Landing Signals Officer (LS). 2 Marine squadrons. TOPGUN adversary. Reserves. Traps on 10 different boats. I served next to men and women I trusted with my life. That was the greatest privilege I’ve ever had.Even more honored to continue to serve.When God, my bride, and a few brothers pulled me back from the edge, I made a promise: put the ladder down for the next one. That’s why we built...

Clinton responds to Boebert's projected loss While the AP has yet to call a winner in the race for a House seat in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, CNN on Tuesday projected Rep. Lauren Boebert would lose, and Hillary Clinton had two words for her. Clinton posted a screenshot of the CNN headline on X with the caption: "Bye, Felicia." With more than 95% of the vote tallied, Democrat Eileen Laubacher is edging out the Colorado Republican by less than one percentage point. The Hill notes that Clinton and Boebert have clashed before, including during a closed-door House deposition tied to...

An extensive investigative report from The City Journal examined the labor practices connected to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wine holdings in Napa County. The report, which cites n court records, federal labor data, state oversight files, and interviews with industry sources, focused on the PlumpJack Collection of Wineries and its relationship with a vineyard management contractor. PlumpJack, which Newsom co-founded, holds more than 400 acres of vineyards in Napa. In 2022 the company purchased the 129-acre Oso Vineyard in Pope Valley for $14.5 million. Field operations at Oso are handled by Renteria Vineyard Management (RVM). RVM was established in 1987...

Mexicans throughout Texas are severely mocking Greg Abbott on his election loss, publishing violent/inflammatory comments on social media. One image shows a person pushing someone's wheel chair to the edge of a cliff and throwing the crippled individual over the edge with the comment in Spanish, "Make Texas Great Again". Comment after comment which are very ugly are on one post with this meme. That is only the tip of the iceberg. I have not mocked them nor mistreated them after any election losses nor advocated for their demise. This is more solid evidence why we meed mass deportations. This...

ransomnote: Here's the link to the online Vietnam Memorial website: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hThere are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and for decades thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite.Even the man who founded the Wall doubted a photograph could be found for every one. On August 9, 2022, the last face was found.It began small. Janna Hoehn, a floral designer on Maui with no personal tie to the war, visited the Wall, picked a name at random and made a rubbing of it.She wanted a photo of that man and could not find one....