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The Pentagon is considering a controversial move—sending military aid to Ukraine without waiting for Congress to give the nod. Reports suggest they have $4 billion set aside for Ukraine, and they might use it directly from their reserves. Here’s the catch: If they spend this money, Congress might not pay them back. This has raised eyebrows because usually, Congress needs to approve such decisions. The Pentagon seems hesitant to spend this money without a guarantee of getting it back from Congress. It’s led to speculation that they might just decide to send the aid on their own, bypassing the regular...

A recent article in Epoch Times (which is basically US gov. sponsored propaganda) caught my attention. https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1743670653763699044 The more you look into vaccines, the more you uncover the truth. They never worked. The massive improvement in sanitation starting at the beginning of the 20th century in the developed world helped eradicate smallpox, not the vaccine. Even the CDC quietly admits this.

Air raid alerts in eight regions of Ukraine tonight... In New York at least 26 people suffered what are called minor injuries in a subway train derailment... In France there is talk of President Emmanuel Macron changing his government... There are more documents out tonight related to Jeffrey Epstein as the document dump continues...An additional document with explicit content from 2005 revealed at 11 pm tonight...The Miami Herald and reporter Julie K. Brown seeking a clear naming of all the "John Does"... With the aid request for Ukraine stalled in Congress new spin from the White House tonight. The story...

The stage is set for an election year legal drama in Texas... The eruption of a volcano in Iceland tonight... Actor Jonathan Majors found guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend... Parenting advice vlogger Ruby Franke pled guilty to child abuse charges... An official announcement tonight from US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of an international military effort to deal with attacks on shipping in the Red Sea... Apple is discontinuing sales of its latest model watches in the US... A thousand farm tractors descending on the center of Berlin...protesting German government plans to increase taxes... Israeli politics National Security Minister Itamar...

This date in 1828, throngs of thousands at Bury St. Edmunds saw the climax of the Red Barn Murder case in the form of the public hanging of William Corder. This broadside blockbuster got its start in a Suffolk village, where a local ladies’ man and his paramour plotted a rendezvous at the titular shed for the purpose of elopement — she having become pregnant by the young man’s offices. When the meeting was over, Corder had vanished from town … and Maria Marten had just plain vanished. Almost a year later, Maria Marten’s stepmother began reporting dreams that the...

On December 1921 at 22 Hans Place in Knightsbridge, a treaty was signed between a provisional Irish Government and the British to create what was called the Irish Free State. However only six months later, a few hundred yards away in Eaton Place, an assassination occurred, the reverberations of which could be said to have helped start the Irish Civil War in 1922. At around midday of 22 June 1922, Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson unveiled a war memorial at Liverpool Street Station. He made a speech, quoted some relevant Kipling poetry and soon after returned by taxi to his home...

On this date in 1741,* at Tyburn‘s largest mass-execution of the mid-18th century, renowned cutpurse Jenny Diver was hanged along with 19 others. Born Mary Young in Ireland around 1700, the girl was abandoned as a child but deserted a benefactor’s household to take passage to London where she meant to work as a seamstress. What the Newgate Calendar reads as ingratitude, the modern reader might more sympathetically see as the allure of a burgeoning city for a teenager full of dreams. Dreams may nurture the spirit, but flesh must have bread. Like countless others through time — indeed, like...