A former Russian senator who appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files and reportedly called Ghislaine Maxwell a "friend" has been found dead in Moscow, Russian state media has reported. read more
The "big wave" is yet to come in the war with Iran, US President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday. read more
Kennedy's destruction "might take generations to repair," The Lancet said.
Three people were killed and at least others 14 others injured in a mass shooting overnight in Austin, Texas. read more
OpEd: The Justice Department filed an emergency motion to the 6th District Court that was rife with basic spelling errors, including spelling voters as "votors," United States as "United Staes," and emergency as "emeregency."
OpEd: Forget State of the Union sideshow, MAGA's real chilling message was delivered by Marco Rubio in Munich
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... The White House promotes unabashed white nationalist pseudo-Christian racism and law-bashing at home and abroad. ...
... at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...
The Trump Organization eyes real estate deal in Saudi government development (November 2025)
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... The Trump Organization is in talks to build a branded property in one of Saudi Arabia's largest government-owned real estate developments.
The chief executive of the Saudi company leading the development told The New York Times that a deal between the Trump Organization and Diriyah development would be announced "soon".
"Nothing announced yet, but soon to be," Jerry Inzerillo said, adding it was "just a matter of time" before the Trump Organization reached a deal.
Diriyah is the original home of the ruling Al-Saud family and includes a mud brick village that is a listed Unesco World Heritage site. The city, a 20-minute drive from Riyadh, is undergoing a $63bn development into a luxury destination with hotels, restaurants, shops, and museums. US President Donald Trump toured the site in May during his visit to the kingdom.
"It turned out to be a good stroke of luck and maybe a little bit clever of us to say, OK, let's appeal to him as a developer' - and he loved it," Inzerillo told the NYT. ...
@#15 ... "Lindsey Graham: "If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home."" ...
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Lindsey Graham Names 'Next' Country On Trump's Hit List: 'Their Days Are Numbered'
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... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News' Trey Gowdy on Sunday that the U.S. under President Donald Trump will next target the communist-led Caribbean island for regime change.
"Cuba is next," said Graham. "They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered."
Graham, a Trump sycophant, suggested the U.S. president was the right leader for the job as he highlighted how the question of how to deal with now-removed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro had been discussed by "everybody," but it was Trump who "got him in jail" on narco-terrorism charges after having him captured and brought to New York.
On the U.S. military operation against Iran, which began on Saturday, Graham said: "President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do. ... The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone cold dead." ...
@#15 ... Lindsey Graham: "If we lose anybody in this operation, they will die a noble death because they will have sacrificed their lives to make us safer here at home." ...
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Lindsey Graham Names 'Next' Country On Trump's Hit List: 'Their Days Are Numbered'
www.yahoo.com
... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News' Trey Gowdy on Sunday that the U.S. under President Donald Trump will next target the communist-led Caribbean island for regime change.
"Cuba is next," said Graham. "They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered."
Graham, a Trump sycophant, suggested the U.S. president was the right leader for the job as he highlighted how the question of how to deal with now-removed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro had been discussed by "everybody," but it was Trump who "got him in jail" on narco-terrorism charges after having him captured and brought to New York.
On the U.S. military operation against Iran, which began on Saturday, Graham said: "President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do. ... The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone cold dead." ...
House Oversight Committee releases videos of Clinton depositions on Jeffrey Epstein
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... The House Oversight Committee on Monday released videos of its interviews last week with former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its probe into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
NBC News is reviewing the videos, which are about four-and-a-half hours each. The footage was posted days after the Clintons sat for interviews with the Republican-led committee to answer questions about Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. ...
Attack on Iran Could Disrupt Global Fertilizer Markets
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... Agri-Pulse's Kim Chipman and Oliver Ward reported that "a prolonged military conflict in the Middle East could potentially upend key commodity markets due to Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important trade routes.
America's crop growers could see fresh price spikes for inputs like fertilizer while battling a multi-year downturn in profitability, experts warned ahead of the attack."
"Prior to the attack over the weekend, certain fertilizer prices were near historic highs for this time of year, said Josh Linville, vice president of fertilizer at StoneX," Chipman and Ward reported.
"A military conflict 'could be devastating' for the global nitrogen and phosphate markets, Linville said in a note late last week prior to strikes on Iran by the U.S. and Israel.
'If that strait shuts down, the world will focus on oil/gas/energy impacts, however, it would have a massive impact on nitrogen and phosphate values,' he said." ...
@#1 ... Skilled piloting is not a miracle, just good training. ...
Yup.
Among that training --- stay rational under adverse circumstances, don't panic.
I have a scanner, and I often have listened to the air traffic in the area. What always has amazed me is the calm and rational analysis the pilots have shown in the face of adversity.