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Ukraine could have bridged East and West. Instead, corruption, nationalism, and Western meddling left it broken There is one feeling I often recall from having lived and worked in Ukraine – to be precise, in its most nationalist, full-of-itself city, Lviv – for a total of five years in the 2000s: Thank God, at least there’s no violence!That is what I, some other foreigners, and quite a few Ukrainians, too, were thinking and even saying then. The country was politically and even culturally polarized, extremely corrupt, and a sham ‘democracy’ even more fake than most of the rest.It was dominated…
A 15-year-old boy brutally murdered a woman and wounded her child in a random shooting. Credit: Detroit Police and FOX 2 Detroit A shocking video has emerged showing the moment a shirtless youth executed an innocent woman in a supposedly random attack just outside a Detroit liquor store last week. As The Metro News Detroit reported, 57-year-old Faith Williams was with her niece near a liquor store when a 15-year-old boy ambushed them. The incident occurred around 11:15 p.m. Friday in the 15500 block of East Warren Avenue near Chalmers. The youth shot both Williams and her niece. While the…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against critics of his company’s AI-powered surveillance cameras in a recent interview with Fox News, arguing that privacy and safety concerns must be weighed together rather than against each other. Fox News reports that Flock, which makes automated license plate readers, surveillance cameras and drones used by police departments across the country, has drawn criticism from multiple directions in recent months. Breitbart News recently reported that the “Have I Been Flocked” website has been launched to allow citizens to check if they’ve been targeted by police searches due to concerns about inappropriate usage of the…
New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his first foreign visit as leader on Monday, visiting Ukraine where he spoke of a “100 year partnership” with Kyiv and handed over blueprints to an advanced Anglo-French missile, so Ukraine can build their own. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham laid flowers, gave speeches, and handed over the blueprints to a long-range bunker buster missile on Monday as he visited Kyiv to help mark Ukraine’s 35th annual independence day, marking the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. The news Britain’s Labour leader was handing over potent missile technology to Ukraine so Kyiv…
Race cars roared across Washington city streets in the shadow of iconic landmarks on Saturday as the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, created by President Donald Trump, began with practice and qualifying for Sunday’s first-of-its-kind event. IndyCar drivers tested open-wheel vehicles at speeds up to 185 mph (298 km/h) over the bumps and curves of a seven-turn, 1.7-mile course winding around the Washington Monument, US Capitol, National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum — all along the National Mall. “This is surreal for all of us drivers,” said American Kyle Kirkwood, second in practice with a lap at…
Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Țoiu via Wikimedia Commons Romania’s globalist, Brussels-backed government has escalated its language of military confrontation, declaring itself ready to respond with force to security threats from the war in Ukraine—rhetoric that veteran journalist Ion Cristoiu warns is nothing less than an attempt to condition the Romanian public for a war with Russia that the population never sought and does not want. Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu announced that Bucharest already has “a set of measures prepared” after consulting the increasingly unpopular President Nicușor Dan, who is widely viewed is lack popular legitimacy. She explicitly linked these preparations…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – A Hungarian military pilot ejected safely when his fighter jet crashed on Monday, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said. The Swedish-made JAS 39 Gripen came down near the city of Szolnok in central Hungary “for reasons that are still unknown,” Magyar wrote in a post on Facebook. An investigation into the incident is underway and Minister of Defense Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi was on his way to the scene, he added. Ruszin-Szendi said the pilot was “alive and has not sustained any injuries.” “It appears the pilot did everything he could to ensure the crashed aircraft landed on military…
OpenAI and Apple has introduced a feature that lets ChatGPT read, write and send iMessages on Mac computers, a capability that raises privacy concerns for Apple users. Bloomberg reports that the new feature works with ChatGPT on the Mac and allows the AI system to take actions inside Apple’s Messages app, including searching conversations and producing summaries of message content, in addition to reading, writing and sending texts. Apple has built its brand around privacy protections and has been guarded about the contents of customer messages. A tool that could send Apple user data to OpenAI’s network is likely to…
Michigan’s radical left Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim, became hot under the collar when he misunderstood comments Vice President JD Vance made about Sharia law and his own grandfather. The Democrat also pointedly attacked Vance’s marriage. “El-Sayed, this guy running for senate in Michigan, he once argued not too long ago that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy. I’d love to go back in time and tell my Papaw that there’s a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it…
Some municipalities in the country are under “severe pressure” due to a large number of asylum seekers, the immigration minister has said Denmark plans to stop issuing temporary residence permits to Ukrainian refugees from regions least affected by the conflict with Russia, the EU nation’s immigration minister, Morten Bodskov, has said. The announcement follows a wider trend among European nations to cut benefits to those fleeing the conflict with Russia and strip protections for military-aged males from Ukraine.In June, the government in Copenhagen presented a bill aimed at preventing military-aged men from Ukraine, who do not have an official exemption…