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Abu Mohammed al-Jolani wants Syria to recognise Israel
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Pete Hegseth Fired Up After Learning Obesity Rate Among Reserve Troops: 'FIT, not FAT'
[HatewayPundit] President Donald Trump’s administration has declared war on those who declared war on American citizens.

After all, among other things, the Trump administration values freedom, security, merit, and health. And those who declared war on American citizens did so in part by attacking all of those things.

Friday morning on the social media platform X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to an alarming new report about the incidence of obesity among National Guard and Reserve troops by calling the situation “completely unacceptable” and pledging a new military made up of “FIT, not FAT” service members.

“This is what happens when standards are IGNORED — and this is what we are changing. REAL fitness & weight standards are here,” Hegseth wrote.
In the meantime, regular military enlistment rates remain very high.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/26/2025 07:28 || Comments || Link || [58 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No more Meal Team Six candidates..
Posted by: Warthog || 04/26/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I would have loved to have been a grader on Tampon Tim's last 2 mile PT test run.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2025 11:43 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The war was caused by talk about NATO
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] "I think the reason the war started was because they started talking about joining NATO"

(c) Trump


We've known this since 2014.

Only here Trump is being disingenuous again. It was the US that consistently dragged Ukraine into NATO, and not Ukraine itself that decided to do so. It was George W. Bush who opened this door back in the 2000s. Trump's attempts to pretend that the US had nothing to do with it are quite pathetic.

Ukraine also shamefacedly admitted to killing its own prisoners of war in the downed Il-76 in the Kursk region.

"I'll explain with an example: when we receive a package and see that there are body parts in it, we understand that we are talking about the remains of more than one body. Remember the situation with the downed Il-76, in which there were about 60 prisoners of war? More than 500 remains were returned from that plane"

(c) Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Timchenko


Which is what was said from the very beginning. And how many cries there were that "there were no prisoners of war there" and all this was "an FSB provocation". In fact, they deliberately shot down the plane with their prisoners of war using a Patriot air defense system.

Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,


Cultural Genocide: The Erasure of Armenian Heritage and Identity
Follow the link in the title to see a list of sources.
[301am] An in-depth examination of the ongoing destruction of Armenian cultural landmarks, highlighting the systemic efforts to erase Armenia’s historical and cultural presence.

By Christ Iskenderian

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Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [39 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Amid Main Stream Media Doom and Gloom on the Economy, One Economist Sees Growth
[RedState] I'm not going to pull any punches here, and I have to tell you I'm a bit of a worrywart about things that are related to the economy of the United States. Joe Biden, in his failed economic policies for four long years, was akin to a drunkard stumbling around like a Roomba trying to find some dust to suck up with no luck.

Now that we have Donald Trump in office, I do recall the economy thriving in his first term, yet the threat of tariffs, not just on Mexico and Canada but the whole wide world, has me on edge a bit.

Now, by a bit, I mean a whole hell of a lot.

As you can see in my previous postings here at RedState, I get itchy about this stuff...
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2025 03:16 || Comments || Link || [53 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One day I'll meet an economist who can count his fingers twice in a row, and get the same result.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/26/2025 3:55 Comments || Top||


Europe
'The Negroes Resisted.' How the Meeting on the Elbe Went Wrong
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Mikhail Kucherov

[REGNUM] On April 25, 1945, at about 11:30 a.m., Soviet and American soldiers shook hands on the bank of a large European river, which the Slavic peoples call Laba and the Germans call Elbe.

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Posted by: badanov || 04/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [102 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Francis Stacked the Deck
[Chick.com] With Pope Francis’ death, everyone wants to know —what will the next pope be like? Francis may be gone, but he’s done everything he can to stack the deck and answer that question.

As Francis’ health declined, he ramped up his efforts to secure his legacy of liberal leadership. After appointing 88 cardinals during his 12-year tenure, he added another 20 as his health deteriorated toward the end of 2024. Many of those 20 are outspoken advocates for the LGBTQ+ movement, liberation theology, and dialogue that continues Francis’ push that "all roads lead to Rome."

Of the 135 men who will vote for the next pontiff, a whopping 80% were appointed by Francis. In keeping with Francis’s liberal leanings, the majority of his appointees are theologically progressive, socially liberal, and culturally in step with the godless 21st-century West. It’s safe to say that the next pope won’t just continue Francis’s agenda—he’ll probably push it even further.

WOKE LEADERSHIP FOR A WOKE WORLD
The Vatican has long had a pattern: it reflects the spirit of the age. As Europe abandoned their Christian heritage, the Catholic church liberalized. As Western culture adopted a more ungodly moral compass, so did Rome — especially under Francis. Francis’s cardinal picks prove the point.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/26/2025 07:50 || Comments || Link || [131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, this is an issue. But if you read the whole article, it turns out that the author is an anti-Catholic bigot.

Not a good look.
Posted by: no mo uro || 04/26/2025 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Chick Publications? As in "Chick Tracts" that used to get left at bus stops? Man, I've seen some weird rebranding in my time but this tops the charts!
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/26/2025 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3 
Saw a meme that Vatican smoke will be Rainbow.

After this last Liberally Strange Pope violating the bible, Working with Islamics, and taking a pro-position on Homosexual priests.

It likely has more than a few wondering how far LEFT will the Catholic LLC go to bring numbers and $$$$$
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/26/2025 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Without the USA taxpayer funding for Catholic Charities human smuggling the Catholic Church will have serious cash flow issues the next few years.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/26/2025 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The church has always been a bastion for the LGBTQXYZ people, child molesting is just one of the byproducts of this church gone insane.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/26/2025 17:42 Comments || Top||



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