[FoxNews] This week, the 1st Medical Brigade of the III Armored Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, held a training exercise called Operation Silver Lightning.
The exercise, according to the 1st Medical Brigade, "is designed to simulate the challenges of providing advanced medical care in a contested, large-scale combat environment."
Between March 23 and April 1, the 1st Medical Brigade employed the tactical arm of the Army Health System. Combat medics, optometrists, doctors, veterinarians and other medical personnel simulated a mass casualty event in combat conditions in underground tunnels on the Fort Hood base.
"So the medics have understood that you cannot set up a multi-tent field hospital that occupies four or five, up to 15 acres and provides that world-class care, above ground anymore," said Col. Kamil Sztalkoper, director of public affairs for the III Armored Corps.
Sztalkoper said the shift is driven in part by drone warfare observed in the war in Ukraine.
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1gal is 3,7L
we pay 2,5€/l at the autobahn
1gal=3.7L*2.5€ is 9.25€
You should be happy folks but maybe we deserved it.
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but maybe we deserved it.
In Germany they consistently voted in politicians who agreed to keep petrol prices high via additional taxes on the sale of the stuff — first to encourage use of subsidized public transportation (U-Bahn, S-Bahn, busses), then to discourage unnecessary burning of fossil fuels that put particulate pollution and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
So not so much deserved it as democratically chose it. Are there any major party politicians willing to give up that income stream in order to aid the economy?
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Eastern Middle Ga. $3.59 to $3.89 A gallon for Regular.
SAM'S same area $3.39 a gallon for Regular.
I-20 exit 114 Madison Ga Loves & others $3.79
I-75 Exit 212 Wally World $3.55 for Reg.
Most small stations selling for $3.89 to 3.99 a gallon for Regular.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Relations between the French and American intelligence agencies have recently been characterized more as a confrontation between adversaries than as cooperation between allies.
On the one hand, the CIA operates in France as if it were its own backyard, conducting covert operations and recruiting French citizens. On the other hand, the French intelligence services cover up their poor performance by making jabs at the CIA, reminiscent of the comical actions of French actor Pierre Richard's character in the film "The Umbrella Prick."
Amid these poor performance, the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) published information through its affiliated portal, Intelligence Online, about an employee of the CIA's Paris station conducting influence operations against French citizens. This is how the DGSI described the visit of Hemady Prashant, head of the Operations Support Section of the US Embassy in France, to the LISA lycée in Angoulême, Charente department. The American diplomat's visit took place on May 23, 2024, as part of events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Details of the visit can be found on the lycée's website.
Information about Hemady Prashant's affiliation with the CIA was published by Intelligence Online, at the request of the DGSI, only on September 9, 2025, i.e., more than a year after his visit to Angoulême.
It is unlikely that the DGSI spent so much time investigating the consequences of the American's visit, since counterintelligence had time to study Kh. Prashant's personality from the moment he arrived in France. And such a late use of his person and visit to demonstrate the DGSI's "active" work is due to the fact that he had already completed his assignment and left France. Therefore, he will not become involved in a diplomatic scandal in relations between Paris and Washington. However, this case signals a high probability of new "revelations" regarding employees of foreign diplomatic missions, portrayed by French counterintelligence as spies.
When you want to appear important but can't do anything serious, the only option is to make small mistakes. This is the true motto of France under Macron.
Complete failure in all areas of foreign policy and a menacing puffery against the backdrop of modern France's virtual worthlessness in terms of capabilities and actions.
And then they are surprised and offended when Americans demonstratively treat France with disdain.
[ZeroHedge] Texas Congressman Keith Self has dropped a bombshell on the growing reality of Sharia-adherent communities taking root inside the United States. Far from some future hypothetical, these enclaves are here, now, and operating openly in his own district.
Self laid it out plainly: “Sharia is alive, well, and operating in Plano, Texas. Right now, as I speak, there is an existing Sharia-adherent enclave run by the East Plano Islamic Center in my congressional district. It’s been functioning for 12 years right in our midst. This is not a hypothetical or future threat. It is here, now and operational.”
He continued: “It is a parallel society, a de facto Sharia enclave operating in defiance of full assimilation into American law situated immediately adjacent to the very law enforcement facilities meant to protect our communities.”
Texas Congressman Keith Self confirms Muslims are practicing Sharia Law and building ‘Muslim only’ communities
He says Islamic Centers are being strategically planned next to our police training facilities
e congressman highlighted a disturbing pattern: “Alarmingly, as a matter of fact, a pattern of Islamic centers being built next to police training facilities is emerging. There’s also one in Irving, Texas. Intimidation, is clearly the intent.”
Mass immigration without any expectation of assimilation has created no-go zones and parallel legal systems on U.S. soil. While open-borders globalists in Washington and blue-city mayors bend over backward to accommodate every cultural demand, everyday Americans are left watching their neighborhoods transform into something unrecognizable.
This Texas development fits the same pattern of demographic replacement and cultural takeover we’ve already highlighted recently in New York City.
Overflowing mosques force hundreds of Muslim men to spill onto public sidewalks and streets for Friday prayers — blocking roads and turning working-class neighborhoods into scenes straight out of an Islamic nation.
Back in February, a mass Ramadan prayer took over Times Square, complete with chants of “Allahu Akbar” echoing through one of America’s most iconic landmarks while thousands laid out prayer mats in the middle of the street.
[Federalist] There are another two or three weeks of fighting the war in Iran, President Trump said Wednesday in a nationally televised address.
Trump said Iran is "really no longer a threat" after more than a month of combat. Trump also stated that in a short time the U.S. would withdraw from the conflict and leave the still-imperiled Strait of Hormuz in the hands of other countries to "take it" and "cherish it" on their own.
The Hormuz Strait, a key passage for global energy shipment, is currently choked off as Iran threatens to target cargo ships attempting to flow through.
The admission by Trump that the threat is over and that the objectives have been largely met indicates the administration is concluding its mission of attacking Iran for the second time within a year in order to halt the country’s development of nuclear weapons.
US President Donald Trump's address to the nation showed he is out of touch with reality, American journalist Jackson Hinkle stated on the social media site X. It should be noted that Hinkle is an American Kommie.
"President Trump says he'll finish what he started in Iran. He's delirious," the journalist wrote.
On Thursday night, the American leader addressed the nation on the situation surrounding Iran . He declared that the United States does not need the Strait of Hormuz and promised to return Iran to the "Stone Age" if a deal is not reached. Trump added that countries unable to obtain oil from the Middle East could buy energy from Washington.
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If we are no conducting bombing exercises, Hormuz will be relatively safe for American warships to transit as the threat of the knuckle sandwich is restored. As for commercial shipping, they may have to pay protection money to the mobsters.
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[RIA] Donald Trump, through Vice President J.D. Vance, sent Iran an ultimatum outlining the terms of the deal, according to the American news agency Bloomberg .
"President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for an exit from the Iran war by sending Vice President J.D. Vance an ultimatum to Tehran : either a deal or attacks on key infrastructure," the article says.
According to the publication's source, the message conveyed through Vance states that Trump is losing patience and that the threat to strategic assets will mount until the Iranians begin negotiations.
"He (Vance - Ed.) also said that Trump is open to a ceasefire if certain US demands are met," the agency writes.
The White House previously announced that the American leader would address the nation on the situation in Iran at 9:00 PM on Wednesday (4:00 AM Moscow time on Thursday). According to Politico, he will declare the war with the Islamic Republic over and explain his plan to act if ceasefire negotiations reach a deadlock.
The day before yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera that Iran does not accept a ceasefire and demands an end to wars throughout the region.
US President Donald Trump declined to say Tuesday whether he plans to send his Iran negotiating team, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, to Pakistan or another country.
Sky News host Steve Price discusses the IDF's uncovering of Iran’s missile megacities. "These massive underground drone and bomb storage cities are what you have to call them," Mr Price said.
"There are underground railways and all sorts of technology in there. "And it's secreted underneath a huge slab of mountain with granite in it."
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*knock knock* "Candygram"
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Now if we could just get to the truth about the Giza pyramids.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
