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Citing a Zerohedge report, The Gateway Pundit noted that the Chinese altimeter satellite ICESAT-2/43613, fired green laser bursts over Maunakea, Hawaii on January 28, 2023. That Chinese military operation occurred simultaneously with the arrival of a Chinese spy balloon, which entered U.S. airspace over the Aleutian Islands in Alaska also on January 28, 2023. After being allowed to fly over the entire U.S. mainland, including sensitive military installations, the Chinese spy balloon was finally shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023. Within the last 24 hours, a “high altitude object,” presumably another Chinese spy balloon,...

(RNS) - The Democratic National Committee has passed a resolution condemning “white religious nationalism,” declaring that “theocracy is incompatible with democracy and religious freedom.” The resolution was approved over the weekend as Democratic Party officials gathered in Philadelphia for their winter meeting. The resolution, put forward by more than 30 co-sponsors from across the country, linked forms of religious nationalism to racist ideologies, arguing that “one of many heinous elements of white nationalism is its perversion of religion to make their hateful message more palatable.” The authors noted that faith leaders from across the religious spectrum have condemned religious nationalism...

Hopefully, the Chinese spy balloon incident will become a turning point, a wake-up call for a divided nation.The sight of a Chinese spy balloon last week has forced many Americans to confront the security threat the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to America’s homeland. Unfortunately, the CCP possesses something far scarier and deadlier than balloons: a rapidly growing stockpile of nuclear weapons. Measured by the number of nuclear warheads, China has at least 350 as of June 2022, far less than Russia’s 5,977 and the United States’ 5,428. Still, the speed at which China is building up its nuclear arsenal...

Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops are attacking north and south of Donetsk city. In the northern sector, around the city of Bakhmut, the Russians slowly are advancing—albeit at staggering cost. In the south, around Vuhledar, the Russians’ losses are just as steep—but they’ve made no clear gains that could justify the casualties. Vuhledar is turning into a meatgrinder for the Russian army, with enormous implications for the wider offensive. The latest Russian attack on Vuhledar—a town with a pre-war population of just 14,000 that lies a mile...

In 1943, Soviet troops liberated the capital of Ukraine from the Nazis. Now in Kyiv they are demolishing a monument to General Nikolai Vatutin, who commanded these troops and liberated the city from Nazi invaders.Oleksiy Goncharenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, wrote about the dismantling of the monument in his Telegram channel.On the photo published by him, you can see the beginning of the demolition of the monument. Workers drove a truck crane and grabbed the monument with a cable to remove it from the pedestal.The monument itself is located in the capital's Mariinsky park not far from the Ukrainian...

Following the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden appeared to catch one Democratic senator off guard as he made a comment to him. In the minutes following the speech, Biden made his way through Democratic lawmakers when he came across Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and he suddenly stopped to speak to Menendez. “Bob, I gotta talk to you about Cuba,” Biden said. A seemingly surprised Menendez simply replied, “Okay,” before Biden continued, adding, “I’m serious.” It’s unknown what exactly Biden intended to speak to Menendez about, but the New Jersey...

The Biden White House tweeted Wednesday about the citizen who took away the January 21, 2023, Monterey Park attacker’s handgun and then followed that news with calls for an “assault weapons” ban. On January 23, 2023, Breitbart News reported Brandon Tsay was the citizen who took away the Monterey Park attacker’s handgun. Tsay told his story to ABC News’ Good Morning America, explaining he was in a dance hall in Alhambra, California, when the Monterey Park attacker entered to carry out a second mass shooting. But Tsay ruined the attacker’s plans by wrestling away his handgun.