Gutfeld: If you can't contain El Chapo, your opinion is El Crappo
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the 'Gutfeld!' panel discuss President Donald Trump considering the use of drones against drug cartels.
16:42
https://youtu.be/bjuMBlqlOTs
FANNIE MAE GETS DOGED: Housing ‘boom’ is coming, predicts FHFA director
Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte examines the Trump administration’s impact on the federal housing sector and details allegations facing several Fannie Mae employees on ‘The Ingraham Angle. (How may years have the not shown up?)
5:29
https://youtu.be/FBmPGaE1MAo
Trump has the ‘backbone’ to ‘right the ship,’ GOP senator insistsSenator Kennedy is the best. He says “God created the World but everything else is made in China”
Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses President Donald Trump’s trade agenda and the reconciliation bill with seven Republican senators during a 'Hannity' town hall
13:49
https://youtu.be/cCvfnopy6NM
9 Apr, 2025 20:29
Russia and US working on plan to decommission ISS – NASA official
The two nations’ space agencies have not yet decided on any concrete date but are working “as a team,” Ken Bowersox has told TASS
The Russian and American space agencies are developing a plan for de-orbiting the International Space Station (ISS), NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, has told TASS.
Launched back in 1998, the project has seen Russia, the US, Canada, Japan, as well as multiple European nations join forces to keep the station operational.
Speaking to TASS on Wednesday, Bowersox said that “we work together to come up with a detailed plan for how we will actually end station.”
“There is always a chance that we could go longer. There is always a chance we could go shorter if something bad were to happen on station,” he added, noting that NASA specialists are cooperating with their colleagues from Russia and other partner nations “as a team.”
According to Bowersox, the topic of ISS operations is discussed by Moscow and Washington on a regular basis.
On Monday, NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations Mission Directorate met with Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Bakanov at the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
According to a Roscosmos press release, the two officials reviewed several initiatives, including preparations for future launches from thenew Baiterek Rocket Complex – a joint Russian-Kazakh project designed to support the launch of the new Soyuz-5 rocket.
The discussions came ahead of the50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – the first manned spaceflight jointly carried out by the US and Soviet Union in 1975.
Despite the Ukraine conflict and the drastic decline in bilateral relations,space cooperation between the US and Russia has been among the few realms that have remained largely unaffected. NASA and Roscosmos recently extended their cross-flight agreement to the ISS through 2026, and have collaborated continuously on station-related missions over the past three years.
(Russia is so much better in space than the U.S., best to join with them. NASA sucks at this point.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/615488-roscosmos-nasa-iss-cooperation/
9 Apr, 2025 20:20
Ukraine’s top general demands 30,000 conscripts a month(they seem bound and determined to kill their own citizens to keep up the pretense.)
The step is necessary to withstand Russian pressure on the battlefield, according to Aleksandr Syrsky
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, has said Kiev must mobilize 30,000 soldiers every month to sustain resistance against the Russian army. He also highlighted the growing disparity between the military capabilities of the two countries. (So they are throwing their citizens to death, they are letting 360,000 citizens to die annually.)
In an interview published on Wednesday by the Ukrainian outlet lb.ua, Syrsky claimed that Russia can mobilize up to 5 million trained and experienced troops, with a total potential force of 20 million. He emphasized this gap to underscore the urgency of continued mobilization by Ukraine amid the mounting battlefield pressure.
According to Syrsky,Russian forces have increased fivefold since the conflict escalated in 2022 and now number approximately 623,000. “Every month, they increase it by 8,000-9,000; in a year, it’s 120,000-130,000,” he said.
Russia has avoided a full nationwide draft.Following its partial mobilization in fall 2022, theKremlin has largely relied on contract soldiers and financial incentives to recruit volunteers. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in December that in 2024 more that 1,000 volunteers were signing contracts each day to go to the front.
The Ukrainian general claimed that insome frontline areas Russian troops outnumber the Ukrainians by a ratio of ten to one, illustrating the growing strain on Ukraine’s manpower. (makes one wonder, why continue this war?)
Following the escalation of the conflict, Ukraine declared a general mobilization, barring most men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. However, the campaign has been marred by corruption and draft dodging. In response, Kiev lowered the conscription age to 25 and introduced stricter penalties for draft evasion and desertion last year.
In light of the severe troop shortages and mounting casualties, Ukraine also launched a new voluntary military contract program in February targeting men aged 18–24, aiming to boost recruitment while addressing Western pressure to lower the conscription age. The program offers one-year contracts with a 1 million hryvnia ($24,000) payout – four times the standard rate – plus monthly combat bonuses starting at 120,000 hryvnia ($2,880), along with other benefits.
To address the recruitment shortfalls,Ukrainian enlistment officers have adopted increasingly draconian methods to fill the ranks. In recent months, numerous videos circulating on social media have shown officers detaining men in public, often using physical force, and transporting them in minibuses to enlistment centers. There have also been reports of injuries and even deaths involving individuals who resisted mobilization efforts.
https://www.rt.com/russia/615490-ukraine-syrsky-mobilization-need/
10 Apr, 2025 01:22
US has secret weapons – Trump
The US president has warned China and other trade partners against escalation beyond the trade war
President Donald Trump has boasted about US military power and weapons that “nobody has any idea” about, in response to concerns that his tariff war with China could spiral out of control.
Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% on Wednesday, in retaliation for mirror measures imposed by Beijing. China has yet to respond to the latest hike, although its Ministry of Commerce has previously vowed to fight the trade war “to the end.”
Asked whether he was “concerned” about Beijing’s possible next move – and potential “escalation beyond the trade war” – theUS leader argued that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “one of the very smart people of the world”who would never “allow that to happen.”
“We’re very powerful. This country is very powerful. It’s far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody even, not even close,”Trump told journalists in the Oval Office.
“So nobody’s going to do that,” Trump added, reiterating that Xi is a “very smart man” who “knows exactly what has to be done.”
The US president, who has previously teased secret weapons using unusual scientific terminology, did not elaborate on the kind of weapons he was referring to this time.
Back in 2020, Trump touted what he called a “super duper missile” that could fly “17 times faster” than anything America’s adversaries had in their arsenals. He also claimed that Russia’s hypersonic technological breakthroughs resulted from stealing US missile plans during the presidency of Barack Obama – despite the fact that the US has yet to field an operational hypersonic weapon.
Moscow and Beijing have pulled ahead in the race to develop hypersonic weapons over the past decade. Russia put its first system of the kind, the air-launched Kinzhal missile, into service in 2017, while China rolled out its DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle two years later.
Russia has used both Kinzhal and the naval Zircon hypersonic missiles during the Ukraine conflict. Last November, Moscow also carried out the first combat test of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile fitted with multiple independently targetable warheads capable of hypersonic speeds.
In December, after multiple delays and failed tests, Washington announced a successful test launch of its Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, being developed by Lockheed Martin since 2017. The US hopes to equip the first unit with a ground-launched variant of the missile by the end of fiscal 2025.
(Even if they believe it, just a little bit, it’s effective!)
https://www.rt.com/news/615499-us-secret-weapons-trump/