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Bullfrog brains can make their own backup fuel– phys.org

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Bullfrog brains can make their own backup fuel– phys.org
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For decades, scientists believed most animals relied on a steady supply of glucose, the body’s primary fuel source, to power their brains. When glucose runs out, neural activity begins to fail, potentially leading to lasting brain damage.

Labour must reunite progressive voters to win the next election, says Lucy Powell | Labour– www.theguardian.com

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Labour must reunite progressive voters to win the next election, says Lucy Powell | Labour– www.theguardian.com
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Labour must “reunite the progressive voter coalition” if it is to take advantage of a split on the right and win the next election, the party’s deputy leader has said.

Lucy Powell, who won the race to be deputy leader 12 months ago with a warning that Labour was losing the fight to be heard as Reform UK surged, said the government now had a second chance under Andy Burnham.

In an interview with the Guardian, Powell said the party had clearly required a “change of leader” to revive its fortunes and tell a better story, after becoming “too technical and pessimistic”.

Labour’s improved poll ratings have led to speculation this week that Andy Burnham will call a snap election, but the prime minister rejected that on Friday and said the next contest would be in 2029.

However, the Labour conference will get underway this weekend with polls beginning to show for the first time in almost two years that Labour might be within touching distance of winning a majority at the next election – 12 months on from polls that suggested Reform UK could win a huge victory.

Report: Serious Security Flaws On Campus Where Kirk Was Killed– thefederalist.com

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Report: Serious Security Flaws On Campus Where Kirk Was Killed– thefederalist.com
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Utah Valley University failed on a number of fronts to protect Charlie Kirk from the assassin who took his life at an outdoor event a little over a year ago, according to an independent review released on Friday.

While the 157-page report from the Illinois-based Lake Forest Group found no evidence UVU employees or agents acted in “bad faith or in willing and wanton disregard for the safety of others,” it does reveal serious security “gaps” and a failure of UVU officials to follow their own policies.

The “After-Action Report,” according to the Kirk family, reaffirms the facts laid out in the family’s recent notice of impending legal action: The university’s security failures rendered the conservative icon “helpless to the rooftop shooter in an assassination that could have been avoided.”

“UVU security was woefully understaffed and unprepared to manage the obvious risks associated with an event of this nature,” Kirk family attorney Brett Parkinson said in a statement to The Federalist. “UVU hosted this event, and in doing so, assumed responsibility for the safety of all in attendance, including Charlie.”

The university did not respond to The Federalist’s follow-up questions, but UVU President Jon Anderson released a brief statement.

“Our commitment does not end with this report,” Anderson said. “Its findings will guide our continued safety efforts as we move forward together with care, civility, and resilience.”

Period Flu May Be The Reason You Feel Horrendous Before Your Time Of The Month– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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Period Flu May Be The Reason You Feel Horrendous Before Your Time Of The Month– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
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Hormonal fluctuations during the cycle:

Before your period, oestrogen and progesterone levels drop sharply. These hormones influence many processes in the body—including your well-being.

The immune system weakens:

Prof. Dr. Mangler explains: “The immune system is less active during the second half of the cycle.” This means you’re more susceptible to illness—or at least feel that way.

Prostaglandins (important signaling molecules):

Prostaglandins are hormone-like chemicals that affect bodily functions like inflammation and pain, they also prompt the uterus to contract to help dislodge your uterine lining (and trigger your period). That process can cause some unpleasant symptoms, like diarrhoea, nausea, cramps, and vomiting. The sorts of things you might mistake for being full-on sick.

Serotonin levels drop:

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects your mood. When levels drop, you’re more likely to feel exhausted, irritable, or sick.

Histamine and allergy-like reactions:

Your cycle also affects histamine levels. This can trigger symptoms such as sneezing, a stuffy nose, and skin reactions. This explains why some PMS symptoms feel like a cold.

Professors worry ‘immigrants’ left out of school choice, don’t say if illegals included– www.thecollegefix.com

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Professors worry ‘immigrants’ left out of school choice, don’t say if illegals included– www.thecollegefix.com
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OPINION: Prof’s previous paper ‘deconstructs’ concept of ‘restrictive immigration’ and ‘intrinsic rights of individuals to cross borders’

A pair of College of Charleston professors recently lamented that “immigrant” students often get the short end of the stick when it comes to school choice.

But oddly enough, the words “illegal” and “undocumented” appear nowhere in William McCorkle and Beth Lloyd’s piece in The Conversation. The former never replied when I asked via email for clarification regarding the article.

But that’s OK; it appears the answer comes from McCorkle’s 2022 paper “Teachers’ Views on Deportations, DACA, and a Pathway to Citizenship,” the “theoretical framework” of which (“critical border and migration studies”) says “modern conceptions about borders and migration need to be re-examined and critiqued”:

“[…] to deconstruct the whole notion of restrictive immigration and expand on often controversial subjects like open borders and the intrinsic rights of individuals to cross borders.”

Muslim Migration Crisis in Britain: A Warning for America– www.dailysignal.com

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Muslim Migration Crisis in Britain: A Warning for America– www.dailysignal.com
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When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did.

He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril.

Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation and The Blaze. It features Heritage experts Mike Gonzalez, Nile Gardiner, and Lora Ries.

Asked how a nation is demoralized and destabilized, Freitas has a simple answer.

“In the simplest terms, you give it an identity crisis,” he told me. “And I think we’re suffering that in the West in general, and we’re starting to see it become a significant problem in the United States.”

‘Call it Genghis Khan’s final victory’: Why the tomb of the ‘Disturber of the Universe’ remains hidden after 800 years– www.livescience.com

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‘Call it Genghis Khan’s final victory’: Why the tomb of the ‘Disturber of the Universe’ remains hidden after 800 years– www.livescience.com
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History is rife with lost treasures, from Aztec gold hidden during the Spanish conquest to the Ark of the Covenant, which vanished during the destruction of Jerusalem over 2,500 years ago. In his book, “The Museum of Lost Things: True Tales of Fabled Treasures, Legendary Cities, and Mythical Creatures That Vanished From History” (National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2026), writer Sam Kean examines all things lost to time.

In this excerpt from the book, he looks at how the tomb of Genghis Khan, arguably the most successful ruler in history, has remained hidden for nearly 800 years and counting.

 

China pushes back against US on Iran and Cuba in UN speech– www.channelnewsasia.com

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China pushes back against US on Iran and Cuba in UN speech– www.channelnewsasia.com
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UNITED NATIONS: China pushed back against the United States in its speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday (Sep 26), saying the sovereignty of countries in the Gulf should be respected and urging the “relevant country” to stop threatening Cuba and lift its blockade on it.

Vice President Han Zheng did not mention the US by name in his remarks. The US has launched a pressure campaign on Cuba that has largely blocked oil from reaching the island. The US war on Iran started with US-Israeli strikes in February.

The comments stood in sharp contrast to the bonhomie on display earlier this week at the White House, where President Donald Trump feted Chinese leader Xi Jinping with military flyovers and at a lavish state dinner.

“Major countries should have special responsibilities for safeguarding international peace and security, and they should take the lead in complying with the rules, upholding rule of law, and doing what’s right,” Han said.

“China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected.”

Trump warned Xi against providing support to Iran during the Washington talks and received assurances that China would not do so, the US ambassador to China said on Friday.

OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure– globalnews.ca

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OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure– globalnews.ca
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior.

The AI giant’s models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as U.S. Census Bureau data, the company revealed Friday. OpenAI did not find any use of SEC credentials, access to accounts or nonpublic information, changes to SEC data or systems, or evidence of a compromise or vulnerability, the company said.

The disclosure comes at a time of heightened global concerns about AI systems escaping human control and hacking into external websites, as well as industry calls for a slowdown on AI development, which OpenAI has said it supports.

OpenAI spokesperson Liz Bourgeois said in a statement that the lab is continuing to conduct a review of “misaligned model activity” — meaning when AI systems behave in undesired ways — and is notifying organizations when it identifies potential impacts to their systems.

It’s Simple: China Eats Our Lunch Unless America Builds Data Centers and the Power to Run Them– www.westernjournal.com

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It’s Simple: China Eats Our Lunch Unless America Builds Data Centers and the Power to Run Them– www.westernjournal.com
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WASHINGTON — The contest to win the artificial intelligence race may come down to which country can keep the lights on, experts warn.

Energy and industry leaders made the case that American AI ambitions will outpace the nation’s ability to power them without a major buildout at Thursday’s Daily Caller Live event co-hosted by the Caller and the Daily Caller News Foundation and presented by ClearPath.

Cristopher Johnson, president of the American Energy Leadership Institute (AELI), and Mark Bednar, a principal at Monument Advocacy and former vice president of communications at the American Exploration & Production Council, emphasized that the United States must add reliable power and build the plants and data centers here, or else AI infrastructure moves to China.

“[I]f we’re not building data centers here and powering them here, where it’s tons cleaner [and where] we’re doing solar and storage and nuclear, … all those data centers, all that compute, is gonna go to China, where they are building coal plants every week,” Johnson said during a panel discussion moderated by DCNF investigative reporter Sean Moran. “This is totally backwards.”

China began construction on 94.5 gigawatts of new coal-fired power capacity in 2024, the most since 2015 and 93 percent of global coal construction starts, according to a Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor report.

How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI– www.washingtonpost.com

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How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI– www.washingtonpost.com
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UNITED NATIONS — Early this month, hundreds of diplomats huddled in a cavernous U.N. conference room in Switzerland, working toward a muscular treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons — the first agreement governing the use of killer artificial intelligence arms. On the last day of negotiations, the talks turned aggressive.

 

What did Paramount promise Hollywood to secure WBD?– www.cnbc.com

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What did Paramount promise Hollywood to secure WBD?– www.cnbc.com
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A new movie every 11 days? That’s what Paramount’s David Ellison is promising after clearing a path this week for his company’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, combining two storied Hollywood studios.

The CEO’s settlement with a group of state attorneys general over antitrust concerns stipulates that the newly minted company will release at least 30 films into theaters in 2027 and 2028 and at least 32 films in 2029, 2030 and 2031.

Currently, the combined entity has 35 films scheduled for release next year, according to data from Rentrak.

But questions remain about what caliber of releases the industry can expect — and what happens after the five-year agreement expires.

“This is much more complicated than simply asking whether 30 movies is enough,” Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Rentrak, told CNBC. “Thirty wide releases would represent a meaningful commitment to theatrical, and I think everyone in exhibition would welcome a robust pipeline of films.

“But ultimately the proof will be in how those movies perform, how varied the slate is, how consistently they reach theaters and how the combined company executes on those commitments,” he said.

Russia accuses Europe of blocking Ukraine peace talks as Trump calls on Zelenskyy to “settle with Putin”– www.cbsnews.com

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Russia accuses Europe of blocking Ukraine peace talks as Trump calls on Zelenskyy to “settle with Putin”– www.cbsnews.com
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Russia’s foreign minister used his address at the United Nations General Assembly to accuse Europe of blocking efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up attacks after the deadliest summer since 2022 — the year Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. On Saturday, Russian attacks killed four people across Ukraine, officials said, while Kyiv continued to target Russian oil refineries and industrial sites with long-range drones.

Efforts led by the U.S. have failed to produce a permanent ceasefire and peace deal, with President Trump saying on Saturday that he hoped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would “settle” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Europe of actively trying to block talks supported by the U.S. government.

‘Whoever wins AI, wins’: How artificial intelligence is transforming the future of war– www.independent.co.uk

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‘Whoever wins AI, wins’: How artificial intelligence is transforming the future of war– www.independent.co.uk
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Earlier this month, an Anthropic researcher issued a doomsday warning straight out of a sci-fi novel – there’s a 10 per cent chance of Artificial Intelligence could destroy humanity.

President Donald Trump has already made his thoughts on the developing technology clear, proclaiming in a post on Truth Social recently: “Whoever wins AI, wins!”

Although he was not speaking about war specifically, Trump added that he and the US are the only guardrails needed on AI – or super intelligence as he is trying to rebrand it – claiming that his administration had already stopped bad “things” from occurring.

While experts have feared the worst long before ChatGPT started a global conversation about AI, the acceleration of new technology means that it is already rapidly becoming difficult to control.

This week Australian Albanese said that an OpenAI agent had hacked into a government health website while doing research. But the impact of AI on human life goes far beyond accessing private data, and it already appears the technology is being used to help wage war.

“AI is being integrated into militaries globally at an increasingly rapid pace as many governments see AI as decisive for their military competitiveness,” Georgia Cole, research fellow in Chatham House’s International Security Programme told The Independent.

US stocks: US market drops as Trump’s rejection of Iran peace plan lifts oil prices– economictimes.indiatimes.com

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US stocks: US market drops as Trump’s rejection of Iran peace plan lifts oil prices– economictimes.indiatimes.com
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US market’s main indexes fell on Monday after President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to end the conflict, sending crude prices higher, reviving inflation concerns and pushing Treasury yields up, Reuters reported.

Nvidia offered some support to the broader market, rising 3.2% after the chipmaker authorised a $150 billion share repurchase—the largest buyback approval in its history.

Iran unveiled a peace proposal at last week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York and said it had been conveyed to the United States through Qatari mediators. Trump said on Saturday that he had rejected the offer, though he told Axios on Sunday that he expected US negotiators to continue talks this week.

Crude prices climbed 2% to around $107 a barrel. The increase also weighed on Treasuries, driving longer-dated yields to fresh multidecade highs.

“Energy has been the one consistent upward pressure on inflation, and anything that continues to put pressure on inflation is going to be something that motivates the Fed to raise rates,” Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth, told Reuters.

Israelis, Palestinians must 'reboot relations': Absence of diplomatic route means 'perpetual war'– www.france24.com

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Israelis, Palestinians must ‘reboot relations’: Absence of diplomatic route means ‘perpetual war’– www.france24.com
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Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challenges the notion that military operations, incursions and settlement expansion can constitute a sustainable political objective. He identifies a potential transition beyond the Netanyahu era as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian societies. His central argument is that the continuation of war without a political endgame risks a state of perpetual conflict.

Senate to vote on member stock trading bill– www.politico.com

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Senate to vote on member stock trading bill– www.politico.com
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The Senate will vote this week on a House-passed bill to restrict the ability of members of Congress and their families to buy and sell stocks, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose unannounced scheduling.

The vote is likely to take place Wednesday, the people said, pending GOP leaders setting up the plans on the Senate floor.

The stock-trading bill passed the House earlier this year in a 232-198 vote, with only 13 Democrats in favor. Most House Democrats opposed the bill because it would not require members to sell stocks they already own and because they viewed included voter ID language as a “poison pill.”

It will need 60 votes to advance in the Senate, meaning at least seven Democrats would need to support it.

Senate Republicans had been discussing bringing up the bill as one of their final items before leaving Washington until after the midterms — something that could happen as soon as Wednesday.

Liberal Media Outlet Falsely Claims Pro-Life Group is Violent– www.lifenews.com

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Liberal Media Outlet Falsely Claims Pro-Life Group is Violent– www.lifenews.com
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Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation recently traveled to Colorado for our #JusticeForLexi Campaign, a three-day event of education and activism exposing the death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello at the hands of Planned Parenthood.

Every event was peaceful and prayerful, and the campaign received coverage from national and local news outlet. One reporter from the Colorado Times Recorder attended every event and wrote a lengthy article. Unfortunately, he chose to focus on a false narrative that attempted to tie Operation Rescue to violent incidents this organization has never endorsed or participated in. In reply, LLDF and OR offered the following letter to reporter Sean Beedle and his editor:

Dear Editor: 

In an article dated September 2, 2026, entitled “Kansas Group Linked to Abortion Clinic Violence Protests in Colorado,” the author, Sean Beedle, devoted a substantial portion to discussing Operation Rescue’s “alleged ties to multiple violent incidents.” We are writing to correct the record, as the article fails to distinguish between the conduct of particular individuals and disputed allegations for which Operation Rescue bears no responsibility.

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Why Xi believes the U.S. and China can overcome the ‘Thucydides Trap’– www.cnbc.com

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Why Xi believes the U.S. and China can overcome the ‘Thucydides Trap’– www.cnbc.com
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BEIJING — China is embracing the idea of competition without confrontation, by invoking an academic concept.

“The Thucydides Trap can be overcome,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said on arriving at the White House to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, according to the Chinese side’s official readout.

That framing contrasts with the rhetorical question he posed at the May summit of whether the two countries could avoid the Thucydides Trap.

The Thucydides Trap, popularized by Harvard professor Graham Allison in the early 2010s, refers to how tensions between a rising and ruling power have historically often resulted in a war.

Thucydides was an Athenian general in ancient Greece. His historical record of the Peloponnesian War described how Athens’ rapid rise in power alarmed Sparta and made war between the two city-states inevitable.

Allison has met Xi and visited China multiple times, including in June 2026 for a World Economic Forum event. Allison was founding dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School, which for decades trained many of China’s government officials.

Chinese AI models surge in global adoption– www.cnbc.com

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Chinese AI models surge in global adoption– www.cnbc.com
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AI was a major focus as U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met this week.

The most advanced U.S. models lead most benchmarks, but Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Z.ai and Alibaba have released new models with major performance gains in tasks such as coding.

According to usage data shared with CNBC, the global adoption of Chinese models by companies has increased substantially in 2026.

Chinese AI models have gone from a relatively small share of usage to a majority on two major developer platforms that provide gateways for companies to access models from different providers. On OpenRouter, they accounted for 57%-67% of tokens used in the week of Sept. 14, up from 6%-13% in February. On Vercel, their share rose to 55% in August from 11% in January.

OpenRouter’s data related to companies in the U.S., Europe and what it defines as the “Global South” — 82 countries across Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. Vercel did not specify its data’s geographical breakdown.

Concern is growing in Washington, where two U.S. House Committees are investigating the impact of rising adoption of Chinese models.

The U.S. has sought to preserve its AI lead by restricting Chinese AI companies from buying the most advanced chips through export controls.

Washington is concerned about them accessing Nvidia chips remotely, via overseas data centers, and gaining ground by using “distillation” where new models mimic older, more established ones.

Trump endorses diesel export ban as GOP frets over high prices– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Trump endorses diesel export ban as GOP frets over high prices– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump said he has called for a ban on diesel exports as his administration weighs options for curbing all-time high fuel prices driven by the conflicts in the Middle East and Europe.

“I’ve called for that too. I’ve said, let’s not send out the diesel,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Max Miller’s Team Threatened Stations If They Ran Challenger’s Ad. They Did Anyway– dailycaller.com

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Max Miller’s Team Threatened Stations If They Ran Challenger’s Ad. They Did Anyway– dailycaller.com
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Television stations ignored a cease-and-desist letter from Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller’s legal team warning them not to broadcast an advertisement centered on the allegations against his ex-wife.

A lawyer for Miller demanded that Cleveland-based station WKYC not air the advertisement from his opponent, Democratic Ohio congressional candidate Brian Poindexter, arguing it contained “false, malicious, and defamatory statements.” WKYC and other Cleveland stations, WEWS, WJW and WOIO, aired the ad, according to Politico.

“The ad mentioned is filled with lies,” Miller’s campaign spokeswoman Abigail Angelos told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Each of the statements in the advertisement are entirely unsubstantiated and contradicted by evidence. For example, there has been no restraining order placed against Congressman Miller. That is patently false. In fact, the opposite is true. To claim otherwise is defamatory which is why we issued a preemptive warning to the stations that could be in a position to air this ad.”

Miller and his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, filed restraining orders against each other. Moreno filed hers on July 31, alleging that he physically grabbed one of her attorneys, Andrew Zashin, during a court hearing and also used a profane slur to insult Zashin’s fiancée as they left the courtroom during a separate hearing in May.

US military power a ‘Wizard of Oz’ illusion – ex-CIA analyst (VIDEO) — RT World News– www.rt.com

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US military power a ‘Wizard of Oz’ illusion – ex-CIA analyst (VIDEO) — RT World News– www.rt.com
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Russia and Iran have pulled back the curtain on the myth of American dominance in the defense sector, Larry Johnson has said

US military might has turned out to be an illusion in the style of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has said.

The myth of American dominance in the defense sector was shattered by the Ukraine and Iran conflicts, Johnson said in an interview with RT’s Sanchez Effect on Monday.

Before the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, “Russia had the perception that the US was very powerful militarily, that it had strategic depth, that its industrial base was such that it could support and sustain a modern war,” he said.

However, the opinion in Moscow has changed since then as Russian forces were able to “solve and defeat” all of the systems supplied by Washington to Kiev’s military, the former CIA analyst told host Rick Sanchez.

“I’m calling this ‘The Wizard of Oz effect’… just like in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the end when the curtain gets pulled back and the great and powerful Oz turns out to be this little old guy with a drinking problem behind the curtain. That’s the US,” he said.


 

Johnson mentioned a recent report by the Pentagon’s inspector general, which sounded the alarm over “shortfalls” in munitions and a bottleneck in resupply of key weapons.

It was also “an embarrassment” when in August General Dynamics lost a $530 million contract with the Department of War to manufacture shells, the former CIA analyst said.

“They produced exactly zero. Meanwhile, Russia is producing as many artillery shells in one month as all of NATO does in a year,” he stressed.

According to Johnson, Iran has also delivered “enormous damage” to US capabilities in the Middle East since the American-Israeli attack on the country in early February.

Rebuilding the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, which was crippled by Iranian strikes, “doesn’t make economic sense” as Tehran has shown that it’s capable of hitting it again at any moment, he said.


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”The US has been effectively expelled from the Persian Gulf,” the former CIA analyst noted.

Watch Rick Sanchez’s full interview with Larry Johnson here.

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