I honestly don't know what I did to deserve these incredible tributes. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it.
‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?
Trump’s Vendetta Campaign Targets John Bolton
This FBI raid makes clearer that second-term success for the President includes retribution.
Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses
Why is Labour Paving Over Britain’s Arable Heartlands Without Consulting Local People?
Across Britain’s patchwork fields, where wheat and barley have fed the nation for centuries, a new harvest looms: solar panels, sprawling over fertile land in the name of Labour’s Net Zero crusade. In Northamptonshire, villagers like those in Earls Barton, Easton Maudit and Bozeat fear the proposed Green Hill Solar Farm will devour 2,965 acres of their farmland, yet their objections, voiced to North Northamptonshire Council, carry no veto. These Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), approved not by local communities but by a Whitehall Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, are reshaping rural Britain. How can a Labour Party that champions social justice, equality and inclusive democracy justify paving over arable heartlands without a local vote? The answer reveals a betrayal of Labour’s principles, with the underreported threat to food security, amplified by Britain’s vulnerability to global supply chain shocks, exposing a cost that could leave the nation hungry.
Complex IRS matters of politics re Clinton Foundation
Eavesdropping on Phone Conversations Through Vibrations Bruce Schneier
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Cuba Mercenaries With Russian Forces In Ukraine
From an opinion piece in The Washington Times:
Havana traditionally supplied the fighting forces by which the Soviet Union’s ideological and military ambitions could be implemented across the developing world. Tens of thousands of Cuban troops, military advisers and doctors supported communist guerrillas and would-be despots in countries such as Ethiopia, Yemen, Angola and Grenada.
Now, more than three decades since the collapse of the USSR, a new generation of Cuban fighters is engaged in a Russian war, not under the banner of Marxist-Leninist fraternity but as contract soldiers.
With the number of Russian troops killed or wounded reaching potentially more than 800,000, Russia is bleeding more manpower than at any other time since the Second World War. To avoid the domestic political risks of further mobilizing Russians, President Vladimir Putin has turned to foreign mercenaries to plug this manpower gap.
Ukrainian sources claim it’s over one million
