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Oreshnik Number 2
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- By Mike Scruggs
The Russian Hypersonic Missile and Its Message

On January 8, the Russians fired an Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile at a largely underground natural gas storage facility near Lviv, in western Ukraine, from central Russia. It is the second Oreshnik that has been used in the Ukraine-NATO Proxy War against Russia. The Oreshnik is now in serial production. The first experimental test of the Oreshnik against Ukraine was on November 21, 2024, against an industrial aerospace military plant near Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River.
Trump and Venezuela: It’s a Lot More Than Oil
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- By Joseph M. Bianchi
The present situation in Venezuela seems to be a foreign policy conundrum: Maduro is in custody, but the country is still extremely unstable. Trump has been promulgating a “Make Venezuela Great Again” idea by having their vast oil reserves under the control of the US government as well as American oil companies who have had a rough ride with the country.
However, underneath the alleged benefits of having Venezuela sell their reserves exclusively to the US, there is a game of chess going on that needs to be pointed out—and applauded.
First, some background.
Warrior For American Independence—The Story Of “ATAYATAGHRONGHTA” (Colonel Joseph Louis Cook)
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- By W.H. Lamb

Who, you might reasonably ask, was “Atayataghronghta”? I had never heard that Native American name in my many years of historical reading and research centered around our Revolutionary War period, but I had once come across his English name a long time ago: Joseph Louis Cook (c. 1737-1814), also called Colonel Louis Cook in historical records. It wasn’t until I read his life story a few years ago in my wife’s D.A.R. magazine: American Spirit, November/December 2021 Issue (Vol. 155, #6), in an article by Amanda Taylor, titled, “Unwavering Dedication to the Cause”, that I was able to finally put his Indian and his English names together and discover a not unknown, but long underappreciated and almost forgotten, American patriot whose “dedication to the cause” of American liberty should be much better known.
Do ERVs Prove Common Descent?
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- By Charles Creager, Jr.
ERVs are probably the best argument that evolutionists have for universal common descent. After all, at least on the surface, it makes sense that the only way that different organisms could share the same viruses in the same location would be by common descent. However, a close look at this claim shows that it does not really work for several reasons. One of which is that it would make more sense if these genetic elements were non-functional, but not only are these segments of DNA functional, but they often perform important functions, including cellular immunity from viruses.
Ukrainian Intelligence and the Ukraine War
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- By Mike Scruggs
Understanding the War of Disinformation Propaganda

On January 2, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lt. General Kyrylo Budanov to the position of Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, replacing Andriy Yermak. Yermak had held the office since 2020, until resigning in November 2025 under suspicions of corruption. The office is considered the most powerful in Ukraine next to the President.
Budanov had been Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence for Ukraine since August 2020, which is generally considered the most powerful Ukrainian Intelligence Agency and reports to the Ministry of Defense rather than the Ukrainian military General Staff. The Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine is usually abbreviated to HUR, GUR, or DIU (English). The Russian equivalent is the GRU. The HUR is also roughly equivalent to the CIA and British MI6, which took over and reformed the HUR immediately following the Maidan Revolution and coup in February 2014. The CIA has been tightly linked to the HUR since 2014 and to Budanov at least since 2020. British MI6 provides personal security to President Zelensky. Zelensky’s presidential term expired in March 2024, but he has held power because of martial law declared in March 2022. Zelensky has also banned all opposition political parties and opposition media.
MIS RAICES ESTAN AQUI!
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- By W.H. Lamb

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Luke 16:13.
Back in the “ancient times”, in February of 2001, I wrote an article for the old newsprint version of The Times Examiner titled: “The GrowingCurse of Hyphenated Americans.” I felt strongly about this problem of “divided loyalty” (i.e. “dual citizenship”) among Americans then, and I haven’t changed my opinion one bit since. If anything, I’m more disturbed over the “curse” of hyphenated Americans today than I was then, when it was an irritating problem, rather than the societal threat it has become. If you are blind to this potential nation-shattering problem, you really need to read this article carefully. If you revel in being a “hyphenated” American and/or you express divided loyalties to some other nation, you need to reconsider your decision!
Eurobond Medicine for Ukraine
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- By Mike Scruggs
Weimar Republic Economics

Shortly after the Russian Army crossed into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the United States, NATO, and the European Union brought massive financial sanctions against the Russian Federation and froze approximately $300 billion in Russian financial assets held in allied banks around the world. Most of these assets are held in Euroclear, a major Belgian based clearing bank in Brussels, but smaller amounts are being held in Japan, Canada, the UK and the U.S.
The interest on these frozen financial assets is already being used to help Ukraine, but this has been opposed by many EU members, especially Hungary. Furthermore, the interest is only a drop in the bucket compared to Ukraine’s needs. The United States is now funding the Ukrainian government at close to $50 billion per year. Military costs run at least that much more. At this point, Ukraine is almost totally dependent on the United States, NATO, and the European Union.
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