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Survivor 43 winner Mike Gabler made history on Wednesday night after he revealed he'd be donating his entire $1 million prize to veterans.

The heart valve specialist, 52, had been telling viewers of the CBS competition series his plan before nabbing the win, but followed through with his promise after being named Sole Survivor.

"There are people who need that money more," Gabler told host Jeff Probst during the Survivor after show, filmed moments after his win. "And I'm going to donate the entire prize — the entire million dollar prize, in my father's name, Robert Gabler, who was a Green Beret — to veterans in need who are recovering from psychiatric problems, PTSD, and curb the suicide epidemic."

"We're going to save lives and do something good," the Kingwood, Tex. native continued amid cheers from jurors and castmates. "Season 43, all of us did this. A million dollars is going to them. We made history guys," he added in the tender moment.

Abdul Wasi Safi was trained by the US military to be an elite special forces commando in Afghanistan and was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Abdul Wasi Safi was trained by the U.S. military to be an elite special forces commando in Afghanistan. When Kabul fell, Wasi was still fighting the Taliban in the north. On Aug. 30, 2021, when the last U.S. plane left Kabul, Wasi went into hiding, moving from safe house to safe house arranged by U.S. veterans who helped him get to Pakistan. He hoped to receive a special immigrant visa and to legally move to the U.S.

The Taliban had his biometric data, left behind by the U.S. government, and they were hunting him. Now, Wasi sits in a Texas prison facing deportation to Kabul and certain death, a poster child for America's broken asylum system.

"I was in a special force commando unit with the U.S. military," Wasi told Fox News in a phone interview from Eden Detention Center in Texas. "I wanted to come to the United States. I don't select another country to help me because I was with them. But I come here, and they put me in jail."

He described a year-long treacherous journey across two continents. After receiving a visa to Brazil, he soon realized Afghans were viewed as terrorists in Latin America. So, he began making his way to the U.S. border. He made his way on foot and by bus through 10 countries and was robbed, tortured and beaten. He shared with Fox News some of the videos he took crossing the Darien Gap near Panama, a dangerous crossing. He received treatment along the way that he expected from the Taliban.

"Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. I cross all that distance to come to United States because I was thinking and hoping the American government that they will help me," Wasi told Fox.

Instead, he was arrested at the border trying to cross the Rio Grande.

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Don't know if this is true but apparently Tiktok will be banned on all USA cell phones because the government reckons its a Trojan horse for China.

Wow.

To be honest I have watched many live videos on tiktok and always found them to be interesting and fun.

Anyone know the facts about this development?

Why the big hoo has, if I was Musk I'd say good riddance.
But of course things don't work that way, cos it's all about the bunch of sheep that have their noses tightly up the arse of Sir John that will follow him blindly even to hell.
Ever since covid all the main players (kings and queens) were preaching that HUGE change was coming to planet earth and with the latest nuclear fusion news, this could be part of it.

Who knows.

Researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in the quest to unlock a “near-limitless, safe, clean” source of energy: they have got more energy out of a nuclear fusion reaction than they put in.

Nuclear fusion involves smashing together light elements such as hydrogen to form heavier elements, releasing a huge burst of energy in the process. The approach, which gives rise to the heat and light of the sun and other stars, has been hailed as having huge potential as a sustainable, low-carbon energy source.

However, since nuclear fusion research began in the 1950s, researchers have been unable to a demonstrate a positive energy gain, a condition known as ignition.

Now, it seems, the Rubicon has been crossed.

“It proves that the long sought-after goal, the ‘holy grail’ of fusion, can indeed be achieved.”

But experts have stressed that while the results would be an important proof of principle, the technology is a long way from being a mainstay of the energy landscape. To start with, 0.4MJ is about 0.1kWh – about enough energy to boil a kettle.

Police issued an arrest warrant for nuclear energy official Sam Brinton after an officer recognized them from news articles about a separate stolen-luggage accusation.

An arrest warrant was issued for nuclear energy official Sam Brinton after an officer recognized them from news reports.
Brinton was recently charged with theft over accusations that they stole a suitcase from a Minnesota airport.
Las Vegas police have now issued an arrest warrant for Brinton over similar allegations.

Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, issued an arrest warrant for nuclear energy official Sam Brinton in a luggage theft case after an officer recognized the government employee from news articles about a separate stolen luggage accusation.

Authorities temporarily closed a case about a stolen suitcase on July 6 at Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport after they couldn't identify a suspect from surveillance footage.

But police reopened the case on November 29 and named Brinton as a suspect after they were charged with felony theft over accusations that they swiped a mother's Vera Bradley suitcase from an airport in Minnesota in September, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department records obtained by Insider.

Brinton — the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy — made headlines late last month in connection with the Minnesota case.

"Numerous news articles covering the story had photographs of Brinton" who an officer "immediately recognized as the suspect pertaining to" the Las Vegas case, states an arrest warrant issued for Brinton.

Las Vegas police issued a felony arrest warrant on grand larceny charge for Brinton — who is one of the federal government's first openly "gender fluid" employees and uses they/them pronouns — last week.

According to the arrest warrant, police say that Brinton "can clearly be seen and identified on video stealing" a woman's gray Away luggage from a carousel at baggage claim in the Las Vegas airport on July 6 "and leaving" with it.

The hard case bag and its contents were estimated to be worth $3,670.74, according to the warrant. The victim told police she had jewelry worth $1,700 and makeup valued at $500 in the luggage.

Police say the suspect in the Las Vegas case was captured on surveillance footage wearing a T-shirt "with a large rainbow-colored atomic nuclear symbol design on the front."

An officer investigating the case found a selfie on Brinton's Instagram page posted on the same day as the theft showing Brinton at an apparent airport "wearing the same exact white T-shirt," the arrest warrant says.

"Brinton was clearly wearing the same exact white T-shirt with a large rainbow-colored atomic nuclear symbol design on the front as seen on video at Harry Reid International Airport," the warrant states.

Additionally, police wrote in the warrant that Brinton "demonstrated several signs of abnormal behavior while taking the victim's luggage which are cues suspects typically give off when committing luggage theft."

Brinton, 35, was placed on administrative leave by the Department of Energy last month after they were accused of taking a woman's Vera Bradley suitcase from baggage claim at Minnesota's Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on September 16.

Insider has tried to contact Brinton and an attorney for Brinton multiple times but has not gotten a response.

It's not that I have a crystal ball and can see into the future, but I said it before and will say it again, that Jared Kushner will most likely be under financial scrutiny for his business dealings and association with the former president.
He's been laying low lately and there was a report he and Ivanka were somewhat cold to each other at a recent public outing.
As they say... Something could be up!

A Washington federal judge has dropped the lawsuit against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely known as MBS, over his alleged involvement in the killing of journalist and a fierce critic of the Saudi government Jamal Khashoggi.

According to the judge, the lawsuit contained “credible allegations” against MBS, but he had to dismiss the case as the crown prince was appointed as the prime minister of Saudi Arabia and the US president granted him sovereign immunity.

It's all about oil. No?

Viktor Bout, one of the world's most infamous arms dealers, has been released from US custody as part of a prisoner exchange with US basketball star Brittney Griner.

Griner had been in custody since February after Moscow airport officials found cannabis oil in her luggage while she was returning to the US after playing in Russia.

Rumours had circulated in US media for months that senior state department officials had sought to secure Griner's release in exchange for the arms dealer's freedom.

So notorious are the exploits of the former Soviet air force officer that they inspired a Hollywood film, and garnered him an impressively fearsome nickname.

But who is the man known as the Merchant of Death?

Bout was extradited from Thailand to the US in 2010, after a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) two years earlier.

Agents from the DEA posed as potential buyers from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc. That group - which has since disbanded - was classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States.

Bout claimed he was simply an entrepreneur with a legitimate international transport business, wrongly accused of trying to arm South American rebels - the victims of US political machinations.

But a jury in New York didn't believe his story.

He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April 2012 after being found guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans and US officials, delivering anti-aircraft missiles and aiding a terrorist organization.

His three-week trial heard that Bout had been told the weapons would be used to kill US pilots working with Colombian officials. Prosecutors said he replied: "We have the same enemy."

Bout - a Russian national born in Soviet-ruled Tajikistan - began his career in air transport in the early 1990s, after the fall of the USSR.

According to a 2007 book - Merchant of Death, by security experts Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun - Bout built up his business using military planes left on the airfields of the collapsing Soviet empire in the early 1990s.

I'm glad that Brittney is free, but the swap was terribly one sided.

The shortlist had people like Elon Musk, Xi Jinping, The Supreme Court, Liz Cheney, Volodymyr Zelensky, MacKenzie Scott, Protesters in Iran , Ron DeSantis , and Janet Yellen.

Glad Liz Cheney wasn't selected as Time's 2022 person of the year!