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Countries near Belarus are warning that the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation. Video released by the Polish defense ministry is said to show Belarus border guards carrying heavy arms at the border, including grenade launchers and sniper rifles. Reuters couldn't verify the grenade launcher claim, but it comes as Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania -- which are both EU and NATO members -- say the incident is posing a serious threat to European security. And Ukraine, which is not an EU member, but is wary of becoming another flashpoint, says it will...

Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, revealed on Sunday that he has not yet decided if he will run for reelection in 2022. Asked by co-host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he is committed to running for another term next year, Upton said he is unsure because redistricting is still underway in Michigan

NEW YORK — The following is a statement from Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in response to reports of an FBI raid on Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe: “Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all. Nevertheless, the precedent set in this case could have serious consequences for press freedom. Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive...

One recent survey of web hosting companies named the following as being "top ten" rated: GoDaddy HostGrid Site Creator blue host 1&1 IONOS Inmotion SiteGround Hostinger WiX HostGator I know that GoDaddy hates and will deplatform conservatives. What are the latest suggestions or opinions regarding conservative "friendly" webhosting platforms?

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” told Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that his position on COVID vaccine mandates was “not consistent.” Wallace asked, “You say Texas companies should take care of their own workers so, given that, how do you justify the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, issuing an executive order that bans any business in Texas from issuing a vaccine mandate and how do you justify the governor issuing a ban on all school districts on mask mandates, a ban that was overturned just this week by a federal judge?

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” offered her advice for those struggling with the inflationary pressures on the American economy: be smart shoppers.

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Former President Trump beat out President Biden by 11 points in a hypothetical faceoff in Iowa, according to a poll. If such a rematch were held in 2024, 51 percent of likely voters would support Trump, and 40 percent said they would back Biden, a Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll showed Saturday. Another 4 percent said they would not vote for either candidate and the remaining 5 percent were not sure. When the candidates faced off in 2020, Trump defeated Biden by about 8 percentage points, carrying the state with 53 percent of the votes

HAJNOWKA, Poland, Nov 14 (Reuters) - NATO must take "concrete steps" to resolve the migrant crisis on the Belarus border, the Polish prime minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, adding that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia may ask for consultations under the alliance's treaty. Thousands of migrants have travelled to Belarus in the hope of crossing into the European Union (EU), only to find themselves trapped on the border in freezing conditions. The EU accuses Minsk of orchestrating the crisis to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions, but Belarus has repeatedly denied this. Some countries in the region have...

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The US Department of Defense on Saturday stood by its vaccine mandate after Oklahoma's new Adjutant Gen. Thomas Mancino in a letter said the state would not enforce the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for its members of its National Guard. "We are aware of the memo issued by the Oklahoma Adjutant General regarding COVID vaccination for Guardsmen and the governor's letter requesting exemption. We will respond to the governor appropriately," John Kirby, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, told CNN. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stood by the mandate, the spokesperson told CNN. "That is why he has ordered mandatory vaccines for the...

The shares of a fake meat company beloved by global elites crashed a dramatic 19% on Wednesday, reeling from pitiful quarterly earnings reports and enduring resistance on the part of the public to replacing meat from western diets with bioengineered slop. Beyond Meat lost nearly a dollar per share on Wednesday, reporting a third-quarter net loss of $55 million. The company’s executives have consistently maintained that the western public is ready to replace real meat with its synthetic bioengineered plant-based products, which many nutritionists and medical experts question as potentially dangerous. Executives also admitted they expect a bevvy of marketing...

Biden administration officials have spoken periodically for ten months about consultations with “partners and allies” over the Beijing Olympic games, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week had no update to offer. With 12 weeks now to go until the February 4 opening ceremony, Blinken was asked on Wednesday if there was a deadline to make a decision on whether or not to participate in the 2022 Winter Games. “Well, let’s see. The games are coming up when, in – early in the year,” he said with a smile. “So, before then.”

The Anglosphere, at least in terms of their willingness to defend traditional Western values, has become the sick men of the West in the eyes of many. From the inability of even supposedly conservative governments in Britain and Australia to prevent the encroachment of medical tyranny to the nearly-countless BLM riots in America, it seemed only a matter of time before proudly post-national Canada would come out with their latest round of cultural brain farts, and it would appear that they (sadly) did not disappoint. According to Summit News, a war memorial in Canada dedicated to fallen soldiers was defaced...

French president Emmanuel Macron has subtly changed the colour of the French flag, it has been revealed. The shade of blue that makes up the Tricolour is now navy, a darker shade of blue than was used previously. The change was confirmed by the Elysée and was changed last year in a bid to reconnect with the French flag of 1793 - a symbol of the French revolution, according to Europe 1. The decision was the subject of much debate within Macron's government, the news outlet reports as some of officials considered the new colour ugly while Macron felt the...

After nearly two months of waiting, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced last week that President Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses with more than 100 workers will go into effect on January 4. Millions of Americans are now on notice that they have 53 days to decide between their job or a jab. While the legal battles are already playing out in courtrooms around the country, Christians are prayerfully considering how to respond. In recent conversations about the vaccine mandate, many Christians have reflected on Romans 13:1-7 and believers' obligation to submit to the governing authorities. But while...

Millions of people who have refused to get an experimental mRNA vaccine may soon be forced to consume the gene therapy in their food. Researchers at the University of California were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation developing technology that infuses experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines into spinach, lettuce and other edible plants. The team of nanobiotechnology experts is currently working on successfully delivering DNA containing mRNA BioNTech technology into chloroplasts, the part of the plants that instruct its cells’ DNA to replicate the vaccine material. The researchers are tasked with demonstrating the genetically modified plants can produce...

@RepThomasMassieDOJ, FBI, IRS, DOEdu, CDC, BLM, OSHA, ATF, EPA… These agencies are either mildly or aggressively weaponized against conservatives depending on which party wins the elections. It’s a fallacy that they can be staffed by 75-90% liberals and serve all Americans impartially.

A record-breaking snowstorm and severe winds are wreaking havoc in northeastern China. It’s snarling traffic, disrupting train and flight services, closing schools, and freezing millions of livestock.

Is a "retweet" by White House chief of staff Ron Klain partly responsible for President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate taking another loss in federal court? What happened? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit again ruled against President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate Friday. According to the court, the mandate — which is enforced as an emergency temporary standard via the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — is "likely unconstitutional." The court explained: The Constitution vests a limited legislative power in Congress. For more than a century, Congress has routinely used this power to delegate policymaking specifics...