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President Joe Biden is willing to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin “at any time” to prevent an invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. During an appearance on CNN‘s “State of the Union,” Blinken said the US “will use every opportunity and every minute we have” to promote diplomacy “until the tanks are actually rolling and the planes are flying. “President Biden is prepared to engage President Putin at any time, in any format, if that can help prevent a war,” he said.

There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day. I assume we are in agreement that constitutional democracies are a good form of government or, at least, a better form of government than the other methods we have found to-date. This means that I am taking for granted the following assumptions. - People have fundamental rights to speech, assembly, religion and so on - People are innocent until proven guilty -...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has confirmed a child in Wisconsin died from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19. The child lived in southeast Wisconsin and was under 10 years old. There have been 183 MIS-C cases reported in Wisconsin since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first case to result in a death. DHS will not be disclosing any additional patient information to protect privacy and out of respect for the family. “We are saddened to report that a child has passed away from MIS-C,” said...

“We have officers from across the province and country here to help us; every person supporting this effort is proud to be here,” he (Steve Bell, Ottawa Interim Chief of Police) declared, suggesting that there is little hesitance among officers about enforcing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency powers clampdown on protestors. [cut] Members of the press gave the police chief some mild pushback on his claim that his men have acted with restraint, with one asking “with respect, sir, can you explain what appears to be excessive force by police officers when a protestor is arrested; there is multiple videos...

FIVE millions workers are to be hit by tax rises within weeks that will cost them hundreds extra a year. It comes as millions of UK households are already battling a cost of living crisis which is forcing some to choose between heating and eating. From April, National Insurance Contributions will go up by 1.25 percentage points, costing the average worker hundreds of pounds more a year. At the same time, income tax bands are being frozen, meaning workers are effectively taking a pay cut. Soaring inflation is pushing up the price of everything from energy bills to groceries.

The electrochemical conversion of ammonia to dinitrogen in a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) is a necessary technology for the realization of a nitrogen economy. Previous efforts to catalyse this reaction with molecular complexes required the addition of exogenous oxidizing reagents or application of potentials greater than the thermodynamic potential for the oxygen reduction reaction—the cathodic process of a DAFC.

Jean-Luc Brunel, Jeffrey Epstein's modelling agent 'pimp', was not on suicide watch before he was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning - despite having tried multiple times to kill himself. Since his 2020 arrest, the 76-year-old Frenchman had made multiple attempts to take his own life, reports The Telegraph. Still, Brunel - who allegedly helped procure over one thousand women for Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell - was not under 'emergency protection', more colloquially known as suicide watch, at the time he died.

When someone says something we disagree with, should we shut them up? In 1927, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had an answer: "The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Well, in that case, the internet should have solved everything, notes correspondent David Pogue – it's nothing but more speech. And yet lately, the news is full of stories about people trying to limit other people's expression. The free-speech erosion is even happening in schools. Since January last year, according to PEN America, Republican lawmakers have introduced more than 150 state laws that would restrict how teachers...

@thehill .@RandPaul "It looks like the dam is breaking. If you look at Democrat cities and Democrat states, even they are hearing from Democrat parents [...] saying, 'We're tired of this, we're not going to do it anymore and our kids need to have the freedom to take the mask off'." Clip...

Students have repeatedly vandalized Pride posters at Spencer Lyst’s high school in Williamson County, Tennessee. Teachers have skipped over LGBTQ issues in class textbooks. Trans kids in his state have been legally barred from competing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. Parents have called on school officials to remove books about sexual orientation and gender identity from the county’s elementary curriculum. And while leading his school’s Pride club at a September homecoming parade, Lyst and other LGBTQ students were booed by a group of parents. “I’m so used to it, but it shouldn’t be something I...

A standoff between police and protesters played out near Parliament early on Monday morning, the 14th days of the anti-mandate protest Dozens of police officers held a line against protesters on Molesworth Street in central Wellington. Some protesters were chanting 'freedom'. Police brought in trucks with concrete barriers which have been placed at the entrance of Molesworth Street...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre. Note: Videos are taken down from youtube as soon as the livecast is over and they are moved to Odysee. This link will only work for the livestream. Use the link below for the Odysee backup channel to find the archive and view later. Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions...

Well, this isn’t exactly a new story. The bleeding has been occurring for years, and Democrats have ignored it. It reached critical levels under Obama, where state party apparatuses truly withered away and died. Hillary Clinton pledged to fix that in 2016 but she lost the election. In the age-old debate about the allocation of outreach resources, the Left could have done what they should have which is double-down on rural white working-class voters or go all-in on the urban-based elites. The Democrats decided to do the latter. Four years later, Democrats saw their hopes of a huge House majority...

(VANITY) TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II ('50S) - ROUND 6 ROUND 6 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II COMMENCES!ROUND 6 – THE FINAL 4 Votes due: Sunday, Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm Eastern. 4 songs, 2 pairs, 2 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed. Any ties will be broken via Billboard annual ranking, then back to Round 1 ranking (seed), then Round 1 point total, then Round 1 vote count. See run-down of the pairs in my next reply post. Format in survey: Poll seed – year - song title – act The survey is at 1950s...

Pollster Frank Luntz said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans will win control of the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections and that only former President Donald Trump could prevent it. Guest-host Jonathan Karl said, “Are Republicans feeling some anxiety about tying themselves too closely to a Donald Trump where it seems to be the legal walls seem to be moving in on him?”

Yesterday, a group of Ottawa residents won a private class action lawsuit to freeze at least 146 cryptocurrency wallets and bank assets tied to the main organizers of Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” in a bid to stanch funding for the ongoing demonstrations. Known as a Mareva injunction, the lawsuit was filed by Ottawa residents Zexi Li, Geoffrey Devaney, and the Happy Goat Coffee business against key convoy organizers including Chris Barber, Benjamin Dichter, Tamara Lich, and Nicholas St. Louis. The hearing was held in private without public notice or access, lawyer Paul Champ who represents the residents bringing the suit, told...

The President of the Republic spoke by telephone with the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, on Sunday, 20 February. They agreed on the following points: - the resumption of work within the framework of the Normandy format on the basis of the exchanges and proposals made by Ukraine in recent days. - intensive work to enable a meeting of the trilateral contact group to be held in the coming hours with the aim of obtaining a ceasefire commitment from all stakeholders on the line of contact. - the need to give priority to a diplomatic solution to...

A Pennsylvania man accused of shooting an Uber driver and dumping her body in a wooded area was ordered held without bail on Friday pending a preliminary hearing later this month. Christine Spicuzza’s dash cam video shows Calvin Crew pulling a gun on her 10 minutes into the ride and ignoring her pleas for her life before grabbing the dash cam and shutting it off, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. Investigators found the body of the 38-year-old mother of four, almost 24 hours after she picked up Crew, 22, to drive him from Pitcairn to Penn Hills. SNIP Spicuzza reached...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is an idiot. He’s a weak man spawned from two powerful families (the Trudeaus and the Castros) who is in power based solely on his status as puppet to the globalist elites in the World Economic Forum. He hates his own people and will persecute them for the sake of holding onto as much control as possible.The problem is, all of that was true BEFORE the Freedom Convoy challenged his authority and put medical tyranny on notice. Trudeau is not suited for dealing with conflict like this. He’s better at kneeling with BLM to make...

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms. Now some districts are finding their broader efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion are also being challenged. As her Colorado school district’s equity director, Alexis Knox-Miller thought the work she and a volunteer team were doing was on solid ground, especially with an audit in hand that detailed where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities. But in December, Knox-Miller reluctantly disbanded the equity leadership team after more than a year of meetings. New conservative...