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“It's the same old situation with the Americans,” Dmitry, a 49-year old Muscovite smoking a cigarette outside a metro station, told The Moscow Times with a laugh. “Nothing will happen, and then they’ll go around saying they beat everyone.” As the West has repeatedly sounded the war alarm, the Kremlin has insisted it has no such plans. Instead, Moscow accuses the U.S. and NATO of threatening its security by expanding into eastern European countries like Ukraine, which it sees as being within its sphere of influence — and is demanding binding security guarantees. Civilians in the Russian capital were inclined...

BOSTON, MA—Dozens of swimmers are dead and thousands of viewers have been traumatized as a Great White Shark named Tia was allowed to compete in the women's 500-yard freestyle event at the Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships Friday. "Wow, this brave swimmer is really making a splash here," said one commentator as the starting buzzer went off and the shark immediately thrashed through the pool, eating swimmers screaming for their lives. "Look at that form! It's like she was biologically designed for this kind of thing." Tia continued to dominate heat after heating, wowing spectators with her speed, form,...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/20/exclusive-poll-loren-culp-leads-anti-trump-impeachment-backer-dan-newhouse-in-washington-state/ Culp leading Newhouse (Traitor-Washington 4th District) 38-31. Primary August 2nd. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/polling-shows-kent-hageman-collins-sabatini-and-allen-leading-the-emerging-national-narrative-beutler-cheney-and-price-in-serious-trouble-301439004.html Kent leading Beuhler (Traitor-Washington 3rd District) 41-29. Primary August 2nd. Hageman leading Cheney (Traitor-Wyoming) 39-19. Primary August 16th. Field-at-large leading Rice (Traitor-South Carolina 7th District) 80-20. Allen is leading the challengers with 19%. Primary June 14th. Carra vs Upton (Traitor-Michigan 4th District). No polls yet as redistricting places Carra in the 5th District but candidates may run outside of their home area. Upton may also be fired and join the shamed list instead of facing accountability. Primary August 2nd. Gibbs vs Meijer (Traitor-Michigan 3rd District). No polls yet....

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Sunday to hold three-way talks with Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe amid repeated US warnings Russia plans to invade its eastern neighbor, according to reports.The meeting, to be held Monday, was scheduled during a phone call between Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.Macron’s office called the talks “the last possible and necessary efforts to avoid a major conflict in Ukraine” and said both leaders agreed on “the need to favor a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis and to do everything to achieve one,” according to AFP.But the French and...

Data obtained in respiratory patients, mainly lean, are indicative of the safety of low-carbohydrate high-fat diets in respiratory compromised patients, and some beneficial effects on respiratory parameters were recorded. Keto Diet administration may be helpful for obese patients with chronic hypercapnia, thanks to the reduced CO2 production induced by the diet. Many respiratory patients are malnourished, and obese patients themselves are frequently sarcopenic, therefore an adequate protein supplementation is mandatory, since malnutrition may worsen the general prognosis. Many supplements for malnourished patients are rich in carbohydrates, and this is detrimental for their respiratory function,.... Keto Diet has anti-inflammatory effects and...

Recent statements by Santa Fe’s Democrat D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies seems to point to good news for Alec Baldwin in the Rust shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October. According to Vanity Fair, D.A. Carmack-Altwies seems open to accepting Baldwin’s claim that he didn’t pull the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza. In a December 2 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin claimed he didn’t actually fire the gun he was given and that it seemed to go off by itself. “I didn’t pull the trigger,” Alec Baldwin told Stephanopoulos. “I would...

A video has surfaced online in which warmongers John McCain and “Lindsey Graham are caught meeting with the Ukraine military, encouraging them to launch an offensive against Russia and restart hostilities, all the while describing Russia as the “aggressor” that must “pay a heavier price.” Graham says 2017 is the year of Offense for Ukraine. “Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. Enough of a Russian aggression. It is time for them to pay a heavier price.”

Attorney and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said that former President Donald Trump is potentially facing a "five-year felony" over allegations that he took classified national security documents from the White House when he left office last year. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) confirmed in a Friday letter to the House Oversight Committee that some 15 boxes Trump returned last month after being requested to do so, contained classified national security documents. "NARA has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes," archivist David Ferriero wrote. Previously, The New York Times reported that classified...

An FBI report obtained by Newsweek has called on the U.S. private sector to be prepared for potential state-sponsored cyber attacks to be launched by Russia as tensions over Ukraine threaten to spill into an all-out conflict in Eastern Europe. The Liason Information Report (LIR) was dated February 20 and attributed to the FBI Office of Private Sector. "The FBI Cyber Division, in coordination with the FBI's Office of Private Sector (OPS), prepared this LIR to inform the private sector about the threat of Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber activities, while tensions with Russia are heightened," the report...

We live in a society of lies. Our democracy is no longer a democracy, schools are no longer centers of education, the media no longer inform but spout propaganda, health care no longer focuses on curing people but on injecting them with experimental vaccines. Our governments do not protect us but have only one goal: to frighten us into submission so that they can obliterate free markets, individual liberty, and free will. When I became a member of the Dutch Parliament in 2017 for the Conservative Forum for Democracy, I was optimistic about the future. Until 2019, it looked as...

Like many, I have spent the last couple of weeks a bit entranced by the trucker protests happening in Canada (and now around the world, from Paris to Wellington). I initially tried to document here every twist and turn of the Freedom Convoy drama, but found it nearly impossible. Events continue to unfold very quickly. As I write this, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just invoked the Emergencies Act (i.e. martial law), allowing him to suspend civil liberties and basically do whatever he wants (more on that later) to crush the protests. So they may soon be quelled. Or...

It’s another day ending in ‘Y,” which means that transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas must have broken another Ivy League women’s swimming record, and that is exactly what happened. On Saturday, yet another female athlete who dedicated her life to her sport was unceremoniously erased from the record books as Lia Thomas, a man identifying as a woman, took first in the 100m race. That victory, his third of the meet, along with wins in the 200m and 500m, made for three first-place finishes. All that winning made Thomas the High-Point Swimmer of the Meet by attaining the maximum 96...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An I-Team investigation finds some of the weapons taken off the streets during Chicago Police Department firearm turn-in events are very old, rusty and damaged. Others are fakes. But, those trying to stop Chicago violence insist every gun removed from circulation makes the city safer.(snip) CPD hands out $100 gift cards for firearms and $10 gift cards for replicas ditched at these events. According to turn-in records obtained by the I-Team, in 2021 CPD held four official gun turn-in events. They gave out 475 $100 gift cards for collected firearms and 116 $10 cards for replicas, totaling...

<p>An image and multiple videos of a Lockheed Martin F-35C stealth fighter jet that crashed-landed on an aircraft carrier transiting an undisclosed location in the South China Sea were leaked onto the internet in early February. After an investigation, the US Navy charged a handful of sailors for leaking internal video footage of the incident.</p>

The elderly woman who was reportedly injured when police on horseback rode through a crowd of Freedom Convoy protesters Friday evening has been identified as Candice "Candy" Sero. She is reportedly a full-blood Mohawk woman who lives in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Hastings County, Ontario. Sero reportedly suffered a broken clavicle from the trampling.

Sunday Mass Gospel Homily digging into The Semon on the Plain. Hard sayings for sure. 14 min. YouTube videoGive as God Gives

"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" is a song written by David Ellingson and Kim Carnes and recorded by Kenny Rogers and Carnes as a duet. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from Rogers' album Gideon. Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes - "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" (1980, live)

Explanation: Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. Colorful auroras erupted unexpectedly a few years ago, with green aurora appearing near the horizon and brilliant bands of red aurora blooming high overhead. A bright Moon lit the foreground of this picturesque scene, while familiar stars could be seen far in the distance. With planning, the careful astrophotographer shot this image mosaic in the field of White Dome Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in the western USA. Sure enough, just after midnight, White Dome erupted -- spraying a stream of water and vapor many meters into the air. Geyser water is heated...

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A study finds that suspects in violent crime in the District share a lot of characteristics. The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform looked at the numbers for homicides and nonfatal shooting in D.C. in 2019 and 2020, and found that “most gun violence is tightly concentrated on a small number of very high-risk young Black male adults that share a common set of risk factors.” Those factors include involvements in street crews, a previous criminal justice history and connection to a recent shooting. Often, they’ve been the victims of crime themselves. While the motive for the shooting “may not...