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BERLIN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Germany on Tuesday halted the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline project, designed to double the flow of Russian gas direct to Germany, after Russia formally recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Europe's most divisive energy project, worth $11 billion, was finished in September, but has stood idle pending certification by Germany and the European Union. The pipeline had been set to ease the pressure on European consumers facing record energy prices amid a wider post-pandemic cost of living crisis, and on governments that have already forked out billions to try to cushion...

IN CAMP NEAR FORT DONELSON, SATURDAY, Feb. 15, 1862. It was determined by Gen. GRANT to make the attack upon Fort Donelson from two directions -- by land from the direction of Fort Henry, and by water up the Cumberland, assisted by an adequate column of troops on the banks, Tuesday night, the Fifty-seventh Illinois, Col. BALDWIN, arrived at Fort Henry, on the steamer Minnehaha. Gen. GRANT directed Col. BALDWIN to return immediately down the river, stop all transports with troops, proceed down the Tennessee and up the Cumberland, keeping in the rear of gunboats, which would be found ready...

Shame on Fox!” Lindell said during a Lindell Report broadcast. “They’ve done more damage to this country than all the bad media combined because we expected them to speak out! Just at least talk about the, at least be a journalist! Like being a Weather Channel… and you can’t report tornadoes or hurricanes Lindell also blasted the network for pushing vaccines. “Fox is in on it!” Lindell shouted. “They are criminals to our country! Period! Yes, I hope the Murdochs are watching!” The CEO has been an outspoken critic of vaccines and has faced tremendous censorship for questioning the integrity...

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Jane Timken on Tuesday received three Senate endorsements that followed retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) picking her as his desired successor last week. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) all backed Timken, citing what they said were her conservative credentials in a statement first seen by The Hill. “As a fellow Midwesterner, Jane understands the challenges our farmers and small businesses face, and I look forward to working alongside another powerful mom and female in the U.S. Senate," Ernst said.

On Monday Kyle Rittenhouse explained his new project and defamation lawsuits in the works against Whoopi Goldberg, Cenk Uygur, and other targets. Kyle Rittenhouse hinted that he may take action against the many leftwing politicians and operatives who smeared him as a murderer. The list included Joe Biden who called him a white supremacist in a campaign ad.

Trudeau Style Tyranny Is Already Here As freedom-lovers justifiably recoil at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s crackdown, Americans worry it could happen here. They’re too late. It already has.In a recent court motion, Joe Biden’s Justice Department changed the official name of its investigation into the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Originally designated the “Capitol breach” probe, the department just replaced “breach” with a more sinister word: siege.“The ‘Capitol Siege’ refers to the events of January 6, 2021, when thousands of individuals entered the U.S. Capitol and U.S. Capitol grounds without authority, halting the Joint Session and...

"Christianity is not reconciliation with death. It is the revelation of death, and it reveals death because it is the revelation of Life. Christ is this Life. And only if Christ is Life is death what Christianity proclaims it to be, namely the enemy to be destroyed, and not a “mystery” to be explained. Religion and secularism, by explaining death, give it a “status,” a rationale, make it “normal.” Only Christianity proclaims it to be abnormal and, therefore, truly horrible. At the grave of Lazarus Christ wept, and when His own hour to die approached, “he began to be sore...

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Seeing the magnitude of corruption Democrats at the highest levels of government have demonstrated over the past year, many Americans have thought, "God help us." Perhaps He is. A lot of Americans have been praying God will purge our nation of the duplicity and fraud selected Democrats so blithely perform. The process may be starting. What could be one of the most egregious examples of corruption at the highest levels is being exposed by an investigation conducted by Special Counsel John Durham. To date, the investigation alleges Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid to have computers at the White House...

Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future. "Inevitable!" predicted some pundits, for demography is destiny. Moreover, in 2020, Democrats, who had won the popular vote six times in seven presidential elections, swept the popular vote again, by 6 million ballots. And they captured both houses of Congress. The future did seem to be theirs. Progressives dominated the major culture-forming institutions of society -- academia, the media, Hollywood -- not to mention the vast bureaucracy of America's national administrative state. Their core constituencies -- women, the young, Blacks, Hispanics -- were growing as a share of the...

Canadian Liberal MP Ya'ara Saks said that "Honk Honk" is code for "Heil Hitler" while testifying in parliament on Monday in defense of Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on Canadian freedom protesters. ---snip--- "Let's start with a classic and a new variant: 88 and "HH" phrases like "honk honk." They mean "heil hitler." H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, thus 88. "Honk honk" is associated with the honkler and is often used "ironically" by alt-right trolls."

For the last couple of decades, the “Nobel Prize” for anything was almost always awarded to someone from the left or the far-left. Like the former highly distinguished “Pulitzer Prize,” it had devolved into an ideological trophy given to entrenched liberal elites from entrenched liberal elites.But then came 2009 when the Nobel Committee completely jumped the shark and made the once venerable award a laughing stock to many around the world. That was the year they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to newly elected President Barack 0bama for literally doing nothing.In trying to justify their clearly embarrassing decision, the committee...

Small planes are dropping like...athletes. https://www.brighteon.com/7d8609c6-2271-4abf-88a4-c801befdb4e1

MADRID (AP) — Surging energy prices and fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security — particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. The crisis shows Europe’s vulnerability after years of limited progress in completing an “energy union” — a 2015 vision to allow affordable gas and electricity to flow across borders while diversifying suppliers and reaching climate goals. As renewables like solar and wind are slowly built up and coal and other fossil fuels are phased out, Europe still needs natural gas, and it’s dependent on Russia to get...

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This November the world will witness the dawning of a conservative dynasty that will span a century. The Republican Party -- the Party of Lincoln, Reagan and Trump – in 2022 will win 100 seats for 100 years. After half a decade of unhinged corruption, intimidation tactics and media manipulation from the left, their house of cards is falling apart. And despite the DNC’s best attempts at redrawing maps to further gerrymander the districts in their favor, massive voter turnout for the GOP in 2021, a non-presidential election year demonstrates more than just a resurgence of conservative support. It shows...

Tuesday 22 February 2022 Saint Peter's Chair Feast The Chair of Saint Peter St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First reading1 Peter 5:1-4 ©Watch over the flock, not simply as a duty but gladlyNow I have something to tell your elders: I am an elder myself, and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and with you I have a share in the glory that is to be revealed. Be the shepherds of the flock of God that is entrusted to you: watch over it, not simply as a duty but gladly, because God wants it; not...

I tried Truth Social, registration bombed can't log in it's severely broke. Anybody else have any better experience?

A question for all you current and former military folks: I have young relative recently accepted to medical school. He is exploring joining the national guard, both to help pay for medical school and because he is also very service oriented - however he (and I) are actually unclear what the legal 'gotchas' are - the recruiter he has spoken to have all made it sound quite simple - a weekend a month, couple of weeks in the summer, and possibly being activated for some national emergency for a short time (i.e. Katrina type situation) - and with that commitment...

Dr. Chetty is a medical practitioner in South Africa who has a background in genetics, advanced biology, microbiology and biochemistry. And so, “I investigate everything, and I make sure that I fall back on the knowledge I’ve gained in those years of tertiary education and don’t really believe things too easily … with the controversy around hydroxychloroquine, with the PCR test being used as a diagnostic tool, with the word that there is asymptomatic spread, I had a very healthy suspicion for what I was being told. So, with the knowledge that I had, I decided that I’m going to...