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For Putin to declare that Ukraine has no political or cultural existence is particularly disingenuous because at one time, Kievan Rus, in what is now Ukraine, was the dominant, mature political entity, when the infant Muscovy was still largely in the shadow of the great Khanate Hordes, which exerted a strong element of eastern tyrannical political expectations that cultures to the west never experienced, like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Russia has been making similar assertions of the non-entity of less powerful nations for centuries, Poland, Finland and other nations which had to assert themselves culturally, to establish their own languages, arts,...

People with a history of allergic-like reactions to iodinated contrast media, which is used in a variety of X-ray-based procedures, such as CT and angiography, are susceptible to similar reactions from commonly used MRI contrast agents. The study also found that premedication or switching to a different MRI contrast agent may reduce risk in patients who have had previous contrast agent reactions. Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) have long been used to improve visualization of organs, tissues and blood vessels on MRI and provide a more accurate depiction of disease. Although GBCA are relatively safe, recent studies have reported several adverse...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — Police believe a woman deliberately ran over four people at a market in Stuart. Stuart police arrested Beatrice Bijoux on four counts of attempted murder on Tuesday. Officials said Bijoux ran over four people and drove away. Lt. Richard Shine and another officer eventually located her and arrested on S.E. Palm Beach Road. "He [Sgt. Reddick] went to get out of his car to exit to make contact with the driver. At that point, the driver took off. I was still in my car. I saw the female driver make a U-Turn. We both got behind...

The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into the Trump Organization abruptly resigned on Wednesday, The New York Times reported.The resignations from the two prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, reportedly came after the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, expressed doubts about moving forward with a case against former President Donald Trump.

“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest,” the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, “that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.” Except the journalism that the Pulitzers honored — a 2018 National Reporting prize shared by the Washington Post and the New York Times for reporting on Russiagate — did no such thing. It led to a dramatic misunderstanding, suggesting that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to help sway the 2016 election —...

Mariposa Castro, also known as Imelda Acosta, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton. She also received a $5,000 fine from the judge, who said the January 6 attack had "totally undermined" the peaceful transfer of presidential power, NBC News reported. Throughout the day, Castro posted videos on her Facebook account showing the riot from inside the building and outside on restricted grounds. One video shows her climbing through a broken window, using the platform located at the lower west terrace of the Capitol, according to court records. As she was entering the Capitol, she could be heard...

Acrack widens in the San Rafael glacier in Chile's extreme south, and a ten-storey iceberg crashes into the lake by the same name -- a dramatic reminder of the impacts of global warming. In the lake San Rafael, about 100 icebergs float today, pieces broken off from the glacier that 150 years ago stretched out over two-thirds of the body of water now free of ice cover. The San Rafael glacier is one of 39 in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (3,500 square kilometers or 1,350 square miles), which with the Southern Patagonian Ice Field (11,000 km2) in Chile's Aysen...

So far western media has been relatively silent on what the escalating Ukraine crisis means for western consumers when it comes to prices for everyday commodities such as oil, gas, wheat, corn (and gold, for the goldbugs), and with good reason: as the Russian ambassador warned, “ordinary Americans” are about to feel the pain. As such it is understandable that the pro-Biden media is hoping to avoid discussing the consequences to America’s checkbook from the escalation in Ukraine: after all, the last thing hundreds of millions of Americans want to hear is that already sky high prices are about to...

China and New Zealand this week completed the ratification of their upgraded free-trade agreement, which will come into force in April. Although the deal was a long time in the works, it expands the number of tariff-free goods New Zealand is able to export into China, securing what is its largest market and a key source of income for its farmers. The agreement comes despite the growing tensions between Beijing, the United States and its allies, with Washington seeking to put the brakes on China’s expanding economic ties with its allies, in a view towards strategic containment. This has led...

Listen to this article 0:00 / 1:51 1X BeyondWords President Biden's foreign affairs approval rating among American adults has plummeted to a new low, a recent Gallup poll shows. As Biden’s second year in office marches forward, a Gallup poll out this week puts him far below water in the area of foreign policy, with only 40% of Americans approving of his job. The president’s marks on foreign affairs are a point below his 41% overall approval rating, according to the new poll.

Rumble Video Link here: https://rumble.com/vvjid8-dr.-robert-malone-and-dr.-ryan-cole-cdc-committing-scientific-fraud.html GIG HARBOR, Washington – Urging CDC scientists to speak out, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Ryan Cole reacted Monday to the news reported by the New York Times that agency officials admit they have withheld COVID data broken down by age, race and vaccination status because the American people might misinterpret it. “This meets the criteria of scientific fraud,” said Malone, the key inventor of the mRNA technology platform used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. “Withholding data is scientific fraud.” Cole, a Mayo Clinic-trained pathologist who runs a major diagnostic lab in Idaho, said...

l Craig Roberts (PCR), former Assistant Treasury Secretary and international award-winning journalist, says the problems in Ukraine have been boiling for 8 years. Millions of Russian people were supposed to be protected in Eastern Ukraine under the so-called Minsk Agreement. It was supposed to stop the fighting, but the fighting never stopped. Now, Russia has recognized the breakaway regions and has a deal to protect the Russian people there. PCR explains, “Putin said we have to give them some kind of semi-autonomy. Let them have their own police in that area so they won’t be persecuted by the Ukrainian majority....

Whoops! How embarrassing! The CDC gave you bad advice. If you want to survive COVID, you should use the drug they said to avoid, and avoid the drug they said to use.Steve Kirsch15 hr ago Remember that “horse dewormer” that the FDA, CDC, NIH, CNN, and Sanjay Gupta all told you not to use? A new paper recently published in the Journal of the AMA (JAMA) shows that Ivermectin works way better than the COVID vaccine in keeping you from dying from COVID.This was an open-label randomized trial done in Malaysia with around 250 patients in each arm. One arm...

OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau has faced heavy criticism this week after allowing a strain of Freedom to spread through the Great White North. The Canadian Prime Minister addressed the nation on Tuesday to calm the fears of his adoring constituents, informing them he needed just two weeks to slow the spread of "world-annihilating freedom." "We have survived COVID-19 thanks to my leadership," said Trudeau in a prepared statement. "Now, I'm calling on all Canadians to hang in there a little longer as we face this new threat of Canadians thinking they should be allowed to have liberty. I just need two weeks...

"The numbers that resulted from our analysis are very far away from the publicly announced numbers. It would be unethical not to talk about it" -- BKK board member Andreas Schöfbeck.Steve Kirsch28 min ago This just in…Disclose.tv @disclosetvJUST IN - Large German health insurance company analyzed data from 10.9 million insured individuals regarding vaccination complications. The new data is "alarming," says BKK board member Schöfbeck in a report by WELT.Coronavirus: Mehr Impf-Nebenwirkungen als bisher bekannt - WELTEine Analyse von Millionen Versichertendaten der Betriebskrankenkassen BKK kommt bei den Nebenwirkungen auf erheblich höhere Zahlen als das Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. Die neuen Daten seien ein...

Supposed to start at 2:30pm, I think they like making the media wait an hour because of their nasty questions

Andy Parker has tried seemingly everything to get videos of his daughter Alison Parker's murder wiped off social media platforms, where they spread after she was fatally shot while taping a live local news segment in 2015. He has enlisted allies to find and report the clips to Facebook and YouTube, filed complaints with federal regulators against the companies and recently launched a congressional campaign focused in part on holding social media platforms accountable. Yet despite those efforts, copies of the footage remain online, some with tens of thousands of views. Over the years, Andy Parker has run into a...

A 4-month-old girl has been left orphaned after five people, including her parents, died inside a Colorado apartment following a drug-fueled party, according to reports. Aria Marquez was discovered Sunday inside the unit at the North Range Crossings Apartments on East 104th Avenue in Commerce City, the Denver Channel reported. Three of the dead victims have been identified as Aria’s mother, Karina Rodriguez, 28, her husband, Sam Marquez, 24, and Humberto Arroyo, according to the US Sun.

In the coal fields of eastern Montana, climate change is forcing a stark choice: halt mining that helped build everything from schools to senior centers or risk astronomical future damage as fossil fuel emissions warm the planet and increase disasters, crop losses and premature deaths. The White House had been preparing to update its climate damage price tag in coming weeks. Many economists expected the figure to increase dramatically and even double. Republicans and business groups argued the emphasis on future climate damages would hobble the economy, particularly the energy industry. The Obama administration first adopted the social cost of...

Over recent days new markings have appeared on Russian vehicles placed close to the Ukrainian border. An expert has said the painted signs are normally used to communicate where military units are headed in battle and are usually only put on equipment shortly before combat... 'Z' symbol This type of symbol has appeared on a host of vehicles near the city of Belgorod in Russia, less than 20 miles from the Ukrainian border... It is feared Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people, could be targeted if Russia launches a fuller invasion... In another video posted on 22 February a...