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A more infectious type of the Omicron variant has surged to account for more than a third of global Covid-19 cases sequenced recently, adding to the debate about whether countries are ready for full reopening. Health authorities are examining whether the subvariant of Omicron, known as BA.2, could extend the length of Covid-19 waves that have peaked recently in Europe, Japan and some other places. “We’re looking not only at how quickly those peaks go up, but how they come down,” World Health Organization epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said. “And as the decline in cases occurs…we also need to look...

Donald Trump Jr. exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday he holds Chris Christie responsible for leading a “totally pathetic” redistricting effort as the co-chair of the National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT). “As co-chair of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, Chris Christie was tasked with overseeing the redistricting process for the Republican Party and has been a complete failure in the role,” Donald Trump Jr. told Breitbart News about the GOP’s overall performance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf Hitler's rationale for invading and annexing Sudetenland in 1938 and his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland a year later. Then, as now, the excuse was that German-speaking people (then) and Russian-speaking people (now) wanted to be part of Germany (then) and Mother Russia (now). In both cases the excuses for invasion, occupation and murder were just that - excuses. Some commentators say there has been nothing like Putin's invasion of Ukraine since World War II. There are dwindling numbers of people alive...

NASCAR Daytona 500 ratings not only came in at a three-year high, but they also beat the NBA’s vaunted All-Star Game and the Olympics closing ceremonies for the number of viewers. Sunday’s NASCAR Daytona 500 netted a 4.7 average rating with 8.87 million viewers on FOX, making it the most-watched Daytona 500 since 2019 (5.3, 9.17M), according to Sports Media Watch. “Ratings jumped 68% and viewership 81% from last year’s all-time lows of 2.8 and 4.91 million and 7% and 21% respectively from two years ago (4.4, 7.33M). Keep in mind both of those races were severely affected by rain,...

The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas leases and permits after a Louisiana federal judge blocked officials from using higher cost estimates of climate change when making rules for polluting industries.The leasing pause is an unintended result of the Feb. 11 decision by U.S. District Judge James Cain, who sided with a group GOP-led states and argued that the Biden administration’s attempt to raise the real cost of climate change would hike energy costs and hurt state revenues from energy production.The ruling has prompted delays and uncertainty across at least four federal agencies that were using...

Ahead of a likely Russian invasion of Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki spent Wednesday afternoon under fire from establishment media reporters and, of course, Fox’s Peter Doocy over the administration’s flip-flop on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the failure to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the impact the war could have on the U.S. economy. Price went first and, from the get-go, the always-tough and persistent Matt Lee of the Associated Press went right to the news that Germany had suspended Nord Stream 2 from Russia and the U.S. would sanction...

Few things in life give us greater pleasure than quenching our hunger with some freshly made fast food. But whether it's a bag of hot, crispy fries, a juicy burger, or a giant slushy, more often than not, you're signing up to indulge. And you can assume that the better something tastes, the more nutritionally devastating secrets it holds. "These four things are contributors to heart disease when consumed in excess," Goodson explained. "And typically when foods are extremely high in these categories, they are likely low in fiber and other nutrients. A good rule of thumb is that if...

9 PLA aircraft (Y-8 RECCE and J-16*8) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on February 24, 2022. Please check our official website for more information: https://t.co/Uz6XjMcLc8 pic.twitter.com/W4OIgYQ7HS — 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) February 24, 2022 Taiwan’s defense minister confirms 9 Chinese military have entered Taiwan’s air defense zone. Taiwan’s MoD claims 9 Chinese military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone pic.twitter.com/ShLtpcWNUI — RT (@RT_com) February 24, 2022 #BREAKING: Taiwan Ministry of National Defense says that 9 Chinese PLA aircraft (Y-8 RECCE and J-16*8) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on February 24, 2022. (China has repeatedly intruded into Taiwanese...

In the popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the fictional authoritarian government begins its reign of terror by cutting off women's access to money and to the financial system generally. Monday night, Canada’s House of Commons voted to extend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s self-declared emergency powers and endorsed the use of such power in real life. The entirety of its government is now complicit in the demise of Canadian freedom. Beginning February 14, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) to suppress protests by Canadian...

More than 150 senior Russian officials have signed an open letter condemning Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an unprecedented atrocity' and warning of 'catastrophic consequences'. The deputies said they were 'convinced' Russian citizens do not back the war and blamed Putin 'personally' for ordering troops into Ukraine in an attack 'for which there is no and cannot be justification'. Putin in the early hours of today gave the order to attack, delivering an extraordinary address to the Russian nation in which he declared a 'special military operation' to 'de-militarise' and 'de-Nazify' Ukraine in what amounted to a outright declaration...

Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that the Russian war on Ukraine is the most severe threat to European security since World War II as Russian President Vladimir Putin lurches Europe, and the world, toward another Cold War. Russia’s attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II. I join the international community in condemning Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," Bush said. "The American government and people must stand in solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people as they seek freedom and the right to choose their own future."

Video has emerged of Donald Trump again praising Vladimir Putin—just as the Russian president was launching his invasion of Ukraine. The clip, obtained by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, shows Trump calling Putin "very smart" for the steps he had taken in the days before the large-scale military attack on Russia's neighbor. The footage was filmed during a fundraiser at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which took place on Wednesday evening. At the event, Trump defended his previous praise of Putin for recognizing two self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine and sending Russian troops to the...

STUDIES, THE RAPTURE, DISPENSATIONS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022 Is the Day of the Lord a Fairy Tale? Is the Day of the Lord at hand? Tragically, many say that it is not; for many are unregenerate, blinded by the god of this world, and know not His RIGHTEOUS Word (Prov. 1:25-31, 2 Cor. 4:2-4, 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3). All things today are moving EXPONENTIALLY toward this Day, yet it is a total fairy tale to billions! Dear friends, it will be at the end of the church age at the Rapture that the global EXPONENTIAL ACCUNMINATED lawlessness of man will...

The escalating and internationally illegal situation between Ukraine and Russia has revealed a number of concerns and issues to the world. As it stands currently, Russian forces nearly surround the country on three sides, and numbers of troops have recently violated Ukraine’s sovereign territory, moving to liberate (actually, annex) supposedly “Russian leaning” regions. Russian troops have been conducting joint military exercises with Belarus, seen by many as a precursor for a full-scale invasion. And despite the talk about negotiations and diplomacy, the situation wasn’t de-escalated, but really delayed to correspond with the end of the Olympics in Beijing – no...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is designed to decapitate Ukraine's government and one of the three main axes of assault is directed at the capital Kyiv, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday."It is our assessment that they have every intention of basically decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance, which would explain these early moves," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, warned Wednesday that Russia’s war against Ukraine is going to distract the world from the climate change crisis and produce "massive emissions" that will negatively impact the globe. "I'm concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk, in terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force," Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview on BBC Arabic, MEMRI reported Wednesday. "I thought we lived in a world that had said no to that kind...

On Wednesday, speaking after an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war he had unleashed on Ukraine, pleading: In the name of humanity, do not allow to start in Europe what could be the worst war since the beginning of the century, with consequences not only devastating for Ukraine, not only tragic for the Russian Federation, but with an impact we cannot even foresee in relation to their consequence for the global economy in the moment when we are emerging from COVID-19. Guterres added, “This...

The fog of war is now descending on Ukraine. Things are now likely to move *very* fast, but at time of writing: the leaders of the two breakaway Russian republics had sent official requests to Moscow for military aid against “Ukrainian aggression”; the city of Kiev had declared a state of emergency; the country was again experiencing major cyberattacks; the Russian military had closed all civilian Ukrainian airspace along the country’s eastern border –until 18 May– warning it “may experience a high incidence of aircraft collision with missiles”; European airlines are being told Ukraine as a whole is now a...

Saddle us with a demented old fool as president and a passel of idiots and fools as backup. The incompetent Biden should be impeached and removed immediately before the entire world goes up in flames. But his VP is no better and the 3rd in line is dingbat Pelosi. Biden and his woke/leftist democrats have (in the name of glowbull warming, 'equity', and 'wokeness') intentionally destroyed our energy independence, wrecked our economy, softened our military, weakened our national security and have openly invited Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, et al, over to eat our lunch. This is tantamount to high...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s donors were rewarded with over $33 million in city contracts during his eight years as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, according to a Daily Mail report. There were 23 companies that donated to Buttigieg’s mayoral political action committee who were later awarded millions in city contracts. Between the companies, their executives, and spouses, $253,750 were donated, resulting in at least $33,280,426 worth of contracts between 2011 and 2019.