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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it is obvious Russian President Vladimir Putin has goals beyond Ukraine and may have other countries in his sights. "When President Biden addressed the nation today, he said that Putin wants a new Soviet Union. Is there intelligence to suggest that President Putin will advance beyond Ukraine?" "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell asked Blinken in an interview on Thursday. "You don't need intelligence to tell you that that's exactly what President Putin wants," the top U.S. diplomat said. "He's made clear that he'd like to reconstitute the Soviet empire. Short...

Ukraine's Defense Ministry said early Friday that since Russian invaded the country Thursday morning, Ukrainian forces have inflicted about 800 casualties on Russian forces, destroyed more than 30 Russian tanks, seven Russian aircraft, and six helicopters, CNN reports, noting that it is "not able to independently verify Ukraine's figures." ...

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Call Russian President Vladimir Putin a dictator. Call him an autocrat. Call him a totalitarian. Call him whatever you want, but make sure you understand he is serious. He also knows the West is not. He has brought war to the West's doorstep. On Dec. 5, 1989, Putin was running a KGB office for the Soviet Union in Dresden, Germany. The Berlin Wall had fallen, and East German mobs were ransacking Stasi headquarters. They came for the KGB in Dresden. Putin called out to the approaching mob that he and his men would open fire. The mob held off. Putin...

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, is blasting President Joe Biden for choosing D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Fellow South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is also expressing disappointment. Meanwhile Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted against her confirmation to her current position on the D.C. Circuit, is also weighing in. "I congratulate Judge Jackson on her nomination. I look forward to meeting with her in person and studying her record, legal views, and judicial philosophy," McConnell released in a statement Friday. "Senate Republicans believe the...

In thie article, James Akin explains the signs that will precede the end of the world and debunks many of the theories that attempt to predict its timing. While many of these prophetic events already occurred early in the Church's history, they are most likely "prophetic archetypes" - patterns that will recur throughout history. According to Scripture, the signs that the end of the world is near include a devastating persecution of the Church, the conversion of the Jewish people, a massive apostacy of Christians, and the appearance of an Antichrist who will demand that people worship him. James Akin...

German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser says children in kindergarten should be taught about the dangers of right-wing extremism, but she didn’t mention left-wing extremism or Islam.“We have to smash right-wing extremist networks,” Faeser told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. “The state of law must not accept calls for murder and threats.” The minister went on to assert that children as young as three years old should be socially engineered to be averse to right-wing radicalism. “We are resolutely combating this breeding ground for violence, but the fight against right-wing extremism starts much earlier, namely with good educational...

RUMBLE VIDEO Cutting edge and amazing insight of our last year here in America and Marxism's and World Forum's Tryrannical global aspirations! Jan Markell talks with Curtis Bowers for the hour. When the world lacks a leader, chaos reigns on earth. Current instability is a preview of things to come in the Tribulation. Authoritarianism is rising. Today’s tyrants are leading to the ultimate tyrant who will reign only seven years. Maranatha!

It’s important to remember that “dear Iosif Vissarionovich” was among those who carried out the anti-Church repressions. As priest Job (Gumerov) noted commenting on the legend of Stalin ordering an icon to be flown over Moscow, “Any attempt to present the cruel persecutor as a faithful Christian is dangerous and can cause only harm.” Indeed, Stalin wasn’t Christian, so why did he change his policy towards Orthodoxy? Stalin, a cynical and clever leader, didn’t experience any epiphany but simply knew that taking it easy on the Orthodox Church was important for winning the war. First, many Soviet citizens remained secretly...

Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are tempted as never before to attack and conquer Taiwan. CCP has declared “one China” its national aim since 1949. Based on their public comments and recent jingoistic actions toward Taiwan and intrusions into Taiwan’s airspace, Jinping and the CCP appear to increasingly view the present as an opportune time to strike. The blame for that perception lays squarely on resident Biden. To the CCP’s undoubted amazement and delight, Biden has succeeded in doing great harm to his own country, rendering it weakened. He has destroyed American energy independence (enriching Russia in...

Attention rural Coloradans who for generations have felt trod upon or taken for granted, abused or just ignored by your state leaders on the civilized Front Range: Shut up and sit down, you’re just imagining things. So believes Gov. Polis, who is up for reelection and dishing out profoundly idiotic gibberish that we are not all of Colorado without all of Colorado. ... PeakNation™ will remember former state Rep. Cole Wist of Centennial who was a Democrat before he switched to the Republican Party to get elected years ago, then switched to independent after leaving office, and now seems to...

The United Nations is a completely corrupt organization that gives cover to tyrants and pedophiles, and that has made destroying Israel its primary focus. On Wednesday, even as Russian troops were massed on Ukraine's border, the U.N. Security Council found time to hold a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Just to show how farcical the United Nations is, despite Russia being poised to attack Ukraine, the U.N. Security Council nevertheless followed its usual leadership rotation, making Vladimir Putin the Security Council chairman. Thus, Russia helmed the meeting regarding the U.N.'s obsession: Israel.The meeting occurred just a few hours after Israel announced...

Plans to sell artwork created for a pair of classic Queen albums were thwarted when one was thrown away. Art director David Costa wanted to sell the original artworks he created for the 1975 vinyl album A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races from 1976. However, only A Day At The Races can be sold because Mr Costa believes he threw away the cover for the earlier record while clearing his studio. The artwork had been valued at between £5,000 and £10,000. "An unwitting triumph of tidiness over posterity, I've now come to the inevitable conclusion...

There are few pipe organs in the world that have a nickname, a feminine pronoun and a Facebook fan page. The Hazel Wright organ — just “Hazel,” to her admirers — was removed piece by piece in 2013 from Christ Cathedral’s shimmering sanctuary in Southern California’s Orange County, and shipped to Italy for repair. At the time, the fifth-largest pipe organ in the world was suffering from an infestation of bugs. Its pipes were melted, its trumpets corroded. Nearly a decade and $3 million later, Hazel is back in the fully remodeled sanctuary, and heavenly chords from her pipes once...

The armchair generals, the MSM pundits, and the social media experts are debating passionately about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We should fight for Ukraine! We should not fight for Ukraine! Putin will go after all of Europe! Putin wants the entire world! And so on and so on. The fact is that most of these people don't know what we'd even be fighting for. Think about it. We didn't know what we were actually fighting for in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and you can see how all that turned out. We thought we did (you know — truth, justice,...

In a televised address Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his "special military operation" would seek the "demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine." Putin's comments refer to the Kremlin's allegation that Ukraine's military is run by neo-Nazis and is a threat to Russia, The New York Times reported. The goal "will be to defend people who for eight years are suffering persecution and genocide by the Kyiv regime," Putin said. "For this we will aim for demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as taking to court those who carried out multiple bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian...

On Monday’sTucker Carlson Tonight, Kyle Rittenhouse unveiled The Media Accountability Project, a new group dedicated to creating consequences for those who spread defamatory lies about the young man acquitted of murder charges last fall. Rittenhouse said that he and his attorneys plan to sue a host of politicians, journalists, and celebrities for their dishonest attacks on his character. A jury of Rittenhouse’s peers on November 19 found him innocent by way of self-defense in three shootings, two fatal, during Left-wing race riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Since then, many have lied about Rittenhouse and the deadly incident in which he was...

A team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Poland and Switzerland has examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies. “Life expectancy at birth is the measure synthetically describing mortality in a population,” said lead author Dr. Wenpeng You, a researcher at the University of Adelaide and FAPAB Research Center, and colleagues. “It is estimated that 20-30% of human life expectancy is determined by genetic factors, and 70-80% is determined by environmental factors.” “Life expectancy at 5 years of age is similarly influenced by genetic factors,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the breakup of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. “Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory,” Putin said in a 2005 speech. While not all Russians necessarily agree with Putin’s characterization, most do view the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 as “a bad thing,” according to a Pew Research Center survey of Russia and 17 other countries in Central and Eastern Europe conducted between 2015 and 2016. And this view is not limited to Russia. For example,...

According to reports, a copycat trucker convoy intends to visit Washington, D.C. I suggest they rethink their plans. The participants will be incurring great risk for minimal, if any, potential benefit. First, the risk. The police, prosecutors, judges, and indeed the jury pool in the District of Columbia are so partisan that Republicans and constitutional conservatives can be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed without having committed any crime. Indeed, it appears from the example of the January 6 prisoners that they can be jailed indefinitely without the legal system even bothering about prosecution or conviction. On the other hand, Democrats...