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Russia has warned neighboring Finland on Friday of "serious military and political" repercussions if the Scandinavian nation opts to join NATO following the invasion of Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a weekly briefing that a Finnish addition to NATO could have "detrimental consequences." Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin said on Thursday that the debate within Finland on NATO membership "will change" following the start of a war in Ukraine. Both Marin and Finland's president Sauli Niinisto strongly condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine. "Despite prior warnings, this morning has come as a shock for all of us...

The retired Florida police captain who fatally shot a man inside a movie theater in 2014 was acquitted of murder by a jury late Friday. Curtis Reeves, 79, was charged with second-degree murder after he gunned down 43-year-old Chad Oulson during a matinee screening of “Lone Survivor” in suburban Pasco County. Defense lawyers and prosecutors were in agreement that Reeves asked Oulson to stop texting during the movie previews — which started an argument that ended with the former Tampa police captain opening fire. Reeves pleaded not guilty on the grounds of self-defense. His lawyers successfully argued that police training...

The 2020–2022 pandemic split parties and ideologues, separated friend from friend and family members from family members. Neighbors were dangerous, and strangers even more so: the invisible enemy stalking our lands overturned every other concern in life: The conflicts it spurred replaced bonds of affection with fear and hatred. More than ever, we need calm and level-headed thinkers, honest and willing to admit past errors, with eyes wide open for the corruption of industry or government itself. In other words, we need as little politics as humanly possible. As I wrote in a previous piece: we need “people without a...

416ft commercial ship bound for St. Petersburg intercepted in English Channel Baltic Leader intercepted by French sea police and seized for further inspection Boat, which was filled with cars, impounded in Boulogne-sur-Mer on Saturday French authorities said the ship was suspected of violating EU trade sanctions

Even as more off-label drug uses are discovered, Orwellian California lawmakers are introducing legislation to silence physicians who speak out on issues directly impacting their patients’ well-being, as well as the treatment of the coronavirus. Last week, Assembly Bill 2098 was introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) to punish physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety.

KYIV, Ukraine—Street battles raged through the night in the Ukrainian capital as Russian forces and undercover units in civilian clothes tried to enter the city, while Russian airstrikes and several airborne landings continued throughout the country. On Saturday, the third day of the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed with the aim of overthrowing Ukraine’s elected government and ending its alignment with the West, Ukrainian forces fought fierce battles on all fronts, with each side asserting it had inflicted heavy losses on the other. After sunrise, President Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a video address from the street outside the presidential...

JUST IN - Turkey bans Russian warships from entering the Black Sea.— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 26, 2022

As this column pointed out in 2014, “the struggle for Ukraine” is a chapter in a series of U.S.-orchestrated provocations, which began with the expansion of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) eastward to abut Russia’s borders — an expansion begun by President Clinton and pursued by Bush and Obama alike. It gathered momentum with the U.S.-backed attempts to incorporate Georgia and the Ukraine into the North Atlantic alliance, forgetting that the Ukrainian people, not unlike the “American People,” are not one people.Kiev is already controlled by Washington (through the IMF, the International Monetary Fund). We all remember (or should) how...

The United States has done much to keep alive the memory and learn the lessons from the genocides of the 20th century. The Jewish Holocaust, the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and the Armenian Genocide – most recently recognized by the Biden administration - are seared in the minds of us all. When discussing genocide, commentators typically focus on terrifying headline numbers – thousands, sometimes millions of victims. But the definition of genocide is not a numerical one. The United Nations defines this crime as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group”....

Is two plus two five? It could be…unless you’re racist.That idea is being bandied about, amid a social justice analysis of mathematics.Oddly, such a campaign is being supported by none other than Bill Gates.As reported by Campus Reform, the Gates Foundation has contributed $1 million to local governments and major universities in order inject “antiracism” into math.The effort is called “A Pathway to Equitable Instruction.”From the official website:A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority...

I think so. I asked to give a talk about COVID at MIT, but they couldn't find a faculty member to sponsor it. Apparently they don't allow viewpoints that challenge the mainstream narrative.Twenty four years ago (in 1998), I donated $2.5M to MIT. They named the auditorium in the EECS building named in my honor: the Kirsch Auditorium, Room 32-123.I’ve never asked to speak in the auditorium until now.I wanted to give a talk at MIT about what the science is telling us about the COVID vaccines and mask wearing and how science is being censored.I also wanted an opportunity...

On Wednesday, a Canadian doctor presented evidence—straight from an Australian study on Pfizer’s COVID-19 “vaccine”—corroborating the idea that the spike protein in COVID-19 “vaccines” enters the cell nuclei. According to Dr. Mikolaj Raszek, this is the first evidence he’s seen to back up the discovery last year that the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike protein potentially enters human cell nuclei and interferes with the mechanics of fixing broken and damaged DNA. If this is true, in theory, then the spike protein “could be a mutagen because it prevents the fixing of our DNA.” https://archive.fo/8X17s

About 40 years ago, America dodged a bullet. Women, in particular, were spared. The United States declined to ratify the inaptly named Equal Rights Amendment as part of the U.S. Constitution by letting the deadline lapse without the requisite number of states adopting it. In doing so, the states rejected a Trojan horse, disguised in the language of equal rights, destined to lead to extreme policies that a majority of Americans oppose—like mandatory taxpayer funding of elective abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Thankfully, the case for the ERA closed when the proposed amendment expired by its own terms...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE E X O D U SCHAPTERS 3-4 Now Moses came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And...

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Let's begin with the obvious: Ukraine is toast. There is little or no chance that the country will be able to endure, given Russian military superiority. Thus, the Western “strategy,” such as it was, to tempt Ukraine progressively closer to NATO and the EU, all while shielding Ukraine against potential Russian aggression with (mostly idle) threats of “severe economic sanctions,” has failed, and spectacularly so! The key question now is: what penalty will Russia pay for its impertinence, as the West sees it? And how long will it pay? Will sanctions be mild or severe? Will they last weeks, months,...

The New Zealand High Court has upheld a challenge to a vaccine mandate for Police and Defence Force staff, stating that it was not a “demonstrably justified” breach of the Bill of Rights. Justice Francis Cooke was asked by a group of Police and Defence Force personnel to judicially review the vaccine mandate enacted under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act in December. The group claimed that “requiring vaccination by such a vaccine was in conflict with the religious beliefs of some of the affected persons.” Cooke, in a judgment (pdf) released on Friday in New Zealand, did not accept...

The Endangered Species Act, first enacted by Congress in 1973, has since become a poster child for bureaucratic ineptitude. By 2021 it had fully redeemed from the impending extinction only 3% of the hundreds of endangered species initially added to the list. Our national symbol, the again flourishing bald eagle, is an outstanding exception. The birds are commonly seen soaring above our rivers and lakes wherever the fishing is good. But whooping cranes are holding onto existence by the skin of their beaks, despite heroic efforts to restore the one-time migrating flocks at a secreted refuge near Baraboo, WI. Primary...

Ukrainian foods belong to the Eastern European cuisine. Ukrainian borscht, varenyky, and salo might be familiar to many of you. Indeed, traditional Ukrainian restaurants can’t help themselves cooking lots and lots of borscht and varenyky. Whenever they come up with a chef’s variation, they get drawn right back to the roots, because their clients say they want to taste authentic national food in its classic form. Of course, regional varieties of the same dish differ a lot. If you visit ten families in Ukraine, you will try ten kinds of borscht, you can be sure. And why? Because every region...

God is real, the Bible is True, and Jesus Christ is King of Kings.These are the fundamental truths on which we must stand if we are going to do what must be done in order to reclaim what is rightfully ours. America is a Christian nation, but somewhere along the way our tolerance for evil allowed subversive agents of Satan to invade every facet of our country and culture. Our worldly institutions may have been conquered by secular humanists who hate God, but we worship a God who overcomes all worldly institutions. The good news is that public trust and...