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Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Federation’s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic, is prepared to unleash up to 70,000 fighters on Ukraine to support his “commander-in-chief”, Vladimir Putin. State-backed Russian news outlet RT published video footage on Friday showing an enormous rally of, it reported, 12,000 “local volunteers” in the Chechen capital of Grozny, with Kadyrov telling the assembly that his advice to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky was to “[call] our President, Supreme Commander Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and [apologise] for not doing so sooner. Do it in order to save Ukraine. Ask for forgiveness and agree to all the conditions that Russia...

I will be supporting Donald Trump in 2024. The recent revelations that the Clinton campaign spied on candidate Trump before the election and president Trump after should be enough to see that virtually everything Trump claimed was happening… was actually happening. So what does this have to do with 2024? Everything, including the election fraud of 2020. Every single American with a functioning brain knows that Donald Trump won the election in 2020 and that everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to the mainstream media to the Democrat party to Never Trumper “conservatives” conspired to steal it. And they did. Of course...

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk addressed the International Committee of the Red Cross with a request to remove the bodies of Russian soldiers from Ukraine. She said this during a briefing. “We ask that the International Red Cross help transport out the bodies of Russian soldiers to the Russian Federation. Here are thousands of bodies of the occupants, this is a humanitarian need, and we ask that the bodies of the Russian occupiers leave the territory of Ukraine and go to the Russian Federation,” Vereshchuk said. “Red Cross, do everything in...

Technical preparations for Russia's disconnection from the SWIFT interbank information system have begun. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba announced this on his Facebook page. “The official decision has not been drawn up yet, but technical preparations for the decision and implementation of this sanction have already begun. We pushed and pushed and we succeeded. The entire vertical of Ukrainian diplomacy worked for that - from the President of Ukraine to the attaché at the Ukrainian embassy,” Kuleba wrote. The Minister also thanked all the numerous people, in particular the Ukrainian diaspora, who put pressure on the...

Las Vegas police say they have arrested a registered sex offender following a sexual assault incident involving a 14-year-old boy. Police say the incident began in the 4200 block of East Tonopah Avenue, near Lamb and Lake Mead.Officers responded to the area at approximately 6:26 a.m. on Thursday. According to the investigation the boy was approached by the suspect now identified as 42-year-old Willie Collins as he was walking to school.The boy told police as Collins approached him he told him he was armed with a weapon and said he would kill him if he didn’t comply with his request....

Russian government websites including the official Kremlin and media regulator pages are down, in what could be the first round of tit-for-tat cyberattacks after the West furiously condemned warmonger Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s telecoms agency also announced that Russian TV channels had been hacked to broadcast Ukrainian songs, the Kyiv Independent reported on Saturday afternoon. Just hours before Russia’s tyrant launched his aggressive war to ‘demilitarise’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine, Kyiv was hit by a ‘massive’ cyberattack targeting its government and banks. he websites of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security...

Canon Lawyer Fr. Gerald Murray: The content of the Responsa “goes beyond what is canonically possible” Recently two canon law evaluations of the Responsa ad dubia of the Congregation for Divine Worship have been published. The first is written by Dominican Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, STL, JD, JCD, and was published by Edward Pentin here. The second is an interview of Diane Montagna with Fr. Gerald Murray, a canon lawyer well known from his many appearances on EWTN; the full text may be found here. Both canonists maintain that Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa are canonically valid instruments and...

As Ukraine enters its third day of Russian bombardment following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion this week, a senior defense official said Saturday that Moscow has become "increasingly frustrated" by the lack of momentum. "We have indications that the Russians are increasingly frustrated by their lack of momentum over the last 24 hours, particularly in the north parts of Ukraine," the senior defense official said. "We also continue to see indications of viable Ukrainian resistance."

Australia's closed equivalent to Donald Trump is mining magnate Clive Palmer. Born in the working class suburb of Footscray, where his mom had worked in a munitions factory in 1940, Palmer is a billionaire who has funded the rebirth of the United Australia Party (UAP) and who has made a massive pro freedom advertising campaign during Australia's horrible police state lockdowns. UAP's candidate in the Federal House Of Representative seat of Ashton is Rebekah Spelman. Becky is a libertarian conservative and freedom fighter extraordinaire. She calls out the corruption of big government. Her opponent from the Morrison government is Alan...

As Russian troops approach the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, some are digging in for a fight. As you’d expect, some are fleeing the city. Within days, the city could fall to Russian forces who are facing stiffer resistance from the Ukrainian military than what was originally expected. The viciousness of the Russian military was captured in a viral video showing a Russian tank going out of its way to run over a civilian vehicle. It’s horrifying to watch, but it ends on a good note. The driver, an elderly man, miraculously survived being run over (via NY Post):

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California suggested Friday that kicking Russian students out of U.S. colleges and universities should be looked at as a possible deterrent to Russia after the country's President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into Ukraine earlier this week. Asked during a Thursday appearance on "CNN Newsroom" about potential sanctions the U.S. should use against Russia, Swalwell proposed penalizing Russian students attending college in the U.S. "Frankly, I think closing [Russia's] embassy in the United States, kicking every Russian student out of the United States, those should all be on the table," Swalwell said. "Vladimir Putin needs...

Vanity: Street Fighting Now in Odessa Ukraine, Doesn't Go Well for Russian Special Forces (Video) Video link: https://twitter.com/Magovskeira/status/1497610939243368455

Not interested in an investment. It's purely for the sake of just having some gold. Now is not the time to buy it, but, I've heard of people buying gold from dealers, and later discover it's not real. I understand the difference between spot price and market price, but a couple of stores have been recommended. Tulsa Gold and Silver. For example. My question is, can such a place be trusted?

Dear friends,, in light of CPAC this weekend, please do not get sucked into all the rah-rah and false optimism about America's "future". Look, I'll be watching like many of you will be, but all the pep talk, solutions and optimistic future appraisals are not enough to put out the raging fires of our doomed, godless, lawless and imploding nation! That is just the reality which many unregenerate conservatives will not hear. Like the doomed Twin Towers of 9/11, our national lawless inferno is past the point of no return and unregenerate Conservative optimism will not extinguish the engulfing flames...

A squad of Chechen special forces 'hunters' has been unleashed in Ukraine to detain or kill a set of specific Ukrainian officials. Each soldier was reportedly given a special 'deck of cards' with Ukrainian officials' photos and descriptions on them, a Moscow Telegram channel with links to the security establishment reported. The list is of officials and security officers suspected of 'crimes' by the Russian Investigative Committee, the report added.

Former Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard faced a barrage of bipartisan outrage last week after suggesting it was NATO expansion rather than Vladimir Putin’s naked aggression that sparked the invasion of Ukraine — but refused to back down, telling The Post her critics aren’t living “in the real world.” Even as Putin’s tanks and troops stormed through Ukraine, Gabbard, 40, urged President Biden to meet with the ex-KBG strongman, during an exclusive interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where she was a guest speaker.

Ukrainian civilians are seen in Dnipro, central Ukraine, preparing Molotov cocktails in case of a Russian invasion. Sky's John Sparks also witnesses queues of people who are signing up to the country's army. (Large gathering of people mixing Styrofoam and gasoline in bottles) Video Here.

With the eyes of the world on Vladimir Putin, questions are being asked about the Russian leader's state of mind after he announced the invasion of Ukraine in 'rambling, terrifying, apocalyptic' fashion. Rumours surrounding the Russian leader's health have been swirling for years, with repeated reports suggesting that he is suffering from cancer and Parkinson's disease. On top of that, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on both the President's physical and mental health can't be underestimated, and it's been suggested that brain fog as a result of Long Covid could be impairing his cognitive function. Although it's not clear...

Germany and Italy are now both reportedly ready to remove Russia from the SWIFT banking system. They were the only two known holdouts. If Russia loses access to SWIFT, the financial implosion of Russia will be, ahem, swift. Bring it on!— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) February 25, 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un emphasizing cooperation between the two countries, according to state media in North Korea. Xi said that China was ready to work with North Korea to realize the two sides’ "common understanding" and promote friendly and supportive relations under "a new situation," state media outlet KCNA reported Saturday.