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The Polish and Swedish national teams will not face Russia in a crucial 2022 World Cup qualification playoff matches in March in protest at Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The president of Poland's football association Cezary Kulesza announced the news on Saturday. "No more words, time to act! Due to the escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine the Polish national team does not intend to play the play-off match against Russia," he tweeted. "We are in talks with (Swedish) and (Czech) federations to bring forward a joint statement to FIFA." Poland was due to travel to Moscow...

Trade restrictions resulting from EU sanctions on Russia will weigh on French exports such as wine and grains, Macron said, while a further rise in energy prices will hit livestock farming. A surge in commodity prices in the past year has benefited grain producers but squeezed livestock farmers for whom grain feed is a major cost. The government announced at the end of January a 270 million euro ($304 million) relief package for the pork sector. The crisis in Ukraine is increasing volatility in agricultural markets, with Paris wheat futures hitting a record high on Thursday. Farmers are also worried...

I am a citizen of Russia, I consider Russia my motherland and my home. A home where, many years ago, armed people broke in and began to loot, murder, rape, destroy churches, eliminate the faith of a people in the beginnings of spiritual freedom, and now these criminals, in essence, still remain in power. I don’t like to offend people and my intention is not to insult anyone. This includes those in power, because they most likely, as the expression goes, “know not what they do.” But, seeing the public positions Russia takes in regard to many important global political...

Between fiery speeches from conservative heavy-hitters throughout Day Two of CPAC 2022, soft-spoken Ben Carson, M.D. emphatically put forth a belief almost certain to ignite ire from some and more praise from others in a largely partisan split. It was nothing but love for Carson at CPAC on Feb. 25. Between bursts of enthusiastic and prolonged cheers, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon spoke in his signature quiet way at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. During his 15-minute talk, he described what he says have been dangerous effects of COVID-19 policies on children. Without question, Carson, 70, is well-qualified to...

The World Economic Forum has enormous influence across the planet. Their trained globalist flunkies (see board members below) have been installed in prominent roles in governments, industry and academia. They have been vastly successful in implementing founder Klaus Schwab’s vision of merging industry with governments (i.e. global socialism) through “stakeholder capitalism.”Whether it is through the Great Reset (i.e. Build Back Better), the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or ‘stakeholder capitalism‘, the World Economic Forum’s goal of global socialism is the same. Whether the World Economic Forum uses the pandemic or “climate change” as the launchpad, the goal of global socialism is the...

There was chatter yesterday of there being talks about a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. While it was hopeful news considering what the Ukrainian people are enduring at the hands of an invasion, it's more of something that we'll believe when we see it. And sure enough, the Russians are alleging that the Ukrainians are refusing to cooperate. The Ukrainians are denying that, but emphasizing that negotiations must have the right terms. An update from The Washington Post's Timothy Bella on Saturday included a Telegram message from Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, who said these were tactics from Putin: In...

Armenia was the sole country in the Council of Europe to join the Russian delegation in voting against a decision to suspend Russia from the organisation over their invasion of Ukraine. The decision was adopted by the Council’s Committee of Ministers on Friday, two days after Russia’s invasion. As a result, Russia will lose representation in the Committee of Ministers and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It will remain subject to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. The proposal, which was tabled by Poland and Ukraine, was reportedly supported...

As a courageous city health worker remained hospitalized following a vicious subway station assault, the NYPD released an additional photo of the maniac mugger wanted for bludgeoning her with a hammer. The disturbing Thursday night assault of Nina Rothschild at the Queens Plaza E, M and R station was caught on video. Rothschild was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition with a fractured skull and bleeding to her brain, according to cops and sources. The Queens woman was listed in stable condition early Saturday, according to an NYPD spokesman, who did not elaborate. Rothschild’s unhinged attacker, a...

I told you this part wasn’t going to be pretty. The collapse of fascist ideological movements and fanatical death cults never is. The New Normal is proving to be no exception.After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to forced “vaccination,” Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of militarized riot police (and other unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into trucks and arresting people, and beating them with batons and the butts of their...

Emblem Road rallied with a wide, sweeping move on the outside to win the $20 million Saudi Cup at 99-1 odds on Saturday, beating Bob Baffert-trained Country Grammar by a half-length. Ridden by Wiggy Ramos, Emblem Road ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:50.52 in the world's richest horse race at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh. It was a huge win for Saudi-based trainer Mitab Almulawah and owner Prince Saud Bin Salman Abdulaziz. Their other entry, Making Miracles, finished fourth. U.S.-bred Emblem Road has seven wins in nine career starts. His sire, Quality Road, was a standout who won the Florida...

Ketanji Brown Jackson's defense of Gitmo detainees and criticism of U.S. government likely to be spotlighted in confirmation process. 0:00 / 0:00 By Aaron Kliegman Updated: February 25, 2022 - 11:37pm Article Dig In President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court represented suspected terrorists when she was a federal public defender, going well beyond a bare-bones defense to lambaste the U.S. government for some if its counterterrorism policies and broader approach to the War on Terror. Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to...

Another day, another hostile New York Times profile of a scientist, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who doesn’t buy into COVID-hysteria. As a bonus, Ladapo is the newly confirmed Surgeon General of the state of Florida, home of the Times’ least-favorite governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, who reopened the state ahead of blue states, while keeping cases and deaths within bounds. Miami bureau chief Patricia Mazzei tried to put the doctor on the defensive in “The Doctor Giving DeSantis’s Pandemic Policies a Seal of Approval.”

Federal regulators on Friday issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there were significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history.

Video, You Tube link to follow. A 30-second video released on Friday went viral, after it shows a Ukrainian citizen trying to stop a Russian armored convoy moving towards a Ukrainian city at risk of of his life. The video was shared on social media by Ukrainian news network HB, and soon garnered millions of views worldwide, with many comparing the brave Ukrainian citizen to a Chinese student standing in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. The video shows the man, whose identity is unknown, standing in the middle of the road while the Russian armored...

Listen in on Russian HF military communications, both in the clear and coded.

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces and thousands of freshly recruited volunteers regained control of Kyiv’s streets after Russian troops and undercover units in civilian clothes tried to enter the city in the early hours of Saturday, while Russian airstrikes, airborne landings and armored advances continued throughout the country. On 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 fiercely on all fronts, with each side asserting it had inflicted heavy losses on the other. President Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a video address...

Both CDC and Pfizer have recently issued a public warning about “blood clots.”Last February 10, the CDC issued a warning normalizing the idea that young adults and healthy athletes develop blood clots.Of course, no one has ever heard of this frequent phenomenon before the COVID vaccines.“#DYK [do you know] that anyone can develop a blood clot? Whether you’re an athlete or a fan, don’t let a blood clot ruin the big game this weekend. Learn how to protect your health: https://bit.ly/2lOpGEB,” CDC tweeted out.#DYK that anyone can develop a blood clot? Whether you’re an athlete or a fan, don’t let...

I’ll be in Shamrock, TX on the overpass, taking a break from the Convoy this morning to get batteries charged. Will meet the convoy and rejoin in Shamrock, next destination Elk City, OK. Some thoughts along that track. This is important. This is historic. I spent some time yesterday chatting with Couy Griffin. The Cowboys for Trump organizer and main inspiration who spent a couple of weeks in Gitmo on the Potomac in solitary confinement. He has to be in the New Mexico GOP event today, or he would be along. I talked last night with a film producer about...

For the average investor, there seems to be a future in Big Pharma. The world is engulfed by Pandemic Panic Theater as new jabs, boosters, and pills continue to roll out to fight Covid. Mandates are still in place for millions of people and threats of more still loom. This week, a national vaccine passport quietly moved forward.But the elite investors are inexplicably pulling out. Stock prices for the major vaccine manufacturers are plummeting as a result, leaving many smaller investors wondering if this is a long-term trend or a blip. According to The Deseret Review:Wall Street investors are dumping...