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It's a typical Friday at Orange Tree Imports, a gift shop on Madison's Monroe Street — employees work and customers browse donning masks in a reality they've grown accustomed to the past two years. Madison and Dane County will let its months-long coronavirus mask mandate expire. But Orange Tree will keep a mask requirement for staff and shoppers, said co-owner Carol "Orange" Schroeder. Other Madison businesses appear ready to embrace what local health experts say could be the pandemic's next chapter, even after a harsh winter caused by the highly transmissible omicron variant. Huge COVID case spikes this past winter...

On Sept. 25, 2015, at the UN, the nations voted 193-0 for “a new universal agenda” called The Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Three days later, Pres. Obama spoke at the UN and said, “Global integration (the merging of nations) is an agenda that transcends the narrowly defined interests of nation states.” As I understand it, Obama said merging the nations into a world government is more important than their national sovereignty. These UN Sustainable Development goals, which every nation will be required to keep, are a major step toward the globalist desired world government by...

#Putin had no victories over the last 4 days. This means he will be raising the stakes. Right now a massive pack of #Russian troops is moving towards #Kyiv https://twitter.com/kiraincongress/status/1497934981091500039

From London to Berlin to Tokyo to Vilnius, hundreds of thousands of protesters have gathered in cities across the world to demand an end to the war Russia's Vladimir Putin has waged on Ukraine. Thousands gathered in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Sunday morning for an anti-war rally amid international rage at the invasion of Ukraine even as Russia's troops pressed towards the capital, Kyiv. Police said large crowds have filled the area originally planned for the demonstration, around the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin, and that they were allocating additional space to accommodate the protesters. Sunday's protest was...

A photo of a saint holding a Javelin, an anti-tank missile launcher, in her arms is going viral on social media. As Russia continues to wage war on Ukraine, the photo, being hailed as ‘St Javelin’, has become a symbol of Ukraine’s resistance. Snip Javelin is an anti-tank-guided munition that can be carried and launched by a single person. Designed by the US defence firms in the late 1980s, the Javelin weighs about 50 pounds. Javelin can be fired from the soldier and does not need any millie launcher. According to reports, Ukrainian defence is largely depending on the Javelin...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 26. THE TREASURY NOTE BILL. The President has approved of the United States Note bill, and it is, therefore, a law. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Feb. 26. The following is a copy of the letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying the bill submitted by him, authorizing the issue of certificates of indebtedness to public creditors, and which bill was yesterday promptly passed by Congress, and has received the approval of the President: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Feb. 25, 1862. SIR: Notwithstanding all possible exertions on my part to provide means of satisfying the just demands of public creditors, and,...

What do mask mandates, global shutdowns, and gender-neutral “theybies” have in common? They’re all new ideas, born of a new America — and they’ve come at a cost. The decline of our country escalated with the Covid pandemic and Biden’s presidency. Family and friends are encouraged to snitch on one another, pledging loyalty not to each other, but instead to the state. Lockdowns and constant fear-mongering have caused suicide and overdose rates, even among children, to skyrocket. Inflation is at an all-time high, and America is once again kowtowing to China. It’s difficult to look at the Brave New World...

ATLANTA — Early Sunday morning, another group of street racers stopped traffic at the 10th Street and Piedmont Road intersection so they could burn rubber on top of Atlanta’s “Rainbow Crosswalk”. They cleared the area before Atlanta police arrived but left more damage at the busy intersection just a few days after it had been cleaned up. Atlanta Police are offering a $2,000 reward for anyone with information on the street racers who have been disrupting Atlanta’s streets and leaving damage at one of the City’s better known landmarks. Last Sunday morning, APD responded to reports of street racers doing...

Due to the recent developments, the Department is issuing this Guidance to reiterate that regulated entities should fully comply with U.S. sanctions on Russia, as well as New York State and Federal laws and regulations, including Department cybersecurity and virtual currency regulations set forth in 23 NYCRR 500 and 23 NYCRR 200, respectively. CYBERSECURITY The Russian invasion of Ukraine significantly elevates the cyber risk for the U.S. financial sector. Russia’s ongoing cyber-attacks against Ukraine could spillover and damage networks outside of Ukraine – as has happened in the past. Escalating tension between the U.S. and Russia also increases the risk...

Source: Townhall MediaFacebook (Meta), Twitter, and other legacy social media platforms were once powerhouses of Free Speech. Opinions from various sources and perspectives made the platforms lively, engaging, exciting, and for many, profitable. Many were made millionaires and billionaires during the ascension of social media into our lives. Yet, today, those who built these platforms seem intent on destroying them by limiting the Free Speech that made them great in the first place. The ban on Donald Trump was a big step in the slide, but far from the only reason why Meta and Facebook are failing. Meta lost nearly...

A Story About Greed. Some years ago, our home school group was going to Silver Dollar City for a field trip. One girl had a very plump friend visiting and at lunch time she ate a lot of food and I gulped when I was expected to pay for it all. At Silver Dollar City, we went to see Grandpa's House; the one where the furniture was upside down on the ceiling and the walls and floors were not flat, plumb or square. It was a fun adventure, and I was first down the stairs to the basement, where the...

FILE - Russia's President Vladimir Putin appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia is revving up its sophisticated propaganda machine as its military advances in neighboring Ukraine. Analysts who monitor propaganda and disinformation have seen a sharp increase in online activity linked to the Russian state. In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover of Crimea. Eight years later, experts say Russia is mounting a far more sophisticated effort as it invades Ukraine. Armies of trolls and bots stir up anti-Ukrainian sentiment. State-controlled media outlets...

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: Matthew 6:19 The World Communist Party is making a move to enslave the workers of the world. The last two moves are to have the two friendlies of the DNC take over their neighbors while they feign outrage while giving the backdoor approval. Since when has the leaders of America’s Communist Party not taken bribe after bribe from worldwide freedom’s biggest enemies. The vilification of Putin is incredible since the media ignores the Hunter Biden payments from both the...

As of this March, it’s officially been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended our day-to-day lives. Mask-wearing, capacity limits, even broad shutdowns were enacted across the country as health experts worked to get a full grasp of the situation and understand the depth of the problem at hand, with a particular focus on protecting groups of patients with compromised immune systems. While things are thankfully on the upswing now – as vaccines and booster shots are widely available and the spike we saw in new cases at the start of the year has dropped dramatically – in many ways...

Neil Oliver delivers his remarks this weekend expressing genuine sympathy for the people in Ukraine yet distrusting the constant bombardment by those demanding we pay attention to it. We watch Russia, but after all our own leaders have shown us in the past two-years, amid their COVID authorized lusts for power, it is a wide-open and wary eye our leaders are trying to move. WATCH: (video at link) A wounded water buffalo was spotted trying to give birth on the dangerous Serengeti Plain, CNN International reports if Russia had not annexed Crimea, it wouldn’t have happened. Early tomorrow morning, a...

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko called the Ukrainian President Sunday. ... "Aleksander Lukashenko has taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on the Belarusian territory will remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation's travel, meeting and return." Russian state news agencies also reported Sunday that a Russian presidential aide said that Ukraine had confirmed it would meet a delegation from the Russian Federation in the Gomel region of Belarus, without providing details about who would represent the Ukrainian side.

You may have heard that if you’re four hands into a high stakes poker game with a card shark and you haven’t figured out who the mark is, it’s probably you. Our guy Brandon is still sitting at the poker table. It’s not at all clear that he realizes that the game is over. Vladimir won. President Putin picked up his chips, completely cleaning our President out. Vladimir got everything he really wanted. He went all in. Consider what he has accomplished. Putin had already absorbed Georgia and Crimea back into Mother Russia. Soon he will complete the annexation of...

Donald Trump has announced that he will be holding a rally in South Carolina on March 12.The event will be taking place at the regional airport in Florence, Trump’s political action committee Save America announced.

President Putin has ordered his military command to put nuclear forces on a "special" state of alert. This is after what Moscow calls "aggressive statements" by Nato countries. Russia's leader had already issued a coded warning that he was willing to use nuclear weapons as he began his invasion of Ukraine. Last week, he warned that "whoever tries to hinder us" would see consequences "you have never seen in your history". These words were widely interpreted as signalling a threat to use nuclear weapons if the West stood in his way. The very public shift to high alert status is...

Vladimir Putin temporarily lost his most senior official position in world sports on Sunday. The International Judo Federation cited “the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine” for suspending Putin’s honorary president status. The Russian president is a keen judoka and attended the sport at the 2012 London Olympics. The IJF is rare among Olympic sports bodies for using the word “war” to describe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ordered by Putin on Thursday. Others have used phrases such as “escalation of conflict.” A Kremlin-supporting oligarch and longtime friend of Putin, Arkady Rotenberg, remains on the IJF executive committee as “development manager.” ___