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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that calls for the United States to increase fossil fuel production and open up the Keystone Pipeline in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a “misdiagnosis.” Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Senator Tom Cotton says the United States should be doing more to crack down on the Russian energy sector.”

It's a timely concern. Cybersecurity experts say the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict could result in an uptick in cyberattacks around the world, with U.S. banks expressing concern this week that they could be targeted.

CANADA SHOWED US WHAT’S COMING * Vaccine passports will lead to digital identity devices and cards, merged with present state ID cards and driver's licenses. The digital ID will track our every move and force us to always be mindful of what "The State" mandates us to obey, Recently for example, social distancing, wearing masks, but these are mild compared to what will roll out when the Beijing model takes hold. * It was well-known in the Soviet Union that if you did not "comply" with State Mandates, you could be forced to be examined by a State Psychiatrist and...

62% of Americans believe that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump was President. The view was held by an overwhelming 85% of Republicans, but also 38% of Democrats. A further 59% of voters said Putin had decided to invade because Putin sensed weakness on the part of President Biden, while just 41% said that view had not played a role in Putin’s decision. Count me among them. Joe Biden had done nothing but weaken the United States. He botched Afghanistan in one massive clusterf**k. Now he's botched Ukraine. Biden gave China intelligence on Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine and...

PALM BEACH, FL—Sources close to Donald Trump reported him trudging from his home office and heading straight for the espresso machine for the fourth time in as many hours, as the bleary-eyed true president had stayed up all night on his newly-launched TRUTH social media platform to delete any post making fun of him. “Wrong! Deleted!” “I never said that! Deleted!” “Fake tan? More like fake news! Deleted!” Exclamations such as these reverberated through the spacious Florida mansion of the nation’s favorite president throughout the night, putting all residents on edge. Melania, affected by Trump’s all-nighter, was overheard screaming to...

If the current ammunition shortage was not bad enough, prices may continue to rise after a recent move by the Biden administration. According to a State Department news release from Aug. 20, a new round of sanctions is being imposed on Russia due to its utilization of a deadly "Novichok" chemical nerve agent. This nerve agent was used in the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny, a Russian opposition figure, in August 2020. The sanctions are being imposed under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 and focus on imports and exports between the United States and...

MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian company in charge of building and maintaining roads said it was removing all road signs that could be used by invading Russian forces to find their way around the country. "The enemy has poor communications, they cannot navigate the terrain," the company Ukravtodor said in a Facebook update late on Friday. "Let us help them get straight to hell." It posted an edited photo of a standard road sign in which directions to nearby cities have been replaced with profanities that could be translated as "Go f*ck yourself", "Go f*ck yourself again" and...

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed “erratic,” adding he had an “ever-deepening, delusional rendering of history.” Rice said, “Vladimir Putin expected an easy win here. He thought he would waltz into the capital, into Kyiv, in his own delusional rendering of history, Ukrainians and Russians are the same, and he would overthrow this government and might even be welcomed as a liberator. And of course, the reality has been something quite different.”

Hi All, Wondering if some of you would kindly provide any good recommendations for documentaries on The Great Depression. The Hoover Institution has a few interesting, but brief, video interviews with various authors and historians on YouTube, but I'm looking for something a bit more extensive.The documentary doesn't necessarily have to be hosted on YouTube or Netflix, but I'm more concerned with the level of bias exhibited. I'm looking for one that is obviously critical of government intervention and intrusion of the free market.Any recommendations? Thank you.

Ukraine says it has managed to destroy a column of Russian armored vehicles in the city of Bucha, just outside of Kyiv. “On the approaches to Kyiv, in the town of Bucha, more than 100 units of enemy equipment were destroyed,” a Ukrainian government account posts on Telegram, along with videos of burning or charred tanks and other armored vehicles. Regional officials earlier reported buildings and houses on fire in the town, which lies between the key airfield of Gostomel and Kyiv. Elsewhere, a local journalist reports what he says is a video of two Russian helicopters being shot down.

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) “has been right for a long time” when she is criticizing fellow Republicans. Anchor Dana Bash said, “You talked several times during this interview about the world seeing the difference between good and evil. I want to bring that closer to home and talk about something that Congresswoman Liz Cheney tweeted yesterday about sitting Republican House Members appearing at a white nationalist gathering. She said, quote, ‘As Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-semitic, pro-Putin against, silence...

A blood-like streak accompanied the graffiti death threat against Ngo. ... In front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, someone wrote the threatening message, "Kill Andy Ngo," in red paint on the Soldiers Monument. A blood-like streak accompanied the graffiti death threat. The Spanish-American War memorial in Lownsdale Square was vandalized sometime on or around Feb. 22. In addition to the death threat against The Post Millennial's editor-at-large, "ACAB" and "Amir Locke" were written in the same paint on the other side of the memorial. Antifa symbols were also sprayed around the park. ... The federal...

Re-start Keystone, Foe Brandon, you pathetic, weak little soy boy.

There is a glaring carve-out in President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia: Oil and natural gas from that country will continue to flow freely to the rest of the world and money will keep flowing into Russia. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden defended his decision to preserve access to Russian energy in order “to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump.” But some academics, lawmakers and other analysts say that excluding an industry at the heart of the Russian economy essentially limits the sanctions and could embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind. We moved...

Newly published CDC data shows a massive increase in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations since the emergence of the omicron variant among those who have been fully vaccinated. The data, which is used by local health departments across the nation, indicate the case rate in fully vaccinated people rose by more than 1,000% between Dec. 11, 2021, and Jan. 8, 2022, the Epoch Times reported. People who have received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after receiving a final shot. The COVID case...

After days of almost exclusive focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, here’s a bit of a palate cleanser for you. The name of CNN’s new head to replace the ousted Jeff Zucker has been leaked. Chris Licht will lead the network per Dylan Byers, and word on the street is that big changes are coming. Last night, I reported that Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav had zeroed in on his choice for the next President of CNN. I also reported that star executive producer Chris Licht, formerly of Morning Joe and CBS This Morning, and now the person...

A group of Ukrainian soldiers stationed on an island military outpost who were presumed dead after a terse yet profane interaction with a Russian warship last week may still be alive, Ukrainian officials announced Sunday. The Ukrainian troops on Zmiiniy Island – also known as Snake Island – may instead have been captured by Russian military forces, according to a statement from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. "We sincerely hope that the boys will return home as soon as possible, and the information received at the time of the attack on the death will not be confirmed," the...

Unconfirmed for now, but this is now the second photo/video I've seen of a possible S-300/400 launch near #Mozyr, Belarus. Visible all across the Gomel region, it seems. What did it just intercept? https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1497957770074763264

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told "One Nation" Saturday what he believes the Biden administration could do to end Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine and gave a grim warning about Ukrainians' success against Russian forces. SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: Never in the history of the world has a bad guy been so exposed as Putin is right now. Their entire economy in Russia depends on the oil and gas sector. How about this idea? Shut it off. Don't buy Russian oil and gas. Produce more American oil and gas. We should have as much will to produce oil and gas to help...