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Many of our impressions of foreign countries are based on how the media portrays them, whether describing them as paradise or dangerous s***holes. Unless we happen to know someone personally who lives in or travels to these countries, our opinions are based on what we read in the newspapers, on the internet, or see on television. Iraq is one of these countries, described as “The world’s most dangerous place” by the HowStuffWorks website. The Australian government is even more emphatic, “Do not travel to Iraq, including the Kurdistan region of Iraq, due to the volatile security situation and very high...

President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order this week that would direct government agencies to develop a strategy to regulate digital assets. It was reported in January that the Biden administration was preparing an executive order to study cryptocurrencies with the aim of developing a government-wide framework to regulate digital assets. The executive order would also mandate government agencies investigate the possibility of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the US Federal Reserve. The move comes as it is unlikely that Congress will put in place any legislation to standardize rules for crypto. The...

At his CPAC speech on Saturday, former President Donald Trump could not have been clearer in his denunciation of Vladimir Putin. "The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling,” said Trump. “it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.” Yet the fact that Trump called Putin “smart” and “savvy” is, for the New York Times, prima facie evidence of his affection for Mother Russia. Indeed, the Times had the nerve to run a delusional op-ed on Sunday headlined, “How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia.” Earth to the New York Times:...

The Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, February 23, 2022, on HB 1077, which is known as the Constitutional Carry bill in Indiana. The hearing will be in Room 130, starting at 1:30 p.m.The Senate Judiciary Committee is where Constitutional Carry in Indiana was killed in 2021, after being passed by the Indiana House on a 65 to 31 vote. In 2022, Constitutional Carry passed the House 63 to 29, virtually the same margin of two to one.Eight members of the Judiciary Committee are Republicans. They are Liz Brown (R), Chairman; Eric Koch (R), Ranking member;...

With the entrance of State Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson into the Alaska U.S. Senate race, there are now effectively two prominent Democrats for voters to consider in the August primary election. Gray-Jackson’s record shows that she is reliably progressive, while incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a dependable vote for President Joe Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Democrats in the Senate. On issue after issue, Gray-Jackson and Murkowski are in alignment, and together they are out of step with most Alaskans. There should be no question that Gray-Jackson would be a rubber stamp for every radical nominee that Biden sends to the...

The impacts of the climate crisis are proving much worse than predicted, and governments must act more urgently to adapt to them or face global disaster, the UK president of the UN climate talks has warned on the eve of a landmark new scientific assessment of the climate. Alok Sharma, who led the Cop26 climate summit last year, said: “The changes in the climate we are seeing today are affecting us much sooner and are greater than we originally thought. The impacts on our daily lives will be increasingly severe and stark. We will be doing ourselves and our populations...

The Great Patriotic War of Ukraine against Russia, which has been going on for the fourth day, demonstrated not only the special power of our Armed Forces. Ordinary citizens also showed courage and true heroism in defending the state. So, one of the Ukrainians with his bare hands moved an enemy mine from the road to the forest belt. The incident occurred in Berdyansk, Zaporozhye, the video fact was distributed by local and not only Telegram channels (to view it, scroll to the end of the news). The network noted that an ordinary resident noticed the mine under the bridge,...

GLENN GREENWALD: I think we ought to remember in the past the times that we have endured war and the propaganda that goes with it. Even if we had more or less apprehended the correct moral framework, say after 9/11, when we all acknowledged that the 9/11 attack was a moral atrocity, or understood that Saddam Hussein was a despotic and barbaric dictator. It necessarily didn't mean we were immune to being deceived and led to believe false things, or affirmed responses we ended up regretting. That is because in these situations propaganda, which every side uses in wars, is...

The Armed Forces of Ukraine defeated a column of Russian military equipment near Makarov. This village is located in the Kiev region, about 30 km from the capital. "Our guys covered a column of enemy equipment. Russian grads and tanchiki stopped for the night. And they will definitely sleep soundly," the report says.

The highly respected journalist, who has been with Fox News since 1996, has recently gained notoriety for busting a number of right-wing narratives about the Ukraine crisis while on Fox airwaves, schooling her network colleagues in the process.

“We are still buying crude oil from Putin. We are wiring him money every day from the United States and payment for crude oil going into Boston Harbor. You know, we are being lied to. We are being conned.”President Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is working with other countries on a coordinated oil release from the global petroleum reserve in the coming days in a bid to reduce rising gasoline prices.

As of 9 a.m. on February 28, Mariupol and Volnovakha remain the hottest spots in the Donetsk region. During the evening of February 27 and the morning of February 28 (as of 09:00), Russians killed 3 people in the region, including one child, and injured 32. As the head of the Donetsk regional state administration, head of the regional military-civil administration Pavel Kirilenko reported with reference to the military, now there are battles for these cities. He noted that he is working on providing a green corridor – for the delivery of humanitarian aid, medicines, food, water to Volnovakha, as...

Despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine continuing to escalate, President Joe Biden remains at his private estate in Delaware. Fox News reported that Biden remains at his private residence in Delaware and that the media is having difficulty making contact with the administration.

In Majorca, a Ukrainian sailor who worked on the yacht of Russian corrupt official Alexander Mikheev, one of the directors of the Rostec weapons company, deliberately sank the Russian ship at a price of 7 million euros. He did this when he saw a shelled residential high-rise building in Kiev on Lobanovsky, 6A. Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the interior minister, shared the story of this incident on the personal Telegram channel Pravda Gerashchenko. He turned to the Ukrainian sailor, calling him a hero. The Spanish police, the representative of the Ministry of internal affairs noted, did not even detain the...

Families have been torn apart in the biggest European conflict since the second world war, as Ukrainian women and children left their husbands and fathers behind after Ukrainian authorities ordered men aged 18-60 to stay and fight Kremlin forces. 'We left dad in Kiev and dad will be selling things and helping our heroes, our army, he might even fight,' Mark Goncharuk, a young boy choking with tears, said as he and his relatives fled the capital. As missiles fell on Ukrainian cities, nearly 400,000 Ukrainian civilians, mainly women and children, have fled into neighbouring countries. .....

All around Ukraine, non-Jews are seeking shelter from the war in Jewish communities' synagogues, out of a belief that the Russian army will not harm them. According to Yediot Aharonot, since the start of the fighting in Ukraine, thousands of non-Jews have arrived at synagogues requesting shelter. Rabbi Nachum Ehrentrau, rabbi of the city of Zaporizhia in southeastern Ukraine, said that anyone who asks to shelter in the synagogue is warmly welcomed. "We are in an area where there is fighting," he said. "In the synagogue there are 350-400 people concentrated together, most of them Jews and also non-Jews who...

Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk says the lesson from the war between Russia and Ukraine is that the period of American dominance is over. “One lesson of the Russian-Ukrainian war is that the era of US unipolar domination has ended. The US was not in a position to declare war on Russia because it is not the sole decision maker in international politics,” he claimed in a post on Twitter. He then added, “Here we can talk about the future of the Zionist entity,” meaning the future of the State of Israel. In a separate tweet, Abu Marzouk wrote,...

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There is a role words play in healing especially God's word that if people get a hold of they will be well on their way to receiving their healing. Because, words affect you spirit, soul, and body. In 3John 2 it says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. What do you prosper your soul with, words. In cases of Jesus healings he was known for saying, "According to your faith so be it done unto you" also "As thou hast believed so be it unto you" and...

Nuclear Explosion Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe by knowing what to do and being prepared if it occurs. A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. Nuclear devices range from a small portable device carried by an individual to a weapon carried by a missile. A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning. Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of...