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The Treasury Department on Monday banned transactions with the Central Bank of Russia and the Russian foreign investment fund, imposing strict financial sanctions on a Russian economy already in free fall. The new penalties effectively cut the Russian central bank from the U.S. dollar and severely limit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to dampen the blow of previous sanctions. U.S. individuals and businesses are now unable to make any financial transitions with or on behalf of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. The...

VIDEO AT LINK............... Ukraine National Guard Fighters Grease Bullets In Pig Fat for Chechen ‘Orcs’ The official (Twitter verified) Ukrainian National Guard account has posted a video of the AZOV battalion putting pork lard on their bullets to use against Muslim Chechens that are fighting against Ukraine right now. The literal translation of their post says — “Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs👊” The Checehn Republic, a Muslim-majority federal subject of the Russian Federation headed by Islamist strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, is reported to have sent forces to Ukraine to support President...

Big Tech companies are censoring conservative voices and crushing small businesses. Facebook and Twitter kicked President Donald Trump (while he was the incumbent) off their platforms. Google and Apple booted the conservative social media app Parler off their app purchasing platforms. Facebook censored the New York Post’s reporting on the origins of the Coronavirus, and who can forget how Twitter suspended the New York Post for accurately reporting on Hunter Biden’s corruption. Republicans in Congress are finally starting to take this seriously. Big Tech has banned President Trump from Facebook and Twitter, but allows blood-thirsty criminals like Vladimir Putin and...

The Western media is filled with stories of the brave Ukrainian people rising up to fight the evil Russians and the Russians are paying a terrible toll, or so we are told. But if you step back and look at what is actually transpiring you will note the following: Unlike the U.S. “shock and awe” unleashed on Baghdad in 2003, which caused significant civilian casualties and destroyed infrastructure and damaged power grids and destroyed bridges, the Russian military is avoiding hitting population centers. The power is still on in Kiev and Kharkiv last I checked. You are not seeing raging...

Jan 6 defendant Matthew Perna has reportedly committed suicide. American Greatness senior writer Julie Kelly broke the news Sunday morning. "If confirmed, this defendant committed no violent crime and walked through an open door with Capitol police present," Kelly wrote in the initial tweet. "Biden's DOJ has tried to destroy so many lives over the past year--they may have another victim," Kelly tweeted over the weekend. "If what I am hearing is true, the Biden regime and news media have blood on their hands." "When confirmed, this story should outrage every single American. And when I say these prosecutors are...

Goldman Warns Of Stagflationary Commodity Supply Shock On Ukraine, Raises Near-Term Brent Forecast To $115 One look at the surge in oil, gas and various other commodities like wheat, confirms what everyone by now knows: unleashing hell against Russia in the form of the nuclear SWIFT option coupled with central bank sanctions may crush the Russian economy but it will also will lead to a harrowing price shock for ordinary citizens across the globe coupled with the worst stagflationary episode in years. As Goldman writes in a late Sunday note, Western sanctions on Russia are set to tighten significantly after...

The FEMA website Ready.gov is warning Americans to maintain social distancing and to wear a mask in the event of a nuclear explosion: In case of a nuclear explosion, FEMA warns to try to keep 6 ft social distance and wear a mask for covid. You can’t make this up pic.twitter.com/LfxFX1dZoS — Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 27, 2022 And, yes, it’s real: https://t.co/wKlQ5zFfGf — Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 27, 2022 Amazing: Somebody got paid six figures of tax payer money to make these edits https://t.co/4b2DfBaKtb — Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 27, 2022 We’re really doomed, aren’t...

Higher prices for basketballs, lipstick, pacemakers and automobiles — brought to you by the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Biden Administration’s Green Energy policies and Putin’s foreign policy The International Monetary Fund (IMF) deemed the United States’ economy as the world’s largest in 2021, producing an estimated $22.94 trillion or 24.4% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The U.S. GDP is especially impressive considering the U.S. population is just over 333 million with a per capita GDP of roughly $68,700. When comparing Russia’s economy to ours, the U.S. economy is almost 13 times larger, as Russia produced a 2021...

Dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded after Russian rocket artillery opened fire on Ukraine's second-largest city, authorities in Kiev have said. Kharkiv, which has witnessed some of the heaviest fighting of the war so far, was hit by rockets fired from Russian positions on Monday - with video showing an area around a major shopping centre blanketed by explosions. Graphic images and video then revealed streets littered with the bodies of dead and badly wounded civilians, with other images showing spent shell cartridges laying in the streets and having fallen through apartment roofs. It marks one of...

28 February 2022Monday of week 8 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kharkiv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Peter 1:3-9 ©You did not see Christ, yet you love himBlessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ from the dead, so that we have a sure hope and the promise of an inheritance that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away, because it is being kept for you in the heavens....

resident Joe Biden has failed to deliver on my promise to unify the country or restore our reputation abroad, but he did follow through on his commitment to nominate an African American woman to the United States Supreme Court. In the middle of an international crisis he exacerbated, Biden announced his selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a far-left judge with an atrocious record on the bench. As Biden promised, Jackson was nominated due to her gender and race, not her judicial qualifications. This decision perverts the entire Supreme Court nomination process. Instead of choosing the best-qualified nominee for the most...

The world is watching anxiously as the Russian military moves deeper into Ukraine, expanding an invasion that began Wednesday night. Although the human cost of military action is incalculable, global stock markets in general reacted to the invasion with wide swings before closing modestly lower. This is consistent with their response to previous similar events that we outlined in articles on the conflict published on January 31, February 22 and February 24. The potential for global economic disruption from an invasion was most likely to come from sanctions. The chaos on the ground in Ukraine contrasts with the clarity on...

The biggest side effect from Putin’s debacle is that China is probably rethinking their plans to invade Taiwan this year. Discuss.

Russia's central bank said Monday that the Moscow Exchange wouldn't open for stock trading, the latest move to contain the financial fallout from President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 27, 1862. Second -- That Maj-Gen. JOHN A. DIX, commanding in Baltimore, and the Hon. EDWARDS PIERREPOINT, of New-York, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, for the purpose above mentioned, and they are authorized to examine, hear, and determine the cases aforesaid ex parte, and in a summary manner, at such times and places as in their discretion they may appoint, and make full report to the War Department. By order of the President. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 27. The rain last night was brief, and is succeeded to-day...

Matthew Perna was failed by the country he loved. atthew Perna did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021. The Pennsylvania man walked through an open door on the Senate side of the building shortly before 3 p.m. that afternoon. Capitol police, shown in surveillance video, stood by as hundreds of Americans entered the Capitol. Wearing a “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt, Perna, 37, left after about 20 minutes. Less than two weeks later, Perna was ensnared in what the former top U.S. prosecutor called a “shock and awe” campaign to round up Trump supporters and deter them from demonstrating at...

They are not just waging war in Ukraine. Parents around this country have started to unite and send a message to the rest of America-"We've had enough of Biden's America. We are mad as hell, and we're fighting back!" One of the major fronts for that battle is our schools! Parents are fighting mad at what is happening to their children. While Biden is trying to appease his far-left progressives, he's angered one of the largest and most powerful interest groups in this country-Parents! In fact, democrats seem to be doing everything they can to turn them into rabid conservatives....

Vladimir Putin's propagandist-in-chief has threatened the West with nuclear destruction just hours after the Russian leader put his deterrent forces on alert. Speaking on nation-wide TV amid a frenzy of anti-Western rhetoric, TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers: "Our submarines can shoot more than 500 nuclear warheads. This would guarantee destruction of the USA, and all other NATO countries. In accordance with the principle 'Why do we need the world, if Russia isn't there?' Today our Russian Nuclear Triad is on the high alert. Putin did warn [the West]. Do not try to scare Russia." In his Vesti Nedeli weekly...

As the Russian government remains silent about the number of losses it has incurred in its invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv is appealing directly to families of Russian soldiers to identify their relatives captured or killed in the four-day-old war. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry issued the appeal on February 27, directing relatives of Russian soldiers to online platforms where they can search through photos and videos of Russian soldiers captured or killed by Ukrainian forces. -snip- Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said the Russian government had been unresponsive about facilitating the return of Russian soldiers’ remains. “For that...

During Thursday's speech announcing ever greater sanctions on Russia, Joe Biden claimed, "The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine, without provocation, without justification, without necessity." This was a Western chauvinist point of view that does not take into account Russia's security concerns and historic grievances since the Soviet Union's defeat in the Cold War. There is another reading of history — one from a Russian chauvinist point of view — that Western governments and media turn a blind eye to, and that has inevitably led to the current conflict and the specter of a...