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President Donald Trump took a lot of heat from the mainstream, business and free-market Republicans for implementing tariffs against China and other countries. The common criticism was that it was a populist, anti-free market move. They pointed to it as evidence that he is a populist, not a conservative (I recently addressed the differences between populists and conservatives, showing the accusation to be a red herring). The MSM jumped on it even more, declaring — as if they are the authority — that Trump was going against Republicans. Was he? Look at history. The Founding Fathers imposed tariffs. The first...

A fearless Ukrainian man removed a land mine from a bridge with his bare hands while casually puffing on a cigarette, startling video shows. The viral footage viewed millions of times since surfacing online Sunday shows the unidentified daredevil springing into action in the southern port city of Berdyansk instead of waiting for Ukrainian bomb disposal units. One 38-second clip shows the courageous man, clad in jeans and a black coat with a cigarette precariously hanging from his lip, gripping the landmine with two hands after apparently finding it in a roadway. He then walks the device – which did...

While most of us get ready to watch the fireworks on this day of “Independence”, we will either see or be wearing the American flag. Something has to be said about the flag we pledge allegiance to. While we all know of the flag pictured above, it has a meaning. It is known as a “Military Flag” or a “War Flag. It’s only to be used during times of war, or when the country is engaged in or is under military rule. Even if all the wars ended and all we had was the occupations left, this flag would...

Read the full thread here…: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497537193346220038.html The first one says the truth: “No one wanted to come. But they told us, it’s war time, you’ll be the enemy of people. So we went – demoralized and unwilling. Like cannon fodder”. The others seem to agree. #RussiaGoHome #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/Z6tnCVJyv3 — olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) February 27, 2022

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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.