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Andrew Walls, 26, was slapped with weapons and assault charges after he was seen on video sucker-punching a woman outside a bar in Akron, Ohio. A chapter leader in the far-right Proud Boys extremist gang was charged with assault Sunday in Akron, Ohio, after he was recorded shouting racial epithets at a black woman and then sucker-punching her in the face. A man police identified as Andrew Walls, 26, was caught on video outside a bar in the early hours of Sunday, stumbling and scuffling with other patrons while spewing a torrent of racial slurs. His victim, 23-year-old Cameron Morgan,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) called President Biden's Strategy for handling the war in Ukraine "brilliant." Asked to briefly describe the strategy, she said "no one knows what it is. That's what makes it brilliant. The incoherence of simultaneously announcing sanctions, but continuing to purchase oil from Russia defies comprehension. The combination of talking tough while avoiding any effective countermeasures has got to be driving Putin nuts." Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bolstered the Democrat meme by asserting that "the President's response has been well executed. He has been able to rally our NATO allies to echo his tough...

Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks, scientists warned in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on Monday. This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction, said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC while releasing the report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability'. It shows that climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet. Our actions today will shape how people adapt and nature responds to...

Monday, February 28, marks HIV Criminalization Awareness Day (HCAD) 2022. The first-annual event is spearheaded by the Sero Project, a nonprofit that fights HIV crime laws, along with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and other HIV advocacy groups across the globe. ... HIV criminalization refers to the use of unfair laws to target people who have HIV—notably, African-American, Latino and LGBTQ people and women—and punish them because of their HIV status, not because of their actions. Under outdated laws, people with HIV can be sentenced to prison in cases where HIV was not transmitted, simply for allegedly not disclosing their...

On Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the early morning hours, before dawn, Russian artillery began bombarding Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv. A few weeks earlier, as Vladimir Putin was ostentatiously amassing troops on the border, I had sent an email to two journalist friends in Kyiv. “Ia s vami,” I wrote in Russian. I’m with you. “We’re always mobilized,” one wrote back, “and ready to work, whatever comes.” ....snip.... During World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil war that followed, Kyiv was occupied by five different armies. In the 1930s, Stalin engineered a famine that killed more than...

One of the questions asked over and over about Putin’s callous invasion of an inoffensive neighbor, an invasion that is mysteriously rationalized by an amazing number of people on the right who were apoplectic over Trudeau’s brutality with the Freedom Convoy, is what was his objective. It’s obvious that he was torqued about Ukraine flirting with EU and NATO membership, but if he wanted regime change, a few million dollars, an AstroTurfed mob, and a GRU or Spetsznaz hit squad could have accomplished that (look at how easily Putin installed his previous stooge, Yanukovych) with much less melodrama and loss...

Many of us may find we have acquired too many possessions that clutter our living spaces, but refuse to part with things "in case we might need them". Although having too much stuff is something many of us can relate to, for some people, a persistent difficulty parting with possessions can become a problem: hoarding. When these tendencies significantly impair somebody's quality of life, this leads to a condition called hoarding disorder. Curiously, understanding how hoarding manifests and how it relates to other difficulties in everyday life has not received much attention until recently. Only in 2013 was hoarding disorder...

Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday that it will adopt minimum wages that range from $15 to $24 an hour, with the highest pay going to hires in the most competitive markets. It currently pays a universal starting wage of $15 an hour.

Sanctions on Russia are ‘for losers'; chances of Fed tightening just tanked - Steve Hanke

MELBOURNE, Australia (LifeSiteNews) —The Victorian government has opened its $200 million quarantine camp at Mickleham in Melbourne’s north. The government is claiming it will be used to replace hotels and become Victoria’s only quarantine site from April. It says the first cohort of “unvaccinated international travellers” has been checked in. If there is one clear message from the behaviour of the Victorian government over the last two years, it is that nothing it says can be taken at face value. Either the quarantine camps are a waste of money or there is a darker motive. As someone who has spent...

As Joe Biden heads off to Delaware for the weekend, the Biden administration is preparing to send US Border Patrol agents to Poland in order “to assist” with processing the wave of Ukrainian citizens who are fleeing the country following Russia’s ongoing assault. Yes, really. Despite millions of invaders pouring across the US Southern Border since he took office, including hundreds of thousands of illegals every month, Biden is depleting our already severely understaffed Border to the frontlines of Ukraine. On Thursday, the US Customs and Border Patrol office of field operations sent a memo to agents asking for volunteers...

The head of MI6, who includes his preferred pronouns in his Twitter bio, faced backlash for suggesting that a large part of the war in Ukraine was about “LGBT+ rights.” Yes, really. Richard Moore (he/him), leader of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, made the comments in a Twitter thread. “With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022,” he wrote. Introducing P: “I had to move for the job when I...

Ukrainian MP... "We are fighting for the New World Order."

MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu signed an executive order Saturday directing the state Liquor and Wine Outlets to remove Russian-made and branded spirits. Sununu said the move is mainly symbolic, but the Russian liquor industry could be impacted if other states follow New Hampshire's lead. "We see whats happening. People are losing their lives," Sununu said. "It's unprovoked aggression, and if we can get New Hampshire to do their part and take these products off of the Russian shelves—I dont know anyone buying that garbage right now, frankly—its a good thing and its a step we can...

- The Washington Times - Monday, February 28, 2022 Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., have reinstalled a perimeter fence around the U.S. Capitol “out of an abundance of caution” ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. The barrier, which mirrors the structure erected in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, features a metal fence with concrete barricades. The decision to resurrect the security measure was made by the U.S Capitol Police in consultation with the Secret Service and comes amid concerns that demonstrations or trucker convoys headed toward the...

Donald Trump holds a large lead of 52 points in a potential Republican primary, according to a Harvard/Harris poll released Sunday. Polling at 63 percent, Trump leads his nearest potential competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), by 52 points. DeSantis polled at 11 percent with Trump in the potential 2024 field. Mike Pence came in at ten percent, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at three percent, Mike Pompeo at two percent, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) at one percent, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at one percent.

Nigeria's government has condemned reports that its citizens, and those of other African countries, have been stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine. Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were "not tending to Africans". "We've been chased back, we've been hit with police armed with sticks," he told the BBC. South African foreign office official Clayson Monyela also said students had been "badly treated" at the border. There have also been numerous reports of Ukrainian security officials preventing Africans from catching buses and trains going to the border. Osemen, from Nigeria, told the...

Joe Biden is nowhere to be found on the world stage. As the Russia and Ukraine conflict continues to rage on Joe Biden remains in Delaware. From Fox News: President Biden remains at his private home in Delaware as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate. Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the alert status for his nuclear forces to “special regime of combat duty” as Russia and Ukraine battle for the fourth day. Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat...

The state of New York will lift its school mask mandate on Wednesday, marking a potential end to the Empire State’s coronavirus restrictions. Citing recent guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said that much of the state can be classified as “low risk,” setting the stage for new policies. Counties with high rates of transmission will be allowed to determine their own set of policies.

Oh Atlanta! Fed, that is. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow Q1 real-time GDP index fell to 0.631%. And the Atlanta Fed REAL wage tracker fell to -2.38 growth. Volatility reigns supreme on the energy front (look at NYM Dubai crude AVAT!) And coal is up 18.68% this morning. Here is a map of gas and oil pipelines in Europe.