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Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would. A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick. These are dark days for Europe.

A second round of talks aimed at ending Russia's attack on Ukraine is set to take place after the first meeting ended without resolution. The first set of talks, which were held in Belarus on Monday afternoon, ended with Kyiv slamming Russia' destructive processes'. A member of the Ukrainian delegation today said the discussions, which took five hours, were difficult and the Russian side was biased. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter: 'The Russian side, unfortunately, still has a very biased view of the destructive processes it has launched.' Russian officials, meanwhile, said: 'We have identified certain points from...

1:49 PM · Feb 25, 2022·Twitter Web AppTranscript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media)...

I’m a sucker for a vintage cookbook, and apparently so is Brian Theis, recipe developer, Instagram maven, and author of The Infinite Feast: How to Host the Ones You Love. This new cookbook has a spectacularly retro vibe, with midcentury-style illustrations and graphic design, and food photography that evokes the finest images in the Good Housekeeping oeuvre. The concept itself is rather retro, offering menus for fun, quasi-kitschy theme parties throughout the year. And, as you’d expect from a lifelong student of Creole food who calls New Orleans home, Theis’ recipes for a Mardi Gras jamboree are dynamite. Though Theis...

EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MARK 10:17-27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, a rich young man asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life. There is something absolutely right about the young man, something spiritually alive, and that is his deep desire to share in everlasting life. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to find it. Jesus responds to his wonderful question by enumerating many of the commandments. The young man takes this in and replies, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” So Jesus looks at him with love and says, “Go,...

Fox Business host Stuart Varney highlighted President Joe Biden’s culpability on inflation, and liberal media efforts to shield him from responsibility by shifting blame to the Russia-Ukraine war.

For the first time, more than half of Finns are in favour of their country joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Explanation: You don't have to look through a telescope to know where it's pointing. Allowing the telescope to project its image onto a large surface can be useful because it dilutes the intense brightness of very bright sources. Such dilution is useful for looking at the Sun, for example during a solar eclipse. In the featured single-exposure image, though, it is a too-bright full moon that is projected. This February full moon occurred two weeks ago and is called the Snow Moon by some northern cultures. The projecting instrument is the main 62-centimeter telescope at the Saint-Véran Observatory high in...

Orlando police have released body cam footage of an officer being attacked Thursday in the area of North John Young Parkway and West Harwood Street. Advertisement But police say they're still puzzled as to why it happened. They are still determining whether the suspect's attack was intentional or if he was suffering from a mental illness. "I think there's a lot more questions than answers when it comes to situations like this," Orlando police Chief Orlando Rolon said. The video shows 33-year-old James Mossetty facing down the officer who was working as a school crossing guard at the intersection. Orlando...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States announced Monday it is expelling 12 members of the Russian Mission at the United Nations, accusing them of being “intelligence operatives” engaged in espionage. The Biden administration's action came on the fifth day of Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which has sparked condemnation from the United States and dozens of other countries. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said in a statement that the Russian diplomats “have abused their privileges of residency in the United States by engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security.” Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia...

Was reading my e-Sword computer Bible and saw this: The Man of Lawlessness2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 Thessalonians 2:2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man...

Italian Bishops: The More Anti-Catholic the BetterFather Alberto Maggi, 76, an alleged biblical scholar, claimed that “hell does not exist," “Jesus never wrought miracles,” and “Christ never resurrected Lazarus.”Maggi is one of the faces of TV2000, the official broadcaster of the Italian Bishops. He is loved by apostates, secularists, oligarchs, and regime media activists.About Christ’s cursing of the fig tree, Maggi says, “Either Jesus was misguided, or the evangelist made him look bad or there is something else."For Maggi, “nobody” is condemned for all eternity. In other words, Hitler, Stalin, abortion workers, and child abusers are all happy in heaven.According...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges the European Union to grant his country immediate membership, as Russia's assault against the pro-Western country enters its fifth day.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Monday that his state would not deploy any National Guard members to the nation’s capital ahead of Tuesday’s planned State of the Union Address. DeSantis said that President Joe Biden had issued a request for governors to deploy members of the National Guard from their respective states, and he made it abundantly clear that he had no intention of doing so. Last week, the Biden Administration requested the assistance of State National Guards to deploy to Washington D.C. I have rejected this request — there will be no @FLGuard sent to D.C. for Biden’s...

When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no sense. Explaining my “no” vote on a bill to endorse the expansion, I said at the time: NATO is an organization whose purpose ended with the end of its Warsaw Pact adversary… This current round of NATO expansion is a political reward to governments in Georgia and Ukraine that came to power...

Washington — President Biden will reintroduce pieces of his domestic policy agenda when he addresses Congress during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night and highlight what he sees as his achievements during his first year in office, senior administration officials told reporters in a briefing call on Monday. "The president is proud of the administration's progress to date," and will continue to build on it, one official on the call said.

Vatican won’t cooperate with civil sex abuse trial of bishop friendly with Pope Francis: reportsBishop Zanchetta is accused of sexually abusing two seminarians, but the Vatican is dragging its heels in response to a formal request for files relating to his civil trial. (LifeSiteNews) — Reports are suggesting that the Vatican is refusing to cooperate with the civil trial of a bishop who is part of the Roman curia and a friend of Pope Francis, as he faces charges for sexual abuse in his native Argentina. Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, one of Pope Francis’ first appointments in 2013, was formally...

ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg is “untouchable” after the show suffered a ratings drop during her suspension, a source told the New York Post. The Post claims that a source revealed that Goldberg feels more emboldened than ever because ratings for the daytime talk show dropped in her absence. The source claimed that Goldberg “returned to work with a big grin on her face” due to the ratings drop. “She’s strutting around the place. She’s peacocking.” During her suspension, the Post reports the talk show dropped 283,000 viewers, resulting in a season-low for total viewers in key demographics. In...

As we come to the end of Black History Month, we should remember that the war on Black history has reached new heights in America. At the start of the month, a Montessori school in North Ogden, Utah, sent a letter to parents allowing them to opt out of having their children participate in Black history lessons. The school later backtracked on the plan after receiving backlash. Then came news that a counselor in Brown County, Indiana, had sent a memo to parents with a similar message. The superintendent for Brown County Schools said that the letter was “unauthorized” and...

With weightlifters and Miss Ukraine volunteering for duty, inquiring minds question the where abouts of the Ukrainian zealot Vindman brothers. The mystery was solved this afternoon when the DEA and FBI raided a crack house in Southwestern D.C. Agents scooped up Hunter Biden, the Vindman brothers and 60 crack whores. CIA agents arrived shortly after and had the entire crew released from custody as the DEA and FBI had stumbled upon a CIA operation. After escorting several Democratic Senators and Representatives out of the building, the CIA explained what was going on. The Vindman brothers and Hunter were recruiting crack...