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Ukrainian Amb. Sergei Kyslytsya read out a screenshot of a text exchange between a Russian soldier and his mother from before he was killed during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

Former National Security Council Director for European Affairs U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian people resisting the Russian invasion could bring about the “beginning of the end” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Gutersloh (DPA/LNW)-Due to violations of the corona regulations, the police in Gutersloh interrupted a nightly service with around 100 people on Saturday. According to the police, around 100 adults and children of a religious community had met in a residential building for common prayer. About half of those present had neither been vaccinated, recovered nor tested and had to leave the house, said a police spokesman. In addition, the applicable rules of the Corona Protection Ordinance, such as distance and mask requirements were often not complied with...

Toyota Motor on Tuesday halted operations at all of its plants in Japan after a major supplier was hit by a cyberattack, disrupting the automaker's parts supply management system. The company is suspending 28 lines at 14 plants. Subsidiaries Hino Motors and Daihatsu Motor will also halt operations at some plants in Japan on Tuesday. The announcement that operations would be halted came on Monday, confirming an earlier Nikkei report. The automakers are still determining whether they will be able to return to normal operations after Wednesday. The shutdown will affect production of around 13,000 vehicles, or 4% to 5%...

Troops are trained in rote set pieces, with no time devoted to improvising if things don’t go as planned. Military operations designed to take place sequentially—Step 1, then 2, then 3, etc.—fell apart, catastrophically. If Step 2 hit a big obstacle, the by-the-book soldiers moved on to Step 3 anyway. Therefore, large troop-transport planes tried to land, even though the airport hadn’t been completely secured and Ukrainian air defense systems hadn’t been destroyed. As a result, two Il-76 transport planes, each carrying 100 airborne troops, were shot down. Tanks aren’t supposed to roll through hostile territory all alone. They need...

I am looking for a post earlier today, I believe, that was about fetal cells being used in the vaccines, after denying their use originally. Can someone help me find that article? Thanks!

ATLANTA - Bold carjackers shot at a woman who was slow to give up her car during a Sunday morning Buckhead carjacking. Fortunately the woman dove out of her car and was not injured. The alarming attack happened at 8:26am Sunday morning at the intersection of Peachtree and West Paces Ferry Roads. The female motorist was on East Paces Ferry Road at the red-light when she noticed two men who pulled behind her and jumped out trying to take her Nissan Sentra. When the woman attempted to drive off, the suspects started firing. The woman dove out of the car,...

"More than 5,000 Ukrainian troops have served in Iraq during Ukraine's five years of service in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. ... The Ukrainians served as the third-largest Coalition forces contingent in Iraq, with about 1,700 soldiers from 2003-2005."

Migrants Desecrate More Than 2,000 Churches Just in Greece"As a deeply religious society, these attacks on churches are shocking to the Greek people and calls to question whether these illegal immigrants seeking a new life in Europe are willing to integrate and conform to the norms and values of their new countries." — Greek City Times, May 16, 2020.While the report most likely has the 1453 sack of Constantinople (today Istanbul) in mind — when countless Greek churches, including Hagia Sophia, were desecrated, destroyed, or turned into mosques — that pattern is a century older.Before Christmas, in the North Rhine-Westphalia...

After years of opposition to a southern border wall and even a government shutdown to prevent one, congressional Democrats have become fond of physical barriers on their own doorstep as they deprive Americans of the same protection. On Sunday, the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed that the same perimeter fencing that surrounded the complex months after last year’s Jan. 6 riot would be restored ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday. “Out of an abundance of caution, and in conjunction with the United States Secret Service, a plan has been approved to put up the inner-perimeter...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a very big deal and a very bad thing. Permit me to stipulate that, before going on to observe that the event has also triggered the latest outbreak of mass hysteria among the Western ruling class, the severest yet. Just when sobriety, responsibility, probity, and diplomatic skill are most needful, our pundits and policymakers offer the opposite: trembling emotion, cheap propaganda, wild fantasies, a refusal to dialogue and de-escalate. And the worst part is: It’s all so damned familiar. Once more, we are falling—or rather, being driven—into structural information traps that hamper sound decision-making and...

Nearly 200 Rocklin Unified School District educators called in sick or took leave Monday, protesting their district’s last-minute defiance of state-imposed K-12 mask mandates. An angry Rocklin Teachers Professional Association in a statement Monday afternoon said its teachers learned the district’s board held a special Feb. 23 meeting ahead of its regularly scheduled March 2 meeting on a day’s notice and during the district’s President’s Week break to adopt a new mask enforcement policy. “While there are varying opinions on masking in our community and our schools, the issue teachers are most concerned about is the lack of respect for...

SACRAMENTO, CA — There was a massive police response to a reported active shooter at a church in the Arden area of Sacramento County Monday evening. The scene is near Wyda Way and Ethan Way — the site of ‘The Church in Sacramento.’ Police have provided few details. Although, scanner reports indicated ‘multiple people down.’

Anumber of popular stories chronicling Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s ongoing invasion – including those promoted by U.S. Congressmen, media outlets, and even conservatives online – have turned out to be false, despite garnering millions of shares and likes. The viral, fake stories come amidst social media platforms rolling out robust “fact-checking” operations, often used to swiftly censor stories counter to establishment narratives or critical of the Democratic Party. These programs, however, have routinely failed to flag the following stories as false with the same tenacity. 1. The Snake Island “Martyrs.” Thirteen Ukrainian border guards stationed on the country’s Snake Island,...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: USCG Training Center Cape May, New JerseyUnited States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May (TRACENCM) is the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps and is the Coast Guard's only enlisted accession point and recruit training center, located in Cape May, New Jersey.Training Center Cape May is the 5th largest base in the Coast Guard and the sole accession point for the entire enlisted workforce. This is why the training center is considered the birthplace of the enlisted corps and Cape May County, the Coast Guard’s Hometown. Training Center Cape May’s mission is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union speech to launch a major overhaul of nursing home quality, including minimum staffing levels and steps to beef up inspections while continuing to keep COVID-19 at bay. White House officials on Monday outlined more than 20 separate actions, many of them sought by advocates and opposed by the industry. One major missing element: New sources of federal financing to pay for the ambitious upgrade. The cornerstone of Biden’s nursing home plan is a new requirement for minimum staffing levels. He’s ordering the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Video posted on YouTube 4 days ago shows footage of the plane hitting the second WTC tower. It’s footage that will be very difficult for some of the dumber conspiratards to explain.

A study of Maricopa County’s mail ballots in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election estimates that more than 200,000 ballots with mismatched signatures were counted without being reviewed, or “cured” — more than eight times the 25,000 signature mismatches requiring curing acknowledged by the county. Commissioned by the Arizona State Senate, the signature verification pilot study was conducted by Shiva Ayyadurai’s Election Systems Integrity Institute, which released its final report to the public on Tuesday. Ayyadurai is an engineer and entrpreneur with four degrees from MIT who bills himself as the inventor of email, a claim which critics have alleged is exaggerated....

"As tens of thousands marched across the nation on Saturday, and as the Parliament protest hits the three-week mark since the occupation began, many are asking when on earth will this end?> Protests are disruptive, and they're inconvenient to many. That's their very nature" The Freedom And Rights Coalition Media Release Monday 2/28/2022 As the protest continues in the capital city of Wellington with protest camps in other major cities and smaller communities across New Zealand a deadline was set for Tuesday morning at 10 am... Police Removed Shower Block in Wellington Camp Overnight That's what The New Zealand Herald...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The White House has announced President Joe Biden will be skipping out on this year's State of the Union address, which will instead feature a 90-minute broadcast of a dumpster engulfed in flames. Both houses of congress are expected to assemble as usual as the raging dumpster fire roars into a microphone.House Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker will light the dumpster at the commencement of the address. Members of Congress are then expected to applaud in a partisan manner as the cathartic flames burn brightly into the night. According to sources, this is the first act of Biden's...