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On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. snip By the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland; gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey. The total losses constituted 1 million square miles of Russia’s former territory; a third of its population or 55 million people; a majority of its coal,...

This is how Trump handled Russians. Mike Pompeo, the head of the CIA and President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, confirmed on Thursday that the US military killed hundreds of Russians in an intense fight in Syria. The US had previously only confirmed killing 100 or so pro-Syrian regime forces, but multiple outlets reported the number was as high as 300 and that the soldiers were Russian military contractors.

Among the many myths about Canada that have been shattered is the old chestnut that, unlike the U.S., with its cutthroat Darwinian ethos, Canada is a largely egalitarian and compassionate society—the kind of place where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “sunny ways” rule. The Freedom Convoy and the government’s heavy-handed response (“Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Tyranny,” Review & Outlook, Feb. 23), invoking the Emergencies Act to subdue peaceful civil disobedience, has cast into sharp relief class divisions bubbling under the superficially egalitarian surface of the Canadian self-image. The class dimension becomes evident from the demeaning and charged language used by politicians and...

[H/T ExTexasRedhead]"I Wanna Know Who's Going to Jail for Murder First" | Pfizer Data Shows Vaccine Mortality Rate of 3% (rumble.com)

THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY LUKE 9:22-25 Friends, our Gospel today lays out Jesus’ conditions for discipleship. For all of us sinners, to varying degrees, our own lives have become god. That is to say, we see the universe turning around our ego, our needs, our projects, our plans, and our likes and dislikes. True conversion—the metanoia that Jesus talks about—is so much more than moral reform, though it includes that. It has to do with a complete shift in consciousness, a whole new way of looking at one’s life. Jesus offered a teaching that must have been gut-wrenching to his...

How can an administration claim to be so committed to the idea of families … and so oblivious to the rights of parents to care for and protect their own? To be sure, the president and his team don’t lack for projects designed, ostensibly, to help the families of America. In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, the president outlined a near-exhaustive list of objectives, including replacing “poisonous lead pipes,” providing “clean water to drink at home and at school,” reducing the costs of energy and pharmaceuticals, cutting the costs of child care, and extending the Child Tax Credit....

President Joe Biden tore into Texas' 'cynical and dangerous' plan to investigate the parents of transgender children seeking gender affirming medical treatments, saying it amounted to 'weaponizing child protective services against loving families.' 'This is government overreach at its worst,' Biden said in a statement Wednesday night, saying Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's directive came about 'just to score political points.' Abbott was on the Republican primary ballot Tuesday - and handily won his race against a number of challengers to his political right.

A Virginia substitute teacher has been suspended after expressing approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine and urging students to read Russian propaganda outlets including Sputnik News. Arlington Public Schools suspended John Stanton, 65, who made the comments during an eighth-grade Spanish lesson on Friday at Swanson Middle School. Stanton told the Washington Post he offered an opposing viewpoint about Russia's barbaric invasion of Ukraine for the first 10 minutes of a 90-minute class while expressing approval of Putin's decision to invade.

While Russia wages a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery, according to an official military presentation on the subject obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

A top Russian general has been killed amid bitter fighting in Ukraine in what represents a major blow to the Russian invasion. Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, who was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of Russia's Central Military District, died yesterday as Ukrainian defence forces repelled the Russian offensive. His death has not yet been officially confirmed by Russia's Ministry of Defence, but was announced on social media by his colleague Sergey Chipilyov and was widely reported by several Russian and Ukrainian news outlets. A military source confirmed that he was killed 'by a sniper', and suggested...

Due to a regular surface structure on the mussel "Adamussium colbecki" ice adheres to it only very weakly and can be easily washed away by currents. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAntarctic waters have conditions in which objects and living creatures can freeze even under water. This is a major problem for marine travel in polar regions. So-called supercooled water has a temperature just below the freezing point. Due to the high salt content, water in Antarctica has a freezing point of about -1.9 °C, but is about 0.05 °C colder. The smallest disturbances such as grains of...

So many people who are posting actively on Ukraine argue as follows: 1. We all hate George Soros, Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab. 2. All of those people and many others whom we also despise support Zelensky and the Ukraine and oppose Putin. 3. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. 4. Therefore we should not oppose Putin’s actions in Ukraine and 5. Anyone who does oppose Putin is a neo-con fool who wants to send other people’s sons into a pointless and bloody war in Eastern Europe to a. Distract from other evil scheme they are carrying out...

Is peaceful dissent to be shut down merely because it is politically incorrect and goes against the elite’s view of what is just and unjust? In his End of the Day Report, Gary Bauer often notes that the left doesn’t want to win the debate. The left wants to shut the debate down. We can see an example of that in the recent case of the rise and fall of the peaceful protests of the Canadian truckers. For the first time since it was passed in 1988, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to shut down the...

Greek-Italian Australian libertarian Monica is what Pat Buchanan called a conservative of the heart. She rejects the war mongering establishment and is a leader of the White Army component of the Canberra convoy which occupied the nation's capital. She also opposed the false imprisonment of Novak Djokovic in January. "Sloboda Is Freedom – FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY" https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2022/01/17/sloboda-is-freedom/

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Evidence has emerged which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the pharmaceutical giant Moderna, the company that has made billions through the sale of an experimental Covid-19 injection, actually created the Covid-19 virus. On February 23 the Daily Mail ran an article showing that Moderna has patented the 19 base letter (nucleotide) sequence which codes for the Furin Cleavage...

How can the New York Times possibly read and “debunk” a 136 page report on voter fraud, all on the same day that the report was published?This is a New York Times article that was published on March 1, 2022. The article is called, “Wisconsin Republicans’ Election Report Endorses Debunked Legal Theories.” The New York Times article starts out by saying: (the bolding is mine)“A Republican report on the 2020 election in Wisconsin endorsed a host of debunked claims of fraud”Note the word “debunked.”The New York Times article includes this link to the report.The report is dated March 1, 2022.The...

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was mocked online after comparing herself and progressive Democrats to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his people fighting off a Russian invasion.

Q: Is Russia a communist country? A: No. The Communist Party was banned in 1993. Article 13 of Russia's new constitution says “No ideology may be established as a state or obligatory one” Q: Is Putin a communist? A: No. Putin has condemned communism and historical communist leaders as treasonous in many interviews. He would be put to death for this if Russia was communist. See links below. Q: Is Russia still the USSR? A: No. Russia reorganized into the Russian Federation after 1991. Q: What form of government is Russia now? A: Russia is a semi-presidential republic which includes...

udge sentenced Loyd to death for murder of Orlando police Lt. Debra ClaytonConvicted cop killer Markeith Loyd was sentenced to death by a judge Thursday morning for the murder of Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton in 2017. Judge Leticia Marques made her final decision months after a jury recommended the death penalty for Loyd, 46. Loyd was found guilty on five charges, including first-degree murder, in the shooting death of Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton outside a Walmart in 2017 while he was on the run for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, in December 2016. Orlando police officers who...

Joy Behar, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” fell on stage while attempting to sit on a swivel chair as the show opened on Thursday morning. The other co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines and Sony Hostin, rushed to help Behar get up off the floor.