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Before March had arrived, we witnessed the early probing of forward Russian troops into Ukraine. Initially, this force consisted of young inexperienced troops and old equipment. *snip* Ukraine begged for experienced Western fighting forces and their sophisticated weaponry to intervene to take on the might of the massive Russian heavily armed force in static formation before the heavy tanks began to roll. But that help was not forthcoming. *snip* Ukraine is, like Israel 1948, 1967, 1974, alone militarily. And if/when we finally act, whatever they receive may be too little too late. It pains me to see the obstinacy of...

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Across the entire political spectrum, America and the West generally have swallowed the “Putin is Hitler” bait even more completely than the covid bait. Western governments, politicians and grossly ignorant celebrities are now deliberately engendering and inflaming intense hatred of anything and anyone Russian. This attitude toward a nuclear armed nation, whose political and military leaders, within the memory of living man, experienced Nazi Germany’s war of annihilation against them, is foolhardy in the extreme. It is not only productive of immense danger to the entire planet, it is unjustified when the unfolding Ukraine tragedy is viewed in light of...

In Arizona, Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill, AZ SB 1037, to remove silencers, suppressors, “gun mufflers” from the list of prohibited weapons in Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3101. Here is the basic change: 8. “Prohibited weapon”:(a) Includes the following:(i) An item that is a bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces or mine and that is explosive, incendiary or poison gas.(ii) A device that is designed, made or adapted to muffle the report of a firearm.(iii) (ii) A firearm that is capable of shooting more than one shot automatically, without manual reloading, by a...

Megalomaniac tyrants with excellent propaganda capabilities always run the risk of believing their own lies. History constantly repeats itself. The world’s response to Russian President Putin's decision to attack Ukraine brings to mind Germany a hundred years ago. In January 1919, in spite of the efforts of American President Wilson, at Versailles near Paris, the French and British imposed on Germany brutal reparations for its role in WW1. The result was the collapse of the German economy, its population became impoverished, and lawlessness and chaos descended upon the country. When in 1933 Hitler was elected Chancellor, he brought Germany out...

Russian propaganda efforts have redoubled since Putin launched its aggression against Ukraine a week ago. Suddenly, a host of stories has appeared in conservative media that try to rally support for Vladimir Putin because he is allegedly fighting Nazis and the New Word Order in Ukraine. One of the worst examples is, perhaps, the Gateway Pundit, which has been duped into publishing stories by one Larry Johnson, whose only focus is the glorification of Russia and the smearing of Ukraine as a nation of Nazis. We could respond by advising Russia and its advocates to worry about their own neo-Nazi...

Dr. Ariyana Love joins the Stew Peter Show to discuss Putin's purging of bioweapon labs in Syria and now in Ukraine. Ariyana addresses the elephant in the room, and the question of whether Russia may be right to protect its country and conquer a corrupt government, especially after the Biden junta declared war on patriots and Christians at home. https://rumble.com/vwd553-putins-secret-war-ukrainian-bioweapon-labs-exposed.html

This is an exceptionally bad idea.Use massive economic sanctions; BOYCOTT Russian oil & gas; and provide military aid so the Ukrainians can defend themselves.But we should not be calling for the assassination of heads of state. https://t.co/crPGHw9xyJ— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 4, 2022

Here is a 1 minute and 50 second video that gets right to the point from Dr. Robert Malone. He was on Steve Bannon's show, The War Room.9 out of 10 DEAD are “Vaccinated” in the U.K. https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/03/a-summary-of-data-from-great-britain-reveals-that-9-out-of-10-people-dying-of-covid-are-vaccinated/

The New Jersey Freedom Convoy is making its way through the Garden State, from Bergen County to Salem County and everywhere in between. The hope behind the people coordinating the convoy is to bring New Jersey residents together and in their words -- get back our freedoms and protect future generations. “Our message is just freedom,” says Jackie Thomas, co-coordinator of NJ Freedom Convoy. New Jersey truck drivers, like Sadaya Morris, are gearing up for a statewide rally this weekend, hitting the road to fight for the freedoms they believe have been taken away during the pandemic. The co-coordinators emphasize...

The Internal Revenue Service plans to hire 10,000 employees in a push to cut into its backlog of tens of millions of tax returns by recruiting for jobs across the agency that have gone unfilled for years, according to four people familiar with the plan. The agency will accelerate recruiting in the coming weeks for 80 distinct positions, from entry-level clerical workers to advanced engineers and tax attorneys, one person familiar with the plan said. Among the recruiting targets are high-skill technology professionals to modernize its outdated infrastructure, according to those familiar with the plan, who spoke on the condition...

One of my earlier songs, remixed as jazzhop.

"Who'll rid the world of this ranting madman?" asks the Daily Mail. The paper says a "menacing TV address" given by President Putin "bore little relation to reality", including claims Russian forces were fighting to liberate Ukraine from "neo-Nazis".

Moldova officially applied for fast-track EU membership on Thursday (3 March), joining Ukraine and Georgia, its partners from the so-called Associated Trio, a week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Prompted by war in neighbouring Ukraine, Moldovan President Maia Sandu, the prime minister and the parliamentary speaker signed a formal application for her country to join the EU on Thursday. “It took 30 years for Moldova to reach maturity, but today the country is ready to take responsibility for its own future,” said Sandu, before holding up the signed document to the television cameras. “We want to live in peace,...

More than half of people with asthma are obese. These individuals do not respond well to standard therapies, but new research holds promise for improving asthma treatments for this population. "Our results provide innovative first steps toward a safe, efficacious and cost-effective strategy that may uniquely target obese asthma," the researchers wrote. In addition to responding poorly to standard therapies, people with obesity and asthma are hospitalized at higher rates. Weight loss is a typical recommendation to ameliorate the effects of obesity on asthma. However, short of surgical intervention, only about 15% of people can sustain 10% weight loss for...

(Reuters) - Ratings agency S&P Global on Thursday cut Russia's credit rating deeper into junk territory as fresh international sanctions triggered by its invasion of Ukraine, and the nation's own protective measures, ramped up default risk. S&P downgraded the sovereign rating to "CCC-minus" from "BB-plus" less than a week after dropping it from investment grade. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two, has thrown its financial markets into turmoil after several countries imposed sanctions and global brands exited the nation in droves. "The downgrade follows the imposition of measures that we believe...

Russian authorities will keep the Moscow stock market largely closed for a fifth straight day, as they continue to shield local shares from potentially severe selling pressure.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia will temporarily stop foreign investors from selling Russian assets to ensure they take a considered decision, not one driven by political pressure, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as Moscow responds to intensifying Western sanctions. Russia's huge sovereign wealth fund will also be pressed into action, spending up to 1 trillion roubles ($10.3 billion) to buy shares in Russian companies, a government decree showed, confirming an earlier report by Reuters. "In the current sanction situation foreign entrepreneurs are forced to be guided, not by economic factors, but to make decisions under political pressure," Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin...