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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has jolted Europe’s slow-moving efforts to wean itself off Russian natural gas, but time is running out, threatening to leave consumers cold and factories idle by next winter. Whether the Kremlin turns off the taps in retaliation for sanctions or Europe stops buying, European policy makers agree that they need to prepare for a future with much less Russian energy, if any. Untethering Europe’s gas market from Russia would represent a monumental change for a continent that has grown so reliant on gas from the Siberian permafrost that it has built little infrastructure...

Paraphrased: Emergency Measures take precedence over the "Rule of Law"?

Russia and Ukraine will hold a third round of talks on Monday about ending hostilities, Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamiya said in a Facebook post on Saturday, without providing further details.

More than 800 Marines have been discharged for refusing vaccination. The Army is expected to dismiss about 3,300 soldiers for refusing vaccination. The Air Force has dismissed more than 40. Thousands of workers have been fired for declining vaccination. Mayor Eric Adams has fired over 1400 workers opting out of vaccination. Thousands of health care workers have been fired for not complying with vaccine mandates. The Mayo Clinic has fired more than 700 for the same. Thousands more have quit rather than be jabbed. Some states refuse unemployment benefits to those refusing vaccination. In October Biden said first responders and...

JERUSALEM (LifeSiteNews) — Fully 66% of Israelis surveyed say they had adverse reactions to a COVID-19 booster jab. Israel carried out a survey of 2,049 of its citizens 3 to 4 weeks after they received a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to determine the scope of adverse reactions caused by the jab. The survey was conducted by telephone through September and October of 2021. Only people over 18 who had recently been vaccinated with a third dose of the COVID vaccine (that is, within a period of 21 to 30 days after vaccination) were interviewed. The interviews were carried...

Over the last two years, I have come to realize that “journalism” and “journalists” seem to have changed in some fundamental way. I used to believe that there were standards and bedrock ethics which all journalists working for major publications ascribed to. I guess I had thought that the stereotype of the intrepid journalist toiling away in a brave and unending quest for truth was the norm (think “All the President’s Men”). But no longer. Now I feel so naive for ever believing that. What I have personally experienced, again and again, is something very different. Allow me three general...

Takeaways from our call this morning with President @ZelenskyyUa #StandWithUkraine️ pic.twitter.com/V4boEuvHQj— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 5, 2022

“I’m out here [in Utah] mainly to endorse and campaign for my friend Mike Lee. When people ask me who am I closest to ideologically in the Senate without question, it’s Mike Lee,” said Paul. “Obviously, we’re keeping a close eye on everything happening in Ukraine. . . . You’ve often talked about the fact that the debt and the deficit spending we continue to have is also a form of national security that we’ve been ignoring for too long,” Boyd said. “Yeah, I think — without question — our debt is probably the greatest threat to our national security,”...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quick to cast blame as war unfolded in Ukraine. On MSNBC last week, she blasted former President Trump for “giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin” with an offhand remark that the Russian president was a “genius.” Mrs. Clinton conveniently omitted mention that not too long ago, she and her husband had raked in millions working both sides of a Russia-Ukraine grift. Judicial Watch broke the story of former president Bill Clinton’s multi-million-dollar haul from speech fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy. In a joint investigation with the Washington Examiner,...

VIDEOI've been hearing about it but I finally got a sous vide. Inexpensive since I don't need all the bells and whistles such as pairing with my phone so I can operate it remotely which I don't understand since I have to be there to place the vacuum sealed meat in the container.Here is my first attempt at using the sous vide in which I cook corned beef. I had a few minor rough patches which almost inevitably happens when you use a new piece of equipment. After a couple of tries I got the timer set right and I...

Two days ago, Chris Pandolfo at Blaze Media revealed that his media organization had filed FOIA requests regarding the Biden Administration’s covert funding of the deadly new vaccines and the American corporate media. What they discovered will certainly shock you — and it’s a crucial story that our corrupt media will work hard to make the least covered and least discussed news story of the year.

TREY GOWDY: Why do you think Putin is doing this? What is his end game? COL. DOUG MACGREGOR: Well, Vladimir Putin is carrying through on something that he has been warning us about at least for the last 15 years, which is he will not tolerate U.S. forces or missiles on his borders. Much as we would not tolerate Russian missiles or troops in Cuba. And we ignored him and he finally acted. He was not going to allow Ukraine, under any circumstances, to join NATO.

A cease-fire was planned in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and in Volnovakha on Saturday morning to allow for humanitarian evacuations. But the life-saving effort stalled amid reports that Russian shelling continued. Meanwhile, Russian media outlet RIA Novosti carried a claim from Russia's defense ministry that the firing came from inside both communities against Russian positions. Heavy fighting has raged for days in Mariupol. At a hospital, one father was seen sobbing over the body of his 16-year-old son — deaths that could have been prevented, Ukraine insists, if NATO enforced a no-fly zone over Ukraine. It decided...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Access to Western news outlets—including parts of Voice of America and the BBC—were blocked by Russia’s media watchdog on Friday. Moscow restricted several sites over “deliberate and systematic circulation of materials containing false information,” the media regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement. Requests to block the news websites were made on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Agence-France Presse reported. Since that date, Moscow has ordered media to refer to the war as a “special military operation.” The regulator has issued dozens of warnings to independent media, ordering them to remove content or risk being fined or blocked. The...

John Kerry, Joe Biden's "climate czar" who famously scolded those who criticized him for taking a gas-guzzling private jet to Iceland to collect a "climate change leadership award," saying that was the "only choice for someone like me," is being blasted for now posturing as "Putin's useful idiot." Useful "climate" idiot, that is. It is Rupert Darwall, a senior fellow at RealClearFoundation and an author of a book on the green agenda, who wrote at Real Clear Energy about Kerry, who has made multiple statements since Russia invaded Ukraine and started killing civilians that he was concerned about the emissions...

The left-wing group Democratic Socialists of America has been under fire over the weekend after calling for the dissolution of NATO's Western alliance and blaming the United States' 'imperialist expansionism' for Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine. DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict. 'We call on antiwar activists in the US and across the world to oppose violent escalations, demand a lasting diplomatic solution, and stress the crucial need to accept any and all refugees resulting from this crisis.' The statement ended: 'No...

A New Jersey shoplifting gang who swiped $90,000 worth of purses from an East Hampton Balenciaga store was arrested after a 90mph car chase that ended when they popped a tire and tried fleeing into some nearby woods. East Hampton Village Police said three men and two women entered the luxury store on Thursday at 1.30pm, grabbing bags off the shelves in under 30 seconds and making off in a black Dodge Durango. New York State Troopers chased after the vehicle on the Long Island Expressway, and after the getaway car popped a dire, the suspects got out and fled...

The battle hardened defenders of Kharkiv broke the siege today as they have destroyed the breakthrough units that had surrounded Kharkiv! This has cut off the Russian's initial plans, and we will have to see what tomorrow brings with those developments. This stream goes live around 10 PM EST every night until the war is over. If you want to keep up to date on all the news I have found from across Ukraine make sure to subscribe so you can stay up to date. There is also a link charitable causes to help Ukraine, as well as my discord...

Two women accused of running a fight club at an assisted living residence in North Carolina are being spared jail time despite being convicted of encouraging dementia patients to fight and then filming the results. Police said that Marilyn Latish McKey, 35, and Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 28, were arrested in October 2019, following a report in June of that year of elderly abuse at the Danby House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. McKey pleaded guilty to two counts of assault on an individual with a disability and Jordan pleaded guilty to one count of assault on an individual with a disability,...