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WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia and could face up to 10 years in prison after customs officers found "vapes" containing hashish oil in her luggage back in February, reports say. The Russian Federal Customs Service released a statement Saturday confirming that an American "two-time Olympic basketball champion" had been taken into custody in February after a narcotics' dog at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow alerted the athlete’s luggage.

Translation: Putin’s hand goes through microphone. Did the dictator record this video through chroma-key?

A serial cat killer was released early from a Santa Clara County jail this week. Robert Roy Farmer was sentenced to serve 16 years behind bars in 2017 for killing and mutilating cats around the Cambrian Park neighborhood in San Jose. Investigators believe he mutilated and killed at least 18 cats. Several other felines were injured. He was eligible for supervised early release after serving less than half of his sentence. Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Alexandra Gadeberg said she is concerned. “These were heinous crimes that understandably caused so much pain, fear, outrage and heartache in our community....

Germany unveiled more details Saturday on its plan to build its first liquefied natural-gas terminals as it seeks to wean itself off its dependence on Russian gas. The terminals are the latest step in Berlin’s diversification efforts that have been urgently ramped up in recent days following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Germany gets around 55% of its gas from Moscow and has long been resistant to diversifying away from cheap and plentiful Russian energy supplies.

“They didn’t have badges, they didn’t have numbers…[some] could not speak English” – Iconic Cafe Owner Enrico KuhnDuring the Truckers Freedom Convoy, Ottawa’s aptly-named Iconic Cafe defied leftist authoritarians by refusing police “enforcers” entry to their establishment. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s soldiers warned owners Enrico and Deborah Kuhn that they would “go to jail” and their windows would be smashed if they did not allow the police to come in “for inspection”.But the owners stood their ground.A video of the viral February 20, 2022 incident inspired those who desire freedom from coronavirus tyrants. Iconic Cafe owner Enrico Kuhn was interviewed...

George Soros the world agitator, who has manipulated the most vulnerable people in each free nation across the globe, has at last been outed by people who have had enough. I believe that the internet has much to do with bringing George Soros out of the shadows, and into the light. “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God” (John 3:20-21). NASB...

In one of his last major acts in Congress, retiring U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois, has likely helped correct a century-old wrong. Rush is the chief sponsor of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which passed the U.S. House 422-3 last week and now awaits Senate approval. If the bill becomes law, any hate crime — or conspiracy to commit one — that results in a victim being seriously injured or killed could be also federally prosecuted as a lynching. Conviction under the act carries a maximum of 30 years in prison. We can certainly see the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act...

As the civilian death toll mounts in Ukraine and the world prepares for unspeakable crimes against humanity yet to come, the Biden administration said Friday it’s close to announcing a Russian-brokered deal with Iran that will flood the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism with billions of dollars and leave Tehran on the nuclear weapons threshold. While the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was bad enough, the coming deal is even worse. Much has changed in the years since the Obama administration entered the old Iran deal — an agreement that let Iran keep enriching uranium, developing nuclear-capable missiles and sponsoring...

A massive wildfire that broke out in South Korea's eastern coastal county of Uljin forced President Moon Jae-in to order all-out efforts to protect the nearby Hanul Nuclear Power Plant on Friday, March 4, 2022. The government issued a natural disaster alert after a wildfire broke out in the county of Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province on Friday, about 10 km (6.2 miles) from the Hanul Nuclear Power Plant.1 "Place the top priority on preventing casualties and put every possible effort into swiftly putting out the fire," Moon told officials after being briefed on the wildfire. Dozens of helicopters and about...

Shocking battlefield footage from today shows Ukrainians cheer and applaud as they appear to shoot down two Russian aircraft in the Chernihiv and Mykolaiv oblasts as forces were also earlier said to down a Russian helicopter near Kyiv.

If you dare to step out of line, there are grave consequences for you, ranging from attacks on your character, removal from your careers and community, to imprisonment.The Russia/Ukraine war is the Globalist’s latest excuse to control the information battle-space, target individuals who disobey or contradict their narratives and strip people of their most fundamental rights. An astonishing example took place Thursday evening on Australian Television.During the ABC show Q&A, pro-Russia man Sasha Gillies-Lekakis, a 22-year-old Spanish and Latin American Studies student from the University of Melbourne, criticized the networks reporting about Ukraine. Presenter Stan Grant then ordered the man...

It’s pretty straightforward. When everyone is looking up. Keep your eyes in the ground. Just a reminder: Pfizer documents the FDA wanted sealed until 2097, are being released today. The war is a distration. I am not going to get my two bits in about, but can’t help feel something unusual in regard to the timing if it all.. I find it amazing how Putin has managed to eradicate Covid in just a few days, but it’s important to keep a close on on what’s slipping under the radar. On Page 3 of the following document, the judge orders for...

During his State-of-the-Union speech, president Biden made yet another attempt to exploit the death of his “heroic” son Beau from brain cancer. Unlike his disgraced son Hunter who was discharged from the Navy for drug abuse, Beau was deployed to Iraq in 2008. In 2015 he died of brain cancer, which his father speculated may have been caused by exposure to toxic smoke from “burn pits.” The President’s intent was to show that he, too, has experience the pain of loss from a war. This tale of woe marked the 1,000th time the president has referred to the loss of...

America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has published and promoted an interview with a renowed Neo-Nazi Ukrainian mayor, without disclosing the politician’s allegiances to World War II German leader Adolf Hitler and Ukraine’s own Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera. The interview comes just days after PBS published an article downplaying the links between Neo-Nazi politicians and Ukraine’s current political situation. On Thursday, March 4th, PBS hosted Mayor Artem Semenikhin of Konotop in the country’s North East. Semenikhin described the Russian military as “cockroaches” before going on to thank the United States for supplying his people with weapons. “My weapon is American, and...

The aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaule (©Navy) It was deployed Thursday, March 3, 2022 in the evening for “deterrent” missions: the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier comes into play in the war in Ukraine announced the Minister of the Armed Forces Françoise Parly. Our aircraft carrier is currently heading for the Mediterranean to approach Romania on Sunday, so that French planes can fly over the north of the country. But in fact, what will the Charles-de-Gaulle be used for ? More than 20 years of activity Ordered in 1986 to replace the aircraft carrier Clemenceau, the Charles-de-Gaulle was assembled at the Brest shipyards before...

Accompanied by Russian-speaking minister and top aides, Orthodox PM makes rare trip on Shabbat to meet with Russian leader, having offered to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv Prime Minister Naftali Bennett traveled to Moscow on Saturday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine. According to a statement from the Prime Minister's office, the two have been meeting for 2.5 hours...

Ukraine launched a website Saturday where foreigners can apply directly if they want to go to Ukraine and fight against Russian invaders. President Volodymyr Zelensky says the country received thousands of applications since he put out the call for a new self-styled International Legion on Feb. 27 — and he’s expecting more than 16,000 foreign volunteers to join the cause. In many ways, Ukraine’s International Legion harkens back to the International Brigades, the storied volunteer formations fighting for the Republican Government during the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1938, the Kyiv Independent reported Saturday.

For years Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have targeted Tesla founder Elon Musk with false accusations about his tax burden. Warren has been particularly vicious in recent months and has repeatedly said Musk pays "no taxes." This is a lie. Musk's mother, Maye Musk, is making sure Senators Sanders and Warren know. Maye Musk @mayemusk cleantechnica.com Elon Musk’s Taxes Were Just About Enough To Cover GM’s Bailout Elon Musk’s 2021 taxes were just about enough to pay back GM’s bailout earlier this century. Reuters reported that the US government lost $11.2 billion bailing out GM, more than the...

Wade was sentenced to five years in federal prison for the string of attacks carried out at the time he was out on bond for the Wendy's arson and wearing an ankle monitor.. A group of Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters were convicted on federal charges after attempting to frame the Proud Boys for a series of vandalism and arson attacks the far-left extremists carried out on Atlanta police vehicles and United States Postal Service property during the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. John Wesley Wade, 35, Ellie Melvin Brett, 37, and Vida Jones, 19, were arrested...

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