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Putin’s hubris, yes-men for generals, lack of fighting conviction among the men, poor logistics and strong Ukrainian leadership and determination have combined to turn the Russian invasion of Ukraine into a military quagmire. Meanwhile, the West has upped the stakes in a financial war. The underlying assumption is that the Russian economy is weak and those of the Western allies are stronger. A few key metrics shows this is incorrect. The underlying resilience of the Russian economy and its financial system is not generally understood, and instead EU sanctions could end up undermining the whole euro system and the euro...

How does any rational or caring human being watch us lose a 20-year war against cave-dwelling barbarians, and not just lose that war, but lose it in the most humiliating fashion imaginable, and less than a year later already have a war-boner for Ukraine? I’m convinced the unholy alliance between Neocons, the corporate media, and the Democrat party is the Seventh Seal.

Fr. Michael Pfleger Endorses Pro-Abortion CandidateCV NEWS FEED // Fr. Michael Pfleger, who is something of a local celebrity in the Archdiocese of Chicago, is endorsing State Sen. Jacqueline Collins, D-Chicago, in the primary to replace Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.Collins announced her candidacy Friday, and while she is one of 17 Democrats contending for the 1st Congressional District seat, Pfleger’s endorsement places her in a prominent position among them.“Collins starts off in the top tier in a field with many strong contenders” thanks in part to the priest’s endorsement, the Chicago Sun Times reported:Collins has been connected to Pfleger —...

“Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.”Billionaire Elon Musk has been seen as very helpful to Ukrainians when he quickly launched Starlink internet services after the country lost access to the web. The orbital internet technology is far more challenging for Russia to cut off than localized ISPs.But it wasn’t just Russia wanting to deny Ukrainians an uncensored internet. World leaders called on Starlink to block Russia news broadcasts from reaching Ukrainians as well.“Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint. Sorry to be a free...

Ukraine is considered the “breadbasket of Europe,” and the Russian invasion is choking off grain exports, sending global food prices to record highs. Grain prices surged to record highs last week as world food prices are now higher than they were during the 2011 Arab Spring, leaving us with an abundance of caution that political uprisings due to food price shocks could be right around the corner. On Friday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index (FFPI), a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, reported record-high prices for February....

Zelensky pleads for US military aid, says if Biden acted sooner ‘there would not have been war’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Biden administration for not slapping sanctions on Russia’s Vladimir Putin sooner in an emotional, approximately hour-long Zoom call with 280 US senators and House members Saturday morning. “If you had started sanctions months ago, there would not have been war,” he said, Fox News reported. Zelensky thanked the US for the assistance it has already sent, and pleaded for additional American military aid for his besieged country, a Senate source said. Dozens of lawmakers unmuted themselves to...

“‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy’” (Matthew 5:7). When we are merciful and we receive mercy, we experience God’s cycle of mercy. God is merciful to us by saving us through Christ; in obedience we are merciful to others; and God in faithfulness gives us even more mercy, pouring out blessing for our needs and withholding severe chastening for our sin. But only those who are merciful qualify to receive mercy. David said of the Lord, “With the kind You show Yourself kind” (2 Sam. 22:26). Yet James says, “For judgment will be merciless to one who...

HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, put out the following statement after a call with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today: “The Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy are showing the world what a free country looks like when fighting for its survival against totalitarian aggression, even at overwhelming odds. We have all been moved by their bravery and heroism. “It is incumbent upon the United States to ensure that our Ukrainian allies have what they need to defend themselves, and that Putin does not have resources he needs to fund his war machine....

It was near 23rd Avenue around 11 a.m. Thursday morning, when Denver Police said someone broke into a box truck and took a dolly and a box of human remains. Sources told KDVR/KWGN it was a blue and white cardboard box about 20 x 15 x18 inches with “Science Care” written on the sides. Inside the box? Human heads. Science Care is a program for donating bodies to science to help improve scientific research and education. FOX31 has reached out to the company to learn more about the intended destination. Police also told us they were on their way to...

Anyone able to input best locations to eat really good sushi in Austin these days. Know of a good place in Pflugerville, but haven't been in a long time. Thanks in advance.

In 2014, the Obama Administration was behind a coup to install a leader in Ukraine. Less than a decade later, the same group installed Biden in the US with a coup. We shared yesterday the actions that Obama and Biden took in 2014 to rid Ukraine of its Russia-leaning President and replace him with a leader picked by the Obama regime and others in Obama’s State Department. This was discussed at length in 2014 after a phone call from Victoria Nuland was leaked showing that the Obama Administration, including Joe Biden, was picking the next leader for Ukraine after being...

[…]Singing gay love songs once killed the careers of artists like Patrick Haggerty, whose band Lavender Country in 1973 released what's widely considered the first country album recorded by an out gay performer. Even artists who came out decades later, like k.d. lang and Chely Wright, said their careers stalled after they made their sexuality public.Now, out queer people are some of the most celebrated country stars. Brandi Carlile and Lil Nas X are Grammy winners. T.J. Osborne, one half of the Brothers Osbourne, came out last year, the first out gay artist signed to a major country label. Trixie...

When Russia first began its invasion of Ukraine, Father Ihor Hohosha said he felt frozen. “I couldn’t see, do, anything,” Hohosha said. “It was a lot of pain.” Hohosha, who serves both St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brighton Heights, as well as St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in McKees Rocks, is a native Ukrainian. Originally from Lviv, in western Ukraine, Hohosha has been in the United States for 15 years but still has family in his home country. Father Ihor Hohosha of St. George's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brighton Heights puts up the "peace" sign. Hohosha still...

How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine MARCH 3, 2022 PETER WEBER As the eighth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine began Thursday morning, Russian forces appeared to have gained tactical control of their first city, the southern port city of Kherson, but Ukraine is still holding out in Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv, despite heavy shelling. Deaths are mounting on both sides. Big explosions were heard in Kyiv overnight, but according to the British Defense Ministry's Thursday morning update, the main body of the 40-mile-long Russian military convoy advancing on the capital remains nearly...

Description of Pd/D Co-deposition Experiment P.A. Mosier-Boss, L.P. Forsley “Review of Pd/D co-deposition,” in Cold Fusion: Advances in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, ed. J.-P. Biberian, Elsevier Science Publishing Co. Inc., United States. And references therein Start off with a solution of PdCl2 and LiCl in D2O As current is applied, Pd is deposited on the cathode in the presence of evolving deuterium gas. The resulting deposit exhibits a highly expanded surface consisting of small spherical nodules (built in vacancies). Cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic pulsing experiments indicate that, by using the co-deposition technique, a high degree of deuterium loading (with an...

STORY AT-A-GLANCEFormer BlackRock portfolio manager Edward Dowd is speaking out about the real motivations behind the pandemic, which include a global debt problem and an imminent global collapse of the financial industryAfter the Great Financial Crisis, the decision was made to increase the money supply, but this debt-based financial system is unsustainable and Dowd believes it’s on the brink of collapseRestrictions on travel, vaccine passports and rampant censorship enacted as measures to control the pandemic are all a global way to control the collapse and its aftermathDowd’s friend in the biotech industry told him that the all-cause mortality endpoint had...

There is coming a day when economic sanctions will become personal. Everyone will either be part of the economic system or sanctioned by it – the price of resistance will be deadly. “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Rev 13: 16-17) All despots, dictators and megalomaniacs throughout history have engaged in conquest by the...

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland — “The People’s Convoy” continues to grow at the Hagerstown Speedway, about 70 miles outside Washington, DC. The convoy, which started in Adelanto, California, started arriving in Maryland in the afternoon March 4 and is set to add to their ranks. They are protesting the federal coronavirus mandates and seeking the rescission of President Joe Biden’s emergency declaration regarding the pandemic. Supporters of the convoy told Breitbart News they have experienced a tremendous outpouring of support as they made their way across America and are moved by the level of patriotism and unity on display. The organizers are...

Aeroflot on Saturday announced a temporary suspension of all international flights, beginning on March 8 at midnight Moscow time. According to Aeroflot, the suspension is "due to new additional circumstances impeding the operation of flights." "International services scheduled by Rossiya Airlines and Aurora Airlines (flights within the range of SU5400-5799 and SU5950-6999) will also be suspended," the Russian airline added. "To reduce risks for passengers of inability to use return flights to Russia Aeroflot, starting from 6 March (00:00 MSK), will stop admitting on international flights passengers holding return tickets with the return segment to Russia dated after 8 March...

This article is prefaced with a few facts. The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) reported 122 helicopter accidents, with 51 fatalities, in 2019. There were 92 accidents and 35 fatalities in the first year of COVID dystopia (2020) when aircraft were grounded for months. In fact there was a 107-day period in 2020 with no fatal helicopter accidents, which is unusual compared to other years. Further, small, private aircraft crash relatively-frequently, even before the COVID-19/vaccine era. But the difference since 2021 – more people are dying in said crashes. USHST data measure fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours every month....