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There's a reason doctors across the nation have been instructed to downplay potential adverse reactions to the Covid jabs. They're so frequent, it would be terrifying if people knew the truth. It feels like we’ve reached the end of Pandemic Panic Theater… at least temporarily. Mask mandates are lifting. Joe Biden didn’t even mention his beloved vaccine mandates during his State of the Union address. Anthony Fauci seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.But there’s a very good chance that in the near future, likely no later than mid-autumn, Pandemic Panic Theater will rear its ugly head...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that NATO members have the go-ahead to send fighter jets to Ukraine as the U.S. and allies continue their efforts to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia's invasion. "That gets a green-light," Blinken said in an interview with "Face the Nation" when asked whether the Polish government, a member of NATO, could send fighter planes to Ukraine. "In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if in fact they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What...

Russian Military ability is called into question. Can the Ukraine armed forces hold out long enoug to repel the Russian invasion?Day 4 of the Russian invasion and Kyiv has yet to fall. Major Ukrainian cities are being encircled. Using a live update open source intelligence tool we can track the Russian military in real time. https://liveuamap.com is the website used for open source intel.

It’s time for your red pill. Something smells rotten in Ukraine. The story is rotten, rancid, hinky, the story just doesn’t add up. Biden and the media desperately want you to believe Russia is the bad guy and Ukraine is a little angel. They want you to fall in love with underdog Ukraine. They want you to support America getting involved on behalf of Ukraine.To get your support, they need the media to sell you a bill of goods. But it just doesn’t add up. First, Biden is the one who funded Russia’s invasion. Biden killed our pipelines, killed coal,...

Bennett's decision to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin despite normally observing Shabbat shows the urgency and importance with which he views his mission. “Saving lives comes before Shabbat” is a well-known phrase among observers of Jewish law. Normally, it means that if you have an accident on a Saturday, you can take an ambulance to the hospital despite the prohibition against riding in a car, or that soldiers can protect their country on the Sabbath. This Saturday morning, it meant that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could take a private jet to Moscow to try to convince Russian president Vladimir Putin to...

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, everyone breathed easier. Russian communists tacitly, and in some cases openly, acknowledged that Reagan was right about the "evil empire." Religious extreme Marxism followed dinosaurs into extinction. Over a dozen countries emerged from behind the Iron Curtain. With his attack on Ukraine, Putin shows himself as a species of dinosaur. He believes that Russia, with a GDP smaller than those of California and Texas, is a world power that deserves special spheres of influence. He believes that Russia's nuclear arsenal allows him to claim a more aggressive role than that of a normal...

In a whirlwind series of visits, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after his meeting in Moscow and phone call with President Zelensky. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for three hours on Saturday, in an apparent attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Bennett and Putin discussed the war in Ukraine, including the situation of Israelis and Jewish communities as a result of the conflict, a diplomatic source said. Bennett informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in advance of the meeting with Putin, and called him before...

MIDVALE, Utah (KTVX) – A man is in custody after he allegedly told his 4-year-old child to shoot at police while at a Utah McDonald’s Monday afternoon. Unified Police say Sadaat Johnson, 27, had both of his children – a 4-year-old and a 3-year-old – in the backseat of his car when he went to a McDonald’s in Midvale, located about 12 miles south of Salt Lake City. According to police, the father became upset when the order he had placed in the drive-thru line was wrong. In response to the incorrect order, Johnson is said to have brandished a...

The Biden administration is discussing how to supply Polish Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, American officials say, after President Volodymyr Zelensky made a passionate plea to American legislators on Saturday for assistance in obtaining more lethal military aid, especially Russian-made jets that Ukrainian pilots know how to fly. The White House said a deal with Poland was being discussed that would replace Poland’s planes with American F-16s, but Polish officials seemed less than enthusiastic.

Polish Air Force MiG-29Ukraine’s President Zelensky has been urging the United States and NATO countries that his military desperately needs more fighter jets to take on the Russian invasion force, on Friday telling US lawmakers in a Zoom call “close the skies or give us planes” – according to a Congressional leader present for the address. Apparently the Biden administration is busy working on just that, also at a moment Congress is still prepping a whopping $10 billion military and humanitarian aide package for Ukraine. The new aircraft deal would involve transferring Russian-made warplanes to Kiev from neighboring Poland,...

A Marshalltown woman is currently being held at the Marshall County Jail after allegedly attempting to steal a white 1994 Ford Econoline from a residence at approximately 1 a.m. on Thursday morning. According to Marshalltown Police Department (MPD) Captain Brian Batterson, Norida Lopez de Barrera tried to steal the vehicle from a residence located in the 100 block of North Ninth Street. The suspect knew the individual the car belonged to, and when that individual tried to intervene, she threatened him with a knife. The individual, along with another witness, called the police. When the MPD arrived, Batterson said...

Since Russia's war on Ukraine is largely funded by profits from selling its oil and gas, MSNBC journalist Stephanie Ruhle wondered "why the sanctions President Biden imposed do not include the 700,000 barrels of petroleum products per day the US buys from Russia? Aren't these purchases aiding and abetting Russia's aggression?" US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg admitted that "to the unsophisticated observer it looks that way, but since the President has committed this country to weaning itself off of fossil fuels he had to cancel the Keystone Pipeline and shut down oil drilling on public lands. The 800,000 barrels...

Onlookers are watching from overpasses as the People's Convoy that gathered at the Hagerstown Speedway takes its slow trip from Maryland to D.C's Beltway to drive in protest of COVID-19 restrictions Sunday morning. While vehicles began moving sometime around 9:30 a.m., the convoy should take a while to crawl out of the speedway and onto the Beltway. A spokesperson tells WTOP that they plan to circle the Beltway on Sunday in protest of COVID-19 restrictions. Afterward, they're expected to head back to Hagerstown...

WNBA star Brittney Griner's wife has posted to Instagram about the Phoenix Mercury player's detention in Russia. Griner was detained after Russian officials said they found vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow. The offense could carry up to 10 years in prison. How Seniors Relieve "Bone-On-Bone” Knee Troubles (Works Fast) Ad Ad AmRelieve How Seniors Relieve "Bone-On-Bone” Knee Troubles (Works Fast) Griner's wife Cherelle Griner posted an image of her and her wife to Instagram on Saturday, thanking supporters and asking for privacy as the family navigates returning Brittney Grier...

When filming wrapped on All That Jazz in March of 1979, director and choreographer Bob Fosse had just over eight years and six months left to live, although he'd thoroughly and pitilessly imagined his death in the movie he'd just finished filming. It would be more or less accurate: a heart attack, albeit on his way to the premiere of a revival of Sweet Charity in Washington, DC and not in a hospital bed while directing his latest Broadway show. With his imagined onscreen death still fresh in everyone's memory, it's doubtful that the end when it came was really...

As you travel across the Capital Region, you can see that many of our highways and bridges are in need of repair. That's where the NYS dedicated highway and bridge trust fund should come in. It's funded by all sorts of taxes and fees - the gas tax you pay every time you fill up your car, vehicle registration fees, car rental taxes and more. Just one problem -- the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund is dedicated to just about anything but highways and bridges.

Two explosions sounded in the Russian city of Belgorod. The reasons are still unclear, according to preliminary data, there are no victims.

Maria, A journalist who resigned from the Russian RT network to-@mayarachlin: "The shelling of Kharkiv and Kiev caused me to resign - these are war crimes. People in Russia think they are fighting Hitler" • On Bennett and Putin meeting: Anyone who tries to persuade the Russian president to stop is brave, congratulates Israel"#ערבערב pic.twitter.com/mMnvHV8KFf— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) March 6, 2022

Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair has said in an interview that he thought his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the “right thing” to do at the time. Blair, who served as Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, seemingly attempted to justify his controversial role in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by saying that, at the time, he thought it was the “right thing” to do.

Gas prices have been going higher and higher, and now the average price in one California city has officially topped $5 per gallon on average at the pump. California is nearly always at the top of the list for most expensive gas prices in the U.S., and now the highest reported cost is $5.07 per gallon, KGO-TV reported. Throughout the San Francisco Bay area, drivers are feeling the price hikes. For the first time in any U.S. city, average prices have crossed the $5 per gallon mark, according to The Mercury News in San Jose. “We just got a raise,...