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Russia's defence ministry acknowledged on Wednesday that some conscripts were taking part in the conflict with Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin denied this on various occasions, saying only professional soldiers and officers had been sent in. The ministry said that some of them, serving in supply units, had been taken prisoner by the Ukrainian army since the fighting began on Feb. 24. Citing Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the RIA news agency said Putin had ordered military prosecutors to investigate and punish the officials responsible for disobeying his instructions to exclude conscripts from the operation. -snip- "Unfortunately, we have discovered several...

The number of white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist groups across the U.S. fell for a third straight year in 2021, even as some groups were reinvigorated by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year and by the ongoing culture wars over the pandemic and school curriculums. The Montgomery, Alabama-based law center cited several examples including Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, whose discussion of a conspiracy likening immigration from nonwhite countries to a “great replacement” of white Americans last September was welcomed by white nationalists who were linked to the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan....

A severe cold snap could push Russian troops to desert a convoy that has been stalled outside of Kyiv for the last few days, a military advisor to Ukraine's armed forces has said. Arctic air moving through Russia and Ukraine will combine with an easterly wind to make the temperature feel as cold as minus 20 [celsius] by Wednesday, according to forecasts. Russian troops are expected to find these conditions tough as they remain stuck in a column around 20 miles outside of the Ukrainian capital that has barely moved since last week. "A metal tank is just a fridge...

We, the undersigned, urge the Biden administration, together with NATO allies, to impose a limited No-Fly Zone over Ukraine starting with protection for humanitarian corridors that were agreed upon in talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials on Thursday. NATO leaders should convey to Russian officials that they do not seek direct confrontation with Russian forces, but they must also make clear that they will not countenance Russian attacks on civilian areas. Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has caused massive devastation and loss of life for Ukrainians. His premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression has created the greatest crisis...

Sensitive biolabs documents deleted by US Embassy and published by GreatGameIndia expose that it was former US President Barack Obama himself who authorized the construction of biolabs in Ukraine for creating dangerous pathogens.EXCLUSIVE: US Biolabs in UkraineIs Russia Targeting Secret US Bioweapons Labs In Ukraine?US Embassy Removes All Evidence Of Ukraine Bioweapons Labs. Here Is All The DataDocuments Expose Barack Obama Ordered Construction Of Biolabs In Ukraine To Create Dangerous PathogensFinally US Confirms Russia Planned To Attack Dangerous Biolabs In UkraineAccording to a removed web page retrieved by GreatGameIndia, former President Barack Obama pushed an arrangement that resulted in the...

Jelly beans have an established history of quirky flavors; variety is what makes those little bursts of sugar exciting, and only so many fruits exist before you have to move on to things like buttered popcorn and draft beer. And, of course, the Jelly Belly brand has its infamous line of BeanBoozled flavors that include off-putting options like spoiled milk and dead fish. But at some point, you have to wonder: What is more bizarre, flavors that are purposefully supposed to taste weird or flavors so weird you have no idea what they will taste like? In the latter category,...

The price of oil crashed on Wednesday after the UAE reportedly said it would encourage fellow OPEC members to increase oil production levels. “We favor production increases and will be encouraging OPEC to consider higher production levels,” said Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to Washington. This statement was first reported by the Financial Times.

Tunis (AFP) – Tunisian President Kais Saied declared war Wednesday on food speculators amid a shortage of products such as wheat and semolina -- key staples in a country already mired in a political-economic crisis. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies of basic foodstuffs, particularly wheat, which many Arab countries chiefly import from the two eastern European nations. Saied announced that he was launching a "relentless war on speculators and criminals", accusing them of seeking to "strike at social peace and security", in statement from the presidency. Saied had previously announced he was working on legislation introducing prison sentences...

Just two days after GreatGameIndia reported that secret US Biolabs in Ukraine could be a targeted by Russians, the US Embassy removed all evidence of bioweapons labs in Ukraine from their website, while mainstream media branded it as disinformation. Now, we have official confirmation from US Under Secretary that Russia indeed planned to attack Bioweapons labs in Ukraine and that Washington was working with Kiev on dangerous pathogens in those labs authorized by former US President Barack Obama himself.EXCLUSIVE: US Biolabs in Ukraine Is Russia Targeting Secret US Bioweapons Labs In Ukraine?US Embassy Removes All Evidence Of Ukraine Bioweapons Labs....

In case it wasn’t obvious, the Western mind is damaged goods. Many observers would say that this is a recent state of affairs, but in truth it’s something that has been slowly building for centuries. It started with the broad acceptance of Cartesian dualism, the conceptual separation of the mind from the body that developed as an over-mechanised response to the scientific discoveries of men like Copernicus and Kepler. This “analytical mindset,” in the original sense of analysis as “the resolution of something complex into simple elements,” destroyed the manifold intricacy of organic traditional society as it was conceptually applied...

A "Climate Justice" rally hosted in Albany by the left-wing organization NY Renews on Tuesday was billed as "a day to remember" by organizers who hoped to "flood the streets of Albany to demand $15 billion for climate, jobs, and justice." But what may be remembered, rather than what appeared to be far less than a "flood" of climate alarmists, is one sign that was present at the gathering. Yes, that is "climate change" depicted as a plane headed for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, which stood in lower Manhattan until they were destroyed by Muslim extremist...

Since the start of 2020, shares of Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) have soared by more than 1,600%, making the S&P 500's 30% returns during that period look minuscule. And the main reason for all that bullishness has been the COVID-19 vaccine the company has been developing, which could lead to billions in revenue for the business. The company only recently filed for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its vaccine, and if it obtains it, shares of the stock could once again go soaring. Is approval imminent for Novavax, and is now a good time to buy shares of the healthcare...

Earlier this week, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke at an event in Wyoming in support of Rep. Liz Cheney’s challenger Harriet Hageman. Paul says Cheney’s vote for the Jan. 6 Committee is even worse than her vote for impeachment and that the Committee is an “abomination” that should be disbanded. “I think It’s time we send Liz Cheney back to her home in Virginia. […] Arguably her vote for Jan. 6 committee and her vote to use this enormous and abusive subpoena power on her fellow Republican congressman is arguably even worse than her vote on impeachment.” “This isn’t sort...

Although the HHS has not yet revealed how much advertising money was spent on each media platform, it has become clear that the Biden administration paid hundreds of media outlets taxpayer money to run ads promoting COVID jabs. This reports puts everything into perspective as for the last two years, mainstream media outlets have been bought by the US government to propagate COVID vaccine propaganda.As part of a “comprehensive media campaign,” the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sponsored hundreds of American media companies to produce advertising pushing COVID vaccines.Documents acquired by conservative news organization The Blaze, who...

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 Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline on his first day in office. Since then, he’s put a moratorium on numerous American oil and gas projects. The result, naturally, has been less production of inexpensive American oil and gas, more importation of expensive foreign oil and gas, and less abundance of both. This has produced ever-increasing prices at the pump and in your utility bills.The oddity is that all this political posturing is premised on the absurdity that burning American oil and gas produces greenhouse gas emissions, but burning foreign oil and gas does not. I shouldn’t say this is...

A new Quinnipiac poll released Monday revealed a sharp partisan divide in how Americans would react if invaded by a foreign power. The pollster asked Americans what they would do if they found themselves in the same position as the average Ukrainian right now, subjected to a violent invasion by a hostile country: stay and fight for their home, or abandon it and flee the country. Fifty-five percent of respondents in total said they would stay and fight, while 38% said they’d flee. @NoahCRothman “A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would...

Why has American Christianity grown so weak? It’s because of sin, and especially one in particular. Not the sin you’re probably thinking of, though. It’s one you may never have thought was sin. There’s nothing even slightly hidden about this instruction in the Bible. It’s the most frequently taught theme in the whole New Testament. It’s in the Great Commandment. Disobedience to it earned one group the most stinging rebuke in all the New Testament epistles. The Church as a whole is disobeying it right and left, yet totally oblivious to it. What is this long-forgotten sin? Intellectual laziness. It’s...

FIRST WEEK OF LENT LUKE 11:29-32 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd that they will receive no sign except the sign of Jonah, which was a prophetic code for his death and Resurrection. Everything Jesus said and did, in one way or another, is an anticipation of his Resurrection. The God of Israel, the God of Jesus Christ, is a God of life, a God of the living. He hates death and the ways of death. He hates sin, which brings about spiritual death; he hates physical illness, which brings about bodily death; he hates corruption, which brings...