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...which means it's getting pretty bad out there. Joe isn't listening. President Biden was in Texas on Tuesday. His visit was so short that they didn't turn off the engines on Air Force One. It was a strange visit because Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat running for governor, did not get an invitation, or did not respond to it. Who knows? Beto can’t stop talking about the lights going out 13 months ago. We do know that a few Democrats want more oil production, according to a letter posted on Fox News: A group of Texas Democrats Tuesday called on President...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemHebrews 11Faith in Action 11 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4 By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. 5...

Sergei Lavrov has made the extraordinary claim that Russia 'did not attack Ukraine' and dismissed the Mariupol hospital bombing as a 'pathetic outcry' as peace talks broke down in Turkey today. Vladimir Putin's attack dog met with Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, who vowed his country 'will not surrender' to Russia as the negotiations made no progress towards a ceasefire. Speaking after the failed talks, Lavrov said: 'We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn't attack Ukraine, either.'

... He’s known for pushing for something called stakeholder capitalism (which I’ve criticized) — a squishy concept in which corporations look to better the human race as opposed to churning out profits for shareholders. And his embrace of some woke policies through the investment fad known as ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) standards. ... Fink also is a self-described (and dreaded) “globalist,” the group says. Yes, BlackRock does business across the globe, and Fink takes a global view of how to run his company. But then again so does just about every CEO of every major American company.

10 March 2022Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Chapel and park of the Castle of Prieisch, Basse-Rentgen (France) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingEsther 4:17 ©I am alone, Lord, and have no-one but youQueen Esther took refuge with the Lord in the mortal peril which had overtaken her. She besought the Lord God of Israel in these words:‘My Lord, our King, the only one,come to my help, for I am aloneand have no helper but youand am about to take my life in my hands.‘I have been taught from my earliest years, in the bosom of my family,that you,...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given the smaller nation’s embassy in Washington an unexpected role: recruitment center for Americans who want to join the fight. Diplomats working out of the embassy, in a townhouse in the Georgetown section of the city, are fielding thousands of offers from volunteers seeking to fight for Ukraine, even as they work on the far more pressing matter of securing weapons to defend against an increasingly brutal Russian onslaught. “They really feel that this war is unfair, unprovoked,” said Ukraine’s military attaché, Maj. Gen. Borys Kremenetskyi. “They feel that they have to go and help.”

FORTRESS MONROE, Saturday, March 8. The dullness of Old Point was startled to-day by the announcement that a suspicious looking vessel; supposed to be the Merrimac, looking like a submerged house, with the roof only above water, was moving down from Norfolk by the channel in front of the Sewell's Point batteries. Signal guns were also fired by the Cumberland and Congress, to notify the Minnesota, St. Lawrence and Roanoke of the approaching danger, and all was excitement in and about Fortress Monroe. There was nothing protruding above the water but a flagstaff flying the rebel flag, and a short...

The Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, told the United States on Wednesday, “We have found your biological weapons!”“There was statement made by the Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, leave no doubt, will not give Washington to be silent this time. Their attempts, while spilling blood, to find biological and chemical weapons throughout the world. We have found your own products. We have found your biological material. As it turns out it was all happening in Ukraine,” RT, Russia state-affiliated media reported.Russia now demands the...

President Biden’s secretary of energy appeared in a 2018 video where she sang about the end of gasoline and fossil fuels. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm made a cameo in a music video produced by environmentalist group Coltura for their anti-fossil fuels song "Gasoline, Gasoline (The World's Aflame)." The video shows Granholm singing the group’s song, the lyrics of which call for leaving fossil fuels — dubbed "fossil fools" in the song — "in the ground." The song also calls for the world to abandon fossil fuels in favor of electric vehicles.

On Sunday, March 6, 2022, Russian news agency Ria Novosti released documents they claim show Ukraine was working on “biological weapons” near the Russian border. Ria Novosti accused the US of instructing Ukraine to destroy the biological agents before the Russian invasion.The Ministry of Health in Ukraine ordered the biological agents be destroyed in a February 24 memo.Russia also released a list of the biological agents allegedly be stored in the lab for testing. The list included Salmonella and E. Coli…

A confidential source has informed me of events involving the Indiana Constitutional Carry legislation in 2022. The source claimed Senator Liz Brown (R) of Senate District 15 has been the major force blocking the passage of Constitutional Carry. The source claimed Governor Holcombe wants the bill killed and is pushing Senator Brown to do the killing. In particular, the source stated that Senator Liz Brown was adamant, and emotional in the Republican Caucus meeting on Thursday, March 3rd, denouncing a provision in HB 1077, which required minors who use a firearm in a crime to be tried as adults. The...

There’s little doubt that the growing influence of ‘ESG’ investing helped lead Western Europe to its present unfavorable position, allowing Russia to dominate the energy space. But going forward, a handful of Wall Street analysts are contemplating another ‘ESG’ revamp: allowing “military weapons” and “defense” stocks to be considered “ESG” plays. If you are thinking that this seems a little, well, off, don’t worry – you’re not alone. One prominent ESG investor said he was approached about the possibility last week, but he called the idea “absurd”, according to NYT. Leslie Samuelrich, president of the Green Century Funds, which was...

"And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. "I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...

China has criticized the United States for operating laboratories storing a large quantity of dangerous viruses in Ukraine after a Russian defense official claimed to have obtained evidence about the facilities. The official criticism does not go as far as to claim that the facilities produce bioweapons, as Russian and Chinese media reports have claimed. The US has said the mission is not weaponry but public health. In a regular media briefing on Tuesday, Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, urged the US to disclose specific information about bio-labs and related facilities in Ukraine as soon as possible,...

Ukrainian pastor Oleg Magdych speaks from his car in Kyiv about defending his country as Russia invades VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlbTLB8K64

OTTAWA -- Lawyers for a proposed class-action lawsuit against the convoy protest in Ottawa argued in court Wednesday that GiveSendGo may be in breach of a freezing order on funds raised for the convoy on the website. Monique Jilesen, a lawyer representing the proposed class and who obtained an injunction that froze convoy funds, said the order is meant to secure funds so the legal issue of how they should be used can be dealt with in court. Parties in the case have agreed to move some donated funds and cryptocurrency into escrow, which could be redistributed to affected Ottawa...

It’s all part of The Great Gender Reset to destabilize society and help pave the way for the broader Great Reset to condemn capitalism and Judeo-Christian values to the ash heap of history. During a recent Eau Claire Area School District (Wisconsin) staff development training session, a slide informed teachers that parents are “not entitled” to know their kids’ gender identity. Via Matt Margolis of PJ Media: The slide was obtained by Empower Wisconsin, and purportedly reads as follows: Slide 56- Talk amongst yourselves! Facilitators, guide this discussion. Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge...

The Ukrainian side at talks in Belarus stated that it would soon provide a specific response to Moscow’s written proposals Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said following talks with his Ukrainian and Turkish counterparts.,,

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There are several reasons for this, all of which point to the need for a massive overhaul of America’s tax system. If you thought that the IRS audited complicated, high-dollar tax returns, think again. It turns out that the poorest among America’s taxpayers are the most likely to be audited. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an organization dedicated to giving Americans information about what their federal government does and how much it costs, America’s lowest income earners are five times more likely to be audited than wealthier people. TRAC reported that the IRS audited 0.4% of the...