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Talks between Russia and Ukraine’s foreign ministers on Thursday made no apparent progress towards a cease fire in the two week old conflict or on a humanitarian corridor...

Washington (AFP) – Caught on the back foot by the Taliban's lightning takeover of Kabul last August, US intelligence services have earned a measure of redemption with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which they predicted and detailed with impressive precision. According to several US officials consulted by AFP, the US military understood as early as October 2021 that Russian troop movements on the border with Ukraine were not normal -- Moscow said they were conducting regular drills, but the formations on the ground did not match up. The Pentagon voiced its concerns to the White House, and US intelligence services quickly...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter allegedly claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people” at the Capitol on January 6, according to a video released by Project Veritas. Matthew Rosenberg is the New York Times’s national security correspondent and co-author of “The Next Big Lies: Jan. 6 Was No Big Deal, or a Left-Wing Plot.” In that article, New York Times reporters wrote that conservative outlets’ suggestions that “the F.B.I. planted agents to stir up the crowd” is a “false flag,” “instant rewriting of history,” and a “reimagining” of January 6.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki breaks down what the President's Russian oil ban means for Americans, our strong domestic oil production under President Biden, and the steps we're taking to mitigate the pain American families feel at the pump.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 1 Peter 3:15 (King James Version) The war on oil is a rousing success as gas prices approach $5/gal. This will rise all goods and services double as the Communist Party moves towards their goal of destroying the American economy. There is no happier day for the DNC than the further crippling of their greatest enemy the racist, sexist, homophobic United States. It is easier...

After many months of the January 6 committee’s partisan overreach, on Wednesday, the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 committee over their efforts to subpoena RNC databases. “The RNC has sued to stop the January 6th Committee from unlawfully seizing confidential information about the internal activities of the Republican Party and millions of its supporters which is completely unrelated to the attack on the Capitol,” RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer said in a statement. “The select panel has subpoenaed Salesforce.com for the data it maintains for the RNC. Those digital communications...

#UPDATE A UN-backed tribunal has found two Hezbollah members guilty on appeal for the 2005 death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri, saying both were involved in the bombing that killed him pic.twitter.com/F5N9j0wAOv— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 10, 2022

Pimco is at risk of losing up to $2.6 billion if Russia fails to make its debt payments, after the asset manager bet big against a default, according to a Financial Times report. The investing giant holds $1.5 billion in Russian Federation-linked government bonds, the report said, and it had sold $1.1 billion in credit default swaps, or CDS, on Russian sovereign debt at the start of 2022. That means Pimco is vulnerable to lose out on two fronts — the bond holdings and the CDS — if Russia does default on its sovereign debt, which Fitch Ratings has warned...

UFC fighter and cattle farmer Bryce Mitchell spoke his mind when asked about the conflict in Ukraine prior to his fight at UFC 272 Media Day, and his response caused quite the stir. “I’m not going nowhere to fight none of these wars for these politicians,” Mitchell said at a UFC press conference. “I’m staying at home, and when the war comes to Arkansas, I will dig my boots in the ground and I will die for everything I love. And I will not retreat.”“I will dig my boots in the Arkansas soil and I will fight for the people...

As we approach another anniversary of the pandemic’s onset, many of us are reflecting on the past two years and thinking about the ways the virus has altered our lives. More than 950,000 Americans have died. Many more have lost a loved one, and millions are still grappling with the lingering aftereffects of infection. As we begin to move toward a postpandemic future, it is vital that we remember the toll this virus has taken. The lessons of this pandemic should be carried with us so that — unlike what happened after the 1918 flu — it doesn’t fade from...

“We do have clarity. I have a fact sheet. That’s what I was just reading from here at the Pentagon.” Video at link.

At this point all I can say is: go and see it. Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid. But you don’t need more stats. You don’t need more numbers about how the tent encampments are exploding. Or about the amount of money that the city is paying for each person doing drugs on the sidewalks. You need to see it. I’m serious. Everyone in San Francisco should make a trip downtown. Walk around. And do not avert...

Footage from a drone of a Russian armored column in a town called Bovary outside Kyiv. The column is getting shelled. Is the language being spoken Ukrainian? There ate a bunch of armored vehicles clustered together just ripe for bombardment.

Is an AI-Driven Social Control System Emerging in America? The gradual merger of Big Tech and Big Government is worthy of close analysisReaders may assume that a “social credit system” where government monitors a citizen’s every move and assigns a score or takes action, could only happen in China. But increasingly, governments can monitor a citizen’s every move in North America too. Technology policy analyst Kara Fredericks explains:As Canada demonstrated, Western governments and tech companies are mobilizing to cut off mainstream citizens from public life and constrain their private lives. Actions like protesting government overreach, expressing “anti-authority” ideologies, or...

I’m amazed at how leftists will continue to lick the boots of their political master, Gropey Joe Biden, even when his decisions have a devastating effect on their financial lives. The price of gas is insane. Your liberal sister-in-law is blaming Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the price hike. But facts are kryptonite to our bolshie friends and family. Check out this graph from gasbuddy.com that shows just how much gas has gone up since Biden took over (it actually started to rise after the November 2020 election). The energy sector saw the writing on the wall. ... Gas has...

Citigroup Inc. said it is assessing its future presence in Russia as its clients and the global financial system back away from the country. The New York bank has a larger Russian operation than other U.S. banks. It works with hundreds of multinational and American companies on the ground there, part of its reach helping global companies run far-flung businesses and shift money across borders. It said in a statement Wednesday that it was still working with those clients, including helping many who are suspending or unwinding their Russian operations. Citigroup also has a Russian consumer bank, which it had...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Thursday it was getting out of Russia--the first big U.S. bank to make a move to exit the country after the invasion of Ukraine. The Wall Street bank said that it is winding down its businesses and that it is focused on helping its clients manage their own exposure or get out of the country. Last month, the bank said it had only about $1 billion it total exposures to Russia as of the end of the year, with about $650 million in outstanding credits and $415 million in markets. That makes it a relatively...

60% Disapproval. Lets Go Brandon

(John Ransom, Headline USA) If it wasn’t a sad enough spectacle seeing President Joe Biden kowtow to communist China over the COVID virus, now Biden has overdrawn the humiliation card by pleading with the dictator in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a Russian ally, to please sell the US some of the oil, for which Biden won’t let American producers drill for domestic use.Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., ridiculed the Biden administration for another humiliating defeat to a dictator regime, the only type with which Biden and the Democrats seem to like dealing, reported Fox News.“#Biden secret talks with #MaduroRegime isn’t about replacing...

Americans in the lower to middle income brackets are in pain these days because of energy costs – the surging per gallon price of gasoline hits a store clerk much harder than a megamillionaire Washington politician or a movie star. But leftists believe it's not hitting hard enough yet. How do we know? Former Obama Treasury official Mark Mazur told us so. In fact, as the gasoline prices in America reach levels never before seen, there's been discussion of a holiday from the federal gas tax – to cut the costs for consumers. No, said Mazur. That, in fact, "undercuts...