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For gaslighting the nation and committing serious felonies, actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to a mere 150 days in jail and 30 months of felony probation. He was ordered to pay $120k dollars in restitution and $25k in fines. According to Just The News: Jussie Smollett received a sentence of 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation while the judge slammed the actor as “profoundly arrogant, selfish and narcissistic” for faking a hate crime in Chicago in 2019. The former Empire actor will also be forced to pay $120,000 in restitution and a $25,000 fine, Fox News’ Matt...

Russia’s military is now less than 10 miles from the center of Kyiv, despite resistance from Ukrainian fighters.

DENVER (AP) — Majorities of Americans in both major parties think voting rules in their states are appropriate and support a voter identification law, but Democrats are increasingly worried about progress in voting rights for Black Americans. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed voting was the only one of eight subjects — including education and treatment by police — in which fewer Americans now than four years ago said African Americans had achieved significant progress since the civil rights era. Concern about a lack of progress is much higher for Democrats, 86% of...

WASHINGTON—The Senate passed a $1.5 trillion package to fund the federal government for the current fiscal year, after Democrats and Republicans resolved months of wrangling to quickly send aid to Ukraine. The measure was approved 68-31 and now heads to President Biden’s desk, one day before a temporary funding measure was set to expire and set in motion a partial government shutdown. The bill provides $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine, including more than $3 billion for European Command operations mission support, the deployment of personnel to the region and intelligence support. Mr. Biden has said that the U.S. military...

Update: U.N pushed back the time from 10 am to 11am EST. Friday is going to be a very bad day for the United States. Sixty years ago (yes, I was alive then) the United States roasted the Soviet Union in a UN Security Council meeting convened over the Cuban Missile Crisis. There is an old saying, “revenge is a dish best served cold.” Russia is going to dump a load of frozen food on the United States tomorrow at 11 am by exposing U.S. support to Ukraine over the last 17 years for research into biological and chemical weapons....

The European Union and Davos-style globalism is saturating the globe on all continents. It pretends to make the world a better place. It does no such thing. The Tower of Babel was real. The structure, reaching far into the skies, was built in the land of Shinar, in ancient Babylon. It was constructed some years after the Deluge, or what is commonly called Noah’s flood. Globalists in the European project—especially at Davos, in Switzerland, and in the U.S. Democratic Party—have been building their own modern-day tower for many decades. Their punishment of Europe has been Biblical in scale, and now...

The 2020 Census missed counting Hispanics, Blacks and other minority groups and overcounted Whites and Asians, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. While the census generally overcounts Whites and undercounts minorities, the discrepancies were higher in 2020 than in 2010, according to the bureau's post-enumeration survey, a resurvey of randomly selected geographic areas the bureau conducts after each decennial census. Most significantly, the undercount for Hispanics more than tripled, from 1.54% to 4.99%, and the undercount for those who identify as "some other race" shot up from 1.63% to 4.34%. The undercounts for Blacks and...

11 March 2022Friday of the 1st week of Lent St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingEzekiel 18:21-28 ©I prefer to see the wicked man renounce his wickedness and liveThus says the Lord: ‘If the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on; he shall live because of the integrity he has practised. What! Am I likely to take pleasure in the death of a...

Paris (AFP) – Global efforts to cut plastic and agricultural pollution, protect a third of wild spaces, and ultimately live "in harmony with nature" will dominate UN biodiversity negotiations starting Monday, held in person after a two-year pandemic delay. Almost 200 countries are due to adopt a global framework this year to safeguard nature by mid-century from the destruction wrought by humanity, with a key milestone of 30 percent protected by 2030. The aim is also to safeguard the "services" nature supplies: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soil that yields the food we eat. The meeting...

MULTI FAITH PRAYING FOR UKRAINE. COUNTRY TIMES see below We are organizing, a group of people of different nationalities, to spend a minute praying for the security of Ukraine, for an end to the problems that oppress and suppress our friends and for God to guide the decisions of our rulers. We will be praying at the following times: UK 8 p.m Ireland 8 p.m Germany 4 p.m Austria 4 p.m Spain 4:00 p.m Portugal 3:00 p.m Canary Islands 3:00 p.m Costa Rica 8 p.m Colombia 7:00 p.m Nicaragua 8:00 p.m Ecuador 7:00 p.m Guatemala 8:00 p.m Mexico 8 p.m...

ST. LOUIS, Monday, March 10. The following is an official dispatch to Maj.-Gen.MCLELLAN: The army of the Southwest, under Gen. Curtis, after three days' hard fighting, has gained a most glorious victory over the combined forces of Van Dorn, McCulloch, Price and McIntosh. Our loss in killed and wounded is estimated at one thousand! That of the enemy was still larger. Guns, flags, provisions, &c., were captured in large quantities. Our cavalry are in pursuit of the flying enemy. (Signed) H.W. HALLECK, Major-General. THE SOUTHWESTERN ARMY AND ITS MOVEMENTS. ST. LOUIS, Monday, March 10. Correspondence, of the Missouri Democrat. CROSS...

Why is the United States funding these biolabs that are not doing anything close to what the Pentagon claims they are doing? Tucker questions the US government’s multiple contradictory claims about the existence of, and what they’re doing with, bio labs in Ukraine. Highlights include: “After our show last night, the Pentagon released what it non-ironically called a ‘fact sheet,’ designed to make the bio lab story seem small and ridiculous. Virtually every news organization in America with almost no exceptions repeated the administration’s claim verbatim, with no verification of any kind.” “‘FACT CHECK: DoD has worked with Ukraine to...

The highest oil prices since the 2008 financial crisis are dealing a heavy blow to the global economy, slowing Europe’s pandemic recovery to a near stall and complicating the fight against inflation in the United States. China, the world’s largest oil importer, will probably strain to reach this year’s economic growth target, while developing countries in North Africa and the Middle East confront the danger of social unrest over rising energy and food costs, economists said. The interruption of Russian oil shipments, including the U.S. import ban that President Biden announced Tuesday, represents one of the largest supply disruptions since...

WOW! Tbilisi, Georgia. 🇺🇦 (28 Feb 2022) Thousands of Georgians rallied in Tbilisi for a fifth consecutive day on Monday to express their solidarity with Ukraine and denounce the Russian invasion. Protesters packed Tbilisi's central streets to call for the Georgian government to join sanctions against Russia. Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has said it is against Georgia's national interest to impose sanctions against Russia. "I feel that it is our moral responsibility to come out on the streets and express our solidarity with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters who are fighting with bear hands against Russian aggression," said Lekso Khubulava,...

STORY AT-A-GLANCEThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has stopped mandatory hospital reporting of COVID-19 deaths and the CDC is hiding data about the effectiveness of the booster shots in people aged 18 to 64, or those least likely to benefit from the shotThe New York Post notes the FDA overruled an expert advisory committee and the CDC overruled their own experts to promote the booster to all age groups. Scientists must use Israeli data, which show little to no difference in those boosted or not boosted until people are over age 65The CDC justifies not releasing the...

Finding out which high-ranking politicians and government officials were in on the Whitmer “kidnapping” caper just became a major part of a growing scandal. For months, defense attorneys representing the men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 have built a convincing case of FBI entrapment, filing dozens of motions in federal court detailing how the government concocted the plot with at least a dozen FBI undercover agents and informants. But District Court Judge Robert Jonker wanted to delay presenting that trove of evidence at trial for as long as possible. Days before jurors took their...

On December 20th, Hillary Clinton Operative and Attorney Marc Elias tweeted out a shocking Un-American plan to use the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution to prevent conservative Republican stalwarts from running in the 2022 elections. Elias suggested banning Republicans for being “insurrectionists.” And anyone who confronts the regime should be labeled an “insurrectionist.” China does this same thing in Hong Kong.

Seoul (AFP) – North Korea has been using satellite subterfuge to test parts of a so-called "monster" missile, analysts say, as it gears up for a sanctions-shattering launch ahead of a key domestic anniversary. Pyongyang has conducted a record nine weapons tests so far this year, in what experts see as an effort to work through a laundry list of strategic weapons set out by leader Kim Jong Un. One top priority is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry multiple warheads -- the Hwasong-17, dubbed a "monster missile" and first unveiled at a parade in October 2020. It...

Ukraine may be a place where Western governments outsourced other activities that were too dangerous or too illegal to conduct at home. or a long time, Western companies have conducted much of their “dirty work” in other countries. Places like Mexico, Nigeria, and China have been popular because they are comparatively lax on worker safety, environmental protection, and transparency. Older readers may recall how Shell’s oil exploration in Nigeria and the conditions of the maquiladoras in Juarez used to be a common complaint of leftist activists, but you don’t hear much about “sweatshops” anymore. Private companies know that the United...

What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantees? This question will haunt US President Joe Biden long after he retires from public life. The foreign-policy legacy of his presidency and the reputation of this much-vaunted 80-year-old politician with a half-century’s record in public life, much of it supposedly in the domain of American foreign policy, are in tatters – irreparable. News has appeared that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has conceded that he is willing to concede to the Russian demand that his country will not...