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Germany is reportedly planning to equip its air force with US-built F-35 stealth military jets. Berlin has previously announced that it will invest more in defense in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Germany has decided in principle to purchase the U.S. fighter jet F-35 built by Lockheed Martin to replace its aging Tornado fleet, according to reports on Monday. The decision, if confirmed, comes after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last month announced a massive boost in defense spending as the Ukraine conflict forces Berlin to reassess its foreign and defense policies. Why does Germany need the planes? Berlin is...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his side is pushing for a meeting between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin during ongoing negotiations." Representatives of our countries’ delegations speak in video format every day. Our delegation has a clear task - to do everything to ensure a meeting of the presidents. The meeting that I am sure people are waiting for," Zelenskyy said in a video posted to his Facebook page Sunday evening. On Saturday, Zelenskyy said he would meet with Putin in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited Moscow to meet with Putin earlier this week and has...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is to meet President Joe Biden at a summit Wednesday, has suggested that the hundreds of people arrested for rioting at the U.S. Capitol are being subjected to “persecution for political opinions.” Putin is likely to come under strong criticism from Biden at their meeting in Geneva for moves against his political opponents in Russia, particularly the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the detention of thousands of demonstrators protesting his arrest, and the outlawing of Navalny’s organizations as extremist. “You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday it is concerned the war in Ukraine could worsen the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is trying to do more to limit the spread of infectious diseases. Cases in the region are down from the previous week, but there's significant risk there will be more severe disease and death due to low vaccination rates in Ukraine, as well as among the more than two million who've fled the country to surrounding areas, regions also with low vaccination rates. Ukraine's Covid-19 vaccination rate is around 34%, while neighboring Moldova's is around 29%, according to Our...

The US says China will face harsh "consequences" if it aids Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, according to US media reports. Unnamed officials reportedly told multiple US news outlets that Russia asked China to provide military assistance after it began the invasion. The Chinese embassy in Washington said it was not aware of this request. The warning comes ahead of a meeting in Rome on Monday between top US and China officials.

The argument from the NYC Dept. of Education, under Schools Chancellor David Brooks, is that Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer" "is well written," and that "Students with a similar experience will feel affirmed." A New York mom reached out to the New York City Department of Education to find out why a book featuring child pornography was allowed in the libraries of New York City public schools and to ask for it to be reconsidered for inclusion in the collection. The response she got was that it is both appropriate and beneficial for students to have graphic sexual imagery featured in...

The base outside Lviv, Ukraine, that was attacked by Russian forces early Sunday was a key link between Ukraine’s armed forces and Western militaries before the war — and has become an important logistics hub and training center for foreign fighters since Russia’s invasion began. A Ukrainian military official said that up to 1,000 foreign fighters were training at the base — the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, which is also known as the Yavoriv military complex — as part of the new International Legion that Ukraine has formed to help fight Russia.

With Russia now officially cut off from both the USDollar and the euro, Russia's VTB Bank is seeing a surge in Chinese Yuan deposits, attracted by the bank offering significantly higher interest rates as Putin shifts focus to 'friendly' nations.The state-owned bank is offering a Chinese yuan savings account with a maximum interest rate of 8%, hailing the currency as "one of the most affordable and promising options for investing funds" after the country was hit by Western sanctions.Putting that in context, the three-month deposit rate is 8% in dollars and 7% in euros, while the six-month rate for ruble...

With war raging across the world's bread basket, risk of World War 3 the highest it has been since the Cuban missile crisis, commodities hitting new all time highs every single day, inflation (even the watered down CPI version) set to hit 10% in a few months, and the Fed rushing to hike rates so high it slams the US into a pre-scripted recession (as it somehow hopes to make a "soft landing" even as fed funds futures signal a hard landing and at least 50 bps of rate cuts after the burst of hiking is over later this year),...

Two weeks after the Russia-Ukraine crisis began, the world is quickly moving toward a food crisis that could affect millions of people. A spillover of the crisis could soon spark agricultural mayhem in the US. The curtailment of agricultural exports from Russia and Ukraine will have dramatic knock-on effects on global food supplies. Both countries are known as the 'breadbasket of the world' and are responsible for a quarter of the international wheat trade, about a fifth of corn, and 12% of all calories traded globally. Another major problem is access to fertilizers, as Russia has banned exports of the...

Alcohol Detection Sensors Could Be The Next Big Controversial Safety Feature Required In Every New Car. The government is working on laws that would require new cars to be equipped with breath or touch sensors that can detect when a driver is impaired by alcohol. In order to make roadways safer, the technology would render a car undrivable if a blood alcohol level of more than .08 % is detected. The development is already started. In 2019, more than 10,000 people died in collisions involving an alcohol-impaired driver, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to...

“I used to be a patriotic, angry youth,” a Chinese student said from Kyiv, Ukraine. “I would fight immediately if anybody dared to say bad words about the Beijing authorities. Now, I will never believe in our regime. Never, never, never.”Mei Qinghe (a pseudonym) told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on March 10 that she fully trusted the Chinese regime and the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine before the Russia–Ukraine war broke out. Now, she has seen how the regime is lying to the Chinese people, while its embassy in Kyiv is cheating Chinese students, including her.Mei said the only reason she...

<p>Russian and Ukrainian negotiators said on March 13 that there has been progress in talks to potentially end the more than two-week-long conflict between the two countries, with results coming in days.</p><p>The Kyiv government is continuing to demand to “end of the war and the withdrawal of [Russian] troops,” according to Podolyak, who noted that there’s “understanding” and “a dialogue” with Russia.</p>

New data suggests that two doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine don’t provide very much protection from infection for children 5 to 15 years old against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.The CDC analyzed data from the Pediatric Research Observing Trends and Exposures in COVID-19 Timelines (PROTECT) study, which involved 1,364 children ages 5 to 15 from Arizona, Texas, Florida, and Utah. Weekly nasal swabs and surveys were submitted from July 2021 through last month, whether the children had...

“In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox” (Proverbs 14:3-4).

On “The Rubin Report” Thursday, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin reacted to "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill's ridiculous post on Twitter after the Florida senate passed HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Bill. Democrats renamed the bill to the “Don't Say Gay” bill to mislead people, particularly those who don't bother to inform themselves before responding on social media, into thinking that the bill says something it doesn’t. Predictably, woefully woke lefties like Hamill fell right into their trap.

A bit of news on this Sunday evening: Mitt Romney is doing Mitt Romney things again.The “severely conservative” senator from Utah decided to take to social media and trash Tulsi Gabbard. But he didn’t just disagree with her viewpoint. Rather, he actually accused her of treason.(related Mitt Romney Decides to Cosplay as Liz Cheney)Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 13, 2022Given the timing of Romney’s outburst, it can only be in relation to one Gabbard comment because she’s only posted one thing in the last two days. Here’s...