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Russian forces may only be able to sustain full fighting capacity for another 'ten to 14' days, senior UK defence sources indicated last night, after which Putin's men will struggle to hold the ground they have already captured from Ukrainian troops. UK defence sources say that Kyiv has Moscow 'on the run' and the Russian army could be just two weeks from 'culmination point' - after which 'the strength of Ukraine's resistance should become greater than Russia's attacking force.' Advances across Ukraine have already stopped as Moscow's manpower runs short. -snip- as Russia's invasion falters, its methods become more brutal...

He's 82 and his blood pressure meds were making him ill/faint. He just decided to stop taking the meds (as, the risk of falling and breaking a hip is a greater concern?). Upon my googlefoo, the recommended BP numbers vary widely even among physicians. AHA Journals: The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines indicate that a BP <130/80 mm Hg should be targeted after the age of 65 years. The 2018 guidelines propose a BP goal of <140/90 mm Hg for individuals older than 65 years. Finally, the 2017 American College of Physicians/American Association of Family Physicians guidelines...

Lockdown in Chinese manufacturing hubs Shenzhen and Changchun threatens to worsen inflation in the U.S. and to disrupt global supply chains. The U.S. imported nearly $48 billion of goods from China in January, the latest month for which data is available. Last year, imports of Chinese goods totaled $506 billion, the second-highest level of imports from China on record. The Chinese government has placed the city of Shenzhen on lockdown for at least a week and ordered everyone in the city to undergo three rounds of covid tests. The lockdown has halted many manufacturing operations in Shenzhen, including those of...

This will help with the everyday stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health aspects that students and adults deal with on a daily basis. There is a room for students and a room for staff members. Each of them have different style of comfortable chairs, puzzles, drawing stations, yoga mats and more. “It’s really relaxing,” 8th grade student Veronica Touchette said. “All the lights and you can come in here and read a book or do a puzzle. That’s what I’m doing. Or color or really anything.”

War could be over by May, says Ukrainian presidential adviser March 15, 2022 March 15 (Reuters) - The war in Ukraine is likely to be over by early May when Russia runs out of resources to attack its neighbour, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, said late on Monday. Talks between Kyiv and Moscow - in which Arestovich is not personally involved - have so far produced very few results other than several humanitarian corridors out of besieged Ukrainian cities. In a video published by several Ukrainian media, Arestovich said the exact timing would depend...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Joe Biden has been playing such a “strong hand” during the Russian invasion of Ukraine it has caused China to “step back.” Hayes said, “How do you see the developments today, Jake Sullivan, seven-hour meeting, the U.S. being quite vocal about his concerns about China, and China aligning with Russia. How do you assess this?” Murphy said, “I think a lot of people scratch their heads a bit in the early days of this conflict, in the weeks leading up to it, asking why President Biden was not...

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@JasonSCampbell Bill Maher says "I haven't changed at all. My politics hasn't changed. They've changed," adding "letting three-year-olds decide what gender they are, this wasn't something five years ago" Clip...

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About 10,000 people an hour signing up to offer homes to war-hit families and individuals, says minister.Almost 89,000 people have offered homes to Ukrainian refugees in the first hours of a government scheme that allows families and individuals to bring them to the UK. The website for registering interest in the scheme crashed for a short while because of the numbers offering homes. By 9am on Tuesday, 88,712 had joined the scheme. The Foreign Office minister, James Cleverly, said “10,000 people every hour” were signing up. A spokesperson said the Homes for Ukraine website “temporarily stalled” after it went live...

With inflation soaring and Americans hurting, Democrats point finger at COVID, Putin, company greed — but not government spending, which experts say is the main cause. With Americans feeling the economic pain of inflation, President Biden is deflecting blame for the ongoing surge in prices, insisting COVID-19, Russia, and corporate greed are the real causes. Experts disagree, however, arguing massive government spending by Biden and Democrats is far more responsible for the inflationary struggles the country is now enduring. "The American people think the reason for inflation is the government is spending more money," Biden told lawmakers at a retreat...

Jane Timken is taking aim at President Biden over border security as part of her statewide ad blitz in her bid for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio’s crowded and competitive GOP primary. "Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants and drug cartels are flooding Ohio with heroin and fentanyl. Now opioid deaths are surging again," the former Ohio GOP chair charges in the ad, which was shared first with Fox News on Tuesday. "I’m Jane Timken, and I know border security is national security."

Here’s the single most important function of this blog: Saying the things that are patently obvious but that just can’t be said these days in polite society. Yes, it’s The Emperor’s New Clothes every day here at Manhattan Contrarian. With war raging in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, there is a renewed concern in many quarters for “energy independence.” Until recently, the sophisticated countries of Europe had thought the whole idea to be passé. They built large numbers of wind turbines and solar arrays, while simultaneously banning fracking for natural gas and shuttering electricity plants that used coal and even those...

Who is Don Berlin? was Don Berlin working for and who backed his efforts to set up President Trump for sedition in early January 2021? We reported in late December that information from the Deep State dossier created by Don Berlin presented to President Trump right before Jan 6 was leaked to the media as soon as Mark Meadows provided it to the Jan 6 Committee in December 2021 per the committee’s subpoena. Deep State operative Don Berlin created a bogus dossier and presented it to President Trump related to the 2020 Election a few days before his rally on...

Predators prey on the weak, and the US is now weak and clearly perceived as weak. It’s not just Biden or Harris themselves. They are merely the current manifestation of a long decline. We’ve reached a state in which people can rightly say we seem unserious, focusing instead on woke infighting and minutiae, and flagellating ourselves for ancient (and often distorted by a leftist looking-back) history.Biden and Harris are, however, the current visible cannot-be-denied manifestation of that weakness for all the world to see. In vain do the left and their handmaiden the press attempt to spin this as competence...

Support for the modish “environmental, social, and governance” movement is mainly empty sloganeering—as multinational corporations have shown with their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has given rise to an exodus of Western-based multinational firms from the Russian market. Emblematic of this was BP (formerly British Petroleum), the British energy firm, deciding in the days after Vladimir Putin’s forces entered Ukraine to sell its 20 percent stake in Rosneft, Russia’s state-controlled energy company. Since then, a number of other large companies have elected to suspend or exit their operations in Russia, and the Wall Street Journal...

Note that this is a video which reviews the history of grievances that Russia has against NATO. Cause and effect, it is good to understand the Russian position and their alleged justification for the invasion of Ukraine and the image the Russians have of NATO. The Russians see themselves as surrounded by NATO and they fear NATO. When there is fear, there is consequence. The Main Stream Media offers little of no coverage of this history and have successfully branded Russia as an invading horde without understanding what it is that Russia fears and rejects. Note I do not attempt...

Today it was revealed that Amazon is closing its downtown Seattle office, with 1,800 employees, because of out-of-control crime. Among other recent victims of downtown crime was an Amazon engineer who was assaulted with a baseball bat near the office in late January.To learn this story you had to go to the Daily Mail in London. As of this writing, the Seattle Times has nothing on the story at their home page or business page. Here’s some of the Daily Mail report:Amazon will relocate all 1,800 workers from its downtown Seattle office as the area continues to be plagued by...

The date of March 16, 2020 isn’t just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war. n Saturday morning, my daughter in college texted me: “I got sent home two years ago today. Feels like a dream.” After I responded, she sent an uncharacteristically brief reply: “Sad.” To say the least. In March 2020, once-free citizens around the world surrendered their liberty and livelihoods in a futile attempt to “stop” a virus. The most technologically advanced civilization in the history of mankind quickly adopted medieval fixes that...

They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine, looking for a cause or simply to fight. The Ukrainian president’s call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country’s defense with a new layer of resistance to Russia’s invasion is for now a ragtag army. Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed. “Pure hell: fire, shouting, panic. And a lot more bombs and missiles.”