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Federal authorities have charged a Black Lives Matter leader and her husband with fraud for allegedly engaging in a variety of illicit activities related to her nonprofit organization. Only days after the news broke that the couple was under investigation, authorities have arrested the activists, who are set to be arraigned in the near future.Monica Cannon-Grant became a prominent leftist activist in Boston after the murder of George Floyd. She received accolades from several different entities after she organized rallies that attracted thousands of participants. She has a nonprofit organization called Violence in Boston Inc., which is dedicated to decreasing...

On Wednesday, the Financial Times ran an exclusive story on the ongoing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Those negotiations started only four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was little progress until March 10, when Turkey announced it was hosting a “high level” meeting between the two parties. On Monday, I posted how the Russians and Ukrainian peace delegations were making pleasing noises about “progress,” see Russians and Ukrainians Say Peace Talks Show Progress but ‘Getting to Yes’ Seems Very Far Away.Today’s news comes in a story titled Ukraine and Russia explore neutrality plan in peace talks.IMPORTANT...

The other day we noted that the US had encountered signs gleaned from wastewater samples taken across the country that COVID cases might be on the rise after weeks of steady declines that recently prompted authorities to start dialing back pandemic-era requirements. But China and the US aren’t the only places where case numbers have started to rise. A surge in coronavirus infections in western Europe has experts and health authorities on alert for another wave of the pandemic in the US even as most of the country has done away with restrictions after a sharp decline in cases. Experts...

The San Andreas Fault has three sections. The southern section runs from the Salton Sea to Parkfield, California, and has the capacity for large quakes. In 1857, for example, the magnitude-7.9 Fort Tejon quake shifted the ground at the fault a whopping 29.5 feet (9 meters). The northern section of the fault runs from the town of Hollister, through the Bay Area up to Cape Mendocino, California. This section of the fault is most famous for the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which had an estimated magnitude of 7.9. The researchers analyzed a sediment core from the central San Andreas...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been the primary international mediator in talks between Russia and Ukraine, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the matter. According to the report, Bennett took on this role following a surprise visit to Moscow on March 5 with back-to-back talks with both leaders as recently as two days ago. The report also said that Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative peace plan including ceasefire and Russian withdrawal if Kyiv declares neutrality and accepts limits on its armed forces, according to five people briefed on the talks....

The nation’s largest union was involved in its third factually incorrect tweet of the week on Wednesday when the president of the American Federation of teachers incorrectly spelled "Ukraine." "We #StandWithUkriane," American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten tweeted on Wednesday morning before deleting the tweet shortly after.

“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the White House on Jan. 6 and said lawmakers would ask Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove then-President Trump from office if he did not do more to condemn the rioters at the Capitol, according to a new book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.“

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I recently narrated how the Great Reset was essentially a Great Purge against humanity. However, there remains one sine qua non for the Great Reset. This relates to the fate of national militaries and secret services worldwide. As our global systems are continually undermined to facilitate the Great Reset, national security apparatuses stand in the way. Secret services with their insider knowledge may derail the globalist project while the rank and file of militaries may heed rising nationalist sentiments to overthrow their corrupt governments. How will the global oligarchy pre-empt this clear and present danger? One clue was indirectly provided...

For around a week in February, China's top leadership disappeared from the news cycle. As Chinese people basked in their Winter Olympic teams' nine gold medal performances, the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee were considering every angle of the then simmering Ukrainian situation and discussing how Beijing might respond. They understood how the issue could affect their country, if they played it wrong. The marathon discussions concluded, but the arguments continued as Russian President Vladimir Putin kept ratcheting up tensions. Naturally, what was said is confidential and will never be disclosed. But there are whispers about the atmosphere...

A nation casts about in search of its God. Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution, G.K. Chesterton predicted the fate of a godless empire: “Once abolish the God, and the government becomes God,” he wrote. Close off the avenues of public piety, and people will cast about for some all-consuming secular ritual to make them pure. Naturally, they will intuit that any plausible surrogate god must have money, power, and the allegiance of millions. So when the hungry sheep look up, they look to the state. America is in this exact position. “Americans have not lost their religion,” writes Georgetown University...

Their goal is not to defend Ukraine — Neo-Nazis see this war as a place to act out their violent fantasies. - For others the force pulling them toward the conflict is shared vision for an ultranationalist ethno-state - They see Ukraine as a golden opportunity to pursue this goal and turn it into a model to export across the world. Since Azov publicly invited foreign fighters into its ranks Feb. 25, I haven’t noticed this level of movement-wide recruitment activity since the Islamic State declared its caliphate in 2014. We at SITE, tracking global extremists, have noticed a surge...

Massive explosions in a number of cities in #Belarus. Residents of Baranavichy, Luninets, Stolin, Hantsavichy, Slutsk, Kletsk and other cities reported sounds similar to explosions. We are trying to understand what happened

The federal government will pay a $127.5 million settlement over the Parkland, Fla. school massacre — after it admitted the FBI didn’t follow up on two tips that could have prevented the massacre. The legal deal announced Wednesday settles 40 lawsuits tied to the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which remains the largest high school shooting in US history. The Department of Justice did not admit fault in the shootings, and the settlement “resolved all the cases” filed against the government by family members of the 16 shooting victims and all the survivors of the attack, a...

On March 16, podcaster Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report tweeted out two photos of himself and his gay partner holding ultrasound photographs and a sign reading: “COMING SOON Baby 1 8/22/22” and “Baby 2, 10/14/22.” Those, presumably, are the projected due dates for when the surrogate mothers Rubin and his partner hired will give birth. Beneath the tweet, the congratulations rolled in. Glenn Beck’s BlazeTV offered congratulations. So did PragerU, Meghan McCain, and conservative activist Christopher Rufo. Many other purported conservative figures joined in. As a founding member of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web who made a very public...

Tucker Carlson Debates @RepMariaSalazar Over Her Support For A No-Fly Zone In Ukraine, Her Push For Sending Weapons To Ukraine, And Her Amnesty Bill Segment...

Poland has drawn no conclusions from its three partitions and persists in trying to organise a third world war by proposing a NATO “peacekeeping” mission in Ukraine.Poland has offered to send NATO troops to UkraineOn Tuesday, March 15, a meeting was organised in Kiev (doubtfully there) by Volodymyr Zelenski with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki,Deputy Prime Minister for Security Affairs, the head of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Czech and Slovenian Prime Ministers Piotr Fiala and Janez Janša, respectively.Kaczynski, following the talks, suggested sending a NATO mission or a “broader” mission to Ukraine. “There needs to be...

At a time when the mere thought of Russian vodka or caviar, let alone oil or gas, prompts uncontrollable shaking and revulsion, Reuters reports that no less than 12 tankers carrying Russia-linked cargoes of crude and refined products were approaching the United States on Wednesday, as suppliers rushed to deliver ahead of the U.S. government’s deadline to wind down Russian energy purchases, data from traders and Refinitiv Eikon showed. While the US recently banned Russian energy product imports due to the invasion of Ukraine, Washington’s ban gives importers a 45-day window until April 22 to discharge cargoes moving under pre-ban...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered the Justice Department to provide former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon access to certain sensitive internal legal opinions or other related records that could potentially help bolster his defense against criminal contempt of Congress charges. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols told prosecutors they must produce "statements or writings reflecting official DOJ policy," including nonpublic opinions, that relate to "the department's policy on prosecuting or not prosecuting government or former government officials raising executive privilege claims or defenses of immunity."..... As part of his reasoning, Costello cited a number of prior...