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Few facts, much speculation as explosions heard in Belarus Today, 12:02 am Reports indicate that booms are being heard in several areas of southern Belarus. /snip There is no confirmed reliable information about the source of the blasts, but speculation over the mystery ranges from sonic booms to a false flag attack by Russia to an internal coup. An opposition politician opposed to Minsk’s alliance with Moscow claims 30 aircraft recently took off and 6 missiles were shot near Kalinkovich, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border with Ukraine. /snip

Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing their countries are choosing an unusual route to escape sanctions and war: Traveling to Mexico and then crossing the U.S. border. The numbers of both nationalities entering Mexico have soared in recent months. While some are tourists, Mexican officials believe the majority plan on migrating to the U.S., arriving at Mexican destinations like Cancún and then flying to a northern border city like Tijuana, which is across the border from San Diego. In January and February, some 30,111 Russians entered Mexico, compared with an average of 12,380 during each of the past five years,...

One -- Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But President Joe Biden's predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not. Two -- No-fly zones don't work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine...

17 March 2022Thursday of the 2nd week of Lent optional commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop, Missionary St. Patrick's High Altar & Baldachino, New York Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingJeremiah 17:5-10 ©A curse on the man who puts his trust in man and turns from the LordThe Lord says this:‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,who relies on things of flesh,whose heart turns from the Lord.He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:if good comes, he has no eyes for it,he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,a salt land, uninhabited.‘A blessing on the man...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 16. Gen. MCCLELLAN's proclamation to his army is the theme of universal conversation and enthusiastic praise. His popularity with the army is unbounded, and his friends increase by thousands among the people, who admire his patience under persecution and his single-hearted devotion to the Union. A remarkable reaction in favor of Gen. MCCLELLAN is observable in every quarter, growing partly out of public disgust for the ribald abuse of the Tribune's correspondence, and partly out of the fact that President LINCOLN has "put his foot down" on the intrigues to deprive the army of its chosen chieftain....

Ukraine has identified four Russian generals it says have been killed since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine three weeks ago, and NATO officials have confirmed three of those deaths and Putin, one of them. "Western officials say that around 20 Russian generals were in Ukraine as part of the war effort, and that they may have pushed closer to the front to boost morale," which is sagging under the weight of heavy casualties, The New York Times reports. The slain generals were identified as Maj. Gen. Andrei Kolesnikov, Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky,...

In a space shot across America’s bow, Chinese scientists have reportedly developed an ultra-high powered microwave device that can potentially jam satellite communications or damage sensitive satellite electronics. The device, known as the Relativistic Klystron Amplifier (RKA), is a high-power microwave (HPM) source that is widely used in high-power radars, new accelerators and new communication systems because of its advantages in high-power, high-efficiency, stable-phase and stable-amplitude of output power. According to Sichuan-based Chinese researchers, the device could generate a 5-megawatt short pulse in the Ka-band, a satellite frequency increasingly used by businesses and the military. Ka-band systems are especially useful...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJames 5Patience in Suffering 7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. 9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! 10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the...

What did Barack Obama and Joe Biden know about the Russiagate collusion hoax their fellow Democrats ginned up to kneecap Donald Trump – and when did they know it? How much did their chicanery contribute to Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade the Ukraine? Those questions are coming into sharp relief following a definitive report by my RealClearInvestigations colleague Paul Sperry last week that places the worst political scandal in our nation’s history and Putin’s brutal war directly inside the White House. Drawing on a wide range of documents, many never previously reported, Sperry details how the Obama administration worked closely...

On March 11, 2022, the Georgia House passed the Constitutional Carry bill, HB 1358, 94 to 57, with 5 Representatives not voting, and 24 excused. HB 1358 defines a “lawful weapons carrier” as a person who is eligible for a license to carry, any non-resident who would otherwise be eligible for a license to carry, and any person from another state who has a license to carry a weapon in another state. The bill then removes restrictions from carry in many areas which were previously restricted. Here is an example, showing part of the proposed law: (f) Notwithstanding 16-12-127, any...

In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border. This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned westward, attacking and displacing tribes throughout These tribes migrated further west, overrunning the western borders of the Roman Empire: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Alemanni, Thuringians, Rugians, Jutes, Picts, Burgundians, Lombards, Alans, and Vandals. Rome had to withdraw its Legions from other areas of the Empire, such as Britain, in order to place them along the Roman border. This left Britain, which had been a...

How Russia learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Vladimir Putin on February 27 put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced that a third world war would be “nuclear and destructive.” Those concerned about the threat might wonder how Russia acquired those destructive nuclear weapons in the first place. Russia did not invent nuclear weapons, and neither did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whose demise Putin laments. As it happened, Stalinist spies stole the plans from the U.S. Manhattan Project during World War II. To learn more about Klaus Fuchs, a key...

People sheltering in a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are emerging from the building after it was bombed, the former head of the Donetsk region said Thursday. Hundreds of people were thought to have taken shelter in the theater amid the ongoing Russian siege of Mariupol. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the coastal city and as many as 2,500 civilians have died in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials estimate. After the bombing on Wednesday, Mariupol City Council shared an image of the building and said Russian forces had "purposefully and cynically destroyed the Drama Theater in the...

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We’ve long known about Biden’s disturbing habits around little girls but his latest remark about nakedness and blackmail raises his creep factor to new heights. Over the years, Joe Biden’s predilection for sniffing and pawing little girls has been the subject of a great deal of commentary. Video after video shows him groping them, whispering to them and, always, sniffing them. He’s the original creepy uncle, and he certainly raised a very creepy son. Yesterday, Biden took the creepiness to a whole new level when he discussed “a new civil rights cause of action” for people whose naked images ended...

More than a dozen House Republicans on Wednesday voted against legislation to promote public education about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The bipartisan bill was authored by Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and passed handily by a vote of 406-16. All of the no votes came from Republicans, including several members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus...... The bill would specifically create a Japanese American World War II history network administered by the National Park Service to connect historical sites associated with the mass internment of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor launched by...

It is not a product of grievances, political factors, or even an "extremist" interpretation of Islam. It's worse. A female German convert to Islam was recently sentenced to over seven years in prison. The 44-year-old was found guilty of following her Palestinian husband in joining Islamic terror groups abroad, including the Islamic State in Syria. Moreover, according to a March 3, 2022 report (translated and summarized here), she had handed over her son, who was only 14 years old at the time, to the militias as a child soldier. ... The boy had actively participated in fighting and had been...

It’s time to make Americans gardeners again. A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it. However, we can mitigate some of the potential damage through our individual efforts and need to get started now. But first, one bit of good news. H. Douglas Lightfoot and Gerald Ratzer have published a paper, “The Sun Versus CO2 as the Cause of Climate Change Projected to 2050,” that thrashes the IPCC’s global warming model. However, the paper also kicks off this food shortage discussion. The authors say the earth...

The Justice Department is investigating Hunter Biden for foreign lobbying violations related to his overseas business dealings - likely in places such as China, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan - in addition to scrutinizing his taxes, according to a new report. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss is known to be leading a federal investigation into President Joe Biden's adult son, who denies any wrongdoing, and the New York Times reported Wednesday that the investigation, which began as “a tax inquiry” during the Obama administration, then “widened” in 2018 to encompass “possible criminal violations of tax laws, as well as foreign lobbying and...