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Japan’s defense ministry reported it had tracked four large Russian ships transporting troops through a strait north of the country and heading west. ... The Defense Ministry published photos that depicted a vessel identified as one typically used to land expeditionary forces for amphibious assaults. One vessel appeared to have military trucks loaded onto its deck, The Mainichi reported. ... The spokesman added that it is unusual for Russian ships to pass through the strait so close to Japanese territory. Japan recently reiterated its claim over the disputed Kuril Islands, which have served as a point of contention between Japan...

EVANSVILLE, IN—8-year-old Sara Yelden has always dreamed of being the best female swimmer in the world and someday winning the gold in the Olympics. However, after watching a man named Lia Thomas break every female swimming record in the book, she has decided to adjust her dream to just winning second place. "I know that if I work very very hard every day, I can win second place someday," said Sara. "My Mommy and Daddy always told me that there was nothing I couldn't do, but then the schools started letting boys swim against girls so now I have to...

The video is difficult to watch, let alone listen to. A man is screaming repeatedly, "I can't breathe" while California Highway Patrol officers out of the Altadena station are forcing a blood draw from him. On the ground is Edward Bronstein, who was arrested on suspicion of DUI back in March 2020. He was brought to the station, where it seems he refused a breathalyzer or blood draw. California allows officers to get a warrant and force the blood draw if they arrest the suspect for DUI, and you can hear the officers telling Bronstein just that. At the beginning...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC Economic Analyst Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, warned that there is “a substantial risk” of stagflation because it’s “very hard to reduce inflation without reducing economic growth.” Co-host Joe Scarborough asked, “We are obviously all following what is going on, whether the Fed is threading the needle correctly and some concerns from somebody that you’ve agreed with in the past, Larry Summers, he’s talking about stagflation in the coming months. What are your thoughts about that?”

The assault on Mariupol has revealed the full extent of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to take Ukraine as he claims that his country will undergo a natural and necessary "self-purification" of "traitors." "The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths," Putin said Wednesday. "I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges." Putin compared the West to Nazi Germany and...

Just over a week ago, the CEO of Disney publicly opposed Florida’s new “anti-grooming” law, designed to prevent teachers from discussing sexuality and gender identity issues with K-3 students which, according to polls, is heavily supported by well over 60% of Americans. And yesterday, and ironically, the good Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County held a news conference to discuss the conclusion of a large sting operation that nabbed 108 arrests, including many employees of Disney. This isn’t the first child sex sting Sheriff Grady Judd has executed that swept up Disney employees. Most recently he arrested several other Disney...

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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has become increasingly frustrated and paranoid, according to reports — and fearing he will be poisoned or assassinated soon, Putin has reportedly purged his entire personal staff. Just a day after a public address where Putin denounced those Russians against his bloody invasion as “traitors” and “scum” and threatened to “spit out” domestic enemies, it was reported that an estimated 1,000 people have been fired and replaced around Putin in just the last month. The purge of personnel is because Putin has become paranoid that he’ll be poisoned, Inside Edition reported. Craig Copetas, an editor for...

Since Russia will be dominating the news around the world for the foreseeable future, it’s time to familiarise ourselves with a few basic demographic statistics. This will help us interpret current affairs and might even help us understand Vladimir Putin’s game plan a little better. *snip* In 1999, Putin came into power and the Kremlin successfully introduced Mother and Child programs that amped up the birth rate from an incredibly low 1.157 kids per woman in 1999 to a rather impressive 1.777 in 2015. Since then, the birth rate dropped but stabilised at around 1.5 (pretty much mirroring the European...

Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger strode onto the international political stage Thursday in the self-cast role of global peacemaker, telling told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to back off and abandon his war in Ukraine. “Ukraine did not start this war,” the Terminator star said in a direct message to the people of Russia and its leader.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said European nations that are “much more reliant upon Russia for natural gas and for oil,” are “doubling down” on becoming energy independent through green energy, “and we should be doing the same.” Co-host Brianna Keilar asked, “[W]e’ve seen these reports, the administration’s reaching out to Saudi Arabia and to Venezuela. I think folks that many Americans might consider unsavory characters, in this search for energy, to kind of fill this Russian energy void. How should Americans view this?”

Interim results released show that the vaccine offers little to no protection against the virus when compared to three doses.

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Quoting Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Ukrainian Channel 24 TV presenter, Fahruddin Sharafmal, called for his countrymen to destroy the Russian nation by killing their children, and urged Ukrainians to “kill at least one Moskal” – a derogatory term for Russian – each.Eichmann was a senior SS officer who played a key role in setting up the Nazi death...

Portland city council meeting on 3/16/22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7LDFdQ36o&ab_channel=Memology101 They should do the same thing to Seattle.

Lia Thomas on Thursday night became the first transgender athlete to be crowned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion, winning the 500 yard freestyle in Georgia - to a silent crowd. Thomas, 22, scorched her competitors in Atlanta with a 4 minutes 33:24 second race - much to the chagrin of some of her teammates, and to those in the stands, who remained quiet as she won.

A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van in West Texas in a fiery collision that killed nine people, including six members of a college golf team and their coach, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday. The child and a man traveling in the truck also died. The truck's left front tire, which was a spare tire, also blew out before impact, said NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg. The men's and women's golf teams were traveling in a 2017 Ford Transit van that was towing a box trailer when it collided with the truck, and...

Australia started as a penal colony and never really asserted its independence from snivelling British idiots. So larrikin (a word a little like outlaw but metaphorical and less criminal) humour has always had a place. Paul Hogan was a watered down example. The anarchic disruptive energy of Heath Ledger as the Joker might be seen as Aussie larrikinism at its extreme best or worst. For me creating the comic character Jim Cousens has been a far healthier reaction to the absurdities of PC crap than pretending to respect it.

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.We know that when fact checkers say something, they sometimes are covering something up. But what? This article attempts to organize what I know so that we avoid misspeaking when talking about complicated matters. By Igor ChudovFirst ClarificationsHIV (Human Immunodeficiency virus) is an RNA-based blood borne virus, transmitted via sex or shared needles. This virus is associated with a...

A number of pilots are suing over the extension of the Transportation Security Administration's ongoing mask mandate for air travel. "In court paperwork, the 10 commercial airline pilots – who work for American JetBlue and Southwest – argued that the CDC issued an order 'Requirement for Persons to Wear Masks While on Conveyances & at Transportation Hubs' on Feb. 1, 2020 'without providing public notice or soliciting comment,'" Fox Business reports. "The pilots are asking the court to "vacate worldwide the FTMM (federal transportation mask mandate)' calling the move an 'illegal and unconstitutional exercise of executive authority.'" The pilots also...

For whatever reason, DHS Secretary Mayorkas felt the need to reiterate the policy of DHS to actively go after people who continue to insist that the 2020 election was stolen and for spreading the truth about the “vaccine” and its harmful side effects. None of this can be discussed, not publicly or privately, or the Department of Homeland Security, under which is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will track one down and prosecute them. This is vengeful, spiteful and clearly driven by fear of discovery. Crimes committed by the FBI itself are gaining widespread recognition, not just from conservatives, but...