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  • I thought we only had a few years left to solve the problem

    03/18/2022 4:36:25 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Mar, 2022 | Jack Hellner
    A new "warning" on CO2 levels accidentally makes the case for more of the plant gowth-enhancing gas in the atmosphere. We are constantly told we have only a few years to solve the problem of global warming climate change, yet this report projects allergy problems in the year 2100.The problem appears to be that we will have too many plants thriving because of CO2. Allergy season will start much earlier than normal and be far more intense because of climate crisis, study suggests The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found by the end of the century, pollen...
  • As war ravages Ukraine, refugee crisis hits Polish cities

    03/18/2022 4:25:14 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 3 replies
    Krakow, Poland – In four weeks of war, three million people have left war-ravaged Ukraine with the majority crossing into Poland. While the welcome from the government and civil society has been open-armed, space is running out for the newcomers. ... About 150,000 Ukrainians have so far travelled to Krakow. Local authorities have turned every available space – sports halls, dormitories and hotels – into shelters, and it is currently near impossible to find a flat or an affordable hotel room in the city of 700,000. The city council’s crisis response fund was 19 million zloty ($4.5m); it has already...
  • Blinken: Biden Will Tell Xi Jinping That China Will Face ‘Costs’ If It Supports Putin’s War

    03/18/2022 4:18:22 AM PDT · by McGruff · 40 replies
    CNS News ^ | March 18, 2022 | Patrick Goodenough
    President Biden will tell Chinese President Xi Jinping during their phone call on Friday that if China takes any steps to help Russia’s war against Ukraine, it will face consequences. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters at the State Department that Biden “will make clear that China will bear responsibility for any actions it takes to support Russia’s aggression, and we will not hesitate to impose costs.” The phone conversation is scheduled to take place four days after National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Rome with the Chinese Communist Party’s top foreign affairs official, Yang Jiechi, and delivered...
  • Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, has a soft spot for child predators

    03/18/2022 4:16:27 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Mar, 2022 | Andrea Widburg
    There’s a consistent pattern lately of leftists being excessively interested in children’s sexuality and giving groomers and pedophiles access to children. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he leaves the Supreme Court. Biden selected her because she’s a Black woman. He might wish he’d vetted her better than that. It turns out that Jackson, like so many leftists, has a completely unwholesome interest in children and sex. In Jackson’s case, this takes the form of desperately trying to lessen sentences for pedophiles and child pornographers. I must admit that, when I first...
  • Full Tank, Empty Wallet?

    03/18/2022 4:13:48 AM PDT · by blam · 13 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 3-218-2022
    Residents of Greece would have had to pay approximately six percent of their average monthly wage for a full tank of gas this past Monday due to the price hike connected to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. As Statista’s Florian Zandft details below, this is the highest figure among all OECD countries. Even with the United States seeing record highs of more than $4 per gallon last week, the nation still comes in last in terms of the average monthly wage share needed for a full refueling as Statista’s chart shows. You will find more infographics at StatistaAccording to combined...
  • Conformity and ‘Community’: Fertile Ground for Tyranny

    03/18/2022 4:05:52 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 4 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Mar, 2022 | Bruce W. Davidson
    Many were shocked to witness the Canadian government’s brutal suppression of the truckers’ protest against vaccine mandates. Previously, draconian lockdowns oppressed many more Canadians, resulting in the arrest of pastors for holding church services. A decade before that, Mark Steyn, a critic of militant Islam, had endured his own government’s “show trial” under Canadian bureaucrats. How could such things happen in the land of those polite, mild Canadians? The stereotype of Canadians as polite, cooperative people seems to be widely accepted. They often view themselves that way. One Canadian joke goes, “How do you get a hundred drunk and rowdy...
  • As Ukraine war rages, Poles divided over US missile base

    03/18/2022 4:00:39 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 2 replies
    As the conflict in Ukraine rages, residents of a region in northern Poland that will house a US missile facility worry they could become Russian targets in case of a wider conflict. "If a serious armed conflict breaks out, the first strike will target our shield," said Ryszard Kwiatkowski, the former deputy mayor of the town of Slupsk, home to around 90,000 people. Washington has said the facility in the nearby village of Redzikowo, which will become operational this year, is intended to defend the West from ballistic missiles fired by countries like Iran. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
  • Putin's Sudetenland

    03/18/2022 3:49:37 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 Mar, 2022 | Rick Fuentes
    If Putin has underestimated the moxie of his political peer in Ukraine, he is at no such loss with Joe Biden. The Treaty of Versailles, doling out spoils to the victors at the end of the First World War, was a Carthaginian peace that sliced and diced Germany, surrendering provinces to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and cutting homeland ties to seven million ethnic Germans. Three and a half million landed in the eastern region of the former Czechoslovakia, then called Sudetenland. A postwar, impoverished, and decadent Weimar Republic gave rise to Adolf Hitler, who viewed the Sudeten expats as a...
  • Today's Toons 3/18/22

    03/18/2022 3:32:41 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 14 replies
    The Briefing Room ^ | 3/18/22 | pookie18
    Click on link
  • Putin and Medvedev -- here's what we know

    03/18/2022 3:20:38 AM PDT · by Peter ODonnell · 12 replies
    original to Free Republic | March 18, 2022 | Peter O'Donnell
    Did you ever wonder what happened to Dmitry Medvedev? He was co-leader of Russia with Vladimir Putin between 2008 and 2018 and was seen as a moderate and somewhat pro-western compared to Putin. Under their constitution, Putin could not run for the presidency in 2008 and Medvedev succeeded him, promptly nominating him as prime minister. Medvedev revealed later that they had struck a deal, whereby Putin could run again as president in 2012. The term limits were increased to six years, Putin and Medvedev switched jobs, and continued to collaborate on a wide range of initiatives. The 2018 presidential election...
  • Today’s Cryptogram 

    03/18/2022 2:49:04 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 11 replies
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  • Kamala & Pelosi Embarrassing Attempt To Explain Ukraine ( vanity LMFAO )

    03/18/2022 2:26:36 AM PDT · by sushiman · 26 replies
    The Jimmy Dore Show ^ | 3/18/22 | Jimmy Dore
    I haven't laughed so hard in years . Must watch . Just 10 minutes my friends . Biden , Harris & Pelosi : #s 1/2/3 in power in the USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Lawyer for mother of Hunter Biden’s child says he expects president’s son to be indicted (tax fraud)

    03/18/2022 2:23:30 AM PDT · by Libloather · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/17/22 | Jesse O’Neill
    A lawyer for the mother of Hunter Biden’s 3-year-old daughter expects the president’s son “to be indicted” for tax fraud, a report said. Attorney Clint Lancaster made the stunning prediction while confirming in an interview with CNBC that his client Lunden Roberts recently testified in Delaware before a federal grand jury in the criminal investigation into the 52-year-old presidential scion. “I expect him to be indicted,” Lancaster told the outlet, referring to Hunter Biden. “Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted.” Lancaster said Roberts, the 31-year-old mother of Hunter...
  • WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended until May 19

    03/18/2022 2:07:38 AM PDT · by Libloather · 18 replies
    See BS 'News' ^ | 3/17/22 | Christopher Brito
    A Moscow court has extended WNBA superstar Brittney Griner's detention in Russia on drug charges for two months. The Khimki regional court in Moscow confirmed to CBS News that it had approved the ongoing investigation and extended the term of Griner's detention until May 19. Griner was arrested on drug charges after allegedly carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil into the country. Griner, 31, appeared in court on Thursday as the decision was made. She was detained in February and will remain in a pre-trial detention center near Moscow until her next court appearance. CBS News sought comment from her...
  • Greenwald: The Same Neocons That Pushed Iraq War Are Now Doing It On Behalf Of Democrats And They Are Being Cheered

    03/18/2022 1:50:22 AM PDT · by Az Joe · 67 replies
    RCP ^ | 03/17/2022 | Glenn Greenwald
    Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald said the same people who pushed the U.S. into war with Iraq and Afghanistan for Republicans are now back to do the same for the Democrats with a war against Russia. Greenwald told FOX News' Laura Ingraham on Thursday that people should be cautious when the two parties are in lockstep when it comes to war because that means there was very little debate and people were coerced. Greenwald also said Russiagate and the hatred and distrust for Russia that was created is one of the reasons why the Russia-Ukraine conflict could not be solved diplomatically....
  • The Official Friday Silliness Thread

    03/18/2022 1:36:55 AM PDT · by Trillian · 11 replies
  • Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem (2018)

    03/18/2022 1:22:51 AM PDT · by Az Joe · 37 replies
    Reuters ^ | 03/19/2018 | Josh Cohen
    As Ukraine’s struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front lines: far-right vigilantes who are willing to use intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often do so with the tacit approval of law enforcement agencies.
  • An American who owns a MiG-29 isn't sure the fighter jets will help Ukraine much

    03/18/2022 1:03:57 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRoosterNew · 29 replies
    MSN ^ | 3/18/2022 | Alex Seitz-Wald
    An American who owns a MiG-29 isn't sure the fighter jets will help Ukraine much Alex Seitz-Wald WASHINGTON — Jared Isaacman, a billionaire and astronaut, may be the only American individual to own a MiG-29 — the Russian-built fighter jet line that has become the center of an international diplomatic conundrum in the global effort to aid Ukraine. And as one of only a tiny handful of Americans to have ever flown the high-performance Soviet-era jet, he doesn't think they’d be very useful to Ukraine. Isaacman, who made his fortune with a payment processing company he founded as a teen,...
  • Suspect shot Oklahoma City cop at close range during pat-down

    03/18/2022 12:58:47 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 31 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 17, 2022 | Joshua Rhett Miller
    A suspect shot an Oklahoma City cop from point-blank range as he tried to pat him down, intense video shows. The footage released Wednesday shows the moment Crasteven Kennon Wilson, 23, shot Officer Bryce Sheehan in the leg on March 2 as he tried to search the suspect for weapons in southeast Oklahoma City. “You got any weapons?” Sheehan asked Wilson while responding to a call about a suspicious person. “Can I pat you down real quick? Make sure you don’t have any weapons? Here — don’t reach for nothing.” Wilson mumbled “yeah,” but instead quickly turned around and shot...
  • "Earthquake" - original rock, by Yours Truly

    03/17/2022 11:48:44 PM PDT · by Slings and Arrows · 1 replies
    me, via Rumble ^ | 3/18/22 | me, as "Hopalong Ginsberg"
    My latest song. Tremble.