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We’ve got Trouble in Potomac City! The US Treasury 10Y-5Y curve is going deeper into inversion. The short end of the Treasury curve is rising, as expected, but declining at the 5 year tenor and beyond. The aggregate Treasury Index is plunging as Fed Funds Futures signal 8.341 rate hikes over the next year. Mortgage rates? Climbing as mortgage refinancing applications fall (as expected). Is The Federal Reserve actually run by The Office’s Michael Scott?

BRUSSELS/BERLIN, March 25 (Reuters) - The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the transatlantic partners said on Friday. The EU is aiming to cut its dependency on Russian gas by two-thirds this year and end all Russian fossil fuel imports by 2027 due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia supplies around 40% of Europe's gas needs. Concerns over security of supply were reinforced this week after Russia ordered the switch of gas contract payments to roubles, raising...

Significant war news we may have missed... Moscow (AsiaNews) - "Those who hear, but do not hear, those who see, but do not see, those who are there, were there and will be there, will not forget my word: raise the strength of Russia, direct our president Vladimir Putin on the path of justice". This is the invocation of Aljona Polin, Russia's leading witch, founder of the 'Great Witches of Russia' association, who held a general council of witches in support of Putin on the evening of 12 March.

n 2014, Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Crimea knew that the sight of Russian drones would soon be followed by a heavy barrage of Russian artillery. During that war, the Russian military integrated drones into tactical missions, using them to hunt for Ukrainian forces, whom they then pounded with artillery and cannon fire. Russian drones weren’t as advanced as those of their Western counterparts, but the Russian military’s integration of drones into their battlefield tactics was second to none. Eight years later, the Russians are again invading Ukraine. And since the earlier incursion, the Russian military has spent approximately US $9...

The contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop have exposed, among other things, the extent to which Hunter Biden personally profited from peddling his father’s influence while he was Vice President of the United States. After calling the Hunter laptop scandal ‘Russian disinformation’ for the last year and a half, the New York Times finally acknowledged its legitimacy last week. Beyond exposing Hunter’s degenerate acts and profiteering off of his father’s political influence, personal emails and texts show that Hunter cut his father in on some of his shady dealings. Latest: Check Out Joe Biden's Stunning Jump In Income While His Crack-Smoking...

Friday 25 March 2022 The Annunciation of the Lord, Solemnity St. Dismas Church, Waukegan, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingIsaiah 7:10-14,8:10 ©The maiden is with childThe Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then Isaiah said:‘Listen now, House of David:are you not satisfied with trying the patience of menwithout trying the patience of my God, too?The Lord himself, therefore,will give you a sign.It is this: the...

Blown up russian equipment, fire, Ukrainian troops after fierce battle,... and in walks a Ukrainian girl with a Kalashnikov, no helmet, no bullet proof vest, sunglasses, who is fighting with the battalion.

Germany has made significant progress towards reducing its exposure to imports of Russian gas, oil and coal since Russia invaded Ukraine, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Friday. Germany is trying to wean itself off Russian energy in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, but this is an uphill battle after decades of relying on Russia for energy supplies. Habeck said imports of Russian oil now accounted for 25% of German imports, down from 35% before the invasion, and gas imports have been cut to 40% from 55%. Russian hard coal imports were down to 25% from 50% before the...

The Illinois Firearms Owner Identification (FOID) requirement came in with the enormous gun control push done by Democrats in 1968, during the Johnson administration. In 2017, an Illinois state judge, T. Scott Webb, of White County, found the FOID unconstitutional. The case made it to the Illinois Supreme Court, where it was sent back to the District Court for clarification.In 2021, it was found to be unconstitutional again and has again made its way back to the Illinois Supreme court. From the decision, Case 17-CM-60, 26 April 2021:“A citizen in the State of Illinois is not born with a Second...

SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County leaders will study whether Elon Musk's Boring Co. can drill a 9-mile tunnel where automated Teslas would ferry people between the airport and downtown. Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (RMA) board members voted Wednesday to negotiate a project plan with the billionaire's company. "The board has continually sought innovative ways to finance transportation projects to ensure a bright future for the community in a way that bridges technology and accelerates the delivery of needed projects," chairman Mike Lynd said in a statement. "Today's board action is the first of many discussions," he added. Musk's company already...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem1 John 2Reasons for Writing 12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. 14 I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God...

FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, March 3, VIA BALTIMORE, Monday, March 24. The steamer Chancellor Livingston arrived from Hatteras Inlet last night. Immediately after the occupation of Newborn, an expedition to Beaufort was started by Gen. BURNSIDE. The place was, however, evacuated before our troops approached. Fort Macon was blown up by the rebels, and the steamer Nashville burnt. On the day Gen. BURNSIDE occupied Newborn, 10,000 rebel troops were on the road between Goldsborough and Newbern. WASHINGTON, Monday, March 24. Col. SEGAR, Representative elect from the Accomac District, arrived here this morning, confirming the intelligence of the destruction of the privateer...

Two video clips featuring US fighters appeared on Twitter on Thursday: one showing an American in combat gear posing in front of the burnt remains of what he said was a Russian tank. Off camera, a Ukrainian shouts “Welcome to America!” and the American repeats the phrase. In the other, narrated by a different soldier with an American accent, shows a detachment of soldiers taking cover by a wall alongside a road, in a village the narrator claims they have recaptured from the Russians.

@nickgillespie 'I am sure as hell not going to tell a single person to go there and die in a foreign country. I learned that lesson with Iraq and I am never going to go through that again.' @greggutfeld

If you have followed the news coming out of Yale — and why would you, really? — you would know that it’s one ever more embarrassing thing after another for the seemingly “smart” people at this elite university. Wokeism run amok; overt racism in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”; an uproar over a professor who offered a gentle defense of “culturally appropriative” Halloween costumes; and on and on. Most recently, a couple of weeks ago it was 100 loud law student protesters shouting down a free speech debate while the Dean of the Law School (Heather Gerken) stood...

A case of the deadly Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been spotted in a woman in England who recently returned from Central Asia. The unidentified woman was diagnosed with the tickborne disease at Cambridge University Hospitals and has been moved to a specialist unit in London. She becomes only the third confirmed British case of CCHF, which can cause mood swings, confusion and bleeding in the eyes. Health chiefs insist the risk to public health is low, as the disease usually transmits through bites from ticks not present in the UK and person to person spread is rare. It is...

All the usual suspects are furious. The stories are jaw-dropping, infuriating, and plentiful. The school district in St. Paul, Minnesota is partnering with an organization that offers LGBTQ-affirming curricula for students as young as 3 years old. In Idaho, an 11-year-old girl was coached by her Coeur d’Alene school into a sex change without notifying her parents. As reported by Abigail Shrier, the California Teachers Association held a conference in October 2021, where it advised teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities, and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. Speakers went so far as...

Drinking two or three cups of coffee every day may benefit the heart, according to studies being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session. The American College of Cardiology said Thursday that consumption of the caffeinated beverage is associated with a lower risk of heart disease and dangerous heart rhythms, as well as a longer lifespan. The trends also remained true for those with and without cardiovascular disease, with researchers saying the analyses assure that coffee is not linked to new or worsening heart disease.

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The Senate is struggling to quickly pass popular bipartisan legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia, likely further stalling a top priority of President Joe Biden as he conducts NATO meetings in Europe. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is preventing the chamber from approving the bill before senators leave Washington for the weekend over his opposition to language in the measure regarding sanctions for global human-rights abusers. Paul, who generally opposes sanctions as a means of punishing a foreign nation, is demanding that the House-passed measure be amended to restrict what he sees as an overly broad authorization for executive-branch...