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CEO of Germany’s multinational BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would bring into doubt the continued existence of small and medium-sized energy companies, and further would likely spiral Germany into its most “catastrophic” economic crisis going back to the end of World War 2. Company CEO Martin Brudermuller issued the words in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper just ahead of German officials by midweek giving an “early warning” to industries and the population of possible natural gas shortages, as Russia appears ready to firmly hold to Putin’s...

Jenner on Hannity now. Absolutely GROSS. I'm now officially done with FOX.

One Lebanon City police officer was killed and two others were injured in a shooting Thursday that happened as they were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance, city officials said. The officers were called to the 1100 block of Forest Street in Lebanon at 3:30 p.m., Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said. At 4:24 p.m., shots were exchanged between officers and a suspect, and three officers were hit, Capello said. One officer died, Capello said. One of the surviving officers was in critical but stable condition Thursday night. The other officer was in stable condition. Lebanon City Police Chief...

Multiple police officers were shot in a Pennsylvania city on Thursday afternoon. At least three officers were hospitalized after the shooting in a residential neighborhood in Lebanon at about 4:30 p.m., according to WGAL.

Joe Biden is trying to have his cake and eat it too as he shuts down exploration and production of oil and gas on onshore federal lands while acknowledging the importance of fossil fuels in the U.S. energy landscape. The Oil Price dot com website reported on the Biden Administration shutting down lease sales for offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico as prices for the fossil fuels soar. The reported was based on a Bloomberg analysis of the president’s budget plan for fiscal year 2023:

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.BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country’s information warfare efforts.Before serving as a fixer and reporter for the BBC in Ukraine, Orysia Khimiak handled PR for a start-up called Reface which created what the...

In the words of The Weeknd, here we go...again. There is yet another recall of blood pressure medications due to unacceptable levels of a substance that may cause cancer. This time it’s Pfizer that’s doing the voluntary recalling. This recall includes six lots of Accuretic tablets, which Pfizer directly distributes. It also includes medications distributed by Greenstone: four lots of tablets combining quinapril hydrochloride (HCl) with hydrochlorothiazide and one lot of tablets combining quinapril with hydrochlorothiazide. And this time the carcinogenic culprit of concern is a nitrosamine impurity called N-nitroso-quinapril. As I wrote before for Forbes in October 2021, in...

The Eau Claire school district in Wisconsin, under the woke leadership of Superintendent Michael Johnson, has reportedly instructed teachers not to reveal the gender identities of students, asserting that “parents are not entitled to know,” and that it is “knowledge that must be earned.” The directive was given during recent staff development sessions for teachers in the Eau Claire Area School District in central Wisconsin. Those training sessions included topics such as safe spaces, gender identity, microaggressions, and oppression. One instructor allegedly asserted that parents who disagree with their children about gender identity issues are guilty of a form of...

A real estate agent has revealed how she's amassed a $10,000 vintage clothes collection - because she's obsessed with living like she's in the 1940s. Gwendolyn Erin Patterson, 25, from Dallas, Texas, says she's so fixated with wearing wartime fashion that she now refuses to leave her house unless she's sporting glamorous attire from the Second World War era.

As local authorities in Shanghai prepare to start the second phase of the Shanghai lockdown, the western press has seized on reports that the death toll from the omicron-driven outbreak in China’s most populous city (and its financial capital) has been even larger than authorities have let on – the latest indication that the numbers being released by China’s public-health authorities have been sanitized, and that the true scope of the outbreak is even larger than believed. An outbreak at a Shanghai home for the elderly has killed a handful of residents in recent days, deaths that haven’t been reflected...

The White House defended Thursday Joe Biden’s old claim that his son Hunter Biden did not make money from China and did not do anything “unethical” with his business dealings overseas. During the third presidential debate in October 2020, Biden stated emphatically that “nothing was unethical” about his son’s foreign business deals. Biden also claimed, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China. The moderator of the third debate, NBC’s Kristen Welker, questioned White House communications directer Kate Bedingfield about Biden’s statements during the White House press briefing on Thursday....

Pontifical institute punishes noted scholar for conscientious objectionROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Pontifical Oriental Institute (POI) in Rome has banished the dean of the faculty of Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences to Brazil for his conscientious objection to the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccine. Father Massimo Pampaloni, S.J., a world-renowned authority on Syriac Christology and a consultor to the Vatican's Congregation for the Oriental Churches, was punished for refusing to take the jab, Church Militant has learned. Pampaloni single-handedly stood against the draconian jab mandates despite pressure from confreres, superiors and the State, while almost every other Jesuit in Rome capitulated to the vaccine narrative,...

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Asa Saint Clair, the close associate of Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr., has been convicted of wire fraud for his role in running a scam called the World Sports Alliance, which Paul Pelosi Jr. represented in the country of Ukraine. Saint Clair now faces 20 years in prison when he goes up for sentencing in July, giving him plenty of time to flip on his associates. The Campaign Show with Patrick Howley on Thursday discussed Asa Saint Clair’s conviction. Damian Williams, a U.S. Attorney, stated, according to the Department of Justice: “As a jury has now found, Asa Saint...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo NEW: Disney production coordinator Allen March, who says his team is committed to "exploring queer stories" and promoting "trans," "bisexual," and "gender nonconforming" characters, says kids are "getting all this information from the media" and "there's a lot of power to that."

Majority of priests and laity in Eastern-rite Ernakulum-Angamaly Archdiocese insist on their way of celebrating Mass Priests and laity in an Eastern-rite archdiocese in India have appealed to Pope Francis to consider their way of celebrating Mass as “a liturgy variant” to settle a five-decades-old dispute. An overwhelming 435 of the 465 priests in Ernakulum-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church in the southern state of Kerala have signed a memorandum urging the Vatican to accept its order of the Mass even though it differs from what the bishops’ synod decrees. Priests across the archdiocese have celebrated Mass facing the congregation...

All foreign leased aircraft still in Russia after the termination of Western leasing contracts have been entered into the Russian aircraft register and will remain in Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday. The imposition of sanctions by Western powers in response to Russia's military campaign in Ukraine forced Western leasing firms to terminate leasing contracts with Russian airlines for more than 500 aircraft. More than 400 of these are still in Russia.

The meeting has been likened to the meetings of the Sankt Gallen Mafia in Europe.CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — A select group of high-ranking U.S. prelates, along with the Papal Nuncio and Vatican curial officials, secretively gathered in Chicago recently to “understand the spirit of what they call the ‘opposition’” to Pope Francis, and to promote the ideology of Vatican II. Between March 25 and 26, as Pope Francis was praying the act of consecration of Russia and Ukraine, a conference was held at Loyola University Chicago entitled “Pope Francis, Vatican II, and the Way Forward.”Jointly sponsored by Boston College’s Boisi Center...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis allegedly authorized negotiating an exit strategy for a key figure in the Vatican’s bungled London real estate investment and was so satisfied with the outcome that he paid for a celebratory dinner at a fancy Roman fish restaurant the night the 15-million- euro payout closed, a defendant in the Vatican’s extortion trial testified Wednesday. The testimony by Monsignor Mauro Carlino, a onetime secretary in the Vatican secretariat of state, placed the pope squarely in the center of the Vatican’s landmark trial and raised questions about why low-ranking Vatican officials were indicted and their superiors...

WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN ordered Russian troops into Ukraine he was not alone in thinking victory would be swift. Many Western analysts also expected Kyiv, the capital, to fall within 72 hours. Ukrainian valour and ingenuity confounded those assumptions. As the war enters its sixth week, the side that is contemplating victory is not Russia but Ukraine—and it would be a victory that redraws the map of European security. Speaking to The Economist in Kyiv on March 25th, President Volodymyr Zelensky explained how people power is the secret to Ukraine’s resistance and why the war is shifting in his nation’s favour....