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Ukraine accused Moscow on Thursday of forcibly relocating hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from their besieged homes to Russia, where officials believe many will be held as “hostages” to negotiate a surrender from Kyiv. Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, said 402,000 people – including 84,000 children – have been deported against their will. Russia gave nearly identical figures of those that have been relocated, though claimed that the people wanted to leave. Russian Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev on Thursday said that the roughly 400,000 people evacuated to Russia since the invasion began were from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern...

Roger Stone On D.C. Sex Orgies & Drugs: “I Was A Washington Elite, Cawthorn Is Telling The Truth” Video...

Kiev - The night the war began on February 24, AFP photographer Daniel Leal slept in his clothes in his hotel room in Kyiv. He didn't even take out his contact lenses. Dmytro Gorshkov didn't believe it would come to war. “Everyone thought it could be averted,” said the Ukrainian editor who has worked for AFP in Kyiv since 2013. “That night I was at my home with my wife and son” in a residential district in the north of the capital. Everything was normal. But 900 kilometres (560 miles) to the east in Moscow, Russia bureau chief Antoine Lambroschini...

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) should immediately recall any beef that tested positive for the presence of antibiotics. Farm Action and the American Grassfed Association made the request after a study by Georgetown University reported finding antibiotics in cattle destined to be sold through a USDA-approved no-antibiotics labeling program. In a statement, the groups say the current system that processes "raised without antibiotics” (RWA) beef lacks credibility. They said a previous investigation from the organization Farm Forward discovered antibiotic-positive meat on Whole Foods Market shelves. In their statement, the two groups suggest Whole Foods is the retail destination...

The Bush name was once synonymous with Texas Republican politics. From George H.W. Bush’s eight years as vice president (1981-89) and four years as president (1989-93) to George W. Bush’s six years as governor of Texas (1994-2000) and eight years as president (2001-2009), no family comes close to matching the Bush family’s gravitas and influence within Texas Republican politics during this period. In fact, many date the Texas GOP’s final ascent to majority status to George W. Bush’s defeat of Ann Richards in the 1994 gubernatorial election, landslide re-election in 1998 and successful presidential bid in 2000. The last time...

Watch this. Seriously, you have to watch this. This woman is speaking for the President of the United States:...Here is what she said:To be clear, every major medical association agrees that gender-affirming health care for transgender kids is the best practice and potentially lifesaving. All of this begs an important question: What are these policies actually trying to solve for? LGBTQI+ people can’t be erased or forced back into any closets and kids across our nation should be allowed to be who they are without the threat that their parents or their doctor could be imprisoned simply for helping them...

This Sunday’s readings might seem bipolar or schizophrenic. We begin Mass with exultant cheering as we relive Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We end the Readings on a note of solemn silence, unable to process the reality of one of the most egregious abuses of judicial process and power in human history, in which the only innocent man ever to live is executed. What does it all mean? Despite a few mysterious prophetic texts that seemed to intimate this possibility, the idea that the Messiah could arrive and subsequently be killed was radically counter-intuitive to most of first-century Jews. Yet...

The best possible future — the one with fewer climate disasters, extinctions, and human suffering — involves limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But for this to happen, a new report warns, greenhouse gas levels must start dropping by 2025. “We are on a fast track to climate disaster,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday while announcing the new report by the United Nation’s preeminent climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “This is not fiction or exaggeration,” he added. “It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies. We are on...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday warned of fighting in Donbas that could result in the biggest war in centuries.Speaking to the German newspaper BILD, owned by Axel Springer, Insider's parent company, Zelenskyy predicted intense fighting in the coming days."It could be a big war in Donbas — like the world has not seen in hundreds of years," he told BILD reporter Paul Ronzheimer."We will go on defending our country until the end," the Ukrainian president continued.This chilling forecast echoes what Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told NATO members on Thursday."The battle for Donbas will remind you of the Second...

Jussie Smollett chided police and prosecutors and declared his innocence in a song released Friday — three weeks after he was sprung from a Chicago jail while his lawyers appeal his conviction for staging a hate crime.

Earlier this week it was reported that there are an additional 450 gigabytes of material on Hunter Biden’s laptop that have previously gone unreported. However, on Thursday the computer repairman who was given the abandoned laptop says this isn’t so. There were several news reports this week suggesting there is more on the Hunter laptop than was previously discovered. However, this notion was refuted by the computer repairman who first looked at the laptop and who made a copy of it before handing it over to the FBI. John Paul Mac Isaac claims that there 300 gigs of data on...

The President of the European Commission Usrula von der leyen tells Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky while on a visit in Ukraine that "Russia will descend in economic financial and technological decay while Ukraine is marching towards a European future." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcukOI_bzZQ&t=4s

In a discusssion the other day I had a Liberal throw out the term "Trumpism", and saying he saw "Trumpism" as the "biggest threat to democracy". He immediately went on to add that he thought Trump was an "autocrat", and after I gave him the theoretical example of the issue and use of a President's executive order that had no foundation/application under existing law as an autocratic act, and how I think a number of Obama executive orders fit that case, the discussion descended into a loud back and forth during which never led to him saying what he meant...

[Catholic Caucus] German Archdiocese Hires Self-Identified Transgender Man to Teach Religious EdA German diocese has defended its decision to grant a biological female who identifies as a transgender man permission to teach Catholic religion to schoolchildren, amid questions over whether it is attempting to sidestep canon law and the Catholic Church's teaching on sexual morality.“I can confirm that Mr. Theo Schenkel is granted a permanent teaching license for Catholic religious education in state schools,” a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Freiburg told CNA on April 7. Since canon law precluded the trainee teacher from receiving the requisite missio canonica of...

Amidst polls showing that black voter support for the Democratic Party has fallen from 87 percent to 60 percent since Biden took office, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is planning to invest $30 million to boost black turnout and support for its candidates in the Fall elections. The theme of the campaign is “we did that.” DCCC national press secretary Chris Taylor admitted that “we’ve been taking these votes for granted for too long. We need to send message reminding black folks of how much progress our Party has made since the days of slavery and Jim Crow. Granted, 99...

Moscow said Saturday Russian troops had opened fire on a Ukrainian vessel trying to evacuate commanders of the Azov battalion from the besieged city of Mariupol. "The Kyiv regime is not abandoning attempts to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement. On Friday night, Russian forces opened artillery fire on a Ukrainian cargo vessel when it suddenly changed course and tried to break through the blockade of the port of Mariupol. As a result of the strike the Maltese-flagged vessel, the Apache, caught fire and said...

It’s Saturday afternoon! Time for American Bandstand! A blast from the past - the way it used to be...

Panic has set in. As the first round of the French presidential election approaches, Emmanuel Macron’s re-election has suddenly been thrown into doubt. A series of recent polls has put the hard-right Marine Le Pen within spitting distance of the Élysée Palace. This has rattled the Macron campaign, spooked the markets and will no doubt have set alarm bells ringing in Brussels, too. The Le Pen surge feels like it has come from nowhere. A month ago, she was trailing Macron by around 10 percentage points. Now she looks the most likely candidate to face Macron in the second round...

President Joe Biden has only given a single interview with the establishment media in 2022, according to the Republican National Committee’s research team on Friday. In 97 days, Biden’s only interview with a reporter was the traditional, highly coordinated Super Bowl special on February 13 with NBC News’s Lester Holt.