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Release International’s partner in Kyiv has called for prayer following the arrest by Russian forces of an Evangelical pastor in the besieged city of Mariupol. He reports a hunt for pastors has begun in areas now under Russian control. ‘Pavel’, who was himself a prisoner of faith in the former Soviet Union, has sent a powerful dispatch from the capital of Ukraine, which is currently under fire. He reports that Russian soldiers have arrested the pastor of the Light of the World Evangelical Church of Mariupol. Alexsander Glushko seized The Russian military arrested Alexander Glushko at his house. During a...

Robert Duvall Is Looking Back at His Life, and Not Just 'The Godfather' He starred in Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove and just celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, which gets the behind-the-scenes treatment soon in real-life drama The Offer. Richard Trenholm headshot Richard Trenholm April 17, 2022 5:00 a.m. PT WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Actor Robert Duvall arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Mortons on February 27, 2005 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Robert Duvall, pictured here in 2005, has commanded the screen in a career spanning seven decades. Frazer...

“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment” (Proverbs 21:6-7).

A “Stalinist” mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison. In a sign of President Putin’s fury over the failures of the invasion, about 150 Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers have been dismissed, including some who have been arrested. All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it is "unfair" that he is forced to repeatedly ask allied nations for security assistance when they have arms sitting in storage. "If we had access to all the weapons we need, which our partners have and which are comparable to the weapons used by the Russian Federation, we would have already ended this war," he said in a late-night address Tuesday. "That is why I emphasize the simple truth in literally every contact with the leaders of the democratic world, in all negotiations, in all interviews - it is unfair that Ukraine is still...

San Francisco -- Former U.S. Representative and U.S. Army Reserve LTC Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) sent cease and desist letters today to U.S. Senator Mitt Romney and former television personality Keith Olbermann regarding their statements asserting that Gabbard "was parroting false Russian propaganda..." and "They (Tucker Carlson and Gabbard) are Russian Assets and there is a war..." respectively. The letters demand Romney and Olbermann cease these false, defamatory, and malicious claims and that they retract/takedown all such statements made about Gabbard and destroy all copies of those statements "Truth is the first casualty of war," Gabbard said. "When powerful, influential people...

Go ahead and give him an Oscar already. After all, Johnny Depps best performance is also probably his last.

Mississippi is chlamydia and gonorrhea capital of the U.S. — while Nevada has the most syphilis cases per capita, official figures reveal. Cases of common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) hit record highs across America during the first year of the pandemic, despite normal testing being interrupted by Covid. The outbreak was biggest in the Magnolia state thanks to a stigma around getting tested for the diseases and admitting to an infection, an epidemiologist in its department of health told DailyMail.com. They added that poor healthcare coverage — leading many to put off getting tested — and rising rates of drug...

The battle over documents and e-mails in the Michael Sussmann case just got hotter. Back in August 2017, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining how his firm was retained to gather “lots of facts about Donald Trump.” He admitted that Fusion GPS met with reporters leading up to the 2016 election to spread opposition research against then-candidate Trump. The context of Perkins Coie’s retention of Fusion GPS was further explained in a book co-authored by Simpson and Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch. They documented an April 20, 2016 meeting with Mark Elias (Perkins Coie...

With a lawbreaking Prime Minister, soaring living costs and news of the Rwanda asylum plan, MPs have struggled to keep their cool in the House of Commons. On Tuesday, 19 April, 2022, amid the cost of living crisis devastating the lives of her constituents, Zarah Sultana addressed Ministers about tax loopholes and tax havens. She said: ‘They’re laughing in our faces while robbing the public purse.

"At the end of the day, we're gonna have to stand up to [Putin] more forcefully," he said. Trump administration acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller on Wednesday applauded Ukraine for executing what may be the "most successful military campaign" in history, but he warned that if the West does not "stand up" against Russian President Vladimir Putin, World War Three III could start — if it hasn't already. "I fear if we don't get our act together ... this will be World War III," Miller said, adding, "Many people think it already is." The Kremlin threatened to take nuclear...

Palestinian Islamic Scholar Samih Hajjaj on Hizbullah TV: We Started with Stones, Now We Have Guns and Rockets, and We Pray for Aerial Weapons; Even Our Children Are Mobilized #Palestinians #Hamas pic.twitter.com/G7h3fZJ6oy— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 20, 2022

What is a Minarchist? A Minarchist is someone who believes that the state should only exist for the purpose of maintaining law and order. Minarchism is a Libertarian political philosophy where the state’s only function is protecting individuals from theft, breach of contract, fraud, and aggression. The government would still maintain the military, police, courts, fire departments, prisons, and legislatures, but the state would have no ability to interfere with the capitalist interactions and transactions of the people. These states are referred to as “Night-watchman states.” One of the biggest supporters of this philosophy was Robert Nozick and he talked...

The Duchess of Sussex suffered an awkward gaffe over the weekend after she was photographed painting the Ukrainian flag upside down. In images released yesterday, Meghan Markle, 40, showed off her maternal side when she joined British Invictus Games families at a book reading on Sunday. In one snap, the mother-of-two could be seen carefully writing the word 'peace' onto a yellow and blue painting which, at first glance, appeared to be the Ukrainian flag. However in an embarrassing blunder, the Duchess had painted the flag upside-down, with her artwork incorrectly showing a horizontal band of yellow above a horizontal...

When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves. A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy. The majority of this letter is devoted to repeatedly invoking the grave threat allegedly posed to the U.S....

Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor teased a soon-to-be-published MRC study proving Big Tech’s obsession with protecting President Joe Biden. Big Tech’s response was to censor people who criticized Biden. Gainor joined the April 20 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. “Tonight, the Media Research Center has new reporting on the scope of Big Tech’s efforts to keep your opinions hidden,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson said. Carlson pointed out that the MRC “found more than 640 examples of bans, deleted content and other speech restrictions placed on those who criticize Joe Biden on social media.” Platforms...

Billionaire investor William Ackman liquidated a $1.1 billion bet on Netflix on Wednesday, locking in a loss of more than $400 million as the streaming service's stock plunged following news that it lost subscribers for the first time in a decade. Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management made an abrupt U-turn, selling the 3.1 million shares it had bought just three months ago as Netflix' shares tumbled 35% to $226.19.

On April 19th, Project Veritas released a recording of the CEO of AstraZeneca claiming back in December of 2020 that certain individuals who are immunocompromised – which he said could be in the “millions” – should avoid getting the COVID shots.A source from within AstraZeneca provided Project Veritas with the December 2020 recording where company CEO Pascal Soriot was discussing how the COVID shots could adversely impact the immunocompromised population.“If you have an immune disease, lupus, or some other immune condition, you cannot – or multiple sclerosis, you can’t be vaccinated. So, there are millions of people in the world...

Connecticut’s Office of Inspector General announced on Wednesday that a white state trooper was charged with manslaughter after he fatally shot a 19-year-old Black man after a car chase in 2020. After an “extended pursuit” on Jan. 15, 2020, the trooper, Brian North, stopped a stolen vehicle and fatally shot Mubarak Soulemane seven times through the car window. Soulemane, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 14, was holding a knife when he was killed, according to a report from Inspector General Robert Devlin.