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One by one, the US mainstream media outlets are lining up to (finally) let a bit of truth leak out after three months of incessant propaganda: Ukraine is being destroyed in the war. How many have unnecessarily died because the likes of Boris Johnson and Biden have prohibited a negotiated settlement? Also today, US/EU sanctions on Russia have backfired. Like always. Bonus: What was Ron Paul doing this weekend? Video... [38 mins]

Pope Francis urged a greater welcome for migrants Monday, appealing for a “a broader international awareness” regarding the phenomenon of migration. We cannot forget “the millions of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons in other parts of the world, who desperately need to be welcomed, protected and loved,” the pontiff told participants in a meeting of the International Catholic Migration Commission. “As a Church, we wish to serve everyone and to work diligently to build a future of peace. You have the opportunity to give a face to the Church’s charitable activity on their behalf!” the pope told them. The...

Some years ago my wife bought her Dad, George, a book called "A Father's Legacy" which has blank pages for Fathers to write thoughts on memories of various activities that affected their own lives. One page asked the question, "If you were in the Armed Forces, how did your service affect your life?" Although he survived the front lines of Korea for 14 months, he suffered from the physical & mental effects of combat until 5 years before his death when he finally put down the bottle & found peace. He entered the Korean war as an infantryman and carried...

The 'Air Bee & Bee' cabin is a naturalistic accommodation available for rental on Airbnb as a place for guests to relax and unwind amidst the company of bees. Situated in Grottole in Southern Italy, the cabin offers space for two and has a honeycomb-inspired interior that refers to it apiary-incorporated design. The cabin features a total of nine apiaries surrounding structure, which can be toured by the beekeeper owner to learn about the important role that bees play in our world. The 'Air Bee & Bee' cabin is focused on spreading awareness about the dwindling bee population and was...

Climate-aid pledges by industrialized nations are worthless, says the leader of the Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago threatened by rising sea levels. Promises made at COP26, the United Nations climate change conference in November, have not been met, said President Wavel Ramkalawan, adding that he expects nothing better at this year's event. "I am totally disappointed. The big promises, the commitments and everything else, not one cent has come through," the leader said in an interview from his office in Victoria, the capital, on Thursday. This year "my expectations are not that high, but we have to go through the...

Patrisse Cullors is terrified!

The government of Greece has issued an alert warning all Greek ships currently sailing in Persian Gulf waters to adapt and remain aware of heightened threats against them following last week’s seizure of two Greek oil tankers by Iran’s military. Maritime tanker monitors suggest at least a dozen Greek tankers are currently in waters near Iran. The alert told vessels to immediately “adapt to the unacceptable situation and reality created by the Iranian government’s tactic,” according government spokesman Ioannis Oikonomou at a Monday press briefing in Athens, per Bloomberg reporting. Tasnim news agency over the weekend threatened that 17 other...

It's a major construction project, aimed at doubling the width of the Suez Canal and deepening its main waterway. 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil have already been transported from all over the world. Using unprecedented 3D images, we reveal how the canal will be widened. We also look back to the original construction, back in 1859, to show how it first came to be built.How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [4K]Extreme Constructions | Spark | Premiered May 15, 2022

President Joe Biden urged Congress to work toward a bipartisan solution on gun violence on Monday, one day after visiting the Texas town where a gunman took the lives of 19 elementary school children and their two teachers last week. 'I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it - at least that's my hope and prayer,' the president told reporters outside of the White House. Biden recounted been shown x-rays of what a firearm could do to the human body. 'The .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get...

Top Gun: Maverick has risked angering China by restoring the Taiwanese flag on the back of Tom Cruise's jacket in the new blockbuster. In the original 1986 classic, Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell wears a leather bomber jacket featuring patches on the back, commemorating his father's battleship tours to Japan and Taiwan in 1963 to 1964. But when the trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel was released in 2019, the flags had been mysteriously removed. There was speculation the decision was influenced by Chinese film distributor and production company Tencent Pictures, who were part producing the aviation romp. The flags had been...

Pakistan, a nuclear power with at least 165 warheads from short range to medium range, is facing potential economic collapse according to the country’s Finance Minister, Miftah Ismail. With an official inflation rate of over 13.37% (double the official CPI to get a more accurate picture of true price inflation), the 2nd fastest rising rate in Asia, Pakistan has sought relief from foreign debt obligations and an IMF bailout deal. Initial arrangements for a three year deal with the IMF began in 2019, but Pakistan says that deal, originally for $6 billion USD, is ‘outdated’ due to the covid pandemic...

Always ready to exploit a tragedy, Joe and Jill Biden went to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to visit the community after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. While the response of local enforcement has come under scrutiny, we’ve learned that Border Patrol agents ultimately ended the shooting at the school, and killed the shooter. Their heroic actions deserve the nation’s praise, but instead, Joe Biden dissed them by uninviting them from his speech. “Biden administration officials uninvited many of the Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting from a meeting...

German inflation hit another post-World-War-II record high, piling pressure on The ECB’s need to exit from crisis-era stimulus after numbers from Spain also printed hotter than expected.Driven by soaring energy and food costs, this morning’s data showed consumer prices in Europe’s largest economy surged 8.7% YoY – far hotter than the +8.1% expected (thge highest since the start of the monthly statistics in 1963). As Bloomberg reports, the report comes just 10 days before a crucial ECB meeting where officials are set to announce the conclusion of large-scale asset purchases and confirm plans to raise interest rates in July for...

WASHINGTON/UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) - A day after promising residents of Uvalde, Texas, action to address gun violence, U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday sought to appeal to "rational" Republicans to curb high-caliber weapons and take other steps to prevent more mass shootings. “Things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it," Biden, a Democrat, told reporters as he returned from his weekend trip to memorialize the 19 children and two teachers killed last week in the nation's worst mass school shooting in a decade. "The idea of these high-caliber weapons -- there is simply no rational...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

A parent of a child who was killed during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 called out gun control activist David Hogg after he claimed to have worked with state Republicans to pass a bill in the aftermath of the shooting. On Sunday, Hogg tweeted, "I understand there are many disagreements about what we should do but the important thing is we all agree we need to do something. In the week of Parkland we worked with our Republican Legislature and governor and got gun safety past Congress can do the same." "This is absolute...

President Joe Biden has remained silent about Iranians intensifying their protests against the country's Islamic leaders. Iranians have demonstrated amid worsening economic conditions under U.S. sanctions, and after the collapse of a twin-tower apartment building that killed at least 29 people. "The Biden administration and EU [European Union] continue to talk about social justice but that just seems to be cheap talk for votes," Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American journalist and human rights expert, told Fox News Digital. "That social justice does not seem to extend to everyone around the world though. "That Biden did not even address the disaster in...

The Army deployed 65 infantry divisions for the Second World War. Each was a small town with its own equivalents for community services within eight categories of combat arms. Units such as artillery, engineering, and heavy weapons engaged the enemy directly. Yet of all categories, the foot soldier faced the greatest hazard with the least chance of reward.These civilians become warriors confronted the most dismal fate of all, and whose duty was uninterrupted by missions completed or a fixed deployment time. The infantryman was enveloped within a most deranged, barbaric, and brittle existence against a resolute enemy where victory often...

Dr. Don Grundmann, chairman of the Constitution Party of California, wrote the following letter, addressed to the Washington Russian Ambassador and the San Francisco Consul General of Russia. He titles it “An apology and a pledge from an American.”Sirs:I am Don J. Grundmann, D.C. and I write to you now as an American citizen to express my shame in my government for waging a proxy war against your nation via its war criminal sock-puppet of NATO. This horrific action has resulted in countless totally avoidable deaths which have only occurred because my nation has been conquered by an anti-Christian “Deep...

President Biden said Monday that it’s up to Congress to outlaw assault weapons and strengthen background checks for gun sales, telling reporters: “I can’t dictate this stuff.” “I can do the things I’ve done and any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t change a background check. I can’t do that,” Biden said after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House.