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The United States has been a leading provider of security assistance to Ukraine, both before and after Russia renewed its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. From 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, through June 1, 2022, the United States has provided more than $7.3 billion in security assistance “to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO.” Since the start of the 2022 war, the Biden Administration has committed a total of more than $4.6 billion in security assistance to “provide Ukraine the equipment it needs to defend itself.”

A reader reflects on the “Hot Lots” and why batches of Covid injections differ. He ends with words of encouragement, “we are not alone.”To The Exposé,Covid tyranny: Is it time for the youngest?While Covid restrictions are disappearing, many may think the Covid tyranny is on life support. Uh, not so fast. Doctor Ashish Ja is Biden’s White House Covid Response Coordinator. Dr. Ja has continued his meteoric rise as he’s moved up from ABC news medical advisor.For over a year, David Muir would interview the good doctor about Covid. Dr. Ja would be a cheerleader for the next booster as...

Russian forces are holding hundreds of people in “torture chambers” in occupied Kherson, a Ukrainian official has said. “According to our information, some 600 people are … being held in specially converted basements in the region of Kherson," the Ukraine presidency’s permanent representative in Crimea, Tamila Tacheva, said.According to Ukrinform, Ms. Tacheva said that Russian invaders have confined these prisoners within “specially equipped rooms, in torture chambers,” Ukrinform reported. Most of those being held in “inhuman conditions” are “journalists and militants” who organized “pro-Ukrainian gatherings” in Kherson following its occupation by Russian forces in 2014.

TENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 5:17-19 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises that he has not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. Matthew says that Jesus went up a mountain, sat down, and commenced to teach, calling to mind Moses, who went up Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God. Therefore, Jesus is being presented here as the New Moses who will promulgate from this Galilean mountain the definitive Law. I realize that this immediately poses a problem for contemporary readers, who are put off by a religion that leads with laws, rules, and...

Recently, The Register's Liam Proven wrote tongue in cheek about the most annoying desktop Linux distros. He inspired me to do another take. Proven pointed out that Distrowatch currently lists 270 – count 'em – Linux distros. Of course, no one can look at all of those. But, having covered the Linux desktop since the big interface debate was between Bash and zsh rather than GNOME vs KDE, and being the editor-in-chief of a now-departed publication called Linux Desktop, I think I've used more of them than anyone else who also has a life beyond the PC. In short, I...

Throughout the years, people at the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) have said some highly disturbing things, none of which garnered proper media attention. When one pieces together the topics championed by WEF, an overarching theme emerges – the total control of humanity using media, science, and technology while reshaping democracies to form a global government.If this sounds like a far-fetched conspiracy theory, keep reading. We are sharing the 10 most dystopian things according to The Vigilant Citizen, one at a time, that are being pushed by WEF, right now. They are in no particular order because they’re all equally crazy....

New York billionaire and refiner John Catsimatidis warned that rising interest rates could produce ill effects on the U.S. economy. The White House’s “obsession” against “turning on North American oil spigots” has triggered a significant hike in energy costs and inflation, Catsimatidis told Fox Business on Tuesday. He noted that the Biden administration asked Saudi Arabia and other nations for more crude oil production rather than boosting domestic output. “We have 100 years’ worth of oil [in the U.S.]. Let [the government] open up the spigots and the price of crude oil will come back down to $55, $60, maybe...

In a statement, the Supreme Court said the man was armed and “made threats against Justice Kavanaugh.” The suspect was taken to a local police station after he was arrested at about 1:50 a.m., the court spokesperson said. He was carrying an unspecified weapon and burglary tools, according to the Washington Post.

During an interview aired on CNN's "Situation Room," Biden Administration Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen admitted "I don't understand inflation. Everyone in the Administration is dead set against inflation. It's not like there are disagreements regarding its negative effects. Yet, despite this unanimity among those of us making economic policy inflation is wrecking the lives of ordinary Americans." Yellen's admission was stunning considering she has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, spent nearly twenty years at the Federal Reserve—serving as its Chairperson for five years—helping manage the nation's money supply, and was on President Clinton's Council of Economic...

When Maqbool Fida Husain was busy making nude paintings of Hindu goddesses in the 1990s, he got unprecedented liberal support within and outside the country. He became an icon for everything progressive and modern, battling obscurantist, reactionary and medievalistic forces. The liberal grandstanding, however, was hollow, for they were the ones who competed with each other to get Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses banned, ironically even before the theocratic Iran and Islamist Pakistan could do so. Rushdie’s fate was sealed in India much before people here could get hold of the book. Hearsay was enough to get him ostracised! History...

Oil prices rose about 2% to a 13-week high on Wednesday as U.S. demand for gasoline has kept rising despite record pump prices, on expectations China’s oil demand will rise and on supply concerns in several countries. Brent futures rose $2.77, or 2.3%, to $123.34 a barrel by 12:41 p.m. EDT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $2.64, or 2.2%, to $122.05.

By Bill DriesMEMPHIS, TN (The Daily Memphian) — Former President Donald Trump has put the Memphis area on his “American Freedom” tour.The June 18 stop is one of two day-long events listed on the tour’s website including another one in Austin, Texas. The details for Memphis stop say the exact location is to be determined.“Build important relationships, help promote a conservative agenda and protect America’s future,” the details read.The format for the event seems similar to Conservative Political Action Conference events the American Conservative Union has held in Memphis in recent years, featuring various conservative political figures.A CPAC event in...

Impeachment voting Tom Rice is up for reelection next week in South Carolina

More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered in the city of Mariupol have been transferred to Russia for investigation, Tass news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a Russian law enforcement source. “More than 1000 people from Azovstal were brought to Russia. Law enforcement organs are working with them closely,”

President Donald Trump picked up more victories for his endorsed candidates Tuesday night.Following the GOP primary victory in Pennsylvania by Sen.-nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's record stood at 100 wins to 6 losses, according to the former president.He picked up at least 10 more victories with nary a loss in Tuesday's primaries across seven states, including longtime Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Iowa GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds, and Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., who won the Republican primary in Montana's U.S. House District 2 race.Also, Trent Kelly won the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Mississippi's 1st Congressional...

As I line up my move from Fairfax VA to Columbus OH, I am getting a variety of quotes from moving companies. And wow! The cost of moving using a national moving company for a 4 bedroom house is $15,000 to $20,500. That includes International, North American and Bekins. One of the reasons for the high cost of moving is the massive increase in diesel fuel used for trucking. Diesel fuel under Biden has risen 117%. And since it was revealed that natural gas often is used for electric charging stations, and NATGAS is up 281% under Biden (but there...

The Washington Post was caught stealth-editing a dishonest attack-the-right story by its in-house cry-bully Taylor Lorenz, yet the publication still enjoys a perfect score by leftist news ratings firm NewsGuard. NewsGuard currently rates The Post with a stellar “100/100” score, and claims the leftist paper “adheres to all nine of NewsGuard’s standards on credibility and transparency.” The score hasn’t budged since news broke that Lorenz falsely claimed she contacted two YouTube content creators (ThatUmbrellaGuy and LegalBytes) for comment in a smear piece smacking them for making money from their YouTube coverage of the infamous court trial between actor Johnny Depp...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is downplaying recent straw polls showing him as a leading presidential prospect in 2024. DeSantis has outperformed former President Donald Trump in a number of such informal surveys at various events in recent weeks, a phenomenon leading to an increasing amount of stories on the seeming trend. As he has done when asked about a desire to run for President in 2024, DeSantis sidestepped the question. “I don’t do straw polls. They just put my name into these things, you know? It’s just, like, so what am I supposed to do? Like they sell merchandise and everything....

A study has found that a drug named Dostarlimab has helped treat rectal cancer. This has been described as a "first time in history"kind of result in cancer treatment with the disease simply vanishing in patients after the experimental treatment. Here are 10 things to know about Dostarlimab, the drug that cured cancer during trial:1. The clinical trial comprised a group of 18 patients. All of them were battling rectal cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, US. 2. In all patients, rectal cancer was locally advanced. This means the tumours had spread within the rectum and...

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