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Putin announces operational pause after capturing towns in the east Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated the Russian seizure of Lysychansk and the majority of the Luhansk regional border in eastern Ukraine by appearing to direct his military to conduct an “operational pause”, the Institute for the Study of War reported on Monday. Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu called the recent Russian gains in the Luhansk region as a major victory for Russian forces in Ukraine. The Russian president also stated that the Russian units that participated in the battle for Lysychansk should rest to increase their combat capabilities,...

Joe Biden continues to deflect blame from his own energy policies for the high prices Americans are paying for gas, including by claiming gas station owners are price gouging. “My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril,” Biden tweeted on Sunday. “Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.” The U.S. Oil and Gas Association tweeted back: “Working on it Mr. President,” the association tweeted. “In the meantime...

Travesti parties, Vladimir Lenin advocating sexual freedom, nudist anarchists aboard trams, a nude beach near the cathedral of Christ the Savior… such was Russian life at the beginning of the Soviet state. What could possibly go wrong?“Stark naked people wearing armbands reading “Down With Shame!” have recently appeared in Moscow. A group was seen boarding a tram. The tram stopped, the public was outraged,” Mikhail Bulgakov, the famous Russian writer, wrote in his diary in 1924. Just 15 years prior to that, women could not think of going out in a knee-long dress. But did these changes happen overnight?Pre-revolutionary Russian...

Last Monday, hours after three people were shot and three others stabbed in separate incidents following the Chicago Pride Parade, city officials offered glowing reviews of their performance. Everyone responsible for the shootings and stabbings was in custody, they said. “The next best thing to preventing it is holding the person accountable and making an arrest right away, which is what happened,” CPD Supt. David Brown told reporters Monday afternoon. Police also recovered a gun from the shooting, Brown said. ...

“Feeling a little ambivalent about celebrating America this year?” “The only solution is to swap out all the American flags for pride flags and pledge allegiance to the fight for LGBTQ rights anew” - @lgbtqnation

As the phony January 6th Committee lies away and some RINOs begin to hedge their bets, sources say President Trump is poised to make a big announcementDue to the lying January 6th Committee’s continued unfounded (and unpopular) attack on President Trump, coupled with many RINOs such as Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and former Vice President Mike Pence being rumored to run in 2024, many Republican strategists anticipate President Trump announcing his bid for 2024 early–by November of this year.Although he has not declared his intent yet but instead said only that he is “close” to making a decision, those close...

Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States. Venezuela, under the leadership of anti-U.S. socialist president Nicolás Maduro, is scheduled to host the war games in mid-August, according to a report by the Center for a Secure Free Society, a think tank that tracks malign regimes. Along with 10 other nations, Russia, China, and Iran will move their militaries into the Western Hemisphere for war drills that will "preposition forward-deployed military assets in Latin...

In perhaps the biggest setback yet suffered by the transgenderist juggernaut, the International Swimming Federation has sunk the dreams of Olympic gold of Will “Lia” Thomas, the also-ran male swimmer who declared himself a woman and won an NCAA championship. In a shocking spasm of sanity, the ruling body declared that ex-men who had gone through male puberty (from age 12 onward) are ineligible to enter women’s events because of the permanent advantages in size and strength they have gained. It’s hard to lose when you have as much of an ideological tailwind at your back as Thomas has had,...

Alignable's June Rent Report reveals that rent delinquency rates in the U.S. have reached record levels for 2022. This year started with an average national delinquency rate of 26%, but now that rate is up by 9% compared to January, as 35% of small businesses in the U.S. could not pay their rent in full or on time in June. Not only is this rate 2% higher than it was last month, it’s the highest it has been this entire year. Most small business owners attribute this worsening situation to record-breaking inflation, which includes escalating gas, labor, and supply costs....

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

"And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. " "For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to...

The Volcanic Eifel is a peaceful region in western Germany. For hundreds of thousands of years, volcanic forces raged here, before settling down. But could these natural forces reawaken?Today's Volcanic Eifel was formed from cooled lava and volcanic ash. But deep below the surface, the earth is still bubbling. In fact, there are many indications that the rumbling underground is actually hot magma making its way to the Earth’s surface. How great is the danger of another eruption here in the Eifel, by far the youngest volcanic area in Central Europe?On the shores of the region’s Laacher See, a special...

Hundreds of slave laborers at Amazon’s sweatshop facilities have signed an open letter calling on the e-commerce behemoth to immediately cease all business operations in pro-life states so people will have “time to grieve.”

Lightning strikes! Inflation has been a disaster for millions of Americans. As inflation grows (highest in 40 years), fears of recession are jolting markets. The Dow today is down 2%. Then again, Europe is down even more. My favorite chart for explaining the surge in inflation is M1 Money Stock around the Covid outbreak in early 2020. Which has NOT been removed. No, this is not a real ECB currency, but it might as well be.

Russia is poised to temporarily shut down the European Union’s single biggest piece of gas import infrastructure, stoking fears of a delayed or only partial return of gas supplies. Some fear the Kremlin could use planned maintenance works to turn off the taps for good. “If it doesn’t come back after maintenance because President Putin plays games or wants to hit Europe while it hurts, then the plan to fill up gas storage by the end of summer will probably not work,” said Eurasia Group’s Henning Gloystein.

Joe Biden is celebrating July 4th with a massive expansion of the IRS. How better to celebrate the colonists who chased British tax collectors out than by replacing them with Biden's tax collectors. But every progressive person knows that Independence Day is for extremists. The dream of the new post-national nation is Co-Dependence Day in which we all live happily together in a planned economy.

The Euro fell to its lowest level in two decades on Tuesday as fears of a recession in the euro zone ramped up, with gas prices soaring and the Ukraine war showing no signs of abating...The Dollar's strength continues, meanwhile, as risk-averse investors seek a safe haven, and the U.S. Federal Reserve embarks upon what looks to be an aggressive rate hike regime.

Iran’s Quds Force, which the Biden White House has reportedly discussed removing from the terrorism list, has more than a hundred active agents operating inside the United States, according to former U.S. and Iranian intelligence officials. Their current goal is to penetrate the security perimeter surrounding former President Donald J. Trump and to kill him. The Iranian plot is not a secret: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene’I, boasted in January that Iranian agents inside the United States were tracking the former president’s movements, and could penetrate the security systems protecting him. That boast appeared in the form of a...

Obergefell, like Roe, was a particularly arbitrary, extreme, and unjust imposition on the people. Like Roe, it had no basis in the Constitution’s text or American custom. It was simply dreamed up by a group of unelected judges who decided the time had come for them to impose a radically new understanding of the most fundamental institution of human society. Like Roe, Obergefell took away from the people the power to decide the most basic moral questions and daily life in their communities. As Justice Scalia put it at the time, the Court was violating “a principle even more fundamental...

On June 23, 2022, the US and other western states gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, UN headquarters along with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to collect voluntary contributions for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UN Watch, a UN watchdog organization also based in Geneva, chaired by Alfred H. Moses and run by Executive Director Hillel Neuer, urged western democracies to stop funding hundreds of UNRWA teachers and other employees who call to murder Jews. In a new 42-page report, the independent non-governmental organization (NGO) UN Watch, “Exposed antisemitism and incitement to terrorism propagated recently by 10...