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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Friends, The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup. Today I am addressing you – all citizens of our country, people of different generations, ages and ethnicities, the people of our great Motherland, all who are united by the great historical Russia, soldiers, officers and volunteers who are fighting on the frontline and doing their combat duty, our brothers and sisters in the...

This next decade will be pivotal for Arizona. Our state is poised to lead the way in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, become a powerhouse of technological innovation and manufacturing, build one of the most competitive and prosperous economies in the country and create endless opportunities for Arizona’s workers and families. This future is possible, but it’s not guaranteed. This November, we can either go down the path of liberal states like California and resign ourselves to brutal lockdowns, unaffordable taxes, summer blackouts and crushing regulations, or we can chart our own unique path that will truly put Arizona on the...

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Drug enforcement officials are now warning about a new group of opioids, ten times stronger than fentanyl, which has been linked to a recent surge in overdoses. “Laboratory test results indicate that the potency of certain nitazene analogs [e.g., isotonitazene, protonitazene, and etonitazene] greatly exceeds that of fentanyl, whereas the potency of the analog metonitazene is similar to fentanyl,” explained a team of researchers from the Tennessee Department of Health. Deaths linked to drugs are on the rise. In their report issued Friday, Jessica Korona-Bailey and colleagues said that “four times as many nitazene-involved overdoses were identified in Tennessee in...

(CNN) - The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday rejected a GOP effort to seek documents related to the Biden family's international business deals, as Republicans attempt to lay the groundwork to investigate Hunter Biden under a GOP-led House. Republicans on the committee forced a vote on a so-called "resolution of inquiry," which called on the administration to hand over a wide swath of documents related to the Biden family's business deals overseas. Democrats, however, voted down the resolution following two hours of debate over the issue. (The final tally was 23 Democrats voted to report the resolution unfavorably out of...

Sixteen months after the Biden administration conceded COVID-19 might have emerged "from a laboratory accident," largely ending social media censorship of the onetime "conspiracy theory," fresh scrutiny is falling on a nonprofit conduit for federal research grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and a purported fact-checker.A former vice president of the EcoHealth Alliance claims it "developed" SARS-CoV-2 and "described in detail" how it would do so in its successful research proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its component National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). (snip) When he became VP in late 2015, Huff...

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, who opened a criminal investigation this week into migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard, said Tuesday that the solution to the ongoing migrant crisis is to open up more legal pathways for people to come to the United States. "At some point, you’re going to have to embrace that this is happening to a certain extent. I would say, look, you’ve got people who want to work… and you've got a shortage of workers," he told CNN on Tuesday. "Hire these folks. Give them the opportunity to work legally, and then make sure that the employers...

Comedian Tim Allen (aka Toolman Tim Taylor) cracked a joke about Joe Biden’s performance on 60 Minutes this past Sunday and the far-left lunatics went crazy.Biden was on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening and it ended up a trainwreck as expected. Biden shared that those people who disapprove of him are psychologically unable to be happy.

BREAKING: Putin declares partial mobilization; the decree has been signed. “Only citizens who are currently in the reserve and, above all, those who served in the Armed Forces, have certain military specialties and relevant experience, will be subject to conscription. “ Partial military mobilization, referendums in Donbas and other regions etc.

Finnish President Saule Niinisto believes that Vladimir Putin's decision to hold so-called "referendums" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine risks the future and the Russian economy. Niinisto said this at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session on Tuesday. "Now we are in a situation where Putin, using the term from poker, went all-in, and playing in this way is extremely risky. By VA-bank, I mean, for example, the future and economic future of Russia," he said. The Finnish president added that the so-called "referendums" in the occupied Ukrainian territories cannot even be called...

Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and other railroads reached a tentative union deal brokered by the Biden administrationThe threat of a U.S. freight railroad strike still looms. Union members still need to ratify a tentative agreement reached by their leaders. Some local members have already rejected the terms.The largest U.S. freight railroads and union leaders struck a tentative deal Wednesday after 20 hours of negotiations, temporarily averting a strike that would have shut down rail lines across the country and disrupted the economy. But the issue is far from over. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District...

New COVID-19 boosters targeting the omicron variants are here at the same time as this year’s flu vaccine, leaving hospitals, community health centers and pharmacists to calculate how much of each vaccine they’ll need. Demand for the new COVID-19 booster is strong across Greater Cleveland, but interest in the flu vaccine is lagging, according to some vaccine providers. Health experts say both immunizations are important. “We are encouraging everyone eligible to receive both vaccinations as we head into the colder months and expect activity of both viruses to increase,” the Cleveland Clinic said. At Discount Drug Mart, demand for the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The US Air Force will unveil its next-generation stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, during the first week of December, lifting the tight cloak of secrecy that has surrounded the aircraft's development. Northrop Grumman and the Air Force confirmed the timeline for unveiling the B-21 on Tuesday, saying that it will offer an 'exclusive view' of the aircraft at the company's facility in Palmdale, California. The bomber, which will be nuclear-capable, will cost about $639 million per plane, and the Pentagon plans to buy at least 100 of them to complement and eventually replace the aging B-2 Spirit. 'The B-21 is...

This video from the South China Morning Post is almost a year old, but I only now just caught up to it. It shows a row of electric buses in China combusting rather dramatically: [Youtube video] Imagine if you were a passenger on the first bus as it was going down the street, or even stopped at a pickup point, when it combusted. You likely wouldn’t make it out. The point: if not for the hysteria over climate change, and the romanticizing of electric-everything, our various transportation- and safety-czars in the government would never allow these vehicles to be brought...

Andrey Kartapolov: There will be no general mobilization in Russia Subject: Military operation in Ukraine The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense spoke about new punishments for crimes during wartimeMilitary operation in Ukraine Russia has decided to tighten responsibility for crimes committed against military service during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime. The corresponding package of amendments to the Criminal Code was adopted by the State Duma on September 20 immediately in the second and third readings. Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, told in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper...

One of the many plots the administrative state and left have to frame and persecute President Donald J. Trump is over a phone call made during the aftermath of the highly curious 2020 elections, at a time where it was obvious that powerful politicians and their allies in the media were colluding to set a narrative about what happened- that conflicted with people’s ability to apply logic. But the administrative-‘deepstate’ persisted in 2020, nonetheless refusing transparency for the American people and boxing Trump into corners to take their abuse for asking questions that needed to be asked. Trump was almost...

In early September, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon approved Trump’s request for a special master to oversee the review of all the evidence seized in the raid and also temporarily blocked parts of the DOJ investigation pending the appointment of the special master. She ultimately appointed Judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to review the details and legality of the raid on Trump’s private Florida estate. Judge Cannon had ruled against a DOJ request to delay the proceedings and continue to look at the documents separately from the special master. During the raid, passports belonging to former President Trump...

The left is unwilling to accept the testimony of an FBI whistleblower, no matter what US Rep. Jim Jordan says about the information that has been collected to show that the FBI is acting on highly politicized cases over issues of national security. No matter what anyone says the left do not want to investigate any claim, they only want to blame Republicans. Nonetheless, Jordan appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson recently and laid out a chilling story: “Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a whistleblower in the FBI had provided information...