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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he had no regrets about the conflict in Ukraine, and that Russia was doing the right thing..... Putin said it was not Russia's objective to destroy Ukraine. He added that he saw 'no need' for talks with US President Joe Biden. The Russian President further said a direct clash with NATO would lead to 'global catastrophe'.

President Donald Trump has responded after the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee officially issued a subpoena for him to testify before Congress. Trump has reportedly said that he will accept the subpoena and is happy to testify, provided he can do it on live TV. According to reports, Trump will agree to testify but doesn’t want the Democrats and their allies in the media to selectively edit his video testimony to make him look bad. NYT correspondent Michael Schmidt said: “Since it became public that the House select committee planned to subpoena Trump for his testimony, the former president has been...

Virginia parents could face a felony or misdemeanor charge if they do not affirm their child’s sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a state lawmaker with plans to introduce the legislation in Virginia's upcoming legislative session. Right now, parents’ rights and LGBTQ protections are a big focus in Virginia. Thousands of students in Virginia have walked out of class protesting Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s newly proposed model policies on the treatment of transgender students at school.

It's really hard for Republicans to win elections. Why? Well, let's look at an example. Tiffany Caban is a defund the police NYC Councilwoman. Man viciously assaults woman at subway stop after ignoring him: cops https://t.co/uBV06IS2YF— Todd (@TM72774) September 28, 2022Subsequent to this attack she said“Subway violence is a one-in-a-million event” Not to burst the bubble, but no it's not Killings in NYC subway system skyrocket to highest level in 25 years — even as ridership plummetedKillings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership...

This is the latest version I've heard of this popular song. Patty Gurdy is amazingly talented...and amazingly gorgeous.

Psalm 139:1-16 13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed

VIDEOIt is getting harder and harder to escape the leftist woke agenda. In the latest example of this, medical students at the University of Minnesota were forced to take an SJW woke oath that replaced the traditional Hippocratic Oath.

It was all a setup. From Ray Epps – to opening the magnetic doors from the inside – to the dozens of fed operatives in the crowd – to Ginger Gun – to firing flash bombs and gas canisters on unsuspecting grandmas and seniors – to the mass arrests of hundreds of innocent Trump supporters who were waved into the US Capitol. Now we have the proof that it was all a setup and the entire thing was filmed by a pre-staged camera crew. On Thursday CNN released never-before-seen footage of Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell inside the US Capitol...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is tied with Republican challenger Tudor Dixon (44 percent to 44 percent), a new Insider Advantage poll shows. The poll, which surveyed 550 likely voters on October 11 and 12, showed 3 percent support for Libertarian candidate Mark Duzuma, and 2 percent for Green Party candidate Kevin Hogan. One percent of likely voters chose “other,” and 7 percent had no opinion.

NATO will closely monitor Russia's upcoming nuclear exercise but not be cowed into dropping support for Ukraine by Moscow's veiled nuclear threats, the alliance's chief said on Thursday. "We will not be intimidated," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters after a two-day meeting of the alliance's defense ministers. "Russia's nuclear rhetoric is dangerous, reckless, and they know that if they use (a) nuclear weapon against Ukraine, it will have severe consequences." The meeting was the first large NATO gathering since Moscow announced it would annex several Ukrainian territories, began a partial mobilization and issued veiled nuclear threats, moves NATO has...

The country’s storage caverns, which equate to roughly three months of demand, are now nearly bursting. Capacity utilization runs just shy of the 95% target well before the government's self-imposed Nov. 1 deadline. “It now looks as though the bloc will get through the coming winter with enough supplies—but only just—buoyed up by the gas reserves it raced to accumulate over the summer,” said Deutsche Bank in a report on Tuesday. European benchmark prices for natural gas have already come down substantially to just €160 per megawatt-hour on Thursday after peaking at around €350 per MWh in late August, when...

Former Trump administration DHS official Miles Taylor, the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed article in 2018 criticizing President Donald Trump, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Trump wanted members of Congress to be killed on January 6 so he could declare martial law and stay in power.Taylor said, “It made my heart race to watch today’s hearing, really, because they brought up Trump’s mindset, and the question was, what was his mindset? I’m going to demystify that for America right now. I’ve spent time with the guy in the Oval Office, the White House Situation Room, and...

Two leading Republicans wrote a letter Friday to the National Archives demanding communications and documents addressing the possibility Democrats pressured the institution into investigating former President Donald Trump.House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote the missive, obtained by Breitbart News, to Acting Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Debra Steidel Wall over the possibility that House Oversight Committee Democrats have pressured NARA into investigating Trump.Comer and Jordan noted the stunning coincidence that, on February 9, Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) wrote to NARA about...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to fight creeping censorship, saying efforts to silence dissent and deploy law enforcement against opponents were pushing America to a “tipping point.”At a rally Saturday night in Minden, Nev., Trump urged Republicans to turn out in November in large numbers and support the GOP slate that includes Senate nominee Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial nominee Joe Lombardo. Both are leading in the latest polls.“As bad as things are today, if the radical Democrats keep their grip on the House and the Senate, your finances, your family, your community, and your country will never be able...

During a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a security conference in Kazakhstan, Putin also suggested setting up a natural gas exchange market in Turkey to determine prices, according to the Interfax news agency. "We could consider building another gas pipeline and creating a gas hub in Turkey for sale to third countries, especially in Europe," Putin said. On Friday, Erdogan said he ordered his government to quickly present their implementation plans, saying that the hub "will be an international distribution center." According to Putin, more gas could be piped to Europe via Turkey...

"Some uppity foreigner in a t-shirt demanding money for his 'critical economic needs.' We have critical economic needs too, buddy. Who are you troll? Go away."

Bear 747, who triumphed over 435 after the fraudulent votes were discarded. Photograph: N Boak/Katmai national park/PA A contest to determine the fattest bear in southern Alaska has been rocked by scandal, after organizers said a ballot box had been “stuffed” in favor of a brown bear called Holly. Katmai national park, which runs Fat Bear Week, a knockout-style online competition that allows people to vote on which brown bears have gained the most weight between summer and fall, said it had discovered irregularities in voting over the weekend. Bear 435, also known as Holly, had initially appeared to triumph...

Liberal billionaire George Soros funded groups that are now urging the heads of major Big Tech platforms to step up their censorship just before the 2022 midterm elections. The Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) spearheaded an Oct. 13 open letter signed by 11 other liberal groups pining for Big Tech to “[t]ake immediate steps to curb the spread of voting disinformation in the midterms and future elections and to help prevent the undermining of our democracy.” The letter agonized over how “[t]he 2022 midterm elections are only a few weeks away, but online disinformation continues to...

SILVER PEAK, NV — On the edge of Western Nevada, hours from a major city and miles down private dirt roads, lies the United States' only lithium-producing plant...The scale of Silver Peak is hard to grasp from picturs. It spans 13,000 acres...Salty brine that contains lithium is pumped from between 300 and 2,000 feet underground to the surface. Then, over the course of 18 to 24 months, solar evaporation concentrates the lithium.