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In conclusion of his working visit to Kazakhstan, the President answered journalists’ questions. October 14, 202215:55 Astana Vladimir Putin answered journalists’ questions. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good evening, Let’s take your questions. Please go ahead. Aysel Gereykhanova: Good evening, Aysel Gereykhanova, Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Mr President, you took part in the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia yesterday, and the creation of a new international organisation was announced yesterday as well. How do you assess these plans and what purpose do they serve? Vladimir Putin: We asked ourselves this question back when this organisation...

On episode 8 of the show we are joined by Dmitry Kulikov, a Russian political scientist, publicist and political consultant. Expert of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots. Film producer, TV and radio presenter. Very interesting look at how a noted Russian sees the Ukraine special military operation, the United States and our relationship with Russia past and present. Russians believe that they are actually at war with the United States, not Ukraine and that the U.S. will continue the war until the last Ukrainian in a bid to weaken Russia....

Russia has lost 60% of its raw oil shipping market in Europe after launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the next two months, the market for Russia will almost completely disappear, and new sanctions will make it difficult to redirect flows to other directions, Bloomberg reports. Russian oil supplies to Europe averaged 630,000 barrels a day a month ago, down from 1.62 million before the full-scale war began.... The rate of sea exports of Russian oil at 604,000 barrels per day is the lowest rate for the year. Flows fell by 56,000 barrels per day, or 8%, compared to...

This is one of the best interviews I have heard in years. Will Cain interviews Tucker Carlson for 56 minutes. It's Fox News on YouTube. It provides an in depth look at Tucker and his political views.

A North Carolina father-of-one spent 24 hours in jail for refusing to wear a mask as ordered by a judge despite no state or county mandates in place. Gregory Hahn, 47, a US Navy veteran, was among several of 98 jury duty candidates called to Harnett County court who showed up not wearing a mask because there were no such rules or warnings in place, WRAL reports. Despite the fact that masks aren't required in the building, Judge Winston Charles Gilchrist mandated that everyone in his courtroom wear a mask.

Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker was confronted by CNN host Michael Smerconish in a conversation about media, telling him it was 'partisan' to not give much air time to the scandal surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop. Zucker and Smerconish were joined by former MSNBC boss Phil Griffin for a talk on the state of media at the Un-Convention in Philadelphia. The convention was billed as 'an exploration of political reforms to improve our election systems and policy ideas to govern a divided country.'

China has bombarded US warships with drones at least 151 times over the last five years: One LANDED on deck of destroyer near Hong Kong, Chinese national was arrested in Pearl Harbor flying one over fleet - and drones of unknown origin snooped nuclear stockpile US warships have been bombarded by suspected Chinese espionage via drones over the past five years, according to newly released Navy records. Following a Freedom of Information Act request from The War Zone, the unsealed documents show US fleets were plagued by unidentified drones that appeared to be documenting America's forces in the Pacific. Among...

Alarmed by the increasingly dangerous rhetoric regarding the Ukraine-Russian war, former President Donald Trump has offered to try "to negotiate peace before we lapse into World War III." President Biden objected to "this unwanted intrusion. I won the 2020 election, not Trump. I represent the will of the people. What Trump wants doesn't matter. What I want does. We are confronting Putin's threat to use nukes in Ukraine and countering it with our threat to nuke Russia if he does." Biden went on to point out that "all the great thinkers are with me on this. European Union foreign policy...

“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast” (Proverbs 15:15).

Stacey Abrams' voting accessibility PAC Fair Fight appears to be paying many thousands of dollars to family and friends of its director who lack political experience or expertise. The PAC, established in the wake of Abrams' 2018 loss to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, is doling out cash - to the tune of $178,000 - to people close to the PAC's director, Andre Fields. When confronted by the accusation, Fair Fight told Fox News it was launching an internal investigation.

Preliminary data from Russia's Finance Ministry showed that the country's fiscal surplus shrank to 55 billion rubles ($860 million) in the first nine months of the year, down from 137 billion roubles ($2.15 billion), Bloomberg reported. Olga Bychkova, an economist at Moody's Analytics, told Newsweek that the Russian government surplus is 30 times lower, when compared to the same period last year.... She predicted the government budget would post a modest surplus of 0.6 percent in 2022 on high energy prices but flip to a deep deficit of around nine percent in 2023 due to limited growth, imports, and 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.

Taken from the upcoming album Point Blank MMXXIII... Stay tuned! In cooperation with Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V., BONFIRE finances the "Farba project" with donations in order to be able to help traumatized children and young people quickly.

Anyone remember this movie? I remember watching it as a grade schooler, and learning the duties of a young patriot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzApsp1ZSQ&t=11s

As 12-year-old David Vetter was about to die at Texas Children's Hospital in 1984, he gave a last wink to his doctor, William T. Shearer. His wife told us Dr. Shearer carried that moment through the rest of his life. Dr. Shearer, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, died this week at the age of 81. David Vetter had been born with severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare disease that could have made it fatal for him to be touched, held, kissed by his parents or even take a breath of fresh air. Doctors devised a sterile clear...

This poor democrat congresswoman agreed to a live interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. BIG mistake. Whew....

Elon Musk got in hot water again on Twitter—for proposing peace. On Monday, Musk proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, for which he was denounced as a pro-Putin puppet by the Twitter mob that has formed to police the discourse on all things related to Ukraine. The president of Ukraine himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Musk of supporting Russia—even though Musk's company SpaceX donated Starlink to Ukraine's war effort at an out-of-pocket cost of $80 million. (Full disclosure: Musk is a friend and I am an investor in SpaceX.) Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrj Melnyk was less...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul leads Republican challenger Lee Zeldin by 10 percentage points according to a new Marist College poll. Hochul, a Democrat, is seeking a full four-year term after taking over when Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021. She has held the edge in polling and fundraising against Long Island Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin throughout the race, and with Election Day less than a month away, the Marist poll shows that dynamic hasn’t changed. The poll finds 51 percent of registered voters backing Hochul, with Zeldin at 41 percent. Among voters who say they will definitely vote, Hochul...

Scores of Amazon employees walked out of the Amazon Air Regional Air Hub in San Bernardino Friday, Oct. 14, to protest what they have called unfair labor practices and retaliation in response to their demands for better, safer jobs and a $5 hourly pay raise. Crowds gathered on the corner of a street leading to the 659,000-square-foot warehouse, known as KSBD, where roughly 1,400 employees work. Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, wrote in an email that 100 employees, or half the shift, went on strike Friday afternoon. Night shift workers also were expected to walk...

Update from Ukraine: I expect Ruzzia to leave Kherson very soon Oct 14, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deEDsODhADo 10/14/2022 Also, you may check military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://deepstatemap.live/