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(interesting pro-Russian article out of India - elpadre) Two massive terrorist strikes misfired spectacularly and a terrible beauty is born in the Ukraine war. These two carefully planned attacks in quick succession — on Nord Stream gas pipelines and Crimean Bridge — were intended as a knockout blow to Russia. According to President Vladimir Putin, people ‘who want to finally sever ties between Russia and the EU, weaken Europe’ are behind the Nord Stream blasts. He named the US, Ukraine and Poland as ‘beneficiaries’. Last Wednesday, Russia’s domestic intelligence service FSB identified Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, as the...

Hunter Biden reached a $40 million real estate deal in 2012 with Russian billionaire and wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yelena Baturina, while President Joe Biden was vice president. The massive deal is connected to a previously reported $3.5 million fee Baturina paid Hunter’s real estate entity to access the American business market, the Daily Mail reported Monday from documents obtained by an anti-corruption group, the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery. The $40 million Baturina invested into the fund reportedly flowed from a Swiss company she owned named Inteco Management AG, which is a plastics and construction giant...

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a far greater threat to American democracy than the 9/11 terror attack. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I worked in the administration in which he served as FBI director. What he sort of gave birth to in the lexicon was the FBI would never again, first of all fail to sync up with a CIA, and all sorts of artificial and real walls were torn down and they would never again fail to connect the dots. I’ve...

RRepublican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s campaign has paid a small agency that employs his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2020, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller. The firm, Pink Cilantro, is a boutique branding agency based in Houston, Texas. The agency’s website, in service since 2013, went offline as recently as June, according to the internet archive called “The Wayback Machine.” Pink Cilantro’s owner, Basya Benshushan, told the Caller that they are in the process of “rebranding” the agency and that’s why the website is down. Since 2020, Crenshaw’s campaign has paid...

I recently found a black cat with a little white patch hiding (and starving) in my laundry room. It looks exactly like the Eveready 9lives cat. I sent a request to Eveready to see what the name of the cat was.

Ailing exhibition giant Cineworld Group, which is currently finalizing a reorganization plan having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. earlier this month, has released encouraging interim results for the six months to June 30, 2022. Overall revenue rose to $1.5b against $292.8m in the same period in 2021, for an adjusted EBITDA of $364.2m (against -$21.1m in 2021) and an operating profit of $57.3m, against an operating loss of $208.9m in the same period last year. The company’s debt position worsened, however, standing at $5,2b on June 30, against $5.03b on December 30, 2021. The exhibitor, which operates...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that California will be ending the COVID-19 state of emergency in February 2023. The governor’s office announced that the state is planning to end the COVID-19 State of Emergency on February 28, 2023, nearly three years after it was declared

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Support Activity Charleston, South CarolinaNaval Support Activity Charleston, originally designated Naval Weapons Station Charleston, is a base of the United States Navy located on the west bank of the Cooper River, in the cities of Goose Creek and Hanahan South Carolina.The base encompasses more than 17,000 acres of land with 10,000 acres of forest and wetlands, 16-plus miles of waterfront, four deep-water piers, 38.2 miles of railroad and 292 miles of road. The current workforce (military/civil service/contractor) numbers more than 11,000 with an additional 3,600 people in on-base family housing.Under the 2005...

'Death industry' on the riseDETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - The number of women traveling to Michigan for abortions is rising, and pro-lifers are warning of the danger the future holds. The Detroit Free Press recently learned from Planned Parenthood of Michigan (PPMI) that out-of-state patients make up about 20% of all abortions. Paula Thorton Greear, CEO and president of PPMI, stated, "If the previous weekly average was 18, the new average would be around 42 and sometimes as high as 58 in a week." "It's going to be horrible for Michigan. The earth should open up and swallow this state. It will...

Policy Researcher Dr Carys Moseley comments on the new proposals in Scotland to ban ‘conversion practices’.Proposals for ending ‘LGBT conversion practices’ in Scotland were published last Tuesday by an Expert Panel advising the Scottish government. The report assumes a radical misinterpretation of children’s rights and denies that its recommendations infringe religious freedom and freedom of expression. These policy proposals amount to the worst in the world so far. Overall they would criminalise prayer, consensual conversations, quoting certain Bible passages, and some preaching among other things. This amounts to a shocking infringement of fundamental freedoms. Here, I will outline the most...

Under the leadership of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro of blessed memory, hundreds of thousands of Orthodox faithful took to the streets in Montenegro throughout 2020 in regular cross processions and prayers in defense of their holy sites, which the anti-Orthodox government was trying to seize from the Church. Now the faithful are mobilizing against another threat—the LGBTQ agenda which stands against their traditional family values in Montenegro. On Friday, October 7, His Grace Bishop Metodije of Budimlja and Nikšić led a moleben for the sanctity of marriage and the preservation of the family on the plateau in front...

Residents of numerous states are receiving “tax rebates” and “stimulus checks" from their state governments this fall. $50 or $100 here, $200 or $300 there… it depends on the state. But they have this much in common: these states started issuing these checks once the general election ballots were finalized, and they should all show up in voters’ bank accounts or mailboxes by Election Day. Hmm… The Social Security COLA (cost of living adjustment) for 2023 has also been announced. Driven by inflation, it’s going up 8.7%, the highest increase in 40 years. And when was this “generous” increase announced?...

China has recruited dozens of former British military pilots to teach the Chinese armed forces how to defeat western warplanes and helicopters in a "threat to UK interests", officials have revealed. One official said some 30 mainly ex-fast jet but also some helicopter pilots - lured by annual salaries of around £240,000 - are currently in China training pilots for the People's Liberation Army, in what a defence analyst described as a stunning breach of security. A retired senior Royal Air Force officer said: "Wow… that is appalling. What were they thinking?" Beijing is actively trying to hire many more...

Archbishop of Hanoi inaugurates long-awaited facility intended to meet basic needs of local people, ChurchLocal Catholics attend the opening of the new pastoral center in Hanoi on Oct. 7. (Photo: tonggiaophanhanoi.org)Archbishops and bishops from the country's 27 dioceses concelebrated a special Mass on Oct 7 to mark the opening of a new pastoral center in the capital, Hanoi. The Mass held at St. Joseph Cathedral also marked the feast of Mary of the Rosary and concluded the national congress of bishops. The event was joined by hundreds of priests and attended by thousands of people, many of whom had to...

Boston University scientists were today condemned for 'playing with fire' after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory. DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study. The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic. Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.' Gain of function...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's cousin issued a violent threat against those who 'challenge' Saudi Arabia after President Biden warned there would be 'consequences' for OPEC cutting oil production, just weeks before the midterms. In a message aimed at 'the West,' Saud al-Shaalan is seen in a video saying 'anybody who challenges the existence of this kingdom, we are all projects of jihad and martyrdom. Anybody that thinks they can threaten us--' Al-Shaalan's threat comes at a time of sky-high tensions between Washington and Riyadh after OPEC+ cut oil production by two million barrels per day and the Biden administration...

Which areas have the most bars as opposed to groceries, meth labs, which races predominate where...

MINSK, October 17. /TASS/. Belarus reserves its right to take preemptive strategic deterrence measures amid the establishment of offensive NATO groups near Belarusian borders, says Valery Revenko, head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry international military cooperation department. "The Republic of Belarus will protect its national interests with use of all available means, including by use of forces, and retains its right to take a complex of preemptive strategic measure complex in order to prevent an attack or to neutralize an internal armed conflict," he said during a briefing for foreign military attaches, partially published by Defense Ministry press office Monday....

Taiwan famously features an indigenous population of Austronesian people whose history on the island stretches back 5,000 years. But among these people, oral traditions have referred to another civilisation that seemed to be far older. They were often referred to as “pygmies” or tiny people and were described as having dark skin, curly hair and a diminutive stature. For centuries, they only existed in fables , although they popped up with remarkable consistency over an extremely long period of time. In early October, scientists proved they existed in Taiwan. According to a paper published in World Archaeology, a peer-reviewed journal,...

A pass interference call wiped out a crucial interception for the Crimson Tide in the loss at Tennessee. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama has officially been penalized more than any other team in the country. After the Crimson Tide got called for a program-record 17 penalties Saturday against Tennessee, it's no surprise that penalties were a major theme of Nick Saban's Monday press conference. Whether it be pass interference, which wiped out a game-sealing interception for the second week in a row, or pre-snap infractions, or special teams penalties that negated big gains, Saban is frustrated with it all. Depending on...