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The excise will not apply to fermented beverages, kvass with ethyl alcohol content from 0.5% to 1.2% inclusive, juices, fruit nectars, juice-containing beverages and fresh fruit drinks MOSCOW, November 21./TASS/.Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law recognizing sugary drinks as excisable items starting July 1, 2023. The published document was initiated by the government, it amends the Russian Tax Code. The excise rate is set a 7 rubles ($0.12) per liter. Non-alcoholic beverages produced with the use of sugar or other or other sweeteners containing more than 5 grams per 100 ml are recognized as sugary drinks...

The Washington Post published a story Nov. 11 reporting that current and former students claimed to have been pressured by university administrators to withdraw once their mental health problems were known, after which they were required to go through a cumbersome reapplication process to get back into the school. More than 25 current and former Yale students told the outlet they were upset by what they described as Yale's inadequate policies and services for students in the throes of a mental health crisis, despite the institution's $41.4 billion endowment. In instances reported by those who spoke with The Washington Post,...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley hinted she could seek a bid for the presidency in 2024 during a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting, potentially setting up a challenge with former President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. Haley, also a former U.S. Ambassador in the Trump administration, has been considered a potential presidential candidate for years and became an outspoken critic of Trump after leaving his administration. "A lot people have asked if I'm going to run for president now that the midterms are over. I'll look at it in a serious way and I'll...

Three Oklahoma teenagers were killed when they broke into a house and were met by a homeowner with an AR-15. Now the grandfather of one of the teenagers is speaking out about his grandson’s death. According to KTUL-TV, Leroy Schumacher, grandfather of 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn, believes the death of Redfearn was unjustified because the homeowner’s AR-15 gave him an unfair advantage over the three burglars. Speaking to KTUL, Schumacher acknowledged that breaking into a house was “stupid,” but death was not the appropriate consequence. “What these three boys did was stupid,” Schumacher said. “They knew they could be punished for...

Col. MacGregor: Zelensky's made a terrible mistake by trying to pin the missiles on Russia. Everyone knows; and what he's done is sacrifice what little credibility he has left. Increasingly he is viewed especially in Europe where more and more truth is getting through to the populations. He's seen as the mayor of the the capital of disinformation and fiction. The truth is the situation that Ukraine finds itself in right now is really quite desperate. The Russians have systematically dismantled most of the energy system. People are lacking in terms of lack of heat, but lack of heat is...

Kelvin Blowe was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., on the same day the city council voted unanimously to pass a bill he advocated for that reduces penalties for serious offenses such as robbery, burglary, carjackings, and carrying a firearm without a license. The Washington Post reports Blowe had spent over five years in prison for robbery, and the experience "instilled in him a passion to right inequities he believed he encountered." After getting out, he joined DC Justice Lab, one of the groups that pushed to overhaul the city's criminal code. He testified in support of the proposed bill...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Stokes Up German Bishops’ RebellionDefiant prelates tell Vatican they 'want to be Catholics in another way'VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Defiant German bishops claim that Pope Francis is backing them in their rebellion against Church teaching on homosexuality, women's ordination and the abolition of priestly celibacy. A pastoral worker blesses a homosexual couple in Germany "The Holy Father made it clear to us that tension is necessary," Bp. Georg Bätzing, president of the German Bishops' Conference, told reporters in Rome on Saturday at the conclusion of the prelates' ad limina visit to the Vatican. "The audience with Pope...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost almost half of their tanks in Ukraine | Bakhmut is a black hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6B4sXfnq8 Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ Military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ Invasion Day 270 – Summary & Maps November 20, 2022 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-270-summary/ Poltava’s paratroopers rebranded November 19, 2022 https://militaryland.net/news/poltavas-paratroopers-rebranded/

Reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have been sentenced to 12 years and seven years in prison respectively months after they were found guilty in their tax evasion case. The couple, best known for 'Chrisley Knows Best' on USA, was sentenced Monday by an Atlanta judge to a combined total of 19 years in prison, less than two days after one of their sons was seriously injured in a car crash in Nashville. Todd, 53, and Julie, 49, will also serve 16 months of probation each upon their release, according to WBS-TV. The news comes five months after the Chrisleys...

From time to time, just one human story becomes something akin to a modern parable. David French—writer, lawyer, public intellectual—is now that person. It is no insult to say that French, in himself, contains multitudes. In two recent articles, French defends both what is wrongly called the “Respect for Marriage Act” and his own process of thinking about same-sex marriage. He says that he has written these articles as acts of personal intellectual honesty, and I have no reason to question his integrity of mind. What I mean to criticize most strenuously is the ideas he now promotes. I do...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is reviving its criminal investigation into Trump’s ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stephanie Clifford, AKA, Stormy Daniels. Trump has been accused of paying Daniels ‘hush payments’ in a scheme to silence her about their alleged affair. Trump has denied the affair. House Democrats previously launched the inquiry into the hush payments ahead of the 2020 election cycle as a way to bog down Trump and slow down his 2020 re-election campaign. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s predecessor previously rejected the Trump ‘hush payments’ case because it wouldn’t stand up in court. Fast-forward a couple years and...

President Trump took failed Republican Colorado Senate nominee Joe O’Dea to task on Monday in a blistering statement, lambasting candidates who shifted their policy priorities after winning their primaries and dumping the MAGA agenda.“Joe O’Dea lost his race in Colorado by over 12 points because he campaigned against MAGA,” Trump wrote in an official statement. “Likewise, candidates who shifted their ‘messaging’ after winning big in the Primaries (Bolduc!) saw big losses in the General.”NEW!“Joe O’Dea lost his race in CO by over 12 points because he campaigned against MAGA. Likewise, candidates who shifted their ‘messaging’ after winning big in the...

Problems with voting machines in Arizona on Election Day are found to be more widespread than initially reported. A new report by the Daily Caller found that at least 62% of voting centers in Maricopa County had problems with voting machines on Election Day. The report discovered that the tabulators and printers at the voting centers were malfunctioning. This resulted in long lines and many delays. Due to this, voters skipped the polls because they did not want to stand in line. A memo written by Arizona’s Attorney General, Mark Brnovich, was cited in the report. Brnovich is demanding for...

"And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about." "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: "To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints." Luke, Chapter 4 1 And Jesus being...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday ordered Riley Williams, a 23-year-old right-wing extremist, taken into federal custody after a jury convicted her on six of the eight counts she faced in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Williams was found guilty on six counts, but the jury deadlocked on two others, including whether she aided and abetted the theft of a laptop in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Williams, a follower of the "Groyper" movement, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, filming rioters breaking into the building, then encouraged members of the mob up a set...

Kari Lake told the establishment paper she will "Never" turn on Trump. The Washington Examiner is calling on America First Arizonan, Kari Lake, to turn on President Trump and accept election fraud in the wake of her Governor’s race “loss” to infamous Arizona election boss Katie Hobbs. Shockingly, Hobbs, as Arizona’s Secretary of State, was allowed to run her own election. “Kari Lake can be a conservative superstar if she dumps Trump,” The Washington Examiner claimed in a headline, citing the talking points of a strategist aligned with the open-borders Chamber of Commerce, before claiming that election fraud doesn’t exist....

Ex-Californians Steve and Timpani visit a marriage counselor to solve their Texification problems - but this little gas station called Buc-ee's isn't helping!Episode 1: https://youtu.be/HlDWzN6TW5Y Episode 2: https://youtu.be/3MOy6Z_UP7c Episode 3: https://youtu.be/BJzOZuPgcMc Episode 4: https://youtu.be/WxQVUNPeWnc

Kevin Moen has four grandchildren. That provides a passage-of-time perspective on The Play, the amazing, five-lateral Big Game kickoff return in 1982 that will mark its 40th anniversary on Sunday, one day after this year’s Cal-Stanford game. Moen was the Cal player who scored the touchdown on The Play, then slammed the ball into Stanford trombonist Gary Tyrrell, putting them both into Big Game history forever and beginning a life-long relationship between the two. “He was one of the guys at Stanford that kept a good perspective with what The Play was,” said Moen. “It wasn’t life or death. It...

Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies. Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was on the verge of bankruptcy. That was back in 2018 and the company was Tesla, as Mr. Musk’s electric automaker struggled to build its mass-market vehicle, the Model 3. “It was excruciating,” he told The New York Times at the time. “There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days...

It sounds tinfoil-hatty, except, you might be able to find where the Davos Tyrants have expressed it out in the open. If you or I say it, we're pointy-headed. If Larry Fink, George Soros or Klaus Schwab say it, they've got legions of well-paid sycophants in their head echo chambers to tell them what they want to hear. It isn't yet that we can't think it, it's that we can't discuss it. "All the trouble in the world is caused by what people know isn't true."