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Russia wanted to break us with attacks on infrastructure and blackouts, and the Ukrainians united only stronger. Rubryka tells about mutual aid solutions that are working all over the country right now. What is the problem? Blackout in Ukraine The enemy wants to intimidate and force us to negotiate in its favor. Another act of missile terror by the aggressor on Ukrainian cities on November 23 led to the fact that most regions were left without electricity, water, heat, communication, and the Internet. However, Russia tries in vain and uses up its already limited supply of missiles because the Ukrainians...

Florida back-up quarterback Jalen Kitna was released from jail on an $80,000 bond on Thursday, a day after he was arrested on five charges involving child abuse images.

We have a special dispatch from Falmouth containing very late information from the rebel army, procured as follows: On Friday night about 12 o'clock, while Capt. BYRON McCUTCHEON, of the Twentieth Michigan infantry, was on duty with two hundred men on the Washington Farm (the old Homestead of the Washington family, about two miles east of Falmouth, where George cut the famous Cherry tree,) two rebel officers crossed the river in a skiff and delivered up themselves and arms, asking the protection of the Stars and Stripes. They were well dressed and intelligent gentlemen; one a captain in a Texan...

Russian leader bruised his coccyx as he slipped down seven steps, reports say Telegram channel that claims links to his bodyguards said Putin 'involuntarily defecated' due to effects of 'cancer of the gastrointestinal tract' Vladimir Putin has fallen down stairs at his official residence and soiled himself while continuing to suffer from cancer, a Telegram channel which claims links to his bodyguards has suggested. The 70-year-old Russian leader, whose health has visibly deteriorated since he launched his war in Ukraine, suffered the fall on Wednesday evening when he slipped coming down stairs at his Moscow home, channel General SVR claims....

There’s no logical reason for California to make these payments, but it’s in the grip of virtue-signaling madness. Next year, California is facing a $25 billion budget deficit, businesses are fleeing, and the big cities are swamped with seas of drug-addled homeless people. None of that has stopped the reparations committee that Governor Gavin Newsom convened from thinking big when it comes to reparations for Blacks in that state. The current proposal envisions giving each of California’s 2.5 million self-identified Black Americans $223,200 (totaling $559 Billion) for “housing discrimination.” California has long had a problem when it comes to the...

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Check your quarters, you could be holding on to a piece of silver worth $55. State coins that were minted from 1999 to 2008 are worth more than their face value as the demand for precious metals has been increasing. Some are 90% silver compared to a higher percentage of copper and nickel. The value changes depending on the current price of silver. The value varies by state, but the priciest version is Pennsylvania at $55, followed by Connecticut at $50. Georgia is worth $48. Silver proof coins are marked with an S, meaning San Francisco Mint, and have a...

Check your quarters, you could be holding on to a piece of silver worth $55. State coins that were minted from 1999 to 2008 are worth more than their face value as the demand for precious metals has been increasing. Some are 90% silver compared to a higher percentage of copper and nickel. The value changes depending on the current price of silver. The value varies by state, but the priciest version is Pennsylvania at $55, followed by Connecticut at $50. Georgia is worth $48. Silver proof coins are marked with an S, meaning San Francisco Mint, and have a...

The terms firearms and guns are used interchangeably in this article. The article is updated from an earlier article published in 2016. The graphic adds data from 2015-2020, six more years. The number of firearms in private hands has been rising for at least 75 years. During the last 25 years, the number of murders, murders with guns, and violent crimes with guns dropped sharply, then leveled. It has risen a fraction of the drop in the last three years.The per capita rate of firearms ownership has increased significantly.It has become very difficult to uncritically believe more guns equals more...

In a joint assessment released today, the Government of Ukraine, the European Commission, and the World Bank, in cooperation with partners, estimate that the current cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine amounts to $349 billion (€349 Billion). This figure is expected to grow in the coming months as the war continues.The report found that recovery and reconstruction needs across social, productive, and infrastructure sectors total $349 billion, which is more than 1.5 times the 2021 GDP of Ukraine. Over the next 36 months the RDNA assesses that $105 billion is needed to address urgent needs such as restoring education...

The East and the West are both collaborating in an effort to impose the Great Reset -- but each side’s different interpretation of the Great Reset and their incompatibility eventually will tear them apart. These differences fall into four categories: (1) environment, (2) food production and delivery, (3) global currency, and (4) global governance. The EnvironmentThe West’s vision is wrapped in the Green New Deal (GND). The GND is intended not to protect the earth, but is key to reduce global population and to pay off President Biden's debt to China. China, which will be the source for electric vehicle...

The bodies of a deacon of evangelicals and his son, who had been abducted by Russians a few days earlier, were found near Novaya Kakhovka On November 26, Anatoly Prokopchuk, a deacon of the local Church of evangelical Christians, and his son Alexander were found murdered. Their bodies were found in a forest near occupied Novaya Kakhovka on the Left Bank of the Kherson region. A few days earlier, they were abducted by the Russian military. This was reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism with reference to friends of the victims. Immediately after the disappearance of the Prokopchuks, relatives...

The trouble in Arizona's ballot-count and electoral integrity issues can be found in three distinctive areas... It appears that Democrat candidates won most of the Arizona midterm political contests, and that is a fact we should all accept. However, many citizens have doubts about whether it was fairly counted, and those doubts will not be resolved without analysis, testing, and transparent reporting. Standard ballot recounts will not suffice. Therefore, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and Mark Finchem, three contending Republicans who lost their elections despite polls favoring them, should consider taking the following actions, to the extent feasible and lawful: 1....

2 December 2022Friday of the 1st week of Advent Saint Bibiana Church, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 29:17-24 ©In a very short time, the deaf will hear and the eyes of the blind will seeThe Lord says this:In a short time, a very short time,shall not Lebanon become fertile landand fertile land turn into forest?The deaf, that day,will hear the words of a bookand, after shadow and darkness,the eyes of the blind will see.But the lowly will rejoice in the Lord even moreand the poorest exult in the Holy One of Israel;for tyrants shall be...

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While we await Elon Musk’s promised release of the “Twitter Files,” detailing the 2020 censorship of the New York Post, he has been busy fending off threats to destroy his new $44 billion acquisition unless he drops his commitment to free speech. He tweeted a video Wednesday afternoon of Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, where he was strolling around the HQ pond in conversation with Apple CEO Tim Cook, whom he has accused of threatening to drop Twitter from the App Store. **SNIP** Colluding with FBI This was election interference. As Musk confirmed in a tweet Wednesday, Twitter “has interfered in...

James Williams, 36, opened fire on the robbery suspects as they were fleeing before one fatally shot him in the leg and chest, authorities said A man accused of killing a California gas station clerk during a "botched" robbery will not face a murder charge because the victim had opened fire on the suspect despite his life not being in danger, officials said Thursday. James Williams, 36, was killed during an early Saturday morning gunfight with Ronald Jackson Jr., 20, at a Chevron in Antioch, Fox San Francisco reported. The Antioch Police Department said a gas station employee called to...

Several Ukrainian embassies abroad have received "bloody packages" containing animal eyes, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Friday, after a series of letter bombs were sent to sites in Spain including Ukraine's embassy in Madrid. The packages, soaked in a liquid with a distinctive colour and smell, were sent to Kyiv's embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy, to general consulates in Naples and Krakow, and the consulate in Brno, spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Facebook.

WASHINGTON - President Biden ignored a reporter’s question Thursday about whether he had a message for protesters challenging China’s authoritarian government - while first son Hunter Biden reportedly still co-owns a Chinese state-backed investment fund. NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked Biden at the end of a White House press conference with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron if he would share a message with demonstrators calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 lockdowns and, in some instances, the resignation of “president for life” Xi Jinping. “Sir, do you have a message to protesters in China? You spoke about [recent protests in]...

As climate policy moves forward and the world's food and energy supplies implode people will starve and freeze to death. The other week Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic expressed his belief that some people will not make it through next winter. He did not cite climate policy in connection with this... But other factors are in play that give cover as power plants are shut down and farms are closed to prevent cow gas emissions and the list goes on. These factors alone are causing deaths but more deaths will follow as climate policy takes hold. The conflict with Russia over...