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Vladimir Putin has admitted that sanctions on Russia and worker shortages have contributed to economic turbulence in the country. The Russian president made the comments days after Russia's Central Bank raised its key interest rate to a record 21 percent—higher than the emergency 20 percent level introduced in the aftermath of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine when facing Western sanctions and isolation from the global financial system. -snip- Russia's economic growth has been fueled by record levels of military spending but a lack of workers exacerbated by troop losses in Ukraine and a brain drain of those avoiding the draft,...

On Tuesday 2/21/23 a black 6’6” 270 pound student attacked a white teacher at Matanzas High School for taking away his Nintendo Switch during class. The student is seen kicking and punching the unconscious woman in the back and head around 15 times. When the student was escorted away by deputies, he spit at the teacher and "made comments that when he comes back he was going to kill her".

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel unequivocally endorsed mail-in balloting Tuesday, distancing herself from former President Donald Trump on an issue that is fracturing the GOP in the wake of disappointing election results this fall.“What we do need is our voters need to vote early,” McDaniel, a longtime Trump ally, said during a televised interview on Fox News. “I have said this over and over again. There were many in 2020 saying, ‘Don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early.’ And we have to stop that.”..."The discussion was about Democrats having a month to bank votes while Republicans expect to get...

The man police say sped through a red light which led to a "mass casualty" crash that killed nine people, including himself, has an extensive criminal history dating back to the 1990s, including multiple cases in courts across the Las Vegas Valley. Officials identified the driver as 59-year-old Gary Dean Robinson.

The father who went viral on Christmas Eve for getting Joe Biden to say 'Let's go Brandon' said he used the public call with the president to 'voice my disapproval' of the administration. Jared Schmeck, 35, did an interview with former Trump aide Steve Bannon on Monday to explain the exchange and his intentions behind using the phrase that has become synonymous with 'F**k Joe Biden.' 'For me, 'Let's Go Brandon – and I've said it in other articles – I am a Christian man,' Schmeck said during Bannon's War Room podcast on Monday. 'For me, it's God first and...

summary from the comments: Patrick went on a public stage and revealed his Get-Out-of-Jail-Free-Card, his secret espionage arrangement with the FBI, he detailed how he fooled the FBI and practically accuses John Brennan of plotting with Antifa and worse to erase patriotic nationals inside the USA. Patrick conjected on stage yesterday that after this he'll either be killed or arrested. In short, in my view, Patrick wants to draw attention to himself in the biggest baddest way possible. The election fraud efforts of Mike Lindell are failing because the Attorneys General are cowards. The one Attorney General who could have...

Marcus Lamb, a co-founder and the CEO of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network who vocally opposed Covid-19 vaccines, has died at 64, weeks after he contracted Covid-19, the network said. “It's with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning," the network said a tweet Tuesday. "The family asks that their privacy be respected as they grieve this difficult loss. Please continue to lift them up in prayer." In July 2020, the Lamb family devoted an hour of their broadcast to "censorship" around...

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell told attendees at his “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls Thursday that he was "attacked" Wednesday night at his hotel, but the police department said they haven't received a report. Lindell briefly told attendees he was "attacked" but did not go into detail about the incident while on stage at his “cyber symposium” event at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance. "I’m OK. It hurts a little bit,” Lindell said. “I just want everyone to know all the evil that’s out there.”

The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate. Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.

In a video (archived here) published on Frankspeech on July 24, 2021 titled "Mike Lindell Releases First Packet Captures Ahead Of August 10, 11 and 12 Cyber Symposium", Mike Lindell showed a snippet of video claiming it showed packet captures taken during the 2020 Presidential election that prove election fraud happened. It looked similar to a clip he showed in his video Absolutely 9-0 which we discussed here: Lindell later admitted the Absolutely 9-0 clip was B-roll and not real data. Only this time there apear to be six columns scrolling next to each other instead of just one and...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate. Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched. But Mr. Lindell’s lead...

Found the Video! Please someone share this with President Trump and his people. I found the video President Trump has been mocked for even today, in that the Main Stream Media says it doesn't exist. But he was right. He saw it, we all saw it, on September 12, 2021, and then we never saw it again. From: The Video of Revelers Cheering 9/11 That No One Got To See By Harry Litman, New York Post, December 3, 2015 at: https://nypost.com/2015/12/03/the-video-of-revelers-cheering-911-that-no-one-got-to-see/ "If Donald Trump believes he saw videos of revelers celebrating after the Sept. 11 attacks that in fact never...

The lobbying firm run by Trump ally Matt Schlapp brought in $750,000 in the final two weeks of 2020 from a former top Trump fundraiser and convicted fraudster who retained Schlapp to lobby — unsuccessfully — for a presidential pardon. Why it matters: The substantial sum that the former fundraiser, Georgia's Parker "Pete" Petit, paid to Schlapp's Cove Strategies shows how valuable connections to Donald Trump were in his final days in office for wealthy felons seeking clemency from the outgoing president.What's new: Lobbying disclosure records filed on Thursday said Schlapp, a close informal Trump adviser, worked on a "request...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — Police have arrested a teen after two men were killed in Lafayette on Monday night. The Lafayette Police Department has arrested 17-year-old Jaelynn Billups in the case. She faces preliminary charges of murder and robbery. The Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office did not immediately respond to an email Tuesday afternoon to find out if Billups will be charged as a juvenile or an adult.

Ezekiel Hopkins, 34, faces charges of murder and aggravated assault Hopkins is accused of bludgeoning to death John Savey, 61, and injuring his wife, Lisa, and also killing their 30-year-old son, James Police in Florida say the couple confronted Hopkins as he was trying to steal their car John and Lisa's 10-year-old grandson called 911 to report the attack and hid in the bathroom Hopkins was hospitalized after possibly ingesting bleach before police arrived Court records in Orange County indicate that Hopkins has a prior history of arrests on felony charges dating back to at least 2009. He was previously...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Proponents of so-called "free" trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which I opposed, have long promised endless riches for U.S. workers, farmers, businesses and economy. They've been wrong on all counts. Failed U.S. trade policies have led to the export of millions of high-paying American jobs; decline in U.S. living standards; soaring trade deficits; and a significant erosion of U.S. sovereignty to international trade bureaucrats. Despite this unbroken record of failure, the House is expected to vote before August on an agreement the Bush administration negotiated to...