Russia is dying out – Putin is terrified by his nation’s demographic crisis

“One hundred and forty-six million [people] for such a vast territory is insufficient,” said Vladimir Putin at the end of last year. Russians haven’t been having enough children to replace themselves since the early Sixties. Birth rates are also stagnant in the West, but in Russia the problem is compounded by excess deaths: Russians die almost a decade earlier than Brits. Their President is clearly worried that he’s running out of subjects.

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The tragic folly of lockdown

Data on excess deaths show that countries that locked down hard fared no better than those that didn’t.

Throughout the pandemic, the media have eagerly compared Covid statistics between different countries. But such comparisons are often deceptive.

Take, for example, the use of Covid case counts. These depend not only on the number of people infected but also on the amount of testing performed. While useful for evaluating whether cases are increasing or decreasing within a particular country, they are deceptive when comparing countries. If we truly wanted to know, it would be easy, through random seroprevalence surveys that measure the proportion of people with antibodies. But not all governments have been eager to conduct these surveys, while some scientists have even got into trouble for doing them.

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Armageddon?

 

In the light of the political standoff and exchange of threats between Russia and the U.S. over the Ukraine quagmire, there is now considerable anxiety that an Armageddon scenario may have become a possibility.

A president who demonstrably suffers from an alarming degree of advancing cognitive derangement does not inspire confidence, to put it mildly, in his ability to manage national affairs, whether domestically or globally. Many regard him as a puppet controlled by his “handlers,” whoever these shadowy figures may be—his secretary of State, his inner circle, his financial backers, or his wife in a bizarre reprise of the Edith Wilson presidency when Woodrow Wilson fell severely ill. But this arrangement does not lessen the peril.

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Biden contradicts aides and reaffirms his call for Putin’s overthrow

President Biden contradicted his own staff Monday by insisting he did not regret or retract his call from over the weekend for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power in response to his invasion of Ukraine.

“I’m not walking anything back,” the president told reporters at the White House. “The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt.”

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‘Openly Queer’ Is Not A Thing, And Other Thoughts On The Depraved Oscars

Will Smith physically assaulted a man during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, yet that was probably the least bizarre thing to happen all night.

What’s truly weird is that Smith, in the presence of our most virtue-signaling elites, wasn’t escorted from the premise in handcuffs. Indeed, after he struck comedian Chris Rock across the face on stage, he returned calmly to his seat, enjoyed the rest of the evening, and even got a round of applause as he accepted an Oscar for “Best Actor.”

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War in Ukraine: Anti-war Russians intimidated on their doorsteps

Russian activists and journalists speaking out against their country’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine have had their homes vandalised by unknown pro-Kremlin figures.

Apartment doors have been daubed with threatening graffiti labelling the people inside a “traitor”, with messages featuring the letter “Z” – a pro-Kremlin symbol of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Other examples are even more extreme. In one case, a leading Russian journalist discovered a pig’s head wearing a wig on his doorstep with an anti-Semitic sticker stuck to his door.

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Blind psychic Baba Vanga – who correctly predicted 9/11 – claims Russian president Vladimir Putin will become ‘Lord of the World’

A blind psychic who correctly predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the 9/11 attacks once claimed that president Vladimir Putin is to become ‘Lord of the World’.

Known as the Nostradamus of the Balkans, Baba Vanga, who died 25 years ago in 1996 aged 84, predicted in a 1979 interview that Russia was to dominate the world.

She also made a frightening prediction about World War Three and the potential use of nuclear weapons.

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Zelensky – Who is Pulling his Strings?

This is clearly a war against Russia and it has been the dream of the Neocons. It is hard to imagine why Zelensky is putting his entire country at risk over simply honoring the Minsk Agreement and lettering the Donbas to vote on their separation. Zelensky has been part of the corruption – all Ukrainians thought they were getting rid of no doubt. Zelensky has been turned into a global celebrity and he loves it while cashing in. These people desperately trying to create World War III, wanted to nominate Zelensky for the Nobel Peace Prize for refusing to negotiate in good faith? Meanwhile, Biden will NOT tell Americans why Ukraine matters. All he does is say Putin is evil. How does that affect Americans at home?

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UNBELIEVABLE video of a pileup in Schuylkill County as snow squalls brought visibility on Interstate 81 down to near zero.

Coroner called to massive pileup on I-81 in Schuylkill County

As you can see from another view of the Charger in the video, things got A LOT worse. Those vehicles had to break through the log jam.

At least three people have died in the massive pileup on northbound Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County Monday, according to reports.

Although authorities originally said 40 vehicles were involved, state police now say 50-60 vehicles crashed near mile marker 116 in Foster Township due to a snow squall.

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Surprising No One: The Taliban Have Not Moderated

An Extremist Regime Is Pushing Afghanistan to the Brink

When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, some observers suggested that their approach to governance might prove more moderate this time around. Twenty years had elapsed since the group was last in charge. The country had transformed dramatically, and with the fight against the United States over, tasks like collecting garbage and keeping the lights on now seemed largely nonideological in nature.

The Taliban’s initial actions in office, however, quickly dashed those hopes.

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