Leaked Phone Call Reveals Fiery Exchange Between Putin, Macron Days Before Ukraine War

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Just four days before Moscow’s forces attacked Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron had a furious argument over the phone, with the Russian strongman claiming that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky was lying to the French president, according to a bombshell leak.

Details of the confidential exchange between the two world leaders on Feb. 20 were revealed in a new documentary about Macron’s handling of the ongoing conflict, titled “A President, Europe and War,” which premiered last week on channel France 2.

As Russia was in the process of massing its forces in preparation for the full-scale invasion in late February, Macron called his Russian counterpart to offer his views on the escalating situation and discuss “useful actions” to defuse it.

Putin quickly turned the conversation to “our dear colleague Mr. Zelensky,” accusing the Ukrainian president of “lying” to Macron about his intention to implement the Minsk Accords, which had sought to end the war in the Donbas region.

Putin then took issue with Zelensky’s apparent refusal to negotiate with pro-Kremlin Ukrainian separatists, which infuriated the French president and prompted him to exclaim in audible frustration: “I don’t know where your lawyer learned law!” (Read more from “Leaked Phone Call Reveals Fiery Exchange Between Putin, Macron Days Before Ukraine War” HERE)

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WATCH: Police Open Fire on Farmers Protesting Job-Destroying Climate Rules

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Dutch police opened fire on tractor-riding farmers who were protesting a government climate proposal late Tuesday in the north of the Netherlands.

For weeks now, Dutch farmers have organized a nationwide protest against plans to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from farm animal manure and the use of ammonia in fertilizer in half by 2030. Government officials say the plan is necessary to reduce “harmful” pollutants, but the farmers are complaining that the government’s standards would destroy their livelihoods.

As part of their demonstrations against the government, farmers have used tractors to block highways and cut off supermarket distribution centers, Reuters reported.

On Tuesday, police said they fired warning shots and arrested several people after some of the protesters drove their tractors toward officers at a highway entry lane in Friesland, according to German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

But the protesters have contested the police account, claiming there was no threat to the officers. (Read more from “WATCH: Police Open Fire on Farmers Protesting Job-Destroying Climate Rules” HERE)

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Highland Park Gunman Had an Affinity for Numbers 4 and 7: Authorities

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The accused Highland Park gunman was bizarrely obsessed with the numbers 4 and 7, which are the date of his massacre when transposed, police said Wednesday.

Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, had the numbers painted on his silver Acura and even tattooed on his face, showing he clearly “had an affinity” for the figures, Lake County County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli told reporters.

The suspect — whose alleged rampage at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb Monday left seven innocent people dead and dozens more injured — also reportedly used the name “Awake47” for an online forum where he and others regularly posted images of the aftermath of violence.

Crimo’s obsession “apparently comes from music that he’s interested in,” Covelli said. (Read more from “Highland Park Gunman Had an Affinity for Numbers 4 and 7: Authorities” HERE)

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Illegal Aliens Arrested in July 4th Mass Shooting Plot After Tip From ‘Hero’

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Two illegal immigrants were arrested in a mass shooting plot at the Richmond, Virginia, July Fourth celebration.

“A hero citizen picked up the phone and overheard a conversation there was a mass shooting being planned here in the city of Richmond, Virginia,” Richmond Chief of Police Gerald Smith said Wednesday.

Two illegal immigrants, 52-year-old Julio Alvarado-Dubon and 38-year-old Rolman Balacarcel, were arrested and charged with being a non-U.S. citizens in possession of a gun after police uncovered a plot that the duo planned a mass shooting at Richmond’s July 4 celebration Monday.

At a press conference Wednesday, Smith said that police investigated Alvarado-Dubon based on a tip to police by someone he would only refer to as a “hero citizen.” Police investigated the claims and found Alvarado-Dubon was in possession of two rifles, one handgun, and 223 rounds of ammunition. He was arrested on July 1, while Balacarcel was placed under surveillance and eventually arrested on the same charges on Tuesday.

“There’s no telling how many lives this citizen hero saves from one phone call,” Smith said. “One phone call saved numerous lives on the Fourth of July.” (Read more from “Illegal Aliens Arrested in July 4th Mass Shooting Plot After Tip From ‘Hero'” HERE)

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Republican Says Treasury Restricting Access to Suspicious Activity Reports on Hunter Biden

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A top House Republican investigator says the Treasury Department is restricting access to suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden and is investigating whether that is being done to protect President Joe Biden and his troubled son.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday, following up on a May letter.

“I wrote to you requesting information regarding Hunter Biden and other Biden associates and family members’ financial transactions flagged by U.S. banks for reporting to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) through Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). The Biden Administration is restricting Congress’ access to SARs, and Committee Republicans are investigating whether this change in longstanding policy is motivated by efforts to shield Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden from scrutiny,” Comer wrote.

Comer said that “despite Treasury’s assertion in the press … Treasury is refusing to release SARs connected with Hunter Biden or his family and associates — including the President.” (Read more from “Republican Says Treasury Restricting Access to Suspicious Activity Reports on Hunter Biden” HERE)

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WATCH: Black Republican Uses AR-15 to Confront ‘Angry Democrats in Klan Hoods’ in Campaign Ad

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A black Republican pastor running for Congress in Arizona dropped an ad Wednesday in which he uses an AR-15 to confront members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Jerone Davison is running for Arizona’s fourth congressional district. In the ad dropped on Twitter with the caption “Make Rifles Great Again,” Davison says sometimes an AR-15 is needed.

“Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self defense. That no one could possibly need all 30 rounds. But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic. And all 30 rounds.”

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These Woke Companies Paying for Abortion Tourism Also Play a Role in China’s Human Rights Abuse

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Here are the CCP shills, from A-Z, providing travel reimbursements for out-of-state employee abortions in the name of “fundamental human rights” while they’ve been implicitly endorsing the Uyghur genocide in China:

. . .In response to the Texas Heartbeat Bill banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, Airbnb announced in September 2021 that it would also provide financial support to any Airbnb host who is implicated under the pro-life Texas law, thus facing legal action as a result. The company’s U.S. health plans now cover abortion-related travel and temporary housing expenses, according to Law360, and its employee leave policy is updated to cover up to 20 days of paid bereavement for pregnancy loss, even if it was elective. . .

Amazon, the second-largest U.S. private employer, told its staff in May that it will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenditures each year for non-life-threatening medical treatments including abortions, according to an internal message seen by Reuters. The benefit—open to U.S. employees or covered dependents, whether they’re working in a corporate office or a warehouse—is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2022, and extends to any procedure that’s not available within 100 miles of an employee’s residence and when virtual care is not an option. . .

The popular American multinational technology company has been accused as recently as spring 2022 of using Chinese suppliers with links to forced Uyghur labor. An early March report by business ethics watchdog Tech Transparency Project, which investigates Big Tech’s supply chains, alleges that Amazon used suppliers—as many as five entities on the Bezos-founded giant’s June 2021 supplier list—with well-documented ties to coercive labor programs, known euphemistically as “labor transfers,” which forcibly move laborers from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to factories in other parts of China, ergo fragmenting Uyghur society. . .

Reassuring employee benefits in response to the Texas six-week abortion bill, ultra-liberal Apple—which is expanding its presence in Austin with a new $1 billion, 3-million-square-foot campus there—stated rather matter-of-factly last September in an internal memo confirmed to TechCrunch that its health insurance policies will foot the bill for its staff’s abortion services if they’re not accessible at home and will cover the resulting travel fees. (Read more from “These Woke Companies Paying for Abortion Tourism Also Play a Role in China’s Human Rights Abuse” HERE)

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DeSantis Vetoed Divorce Bill That Would Have Presumed 50-50 Time-Sharing of Children

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You may have missed it in the tumultuous news cycle following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently vetoed S.B. 1796, an attempted reform of Florida’s divorce law that would have established a presumption that equally sharing time between both parents is in the best interest of children, in addition to eliminating lifetime alimony, setting limits for durational alimony payments based on the length of a marriage, and providing a phase-out option for divorcees making alimony payments when they retire.

In his veto letter, DeSantis explained that his reasoning for vetoing the bill was tied to its potential for retroactive application to existing divorce settlements, an application he said would violate the Florida Constitution. “If CS/CS/SB 1796 were to become law and be given retroactive effect as the Legislature intends, it would unconstitutionally impair vested rights under certain preexisting marital settlement agreements,” he wrote.

While many discussions of the bill centered on the changes to alimony law, several conservatives’ disappointment with the bill’s failure focused on the provision about sharing children equally, as divorce often leads to partially or fully excising fathers from children’s lives. It is well-established that regular father presence in children’s lives greatly reduces risks for all negative life outcomes, including violence, criminality, teen pregnancy and promiscuity, depression and despair, and poverty.

Futhermore, it’s mothers who initiate nearly 70 percent of divorces, the top reasons for which are emotional rather than infidelity or abuse. Studies show that if unhappily married people stick it out in their marriages for five years, almost 80 percent will be happily married just five years later. (Read more from “DeSantis Vetoed Divorce Bill That Would Have Presumed 50-50 Time-Sharing of Children” HERE)

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Report: White House Replaces Norman Rockwell Paintings with Photos of Joe Biden

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Four Norman Rockwell watercolor paintings have been removed from the White House and replaced with photographs of President Joe Biden, according to a report.

The paintings were part of a series painted by Rockwell showing various Americans waiting to see the president of the United States, and are “panels of watercolor and black-and-white sketches.”

The series is titled “So You Want to See the President” and was displayed in the “upper press area” of the West Wing near the press secretary’s office. (Copies of the images can be viewed at most online poster stores.)

Politico reported Tuesday that the paintings were replaced with “several jumbo photos” of President Joe Biden, citing people “familiar with the matter.”

But it is unclear where the paintings are, why they were replaced, and who is responsible. (Read more from “Report: White House Replaces Norman Rockwell Paintings With Photos of Joe Biden” HERE)

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Biden Sends 5 Million Barrels of U.S. Oil to Europe, Asia Despite Soaring Gas Prices

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The U.S. has allowed more than 5 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be exported to Europe and Asia, a move that contradicts President Biden’s statements about trying to bring down the cost of soaring prices at the pump.

The exports are part of a broader and historic release of 1 million barrels per day through October from the reserves, one of several efforts by Mr. Biden to blunt high fuel costs that have had minimal impacts.

Phillips 66, one of the country’s largest oil refiners, has shipped roughly 470,000 barrels from a reserve storage site in Texas to Italy, according to Reuters. Atlantic Trading & Marketing, part of French oil company TotalEnergies, exported more than 1.1 million.

The outlet reported that U.S. crude from the reserves was also bound for the Netherlands, India and China.

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In total, Mr. Biden plans to release up to 260 million barrels of oil from domestic reserves from October 2021 through October 2022. There were roughly 618 million barrels at the end of September 2021. The reserve is expected to be depleted to less than 400 million, the lowest since 1984.

The average price for a gallon of regular gas was $4.78 as of Wednesday, according to AAA. It has come down slightly in the past several weeks from its previous high of roughly $5 per gallon, but costs remain far above that of a year ago when it was $3.13. (Read more from “Biden Sends 5 Million Barrels of U.S. Oil to Europe, Asia Despite Soaring Gas Prices” HERE)

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