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Deal on $1.5 trillion spending bill reached

Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday on a $1.5 trillion spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown.
The legislation includes $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine and European allies, and $15.6 billion in funding for COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatments in the United States and abroad, the Associated Press reports.

HOUSE TO FOLLOW BIDEN RUSSIA ENERGY REQUEST WITH VOTE ON BILL THAT PRESSURED HIM
President Joe Biden had requested $10 billion for Ukraine and European allies and $22.5 billion for COVID-19 relief.  
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Lawmakers face a Friday deadline to pass the spending measure and avoid a weekend government shutdown.

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Harris to travel to Poland, Romania

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Vice President Kamala Harris is set to travel to Eastern Europe Wednesday, carrying a message that the U.S. stands “firmly and resolutely” with NATO allies and will continue providing assistance to the Ukrainian people, senior administration officials said, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “made a mistake” that will result in a “resounding strategic defeat” for Russia.The vice president is expected to travel to Poland and Romania, as Russia’s war with Ukraine rages on for a fourteenth day. Officials, in previewing her trip, said it will “demonstrate the strength and unity of the NATO alliance and U.S. support for NATO’s eastern flank allies in the face of Russian aggression.“RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATESHarris is expected to make stops in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, where she is set to hold bilateral meetings with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.Harris is also set to meet with Canadian President Justin Trudeau, who will be in Poland at the same time.During her visit, officials said the vice president is set to engage with Ukrainian refugees. More than 1 million refugees have fled from Ukraine to Poland since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. She is also set to meet with E …

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TX Rules To Stop ‘Defund The Police’

On Monday, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott introduced new rules that would stop big Texas cities from defunding police.
It’s taken quite some time to get the new administrative rules in place, as the law that paved the way for them was signed last July. 
These new rules went into effect immediately.

Announcing the adoption of new Texas Administrative Code rules that will prevent cities from defunding the police. Texas will always support our law enforcement officers.https://t.co/EWssneyDHb
— Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) March 7, 2022

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Gov. Abbott: ‘Texas remains a law-and-order state and we continue to make it abundantly clear that we support our law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line’
The governor’s in a statement on Monday laid out the penalties cities will face if they defund their police: 
The city will be subject to tax rate limitations, 
The city will lose access to certain tax revenues
The city will be subject to other budgetary requirements and limitations.
However, the rules state that this applies only to cities with a population greater than 250,000 residents – accounting only for Texas’ 12 largest cities.

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How To Defend From a Nuclear Attack

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Russia’s Nightmare: Germany’s Military Is Back

Last week, German Chancellor Olag Scholz made a shocking announcement, declaring that Germany would massively increase its defense spending in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
If Berlin carries this plan out, German rearmament may be the most significant geopolitical consequence of Russia’s unprovoked aggression.
A Brief History of German Rearmament
Upon its establishment, the Federal Republic of Germany was prohibited from fielding armed forces. It soon became evident, however, that NATO would require German troops in order to defend the central front from Warsaw Pact forces.
Re-arming Germany was deeply controversial even in Western Europe (especially France), but in 1955 the Bundeswehr was brought into existence. The Bundeswehr reached nearly half a million men and had that reputation of fielding the best ground forces in Europe. By the 1980s it formed a critical part of the NATO plan to meet and defeat a Warsaw Pact attack in Central Europe, rather than retreat to the English Channel or rely on strategic nuclear weapons.
Germany’s Anemic Military
Facing the massive economic and social crisis of absorbing East Germany at the Cold War’s end, Germany predictably allowed its military cap …

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Australia to Build New Sub Base

Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Albuquerque (SSN-706) and Royal Australian Navy Collins-class submarine HMAS Rankin (SSG-78) operate together in waters off Rottnest Island, Western Australia on March 4, 2015. Royal Navy Photo
The Royal Australian Navy will establish a new submarine base on its east coast to host its planned nuclear-powered submarines and to complement the existing Fleet Base West, Garden Island submarine base, Australian officials said on Monday. The government is considering three possible locations for the new base – Brisbane, Newcastle and Port Kembla – down from 19 initial candidates
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the announcement in a virtual address to the Lowy Institute, followed by a joint media release with Defence Minister Peter Dutton. Morrison stated in the address that the decision was made to support basing and disposition of the future nuclear-powered submarines, but at the same time stressed that the new base would not replace any existing Fleet Base West facilities, “This is about additional national capacity, not relocating any existing or planned future capacity for Fleet Base West. Fleet Base West will remain home to our current and future submarines, given its strategic importance on the Indian Ocean” said Morrison.
Morrison said the decision to establish an east coast submarine base has been many years in the making as part of Australia’s transition from the Collins-class submarine, and that establishing a second submarine base on the east coast will enhance Australia’s strategic deterrent capability; bring advantages in operational, training, personnel and industrial terms; and enable regular visits from of U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered submarines.
The Fleet Base West will also receive significant funding to support Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines and enable regular visits from U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered submarines, according to the media release. It also stated that the Australian Department of Defence estimates that more than AUD $10 billion will be needed for facility and infrastructure requirements to prepare for the future nuclear-powered submarines, including the new east coast submarine base. It also stated that Defence will engage with state and local governments to determine the optimal site, which will be informed by the ongoing work of the Nuclear Powered Submarine Taskforce. This initial work is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

In an interview with ABC Radio on Monday, Dutton said that Australia expects a future influx of ship maintenance and support works throughout Australia, not only from Australian ships, but also partner nation ships coming into Australia.
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Putin Troops Turn on Each other

A captured Russian soldier has described how he was shot at and his comrade killed after fellow troops opened fire on them when they tried to protect Ukrainian civilians.

In a video, the POW described how he and a lieutenant tried to save a woman in her 20s, and her mother, after Russian soldiers were given orders to fire on civilians on February 24 in Kharkiv.

In the clip, the captured soldier claimed he was shot in the foot, and the lieutenant killed, when other troops realized the pair weren’t shooting at civilians.

It comes as a separate video showed a POW describing how ‘many’ Russian troops are fleeing the war — despite warnings from above that they face seven years in jail for desertion.

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BREAKING: Biden expected to ban Russian oil imports

President Joe Biden is expected to announce a ban on Russian oil imports as soon as today, adding to the lengthy list of actions taken against the country as it continues its invasion of Ukraine.A person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that the president is set to announce the move as soon as today.A White House address given by Biden scheduled for this morning states that the president would announce “actions to continue to hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.“The action follows numerous pleas and calls from people like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US lawmakers to cut off the imports, which have been noted as an omission from the extensive list of sanctions put into place on Russia.Energy exports continue to bring money into Russia as its financial sector experiences severe restrictions through sanctions and companies like Visa and Mastercard suspend their operations.The Associated Press said that the US would be acting alone in banning these exports, but acting in close consultation with its European allies that are more reliant on Russian energy supplies.“European nations have said they plan to reduce their relianc …

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Biden’s DOJ Goes After Navy SEALs With Emergency Supreme Court Case

On Monday, the Biden administration appealed a lower court decision barring the U.S. Navy from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate against Navy SEALS to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Late last month, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district court ruling placing a preliminary injunction on the Navy from preventing those service members who had obtained a religious exemption from the mandate from deploying overseas.

In January, Texas-based federal district court Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in his opinion in favor of 35 Navy SEALs and other special warfare personnel’s religious exemptions, “The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution,” he added.

In a Monday emergency filing to the Supreme Court, Biden Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote, “This application seeks relief from a preliminary injunction that usurps the Navy’s authority to decide which servicemembers should be deployed to execute some of the military’s most sensitive and dangerous missions.”

“The Navy has an extraordinarily compelling interest in ensuring that the servicemembers who perform those missions are as physically and medically prepared as possible. That includes vaccinating them against COVID-19, which is the least restrictive means of achieving that interest,” she argued.

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Russia accuses Ukraine of plotting to blow up nuclear reactor in false flag operation

Russia has levied jarring accusations at Ukraine, accusing its neighbor of seeking to blow up a nuclear reactor and trying to pin the blame on Russia, according to Russian state media TASS.
Military officials in Russia claim foreign journalists arrived in Kharkiv on Sunday to “register the consequences of the provocation” and that Ukraine planned to accuse Russia falsely of launching projectiles at the reactor, TASS reported.

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“The Security Forces of Ukraine along with the militants of the Azov battalion are plotting a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area near the city of Kharkov. Nationalists mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear system located at the [National Research Center of] Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. The Ukrainian military and the Azov battalion militants are planning to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly launching a missile strike on an experimental nuclear system,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement to TASS.
Russia also recently accused Ukraine of attempting to develop a “plutonium-based dirty bomb nuclear weapon” at Chernobyl, Reuters reported. Chernobyl was subject to one of the worst known nuclear disasters in history during its 1986 meltdown. Ukraine shut down the last of the reactors at the site in 2000 and has since constructed a confinement structure over the reactor. A g …

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