Author: J.P. Knowles

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned during a television interview Sunday that the likelihood of the third world war is high should peace talks with Russia fail.

“I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War” Zelenskyy said during an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “If there is just 1 percent chance for us to stop this war, I think that we need to take this chance, we need to do that,” he added.

Zelenskyy said the war is not likely to end without negotiations. “I am ready for negotiations with him. I was ready over the last two years, and I think that without negotiations, we cannot end this war,” Zelenskyy said.

While Zelenskyy said he was ready for negotiations he also said he would not be willing to give up territory or Ukrainian sovereignty during potential negotiations. He told Zakaria he believes Russia would never have invaded if Ukraine were a NATO member.

“There are compromises for which we cannot be ready as an independent state. Any compromises related to our territorial integrity and our sovereignty and the Ukrainian people have spoken about it — they have not greeted Russian soldiers with a bunch of flowers, they have greeted them with bravery, they have greeted them with weapons in their hands,” Zelenskyy stated.

“I’d like to receive security guarantees for my country, for my people. If NATO members are ready to see us in the alliance, then do it immediately. Because people are dying on a daily basis,” Zelenskyy declared concerning Ukraine’s NATO membership.

Since the invasion began on Feb. 24, Russia has launched over 1,000 missiles, according to a senior U.S. Defense official, with some speculating that Putin may be considering the use of chemical or nuclear weapons against Ukraine.

Russia responded to President Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” by slamming Biden Friday for his “irritability, fatigue and forgetfulness.”

Top Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia acknowledges the statement that Biden made, and considers it a “personal insult” to Putin, but won’t take the accusation seriously.

“Bearing in mind Mr. Biden’s irritability, fatigue and forgetfulness, which eventually results in aggressive statements, we will possibly prefer to refrain from making any strong comments so as not to trigger more aggression,” Peskov continued.

Biden called Putin a “war criminal” Wednesday for invading Ukraine when answering Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich’s question.

He also said Putin was a “murderous dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine,” while speaking at the Friends of Ireland Luncheon on St. Patrick’s Day at Capitol Hill on Thursday.

A reporter pressed White House press secretary Jen Psaki Thursday on why the U.S. continues to work with Russia on the Iran nuclear deal if Biden considers Putin a “war criminal.”

“I would say that it’s not in our interest for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, and Russia is a member of the P5+1,” Psaki responded. “So that is the pursuit of a deal that is in our national security interests.”

Biden had also called Putin a “killer” in March of 2021.

Doctors were shocked to discover a glass tumbler inside a woman’s urethra after she had gone to the hospital complaining of a suspected urinary tract infection.

In a disturbing case, a 45-year-old Tunisian woman admitted that she had used a glass tumbler as a sex toy several years before the doctors found it trapped inside her bladder. In what was more than one mistake that night, she had pushed the glass into her urethra, the small hole that women use for urination, instead of her vagina.

She went into the Academic Hospital Habib Bourguiba complaining of symptoms typically related to a urinary tract infection, such as leaking, and pain. Scans showed that the glass was encased in an 8 centimeter-wide bladder stone.

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Doctors wrote up a detailed Urology Case Report about the case which was published by ScienceDirect. The woman had to undergo surgery to have the stone and glass removed.

Despite the size of the foreign object inside her urethra, the woman did not have any blood in her urine but had only suffered from cystitis in the past.

Elementary school students in San Antonio, Texas, were segregated by the color of their hair, and children in one group were told they were not as smart as the other group.

Some parents in the Northside Independent School District are angry because they were not informed about an experiment that took place among fifth-graders at Leon Springs Elementary. Parents Mike and Brandi Lininger said that their ten-year-old daughter was “confused and hurt” by the experiment, which took place in January.

“All of the dark-haired kids, the brown and black-haired kids, were treated as the privileged ones and the blonde-haired and redhead kids were the ones treated not so nicely,” Brandi Lininger said. She said a teacher told students that the blonde and redhead kids were “not as intelligent.”

Blonde and redhead students were given games to play with that had missing pieces. They were also told to clean up after the dark-haired children.

“My daughter was hurt, her friends, and she named to the principal and to the district officials, names of her friends that were crying,” Brandi Lininger continued.

The experiment was patterned after an exercise created by teacher Jane Elliott. Elliott created the experiment in the 1970s, which initially segregated kids by their eye colors.

Fifth-graders were shown a Spike Lee documentary entitled “4 Little Girls” about the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of an Alabama church. The Liningers claim the school showed students graphic images of the autopsies of the four girls who were killed.

Parents said the school notifies them when their children will watch “The Polar Express” or when they should dress up for pajama day. But, the school failed to notify parents that there would be a social experiment on segregation. The Liningers said this was an inexcusable error in the school’s transparency.

The school district said they believe the activity and video “are not age-appropriate” and agreed not to use them again.

“The activity and video in question were part of a larger fifth-grade project-based lesson around the inequity of segregation,” the statement read. “While the campus did receive positive feedback from several parents … District and campus administration recognize the parent’s concerns and agree that the activity and video are not age-appropriate and will not be used again.”

When President Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine during a news conference on Wednesday, he declined to take questions from reporters.

Biden was asked how much it would cost him to send Polish MiG fighter jets from Germany to Ukraine to combat Russia.

“I’m not going to comment on that right now. I’m not going to comment on anything other than what I’ve told you today,” Biden said then just walked away.

The Pentagon declined a request from Poland to transport Polish MiG fighter jets from Germany to Ukraine on March 8.

“The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.

During a news conference on Tuesday, Biden also refused to answer a question from Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich regarding the American journalists killed in Ukraine.

Democratic strategist Doug Schoen said he “was embarrassed” by Vice President Kamala Harris’ representation at the joint press conferences in Poland and Romania.

“I was embarrassed. This is not a Democrat and Republican issue, this is an issue of transcended foreign policy needs and concerns of the United States,” Schoen said. “She came up not only short but the laughter, the failure to unequivocally say ‘we will do anything we can for the Ukrainian people to provide as much support as possible’ sadly means that I have to agree with Monica. I wish I could disagree, but as a Democrat and an American first, I think this was tragic and very, very, very sad.”

Former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Monica Crowley said Harris’ behavior was “astonishing” and she was obviously in a “state of a perpetual breakdown.” Crowley said the vice president’s involvement in diplomatic matters is “catastrophic for our nation and our allies.”

Harris inappropriately laughed at a question regarding how the U.S. plans to aid the influx of Ukrainian refugees entering neighboring countries at the Polish press conference Thursday. The vice president responded “a friend in need is a friend indeed” before bursting into laughter again.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former spokeswoman Iuliia Mendel said “it would be a tragedy” if Harris were ever to be elected president in a since-deleted tweet Thursday. Mendel said Friday that the vice president’s laugh was “inappropriate” and “a very bad experience” for Ukrainians to witness.

At the Friday Romanian conference, Harris skirted a question on rising inflation and gas prices in the U.S., answering with a long statement about the Black Sea, the bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, and the need to assist European allies.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized the “lack of seriousness” of President Joe Biden’s administration for sending Harris on the diplomatic trip, saying she is “shallow” and “doesn’t know anything.”

A New York City Man has been charged with murder and concealment of human remains after a human head was found in his Manhattan apartment.

Harvey Marcelin, 83 who identified as male in previous court documents but currently identifies as a woman, was indicted on second-degree murder charges Thursday for killing 68-year-old Susan Leyden. Marcelin allegedly dismembered Leyden’s corpse and hid the parts.

Police discovered Leyden’s remains in a multicolored bag in a shopping cart on March 3, and later found surveillance footage of Leyden carrying the same bag inside Marcelin’s apartment building on Feb. 27. Her head was later found inside Marcelin’s home.

Marcelin served a prison term for the murder of a girlfriend in 1963 and was released in 1984. He also pled guilty in 1986 to the murder of another woman. Marcelin admitted to having “problems” with women during a 1997 appearance before the state parole board.

Tuesday, a vital pipeline transporting natural gas from Russia to Europe abruptly altered its flow direction.

On Tuesday morning, data from the European firm Gascade revealed that flows in the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which transports natural gas from Russia to Germany via Poland, were recorded moving eastward away from Europe. At one point along the pipeline, flow rates were as high as 4.3 million kilowatt-hours per hour.

The pipeline is one of three routes used by Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom to deliver natural gas to Western Europe. The Yamal-Europe pipeline is responsible for 10% of the natural gas supplies in the region. A significant shift in the flow of energy could result in considerably higher energy prices for European consumers.

Russia is responsible for approximately 47% of European gas imports, according to the most recent Eurostat data.

“If Russia stops the gas supply to Europe, it could have a seismic impact on European energy,” International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said last month. “Russia has to consider the consequences if existing oil and gas supplies to Europe are halted.”

In light of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has pledged to cut Russian natural gas imports by more than 65 percent by 2023. The German government has also put on hold its study of the finished Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will run beneath the Baltic Sea and connect Russia to Europe.

According to top US diplomat Amos Hochstein, Russia has already showed symptoms of leveraging Western dependency on its energy for geopolitical reasons and even as a weapon.

“I think we are getting close to that line if Russia indeed has the gas to supply and it chooses not to, and it will only do so if Europe accedes to other demands that are completely unrelated,” Hochstein said at the time.

“There is no doubt in my mind, and the IEA has itself validated, that the only supplier that can really make a big difference for European energy security at the moment for this winter is Russia,” he added.

On March 8, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would immediately ban the import of all Russian oil and petroleum products, a significant portion of the nation’s total imports and supply.

When a Florida man contacted 911 to request a quality control check on the meth he had just purchased, he was merely looking out for his fellow customers, claiming he wanted to prevent others from buying the “false” product.

Police were more than willing to assist, even going to the man’s residence to examine the meth, which showed out to be genuine.

According to a statement from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, the call came in at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

“Upon arrival, deputies met with Thomas Eugene Colucci,” police said. “Colucci told deputies he had recently purchased methamphetamine from a male he met in a local bar, and after having used a bit of it, believed it was actually bath salts. Colucci went on to tell deputies he was an experienced drug user, having used methamphetamine in the past, and ‘knew what it should feel like.’ ”

Colucci produced two little baggies containing a white crystalline substance and delivered them to the cops, claiming that the chemical had not given him the experience he had hoped for. He was concerned that other people would buy the “fake” methamphetamine from the same guy, and he wanted to protect other meth addicts. Colucci demanded that the meth be tested and that the vendor be held responsible if there were any anomalies.

“Colucci wanted deputies to ‘put the person in trouble’ for selling dangerous drugs; however, he was unable to provide a name or any contact info for this individual,” police said. “As requested, a deputy performed a field test on a sample of the white crystal-like substance from each of the baggies. The substance from both baggies tested positive for methamphetamine.”

Colucci was charged with methamphetamine possession and two counts of drug paraphernalia possession. As he was being loaded into the police cruiser, Colucci complained of chest symptoms, so he was brought to a local hospital and then to the Hernando County Detention Center.

Police proudly advertised their illicit-drug services to the general public.

“If you, or someone you know, have doubts about the authenticity of any illegal narcotics you have on-hand or have obtained from another person, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to provide this service, FREE of charge,” the department announced.

Chris Watts, who is serving a life sentence for killing his wife and two kids in 2018, texted his mistress after the murder stating that “I didn’t hurt my family,” according to a new video released by the family of Shanann Watts.

The video shows Watts’ mistress, Nichol Kessinger, in an interview with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation dated August 16, 2018.

“If you did something bad…you’re going to ruin your life…and if you did something bad…you’re going to ruin my life,” Kessinger texted Chris Watts. “I promise you that.”

“I didn’t hurt my family Nikki,” Chris Watts responded.

Kessinger told the Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents that she had not talked with Chris Watts since.

Chris Watts strangled his wife, who was 15 weeks pregnant at the time, on Aug 13, 2018. Afterward, he took her body and his two children, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3 to the oil company where he worked and buried them there.

Authorities believe that Chris Watts murdered his family because of the affair. When Chris told his wife Shanann that their marriage was over, she said he wouldn’t be able to see their children, he became enraged and strangled her in their bed.

During the interview with police Kessinger said that Watts wasn’t wearing a wedding ring when the two met, nor did he disclose that he was in a relationship. She said that she hadn’t noticed anything worrisome about the way he’d spoken about his family.

“It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary or anything that would scare me,” Kessinger said. “Even to this day, even after everything that I’ve found out, I still look back at that, and I don’t see any red lights about the way he spoke about his family.”

Watts and Kessinger met at the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, where they both worked.

Kessinger applied for a name change in Jefferson County, Colo., in 2018 following the release of a Netflix documentary on the events leading up to Chris Watts’ arrest.