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Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Simpson made visitors and family sign NDA's in his final days:Signing non-disclosure agreements to visit him?
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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
What feels good in the moment isn't always the thing that's the good thing and the right thing in the short term or the long term. But we live in a culture where it's where it's promoted and celebrated. We just follow your heart, follow your heart. And what I'm trying to do for us right now is to identify the source of humanity's problems. And it all begins here. And so. That's point one, here's point to. The highlight, humanity's feeble attempts to fix our problems on our own, we have a heart problem inside of us, something broken, something spiritually unclean, producing these things from the inside of us.That's what Jesus says. So how do we go about fixing it once we know that the problem has been made plain to us? Well, this is what we're going to come to our text, Matthew. Chapter 23, verses 25 to 28. Here's a little bit of context. This is in this scene. Jesus is at the tail end of his three to three and a half year public ministry. He's been going around from town to town all throughout Israel, teaching and preaching and displaying the power of the kingdom of heaven through signs and wonders and and miracles of all sorts.
And he's been doing that for about three and a half years. But now his public ministry is coming to an end. It's Wednesday now, two days before his crucifixion. He's in Jerusalem is at Passover. It's packed in chapter. Twenty three of Matthew's Gospel is is documenting a back and forth that Jesus has been having with the religious leaders of his day as they're trying to entrap them, as they're trying to discredit him, as they're trying to prove him as a fraud, as a phony, and ultimately they want to have him destroyed.
That's the tension. And that's the scene that we're that we're in right now with Jesus and Jesus. And Matthew, 23, is pronounced in a series of woes upon the religious leaders, judgment upon them for their refusal to believe in him. God has come in. The person of Jesus wrapped themselves up in flesh and come to people and they reject God. And now he is produce, pronouncing judgment upon them. To those in our voices here tonight and in both of them and both of these walls in these verses, Jesus highlights the religious leaders, feeble attempts at fixing their own problems.
And we need to pay close attention, special attention, because we're going to realize that we can do the exact same things that they were doing 2000 years later, halfway around the world, different culture, different time, different space. It's the same humanities problem is the same. Our problem is the same. So here's there's two feeble attempts here, a feeble attempt. No one at the religious leaders trying to fix their own problem. They try to clean up the outside part of their life without addressing the inside part of their life.
They worked really hard at trying to fix the outside without paying attention to the inside. Listen to what Jesus says in versus 25-26. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you, clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee first clean the inside of the cup and the plate that the outside also may be clean. I get this image of Jesus as you as I see it, I see the truth of it in my kitchen all the time, both myself and my daughter, Sydney, we both have protein shakes every once in a while that the using the blender put in the frozen fruit and the yogurt and the protein powder and all that kind of stuff.
It's great. You you blend it up and pour it into a glass cup and then you drink, you drink it and you're getting all the nutrients, all your muscle building power in. One shot problem, though, is that when you pour your protein smoothie in a glass cup and you don't rinse it right away. You know what happens if you better add protein shakes? You know what happens in a matter of time.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
This defines a person. Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth starting to go down 17, do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth, passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person for out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, s*xual immorality, theft, false witness slander. These are what the file a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone to hear what Jesus is saying, evil thoughts, murder, adultery, s*xual morality, theft, false witness, slander.These things are the major problems in our world today. These are the problems. And Jesus are saying they don't originate outside of us. They originate on the inside of us. Our heart is the problem. It produces our problems from the inside. You won't be hearing this, many might be asking the question, yeah, OK, but what if I'm just minding my own business and someone actually outside of me, outside of my heart actually does something immoral or wicked or evil towards me?
Isn't that a problem that's outside of me and my heart? Yes and no. Let me try to address that. If someone does something wicked to you, what's the source of that problem? Their heart. Their heart is producing that wickedness that's been levied against you still, that has nothing to do with you yet, but here's where the more here's one of the stuff that happens against us and to us, where it becomes compounded and it becomes a real issue because we have we have unfortunate things happen to us all the time.
We have wicked things and unjust, unjust things happen to us all the time. Everyone does. But here's where it gets really messy, really bad, really fast. Not necessarily stop being that us. But what how do you respond to those things? How do you respond to those things when they happen against you, when someone does you wrong, big or small? Does your heart produce anger, vengeance, despair, violence, abuse, denial? Stuff happens to us, but our heart produces the response that we don't respond the way that we ought to to those things, and that compounds it and makes that experience far greater against you and for you than it would be if we had hearts that knew how to respond properly to things.
If left unchecked and undealt with our heart is what produces the things that keep us separated from God if we haven't come into a relationship with them yet, if this if this thing is not addressed, this this producer of this of the wicked and the evil and and the problems, if it's not left, if it's not addressed, we're we're in big trouble. So whatever you do, friends, brothers and sisters, whatever you do, whatever you do, don't follow your heart.
Don't follow your heart. If I had a quarter for every time I've heard people in person or on social media or whatever, say a kind of phrase similar to this man, I just got to follow my heart. I just got to do what feels right. And I and the amount of times I've type things and erased them or had to bite my tongue because if I had a quarter for every time, I'd be a rich, rich man. Our world lives this way.
It is it's this propaganda. It's it's promoted. Follow your heart. Do what makes you feel right. Do what you what you think is right. And what we've learned so far is we we cannot should not follow our heart because our hearts are the source of the problem. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things. Who can know it? Our hearts trick us. They deceive us. They don't lead us down the right path.
Blockbuster New Disaster Movie Depicts Falling Space Junk Destroying A Texas City
orzzz is awright ... gotta admire her fashion sense .... always so subdued & understated.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
True he can not. Russia is like a weak guy with a gun inside a bodybuilders union... they have to let him out or they mught get a bullit. That's been the understanding since day one that Nato can't really touch him here. He'll nuke us (you incuded) so if I was you I'd forget all hard stances here cos I can tell you Putin WILL NUKE US, if we send in our forces. Why? Cos there is millions of Russians in this part of Ukraine. He just spread out his umbrella over them.After what happened in Jugoslavia you can still only see the western version here:
he attaced a severeign country and we can not just sit by? Really?
He is taking these 4 regions now as he took Krim last time. He ain't backing down.
The majority there are Russians or Russian decendants if you will.
Can't leave now, ever.
This is the Russian view of today.
Long term though you might get your will...
When todays strong leader is gone.
Heading back to the USA for Halloween 2025.
I went to the White House Gift Shop when I was in Washington DC, and I bought some souvenirs for the family there.When I go again, I will not buy more souvenirs, because I bought some the last time I was there
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
MerlotThanks for comment.
Everything appears to be loaded against Ukraine. I don't believe they can succeed without continual support from other countries, especially USA. The question is, should they be left to fail, or should Western Europe plus USA make the big decision to supply everything needed to turn the tables on Russia, including long range missiles and aircraft, and possibly, nuclear war heads. Drastic measures I know, but I don't see why Russia should be allowed to hit Ukraine without expecting the same destruction in its own territory. The one alternative is for NATO to step in and issue an ultimatum, get out of Ukraine or we enter the war. A risky stance, but this would, make Putin think hard as to whether the war is really worth the consequences. He knows he couldn't defeat NATO.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
That's likely to happen either way.Let the Ukrainian people decide.
Russia can match everything thrown at it. They will take Kiev too.
China is playing a huge part in Russia's war on Ukraine.
"The officials spoke to Reuters news agency and said China has massively increased its sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology to Moscow.
These items are important because Russia is using them to make tanks, aircraft, missiles and other weapons for the war.
They also said:
About 90% of Russia's microelectronics came from China
Nearly 70% of Russia's approximately $900m in machine tool imports in the last quarter of last year came from China
Chinese and Russian entities have been working together to make drones in Russia
China is helping Russia improve its satellite and other space-based capabilities for use in the war. This could increase the threat Russia poses across Europe.
US President Joe Biden has previously raised concerns with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Beijing's indirect involvement in the war.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen returned this week from a visit to Beijing and said she had warned China that the Biden administration was prepared to sanction Chinese banks, companies and Beijing's leadership if they helped Russia's military in the war.
She has already been given the go-ahead from Mr Biden to sanction financial institutions that help Russia's military-industrial complex.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to travel to China for talks next month."
From Sky news.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Chinese leader using meeting with Ma Ying-jeou to promote peaceful ‘reunion’ as only alternative to annexation, say analystsChina and Taiwan are destined for ‘reunification’, Xi tells former president
Xi claims Taiwan as a province of China and has sworn to annex it, by force if necessary.
In the interim he has presided over a wide-scale campaign of political, economic and cognitive warfare, and near-daily military intimidation, in order to persuade Taiwan to accept Chinese rule.
Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs said Beijing’s “publicity campaign” couldn’t hide its ambitions to “eliminate Taiwan’s sovereignty”.
“External interference cannot stop the historical trend of reunion of the country and family,” Xi said, “there is no rancour that cannot be resolved, no problem that cannot be discussed, and no force that can separate us”.
Some people trust Trump while others trust Xi. C'est la vie. I suppose it's a case of who you like.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
One out of three ain't so bad to be us two
I see no real reason for Russia to wrec havoq over the balitic strip,
he let that ship sail years ago. Finland never, dunn even matte rif they're part of Nato or not.
Ukraine was to him like Canada is the the US of A, one step too close for comfort.
Along those lines. It's not so hard to understand Putin here, whether he is slightly
wrong or not- he took a stand and drew a line. Don't mean he will now do a hitler.
About NK, I adimt it's the worst country on the planet. It shoudl be freed from their own dictator.
That would be an intervetintion I would support.
But for NK to set boots in SK is to me as absurd an idea as
Russian boots in Finnmark (north Norway)... like what are they gonne do
when a 1000 f35s starte burning up every unit they have been unwise enough to send over,
all gone before lunchtime day one... eh regret?
One Belt and Road Initiative growing stronger
The value of the trade exchanges between Iran and the other 56 member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) reached $61 billion in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 19, 2024), registering a 0.19 percent hike compared to a year earlier.Iran exported $29 billion of products to these countries and imported $32 billion worth of products from them, Mohammad Rezvanifar added, IRNA reported.
Among the OIC member states, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Oman, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Indonesia were Iran’s major trade partners, the IRICA chief added.
Three sons and four grandchildren of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed on Wednesday in Israeli air attack on Gaza refugee camp, relatives and official Hamas media said.
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Russia: Switzerland's Ukraine conference 'road to nowhere'
Holding a conference on Ukraine in Switzerland is a "road to nowhere," as Moscow does not see that the West is sincerely ready to engage in fair negotiations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
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Six killed, several injured after knife attack in Sydney shopping centre
Suspect is shot dead as police say he acted alone and there was ‘no continuing threat’.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
I guess that’s why NK has restarted threatening the SouthWhy the Baltic countries are preparing for war with Russia.
I would agree China is non aggressive.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
This presupposes that China, NK and Russia are typical landgrabbers, no reason to believe that. It's all been of rather good reasons and that goes for Taiwan as well. Don't start not potential ww3 over stuff that is faaar outside of our roam. I never any longer buy the democratization argument, not any longer.They are more friendly than us, seen from a wider persepective. That's the point.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Now is the time to give the Ukraine what they need to succeed...not give up...this will not be the end of his attack...Putin has Finland on his list too...This is not going to be a simple solution...history suggests otherwise...
How foolish the American political parties are...not coming together and discussing what should be done rather than get mired down in nonsensical issues...the time for unity is now...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
I am sure they will be wanting to test that theory...it will be interesting to see the results...if they will conduct the test that is...RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
Gone...Race had something to do with it...at least I think so but not in the way the previous poster stated...
OJ was famous...he was known to abuse Nicole but at the time I think he got a pass with his behaviour...not unlike many pro sports players...but keep in mind of Rodney King debacle and the LA riots...all points in the direction of police brutality towards people of colour...or the uprising of people of colour fed up with the system that does little to protect/respect them...
Add in a racist cop...lets face it...he should have been honest...and the gloves were just a distraction...smoke and mirrors...
The unfortunate cost of this problem with 'the system'...was Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman...
That is why some people (IMO) cheered for OJ...not out of disrespect for Nicole or Ron...
To answer the other poster...
I am sure that is how many people feel...but now that OJ is gone...let's hope the children (OJ and Nicole) can be left alone...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Note that the condition can only be Positively diagnosed after death.
Perhaps we'll know more in a few weeks or so.
RE: Welcoming actress Courtney Tailor...
I think Courtney has other worries and becoming a CS member is not a priority...Taken from on line news outlet...regarding the death of her lie in boyfriend...
An arrest report said that Clenney acknowledged killing Obumseli but said she was acting in self-defense. She said Obumseli had pushed her and thrown her to the floor, which prompted her to grab a knife and throw it at Obumseli from about 10 feet away. The medical examiner said Obumseli's wound could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that distance.
Not a great way to get dates here...perhaps the rat has a sense of humour...
RE: Welcoming actress Courtney Tailor...
That's too funny...Perhaps alarming...
Be careful who you message here...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Considering Hernandez (NFL) player who suffered from that disease and had led violent life...it could be considered a contributing factor...although OJ had problems with domestic violence for a good portion of his life...some women were silenced due to a NDA..regarding his abuse...I think it was about a combination about race (before that was the cops brutal beating of Rodney King and others) and OJ's fame...and of course now we know what concussions can lead to...including domestic violence as a past history...not to mention the LA riots that was an indication of just how people of colour were feeling at the time...some were horrified at the verdict while others celebrated...
I feel sad for the people who died...Goldman and Nicole Brown...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Perhaps the most Charitable take on OJ was that he played running back long before NFL concussion protocols were adopted, he'd likely suffered multiple undiagnosed concussions, and was mentally impaired
RE: D chat
What you looking for budFriends?
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
During the California murder case of People v. O.J. Simpson, DNA results indicated that blood found on a rear gate at the crime scene belonged to O.J. Simpson and that blood found on socks at Simpson's residence belonged to murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson.Some people just seem to be able to get away with murder as D.N.A has been around since 1986
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So now you're sitting where you are watching this. Now, just imagine in front of you all the potential sources of the problems in your life. Think of them all, all in front of you. In this exercise, you have your spouse or your potentially or your boyfriend or your girlfriend or your singleness sometimes is a source of people's problems, they think, or your kids or your lack of kids. Maybe it's your boss or fellow employees.Maybe it's your. Yeah, your co-workers, maybe your friends or the source of the problem right now. Maybe it's your enemies. Maybe it's in your finances over here or the economy. Maybe it's the the the government or the police out there. Maybe they're they're the problem. Maybe it's maybe it's your vices, you know, drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling or whatever, that maybe that's the source of your problem. Maybe it's your health, maybe it's covid, maybe it's the weather.
And I said a bunch of things, but fill in the gap of a substitute in there for yourself, whatever problems you might think exist. And they're all out there somewhere, OK? They're all out there. Now, let's use our problem detector for a second. They're all out here and we've got a problem detector with the pack here and the long stick to the plate. Right. And let's see if we can detect any problems. They're all I listed them all.
They're all in front. If this is going to. It's not it's not picking up anything. The problem, the sector is not recognizing problems when we're putting it to all these things that potentially we think would be the source of our problems. Doesn't pick up any kind of response, which is odd because we just put a whole bunch of things that are major problems in our lives. And so when we do that, maybe this problem detector is defective, but something happens, you're leaving it on OK, and then is on is powered on.
And you and you just you're going to put it down. But as you put it down, you're turning it. You're turning it. And the stick with the plate is coming. It's moving closer towards you. You're putting it down in an awkward way, but you're putting it down so that it's facing you. And as soon as the plate comes around from checking out all these things, it's coming close to you. What do you think happens when it comes right to I'll tell you what happens.
It goes like this. It goes beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep and start. Smoking makes barking and then it explodes. As the plate is put directly over your hearts and as I put it, directly over my heart. The beats increased with frequency as we get closer to our hearts because.
Our hearts. Ah, the problem, our heart is the problem, not our physical heart, not not the organ in our chest cavity that that pumps blood all through our body. I'm not talking about the organ talking about this, our spiritual heart, the seats of your and mine, the seat of our emotion and our will, the our our invisible person who we are on the inside, the invisible part of you that drives your life. The visible part of me that drives my life.
Jesus made this really clear that this is the source of our problem. It's not what's on the outside of you that's the problem, Jesus says, but it's what is on the inside of you, that is, listen to what Jesus says in Matthew Chapter 15, verses 10 to 11, and also in verses 17 to 20. Let me read this for us. And he called the people to him and said to them, hear and understand it is not what goes into the mouth that defines a person, but what comes out of the mouth.
One Belt and Road Initiative growing stronger
American ships and troops in the Middle East prepared for a likely Iranian attack on Israel on Friday, Biden “We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help to defend Israel.________________________________________
The price of gold reached an all-time high on Friday, soaring above $2,400 per ounce as a global safe-haven rush continues.
Spot gold prices rose 2.4% to a record high of $2,431.52 per ounce before pairing some gains.
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Beijing slams US and allies for ‘attacking China’
The US, Japan, and the Philippines released a statement rejecting China’s maritime claims
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French Navy preparing for war – admiral
The Marine Nationale is training to face an adversary “who wants to destroy us,” a senior officer has said
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‘Time to prepare for war’ North Korean leader
Pyongyang must be ready to fight and win against all enemies, Kim Jong-un has said
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Russia advises citizens against travel to Middle East as Iranian threat stokes tensions
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Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were invited to become members with effect from 1 January 2024.1 Feb 2024
Useless trivia
A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s licence had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others.
Useless trivia
The world's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell, have died, aged 62, according to the Guinness World Records (GWR).The pair were 62 years and 202 days old, nine years older than the second oldest female conjoined twins ever recorded.
Lori and George also held the world record for the first same-sex conjoined twins to identify as different genders after George revealed himself to be transgender.
The twins were born in Pennsylvania, US, on September 18 1961. They had partially fused skulls, sharing blood vessels and 30% of their brains — the frontal and parietal lobes.
Lori was able-bodied but George, who had spina bifida, used a "wheelchair-type stool," GWR said
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But my prayer is that you would be so impacted by what you hear that it will not only change your life that you'll understand it and then God will be able to use you to teach what you learn to actually have an impact to other people's lives as well. That's my hope. Our series that we're in, Matthew the Gospel of Matthew or in Chapter 23 are texts for our main text is going to be found in verses 25 to 28. So Matthew, 23-25-28And I want to give you guys the it's a four point sermon tonight. I want to give you the four points up front and then we'll hit them one at a time. So to give you an overview of where we're going. Point number one, we're going to identify the source of humanity's problems. Small task. I know what we're going to do that to, in point one, identify the source of humanity's problems. Secondly, what we're going to do is we're going to highlight humanity's feeble attempts to fix our own problems.
We're going to highlight humanity's feeble attempts to fix our own problems. And is at this second point where we're going to spend most of our time looking at our text. We're going to connect our text in Matthew. 23 verses 25-28 right into the second point. And you're going to see that more clearly when we get there. The third point in this message, I'm going to give you the solution to humanity's problems. We're covering a lot of ground here tonight, as you can see.
And then our fourth point, we're going to troubleshoot what to do when the problem is still there in our life after we've received the solution to it being a troubleshooter, we recognize the problem, received the solution, but then realize that there's still some problems left. We're going to do some troubleshooting point for. So that's where we're going in this message. So let's let's dive in and identify the source of humanity's problems, the source of humanity's problems. If you're a Christian, if you're a brother or sister in Christ, watching this message right now, I want to take you back as we identify the source of our problems prior to you coming to know Jesus.
So this is pre Jesus, pre salvation for you. If you're if you're a friend and a guest watching the service with us and you, and you're not a Christian, you don't know Jesus. This is going to explain to you the source again, identify the source of your problems in your life. So for the Christian, this is Jesus. And if you're not a Christian, we're going to identify we're going to find out what's going on and what's wrong.
So we're going to do a little bit of an exercise to do this. You guys picture in your mind a metal detector, a metal detector. You see people who have the get rich mentality, right? They buy the trusty metal detector. They go to the beach and they put the little plate at the end of the stick near the ground. And they're trying to find hidden treasure. And they'll have a normal tone the metal detector and go eat.
And if there is no metal, but as soon as it starts to come to some metal, what does it do? Wraps up, right? Eat, eat, eat, eat, PBB. And then, you know, you found what you're looking for. That's a metal detector. Well, we're going to use here to identify the source of humanity's problems. We're going to use a problem detector. OK, a problem detector. Now to help us find the source of our problems.
RE: It the culture dummy.
Harriet Tubman -Small, illiterate, black woman born into slavery.
Prior to Civil War- conductor on Underground Railroad.
During Civil War -
Cook, Nurse, Spy, Organized steamboat raid into the South that freed 700 slaves ...
Credited as 1st US Woman to lead a military operation.
It was thought that putting her on the $20 bill would piss off old white guys.
Turns out they're Remarkably OK with a gun toting, 2nd Amendment supporting, slave freeing, Democrat shooting, Republican Black Woman.
Probably explains Why neither Obama nor Ol' Joe have Actually Gotten her on the $20 bill.
RE: It the culture dummy.
Harriet Tubman -Small, illiterate, black woman born into slavery.
Prior to Civil War- conductor on Underground Railroad.
During Civil War -
Cook, Nurse, Spy, Organized steamboat raid into the South that freed 700 slaves ...
Credited as 1st US Woman to lead a military operation.
It was thought that putting her on the $20 bill would piss off old white guys.
Turns out they're Remarkably OK with a gun toting, 2nd Amendment supporting, slave freeing, Democrat shooting, Republican Black Woman.
Probably explains Why neither Obama nor Ol' Joe have Actually Gotten her on the $20 bill.
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
GrandsiozeUkraine army chief says that eastern Ukraine is under extreme pressure from Russian forces. The warmer weather makes it easier for advancing tanks etc. A British military chief thinks that this year could see an end to the war due to Russia's superior strength.
So, this really is when decisions as to whether greater support is given to Ukraine, or not.