When an international team of scientists traveled to a research station in Antarctica for six months, the language they all shared was English. After six
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defected. he talked about a phased approach to supplying defensive weapons. this parsing and all of the fine distinctions between defensive and offensive weapons is beside the point. russia invaded ukraine. ukraine is defending its territory. by definition, every weapon ukraine has is a defensive weapon. we shouldn t be drawing fine distinctions, we should be supplying them with more weapons, more kinds of weapons so they can win the war and get russian troops off of their soil. sandra: the lines of communication with russia, obviously you have seen and heard that top russian military leaders have repeatedly declined calls from the u.s., prompting fears of sleep walking into war. john kirby, the pentagon spokesperson responded, listen. we think that communication with the russians is important, particularly now, in fact, now more than ever to be able to communicate with our russian
suspended him for two days for chewing his pastry into the form of a gun. i think it s very threatening. don t move. i have got a extra isn t a right here. oh my god. that s loaded. looks like the shape of a grenade. it s insane. listen to this kid who was suspended. joshua takes full responsibility by the way for the pastry gun. listen, joshua. it was already a rectangle. i just kept on biting it and biting it tore off the top of it and it kind of looked like a gun but it wasn t. all i was trying to do was turn it into a mountain. it didn t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun. you know, some people are not good at drawing fine distinctions. baltimore has a crime problem. there is actual crime in baltimore. if you see that boy. with a strawberry tart and consider that threatening i suggest you should not be in a position of leadership. i would say there are certain pictures that are more threatening like the