Mark - RIGHT WITH JESUS

Devotion 19, "Faith as Ukraine's Shield," from "40 Devotions for Ukraine's Fight for Freedom and Peace," draws on Ephesians 6:16 and Psalm 91:4 to portray faith as a protective barrier against war's despair, inspired by the 17th-century Cossack Hetmanate and Khmelnytsky Uprising, where Orthodox belief shielded against Polish oppression. The devotion uses a parable of a Cossack warrior's cross-emblazoned shield turning battles, reflecting on historical resilience to encourage modern Ukrainians to praise God in storms, drawing closer through grace. Accompanying it is the song "Cossack Shield of Faith," an energetic folk-rock anthem with galloping drums, featuring lyrics like "Faith our shield, in storm we praise / God's goodness lights our darkest days," building from verses of steppe stands to a chorus of defiant hope, ending with a spoken prayer for protection in Jesus' Name.

Youth centre failed to report 16-year-old girl’s rape as ‘Muslim boys already under enough police scrutiny' gbnews.com/news/world/mig…

Japan has officially downgraded China. For decades, Japan treated China as one of its most important relationships. Now? Japan is rewriting its 2026 diplomatic playbook—China is no longer “top tier,” just an “important neighbor.” Why the shift? Because Japan’s public has flipped: 76% say no need to improve ties 93% see China as a threat 74% support military expansion And the younger generation? Even more hawkish. Tokyo isn’t just talking. It’s rearming, tightening the Japan–United States alliance, and preparing for long-term confrontation. Here’s where it gets interesting: Beijing thought pressure would force Japan to comply. Instead, it triggered the opposite reaction. Japan didn’t bend. Japan hardened. Now China faces simultaneous pressure from the United States and a rapidly militarizing Japan. That’s a strategic nightmare for the CCP. For years, China operated on one assumption: Raise the pressure, and everyone backs down. Japan just shattered that illusion. This isn’t just a diplomatic downgrade. It’s the beginning of a structural realignment in Asia. And China clearly didn’t see it coming.

@TheInsiderPaper years of the Bidens .... We understand...🙏

BREAKING 🚨🚨 Former First Lady Jill Biden's Secret Service agent shoots himself while accompanying former first lady through Philadelphia airport — Daily Mail

KALLAS: Russia is trying to get those territories they haven't been able to conquer militarily in 12 years around the negotiation table. It's the Russian playbook of negotiations: they are demanding something that has never been theirs. This is a trap we should not fall into.

🇷🇺 🏳️ 6 Russian troops surrender on Slovyansk axis Paratroopers from Ukraine’s 81st Airborne Brigade of the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps took six Russian servicemen prisoner after they chose to surrender rather than continue fighting on the Slovyansk direction. The group laid down their arms and came out with hands raised, describing conditions where continuing to fight offered little chance of survival. Their backgrounds vary, some with prior detention history, others trying to avoid service, and some drawn in by pay. Ukrainian forces are handling them in line with international humanitarian law, guaranteeing safety to those who surrender. The exchange fund keeps growing, one surrender at a time.

WOW. Holy shit. The UAE is now saying absolutely NO CEASEFIRE against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba confirms UAE will join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a lifeline for global oil. A gives confirmation of a $1.4 TRILLION UAE investment commitment in the United States. This is wild. Arab countries are paying the US to bomb the Islamic Regime. Source: Reuters / WSJ H/t @War_Radar2

The fastest way for Europe to help end the war is to directly fund Ukraine's domestic arms production. They know exactly how to build long-range strike drones and cruise missiles. We just need to give them the capital to scale up faster

📸 Most of us might well assume that if a CCTV camera is present, it is recording footage that can be used to help solve a crime. But from broken lenses to unusable footage, the UK is covered in cameras that don’t actually work – and criminals are taking note ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

Ukraine is now advising Saudi Arabia on air defense against Iranian drones, and the first results are already in Zelenskyy confirmed the team has been there for over a week, sharing real combat experience from years of surviving Russia's drone strikes euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/27/ukr…

‘I am sick to death with idiots like you, walking around with knives like that’ Watch the moment our roads policing team stopped two teenagers riding an electric motorbike whilst in the possession of two machetes.

🇺🇦 Pokrovsk is turning into another GRIND Russia just can’t handle Russian forces pulled units away to patch up problems near Huliaipole, and what’s left are mostly fresh, poorly trained troops trying small assault groups Ukrainian defenders are HOLDING strong west and north of the city, and every time those Russian units try to cross open ground, they’re getting hit HARD and taking heavy losses It’s starting to look a lot like Bakhmut all over again, lots of effort, huge losses, and still no real breakthrough in sight And the more Russia burns through its resources like this, the less chance it has of actually turning Pokrovsk into anything meaningful @ChuckPfarrer

🇺🇦 Ukrainian STRILA-2 interceptor drone will receive a rocket booster similar to the one used on the 🇩🇪German Jäger, - Quantum Systems Ukraine

🇺🇸 ~4000 Tomahawks were in inventory, so this would be 21% of that. Not a trivial amount, but not an insurmountable replacement requirement. Tomahawk production capacity is 600/year, increasing to 1000/year. The Navy needs to place the orders. Their procurement has been anemic.

UAE Water Truth 💧🇦🇪 Everyone is asking if the UAE has enough water. Here’s the reality 👇 The UAE has 26 billion liters stored in Liwa. That alone can supply water for 90 days. Dubai also has underground reserves that add another 90 days of supply. Food is covered too, with 6 months of reserves already secured. Financially, the UAE holds assets equal to 184% of GDP. #UAE #Dubai #MiddleEast

Satellite images of the oil storages at the Russian port of Primorsk after the first Ukrainian attack on 23rd of March and after the second attack on 26th-27th March.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists just pushed solar cells beyond their absolute efficiency limit. Researchers have demonstrated a method to surpass the long standing Shockley–Queisser limit in solar energy conversion. The breakthrough uses a quantum process called singlet fission, where one high-energy photon generates two spin-triplet excitons instead of the usual one electron–hole pair. This enables >100% external quantum efficiency, meaning a single photon can effectively produce multiple charge carriers. Researchers also demonstrated a spin-flip mechanism using a molybdenum-based system to efficiently harvest these excitons, achieving ~130% quantum yield experimentally. The system relies on organic semiconductor materials like tetracene and pentacene, where a singlet exciton (S₁) splits into two triplet excitons (T₁ + T₁), reducing energy lost as heat. In optimized systems, singlet fission can reach 200% exciton yield, offering a pathway toward 30–45%+ solar cell efficiencies, beyond the 29.4% theoretical limit of conventional silicon cells. If successfully integrated into real devices, this approach could significantly improve solar performance, especially in high efficiency photovoltaics, space systems and hybrid solar technologies.

Notice how nobody complained about wearing a suit

Beth Rigby – The Mask Is Gone. This is not journalism. This is propaganda, performed live on Sky News by a woman who has spent years pretending to be an impartial political editor while openly serving as Keir Starmer’s personal PR handler. Beth Rigby sat through a weeping Prime Minister’s performance and offered him comfort instead of questions. She gave him the softest landing imaginable while the country he leads is being deliberately dismantled. She is the same journalist who broke lockdown rules herself at Kay Burley’s illegal birthday dinner, then spent years helping hound the public and the last government over Partygate. She is the same journalist who ambushes Nigel Farage and Reform with loaded questions but rolls out the red carpet for Labour. She is the same journalist who has been called out repeatedly as a propagandist, not a reporter, because that is exactly what she has become. Paid and protected by the establishment she serves, Beth Rigby has spent this interview shielding Starmer from every single issue that actually matters to the British people. Here are the five questions any real journalist would have asked instead of handing him tissues and absolution: 1. Prime Minister, you spent ten minutes crying about your “mistake” in rehabilitating Peter Mandelson, a man twice forced to resign in disgrace with documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Why did you appoint him as Britain’s Ambassador to the United States? 2. Your senior aide Morgan McSweeney had his phone allegedly stolen from inside No.10 and serious questions remain about the cover-up. What are you hiding, and why was this only given one weak throwaway question at the very end? 3. Since you took office the small boat crossings have continued at record levels, with hundreds of thousands more illegal migrants flooding into Britain. You scrapped Rwanda on day one and refuse to turn any boat back. Why have you completely failed to stop the boats? 4. Why has your Labour government repeatedly blocked or watered down a full national public inquiry into the grooming gangs that destroyed thousands of British girls, many in Labour-run towns and councils? 5. You have cut winter fuel payments from millions of British pensioners, forcing them to choose between heating and eating, while still housing illegal migrants in hotels and handing massive pay rises to public-sector workers. How do you justify betraying the very working-class and elderly voters who put you in power? Beth Rigby, the British public has seen enough. You are no longer a journalist. You are a paid operative for a failing regime. In front of the entire world you have disgraced your profession and this nation. The British people want you gone from their television screens permanently. Whatever the establishment is paying you, it had better be enough to keep you far away from real British life for the rest of your days. Because the mask is not slipping anymore. It is gone. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

Striking image: dozens of empty tankers queued up at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports, ready to load oil. @saudi_aramco has diverted approximately 4 million barrels per day from its eastern fields to the west. Their rapid and massive response stands as the quickest and most significant mitigation effort worldwide. @aramco Map from @Kpler