Ukraine reports 300 died in Russian strike on theater

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities said Friday that about 300 people died when a Russian airstrike blew up a theater where hundreds of civilians were sheltering — a catastrophic loss of civilian life that, if confirmed, is likely to further crank up pressure on Western nations to step up military aid.

In a vain attempt to protect those inside from missile and airstrikes that Russia has rained down on cities, an enormous inscription reading “CHILDREN” in Russian had been posted outside the grand, columned theater to make it visible from the air.

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The Globalists are becoming more reckless

Americans are being ruled by corrupt and incompetent elites who ruiin countless lives when it suits their globalist, left-wing agenda.

Just as the Chinese Flu was getting ineffectual in preventing global economic recovery, the globalist elites decided to escalate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a global war. Like their “two weeks to flatten the curve,” the 15 days to flatten the Tsar was deceptive.

Anthony Blinken, whom President Joseph Biden called the US “Foreign Minister,” recently toured Eastern Europe in a bid to get Poland to give its decrepit Soviet MiGs to Ukraine, because Ukrainian pilots already could fly them. In return, the Biden administration would give Poland a new fleet of US-made F16s, along with intensive training of Polish pilots. Thus, the US military-industrial complex would get billions of dollars of new orders, but decrepit Soviet-era planes would do the fighting.

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Why Western men gave up on war

Those desperate to prove their masculinity are out of options

What has happened to literature’s manly men? Hemingway, arguably the most masculine of writers, ran repeatedly toward danger throughout his life — along with any other intense experience he could find. This done, he’d write about it: both fiction and nonfiction, covering “manly” topics such as hitmen, boxing, fishing, hunting, bullfighting, racing and extreme sports.

War, the subject of Hemingway’s two most famous books, is perhaps the quintessential subject of such manly writing…

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Why Can’t Spy Agencies Predict a Country’s Will to Fight?

I bet that woman scares the hell out of Justin Trudeau.

U.S. intelligence agencies thought the Afghan military would last longer and predicted Kyiv would fall faster, showing the difficulty of assessing fighting spirit.

Ukrainian citizens learned to make Molotov cocktails from government public service announcements, then recorded themselves setting Russian armored vehicles on fire. Ukraine’s soldiers waited in ambush and fired Western-provided missiles at Russian tanks. The country’s president recorded messages from the streets of his capital, urging his country to fight back against the invaders.

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Pope Francis’ Response to Ukraine Has Tapped Into One of Catholicism’s Deepest Conspiracy Theories

The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis had invited all the bishops and priests of the world to “join him in the prayer for peace and in the consecration and entrustment of Russia and of Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” The prayer, which is to take place Friday afternoon, seemed on its face to be an uncontroversial sign of support for the Ukrainian people, but the news sent shockwaves through a certain segment of the Catholic world.

To the average person, the responses seem nearly impossible to decipher. “Holy Father, I am a little bit worried,” one person wrote on Twitter. “This won’t be a legitimate consecration either,” another scoffed. “Only Idiots think this Freemason will do the consecration,” said another. “It’s about time, but what took so long?” one asked. Others pointed to blog posts and videos that warned the pope’s plans amounted to a “globalist trap” or that “an anti-pope’s ‘consecration’ of Russia” would lead to dire consequences. What in the world was happening here?

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Sweden’s Unequal Hospitality

Millions to Muslim men, not a cent to Ukrainian women.

Question: What’s scarier for Ukrainians at present than being in Ukraine? Answer: Being in Sweden.

Because of an incident that took place early last week, according to the alternative Swedish website Samnytt, some of the Ukrainian women and children who’ve been housed at a hostel in the city of Örebro want to go back home. It began when two tall, slim black men, apparently Somalis, came knocking at the hostel’s front door at 3 A.M. and claimed to want to see a friend who was living there – but the person they named, if he or she exists at all, was not, in fact, a resident. After a third Somali man appeared, one or more of them managed to enter the hostel, by which time the women had retreated to their rooms and locked their doors. One of the Somalis knocked on one of the doors and addressed the woman inside, presumably in Somali, causing her two-year-old child to scream in fear. Then, at five A.M., some Arab men showed up and tried to force their way in.

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American Mineral Supply Chains for 21st Century Energy Security

… Fortunately, our challenge is one of policy, not geology. We have the resources to supply significant domestic production for many of the metals most essential to advanced energy technologies. From nickel and cobalt to graphite, copper, lithium and rare earths, we have them, and with further exploration and mapping, likely even more than we realize. Promising lithium reserves and projects in Nevada, California, Arkansas, North Carolina and even Maine speak to the variety and breadth of the resources within reach. But producing these resources remains an enormous challenge made only more difficult by self-imposed barriers.

The future does not happen without nuclear.

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Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton over Russian collusion allegations

Former US President Donald Trump has sued Hillary Clinton and several other Democrats, accusing them of trying to rig the 2016 US presidential election by linking his campaign to Russia.

Mr Trump beat Mrs Clinton in 2016.

But he alleges “racketeering” and other claims, as part of an “unthinkable plot” to undermine his campaign.

Mr Trump’s campaign and transition teams were accused of conspiring with Russian agents to influence the election in his favour.

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Canada bars its soldiers from joining Ukraine’s foreign legion

Canada has barred its soldiers from joining Ukraine’s “international brigade” of foreign fighters, amid growing concern that captured troops could be used as a Russian propaganda tool.

Speaking to Canadian parliament’s defence committee on Wednesday, Lt Gen Frances Allen, the vice-chief of the defence staff, said top brass had issued an order preventing full-time service members and part-time reservists from travelling to join Ukraine’s newly formed foreign legion.

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Joe Biden: Food Shortages ‘Going to Be Real‘ Due to Russia-Ukraine War

President Joe Biden acknowledged during a press conference in Brussels on Thursday that food shortages will hit the world as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“It’s going to be real,” Biden said when asked about discussions with world leaders about food shortages.

And next come the government bugs!

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Trudeau says he’ll go shopping for weapons for Ukraine because our armed forces gave away their crappy old stuff

Hope he snags that confederate flag in the window.

Canada is looking at ways to get more weapons into the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday after an emergency meeting of NATO leaders.

He made the commitment even though his own defence minister, Anita Anand, has acknowledged publicly that the Canadian military’s stock of surplus weapons available for donation is largely depleted.

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Justin Trudeau mercilessly mocked in Europe over Freedom Convoy response, organizers Lich, Barber facing new charges – Coincidence?

Prominent organizers of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation of downtown Ottawa are facing new criminal charges.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are now jointly charged with mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police and obstructing police.

Both were arrested on Feb. 17, a day before police began moving in to clear demonstrators from downtown Ottawa streets.


More… Ottawa police were not ready for number, behaviour of ‘Freedom Convoy’ participants occupying streets: Interim police chief

‘The hate, the disruptive behaviour, the intimidating behaviour, the noise pollution…’ was unexpected, said Interim Police Chief Steve Bell

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