… Zelenskyy’s main request is for NATO to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. In strategic terms, that is a very bad idea since it would be tantamount to a declaration of war. But even if the Trudeau government was gung-ho for the concept, there is nothing practical that Canada could offer. This country’s CF-18 jets are older than their pilots and would be target practise for Russia’s modern air defence system.
The legacy media in Canada is every bit as dishonest and corrupted as you and I suspect. Last month when True North broke the story of Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland holding a Nazi banner at a Ukrainian rally in Toronto, a handful of legacy media reporters picked up our scoop.
Most wrote their stories according to Freelend’s Liberal spin – that Freeland had done nothing wrong, the any critics of the Liberals were spreading “Russian disinformation” and that True North’s journalists were to blame for writing this story.
This shit will sap support for Ukraine.
h/t RM
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security officials announced a 10-point plan Tuesday to combat far-right extremism in the country that includes disarming about 1,500 suspected extremists and tightening background checks for those wanting to acquire guns.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the far right poses the biggest extremist threat to democracy in Germany and said authorities would seek to tackle the issue through prevention and tough measures.
“We want to destroy far-right extremist networks,” Faeser told reporters in Berlin, saying this included targeting financial flows that benefit such groups, including merchandising businesses, music festivals and martial arts events.
If in total Muslims are 15-18%, among young people of conscription age we speak of 30-40% of his army. Russia’s future is there.
“The only way for Russia to escape geopolitical demise is to become an Islamic state,” said Guidar Djemal, Russia’s most famous Muslim who passed away five years ago. The news coming from the Ukrainian front seems to prove him right.
At a funeral in the Kurchaloyevsky district of Chechnya, a Muslim cleric announced that the families of Abdulbek Taramov and Tamirlan Isaev would each receive one million rubles (7,000 euros) and a cow. A few days earlier, an Islamic scholar from the Chechen capital of Grozny, Salakh Mezhiev, had declared the Russian invasion a ‘jihad’. The Washington Post wrote on one of the most important but least told aspects of the war in Ukraine: the role of Islam.
35% favor U.S. military action even if it risks nuclear conflict with Russia
Three weeks into Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, nearly half of Americans (47%) approve of the Biden administration’s handling of the Russian invasion, while about four-in-ten (39%) disapprove; 13% say they are not sure.
Roughly a third of Americans (32%) say that the United States is providing about the right amount of support to Ukraine as it fights to hold off the Russian invasion. A larger share – 42% – say the U.S. should be providing more support to Ukraine, while just 7% say it is providing too much support. About one-in-five (19%) say they are not sure.
[ 🇷🇺 RUSSIE | 🇺🇦 UKRAINE ]
🔸📍Kharkiv, aujourd’hui.
— (Little) Think Tank (@L_ThinkTank) March 15, 2022
Jordan Peterson says if ‘pernicious and dangerous’ legislation passes in Ontario, the rest of Canada will follow suit
The advancement of Ontario’s Racial Equity in the Education System Act to third reading has alarmed critics, who say the legislation would entrench critical race theory (CRT) in schools and could lead to its adoption across Canada.
Bill 67 defines “anti-racism” as “the policy of opposing racism including anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia,” without naming whites.
It requires every school board to establish a “racial equity plan” for all of its schools, and sets out “anti-racism and racial equity requirements that apply to every college of applied arts and technology and every university that receives ongoing operating funds from the government for the purposes of post-secondary education.”
A BLM activist and her husband are accused of collecting approximately $33,426 in unemployment payments and using an unspecified amount of donation money to treat themselves to meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., vacations and trips to the nail salon.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, and her husband, Clark Grant, 38, of Taunton, Massachusetts, who founded the non-profit organization Violence in Boston, were charged in an 18-count indictment with wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements to a mortgage lending business, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday.
Cannon-Grant also faces a mail fraud count. She has denied all allegations made against her.
Statistics Canada says the annual inflation rate climbed to 5.7 per cent in February, with economists pointing to the war in Ukraine as one of the significant factors pushing the price index to its highest point since August 1991.
Helping to drive the increase in February were higher gasoline prices that were up 32.3 per cent compared with February 2021 and 6.9 per cent from a month earlier.
Statistics Canada says that excluding gasoline prices, the headline inflation rate would have been 4.7 per cent in February.
In other words Trudeau’s Carbon tax thievery will make it worse.
Ontario reports 16 net new COVID-19 deaths; ICU occupancy falls to 204
Ontario reported 16 net new deaths due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, as ICU occupancy in Ontario hospitals hit the lowest point since the end of 2021.
The Ministry of Health says that 15 of Wednesday’s deaths occurred in the past 30 days and one other occurred prior to that period.
COVID-19 BA.2 subvariant may soon account for 50 per cent of all infections in Ontario: health minister
Ontario’s health minister believes the COVID-19 subvariant BA.2, which has been described as “stealth Omicron,” may make up at least half of all infections reported in the province in the near future.
“But the evidence suggests that, in Ontario at least, it is a subvariant of the original Omicron variant and it’s not causing many more hospitalizations or more intensive treatments,” Christine Elliott said at a news conference Tuesday.
Ukraine’s president invoked the horror of the 2001 terror attacks on the US as he pleaded for more military aid in a historic address to the US Congress.
Volodymyr Zelensky said via video link that Ukraine was enduring a 9/11 every day as it battled Russian forces.
He again urged the US and Nato allies to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying: “I need to protect the sky.”
President Biden is later set to sign off an extra $800m (£612m) in military aid to Ukraine.
#Ukraine: A Russian convoy transporting 122mm rockets for BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers was attacked by the Ukrainian forces. As a result, two cargo trucks were obliterated. pic.twitter.com/SiJUqANLuP
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 16, 2022
As a result of the Russian missile attack this morning in Kiev, hopefully the war will stop soon and the world will return to peace#Russia #Ukraine #Kyiv #Odessa #Kharkiv pic.twitter.com/D0ylppVFFX
— Goes TDI (@GoesTDI) March 16, 2022
The Islamic State (ISIS) is back. Five years after Donald Trump entered the Oval Office and quickly brought about the destruction of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is resurgent and wealthy. Could this have anything to do with Old Joe Biden’s misrule? Of course.
Ukraine appealed for a global army of IT experts to help in the battle against Putin – and many answered the call.
Kali learned how to use technology by playing with his grandfather’s phone. Now, the Swiss teenager is trying to paralyse the digital presence of the Russian government and the Belarussian railway.
Kali – and many others who contributed to this article – declined to share his real name because some of the action he is taking is illegal and because he fears Russian retaliation. He is one of about 300,000 people who have signed up to a group on the chat app Telegram called “IT Army of Ukraine”, through which participants are assigned tasks designed to take the fight to Vladimir Putin. In so doing, they are trying to level the playing field between one of the world’s superpowers and Ukraine as it faces bombardment and invasion.
Two years ago this week, the United States shut down. Churches, schools and businesses went dark. Weddings, funerals, and birthdays went silent. City streets stood empty, with an eeriness closer resembling occupied Paris than the bustling hubs they’d been just days before.
Two years later, as the last of the mask mandates for school children falter and crack, it’s tempting to believe our nightmare is finally over. Just as the disease is going to haunt us a long while, however, so too will the effects of how we tried to fight it.
The answer may lie in his tactics in previous conflicts.
Geographically, Ukraine is the largest country in Europe (about the size of Texas and some 1800km across from west to east); it has a population of more than 40,000,000. The Russian invasion is being conducted along four axes: 1) from the north, out of Belarus; 2) from the northeast, along the Chernihiv-Sumy-Kharkiv axis; 3) out of the Donbas region of southeastern Ukraine (with the help of the two Russian separatist republics of Luhansk and Donetsk); and, 4) out of Crimea in the south. In general, while the Russian assault has been significantly less effective than anticipated, Russian forces are still managing, deliberately and inexorably, to encircle and bombard key Russian cities and towns, e.g., the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Kharkiv (Ukraine’s second largest city), Mariupol. In the process, they have created the most tragic humanitarian disaster in Europe since the end of World War II, with more than 2,000,000 refugees now fleeing Ukraine.
What the Ukrainian Invasion has Revealed about Russian Military Power
If your bag of Doritos has seemed suspiciously skimpy on chips lately, you’re not alone. Frito-Lay confirmed that it decreased the number of chips you get per bag by five whole delicious triangles in 2021 in order to account for inflation, Quartz reports.
