Canada planning for global food emergency, as Ukraine attack risks wheat supply

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked major disruptions to a United Nations program that helps prevent hunger around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Monday during a trip to Europe aimed at working with allies to respond to the crisis.

“The challenge right now of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, is having ripple effects around the world, not just in energy prices for Canadians and for people in Europe, but for people in the global South as well,” Trudeau said Monday in London, adding that those include disruption to the UN World Food Program.

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Vaccine Choice Canada calls to end Pfizer shot after report shows it caused over 1,200 different adverse reactions

A number of disclosures made last week support an immediate end to the Pfizer COVID vaccines. On Tuesday, March 1, the U.S. FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research permitted access to the 55,000 page set of documents which Pfizer submitted to the FDA from its clinical trials in support of a COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Big Pharma, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, vaccine controversy

Continental Breakfast

Ham Egg & Cheese Breakfast Sliders

Liberals Yet To Account For $600-Billion In Public Spending

The Liberal government is asking Parliament to approve billions in new spending during a brief four-week sitting in Ottawa, but is facing questions because it has not released a full accounting of how it spent more than $600-billion last year during the peak of Canada’s pandemic response.

Trudeau Gives A Masterclass In Gaslighting

Trudeau: “we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies. Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders. Countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media.”

Fauci Claim: Ukraine War May Cause Tuberculosis ‘Tragedy’

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president, recently claimed that the war between Russia and Ukraine may cause a new public health crisis: tuberculosis (TB).

According to The Telegraph, Fauci said that the war could be a “terrible public health tragedy” and “devastating” for TB control.

Pizza Hut Teaches Kids America Is Built On Slavery And Genocide

While Pizza Hut focuses on poisoning children with such horrible concoctions as cheeseburger crust pizza, fish and chips pizza, and sushi cream cheese pizza, the Pizza Hut Foundation is hard at work teaching students that America is racist and white people suck.

How Big Pharma Won Its War Against Cheap, Effective Ivermectin

Millions of families have had to bury a loved one because a cheap, safe, therapeutic drug called Ivermectin was denied to them. Instead, we had to become human guinea pigs for experimental gene therapy so Big Pharma can reap huge profits from guaranteed government contracts with zero liability for vaccine-related side-effects and deaths.

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Trump: US should put Chinese flags on F-22 jets and ‘bomb shit out of’ Russia

In a speech to Republican donors in New Orleans, Donald Trump said the US should put the Chinese flag on F-22 jets and “bomb the shit out of Russia” in retribution for its invasion of Ukraine.

The Washington Post reported the remarks, which were made on Saturday night.

To laughter, the paper said, the former president said: “And then we say, ‘China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it,’ and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch.”

According to the Post, Trump also called Nato a “paper tiger”, said the US military had won “skirmishes” against Russian troops while he was president, and claimed to have been tougher on Vladimir Putin than any other US leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The New McCarthyism

January 6 is providing a pretext for a politically motivated crackdown on dissent.

Since the storming of the U.S. Capitol by outraged supporters of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, the growth of political intolerance in the United States has reached toxic levels. Trump’s adversaries immediately branded the incident as an insurrection and accused the lame duck president of trying to stage a coup to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus warned, in a column headlined “Warning: Jan. 6 was not a one-time event,” that Trump and his right-wing backers might use similar tactics to overturn future elections. With rare exceptions, both the mainstream legacy media and the newer social media powerhouses fully embraced the “insurrection” narrative.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", USA

The end of the age of globalisation

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could hasten the demise of the US-led economic order.

The economic consequences of Russia’s bloody and despicable assault on Ukraine are very much a secondary consideration to the immediate human and geopolitical implications. And since the various national responses to the conflict are still so fluid, it is far too early to be able to identify the war’s precise longer-term economic effects. Nevertheless, it is possible to tentatively suggest what could unfold on the international economic front.

At least in the short term, the direct and indirect disruptions to economic relations arising from the invasion will almost certainly damage prospects for economic growth and boost inflation far beyond the combatant countries. In particular, the relative toughening of sanctions will generate economic difficulties in many areas beyond Russia itself.

Global banking system faces split as Russians turn to Chinese

Nissan and Levi have become the latest major brands to join the Great Cancellation of Vladimir Putin’s Russia – as Visa and Mastercard also pulled out of the country along with Netflix and TikTok.

… It comes as the global financial system looks set to split in two as Moscow turns to a Chinese payments system as a substitute for Visa and Mastercard.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Globalization

War and Persuasion

Vladimir Putin has unleashed a war of militaries and also of narratives

Like Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic, Vladimir Putin clearly believes that justice is whatever serves the interest of the strongest. It’s the code of the mafia godfather—and, for a supposed master manipulator of information, Putin has wasted little effort trying to cloak with fine ideals his application of brute force against Ukraine.

The pretext for the conflict—a “neo-Nazi” regime in Kyiv conducting “genocide” against ethnic Russians—seemed almost intentionally lame. No attempts were made to persuade or demoralize the public, either in Ukraine or in the Western democracies, ahead of what was to be the most egregious act of aggression in Europe in at least a generation. Even Russian troops at the front have often looked uncertain about the nature of their mission.

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FUREY: Judging by their actions, Canadians rightly believe COVID is over

FUREY: Judging by their actions, Canadians rightly believe COVID is over

The other week I was at a fairly sizeable indoor gathering in Toronto full of people who hadn’t seen each other in a long time or hadn’t met before. There was a lot of milling about. There were handshakes and some hugs. And there weren’t really any masks, aside from when people first entered the facility. This was also right after the vaccine mandate had ended in Ontario.

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It’s just a coffee maker.

I was making coffee Sunday when it hit me. I remembered very clearly the day I purchased the coffee maker.

It was late fall in 2020.

I asked Kathy if she’d like to come for the ride to Costco to pick it up but she was too fatigued to tag along.

At that stage she seldom had energy to go out.

As I walked along in Costco I was numbed at the realization that I was going to have to get used to doing things without my shopping buddy.

One box ticked on the anticipatory grieving check list. You learn terms like “anticipatory grieving” from the folks in palliative care.

We began mourning the day Kathy was diagnosed but yes we hoped and prayed for a miracle that never came.

Kath was far more realistic about her chances than I had courage to face.

Grieving is like a derailed train in a tunnel. You clamber over or through or under the wrecked cars. Each has spilled its own cargo of emotion and there’s no escaping it.

Loss. Loneliness. Anger. Regret. Survivor guilt. Victimization. Hopelessness. Self-Pity.  Name it you’ll encounter it at some point to some degree.

There are times when I catch myself holding on to the grief out of fear that I may one day forget her. Worrying that I might dishonor her memory by absent mindedly enjoying a moment without wishing she was there to share it. It’s a childish notion but my mind works the way it works despite knowing Kathy only ever wished me happiness.

Sunday was a lovely spring like day. It was the exact sort of day to be shared with a loved one.

I walked to the Farm Boy. Kathy had looked forward to its opening.

I chatted to her on the way back remarking on the day and the shopping hoping she was just off my shoulder tagging along.

That was the first time I’ve noticed the weather in a long while it seems.

The one year anniversary of Sainted Irish Mom’s passing was Saturday March 5th.

She was a great old gal. The family remembered her.

Not a day goes by that they aren’t in my thoughts and heart.

Today I was sorting the documents needed to file final taxes for both Mom and Kathy.

Thankfully one of our readers volunteered to handle their tax filings for last year and this.

I can’t begin to tell you what a relief that has been.

Thank you Jo. And thank you all.

Amazing what a coffee maker can brew up.

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Lying Punk Trudeau defends Canada’s military spending below NATO target

 

… “The Americans and the Brits have sent much more sophisticated pieces of anti-air or anti-armour equipment than we have,” he said. “You could do more damage, more accurately, to more sophisticated pieces of Russian gear if you’ve got the better weapons.”

Mr. Perry said Canada would also rank better among its NATO allies if it spent the money it has budgeted for defence, but the most recent numbers show the government underspending by about $3-billion. He said that’s in large part because of lengthy delays in buying new fighter jets and the slow progress in Canada’s ship-building program.

Canada’s underspending on defence is a “much bigger” issue now than it was before Russia invaded Ukraine, he said. “We’re seeing the impact of not meeting that” target.

“If you don’t actually spend money on this stuff, and buy things on schedule … then your options when you face a massive crisis, like the one we’re looking at right now in Ukraine, are drastically limited.”

According to NATO’s 2021 numbers, the Dutch spent slightly more on defence than Canada at 1.45 per cent of GDP. Mr. Rutte told reporters on Monday that his government in January decided to “ramp up defence spending by billions of euros” to bring the country close to the target.

Go incognito

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Russia threatens to close main gas pipeline to Europe as the West ramps up sanctions

LVIV/IRPIN — Russia warned that oil prices could surge to $300 a barrel and it might close the main gas pipeline to Germany if the West halts oil imports over the invasion of Ukraine as peace talks on Monday made little progress.

The incursion, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two, has prompted 1.7 million people to flee, a raft of sanctions on Moscow, an exodus of foreign firms, and fears of wider conflict in the West unthought-of for decades.

Sieges and the bombing of Ukrainian cities continued.

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Russia trying to recruit Syrians to fight in Ukraine, says Pentagon

Russia has been trying to recruit Syrians to fight in Ukraine to bolster Moscow’s flagging invasion, according to the Pentagon.

A senior US defence official said it was unclear how many Syrians Vladimir Putin is seeking to recruit, but said “we find it noteworthy that he believes he needs to rely on foreign fighters”. The official added there was no evidence of Syrian fighters having arrived in Ukraine so far.

The Russian recruitment effort was first reported by a Syrian news website, DeirEzzor24, which said Moscow was seeking volunteers to act as guards on six-month contracts, for between $200 and $300 a month. The same report said the Russian mercenary firm Wagner had been equipping its Syrian operatives, who had served in the Libyan war on the side of the general, Khalifa Haftar, to transfer to Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

Kamala Harris Attacks Truckers for Pollution as ‘People‘s Convoy‘ Protesters Hit D.C.

Vice President Kamala Harris criticized the levels of pollution caused by heavy trucks on the same day a group of patriotic truckers circled Washington, DC.

“Pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses has made the air poisonous to breathe and this pollution is also, of course, accelerating the climate crises,” Harris said during a speech near the White House on Monday. “Threatening the future not just of our communities, but of the entire world.”

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