Putin Says Sanctions Are “Akin To Declaration Of War”

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to catastrophic consequences for the world.

Putin reiterated that his aims were to defend Russian-speaking communities through the “demilitarisation and de-Nazification” of the country so that Russia’s former Soviet neighbor became neutral and no longer threatened Russia.

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GoFundMe and GiveSendGo execs confirm convoy not foreign-funded

Members of Parliament heard on Thursday that the Trudeau cabinet’s claims that the Freedom Convoy was funded by foreign powers were false, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

“Our records show 88% of donated funds originated in Canada and 86% of donors were from Canada,” said GoFundMe president Juan Benitez to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in the House of Commons on Thursday.

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Gee, What Could Putin Possibly Have on Biden That Would Make Joe Keep Buying Russian Oil?

Putin has started what some people are referring to as WWIII. Biden’s response has been to join other nations in hitting Putin with some financial sanctions, which have thus far not changed Putin’s game plan.

Biden is also sending, depending on your source, roughly $74 million to Russia EVERY DAY for oil.

Why hit Putin with sanctions if you’re handing him mad stacks for oil? Something is up. Biden could open the Keystone XL pipeline. He could “drill, baby, drill” in the States and tap into what might be billions of barrels of oil, but White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refers to that idea as a “misdiagnosis.”

So instead, Biden is helping to pay for Putin’s war.

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Carbon Tax Going Up On April 1 Despite Record Gas Prices

Canadians can expect even higher prices at the pumps once the Trudeau government moves ahead with its planned carbon tax hike on April 1.

The hike comes even as gas prices hit record highs across Canada, with parts of downtown Vancouver now paying over $2.00 per litre.

High Fertilizer Prices Now Far Worse After Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

The cost of fertilizer was already at crisis levels before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but industry leaders say it’s now about to get much worse.

The stock price of the world’s largest fertilizer producer, Saskatoon-based Nutrien Ltd., saw a 24% increase over the last month, reaching a high of $113 CAD on Thursday.

U.S. Lawmakers Want Canada On Religious Persecution List For Treatment Of Christians

The resolution references the treatment of Christian Pastor Artur Pawlowski, currently confined at the Calgary Remand Centre. Pawlawski remains jailed in solitary confinement for 23 hours per day after being denied bail twice, prompting outrage from 10,000 people who have signed a congressional letter. The resolution also references the treatment of Pastor James Coates of Edmonton, as well as Pastor Tobias Tissen of Steinbach, Manitoba.

FDA Took $3 Million Bribe For Pfizer’s COVID-19 Jab Approval

As the news cycle continues to focus on the Ukraine situation, the FDA complied with a court order to begin releasing 55,000 pages of Pfizer data per month that was used to authorize their COVID-19 vaccine produced with BioNTech, with the first batch quietly released yesterday, March 1st.

‘Only Socialism Can Defeat Covid’ Flyers Found On College Campus

Flyers posted around University of Wisconsin-Madison promising that “Only Socialism Can Defeat COVID” were promoting a Feb. 11 event held by the Madison, WI branch of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT).

According to the flyers, “capitalism offers no solutions” to COVID-19 and only makes things worse, as the organization criticizes solutions that involve “get[ting] back to work.”

Psaki Says Trump’s Actions ‘Represent A Unique And Existential Threat To Our Democracy’

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked by CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes on Thursday about the explosive charges being filed by the Jan. 6 committee against former President Donald Trump accusing him of participating in a “criminal conspiracy.”

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Islamic State Celebrates Ukraine War: ‘Divine Punishment Against Infidels‘

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group have celebrated the ongoing conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, expressing hope the war will spread to other European countries.

The Islamic State magazine Al Naba is said to have published an editorial regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, labelling the conflict a “divine punishment” and going on to state that it “will have significant consequences that will change many of the laws of peace and war between those countries.”

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Russia and Iran Taunt Biden in Humiliating Revival of Nuclear Deal

Last week, I posited that the Biden administration was soft-pedaling SWIFT sanctions because it does not want to discuss why the United States is not in a position to boot Russia from the telecommunication system that facilitates global commerce and finance: The United States government has willfully entangled itself in dependence on Putin’s regime. This is particularly so in the realms of energy and foreign relations.

It hasn’t taken long for a textbook example of this idiocy to leap to the fore.

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How the U.S. and British are funneling weapons to kill Russians

The floodgates of military aid for Ukraine appeared to burst open this week as European countries lined up to announce the delivery of tens of thousands of rockets aimed at striking Russian tanks and helicopters, along with other critical supplies.

Western officials insist that the shipments aren’t too late to influence the fight against the 150,000-plus Russian troops pushing toward Kyiv and other major cities, though the routes to get the weapons into the country are few, and increasingly perilous.

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Are Western Sanctions Enough to Save Ukraine?

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg announced on Friday that Russian forces have used cluster bombs in Ukraine. “We have seen the use of cluster bombs and we have seen reports of use of other types of weapons which would be in violation of international law,” Stoltenberg said, adding that NATO is “collecting information and monitoring very closely what is going on in Ukraine.” Stoltenberg’s statement comes on the heels of accusations, leveled by Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, that Russia has deployed and used thermobaric weapons in Ukraine. Also referred to as “vacuum bombs,” these weapons suck up surrounding oxygen to trigger a huge explosion. The employment of such weapons is widely condemned by international human rights organizations and could be classified as a war crime if used against civilian populations. Earlier this week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced a war crimes investigation into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor for the international criminal court (ICC), said an “advanced team” of investigators is already traveling to Ukraine, adding that the work will begin as soon as possible.

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Trump Was Right Again: The U.S. Subsidizes Europeans’ Healthcare and Defense

And Joe Biden’s State of the Union pitch to lower drug prices won’t change that.

It took Russia’s naked aggression against Ukraine for Germany to admit that Donald Trump was right all along: Europe needs to stop relying on U.S. subsidies and spend more on its own defense.

In a stunning policy reversal, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany would do what Trump was long urging and commit at least two percent of GDP to defense spending.

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The myopic focus on racism at the Polish-Ukrainian border

Poland is behaving like a humanitarian superpower — yet large parts of the media would rather just cry racism

There are already a hell of a lot of foreign correspondents and human-rights workers at the Ukrainian-Polish border — an immigration problem all by themselves, perhaps.

Quite a few of these reporters seem to be desperately seeking “racism” stories, since that is increasingly the only news which the English-speaking media seems able to process. The heart-warming scenes of Ukrainian women and children being given shelter isn’t the story. Because those refugees are white.

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Trudeau the Trucker

Our political leaders for the most part affect a baccalaureate sensibility without ever having done hands-on physical labor or economically productive work. Agricultural ministers have rarely tilled the fields or planted crops. Ministers of economic development have seldom had to worry about balancing household accounts. Natural Resources ministers do not routinely descend into the mines. Transport ministers almost certainly never drove a truck. Infrastructure bureaucrats never laid tarmac.

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Local churches shun Vatican’s moderate stance on Russi

ROME (AP) — The head of the Polish bishops’ conference has done what Pope Francis has so far avoided doing: He publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to use his influence with Vladimir Putin to demand an end to the war and for Russian soldiers to stand down.

“The time will come to settle these crimes, including before the international courts,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki warned in his March 2 letter to Patriarch Kirill. “However, even if someone manages to avoid this human justice, there is a tribunal that cannot be avoided.”

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