“I pray for Ukraine and I wish them the best,” she explained. “They have a great president right now, who really said clearly, live free or die. He said, ‘I don’t need a ride, give me ammunition. The fight is right here.'”
“But we also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated and we need that right here at home,” she added.
Russian rocket attacks killed dozens of people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as ceasefire talks between Kyiv and Moscow got under way, with the Kremlin facing unprecedented international sanctions that have created “a new economic reality” for Russia.
After four days of fighting and a slower Russian advance than many expected, the Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said Kharkiv had been “massively fired on”, leaving “dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded”.
The news came hours after the Ukrainian presidency said it had begun negotiations with a Russian delegation on the border with Belarus, aimed at achieving “an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian forces”.
Ukraine invasion: Would Putin press the nuclear button?
Let me begin with an admission. So many times, I’ve thought: “Putin would never do this.” Then he goes and does it.
“He’d never annex Crimea, surely?” He did.
“He’d never start a war in the Donbas.” He did.
“He’d never launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” He has.
I’ve concluded that the phrase “would never do” doesn’t apply to Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian sailor sinks Russian boss’s $7.7 million luxury superyacht
A Ukrainian sailor sunk his Russian boss’ $7.7 million luxury superyacht in Spain before accusing him of selling weapons to Vladimir Putin.
The yacht, named the Lady Anastasia, is owned by businessman Alexander Mijeev.
Mijeev took over Rostec, a Russian state-owned weapons supplier, in 2016.
Kharkiv.
Russian BM-21 Grad liberate Ukrainians from their lives and properties#Ukraina #Kharkiv #RussiaGoHome
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Ont. reporting 849 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 3 more virus-related deaths
Ontario is reporting another week-over-week drop in the number of COVID-19 patients receiving care in Ontario hospitals as the province prepares to lift most public health restrictions on Tuesday.
Provincial health officials say they are currently 849 patients with COVID-19 in hospital, up slightly from 842 on Sunday but down from 1,064 one week ago. This number includes 279 patients in intensive care, down from 320 last Monday.
Most of Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions are lifting on March 1. Here’s what you need to know
Nearly all of Ontario’s major COVID-19 restrictions will lift this week, bringing the province the closest it’s been to pre-pandemic life.
Since Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency in March 2020, the province has been in and out of lockdown. The latest round of public health measures went into effect just after the Christmas holidays, shuttering restaurants and gyms yet again while severely restricting social gathering limits.
These things take time, and I am not saying that the culminating moment of de-dollarization happens tomorrow or next week. But make certain it IS happening and there may be no better opportunity than now for Russia to take the sanctions the West has placed upon them and run with it. If they do, the long-term decoupling of the Russian and Asian worlds from the dollar as this plays out over 10-20-50 years reestablishes the global order.
Russia has more than doubled its interest rate to 20% in a bid to halt a slump in the value of its currency.
The Bank of Russia raised the rate from 9.5% after the rouble sank 30% after new Western sanctions. The currency then eased back to stand 20% down.
The collapse in value erodes the currency’s buying power and could wipe out the savings of ordinary Russians.
Amid pictures at the weekend of queues at cash machines, Russia said it had the resources to ride out sanctions.
Shocking new video shared online shows Ukraine’s controversial Azov fighters dipping bullets in pig fat to shoot at Chechen Muslims set to invade their country on behalf of Russia.
The Azov fighters are linked to a neo-Nazi volunteer militia that became part of the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 after Russia seized Crimea and moved into the Donbas region. In the clip, they smear the bullets with pig fat, which would be considered unclean to the Chechen fighters Vladimir Putin’s henchman and Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is sending in to help try to conquer Ukraine.
“Fascism is characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, bigotry against a demonized ‘other,’ and strong regimentation of society.”
— Trudeau government suppress opposition by demonizing Canadians as racists and bigots. Government and media create community of “others” among anti-Vaxxers. Society regimented like never before via Covid pandemic edicts.
“Fascism is hostile to classical liberalism and its individual freedoms of expression, conscience, association and peaceful assembly. Fascism creates a divide between ‘us and them,’ to deny equality to members of the bad minority.”
— Trudeau government utilize Covid to suppress individual freedoms. Government and media establish “us and them” society through Vaxxer versus anti-Vaxxer communities. Denial of equality established through Emergencies Act and its “frozen bank account” measures.
The poll, which was released only days before the president is slated to give the State of Confusion address, showed a majority believe Biden is unfit to serve as president while also revealing the lowest job approval rating (37 percent) from the Washington Post/ABC News poll since becoming president just over a year ago.
Canada’s minister responsible for broadcasting said the government was investigating “all options” for getting a state-owned Russian TV network off the nation’s airwaves amid rising anger over the invasion of Ukraine.
Canadian businesses are at risk of being targeted for online attacks if Russia chooses to retaliate against government sanctions, a cybersecurity expert said Friday.
Waving sanctions in front of Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be enough to stop the invasion of Ukraine, according to former President Donald Trump, who said he fears that war in Ukraine could be a prelude to a wider conflict.
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The Canada Science & Policy Committee to Exit the Pandemic has declared we’re at a point to move on.
Taking its own advice, the committee, assembled by a think tank outside of government, has published a comprehensive strategy for Canada to leave the COVID-19 pandemic behind, including recommendations to immediately repeal many of its most intrusive restrictions.
Articles on globalresearch.ca insisted that it was not an invasion at all but a war Russia didn’t want. It was a “peacekeeping mission” to protect people of Ukraine’s restive Donbas region, even as Moscow’s forces poured into the country from multiple directions.
Trump used Canada as an example of how an “advanced Western democracy” can be corrupted to the point the government “violently put down” peaceful protests, and that Americans need to be wary of the move toward similar government overreach pushed by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Vladimir Putin’s inflammatory speech, in which he set out his aim to reconstitute the Russian empire and blamed Lenin for its demise, and his decision to back this up with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, signals the return of geopolitics. Until now, Western leaders have been saying that the biggest threat to the world is climate change. Now comes Putin armed with nuclear weapons, tanks, and thousands of troops declaring his intent to overthrow Europe’s post-Cold War order. The dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar panels.
As the world looks with increasing suspicion at China and its Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, there doesn’t seem to be much consideration given yet to how the SARS-CoV-2 virus not only could have been developed there so openly and yet at the same time with so little outside attention or concern. The natural accompanying question, likewise absent from public discourse, is how the Chinese people have come to be ruled by such an utterly amoral and tyrannical regime that could unleash this deadly pandemic on the world.
Dr. Fauci and the CDC can say whatever they want about the effectiveness of masks in stopping Covid. This isn’t about them, their claims, or the accuracy of those claims, nor was Dr. Ben Carson’s speech on CPAC.
Rather, his speech hit on a different aspect of the masks, one that the left is loath to bring up: how forcing kids to stay masked at school is affecting their mental and emotional development.
Here’s a brutal irony about regulating hate speech: Such laws often end up hurting the very people they are supposed to protect.
That’s one of the central lessons in Jacob Mchangama’s important new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media. Mchangama heads up the Danish think tank Justitia. He’s worried about a proposal that would make hate speech a crime under European Union (EU) law and give bureaucrats in Brussels sweeping powers to prosecute people spewing venom at religious and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBT+ community, women, and others.
… Putin was reluctant to make his moves while Trump was in office. He respected Trump. He feared Trump.
As he was all-Russian, so Trump was all-American. A terrible clash was inevitable; which Putin preferred to avoid. He considered Trump’s grit. He knew he’d lose.
Then came the election that seated Biden in the White House and for Putin, this was an answer to godless prayer.
That American voters would choose as their leader a man so lacking, was just the stroke of luck he needed.
