Hundreds of Canadians have already offered to fight for Ukraine against Russian invasion forces, just two days after the country formally put out the call for volunteers, a top Ukrainian diplomat said Tuesday.
Author: Blazingcatfur
UN votes to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and calls for withdrawal
The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly for a resolution deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for the immediate withdrawal of its forces, in a global expression of outrage that highlighted Russia’s increasing isolation.
In an emergency session of the UN’s general assembly, 141 of the 193 member states voted for the resolution, 35 abstained and five voted against.
The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 94 countries, said the UN “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine”. It demanded that “the Russian Federation immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine” and “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces”.
Seattle Antifa Leftists Target TV Reporter for Telling the Truth About Drugged Out ‘Homeless’
The homeless industrial complex apparently has an army.
Antifa activists want a piece of a Seattle TV reporter who has held up a camera to show how drugged out and destructive homeless people in the downtown area have gotten. Seattle basically has a hands-off policy on drug possession and the homeless, who simply want to smoke their rent and live in a tent while everyone else cleans up after them.
Bail denied to protester charged with conspiring to murder RCMP at Coutts blockade
One of four men charged with conspiring to murder Mounties at the Coutts border blockade will remain behind bars pending trial, a Lethbridge judge ruled Wednesday.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Vaughan Hartigan determined defence lawyer Jim Lutz had not met his client’s onus to establish there were grounds to release Christopher Lysak on bail.
Ship carrying luxury cars sinks near Azores Islands after burning for weeks … Suspicion has fallen on lithium batteries used in electric vehicles
An abandoned ship carrying an estimated $401m (£295m) worth of cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, has sunk nearly two weeks after a fire broke out onboard.
The Felicity Ace sank on Tuesday about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s Azores Islands as it was being towed, MOL Ship Management in Singapore said in a statement. A salvage team had put out the fire which had burned for days, fueled by lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles onboard.
Putinesque! Police grappling with members who allegedly donated to ‘Freedom Convoy’
CBC News has matched at least two dozen current and former members of the Ottawa Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police with a publicly leaked list of names identified as apparent donors to GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding site used to support the weeks-long occupation in Ottawa.
The OPP said it has launched an investigation into alleged officer donations to the convoy, but won’t divulge how many members are involved. Ottawa police (OPS) wouldn’t confirm whether they are investigating the matter.
It’s unclear what legal or disciplinary consequences — if any — police officers could face for donating money to the so-called Freedom Convoy that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for much of February.
A miracle on the Dnieper?
Roughly a hundred years ago, another Russian tyrant — Vladimir Lenin — sent overwhelming forces streaming across the border of Poland.
The formerly subjugated Polish nation was attempting to resurrect itself as a sovereign state following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian empires as a result of the First World War. Lenin anticipated the collapse of the fledgling republic and expected his troops to drive straight through Warsaw and export the Russian Revolution to Berlin and points west. Observers didn’t give the Polish David a chance against the Russian Goliath.
‘Piece of S***’: Sam Elliott Rips Oscar-Bound Western ‘The Power Of The Dog’ For Homosexual Themes
Sam Elliott, famed for his portrayals in Westerns of men with grit and toughness, aimed his verbal shotgun at the most Oscar-nominated film this year, Jane Campion’s 12-time Oscar-nominated drama “The Power of the Dog” for its emphasis on homosexual themes on a ranch in 1925 Montana, calling the film a “piece of s***.”
Weeping Russian POWs say ‘We were sent as cannon fodder. We’re killing peaceful people’
Weeping Russian prisoners of war have said they had no idea they were being sent to invade Ukraine and were used like ‘cannon fodder’ by commanders who threw them into battle against ‘peaceful people defending their territory’ after Vladimir Putin’s forces took heavy losses in the opening days of the conflict.
‘This is not our war. Mothers and wives, collect your husbands. There is no need to be here,’ an injured soldier sat in front of a Ukrainian flag was filmed saying. Other footage showed handcuffed Russian prisoner crying, while saying: ‘They don’t even pick up the corpses, there are no funerals’.
Ukraine says Russia has lost 5,840 soldiers in the opening days of the conflict – some of its fastest losses since the Second World War, if the figure proves accurate – with Putin’s men suffering a series of embarrassing defeats as they tried to pull off a quick victory but instead met with stiff resistance from Ukrainian forces.
What happened to Russia’s Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence had predicted a blistering assault by Moscow that would quickly mobilize the vast Russian air power that its military assembled in order to dominate Ukraine’s skies.
But the first six days have confounded those expectations and instead seen Moscow act far more delicately with its air power, so much so that U.S. officials can’t exactly explain what’s driving Russia’s apparent risk-averse behavior.
Freeland says Canada’s new sanctions targeting Russia could hurt Canada’s economy as well
Canada will hit Russia with more sanctions and economic policies designed to undermine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to wage war — and some of those moves might end up hurting Canada’s economy, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday.
Freeland made those remarks Tuesday afternoon after meeting with the finance ministers of the other G7 nations and the Ukrainian finance minister to discuss measures to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Freeland’s remarks suggest the Trudeauscu regime will use the Ukraine invasion to advance his economy killing green-agenda. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Gas prices in Ontario set to soar this week to ‘a price we have never seen’
Gas prices in Ontario are set to hit another record this week, one expert says.
Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, told CTV News Toronto on Tuesday that prices will jump two cents per litre on Wednesday to an average of $1.60 per liter.
The bigger increase will come on Thursday, when gas prices are expected to jump six cents to and average of $1.66 per litre.
Bank of Canada raises key interest rate to 0.5%
The Bank of Canada has hiked its key interest rate to 0.5 per cent, the first step of a series of signalled increases amid economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The overnight rate target will rise 25 basis points, the central bank announced Wednesday, up from the floor of 0.25 per cent it held for much of the pandemic.
Ontario reports 1,959 new Covid cases … and Heresy! Ontario judge declines to impose COVID vaccine on kids
Province says 847 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Ont., including 273 in ICU
Provincial health officials confirmed another 27 virus-related deaths today as the number of patients with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals dropped below 900.
Provincial health officials said there are currently 847 patients with COVID-19 receiving treatment in hospital, down from 1,106 last week. The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care also dipped from 319 last Wednesday to 273 today.
273 people are in ICU with #COVID19. 82% of patients admitted to the ICU were admitted for COVID-19 and 18% were admitted for other reasons but have tested positive for COVID-19.
There are 1,959 new cases of COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) March 2, 2022
Ontario judge declines to impose COVID vaccine on kids
An Ontario judge says he is not prepared to accept as fact that vaccinating children against COVID-19 is what’s best for them simply because it’s encouraged by the government, noting a number of factors – including the children’s own preferences – must be taken into account.
Russia aims to erase Ukraine, says Zelenskiy, as bombardment intensifies
Russia aims to erase Ukraine, its history and its people, the besieged country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said, as Moscow, in the face of international isolation, claimed to have seized its first large city amid continued heavy fighting.
A Russian defence ministry spokesperson said its forces had taken control of the strategically important city of Kherson on the Black Sea, with nearly 250,000 inhabitants. Local authorities said the port and train station had been captured overnight but denied the city had been occupied.
Ukraine: Putin’s miscalculations could see him strike harder
Ukraine has fought back much harder during the first week than Vladimir Putin expected, or very probably than his generals promised him, it would. But these are still the early stages of what could be a very nasty war.
Putin must have hoped that a few days after Russian forces invaded, Kyiv would have fallen. And he surely expected that Western countries, cowed and divided, would have accepted that he had reclaimed a territory that he says is historically part of Russia.
None of this has happened.
Ukrainians say they are fighting on in southern city of Kherson
Ukrainians said they were fighting on in the first sizeable city Russia claimed to have seized, while Moscow stepped up its lethal bombardment of major population centres that its invasion force has so far failed to tame.
With Moscow having failed in its aim of swiftly overthrowing Ukraine’s government after nearly a week, Western countries are worried that it is switching to new, far more violent tactics to blast its way into cities it had expected to easily take.
#Ukraine: In the vicinity of #Nikolaev, a MT-LBV (Or vehicle based on it) was abandoned by Russian troops, also leaving behind an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher, 6x RPG-26, PG-7L, 2x RPG-7, and other ammo. pic.twitter.com/Bf8bvrKTuJ
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 2, 2022
Will China fund Moscow’s war chest as Western sanctions bite?
China is the only major economy that still has a direct line to a fast-isolated Russia — but the pressure is increasing on Beijing to change that.
Just weeks after the two countries signed a “no limits” partnership agreement, China now has no choice but to recalibrate its position on bilateral trade and macroeconomics with Moscow, after President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked war on Ukraine.
While Beijing still wants to count on Moscow as a long-term strategic partner to fend off America’s global influence, it will no doubt be wary of the international reaction if it opts for measures that could be interpreted as an endorsement of Putin’s aggression, according to experts.
The West’s Current Worldview Is An Illusion, And Russia Just Smashed It
… Putin’s attack on Ukraine will have more serious repercussions than rising gas prices, wavering confidence that the United States can act as the world’s policeman or even the dismantling of a sovereign nation. It represents a shock to the system for the cozy “rules-based international order” that has for decades reassured the West that things like naked aggression are relics of the past.