As Joe Biden visits Poland, Michal Krupa reports on the firing of a Polish academic for questioning the Polish government's position on the war in Ukraine.

In Poland these days it is becoming dangerous to one's career to publicly voice opposition to the government's policy vis-à-vis the war in Ukraine.

Leszek Sykulski, a well-known and popular expert in geopolitics, is a case in point. A few days ago, Sykulski spearheaded the launch of the Polish Anti-War Movement, which aims to become a grassroots platform uniting Poles opposed to the overtly anti-Russian, pro-war and pro-interventionist agenda of the political elites and mainstream media.

A few days later it was revealed that Sykulski was fired from his teaching position at the Józef Goluchowski Academy of Applied Sciences in Ostrowiec Switokrzyski. The rector of the academy, Pawel Gotowiecki, was not shy in justifying his decision on purely political grounds. Here's what Gotowiecki said in an interview with Radio Ostrowiec on Feb. 16:

Russia's special military operation to denazify the criminal Kiev regime allowed it to collect and receive more than 20 thousand documents on the US bioweapon program at the captured Ukrainian military facilities. This program, as it turns out, does not only include Ukraine. Relevant reference and analytical materials on this aspect of US criminal activity on foreign soil were obtained, eyewitnesses and participants in American bioweapon research were interviewed. This was stated by the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection (RCBP) troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Igor Kirillov, who pointed out, in particular, that these materials document the Pentagon's focus on creating bioweapons components and testing them on the population of Ukraine and other states along the borders of the Russian Federation.

Since the spring of 2022, Russia has been speaking about the existence of US bioweapon programs on various international platforms. Although Washington is trying to reject this, nevertheless, it has not provided any documentary evidence in its defense, further closing from international control its bioweapon programs and the activities of more than 400 secret US biolabs located in various countries. The Russian Ministry of Defense has also published documents confirming the US's attempts to establish control over pathogens through the activities of its secret biolabs in Ukraine.

As the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears, the US and its allies are confronted with the harsh reality that stringent sanctions have failed to either deter Russian behavior or punish those responsible. One of the main reasons for this failure is the inability by the West to mobilize support for their sanctions policies in the rest of the world.

On Jan. 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid a state visit to South Africa, where he was warmly welcomed by his counterpart Naledi Pandor. Following their meeting, Pandor effusively thanked Lavrov for a "most wonderful meeting" that she said would help "strengthen the already good relations" between her country and Russia, as a "valued partner."

Lavrov's reception was remarkable, especially in light of concerted US efforts to contain Russian influence on the African continent by seeking to realign the policy positions of major African countries, such as South Africa, with that of the US on the Ukraine conflict. South Africa, considered the continent's most influential nation, took umbrage at US efforts to exert pressure on it, with Pandor criticizing what she called "bullying tactics."

One example she cited was the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act, which was considered by the US Congress last year. While the bill ended up dying on the floor of the House of Representatives, partly due to the objections of the 16-member Southern African Development Community, a regional bloc led by South Africa, the mere fact that the US Congress considered such legislation was viewed with concern by many African countries.

South Africa heads a list of African nations whose governments have shown a reluctance to join the US in criticizing and punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. In March last year, when the US helped push through a UN resolution condemning Russia and calling for its withdrawal from Ukraine, South Africa, and 33 other African nations abstained from the vote.

Russia has repeated a call on Sweden to share its findings from an investigation into the blasts that put the Nord Stream 1 pipeline out of commission and damaged the brand-new Nord Stream 2.

The UN Security Council is set to meet on Tuesday and could potentially vote on a Russian draft resolution to investigate the explosions.

Sweden and Denmark conducted a joint investigation of the blasts and concluded they were intentional but stopped short of naming the perpetrator. Then, earlier this month, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hirsh published a report that said the United States had carried out the attacks.

Falling into the us/them dynamic is willfully forgetting the lessons Covid taught us.
Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, I predicted the following:

The "official story" will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired. Instead, Team A will encourage us to blame Team B, and vice versa. The MSM will report evidence implicating Russia, while other evidence suggesting NATO were responsible will be "leaked". Both narratives will be fed just enough to keep the argument going for as long as required and in any direction chosen."

Fast forward to now, and the big story over the last couple of days - at least in alternate media circles - has been Seymour Hersh's publication of a new article for the first time in quite a while.

The article, based entirely on "leaked" information from one anonymous "insider" source, claims that the United States military sabotaged the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and had been planning to do it since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Forgive me but, how is this news?

After all, Joe Biden said "if Russia invades, there will be no Nordstream 2". Victoria Nuland, speaking more plainly, stated on January 27th:

If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward."

The phrase "one way or another" is barely ambiguous there. Obviously, if the pipe was sabotaged, the Americans did it. That was never in question, really.

But that's the real question isn't? Was the pipe sabotaged?

The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a legally binding accord with the World Health Organisation (WHO) that would give the WHO the lawful authority to dictate America's policies during a pandemic.

The Epoch Times has more:

Despite widespread criticism of the WHO's response to the Covid pandemic, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra joined with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in September 2022 to announce "the U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue". Together, they developed a "platform to maximise the longstanding U.S. Government-WHO partnership, and to protect and promote the health of all people around the globe, including the American people."

These discussions and others spawned the 'zero draft' of a pandemic treaty, published on February 1st, which now seeks ratification by all 194 WHO member states. A meeting of the WHO's Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) is scheduled for February 27th to work out the final terms, which all members will then sign.

Written under the banner of "the world together equitably," the zero draft grants the WHO the power to declare and manage a global pandemic emergency. Once a health emergency is declared, all signatories, including the United States, would submit to the authority of the WHO regarding treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations.

...the president has made American support for Ukraine the centerpiece of his argument for a revitalized alliance in Europe, and he had told advisers that he wanted to mark the first anniversary of the invasion as a way of reassuring allies that his administration remains committed...."
— The New York Times, Feb 20, 2023

Secret Agent Man "Joe Biden" turned up in Kiev Monday morning after landing in Poland and riding an overnight choo-choo train across the Ukraine frontier to avoid the hazardous pomp of landing Air Force One in a war zone. One might try to guess the message Victoria Nuland sent her errand boy to deliver. My guess is that "JB" was there to tell Wolodymyr Zelensky the USA stands behind him one hundred percent — an obvious whopper — being exactly the opposite of the developing reality that, short of setting off nuclear Armageddon, there is really nothing the USA can do to prevent Russia from concluding our ill-conceived project on its own terms. Who better to deliver an arrant falsehood than the master, "Scranton Joe," he who once battled and vanquished the tyrant Corn-Pop!

Remember, last week Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, speaking out of the aperture between his butt cheeks, announced that Russia had lost "strategically, operationally and tactically" in Ukraine. This was after NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg announced rather clumsily that Ukraine's army was out of ammo, especially artillery shells, and the only remedy for that was for Europe to rebuild an armaments industry — which was a sideways-and-backwards way of saying... fuggeddabowdit.

The only way to balance out this supposed injustice is for IRS agents to consciously target more non-blacks for audits.

Good news, everyone: Joe Biden's nominee to head the IRS has promised to make tax audits more racially "equitable"! In other words, get ready for more shakedowns from the government, white people.

Hooray!

It was bad enough that Biden just infused nearly $100 billion into an agency despised by anyone trying to make an honest living — we're the ones most likely to be harassed by it — but now it comes with the added insult of "equity," a term that should be greeted like a real pandemic. Draw the blinds, close the shutters, and lock the doors.

Daniel Werfel, who is likely to be the next IRS commissioner, made the commitment during his congressional testimony on Wednesday after Stanford University published a study claiming that black taxpayers are disproportionately hit with audits. As with every other law or policy that supposedly "disproportionately impacts communities of color" (ie. rules meant to keep everyone safe and everything fair from ne'er-do-wells), this is B.S.

Joe Biden is pursuing a 'blank check' policy towards Ukraine, while turning a blind eye to the most pressing issues in America, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said, commenting on the US president's surprise visit to Kiev on Monday.

DeSantis told Fox News' Fox & Friends several hours after the US leader arrived in the Ukrainian capital:

"We have a lot of problems accumulating here in our own country that he [Biden] is neglecting. He's very concerned about those borders halfway around the world [in Ukraine]. He's not done anything to secure our own border [with Mexico] here at home."

DeSantis, who some believe is preparing to run for president in 2024, also called out Biden for the "national humiliation" of "having China fly a spy balloon clear across the continental US."

On the topic of America's military support for Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, the governor insisted:

"The Biden administration has effectively [given Kiev] a blank check with no clear strategic objective identified. I don't think that it's in our interest to be getting into a proxy war... over things like the [Ukrainian] borderlands or over Crimea.

"The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that, and steamrolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening."

A passenger deplaning Air Force One in Poland took a dramatic tumble down the steep steps of the president's plane.

The moment, which was filmed by a Polish TV station, shows a person to stumble from about three-quarters of the way up the steps of the plane. At one point, they slide the rest of the way down to the bottom.

Their landing appeared to be softened slightly with the help of other passengers, and once they reached the bottom, people on the ground quickly sprung into action to help assist.

The presidential plane landed in Warsaw on Monday night after a surprise hours-long trip to Kyiv, where President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky.