Russia attacked a key bridge in southern Ukraine, deploying a drone boat for the first time since the war began.

Western analysts warned that Russian drone boats now posed a "major new threat" to Ukrainian supply lines and the control of the Black Sea.

Is there a single Canadian anywhere in our tranquil Dominion who truly believes he or she knows or understands what the NDP's leader Jagmeet Singh is doing — and has done?

Does Singh himself? Is there even anyone in the whole NDP caucus who can explain, let alone justify, their leader's unprecedented actions?

Mr. Singh has struck a bargain with PM Justin Trudeau and its point, and its logic — not least from the point of view of the NDP itself — is inexplicable.

This state of affairs is certainly not what Canadians contemplated, expected or wanted when last they voted. What are we to make of this strange binding, effectively the dissolution of the historic NDP into a mere segment of parliamentary scaffolding propping up the Liberals and Mr. Trudeau?

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe described in his memoirs how Obama called on the G7 to impose sanctions against Russia.
Abe and European leaders were against Obama's project on anti-Russian sanctions in 2014.

The leaders of Japan, France, Germany and Italy were against the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions at the G7 meeting in 2014, according to the book of memoirs of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The book was published this week, the memoirs were recorded by a group of journalists in the form of interviews from October 2020 to October 2021. The summit they are talking about was held in Brussels, and not in Sochi, as planned. The reason was the situation around the Crimea, which became part of the Russian Federation following the results of the referendum, and the exclusion of Russia from the G8.

"The G7 positions itself as a platform uniting (countries) with common values, Russia was introduced into the membership and for many years met with the leaders of the leading countries (G8). But if due to the fact that an unacceptable situation has occurred, it will be impossible to expel the one (who did it), it will be impossible to solve the problem," Abe writes.

He recalls that at a meeting in Brussels, US President Barack Obama took a tough stance against Russia and personally handed out to the participants a document containing several points of sanctions against Russia. Usually Sherpas do this in advance, so "when suddenly the US president personally took out the papers, everyone was surprised." "Each of the European countries is connected with Russia economically, so the sanctions were treated cautiously," Abe said, recalling that France was supposed to supply Russia with Mistrals, and Germany was buying oil. "Chancellor Merkel asked me: "What will Japan do with sanctions?", I replied: "We have negotiations with Russia on the territorial issue, so sanctions are impossible. Why not criticize the change of the status quo with the help of force, giving it the form of a document?". And we decided to go in this direction," Abe recalls.

After French President Francois Hollande expressed a very cautious attitude towards Obama's document, Merkel asked Abe to speak. Then he suggested to all those gathered to avoid a split in the "seven", which "will mean its end", to issue a joint statement criticizing Russia, and to work out the issue of sanctions for each country separately in a working order. "Everyone exhaled. Matteo Renzi, the Prime Minister of Italy, was sitting next to me, he held out his palm to me (with a gesture) "high five". I doubted whether it would be offensive to Obama, but I still held out my hand to him... Merkel told Obama: "Wouldn't it be better to collect these papers with sanctions?", and I remember how Obama hurriedly bypassed the leaders and collected the papers," Abe writes.

Tino Chrupalla, nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party spokesman and member of the Bundestag, called for a parliamentary investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines after the publication of Seymour Hersh's article [1].

The Biden Administration and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry promptly dismissed the account of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist as "an absolute lie and a complete fabrication". For its part, the mainstream media points out that, although a journalistic legend, Seymour Hersh, now 85, relied on only one source and did not publish his article in a major newspaper, but on his blog.

While the manner in which the United States proceeded is open to question, its culpability is not, with President Joe Biden having publicly claimed responsibility for this sabotage in advance.

Seymour Hersh was invited to speak before the Russian State Duma, but declined the invitation.

Reference:
[1] "Seymour Hersh: Nord Stream was destroyed by U.S. and Norway", Voltaire Network, 8 February 2023.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing a resolution in the House on Thursday that calls on the Biden administration to end U.S. military and financial aid to Ukraine -- while also urging all involved to secure a peace agreement after nearly a year of war in the region.

The "Ukraine Fatigue Resolution" is being introduced by Gaetz and 10 co-sponsors and calls for the U.S. to "end its military and financial aid to Ukraine and urges all combatants to reach a peace agreement."

The resolution notes that since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. has been the top contributor to the Ukrainian war effort, with more than $110 billion in financial, military, and humanitarian aid to the U.S. ally. It includes more than $27.4 billion in security assistance.

Judicial Watch announced today it received 57 pages of heavily redacted records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that show, just two days prior to FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a discussion between U.S. and UK health regulators regarding the COVID shot and "anaphylaxis," with the regulators emphasizing their "mutual confidentiality agreement."

Judicial Watch obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against HHS (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:22-cv-00660)) after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is an agency of HHS, failed to respond to an August 30, 2021, FOIA request for:

All emails sent to and from members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding adverse events, deaths and/or injuries caused by investigatory vaccines for the prevention or treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 currently produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and/or Johnson & Johnson.

The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is the U.S. Government's central advisory body, along with Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), advising whether to approve COVID vaccines.

A lengthy, heavily redacted December 2020 email exchange shows U.S. and UK health officials placing a heavy emphasis on their "mutual confidentiality agreement" in a discussion regarding "anaphylactoid reactions" to the COVID vaccine.

In The Hill video above, Bill Gates trashes mRNA COVID-19 shots, naming three problems with them that need to be fixed. "The current vaccines are not infection-blocking," Gates says, "They're not broad — so when new variants come up you lose protection — and they have very short duration, particularly in the people who matter, which are old people."¹

COVID-19 shots' lack of efficacy and safety is not news, so why is this a remarkable statement coming from Gates? He's been a major proponent of mRNA technology and invested heavily in BioNTech, which developed the COVID-19 shot for Pfizer. He's since sold a lot of those shares, earning a 10x profit.

Gates Reaps Windfall Profits From mRNA Shot Investment

As reported by The Hill co-host Briahna Joy Gray, Gates invested $55 million in BioNtech in 2019, and it's now worth $550 million. He sold some of the stock at the end of 2022, when the share price was over $300 — representing a massive gain. Co-host Robby Soave then states:²

"Let's follow that trajectory: [Gates] invests heavily in BioNTech, 'mRNA vaccines are great, this is the future,' he talks about the vaccine timeline and how we can develop it faster, 'we might have to cut some corners on safety' ... All in ... sells it ... makes a huge amount of money ... but now it's 'yeah, it's okay, it could be better, but what we really need is this breath spray.'"

US politics is something I have tried to keep a safe distance from, with all its "ins and outs" - considering how deep the political swamp is in the US, and its undulating waves. I consider the political elite as being cut from the same material, whether Democrats or Republicans or most of those on the fringes, and it is a shitty design at that. However, there are a few rare exceptions.

As Geoff Young, a candidate for Kentucky Governor writes:

"President Joe Biden should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and other countries, also for continuing the illegal proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. All US presidents since 1945 have been imperialists, aggressors, mass murderers, and war criminals, including Donald Trump."

Young is an antiwar candidate who goes deeply into the politics of the US, and is concerned with what a peace in the future might look like. He opposes both political parties in the belief that they are much the same, both being totally pro-war, destructive and evil.

Young's perspective is refreshing, considering that most "purported representatives" of the two parties have been bought and sold so many times, much like a cheap street sex worker who is more worried about getting beaten up by her pimp than anything else, so ensures a big turnover of clients. This is well-demonstrated in the lobbyist-driven spending and sky-high Federal deficit. Buttressed with the war in Ukraine, tax money has been disappearing into some dark hole so it can keep circulating without actually leaving anyone's hands.

A hearing of the new House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government today saw the House Republican Conference Chair blast Democrats for colluding with the FBI to meddle in the 2020 election.

Representative Elise Stefanik noted that the Subcommittee was formed to 'root out' a "systemic rot in the culture and the politicization of the leadership of the FBI."

Stefanik pointed to a survey noting that had the FBI not worked to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, it would have massively affected the way Americans voted.

The Congresswoman called it "the definition of election meddling."

The Ukrainian president admitted he keeps needing to "force" the German chancellor to send military aid.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has revealed he keeps needing to "force" German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to send arms to Kiev, constantly reminding him the deliveries are purportedly beneficial for the whole of Europe. The president made the revelation in a lengthy interview with Der Spiegel published on Thursday.

Germany did a "good job" of delivering Iris-T anti-aircraft systems and ammunition for them last year, Zelensky said, while appearing to admit that Kiev has been actively spying on Berlin.