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Ukrainians should have been asked whether they wanted to join NATO - Zelensky

Layla Guest
RT
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:06 UTC
Zelensky
© Fenya Savilov/Getty ImagesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainians should have gone to the polls and cast their votes to decide whether Kiev should pursue NATO membership before the previous government wrote the aspiration into the country's constitution, President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.

In comments to reporters published on Thursday, the leader of the Eastern European nation set out his view on Kiev's long-stated goal to join the US-led military bloc. Moscow has repeatedly warned that the former Soviet republic's admission to the bloc would be a "red line."

"I generally believe that such issues [on NATO membership] should be decided by a referendum," Zelensky said. "Such issues should only be decided by the people, and only then written into the constitution."

According to him, "France and Germany need to do more to bring Ukraine closer to joining NATO. They themselves must be interested in this issue and be sure of it."
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Megaphone

'Not based on hard intel': Ex-MI6 chief outlines where Russian invasion reports are coming from


RT
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:02 UTC
Russian Navy Raptor anti-saboteur boats
© Sputnik / Konstantin MihalchevskiyRussian Navy Raptor anti-saboteur boats
An unprecedented number of public statements from Western spies insisting that Russia may be about to launch an invasion of Ukraine are likely to be based more on what analysts thought Moscow was about to do, rather than evidence that it was about to do it, in an information campaign designed to counter the Kremlin's own narratives, Britain's former top spy has suggested.

In an interview with the NATO and weapons industry-funded lobby group The Atlantic Council on Wednesday, former British foreign intelligence service chief Sir John Sawers was asked whether he thought Western governments' publication of declassified material was helpful for countering Russia, or if it might have been planted to diminish the credibility of the officials who ended up releasing it.

"I think, in general, what you point to is the fact that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's Russia has been rather skillful at shaping narratives, at using their arguments and at times their propaganda in order to shape opinion, partly in their own country, but even more so in the West," Sawers replied.
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Attention

Corporate vaccine mandates and vaccine passports — Brought to you by BlackRock and Vanguard?

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
The Defender
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:50 UTC
Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
BlackRock & Vanguard
© The Defender
After the U.S. Supreme Court last month froze the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large private employers, some companies — including Boeing, General Electric and Starbucks — dropped plans to implement the mandate.

Others, based on guidance issued in 2020 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, left the mandates in place.

Most of the large employers that opted to mandate COVID vaccines for their employees, even though the Supreme Court ruled they didn't have to, have something in common: BlackRock and The Vanguard Group have ownership stakes in them.

BlackRock and Vanguard, two of the world's "Big Three" asset managers, also are among the top three shareholders of COVID vaccine makers Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — which means the two investment giants stand to benefit from these companies' soaring profits and the resulting rise in those companies' stock prices.

BlackRock and Vanguard don't just benefit from sales of COVID vaccines. As it turns out, they also have ownership stakes in technology companies developing vaccine passports and digital wallets.
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NPC

Justin Trudeau sparks outrage after accusing Jewish conservatives of supporting swastikas

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:27 UTC
Trudeau
© Blair Gable/REUTERSCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the questioning period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked outrage Wednesday in the Canadian House of Commons when he accused a Jewish Conservative Party member of supporting "people who wave swastikas."

Trudeau made the comments during the daily questioning period in the lower chamber of the Canadian Parliament after facing criticism from Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, who became the first Jewish woman elected to her party last October, Fox News reported.

Lantsman recited two quotes from Trudeau — in one of which he blasted the so-called "Freedom Convoy" protesters who have staged anti-COVID mandate demonstrations in Ottawa and at various border crossings.

"If Canadians are going to trust their government, their government needs to trust Canadians," Lantsman said, repeating Trudeau's words from 2015.

Lantsman then brought up how Trudeau recently labeled the protesters "very often misogynistic, racist, women-haters, science-deniers, the fringe."
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Heart - Black

Fauci says time to start 'inching' back toward normality

Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:49 UTC
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Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that it is time for the United States to start inching back towards normality, despite remaining risks from COVID-19.

In an interview with Reuters, Fauci said U.S. states are facing tough choices in their efforts to balance the need to protect their citizens from infections and the growing fatigue with a pandemic that has dragged into its third year.

"There is no perfect solution to this," said Fauci, President Joe Biden's top medical adviser and a member of the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

Comment: It's more than obvious Fauchi doesn't care about mental health, children's development, or any of the matters he cited. He knows people have had it with the contradictory and ineffective restrictions, and he is just trying to save his own skin. We'll see what the future holds.

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Bad Guys

CNN's Jake Tapper calls Biden's rejection of Army's after-action report on Afghanistan 'insulting'

Lindsay Kornick
Fox News
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:14 UTC
Biden
© AP Photo/Carolyn KasterPresident Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken look on as as a carry team moves a transfer case with the remain of Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Ind., during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26.
Sunday's "State of the Union" featured a critique of President Biden's withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by CNN host Jake Tapper.

A preview of Biden's pre-Super Bowl interview aired on "NBC Nightly News" with Lester Holt on Thursday. In the segment, Biden admitted that he rejected the U.S. Army investigative report that argued the administration was not prepared to pull out troops from Afghanistan in August.

"Yes, I am." Biden said. "I'm rejecting them."

Despite the report, he also insisted that he was not told about the degree to which the White House was prepared to remove troops in Afghanistan and instead argued "there was no good time to get out."

This answer did not appear to satisfy Tapper.
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Stock Up

China 3 USA 0 - Beijing inflicts a severe economic defeat on America

John Ross
RT
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:24 UTC
China US trade surplus 2018
The news that US inflation has reached its highest level for 40 years, at 7.5% in January, is the most explicit indicator of serious problems in its economy. The monetary tightening that will be used to attempt to bring this under control will both slow the US economy and inevitably spill over into major effects on the world economy.

This very high inflation is particularly significant when compared to 1.5% inflation in China, its main economic competitor, in the same month. US inflation is five times higher than China's. These relative inflation levels have extremely restrictive effects on American economic policy - it will be forced to implement measures to slow its economy. In contrast, China, whose economy is already growing faster than the US, has room for a further economic stimulus without damaging inflationary pressures.

But this is only one of the symptoms that the US has suffered in a severe economic defeat in its competition with China. This, in turn, has major political consequences both in the US and internationally.
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Evil Rays

Biden's energy department: People who do not embrace climate change are spreading 'misinformation'

Penny Starr
Breitbart
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
wind turbines and cows
© AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
The latest narrative in the ongoing claims that policy disagreement amounts of misinformation now includes climate change. Those who do not see weather as an existential threat are spreading misinformation — this time about solar and wind energy.

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) is jumping on the misinformation bandwagon with a story on Tuesday about Biden's Energy Department and other climate-change promoters warning that opposition to alternative energy is making headway because of people allegedly not telling the truth.

"The spread of misinformation about solar and wind energy is leading some states and counties to restrict or even reject projects," NPR said in introducing the piece that rejects any criticism of climate change or the radical policies to fight it like the Green New Deal. "The Energy Department calls it a key threat to decarbonizing the grid."

The NPR piece aired on Morning Edition and targeted a science teacher in Ohio who isn't sold on wind power as one of the spreaders of misinformation.

"Jeremy Kitson's a high school science teacher in Van Wert County, Ohio - lots of farmland, soy, corn, some wheat and, about 10 miles away, wind turbines. Kitson knows folks on farms near those turbines who told him," the NPR reporter said.

Comment: The word has already gotten out; renewable energy technology such as wind and solar are not only not reliable - but are the cause of massive shortfalls in energy supply when people need it the most. The misinformation is all on the side of the Biden Administration and the "Great Resettters" who seek to profit from this con-job.

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Megaphone

Two Canadian premiers urge Trudeau and Biden to end vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers

Tyler Dawson
National Post
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:16 UTC
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney
© Greg Southam/Postmedia"It's bad public health theatre and it needs to go," said Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a tweet on Wednesday.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, joined by 16 American governors, have written to President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanding the end of vaccination mandates for cross-border truckers.

The letter, released on social media Wednesday morning, comes after weeks of protest in Canada over COVID-19 measures, most prominently in Ottawa, at the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario and in Coutts, Alta.

"We are deeply concerned that terminating these exemptions has had demonstrably negative impacts on the north American supply chain, the cost of living and access to essential products for the people of both our countries," the letter says.
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Popcorn

Now he's done it: Trudeau accusing Jewish MP of 'standing with swastika' a new low

Joe Warmington
Toronto Sun
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:59 UTC
justin trudeau house of commons
© Blair Gable /REUTERSPrime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Feb. 16, 2022.
A Jewish Conservative MP is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, insisting he falsely accused her and her colleagues of "standing with a swastika."

And disgusted Jewish groups, fellow MPs, and even Trudeau's own half-brother agree.

"The only time I've ever been made to feel singled out and less in our Parliament was by the prime minister of Canada," said Thornhill MP Melissa Lantsman. "His words are dangerous and disgraceful."

Comment: Watching Trudeau's slow-motion crash-and-burn is, so far, the most entertaining aspect of 2022. It seems like every time he opens his mouth he makes a new enemy. He's like the proverbial madman on a soapbox in the town square, spewing his spittle-flecked tirades against Nazis, misogynists and racists while the rest of the public does their best to ignore him.

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