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Freeland compulsively drawing attention to herself during a Trudeau press conference
In two public performances of less than two minutes apiece, Chrystia Freeland , Canada's Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and leader of Canada's war against Russia, has demonstrated bizarre facial and upper torso symptoms.
Political analysts and psychiatrists have been asked if they believe Freeland is suffering from a clinical pathology or drug abuse. Cocaine use has been ruled out. According to a medical psychiatrist, "the display [of symptoms] is remarkable. And just as remarkable, they disappear when [Freeland] takes the tribune from the prime minister and starts to make a speech herself. The control of torso, eyes, and speech she shows then is not consistent with chronic cocaine use." The source, who specializes in treating drug addiction, says that Freeland's display of symptoms does not reveal the twitches, tics, or other involuntary muscular movements usually seen with cocaine users.
© Alex Wong / Gettyimages.ruU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
"Ukraine will become a member of NATO. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership," Blinken told reporters in Brussels.
Comment: For now, this appears to primarily be belligerent rhetoric, because at least some analysts say that Ukraine can't join whilst involved in a conflict and with ongoing border disputes.
However, Russia has discussed creating a demilitarised zone, and so it is possible that this will compel it to neutralise Ukrainian regions even further West than they would have otherwise. Furthermore, this speaks more to the desperation of the West, and to Russia's upper hand, which it could maintain so long as it doesn't, precipitously, escalate the situation. And, amidst all this, the West ruins itself, its position on the global stage, and its ability to provoke the rising multipolar world.
Footage, and relevant snippet from the X post, below:
1) Ukraine, if/when it enters NATO, will have "unresolved" territorial issues. Crime and the Donbass are in Russian hands and will remain in Russian hands. If Ukraine enters NATO with that being the case, border conflicts over that territory could spark war, which would then drag in NATO through Article V. Such a war would be extremely bloody and potentially escalate to nuclear armageddon
2) This is Putin's red line. In the 90s, when the USSR fell, America promised the Russians that NATO wouldn't expand to the East. Then, in Russia's weakness (created in large part by Goldman Sachs helping the oligarchs loot the country through privatization), it expanded to the East, doing just what it promised it wouldn't, much to Russia's chagrin. But Putin, while upset, has made it clear that Ukrainian membership in NATO is his red line that would mean war, potentially nuclear. It is utterly unacceptable and would have been like Ireland or Canada joining the Warsaw Pact. That's why he launched the war; by "demilitarizing" Ukraine by shelling its army into oblivion and by creating a constant conflict, he wants to keep Ukraine out of NATO without going to war with NATO. He thought we wouldn't be so dumb as to bring it into the alliance if it is fighting a war with Russia
More NATO involvement in Ukraine doesn't bode well, as the following highlights:
See also: Medvedev: 'Ukraine is definitely Russia', rules out peace talks with Zelensky, presents controversial map of Kiev
Aftermath of the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall theater, March 22, 2024
According to the report, which was later confirmed by The New York Times, U.S. officials told Moscow that the Islamic State extremist group was plotting an attack and that Crocus City Hall was a potential target.
The warning did not include specifics about the timing of the attack but said it could come within days, intelligence sources told the two newspapers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on April 3 that the presidential administration was unaware of the U.S. warning.
"This is not our area of expertise," Peskov said, "as such information exchange usually takes place through the channels of the special services."
However, three days before the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to acknowledge receiving the warnings, though he dismissed them as "provocative statements" by the West that were meant to "resemble outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society."
Comment: Larry Johnson comments:
The 7 March warning from US Embassy Moscow was initiated in Washington, DC from State Department. Secretary of State Blinken signed off on it. And the nature of the warning shows that it was based on intelligence — i.e., from a human source and/or electronic intercept — that was considered "credible." It also had a high degree of specificity not normally seen in these types of warnings (at least what I have seen starting in October 1985 thru October 2016).If a foreign nation warns you of a potential attack on a specific location and gives you a specific time period, how long should you be on the lookout? Another couple days, a week, a month, a year?The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.During the last 35 years I do not recall a single instance in which the State Department issued a warning like this specifying a specific time period for vigilance. The warning itself implies intelligence that provided a specific timeframe for the attack. So, when the attack does not happen, you need to go back to the analysts and ask, WTF!!! If the analysts had said, "Oh, wait, the Russians boosted security at the Crocus City Hall on 8 March and scared off the attack," then the next question should have been, "Do you still believe there will be another attempt?" The analysts could have said yes, no or maybe.
So, if you believe the intelligence is credible then it was incumbent on the USG to issue another warning to continue to avoid large gatherings, such as concert halls. The USG did not do that.
Nope. The USG is pushing the line that "We warned the Russians and they did not act." Sure looks like a psy-op to me designed to paint Putin as a heartless goon who ignored our intelligence. [...]
The "American intelligence experts" are misrepresenting what was publicly released. It did not say, "Starting from today, 7 March, extremists intend to attack large gatherings, including concerts; therefore American citizens should avoid these places until further notice." NOPE! Just for 48 hours. It is a very dangerous game that is being played here.
Moon of Alabama writes: "Putin dismissed the warning on March 19, nine days after it had exceeded its time horizon. The attack on the Crocus hall happened on March 22. There had been no new warning issued for that or any other day."
On the other hand, Washington DC insists that it has "undeniable evidence" that ISIS is behind it. Rather interesting how the US could claim this mere hours after the terrorist attack, when not even Russian services who were on the ground had all the details, but it "doesn't really know" who destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, except that it was a "mysterious deep-diving Ukrainian group". Even worse, Washington DC is yet to conclude the 9/11 investigation 23 years after the attacks that were a defining moment of America's 21st-century history. It's "almost as if" the political elites are hiding something. But, for some reason, they "immediately know" who's behind a terrorist attack 10,000 km away and insist their favorite puppet regime "most certainly had nothing to do with it".
© Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFPFILE PHOTO: US congressman Eli Crane.
Several months ago, US President Joe Biden proposed a supplemental security package that would earmark around $60 billion in assistance to Ukraine, but it has since remained stalled in Congress as Republicans demand more focus on security at the Mexican border.
On Sunday, however, Johnson signaled that the package could come up for a vote soon, with "some important innovations." Among these, he said, is a possibility of extending a loan to Ukraine - an idea favored by GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump - as well as seizing Russian sovereign assets frozen in the US and transferring the proceeds to Kiev.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict, the West has frozen around $300 billion in Russian assets, most of which are under European control. While numerous Western officials have proposed seizing the funds to finance Ukraine, many have pointed out that there is no legal basis for doing so. Moscow, for its part, has called the blocking "theft," warning of retaliation if its funds were to be confiscated.
Comment: Congressman Crane is right. Additional funding shouldn't be on the table, but a peace deal should be.
Three individuals suspected of having links with the terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall last month have been taken into custody, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday.
Comment: See also:
- NewsReal: Moscow Terror Attack Mars Putin's Landslide Victory
- Link between Crocus terrorists & Ukraine found - Russian Investigative Committee
- Alastair Crooke: The Crocus concert hall atrocity: No going back
- Putin warns Moscow terror attack mastermind: 'We will get them'
- Another suspect arrested in connection with Moscow terrorist attack
- Ukrainian bar mocks deadly Moscow concert hall attack
- Council of Europe's silence on Crocus terrorist attack 'shameful' - Moscow
A Genocide Foretold – by Mr. Fish
There are no surprises in Gaza. Every horrifying act of Israel's genocide has been telegraphed in advance. It has been for decades. The dispossession of Palestinians of their land is the beating heart of Israel's settler colonial project. This dispossession has had dramatic historical moments — 1948 and 1967 — when huge parts of historic Palestine were seized and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed. Dispossession has also occurred in increments — the slow-motion theft of land and steady ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The incursion on Oct. 7 into Israel by Hamas and other resistance groups, which left 1,154 Israelis, tourists and migrant workers dead and saw about 240 people taken hostage, gave Israel the pretext for what it has long craved — the total erasure of Palestinians.
Comment: And its become clear that the majority of Israelis killed suffered at the hands of the IDF itself - not Hamas.
© Wolfgang Schwan / Anadolu via Getty ImagesA Ukrainian military service member on the frontline.
Ukraine has no other option but to launch attacks inside Russia, including on its oil infrastructure, because its army faces continued setbacks on the battlefield, The Guardian has reported, citing the leadership of the country's military intelligence service, the GUR.
Officers who allegedly spoke to the British newspaper were candid about Kiev's desperate military situation. GUR Brigadier-General Dmitry Timkov said his country was like a patient on life support.
"We are attached to a drip. We have enough drugs to stay alive. But, if the West wants us to win, we need the full treatment," he admitted, referring to the dwindling quantities of military aid coming from Kiev's western backers.
© Times of GazaMore than 50 Palestinians killed, including children, in an lsraeli airstrike targeting a house in al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, November 5, 2023.
Their call was also backed by two of the country's leading intelligence experts, who argued that Britain needed to use any leverage it could to persuade Israel, and its biggest backer the United States, to change course in the conflict.
The British government has been a staunch ally of Israel since the eruption of hostilities on Oct. 7 but Foreign Secretary David Cameron has hardened his language in recent months over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Comment: As the conspiracy to oust future Labour leader and staunch advocate of Palestine, Jeremy Corbyn, proved, Israel's corruption of British politics is profound, and has been for decades, and more.
Comment: This report follows an internal leak a few days ago that revealed the UK's government's own lawyers had also found that Israel was breaking international law:
The US response to Israel's targeted murder of the WCK aid workers will perhaps provide some insight into how the UK will handle the situation:
And here was Netanyahu's reaction:
Comment: Unbelievable as it might be, Freeland would actually be worse for Canada than Trudeau has been.