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Poland’s President: Crimea is a part of Russia
Polish President Andrzej Duda. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
Crimea Has Long Been Russian - Polish President Duda
… Duda acknowledged that the peninsula is of special importance from a historical point of view.
"Because, in fact, if we look at history, Crimea has been in Russian hands for a long time," he added.
As we have noted, EU support for the banking cartel’s war against Russia in Ukraine is dissipating; yet, the financiers’ puppets in the executive and legislative branches continue to spend taxpayer dollars and send weapons to their proxies.
EU country profiting from Russian gas – Bloomberg
Austria has become a net energy exporter for the first time in twenty years as stable supplies of Russian natural gas allowed it to sell more electricity than it imported, Bloomberg reported this week.
While most EU countries slashed imports of Russian gas over the Ukraine conflict, Austria, which covers about 80% of its domestic consumption with fuel from the sanctions-hit country, actually ramped up purchases.
EU Puts Ukraine in Debt as European Farmers Protest- Zakharova
On Monday, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced that the European Union (EU) approves credits to Ukraine, indebting it even more, despite many Europeans protesting due to the deterioration of the economic situation. …
"While European farmers demand assistance, their political leaders draw the curtains and decide to send an additional 50 billion in aid to the Kiev regime," she stated.
"Future Ukrainian generations will be forced to repay this European money, and 33 billion euros will be delivered to Kiev in the form of credits, plunging Ukraine into a deep debt pit. But the temporary government in Ukraine is not concerned about this," Zakharova added.
At least 20 killed in Ukrainian attack on bakery in Russian city – Emergencies Ministry
Ukrainian forces on Saturday targeted a bakery located in the Russian city of Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic …
French military agrees with Russia on downed plane – AP
The French military has concluded that Ukrainian forces used an American-supplied Patriot air defense system to shoot down a Russian plane carrying prisoners of war, an official told the Associated Press on Friday. Russian investigators have reached the same verdict.
Sweden Drops Nord Stream Probe Without Mentioning Culprits
Sweden has handed over "material that can be used as evidence in the German investigation," Ljungqvist said, adding that "the German investigation continues."
"Letting colleagues in Germany choose whether to press charges or bury the investigation for good may be the least bad way out for the Swedish authorities," SVT said.
We already know who was involved:
US ‘obviously’ blew up Nord Stream – French politician
US helicopters circled over Nordstream for weeks
CIA warned Germany of pipeline attack – Spiegel
Sweden shuns formal joint investigation of Nord Stream leak, citing national security
British navy involved in Nord Stream 2 'terrorist attack' – Russia
Russian military reports fresh frontline gains
The Russian military is making advances at multiple locations along the frontline in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), according to Friday's daily press briefing of the country’s Defense Ministry. …
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu revealed fresh estimates on the casualties sustained by Ukrainian forces over the past month. All in all, Ukraine lost more than 23,000 troops in January, the minister claimed during a meeting with top Russian military commanders on Friday, stating his forces now “hold the strategic initiative along the entire line of contact.”
Over the past month, the Ukrainian military has also suffered heavy equipment losses, with over 3,000 heavy hardware pieces destroyed. The losses include multiple US-supplied Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems, German-supplied Leopard main battle tanks and other hardware provided to Kiev by its Western sponsors, according to Shoigu.
Russia Hits the Ukrainian Military-Industrial Complex
Since the start of the special military operation, Russian forces have destroyed 569 aircraft, 265 helicopters, 11,967 unmanned aerial vehicles, 462 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,932 tanks and armored vehicles, 1,217 rocket launch vehicles, 7,985 cannons and mortars, and 18,349 special military vehicles.
Profits for the US armament industry are skyrocketing. They get to dump all their stockpiled ineffective weapons and build a new generation of armaments.
Russia-led trade bloc’s de-dollarization almost complete – PM
The share of national currencies in mutual settlements among the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has reached 90% and is still growing, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin revealed on Friday.
The EAEU, which is based on the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, was established in 2015, and was later joined by Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. In 2016, Vietnam became a free trade partner of the EAEU. The union is designed to ensure the free movement of goods, services, capital and workers among member countries.
This organization is in addition to BRICS, which is expanding. The bottom line is that Federal Reserve Notes soon will no longer be the principal world reserve currency.
Texas to Expand Border Barriers Amid Standoff With White House
On Sunday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, flanked by 13 other fellow GOP governors in the border town of Eagle Pass, vowed that he will expand barriers along Rio Grande.
NYC giving $53 million to illegal immigrants in pre-paid debit cards
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s administration will be giving pre-paid debit cards to illegal immigrants who are already being provided with free hotel rooms. The pre-paid debit cards will be part of a $53 million pilot program intended to cover the daily cost of food for illegal immigrants in the city. …
The New York Post reported that pre-paid debit cards can only be used by illegal immigrants to purchase food and essential supplies at grocery stores, convenience stores, and bodegas. To receive the pre-paid debit cards, illegal immigrants will have to sign a sworn affidavit confirming that they will only use the cards to purchase food and baby supplies.
New York City has more than its share of homeless, poor, and underfed inhabitants, not to mention those just scraping by, including many students. Why would illegal immigrants receive room and board when actual citizens are not?
We have read all the excuses regarding the need to take in these folks, but the fact is that the US, UK, EU, etc. are part of an economic and political system that is the root cause for people to leave their homeland due to wars, theft of natural resources and inadequate wages, and drug trafficking.
Rather than the financiers printing money to deal with the effects of these manufactured causes, the money and effort would be better spent evening the playing field. Of course, there are additional reasons that the financiers support open borders and welfare for immigrants, beginning with undermining the sovereignty and quality of life in all their public-sector subsidiaries.
37,000 Chinese nationals arrested at US-Mexico border in 2023- Report
CBS News reported that many of the Chinese immigrants illegally crossing into the United States have received thorough instructions for hiring human smugglers and accessing the gap in the border fence on the Chinese social media platform TikTok. Talking with some of the Chinese immigrants, CBS News discovered that some of the illegal immigrants flew from China to Ecuador since the country does not require Chinese nationals to have visas. From Ecuador, the Chinese individuals flew to Tijuana, where they hired smugglers for $400 per person to drive them to the gap in the border fencing.
Right-wing conspiracy theories aside, if US immigration is capable of arresting illegal Chinese immigrants, then why are other immigrants being permitted to cross the border unobstructed?
Tech layoffs continue to roil industry with 32,000 jobs cut
So far, some 32,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in 2024 according to Layoffs.fyi, a startup that has been tracking job cuts in the industry since the pandemic.
The economy has been shrinking for over 6 months. You wouldn’t know it by listening to the corporate press.
Inflation began to spike early in the president’s term and has consistently proved to be one of Biden’s most persistent political problems. While inflation has eased in recent months, prices on most goods are still higher than they were in the spring of 2021.
Still, Biden’s economic advisers are increasingly telling the president in private that they feel optimistic about the direction things are headed.
We’ve seen this game before—manipulating numbers to fool the public. Here’s our explication of this tactic from 2013:
Hiding economic statistics is another weapon in the 1%'s war on the 99%
Hyundai Workers Join UAW’s Historic Union Drive
While unions are an important aspect of labor’s fight for better working conditions and wages, in the past we have seen many occasions where those at the top of the unions are shills for management. So, as these new consolidations occur, union members must be rigorous in vetting who bargains for them.
Farmers’ protests reach the heart of the EU as chaos unfolds outside European Parliament
A German comedian and member of the European Parliament, Martin Sonneborn, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “thousands of farmers with agricultural delegations from France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Portugal camped outside my workplace in Brussels. The city is at a standstill, already 230 kilometers of traffic jams at 8 o’clock in the morning.”
“As far as the EU is concerned, the outside world and the inside world are clearly no longer in any meaningful relationship with each other: while more than 1,300 tractors are blocking the European Parliament and its burning forecourt outside, the 27 heads of state inside have not even put the farmers’ anger on their agenda,” he wrote.
Scientists Call for Global Moratorium on mRNA Vaccines, Immediate Removal From Childhood Schedule
Cureus is a web-based peer-reviewed open-access general medical journal using prepublication peer review.
Add this to the scores of other medical organizations and doctors who demand the removal of mRNA vaccines.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the harm that all vaccines have on human health. While Rockefeller patent medicine (the AMA and Big Pharma) claim that vaccines eliminated various diseases, the data shows that it was improved sanitation that accomplished this, before vaccines were ever introduced.
FDA Makes It Official- Informed Consent Not Required for ‘Minimal Risk’ Studies
Clinical researchers no longer have to obtain informed consent from human subjects when their research poses “no more than minimal risk,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled last week.
The new FDA rule is in violation of the Nuremberg Code to which the US is a signatory. If the judiciary were not controlled by the same small group of financiers that controls the Fed, the global for-profit corporate pyramid, the AMA and Big Pharma, the electoral process, and the executive-level puppets that run these organizations, then the FDA rule would be null and void.
Hamas presents three-stage truce deal, demands full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
After 1400 years of atrocities by armed Islamic fundamentalists seeking to establish their religion as the one global belief system, with minor respites when the Jews were 2nd and 3rd class citizens, why would Israel agree to a ceasefire that would allow Hamas to reload and prepare for the next attack, to which they are committed, given the historical fabrications that fuel their agenda?
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