In response to Western sanctions against Russian officials, Russia sanctioned President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other top American officials. Russia also banned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and 300 other Canadians from entering Russia.
In other news, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that Americans will need to get more vaccinations to protect themselves from variants of COVID-19.
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Almost $650k in Fines Given to Unmasked People in Airports, Public Transit: Report
According to an official report, 922 violations of the federal COVID mask mandate for various types of public transportation have been issued since the mandate has been in place. The total amount of fines handed out is $644,398.
The mandate has been enforced since Feb 2021 on all commercial flights, buses, trains, ferries and other public transportation services, as well as in all airports and terminals for such modes of transportation.
The report was released on Monday by the US federal government’s Government Accountability Office (GAO), and also details many other government actions taken in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anti-Critical Race Theory Bill Signed Into Law by Mississippi Governor
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law Monday banning “critical race theory” and limiting education on race in schools.
Senate Bill 2113, “Critical Race Theory; Prohibit,” does not mention critical race theory by name except for in its title.
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Anti-Radiation Pills, Survival Food Selling Out in US Amid Panic Buying
Anti-radiation pills and survival food is selling out in the United States amid panic buying in response to the potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate to a nuclear conflict.
Manufacturers in the US are reporting depleted inventories of potassium iodide tablets, with IOSAT having sold out of its 14 pack boxes which ordinarily sell for $13.99 on their website.
Demand is so intense that the same box of pills is now selling for around $149 dollars on eBay.
Four boxes of Thyrosafe potassium iodide tablets were also selling for $132.50, while another listing featured a box of IOSAT 130 mg pills costing $89.95 each.
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BLM Co-Founder Asks Followers to ‘Call the Jails’ And Demand Jussie Smollett be Freed
Following Jussie Smollett’s sentencing to 150 days in jail, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is calling for her followers to call the jail and demand that the former Empire star be freed.
Cullors told her followers that she was able to visit Smollett while she was in Chicago, saying that “he’s strong but what’s happening inside is just — it’s just unacceptable.”
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Boston BLM Leader Charged With Fraud in Federal Indictment
A prominent Black Lives Matter leader in Boston was arrested Tuesday, and she and her husband were charged in an 18-count federal indictment.
41-year-old Monica Cannon-Grant and her 38-year-old husband, Clark, were charged in connection with three separate schemes outlined in the indictment: defrauding donors, lying on a mortgage application, and illegally collecting an estimated $100,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits, Boston Globe reported.
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Breaking: Bomb Squad on the Scene at Tim Pool’s Studio
Tim Pool reported that the bomb squad is at his studio, where he records TimcastIRL, along with other properties that are part of the Tim Pool content universe. Pool said that the events will not be filmed due to security reasons, as recommended by police.
He said on air, as they discussed the incident, that there was an actual reason that the bomb squad was deployed, and he was concerned that he might “hear the house shake.”
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Deaths Represent 1.3% of Side Effects Reported for COVID Vaccines: Peer-Reviewed CDC Study
Deaths following mRNA vaccination against COVID-19 represented 13 out of every 1,000 reports (1.3%) to the federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the CDC’s Atlanta-based researchers said last week.
Another 66 reports out of every 1,000 (6.6%) were categorized as “serious,” resulting in “inpatient hospitalisation, prolongation of hospitalisation, permanent disability, life-threatening illness, congenital anomaly or birth defect,” according to their study published in The Lancet, the U.K-based medical journal.
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Fauci Says More Vaccines Will be Needed; “We’re Not Done With This”
Health dictator Anthony Fauci declared Monday that Americans will need to take more COVID vaccines, just a day after the CEO of Pfizer proclaimed that a fourth shot is needed immediately.
In an interview with CNBC, Fauci was asked how many more shots will be needed, and responded “The answer is: we don’t know. I mean, that’s it…it is likely that we’re not done with this when it comes to vaccines.”
The comments dovetail with those of Albert Bourla, who said Sunday “It is necessary — a fourth boost — right now,” when asked about vaccines.
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Florida Senate Approves Budget That Includes Money for Schools With No Mask Mandates
(LifeSiteNews) — The Florida state Senate unanimously passed a huge budget bill today that includes a reward for school districts complying with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order banning mask mandates for students and staff in the state’s public schools.
The bill, totaling $112.1 billion, includes a majority of items outlined in December by DeSantis in his proposed “Freedom First Budget,” according to a report by The Epoch Times. A total of $200 million has been set aside for the 55 school districts that followed the governor’s ban on mask mandates for schools in the Sunshine State. The 12 school districts that imposed a mask mandate after the ban have been made ineligible for the funding.
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JP Morgan Lifts Ban on Hiring Unvaccinated Workers
Just days after saying it would hire ex-cons, JP Morgan has decided that it will also hire unvaccinated individuals as it scrambles to fill jobs amid a stubbornly persistent labor shortage in the US.
According to Bloomberg, which cited a memo to the bank’s staff, JPM has decided to abandon the ban starting next month, the latest sign that the bank is “putting the pandemic behind it”.
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Lancaster Man Guilty of Causing $63,000 Damage During 2020 Protest [Update]
Editor’s note: An early version of this story did not include the full amount of restitution sought.
A Lancaster city man pleaded guilty Monday in Lancaster County Court to causing around $63,000 in damage to government property during protests following a fatal police shooting here in September 2020.
Christopher Vazquez, 33, was one of about 20 people charged in the county following protests of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd and the shooting here of Ricardo Muñoz, 27, outside his Laurel Street home. The shooting was later determined to have been justified.
Of those arrested locally, Vazquez’s case is one of about a half-dozen so far that have been resolved. His case also involved some of the most serious charges.
During protests at the scene of the Sept. 13, 2020, shooting of Muñoz, Vazquez threw bricks at a Pennsylvania State Police SUV, then lit an umbrella on fire and put it inside, according to police. Later, downtown, he threw bricks at the police station front door.
Vazquez then threw bricks at the front door of the post office on West Chestnut Street, police said, and at vehicles registered to the Lancaster Parking Authority in the first block of West Orange Street.
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Tammel Esco, a 42-year-old man from Yonkers with an extensive and violent criminal record has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges after being caught-on-camera beating a 67-year-old Asian woman last week.
According to police, officers responded to a 911 call around 6:15 pm on Friday from a witness who saw Esco punching the woman while on top of her. The victim was found by responding officers badly beaten and bloodied in the vestibule of her building with Esco still outside.
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Millennials Experienced ‘Worst-Ever Excess Mortality in History’ Last Fall: Financial Expert
(LifeSiteNews) — CDC stats show that U.S. millennials experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality during the August to December 2021 period, according to the analysis of two financial experts.
With the help of number-crunching by an unnamed “insurance industry expert,” former BlackRock Portfolio Manager Ed Dowd showed that the total numbers of excess deaths for millennials (ages 25-44) during the second half of last year — 61,000 — surpass the fatality rate of Americans killed during the Vietnam war: 58,000 people over the course of 10 years, as he noted to Steve Bannon on his “War Room” show.
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MoMA Stabbing Suspect Arrested in Philly After Center City Arson
Police in New York City have been trying to track down Gary Cabana since Saturday’s assault inside the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
The former Museum of Modern Art member accused of stabbing two employees when he was denied entry into the iconic New York City facility was arrested in Philadelphia overnight after police said he set fire to a Center City hotel room hours earlier.
Gary Cabana, 60, was picked up at the Greyhound bus terminal at 10th and Filbert sleeping on a bench around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Philadelphia police told NBC 10.
“Detectives found the 60-year-old suspect — fitting the description — he was actually asleep on a bench inside the Greyhound terminal,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said. “Police took him into custody, woke him up. The individual did not resist, did not fight.”
The man they found at the train station was wanted for torching his fifth-floor hotel room at the Best Western Plus on Vine Street around 6 p.m. Monday, Philadelphia police said…
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Parents Hold Protest Against LAUSD Mask Mandate
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Several dozen angry parents staged a protest Tuesday outside teachers’ union headquarters over the Los Angeles Unified School District’s decision to keep mask mandates in place.
The demonstration took place outside the offices of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown.
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Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Nomination to Fed Board
Sarah Bloom Raskin has withdrawn her nomination to the Fed board, one day after West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced he would not vote to confirm her, sources familiar with the matter told several outlets.
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Senate Unanimously Approves to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
The Senate approved a proposal Tuesday to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, which, if passed in the House and signed by President Joe Biden, would mean changing the clocks twice a year an act of the past.
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‘Shocked’ Dad Says He Spoke to Homeless Shooting Spree Suspect Hours Before Arrest
Police in Washington, DC, have arrested a man with a history of mental illness who they suspect carried out brutal attacks on several homeless men in DC and New York in recent days, leaving family members aghast at what they suggested was a shocking turn toward targeted, wanton violence.
A senior law-enforcement official identified the suspected serial shooter as Gerald Brevard III to The Daily Beast. The official said that 30-year-old was unarmed when he was arrested in northeast Washington, shortly after police became aware of his name. Another law-enforcement official told The Daily Beast that both police departments had received tips about Brevard, prompting officers and ATF agents to stake him out and eventually take him into custody.
Hours before Brevard’s arrest, around 5 p.m. on Monday, an Instagram account appearing to belong to him posted a photo with the caption “Feeling Devilish Feeling Godly.” The prior post has Brevard, a Washington, D.C., resident, tagged at a Manhattan event space.
The father, Gerald Brevard Jr., told The Daily Beast on Tuesday he was “crushed” to hear the news about his son’s arrest. He said they spoke on Monday, and Brevard “did not say anything out of the ordinary.”
“It was a normal conversation,” the 80-year-old, who lives in Las Vegas, said. “But he was dealing with mental illness for the longest time. He has been in and out of mental hospitals.”…
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Social Media Company Minds and Daryl Davis Tell Joe Rogan About New Anti-Censorship Project
Minds.com co-founder Bill Ottman and activist Daryl Davis went on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to unveil their #ChangeMinds deradicalization initiative.
The team at blockchain-based social network Minds and Davis published a research paper outlining how “deplatforming actually intensifies extremism,” and argue how a new approach to online moderation is necessary.
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Suspect Arrested in Shootings, Killings of Several Homeless Men in New York and D.C.
A suspect in a series of shootings earlier this month that targeted homeless men in New York and Washington, D.C. was arrested Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C.
“Early this AM, law enforcement arrested the suspect in Washington, DC.,” the District’s Metropolitan Police Department tweeted at 5:40 a.m. local time. “He is currently being interviewed at our Homicide Branch. Additional information will be forthcoming. Thanks to the community for all your tips.”
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Video: Tucker Carlson Responds to Calls for His Arrest Over Bio-Labs Coverage
Tucker Carlson responded Monday to calls for his arrest after he covered the ongoing developments with U.S. run bio-labs in Ukraine.
Carlson specifically addressed the hosts of The View, who labeled him a “Russian propagandist,” “a foreign asset to a dictator,” and accused him of “helping Putin get away with criminal acts against civilians.”
Host Whoopi Goldberg declared “They use to arrest people for doing stuff like this.”
“Really?” Carlson countered, adding “‘They used to arrest people for saying stuff like this.’ When did they arrest people for saying stuff like this, and who is they exactly?”
“So we are at war with Russia! We must send you to the gulag because freedom!” Carlson continued.
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Virginians Remember Officer Killed in the Line of Duty
COVINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) — Virginia leaders and law enforcement agencies are sharing their condolences over the death of Covington Police Officer Caleb Ogilvie, shot to death in the line of duty Monday.
A fund to support Ogilvie’s family has been set up through “Fund the First” and online donations can be made here.
Governor Glenn Youngkin will order Commonwealth flags to be flown at half staff on the day of Ogilvie’s funeral when that is scheduled…
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Watch: Trevor Noah Slams NYC Mayor Over Rule Preventing Kyrie Irving From Playing Ball
Daily Show Host Trevor Noah lambasted New York City’s vaccination mandates on Monday, after Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving was barred from playing in Sundays game, but was allowed to attend the game as a fan.
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Almost 75 Percent of Canadians Want NATO to be Ready to Fight in Ukraine: Poll
A new multinational poll conducted between Friday and Sunday shows that a majority of Canadians believe that NATO should be ready to militarily defend Ukraine from Russian invasion.
The survey was an online one, in which 1515 Canadians and 1022 Americans responded during the three days. It was conducted by Leger.
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Under Premier Scott Moe, Saskatchewan has become one of the leading provinces in Canada seeking to adopt a nationally-regulated digital identification system. Saskatchewan has been enrolled in the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) since early 2020.
According to the DIACC website, “Saskatchewan joined the DIACC because we recognize that if we are going to realize the potential of digital ID, we need to define and govern digital identity nationally, with private and public sector collaboration.”
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Canadian Parliament Launches Investigation Into Trudeau Gov’t Actions Against Freedom Convoy
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — A joint committee of Parliament officially launched an inquiry into the Trudeau Cabinet’s actions against the Freedom Convoy protesters.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the “unprecedented inquiry” into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet’s actions launched Monday is being headed by an 11-member joint panel that has “one year to determine why cabinet invoked extraordinary police powers against truckers.”
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Critical Race Theory Course Being Taught at Peel High School
Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga is now offering a course teaching the controversial subject of critical race theory to high school students.
The course, titled Contemporary Black Studies, is described as exploring “contemporary black culture in Canada, through the lens of Critical Race Theory.”
Other topics on the syllabus include examining “Black experiences and their impact from the perspective of Black Lives Matter.”
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Docs Reveal Cost of Patrick Brown’s Lockdown, Guards Sent to Cemetery to Enforce Social Distancing
Patrick Brown has thrown his hat into the ring to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. The former leader of the Ontario PCs, and the current mayor of Brampton, Ontario is attempting to rebrand himself as one of the early anti-lockdown mayors in the country.
At his Sunday campaign announcement, Brown claimed, “when COVID lockdowns threatened the freedoms of families, and businesses… I was one of the only big city mayors to speak out.”
This is a total rewriting of Brown’s own history during the pandemic, and we have the documents to prove it.
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First Nations Chief Warns MPs as Emergencies Act Inquiry Begins
Parliamentarians convened a first-of-its-kind inquiry into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act on Monday, the same day the Assembly of First Nations national chief expressed concerns over the act’s ability to label activists as criminals.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, MPs called for the inquiry to be as transparent as possible and not to hold meetings off camera “without good reason.”
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‘Hold the Line’: The Peaceful Statement That Landed Pastor Artur Back in Jail
The statement “hold the line” has become a controversial phrase that public health enforcers assert is a call for radicalism. Recently, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich was held in jail and had “hold the line” used against her as an alleged rallying cry for protesters to continue their demonstration.
In Coutts, Alberta, the site of a border blockade organized by truckers and their supporters, Pastor Artur Pawlowski showed up to offer some words of encouragement, telling them to “hold the line.” Pawlowski was arrested a short while after, and remains in jail.
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Interview: The Dangers of Bill 67 and Critical Race Theory Infecting Our Schools
Bill 67, the Racial Equity in the Education System Act recently passed its second reading in Ontario’s legislature. The bill was introduced by Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo under the guise of combatting racism and racist issues in Ontario’s education system.
This bill was described recently by Dr. Jordan Peterson as “the most pernicious and dangerous piece of legislation that any Canadian government has attempted to put forward” and will effectively inject Critical Race Theory (CRT) into every sector of Ontario’s education system.
Every single Member of Provincial Parliament in attendance, from every party, voted in favour of Bill 67 — except for one. The lone holdout who stood against Bill 67 was Belinda Karahalios of the New Blue Party of Ontario, who is the sitting MPP for the riding of Cambridge.
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Make No Mistake — Pastor Artur Pawlowski is in Jail Because of Jason Kenney
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra discussed the fact that Pastor Artur Pawlowski is still in jail — and that despite his pretending otherwise, Premier Jason Kenney is to blame.
Jason Kenney says the lockdown is over and that everyone should just get over it.
Got it. So, please forget what he’s done the past two years.
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Recently, Melissa Robinson took her three-year-old daughter to the Galaxy Cinemas in North Bay, Ontario. Melissa purchased tickets for Sing 2 and bought some pricey popcorn and soda pop at the concession stand.
But a not-so-funny thing happened to Melissa and daughter as they took their seats in a completely empty theatre: before the movie even started, staffers told them to leave — or the cops would be called and they’d be charged with… trespassing!? (And yes, this interaction was caught on camera.)
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Only 14% of Canadians “Strongly Approve” of Trudeau’s Pandemic Response: Poll
A new poll suggests that 31% of Canadians strongly disapprove of prime minister Justin Trudeau’s pandemic response, while only 14% strongly approve.
The survey conducted by Angus Reid from Mar. 1 to 4 used responses collected online from 2,550 Canadians 18 and older who are members of the Angus Reid Forum.
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Ontario “On the Verge of Enforcing Critical Race Theory in All Schools”
Bill 67, Racial Equity in the Education System Act, 2021, has passed second reading in the Ontario legislature and at first glance it looks like a great idea. After all, no one can make a sensible argument ‘for’ racism. The world is doing its best to move past the ugly reality of racism which has seemingly always plagued societies. So why are some important and influential Canadian educators and communicators ferociously opposed to Bill 67?
They’ll tell you it’s because they’ve actually read the bill and they know the meaning of the words used over and over again throughout.
If you don’t already know (and most Canadians haven’t looked into this yet) the profound difference between “equality” and “equity”, or the profound difference between “anti-racism” and “non-racism” this presentation is critically important. In the three days since this video was released, it has already been viewed over 600,000 times.
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Paul’s Pizza Will Not be Silenced
Paul’s Pizza in Airdrie, Alberta is known for their quality food, but as of late the restaurant has garnered a fair amount of attention for their unabashed support for freedom.
Co-owner Farouk “Assault” Elsaghir doesn’t shy away from sharing his opinions on the restaurant’s official Facebook page.
Farouk is perfectly clear that every is welcome in his restaurant, no matter their politics or ideologies, but where he draws the line is when people attempt to stifle or silence him. Those people, per Farouk, are welcome to head over to Dominos.
The politicization of his pizza started when Paul’s Pizza began getting negative reviews, but they were neither criticisms of the food or even the restaurant; Paul’s Pizza was riddled with criticisms of the owner’s politics.
One review read, “I cannot get enough of how delicious this pizza is. Update: Unfortunately, Paul’s social media presence is leaving a poor taste in my mouth, and I will not be back.”
Paul’s Pizza dared to provide pizza to truckers in the Freedom Convoy and refused to be silenced by online bullies. Since then, people have been attempting to cancel and ruin his business with bogus reviews.
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Pierre Poilievre Says Canada Needs to Replace Russian Gas With Canadian
Shadow minister and candidate for Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre issued a statement on Tuesday following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskyy’s speech before the Canadian Parliament.
“I was so moved by President @ZelenskyyUa’s passionate speech to Parliament today. We need to back up our sympathy for Ukraine with real action as the country fights for its freedom against Russian aggression. Canada must be a leader in the world again,” said Poilievre on his Twitter account.
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Pro-Life Conservative MP Vows to Reinstate Office of Religious Freedom if Elected Prime Minister
Pro-life Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Leslyn Lewis says that if elected Prime Minster she will reinstate the Office of Religious Freedom to ensure Canada would once again be a “defender” of religious liberty.
“I said it in 2020 and I’ll say it again, we must stand up for religious freedom in Canada and around the world,” wrote Lewis in a Tweet yesterday.
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Quebec Freedom Fighter Still Incarcerated, Awaiting Next Trial
Several supporters gathered at the Bordeaux prison in support of François Amalega, where he is currently incarcerated, to light candles for him. Many of them are overwhelmed by the events happening to Amalega.
The Freedom Convoy, and now the war between Ukraine and Russia, have monopolized people’s attention. Despite this, for most of society, life goes on.
In this storm of events, we forgot to mention that François Amalega, the freedom fighter from Quebec, is still in prison, and has been for nearly six weeks now.
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Revealed: Trudeau and Freeland Held Meeting With Infamous Ukrainian Neo-Nazi
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland met with the co-founder of Ukraine’s far-right fascist party.
According to True North Centre, Trudeau and Freeland met with Andriy Parubiy, who served as the equivalent of the legislative speaker of Ukrainian Parliament from 2016 to 2019.
Parubiy’s track record of flirting and outright embracing far-right Nazism spans back to the early ‘90s, when he co-founded the Nazi-styled Social National Party of Ukraine. Political scientists and observers have criticized the party that includes “openly racist rhetoric” that is “explicitly ethnocentric” that spouts “anti-Semitic ideas.”
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The truckers for freedom convoy 2022 started back in late January in British Columbia and went across the country with a demand to end all COVID restrictions and vaccine restrictions imposed on all Canadians.
With his minority government, Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act — never seen before in Canada’s history in its modern rendition from the War Measures act his father used back in the 80s.
This was after he slandered those who supported this civil liberties movement fighting for Canadian’s fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter of Rights as a “fringe minority” and who hold “unacceptable views”. I wanted to ask the crowd that came out in support of the truckers in their movement what they thought on the very weekend that the convoy arrived in Ottawa, January 29th, 2022.
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Unvaxxed Foreign Workers Can Leave Canada by Plane But Actual Citizens Still Banned From Air Travel
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Canada is allowing un-jabbed temporary foreign workers (TFWs) who are not citizens to leave the country by air while Canadians who chose not to get the COVID injections are still barred from boarding a plane.
According to an email from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) as reported by the Western Standard, Canada’s federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says un-jabbed TFWs can leave Canada until August 31, after an exemption extension was allowed.
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EU Extends COVID Passport Til Mid-2023, Claims it’s to Facilitate ‘Free Movement’
The Council of the European Union (EU) on Friday agreed to extend the EU’s Digital COVID Certificate until at least June 2023, re-igniting concerns that the discriminatory measures imposed ostensibly to curtail the spread of the coronavirus could persist indefinitely.
According to a press release issued by the Council on Friday, “The Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) formally endorsed the Council’s negotiating mandate with the European Parliament to extend the Regulation establishing the EU Digital COVID Certificate.”
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European Court Condemns Switzerland for COVID Ban on Demonstrations
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Switzerland for briefly banning demonstrations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judges said the general ban on public protests lacked the necessary “independent and effective judicial control”.
From March to June 2020, Swiss citizens faced up to three years in prison if they held public and private demonstrations.
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France’s Macron Offers Asylum to Woman Who Interrupted Russian Broadcast
France is ready to grant asylum to the Russian woman who interrupted a live broadcast on Russian state television brandishing a poster against the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, adding he will raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, a woman ran onto the set of an evening news program on Russian state television’s flagship Channel One holding a poster reading: “No war. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They lie to you here. Russians against war.” She yelled: “Stop the war, no to war” before the camera cut away.
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Officers Beaten in Multiple Weekend Attacks in French City
French police officers were the victims in multiple attacks launched just minutes apart in the city of Lyon during the weekend, according to reports.
Two separate incidents involving off-duty cops unfolded in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Polish, Czech, Slovenian Leaders Head to Kiev by Train to Show of Support for Zelensky
In what marks the first visit of foreign leaders to the Ukrainian capital since Russia’s invasion of the country began last month, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia are headed by train to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The aim of the visit is to express the European Union’s unequivocal support for Ukraine and its freedom and independence,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced on Twitter. And Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki said in a social media post that the visit will happen on the 20th day of Vladimir Putin’s “criminal aggression against Ukraine.”
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Russian-German School Set Ablaze in Berlin
Unknown people started fire at the gym entrance of the Lomonosov Russian-German bilingual school in Berlin overnight Friday, the Berlin police said, adding that the arson did not result in any casualties.
“After unknown people set fire to the entrance of a gym in Marzahn this morning, the police department of state security is now investigating at the Berlin Criminal Police Office. An attentive passer-by called the fire brigade and the police to the Allee der Kosmonauten at around 3.20 a.m. [02:20 GMT] when he noticed smoke in the gym of the German-Russian school,” the police said.
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Russophobia: Orthodox Priest Subjected to Death Threats in France
French authorities in Nice have launched an investigation after the rector of a local Russian Orthodox Cathedral received death threats in connection to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Archpriest Andrey Eliseev, the rector of the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice, received a letter that is said to have threatened him and other Russians with death if they did not leave France and go to Russia within the next month.
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Slovakia Expels Three Russian Embassy Staff; Reports of Arrests Over Espionage Suspicions
Slovakia has expelled three employees of the Russian embassy in Bratislava for what the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to as activities contrary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The three employees have been ordered to leave Slovakia within 72 hours.
The Dennik N newspaper had earlier reported that the Slovak police had detained at least three people on suspicion of espionage on behalf of Russia, but it is currently unknown whether the arrests are related to the expulsions of the Russian diplomacy staff.
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Stanford Medical Prof Emphasizes Significance of COVID Antibodies Found From Fall 2019
Antibodies to the novel coronavirus have been discovered in blood samples dating from September 2019 in Europe, prior to the supposed outbreak in Wuhan, China, marking an “enormous” change in how the government response to the virus should be viewed, a leading medical professor said.
Commenting on the discovery, Stanford medical professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya noted that stored blood samples from September and November 2019 tested in France and Italy displayed COVID-19 antibodies, disqualifying initial media reporting that a Wuhan wet market had been the source of the global outbreak of the virus.
“The implications are enormous,” Bhattacharya said, highlighting that since the virus was in the population “long before the official start date, it was too late to stop the disease from spreading across the earth.”
“We have wasted 2 years on lockdowns for nothing,” he charged.
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UK Energy Bills to Rise 14 Times Faster Than Wages Amid Green Push, Sanctions War
British energy bills look set to increase some 14 times faster than British wages in 2022, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned.
“[G]as and electricity bills are set to increase by 54 per cent when the price cap set by Ofgem is increased in April,” the umbrella organisation said at the weekend, referencing Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets regulator.
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UK Publishers Censor Western Books to Preserve Cheap Printing Contracts in Communist China: Report
Two publishers from the United Kingdom have reportedly censored books for Western audiences in order to maintain their ability to have books cheaply produced in Communist China.
British publishers Octopus Books and Quatro have allegedly removed references to subjects deemed off-limits by the Chinese Communist Party, such as Taiwan and Tibet, from books intended for readers outside of China because of their desire to maintain contracts with printer companies in the country, according to a report from the Financial Times.
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In the last 2 years perhaps no health research presenter has been as prolific as Britain’s John Campbell. While much of the world has been getting caught up on the estimated data from models showing what might happen in the covid pandemic, Campbell has been analyzing only the data. His youtube page has picked up well over 2 million followers from around the world who wish to see the facts as he presents them.
In this astounding video Campbell looks at some of the largest and most credible data driven studies of ivermectin use against Covid. He concludes that the dismissal of ivermectin as a treatment for covid will go down as one of the greatest scandals of our time. This presentation has already been seen nearly a million times.
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Julian Assange’s fiancée has spoken of her joy at being allowed to marry the WikiLeaks founder despite restrictions being placed on their wedding.
Stella Moris, 38, will marry the 50-year-old in Belmarsh Prison, south east London on March 23, just weeks before the third anniversary of his dramatic arrest when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the capital in April 2019.
He has been held in the high-security jail ever since as he fights extradition to the United States, where he is wanted over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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EU Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Expedited Accession Talks for North Macedonia and Albania
he European Union will propose a plan to strengthen the security and defense of the Western Balkans, in a bid to bring the region closer to the EU27, Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, announced during a visit to Skopje, Macedonia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised concerns among EU officials about possible security instability in the Balkans, and Borrell used his time in Macedonia to call for the EU to “revitalize the enlargement process,” and to start negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union as soon as possible.
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Biden Will Travel to Brussels for NATO Summit on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
President Joe Biden will travel to Brussels, Belgium, next week for a NATO summit amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday.
According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the US president will join the “extraordinary” NATO summit that is slated to convene on March 24.
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Breaking: Zelenskyy Urges Trudeau to Back ‘No-Fly Zone’ Over Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Canada to back a no-fly zone, telling Canadian Parliamentarians during his virtual address on Tuesday: “Close the airspace please to stopped the bombing. How many more cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen?”
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It is Not a Sin to Wish for the Enemy to Die, Says Head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphanius, said that wishing for the death of an enemy and killing Russian soldiers who invaded the country is not a sin. At the same time, the Metropolitan called on all Orthodox Ukrainians, including believers and clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate, to unite around the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“As a nation, we do not seek the deaths of our neighbors. But because they came to our home, we protect our family, our homeland, our country. Our soldiers are protecting all Ukrainians. Protecting, killing the enemy, is not a sin,” said Epiphanius, according to the Unian agency.
“And whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by that sword,” he added.
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In Ukraine: Russia lobbed more missiles into Kyiv, amid heightened fighting in the city’s outskirts as a delegation of European leaders headed to the embattled Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
One missile destroyed a building associated with an arms maker in central Kyiv in a predawn strike, blowing the windows out of buildings in a one-block radius. In a second strike, two rockets hit apartment buildings, setting fire to one of them.
Two residents died in the apartment complex and dozens were taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. There were no fatalities in the other strike, officials said.
Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed on assignment covering the war in Ukraine.
A delegation of European leaders traveled to Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday.
In the U.S.: U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan pressed a top Chinese official over China’s alignment with Russia during what U.S. officials said was an intense, seven-hour meeting that included discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In Russia: A woman ran onto the set of an evening news program on Russian state television’s flagship Channel One holding a poster reading: “No war. Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They lie to you here. Russians against war.” She yelled: “Stop the war, no to war” before the camera cut away. Russian state-run news agency TASS reported she had been arrested and investigators are considering bringing charges against her.
Russia imposed sanctions on President Biden and other top U.S. officials, in a move aimed at restricting travel to Russia. The Kremlin’s latest round of travel restrictions includes 13 people, and the foreign ministry said the measures could be expanded.
Markets: Oil prices slid below $100 a barrel after China imposed Covid-19 lockdowns, erasing much of the surge since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Russian State TV Employee Fined for Live Anti-War Protest
NEW YORK — A Russian state television employee who interrupted a live news program by protesting against the war with Ukraine was ordered to pay a fine by a Russian court Tuesday.
Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of Russia’s state-run Channel One, walked into the studio during Monday’s evening news show with a poster saying “no war” and “Russians against the war.”
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Russia Bans Entry to Prime Minister Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and over 300 other Canadians have been banned from entering Russia, a new statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website states.
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Russia Sanctions President Biden, Secretary Blinken & Top Defense Officials
Update(11:05ET): Moscow has hit back against Washington by sanctioning top US leadership, including President Joe Biden himself. The punitive retaliation measures extend to the chiefs of the Pentagon, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA Director William Burns. Russian state media announced in a Tuesday statement:
“Russia on Tuesday sanctioned US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and ten other administration officials and political figures. Moscow has said that the sanctions are a reciprocal measure, imposed after Washington blacklisted top Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin.”
Despite the measures being largely symbolic — as it will be essentially impossible for Moscow to actually go after US officials’ assets unless they are held in Russia itself (and certainly no top American official is looking to travel to Russia anytime soon) — it signals that tensions with the West are ratcheting fast, with increasingly few off-ramps as the two sides chart a war-footing course.
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UN Head: ‘Bone-Chilling Nuclear War a Possibility’
The Secretary General of the United Nations became the latest globalist figure to state that a nuclear war is on the horizon Monday, describing it as a “bone-chilling” development.
UN head Antonio Guterres warned that the escalation of war in Ukraine “whether by accident or design” threatens the existence of life on Earth, noting that “The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility.”
Guterres added that “this war will have no winners, only losers,” further stating that “This war goes far beyond Ukraine.”
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Zuck’s War: Russia Blocks Instagram Across Country
Russia has reportedly shut off access to the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram this week, cutting off Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe from accessing the personal data of tens of millions of Russian users.
TechCrunch reports that Russia has blocked access to Instagram throughout the country, shortly after banning Facebook, alleging that the social media platform has discriminated against Russian media and information sources.
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18-Year-Old Ukrainian Refugee Raped by Two Migrants in German City of Dusseldorf, Says Police
The German police arrested two migrants who are accused of raping a Ukrainian refugee woman in Düsseldorf in early March after she fled to Germany from Ukraine. The officials are currently clarifying the nationality of the two men, a police spokeswoman said to Junge Freiheit.
According to the Bild daily, the suspects are a 37-year-old Iraqi and a 26-year-old Nigerian, although some other media reports are claiming the Iraqi is actually a Tunisian. Both suspects also had Ukrainian passports. It is also being investigated how they obtained Ukrainian citizenship.
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African, Asian Migrants Entering EU Amid Ukraine Refugee Flows
Thousands of people from Africa and Asia are entering the European Union amid refugee flows from Ukraine, according to reports.
A historic humanitarian crisis sparked by conflict in Ukraine has provided an opportunity for many migrants to travel deeper into Europe, including those who unsuccessfully attempted to penetrate countries neighboring Belarus in recent months.
“Most of the people who were turned back at the time have been able to pass since then and the war has reshuffled the cards,” a French official told Le Figaro.
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Danish Government Welcomes Ukrainian Refugees, Sends Syrians Home
The Danish government is said to have agreed on legislation to suspend asylum rules for Ukrainian refugees while also asking many Syrians to return to their country.
Denmark is expected to pass the new legislation for Ukrainian refugees on Wednesday after the government and the National Association of Municipalities reached an agreement on the matter.
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Germany Asks Poland to Suspend Transportation of Ukrainian Refugees Due to Checkpoint on Border
Germany has asked Poland to suspend the dispatch of special trains with Ukrainian refugees as the country cannot process the influx of people, Pavel Shefernaker, Polish deputy interior and administration minister, said on Monday.”
The German Federal Ministry of the Interior contacted us last night, asking if we could suspend the special trains to Germany, because of a ‘chokepoint’ which occurred there,” Shefernaker told Polish broadcaster TVN.
The Polish deputy minister went on to say that this situation showed ill-preparedness of the European Union, adding that over the last three days, about 28,000 Ukrainian refugees left Warsaw, Krakow and Katowice on special trains, while 1.5 million migrants remain in the country.
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Italy: Bus Carrying Ukraine Refugees Crashes, Killing Young Mother
A bus carrying refugees from Ukraine crashed in Italy this week, killing a mother traveling with her young children, according to reports.
The deadly incident unfolded at around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning on the A14 motorway near Cesena, a commune on Italy’s northeastern coast.
The bus had originally departed the city of Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine carrying 54 passengers, most of whom were fleeing the ongoing conflict.
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More than 300 migrants including small babies are believed to have crossed the Channel in what could be the busiest day so far this year for asylum seeker crossings.
With calmer seas and 60F temperatures mitigating some of the dangers of the perilous crossing, around 105 people are believed to have reached the UK in three boats by 9am.
They were followed by a further three groups of which the last landed at Dungeness, Kent around 11am before being escorted up the beach by officials.
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German Cardinal Celebrates Mass Marking ‘20 Years of Queer Worship’
ROME — German Cardinal Reinhard Marx celebrated a Mass Sunday to commemorate “20 years of queer worship and pastoral care” in Munich, Germany.
“I desire an inclusive Church, a Church that includes all who want to walk the way of Jesus,” said Cardinal Marx, the archbishop of Munich and an adviser to Pope Francis.
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Idaho, West Virginia Move to Enact Pro-Life Laws
On Monday, Idaho became the first state to adopt a law similar to one in Texas allowing civilian enforcement of its ban on abortions after six weeks.
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West Hollywood, California Excludes Straight People From Guaranteed Income Program
WEST HOLLYWOOD, California (LifeSiteNews) — Heterosexual men and women who would like to participate in a guaranteed cash payment pilot program in West Hollywood are going to find themselves disappointed: The joint venture between the City of West Hollywood and the National Council of Jewish Women/LA is only open to “LGBTQIA older adults.”
The city’s website explains that to participate in the $1,000 per month program that will run from April 2022 to September 2023, applicants “must reside in the City of West Hollywood, be 50 years or older, identify as LGBTQIA, and have an individual income of $41,400 or less.”
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You stupid dictators of the world : follow the science and listen to fauci.
And learn how not to waste your money from the leader of freedom and democracy and logic: Now prepare and check below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnF1CHwTlg
“A group of 100 refugees from Ukraine came to the center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria [Germany]…
…The first group consisted of four small children and six Ukrainian women, followed closely by a family from Vietnam.
The rest of the arrivals however are men from Asia and Africa…”
https://euroislam.pl/czy-to-sa-uchodzcy-z-ukrainy
Notice the difference?
European refugees are women and children.
Moslem refugees are military age men.
This is called a “clue.”
Yet a “clue” that most Western do-gooders seem oblivious to…
I’m not sure they’d even register, that around 85% of that group of “Ukrainian arrivals” being African/Muslim men is something strange.
Dr Fauci? Does anyone still listen to a word that crumb says?
Ukrainian TV show host Fakhrudin Sharafmal cites Nazi ideologue Adolf Eichmann to call for extermination of all Russians, including children
…Quoting the Nazi ideologist Adolf Eichmann’s statement – ‘In order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, children,’ Sharafmal said, “I know that as a journalist, I have to be objective, I have to be balanced, in order to report information to you with a cold heart, but to tell you the truth, it’s very hard to hold on now, especially at a time like this, and since we are called Nazis, fascists, and so on in Russia – I will allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann, who said that in order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, children.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/
Appearance and name seem to be Tadizhk.
I remember that in Ukraine, information policy during the Maidan days was also ruled by some Pashtun – Mustafa Nayem
“Fakhrudin is an Afghan by nationality”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/click-clicker.com/2022/03/16/who-is-fakhrudin-sharafmal-and-what-is-the-scandal-on-channel-24/amp/
Possibly an ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan.
We will never know the truth about the allegedly dead friend. When Tajiks are caught committing crimes in Russia, they often shout that the Russian Nazis provoked them.
War is a dirty business.
Sounds like many lf the West’s own “cultural enrichers”.
The only question I have – if they hate Russia so much, why do they go there?!
Oh really? And what about children’s Slavic blood for German soldiers?
Well, you Russians started it, and frankly speaking, the GD Soviets did far worse things than the bloody naxi’s ever did. This is what happens when you unleash the dogs or war, it goes primitive in a very short period of time. Think this is bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet, but you soon will!
Oh really? And what about children’s Slavic blood for German soldiers? What about ovens and gas chambers?
Child’s play to what the GD Soviets did in scope and scale.
Tammel Esco is obviously a white supremacist!