Just a couple of highlights tonight — Ukraine’s success, and CNN’s failure. First, Ukraine is kicking Russia out, town by town! Ukraine has broken its silence since the start of its counteroffensive on 29 August🔹700 sq km regained 🔹Russians pushed back 50 km in Kharkiv direction 🔹>20 settlements retaken in
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Cathie from Canada: Six months of war in Ukraine
Here are a few selections from the New York Times collection of Ukraine photos during 6 months of war Dusk in Kyiv Feb 24 (Brendan Hoffman) A volunteer fighter at Mykolaiv March 10. (Tyler Hicks) Sister Diogena Tereshkevych in a bomb shelter in Lviv April 15. (Finbarr O’Reilly) A family with
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "We will stay here together"
Zelenskyy: “Our land is the only thing we have. We will stay here together.” https://t.co/uNoxkJbTWN — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) August 19, 2022 When the Ukraine-Russia War started in February, and quickly became so awful for the people living under bombings and occupation, one of the questions I
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Going Nuclear
Ain’t we havin’ some fun now? So Garland threw down the gauntlet to Trump – put up or shut up. He told Trump he was applying to the court to release the search warrant and evidence list from Monday’s raid, and dared Trump to oppose it – which I
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Less than meets the eye?
I think Trump Mar-A-Lago “raid” was either: -a major national security scandal about a trove of top-secret documents that Trump was trying to sell to Putin or the Saudis; OR -a Got Junk? cleanup of old presidential souvenirs that the Trumps had been too lazy to box up themselves and
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Fighting the good fight
This is true for us lefty Canadians too: In fact, I’m so crazy I wrote an article about it!https://t.co/DQtpnHeMeq — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 5, 2022 Being timid, defensive, and afraid is a losing strategy according to Anat Shenkar-Osario, president of ASO Communications, who runs weekly focus groups where she
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: A problem with definitions
Some chatter these days about how conservatives and progressives aren’t talking to each other very much anymore. Another day of nightmare oppression in communist Canada 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/msNUsft7Se — Dr. Ian Garner (@irgarner) July 17, 2022 We don’t agree on some basic definitions anymore, do we. One striking thing about GOPers
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: From All Over
Reconciliation visit: The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports: On Friday, [Pope Francis] met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before an outdoor performance that included traditional throat singing and drum dancing. His speech before hundreds began with another apology
Continue readingThings Are Good: Ukrainian Company Produces Easy to Install Solar Panels to get Europe Off Russian Gas
Oil is not just a reason countries go to war, it’s used during war to destabilize allies. Russia’s war in Ukraine is no exception to this as the Russians are profiting from selling Europe gas while threatening to cut off gas supplies to the continent at the same time. A
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Papal reconciliation visit: An apology from Pope Francis. This was the best part after the apology that is.#PopeFrancus crowned with Indigenous headress, While crowd erupts with approval.👏👏👏 #PapalVisit2022 pic.twitter.com/14cYlrTWfo — Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 25, 2022 Giving the Pope a headdress is not being well received online, however –
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ukraine update
Lots of news from Ukraine lately: First, a new deal was announced today to move Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea: New: A deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea has been signed in Istanbul, the UN SecGen says. The agreement will include three Ukrainian ports,
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I had never seen this before, its absolutely hilarious. Here’s another great Twitter story: Frank Slade was helping his Aunt Ethel run her gas station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, when there was a knock on the door. Two men told him he had a choice between joining the U.S.
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Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX — mrs.LHS 🇺🇦🍀🌻☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just so nearly 400 Uvalde cops in full military gear could stand around while 19 children and 2 teachers were killed
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ukraine update
Here is some recent news from Ukraine: While the famine is growing around the world, harvests in occupied by Russia Kherson region are burning all the time. Reported by the media and the local residents pic.twitter.com/95UnIDaZOt — Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) July 9, 2022 Farmers across Ukraine are increasingly feeling the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Looking for their soul
First up, some comment about what has happened to the soul of the Conservative party in Canada: The leadership of the CPC is still theoretically up for grabs, but the battle for its soul is over — and the anti-vaxxers have won. #cdnpoli https://t.co/Txl0pNSu46 — Max Fawcett 🇨🇦 (@maxfawcett) July
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Conservative leadership update: Maybe Poilievre has hired a new PR firm not staffed by 12-year-olds. He released a video today that conservatives actually liked. As for me, it worried me — it doubles down on the Conservative “freedom” meme which actually means “be as prejudiced as you want, we won’t
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: The Ukraine war—a boon for the Prairies
War mostly bings death, destruction and suffering, but it also brings profits for some. In the case of the current war in the Ukraine, much profit will be brought to Canada’s Prairie Provinces. We have already seen the dramatic escalation in the price of oil, currently soaring to as high
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Sarah Bartsch et al. study the costs and benefits of face mask use, and conclude that even without factoring in improvements to public health mask mandates produces positive outcomes from a financial perspective, while Caroline Alphonso reports on Ronald Cohn’s exhortation for Ontario not to
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Ukraine—a hard power lesson for Iran … and others
In December, 1991, as the Soviet Union crumbled into dust, Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence. Thus was created something of a nuclear problem. The new country was the world’s third largest nuclear power. Approximately 1,700 warheads remained on Ukrainian territory, a third of the Soviet arsenal. The Ukrainians didn’t have
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nuclear War Not Humanity’s Only Option
Aside from the insane invasion of democratic Ukraine by the Russians, there’s another pending catastrophe in store for humanity anywhere between this afternoon and the next 5000 years. Destruction from space rocks slamming into our atmosphere is a near certainty in our solar system, but we have technology that can
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