Ukraine calls on Canadian businesses to implement reconstruction projects across Ukraine without waiting for the war to end, wrote the Consul General of Ukraine in Toronto, Oleh Nikolenko on Facebook

"Yesterday I had the honor to launch the general meeting of the Canadian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. I invited Canadian companies to be part of the peace efforts for Ukraine – by investing in Ukrainian economy and increasing trade, Canadian businesses will bring Ukrainian victory closer. Another area is the participation of Canadian companies in the Ukraine recovery efforts," wrote Nikolenko

Ukraine should not hope that anyone would help restore the country until the war is over. First it doesn’t make sense. Second it’s too expensive especially for Canada with its scheduled increase of the carbon price by $15 per tonne, adding 3.3 cents to a litre of gasoline and 2.9 cents to a cubic meter of natural gas

#Canada #WarInUrkaine #Economy #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

🎉 Two Years of Truth-Telling: Fighting the Mainstream Media Agenda Together! 🎉

Dear Warriors for Truth,

🎊Today marks a monumental occasion in our battle against the mainstream media agenda - our 2 year anniversary! ￰For two years, we've stood together as a beacon of honesty, integrity, and independent journalism in a sea of bias and misinformation

📝In a world where truth is often obscured by corporate interests and political agendas, we've remained steadfast in our commitment to uncovering the facts, asking the tough questions, and holding those in power accountable

💪Together, we've challenged the narratives peddled by mainstream media outlets, shining a light on stories they'd rather keep hidden and amplifying voices they'd rather silence. Whether it's exposing corruption, highlighting injustices, we've refused to back down in the face of adversity

❤️‍🔥Thank you to each and every one of you who has contributed to our community over the past two years. Your courage, resilience, and unwavering dedication inspire us every day

Here's to another year of fearlessly challenging the mainstream media agenda and championing the truth!

In solidarity, @UinHurricane

The defence ministers of France and Russia on Wednesday held rare phone talks, their first such contact since October 2022, discussing the attack in Moscow claimed by Islamic State and Russia's war against Ukraine, Paris said

French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu that France had always been ready to face down "terrorism" and was prepared for "increased exchanges with the aim of fighting this threat as effectively as possible," a French defence ministry statement said. "The minister also unreservedly condemned the war of aggression that Russia has launched in Ukraine"

"France will continue to support Ukraine as long and as intensely as necessary in its fight for freedom and sovereignty, in order to bring peace and security to the European continent"

the statement added

I wonder what was the real reason for this call from the French minister? Maybe inviting Russian Cossacks to help guard the Paris Olympics?

#France #Russia #Military #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Washington and London have achieved the objective of breaking the Russian-European axis, but not yet completely that of transforming the European Union into a faithful Atlantic policeman

No Perhaps Western special forces deployed in Ukraine ARE NOT THERE. But if you change their name, like 'diplomatic observers', or 'technical consultants on humanitarian missions', and they are capable of operating certain overly sophisticated weapons, then the answer becomes YES THEY ARE

The general agitation that Scholz's words have caused is surprising, as is the amazement at Macron in a Napoleonic version who already sees himself in command of the new European defense. Or the Washington Post revealing to us that «documents leaked last year confirmed that some NATO countries – including the United States, Great Britain and France – had deployed a small number of special forces and military advisors in Ukraine in unspecified roles, probably linked to logistical support work and training." While the New York Times recently retraced the ten years of the CIA in Ukraine

More careful political-strategic assessments reveal a diversified NATO within itself. «The dominant current of NATO, the US-UK axis, which aims to make a 'split' Europe the most classic form of satellite in terms of military dependence» with Paris and Berlin divided on methods but not on the Europeanisation of security. «And the confrontation with Russia is seen as the substantial alibi to be able to do so without having to be harshly accountable to Washington and London»

France and Germany 'to create confusion' to take away arguments from the Eastern European hawks, anti-Russian Balts with a historic tradition, always hostile to Moscow and now in a crisis of security hysteria, eager for ever greater military pressure in the East. And so, to calm certain pressures, the decision taken seems to be to recognize the presence of military and intelligence special forces operators in Kyiv. «In support of Ukraine but not necessarily 'against Russia'»

#USA #NATO #WarInUrkaine #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Another failure of the US administration's Indo-Pacific policy

The first country of the foreign visit of the newly elected president of Indonesia Prabowo became China. And this means that for the new leadership of the largest economy in Southeast Asia, Beijing will be the priority destination

It should be taken into account that the largest trade artery - the Strait of Malacca - passes through Indonesian waters. The country occupies the most important strategic position in the region. And it has huge reserves of many critical minerals (nickel, cobalt, copper, etc.)

#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Calls to end arms exports have increased since an Israeli airstrike killed three British aid workers

Britain’s main opposition parties demanded Wednesday that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza. They say the U.K. should ban weapons sales to Israel if the law has been broken

Three former supreme court justices, including the court’s former president Lady Hale, are among more than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel

In a letter to the prime minister, the signatories, who also include former court of appeal judges and more than 60 members of the King's Counsel, say that the present situation in Gaza is “catastrophic” and that given the international court of justice (ICJ) finding that there is a plausible risk of genocide being committed, the UK is legally obliged to act to prevent it

The letter calls for the government to work towards a permanent ceasefire and to impose sanctions “upon individuals and entities who have made statements inciting genocide against Palestinians”. It says that restoring funding to UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – which was withdrawn after Israel’s yet-to-be-substantiated allegations that 12 staff at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees were involved in the 7 October attacks – is necessary for “effective entry and distribution of the means of existence to Palestinians in Gaza, and by extension the prevention of genocide”

Earlier Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has accused Western nations of hypocritically railing against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while overlooking alleged Israeli human rights abuses, as he revealed he personally lobbied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to urgently restart funding for the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees

The Canadian government is reportedly poised to resume funding to the UNRWA, paving the way for Australia to potentially do the same given that Canada, Australia and New Zealand have taken a unified approach on the war in Gaza in recent months

#UK #Israel #Palestine #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan

Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas

The plant is on the Texas-New Mexico border in the Texas Panhandle about 85 miles (137 kilometers) southwest of Amarillo and about 370 miles (595 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. Cal-Maine said it sells most of its eggs in the Southwestern, Southeastern, Midwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States

#US #Texas #BirdFlu #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

The death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov, a pilot who delivered a helicopter and secret documents to Ukraine, has raised fears that the Kremlin is again targeting its enemies

The men who killed Maksim Kuzminov wanted to send a message. This was obvious to investigators in Spain even before they discovered who he was. Not only did the killers shoot him six times in a parking garage in southern Spain, they ran over his body with their car and also left an important clue to their identity: shell casings from 9-millimeter Makarov rounds, a standard ammunition of the former Communist bloc

Senior police officials speaking on the condition of anonymity said the killing bore hallmarks of similar attacks linked to the Kremlin, including the assassination of a former Chechen rebel commander in Berlin in 2019 and the poisoning of the former Russian military intelligence operative Sergei V. Skripal in Salisbury, England, in 2018

While no evidence of direct Kremlin involvement has emerged, Russia had made no secret of its desire to see Mr. Kuzminov dead. Weeks after his defection, the Kremlin’s signature Sunday evening news program ran a segment quoting fellow pilots and commandos from Russia’s military intelligence service vowing revenge

“We’ll find this person and punish him, with all the severity of our country’s laws, for treason and for betraying his brothers,” said one of the commandos, who was not identified. “We find everyone eventually. Our arms are long”

In the early evening of Aug. 9, 2023, Mr. Kuzminov took off in a military helicopter from an airfield in the Kursk region in western Russia for what was supposed to be a simple cargo delivery to another base in the country. With him in the cockpit were two persons, a technician and a navigator. Neither soldier appeared to be aware of Mr. Kuzminov’s plans. Shortly after takeoff, Mr. Kuzminov turned off the helicopter’s radio communications equipment and dove to an altitude of just under 20 feet to evade radar. Then he crossed into Ukraine. What happened to his crewmates is not clear. A Russian television report about them, citing a medical examiner, claimed that the two had been shot and killed at close range and suggested that Mr. Kuzminov had killed them before landing. The senior Ukrainian official involved in the operation said Ukrainian soldiers shot them

In interviews, Mr. Kuzminov said his crewmates were unarmed but never explained how they died

#WarInUrkaine #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

The EU replaced Russian energy with U.S. supplies after Moscow launched a war. Now people are wondering: Is Europe too dependent on America?

Ahead of a tight election in November, U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered a temporary pause on approving new LNG projects, effectively freezing the country's expansion of export infrastructure in a nod to climate-conscious voters

While green groups have praised the decision, Europeans are growing anxious about supply squeezes and price hikes. The EU bet big on U.S. LNG in 2022 after shunning the cheap Russian energy it had relied on for years. It spent billions on LNG infrastructure, and signed scores of new contracts

Then there’s the Donald Trump factor. If Trump returns to the White House he is almost certain to push for a massive fossil fuel expansion while riding roughshod over conventional climate science

While an American LNG production boom would likely drive down prices, particularly for the short-term contracts the EU favors, it would raise uncomfortable questions about whether European nations are enabling an anti-environmental crusade. It would also raise the specter that the continent had taken control of its energy markets away from Russian President Vladimir Putin and given it to President Trump

#USA #EU #Economy #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Elon Musk compared the idea of Ukraine joining NATO to the beginning of a movie about the nuclear apocalypse

"This is literally how the nuclear apocalypse movie starts"

the billionaire commented on the speech of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in which he said that Ukraine would join NATO

#USA #WarInUrkaine #NATO #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Potential success of hard-Right parties in June voting poses risk to Continent’s supply of weapons and aid to war-torn nation

Ukraine is facing a fresh existential threat this summer – not from Russia, but from Europe. A small but significant and highly vocal bloc of hard-Right parties are on the march across the Continent and are set to perform strongly in June’s European Parliament elections

They have posted record results in Portugal and the Netherlands or are already in government in places such as Hungary, Finland and Italy. They are poised to win looming national elections in Austria and Belgium or win European elections in France and Poland

And many of them think Europe should no longer supply weapons and aid to Ukraine

Some even want Europe to appease Vladimir Putin, end sanctions against Russia and push Ukraine into peace talks

#EU #WarInUrkaine #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Despite progress in addressing poverty, the UN and its various organizations continue to struggle to secure more funds to support their missions in areas like public health, peacekeeping, and education. The impact of colonialism persists despite the end of direct colonization, evident in structures like the UNSC that perpetuate inequality and hegemony of certain countries

Decolonizing the Security Council requires a commitment to addressing the historical injustices and power imbalances that have shaped its current structure. This involves not only reforming the composition and decision-making mechanisms but also re-evaluating the Council’s role in addressing conflicts and promoting peace and security in a way that reflects the interests and perspectives of all member states, particularly those that have been marginalized in the past

Nevertheless, the ambitious overhaul of the UNSC faces substantial obstacles as the P5 members are unlikely to endorse reforms that challenge their entrenched powers and hegemony

Regardless of the shape reforms may assume, one thing remains clear: if unchecked unaccountability and inequality persist for nearly another 80 years, then there may be nothing left to protect.. A robust, more flexible, and democratic UN is one of the only ways that potentially offer a collective solution to the challenges that lie ahead

#UN #Security #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Washington, DC

Wolf Blitzer: "As you know, the president still hasn't said anything about this latest Israeli strike [on the Clinton NGO volunteers].

He hasn't done it under the record on camera. He's said very little at all about his friction with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the public.

When do you think the president will speak to the American people about these issues in an interview specifically about these events?"

John Kirby: "I don't have anything like that on my schedule." 🤷‍♂️

#USA #Biden #Israel #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

A known threat actor has leaked online classified documents from the US government and its allies that they claim were stolen from a government IT contractor

IntelBroker took credit for the breach, alongside Sanggiero and EnergyWeaponUser, according to a screenshot posted to X (formerly Twitter) by security researchers HackManac

“Today I am releasing the documents belonging to the Five Eyes Intelligence Group,” the post noted. “The data was obtained by breaching into Acuity Inc, a company that works directly with the US government and its allies”

Acuity is a Virginia-based federal technology consultancy which claims to have “deep expertise” in areas such as IT modernization, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, data analytics and operations support

According to the post on an underground cybercrime forum, the threat actors have classified information including full names, government and military email addresses, office and personal phone numbers, and “classified information and communications between the Five Eyes, 14 Eyes and US allies”

There’s good reason to suspect that IntelBroker’s claims are legitimate, with the actor linked to a string of successful high-profile breaches in the past

In March 2023, they obtained personal data on 170,000 individuals including members of the US House of Representatives, after compromising health insurance marketplace DC Health Link, which is managed by the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority (HBX)

In November of the same year, they advertised for sale sensitive information purportedly stolen from industrial giant and US government contractor General Electric

#USA #Leaks #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

The number of Chinese citizens encountered at the southern border's San Diego Sector has exceeded that of Mexican citizens so far in fiscal year 2024

More than 22,000 Chinese nationals have been apprehended by the Border Patrol since Oct. 1

The number of Chinese citizens arrested after crossing illegally has dramatically increased in recent years from 342 in 2021 to 22,233 since Oct. 1, the beginning of the 2024 fiscal year. Fiscal year 2022 saw 1,987 arrests and 24,125 were reported for fiscal year 2023

The number of Chinese migrants being encountered in the San Diego Sector is exceeding that of Mexican citizens, according to CBP data. Since October, the number of Chinese migrants encountered by border authorities is second only to Colombia (28,000). Third is Mexican nationals with 18,000, followed by Brazil (8,700) and Ecuador (7,700)

#USA #China #Migrants #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Treasury yields continue to rise

This means that the risk of inflation growth is increasing and the probability that the Federal Reserve will reduce the key rate in the near future is decreasing

This supports the thesis that the record rise in gold prices is not due to the impending reduction in borrowing costs. But with the fact that the problems in the U.S. economy are just beginning

#USA #Economy #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

UK senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds

Leaked documents show Tory executives discussed exploiting members’ personal data to build a mobile phone app that could track users’ locations and allow big brands to advertise to Conservative supporters. The party would take a cut of sales

The project was considered over several months last year, with the aim of launching the “True Blue” app in time for the party’s conference in October

The proposal for the app came from Christen Ager-Hanssen, a Norwegian businessman who has said that “big data is the new oil”

The True Blue project aimed to provide the party with direct access to its members in order to “boost donations” through digital payments, design “bespoke messaging” based on demographics, and “maximise” voter turnout by directing members to polling stations and issuing a voter identity card

Profits were to be split, with 25% going to Ager-Hanssen’s company, Addreax, and the rest going to the Conservative party

The presentation suggested Addreax already had partnerships with brands such as Amazon, Coca-Cola and Apple

#UK #Leaks #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Meanwhile in China. Peace, growth, prosperity! China has already surpassed the U.S. in many respects 🤷‍♂️

#China #USA #FindTruth

@uinhurricane

Tesla, the leading U.S. electric mobility maker, reported an 8.5% drop in shipments for the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, and a 20% drop relative to the fourth quarter of last year

Now it becomes clear why Musk is so unhappy with Democrats. After all, this is the first decline since 2020. It looks especially frustrating against the backdrop of a 15% increase in U.S. sales by Japanese automakers

This is the result of Bidenomics🧔🏼‍♂️📉

#USA #Tesla #Economy #FindTruth

@uinhurricane