- A provocative Ukrainian propaganda video shows some European cities attacked by Russian aviation and bombs. The goal is to ask Europe for a no fly zone over Ukraine. An impressive video that comes from Kiev. The clip shows the Eiffel Tower coming under fire as people are heard screaming.
- Donald Trump has lashed out at Joe Biden over POTUS’ apparent efforts to tackle skyrocketing fuel prices in America by turning to countries that he once sought to avoid for help. Speaking at a rally of supporters in Florence, South Carolina, on Saturday, Trump claimed that even though Biden is the president of “the most energy rich country on the planet, […] because of his party’s climate hysteria, what they believe on the planet, Biden locked down American oil and natural gas production”.
- As the West announced additional military aid to Ukraine, former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said that Washington’s “deep involvement” in the Eastern European country is “clear”. “US deep involvement in Ukraine is clear from this staggering amount of military and civilian aid to it. Ukraine is being encouraged to resist without thought to the costs for its people. And Europe which has to live with Russia next door”, Sibal said. “Hatred of Putin and Russia is not geopolitics. Neutrality is not a sin. Russia aside, the long-term cost to the West will be severe too. No winners”.
- As Russian forces amassed near the Ukrainian border in January, Delivering Dreams, a New Jersey–based surrogacy agency, rented several apartments in the western city of Lviv, Ukraine. The rooms were for its 28 surrogate mothers living in the capital city of Kyiv, further east and closer to the Russian threat. It was a precautionary measure to calm the fears of intended parents back in the United States and Canada, founder Susan Kersch-Kibler said. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown its booming surrogacy industry into chaos. Ukraine’s surrogacy crisis highlights the conflicts and dangers of reproductive tourism. On Feb. 21, BioTexCom posted a five-minute video reassuring foreign parents. It shows a bomb shelter the company said it acquired that “can hold up to 200 people who will feel comfortable here,” said a woman in the video. She pointed to rows of gas masks, sleeping bags and beds, cots for newborns, cribs for older babies, and shelves stocked with baby supplies, food, and “everything people may need for a comfortable stay here.” The company said it can guarantee the safety of its surrogate mothers and their babies.
- Among the promises that the Biden-Harris team rolled out during their 2020 White House campaign were tackling the spread of coronavirus, increasing the distribution of vaccines, creating paths to citizenship for migrants, and improving the country’s infrastructure, a majority of which were combined in the “Build Back Better” bill. During a Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on Saturday, US Vice President Kamala Harris outlined the tasks that she wants her fellow Democrats to accomplish ahead of the looming midterms. One of these tasks is to remind voters that the Democratic administration, according to Harris, has largely kept its campaign promises. “Our task is to show people that, in many ways, they got what they ordered”, Harris told the meeting.
- According to John Paul Mac, in 2019, the second son of Joe Biden came to his shop to repair his MacBook, but never returned to collect it. The computer tech purportedly discovered a trove of documents about Hunter’s business deals overseas, which he deemed suspicious, and then alerted the FBI about them. The man who was involved in the New York Post story about Hunter Biden reveals he has faced harassment from members of the public, US authorities, and Big Tech ever since he decided to expose details about the president’s son. John Paul Mac says his life has completely changed and he is nearly bankrupt. The 45-year-old says he started experiencing intimidation after he was mentioned in the article. “I was getting a lot of death threats. I was having vegetables, eggs, dog s**t thrown at the shop every morning. There were multiple situations where people came in and you could tell they were not there to have a computer fixed. And if there were not other people in the shop, I don’t know what would have happened”, he told the outlet.
- The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, located in western Finland, has been linked up to the national grid and started power generation, according to Finnish operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO). Eroded by technological problems that became the subject of lawsuits, Olkiluoto 3 is Finland’s first new nuclear plant in more than four decades and the first one launched in Europe in nearly 15 years.
- Israel should not be preserved as a Jewish state, the Amnesty International US Director Paul O’Brien said, according to outlet The Jewish Insider. O’Brien said that while his organization “takes no political views on any question, including the right of the State of Israel to survive,” Israel “shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state.” Amnesty International (AI) believes that “the right of the people to self-determination” should be protected, O’Brien stressed, but it opposes the idea “that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people.” The American executive director’s remarks follow a recent AI report that accused Israel of “apartheid” towards Palestinians. The authors of the report, heavily criticized by both Israeli and US officials, said that “Israel must dismantle this cruel system and the international community must pressure it to do so.” Commenting on the document, O’Brien said that its main purpose was to “collectively change the conversation” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his opinion, what is needed is a “safe Jewish space” rather than a “Jewish state.”
- AN ASTEROID JUST HIT EARTH: Discovered. Photographed. Destroyed. All three things happened to asteroid 2022 EB5 in quick succession on March 11th. Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky discovered the asteroid at 19:24 UTC. Italian astronomer Enrico Pettarin photographed the asteroid at 20:28 UTC. The asteroid destroyed itself at 21:22 UTC when it hit Earth’s atmosphere off the coast of Iceland, disintegrating harmlessly as a bright fireball. The entire sequence of events took less than 2 hours.
- The Airports Council International Europe (ACI) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for “all remaining COVID restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be dropped, including all testing requirements, the need to present proof of vaccination, or complete a Passenger Locator Form (PLF).” The two groups listed two main reasons for their proposal: the risk of hospitalization or death has been dramatically reduced because of herd immunity and many European states have lifted domestic COVID restrictions.
News Burst 14 March 2022
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