>Strike And Move Edition
Thank you baker
noice title
I know, CNN. It's counter-intel though.
Anyway, Potato and Putin to meet?
[Resident] Joe Biden has agreed "in principle" to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as long as Russia does not further invade Ukraine, according to a statement from White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
This potential summit, according to an Elysee Palace statement, was proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The meeting, according to Psaki, would happen after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meet on Feb. 24.
"[Resident] Biden accepted in principle a meeting with President Putin following that engagement, again, if an invasion hasn’t happened," Psaki said in a written statement on Sunday night.
"We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war. And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon."
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-20-22-intl/index.html
>HERO POTATO TO RESCUE
Timing is everything, but I am hopeful we start seeing the drip drip drip for this story now that all eyes are on Canada/Trudy…
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/II/II06/20190625/109694/HHRG-116-II06-20190625-SD004.pdf
‘Good for them,’ says one of many in U.S. supporting Canada’s convoy protesters with money
Mike Schroeder is a Republican donor and activist in Sedona, Ariz. He advocates for looser gun laws and a tighter border with Mexico. COVID-19 safety restrictions, he says, are a needless “control situation.” He believes a conspiracy theory, pushed by former president Donald Trump, that hospitals are artificially inflating pandemic figures.
So when he saw an opportunity to contribute to the Canadian convoy protests against vaccination requirements, COVID rules and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr. Schroeder kicked in US$2,500.
“My God, the things they’re doing up there,” Mr. Schroeder, the semi-retired former owner of a satellite television company, said in an interview. “Enough is enough. These guys have stood up to it, and good for them.”
Mr. Schroeder’s donation is one of roughly 100,000 to flow through GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding platform that has become the main conduit for contributions to the convoy. The donation was revealed last week in a data dump by hackers who broke into the site.
While most of the money for the protests originated in Canada, donations from the U.S. were a close second, according to a Globe and Mail analysis, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the total raised.
The US$3.6-million from south of the border is just one totem of the attention the protests are getting here. And it could foreshadow the strength of efforts to bring a similar convoy to Washington, even as police cleared protesters from the streets of Ottawa this weekend and the federal government moved to freeze some demonstrators’ bank accounts.
The convoy featured hundreds of semi-trailer trucks that shut down the centre of Canada’s capital for three weeks and blockaded border crossings for days at a time, slowing international trade to a crawl. Convoy leaders called for Mr. Trudeau to be ousted and replaced by a new government that would include themselves.
While it is possible for donors to contribute under fake names, they must provide a zip code that matches their credit-card information, GiveSendGo told the Washington Post. This information, along with public-records checks and interviews with donors, helps sketch a picture of U.S. contributors.
They appear to include tech-sector entrepreneurs, small-business owners, a naturopath and government employees. Many donors left comments referencing Mr. Trump and QAnon, the sprawling conspiracy theory that the former president’s enemies are part of a Satanic cult.
The convoy’s largest single contribution, a US$90,000 cheque cut 10 days ago at the height of the border blockades, came from Thomas M. Siebel, a San Francisco-area billionaire who owns artificial-intelligence company C3.ai. He confirmed the contribution in a statement to U.S. media.
The second-largest U.S. donation, and fifth-largest overall, was recorded as coming from Ben Pogue, president of Dallas-area Pogue Construction. A crisis-communications firm representing Mr. Pogue said he did not want to comment on the US$75,000 contribution.
The third-largest sum registered in the U.S. was attributed to Travis Moore, the Idaho-based chief technology officer for a cryptocurrency company. The amount – US$17,760 – referenced 1776, the year the U.S. was founded.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-good-for-them-says-one-of-many-in-us-supporting-canadas-protesters/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
TL;DR
Most of the trucker donations came from Canadians, but 40% came from Americans (3.6 million from south of the Canadian border)