US Ammo Company Pledges to Send One Million Rounds to Ukraine

A US ammo company has pledged to send one million rounds to Ukraine to assist them in the conflict.

AMMO, Inc., which is based in Arizona, vowed to send the ammunition after hearing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea for assistance.

Fred Wagenhals, CEO of Ammo Inc., said in a statement, “Ammo Inc., and we as Americans stand firmly in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence, as we stand for freedom and democracy everywhere. While we fervently hope for a quick and peaceful resolution to the crisis and that diplomacy will win the day, we condemn the Russian aggression and its threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity and freedom. We recognize that events are unfolding rapidly on the ground in Ukraine, and we are prepared to move quickly as possible to support Ukraine as it continues to defend itself and its freedom.”

“Ammo Inc. will formally offer to manufacture ammunition to donate to the Ukraine Armed Forces as they fight for their country’s continued independence,” the statement added.

According to their website, AMMO designs and manufactures products for a variety of aptitudes, including law enforcement, military, sport shooting and self-defense. The Company was founded in 2016 with a vision to change, innovate and invigorate the complacent munitions industry.

Fox 10 reports, “the CEO says he has a private plane ready and waiting. All he needs is the green light from the government, and the bullets can be there in a couple of days.” They noted, “one of the bullets they make are called 762s – exactly what Ukrainian soldiers need to fight the Russia’s invading army.”

“There had not been any word yet if the government will approve the shipment. The street value of a million of their bullets is right around $700,000,” the report added.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/us-ammo-company-pledges-send-one-million-rounds-ukraine/

Utah’s Republican (?) Governor Vows to Veto Trans Sports Ban

The Republican governor of Utah has pledged to veto a bill requiring athletes to compete in sports according to their birth gender.

Governor Spencer Cox says he will veto a transgender sports ban passed by the state legislature on Friday. Without Cox’s signature, the law protecting female athletes from having to compete against males identifying as females will likely fail.

The governor specifically addressed trans athletes whom he feels have been unfairly thrust into the middle of a contentious political debate.

“I just want them to know that it’s gonna be okay. We’re gonna work through this,” Cox said.

The governor’s planned veto comes after months of tense, behind-the-scenes negotiations between lawmakers and activists as they attempted to craft legislation that would give schools a framework for dealing with athletes who identify as members of the opposite sex.

Cox was aware of and involved with the negotiations throughout the process. When the talks between social conservatives and transgender activists began, the aim was to create a state commission or panel that would look at issues of transgender sports involvement on a case-by-case basis, according to the Associated Press. However, when the legislature passed a law on Friday that included an amendment banning males identifying as females from girls’ sports, the governor announced he would veto the measure.

Lawmakers representing social conservatives defended the amendment by saying the rule would ensure fairness protect the safety of female athletes.

“Boys can run faster, they can jump higher, and they can throw farther than girls in the same age bracket,” said Republican State Sen. Curt Bramble.

“To have individuals that are born male compete against naturally born females, it’s an unfair playing field,” he added.

Lawmakers in Utah had gravitated towards the idea of a commission to handle cases of transgender participation in sports, at least in part, due to a belief that the courts would ultimately block Utah from passing a trans sports ban as they had done in Idaho. The bill passed on Friday that outright bans trans participation did contain a provision that allowed the commission to be set up if the courts blocked the state from implementing a trans sports ban.

As the Associated Press reports:

Equality Utah, an LGBTQ rights group opposed to state intervention in youth sports, said they were blindsided by the passage of the legislation.

‘We have failed our state’s transgender children, who just want to be treated with kindness and respect,’ the group said in a statement.

Though “blindsided” by the passage of legislation banning trans athletes from girls’ sports, trans activists weren’t pleased with the law’s original intent of setting up a commission either due to fears that transgender athletes would feel unfairly targeted.

Eleven other states have recently passed laws banning males identifying as females from girls’ sports.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/03/06/utahs-republican-governor-vows-to-veto-trans-sports-ban/

Secretary of State Blinken Suggests US Won’t Ban Russian Oil without Permission From European Countries

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the US is “looking” at banning Russian oil nearly two weeks after Putin invaded Ukraine.

So far the only sanctions against Russia have hurt the innocent civilians.

Big corporations such as Visa and Mastercard are also ‘canceling’ innocent Russian civilians as the US refuses to ban Russian oil imports.

Blinken suggested to “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that the United States would not unilaterally make a decision to ban Russian oil.

“We are looking… in coordination with allies and partners at this prospect of banning [Russian] oil and gas,” Blinken said.

https://youtu.be/GDXyKLtB9f0

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/secretary-state-blinken-suggests-us-wont-ban-russian-oil-without-permission-european-countries-video/

Japan moves to accept Ukrainian refugees and rebuild its military as countries continue to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Japan announced this past week that it would accept Ukrainian refugees displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and will send bulletproof vests to Kiev.

Historically, Japan has resisted taking in refugees and has maintained a pacifistic approach to foreign conflicts since the end of World War II. The Washington Post reported that Japan decided to break with its more isolationist tendencies “without ‘gaiastu,’ or foreign pressure.”

It is believed that Russia’s recent attack on a Ukrainian power plant inspired the Japanese government to accelerate debates over its pre-existing defense and national security policies. The Japanese government has been growing wary of China’s rising presence on the global stage and has been reevaluating its approach to stave off the growing territorial threat that China poses.

Akihisa Shiozaki, a member of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party, indicated that the Japanese government is growing increasingly skeptical of the United Nations’ ability to reign in the aggression of its member states.

He said, “It’s a big awakening that there are limitations to what the U.N. can do, limitations to what diplomacy can do, limitations to what economic sanctions can do.”

Regarding the shift in Japan’s policy approach, Shiozaki said, “It’s not about rewriting the boundaries of what Japan can do, but filling in the details of what we may not fully anticipate, or may have overlooked in our preparation.”

He added that Japan’s willingness to accept Ukrainian refugees enables the Japanese government to begin preparing for future refugee crises that may arise.

He said, “In considering future crisis scenarios in East Asia, including the Taiwan contingency, it is necessary to build and maintain the capacity to respond to refugees in times of emergency, even in peacetime.”

Japanese leaders are looking to their former ally, Germany, to see how a pacifist nation might reinstitute defensive measures.

Yoichi Funabashi, the chairman of the Asia Pacific Initiative think tank, said, “Japan is watching now, very much attentively, how Germany is responding to the Ukraine crisis and how fundamentally Germany is transforming to adapt itself to new reality.”

Within a week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany would vastly increase its spending on defense.

And, it appears, that Japan is following suit.

At a recent press conference, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, “Japan needs to implement a fundamental upgrade of its defense capabilities.”

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, said in a recent T.V. interview that the ongoing reconfiguring the of the global power structure should be cause for the Japanese government to reconsider its approach to self-defense.

Abe said, “We should firmly consider various options when we talk about how we can protect Japan and the lives of its people in this reality.”

He also suggested that Japan should offer to hold nuclear weapons on behalf of the United States as a preemptive defensive measure.

Abe said, “In NATO, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy take part in nuclear sharing, hosting American nuclear weapons. We need to understand how security is maintained around the world and not consider it taboo to have an open discussion.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/japan-moves-to-accept-ukrainian-refugees-and-rebuild-its-military-as-countries-continue-to-respond-to-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine

Russia warns countries offering airfields to Ukraine would be entering conflict

Moscow continues upping the rhetoric as fighting in the southeastern neighbor protracts; France's Macron urges Putin to end military operations in Ukraine and to ensure security of country's nuclear sites

"The use of the airfield networks of these countries to base Ukrainian military aircraft and their subsequent use against the Russian armed forces may be regarded as the involvement of these states in an armed conflict," Interfax news agency quoted spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1tdr8mbq

Proceedings against Illinois politician set to begin in corruption, racketeering case

Taxpayers could face a hefty price tag as federal prosecutors pursue corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Taxpayers could face a costly and lengthy path to justice as federal prosecutors work to convict one of the state's most powerful politicians on corruption charges.

Prosecutors alleged in a 22-count indictment last week that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, used his elected office and political operations as part of a years-long criminal enterprise for personal gain. In addition to the criminal charges, the indictment also seeks the forfeiture of $2.8 million in alleged illegal profits from Madigan and his confidante, former state lawmaker and ComEd lobbyist Michael McClain. If convicted of the most serious charge, Madigan could face up to 20 years in prison.

The criminal proceedings are just getting underway. Madigan is set to be arraigned March 9. Already, five attorneys from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a Chicago-based law firm with more than 700 attorneys across the world, have filed appearances on Madigan's behalf.

After it became clear his fellow Democrats wouldn't support him as speaker for another term, Madigan resigned from the Chicago legislative seat he held for five decades on Feb. 18, 2021. The next day, his campaign fund, Friends of Michael J Madigan, spent $2 million with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, according to campaign finance records.

Sheldon Zenner will serve as Madigan's lead attorney, according to court records. Zenner spent seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago.

"Having a prosecutorial background gives Sheldon critical insights into, and the ability to anticipate, the government's strategic decision-making," according to Zenner's biography on the firm's website. "It also informs Sheldon's approach as a defense lawyer. Although never anything short of zealous, he favors a search for common ground and reasonableness, whenever possible, over unproductive displays of aggression."

Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney John Lausch said he is confident in the case his office built against Madigan and McClain.

"We use a whole host of investigative tools, those aren't spelled out specifically in the indictment, but what you do have is words that are used in conversations, you do have words that are used in documents or in emails that are spelled out throughout that indictment," he said. "And that's the core of our evidence in this case."

Prosecutors have cooperation from a political insider, former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis, who recorded conversations with Madigan, according to court records. In 2020, federal prosecutors and Exelon subsidiary ComEd reached a deferred prosecution agreement. As part of the agreement, the utility admitted it paid $1.3 million in jobs and contracts to associates of Madigan over nine years to influence the former House speaker. ComEd agreed to pay a $200 million fine. A former ComEd official, Fidel Marquez, pleaded guilty to bribery charges in September 2020.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/5-attorneys-prepare-represent-madigan-wide-reaching-corruption

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Russia claims Ukraine destroying evidence of US-funded bioweapons program

Russia’s Defense Ministry says Kiev ordered scientists to destroy samples of plague, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens

As Russian troops entered Ukraine, the government in Kiev ordered the “emergency destruction” of pathogens including plague and anthrax at US-funded laboratories near the Russian border, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow claimed on Sunday. Earlier rumors that the Russian military was targeting US-run biolabs were written off as conspiracy theories, but the ministry has promised to back up its claims with documents.

“We have received documentation from employees of Ukrainian biolaboratories on the emergency destruction on February 24 of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases,” read a statement from the ministry.

The statement accused the “Kiev regime” of conducting an “emergency cleansing” to hide evidence of the supposed biological weapons program, which the ministry claimed was funded by the US, and involved the production of “biological weapons components” at at least two laboratories in the cities of Poltava and Kharkov, both of which have seen intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in recent days.

The documents published by the ministry purportedly include an order from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health to destroy the pathogens, and lists of the germs in question.

RT can not independently verify the authenticity of these documents. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that they are currently being analyzed by radiation, chemical and biological protection specialists.

“In the near future we will present the results of the analysis,” the ministry said, adding that it believes the documents will prove that Ukraine and the US were violating Article 1 of the UN Biological Weapons Convention. The US, Ukraine and Russia are among more than 180 parties to this treaty, and under Article 1 of the agreement, all parties agree “never under any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire, or retain” biological weapons.

As of the moment of this article’s publication, Washington has not commented on the ministry’s claims, and neither has Kiev.

In the initial days of Russia’s military offensive last month, claims circulated online that Russia was targeting western-funded biolabs with missile strikes. These allegations were never verified and were derided by western sources as conspiracy theories, although the Pentagon has publicly stated that it works with the Ukrainian government to “consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern in Ukrainian government facilities,” for “peaceful research and vaccine development,” according to the US embassy in Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/551374-ukraine-biological-warfare-labs/

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Almost All Ukrainian Aviation Fit for Combat is Destroyed, MoD Says

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian armed forces have nearly completed the demolition of military infrastructure in Ukraine, and the special military operation was going according to the plan.

Humanitarian corridors from cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha are to be reopened on Sunday morning a day after Ukrainian forces prevented civilians from leaving.

Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia had immediately responded to Kiev's request to open humanitarian corridors and declared a ceasefire to guarantee a safe evacuation, but the Ukrainian side once again used civilians as human shields.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations are expected to meet for a third round of talks on Monday. Putin launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February after the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) appealed for help in defending themselves against the Ukrainian forces, which had intensified bombardments of Donbass.

President Putin said the goal of the operation was "protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." In order to achieve the goal, he said, it's necessary to carry out the "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.

The Russian Ministry of Defence has said that it's conducting high-precision strikes only at the Ukrainian military infrastructure, and nothing threatens the civilian population.

https://sputniknews.com/20220306/live-updates-kiev-forces-continue-to-shell-donbass-as-mariupol-humanitarian-corridor-set-to-reopen-1093629911.html

US Senate Passes Bill To End COVID-19 National Emergency

The U.S. Senate on March 3 approved a measure that would end the national emergency over COVID-19.

The resolution passed 48–47 on a party-line vote.

All Republicans voted for S.J.Res. 38, which would end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump on March 13, 2020. All Democrats voted against the declaration, which has been extended twice by President Joe Biden.

Five senators missed the vote, including three Democrats.

“After nearly two years of living under this state of emergency, the American people are worn out and yearning to breathe free; they long for their God-given freedoms, and for leaders to take their side. There is no doubt, it’s time for our nation to learn to live with COVID,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who introduced the measure, said in a statement after the vote.

“I am proud my colleagues came together to repeal this emergency declaration and delivered a symbolic victory to our citizens that normalcy is around the corner and that limited government and our constitutional rights still reign supreme. It’s high time to stop talking about restrictions and the unknown. We must chart a new course to victory today that respects the virus and our freedoms.”

Before voting began, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged senators to vote no. He argued that it isn’t the right time to end the emergency declaration, which enables the president to take certain actions, because new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 may emerge.

The proposal “would precisely handicap the Biden administration’s ability to fight the pandemic and heighten the danger that all our progress is suddenly unraveled in the future,” he said, claiming the declaration “has been one of the most powerful and best tools for mobilizing the federal government to combat the pandemic.”

Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) disagreed, telling the body that the number of people who have been vaccinated combined with those who enjoy natural immunity means “a large majority of the nation are already protected” and that the virus has become endemic.

“When this emergency was first declared two years ago this week, it was needed,” he said, but “it’s past time for the president and governors across the country to give up the extra powers granted to them under the COVID emergency declarations.

“If we’re going to live with this virus and move forward as a country, we must end the national emergency authorization and then other governors across the country should follow suit.”

The measure now heads to the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Democrats, who have generally been more in favor of restrictions during the pandemic than the GOP. Even if the House were to approve the measure, the White House said on March 3 that Biden would veto it.

A spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn’t respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-senate-passes-bill-end-covid-19-national-emergency