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Justin Trudeau is ready to “respond with whatever it takes” to end the Freedom Convoy following a series of late-night meetings with opposition leaders, key Cabinet ministers, and senior officials. “The prime minister and ministers will continue to work closely with all orders of government and local authorities to respond with whatever it takes to help provinces and municipalities end the blockades and bring the situation under control,” his office said in a statement following Thursday’s meetings.

A key federal agency on Feb. 10 changed its mission statement, removing several key phrases. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve,” the new mission statement says. Under the old statement, the agency was described as “administer[ing] the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”

Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Don’t ever be the person who suggests matching shirts.The Wuhan-Fauci Chinese Bat Flu has visited a horrible host of ills on the American people these past couple of years. Parents with school-age children have often been dealing with the double-whammy income loss and the emotional damage done to their children by overzealous tyrants who followed their egos rather than the science they claimed to be chasing.COVID has exposed the worst of those lurking within the ranks of the public education system that is supposed to be nurturing and teaching our children. A lot...

March 4 is the date for the kickoff of a truck convoy protesting vaccination mandates. Organizers of The People’s Convoy, formerly known as the U.S. Convoy to D.C. 2022, posted an update to their Facebook page Tuesday, Feb. 8, announcing March 4 as the kickoff date. “On March 4, 2022, truckers and all freedom loving Americans will begin arriving at Coachella Valley in Indio, Calif., to participate in a rally being held the afternoon of March 4 and 5 to defeat unconstitutional mandates,” the update states. According to the post, truckers will be joined at the rally by doctors, police,...

The big super game is coming. The truckers are coming! The truckers are coming! Wouldn't it be so much fun if the truckers clogged up the streets of Los Angeles and prevented anybody from getting to the stadium? That is, after all, what Saul Alinsky would do. He really would. The icing on the cake would be if the truckers clogged up LA and all got out of their trucks and kneeled in the streets next to the trucks. Just get out right there and take a knee. That would be so fantastic. That would so turn it on its...

Insults, hypocrisy on steroids and a 'Spidey'-free show stain the fading institutionJimmy Kimmel did something very few comedians accomplished in Oscar history.The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” propagandist hosted the annual gala not once but twice. And while Billy Crystal, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson topped that number, most comics can only dream of doing so even once.Yet the Oscar veteran openly mocked the gala this week shortly after the Academy unleashed its latest round of award nominations.“The biggest snub today in my opinion, and I’m actually even angry about this, I’m kind of embarrassed to say, is the unforgivable omission of...

We see no awareness of how inflation builds from the supply chain — that when a producer has higher input costs for raw goods, he needs to pass on his costs to the next guy down the line buying it — the factory, the retailer, the broker — and those guys need to pass that higher cost onto the next guy, the wholesaler, the consumer, and so on. The guy at the end of it, the consumer, is the one who gets burned, since he has no one to pass it on to. That explains why inflation is all over...

President Joe Biden's administration has urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to use its federal powers to end the Freedom Convoy demonstrations blockading key border crossings to protest Canada's COVID-19 restrictions.

U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end an anti-vaccine mandate protest blockade that is sending ripple effects through the American economy and causing increasing concern in Washington. The White House says U.S. officials had multiple conversations on Thursday with their Canadian counterparts about the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a major trade artery which connects Windsor, Ont. with Detroit. The White House said Thursday the U.S. federal cabinet and senior administration staff are now seized with this issue. "[They] have been engaged around the clock to bring this to a swift end," the White House said in...

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. While we try to figure out Russia’s intentions for Ukraine, Iran is getting closer to a deal that will leave it a nuclear power. Discussions in Vienna are back on, and hopeful dispatches are sent out by Western diplomats. But given Iran’s maximalist demands, and the Biden administration’s fetish of “diplomatic engagement,” things aren’t looking good for the region’s stability. Ever since Biden rejoined the talks to restart the deal Trump wisely walked away from, Iran has shown patent contempt for this country and its diplomats. Meanwhile,...

Stop what you’re doing and watch this. Kids at a Las Vegas elementary school burst out into cheers after learning they no longer have to wear a mask to school pic.twitter.com/xIuHgFtmHo — Courtney Holland 🇺🇸 (@hollandcourtney) February 11, 2022 No more masks. Kids jump for joy in Las Vegas.

Elder of Ziyon has taken note of a recent article in “the most influential newspaper in the Arab world” that calls into question the real Holocaust – the murder of six million Jews – and instead, claims that the “worst calamity” of the 20th century was the “Palestinian Holocaust.” His article can be found here: “‘Most Influential Arab Newspaper’ says ‘Palestinian Holocaust’ worse than …The Holocaust,” Elder of Ziyon, January 30, 2022:Ad Dustour is a pro-government Jordanian newspaper that was declared as the most influential newspaper in the Arab world in Industry Arabic’s latest rankings. It is partially owned...

Well, it has been a cringe-worthy year+ under President Biden. West Texas Intermediate Crude futures price is up 91% and the Commodity Research Bureau Foodstuffs index is up 47%. Talk about Biden’s energy folicies being passed through to American households in the form of higher food costs and energy prices! And then we have mortgage rates. Bankrate’s 30Y mortgage rate is up to almost 4%, up 39% since the beginning of 2021. Other central banks are raising rates like banshees on the moor, while The Federal Reserve continues to send conflicting signals about possible March rate hikes. Goldman Sachs sees...

The Week Canada Liberated the United States – perhaps that’s a bit of hyperbole at this juncture, but I pray it comes to fruition. With so much of the Western world led by puppet governments we are doomed if the people don’t take it back** from the mini-tyrants being led by the nose by Tyrants with a capital T. Let’s not be ruled by the weenie liars-in-chief. “Power to the People” as the Leftists once smugly demanded. So even if you’ve already seen this grand video mocking Castrudeu’s speech vilifying the #TruckersForFreedom watch it again this fine Friday. It encapsulates...

Chocolate, candy hearts and flowers for Valentine’s Day? So last year. If you’re looking to spice things up, the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke may have the perfect gift idea for you. The museum is bringing back “Hisses and Kisses,” a unique fundraiser that lets you name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after someone special. Whether you love them or loath them, it costs just $5 and comes with a personalized e-card. ”A lot of people will send them to their friends as a joke like this your exes name now, named after a cockroach and a lot of...

Russia is massing yet more troops near Ukraine and an invasion could come at any time, perhaps before the end of this month's Winter Olympics, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. In his starkest warning yet to Americans in Ukraine to get out, U.S. President Joe Biden said he would not send troops to rescue U.S. citizens in the event of a Russian assault. "Things could go crazy quickly," Biden told NBC News, as he urged U.S. citizens in Ukraine to leave the country immediately.

Here, we report the case of a man living with HIV who, having previously achieved stable viral suppression, experienced a transient period of non-suppressible viremia after receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The patient, a 65-year-old heterosexual male, was diagnosed with HIV infection in March 2020, during a diagnostic workup for chronic liver disease due to former alcohol abuse. In April 2021, the patient, by then suppressed for more than 6 months, with a negative clinical history and negative anti-N antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, received the first dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna Biotech) in the context of the Italian vaccination campaign....

These kids at a Las Vegas elementary school were just told they don’t have to wear masks anymore (VIDEO AT LINK)

In a bizarre display of aggression, Ontario Police have begun tracking down people who show their support for the Freedom Convoy 2022 on the popular online platform, Facebook. Groups on Facebook in support of the protest consist of hundreds of thousands of people. There's no telling what the resources involved in this kind of campaign will cost the tax payers of Ontario. You can watch the very short video at the link.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- Health authorities in Denmark said Friday that they were considering "winding down" the country's coronavirus vaccination program in the spring and see no reason now to administer a booster dose to children or a fourth shot to anymore residents at risk of severe COVID-19. The Danish Health Authority said in a statement outlining its reasoning that the third infection wave in the European nation was waning "due to the large population immunity." "The very high vaccine coverage in Denmark, especially with the third shot, means that we can cope with increasing infection without getting serious illness," the...