Notes Today:

 

• Officials at the Pentagon warned that Russia has enough troops near Ukraine to invade the entire country. And is adding more!!
• Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum  - Russia has an abortion rate nearly double that of the United States. Any form of Christianity outside of the state-controlled Orthodox Church is liable to be considered a cult. Only 15 percent of Russians are even interested in religion; only 5 percent have read the Bible.

• Hedge funds bought +104k contracts of ag futures last week - on Brazil damage and Crude Oil strength.   

• Two Long Island nurses made more than $1.5 million in a fake vaccine card scheme, prosecutors say.

• Plam Oil at all time high at 5628 

• The Tennessee school district bans Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ over violence and profanity – now sold out on Amazon. 

• Jake Tapper @jaketapper Another school board removing another heralded book from its curriculum: "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be removed from the Mukilteo WA School District's ninth-grade English/Language Arts required reading list. Selling out on amazon??