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Piet Mondriaan Victory Boogie Woogie 1942-44

 

America’s Empire Is Bankrupt (John Michael Greer)
West Knows Ukraine Weapons Leaking To Black Market – Seymour Hersh (RT)
Ukraine Says Western Military Aid Is ‘Not Enough’, Demands 10x More (RT)
Revolts Erupt Among Ukrainian Troops In Donetsk Cities – Prigozhin (TASS)
Seymour Hersh Reacts To NYT Helping Track Down Pentagon Leaker (RT)
Russia Warns Of Repercussions From US Visa Refusal (RT)
Musk Claims He Donated $100 Million To Ukraine (RT)
The Greens Are Dragging Germany Down With Foreign And Energy Policies (Fomenko)
EU Legislators Urge France To Declare Chinese Envoy Persona Non Grata (TASS)
EU’s Top Diplomat Wants Naval Patrols Off Taiwan (RT)
China’s Big Refiners Snapping Up Russian Oil – Reuters (RT)
Russia Has Enough Coal For 300 Years – Energy Ministry (RT)
The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole (Spiegel)
Mother of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant for Refusing COVID Shot in Georgia (ET)

 

 

The last thing they want is Biden debating JFK jr.

 

 

 

Comer: “There’s not gonna be anybody left for a Christmas picture… it’s the entire family..”

 

 

Biden 2024

 

 

 

 

Macgregor
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Cyber truck
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RFK jr Bill Gates
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“The good news is that there’s a solution to all this. The bad news is that it’s going to take a couple of decades of serious turmoil to get there.”

America’s Empire Is Bankrupt (John Michael Greer)

We’ve still got some of the natural resources, but nothing like what we once had. The thrifty habits? Those went whistling down the wind a long time ago. In the late stages of an empire, exploiting flows of unearned wealth from abroad is far more profitable than trying to produce wealth at home, and most people direct their efforts accordingly. That’s how you end up with the typical late-imperial economy, with a governing class that flaunts fantastic levels of paper wealth, a parasite class of hangers-on that thrive by catering to the very rich or staffing the baroque bureaucratic systems that permeate public and private life, and the vast majority of the population impoverished, sullen, and unwilling to lift a finger to save their soi-disant betters from the consequences of their own actions.

The good news is that there’s a solution to all this. The bad news is that it’s going to take a couple of decades of serious turmoil to get there. The solution is that the US economy will retool itself to produce earned wealth in the form of real goods and non-financial services. That’ll happen inevitably as the flows of unearned wealth falter, foreign goods become unaffordable to most Americans, and it becomes profitable to produce things here in the US again. The difficulty, of course, is that most of a century of economic and political choices meant to support our former imperial project are going to have to be undone.

The most obvious example? The metastatic bloat of government, corporate and non-profit managerial jobs in American life. That’s a sensible move in an age of empire, as it funnels money into the consumer economy, which provides what jobs exist for the impoverished classes. Public and private offices alike teem with legions of office workers whose labour contributes nothing to national prosperity but whose pay cheques prop up the consumer sector. That bubble is already losing air. It’s indicative that Elon Musk, after his takeover of Twitter, fired some 80% of that company’s staff; other huge internet combines are pruning their workforce in the same way, though not yet to the same degree.

The recent hullaballoo about artificial intelligence is helping to amplify the same trend. Behind the chatbots are programs called large language models (LLMs), which are very good at imitating the more predictable uses of human language. A very large number of office jobs these days spend most of their time producing texts that fall into that category: contracts, legal briefs, press releases, media stories and so on. Those jobs are going away. Computer coding is even more amenable to LLM production, so you can kiss a great many software jobs goodbye as well. Any other form of economic activity that involves assembling predictable sequences of symbols is facing the same crunch. A recent paper by Goldman Sachs estimates that something like 300 million jobs across the industrial world will be wholly or partly replaced by LLMs in the years immediately ahead.

Another technology with similar results is CGI image creation. Levi’s announced not long ago that all its future catalogues and advertising will use CGI images instead of highly-paid models and photographers. Expect the same thing to spread generally. Oh, and Hollywood’s next. We’re not too far from the point at which a program can harvest all the footage of Marilyn Monroe from her films, and use that to generate new Marilyn Monroe movies for a tiny fraction of what it costs to hire living actors, camera crews and the rest. The result will be a drastic decrease in high-paying jobs across a broad swathe of the economy.

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“..only 30% of military aid actually reached the frontline..”

“..Maria Zakharova said in October [..] she estimated the black market turnover at $1 billion per month..”

West Knows Ukraine Weapons Leaking To Black Market – Seymour Hersh (RT)

Western-supplied arms are being sold by Ukrainian commanders to smugglers in Poland, Romania and other states, veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. The Pulitzer Prize winner, speaking to Afshin Rattansi on his program ‘Going Underground,’ said the West is aware of this black market trade, as some reports about missing arms shipments have even appeared in the US media. Hersh claimed that, according to his data, almost immediately after the conflict broke out between Kiev and Moscow last February, “Poland, Romania, other countries on the border were being flooded with weapons we [the US and allies] were shipping for the war to Ukraine.” “Often, it wasn’t generals, it was colonels and others, who were given shipments of some weapons, [who] would personally resell them… to the dark market,” he explained.

The journalist noted that there was concern in the West last year that some of the arms sent to Ukraine, such as Stinger shoulder-launched missiles, could be used to “shoot down an airplane at considerable height.” As for Western-supplied weapons ending up on the black market, “CBS wrote a story about it that they were forced to retract,” Hersh said. When asked about why the piece was retracted, the journalist said the media is supporting the stance of the US government that “we’re on the side of Ukraine. We all hate Russia.” Hersh was likely referring to the documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which CBS aired last August. The promo for the film, which included a claim by the founder of pro-Ukraine NGO Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman, that only 30% of military aid actually reached the frontline, was removed, while the documentary itself and the story accompanying it were redacted.

Russian officials have on many occasions warned about Western-supplied arms being smuggled outside Ukraine, thus deteriorating the security situation elsewhere around the globe. “NATO military supplies intended for the Kiev regime end up in the hands of terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, Southeast Asia,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in October. At the time, she estimated the black market turnover at $1billion per month. An investigation by RT last summer also revealed how various weapons supplied to Kiev by the West were being sold on the dark net. The journalists were able to swiftly negotiate to the purchase of a US-made kamikaze drone with smugglers. However, it impossible to confirm whether the sellers actually had the weapons in stock, as the reporters did not complete the purchase.

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Melnik is a piece of work.

Ukraine Says Western Military Aid Is ‘Not Enough’, Demands 10x More (RT)

Western nations should allocate 1% of their GDP for weapons deliveries to Ukraine amid the country’s conflict with Russia, controversial Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Melnik has said. “We are thankful to our allies for their military help. But: it is not enough,” Melnik wrote on Twitter on Saturday. The US has already provided more that $35.4 billion worth of arms to Kiev since the start of the fighting last February, with the EU and its member states adding another $13.3 billion. But Melnik insisted that “Ukraine needs 10 times more to finish Russian aggression this year.” “We call upon our partners to cross all artificial ‘red lines’ and devote 1% of GDP for weapons deliveries,” the diplomat said.

NATO demands that its member states allocate 2% of their GDP to defense spending. However, the bloc’s annual report, which was published in March, revealed that only seven of its 30 members had been able to meet that target in 2022. Kiev, which secured a promise to supply main battle tanks from the US, UK, Germany and some other countries earlier this year, is now pressuring its foreign backers to provide warplanes too. In another tweet on Saturday, Melnik mocked German Foreign Minister Boris Pistorius for suggesting that Tornado and Eurofighter jets would be “unsuitable” for the Ukrainian military. “Oh, yes?.. Really?” the deputy foreign minister wrote. Berlin had originally ruled out delivering its Leopard 2 tanks, but is now “so proud” to be sending 18 of them to Kiev, he noted.

Melnik was Ukraine’s ambassador in Germany until last July, and often made headlines in this role with scandalous comments. He labeled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “offended liverwurst” for his unwillingness to visit Kiev, but later apologized. He also told Elon Musk to “f**k off” in relation to the billionaire’s peace proposals. In one interview as ambassador, Melnik defended controversial Ukrainian hero Stepan Bandera, who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII and is accused of the mass murder of Jews and Poles, comparing him to noble thief Robin Hood. Melnik wasn’t without a job for long following his dismissal, having been promoted to deputy foreign minister last November.

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Chasov Yar is about 10km west from Bakhmut, Konstantinovka 10km from there.

Revolts Erupt Among Ukrainian Troops In Donetsk Cities – Prigozhin (TASS)

Rebellions have begun among Ukrainian servicemen in Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka, as they are dropping their arms and walking out, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the PMC Wagner, said on Saturday. “Revolts have begun among the servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces in Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka. They are dropping their arms, rising and leaving,” said Prigozhin, cited on his press service’s Telegram channel. This is how Prigozhin responded to a request to comment on reports that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had demanded from Ground Forces Commander Alexander Syrsky that his troops stand their ground in Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) until May 9, so as “to prevent a big informational victory of Russia.” Artyomovsk, located in the Kiev-controlled area of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), is a major transport hub supplying the Ukrainian military grouping in Donbass. Yan Gagin, an advisor to DPR head, told TASS on April 18 that Russia’s forces had taken control of nearly 90% of Artyomovsk.

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“..you can’t be shocked that the Times would be – as a good citizen – turning to the FBI… of course, I am [shocked], but you can’t be.”

Seymour Hersh Reacts To NYT Helping Track Down Pentagon Leaker (RT)

Seymour Hersh has slammed the New York Times over its pro-government stance and treatment of sources, and the way it helped the FBI track down suspected Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira. The veteran investigative journalist gave an interview to Afshin Rattansi on ‘Going Underground.’ Teixeira, who posted classified US intelligence data on the conflict in Ukraine and other issues in an online gaming forum, was apprehended by the FBI last week. The arrest took place after the NYT and the Washington Post – in cooperation with Western-funded “open source investigations” outfit Bellingcat – tracked down the source of the documents and publicly exposed his identity. The NYT also located Teixeira’s home in Massachusetts and spoke with his mother.

“Don’t get me going on the press; the press is a no-win situation for me,” Hersh said when asked about the issue during the program. The veteran journalist mentioned that he worked at the NYT for many years and “won a lot of prizes,” at a time when the paper was much better at protecting its sources. “One of the most important stories I wrote [in 1974] about the CIA spying on American citizens had nobody named in it,” he said. The NYT has shown itself to be completely “pro-Biden” as it doesn’t criticize the US president at all, Hersh argued. The Pulitzer Prize winner said that along with other major outlets, the paper did not report on his recent bombshell article blaming the Biden administration for the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September.

They only published “counter stories given by the intelligence community,” the 86-year-old added. Hersh went on to claim that Donald Trump “terrified” the media when he became US president in 2017 despite “all the mocking they did… And they’re terrified again. I’ll tell you there’s a lot of people very worried that we might end with Biden-Trump ticket in 2024.” In such a situation, “you can’t be shocked that the Times would be – as a good citizen – turning to the FBI… of course, I am [shocked], but you can’t be.”

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Weaponizing UN headquarters.

Russia Warns Of Repercussions From US Visa Refusal (RT)

The US has failed to grant visas to accredited journalists from the media pool traveling with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Moscow said on Sunday. Lavrov and his delegation are scheduled to take part in UN Security Council meetings in New York City next week, with Russia currently holding the rotating presidency of the UNSC. Russia’s top diplomat blasted the withholding of visas as “stupid,”exposing the true worth of Washington’s “oaths about protecting freedom of speech, about access to information, and so on.” “Of course, I understood how notorious our American colleagues are for such things but I was sure that, this time, given the attention that was drawn to their ugly behavior, everything would be different. But I was wrong,” Lavrov told reporters.

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov revealed that the US had been “pretending” until the very last moment that it was trying to sort out the visa issue. Now, Moscow is compelled to respond to the fresh hostile move, he warned. “It’s yet another proof that not only should our colleagues in Washington not be trusted, but also not-listened-to altogether,”Ryabkov stated. “I stress, we will find ways to respond, to make Americans remember that things should not be done in such a fashion. And they will remember.” Lavrov is set to preside at two UNSC meetings this week, meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and to hold other bilateral meetings in New York. The diplomatic activities are set to become “major newsbreak events” and barring the pool reporters from participating is completely unacceptable, Ryabkov said.

Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council on April 1, amid the ongoing standoff with the collective West over Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine. The UNSC presidency has been riddled with assorted issues, with the American side also delaying granting permission for the arrival of Lavrov’s plane. The pool journalists traveling with the Russian delegation were supposed to have a visa appointment as early as March 31 yet these meetings were canceled, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, revealed last week. The Russian Foreign Minister and multiple other senior officials were subjected to US sanctions last year over the Ukraine conflict. At the same time, as the host-nation of the UN headquarters, Washington has obligations not to hamper with the work of its diplomats and foreign dignitaries, or with that of accredited journalists, whatever the circumstances.

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Weaponizing Starlink.

Musk Claims He Donated $100 Million To Ukraine (RT)

Elon Musk claimed to have donated $100 million to support Kiev in its conflict with Moscow during an argument on social media with US author Stephen King on Sunday. Last year, the SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter CEO oversaw the introduction of the Starlink telecommunications system in Ukraine. “I’ve donated $100m to Ukraine, how much have you donated?” Musk asked King in a tweet on Sunday after the author suggested that the billionaire should donate a portion of the proceeds from the social media platform’s new paid-verification model to Kiev. Musk also retweeted an October message from Ukrainian Technologies Minister Mikhail Federov, in which he thanked the SpaceX CEO for the provision of the company’s Starlink satellite network to Ukraine, which he described as “critically important.”

The Twitter owner also noted that SpaceX had turned down funding from the US Department of Defense to help pay for the system’s operational costs – which he estimated last year would reach $100 million by the end of 2022. Soon after the beginning of the conflict last year, Musk made Starlink – a low Earth orbit constellation of satellites that provides internet access – available in Ukraine following a request from Federov. The communications network was deployed by Kiev to monitor troop movements and other military information-gathering methods, particularly as Ukraine’s pre-existing internet infrastructure was regularly inoperable.

However, in February, Kiev responded angrily after Musk and SpaceX imposed limits on the use of Starlink in Ukraine amid reports that the technology was being harnessed for the use of drones. Mikhail Podolyak, a senior adviser to Vladimir Zelensky, argued at the time that SpaceX must decide if it is “on the side of the right to freedom.” Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s chief operating officer, said during a news conference in the United States last February that the system was not intended for use in Ukraine for “offensive purposes,” and that it was “never, never meant to be weaponized.”

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“The Greens are subserviating Germany to the US agenda and are actively dismantling everything that has made Germany successful, in exchange for practically nothing.”

The Greens Are Dragging Germany Down With Foreign And Energy Policies (Fomenko)

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described her recent visit to China as “more than shocking,” arguing that while Germany should not “decouple” from Beijing, it should no longer be Berlin’s most important trading partner. Baerbock was in Beijing on an apparent damage-control visit, following Emmanuel Macron’s widely publicized trip to the country and subsequent criticism of the US. Her critical remarks on China came on Wednesday, as she spoke to the Bundestag. The Green Party of Germany, which is part of a governing coalition with the larger Social Democratic Party (SPD), has always been known for its hawkish and neoconservative foreign policies. This stems from the fact that ‘Green politics’, although based on a tradition of environmentalism, is simply a more radical offshoot of liberalism, emphasizing the preaching of universalist values.

Thus, many Western Green parties (the left-leaning, anti-war US Green Party being perhaps an ironic exception) have typically espoused human rights zealotry. Therefore, they have been hostile to China, which is why so many of the parties’ elected representatives are present in the international Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). Accordingly, the German Greens, having seized control of the country’s foreign ministry, are seeking to dismantle Berlin’s highly favorable geopolitical relationship with China while also going full-throttle in their confrontation with Moscow. Gone are the days of pragmatism, prudence and common sense, and here are the days of divisive liberal fundamentalism, which has allowed the US to readily dismantle the foundations of Germany’s prosperity and economic strength. Baerbock is a disaster, and she’s taking Germany down with her.

Despite being the largest and most powerful economy in Europe, which has shaped the direction and integration of a whole continent, Germany’s future now looks bleak. The escalation of the Ukraine conflict, combined with Washington’s likely but vehemently denied destruction of Nord Stream 2, has destroyed the foundations of the country’s energy security and its industrial competitiveness. The damage done is evidenced by the fact that it’s forecasted to scrape a 0.3% GDP growth rate in 2023, while year-on-year inflation stood at 8.7% in February. Baerbock now seems content to swing the demolition ball at her country’s relationship with China, its largest trading partner. She has sought to unveil new rules to discourage the expansion of German businesses in the country, using the talking point of “reducing dependence.”

Germany’s trade with China was worth €245 billion ($270.8 billion) in 2021. But the question is, if not China, then who? Because look at the consequences of this ‘reduced dependence’ on Russia. The Greens are subserviating Germany to the US agenda and are actively dismantling everything that has made Germany successful, in exchange for practically nothing.

The fanatical environmental policies of the Greens, mixed with their foreign policy, are making the situation even worse. Despite the fact that the country has suffered an energy crisis, having lost its partnership with Russia, the Greens have pursued their obsessive anti-nuclear stance. This has forced the country to stay on the self-destructive route of abandoning nuclear power, despite overwhelming consensus that it is cheap, safe, and of course strategically important in the environment they are creating. Germany shut down its last nuclear power plants last week in a move that baffled international commentators and energy experts.

Because of these policies, Germany is under threat of national decline. The legacy of the influence of the Green Party in Olaf Scholz’s government has been to dismantle the foundations of its economic growth, expand the influence of the US over Germany wholesale, and of course rip up geopolitical partnerships that were built on realism and self-interest. Under Merkel, Germany was a powerful and influential player because it acted as a maverick, without deviating from the values it deemed important. The price of ripping up these legacies, cheered on by US-sponsored think-tankers targeting Berlin relentlessly, has been to create a Germany which will be weaker, poorer and less relevant – an American vassal. Who needs multipolarity when you can put a Green Party in charge of your foreign ministry? Germany is thus experiencing a slow death at the hands of the Greens.

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He questioned the legal status of former Soviet countries. Crimea! Shut him up!

EU Legislators Urge France To Declare Chinese Envoy Persona Non Grata (TASS)

A group of 80 delegates from the European Parliament has sent a letter to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna requesting to declare Chinese Ambassador to Paris Lu Shaye persona non grata over his remarks about the status of former Soviet republics. “Ambassador Lu Shaye has publicly stated that the former republics of the Soviet Union do not have effective status within the framework of international law,” their letter published in Le Monde on Sunday said. “We urge to declare China’s envoy persona non grata over his unacceptable behavior,” the lawmakers demanded.


According to them, the Chinese ambassador’s remarks “insulted the history, culture and integrity of the countries.” On Friday on its Twitter page, France’s LCI TV channel quoted an interview with the diplomat who, commenting on Crimea’s status, said that “even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status, as we say, under international law because there is no international accord to concretize their status as a sovereign country.”.

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And China will patrol the North Sea?!

EU’s Top Diplomat Wants Naval Patrols Off Taiwan (RT)

European navies should “patrol” the Taiwan Strait, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said, arguing that the move would help to maintain the “status quo” in the region. The diplomat floated the idea in an opinion piece published by the Journal Du Dimanche on Saturday. The EU continues to view China as “a partner, a competitor and a rival all at the same time,” in line with its strategy adopted back in 2019, Borrell wrote. The bloc should assert itself more firmly on the Taiwan issue, “which concerns us economically, commercially and technologically,” he argued. “This is why I call on European navies to patrol the Taiwan Strait to signify Europe’s commitment to freedom of navigation in this absolutely crucial area,” he continued.

“On Taiwan, our position is simple and consistent. In our view, there is only one China. But not under any conditions. And certainly not through the use of force,” Borrell wrote, claiming that “vast majority of Taiwanese people believe that [maintaining] the peaceful status quo is the most appropriate solution.” The EU official pledged to put the idea of conducting patrols to the bloc’s foreign ministers on Monday, when they are set to convene to discuss Brussels’ policies towards Beijing. At the same time, he admitted the patrols should be set up carefully, and EU nations should “be vigilant against provocations and overbidding.” The proposal is similar to the US practice of so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols involving military vessels routinely dispatched to the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and other regions.

The patrols have long been an issue in bilateral ties between Washington and Beijing, with the latter arguing that the practice only stirs up tensions rather than helping to bring ‘stability’ to the contentious waterways. In his piece, Borrell also touched on one of the most controversial international issues of recent months – the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. While Beijing has maintained a neutral stance, urging all parties to exercise restraint and seek a diplomatic solution to the hostilities, it has been repeatedly accused by Kiev’s Western backers of supporting Moscow. “We have said it over and over again to the Chinese: it is not in your interest to support Russia. Especially since by supporting it you will only increase the polarization of the international system that you claim to want to fight,” Borrell wrote, pledging to reiterate this stance at the upcoming ministerial meeting.

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There will always be buyers.

China’s Big Refiners Snapping Up Russian Oil – Reuters (RT)

China’s largest state-owned and private refineries are buying more Russian crude, driving up its price, and forcing smaller independent producers, known as ‘teapots’, to search for cheaper options, Reuters reported this week. Top Chinese buyers, which shunned Russian oil when the EU and G7 imposed an embargo and a price cap on the commodity in December, have restored confidence since then and joined the race for discounted oil. In February, state refiners PetroChina and Sinopec resumed imports, and in March, large private oil refiners Hengli Petrochemical and Jiangsu Eastern Shenghong Co followed suit, according to traders and shiptracking data from Refinitiv, Kpler and Vortexa.

In March, China’s overall Russian crude imports, including pipeline deliveries and seaborne supplies, surged to a record 9.61 million tons, which is the equivalent to 2.26 million barrels per day (bpd), customs data showed on Friday. “China’s imports of Russian Urals are on track to break March’s record [in April] as more refiners start to tap on the discounted crude from Russia’s Baltics,” said Vortexa analyst Emma Li, adding that around 700,000 bpd of Urals may reach China in April, up from 600,000 bpd in the previous month. Meanwhile, smaller refiners had to opt for alternatives such as Russian Arctic grades, Iranian and Venezuelan oil as the big buyers are back on the market.

In March alone, a record 4.2 million barrels of Varandey blend from the Russian Arctic were delivered to China’s Shandong province, home to most of the teapots, Kpler data showed. Loadings of crude from Russia’s western ports in April is expected to reach the highest level since 2019, above 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd), despite Moscow’s pledge to cut oil production, trading and shipping sources said. At the same time, discounts that Russia was offering as it sought to divert supplies away from the West are narrowing. Discounts for the country’s flagship Urals blend contracted in China for July have reduced to about $9-$10 a barrel to ICE Brent futures on a delivered ex-ship (DES) basis, from around $14 a barrel for March deliveries, according to Reuters.

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100 years of oil, 300 years of coal.

Russia Has Enough Coal For 300 Years – Energy Ministry (RT)

Russia has enough coal reserves to last for centuries, deputy head of the country’s Energy Ministry, Sergey Mochalnikov, said on Friday during a board meeting of the Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency. When taking into account both tapped and untapped subsoil resources, the country will be well supplied with the coal for 300 years, he said. “We have enough reserves. In terms of coal, we have more than 100 years of explored reserves, and if we use all the resources, we can add another 200 years or more to that. We are doing well with both resources and reserves, and this allows the country as a whole to be secure in terms of energy,” Mochalnikov stated.

The deputy minister added that all domestic needs in coal are currently fulfilled by Russian producers. Meanwhile, he also noted that exports have been the main driver of the coal industry, with new deposits and energy clusters opening in the country’s easternmost regions. Russia produced 443.6 million tons of coal in 2022, a 0.3% increase from 2021. Exports fell 7.5% to 210.9 million tons following the introduction of embargoes last August on Russian coal by the EU and UK, which had previously been the recipient of nearly a third of Russian coal exports.

Coal producers ramped up supplies to the domestic market by 12.2% to just over 172 million tons while also boosting exports to ‘friendly’ countries, particularly China. Russia increased shipments to the Asian nation by 11.2% to 59.5 million tons last year, as Moscow sought to reorient its trade and China was increasing coal consumption amid the post-pandemic rebound in industrial activity. China has continued to stock up on Russian coal this year, with the volume of imports hitting a record high last month at 8.8 million tons, up 29% over February and almost three times more than in March 2022 (3.1 million tons), according to Chinese customs data.

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“..nowhere is the feeling of having “lost the future” stronger than in Britain..”

The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole (Spiegel)

Things aren’t going well for the United Kingdom these days. For the past several months, the flow of bad news has been constant, the country’s coffers are empty, public administration is ineffective and the nation’s corporations are struggling. As this winter came to an end, more than 7 million people were waiting for a doctor’s appointment, including tens of thousands of people suffering from heart disease and cancer. According to government estimates, some 650,000 legal cases are still waiting to be addressed in a court of law. And those needing a passport or driver’s license must frequently wait for several months. Boarded up windows and signs reading “To Let” and “To Rent” have become a common sight on the country’s high streets, while numerous products have disappeared from supermarket shelves. Recently, a number of chains announced that they would be rationing cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers for the foreseeable future.

Last year, 560 pubs closed their doors forever, with thousands more soon to follow, according to the industry association. Without Oxfam, the Salvation Army and other charitable organizations that operate second-hand stores, numerous city centers would have almost no shops left at all. Last week, the International Monetary Fund forecast that in no other industrialized nation would the economy develop as poorly as in Britain this year. Even Russia is expected to end up ahead of the UK. Whereas the number of billionaires in the UK – at 177 – is higher than it has ever been, millions of Britons have slid into poverty. Newspapers and television channels are full of cheap recipes and shows like Jamie Oliver’s “£1 Wonders.” Since December, hardly a day has passed without a strike by bus drivers, medical workers, teachers, public servants, university employees or rail workers. Last week, assistant doctors across the country went on strike for four days, with the media calling on the populace to avoid all activities that could result in injury.

For many, the situation is reminiscent of the 1970s, when high debt, punishing inflation and widespread protests brought the country to its knees – leading Henry Kissinger, who was U.S. secretary of state at the time, to grumble from across the Atlantic: “Britain is a tragedy, reduced to begging, borrowing and stealing.” To be sure, after two years of pandemic and one year of war, the rest of Europe isn’t doing particularly well either. But nowhere is the feeling of having “lost the future” stronger than in Britain, according to the public opinion pollsters from Ipsos. In 2008, the year of the banking and financial crisis, 12 percent of people in the UK believed that their children would be worse off than them. Now, that number is 41 percent, Ipsos has found. One significant reason for that pessimism is the fact that many simply no longer trust their speechifying politicians in Westminster to get much done. The Tory party, which has been in power now for a dozen years, has gone through four prime ministers since 2016 alone.

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There’s a word for this: Murder.

“..Doe had already recovered from a bout with COVID and that her antibody numbers were actually stronger than those found in many people who were fully vaccinated for 90 days.”

Mother of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant for Refusing COVID Shot in Georgia (ET)

On dialysis and potentially facing death, a 41-year-old homeschooling mother of seven young children has been rejected as a candidate for a life-saving kidney transplant by Emory Healthcare Inc. of Atlanta. The reason? The woman, who has already had COVID-19, refused to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on religious and medical grounds. To protect her privacy, the patient will be referred to in this article as Jane Doe. Emory Healthcare did not respond to a request for comment. Affiliated with Emory University, Emory Healthcare is one of the leading organ transplant centers in the South. According to Liberty Counsel (LC), a national non-profit legal organization helping Doe, she was referred to Emory by her nephrologist after suddenly coming down with end-stage kidney disease.

The seriousness of Doe’s condition necessitates her undergoing dialysis three times a week to keep her alive. Following an evaluation by one of the transplant center’s nurse practitioners, Doe was initially found to be an acceptable candidate for a new kidney, even though Doe reported she had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Doe’s hopes were soon dashed when, after another consultation with Emory staffers, a social worker informed her that she could not move forward to the transplant program’s “active waiting list” until she took the shot. Emory Healthcare is one of 35 percent of the nation’s transplant centers that are still requiring their patients to be vaccinated for COVID-19, according to a Liberty Counsel analysis. This is despite the fact that on April 11, President Joe Biden declared the national emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially over.

On April 17, LC sent a letter to Emory Healthcare requesting that no later than April 30, Doe be granted religious and medical exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination mandate and asked that she be reactivated and placed on the kidney transplant active waiting list. The nine-page letter alleges that every available COVID-19 vaccine is associated with aborted “fetal cell lines.” It cites evidence from the public health departments of North Dakota and Louisiana as proof. Doe, a devout Roman Catholic, is opposed to ingesting or being injected with such vaccines based on her religious beliefs. The Liberty Counsel also informed Emory Healthcare that there were strong medical reasons for Doe’s refusal to get the jab. The demand letter stated that Doe had already recovered from a bout with COVID and that her antibody numbers were actually stronger than those found in many people who were fully vaccinated for 90 days.

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    Piet Mondriaan Victory Boogie Woogie 1942-44   • America’s Empire Is Bankrupt (John Michael Greer) • West Knows Ukraine Weapons Leaking To Black
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 24 2023]

    #133984
    Germ
    Participant


    TVASF

    #133985
    Germ
    Participant

    Normal in 2023!

    Tragedy as boy, 14, suddenly collapses and dies in ‘unexplained’ circumstances

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22134285/tragedy-boy-14-dies-unexplained-circumstances/

    TVASF

    #133986
    Germ
    Participant

    ‘SADS’ – it’s the latest craze sweeping the UK.

    Tragedy of fit and healthy young man, 29, who died suddenly just months before his wedding

    “29, died from sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), a sudden and unexplained cardiac arrest”

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tragedy-fit-healthy-young-man-26732968

    #133987
    Germ
    Participant

    Epidemic of 15-19 year olds dropping dead in schools and dorms across USA and Canada in April 2023

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/epidemic-of-15-19-year-olds-dropping

    TVASF

    #133988
    Germ
    Participant

    Brilliant minds…

    Stephanie Seneff – mRNA Exosome Protein Misfolding Neurodegenerative Disease

    TVASF

    #133989
    Germ
    Participant

    Miscarriages and Dead Infants Were Described in a Secret FDA Review, but Hidden from The Public

    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/miscarriages-and-dead-infants-were

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #133990
    Germ
    Participant

    Psychologist’s death due to AstraZeneca Covid vaccine reaction – inquest

    “Doctor’s death due to AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, inquest has ruled.. Dr. Stephen Wright, an NHS psychologist in London, died 10d after his first dose in Jan2021, senior coroner Harris found. Dr Wright, 32, suffered a blood clot to the brain after the vac”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65321937

    TVASF

    #133991
    Germ
    Participant

    Triple threat arcturus variant already in UK – new mutations show virus is ‘not dying out’

    “Britain is facing five waves of Covid every year, with the latest Arcturus variant already in the country and likely to have an impact in three specific ways, a virologist has warned. Dr Lennard Lee was speaking after the new strain was blamed for a huge surge of cases in India, prompting health officials to reintroduce mandatory mask-wearing and start mock testing drills.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1760926/arcturus-variant-covid-conjunctivitis-india

    TVASF (especially if Geert is correct – bring it on!)

    #133992
    Germ
    Participant

    Absolutely nothing to see here, move along!

    TVASF

    #133993
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “EU’s Borrell Wants European Navies To Patrol & Protect Taiwan Strait”

    If you didn’t think the goal was WWIII. What business do they have there? What possible support? Plausibly, the U.S. shares the Pacific with them, and some residual island bases. Next to no reason, but they’re neighbors-over-the-hill. Europe? De nada. Nuttin’. They can merely sink ships.

    …Which will being in Article 15 of NATO so the U.S. can then lose a whole country over one obsolete battleship from 1972.

    But that’s The Plan. Minons love Plans.

    “Florida LGBT Group Cancels Pride Parade After City Says No Kids Allowed”

    Uh, did they just parody themselves?

    “America’s Empire Is Bankrupt (John Michael Greer)

    The main, or only problem, is that “Thrifty Habit” and “Hard Work” thing. Japan doesn’t have any resources either, but they have quality and hard work. Or used to.

    Actually, we sequestered every mill, every mine, every rig, so the materials are right there. But it will take near 10 years to get them going again.

    “30% of military aid actually reached the frontline, was removed, while the documentary itself and the story accompanying it were redacted.”

    It’s the truth, and we only censor the truth. Why bother censoring Bigfoot? The arms are flowing worldwide, but unlike I expected, aren’t ending up in some new pre-planned war zone. I actually suspect the CIA WANTS the arms in Kiev for a change. They almost never do what they claim, so that’s surprising. It really is for the money, and it really is because they only support violent Nazis and criminals worldwide, well Ukraine was the Uber-Nazi Criminals. They took it to a level that couldn’t be stopped or controlled to accomplish any task: hurting Russia.

    This is what happens when you go full non-morality, full-lie. Evil depends on good, nation-loving, family-loving people to do hard work with intelligence as they have none and evil only stabs each other in the back. No good people, or too tired, not a quorum in Ukraine? Nothing gets done, it’s all theft and graft and murder. Evil requires consent of the good to survive.

    “Western nations should allocate 1% of their GDP for weapons”

    We did. $15T x 0.01 = $150B But why bother? Melnik stole them all and used it to buy Russian oil for resale.

    Revolts Erupt Among Ukrainian Troops In Donetsk Cities – Prigozhin (TASS) “

    I mean: props to them. They’re amazing. I would never have attempted such idiotic valor this long. But wars are for WINNING, not for display. I don’t care if I LOOK valiant, I’d rather look stupid and weak and win. Like General Washington. Or our present White Hats. “Appear weak when you are strong” – Sun Tzu.

    “Seymour Hersh Reacts To NYT Helping Track Down Pentagon Leaker (RT) “

    I’m reacting in that our government is so tyrannical, yet so impossibly lazy and incompetent, that they need Private Corporations and private individuals to do this for them. And still screw it up. What am I paying them $1 Trillion / Year for? You’re fired. We could fail at this for 1/1,000th of the cost.

    Russia Warns Of Repercussions From US Visa Refusal (RT) “

    End of the UN as the end of the US$. It’s almost like the good guys are in charge. What could be better than erasing the UN as a (fake) force? How am I going to human traffic now? I’ll actually be subject to national law and not have immunity.

    ““I’ve donated $100m to Ukraine, how much have you donated?” Musk asked King”

    Classic. “This is a job! …For somebody else.” “I’m a millionaire, but I’m not RICH enough yet that I should lift a finger to do anything. That’s for punitive taxes on the working poor to pay.” Or as Bernir did, “Da Millionaires, and da Billionaires!”…until he became a millionaire, then the millionaires were “poor” and of the ‘receiving’ not the ‘giving’ class. That is, HIM.

    Reminds me of the new “Equity” push. What is that buzzword? Equity. Equality of outcome. How? Via forced redistribution. That is, “Equity” is identical to “Communism.” So when you hear the word – from Nike, Facebook, Google, etc, what they mean is, “We are pushing to create a Soviet State.” “…That we run.” THEY are the new Party Members and “Very Important People”, and YOU, my friend, are NOT. You mine Uranium in Siberia.

    “Equity.” Remember, these are the International Communists, that’s why they have “Diversity”: erase a key element of the Nation and State: social similarity and cohesion. Borders and language and culture. “Inclusion” just means No Law, regardless of behavior, and No Choice. You HAVE to accept them regardless of what is done to you. You have not just no Free Speech, but #Anti Free Speech, as you are FORCED to say that when men wear dresses they become women.

    It’s not like they hide it. They put it on billboards for heaven’s sake. “Equity”. It’s the #Opposite of “Merit.” They are deeply, passionately, #AntiMeritocratic. Because then they, as glue-sniffing trust fund kids, would fail at everything and become janitor like they deserve.

    “• The Greens Are Dragging Germany Down with Foreign and Energy Policies (Fomenko)”

    Until you realize you are under attack from someone, you can’t defend against that attack.

    “• EU Legislators Urge France To Declare Chinese Envoy Persona Non Grata (TASS)”

    Wow, thanks, I thought that was another footnote, but you just showed me there’s really something there. We’ll pursue the Ukraine non-signing shortly. Gosh I’m so glad it’s these guys in charge instead of someone capable and smart.

    Russia Has Enough Coal For 300 Years – Energy Ministry (RT)

    Yup. It’s all over. We’re out of energy. I mean, except for the 300 year’s worth. And every copper and silver and iron and rare earth mine in America. Except for all those hundreds of years of resources, we’re totally out and you should eet ze bugz.

    “..nowhere is the feeling of having “lost the future” stronger than in Britain..”

    “Those who control the past, control the future.” — Orwell. Or put another way, to first identify your enemy, calls things by their proper name. Or put quickly: STOP. LYING.

    “Mother of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant for Refusing COVID Shot in Georgia (ET),

    Doctors: “First Do All Harm”. Then ask questions later. Maybe.

    “77% of Americans too fat…”

    Yes, it’s an effect of being slowly poisoned daily. Especially the sex hormone interrupters, which are extremely powerful. They put them in underwear. No joke, a whole brand exists just to avoid this.

    The very slight changes we are measuring today are nothing compared with those in the past.”

    As we saw when they cleaned up and checked the satellite data.

    Glenn Beck’s Machine: you forget, talking on camera is how to get the exact same machine to work – for HIM. It’s goin’ great!

    ” A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

    #133994
    Germ
    Participant

    We’ve known about tinnitus appearing immediately after the death vax since the beginning of the rollout.
    Now it is reported that the “vaccine could have links with causing tinnitus …”.
    Sheesh.

    COVID vaccines could have links with causing tinnitus as new theories emerge

    https://news.sky.com/story/covid-vaccines-could-have-links-with-causing-tinnitus-as-new-theories-emerge-12864899

    Tinnitus doesn’t sound like an issue, until you realise that for some it’s enough to drive them to consider suicide.

    “The pooled prevalence of suicidal ideation in tinnitus populations was 20.6 per cent
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/abs/suicidal-ideation-in-people-with-tinnitus-a-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis/52644D81489F064873DFD47661C7EFFE

    TVASF

    #133995
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Teutonic Tears of Rage

    With Germany kicking out Russian diplomats and turning off it’s last cheap electricity source of nuke plants, the Morgenthau Plan is reaching it’s final phase of implementation.

    High five Henry!

    Ignorant bare foot Germanic rubes digging in the dirt for turnips with sticks in their Century of Humiliation®

    Deutschland Unter Alles!

    The German male is entering the total emasculation transition.

    The Teutonic Girly Man® (TGM)

    It will be generations before Hans and Franz can pump them up again!

    Hahahahaha!

    Blow a kiss……

    Auf Wiedersehen to German ‘manhood’

    Der Sprockets with Dieter

    Would you like to touch my monkey?

    #133996
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #133997
    Oroboros
    Participant

    John Michael Greer delivered a wonderful essay form of a coup de grâce to the Empire of Lies.

    The large language models (LLMs) will hopefully do what that Shakespeare line alluded to and ‘kill all the lawyers’

    The rapid collapse of the ‘service eCONomy’ can’t happen soon enough, followed by Hollyweird and the so called Entertainment Industrial Mafia® vaporizing into AI Phantasm

    When Musk smoked 80% of the staff and nothing changed, well, there’s no there there

    The Robot Takeover Begins as Texas Gets First Fully-Automated McDonald’s

    “Welcome to the future of fast food at the first fully-automated McDonald’s in Texas! This groundbreaking restaurant is changing the way we think about fast food by eliminating human employees and relying entirely on state-of-the-art technology to serve customers.”

    https://propakistani.pk/lens/the-robot-takeover-begins-as-texas-gets-first-fully-automated-mcdonalds/

    .

    How’s that labor shortage Thing going?

    #133998
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #133999
    Oroboros
    Participant

    picture won’t post today

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    #134000
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I will bet you could fire 80% of WordPress Staff and the software would still be as crappy

    #134001
    Germ
    Participant

    It’s a ‘Two-fer’

    Young couple found dead at home together in ‘very rare coincidence’

    “Aleasha, a mum who was born in Torquay, had died of pulmonary thromboembolism – a blood clot in her lungs.”

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/young-couple-found-dead-home-26747432

    TVASF

    #134002
    Oroboros
    Participant

    This is who the Wagner Group is up against

    #134003
    zerosum
    Participant

    Electricity
    I don’t know.
    I don’t care.
    Next subject
    ————
    War
    I don’t know.
    I don’t care.
    Next subject
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    Life
    We are living on top/the accumulation of 4 billion years of previous living and dying creatures.
    I don’t know.
    I don’t care.
    Next subject
    ————

    #134004
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #134005
    Oroboros
    Participant

    This is what a Target store looks like in the Woketurd First World Shithole of San Francisco

    Happy yet?

    I can’t hear you

    What was that?

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1649501139292016640

    #134006
    Oroboros
    Participant

    In a Target store in San Francisco

    You’ll nedd an AI robot to unlock the merchandise case for you!

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    Mission Accomplished!

    #134007
    Germ
    Participant

    The disturbing truth about ‘safe’ vaccines for mothers-to-be

    “The study clearly demonstrated the vaccine did not stay at the injection site but travelled to the major organs. High concentrations were found in the ovaries, liver, adrenal glands and spleen. Authorities assured vaccine recipients that it did not migrate but as this 58-page report shows, they were lying.”

    “Concentration of LNPs in ovaries, a doubled pregnancy early loss rate, and raised foetal abnormality rate across all measured categories indicate that designating a safe-in-pregnancy label (B1 category in Australia) was contrary to the available evidence. The data implies that not only was the Government’s ‘safe and effective’ slogan not accurate, but it was highly misleading.

    The disturbing truth about ‘safe’ vaccines for mothers-to-be

    TVASF (as are their foetuses and their breastfed)

    #134008

    Open four or five online tone generators. Set the volumes to around 4-12%. Vary the hertz to 6500 to 8500. Turn them all on at the same time.
    That’s my tinnitus. Some substances make it worse by turning up the volume or increasing the number of tones.
    I also hear clicks and staccato tones from time to time.
    Sometimes I preform this task and then turn them off one by one to get a sort of relief.
    The chance of worsened tinnitus played a big part in knowing I would absolutely refuse the “vaccine”.

    #134009
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Some equity arguments make good sense. Sure, auto-opening doors so that disabled people don’t have to wait around for a door to be opened, for example. Often, if we think about equity we can make minor adjustments in how buildings are designed so that they do a better job of accommodating everyone. There is logic in this. (We could say that elevators exist so that people who are not athletes can make it to any floor of a skyscraper.)

    However…sometimes the logic is flawed. Post-2008 all of Phoenix’s city pools were outfitted with chairlifts to lower disabled people safely into the pools. At the same time, when in operation, the pools are staffed with many young, strong, athletic, trained lifeguards. In the years since I think that I have seen the chairlift used once. Was the cost of the chairlift worth the benefit? Without the chairlift, a couple of life guards would assist the occasional disabled guest with entry and egress from the pool. This interaction would tend to be a positive social engagement for all involved and would promote building the affected community.

    #134010
    Germ
    Participant

    Yup – it was a mass poisoning event.

    Seneff again:

    Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs

    “In this paper, we present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health. Immune cells that have taken up the vaccine nanoparticles release into circulation large numbers of exosomes containing spike protein along with critical microRNAs that induce a signaling response in recipient cells at distant sites. We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances potentially have a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012513/

    TVASF (and tumorigenesis is the slow fuse that has been lit)

    #134011
    jb-hb
    Participant

    That Target is the way of the future, isn’t it. Denver has been turning into a mini California over the past 20 years and it is really starting to show. In my neighborhood – previously a good if boring neighborhood in Denver:

    Things just look increasingly filthy generally. There’s clearly a lot of items being left in the park that were recently stolen from the local Target.

    All movie theatres within – I estimate – roughly a 3-4mi radius, gone, some of them quite big and at extremely prominent locations. Perfect place to build several high-rises, right next to the train station – if “they” really want 15 minute cities, lower CO2 etc – but it will probably be another 2-3 story “luxury” firetrap, the type that are beginning to give Denver a ugly, homogeneous, uniform coating

    Piles of trash throughout the park starting in 2020. A late snowstorm (iirc, it was the end of May 2020) broke a ton of branches and entire trees. They’re mostly still there.

    USPS and UPS mailboxes throughout a 1-2mi radius broken anytime 2020-2022 and still not fixed, with handwritten notes from people living in the area taped to them warning they are broken. (apparently, broken mailboxes are now a loss we cannot ever recover/rebuild from – USPS can’t even REMOVE the broken boxes let alone fix/replace)

    A recent flyer slipped under all our doors congratulating us on being great watchdogs for the Neighborhood watch, as we’ve not had a car theft since 3/1. I think this may have been a sarcastic nudge to do better — the list on the back of recent crimes in the area was long.

    Little liquor bottles, burnt squares of tinfoil, crack/meth pipes, needles, used condoms, and trash in pockets throughout the park AND ALL OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD where in 2020-2021 it was only the park. Self-renewing from day to day. There’s a couple places I try to hit regularly that are in the kid’s playground section.

    On the other hand, I have seen Kingfishers, Night Herons, Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egret, Hawks, Falcons, Fox, and Muskrat in this dingy city park.

    The newest development: Beavers! Somehow, urban beavers. They are damming up all the glorified drainage ditches and creating ponds. I’ve seen both adults and yearlings. Tracked down at least one lodge.

    The result of the beaver activity is a truly massive wave of mosquitos. The only time I’ve seen more mosquitos was dusk in the Boundary Waters/Quetico. It remains to be seen if this drives all the pipe and needle using homeless out of the park or not. I’ve mused about needles + mosquitoes = what, malaria, yellow fever, hepatitis?

    I worry the authorities will go after the beavers, but I suppose if we can’t fix/remove broken USPS boxes nor clear out storm wreckage nor remove meth-heads from children’s playgrounds in 3 years, we probably can’t do anything about beavers.

    There’s got to be something I can do to balance out the ecology vis a vis mosquitos. Maybe I can order, what, fish, frog, and dragonfly eggs native to the front range and seed the park? (lol does Amazon sell this and will they all turn out to actually be Chinese Snake Fish when they hatch?) Put on an orange vest and khaki shirt, start nailing bat houses to the trees like I’m a city employee? (trees the beavers won’t take down…)

    In the summer, when I’m clearing out garbage, I typically get several approaches from people every time asking if I am a city employee – wanting to let the City know of some thing or other that is being neglected. Did the Parks people doing the actual work get fired for the non-vax? Or maybe the Parks people who knew what & how to organize it properly? Or did everyone’s health take a hit from the not-vax so now they don’t exert themselves?

    The “labor shortage” seems to be real in SOME sense, because I can clearly SEE work not being done that always used to be. Certainly the city parks people, police, us postal, even UPS doesn’t care that their boxes aren’t working for 3 years.

    #134012
    Germ
    Participant

    2000 Excess Deaths in ONE WEEK!
    Extrapolate that …


    TVASF

    #134014

    Fox news kicks out their no. 1 asset Tucker Carlson days after settling with Dominion for $787 million. Connection?!

    Tucker can move into politics. A good combo would be with RFK jr, but they belong to different parties. Still, who lets their no. 1 go?

    #134015
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Knowledge is power.
    Control over knowledge is immense power … to take control of other people


    use my framing to understand the world around you

    https://libresolutionsnetwork.substack.com/p/conceptualizing-information-control

    #134016
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @RIM

    Well, always let “the **** in the woodpile” go first.
    What a hypocrite Tucker has shown himself to be…

    As if most of didn’t “know” Carlson didn’t hold the beliefs that he espoused on TV.

    In these not-so-United of States, we, the public, are being played like cheap violins by Our Betters.
    Mammon is the price and we all know ((who)) controls in the Entertainment Industry.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/tucker-carlson-fox-news/index.html

    #134017
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Fox without Tucker is like Veritas without Keefe or Bud Light without blue collar workers and fratboys. Makes sense.

    #134018

    Note that just yesterday, AOC and Jen Psaki were calling on air for Tucker to be banned. Where are we headed?

    #134019
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Tucker Carlson’s text showed he was a hypocrite.
    He was promoting views on TV that were contradicting his private texts on the same matters.
    His behavior doesn’t get a pass even as a form of cognitive dissonance.

    #134020

    2H, 3C, 4D, 7S, 8C.
    Clearly, one goes all in.

    Where are we headed? “We’re on the road to nowhere.”

    “YouTwitFace”. That was a hoot!

    #134022
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The masses do not thirst after truth.

    Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master.

    Whoever tries to destroy their illusions is always their victim.


    It is a remarkable phenomenon: the more it becomes clear that the mainstream narrative about the coronavirus was wrong, the more vehemently voices are attacked that from the beginning warned it was wrong. One of these people is Dr. Robert Malone, someone who, in my humble opinion, is one of the most reasonable and agile critical voices worldwide. Calm and precise in his wording, crystal clear in his line of argumentation, charismatic in his appearance and tone of voice, Robert has everything to attract people’s attention and make them consider new perspectives. And that’s exactly what makes him dangerous to some people and why he’s envied by others.

    https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/why-robert-malone-didnt-make-up-the

    #134023
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #134024
    Oroboros
    Participant

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