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House GOP Identifies 9 Biden Family Members Who Received Foreign Money (NYP)
FBI Refuses To Give Congress File Alleging Biden Took Bribes As VP (NYP)
Trump Says He Would Meet With Putin To Settle Ukrainian Conflict (TASS)
Trump Wants Both Ukrainians And Russians To ‘Stop Dying’ (RT)
Lula Offers To Act As Go-Between To End Ukraine Conflict At G7 Summit (TASS)
Borrell Says He Knows How To Stop Ukraine Conflict ‘Immediately’ (RT)
Ukraine’s NATO Accession Does Not Depend On Stoltenberg – Borrell (TASS)
Bold Gambits On The West Asian Chessboard (Pepe Escobar)
NATO ‘s Great New Idea: ‘Let’s Start A War With China!’ (Ron Paul)
Grain Deal To Be Extended Taking Into Account Russia’s Interests – Turkey (TASS)
US To Create ‘Free Syria Army’ Of Terrorists Against Damascus – Lavrov (TASS)
Young Americans Don’t Understand History Of WWII – Kremlin (RT)
Liechtenstein To Accept Bitcoin For Payments To State (RT)
Net Zero Grid Batteries Alone Would Bankrupt America (Rucker)
Julian Assange – A Fight We Must Not Lose (Chris Hedges)

 

 

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House GOP Identifies 9 Biden Family Members Who Received Foreign Money (NYP)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer identified nine members of President Biden’s family Wednesday who allegedly received foreign income after teasing the bombshell for weeks. “Since you asked, I’ll tell you,” Comer (R-Ky.) told a rapt room of reporters at the Capitol after laying out new bank record evidence showing first son Hunter Biden received $1 million from a corrupt Romanian businessman while his dad was vice president. “Joe Biden’s son [Hunter], Joe Biden’s brother [James], Joe Biden’s brother’s wife [Sara], Hunter Biden’s girlfriend or Beau Biden’s widow [Hallie], however, you want to write that, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife [Kathleen Buhle], Hunter Biden’s current wife [Melissa Cohen], and three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother,” Comer said.

The chairman seemed to indicate that only one of Biden’s grandchildren and two of his brother’s children got the foreign funds. “We’re talking about grandchil — a grandchild,” Comer said at the press conference. “That’s odd, most people that work hard every day’s grandchild doesn’t get a wire from a foreign national.” James Biden has three children, including daughter Caroline, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to making over $100,000 in charges on a stolen credit card. Emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show Caroline turned up her nose at an $85,000 job offer that would have allowed her to serve her probationary period near her beloved cousin in California. Caroline’s siblings are James Biden Jr. and Nicholas Biden. The president’s other brother, Frank Biden, has two children, but Comer did not mention him and it’s unclear why Frank’s daughters, who reportedly work for NBC and as a nurse practitioner, would be involved.

A Comer aide told The Post it is possible that additional Biden relatives received foreign money. Bank records indicate $80,000 transferred from Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu from 2015 to 2017 went to accounts identified only by the name “Biden,” for example — and a March memo from the committee indicated $70,000 from Chinese company CEFC China Energy did as well. Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden were well-known for years for seeking millions from nations including China, Mexico, Romania, Russia and Ukraine — but the involvement of other family members was only more recently alleged by Comer. The Oversight Committee issued a memo on Wednesday morning saying that Hallie Biden appears to have received $10,000 in early 2017 from Popoviciu — before receiving another $25,000 later that year as part of Hunter and James Biden’s partnership with CEFC China Energy.

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More power than Congress?

FBI Refuses To Give Congress File Alleging Biden Took Bribes As VP (NYP)

The FBI has refused to give Congress an informant file alleging that President Biden took bribes while he was vice president, The Post has learned — setting up a possible showdown over access to the information. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a legally binding subpoena last week requiring the FBI to turn over the file by noon Wednesday, but the bureau instead replied with a six-page letter raising various objections. “Information from confidential human sources is unverified and, by definition, incomplete,” wrote FBI acting assistant director for congressional affairs Christopher Dunham, who also argued that informant reports must also be kept private to protect sources.

“As is clear from the name itself, confidentiality is definitional to the FBI’s Confidential Human Source program,” Dunham wrote. “Confidential human sources often provide information to the FBI at great risk to themselves and their loved ones. The information they provide also can create significant risks to others who may be referenced in their reporting.” The FBI official concluded: “We … hope this helps you understand that keeping this kind of source information free from the perception or reality of improper influence — and preventing the redirection of this information for non-law enforcement or non-intelligence uses — is necessary for the FBI’s effective execution of our law enforcement and national security responsibilities.”

Comer slammed the FBI’s stonewalling, but he did not immediately announce further steps to acquire the document. Congress has the power to apply financial pressure to agencies and can also use litigation to enforce its orders or attempt to shame officials through contempt votes. “It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee,” Comer said. [..] The document subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee is an FD-023 informant report that was created or modified in June 2020-months before Biden won the presidency.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Comer and Grassley wrote last week, “We have received legally protected and highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures.” “Based on those disclosures,” the Republicans wrote, “it has come to our attention that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”

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“If you say he’s [Putin] a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped..”

Trump Says He Would Meet With Putin To Settle Ukrainian Conflict (TASS)

Former US President Donald Trump said he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky to end the conflict in Ukraine. “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing. I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said during a CNN’s town hall program. Trump explained that if he was president, he would resolve the conflict within 24 hours. “Russians and Ukrainians, I want them to stop dying,” the politician said. “And I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”


Trump added that he considered Putin to be very smart. However, in former US president’s opinion, “Putin made a mistake” by launching the special military operation. He also pointed out that it was not the time to consider the Russian president a war criminal. “If you say he’s [Putin] a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped,” Trump said. He also added that it was something that “should be discussed later.”.

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“I don’t think in terms of winning and losing.” “I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people..”

Trump Wants Both Ukrainians And Russians To ‘Stop Dying’ (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has refused to say whether he favors a particular side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, stating he would rather focus on ending the bloodshed altogether. Speaking for a CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Trump also insisted that Washington was giving too much ammunition to Kiev. Asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins if he wants “Ukraine to win this war,” Trump, who is campaigning for a second term in office, replied: “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing.” “I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people and breaking down this country,” the former president said.


When pressed by Collins on the matter, Trump added: “They are dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying.” He criticized the amount of military aid provided to Kiev by the Pentagon. “We don’t have ammunition for ourselves [and yet] we’re giving away so much,” he said. Trump also said he wanted Europe to “put up more money” for Ukraine and “equalize” its financial assistance compared to aid provided by Washington. Trump insisted that he would “have that war settled in one day” if he was president, promising to meet with presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine if he gets elected in 2024.

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Plenty offers. But they need to include China.

Lula Offers To Act As Go-Between To End Ukraine Conflict At G7 Summit (TASS)

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that he plans to offer Brasilia’s services as a mediator for settling the Ukrainian conflict on the sidelines of the G7 summit, which is slated to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, later this month. Addressing a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Brazilian leader said, “The continuation of the war will only cause more deaths. So, we must find someone who would be able to discuss peace, and Brazil is ready for that.” Lula said that, prior to his relevant negotiations with Rutte, he had already discussed the issue with the Chinese president and the British prime minister, and that he would raise it with the president of Indonesia and many other leaders with whom he plans to meet at the G7 summit.

According to the Brazilian president, the situation in Ukraine, energy, battling climate change, economic development and the fight against unemployment are certain to be on the agenda of the G7 meeting in Hiroshima on May 20-21. “We have received multiple requests for bilateral meetings, and I am confident that the Ukrainian issue will be raised at every such meeting,” Lula added. And every side involved in the conflict has its arguments, he believes. While Ukraine is bound to resist what he called the unacceptable occupation of its territory, the EU has its arguments in favor of the decisions it has made, and Brazil and other countries have their reasons for trying to reach a compromise, the Brazilian leader said. Lula recalled that his country had condemned “the Russian military invasion” in a UN vote.

“Now is the time for diplomacy, not for war,” he emphasized. Earlier, Lula called Russia a guarantor of a long-lasting global peace and proposed developing a new international format for a potential dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, saying that he stands ready to mediate any direct negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky.

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“Stop providing military aid to Ukraine and Ukraine [will] have to surrender in a few days.”

Borrell Says He Knows How To Stop Ukraine Conflict ‘Immediately’ (RT)

The conflict between Moscow and Kiev that has been dragging on for more than a year can be ended in just several says, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell admitted on Spanish broadcaster La Sexta on Wednesday. It all depends on Western military supplies to Kiev, he claimed. “I know how to end the war immediately,” Borrell told La Sexta’s El Intermedio show. “Stop providing military aid to Ukraine and Ukraine [will] have to surrender in a few days. That’s it, the war is over.” the EU top diplomat presumed aloud. Borrell then said that it is not the outcome the EU and other Western nations would like to see. The bloc’s foreign-policy chief claimed that an immediate end to the conflict on such terms would see Ukraine “occupied” and “turned into a puppet country” that is “deprived of its freedoms.”

“Is this how we want the war to end?” he asked rhetorically. Borrell then blamed the continued hostilities on Moscow, saying that Russia has repeatedly insisted it would not stop until all the goals of its military campaign in Ukraine are achieved. He also criticized the peace efforts by China and Brazil, claiming these are detached from reality. “Everyone, who says they want peace should then say … ‘I want Russia to withdraw from Ukraine,” Brussels’ foreign-policy chief maintained, adding that he has little understanding for anyone thinking otherwise. “Those, who say: ‘I want peace and the best thing to achieve it is for the Europeans to cease helping Ukraine’ … frankly, I do not know what world they live in,” he said. Kiev promptly reacted to Borrell’s words, accusing him of having the “wrong emphasis” in his speech.

Withdrawal of Western military aid “could certainly not end the conflict immediately,” President Vladimir Zelensky’s aide Mikhail Podoliak said on Twitter. It would only lead to further escalation as hostilities would spill over to “other territories,” he claimed, without elaborating on his statement. Borrell’s words came less than a day after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also expressed his skepticism about Brazil and China’s peace efforts. Any mediation efforts would be in vain for now since both parties to the conflict are “fully involved” in the ongoing war, he told Spain’s El Pais on Tuesday.

The Kremlin said in late April it supported international efforts aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the conflict but still maintained that its goals in the conflict should be achieved. Russian President Vladimir Putin cited the need to protect the people of Donbass, as well as Kiev’s failure to implement the 2014-2015 Minsk peace accords, as reasons for launching Russia’s operation against Ukrainian forces in February 2022. He also said Russia was seeking the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine. Moscow has also accused Kiev of making any potential talks senseless since Ukraine is demanding Russia surrender all the territories that joined it following referendums, including the most recent, in autumn 2022.

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“Maria Zakharova earlier slammed NATO’s statements about Ukraine’s possible future accession as short-sighted and simply dangerous.”

Ukraine’s NATO Accession Does Not Depend On Stoltenberg – Borrell (TASS)

A decision on Ukraine’s possible accession to NATO will be made by the bloc’s member states and not by its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in an interview with the La Sexta TV channel on Wednesday. According to him, Ukraine’s NATO membership “does not depend on the NATO secretary general but the NATO countries.” The EU’s top diplomat also emphasized that the issue “is not under consideration” at the moment. Stoltenberg pointed out earlier that NATO’s doors remained open to Ukraine. He also claimed that all of the bloc’s member states supported Ukraine’s accession but, in his words, it will only be possible to substantially discuss the matter after the conflict is over. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier slammed NATO’s statements about Ukraine’s possible future accession as short-sighted and simply dangerous.

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“The ultimate goal is to demilitarize NATO as a whole rather than just Ukraine, and so far, it appears to be working brilliantly.”

Bold Gambits On The West Asian Chessboard (Pepe Escobar)

The collective west appears to lack a decisive leader, with the Hegemon currently being “led” by a senile president who is remote-controlled by a pack of polished-faced warmongers. The situation has devolved to the point where the much-hyped “Ukrainian counter-offensive” may actually be the prelude to a NATO humiliation that will make Afghanistan look like Disneyland in the Hindu Kush. Arguably there may be some similarities between Russia-NATO now and Turkiye-Russia before March 2020: both sides are betting on some crucial military breakthrough on the battlefield before sitting at the negotiating table. The US is desperate for it: even the 20th century ‘Oracle’ Henry Kissinger is now saying that with China involved, there will be negotiations before the end of 2023. Despite the urgency of the situation, Moscow does not appear to be in a hurry.

Its key military strategy, as seen in Bakhmut and Artemyovsk, is to use a combination of the snail technique and the mincing machine. The ultimate goal is to demilitarize NATO as a whole rather than just Ukraine, and so far, it appears to be working brilliantly. Russia is in it for the long haul, anticipating that one day the collective west will have an “Eureka!” moment and realize it is time to abandon the race. Now let’s assume, by some divine intervention, that negotiations would start in a few months, with China involved. Moscow – and Beijing – both know they simply cannot trust anything the Hegemon says or signs. Moreover, the crucial US tactical victory has already been conclusive: Russia sanctioned, demonized and separated from Europe, and the EU cemented as a de-industrialized, inconsequential lowly vassal.

Presupposing there is a negotiated peace, it will arguably resemble a Syria 2.0, with a massive “Idlib” equivalent right on Russia’s door, which is something entirely unacceptable to Moscow. In practice, we will have Banderista terror outfits – the Slav version of ISIS – free to roam across the Russian Federation in car bombing and kamikaze drone sprees. The Hegemon will be able to switch the proxy war on and off at will, just as it continues to do in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan with its terror cells. The Security Council in Moscow knows very well, based on the Minsk farce acknowledged even by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that this will be Minsk on steroids: the Kiev regime, or rather the post-Zelensky regime will continue to be weaponized to death with brand new NATO gimmicks. But then the other option – where there is nothing to negotiate – is equally ominous: a Forever War.

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“We can only hope that America will elect a president in 2024 who will finally end NATO’s deadly world tour.”

NATO ‘s Great New Idea: ‘Let’s Start A War With China!’ (Ron Paul)

NATO’s post-Cold War history is that of an organization far past its “sell-by” date. Desperate for a mission after the end of the Warsaw Pact, NATO in the late 1990s decided that it would become the muscle behind the militarization of “human rights” under the Clinton Administration. Gone was the “threat of global communism” which was used to justify NATO’s 40-year run, so NATO re-imagined itself as a band of armed Atlanticist superheroes. Wherever there was an “injustice” (as defined by Washington’s neocons), NATO was ready with guns and bombs. The US military-industrial complex could not have been happier. All the Beltway think tanks they lavishly fund finally hit on a sure winner to keep the money pipeline flowing. It was always about money, not security.

The test run for NATO as human rights superheroes was Yugoslavia in 1999. To everybody but NATO and its neocon handlers in DC and many European capitals, it was a horrific, unjustified disaster. Seventy-eight days of bombing a country that did not threaten NATO left many hundreds of civilians dead, the infrastructure destroyed, and a legacy of uranium-tipped ammunition to poison the landscape for generations to come. Just last week tennis legend Novak Djokovic recalled what it felt like to flee his grandfather’s home in the middle of the night as NATO bombs fell and destroyed it. What a horror! Then NATO got behind the overthrow of the Gaddafi government in Libya. The corporate press regurgitated the neocon lies that bombing the country, killing its people, and overthrowing its government would solve all of Libya’s human rights problems.

As could be predicted, NATO bombs did not solve Libya’s problems but made everything worse. Chaos, civil war, terrorism, slave markets, crushing poverty – no wonder Hillary Clinton, Obama, and the neocons don’t want to talk about Libya these days. After a series of failures longer than we have space for here, DC-controlled NATO in 2014 decided to go all-in and target Russia itself for “regime change.” First step was overthrowing the democratically elected Ukrainian government, which Victoria Nuland and the rest of the neocons took care of. Next was the eight years of massive NATO military assistance to Ukraine’s coup government with the intent of fighting Russia. Finally, it was the 2022 rejection of Russia’s request to negotiate a European security agreement that would prevent NATO armies circling its border.

Despite the mainstream media and US government propaganda, NATO has been about as successful in Ukraine as it was in Libya. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been flushed away, with massive corruption documented by journalists like Seymour Hersh and others. The only difference this time is that NATO’s target – Russia – has nuclear weapons and views this proxy war as vital to its very existence. So now despite its legacy of failure, NATO has decided to start a conflict with China, perhaps to take attention off its disaster in Ukraine. Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan? Will Taiwan willingly serve as NATO’s newest “Ukraine” – sacrificing itself to China in the name of blundering NATO’s seemingly endless appetite for conflict? We can only hope that America will elect a president in 2024 who will finally end NATO’s deadly world tour.

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“For President Tayyip Erdogan, extending the deal is a signal to the West that Turkey can be trusted. As a result, the government will do everything in its power to preserve the grain initiative..”

Grain Deal To Be Extended Taking Into Account Russia’s Interests – Turkey (TASS)

The grain deal is expected to be extended at the talks that started on Wednesday in Istanbul, taking into account Russia’s objections, a source in Ankara close to the talks told TASS. “There is information that the agreement will be extended beyond May 18. That’s why I’m talking about it as a fact. And there are expectations that the export of Russian products will be a part of it,” the source said. According to the source, extending the grain deal is a crucial issue for the Turkish leadership in the run-up to the elections and they will do everything in their power to make it happen. “For President Tayyip Erdogan, extending the deal is a signal to the West that Turkey can be trusted. As a result, the government will do everything in its power to preserve the grain initiative,” the source said.


On July 22, 2022, a package of documents on the supply of food and fertilizers to the international market was signed in Istanbul. Initially, the agreements were concluded for 120 days. On March 18, 2023, Russia announced the extension of the initiative for 60 days. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that a further extension of the deal would depend on the reconnection of the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT system and the lifting of a number of restrictions on supplies, insurance and the use of ports. The Turkish side earlier said that the Turkish state bank Ziraat may be ready to carry out operations to pay for Russian grain and fertilizers. The negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the UN on the extension of the grain deal and the implementation of the Russian part of the agreement on the supply of grain and fertilizers will last two days in Istanbul, with May 11 expected to be the key day of the negotiations.

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Well-known recipe

US To Create ‘Free Syria Army’ Of Terrorists Against Damascus – Lavrov (TASS)

The United States has set about creating a “Free Syria Army,” consisting of terrorists and militants, to serve as a tool against the legitimate government in Damascus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. “It’s no longer enough for the US to support the self-proclaimed Kurdish regions beyond the Euphrates River and flood the illegal armed units that they have formed with weapons,” the Russian foreign minister pointed out during four-party talks on Syria with his counterparts from Syria, Turkey and Iran. “According to our data, the Americans have started to create the so-called Free Syria Army near the Syrian city of Raqqa, engaging local Arab tribes, along with militants from ISIL (the former name of the Islamic State terror group, which is outlawed in Russia – TASS) and other terrorist organizations.


The goal is clear: to use these militants against Syria’s legitimate authorities in order to destabilize the situation in the country,” Lavrov noted. Lavrov emphasized that the Russian and Syrian militaries had recently discussed the issue, agreeing on a model of joint actions in that field. “I hope that all planned steps will be successfully implemented,” the top Russian diplomat added. According to him, Moscow believes that “blatant foreign interference in the region’s affairs is unacceptable, particularly when it involves military force;” and in this case, it is about “deploying foreign military units to Syrian soil.”

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Because 450,000 Americans died vs 28 million Russians.

Young Americans Don’t Understand History Of WWII – Kremlin (RT)

Younger generations of Americans no longer remember who fought against whom in World War II, and even middle-aged citizens are ignorant of the recent past, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary said the lack of understanding of history among Americans was not merely “forgetfulness” but a “pernicious line” and warned of the consequences of such ignorance. “Not knowing the horrors of the past, not knowing who saved the world from the brown plague (fascism), means that soon in America there will be a generation that will be unable to soberly assess its present and its future,” Peskov said.

He noted that Russia, on the other hand, continues to do everything it can to keep the memory of the heroism of the Soviet people alive and make sure younger generations are aware of the true details of the war. Peskov also noted the presence of the leaders of former Soviet republics at the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow, suggesting that this demonstrated the political and social will of those countries to protect this history. “We will bring these truths to the people of the world, so that those who want to, can study the real facts [of WWII]” he said. His comments came after White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted on Tuesday to describe Russia as analogous to Adolf Hitler’s Germany, and claimed that the “US and allied forces” were the ones who secured victory in WWII. Jean-Pierre also accused Vladimir Putin of having “promised only more violence” during his address at the May 9 parade in Moscow.

In his speech in Red Square, the Russian president denounced the “disgusting, criminal and deadly” ideology of Western supremacy and the globalists who “pit people against each other, split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, destroy traditional family values that make human a human.” Putin also claimed that the West had forgotten what “the insane ambitions of the Nazis led to” and who was responsible for defeating “this monstrous, total evil.” The Soviet Union did the lion’s share of the fighting in Europe, at the cost of 8.7 million soldiers and up to 20 million civilian lives. Victory Day marks the day on which the remnants of the Nazi regime officially signed their unconditional surrender to the USSR and Allied forces at the end of World War II. Although the document was signed in Berlin on May 8, due to different time zones, Russia has historically celebrated the event on May 9.

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Liechtenstein To Accept Bitcoin For Payments To State (RT)

The government of Liechtenstein is considering accepting Bitcoin as payment for state services, the micro-state’s Prime Minister Daniel Risch told Handelsblatt on Sunday. Risch, who is also Liechtenstein’s finance minister, said that a “Bitcoin payment option is coming.” The official didn’t specify what particular services will become available for payment in the digital currency, or when the announced payment method would become available. Any crypto received will be immediately exchanged for Swiss francs, Liechtenstein’s national currency, Risch said. Although crypto is too volatile to entrust portions of the country’s multi-billion-dollar annual savings, that assessment could change, he added. Bitcoin would not, however, be accorded the same legal status as the franc. Liechtenstein is a German-speaking microstate located in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland. It is the world’s sixth smallest nation, with a population of under 39,000 people.


In 2019, the principality became one of the first places in the world to pass dedicated crypto regulations with The Liechtenstein Blockchain Act. Only two nations in the world have currently approved Bitcoin as legal tender – El Salvador and the Central African Republic. However, it was reported last month that the CAR has reversed this decision. There are still no uniform international laws that regulate cryptocurrencies, which are notorious for their high volatility. The most popular crypto, Bitcoin, was worth a fraction of a cent when it was launched in 2009 and shot up to nearly $69,000 per coin in November 2021. The rate has mostly been on a downward spiral since then, with the decline triggered by fraud allegations, government lawsuits and investigations, and general global economic instability. Bitcoin currently trades at nearly $28,000 per coin.

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Are we to believe they do not know this?

Net Zero Grid Batteries Alone Would Bankrupt America (Rucker)

Science and policy analyst David Wojick calculated that just the batteries needed to back up wind and solar electricity generation in a “net zero” USA would cost $23 trillion — America’s entire 2021 gross domestic product (GDP) — and probably many times that. Energy and technology consultant Thomas Tanton found that battery backup to replace current U.S. fossil fuel electricity — and convert vehicles, furnaces, water heaters, and stoves to electricity — would cost at least $29 trillion in initial outlays. Trillions more would be needed to cover financing, repairs, maintenance, replacements, burying broken and worn out non-recyclable equipment, and building systems strong enough to survive hurricanes.

Professional engineer Ken Gregory determined that grid-backup battery costs could reach $290 trillion (12.6 times the USA’s 2021 GDP), based on actual 2019 and 2020 hourly intermittent electricity generation data, rather than annual average data utilized in the other studies. None of these estimates includes the costs of turbines, panels, transmission lines, or transformers. Energy analyst Francis Menton estimated that New York’s plan to procure 24,000 megawatt-hours of battery storage would provide only 0.2% of what the state would actually need as backup. But even that would require 300,000 Tesla Long Range 80-kilowatt-hour battery modules — before New York mandates electric automobiles and home heating and cooking systems.

Each of those modules weighs over 1,000 pounds and holds 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells. Each one contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel; 44 pounds of manganese; 30 pounds of cobalt; 200 pounds of copper; and over 550 pounds of aluminum, steel, graphite, plastics, and other materials, energy analyst Ron Stein reports. To manufacture each module, we must mine 30,000 pounds of cobalt ore (much of it with child labor in the Congo), 5,000 pounds of nickel ore, and 25,000 pounds of copper ore, plus inject and extract 25,000 pounds of brine to get the lithium. Backing up New York’s peak summertime electricity needs for just 45 minutes (those 300,000 battery modules) would require 3,750 tons of lithium, 9,000 tons of nickel, 6,600 tons of manganese, 4,500 tons of cobalt, 30,000 tons of copper, and 82,500 tons of other materials.

Together, we’d need to mine more than seventy-five million tons of ores for those New York grid-backup batteries — after removing at least as much overlying rock to get to the ore bodies. Backing up California’s currently planned wind and solar electricity generation would require nearly 310,000,000 long-range modules. Imagine the batteries, materials, and ores that we’d need for the entire USA — or world!

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“Julian has spent much of his time in isolation, is often heavily sedated and has been denied medical treatment for a variety of physical ailments. He is routinely denied access to his lawyers. He has lost a lot of weight, suffered a minor stroke, spent time in the prison hospital wing — which prisoners call the hell wing — because he is suicidal, been placed in prolonged solitary confinement, observed banging his head against the wall and hallucinating.”

Julian Assange – A Fight We Must Not Lose (Chris Hedges)

The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British, Swedish and U.S. governments are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite, will be masked from the public. They presage a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement. They presage an Orwellian dystopia where news is replaced with propaganda, trivia and entertainment.


The legal lynching of Julian, I fear, marks the official beginning of the corporate totalitarianism that will define our lives. Under what law did Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno capriciously terminate Julian’s rights of asylum as a political refugee? Under what law did Moreno authorize British police to enter the Ecuadorian embassy — diplomatically sanctioned sovereign territory — to arrest a naturalized citizen of Ecuador? Under what law did former President Donald Trump criminalize journalism and demand the extradition of Julian, who is not a U.S. citizen and whose news organization is not based in the United States? Under what law did the C.I.A. violate attorney-client privilege, surveil and record all of Julian’s conversations both digital and verbal with his lawyers and plot to kidnap him from the embassy and assassinate him?


And Our Flags Are Still There – By Mr. Fish.

The corporate state eviscerates enshrined rights by judicial fiat. This is how we have the right to privacy, with no privacy. This is how we have “free” elections funded by corporate money, covered by a compliant corporate media and under iron corporate control. This is how we have a legislative process in which corporate lobbyists write the legislation and corporate-indentured politicians vote it into law. This is how we have the right to due process with no due process. This is how we have a government — whose fundamental responsibility is to protect citizens — that orders and carries out the assassination of its own citizens, such as the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son. This is how we have a press which is legally permitted to publish classified information and our generation’s most important publisher sitting in solitary confinement in a high security prison awaiting extradition to the United States.


The psychological torture of Julian — documented by the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer — mirrors the breaking of the dissident Winston Smith in George Orwell’s novel 1984. The Gestapo broke bones. The East German Stasi broke souls. We, too, have refined the cruder forms of torture to destroy souls as well as bodies. It is more effective. This is what they are doing to Julian, steadily degrading his physical and psychological health. It is a slow-motion execution. This is by design. Julian has spent much of his time in isolation, is often heavily sedated and has been denied medical treatment for a variety of physical ailments. He is routinely denied access to his lawyers. He has lost a lot of weight, suffered a minor stroke, spent time in the prison hospital wing — which prisoners call the hell wing — because he is suicidal, been placed in prolonged solitary confinement, observed banging his head against the wall and hallucinating. Our version of Orwell’s dreaded Room 101.

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    Henri Matisse Flowers 1907   • House GOP Identifies 9 Biden Family Members Who Received Foreign Money (NYP) • FBI Refuses To Give Congress File A
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 11 2023]

    #135011
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    I read that in WWII Russia also defeated Japan :

    When a million strong Russian army attacked the Japanese in China it made Japan realise they had lost.

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not needed except as experiments to test the immediate and long term effects of nuclear weapons on live subjects.

    #135012
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Doug Casey on the Growing Wave of Corporations Committing Suicide

    Doug Casey on the Growing Wave of Corporations Committing Suicide

    #135013
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Rep George Santos Arrested, Charged With Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, Theft Of Public Funds And Lying

    See how easy that was? All you have to do is be a Republican and Lo! Suddenly, the law applies again. Why stop there? Surely there’s a McConnell or someone you can add.

    “534 Congressmen Still at Large” –BBee.

    “• House GOP Identifies 9 Biden Family Members Who Received Foreign Money (NYP)

    Nothing on this in the news because of Santos arrest. Ah!!! No wonder they put him in office. Now they can take him out whenever Biden (or whoever) is taken out, and use it as a total media eclipse. Because like me, it only seems “fair” to mention Santos, when it’s not really fair at all, is it? Biden must be 500:1 vs a Jr Congressman who never had time to do anything and STILL they had to gin up spurious “Well his unemployment paperwork wasn’t quite right.” Really? When the heck has anyone, anywhere, ever been charged for $500 on that?

    Total. Eclipse.

    “McLuhan” I’d say what we see more today, that once you’re not a physical body, or we get out of the habit of physical bodies even with our friends, then you can Deep Fake everything. And that’s not now, that’s not like a Glamor filter driving women insane on TikTok or Tinder, what is a movie but a Deep Fake? What is a camera but a Deep Fake? What is it to point the camera at “Your best life now” but a Deep Fake? What is all that makeup, lighting, new suits, hebephrenic background animations on Fox but a Deep Fake?

    When you live mostly in a “real” world, with mostly real things, real people, you ground yourself in what’s possible and likely. You know not all meals look like Instagram. The more you use the ethereal media as McLuhan says, the less grounding in reality you have, and the less grounding in reality others have. Such that they now treat YOU like a non-corporeal being. They act as if YOU are the Deep Fake when you warn them to stay out of traffic.

    “Those novels will ruin good youth” – At Jane Austen. “TV will rot your brain” – Your parents. This is why that wasn’t entirely true, but also why they were also right. It’s just very slow and takes a long time for people to be removed from their eyes and ears to believe the etheral non-corporeal Derp Fake.

    “The Biden family’s been untouchable because they are the system. The FBI and the CIA are in on it- this is how the system works.”

    Excellent. In a nutshell. “But, But, we have regulation! There are LAWS!!!” Uh-huh. You’re so cute. When’s the last time laws meant anything?

    • FBI Refuses To Give Congress File Alleging Biden Took Bribes As VP (NYP)

    Says the Post, the oldest newspaper in America, founded by Alexander Hamilton, who was banned from Biden Press conferences perhaps permanently.

    Must be nice, FBI. That’s what I’m going to do next time Congress or a Judge orders me to do something. Sauce, meet Gander.

    “(FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form”

    Not Classified, but you can’t see it. ‘cuz I felt like it. Remember Senator, we’re tapping your phones, just like we did the AP. Thanks Patriot Act. (We all said at the time while everyone said shut up we were weirdo conspiracy theorists for stating the most obvious conclusion in the known universe)

    “If you say he’s [Putin] a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped,”

    Thus the reason they did that. To prevent the war from ever ending. Got it in one.

    Trump finally got to say to America that he DID tell them to stand down 15 minutes “after”, that is: Immediately. Twitter banned it. Why? Twitter wants/needs the riot, likes violence, and synthesized a entirely fraudulent “coup” out of whole cloth. That still works to this day.

    Twitter did that. Not Trump. They took Twitter out, did it help? Nope. Not in the past. It’s literally impossible for people to change their minds and admit they were wrong. Ever. About anything.

    “• Lula Offers To Act As Go-Between To End Ukraine Conflict At G7 Summit (TASS)”

    But they don’t WANT it to end. The U.N. themselves said they want the war and you shouldn’t negotiate. Ah, Beautiful Bombs. Finally Presidential. It was all worth it.

    “Stop providing military aid to Ukraine and Ukraine [will] have to surrender in a few days.”

    The war we’re not in? Because all NATO is providing arms to the war, but that means NATO is innocent, not in the war, never dun nothin’? I doubt Russia feels that way.

    “an immediate end to the conflict on such terms would see Ukraine “occupied” and “turned into a puppet country” that is “deprived of its freedoms.”

    Ooops! That’s what we have now, under Borrell. If RUSSIA occupied it and were a puppet of them it would somehow be less bad. Which is pretty amazing indictment of how much NATO and the West suck, how murderous, psychopathic and oppressive they are.

    Would RUSSIA kill 300,000 Ukrainians and 50,000 Poles? Uh: NO, because Ukraine WAS in Russia’s sphere of influence for 25 years and that NEVER HAPPENED. A day after Nuland showed up they lit live people on fire, shot into crowds, and started shelling whole states.

    But it’s not fascism when we do it. With actual fascists. And live ammunition. Derp Fake. Explosions of babies on TV aren’t real babies. Everyone we can find is the literal child on Nazis, in families of Nazis, like Freeland, and we can’t notice.

    “The ultimate goal is to demilitarize NATO as a whole rather than just Ukraine, and so far, it appears to be working brilliantly.”

    That’s probably true and that was NATO’s choice, not Russia’s. It’s NATO who won’t stop demilitarizing and perhaps even de-Nazifying THEMSELVES. (Via public exposure).
    Okay then. You win. I’ll throw you in that briar patch.

    “Banderista terror outfits – the Slav version of ISIS – free to roam across the Russian Federation”

    Yes, this is why some commenters, even on Lira, said Russia did the wrong thing, shouldn’t have invaded, etc. But THIS is Plan B for the whole West, which is pointless, endless chaos and destruction straight outta Chaostan. It’s RIDICULOUS to even CONSIDER letting that happen. No mas. I’m with Pepe and all Russia on this one. F ‘em. I don’t’ care about your laws: and clearly YOU don’t.

    NATO must be crushed, and although we’re all happy to drop nukes, let’s see if we can do it without that first. Whatever country you’re sitting in right now, you would do the same thing. And since almost everybody here is in an Anglo country, you DID do the same thing: you invaded every other nation, worldwide, murdered everyone you could find, and dropped depleted uranium on them, opened a slave market, killed every brown baby you could find, AFTER killing every baby you could at home too . Congratulations, stunning and brave. YOU were part of the world’s most evil hegemon, ever.

    “Seventy-eight days of bombing a country that did not threaten NATO” Any questions? Everyone approved, and adore Clinton and Albright to this day. Sorry: unless you’ve bombed helpless countries and killed half a million kids I just can’t love you as the Peace Candidate. We don’t give peace prizes for that, only for bombing American child citizens in open markets and cafes.

    “US To Create ‘Free Syria Army’ Of Terrorists Against Damascus – Lavrov (TASS)

    Is Lavrov in a time machine? We did that in like 2008. They were called ISIS, they used our pickup trucks from Texas and our weapons from Libya out of Benghazi. Oh, and killed every Kurd, since they trusted us with anything. Suckers. Where do they find peoples this stupid? No wonder Kurdistan doesn’t have their own country yet. Thanks to the Anglos, probably half of them have been killed over the years since Saddam gassed them with Rumfeld’s gas.

    “even middle-aged citizens are ignorant of the recent past,[of WWII]”

    Derp Fake, from the discorporeal ether. ALL information comes from TV, from the Internet, therefore there is no distinction between truth and fiction, reality and not. It’s a Post-Truth world. “Reality is what I SAY it is” – every abusive psycho narcissist ever.

    “batteries needed to back up wind and solar electricity generation in a “net zero” USA would cost $23 trillion”

    Ah, but far better: it would level every mountain, destroy every forest, consume every drop of oil, and destroy the ecosystem forever, planetwide. What’s not to like? Is that not Green enough for you? Nothing says Green like digging up the whole planet and smelting everything that moves.

    “The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press.”

    No it doesn’t. Because we just ignore it. Reality, un-Reality, who can tell in a Post-Truth world? When I want, things on TV are real. And when I don’t want, they’re not real or I ignore them.

    “Baby It’s Cold Outside” this was written by a husband and wife, who thought it was fine, and was a family song for them, and their (NY) friends demanded they make it public, so it was alright to all them too. Then it was considered alright for all NYC and the whole country for the next 60 years.

    Just points out that WE are the most awesome, perfect, enlightened beings in the history of the universe, practically without fault, and everyone who came before us was a inferior, bigoted, neanderthal. Yup, that’s how it is. That’s Evolution. That’s Science™, and Science says I’m the best!

    #135014
    Red
    Participant

    @just-some-randomer: The renewing of natural resources is an interesting issue. There are some existential issues here that we cannot prove one way or another. If for example the plates do “unlock” from the mantle and swing in wild fashion do to weight placement and centrifugal forces new deposits of minerals could be lifted up from below just as Atlantis may have been devoured by such actions. Hard to imagine anything like tectonic movements on a scale of weeks or days at that level. Still parts of southeast Newfoundland are said to be of northern Africa. This guy at least brings some peer reviewed stuff along to back his hypothesis up. As we have seen with the covid, there is no firm ground is hard to find, no pun intended. Having spent four plus decades following the “climate science” and trying to make it fit with the visual happenings on the ground was getting harder and harder to see the connections between the pushed narrative of warming by humans and the recent changes noticed. No argument about pollution levels being of the chart but the path we’re on doesn’t appear to be the one the warming by gases crowd is pointing too. Not so sure this is right either but it does go further to explain some of the worlds crazy weather wobbles of the past decade or so.

    #135015
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #135016
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Sorry wrong link from above, still funny

    I wanted to do Elon and Tucker smoking a doobie

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1654954028671938560

    #135017
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just look at the devastating rise in temperature over Germany since 2017 due to Climate Change!!!

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvzBN-OXoAErHPA?format=jpg&name=small

    #135018
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135019
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Full Tommy Podcast with Malone and Dowd

    #135020
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #135021
    Oroboros
    Participant

    What is going on with link post today???

    Don’t know how to post a Rumble link.

    Here is the name of the Rumble podcast with Dowd and Malone

    Excess Mortality | Dr. Robert Malone & Ed Dowd (TPC #1,219)

    #135022
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Try this for Malone and Dowd

    https://t.co/k8C9AtGVfL

    #135023
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I received no subsidy and paid cash for my batteries (lithium) 6 years ago to run my house from 2kW solar panel array. It cost $6 thousand.
    At 23 trillion every single person in US would cost $65714. I am in a house of 4 so you can multiply that by 4.
    The maths on that article are complete bullshit and I am not championing net zero which is complete bullshit but no one is winning hearts and minds with lying and ‘models’. We saw how that went with Covid

    #135024
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @Oxymoron:

    How long can your batteries supply your entire energy requirements – Including heating, lighting, refrigeration, cooking transport, AC and everything else? To be real-world effective, we would need batteries that can fill in for days or weeks of poor sun/wind conditions. Maybe even longer to account for seasonal variations in sunlight and wind power.

    Are you factoring in the requirements of industry as well as domestic needs? I’d imagine the power demands of, say, a steel smelting operation, or a public transport system are considerable.

    #135025
    zerosum
    Participant

    My reality/truths/post has just been eaten by the system, (An A.I./influencer/Deep Fake.)
    My posts are irrelevant/changes nothing. Everyone here know what I know and more.

    “The Biden family’s been untouchable because they are the system. The FBI and the CIA are in on it- this is how the system works.”

    Depopulation has always been part of the system.
    Peace has never been part of the system

    #135026
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s against the law
    It’s illegal.
    Not now. I just changed the law to make legal.

    #135027
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff
    Ted Turner

    Hm. So, according to Ted:
    “Global warming” is not caused by solar activity
    “Global warming” is not caused by normal earth processes, such as the fact that we are still on the upswing from the last “little ice age.”
    The problem is not “too much stuff,” per se, but the quantity (“too many”) of people using large quantities of stuff.

    Malthus’ theories from 1789 are often trotted out and justified and/or debunked.
    Personally, it doesn’t take great study nor advanced degrees to understand that it is not ideal for humans to blindly and blithely live like a bacteria colony in Petri dish, blissfully reproducing until all resources are consumed, and then the colony dies. According to the principles of the Enlightenment, we support intelligent and informed humans making their own choices. I believe that it is appropriate to give humans access to technology that allows them to limit their reproduction, while at the same time I am opposed to any sort of coercion to do the same. This is, of course, challenging because how does a society support women who want to carry a child full term and raise it while at the same time discouraging women from having children in order to abdicate the responsibility of caring for themselves? There are always freeloaders. And measures to discourage freeloaders will also deprive some who truly need the assistance and have no intention to freeload. Ideally, we want children to grow up in homes where they are loved and well-cared for, as this is what leads to the well-being of the next generation.

    #135028
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    “This year, a central piece of our strategy is to take further actions to disrupt Russia’s attempts to evade our sanctions.”

    Idiot, … where do they mint them?

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/yellen-takes-aim-at-russian-sanctions-evasion-at-g-7-gathering?sref=866aH6XX#xj4y7vzkg&in_source=embedded-checkout-banner

    F.S.

    #135029
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    As long as this author is not talking COVID, … he makes lot of sense:

    “If every electric car owner had to accommodate the waste ore needed for the copper & cobalt in their vehicle’s batteries, the entry to their homes would be shrouded in several tonnes of waste rock.”

    https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/05/10/Warning-Against-Green-Energy-Boom-Sparks-Debate/

    F.S.

    #135030
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Firing the boss is impossible until it is not. When a sufficient number and arrangement of former underlings refuse to comply with the orders sent to them by their boss, then the boss can no longer successfully order them to comply . . . and thereby stops being the boss. Obviously, to stay boss for very long one must anticipate and prevent such refusals (especially organized refusals) by ordering actions be taken to nullify people and ideas which might eventually mount a successful refusal to comply. Another word for such “orders to suppress noncompliance” is the word oppressive.
    It is a delicate balance. Too little oppression and you’ll never have things your way, and too much oppression and it engenders (successfully!) open revolt.
    Like I said, it’s a very delicate balance, but the simple fact of the matter is that the boss stops being the boss when the underling(s) says no.

    #135031
    citizenx
    Participant

    Younger generations of Americans no longer remember who fought against whom in World War II, and even middle-aged citizens are ignorant of the recent past, the lack of understanding of history among Americans was not merely “forgetfulness” but a “pernicious line” and warned of the consequences of such ignorance. “Not knowing the horrors of the past, not knowing who saved the world from the brown plague (fascism), means that soon in America there will be a generation that will be unable to soberly assess its present and its future,”

    They don’t even know what Sex they are… Meanwhile the Propagandist Brainwashers are Drunk on Power and High on Stupid. There is no clear Vision or sobriety in America. Bud Light anyone?

    the “disgusting, criminal and deadly” ideology of Western supremacy and the globalists who “pit people against each other, split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, destroy traditional family values that make human a human.”

    Yep, this Country has lost it’s fucking mind, and it’s Soul.
    Perhaps a National day of “choke out an American Liberal will bring some and vision and clarity back…”?

    A true threat will do wonders for one’s own disposition.

    ….

    Meanwhile young teens die by the score from the obscene vaxscene….

    High School Students Who Died Suddenly or Unexpectedly After Taking COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines. 16 Cases in 2022

    High School Students Who Died Suddenly or Unexpectedly After Taking COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines. 16 Cases in 2022

    High School “Died Suddenly”: 14-19 Year Olds Dying Suddenly

    High School “Died Suddenly”: 14-19 Year Olds Dying Suddenly

    All the way from Washington
    Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
    “We live for just these twenty years
    Do we have to die for the fifty more?”

    All night
    He wants the young American

    Do you remember, your President Nixon?
    Do you remember, the bills you have to pay?
    Or even yesterday?

    Have you been the un-American?

    #135032
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ask Trump.
    How to get Free adv., promo. from T.V.
    How to minimize you election expenses.

    #135033
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

    All those titles and letters! Now you know that they mean nothing; there is no need to worship or envy them. No need to look up in awe. No need to give deference or treat them as experts.

    In a sane and just world Peter Hotez would only require one letter after his name to signify his level of authority: an “L”. What a schmuck!

    #135034
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    Only the abstract is available, the rest is behind a paywall (I might purchase the article, contact if you’re interested):

    The specific activity of 14C in the atmosphere gets reduced by a dilution effect when fossil CO2, which is devoid of 14C, enters the atmosphere. We have used the results of this effect to quantify the two components. All results covering the period from 1750 through 2018 are listed in a table and plotted in figures. These results negate claims that the increase in C(t) since 1800 has been dominated by the increase of the anthropogenic fossil component. We determined that in 2018, atmospheric anthropogenic fossil CO2 represented 23% of the total emissions since 1750 with the remaining 77% in the exchange reservoirs. Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming.

    World Atmospheric CO2, Its 14C Specific Activity, Non-fossil Component, Anthropogenic Fossil Component, and Emissions (1750–2018)

    #135035
    zerosum
    Participant

    Yes, things have changed
    In WWII The Canadian gov. fought to defeat the German Nazi.
    Now, the Canadian Gov. has been fighting since 2014 for the Ukrainian Nazi gov to win the war.

    #135036
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Clay Clark: Globalists Making Tremendous Progress on Great Reset

    Clay Clark is a father of five kids, the organizer, emceed and host of the General Flynn ReAwaken America Tour, the former “U.S. SBA Entrepreneur of the Year” for the State of Oklahoma, the founder of several multi-million dollar companies, and the host of the Thrivetime Show podcast which has been number one overall on the iTunes business podcast charts 6 times! Clay Clark is a former member of the Forbes Business Coach Council, an Amazon best-selling author and the host of the Thrivetime Show podcast which has hit #1 on the iTunes charts in the category of business 6 times. Throughout his career he’s founded several multi-million dollar businesses.

    Clay Clark: Globalists Making Tremendous Progress on Great Reset

    #135037
    WES
    Participant

    A million people invaded the US yesterday and nobody is reporting the invasion! Not even zerohedge!

    The FBI yesterday arrested a congressman for lying! Yes for lying, the stock and trade of congress!

    Rumor has it the Ukrainian general at Bukhmut bought the farm. Otherwise the Ukrainian army’s spring offensive has started. Russian forces have been retreating when attacked.

    In solidarity with Ukraine, all of the East European NATO countries, bordering Ukraine have banned imports of cheap Ukrainian food products.

    The Toronto Maple Leafs delayed their date on the golf course by one game. Something to do with fooling around with the jaws of defeat!

    #135038
    Dora
    Participant

    John Campbell. UK MP Ester McVey on WHO pandemic treaty.

    #135039
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The jew wants you dead and gone goyim. Its in their talmud. Wake the fuck up to what is happening. Don’t trust me read their own writings. Take a good look around at this madness, this insanity. It’s right from the TOP, the money printers, media makers, paid for government whores. Destruction by design by people who are incapable of creating anything good. Evil, if you accept it, you’re dead.

    #135040
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Ok fair point re batteries but I’m just saying there is too much detail to cover to arrive at a figure. And I should have said I don’t believe batteries are a silver bullet.

    Also … https://twitter.com/james_freeman__/status/1656738206438522906/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1656738206438522906&currentTweetUser=james_freeman__

    #135041
    Observer
    Participant

    The correspondence associated with this article is of more interest. My immediate thought was: “Interesting – I wonder if they accounted for the exchange of CO2 with the oceans (and biosphere) given the oceans act as a sink for atmospheric CO2 (approx. 25% – which leads to ocean acidification) which would mess with the atmospheric signal and there is loss of carbon to ocean sediments via the ocean carbon pump” – turns out they didn’t. The correspondence expands on this initial thought and brings in further considerations that the authors of this paper ignored suggesting that this work is erroneous. See: https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Citation/2022/06000/Comment_on__World_Atmospheric_CO2,_Its_14C.13.aspx Turns out things like atomic testing messes bigly with 14C-CO2 data – every day is a school day.
    Another correspondent basically says this paper was clearly not reviewed by anyone who has a systems knowledge of CO2 flux in the real world.

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