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Fuel supply emergency declarations issued in Nebraska and South Dakota

By Ashley - November 2, 2022

Authorities in two states are relaxing certain trucking regulations in order to address fuel supply shortages.

South Dakota Emergency Order

On October 26, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issued an executive order providing truckers hauling liquid fuel products with relief from Hours of Service rules due to “extremely low inventories and outages of certain liquid products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, ethyl alcohol, natural gasoline, diesel exhaust fluid, and and anhydrous ammonia”

See the Executive Order in full below.

Nebraska Emergency Order

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts issued a similar emergency declaration on November 1 providing relief from Hours of Service requirements for drivers hauling gasoline or gasoline blends, diesel, fuel oil, ethanol, propane, and biodiesel.

The order was issued because “several multiple states including Nebraska are experiencing fuel shortages due to high demand for petroleum products.”

See below for the full Emergency Order:

Under both Executive Orders, carriers cannot require fatigued drivers to operate. A driver who notifies a motor carrier that he or she needs immediate rest shall be given a least ten (10) consecutive hours off-duty before the driver is required to return to service.

Fuel Shortage Concerns Mounting

Fuel supply issues have been an area of growing concern over the past few weeks.

On October 25, Mansfield Energy issued a supply alert for diesel fuel markets on the east coast. The company described the current fuel market as “rapidly devolving” and noted that “markets are now seeing extremely high prices in the Northeast along with supply outages along the Southeast.”

On October 14, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that the U.S. had only 25 days worth of diesel fuel in reserve. The White House has vowed to monitor the supply and is reportedly working to increase fuel reserves.

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***BULLETIN *** 10' Tall WALL put around Federal Reserve Bank in Washington on SUNDAY!

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As shown in the photo above, a ten foot tall wall was erected around the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, DC today (Sunday).

What do YOU suppose is the knowledge they already have, that makes them feel they will need this type of protection from the General Public?

When I received this photo, I stopped what I was doing, went to the bank Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) and withdrew the maximum amount of cash I am able to get on any given day.

I strongly recommend YOU have cash too. Right now. Sunday night. Then more after midnight when the day resets and you can get more out of an ATM.

Whatever they know, it won't be long until everyone else knows, and the Bankers want to be protected from the general public.

This doesn't seem good at all.

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Ukraine Situation Report: North Korea Covertly Arming Russia

After losing many ammo depots to attack, eight months of conflict, and not being able to mobilize its own industry, Russia is in need of ammo.

by Howard Altman| PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2022 5:26 PM

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In the latest example of the circuitous efforts Russia’s allies are making to arm its war on Ukraine, North Korea has been covertly shipping Moscow a “significant number” of artillery shells, the White House alleged Wednesday.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. believes North Korea is “trying to make it appear as though they’re being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa,” according to The Associated Press.

Kirby declined to provide a specific estimate on the quantity of ammunition being sent to bolster the Russian effort.

The White House is “still monitoring this to determine whether the shipments are actually received,” Kirby said, adding that the U.S. has “an idea” of the source of the ammunition. He declined to offer specifics, saying the administration is trying to determine the best way to respond to North Korea’s actions.

Despite concerns that Pyongyang is shipping the munitions, Kirby claims they are “not going to change the course of the war,” citing the voluminous amount of military aid provided by the U.S. and its allies.

“We don’t believe that they are in such a quantity that they would change the direction of this war or tangibly change the momentum either in the east or in the south” where Russia is on the defensive in two major Ukrainian counteroffensives, Kirby said.

The White House revelation comes two months after The New York Times first reported that Russia was buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea. The newspaper, citing declassified American intelligence, said it was "a sign that global sanctions have severely restricted its supply chains and forced Moscow to turn to pariah states for military supplies."

Russian artillery has been one of the most devastating capabilities of the conflict in Ukraine, but months in and many destroyed depots later, Russia appears to be in need of shells. (Russian MOD)

Russia's pursuit of more artillery ammunition "is a sign that Moscow’s supply problems are likely deeper than just high-end components for cutting-edge tanks or precision missiles," the Times reported. "If Russia is seeking more artillery shells from North Korea, it is facing a shortage or could see one in the future, and its industrial base is struggling to meet the military demands of the war."

That disclosure came "days after Russia received initial shipments of Iranian-made drones, some of which American officials said Russia had issues operating. U.S. government officials said Russia’s decision to turn to Iran, and now North Korea, was a sign that sanctions and export controls imposed by the United States and Europe were hurting Moscow’s ability to obtain supplies for its army.”

North Korea, with its massive arsenal of approximately 20,000 active artillery pieces, would have what defense and military analysis Joseph Dempsey described as “the single biggest source of compatible legacy artillery ammunition outside of Russia, including domestic production facilities to further supplies.” Both Iran and North Korea are widely secluded from the rest of the world, sanctioned by the majority of the West. This implies that they have very little to lose and much to gain doing business with Russia and that their supply chains for weaponry are largely organic or, at the very least, work outside of major trade channels. You can read much more about that here.

That isolation is something Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's top spokesman, raised Tuesday at a press briefing.

Russia, he said, continues "to experience supply shortages when it comes to munitions, particularly guided munitions. It also is indicative of where they're seeking munitions from - countries like North Korea and Iran - which says a lot about the kind of company they keep and where they stand in the world right now in terms of isolation."

But clearly, constant and now notorious attacks on Russian ammunition dumps in Ukraine and even beyond have had an impact on Russia's supply of artillery ammunition. This is exacerbated by over eight months of war, in which Russia used huge amounts of artillery ammunition to level entire cities. Beyond that, it's clear that the Kremlin has had trouble mobilizing its own industry to produce even low-tech items like artillery shells that are needed to sustain the conflict. All these factors have likely created a perfect storm of sorts for Russian ammunition stocks, or at least a storm is brewing on the horizon.

The White House announcement on Wednesday comes as Ukrainian intelligence says Russia will soon receive more drones as well as the first shipments of short-range ballistic missiles from Iran.

Iran test-fires its surface-to-surface Fateh 110 missile like those that will supposedly be sent to Russia. (Photo by Mohsen Shandiz/Corbis via Getty Images)

Over the next few days, Iran is planning to send more than 200 additional combat drones to Russia via the Caspian Sea, according to the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence directorate (GUR).

Those shipments will be followed "in a few weeks" by the delivery from Iran to Russia of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) via direct flights to Russia and over the Caspian, a source in Ukrainian intelligence told The War Zone on Tuesday. You can read more about that here.

Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the GUR, told The War Zone last week about Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar SRBMs are coming to Russia sometime this month. You can read about that and much more here. These confirmations come weeks after The War Zone posited Russia would soon pursue these missiles.

Given concerns about Iranian SRBMs and drones going to Russia, the GUR on Wednesday asked for help in identifying supply routes.

“Please provide any information that will help determine the logistical routes of the supply of Iranian weapons and identify the specific persons responsible for these supplies,” the GUR said on its Telegram page.

It is seeking information about those responsible for organizing the supplies, where they live and work, the location of logistic nodes including geolocations of warehouses and railway stations and ports where the arms will be shipped, GUR also wants to know “exact routes by which military goods are moved from Iran to the Russian Federation - license plate numbers and photos of the road and sea transport that moves these cargoes.”

The GUR said that “all persons involved in the supply of Iranian weapons for use in the war against Ukraine violate international law and become complicit in the crimes committed by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.”

Before we head into more of the latest news from Ukraine, The War Zone readers can get caught up with our previous rolling coverage of the war here.

The Latest

On the battlefield, Ukraine continues to press forward in counteroffensives across several fronts while Russia continued its offensive around Bakhmut in Donetsk, the Institute for the Study of War says in its latest assessment.

ISW offered several key takeaways:

The Russian MoD started its semi-annual fall conscription cycle despite reports of Russian authorities covertly continuing mobilization measures.

Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued to conduct counteroffensive operations in the directions of Svatove and Kreminna.

Russian forces continued defensive preparations while Ukrainian forces conducted counteroffensive operations in Kherson Oblast.

Russian forces continued to conduct offensive operations around Bakhmut and around Donetsk City.

Russian forces continued to strengthen Russian control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Russian military structures are reportedly expanding training capabilities.

Russian occupation officials continued to set conditions for the long-term and permanent relocation of residents from the east bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast.

Frustrated by the course of the war, Russian generals discussed the potential of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

"Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials," the Times reported. "President Vladimir V. Putin was not a part of the conversations, which were held against the backdrop of Russia’s intensifying nuclear rhetoric and battlefield setbacks."

Russia's temporary pullout from the Black Sea Grain Initiative didn't last long. “Here now is a new piece of good news,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who engineered the deal with the U.N. in July, said Wednesday during a speech to lawmakers in Ankara, according to the Washington Post. “The grain shipment will continue as it was previously planned.”

The Russian Defense Ministry (MOD) confirmed that Russia was ending its suspension of the deal, saying that the United Nations and Turkey had helped obtain Kyiv’s “written guarantees” not to use the grain corridor for military action against Russia.

Russia on Monday said it was suspending "traffic across the safety corridor" as well as its participation in the initiative until “the terrorist act committed by Ukraine on 29 October against the warships and civilian vessels in Sevastopol is clarified.”

On Saturday, that port city in Russian-occupied Crimea was the target of a multi-prong attack by sea and aerial drones, which we covered extensively here.

The battle for Kherson City, meanwhile, rages on.

Ukrainian forces once again hit an improvised Russian span crossing the Dnipro River near the Antonovsky bridge there. You can read more about why that crossing is critical to both sides in our coverage here.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian artillery continues to cause havoc for Russians, who apparently lost three 2A36 Giatsint-B 152 mm field guns.

We are getting a rare glimpse of a British-provided Stormer HVM short-range air defense system in action with the Ukrainian Army, apparently taking out a Russian drone, according to the Ukraine Weapons Tracker OSINT group.

And up in the skies, Ukrainian pilots are chasing down cruise missiles, BBC reports in an interview with a Ukrainian Air Force pilot with the call sign Juice, someone we have interviewed several times before. Those missions follow a trend of the Ukrainian Air Force using its small fleet of combat jets to go after Russian aerial threats other than airplanes, as we highlighted here.

But Ukraine is firing more than just deadly munitions at the Russians.

They also continue to fire rounds containing messages telling Russians how to surrender.

It's a message that may be of particular interest to the recently mobilized Russian reservists, who have been complaining about poor training, poor treatment and shoddy equipment. Many, apparently, have already been killed in their short time on the battlefield and even before they get there.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says that by helping defend Ukraine, the West is seeking to destroy Russia.

"Russia undoubtedly is the main target of the collective West’s destructive activities, aimed at wiping out Russia’s economy and military potential and depriving it of the chance to pursue an independent foreign policy," he said at a joint board meeting of the Russian and Belarusian defense ministries on Wednesday, according to the official Russian news agency TASS.

But as bad as things are going for Russia, don't expect Putin to leave office anytime soon. So says Reuters, citing an unnamed Western official who said nonetheless that Russia's "catastrophic" performance on the battlefield has weakened Putin's position.

"That has to mean that people are talking more about succession, they are talking more about what comes next, they are imagining a life beyond. But what I am not doing is suggesting that that's any time soon."

We will continue to update this story until we say otherwise.

Contact the author: howard@thewarzone.com

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Wow! Holland says enough is enough and becomes first European country to withdraw sanctions against Russia, without permission from EU

Nov 6, 2022

Wow! Holland has said enough is enough!

They become the first European country to withdraw sanctions against Russia, without permission from EU.

This is the first example we see of a European country acting in the best interest of their own country.

Now who is next?

The Dutch government has issued 91 waivers from sanctions against Russia since the country invaded Ukraine late in February, RTL Nieuws reports after talking to the Ministries. The ministries shielded the names of the companies involved, the value of transactions which were exempted, and the business sectors concerned.

The information was “company-sensitive,” according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs, Finance, Infrastructure, and Education are allowed to grant exemptions to sanctions to “allow a degree of flexibility in specific cases,” the spokesperson affirmed.

In April, the European Union banned ships sailing under the Russian flag from European ports. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management issued waivers so 34 ships could access Dutch ports, for example, because they carried important cargo like aluminum and food.

“Diplomatic relations” was stated as the reason why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted one exemption, the broadcaster reported. In the isolated case, transactions which involved Russian banks majority held by the State were permitted to occur.

The Ministry of Finance granted 13 additional waivers related to frozen assets or goods that fall under the sanctions regime.

The Ministry for Climate and Energy, which falls under Economic Affairs, issued 25 waivers for Dutch organizations to still get energy from former Gazprom companies. The waivers help 150 companies and organizations, including municipalities, schools, and water boards, the Ministry said to the broadcaster.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, which falls under Foreign Affairs, issued 18 waivers to 13 organizations on “humanitarian grounds” for cooperation between the EU and Russia on “purely civilian matters.” Foreign Affairs issued one waiver so a company could receive another payment from Russia. [RTLNieuws, NLTimes]

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Ukraine LIVE: Putin invokes WW2 in nuclear threat as ‘all options are on table’

The Kremlin leader's comments have sparked fears of a potential nuclear strike in the east of Ukraine.

By Michael Curzon, Aleks Phillips, Emma Crabtree

01:14, Mon, Nov 7, 2022 | UPDATED: 01:15, Mon, Nov 7, 2022

Vladimir Putin has made reference to the US's nuclear strikes on Japan during World War Two in veiled a nuclear threat to Ukraine. In his latest telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Russian leader claimed that America’s nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of people (mostly civilians) and triggered the Japanese 1945 surrender, proved “you don’t need to attack the major cities in order to win”.

A French Government source told the Mail on Sunday that the Kremlin leader is keen to get across that “all options are on the table”. His comments come after Moscow warned residents of the southern Kherson region of Ukraine to leave or face being deported, ahead of an expected Russian withdrawal. Russia has repeatedly claimed Ukraine may use a dirty bomb – a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material – which has been viewed as a potential precursor to a false flag operation.

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in 4 hours01:14 Emma Crabtree

Russian troops plead for help after Putin's latest offensive turns into 'death trap'

Russia launched a badly-timed offensive to take the town of Pavlivka in Donetsk in recent weeks.

However, newly shared posts on Telegram and even a private letter to the Russian Ministry of Defence from forces have exposed the disaster on the ground.

Hundreds of men in the 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet have died during the "pointless" offensive which failed to secure any ground for Vladimir Putin.

The letter read: "General Muradov has thrown us into an incomprehensible offensive in order for Muradov to earn bonuses, and to be promised a hero of Russia.

"We lost 300 people killed, wounded, and missing in four days. The command of the district hid this.

"How long will General Muradov and Akhmedov plan military operations? They call people meat."

in 3 hours23:58 Emma Crabtree

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Good evening I’m Emma Crabtree, I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments on Ukraine for the next few hours. Please feel free to get in touch with me as I work if you have a story or tips to share! Your thoughts are always welcome.

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in an hour22:31 Aleks Phillips

Putin quietly drops top general amid military disarray

General Alexander Lapin is believed to have been relieved of his command following a series of retreats by occupying Russian forces in the face of a strong counter-offensive from the Ukrainian military.

He is the latest in a growing number of commanders the Russian President has done away with since the invasion began, as frustrations grow over numerous failings.

In an intelligence update earlier today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the unceremonious deposals “represent a pattern of blame” for “failures to achieve Russian objectives on the battlefield”.

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Lapin is believed to have been relieved of his command following a series of retreats (Image: Getty)

1 hour ago20:12 Aleks Phillips

Russian reinforcement battalion 'destroyed in days'

A whole battalion of Russian reinforcements to the front line in eastern Ukraine were destroyed by enemy fire in a matter of days after being mobilised, according to unverified reports in Russian opposition media. One purported survivor told Vertska the group of troops sent to reinforce Luhansk, in the Donbas region, were ill-equipped and deserted by officers.

The lone survivor from the unit told the news agency: "We had three shovels per battalion and there were no provisions at all. We dug in as best we could and in the morning the shelling started from artillery and helicopters.

"We were simply shot. When it all started the officers simply ran away."

Putin has mobilised hundreds of thousands of Russian men to reinforce an exhausted and demoralised fighting force. However, reports have emerged of the invading forces being ill-equipped and under-trained.

Russians shooting their own in Kherson retreat disorganisation

A phonecall by a Russian soldier, incercepted by Ukrainian intelligence, has revealed the occupying forces fleeing Kherson are shooting at their own troops, mistaking them for Ukrainians.

In a conversation between a member of the 239th motorised rifle regiment and his wife, the serviceman also said the Russians were moving in crowds amid disorganisation in the hasty retreat from the southern port city.

He said: "They themselves are a little bit to blame - they crowded around the car, lay down near the Ural, and kicked the car. And you can't do that, and you can't huddle in a crowd."

5 hours ago16:13 Aleks Phillips

Mayor of Kyiv tells residents to leave city over winter fears

The mayor of Kyiv today warned residents that they must prepare for the worst this winter if Russia keeps striking the country's energy infrastructure, suggesting those able to stay outside the Ukrainian capital should do so.

Vitaly Klitschko, the boxer-turned-politician, said Russian strikes on energy infrastructure could mean having no electricity, water or heat in the freezing cold.

He told state media: "If you have relatives or friends in the suburbs of Kyiv who have a separate water supply, a stove and heating, plan to stay there temporarily."

Russia has focused on striking Ukraine's energy infrastructure over the last month, causing power shortages and rolling outages across the country, as it tries to lower the resolve of the Ukrainian people after a series of humiliating retreats in the face of a strong defending force.

Rolling blackouts also were planned in the nearby Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava regions, Ukraine’s state-owned energy operator, Ukrenergo, said.

Mr Klitschko added: "We are doing everything to avoid this. But let’s be frank, our enemies are doing everything for the city to be without heat, without electricity, without water supply, in general, so we all die. And the future of the country and the future of each of us depends on how prepared we are for different situations."

Kyiv plans to deploy about a 1,000 heating points, but noted that this may not be enough for a city of 3 million people.

6 hours ago15:36 Aleks Phillips

Ukrainian patriotism 'crucial' to Soviet WWII victory over Nazis

Ukraine's "significant" contribution the allied victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two needs to be "recovered" from history, an expert in the era has said.

Dr Zbig Wojnowski, associate professor of Soviet history at the University of Oxford, said: "I think in both cases, Ukrainians, and the people who identified themselves as Ukrainian, played a prominent part in [those] military battles. They showed a great sort of spirit and morale.

"And I think in both cases, a sense of Ukrainian patriotism was crucial in motivating people to fight. I think it's interesting that history remembers, a sort of Soviet Union victory in World War Two, which was primarily viewed as a Russian victory.

"But Ukrainians were disproportionately represented in the Red Army, and Ukrainians were often driven to fight by a sense of being Ukrainian."

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6 hours ago15:28 Aleks Phillips

'Chronic corruption' to blame for Russian military failings

The seeds of Russian military's failings in Ukraine were sowed years ago thanks to corruption and arrogance in Moscow, a political expert said.

Taras Kuzio, a professor of political science and author of 'Fascism and Genocide: Russia’s War Against Ukrainians', said: "Putin’s army has been exposed in almost every department, from poor leadership and outdated tactics to equally out-of-date equipment.

"Chronic corruption within the Russian Ministry of Defense has hampered military logistics, with soldiers in many instances receiving kit dating from the 1970s or earlier."

After being dogged by disorder and miscommunication in the initial phase of the invasion, a exhausted and demoralised Russian military has been pushed into a series of humiliating retreats in recent months - the latest Ukrainian counter-offensive setting its sights on retaking the port city of Kherson.

Earlier this week, Professor Edward Luttwak, a military historian and strategist, said Putin's tactical blunders have made a Russian victory "unlikely".

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6 hours ago15:24 Aleks Phillips

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7 hours ago14:31 Michael Curzon

Zelensky asks West to oppose Iranian actions

Volodymyr Zelensky has today discussed “opposing actions of Iran, which supports aggression” with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Their conversation came after Tehran admitted to providing Moscow with drones, but said it did this before the Kremlin launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine (see below).

8 hours ago13:34 Michael Curzon

Footage captures strikes on Russian fighting vehicles

Video footage shared online shows the moment Ukraine’s Special Group "Alpha" enacted mortar strikes on three Russian infantry fighting vehicles.

The action took place in the Kharkiv direction, northeast Ukraine.

9 hours ago12:24 Michael Curzon

Putin accused of ‘turning Russia into North Korea’

Vladimir Putin has been accused of “turning Russia into North Korea”.

Journalist Mark Galeotti, with expertise on Moscow, said the transformation was happening “slowly”, adding that “the parallel isn’t exact”.

He added, however, that “Pyongyang+Brezhnevism 2.0 does seem to be the depressingly inexorable logic of his current trajectory”.

11 hours ago10:49 Michael Curzon

Kyiv calls for strikes on Iran

An advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for Ukrainian strikes on Iran over its supply of drones to Russia, reports suggest.

Adviser Mykhailo, quoted in Arabist news service Al Mayadeen, said the Islamic Republic “cannot continue to do this with impunity”, adding: “It seems to me that it would be possible to deliver specific strikes on the production of drones, ballistic missiles, and so on.”

Tehran has admitted to providing Moscow with drones, but said it did this before the Kremlin launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine.

13 hours ago08:54 Michael Curzon

Russian pundit argues more young men should be sent to fight so less compensation needed after death

More younger Russians should be trained to fight in Ukraine so the government has to pay less in way of compensation when they are killed in action, a pundit has argued.

Dmitry Puchkov, translated by Julia Davis, told Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda: “It will turn out that those trained 18 year olds will have to be sent to the front to take part in combat instead of calling up 40 year olds with a higher education, a business, a wife and three children, whose death at the front will cause the necessity of paying a pension to the wife, to the children, etc.”

He admitted his claims sounded “cynical” but insisted “there is no way around it”.

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Putin invokes World War Two in nuclear threat to Ukraine

In his latest telephone conversation with Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin claimed that America’s nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of people (mostly civilians) and triggered the Japanese 1945 surrender, proved “you don’t need to attack the major cities in order to win”.

A French Government source told the Mail on Sunday: “Macron was distinctly alarmed.

“It sounded like a very heavy hint that Putin might detonate a tactical nuclear weapon in the east of Ukraine, while leaving Kyiv intact. That appeared to be the thrust of his remarks.”

This comes amid reports of an expected Russian withdrawal from Kherson, in the east of Ukraine.

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Japan urgently needs to strengthen its military as Kim Jong-Un steps up North Korea's missile-firing programme, Prime Minister Kishida says

Japan's Prime Minister warned the pacifist country needs to step up its military force amid tensions in region

Fumio Kishida spoke at fleet review which saw 18 ships from 12 countries paraded in Sagami Bay, near Tokyo

Demonstration included some of world's biggest military ships and warplanes from US, South Korea and more

It comes after North Korea fired a long-range missile near Japan this week in a record year for launches

By Elena Salvoni For Mailonline

Published: 08:49 EST, 6 November 2022 | Updated: 12:09 EST, 6 November 2022

Japan's Prime Minister has warned the pacifist country needs to step up its military force amid an increasingly 'severe' situation in the region, after North Korea's latest provocation this week saw it fire a missile near the island nation in a record year for launches.

Fumio Kishida made the comments as he took part in an international fleet review today which saw 18 warships from 12 countries paraded in Sagami Bay, southwest of Tokyo.

The remarkable demonstration included some of the world's biggest and most advanced military vessels from the US, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea.

It also involved warplanes from the US and French militaries.

South Korea joined the review the first time in seven years, in the latest sign of improvement in badly strained ties between Tokyo and Seoul over Japan's wartime atrocities amid an escalating threat from North Korea.

The North fired four ballistic missiles towards the South yesterday according to Seoul, which came after Washington and Seoul concluded their biggest-ever air force drills.

The recent flurry of North Korean launches included an intercontinental ballistic missile and one that landed near the South's territorial waters.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called the barrage 'effectively a territorial invasion'.

This year has seen a record number of missiles launched by the paraiah state, according to reports.

Referencing this escalation of missile firings and growing concern about the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Asia, Kishida said: 'The security environment in the East and South China seas, especially around Japan, is increasingly becoming more severe.'

Avoiding disputes and seeking dialogue is important, he added, but it is also necessary to be prepared for provocations and threats to peace and stability. He repeated his pledge to significantly reinforce Japan's military capability within five years.

Kishida said Japan urgently needs to build more warships, strengthen anti-missile capability and improve working conditions for troops.

'We have no time to waste,' the premier said after his review aboard the JS Izumo.

The 813-foot-long Izumo has been retrofitted so that it can carry F-35Bs, stealth fighters capable of short take-offs and vertical landings, as Japan increasingly works side-by-side with the US military.

Kishida said Japan will further strengthen the deterrence and response capability of the Japan-US alliance.

Later in the day, Kishida and American Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel were to visit the USS Ronald Reagan, the US Navy's only aircraft career based outside the US mainland, off the US naval base of Yokosuka.

Emanuel stressed the importance of cooperation among US allies. 'Every time we do things in either a bilateral capacity, trilateral capacity of any other type of exercises that also brings in others, that puts China on their back heels because they realize that's the one thing they do not have is the one thing America has in abundance and we work at it extensively.'

The US military, which had just finished a joint exercise with South Korea that prompted missile barrages and other warnings from North Korea, is set to hold major drills with Japan later this month in southwestern Japan.

Britain will join as part of the drills along with Australia and Canada, while France, India, New Zealand, the Philippines and South Korea are expected to partake as observers.

Naval officers from the countries participating in the review gathered to inspect a demonstration of the frigates, submarines, supply ships and warplanes from around the world.

Japan has steadily stepped up its role in international defense and military spending over the past decade.

It plans to double its military budget in the next five to 10 years to about 2 per cent of its GDP, citing a NATO standard, with threats from North Korea as well as the growing assertiveness of neighbour, China.

China has reinforced its claims to virtually the entire South China Sea by constructing artificial islands equipped with military installations and airfields.

Beijing also claims a string of islands that are controlled by Japan in the East China Sea, and has stepped up military harassment of self-ruled Taiwan, which it says is part of China to be annexed by force if necessary.

Kishida's government is currently working on a revision to its national security strategy and mid- to long-term defense policies.

As part of this it is considering allowing the use of preemptive strikes in a major shift to Japan's self-defense-only postwar principle.

Critics say preemptive strikes could violate Japan's pacifist constitution, amid concerns from some neighbouring countries.

Many, including South Korea, were victims of Japanese aggression in the first half of the 1900s, and an attempt by Japan to increase its military role and spending could be a sensitive issue.

Seemingly addressing these concerns, Kishida said Japan will stick to its postwar pledge as a 'pacifist nation' and continue to explain its security policy to gain understanding while asking other countries to do the same.

Sunday's international fleet review marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan's postwar navy, called the Maritime Self-Defense Force, seven years after Japan was demilitarized after its World War II defeat.

The naval ships and warplanes are expected to participate in joint exercises later today and tomorrow.

The demonstration marks the first time Japan hosted an international fleet review in 20 years.

China is not taking part but is expected to participate in the two-day Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Yokohama starting Monday with officers from about 30 countries discussing maritime security and cooperation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11395721/Japanese-PM-says-needs-strengthen-military-North-Korea-steps-missile-firing-programme.html

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Drinking water for homes and schools in Arizona is DRYING UP because foreign owned megafarms are sucking it up for their crops . . . which are then shipped to Middle East

Declining water tables in the area suggest water levels have dropped from about 100 feet in the 1950s to about 540 feet in 2022

Arizona's La Paz County is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, partially due to the Colorado River Basin's drought

Middle Eastern megafarms are importing 80 percent of their agriculture

By Alastair Talbot For Dailymail.Com

Published: 01:54 EST, 6 November 2022 | Updated: 09:29 EST, 6 November 2022

Drinking water for residents of Wenden, Ariz., has started to dry up as megafarms owned and backed by sovereign nations use it to grow their crops instead.

Groundwater is a necessity to grow agriculture in the Southwest, and while the Colorado River Basin is going through a prolonged drought, overused aquifers in Arizona are rapidly being exhausted, affecting the local lifestyle and economy.

In fact, workers with the state's water district watched, with the aid of a camera lowered into the town's well, the water moving, CNN reported.

That's because, according to Gary Saiter, a resident and head of the Wenden Water Improvement District, the water was being literally and rapidly pumped out of the ground by a neighboring well belonging to a United Arab Emirates-based company.

It's important because residents of towns Wenden and Salome get their water from the same source as farms - underground pools - but declining water tables in the area show levels have dropped from about 100 feet in the 1950s to about 540 feet in 2022.

While Arizona's La Paz County is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, as are other areas in the state and Southwestern region of the Unite States, foreign-owned farms growing crops requiring extensive amounts of water, such as alfalfa, are being blamed for the dry spell.

To make matters worse, the crops grown by these megafarms are eventually shipped to feed cattle and other livestock in other places around the world, particularly in the United Arab Emirates, rather than the state's own.

In Salome, local water utility owner Bill Farr claimed his wells, which supply water to local schools and 200 other purchasers, are 'nearing the end of its useful life,' CNN reported.

Al Dahra Agricultural company, based in Abu Dhabi, and Fondomonte Arizona LLC - a commercial farming venture wholly owned by Almarai, one of the biggest dairy companies in the Gulf region - 'have depleted their [water], that's why they are here,' La Paz County supervisor Holly Irwin said.

She added: 'That's what angers people the most. We should be taking care of our own, and we just allow them to come in, purchase property and continue to punch holes in the ground.'

In 2018, a law prohibiting farms to grow thirsty crops like alfalfa and hay passed in Saudi Arabia in 2018, resulting in the necessity of 'feedstock from abroad,' Eckart Woertz, director of the Germany-based GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, told CNN.

The UAE now imports 80 percent of its food production, according to My Bayut, the country's 'most popular real estate and lifestyle blog.'

As La Paz County's Irwin said: 'They've definitely increased production.'

The Almarai Company, which operates under its subsidiary, Fondomonte, in the US, owns approximately 10,000 acres of farmland in Vicksburg, and is one of the biggest dairy suppliers in the Gulf.

As of 2022, it is valued at $14.65 billion, according to Companies Market Cap.

The Saudi-backed company also owns nearly 3,500 acres in Southern California, another popular mass agricultural spot in America, and uses water from the Colorado River to nurture its crops.

Foreign-owned megafarms have become somewhat of an omnipresent sight in Arizona, as they've expanded from around 1.25 million acres in 2010 to nearly three million acres in 2020, the US Department of Agriculture reports.

In the Midwest, farmland owned by sovereign nations has seen a fourfold increase.

'It gives you that sense you're closer to the source,' Woertz told CNN. 'The sense that you own land or lease land somewhere else and have direct bilateral access [to water] gives you a sense of maybe false security.'

In 2014, Fondomonte bought 10,000 acres of farmland for $47.5 million, and it also has leasing ties with the state to grow its ploughland.

Crops grown on these megafarms, mostly alfalfa and hay, are later put on trucks so they can be exported to Saudi Arabia.

Almarai has previously said its business in Arizona is related to 'continuous efforts to improve and secure its supply of the highest quality alfalfa hay from outside the Kingdom to support its dairy business.'

'It is also in line with the Saudi government direction toward conserving local resources,' according to Arab News, the biggest English language daily in Saudi Arabia.

'Fondomonte decided to invest in the southwest United States just as hundreds of other agricultural businesses have because of the high-quality soils, and climatic conditions that allow growth of some of the finest quality alfalfa in the world,' Almarai said through one of its spokespersons.

Local residents and officials now find themselves fighting against not only multi-million corporations but countries, which themselves are experiencing similar droughts to the one happening in the Southwestern region in a race for the most important commodity on Earth - water.

'We are literally exporting our economy overseas,' Cynthia Campbell, who is a water resources management adviser for the city of Phoenix, told CNN. 'I'm sorry, but there's no Saudi Arabian milk coming back to Southern California or Arizona. The value of that agricultural output is not coming through in value to the US.'

Arizona gets about 36 percent of its total water supply from the Colorado River as recently as 2020, according to The Associated Press.

That share of river water feeding farms and cities has declined some since then, with the advent of a federally approved Drought Contingency Plan that will cut the state's river water use by 21 percent starting in 2023.

It's expected to drop even further in the coming years but nobody knows how much right now.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11395273/Water-drying-Arizona-foreign-owned-megafarms-sucking-crops.html

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Under our Noses; The Left Smuggled Radical Gender Theory into over Four Thousand Schools Across the US

The GSA Network - works its way into schools through "gender and sexuality" clubs, or GSAs. The primary organization behind this Network is a professionally staffed nonprofit with a multimillion-dollar annual budget.

Published: October 31, 2022 Updated: October 31, 2022 at 9:24 am EST

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Identity is a form that can change dependent on the situation and as we age. During the formative years of life and throughout school, parents work very hard to develop their children to be productive members of society. Parents work hard to put forth their values through their children; however, in this timeframe, the Left and its radicals attempt to indoctrinate the youth into harmful ideologies. Professional Activists have infiltrated schools with university-style gender theory through a network of organizations. Over four thousand schools have been affected by what is called the GSA Network.

The GSA Network – works its way into schools through “gender and sexuality” clubs, or GSAs. The primary organization behind this Network is a professionally staffed nonprofit with a multimillion-dollar annual budget. The organization, ‘GSA Network’, states in it’s mission statement; “Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network (GSA Network) is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains trans, queer, and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.”

This particular organization’s vast reach spans forty states and connects ‘youth organizers’ across the country. The individual chapters, which operate in elementary, middle, and high schools, often use the language of “LGBTQ inclusion” and “anti-bullying” in their public relations. Still, behind the scenes, the central organization is driven by pure left-wing radicalism that extends far beyond sexuality.

Sitting just behind the public view is radicalism; “White European men created an oppressive system based on capitalism, white supremacy, and “heteronormativity”—that is, the promotion of heterosexuality, the male-female binary, and bourgeois family norms. In order to fight back, racial and sexual minorities must unite under the banner of “intersectionality” and dismantle the interlocking “systems of oppression.”

One of their publicly available documents listed under their Research section is called ‘TRUTH: Nine Point Platform’; The Nine Points include items such as Abolishing the Police, borders, and the judicial system another item is called; Ending the Cisgender Heterosexual Patriarchy.

As with many similar organizations, the group relies on cult-like programming; “As we move towards collective liberation with Trans, Queer, Non-binary / Gender Non-Conforming, Black, Indigenous, youth of color, we must do the self work to analyze how our actions, lack of actions or privileges contribute to the ongoing marginalization of this community. Self work is looking at how we move through the world and our impact on Trans, Queer, Non-binary / Gender Non-Conforming, Black, Indigenous, youth of color. If we are able to recognize how our actions contribute to the marginalization of these communities, we can begin to disrupt this process and really center Trans, Queer, Non-binary / Gender Non-Conforming, Black, Indigenous, youth of color in all our spaces, including GSAs. In this next section we are going to provide a few recommendations to help you start the self-work conversation with your GSA.”

After a child conducts the ‘self-work,’ they are then called to ‘atone’ for their privileges and perform acts of penance; “Doing the self and collective work to analyze how we contribute to the oppression of Trans, Queer, Non-binary / Gender Non-Conforming, Black, Indigenous, youth of color is tough, but we must commit to dismantling these systems for collective liberation,” the organization says. Specifically, the adults leading the clubs are instructed to tell the “privileged” children that they must “implement the use of pronouns,” “offer a land acknowledgment,” “listen to the Trans community,” “center conversations around Black liberation,” and “use your privilege (and your physical and monetary resources) to support Trans, Queer, Non-binary / Gender Non-Conforming, Black, Indigenous people of color, issues, businesses, and projects.”

The group effectively isolates the child away from the core of the family. It alienates them from their sense of safety by informing their prospect that these teachings and the Network’s advisors are to be kept secret from the parents. This method is especially effective on individuals who are having trouble at home, school, or fitting in with the norms of society. What the organization is doing is predatory behavior. “Know the laws in your state around students’ privacy rights and what you do and don’t have to tell parents/guardians/families,” the organization says in its official handbook. “When calling youth, it may not be safe to mention ‘GSA club’ or another trans or queer reference. Alternatively, club leaders can say they are from a student leadership program.” In many school districts, teachers not only can encourage a child’s participation in a “gender and sexuality” club without notifying parents but can also facilitate a child’s gender or sexual transition, including the adoption of a new name and set of pronouns, with the default policy requiring teachers to keep it a secret from that child’s family.

The strategy of the “gender and sexuality” clubs is deeply cynical. As independent journalists Colin Wright and Christina Buttons have documented, many teachers who serve as adult “advisors” to these clubs are intentionally concealing the sexual and political nature of their activities from parents, deliberately misleading families with vague language about “acceptance, tolerance, diversity, and identity.” This might work in the short term, but in the long term, they are playing with fire. School districts that allow adult employees to discuss sexuality with children secretly are creating a dangerous system that could easily be exploited by child predators. Clinical psychologists are already raising the alarm, warning that some of these practices resemble the tactics of such predators.

CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO

As parents, the right to raise our children does not belong to society – our parental rights belong to us. Many on the Left have construed this fundamental truth ranging up to the current Vice President Kamala Harris. The idea that children belong to the community and not the parents sets forth a course for correction for Conservatives; put forth policies restoring complete parental rights. The school should not have the right to hide anything from the parents.

https://mavjournal.com/battleground/under-our-noses-the-left-smuggled-radical-gender-theory-into-over-four-thousand-schools-across-the-us/?utm_source=Message 

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Russia Hits Ukraine with ~50 Missiles; Kiev Takes ~10 Hits, no electric/water

World Hal Turner 31 October 2022 Hits: 480

Russia began this week with a large barrage of missiles against Nazi Ukraine; with upwards of ten missiles striking the Nazi Capital Kiev and many other cities. The map above shows the missile target areas.

Russian Strategic aviation is very active this morning. 10 TU-95 planes with cruise missiles targeted the regions of Vinnytsia, Odessa, Kryvyi Rih, Poltava, Kiev, Khmelnytsia, Zaporozhye, Dnieper, Kremenchug.

The following regions and cities hit:

- Kiev

- Dnepropetrovsk

- Vinnitsa

- Zaporozhye

- Poltava

- Kharkiv

- Kirovograd

Attacks on Electrical or Water infrastructure:

- CHPP-5 (Kiev)

- CHPP-6 (Kiev)

- Lviv CHP (Lviv)

- Kremenchug HPP

- Dneproges

- Novodnestrovskaya HPP

At least 10 missile explosions were heard in Kyiv. Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed power outages in parts of the capital and water supply restrictions in some areas.

Blackouts began in the Kiev-controlled city of Zaporozhye, Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council, said.

Ukraine has lost 20 percent of its landmass to Russia. 15 percent of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homeland.

Only a large supply of candles from Poland will permit Ukrainians any light for the coming winter, yet this IS the main-stream-media's idea of "winning."

Social media and the foreign Press are lighting-up with the story:

The president of the Kiev regional administration, urged residents to prepare for a long absence of electricity.

The Dniester hydroelectric power plant-1 in the west of Kiev-controlled territory was struck. It is the most powerful power plant in the Dniester Region, 702 MW.

Kiev and region reported interruptions in mobile communications.

At the moment, 36 energy facilities of Ukraine have been hit. In Kyiv, an explosion at only one power facility led to a power outage in 350,000 apartments.

While you are reading this, it is important to point out Russia asked for peace talks with the US about 10 days ago, and the US refused.

Two "Incidents" so far today:

A missile shot down by the Ukrainian air defense landed on the territory of Moldova, according to the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The same ministry urgently called Kiev for clarification.

And . . . a much more worrisome "incident:"

In Pskov, Russia - near the border with Estonia, on a Russian Air Base, 2 attack helicopters were blown up.

Estonia is a member of NATO. Questions now arising if Estonia bombed the Russian base ?

Additional updates coming . . . check back 7:12 AM EDT

UPDATE 7:45 AM EDT --

80% of Kiev residents without water AND part of the city without electricity - Kiev mayor Klitschko.

(Note: That's how Donetsk lived already for almost 9 years due to Ukrainian attacks. Strange how no one in the West complained then.)

Also: Moldova says it will treat the Russian missile debris as an accident.

UPDATE 9:43 AM EDT --

DTEK the energy grid supplier in Ukraine says it's out of equIpment for repairs. No more transformers, no more line insulators, no more poles.

PERSPECTIVE

In real world: Russia takes 20% of Ukraine's land, and millions of people, and nationalizes it for themselves.

In Clown World: Ukraine is winning.

In real world: Russia is launching missiles and attacking Ukraine's capital and destroying majority of country's critical infrastructure.

In Clown World: Ukraine is winning.

Your perspective on this war is all a matter of which world you live in: the real world or Clown World.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-hits-ukraine-with-50-missiles-kiev-takes-10-hits-no-electric-water 

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Unholy Alliance — “Faith Leaders” Pushing Pharma Fraud

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Constitutional Nobody

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

A key component of the campaign to entice people into taking the experimental COVID shots has been to enlist “trusted messengers,” from social media influencers and celebrities to medical doctors and faith leaders. The U.S. government has established formal collaborations with faith-based organizations for the sole purpose of pushing the government’s narrative

According to Walmart, many of the company’s most successful vaccination clinics have been held after Sunday services. Facebook ads in which faith leaders promoted the COVID jabs also outperformed other “trusted messengers,” including health care providers

Evangelical pastors, theologians and seminary heads across the U.S. followed the lead of Dr. Francis Collins, a self-proclaimed Christian and the former head of the National Institutes of Health, who leveraged his relationships with church leaders to convince Christians that submitting to lockdowns and COVID jab mandates was a matter of obedience to God

A number of faith leaders have insisted that Jesus himself would get the jab, were he here today. But not once did Jesus advise people to rely on the tools — or word — of man. Instead, he warned of a future time when even the elect will fall prey to a grand deception

Hindsight, scientific evidence and statistical data allow us to conclude that many faith leaders led their flocks astray. The COVID shot does not protect you from infection and death, nor does it protect anyone else. It was all a lie, and excess death rates skyrocketed after the rollout of the COVID shots

https://ussanews.com/2022/10/31/unholy-alliance-faith-leaders-pushing-pharma-fraud/ 

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Poll: 80 percent of Americans think the country is out of control

The nation is quite clearly upset and fearful.

By Oma Seddiq  06/07/2020 11:20 AM EDT Updated: 06/07/2020 12:26 PM EDT

Eight out of 10 voters, an overwhelming majority, say things are out of control in the country, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday.

The poll revealed a partisan divide with 92 percent of Democrats believing the country is out of control compared to 66 percent of Republicans. Only 15 percent of those surveyed between May 28 and June 2 believe things are under control.

The survey was conducted after protests began across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd while under police custody in Minneapolis — and against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, which has cost more than 100,000 Americans their lives and millions their jobs.

More than half of voters, 59 percent, also say they are more concerned about police actions and the death of Floyd, as opposed to 27 percent who are more concerned about protests that have turned destructive. Respondents were split between party lines, with 81 percent of Democratic voters saying they worried more over Floyd’s death in contrast to 29 percent of Republican voters.

Demonstrations have lasted throughout the past week in both big and small cities, with thousands marching in Washington, D.C. on Saturday in the biggest turnout yet.

On coronavirus, 63 percent of voters say they are “very” or “somewhat” worried that they or someone in their immediate family will get Covid-19, a 10-point decline from April’s poll. Two-thirds of respondents also said they were still uncomfortable with flying on a plane or attending gatherings in large groups.

In addition, many Americans still remain pessimistic about the economy. Thirty-five percent of voters said it will take until next year for the economy to return to normal with businesses reopen and people back at work, a jump from 26 percent in April. Seventeen percent said they think the economy will take longer than a year to recover, up from 6 percent.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has largely remained unchanged amid the crises at 45 percent, with 53 percent disapproving.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden maintained a national lead over Trump by seven points, 49 percent versus 42 percent among those surveyed.

A majority of voters — 55 percent — also said they would prefer a candidate who brings consensus and compromise above one who proposes big and bold changes, even if it means more division in the country. In comparison, thirty-five percent said they prefer the latter.

The NBC News/WSJ poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Filed under: Polling, Joe Biden, Joe Biden 2020, Wall Street Journal, NBC News,

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/country-out-of-control-305451 

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Home Business News

Chemicals giant blames plummeting earnings on high gas prices

BASF says it plans to trim costs by up to 10% and cut jobs

The world’s largest chemical producer, BASF, has attributed its weak third quarter earnings to surging gas prices in the EU. The company said that it was seeking to achieve long-term cost cuts at its European sites.

The German multinational, which produces a wide range of products, from basic petrochemicals to fertilizers and glues, said it will move ahead with a cost-saving plan to counteract sluggish growth, high energy costs, and over-regulation.

“These challenging framework conditions in Europe endanger the international competitiveness of European producers and force us to adapt our cost structures as quickly as possible and also permanently,” the company’s CEO Martin Brudermueller said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that spot gas prices were five to six times higher than in the US.

From January to September, the European sites of the chemical giant absorbed additional costs of about €2.2 billion ($2.2 billion). The facilities include the company’s largest complex at Ludwigshafen in southwest Germany, where it makes everything from vitamins, foam chemicals and engineering plastics to pesticides.

BASF said earlier this month it was launching a cost-saving program that will be in place through the end of 2024. The plan targets annual savings of €500 million, or about 10% of costs , and will entail job cuts. The company said it would also look into further restructuring its chemical sites in the region over the longer term given the high energy prices.

On Wednesday, the company posted third quarter results with revenue before taxes decreasing by €538 million ($539 million) year-on-year to €1.2 billion ($1.2 billion). Net income declined by €344 million ($344 million) compared with the same period in 2021 to €909 million ($911 million).

https://www.rt.com/business/565385-basf-earnings-plummet-gas-prices/ 

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etc. I have talked about the EU and how they have grown in power and shall grow to more power. I have talked to you about China and yet America embraces China their enemy and they build them up that later China shall come against many and destroy many because of the finances you have provided for them. That was not my wisdom, that was not my knowledge. It was not my wisdom nor my knowledge when you gave your secrets to a country that worships a false god and they have sold them to other countries and become superior. Oh how foolish man is. etc..

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Michael Pillsbury: How US Government Agencies Secretly Aided Communist China’s Rise

American Thought Leaders

JAN JEKIELEK

“I fear they’re outsmarting us over and over again,” says China expert Michael Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.”

Pillsbury played a key role in the United States initiating military and intelligence ties with China, starting in the 1980s. Many relationships between Chinese and U.S. agencies have continued to this day, Pillsbury says.

“Some things have been redacted, removed from [‘The Hundred-Year Marathon’]. … The CIA and FBI and DOD felt they’re telling too much about just how deeply involved we were in China,” Pillsbury says.

How did the Chinese communist regime secretly exploit America to fuel its own rise?

“They often refer to the Warring States and the tactics of the Warring States period. … Only one country got to lead the world and that country had to destroy the others or set them against each other or undermine them, steal their technology. There were a variety of techniques that were used [but] almost never war itself. Almost never war itself. It’s the most important lesson.”

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Fuel Company Issues Diesel Shortage Warning, Says US ‘Rapidly Devolving’

By Jack Phillips October 30, 2022 Updated: October 30, 2022

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A major fuel supply company has issued an alert about diesel fuel shortages in several Southeastern U.S. states.

States that are expected to experience shortages include Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, Mansfield Energy said in an alert last week. The company also noted “extremely high prices in the Northeast.”

“Poor pipeline shipping economics and historically low diesel inventories are combining to cause shortages in various markets throughout the Southeast,” the company said. “These have been occurring sporadically, with areas like Tennessee seeing particularly acute challenges.”

It noted that fuel prices are 30 to 80 cents higher than the posted market average due to “tight” supply, while saying that “fuel suppliers have to pull from higher cost options, at a time when low-high spreads are much wider than normal.”

Fuel carriers are now having to go to “multiple terminals to find supply, which delays deliveries and strains local trucking capacity,” it said.

Due to “rapidly devolving” conditions, the firm issued its “Alert Level 4” to address the volatility, according to the statement. For the southeastern United States, Mansfield said it is issuing a “Code Red” alert and is “requesting 72-hour notice for deliveries when possible to ensure fuel and freight can be secured at economical levels.”

Diesel enables most of the shipping across the United States and is used by long-haul trucks and freight trains. While gasoline prices have dropped since they posted record highs in June, diesel hasn’t decreased nearly as much and currently stands at $5.31 per gallon, according to AAA.

Bottlenecks in supply chains caused by COVID-19 lockdowns and soaring energy prices have added to rising price levels. Data released earlier this month show the Consumer Price Index, a key inflation metric, has risen 8.2 percent year-over-year in September.

Republicans, meanwhile, have targeted the Biden administration for its policies around oil drilling, pipeline construction, and unremitting focus on promoting electric vehicles. In response to the energy crunch, the White House has released tens of millions of barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, bringing it down to about 400 million barrels, or the lowest levels in decades.

Democrats and President Joe Biden, meanwhile, have blamed Russia’s war in Ukraine for the spike in prices and low supply.

There have also been concerns that the United States is running out of diesel. Oct. 21 data from the Energy Information show that the country had 25.9 days of diesel left.

“Russia produces a lot of heavy products, a lot of heavy oil that produce and yield more diesel,” GasBuddy’s Patrick de Haan told KGVO. “The other problem is simply demand post-COVID that has certainly recovered significantly with many trucks and many goods. We can all remember how ports have been stuffed full with goods that Americans have been buying and those all need to move out of port via trucks.”

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Russia tests new nuclear submarine – Navy chief

The state-of-the-art strategic vessel can carry up to 16 ballistic missiles

Russia is conducting a trial run of a new strategic nuclear submarine, the Navy commander in chief announced on Sunday, at a time of heightened tensions with the West.

“The newest nuclear-powered strategic missile undersea cruiser Generalissimo Suvorov is being tested,” Admiral Nikolay Yevmenov said, speaking on the 326th anniversary of the Russian Regular Navy’s establishment.

The Navy chief said the submarine was built at the Sevmash enterprise, Russia’s largest shipbuilding facility, in the northern city of Severodvinsk.

The ‘Generalissimo Suvorov’ is the sixth vessel of Russia’s 4th generation ballistic missile submarines and the second mass-produced ship of the upgraded Borei-A class. Each Borei-A vessel can carry up to 16 Bulava-class submarine-launched ballistic missiles, which could be armed with nuclear warheads. The boat was named after the 18th century general Alexander Suvorov, who is considered one of the greatest military commanders in Russian history.

Yevmenov went on to say that the Russian Navy is being reinforced by other state-of-the-art new ships, including the ‘Ufa’ diesel-electric submarine, which “has successfully passed official testing.” The vessel, which is intended for the Russian Pacific Fleet, is expected to be formally accepted by the Navy next month, he stated. Submarines of this type are armed with ‘Kalibr’ cruise missiles.

Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally oversaw nuclear strike drills involving Moscow’s land, sea, and aviation deterrence forces. This military activity coincided with similar exercises conducted by NATO, named ‘Steadfast Noon.' The bloc’s nuclear drills, which are set to last until October 30, are taking place over Belgium, the North Sea and the UK. Despite high tensions between Russia and the West, NATO described the exercises as “routine” and “not linked to any current world events.”

In the context of the Ukraine conflict, Putin recently vowed that Russia would use “all the means available to us” to defend its people and territory, a statement that Washington and its NATO allies have interpreted as a veiled threat to deploy nuclear weapons. However, several Russian senior officials insisted that Moscow is not threatening anyone with its nuclear arsenal.

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The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset

By F. William Engdahl  22 October 2022

Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under UN control that has been decades in development. The key actors were David Rockefeller and his protégé, Maurice Strong.

In the beginning of the 1970s, there was arguably no one person more influential in world politics than the late David Rockefeller, then largely known as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Creating the new paradigm

At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks. These included The Club of Rome; the 1001: A Nature Trust, tied to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Stockholm United Nations Earth Day conference; the MIT-authored study, Limits to Growth; and David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

Club of Rome

In 1968 David Rockefeller founded a neo-Malthusian think tank, The Club of Rome, along with Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King. Aurelio Peccei, was a senior manager of the Fiat car company, owned by the powerful Italian Agnelli family. Fiat's Gianni Agnelli was an intimate friend of David Rockefeller and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank. Agnelli and David Rockefeller had been close friends since 1957. Agnelli became a founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973. Alexander King, head of the OECD Science Program was also a consultant to NATO. That was the beginning of what would become the neo-Malthusian “people pollute” movement.

In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply-flawed report, Limits to Growth, which predicted an end to civilization as we knew it because of rapid population growth, combined with fixed resources such as oil. The report concluded that without substantial changes in resource consumption, "the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity." It was based on bogus computer simulations by a group of MIT computer scientists. It stated the bold prediction, “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.” That was 1971. In 1973 Klaus Schwab in his third annual Davos business leader meeting invited Peccei to Davos to present Limits to Growth to assembled corporate CEOs.

In 1974, the Club of Rome declared boldly, "The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man." Then: “the world is facing an unprecedented set of interlocking global problems, such as, over-population, food shortages, non-renewable resource [oil-w.e.] depletion, environmental degradation and poor governance.” They argued that,

'horizontal' restructuring of the world system is needed…drastic changes in the norm stratum - that is, in the value system and the goals of man - are necessary in order to solve energy, food, and other crises, i.e., social changes and changes in individual attitudes are needed if the transition to organic growth is to take place.

In their 1974 report, Mankind at the Turning Point, The Club of Rome further argued:

Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for organic sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all finite resources and a new global economic system.

That was the early formulation of the UN Agenda 21, Agenda2030 and the 2020 Davos Great Reset.

David Rockefeller and Maurice Strong

By far the most influential organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was David Rockefeller's longtime friend, a billionaire oilman named Maurice Strong. Canadian Maurice Strong was one of the key early propagators of the scientifically fraudulent theory that man-made CO2 emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens “the planet”, so-called Global Warming.

As chairman of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, Strong promoted an agenda of population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to "save the environment." Strong stated his radical ecologist agenda: "Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” This is what is now taking place under cover of a hyped global pandemic.

Strong was a curious choice to head a major UN initiative to mobilize action on the environment, as his career and his considerable fortune had been built on exploitation of oil, like an unusual number of the new advocates of ‘ecological purity,’ such as David Rockefeller or Robert O. Anderson of Aspen Institute or Shell's John Loudon.

Strong had met David Rockefeller in 1947 as a young Canadian high school dropout of eighteen and from that point, his career became tied to the network of the Rockefeller family. Through his new friendship with David Rockefeller, Strong, at age 18, was given a key UN position under UN Treasurer, Noah Monod. The UN’s funds were conveniently enough handled by Rockefeller’s Chase Bank. This was typical of the model of “public-private partnership” to be deployed by Strong—private gain from public government.

In the 1960s Strong had become president of the huge Montreal energy conglomerate and oil company known as Power Corporation, then owned by the influential Paul Desmarais. Power Corporation was reportedly also used as a political slush fund to finance campaigns of select Canadian politicians such as Pierre Trudeau, father of Davos protégé Justin Trudeau, according to Canadian investigative researcher, Elaine Dewar (Elaine Dewar, op cit. p. 269-271. )

Earth Summit I and Rio Earth Summit

By 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations in New York and Secretary General of the upcoming Earth Day conference, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Earth Summit I) in Stockholm, Sweden. He was also named that year as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation – who financed his launch of the Stockholm Earth Day project (Elaine Dewar, op cit. p.277). In Stockholm the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was created with Strong as its head.

By 1989 Strong was named by the UN Secretary General to head the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED (“Rio Earth Summit II”). He oversaw the drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals there, the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. Strong, who was also a board member of Davos WEF, had arranged for Schwab to serve as a key adviser to the Rio Earth Summit.

As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong also commissioned a report from the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change:

“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”

President Clinton’s delegate to Rio, Tim Wirth, admitted the same, stating, “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." (Elaine Dewar, Cloak of Green: The Links between key environmental groups, government and big business, Toronto, James Lorimer & Co., 1995, pp. 259-265. )

At Rio Strong first introduced the manipulative idea of “sustainable society” defined in relation this arbitrary goal of eliminating CO2 and other so-called Greenhouse Gases. Agenda 21 became Agenda 2030 in Sept 2015 in Rome, with the Pope’s blessing, with 17 “sustainable” goals. It declared among other items,

“Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership also is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice…Social justice, urban renewal, and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only 'be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole."

In short private land ownership must become socialized for “society as a whole,” an idea well-known in Soviet Union days, and a key part of the Davos Great Reset.

At Rio in 1992 where he was chairman and General Secretary, Strong declared:

“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class— involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.” (emphasis added)

Strong did not heed his own call. What Strong did not tell his environmentalist allies at Rio was that he had also made a huge purchase of the Colorado Land and Cattle Company, from Saudi arms dealer and CIA asset, Adnan Khashoggi.

By that time Strong was at the very center of the transformation of the UN into the vehicle for imposing a new global technocratic fascism by stealth, using dire warnings of planet extinction and global warming, merging government agencies with corporate power in an unelected control of pretty much everything, under the fraudulent cover of “sustainability.” In 1997 Strong oversaw creation of the action plan following the Earth Summit, The Global Diversity Assessment, a blueprint for the roll out of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, an inventory of every resource on the planet, how it would be controlled , and how this revolution would be achieved.

At this time Strong was co-chairman of Klaus Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos founder Klaus Schwab wrote, “He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.”

Before he was forced to leave the UN in disgrace over an Iraq Food-for-Oil corruption scandal, Strong was member of the Club of Rome, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rothschild Foundation. Strong was also a director of the occult Temple of Understanding of the Lucifer Trust (aka Lucis Trust) housed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, “where pagan rituals include escorting sheep and cattle to the alter for blessing. Here, Vice President Al Gore delivered a sermon, as worshippers marched to the altar with bowls of compost and worms…” xvi

This is the dark origin of Schwab’s Great Reset agenda where we should eat worms and have no private property in order to “save the planet.” The agenda is dark, dystopian and meant to eliminate billions of us “ordinary humans.”

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine Global Research Centre for Research on Globalization

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Empty Shelves in German Supermarkets as Inflation Leaves Products Unprofitable

Supermarkets are being left with empty shelves throughout Germany, as spiralling inflation renders the sale of a wide variety of products unprofitable.

By Peter Caddle 20 Oct 2022

Products ranging from Kellogg’s cornflakes to Coca Cola have disappeared from supermarkets throughout Germany, with many shops being left with empty shelves as products become simply unprofitable to sell due to differentials in inflation.

It comes as overall inflation hit 10 per cent in the country in September, with EU-wide inflation for the month falling just short of 11 per cent as a result of the ongoing energy crisis, which has in turn hiked the cost of food and other essential goods.

According to a report by Handelsblatt, such surging inflation is now having a significant knock-on effect on the supply of food products within Germany, with companies warring with each other over the pricing of various items.

With the hike in production costs, food giants including the likes of Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Mars have been pushing for German supermarkets to pay higher prices for various products in the hopes of preserving their own profitability.

Retailers in the country however have strongly resisted this, with one supermarket chain in the country going so far as to accuse major companies of “price gouging” and “usury”.

“Not only Mars, but also many other international brand groups such as Coca Cola or Procter & Gamble are currently trying to ride the wave of inflation with excessive price demands in order to increase their returns,” a spokesman for the Edaka chain of supermarkets claimed.

The official went on to claim that a number of major companies have now halted deliveries to the chain, something that they alleged is being used to put pressure on supermarkets.

“They use unilateral delivery stops as a means of exerting pressure on retailers,” they claimed.

Things do not appear to be much different at other supermarkets throughout the country, with supplies being cut off as retailers refuse to purchase products from various well-known suppliers at increased prices.

“The situation in the industry is critical to catastrophic,” Federal Association of the Food Industry general manager Christoph Minhoff remarked regarding the feud, which has seen some individual rows even reportedly ending up in court as companies are unable to come to a compromise.

As a result of these ongoing hostilities between supermarkets and producers, a wide variety of well-known brands have disappeared from supermarkets throughout Germany, leaving many shops with empty shelves.

The likes of Coca Cola, Pepsi, Snickers, Kellogg’s Cornflakes, Milka Chocolate, Ritter Sport chocolate, Wrigley’s chewing gum, along with many other products ranging from mayonnaise to pet food have all been affected, though availability reportedly varies between supermarket chains.

Such shortages however will be the least of concern for many in Germany as they enter the winter months, however, with many in the country expected to be left unable to adequately heat their homes either as a result of the ongoing gas shortage.

Organisations in the country are now taking radical measures to cut consumption, with the likes of some universities in the country even promising to push for energy savings of up to 27 per cent in the hopes of relieving strain on the system.

It remains to be seen whether these targets are hit, however, with one 3rd level institution in the west of the country seemingly relying on the voluntary actions of staff and students in order to hit its target.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/10/20/empty-shelves-in-german-supermarkets-as-inflation-leaves-products-unprofitable/ 

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Tremors in Treasury bonds worry Wall Street and Washington

Jeff Stein 1 day ago

Trouble is brewing in the world of U.S. Treasury bonds, prompting concern among investors and some Washington policymakers.

U.S. Treasury bonds are a key pillar of the global financial system, but there are signs that the pool of interested buyers could be in danger of drying up as an unintended consequence of rising U.S. interest rates.

For now, no one is panicking. But the market for U.S. Treasury bonds has lately displayed a level of volatility not seen since the beginning of the pandemic-related crisis in 2020, when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero and went on to buy $1 trillion of treasuries and other financial assets to keep the global financial system functioning.

Top government officials have in recent weeks acknowledged that dysfunction in U.S. government bond markets risks triggering a spike in the federal government’s borrowing costs and a wider upheaval in financial markets. They are beginning to take preventive steps.

“We have been looking very carefully at the Treasury market,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told The Washington Post on Thursday, stressing that the market has continued to function normally. “It’s, of course, critical that it continue to function well.”

As recession fears rise, Washington begins to weigh how to respond

The Treasury Department auctions bonds to pay for government operations, effectively borrowing money from investors in return for a guarantee of repayment with interest. These bonds are crucial for a healthy financial system, because other, riskier assets — stocks and corporate bonds — are priced in relation to the cost of Treasury's.

But as central banks such as the Federal Reserve engage in one of the biggest interest-rate-hike campaigns in decades, demand for U.S. government bonds already in circulation has fallen in part because most of that debt carries lower interest rates than the bonds being issued today. That could mean a glut of cheap, low-yielding debt with few buyers.

There’s been no emergency thus far, but the market for Treasury bonds is drawing increased attention out of concern that as liquidity dries up across the globe, there may at some point not be enough buyers of debt issued by the U.S. government. With prices falling, yields on 10-year Treasury bonds have already risen from less than 1.5 percent to roughly 3.8 percent this year. (Bond prices and bond yields move in opposite directions.)

A dearth of buyers could cause a ripple effect by forcing down the price of bonds, some economists and analysts warn. A panicked sell-off of U.S. Treasurys could wreak havoc on markets — giving investors leverage to demand higher returns, or yield, on their bond purchases. That would mean higher prices for all kinds of financial instruments pegged to those rates. It would also drive up the cost to the government of financing its debt.

As the Fed fights inflation, worries rise that it is overcorrecting

“If we were to have a buyers’ strike, or a failed series of Treasury auctions, interest rate increases could accelerate — and all of a sudden, the financing of debt with credit cards, auto purchases, [and] housing purchases would rise in cost,” said Joe Brusuelas, the chief economist at the management consultancy RSM. “That could drive down living standards for Americans, and you could find yourself with a very difficult problem for your economy.”

Experts have raised other concerns as well. New regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis have discouraged banks from acting as intermediaries by requiring them to hold more capital to cover potential losses on government securities. In addition, the Federal Reserve and other central banks are either selling Treasurys or just no longer reinvesting them, as part of their attempts to cool the economy and fight inflation, removing one backstop purchaser of U.S. bonds.

And the recent panic in Britain over its own government debt — which recently fell dramatically in value, leading to an intervention by the Bank of England — has further amplified concerns that a similar market panic could occur here. But most economists downplay the risk.

“You’re worried about the fire sale, the situation where some selling comes in and because there’s not enough demand you have more selling and more selling and you get kind of a spiral,” said Donald Kohn, a former vice chair of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based think tank. “I don’t think anyone sees that right now.”

“But the fact that the dealers may not have the capacity to step in and smooth things out is a worry,” he noted.

Analysts at JPMorgan Chase expressed similar worries in a report this month, citing the lack of “structural demand for.”

“The reversal in demand has been stunning as it has been rare,” they added.

Yellen has been focused on instability in U.S. bond markets since well before the current flare-up, working to implement new rules aimed at shoring them up. These measures include improving data collection; requiring more oversight of Treasury-trading platforms; and expanding the number of eligible dealers to allow more entrants into market bidding.

Despite her comments Thursday emphasizing calm, Yellen appears to be intensifying these efforts amid the latest signs of volatility. Treasury officials have asked traders in the market about a possible program to buy back government debt, a potential sign the U.S. government is worried. The matter also was recently discussed by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which Yellen chairs, and is expected to come up at its next meeting.

A key concern for Yellen, as she relayed to Bloomberg News this month, is the potential for “a loss of adequate liquidity in the market.”

But she also sees a countervailing trend: As the payouts on Treasury bonds rise, more foreign investors are stepping into the market to absorb excess capacity.

“You asked who is going to buy Treasurys, and I think part of the answer is they have very attractive yields,” Yellen said Thursday.

Komal Sri-Kumar, the president of the economic consultancy Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, also thinks higher interest rates will make U.S. debt more lucrative to investors, pulling more buyers into the market and easing concerns about liquidity.

And more broadly, many economists and financial analysts say concerns about market weakness may be overblown, especially for now, as healthy levels of U.S. government bonds — roughly $600 billion worth — continue to be traded every day.

Historically speaking, warnings about the danger of investors refusing to buy U.S. government debt have not held up. Under the Obama administration, for example, Republicans and other deficit hawks said that large deficits would risk a financial meltdown should bond purchasers lose faith in the U.S. government. No such crisis materialized.

Sri-Kumar calls those warnings “a ridiculous thing.”

“If I refuse to buy [long-term] bonds, what happens then? The Treasury will have to offer a higher yield, and we reach a better equilibrium,” Sri-Kumar said. “This is not Argentina or Zimbabwe or Turkey, where investors have said: ‘Interest rates are insufficient; keep hiking.’ That’s why I think a buyers’ strike does not make sense.”

That sentiment was stressed by a senior Treasury official, who told The Washington Post that American policymakers have confidence in the U.S. debt markets in part because so many investors worldwide seek to purchase those bonds. There are countries that are major buyers, among them Japan, but even in that case, it is just 4 percent of the total pool.

And while volatility is up in the bond markets, volatility also is hitting the financial sector more broadly — suggesting no specific risk to U.S. bonds despite their outsize importance, the Treasury official said.

Poorer nations could suffer from U.S. efforts to slow inflation

It was a different picture recently in Britain, where much of the country’s long-term government debt has been held by pension funds. That made British bonds, or gilts, much more vulnerable to price swings when the pension funds moved in unison to shed those assets as their value fell.

That kind of contagion is less likely to emerge in the United States, analysts say.

“If you [expect] demand will go higher for a higher-yielding asset, [this] would make the fear kind of silly or misplaced,” said Bob Hockett, a former Fed official and public policy expert now at Cornell University. “I don’t want to be complacent about this … but there’s nothing foreseeable on the horizon that’s a serious competitor to the U.S. dollar.”

Still, rising bond rates can harm the U.S. economy and government without causing a catastrophe. If bond yields have to spike to lure investors, capital will flow into government debt — and out of more productive uses, such as the corporate debt that fuels investment.

“The crisis scenario is a mass sell-off of those low-yielding bonds at once. That would be the scenario of a global financial crisis,” said Marc Goldwein, the senior vice president for policy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a D.C.-based think tank. “But I think that’s unlikely. … The more likely scenario is it will be very costly to the U.S. government and very costly to the U.S. economy.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tremors-in-treasury-bonds-worry-wall-street-and-washington/ar-AA13xOJ8 

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etc. They are saying it can’t come here because it has never come here and yet destruction covers the face of the earth, the face of the earth.  You can see the things that are going on, you can watch as the blood flows in the streets of many countries.  You can see as they prepare to go to war to fight a war they cannot win or that will bring more disaster even to this country and yet they push to do the very things they desire and want to do.  They want everything, but want to do nothing in return, oh what a time, what an hour. Etc.    

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US Air Force to deploy nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China grow

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By Angus Grigg, Lesley Robinson and Meghna Bali Posted 20h ago 20 hours ago , updated 15h ago

The United States is preparing to deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to northern Australia, a provocative move experts say is aimed squarely at China.

An investigation by Four Corners can reveal Washington is planning to build dedicated facilities for the giant aircraft at Tindal air base, south of Darwin.

The US has drawn up detailed plans for what it calls a "squadron operations facility" for use during the Northern Territory dry season, an adjoining maintenance centre and a parking area for "six B-52s".

Blueprint plans for an air base. Diagram shows the locations of six bomber aircraft in a row.

Plans for the Tindal air base expansion include a parking area that can accommodate six B-52 bombers.(Supplied/Four Corners: Lindsay Dunbar)

Becca Wasser from the Centre for New American Security says putting B-52s in northern Australia is a warning to China, as fears grow Beijing is preparing for an assault on Taiwan.

"Having bombers that could range and potentially attack mainland China could be very important in sending a signal to China that any of its actions over Taiwan could also expand further," she says.

The bombers are part of a much larger upgrade of defence assets across northern Australia, including a major expansion of the Pine Gap intelligence base, which would play a vital role in any conflict with Beijing.

The B-52s have been the backbone of the US Air Force for more than 60 years, with the capability to deliver long-range strikes of both nuclear and conventional weapons. The US documents say the facilities will be used for "deployed B-52 squadrons".

"The ability to deploy US Air Force bombers to Australia sends a strong message to adversaries about our ability to project lethal air power," the US Air Force told Four Corners.

Asked when the B-52s would begin their deployment at Tindal, Australia's Department of Defence declined to comment.

'The tip of the spear'

Some worry having B-52s rotating through Tindal each year locks Australia into joining the US in any conflict against China.

"It's a great expansion of Australian commitment to the United States' war plan with China," says Richard Tanter, a senior research associate at the Nautilus Institute and a long-time, anti-nuclear activist.

"It's a sign to the Chinese that we are willing to be the tip of the spear."

Mr Tanter sees the planned deployment of the bombers as more significant than the rotation of US Marines through Darwin each year.

A line of soldiers silhouetted in the dust from a helicopter, march in single file. They are wearing gear and holding rifles.

US marines and Australian soldiers conduct annual exercises in the Top End.(ABC News)

"It's very hard to think of a more open commitment that we could make. A more open signal to the Chinese that we are going along with American planning for a war with China," Mr Tanter says.

Ms Wasser says the growing importance of northern Australia to the US makes Darwin and Tindal targets in any war with China.

Her work includes running war game exercises to examine how a potential conflict might unfold.

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Military analyst Becca Wasser and her team explore the risks Australia could face by joining the US in a fight over Taiwan.

She says in the war game scenarios where Australia either joined the fight or allowed Washington to use bases in the Top End, "it did very much put a bullseye on Australia".

“Ultimately these attacks were not successful because of the long range required and because China had already expended its most capable long-range missiles earlier in the game, … but who's to say that in the future, China might have more advanced missile capability that would be better suited to potentially attacking Australia.”

China's growing confidence about Taiwan invasion

In recent months, US war planners and analysts have brought forward estimates of when Beijing may look to take Taiwan.

"The time frame for an assault on Taiwan, I would put it at 2025 to 2027," says defence academic Oriana Skylar Mastro from Stanford University.

"This is largely dependent on when I think the Chinese leadership and in particular [President] Xi Jinping can be confident that his military can do this."

A still from a Chinese military video showing a missile launching amid trees, sending clouds of smoke out below it.

A missile launch from a Chinese military propaganda video.

She says there is a growing confidence within the People's Liberation Army that it could successfully invade Taiwan.

"For 15 years I would ask the Chinese military if they could do this [invade Taiwan], and the answer was 'no'. So the fact that for the first time at the end of 2020 they're starting to say 'yes', I think that's a significant message we should pay attention to," she says.

US has big plans for Australia

These growing tensions with China have made northern Australia a crucial defence hub for the US, which has committed to spending more than $1 billion upgrading its military assets across the Top End.

The Tindal air base expansion includes a parking area that can accommodate six B-52 bombers and is forecast to cost up to $US100 million. The US Air Force says the parking area will be finished in late 2026.

"The RAAF's ability to host USAF bombers, as well as train alongside them, demonstrates how integrated our two air forces are," it says.

A photo taken looking up at a massive military aircraft. A soldier is pushing a tow bar towards its front wheel.

B-52s have been the backbone of the US Air Force for more than 60 years. (U.S. Air Force photo)

In April, the US Department of Defence budgeted $US14.4 million ($22.5 million) for the squadron operations and maintenance facilities at Tindal.

"The [squadron operations] facility is required to support strategic operations and to run multiple 15-day training exercises during the Northern Territory dry season for deployed B-52 squadrons," the US documents say.

The US also plans to build its own jet fuel storage tanks and an ammunition bunker at the site.

"The north of Australia in the new geopolitical environment, has suddenly become strategically much more important, if not crucial to the US," says Paul Dibb, a former senior official at the Department of Defence in Canberra.

A greater presence of US forces in Australia was hinted at during last year's annual ministerial meetings, known as AUSMIN.

Under so-called "enhanced air co-operation" it was agreed there would be "rotational deployment of US aircraft of all types in Australia".

"Today we endorse major force posture initiatives that will expand our access and presence in Australia," US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said.

A photo of a B-52 bomber aircraft flying over desert under a blue sky.

B-52s can deliver long-range strikes of both nuclear and conventional weapons.(U.S. Air Force photo)

There was no mention of rotating B-52s through Tindal, although there have been hints in recent years.

Equally important to the growing US presence in northern Australia is the construction of 11-giant jet fuel storage tanks in Darwin.

Some of this fuel reserve was previously located at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, but is now being dispersed across the region.

"Without that kind of assurance of jet fuel in this country, the US simply wouldn't be able to treat Australia as a location from which it can stage military exercises and operations with confidence," says Ashley Townshend from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Mr Townshend says the B-52s at Tindal are just the start.

"We will see much greater numbers of US military personnel forward located in Australia. That will include personnel from all three services, navy, air force and army, as well as the marines in Darwin, which are likely to be expanded," he says.

In the AUSMIN communique, this was flagged as part of efforts to "advance … force posture co-operation" to "deter our adversaries".  

Spy base expands

While both governments have signalled the growing US military presence in Australia, the expansion of one site is veiled in secrecy. There has been very little said about Pine Gap.

The joint US and Australian spy base near Alice Springs is undergoing a major upgrade, according to Richard Tanter.

Large golf ball-like domes and low set buildings are surrounded by trees and bush. Behind them are hills.

Powerful antennas eavesdropping on foreign satellites and detecting missile launches sit under Pine Gap's domes. (Four Corners)

He's spent months poring over satellite images of Pine Gap and estimates the number of giant antennas has grown by more than a third over the past seven years.

"This is at a time when the Australian Parliament has been informed of none of this, no statements by ministers no questions by politicians," he says.

Mr Tanter says Pine Gap's powerful "ears and eyes" are now heavily focused on China.

"The searching for Chinese missile sites, the searching for Chinese command sites, in a preparatory way, is absolutely on high priority at Pine Gap now," he says.

"This indicates the extraordinary importance and the increasing importance to the US at a time of potential war with China."

A satellite image shows a number of buildings and domes on a site surrounded by red dirt.

Mr Tanter has observed the expansion of the spy base over a number of years. (Google/Maxar Technologies)

If a conflict broke out between the US and China, Mr Tanter says Pine Gap would play a hugely significant role, particularly around missile defence systems.

"Pine Gap would be detecting the launch of the missile … it would be queuing US missile defence systems to find that missile in mid-flight and attack it with their own missiles," he says.

Pine Gap's geo-location technology would then be used to find and destroy the missile launch site.

Paul Dibb, who held a high-level security clearance at Pine Gap for 30 years, says "it is the most potent intelligence collection facility that America has" outside of the US.

Mr Dibb says this put Pine Gap on targeting lists for the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, and it would be on those same lists for China in any conflict with the US.

"If it looked as though that crisis was going nuclear, China may want to take out Pine Gap as being the ears and eyes of America's capability," he says.

Watch tonight on ABC TV or ABC iview as Four Corners explores what conflict with China would mean for Australia.

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The Treasury Market Could Seize Up. That Could Be Disastrous for Everyone.

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Posted on 10/21/2022, 4:11:34 PM by RomanSoldier19

Treasury-market liquidity is drying up and it’s going to get worse. The problem is bigger than it seems.

Liquidity in the U.S. bond market, the world’s largest, has been deteriorating since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates earlier this year. The end of massive monthly bond purchases followed by the start of quantitative tightening has worsened the problem as the Fed tries to extricate itself from Treasury and mortgage markets after buying a third of each. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently said she was “worried about a loss of adequate liquidity in the market,” as Treasury supply booms to fund government spending but regulations limit big financial institutions’ willingness to serve as market makers. At the same time, traders see the potential for another 2% in rate hikes by March 2023.

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Robert Kiyosaki Says US Dollar Is Toast Citing Saudi Arabia's Request to Join BRICS

The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, says the U.S. dollar is toast, citing Saudi Arabia’s request to join the BRICS nations that comprise Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Robert Kiyosaki’s Latest US Dollar Warning

The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, is back with another dire warning about the U.S. dollar. Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book co-authored by Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It has been on the New York Times Best Seller List for over six years. More than 32 million copies of the book have been sold in over 51 languages across more than 109 countries.

The famous author tweeted Wednesday:

Bye bye US $. Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS. 1974 US $ became PETRO $. Day after Biden pulled out of Afghanistan, Saudis began negotiations with Russia and China … US $ toast. Buy, gold, silver, bitcoin.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly said during an interview at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud has expressed the kingdom’s desire to be part of the BRICS. Ramaphosa recently returned from an official visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital city. The BRICS nations are Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

The president of South Africa was quoted as saying:

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed the kingdom’s desire to join the BRICS. In 2023, the BRICS summit will be held under the South African presidency and this request will be studied.

“Several countries are in contact with the BRICS and we have assured them that the accession issue will be discussed and a decision will be made,” Ramaphosa explained.

“If Saudi Arabia joins BRICS, it would be a promotion to the Middle East countries to strengthen their ties with BRICS countries and weaken the intervention and influence of the U.S. in the area,” a Beijing-based international relations expert reportedly told Global Times Wednesday. Many others share the sentiment. “If Saudi Arabia joins BRICS, it will be another strategic blow to the American Empire. BRICS+ can launch a democratic and commodity-backed global currency to challenge the U.S. dollar,” a Twitter user wrote.

During the BRICS Summit in July, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the BRICS economies plan to issue a “new global reserve currency.” Analysts believe the BRICS move to create a reserve currency is an attempt to undermine the U.S. dollar and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

Kiyosaki has been predicting the end of the U.S. dollar for quite some time. Earlier this month, he said that the U.S. dollar will crash by January next year. Last month, he said the end of the fake money is here. The renowned author previously explained that when President Richard Nixon removed the U.S. dollar from the gold standard in 1971, “the U.S. dollar became fake money.”

Last week, he warned about World War III. Kiyosaki believes that the Federal Reserve raising interest rates will destroy the U.S. economy. The Rich Dad Poor Dad author has urged investors to get into crypto now — before the biggest economic crash in world history happens.

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Research reveals magma activity beneath Mount Edgecumbe

October 20, 2022 / Rod Boyce

Magma beneath long-dormant Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has been moving upward through Earth’s crust, according to research the Alaska Volcano Observatory rapidly produced using a new method.

The new approach at the observatory could lead to earlier detection of volcanic unrest in Alaska.

At Mount Edgecumbe, computer modeling based on satellite imagery shows magma is rising to about 6 miles from a depth of about 12 miles and has caused earthquakes and significant surface deformation.

“That's the fastest rate of volcanic deformation that we currently have in Alaska,” said the research paper’s lead author, Ronni Grapenthin, a University of Alaska Fairbanks associate professor of geodesy.

“And while it is not uncommon for volcanoes to deform, the activity at Edgecumbe is unusual because reactivation of dormant volcanic systems is rarely observed,” he said.

An eruption is not imminent, Grapenthin said.

The findings by researchers at the UAF Geophysical Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey were published Oct. 10 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory collaborated with the Alaska Satellite Facility, another Geophysical Institute unit, to process data in the cloud — a first for the volcano team.

Cloud computing uses remote servers to store data and provide computing services so a researcher does not have to download and sort data to process it, something that can take weeks or months.

The research team began its work as soon as a swarm of earthquakes was noticed at Mount Edgecumbe on April 11, 2022. Researchers analyzed the previous 7 1/2 years of ground deformation detected in satellite radar data.

Four days later, on April 15, the team had a preliminary result: An intrusion of new magma was causing the earthquakes. A small number of earthquakes began under Edgecumbe in 2020, but the cause was ambiguous until the deformation results were produced.

Additional data processing confirmed the preliminary finding. The Alaska Volcano Observatory informed the public on April 22, less than two weeks after the latest batch of Edgecumbe earthquakes was reported.

“We've done these kinds of analyses before, but new streamlined cloud-based workflows cut weeks or months of analysis down to just days,” said David Fee, the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s coordinating scientist at the Geophysical Institute.

Mount Edgecumbe, at 3,200 feet, is on Kruzof Island on the west side of Sitka Sound. It is part of the Mount Edgecumbe Volcanic Field, which includes the domes and crater of adjacent Crater Ridge.

Most striking for the researchers was an area of ground uplift on southern Kruzof Island 10.5 miles in diameter and centered 1.5 miles east of the volcano. The upward deformation began abruptly in August 2018 and continued at a rate of 3.4 inches annually, for a total of 10.6 inches through early 2022.

Subsequent computer modeling indicated the cause was the intrusion of new magma.

The new deformation-based analysis will allow for earlier detection of volcanic unrest, because ground deformation is one of its earliest indicators. Deformation can occur without accompanying seismic activity, making ground uplift a key symptom to watch.

The volcano observatory is applying the new approach to other volcanoes in Alaska, including Trident Volcano, about 30 miles north of Katmai Bay. The volcano is showing signs of elevated unrest.

Mount Edgecumbe isn’t showing signs of an imminent eruption, Grapenthin said.

“This magma intrusion has been going on for three-plus years now,” he said. “Prior to an eruption we expect more signs of unrest: more seismicity, more deformation, and — importantly — changes in the patterns of seismicity and deformation.”

The researchers say the magma is likely reaching an upper chamber through a near-vertical conduit. But they also believe the magma is precluded from moving further upward by thick magma already in the upper chamber.

The new magma is forcing the entire surface up instead.

Mount Edgecumbe is 15 miles west of Sitka, which has a population of about 8,500 residents.

The volcano last erupted 800 to 900 years ago, as cited in Lingít oral history handed down by Herman Kitka. A group of Tlingits in four canoes had camped on the coast about 15 or 20 miles south of some large smoke plumes, according to the account. A scouting party in a canoe was sent to investigate the smoke and reported “a mountain blinking, spouting fire and smoke.”

Others involved in the research include Franz Meyer, chief scientist of the Alaska Satellite Facility; UAF graduate students Yitian Cheng, Mario Angarita and Darren Tan; and Aaron Wech of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory is a joint program of the Geophysical Institute, U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.

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Explosives-Laden Drone, UNDETONATED - Found near Nord Stream Pipeline Bomb Blast Site

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Sweden Police investigating the recent explosion which blew up three out of four natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, found an explosives-laden, but UN-DETONATED, underwater drone, near the fourth pipeline which did NOT get blown up. A wire which would have controlled the explosion of that drone, was found to have been severed.

The police called-in the Sweden Army Ordnance Disposal Unit, to recover the undetonated drone, and to render it safe.

The drone is now impounded and with it, the first conclusive proof of WHO carried out the bombing of Nord Stream.

Sweden immediately Classified the drone and the investigation as needing to be concealed for "national security" reasons.

The model of drone makes clear who the perpetrator is. Sweden is not revealing the drone model or any other information surrounding it.

News media coverage of the recovery of this drone has been forbidden by Swedish authorities. The Hal Turner Radio Show is not subject to Swedish authority and is herewith publicizing this information pursuant to the freedom of the press, protected by the US Constitution, Amendment One.

At this time, we will not say if we know the drone model, the types of explosives on it, or which country operates such drones. We will decide at a later date as to whether or not to reveal any other information we may already possess, as the revelation of any such information would very likely be Casus Belli to start an actual war.

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See 1969 memo of radical population control ideas now in place

Planned Parenthood document listed 'restructure family,' 'encourage homosexuality'

By Art Moore Published October 22, 2022 at 11:07am

More than half a century ago, Planned Parenthood produced a memo that compiled strategies for population control that were being proposed at the time, including "restructuring the family," encouraging homosexuality, tax-funded abortion and sterilization.

Called the "Jaffe memo," it was authored by Fredrick S. Jaffe, a vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America who founded the pro-abortion organization now known as the Guttmacher Institute.

A table in the memo summarizing the population control ideas was spotlighted this week by journalist Matt Walsh, who pointed out that nearly all of the proposals have been implemented 50 years later.

See the table from the "Jaffe memo" here and an image of it below:

The "proposed measures to reduce fertility" included:

Restructure family:

a) Postpone or avoid marriage

b) Alter image of ideal family size

Compulsory education of children

Encourage increased homosexuality

Educate for family limitation

Fertility control agents in water supply

Encourage women to work

The memo was the subject of a 1973 Senate hearing chaired by Republican Sen. Alan Cranston.

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Jaffe insisted in a letter to Cranston that the listing of the ideas did not equate to endorsement by Planned Parenthood.

He said "the memorandum makes clear that neither I nor the Planned Parenthood Federation of America advocates any of the specific proposals embodied in the table which go beyond voluntary actions of individual couples to space and limit births."

In the memo, Jaffe emphasized contraception as a means of controlling the population.

He argued that if contraception successfully curbed the birthrate, compulsory methods wouldn't be needed.

He wrote that "the achievement of a society in which effective contraception is efficiently distributed to all, based on present voluntary norms, would either result in a tolerable rate of growth, or go very far to achieving it."

"If this hypothesis is basically confirmed, it would negate the need for an explicit U.S. population policy which goes beyond voluntary norms," he said.

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See 1969 memo of radical population control ideas now in place

Planned Parenthood document listed 'restructure family,' 'encourage homosexuality'

Art Moore By Art Moore  Published October 22, 2022 at 11:07am

More than half a century ago, Planned Parenthood produced a memo that compiled strategies for population control that were being proposed at the time, including "restructuring the family," encouraging homosexuality, tax-funded abortion and sterilization.

Called the "Jaffe memo," it was authored by Fredrick S. Jaffe, a vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America who founded the pro-abortion organization now known as the Guttmacher Institute.

A table in the memo summarizing the population control ideas was spotlighted this week by journalist Matt Walsh, who pointed out that nearly all of the proposals have been implemented 50 years later.

See the table from the "Jaffe memo" here and an image of it below:

The "proposed measures to reduce fertility" included:

Restructure family:

a) Postpone or avoid marriage

b) Alter image of ideal family size

Compulsory education of children

Encourage increased homosexuality

Educate for family limitation

Fertility control agents in water supply

Encourage women to work

The memo was the subject of a 1973 Senate hearing chaired by Republican Sen. Alan Cranston.

Has the idea of radical population control been around for decades?

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Jaffe insisted in a letter to Cranston that the listing of the ideas did not equate to endorsement by Planned Parenthood.

He said "the memorandum makes clear that neither I nor the Planned Parenthood Federation of America advocates any of the specific proposals embodied in the table which go beyond voluntary actions of individual couples to space and limit births."

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In the memo, Jaffe emphasized contraception as a means of controlling the population.

He argued that if contraception successfully curbed the birthrate, compulsory methods wouldn't be needed.

He wrote that "the achievement of a society in which effective contraception is efficiently distributed to all, based on present voluntary norms, would either result in a tolerable rate of growth, or go very far to achieving it."

"If this hypothesis is basically confirmed, it would negate the need for an explicit U.S. population policy which goes beyond voluntary norms," he said.

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Chinese Lab’s Purchase of US Land for Primate Breeding Facility Draws Scrutiny

By Eva Fu October 20, 2022 Updated: October 22, 2022

A Chinese firm’s purchase of land in Florida to build a breeding facility for lab monkeys is drawing scrutiny over the company founders’ ties to the Chinese military.

JOINN Laboratories CA Inc., the California subsidiary of a biotech firm headquartered in Beijing, in July purchased more than 1,400 acres of land for building a primate facility in Florida’s Levy County, county records show.

With a combined value of $5.5 million, the 10 parcels of land purchased from L & T Cattle & Timber represents one of the largest known Chinese acquisitions of U.S. land in recent years. While construction has not begun, the deal has attracted public attention at a time of heightened concern about Chinese investments in the United States over security and other risks.

The purchaser’s parent company JOINN Laboratories describes itself as a leader in non-clinical drug screening in China. According to its website, the company was founded in 1995 and employs over 1,500 staff. It has wholly-owned subsidiaries in major Chinese and U.S. cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Boston.

Zhou Zhiwen and Feng Yuxia, the couple who founded and control JOINN Laboratories, both graduated from China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. The school is the Chinese military’s top medical institute, which was added to a U.S. trade blacklist last year for supplying biotechnology to the Chinese military.

After graduating, both Zhou and Feng went on to work as researchers at the academy before establishing their business venture, according to Chinese media reports. Zuo Conglin, a board member of JOINN Laboratories, also graduated from the same academy.

These links with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should raise red flags, according to Rep. Scott Franklin (R-Fla.).

“The idea that we would permit a … biotech firm with ties to the Chinese military to breed lab monkeys on U.S. soil is baffling, especially after China unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic on the world,” he told The Epoch Times.

“The Biden administration allowing Chinese Communist Party affiliated companies to buy up American land is unacceptable, especially for these purposes. If the President won’t put his foot down to protect American interests, Congress will.”

Future of Project Uncertain

It’s unclear if JOINN Laboratories can proceed with its plans in Levy County. Because the purchased land is currently zoned for forestry and rural residential, the company would need to rezone the land to industrial to build its lab facility, the county said in a Sept. 22 statement.

The county said that it had been asked about a possible rezoning of the land, and that it replied that “such a request would not receive a favorable staff recommendation” because of “compatibility” issues and that it would create “spot zoning,” referring to the controversial practice of singling out a piece of land for special zoning laws different from the zoning laws around it.

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A laboratory monkey interacts with employees in the breeding centre for cynomolgus macaques (longtail macaques) at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Saraburi, on May 23, 2020. (Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images)

County officials, when reached by The Epoch Times in early October, said it hasn’t received such a formal rezoning request from JOINN Laboratories.

The company did not publicly announce the sale and not much is known about the proposed breeding facility. JOINN Laboratories didn’t respond to an inquiry from The Epoch Times regarding the purchase and its plans for the site.

It’s unclear whether the company intends to sell the lab monkeys in the United States, China, or elsewhere. Both countries have a high demand for primates for experimental use, and the United States imports a large portion of monkeys from China.

According to Chinese media reports, the average cost for a long-tailed macaque, commonly used for lab research, paid by the Chinese regime has soared from around 30,000 yuan ($4,153) in 2019 to over 130,000 yuan (around $18,000) in early 2022.

JOINN Laboratories currently owns about 18 acres of animal testing facilities in Beijing and Suzhou, a major city in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, according to its 2021 annual report. It is also building another primate breeding base with the capacity of raising 15,000 large animals in Wuzhou of southern China’s Guangxi Province. The quarantine station for the base is now complete, the report stated.

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Another sign spells out the concerns many residents have over a proposed corn mill in Grand Forks, N.D. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times)

Chinese Deals Under the Spotlight

Around the time JOINN Laboratories inked its Florida land deal, another Chinese firm’s farmland investment near the northern border was also drawing scrutiny.

Fufeng Group, a Chinese agricultural firm, acquired 370 acres of land near the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, where it plans to build a corn mill.

But such proximity to a sensitive U.S. military base has alarmed residents and lawmakers alike, who fear that the location could be used for foreign espionage.

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Chinese Lab’s Purchase of US Land for Primate Breeding Facility Draws ScrutinyGOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese Purchase of US Farmland Near Air Force Base

Construction on the land was halted in September when the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a federal interagency panel tasked with conducting national security reviews of foreign investments, sought more information about the project.

A local group opposing the Fufeng project is appealing to the state’s highest court to allow a public vote on the plan. The city had earlier denied a local petition that had collected over 5,300 signatures to bring the project to a referendum vote.

Florida, meanwhile, is also paying attention to the Fufeng case. Standing behind a “Stop CCP Influence” sign, Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis last month proposed a legislative measure to bar Beijing-affiliated companies from buying land surrounding military bases, of which the state has 21.

“There’s the danger of having this land misuse for intelligence or military purposes. But put that aside, we saw what happened with COVID, when almost all this stuff was made in China, why would you want them to be involved in our own food supply in our chain supply chain here in the United States?” Desantis told the audience at Miami Dade College on Sept. 22.

Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at eva.fu@epochtimes.com

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EMP attack: Chinese physicists simulate nuclear blast against Starlink satellites

Oct 21, 2022

A nuclear blast in near space could create a radioactive cloud over an area as big as New York state, crippling or destroying satellites in near-Earth orbit, according to a new computer simulation conducted by a team of Chinese military scientists.

At the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, a research institute run by the People’s Liberation Army in Xian, researchers developed a model that can evaluate the performance of nuclear anti-satellite weapons at different altitudes and yields with unprecedented detail and accuracy.

The simulation results suggest that a 10-megaton warhead – modestly powerful by today’s standards – could create a serious threat to satellites if it detonates at an altitude of 80km (50 miles).

The blast could turn air molecules into radioactive particles and produce a cloud with a shape similar to an upside down pear, said nuclear physicist Liu Li and his colleagues in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nuclear Techniques on October 15.

In about five minutes, the cloud could rise to an altitude of nearly 500km and spread over an area of more than 140,000 sq km.

“The strong residual radiation of the debris cloud may cause failures of spacecraft moving in it, such as satellites, or even cause direct damage that can lead to destruction,” the researchers said.

A targeted trap

There have been many computer simulations studying the use of nuclear weapons against satellites, but most have focused on an explosion that takes place in space, according to Liu’s team.

A space-based explosion would not produce much of a cloud because of the lack of air. High-energy particles generated by the event would mostly be captured by the Earth’s magnetic field and spread around the globe as a radiation belt, threatening a wide range of spacecraft. This could render nuclear weapons ineffective and too dangerous for an anti-satellite mission.

But because of the presence of air molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, an explosion in near space would create a cloud with a total mass far greater than the bomb itself, according to Liu.

“Due to the high concentration of fission products inside the debris cloud, the released gamma rays and beta particles are strong, making their effects on spacecraft and communications within the affected area stronger,” Liu’s team wrote.

Immediately after the blast, the cloud would rise straight up at a speed of up to 2.3km/s, setting a huge trap for target satellites. Instead of remaining in orbit, most of the air molecules would fall back to Earth, avoiding the radiation belt effect and significantly reducing the risk to other satellites or spacecraft, according to the simulation.

New threats

A Chinese military study published in May called SpaceX’s Starlink communication network a potential threat to China’s national security and urged the development of capabilities to disable or bring it down.

Starlink aims to put tens of thousands of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. Chinese military researchers worry that these satellites could provide communication services to rivals or slam into China’s space station or satellites, acting as “suicide agents” to disable Chinese space infrastructure during a war.

This video shows the Starlink satellites train seen from earth. Starlink is the name for a satellite constellation that was constructed by Elon Musk in order to provide fast satellite Internet access. The constellation will consist of several thouasands of small starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, which will work together…

Conventional countermeasures such as anti-satellite missiles could take out a limited number of high-value targets, but losing a few low-cost satellites would not affect Starlink’s operations.

Some Chinese researchers have therefore proposed hitting a few carefully selected targets that could produce a small amount of space debris. The debris would hit other satellites in the same orbit and create more debris, effectively creating a gap in the Starlink network. But keeping the debris away from friendly satellites would be a challenge.

Legal questions

The simulation does not mean China will use such a weapon, according to a Beijing-based space scientist.

“International law has banned the testing or use of nuclear weapons in both space and the atmosphere,” said the researcher, who requested not to be named because of the sensitivity to the issue.

The results of the simulation apply not only to satellites but hypersonic weapons, many of which are designed to travel long distances at near-space altitudes, said the researcher.

“Whether it is legal to use nuclear weapons as a defence measure against a hypersonic weapon attack remains a subject of debate in the research community,” he added.

China has not tested a nuclear weapon in near space.

On August 1, 1958, the US detonated a 3.8-megatonne bomb at an altitude of 77km over the Johnston Atoll west of Hawaii – an experiment known as the Teak test.

In the second part of this video… But the whole vid is worth looking at…

Some Honolulu residents said the explosion created a fireball that turned from light yellow to red, and a huge cloud rose from the fireball and remained visible for about half an hour.

Liu’s team said their computer simulation closely matched the results of the Teak test, which eventually produced a cloud more than 700km across.

Though the physical process involved in a near-space explosion is extremely complex, the new model could produce an estimate of the range and scale of damage “with high confidence” in just a few minutes, they added. [SCMP]

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Canada bans all hand gun sales effective today…

Posted by Kane on October 22, 2022 2:17 am

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October 21, 2022

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Fewer guns mean safer communities. That’s why the Government of Canada is implementing some of the strongest gun control measures in a generation. Handguns are the weapon of choice in most firearm-related crimes, which is why limiting the number of handguns is a critical part of our plan to protect Canadians from violence.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced the national freeze on the sale, purchase, and transfer of handguns comes into effect. From now on, people cannot buy, sell, or transfer handguns within Canada, and they cannot bring newly acquired handguns into the country.

A national handgun freeze was first announced alongside Bill C-21, the strongest gun control measures in over 40 years, in May 2022. While the bill continues to be debated in Parliament, we are taking immediate action through regulations to keep Canadians safe.

The national handgun freeze is part of the government’s comprehensive plan to tackle gun violence. We have already banned over 1,500 types of assault-style firearms and have strengthened our gun control laws to expand background checks. Bill C-21 proposes further measures to keep guns out of the wrong hands like revoking the firearms licences of those involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment, continuing to fight gun smuggling and trafficking, and providing law enforcement more tools to investigate firearms crimes.

One life taken by gun violence is one too many. We will continue to work with provinces, territories, Indigenous communities, and municipalities to keep Canadians safe. We will continue to do whatever it takes to keep guns out of our communities and build a safer country, for everyone.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/canada-bans-all-hand-guns-sales-effective-today/ 

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101st Airborne Division deployed to Europe to bolster NATO

Charlie D'Agata is on a U.S. military facility on Romania's Black Sea coast, where he witnessed the largest deployment of the 101st Airborne Division in Europe since World War II. The deployment comes as NATO continues to ramp up its forces on the alliance's eastern flank as the Kremlin continues to ramp up its anti-western rhetoric to explain a string of battlefield loses in Ukraine.

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Corroded Batteries Spontaneously Catching Fire in Flooded Electric Vehicles

TOPICS: BN Frank Electric Vehicles

October 7, 2022 By B.N. Frank

A survey published in July revealed that many Americans are still not interested in owning or leasing Electric Vehicles (EVs) due to high costs (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and other concerns. Nevertheless, EV mandates are being considered in at least 17 states despite a long list of significant issues associated with them (and their charging stations) including, of course, fires (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). In fact, EVs flooded by Hurricane Ian are also catching fire in Florida.

From ZeroHedge:

“There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start,” according to Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s top financial officer and fire marshal.

Patronis tweeted Thursday that after Hurricane Ian made landfall last week and flooded regions of his state, a bunch of electric vehicles (EVs) were caught in floods, batteries were waterlogged, and some spontaneously caught on fire.

He said, “that’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale.”

“It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely,” he continued in another tweet. “Thanks to [North Collier Fire Rescue] for their hard work.”

Patronis tweeted a video of firefighters in Naples spraying thousands of gallons of water on a flooded Tesla EV’s battery as it smolders in the city street.

There was no word on how many EVs were disabled or caught on fire due to the widespread flooding last week. But what is becoming apparent is that fire departments in the state are unequipped to handle lithium battery fires.

Under the Biden administration’s push to electrify road vehicles to allegedly save the planet from man-made carbon emissions, greenies fail to acknowledge the environmental costs of EV mishaps and fires that are associated with it.

We outlined one year ago that “First Responders Aren’t Prepared For Lithium Fires When Teslas Crash And Uncontrollably Burn.”

Other issues that have been identified with EVs include:

Charging them threatens power grids (see 1, 2, 3, 4) and medical implants

They emit high levels of biologically and environmentally harmful electromagnetic and wireless radiation (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Mining for EV battery ingredients IS NOT eco-friendly (see 1, 2)

EV batteries are difficult and expensive to recycle

Activist Post reports regularly about EVs and unsafe technology. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:

Wireless Information Network

Electromagnetic Radiation Safety

Environmental Health Trust

Physicians for Safe Technology

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Hidden cost inside all electric vehicles revealed

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Electric car manufacturers are “not telling” the public about the enormous cost of a replacement battery, says news.com.au Motoring Editor Richard Blackburn.

Replacement batteries for electric cars are “not cheap,” Mr Blackburn said.

Mr Blackburn managed to get a response from Lexus, which quoted him $47,000 for a replacement battery.

A battery for an electric car needs to be replaced every 8 years, he said.

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Video shows mystery 'wave' under Crimea bridge just before it was blown to smithereens: Speculation grows that Ukraine used a boat or explosive-laden drone – despite Russian claims of truck bomb - as attack threatens Putin's supply lines

A huge explosion has hit the only bridge between Crimea and Russia, a crucial supply line for Putin's forces

Footage appears to show a truck exploding on the road section of the bridge and sabotage is suspected

Russian officials have claimed a truck was searched on the bridge which then triggered the explosion

However, a video appears to show a wave under the bridge which some think could be a bomb in the water

Panic queues have formed at petrol stations in Crimea as officials said there was only enough fuel for 40 days

By Alastair Lockhart and Jack Wright and Will Stewart for MailOnline

Published: 02:15 EDT, 8 October 2022 | Updated: 13:02 EDT, 8 October 2022

A mysterious 'wave' which appeared under the bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea moments before it was blown up has fuelled speculation that Ukrainian special services used a boat or explosive-laden drone to launch an attack that has damaged Putin's supply lines.

Moscow furiously claimed a truck bomb caused the blast which killed at least three people but did not apportion blame - while the speaker of Crimea's Kremlin-backed regional parliament accused Kyiv of being behind the explosion which took place early this morning, just hours after Putin's 70th birthday.

Dramatic new footage shows the blast rocking the Kerch Bridge and causing its partial collapse, in yet another humiliation for Moscow as its forces retreat from occupied southern and eastern Ukraine amid a sweeping counter-offensive by Volodymyr Zelensky's troops. The Kremlin had claimed the bridge, which was opened personally Putin in 2018 to much fanfare in Russian-state media, was being protected by a maximum security operation which even included attack dolphins.

Russian law enforcement has identified Samir Yusubov, 25, from the Krasnodar region in Russia, as the alleged owner of the red-coloured International Prostar truck, which, according to investigators, exploded on the Crimean Bridge. They are still investigating who was driving the truck when it exploded.

But the so-called 'wave' which appeared under the bridge before it was destroyed has led to speculation that it was attacked using a boat or explosive-laden drone.

Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some lauded the destruction, but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility. However, a top aide to President Zelensky boasted that 'Putin should be happy. Not everyone gets such an expensive birthday present', and the Prime Minister of Estonia suggested that the attack was committed by Ukraine.

The attack could cut supplies to Putin's forces as Ukraine makes more advances in the south towards Kherson. A section of the bridge has collapsed into the sea and seven oil tankers on a train caught fire in the blast. Long fuel lines are already forming in Crimea, despite Russian claims to have enough supplies to last two weeks.

The 12-mile bridge across the Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov opened in 2018 and is the longest in Europe.

The £3.2billion project is a tangible symbol of Moscow's claims on Crimea and has provided an essential link to the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Crimea holds symbolic value for Russia and is key to sustaining its military operations in southern Ukraine. While Russia seized areas north of Crimea early on during the invasion and built a land corridor to it along the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive to reclaim them.

The Russian Defence Ministry said troops in the south were receiving necessary supplies through the land corridor and by sea. The Energy Ministry said Crimea has enough fuel for 15 days and it was working on ways to replenish stock.

The bridge has train and road sections. The blast and fire caused the collapse of one of the two links of the road bridge, while another link was intact.

Russia has released this picture of Samir Yusubov, 25, believed to be the truck's owner

The Russian Transport Ministry said train traffic across the bridge would start again shortly after quick repair works.

Vehicle traffic resumed on Saturday afternoon on one of the two links that remained intact from the blast, with the flow alternating in each direction and vehicles undergoing a 'full inspection procedure,' Crimea's Russia-backed regional leader, Sergey Aksyonov, wrote on Telegram.

Rail traffic was resuming slowly. Two passenger trains departed from the Crimean cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol and headed toward the bridge on Saturday evening. Passenger ferry links between Crimea and the Russian mainland were being relaunched Sunday.

Mr Putin was informed about the explosion and ordered the creation of a government panel to deal with the emergency.

The speaker of Crimea's Kremlin-backed regional parliament blamed Ukraine for the explosion, but downplayed the severity of the damage and said the bridge would be promptly repaired.

Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of Russian parliament, said 'consequences will be imminent' if Ukraine is responsible.

Gennady Zyuganov, head of the Russian Communist Party, which is nominally in the opposition but votes in line with Kremlin wishes in parliament, said the 'terror attack' should serve as a wake-up call.

'The long-overdue measures haven't been taken yet, the special operation must be turned into a counterterrorist operation,' he said.

Sergei Mironov, head of the Just Russia faction in parliament, said Moscow should respond by attacking key Ukrainian infrastructure including power plants, bridges and railways.

The parliamentary leader of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's party on Saturday stopped short of claiming Kyiv was responsible but appeared to cast it as a consequence of Moscow's takeover of Crimea.

'Russian illegal construction is starting to fall apart and catch fire. The reason is simple: if you build something explosive, then sooner or later it will explode,' David Arakhamia, the leader of the Servant of the People party, wrote on Telegram.

The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, tweeted a video with the Kerch Bridge on fire alongside Marilyn Monroe singing her famous Happy Birthday, Mr President.

The blast on the bridge occurred hours after explosions rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on Saturday, sending plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.

Ukrainian officials accused Russia of pounding Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, with surface-to-air missiles and said at least one person was wounded. The strikes targeted two largely residential neighbourhoods, the regional governor, Oleh Sinehubov, said.

Huge queues appeared at petrol stations in Crimea in the wake of the bridge's destruction, soon after the Russian puppet authorities said there was petrol for 40 days. Other sources said there was only 15 days of fuel as panic buyers queued for hours.

Locals were also rationed to 3kg of essential groceries amid fears for supplies, according to reports on the peninsula.

A video shows a Russian man in Crimea saying: 'We've had a good life, but it was short-lived. The ways [of escape] are now cut off.'

Pro-Putin military correspondent Yuri Kotyonok joined a wave of demands for overwhelming Russian attacks on Ukraine. He said: 'The answer for blowing up the bridge should be crushing. The question is not about revenge, but about punishment and our capacity as a state responding to terrorist attacks. The Crimean Bridge will certainly be restored. I hope that they will do it promptly - within a few months. He asked for answers on why 'targets in Kyiv are still intact'.

Yuri Podolyaka, a popular pro-Rus blogger, said: 'It looks like this is the prelude to the main strike of the Ukrainians in the south. If over the next few days Ukraine does not plunge into darkness and strikes are not carried out on the bridges across the Dnieper, I personally will consider it a sign of an [epic failure].'

Vladimir Rogov, chairman of 'We are Together with Russia' movement, and a key official in occupied Ukraine, said: 'The Crimean bridge has been blown up. Both the road and railway lines have been cut. The [Ukraine] terrorist entity must be destroyed.'

He published exact map coordinates of targets he wanted hit in Ukraine.

Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said the early-morning explosions were the result of missile strikes in the centre of the city. He added that the blasts sparked fires at one of the city's medical institutions and a non-residential building. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Russian officials said they faced an 'emergency' on the bridge with the train on fire. A Russian Telegram channel said: 'It is likely that an improvised explosive device hidden in any of the passing vehicles was detonated.'

Oleg Kryuchkov, aide to the Kremlin-appointed head of annexed Crimea, said: 'According to preliminary information, a fuel storage tank is on fire…. Navigable arches were not damaged. It is too early to speak about causes and consequences. Work to extinguish the blaze is under way.'

Russian-controlled Crimean Railways said: 'A fuel tank at the tail of a freight train caught fire. The locomotive with some carriages was brought to Kerch station.'

Ukraine in recent days has grown more ambitious in its predictions that it will retake Crimea - annexed by Russia in 2014.

Rybar, a pro-Russian Telegram channel reported: 'There was an explosion at around 6am on one of the sections of the Crimean Bridge. According to official reports, a fuel tanker caught fire. Road services and the Emergencies Ministry are working at the scene of the fire and traffic has been temporarily suspended.

'However, photos and video footage show one of the vehicles being put out of action, which in no way could have happened due to a simple fire. It is likely that an improvised explosive device hidden in any of the passing vehicles was detonated.'

Pro-Kremlin war reporter Andrey Rudenko asked: 'What kind of power did the explosion have to for a span of the bridge to go under water? It is quite possible to assume that the main explosion was underwater. At the beginning of the year, there were reports that the West had supplied Ukraine with underwater kamikaze drones.'

How Ukraine could achieve victory against Russia: As Kyiv's forces advance in the south and east, expert lays out the path to victory - with all roads leading to Crimea

'This war began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - with its liberation,' President Volodymyr Zelesnky declared back in August. And, according to military experts, that is exactly what his generals are aiming to do.

Ben Hodges, former commander of American forces in Europe, has outlined what he believes to be the Ukrainian route to victory - going via the cities of Kherson and Mariupol and ending 'when the last Russian soldier crosses the [Kerch] bridge out of Crimea.'

General Hodges, now at the Center for European Policy Analysis, believes Ukraine's main effort will remain capturing Kherson in the south - where a major assault has been underway since early August - with a secondary attack hooking down through the Donbas and towards the city of Mariupol.

When Mariupol falls, he told a CEPA conference last week, those troops would also converge on Crimea - hammering the peninsula with HIMARS rockets and forcing the Russians back beyond the border.

Dr Mike Martin, a visiting fellow of war studies at King's College, also raised the prospect of a third assault with Ukraine using its reserves to split the Russian frontline in two and making it difficult for Putin to move reinforcements around as he gave his own thoughts on Twitter.

Nothing is guaranteed in war, and Putin will certainly do everything in his power to stop Kyiv - from piling conscripts on to the frontlines to possibly using a nuclear weapon.

But, as Ukraine's path to victory becomes clearer, MailOnline examines how it could play out...

Ukraine began its much-vaunted counter-attack on the Kherson region in early August and has been making gradual progress ever since - though reports have started emerging of a breakthrough this week.

The goal, touted by Kyiv, is to re-take the city of Kherson from Russian control. It is the only regional capital seized by Putin so-far during the war, and occupies a strategic position - spanning the Dnipro River where it flows into the Dniprovska Gulf and on to the Black Sea.

Taking it would deprive Russia of its only toe-hold on the west bank of the Dnipro, all-but rule out any assault on Odessa, give proof to the lie of Putin's sham referendums and claims to annexation, and open the door to an assault on Crimea - the jewel in the Ukrainian crown.

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We Are Preparing For Nuclear War - Biden Warns Of Nuclear 'Armageddon' After Buying $290 Million In Anti-Radiation Drugs While Reports Claim Russian President Already Protected In Bunker

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine October 7, 2022

When first learning about the chaos theory and the Butterfly Effect, where one small event in one geographical area could cause other larger events elsewhere, it always seemed more of a "bigger picture" concept to me.

My penchant for stepping back and looking at different events occurring right now, some seemingly only semi-related, yet when seen together it is like watching pieces of a puzzle being inserted and finally starting to see the picture emerge.

Recently Stefan Stanford wrote about a Russian nuclear submarine going missing, armed with a "doomsday" weapon, and in that article he mentioned how the the Biden regime has suddenly purchased $290 million in anti-radiation drugs amid nuclear worries about Russia.

Biden's US Health and Human Services (HSS) is claiming that the sudden purchase is not in response to the Russia/Ukraine war, but is a regular part of U.S. preparedness.

The US government said the procurement of Nplate was not in response to the war in Ukraine.

An HSS spokesman told The Telegraph: “This is part of our ongoing work for preparedness and radiological security. It has not been accelerated by the situation in Ukraine.”

They would have us believe the timing is just coincidental. Readers can decide for themselves if they believe that or not.

PREPARING FOR NUCLEAR WAR

We'll start with the stories about Russia President Vladimir Putin hiding out in a nuclear bunker because there are serious caveats that should be offered regarding the cornucopia of stories about this.

First: This rumor/story has been online since March 2022, yet over the course of the past few days, has gained much traction.

Second: While it makes total sense that as tensions rise and as Russia and the U.S. are trading dangerous nuclear rhetoric, that Putin would want to be safe, but stories "Russia-related," must be also taken with a grain of salt.

A reminder that the national American media has been called out, by the former Director of the FBI, James Comey, in congressional hearings, for getting stories about Russia "dead wrong."

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Community, Comey said stories about Russia that are based on classified leaks have been a persistent problem for the FBI because news organizations have often received bad information.

“There have been many, many stories based on — well, lots of stuff, but about Russia that are dead wrong,” Comey said.

So, while taking it with a grain of salt, it does make sense that if Putin is planning a nuclear strike against Ukraine, or anywhere else for that matter, he would hole up in safety in case of retaliatory strikes from the U.S. and western allies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is 'preparing to make key decisions about launching a tactical nuclear strike from a bunker' a long way outside Moscow, the media reported.

Putin -- who will be 70 on Friday -- has warned his closest family including gymnast partner Alina Kabaeva, 40, of the possibility of rapid evacuation, it is alleged, the Daily Mail reported.

He believes the bunker to be 'safe' from Western attack and top officials from his security apparatus and government will be moved to the secret location, according to General SVR channel, Daily Mail reported.

Side note: Speaking of bunkers, it appears that once again the ultra-wealthy are once again purchasing their own bunkers to hide out in case of catastrophe.

Moving along..... At a fundraiser on Thursday night, Biden declared the risk right now of nuclear "Armageddon" was was the highest since 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, claiming that Putin is "not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.."

Biden added, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” He suggested the threat from Putin is real “because his military is — you might say — significantly underperforming.”

As has become a habit, the WH press team immediately tried to walk back his comments, but the warning was stark and tells us the type of conversations Biden and his handlers have been having.

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NUCLEAR WAR WILL KILL BILLIONS FROM HUNGER ALONE

In August 2022 we saw reports of a study by researchers at Rutger's University, which calculated effects of nuclear war.

The result shows that a nuclear war between countries such as Russia and USA could kill billions and cause starvation within two years.

Key Quote: "According to a global study led by Rutgers University, if a nuclear war outbreak between USA and Russia, more than 5 billion people would die because of hunger."

Hunger, which means those numbers do not include the actual deaths from the attack itself, radiation, disease, annihilation from a direct strike.

The abstract from the study below:

Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop, and fishery models to estimate the impacts arising from six scenarios of stratospheric soot injection, predicting the total food calories available in each nation post-war after stored food is consumed. In quantifying impacts away from target areas, we demonstrate that soot injections larger than 5 Tg would lead to mass food shortages, and livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output, in almost all countries. Adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have a limited impact on increasing available calories. We estimate more than 2 billion people could die from a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and more than 5 billion could die from a war between the United States and Russia—underlining the importance of global cooperation in preventing nuclear war.

Back full circle to the Butterfly Affect.

Related: GAS PANIC Putin blowing up nuke in Black Sea would release killer poisonous gas cloud & trigger tsunamis, warns top professor

BOTTOM LINE

It has become abundantly clear that world leaders are bracing themselves for the probability of a nuclear world war, not as the regular war-gaming what "could" happen, but literally preparing for nuclear war.

Anyone that truly believes that any of the $290 million in the Nplate anti-radiation drugs the U.S. government has purchased will find its way to average American citizens is far less cynical than I am.

It will go to senior federal employees and their families, congressional members and their families and high level military members and their families.

In a follow up piece, we will discuss how to protect ourselves since the government certainly won't be.

https://www.allnewspipeline.com/We_Are_Preparing_For_Nuclear_War.php 

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Top Saudi official says it's BIDEN'S fault US gas prices are high, because president hasn't increased domestic oil production

Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's Minister of State, spoke to Fox News Friday and said it's Washington's fault for not increasing domestic production

Al-Jubeir said, 'With due respect, the reason you have high prices in the United States is because you have a refining shortage'

His comments are a response to Washington's outrage at the Saudi-led OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels a day

Al-Jubeir finished by saying Saudi Arabia is 'committed to ensuring stability in the oil markets to the benefit of consumers and producers'

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com

Published: 00:58 EDT, 8 October 2022 | Updated: 03:48 EDT, 8 October 2022

A top Saudi official has blamed Joe Biden for higher gas prices after claiming the president should have extracted more oil from US wells.

Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia's Minister of State, spoke to Fox News Friday and said it's Washington's fault for not increasing domestic production of the fuel.

Al-Jubeir said, 'With due respect, the reason you have high prices in the United States is because you have a refining shortage that has been in existence for more than 20 years. You haven't built refineries in decades.'

His comments are a response to Washington's outrage at the Saudi-led OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels a day that, in a huge boost for Putin ahead of the European oil ban, shows it is aligning with Russia.

Al-Jubeir tried to de-politicize the issue, saying 'Oil is not a weapon. It's not a fighter plane. It's not a tank. You can't shoot it. You can't do anything with it. We look at oil as a commodity and we look at oil as important to the global economy in which we have a huge stake. The idea that Saudi Arabia would do this to harm the U.S. or to be in any way politically involved is absolutely not correct at all.'

He also claims that people took Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia the wrong way, as oil prices were not necessarily up for discussion, but rather about the two countries' 'bilateral relationship' and promoting peace.

Al-Jubeir finished by saying Saudi Arabia is 'committed to ensuring stability in the oil markets to the benefit of consumers and producers.'

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre described the OPEC+ decision as a 'mistake' and said it was 'misguided.'

The decision was made earlier after a face-to-face meeting between energy ministers in Vienna.

The move, which also shocked Europe, will bolster Kremlin finances and help Putin weather a looming European ban on oil imports, driving up fuel prices worldwide just as winter is looming.

It will also further aggravate inflation which has reached decades-high levels in many countries and hurt European households already struggling with sky-high energy bills.

The alliance also said it was renewing its cooperation between members of the OPEC cartel and non-members, the most significant of which is Russia. The deal was to expire at year's end.

Besides a token trim in oil production last month, the major cut is an abrupt turnaround from months of restoring deep cuts made during the depths of the pandemic.

The oil supply could face further cutbacks in coming months when the European ban on most Russian imports takes effect in December.

In a statement, OPEC+ said the decision was based on the 'uncertainty that surrounds the global economic and oil market outlooks.'

The impact of the production cut on oil prices - and thus the price of gasoline made from crude - will be limited somewhat because OPEC+ members are already unable to meet the quotas set by the group.

A separate move by the U.S. and other members of the G7 to impose a price cap on Russian oil could reduce supply if Russia retaliates by refusing to ship to countries and companies that observe the cap.

The EU agreed Wednesday on new sanctions that are expected to include a price cap on Russian oil.

Russia 'will need to find new buyers for its oil when the EU embargo comes into force in early December and will presumably have to make further price concessions to do so,' analysts at Commerzbank wrote in a note.

'Higher prices beforehand - boosted by production cuts elsewhere - would therefore doubtless be very welcome.'

A production cut could benefit Russia by establishing higher prices ahead of a European Union ban on most Russian oil imports, a sanction over the invasion of Ukraine that takes effect at the end of the year, Commerzbank analysts add.

Oil prices surged this summer as markets worried about the loss of Russian supplies from sanctions over the war in Ukraine, but they slipped as fears about recessions in major economies and China's COVID-19 restrictions weighed on demand for crude.

The fall in oil prices has been a boon to US drivers, who saw lower gasoline prices at the pump before costs recently started ticking up, and for President Joe Biden as his Democratic Party gears up for congressional elections next month.

It's unclear how much impact a production cut would have on oil prices - and thus gasoline prices - because members are already unable to meet the quotas set by OPEC+.

Biden has tried to receive credit for gasoline prices falling from their average June peak of $5.02 - with administration officials highlighting a late March announcement that a million barrels a day would be released from the strategic reserve for six months. High inflation is a fundamental drag on Biden's approval and has dampened Democrats' chances in the midterm elections.

Gasoline prices recently turned up because of refinery outages in California and Ohio, and vary widely, from over $6 per gallon in California to under $3 in some parts of Texas and the Gulf Coast, according to motoring club federation AAA. The national average of $3.80 is up slightly in recent weeks.

One major factor weighing on oil prices has been fears of recessions in places like the U.S. and Europe and slowdowns due to China's strict COVID-19 measures.

Higher inflation is sapping consumer purchasing power, while central banks are raising interest rates to cool off overheating prices, a step that could slow economic growth. Oil prices at their summer highs, and higher natural gas prices boosted by Russian cutbacks to Europe, helped fuel inflation.

Which nations make up the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) consists of 13 member nations, while OPEC+ has an additional 11 member countries. Between them, they have huge control over the globe's oil market and prices.

As of September 2018, the 13 OPEC members accounted for an estimated 44 percent of global oil production, and 81.5 percent of the world's proven oil reserved. The group can manipulate oil prices by setting production targets. Generally speaking, when targets are reduced, oil prices increase.

Some analysts have characterised OPEC as an example of a cartel that corporates in market competition, while being protected by state immunity.

OPEC+ was formed in 2016, bringing 11 more nations into the fold - including Russia - giving the group even more control over the global oil market.

Here are the member nations that make up OPEC and OPEC+:

OPEC's 13 member countries*

Algeria

Angola

Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Venezuela

OPEC+ 11 member countries

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Brunei

Kazakhstan

Malaysia

Mexico

Oman

Philippines

Russia

Sudan

South Sudan

*Ecuador, Indonesia and Qatar are former OPEC members.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11293693/Top-Saudi-official-blames-gas-prices-BIDEN-increased-domestic-production.html 

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Hardly Anyone In Washington Seems To Care About The Future At This Point

October 6, 2022 by Michael

Our politicians in Washington are literally destroying our future. But do you see anyone out in the streets protesting their calamitous policies? By now, you have probably heard that the U.S. national debt has hit 31 trillion dollars. To be more precise, as I write this article the U.S. national debt is currently sitting at $31,142,591,307,260.01. It is the largest single debt in the history of the world, and given enough time it would completely destroy our economy all by itself. Unfortunately, hardly anyone in Washington seems to care about our rapidly exploding debt at this point.

In the old days, the Republicans would at least put on a show for us. They would huff and puff about the national debt but then give the Democrats virtually all of the spending that they wanted anyway.

But now they have figured out that such a charade is no longer necessary, because most of their constituents just don’t care.

So most of our politicians no longer even pretend to care about fiscal responsibility. In recent years they have been on the biggest borrowing and spending binge in our entire history, and there are no indications that they ever plan to stop.

They borrow and spend trillions upon trillions of dollars, and they expect you, your children, and your grandchildren to pay it back.

Of course that will never happen.

We are never going to pay back the 31.1 trillion dollars that we have borrowed.

Instead, we are just going to push the accelerator all the way to the floor until we finally go off a cliff.

During the month of August alone, the U.S. government ran a $219.6 billion budget deficit…

Some things never change — such as the federal government spending more money than it has month after month after month.

August was no different. The US government ran a massive $219.6 billion budget deficit last month, according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement. That nudged out July as the second-largest monthly deficit in fiscal 2022.

Sadly, I didn’t hear of anyone in Washington giving a major speech when that happened, because the national debt is not even considered to be an important national issue today.

But our entire standard of living depends on the value of the U.S. dollar. Having the default reserve currency of the world has been such a massive advantage for the United States, and now we are frittering it away.

The rest of the world can see what we are doing.

We are transforming our currency into toilet paper, and it is just a matter of time before it completely collapses.

Today, our politicians are stealing more than 200 million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day.

Just think about that.

The old geezers in Washington know that they are near the end of the road.

So they know that they will never have to pay any of this money back.

But they get to spend it on whatever they want.

Of course it was inevitable that all of this borrowing and spending would eventually create rampant inflation, and now we are facing the worst inflation crisis in our history.

Yes, even worse than the Jimmy Carter era of the 1970s.

The Federal Reserve is rapidly hiking interest rates in a desperate attempt to get inflation under control, but that is causing all sorts of problems.

For one thing, the interest payments on our national debt will soon exceed a trillion dollars a year…

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this is exactly what will happen. It projects interest payments will triple from nearly $400 billion in fiscal 2022 to $1.2 trillion in 2032. And it’s worse than that. The CBO made this estimate in May. Interest rates are already higher than those used in its analysis.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that the current system will survive until 2032.

Previous generations handed us the keys to the reserve currency of the world and the greatest economic machine that the planet had ever witnessed.

Sadly, we took those precious gifts and completely destroyed them.

As a society, we have lost all regard for long-term consequences.

Let me give you another example. Joe Biden just announced that he will be releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve…

“At the president’s direction, the Department of Energy will deliver another 10 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the market next month as part of the historic 180-million-barrel release the President ordered back in March. And the President will continue to direct SPR releases as necessary,” she said.

What an incredibly foolish thing to do.

It is only supposed to be used in the event of a national emergency, and what Biden has decided to do is absolutely unprecedented.

The fact that things are not looking good for his party in November is not an “emergency”, and Senator Tom Cotton is not amused…

Whoa, say critics, including Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).

“Well, it’s called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s not the political petroleum reserve,” Cotton told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.

We are going to need that oil someday.

But thanks to Biden, most of it will already be gone.

If we found ourselves in the middle of a major war, the worldwide flow of energy supplies would suddenly be greatly restricted. That is the sort of emergency scenario that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was designed for.

Sadly, thanks to the warmongers in the Biden administration we may soon find ourselves fighting wars with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran simultaneously.

Most Americans have no idea what is going on behind the scenes. Things with North Korea are getting really, really tense, and a major war in the Middle East could erupt at any time.

World War 3 has already started, but thankfully we haven’t gotten to the part where billions of people die just yet.

Unfortunately, our current crop of leaders couldn’t care less about the long-term future of humanity.

So they continue to pursue policies that are incredibly self-destructive, and we are all going to pay a very great price for their foolishness.

***It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/hardly-anyone-in-washington-seems-to-care-about-the-future-at-this-point/ 

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There will be thousands of deaths from this hurricane and it will take more months than any storm to recover from, costing millions of dollars, by far the most costly storm to date, yet there shall be bigger storms to come. I have forewarned those along the seashores that they should leave everything and that they should move north etc

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Hurricane-Ravaged Florida, Carolinas Face Daunting Recovery

Sunday, 02 October 2022 06:16 PM EDT

The largely innocuous but soggy remnants of Hurricane Ian drifted through Virginia early on Sunday, leaving in their wake storm-ravaged residents in Florida and the Carolinas facing a disaster recovery expected to cost tens of billions of dollars.

The storm's toll on human life also was expected to rise as floodwaters receded and search teams pushed farther into areas initially cut off from the outside world, seeking stranded survivors and the remains of anyone who may have perished.

CNN reported 76 storm-related deaths have been confirmed since Ian crashed ashore Florida's Gulf Coast with catastrophic force on Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. NBC News reported up to 99 total deaths in what may have included all deaths from the storm.

Florida accounted for the bulk of fatalities, with 35 tallied by the sheriff's office in coastal Lee County, which bore the brunt of the storm when it made landfall, and 11 other deaths reported by state officials in four neighboring counties.

North Carolina authorities said at least four more people had been killed there. No deaths were immediately reported in South Carolina, where Ian made its second U.S. landfall on Friday.

Chugging over land since then, Ian has diminished into an ever-weakening post-tropical cyclone, with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) lifting all remaining watches and warnings related to the fading weather system by Saturday evening.

The NHC said heavy additional rainfall was possible across portions of West Virginia and western Maryland into Sunday morning, even as "major to record flooding" was forecast to continue in central Florida.

WASHED AWAY

As the full scope of devastation came into clearer focus days after Ian struck, officials said some of the heaviest damage was inflicted by raging wind-driven ocean surf that rushed into seaside communities and washed buildings away.

Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showed beach cottages and a motel that lined the shores of Florida's Sanibel Island had been demolished by storm surges. Although most homes appeared to still be standing, roof damage to all was evident.

Surveys from the ground showed that the barrier island, a popular tourist getaway that was home to some 6,000 residents, was left utterly devastated, from its infrastructure to its famously idyllic esthetic character.

"It's all just completely gone," Sanibel's city manager, Dana Souza, said. "Our electric system is pretty much destroyed, our sewer system has been damaged badly and our public water supply is under assessment."

The island's link to the mainland was severed by breaches to Sanibel's causeway bridge, further complicating recovery efforts, Souza said.

After waning to a tropical storm by the end of its march across Florida to the Atlantic, Ian regained hurricane strength and pummeled coastal South Carolina on Friday, sweeping ashore near Georgetown, north of the historic port city of Charleston, with sustained winds reaching 85 mph (140 kph).

Numerous roads were flooded and blocked by fallen trees while a number of piers were damaged in that area.

Even as they confronted a staggering amount of utility repairs and debris removal, authorities were busy searching for the missing.

As of Friday, some 10,000 people were reported unaccounted for in Florida, according to the state's emergency management director. He said many of those would likely turn out have merely been displaced and unreachable due to power and phone outages.

On Sanibel, crews were just making their way to the hard-hit east end of that island on Saturday, "so our situation is that we're still in the search-and-rescue mode," the city manager, Souza said.

City officials were aware of nearly 300 households who failed to leave the island as the storm approached and whose whereabouts and well-being were now being checked, he said.

About 996,000 businesses and homes remained without power as late Saturday night in Florida alone, where more than 2 million customers lost electricity the first night of the storm.

In central Florida, heavy flooding from rain-swollen rivers and runoff appeared far more extensive than wind damage.

Insurers braced for between $28 billion and $47 billion in claims from what could amount to the costliest Florida storm since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, according to U.S. property data and analytics company CoreLogic.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hurriane-ian-florida/2022/10/02/id/1090035/ 

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Alarming Reports Of Babies Mysteriously Dying Following Being Breast Fed By Just-Vaxxed Mothers Continue To Flood VAERS As The Bad News About The COVID Vax Never Stops

By Joel S Hirschhorn for All News Pipeline October 3, 2022

The following is from a great (although quite alarming) article from Israel.

648 cases of side effects were reported to the VAERS system on breastfed infants whose mothers received the Covid-19 vaccine

Despite the lack of clinical studies, and even animal safety studies, health authorities did not hesitate to give the green light to the administration of Pfizer's and Moderna's mRNA vaccines to pregnant and lactating women a few weeks after they themselves stated that they did not have such studies.

In Israel, the MOH even made a U-turn in a record time of four days, when already on December 20 a recommendation was issued for pregnant and lactating women to get vaccinated. Nevertheless, the issue of vaccine safety for breastfed infants is hardly discussed.

An analysis conducted by the Real-Time Magazine team reveals that at least 648 cases of side effects in infants vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines – most of them with the mRNA vaccines, including deaths and life-threatening side effects, have been reported to the US VAERS system.

The most common serious events were life-threatening bleeding; anticholinergic syndrome; Liver problems; anaphylactic shock; neuroleptic syndrome; neurological side-effects such as convulsions or encephalitis; and Hypoglycemia. In most of the reported cases, several life-threatening side effects were recorded in the same baby.

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"I was breastfeeding my son at the time. I pumped within an hour of receiving the shot. My 5 month old son nursed the night following the shot and later ate the pumped milk that I acquired the same day of the shot. 11 days later he was found unresponsive during his nap at daycare. It is not clear how long he was unresponsive for until found by babysitter. He was immediately rushed to the hospital and doctors were able to get his heart beating again with excessive effort. Organ damage was extensive and he had no brain function, he did not recover. He passed away 13 days after I received the shot". The VAERS report says: "Died? No Recovered? No".

This shocking description, a report by a mother who lost her baby, a five-month-old breastfed infant, 13 days after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and breastfeeding him, is taken from the VAERS system - the American Adverse Event Monitoring System (case number 1505306).

As can be learned from the report, the mother received the vaccine on January 28, very shortly after the FDA recommended that pregnant and lactating women receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Alarmingly, this is not the only report of a baby being harmed or dying after being exposed to the mRNA vaccine through breastfeeding.

In another chilling report (case number 1166062) by a mother, dated March 17, 2021, a case of another breastfed baby, also five months old, who died just one day after his mother was vaccinated during a work day is described. The next day, March 18, 2021, the baby felt ill, developed a fever and a rash, refused to eat and cried non-stop. The write-up said:

"Patient brought baby to local ER where assessments were performed, blood analysis revealed elevated liver enzymes. Infant was hospitalized but continued to decline and passed away. Diagnosis of TTP. No known allergies. No new exposures aside from the mother's vaccination the previous day".

What was the cause of the two babies' deaths? Is it possible that their deaths were related to the fact that their mothers were vaccinated a few days earlier, and that they were exposed to the mRNA vaccine through breastfeeding?

Amazingly, although health authorities around the world began vaccinating breastfeeding women shortly after the FDA granted Pfizer the emergency permit, without having carried out studies in this sensitive population or even toxicity studies in animals, and even though more than a year and a half have passed since then and many millions of breastfeeding women around the world have already been vaccinated – the health implications of the mRNA vaccine on nursing babies are almost never considered or discussed significantly.

In order to try to get an answer to this question, even if only a partial one, Real Time Magazine conducted an analysis of the reports to the VAERS system on adverse events among nursing infants whose mothers were vaccinated. From the analysis, which is a continuation of the previous one we conducted on VAERS reports on babies who were themselves vaccinated, it appears that the stories presented above represent a phenomenon with a very large scope.

As mentioned, at the time the analysis was conducted, there were 648 reports registered in the VAERS system on babies who suffered adverse events after being exposed to COVID-19 vaccines through breastfeeding. In some cases, these are serious and even life-threatening adverse events, of which, 3 confirmed deaths have been reported, and in other cases, it is not clear what happened to the babies - did they recover, do they continue to suffer from health problems, or whether they died.

https://www.allnewspipeline.com/Alarming_Reports_Of_Babies_Mysteriously_Dying.php 

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The Practice of Lying: The Psychopathic Nature of the U.S. Government

The Extreme Dangerousness of Continuing to Hide the U.S. Government’s Psychopathy

By Eric Zuesse Global Research, October 02, 2022

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Every psychopath is well practiced at lying; anyone who tolerates that person’s lying is not only encouraging psychopathy but is, oneself, psychopathically unconcerned about the public’s welfare, because any such encouragement will, itself, facilitate the further spreading of lies and deception of the public.

This is how psychopathy, which is a merely personal disease, becomes spread and pandemic, thereby producing a dysfunctional society, widespread deception. It happens not only due to the presence of psychopaths, but also due to their passive assisters, who fail to call-out the lie and the liar and to expose them publicly so as to assist in penalizing them, instead of to assist the lies and liars, for those to spread and thrive.

Being a member of a society is to have both rights and obligations within it. Silence in the face of lies that one knows are false is a failure of such an obligation: an obligation to avoid willingly spreading a social disease — the disease of spreading those lies and that falsehood, to a rampantly and ever-increasingly contaminated public.

This was how it came to be that in 2003 the U.S. & UK Governments busted and neutered the U.N. by invading and occupying Iraq solely upon the basis of lies, and never prosecuted for having done so. Neither the Governments (their leaders) were prosecuted for it, nor the news-media (their controlling owners) that were controlled by the same group of billionaires (America’s billionaires, of both political Parties), were prosecuted for these international-war crimes.

Leading Provider of Financial Research Says US Is Headed for Third World Status

None of those leaders and their propaganda-organizations (or news-media — their owners) were prosecuted for having done, or assisted in doing, this. That clear fact has established a precedent which has been followed, ever since, by constant international lying by those same two psychopathic regimes, and now it is heading toward production of a World War III on the same basis, of constant Governmental and news-media lying and spreading of lies.

It is for “regime-change in Russia” instead of for “regime-change in Iraq,” but, just like before, the regimes that desperately NEED to be “changed” are the perpetrators of this enormous fraud, the ones that are in the United States and in the United Kingdom. The United Nations is sadly incapable of doing this — it has been virtually nullified ever since 2003 — but it must be done, before the end-result will annihilate us all.

The psychopathy of America’s leadership is now posing a mortal danger not only to the residents in one nation (Iraq; or, say, in Syria — there are so many other examples) but to the residents in all nations (WW III); and, if it is not stopped now, then the world will be stopped, and soon. This would be the extreme end of the pandemic of lies that go not only unpunished but hidden from the public, instead of exposed to the public (such as is being done here).

If this pandemic — which is vastly worse even than the covid-19 disease or any other merely physical pandemic in all of human history — does not now get exposed in the full light of honest public disclosure (presumably by means of news-media that are NOT owned by U.S.-and-allied billionaires), then what hope will there be, for our children, and for their grandchildren (if this pandemic of evil will not have expired the world before then)? It is an obligation not ONLY to the wider public, but even to one’s own descendants (if any), because it is an obligation to — and on behalf of — everyone. This hiding of guilt needs to stop now, because later might be too late. So: please send the URL of this article to everyone you know, and to as many people as possible whom you don’t know, because it concerns everyone.

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/extreme-dangerousness-continuing-hide-us-government-psychopathy/5795186 

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Shocking document: How the US planned the war and energy crisis in Europe

Via Nya Dagblatet

In what appears to be an exceptional internal leak from the think tank RAND Corporation, known among other things to have been behind the American strategy for foreign and defence policies during the Cold War, a detailed account is given of how the energy crisis in Europe has been planned by the United States.

The document, which dates from January, acknowledges that the aggressive foreign policy that was being pursued by Ukraine before the conflict would push Russia into having to take military action against the country. Its actual purpose, it contends, was to pressure Europe into adopting a wide range of sanctions against Russia, sanctions which had already been prepared.

The European Union’s economy, it states, “will inevitably collapse” as a result of this, and its authors rejoice in the fact that, among other things, resources of up to $9 billion will flow back to the United States, and well-educated young people in Europe will be forced to emigrate.

The key objective described in the document is to divide Europe – especially Germany and Russia – and destroy the European economy by placing useful idiots in political positions in order to stop Russian energy supplies from reaching the continent.

crisis in Europe

Interesting For You

Via Nya Dagblatet

In what appears to be an exceptional internal leak from the think tank RAND Corporation, known among other things to have been behind the American strategy for foreign and defence policies during the Cold War, a detailed account is given of how the energy crisis in Europe has been planned by the United States.

The document, which dates from January, acknowledges that the aggressive foreign policy that was being pursued by Ukraine before the conflict would push Russia into having to take military action against the country. Its actual purpose, it contends, was to pressure Europe into adopting a wide range of sanctions against Russia, sanctions which had already been prepared.

The European Union’s economy, it states, “will inevitably collapse” as a result of this, and its authors rejoice in the fact that, among other things, resources of up to $9 billion will flow back to the United States, and well-educated young people in Europe will be forced to emigrate.

The key objective described in the document is to divide Europe – especially Germany and Russia – and destroy the European economy by placing useful idiots in political positions in order to stop Russian energy supplies from reaching the continent.

RAND Corporation’s think tank, which has a huge work force of 1,850 employees and a budget of $350 million, has the official aim of “improving policies and decision-making through research and analysis”. It is primarily connected to the United States Department of Defence and is infamous for having been influential in the development of military and other strategies during the Cold War.

A document signed RAND, under the opening heading of “Weakening Germany, strengthening the U.S.”, suggests that there is an “urgent need” for an influx of resources from outside to maintain the overall American economy, but “especially the banking system”.

risis in Europe

Via Nya Dagblatet

In what appears to be an exceptional internal leak from the think tank RAND Corporation, known among other things to have been behind the American strategy for foreign and defence policies during the Cold War, a detailed account is given of how the energy crisis in Europe has been planned by the United States.

The document, which dates from January, acknowledges that the aggressive foreign policy that was being pursued by Ukraine before the conflict would push Russia into having to take military action against the country. Its actual purpose, it contends, was to pressure Europe into adopting a wide range of sanctions against Russia, sanctions which had already been prepared.

The European Union’s economy, it states, “will inevitably collapse” as a result of this, and its authors rejoice in the fact that, among other things, resources of up to $9 billion will flow back to the United States, and well-educated young people in Europe will be forced to emigrate.

The key objective described in the document is to divide Europe – especially Germany and Russia – and destroy the European economy by placing useful idiots in political positions in order to stop Russian energy supplies from reaching the continent.

RAND Corporation’s think tank, which has a huge work force of 1,850 employees and a budget of $350 million, has the official aim of “improving policies and decision-making through research and analysis”. It is primarily connected to the United States Department of Defence and is infamous for having been influential in the development of military and other strategies during the Cold War.

A document signed RAND, under the opening heading of “Weakening Germany, strengthening the U.S.”, suggests that there is an “urgent need” for an influx of resources from outside to maintain the overall American economy, but “especially the banking system”.

“Only European countries bound by EU and NATO commitments can provide us with these without significant military and political costs for us.”

According to RAND, the main obstacle to this ambition is the growing independence of Germany. Among other things, it points out that Brexit has given Germany greater independence and made it more difficult for the United States to influence the decisions of European governments.

A key objective that permeates this cynical strategy is, in particular, to destroy the cooperation between Germany and Russia, as well as France, which is seen as the greatest economic and political threat to the United States.

”If implemented, this scenario will eventually turn Europe into not only an economic, but also a political competitor to the United States.”, it declares.

The only way: “Draw both sides into war with Ukraine”

In order to crush this political threat, a strategic plan, primarily focused on destroying the German economy, is presented.

“Stopping Russian deliveries could create a systematic crisis that would be devastating for the German economy and indirectly for the European Union as a whole”, it states, and believes that the key is to draw the European countries into war.

“The only possible way to ensure that Germany rejects Russian energy supplies is to draw both sides into the military conflict in Ukraine. Our continued actions in this country will inevitably lead to a military response from Russia. Russia is clearly not going to leave to the massive Ukrainian army’s pressure on the Donetsk People’s Republic without a military response. This would make it possible to portray Russia as the aggressive party and then implement the entire package of sanctions, which has already been drawn up”.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/10/03/shocking-document-how-the-us-planned-the-war-and-energy-crisis-in-europe/ 

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The Iskander stealth missile convoy heading Kherson worrying NATO. Footage of one of the convoys of Russian reinforcements heading towards the special military operations zone. Footage shows a freight train carrying Iskander-M stealth nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and military vehicles on its way to Kherson. NATO is in panic mode now! A major Russian offensive is only a matter of time that worries NATO.

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The “Perfect Storm Has Arrived”: Famine, War, Chaos, and A Cold Dark Winter

by Mac Slavo | Oct 2, 2022 | Headline News | 0 comments

United Nations World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley is saying the perfect storm has arrived. “A perfect storm on top of a perfect storm,” Beasley recently said, has reached our doorstep.

Beasley is urging people to donate to the UN, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, asking them to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year. “Otherwise, there’s gonna be chaos all over the world,” World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said in an Associated Press interview.

Yet this chaos isn’t going to affect the ruling class, those at the UN or the billionaires he thinks are going to help. The chaos, famine, and war is for the slaves while the rulers continue to live their lives in luxury controlling everyone else.

Beasley said that when he took over the WFP 5 1/2 years ago, only 80 million people around the world were headed toward starvation. “And I’m thinking, ‘Well, I can put the World Food Program out of business,’” he said. But instead, we can see the writing on the wall, and we know this was all planned. They can blame climate change or the scamdemic, but crushing the food supply chain has always been a necessary part of the overall permanent enslavement agenda. People will do anything to feed their starving children.

PREPPING FOR THE UPCOMING GOVERNMENT-INDUCED FOOD SHORTAGES

“Within that are 50 million people in 45 countries knocking on famine’s door,” Beasley said. “If we don’t reach these people, you will have famine, starvation, destabilization of nations unlike anything we saw in 2007-2008 and 2011, and you will have mass migration.”

This year, Beasley said, the war shut down grain shipments from Ukraine (a nation that produces enough food to feed 400 million people) and sharply curtailed shipments from Russia, the world’s second-largest exporter of fertilizer and a major food producer, according to a report by Strange Sounds.

Winter is approaching and this one looks like it could be one for the history books. With a historic shortage of staples and fertilizer, crop failures, food warehouses going up in flames, and war advancements, chaos could be an understatement. We have to be ready for anything these sociopaths throw at us.

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-perfect-storm-has-arrived-famine-war-chaos-and-a-cold-dark-winter 

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Who is Controlling the Biden Presidency?

by Chris Farrell September 22, 2021 at 5:00 am

To answer the question of who is controlling the Biden presidency, we should consider the Biden administration's disastrous policy decisions. "Cui bono?" – Who benefits?

Why would Biden abandon Bagram Air Force Base? It is key to all of Southwest Asia – just 400 miles to China and 500 miles to Iran. It is a vitally important geopolitical, military and intelligence platform with consequences and "reach" that involve far more than just Afghan regional matters. Who, specifically, made the recommendation to just walk away from Bagram – and then who gave the order?

If we suggest that there is a combination or passing alliance of these various interests and groups, each seeking to advance their own agenda behind the official, hollow, front of "President Joe Biden" – then we run the risk of being branded conspiracy theorists. That is both dishonest and unfortunate, because asking questions of, and seeking accountability from, elected officials is not "crazy." Interest groups do, in fact, lobby presidential advisors, White House staff, and even members of the president's family.

We must press on – asking questions, examining records, seeking accountability and documenting facts. The truth will prevail.

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The question has been asked dozens of different ways, depending on the questioner and the public policy issue. "Who is controlling the Biden presidency?"

One thing appears certain: It is not President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. He gives incoherent, rambling speeches, and often declines to take questions.

A May 2021 powder-puff profile of President Biden in the Washington Post was written as both a hagiography and a politically therapeutic assurance that there's been a "return to normalcy" in the White House. The article's author, Ashley Parker, was clearly given extraordinary access to personal details by White House staff and Biden handlers in order to compose her report. The resulting article is an interesting mix of Ms. Parker taking careful dictation from the White House, and her own ambition to pledge allegiance to the larger Biden "family." In fairness, here is how Ms. Parker describes the sourcing of her article:

"This account of Biden's daily schedule is based on interviews with seven people familiar with the president's daily life, most speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose private details."

There is genuine journalistic value in Ms. Parker's work – and a mere four (+) months later – given the lightning fast and tumultuous downturn in the Biden presidency, 20/20 hindsight and review of her article may help answer our question: "Who is controlling the Biden presidency?"

Ms. Parker's article offers clues:

On many days, Biden then summons his brain trust, including Klain and top advisers Mike Donilon, Anita Dunn, Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti and Cedric L. Richmond. These sessions rarely have a formal agenda; Biden simply declares, "Here's what I want to talk about," or the aides raise subjects they have discussed in advance for Biden's consideration.

"There are very few issues that get to the level of the president," Dunn said. "Those are the ones that only he can make a decision on."

Donilon, who has been with Biden for decades, is seen by the others as his conscience, alter ego and shared brain. One longtime Biden adviser estimated that no fewer than 10,000 times in their working relationship has the president turned to Donilon and asked, "Mike, what do you think?"

The closest Ms. Parker comes to addressing other influencers of the Biden presidency is passing reference to President Biden's son, Hunter. She writes: "He also calls his son Hunter, who has struggled with addiction, every night before bedtime, texting him if he doesn't pick up right away."

One thing Ms. Parker does not mention: Federal prosecutors are currently investigating Hunter Biden over details related to the extraordinary sums of money he purportedly earned from China-related business deals. Readers will recall that Hunter Biden profited from two separate deals, each worth billions of dollars, with Communist Chinese "business" entities during the time his father was vice president. Reports on Hunter Biden's email communications indicate that (in just one instance) remuneration plans of 10% of the value of a Chinese energy company deals were earmarked for "The Big Guy" – possibly indicating then-VP Joe Biden.

We have the extraordinary (and outrageously scandalous) story of Hunter Biden and his deep Biden family financial ties. Air travel records, alone, document the deep connections between the president and Hunter. The air travel records also offer an investigative roadmap for any serious law enforcement officials seeking to examine questions of Biden corruption. More than 330,000 Americans have demanded just such an investigation from the Department of Justice. The information and emails contained in the Hunter Biden laptops reportedly detail President Biden's knowledgeability of his son's overseas business dealings.

We have documentation and details of key influencers around President Biden. Ms. Parker has identified Biden's "brain trust" and their role in guiding the president.

Ron Klain

Mike Donilon

Mao-loving former Obama WH communications chief Anita Dunn

Bruce Reed

Steve Ricchetti

Former Trump impeachment cheerleader, Cedric L. Richmond

To answer the question of who is controlling the Biden presidency, we should consider the Biden administration's disastrous policy decisions. "Cui bono?" – Who benefits? White House spokesperson Jen Psaki has been placed in impossibly contradictory positions, attempting to defend administration policy reversals. One need look no further than the Biden position on border issues (security, health, humanitarian, drug smuggling, human trafficking, impact on US border communities, etc.) – and – the humiliating collapse of the Afghan government, and the American diplomatic and military response.

Just consider for one example concerning Afghanistan: Why would Biden abandon Bagram Air Force Base? It is key to all of Southwest Asia – just 400 miles to China and 500 miles to Iran. It is a vitally important geopolitical, military and intelligence platform with consequences and "reach" that involve far more than just Afghan regional matters. Who, specifically, made the recommendation to just walk away from Bagram – and then who gave the order?

Which brings us back to our fundamental question: Who is controlling the Biden presidency?

Here are some potential answers – individually, in combination with key influencers of President Biden (his "brain trust," above), or via convenient, passing, alliance. Each of these have their own objectives for influencing those closest to President Biden:

Professional Washington political operatives of the Democrat Party and the corresponding leftist "deep state" federal government officials that have incrementally occupied the headquarters of every executive branch department and agency in Washington DC.

Lobbyists representing the military-industrial complex; big pharma; energy interests; and/or foreign powers and multinational corporations.

Big tech and the related Silicon Valley business interests.

Witting and unwitting agents of Communist China and its state "business enterprises" who pretend to operate independent of the government.

Militant leftists from organizations like Antifa, BLM and associated organizations who see an opportunity for unchecked and sometimes subsidized activities purportedly endorsed by the Democrat establishment.

If we suggest that there is a combination or passing alliance of these various interests and groups, each seeking to advance their own agenda behind the official, hollow, front of "President Joe Biden" – then we run the risk of being branded conspiracy theorists. That is both dishonest and unfortunate, because asking questions of, and seeking accountability from, elected officials is not "crazy." Interest groups do, in fact, lobby presidential advisors, White House staff, and even members of the president's family.

Without devolving into the stereotypes of the conspiracy theories described in Richard Hofstetter's, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," the American public can and must seek accountability for the decisions and actions of the government. The left enjoys sensationalizing and marginalizing their political opponents by leveraging pejoratives, ad hominem and cartoonishly simplistic derision to undermine legitimate questions and concerns. We must not take their insidious tactics to heart. We must press on – asking questions, examining records, seeking accountability and documenting facts. The truth will prevail.

Chris Farrell is Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17762/controlling-biden-presidency 

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MSM & Big Tech Now Collude To Censor God & Family Values

Kristi Leigh | Infowars.com  October 2nd 2022, 10:27 am

The media demonstrates every day that it is the enemy of the people.

Kristi Leigh breaks down how the media and Big Tech complex are working together to suppress the spread of Christianity and traditional values through online censorship. Meanwhile, DeSantis won’t let the media spin his Hurricane recovery plan, and in Europe, they’re portraying Meloni as a female Mussolini.

Video

https://www.infowars.com/posts/msm-big-tech-now-collude-to-censor-god-family-values/ 

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Oct 1, 2022 8:00 AM

The Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Could Be the New Normal

From the Danube to the Loire, these lifelines for the continent’s economy are running low after five months of brutal drought and years of dry weather.

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Along the fabled Danube River, which snakes its way for 1,800 miles from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea in Romania, scores of towns—such as the small Romanian port of Zimnicea on the Bulgarian border—depend on the waterway for their livelihood. But this summer’s epic drought and historic high temperatures, now in a fifth grueling month, have depleted the once-mighty Danube, upending everything that Zimnicea’s residents—port workers, farmers, the shipping industry, anglers, restaurant owners, and families—had for generations counted on to sustain themselves. Never in living memory has the river run so low, with large areas of mud-cracked river bottom exposed along Zimnicea’s shorelines, the dead mollusks evidence of the devastating toll on riverine life.

With the Danube flowing at less than half its usual summer volume, dozens of cargo barges lie motionless in Zimnicea’s harbor, waiting for a turn to use the only channel deep enough for passage. Locals are collecting the scant rainwater to use for household purposes in order to save potable water from the Danube for drinking. Children play along the shoreline’s new beaches.

As elsewhere along the Danube—and, indeed, across much of Europe this summer—emergency dredging teams have been called in to deepen the riverway to break the cargo jam. Nevertheless, grain transports emanating from Ukraine—with many of its Black Sea ports controlled by Russia, the Danube is an alternative route for the war-wracked country to export foodstuffs—have been forced to shed cargo weight in order to pass, when they can pass at all.

Across southern Romania, much of which relies on the Danube for fresh drinking water, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of farmland that Europe relies upon for corn, grain, sunflowers, and vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania’s hydropower utility Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe’s largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia’s blockage of much of Ukraine’s wheat exports.

“At towns up and down the Danube, drought and climate change take on an existential meaning,” explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest. “In contrast to city dwellers, they’re having this disaster unfold before their eyes.”

Nearly two-thirds of Europe has suffered drought conditions this year—the worst dry spell in 500 years—and scientists say global warming has played a large role in the crisis. The heat wave has wreaked havoc on many of the continent’s waterways—great and small, from the Loire to the Rhine—with wide-ranging knock-on effects for Europe’s food supply, commerce, water access, energy systems, and ecology. And scientists warn that if hot, dry summers become a long-term trend, some of these waterways may never recover.

Along the Rhine, barges that carry coal, oil, and commodities that supply millions of people are waylaid. By July, water levels in Italy’s Po were so low that the government declared a state of emergency in northern Italy, where vast fields of crops were abandoned. In France, the warmed waters of the Rhône and Garonne can no longer cool the systems of nuclear power plants, forcing numerous plants to shut down. And hundreds of tributaries to the larger rivers are in even worse shape: bone dry.

In early August, France’s prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, said that France is in the midst of the “most severe drought” the country has ever experienced, which has so sapped rivers—including the Loire, the Doubs, the Dordogne, and the Garonne—that hundreds of municipalities now require that drinking water be delivered by truck.

“This year is exceptional in terms of the drought’s intensity and duration, and yet it’s the new normal,” says Karsten Rinke of Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ). “There’s a huge water deficit in Europe’s landscape, which is only getting worse every year that it’s not replenished.” Rinke says that drought conditions in four of the past five years have sapped groundwater, further shrunk the glaciers that feed rivers, and transformed the landscape that has long nourished communities and ecosystems.

“Perhaps most alarming this year is the scope of the low water levels across the entire Danube basin, from Bavaria to the Black Sea,” says Thomas Hein of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. The basin covers more than 800,000 square kilometers (300,000 square miles) and encompasses 19 countries—10 percent of continental Europe. “The entire river is affected, which means we can’t just pump water from one section to another to make up for the shortfall.”

On the Danube, the river is so low at Novi Sad, Serbia’s second largest city, that people can wade across it—something even the city’s oldest citizens have never before witnessed. Whole wharfs and their vessels are stranded on dried riverbed, with never-before-seen islands now dotting the shallow waters. Farmers from the rich agricultural regions surrounding Novi Sad have requested that the government declare a state of emergency. And a grim symbol from the past has emerged: Dozens of sunken German World War II-era warships, some still harboring live ammunition, are now visible in the diminished river.

The drought is taking a huge toll on commerce: Europe’s waterways transport about one ton of freight a year for every EU resident and contribute, in terms of transportation alone, roughly $80 billion to the economy. The Rhine is so emaciated today that massive sand bars breach its midsection, rendering fully loaded barges unable to transport coal, diesel, and commodities to the industrial cities of Germany’s Ruhr Valley.

The coal and fuel that travel the Rhine and other rivers are particularly vital now in light of Russia’s embargoes on gas and coal. And the outages at France’s nuclear power plants due to a lack of cooling water have contributed to the soaring price of French electricity, which has shot up to the unheard-of €900 per megawatt-hour—more than 10 times last year’s price.

Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers’ decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher saline content and higher water temperatures, which can be lethal for many species of riverine life, such as Danube salmon, barbel, and European grayling, among many others.

Higher temperatures also feed algae blooms, Singer explains, which can be toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000 pounds) of dead fish—among them perch, catfish, pike, and asp—washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die off.)

Scientists point out that while the predicament of the great rivers of Europe has grabbed the headlines, it is the smaller rivers that suffer disproportionately. “So many of them are completely dried up, not a drop of water left,” says Rinke. “When this happens they lose their entire community of biodiversity, forever. It won’t just return the next time it rains.”

Scientists say that millennia of engineering and human activity along Europe’s rivers have also played a role. The straightening of once-wild rivers, deforestation, damming, industrial pollution, wastewater discharges, and agriculture’s usurpation of shorelines and wetlands has made Europe’s rivers all the more susceptible to heat waves and low-water conditions, as well as floods.

“All of our river systems are highly fragmented and vulnerable,” says Singer, underscoring that while the lower Danube is plagued by drought, the upper Danube in Germany and Austria can be at risk of flooding, as happened so spectacularly last July in the Rhine borderlands of Germany and Belgium. The underlying problem, he says, is essentially the same: the inability of highly modified rivers and river basins to hold water for longer periods of time. “Healthy natural ecosystems function as a sponge that gives and takes water, but ours have lost this ability,” he says.

Christian Griebler, a limnologist at the University of Vienna, explains: “We lose high amounts of water because rain cannot infiltrate sealed surfaces, and heavy rain after a drought does not infiltrate dry soils. Surface overflow goes into channelized and fast-flowing rivers that hardly communicate with the surrounding aquifers.”

Thus, the authorities’ reflex reaction—namely to dredge deeper—doesn’t address the essential problem, say Singer and Griebler. In fact, it exacerbates it.

Solving the crisis unfolding this summer along Europe’s rivers will of course involve the long-term endeavor of slowing global warming. In the short term, scientists say governments need to address other factors stressing the continent’s waterways, including enforcing stronger wetland protections.

On that front, some progress is being made, says Singer. Last year, UNESCO established the world’s first five-country biosphere reserve along the Mura, Drava, and Danube rivers—a total area of almost 1 million hectares (3,860 square miles).

The Danube Delta, Europe’s largest wetland, has enjoyed such protection since 1998. But the delta’s special status has not spared it from the extreme weather. Freshwater springs in the Delta’s Letea Forest went dry in August, endangering the lives of Romania’s famed wild horses. Officials bulldozed the mud-caked springs, enabling water to flow again and the horses to drink.

“Fortunately we still have the glaciers that act as a reserve for the bigger rivers in times of lower precipitation,” says Hein. “But climate change modelers say they’ll be gone in 30 years. This is extremely worrisome.”

Robert Lichtner, the Vienna-based coordinator of the European Union’s Strategy for the Danube Region, says that adaptation measures ultimately must be part of the basin’s future. “We want to slow these processes down, but the extreme weather is not going away,” he says. “We’ll have to adapt and learn to live with it.”

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Saturday, October 1, 2022 18:09

“Dangerously Low” Mississippi River Level May Spark Transport Chaos For Farm Goods During Harvest

A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. Barges cannot haul farm goods at full capacity because of shrinking water levels, sparking a vessel shortage that has sent transport prices to record highs. It’s another headache for the American farmer this harvest season.

Bloomberg reported the crucial US water artery for the Midwest economy is experiencing critically low levels at some points due to the lack of rain. Lower water levels mean barges reduce cargo loads to improve draft, so it takes more vessels to haul farm goods which have caused a vessel shortage on the waterway.

Barge rates this past week jumped to$49.88 per ton, the highest on record and up 50% from a year ago.

The waterway is responsible for at least half of the US corn and soybean exports. The shrinking water level, barge shortage, and skyrocketing shipping costs are terrible for farmers during harvest season.

While barge scarcity and rate spikes could be “detrimental” to growers, “I’m not sure there’s much we can do about it,” Matt Ziegler, public policy manager at the National Corn Growers Association, said.

“The tight barge supply is problematic for grain shippers heading into harvest,” the US Department of Agriculture wrote in a weekly ag report. It said soaring demand for barges during harvest time “will likely put even more upward pressure on barge rates.”

Another supply chain issue and soaring transport costs will only add to food inflation. There’s no word (yet) if shipment disruptions exist because this could exacerbate the global food crisis. The world has been closely observing the North American growing season to restock food reserves after Russia invaded Ukraine, disrupting international trade flows.

Tyler Durden Sat, 10/01/2022 – 14:00

https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2022/10/dangerously-low-mississippi-river-level-may-spark-transport-chaos-for-farm-goods-during-harvest-2722429.html 

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Germany (and Europe) on the Brink- The bloom is off Europe’s former economic powerhouse Germany.

The bloom is off Europe’s former economic powerhouse Germany.

Last month, the German Retail Association (HDE) reported that consumer sentiment reached an all-time low in August — then declined further in September.

It’s because of increasingly unaffordable energy, food and other essentials while disposable household income is declining.

As a result, consumer purchasing intentions also plunged to an all-time low.

Looking ahead, there’s nothing positive in prospect, gloom and doom alone at least through winter — most likely much longer.

In late September, Spiegel International reported the following:

“Germany is expecting tough years ahead with diminishing prosperity, a shrinking middle class and growing inequality.”

“This is uncharted territory for the government and society, and both are facing some difficult choices.”

When middle class Germans are increasingly hard-pressed to make ends meet, “things start getting dicey everywhere in the country, particularly for the” ruling regime.

A combination of soaring inflation, unavailability of vital gas from sabotaged Russian pipelines, public anger over growing deprivation and self-inflicted harm by allying with hegemon USA’s sanctions and hot war on the Russian Federation, Germany faces a perfect storm with no resolution in prospect.

And this Spiegel reality check:

Q II real wages fell by 4.4% year-over-year while prices of energy, food and other essentials rose sharply.

Likely already in recession, there’s “growing evidence that it could become particularly severe – with a tenfold increase in the exchange electricity price, numerous corporate bankruptcies and a permanently damaged economy.”

According to economist Michael Fratzscher, Germany is in decline.

Lost prosperity will likely be permanent.

After nearly two decades of economic growth, scant unemployment and rising household incomes, “a tough decade is looming” ahead, he believes.

Former German finance minister, its current chancellor, Olaf Scholz, presented no viable plan for turning things around, just tinkering around the edges.

Instead of using Germany’s financial resources to aid struggling enterprises and households, the nation’s war minister, Christine Lambrecht, vowed on Saturday to supply Ukrainian Nazis with more arms, equipment and related military aid.

Weeks earlier, Scholz vowed to provide its regime with Germany’s “most modern and efficient equipment” soon — in support of hegemon USA’s forever war on Russia.

It’s at a time when vital homeland needs are going begging.

Like Europe overall, Germany is increasingly becoming a thirdworldized economic backwater.

While campaigning to become German chancellor, Scholz vowed to deliver greater societal fairness.

Instead, public misery increased since he took office last December.

According to economist, Timo Wollmershäuser, we’re in unchartered territory at a time when hard times getting harder are driving large segments of German society into poverty.

What’s going on isn’t a conventional economic downturn.

“The future viability of the German economic and social model is at stake.”

The same reality applies to Europe across the board.

Can industrial Germany survive without reliable, affordable Russian energy?

Instead of being Europe’s economic powerhouse, it’s now a laggard.

It’s at a time when according to the German Institute for Economic Research:

The wealthiest segment of German society, its top 10%, owns over two-thirds of the nation’s assets.

In stark contrast, the bottom half of the population is struggling with a meager 1.3% — at a time of a declining middle class.

According to Sociology Professor, Heinz Bude:

“(D)ecline in purchasing power will become the major issue for populists in Europe.”

Last Friday, Spiegel reported that thousands of German stores face bankruptcy, citing an assessment by the German Retail Association.

According to economy minister, Robert Habeck, “exploding energy costs (created) existentially threatening” conditions for around 16,000 German enterprises.

With energy costs nearly 150% higher since end of 2021, they’re losing money instead of earning enough to remain solvent.

With millions of hard-pressed German households struggling to afford the high cost of energy and other essentials, does a winter of discontent loom in Germany and across Europe?

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Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida

Wed, September 28, 2022, 5:28 PM

On Wednesday, Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell warn that the worst may be yet to come, video footage shared on social media shows severe flooding and property damage from violent winds and flying debris.

https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-ian-makes-landfall-florida-212826011.html 

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New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System

Guest Post by Jonathan Turley

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech regulation has become an article of faith on the left. Ardern used her speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.

Ardern lashed out at “disinformation” and called for a global coalition to control speech. After nodding toward free speech, she proceeded to lay out a plan for its demise through government regulation:

But what if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?

This is no longer a hypothetical. The weapons of war have changed, they are upon us and require the same level of action and activity that we put into the weapons of old.

We recognized the threats that the old weapons created. We came together as communities to minimize these threats. We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties – rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges.

Ardern noted how extremists use speech to spread lies without noting that non-extremists use the same free speech to counter such views. To answer her question on “how do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists” is that you convince people using the same free speech. Instead, Ardern appears to want to silence those who have doubts.

While referring to a global censorship coalition as a “light-touch approach to disinformation,” Ardern revealed how sweeping such a system would likely be. She defended the need for such global censorship on having to combat those who question climate change and the need to stop “hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology.”

“After all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal but noble? How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists? How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld, when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?”

That is the same rationale used by authoritarian countries like China, Iran, and Russia to censor dissidents, minority groups, and political rivals. What is “hateful” and “dangerous” is a fluid concept that government have historically used to silence critics or dissenters.

Ardern is the smiling face of the new generation of censors. At least the old generation of censors like the Iranians do not pretend to support free speech and openly admit that they are crushing dissent. The point is that we need to be equally on guard when censorship is pushed from the left with the best of motivations and the worst of means.

As the great civil libertarian Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

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Coast Guard spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crew-member observes a foreign vessel in the Bering Sea, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across the guided missile cruiser from the People's Republic of China, officials said Monday, Sept. 26. (U.S. Coast Guard District 17 via AP)

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crew-member observes a foreign vessel in the Bering Sea, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came ... more >

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press - Monday, September 26, 2022

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday.

But it turned out the cruiser wasn’t alone as it sailed about 86 miles (138 kilometers) north of Alaska’s Kiska Island, on Sept. 19.

The patrol boat, known as a cutter called Kimball, later discovered there were two other Chinese naval ships and four Russian naval vessels, including a destroyer, all in single formation.

The Honolulu-based Kimball, a 418-foot (127-meter) vessel, observed as the ships broke formation and dispersed. A C-130 Hercules provided air support for the Kimball from the Coast Guard station in Kodiak.

“While the formation has operated in accordance with international rules and norms, we will meet presence with presence to ensure there are no disruptions to U.S. interests in the maritime environment around Alaska,” Rear Adm. Nathan Moore, Seventeenth Coast Guard District commander said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/26/coast-guard-spots-chinese-russian-naval-ships-off-/ 

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U.S. State Department Issues DIRE Warning: Americans should "Leave Russia Immediately"

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The U.S. State Department has issued what is already being described as "the most dire warning ever seen" to Americans in Russia: Leave Immediately.

Specifically, the State Department told Americans "U.S. citizens should not travel to Russia and those residing or travelling in Russia should depart Russia immediately..." Here's the exact wording:

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Security Alert for U.S. Citizens in Russia 

U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia (September 27, 2022)

Event: On September 21, the Russian government began a mobilization of its citizens to the armed forces in support of its invasion of Ukraine.  Russia may refuse to acknowledge dual nationals' U.S. consular assistance, prevent their departure from Russia, and conscript dual nationals for military service.  Commercial flight options are extremely limited at present and are often unavailable on short notice.  Overland routes by car and bus are still open.  If you wish to depart Russia you should make independent arrangements as soon as possible.  The U.S. Embassy has severe limitations on its ability to assist U.S. citizens, and conditions, including transportation options, may suddenly become even more limited.

U.S. citizens should not travel to Russia and those residing or travelling in Russia should depart Russia immediately while limited commercial travel options remain.  The Department of State provides information on commercial travel on the Information for U.S. Citizens in Russia -Travel Options Out of Russia page on travel.state.gov.  This site also provides information on requirements for entering neighboring countries, procedures for travel on expired U.S. passports in some circumstances, and visa requirements for families with American and Russian citizen family members.

We remind U.S. citizens that the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression are not guaranteed in Russia.  Avoid all political or social protests and do not photograph security personnel at these events.  Russian authorities have arrested U.S. citizens who have participated in demonstrations.  

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This is the type of warning the State Department issues about countries where the U.S. is going to war.

And the State Department has good cause to think we're going to war, because in large measure, it is the State Department that is CAUSING IT!

Just yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Ukraine "Ukraine can use western weapons against territories seized by Russia." The territories he seems to be referring to are the areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, which concluded Public Referendums yesterday, and voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and become part of Russia.

Think about that for a moment: The people in those areas VOTED, and Blinken says the US "will not recognize . . ." that vote.

As if he has a choice . . .

We The People have a right to defend ourselves from what these phony government people are causing. And we'd better start defending ourselves fast, while we're still alive, and still have a country left to defend.

At the rate these election-thieving illegitimate government nitwits are going, America will likely be NUKED by Russia within weeks.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/u-s-state-department-issues-dire-warning-americans-should-leave-russia-immediately 

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U.S. Blew Up Russian Gas Pipelines Nord Stream 1 & 2, Says Former Polish Defense Minister

Der Spiegel says CIA warned German government of potential sabotage weeks ago

Michael Shellenberger

19 hr ago

A former Polish Defense Minister, Radek Sikorski, has attributed to the United States the sabotage of two pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and 2, which carry natural gas from Russia to Germany. “Thank you, USA,” Sikorski wrote on Twitter. Sikorski was Minister of National Defense from 2005 - 2007 and served as Deputy Minister of National Defense and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, previously. He is currently an elected member of the European parliament.

Nord Stream 1 and 2 lie on the bed of the Baltic Sea. Nord Stream 2 was finished last year but Germany never opened it because Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Poland’s Secretary of State, Stanisław Żaryn, denounced Sikorki’s claim on Twitter as “Russian #propaganda,” calling it “a smear campaign against Poland, the US, and Ukraine, accusing the West of aggression against #NS1 and #NS2. Authenticating the Russian lies at this particular moment jeopardizes the security of Poland. What an act of gross irresponsibility!”

But it’s not out of the realm of the possible that the U.S. is indeed behind the attack. President Joe Biden promised on February 7 to prevent Nord Stream 2 from becoming operational if Russia invaded Ukraine. "If Russia invades,” said Biden, “then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

Reporter: "But how will you do that, exactly, since...the project is in Germany's control?"

Biden: "I promise you, we will be able to do that."

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/us-blew-up-russian-gas-pipelines?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 

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etc. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, oh, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble that shall come.  At times you may wonder what is taking place, and I say unto you, get into my word, look in my word, know what Jeremiah has said, know what Ezekiel has said, know what Joel told you etc

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Super typhoon strikes Philippines with ferocious winds, forcing evacuations

World Sep 25, 2022 11:18 AM EDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Sunday and was barreling across the main Luzon island toward the capital in a densely populated path where thousands have been evacuated to safety.

Typhoon Noru hit the coastal town of Burdeos on Polillo Island in Quezon province shortly before nightfall. With sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph), it was expected to weaken slightly when it hits the Sierra Madre mountain range but will remain dangerously ferocious, forecasters said.

“The typhoon is strong and we live by the sea,” said Marilen Yubatan, who left her shanty in Manila with her two young daughters. “If we fall into the water, I don’t know where I will end up with my children.”

The typhoon gained considerable strength from a storm with sustained winds of 85 kph (53 mph) on Saturday into a super typhoon just 24 hours later in an “explosive intensification” over the open sea, Vicente Malano, who heads the country’s weather agency, told The Associated Press.

Thousands of villagers were evacuated — some forcibly — from the typhoon’s path, as well as from mountainside villages prone to landslides and flash floods. Coastal communities could be hit by tidal surges as high as 3 meters (about 10 feet) in Quezon province, including Polillo island and nearby Aurora province.

“The combined effects of storm surge and high waves breaking along the coast may cause life-threatening and damaging inundation or flooding,” the weather agency warned.

In Manila’s seaside slum district of Tondo, some residents left their homes with bags of belongings and hurriedly walked to a nearby evacuation center as the sky darkened and rains started to fall.

Melchor Avenilla Jr., who heads Quezon’s disaster-response office, said law enforcers were under orders to forcibly move people who refuse to leave their homes. “But so far we’ve been able to do this by just appealing to people,” Avenilla told AP by phone.

Several provinces and cities, including the densely populated capital Manila, suspended classes and government work Sunday and Monday. The typhoon’s eye could pass about 40 to 50 kilometers (25 to 30 miles) from metropolitan Manila, “which is nearly a direct hit,” Malano said.

Fishing boats and inter-island and cargo ferries were restricted to port as a precaution, the coast guard said, stranding cargo trucks and more than 2,500 passengers. More than 30 flights at Manila’s airport, mostly bound for domestic destinations, were canceled.

The typhoon is forecast to sweep through the main Luzon Island overnight and into the South China Sea on Monday. It’s on track to hit Vietnam later in the week still maintaining its powerful winds.

About 20 storms and typhoons batter the Philippines each year. The archipelago also lies in the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” a region along most of the Pacific Ocean rim where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur, making the Southeast Asian nation one of the world’s most disaster-prone.

In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones in the world, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened entire villages, swept ships inland and displaced more than 5 million in the central Philippines — well to the south of Noru’s path.

Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila contributed to this report.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/super-typhoon-strikes-philippines-with-ferocious-winds-forcing-evacuations 

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Hurricane Fiona damages homes, knocks out power with strong winds in Canada

Updated: September 24, 2022 9:43:14 pm

Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers in Atlantic Canada on Saturday, damaging homes with strong winds and rain as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone. (Reuters)

Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but meteorologists cautioned that it still could have hurricane-strength winds and would bring drenching rains and huge waves. (AP)

The fast-moving Fiona made Nova Scotia landfall before dawn Saturday, with its power down from the Category 4 strength it had early on Friday when passing by Bermuda, though officials there reported no serious damage. (AP)

The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted early on Saturday that Fiona has the lowest pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters had warned it could be the one of the most powerful storms to hit the country. (AP)

Port aux Basques Mayor Brian Button said some houses have been washed away amid high winds and surging seas. A state of local emergency has been declared by the mayor and council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality amid widespread power outages, road closures and damage to homes. (AP)

“There are homes that have been significantly damaged due to downed trees, big old trees falling down and causing significant damage. We're also seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a huge amount of debris in the roadways," Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, told. (AP)

A hurricane watch was issued for coastal expanses of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to delay his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (AP)

Fiona so far has been blamed for at least five deaths — two in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in the French island of Guadeloupe.  Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center said newly formed Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean was expected to keep strengthening and hit Cuba early Tuesday as a hurricane and then hit southern Florida early Wednesday. (AP)

Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Centre said newly formed Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean was expected to keep strengthening and hit Cuba early on Tuesday as a hurricane and then hit southern Florida early on Wednesday. (Reuters)

https://indianexpress.com/photos/world-news/fiona-knocks-out-power-and-homes-with-strong-winds-in-canada-8170753/9/ 

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Morgan Stanley Says Dollar Surge Tends to End in Crisis

Thyagaraju Adinarayan  Mon, September 26, 2022, 7:27 AM·2 min read

US Stocks Approach Crucial Test of How Far Bear Market Will Go

(Bloomberg) -- The US dollar’s recent rally is creating an “untenable situation” for risk assets including stocks, and in the past this kind of dollar strength has led to some kind of financial or economic crisis, according to one of Wall Street’s most vocal bears.

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“While hard to predict such ‘events,’ the conditions are in place for one,” Morgan Stanley’s chief US equity strategist Michael Wilson wrote in a note, referencing the 2008 global financial crisis, the 2012 sovereign debt crisis and the end of the tech-stock bubble in 2000. The US Dollar Index has risen 19% this year, while US stocks have plunged 23%.

Wilson sees an “eventual low” for the benchmark S&P 500 Index coming later this year or early next at the 3,000 to 3,400 point-level. That implies 13% downside at the midpoint. Futures contracts for the benchmark fell 0.7% Monday, with the gauge set to extend last week’s rout.

The surging dollar hurts the value of US companies’ international sales, with Morgan Stanley calculating that every 1% change in the Dollar Index has a negative 0.5% impact on profits. Fourth-quarter S&P 500 earnings will face an approximate 10% headwind from the stronger currency, in addition to other issues like soaring input costs, Wilson said.

The strategist, who correctly predicted the slump in US stocks this year, said the reaction to FedEx Corp.’s warning earlier this month showed that big earnings disappointments are not yet priced in to consensus estimates.

Meanwhile, Bank of America Corp. strategists, citing EPFR Global data, said on Friday that investors are flocking to cash and shunning almost every other asset class as they turn the most pessimistic since the global financial crisis. etc and the news story continues..

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-says-dollar-surge-112737044.html 

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PLUNGE: This isn't some Rinky-Dink Stock, it's the British Pound!

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The British Pound Sterling currency has plunged 500 pips to a record low value of $1.03 in absolute carnage of Foreign Exchange Reserves.

Here's the full chart showing the smash:

The beginning of the end is finally here . . . The GBP is down 23% YTD, worse than most 3rd world currencies.

GBP/USD is sitting right at support levels from 1984.

Strangely, all of a sudden, it is starting to make sense that the Pope ordered all Vatican entitites to move all their funds to the Vatican Bank by September 30 - and most of them have already done so. (Story Here)

BULLETIN: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has HALTED trading in GBP futures ! ! ! !

UPDATE 8:10 AM EDT --

It's happening everywhere, Bond prices are cratering, currencies are cratering . . .

BREAKING: Moscow Stock Exchange drops 9.2%

In London, the Financial TImes Stock Exchange (FTSE 100) just hit 6962 (…going down!) On Dec 30 1999 the FTSE hit an intra-day high of 6950 (…going up!!) …are we all set to be like it’s 1999 again?

UPDATE 8:20 AM EDT --

CANADIAN DOLLAR IN FREEFALL

Speculation CAD will drop below 60 cents this week.

A historic low.

Global currency in total freefall.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/plunge-this-isn-t-some-rinky-dink-stock-it-s-the-british-pound 

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HomeWorld News  26 Sep, 2022 07:16

US has plan if Russia uses nukes – Blinken

Moscow will face “horrific” consequences if it uses weapons of mass destruction, the top US diplomat warns

The administration of US President Joe Biden has a plan for reacting to the hypothetical use of nuclear arms by Russia, but will not reveal its details, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

If Russia were to deploy atomic weapons on the battlefield, “the consequences would be horrific, and we’ve made that very clear,” Blinken said in an interview with the ‘60 Minutes’ program on CBS News on Sunday. He said the message has been communicated to the Russian leadership publicly and privately.

“I’m not going to get into what the consequences would be. Any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic effects for, of course, the country using them, but for many others as well,” he warned.

Blinken was commenting on last week’s remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused the US and its allies of seeking to partition Russia and stated that Moscow will use all the tools at its disposal to prevent that outcome.

Biden responded by telling Putin not to use nuclear weapons and warned of unspecified consequences if such a strike occurs. Blinken stated that his government has a plan for such a scenario.

Blinken also urged Russia to prevent further escalation by withdrawing troops from Ukraine, saying: “If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.”

Western nations continue to provide weapons to Ukraine, calling it a necessary measure to help Kiev defeat Russian forces on the battlefield. Washington has proclaimed a strategic defeat for Moscow as its goal in the crisis.

Putin said in his address last week that Russian forces were fighting against “the entire Western military machine” in Ukraine.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

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How Many 'Deaths By Vax' Are Acceptable? One Man Shares His Own Personal Journey Following 'The Jab,' An Experience Govt And The Medical Industry Don't Want Americans To Know

By John Green of the Blue State Conservative for All News Pipeline September 26, 2022

This is my COVID story, which is more about the vaccine than the virus. It doesn’t represent scientific evidence – but then the medical experts refuse to give us any real scientific evidence – only the prevarications of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.

For some background: I am a 66-year-old man. I do have a few comorbidities as I have diabetes. However, I am in fairly good condition. Up until a year prior to the COVID outbreak I was a diver for our sheriff’s department and passed the IADRS swim test every year.

I have never been an anti-vaccine nut, and have tended to trust the medical industry. That is a trust that has been forever shaken by the events of the past year.

I decided to get the vaccine in the spring of 2021. Almost immediately, I developed an annoying chronic cough. I didn’t think much of it because it was spring – and pollen was in the air. After a few months of dealing with the cough, I was tested for allergies. Testing showed that I’m not allergic to anything. The doctor figured it was probably nasal inflammation and prescribed an antihistamine. Two shots up the nose every day and I should be fine. The medicine did improve the cough, but it never went away.

By the fall of 2021 I was beginning to experience shortness of breath when doing routine things like climbing stairs. My wife encouraged me to see a doctor. I decided that getting back in shape was a better idea. I increased my exercise routine. But every time I exercised vigorously my blood pressure would nose-dive – leaving me tired and light headed. I cut back my exercise routine a bit, and that’s how it went for several months.

In the spring of 2022, we attended our nephew’s graduation from the Naval Academy. We actually got to hear Joe Biden lie about being appointed to the Naval Academy and prattle on about his bromance with John McCain. That’s when I found out how useless the COVID vaccine is. Upon returning home from the Biden super spreader event, I came down with COVID.

I felt like crap, but it didn’t seem like anything life threatening. After a week I was still under the weather and my wife insisted that I go to the doctor. Then when all hell broke loose. The doctor listened to my heart, did an electrocardiogram, and sent me immediately to the emergency room. I was in atrial fibrillation. Part of my heart wasn’t beating correctly. The condition was making my heart much less efficient and put me at risk of a stroke.

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At the ER, the doctor ran additional tests and discovered that I was in congestive heart failure – caused by a buildup of fluid around my heart. He concluded that I had been in heart failure for many months – preceding catching COVID. It seems that catching the virus didn’t cause my heart problem, it revealed it.

The ER doctor put me on medication to slow my heart rate, minimize the stroke risk, and force my body to eliminate the excess fluid I was retaining. I lost 23 pounds in just a couple of weeks. That’s almost 3 gallons of fluid that was squeezing my heart to death.

And then for the first time in 18 months, my cough went away – the cough that I had acquired just after getting vaxed. Which brings me to the point of this long story. In my opinion, my cough wasn’t from allergies, nasal congestion, or global warming. It was a side effect of my heart failure. The heart failure that began just after I got the COVID vaccine. I can’t prove it, but I believe just as confidently as I believe that Joe Biden didn’t get 81 million votes from his basement, that the vaccine put me in heart failure. That would be the same vaccine that Biden attempted to mandate for everyone holding down a job.

I began wondering how many other people have had similar experiences. The CDC maintains a database of self-reported vaccine issues. It’s called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It’s not considered scientifically determinant, because of the voluntary nature of its use. Anybody can make entries to it. Of course, that also means that our “scientific experts” haven’t tainted the data either – so there’s that.

Over 340,522 people have reported negative COVID vaccine reactions. As of last May (only 5 months into the vaccine frenzy) 4496 people had died. Statistically insignificant? Maybe, or maybe not. But in 1976 the government pulled the swine flu vaccine after only 3 people mysteriously died.

A study by the DoD reported that among 436,000 military members, the incidence of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) quadrupled after the vaccine was administered.

In Italy, Franco Giovannini, MD, Riccardo Benzi Cipelli, MD, and Gianpaolo Pisano, MD did a study of 1006 people. They found that 94% showed the presence of abnormal microscopic structures in their blood after receiving the vaccine. This statement was included among their conclusions.

With the hematological pictures we have presented here it is reasonable to expect reactivation of oncological disease along with blood circulation disorders.

They expect the vaccine to trigger cardiovascular issues and drive cancer patients out of remission.

According to a poll done by Children’s Health Defense, of the 232 million Americans who have taken at least one dose of the vaccine, 15 percent report being diagnosed with a new medical condition in the weeks or months following getting the jab. This isn’t scientific proof that the vaccine is unsafe. But the lack of curiosity from the CDC and the NIH should alarm all of us.

Had COVID not caused me to go to the ER, it may have been months or even years before my symptoms became severe enough for anybody to realize what was happening to me. While I can’t prove it, I believe the vaccine put me in congestive heart failure. If my suspicion is correct, my story illustrates that the vaccine may be causing health problems, whose symptoms come on slowly, but could ultimately be life threatening. The irony is that the virus may have saved me from the vaccine that was supposed to protect me from the virus.

Officials at the CDC and NIH are still not being honest about the vaccine’s effects. We were promised that the vax would keep us from catching COVID. It doesn’t. They claimed the vaccine was safe. We still don’t know that. Now they’re telling us that the vaccine will lessen the severity of the illness. Says who? The people who’ve been wrong about everything COVID for the past 2+ years?

It’ll be a long time before I trust another government expert again. I know they’re getting ready for a big pre-election push again. Call it COVID 3.0, or maybe it will be monkeypox this time. But after our collective experience with COVID, we should know that science has nothing to do with the things the people of science are telling us. They are playing politics with our lives – and doing it rather shamelessly at that.

PS. My cardiologist corrected my heart problem and I’m doing fine now.

This story was originally published here and here. Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, American Free News Network, and The Blue State Conservative. He can be followed on Facebook or reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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