[UNZ] The story of a black American Army private who ditched a tour of the DMZ and ran into North Korea has taken over the news cycle due to its novelty value, but the incident is an opportunity to discuss the anarchy and dysfunction the United States exports to its satellite states through its 750 overseas bases in 80 countries.
According to recent news reports, 23-year-old "defector" Travis King, has been the aggressor in multiple acts of violence against Koreans while stationed in the country. King’s record has multiple incidents ranging from beating up a man at a night club, menacing Koreans on the street with threats and racial slurs, and attacking police officers.
Under America’s Status of Forces agreement (SOFA), it is difficult for local authorities to prosecute US military personnel when they prey on locals. Korean prosecutors went easy on King by ordering him to pay for the police car he damaged, which he refused to do.
US authorities, who get the last say when it comes to punishing military contractors and staff for crimes in surrounding areas, often treat the citizens around them with contempt. Look no further than the case of King, who was supposedly in custody being escorted by military police to be flown to the United States to face further punishment, yet somehow wound up on his own three hours away from the nearest airport to go sightseeing at the DMZ.
Many large US military bases abroad are microcosms of America, featuring Taco Bells, hip hop dance clubs, lots of drugs, and plenty of crime mirroring US racial issues. There are now 55,000 US troops in Okinawa, Japan, 28,500 in South Korea, and 33,000 in Germany, and contrary to the Washington foreign policy establishment’s claims, this presence is not seen as a welcome security buffer against supposed geopolitical threats, but instead commonly rejected by locals as forced occupation, national humiliation, and a source of anarchy.
It is no secret that domestic US military installations such as Fort Bragg, Fort Bliss, and Fort Hood, which are the most racially integrated communities in America, are warzones full of black and Mexican gang activity, rampant homicide (including above average rates of interracial crime), and sexual assaults (including against men). Whites on base commit crimes too, sometimes as accomplices of blacks or Mexicans in drug related crime, but this occurs at or below the proportion of European descended soldiers.
Not as much is known about how this moral degeneration inside of the military effects populations abroad, where the US government has enormous sway over client regimes that actively help in covering up the scope of local atrocities and criminal behavior in order to avoid upsetting the population.
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Possibly not as well known as all that — I had no idea that was a general, as opposed to rare, problem. Certainly I noticed no sign of it when we went to the bookstore and Chi-chis of a Sunday on the army base in Frankfurt back in the first half of the 1990s. Do those of you here who are familiar with our military bases, whether at home or abroad, agree?
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Man, what a running dog commentary of bilge. I know that when I was stationed overseas, the command had a policy that if the local authorities asked for jurisdiction, they were generally given it. As for relations with locals check how many 'war brides' the US servicemen have brought back from overseas.
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I left some shipmates who could not behave in Spain in 1990 that had SOFA protection. The current issue may be that with poor recruitment and retention numbers commands may be allowing dirt bags too much leeway. The services may be awash in folks plucked out or a significantly degraded society. DEI stuff is not helping either.
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Criminal activity and base restrictions had become a problem. Iceland solved the problem. Not much was reported in the media. Alaska Paul could have expanded on the topic, but he has flown home to Glory.
Keflavík Naval Air Station
The Keflavík Naval Air Station was built by the US Military during WWII. The first US troops after WWII were stationed at the base in 1951, and the US maintained a large presence there until its closing on 8 September 2006.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A man whose car had been stolen tracked down his vehicle to a Texas shopping center lot - before shooting dead one of the alleged thieves and wounding the other.
Gunfire erupted in the parking lot outside South Park Mall, San Antonio, just before 1pm Thursday after the man figured out where his stolen car was located.
The owner of the stolen car had ordered the driver and his female companion out of the vehicle - and sat them down by the tire at gunpoint while they waited for police.
But the stolen car victim was hit with a bullet when one of the suspected thieves, a male, took a gun out from his waistband and opened fire.
The owner then returned fire - which killed the suspected robber.
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How in God's name do you get an 18 month old high, and in what demonic mindset would you think it OK?
This isn't merely neglect, its something far darker and barbaric.
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Guatemalan teen migrant Duvan Perez was crushed in Hattiesburgs’ Mar-Jac Poultry plant conveyor belt
Labor chiefs are cracking down on dodgy bosses, but lack resources
READ MORE: Sanitation firm fined for making kids clean bone-crushers
In a statement, Mar-Jac Poultry, which processes some 2 million birds each week, blamed an unnamed staffing company for hiring Perez to clean the plant and said the youth's paperwork misrepresented his age.
'We are devastated at the loss of life, and deeply regret that an underage individual was hired without our knowledge,' the statement said.
'The company is undertaking a thorough audit with the staffing companies to ensure that this kind of error never happens again.'
Business as usual:
Perez is the third employee to be killed on the job these past three years at the Hattiesburg plant, which also saw an amputation. Federal labor investigators cited the firm in 2020 and 2021 for four safety violations in three separate incidents.
Some 300,000 minors have come to the US since 2021, fueling a dramatic increase in youngsters who have a limited grasp of English and US employment rules and are easy for unscrupulous bosses to pressure.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hours Division, which enforces child labor laws, is investigating the employers of the three child workers who died this summer. Officials have said that child labor violations have risen nearly 70 percent nationwide since 2018.
They say they are responding. Already this financial year, they've completed 765 child labor probes, uncovered 4,474 cases of minors working illegally, and slapped fines totaling $6.6 million on lumber mills, roofing contractors and other employers.
That's already much more than the entire 2022 financial year, when 3,876 illegally employed minors were detected, and fines totaling $4.4 were imposed.
Labor officials and experts on child abuses said those figures are only a fraction of how many are truly working in violation of labor rules, which may number in the hundreds of thousands.
Most of those cases involved routine violations like teens working more hours than permitted, or operating trash compressors, rather than more dangerous environments like saw mills and abattoirs.
The department this week announced that it had fined McDonald's franchises in Louisiana and Texas for working teens longer hours than allowed by law and letting youths under the age of 16 operate deep fryers and trash compactors, which is banned.
But perhaps America's most egregious case of child labor violations was concluded in February, when Packers Sanitation Services, a contractor for cleaning meat packing plants across the US, agreed to pay $1.5 million and reform its hiring practices.
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Require E-Verify in your state and most of those issues will move elsewhere.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch announced it will be slashing 2 percent off its employment roster, or nearly 400 positions, in an attempt to "simplify and reduce layers within its organization." start with Marketing and the CEO
"Today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate organization," Anheuser-Busch chief executive Brendan Whitworth noted in a written statement. "While we never take these decisions lightly, we want to ensure that our organization continues to be set for future long-term success."
Whitworth elaborated that frontline workers including "brewery and warehouse staff, drivers, and field sales, among others" would not be in the crosshairs. Instead, the restructuring will ostensibly focus on U.S.-based corporate staff instead, particularly in their New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis offices, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The brand ignited a massive public backlash in April when its marketing department sent customized beer cans to Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... , a transgender TikTok influencer, as part of a social-media ad campaign. The partnership quickly proved financially catastrophic as consumers ditched the company in droves.
In April, Bud Light sales dropped 21.4 percent, while parent brand Budweiser lost 11.5 percent. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... its major rival, Coors Light, experienced a 10.9 percent sales boost for the month. Even gay bars in cities across the country reportedly contributed to Bud Light’s losses, as the bars removed Anheuser-Busch products to protest the company’s tepid response to the blowback.
The trend continued throughout June as Bud Light’s share of American retail-store sales slipped to 7.3 percent while competitor Modelo became the country’s most popular beer, grabbing 8.4 percent of consumer dollars. The brand continued to shed customers into the heart of the summer and Independence Day, a crucial period for beer sales.
Bud Light purchases slumped 27.9 percent compared to a year ago in the week ending June 24, data from NielsenIQ and Bump Williams Consulting revealed. The decline slightly improved from the 28.5 percent historic decrease the beer company suffered the prior week.
"The Fourth of July is the biggest beer holiday in terms of retail sales and an opportunity to move a lot of volume," Dave Williams, vice president of Bump Williams Consulting, an alcohol beverage research company, told the New York Post at the time. "And there has been no notable signs where the course has changed for Bud Light."
"Our year is screwed," one Anheuser-Busch distributor who doesn’t carry Modelo told the Wall Street Journal following the news
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Instead, the restructuring will ostensibly focus on U.S.-based corporate staff instead, particularly in their New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis offices, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Seems like all the offices should be closed in the first two cities as those who occupied them have total lack of understanding of their former customer base.
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So AB caned 400 and the glass bottle company did the same with over 600 a couple weeks ago; how many others have been laid off/ hours reduced at the local levels, yeah I’d say ol’ dylan is a pretty good influencer………
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Well, in truth, they don't need anyone to set up sales promotions.
I was in the local Wallyworld yesterday. There was an aisle display of Bud Lite. Pristine, perfect square stack. Not even a price sign on it. They didn't bother to put the price up.
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1st the madness, then the destruction.
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The Policy Makers never take it on...the chin.
To reassert, Marketing, under instructions, simply looked up the top-rated...trans influencer...and cut the check. It just happened to be Dylan.
Using Slappy Buttgig, Politicians, Privileged Ivy Leaguers, and Celebrity Has-Beens to call the customers -not consumers- a bunch of assholes is where we are.
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An important point to make - this is not a boycott. No one organized this. There are no websites or FB pages. This is just a lot of beer drinkers deciding they no longer want to be associated with the brand. And I think that's even worse. Where do you go when your brand becomes poison?
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"To reassert, Marketing, under instructions, simply looked up the top-rated...trans influencer...and cut the check. It just happened to be Dylan."
That's how it started, but there are a dozen competitors in the same beer market segment as Bug Lite. Bud Lite fans picked another that didn't bother them and they aren't coming back. They had a small window to undo the damage and they were silent and hoped it would go away.
[AFRICANEWS] From Tunisia to Morocco, sun-baked North Africa has embarked on a building spree of plants that purify sea and wastewater as climate change intensifies droughts in the water-scarce region.
Across the Maghreb region, which takes in parts of the Sahara and is plagued by scorching summer heat, countries are banking on new desalination plants and facilities that can purify wastewater for farming.
In Tunisia, struggling through its fourth year of drought, engineers recently inspected a desalination plant being built in the southern town of Zarat on the Mediterranean coast.
Across the region, "the only solution is the desalination of seawater for human consumption", said Mosbeh Helali, outgoing CEO of Sonede, the company constructing the plant.
The World Bank predicts that by 2030, the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will fall below the absolute water scarcity threshold of 500 cubic metres per person per year.
Ironically, most of MENA's existing desalination plants are powered by the very fossil fuels that belch carbon into the atmosphere, driving the global heating that is now intensifying droughts.
A large Saudi desalination plant, Al Khafji, runs on solar power, and Egypt is also planning facilities set to run on renewables -- but most existing plants rely on the climate killers oil, gas or coal. No bias there. Climate killers.
Scientists and environmentalists also warn of the impact on marine life as the plants dump the extracted salt back into the sea as concentrated sludge.
Helali insisted this hasn't been a problem in Tunisia, where there had even been "a proliferation of aquatic life" around some discharge points, making those waters "highly prized by fishermen".
Despite concerns around energy-guzzling desalination, North African countries are embracing it as their fast-growing populations pile ever more pressure on shrinking groundwater tables and dam reservoirs.
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Scientists and environmentalists also warn of the impact on marine life as the plants dump the extracted salt back into the sea as concentrated sludge.
Drinking their designer bottled water in their foreign think tanks.
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^^^ I think the water will eventually return to the Mediterranean as people use it and it runs off throught the sewer systems? Or did I miss something?
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[Regnum] On the night of July 27, a group of military men in Niger went on national television, announcing a coup d'état and the overthrow of the head of state, Mohamed Bazum . Colonel Amadou Abdramane explained that the leader was opposed "because of the deteriorating security situation and poor management." A curfew has been introduced in the country, the work of all institutions has been suspended.
Niger is a state on the African continent. The highest body of executive power is the government. The republic got its name thanks to the Niger River, which flows through its territory. The capital is the city of Niamey. It is one of the poorest and hottest countries in the world, ranking last in the Human Development Index. During the 50 years of its existence, a number of coups d'état took place in Niger. The last one happened on February 18, 2010.
The candidate of the ruling Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism, former Interior Minister Mohamed Bazum , became president on February 21, 2021 in the second round with 55.75% of the vote. His rival, the leader of the opposition Democratic and Republican Renewal party, Mahamana Usman , was supported by 44.25% of voters. February 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Niger. On the occasion of the anniversary, an intergovernmental agreement was signed in Niamey on visa-free travel for holders of diplomatic or service passports.
Mohamed Bazum, overthrown by the rebels, is in his residence, he is in order and hopes that the people of the republic will be able to preserve the achievements of his presidency, Foreign Minister Asumi Masudu said . Al Arabiya TV channel, citing sources, reported that the president rejected the demand to sign a resignation letter.
“The hard-won achievements will be preserved. All the people of Niger who love democracy and freedom will take care of this,” the president said in a tweet posted on Twitter/X.
The situation with the rebellion in Niger will be discussed at the Russia-Africa summit, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the head of state . According to him, Russian leader Vladimir Putin will make a statement following the results.
The reaction followed from the UN. Secretary General António Guterres demanded an end to activities to undermine democratic principles in the state, the official statement said.
As reported by IA Regnum, Niger is marked among the poorest countries in Africa and Asia, whose residents are experiencing certain problems with the provision of food. According to Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics of the PRUE. G. V. Plekhanov Olga Lebedinskaya , the list of countries that do not provide their population with food security will continue to grow.
The command of the Armed Forces of Niger declared solidarity with the military rebels. This is stated in a statement by the army headquarters on Twitter.
“The military command of the Niger Armed Forces ... decided to join the statement of the Defense and Security Forces (rebels),” the message says.
The army command explained this decision by saying that they want to prevent bloodshed and preserve the physical integrity of the president captured by the rebels.
The Headquarters of the Armed Forces said that in the current situation, any attempt at external interference in the affairs of Niger could result in disastrous consequences for the inhabitants of the country.
Also, the army command called on the rebels to maintain combat readiness in order to fight terrorists and organized crime.
As reported by IA Regnum , on July 26, an attempted coup d'état took place in Niger. President Mohamed Bazum, after unsuccessful negotiations, was detained by his own guard.
Later, the military on television announced the removal from the presidency of the country and the closure of its borders. They also pointed to the undesirability of any foreign intervention.
Commenting on the events in Niger on the morning of July 27, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the situation in the country was being actively discussed at the Russia-Africa summit. The Kremlin spokesman noted that such events cannot be ignored.
Russia is ready to continue helping African countries, including in the fight against terrorism, pandemics and hunger. This was stated on July 27 by Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a reception in honor of the heads of delegations from countries that took part in the Russia-Africa forum.
“Russia will continue to make a real contribution to resolving current crises and preventing the emergence of new hotbeds of tension on the continent, to the fight against terrorism and extremism, against pandemics and hunger, and to addressing issues of environmental, food and information security,” Putin said.
He stressed that Russia is ready to work together with friendly African countries for the future and build a strategic partnership. The President also proposed a toast to the prosperity of Africa and to the friendship of the countries of the continent with Russia.
The two-day Russia-Africa forum started on July 27 in St. Petersburg. Of the 55 countries that make up the African Union, it was supported by representatives of 49 republics. About half of them were presented by heads of state or government.
During the forum, Putin met with the leaders of a number of African states. According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry , Maria Zakharova , the regulations included half an hour for each meeting, but they dragged on for an hour and a half.
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Not a single mention of this:
Uranium in Niger - World Nuclear Association
https://www.world-nuclear.org/.../niger.aspx
In 2021 Niger produced 2248 tU, and cumulative production from the country was about 150,000 tU to the end of 2019.
I wonder why?
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[Regnum] The Rwandan Defense Forces violated the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) said in a statement circulated on social networks.
According to the military, the incident occurred on the morning of June 27. The FARDC called this activity "intervention."
The statement also says that with such actions, the Rwandan army continues its attempts to destabilize and deliberately violate the territorial integrity of the DR Congo. At the same time, it is noted that the Congolese forces hit the detachments that violated the border and forced them out of the country.
As reported by IA Regnum, on June 11, 2022, the DR Congo and Rwanda accused each other of rocket attacks near their common border. This happened against the backdrop of a clash between the military and rebels in the eastern Congolese province of North Kivu.
During the shelling, two children were killed and one soldier was injured. In addition, one of the local schools was seriously damaged. On July 7, 2022, the authorities of these countries agreed on a process to de-escalate tensions and normalize diplomatic relations. seems like it's going swimmingly
In November, the leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Angola signed a ceasefire declaration in eastern DR Congo. They met in the Angolan capital of Luanda.
[An Nahar] Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Finland and Sweden are considering joining the U.S. National Guard's security partnership program in a further expansion of American military ties across Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The chief of the National Guard, Gen. Dan Hokanson, was expected to announce the discussions with each country, which have not previously been reported, in remarks at the National Press Club on Thursday. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named obtained an advance copy of Hokanson's speech.
Interest by the three countries in the program is the latest indication of how Russia's war has led each of those nations to take steps that consider ending long-standing policies of military nonalignment.
Finland and Sweden were the most recent countries to seek NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... membership; Finland joined in April and Sweden is waiting for approval. Longtime-neutral Switzerland began considering easing export controls on sending weapons to active war zones earlier this year.
The National Guard's State Partnership Program is a lesser-known but key military instrument for U.S. troops to build relationships with foreign militaries by conducting regular training and education exchanges with young officers. It partners National Guard units with host nations.
The program can help foreign military better shape their own operations to reflect Western military organization and equipment. That is something seen as key to getting a host of Eastern European nations on NATO standards to ease how multinational armies could conduct operations.
The National Guard program began 30 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union as former Soviet states looked for ways to move away from their communist-styled military organization. Ukraine was one of the first to join the National Guard program, partnering with Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s National Guard. From the earliest days of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's air force has reached out for support to the California National Guard partners it trained with.
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As our National Guard 'COMPO2' conduct foreign exchange training and activities, the US-Mexican border is overrun with illegals.
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If certain 'non-combat' specialties were offloaded from the Regular component then why would you want to be in a Guard/Reserve that is regularly posted overseas like a Regular? Think of your family and any civilian job...
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Maybe they should apply for statehood first. Not that I'd necessarily be against it...
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I have a Partnership for Peace Challenge Coin from the 1998 Exercise based in San Luis Obispo with the Ukrainian Military. Spent two weeks with them doing a joint training exercise, extensive tour of parts of the state and some cultural social events than damaged my liver. (Pepper Vodka and this stuff that is essentially flavored lard in a tube they eat like a Slim-Jim (it is as vile as it sounds), and introduced them to Wild Turkey and Cheetos with disastrous results).
In a poignant moment, as Senior Escort Officer I was with the Lieutenant General of the Ukrainian Air Force when we stopped for a smoke break along Highway One overlooking Morro Rock along the California coast near Los Osos and Monterey Bay. To my utter surprise, he turned from a prolonged stare at the rock with tears in his eyes, and when pressed, explained that in his days in the Soviet Air Force, he had been a Bear Bomber Regimental Commander, whose nuke attack mission in the US was San Francisco, and that Morro Rock, which he had only seen in pictures, was the IP aiming point to turn for the attack profile run on the city. For him, to be standing there looking at it and the beauty of the coast was a never imagined moment he said with a huge smile. A poignant moment for both of us!
[An Nahar] The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the ninth straight time in its yearlong campaign to stamp out painfully high inflation, coming as worries about recession fuel speculation that Thursday's hike could be its last.
ECB President Christine Lagarde had all but promised the quarter-percentage point increase and left the door open to future hikes, saying data would determine one decision to the next.
"We have an open mind as to what the decisions will be in September and in subsequent meetings," she told news hounds. "So we might hike and we might hold. And what is decided in September is not definitive. It may vary from one meeting to the other."
Central banks around the world have been raising borrowing costs to combat inflation unleashed by higher energy prices after Russia invaded Ukraine and supply chain backups as the global economy recovered from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Now, the question is whether the rapid rate hikes are reaching their end.
The ECB move followed a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday to raise its key rate for the 11th time in 17 months. Fed Chair Jerome Powell was noncommittal about whether more rate increases might be coming, though inflation is lower in the U.S. — at 3% — than it is in Europe.
Inflation in the eurozone has fallen from its peak of 10.6% in October to 5.5% in June — still well above the bank's target of 2% considered best for the economy.
Households and businesses are facing a double hit from price spikes and higher rates, which make it more expensive for people to get loans to buy homes and cars or for companies to get new equipment or build facilities.
Rates are working their way through the economy, weighing on home prices and construction activity, and are designed to work so people spend less and prices come down. But they can also weigh on economic growth, and the eurozone already has seen back-to-back quarters of contraction.
With Thursday's quarter-point increase, the ECB has raised its benchmark deposit rate from minus 0.5% to 3.75% in one year, the fastest credit tightening since the euro currency was launched in 1999.
And the bank kept the door "wide open" for more increases, said Carsten Brzeski, chief eurozone economist at ING Bank.
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[Breitbart] A witness testified to Congress "non-human" material was collected from crashed craft in a stunning moment during a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
When asked by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) if the pilots of a crashed craft were recovered, the witness, David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer who studied UAPs, responded, "As I’ve stated publicly...biologics came with some of these recoveries."
When Mace asked if those biologics were "human or non-human," Grusch responded, "Non-human."
"That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to that are currently still on the program," he added.
Grusch said he could not discuss how the evidence was documented in a non-classified setting.
He said he would provide Mace with a list of names of both cooperative and hostile witnesses.
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A QUESTION UP FRONT
Are we looking at a DC Swamp / Media produced attention deflection from the BIDEN (Daddy, Hunter and etc.) Family and DC Swamp $$$$$ issues that are Felonies?
But with that said, and just to split a hair.
A Monkey is classified as a Primate, a non-human and I noted he never said ‘alien’. He was care to say ‘non-human biologics’. So, earth animals like dogs, apes, rats and etc. launched into space by other nations (eg. Nazi Germany) would also be covered.
ADD TO THIS
* The universe is estimated to be something like 14 billion years old
* Earth itself is only 1/3 that.
* NASA tells us there are over 2 trillion galaxies in the Hubble observable universe.
* Galaxies contain millions of stars systems.
* Star systems tend to have planets
* Humanoid suitable planets tend to be 90+/- millions miles from an avg size star.
* that means at the least, there are a few 100 million suitable humanoid planets that are Billions of years older than Earth.
* Likely a few million of those have older civilizations.
* Likely a few millions of the older and more advanced civilizations than Earth, survived to explore.
So do I believe we could have had visitors?
I don't see any reason why not?
The Math and the Bible (Genesis 1:26 ) points to there being more than Earth with Intelligent live.
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Are they not human, or do they just identify as not human?
I mean, you got furries, and people that think they're mermaids, so why not spacemen? (Not just Klingon role players.)
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In the last couple of decades, when has the government been straight with us? Why start believing now?
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We may have been visited by aliens in the past. Say it was 100,000 years ago - a blink of the eye in the history of the universe. They would have found no civilization, no recognizable humans, and then just moved on.
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BLUF: Why would the Aliens hide from us if they are powerful enough to get here in the first place?
Space is huge, beyond huge and the distances between stars require incredible amounts of time and energy to traverse. With our current scientific knowledge any travel would require a massive investment and after making that investment 'Why would they leave? Why would they remain secret? Why wouldn't they do whatever they wanted when they got here (i.e pave over Southern California and turn it into a landing field or draw mile wide Petroglyphs across the continents with meteorites?)?'
Interstellar Travel Speed/Cost Theory:
1. Fast/Cheap: Requires scientific breakthroughs. Think of the Star Wars™ universe. If they are here Earth would be rapidly assimilated into the nearest Interstellar Empire, like it or not. Though we might have a few years of tramp freighters and sightseers first.
2. Fast/Expensive: Requires scientific breakthroughs. Think of the Stargate™ universe. If they can get here they will recoup their investment
3. Slow/Cheap: von Neuman probes that have the capability of cloning their civilization here anew -- but would they care about 'human scum' if their goal was filling the universe with their civilization? Another SF staple was ships with 'sleeper pods' allowing the crew to sleep away the centuries long trip in cryogenic slumber...
4. Slow/Expensive: Think of the hollowed out asteroid 'Generation Ships' slowly floating on 'One Way Voyages' and taking centuries or millennia to arrive. Again, if they show up they aren't going to take 'No, You can't stay!' as an answer.
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What frosts me is the classification and over-classifiation of damn near everything in the Federal government. Such obsessions with keeping everything leads to a widespread distrust of everything government. The belief must be that secrecy leads to power and money.
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"Funny thing. The aliens all looked like Bob Lazar. But shorter..."
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"In the last couple of decades, when has the government been straight with us? Why start believing now?"
Is the govt being straight with us?
To me, it sounds like there are certain unelected bureaucrats and agencies that want this info embargoed. I dont feel that any govt answer is satisfactory in regards to this matter. It's with thanks to Dr. Steven Greer's whistleblowers and a handful of allies in Congress that this subject is getting any sunlight.
"Are we looking at a DC Swamp / Media produced attention deflection from the BIDEN"
Dr. Steven Greer, the man behind the scenes and making this happen, has been advocating and pushing disclosure going on three decades now. This is his second formal govt whistleblowing event. His first was in 2001.
People say that this might be to distract us. Green's first event at the National Press Club in DC was a few months before 911 (iirc may 2001). IF. IF. IF. If this was to be a distraction, I would argue that his first even would have occurred after 911 to distract us, not before.
[PM.] It has been revealed that Meta's Facebook and Instagram censored Americans and altered content moderation policies at the behest of the Biden administration amid a crackdown on Covid-19 "misinformation."
The platforms removed a number of posts, including memes, that went against the official narrative regarding public health measures and vaccines.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan obtained copies of internal documents purporting to show pressure being placed on the social media giants by the Biden administration.
In April 2021, for example, an email to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg was circulated by a Facebook employee in which the sender stated that they were "facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House and the press, to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content."
They added that a "list of the top 100 vaccine-related posts" was recently shared with the administration, and that officials had asked them to delete a "vaccine discouraging humorous meme."
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Well, I don't think they had to have much 'pressure' to do so. Sort of like the locals who joined the real Nazis in rounding up and shipping out Jews in Europe '39-'45.
[ZERO] Internal communications finding that virologists did not believe the conclusions they published in a prestigious journal has triggered scientists to circulate a petition calling for Nature Medicine to retract the influential "Proximal Origins" paper that denied the possibility of a lab accident in Wuhan, China, and misled the public during the pandemic’s first crucial years. Within days, the petition garnered over 1,300 signatures and set the hashtag #RetractProximalOrigins trending on Twitter.
The torrent of virologists’ internal communications became public following a House hearing earlier this month, during which Scripps Research’s Kristian Andersen submitted false testimony about the Nature Medicine paper. Last week, The Intercept published newly revealed documents finding that Andersen and his co-author, Robert "Bob" Garry of Tulane University, both lied to Congress during the House hearing about whether they had pending federal grants controlled by Anthony Fauci that could have been used as to influence them.
The NIH is clear about its process. "Council recommends an application for funding. NIAID makes the final decision," the agency explains. "The main NIAID advisory Council must recommend an application for funding before we can award a grant, although the Institute makes the final funding decision," the agency goes on.
The grant wasn’t finalized until May 21, 2020. In other words, it was on Fauci’s desk at the time of the conference call. Andersen’s lab announced the funding in a press release in August 2020, nine months after he claimed it was already finalized. The press release describes it as a "new $8.9 million grant."
Many of the virologists’ internal emails and Slack messages began leaking onto Twitter, followed by a joint Public and Racket investigation. The messages showed scientists were deeply concerned that the COVID virus could have been engineered or leaked from a Wuhan lab, even as they publicly ridiculed such thinking as a "conspiracy theory."
In one example, Andersen wrote his colleagues on February 1, 2020, in a private Slack message, "I think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario."
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How nice that the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario is also consistent with the common-sense version.
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Also "The News"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the transexual 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[ZERO] Internal communications finding that virologists did not believe the conclusions they published in a prestigious journal has triggered scientists to circulate a petition calling for Nature Medicine to retract the influential "Proximal Origins" paper that denied the possibility of a lab accident in Wuhan, China, and misled the public during the pandemic’s first crucial years. Within days, the petition garnered over 1,300 signatures and set the hashtag #RetractProximalOrigins trending on Twitter.
