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notice date 1992. same for both.
April showers bring May flowers. May on magz cover.
Yellow. is Pelosi wearing yellow today?
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/panama:-ongoing-protests-over-inflation-high-costs-of-living
Panama: Ongoing protests over inflation, high costs of living
As the people of Panama spend their third week on the country's streets to protest the high cost of living, particularly the high fuel, food, and medicine prices, these demonstrations have started to cause shortages in these items due to the blocking of roads.
The protests have seen Panamanians blocking various roads and international highways, including the Pan-American Highway, forcing the national electric company to ration electricity in Colombia-bordering Darien province.
Tankers transporting gas to fuel the power generation plant cannot reach their destination and thus cannot provide the plant with the resources it needs to provide power to the region's people. Some 7,000 families have been bearing the brunt of the rationing, with electricity only coming on for 11 hours a day.
The main wholesale market in the country, which is one of the main suppliers of produce and products to supermarkets and individual consumers, had barely any traffic on Wednesday, contrary to how it usually is, with very low quantities of products on the stands.
The Chriqui province is the main supplier of produce to the Panamanian markets, but the region's Indigenous Ngobe-Bugle people have blocked several parts of the Pan-American highway, preventing trucks carrying produce from reaching the capital, Panama City.
The people demanding the government to provide them with their rights are also affecting trade and shipments coming from elsewhere in Central America.
The road blockades have led to losses that exceeded $130 million so far, groups representing agricultural producers said.
The situation is getting a little better, though, as protesters have cleared up some roadblocks on the international highway, allowing many trucks to pass into the various cities of Panama, mainly Panama City.
The food coming in is sold rapidly, with the director of Merca Panama, the aforementioned wholesale market, saying: "As the cargo enters, the stands restock, that is what we're trying to do today, to get 80% stocked," as consumers rush to the stands.
The protests also led to oxygen scarcity in hospitals in Chiriqui. However, the Health Ministry said the company running the supply chain had inventory in its warehouses in the provincial capital and was able to resupply the hospitals.
It is worth noting noted that the government of President Laurentino Cortizo, which implemented austerity measures and froze fuel prices, tried to reach an agreement with the protesters since the beginning of the demonstrations, but to no avail.
Last Tuesday, the police fired tear gas at protesters who blocked roads in the west of the country. A number of associations that sought alongside other organizations to conclude an agreement with the government described the situation in the country as "critical", in light of the continued suppression of protests by the police.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russian-justice-ministry-asks-for-dissolving-jewish-agency
Russian Justice Ministry asks for dissolving Jewish Agency
Russia's Ministry of Justice has requested the liquidation of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for "Israel", Russian media reported on Thursday.
The Jewish Agency for "Israel", based in occupied Al-Quds, is the world's largest Jewish non-profit organization, assisting Jews in emigrating to "Israel".
Interfax reported that the court case, filed with Moscow's Basmanny District Court, is connected to unspecified violations of Russian law.
Earlier today, the Israeli occupation's Ambassador to Moscow met with the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and asked for updates on the Russian Justice Ministry's probe into the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut), Israeli newspaper Walla! reported on Wednesday.
The top Russian diplomat clarified that the investigation was not a political move against the occupation. However, Israeli officials fear that it might be a sign of Moscow's dissatisfaction with "Tel Aviv's" foreign policy toward Ukraine, Israeli media said.
"In Israel, there are fears that the Russian justice ministry's investigation will lead to the agency's declaration as a foreign agent and, as a consequence, to the cessation of its Russian activity in the field of Jewish migration to Israel," Walla! said.
With this, I think it means a king or queen will be announced dead soon.
Lewis and Clark!!!!!
Potus is McLeod from his mother side.
McCloud is 17
McLeod is Q
Less than 10 = 8 recruits
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ukraine-war-forcing-china-to-rethink-how-when-to-move-in-on
Ukraine war forcing China to rethink 'how, when' to move in on Taiwan
Russia's experience in Ukraine is influencing China's calculations about how and when it might decide to "invade" Taiwan, according to the CIA chief on Wednesday.
During a speech at the Aspen Security Forum, Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns brushed down rumors that Chinese President Xi Jinping may move on Taiwan following a critical Communist Party meeting later this year.
“The risks of that become higher, it seems to us, the further into this decade that you get,” Burns said, adding, “I wouldn’t underestimate President Xi’s determination to assert China’s control” over self-ruling Taiwan.
Burns said that China was “unsettled” while observing the five-month-old war in Ukraine, which he believes is a “strategic failure” for President Vladimir Putin as he had hoped to "topple the Kiev government within a week."
“Our sense is that it probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it,” Burns said.
He said that China must have "learned" from Ukraine that “you don’t achieve quick, decisive victories with underwhelming force.”
“I suspect the lesson that the Chinese leadership and military are drawing is that you’ve got to amass overwhelming force if you’re going to contemplate that in the future,” he said.
What is he trying to say?
China also has likely learned that it has to “control the information space” and “do everything you can to shore up your economy against the potential for sanctions,” he added.
Burns, echoing prior US assessments, stated that despite verbal support, the US does not believe Beijing is providing military assistance to Russia.
He stated that China has increased its purchases of Russian energy but is wary of triggering Western penalties.
Beijing prefers peace
Speaking before Burns at the forum in the Rocky Mountains, China’s Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, said that Beijing still preferred “peaceful reunification”.
But he accused the US of supporting “independence” forces in Taiwan, where President Tsai Ing-wen has asserted the island’s "separate identity".
“No conflict and no war is the biggest consensus between China and the United States,” Qin said. But the United States is “hollowing out and blurring” its stated policy of recognizing only Beijing, he said.
“Only by adhering strictly to the one-China policy, only by joining hands to constrain and oppose Taiwan independence, can we have a peaceful reunification,” he said.
US President Joe Biden said in May that the US was ready to use force to defend Taiwan from a Chinese attack, appearing to shed the long-held US ambiguity on whether it would engage militarily, although the White House quickly withdrew its comments.