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https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/will-america-designate-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism/
Will the United States designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism?
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, pressure is mounting on the Biden administration to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. The move enjoys bipartisan backing in Congress and is seen by supporters as a proportionate response to mounting evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. However, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed his reluctance to confirm the designation, while Moscow has warned that any such step would represent a diplomatic “point of no return” in relations between Russia and the United States.
Earlier this year, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on Blinken to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. The Committee on Foreign Relations reviewed the resolution, which was then unanimously approved by the Senate. While the resolution was non-binding, it sent a message that Congress may take matters into its own hands if the State Department is unwilling to designate Russia.
The House of Representatives went a step further. Representatives Ted Lieu, Joe Wilson, Jared Golden, Adam Kinzinger, and Tom Malinowski introduced a bipartisan bill in late July to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi backed the move, calling designation “long overdue.” The bill has bipartisan support in the House and there are strong indications it will be passed. It is also likely to receive Senate backing. It would then be up to US President Joe Biden to sign the bill into law.
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There are a number of reasons why the Biden administration is hesitating to apply the state sponsor of terrorism designation to Russia. These include fears that the designation would have a negative impact on US partners and allies who continue to maintain significant business interests in Russia. Meanwhile, Blinken has downplayed the issue by suggesting that many of the sanctions connected to designation would duplicate measures already in place.
Opponents also warn that applying the state sponsor of terrorism designation to Russia would dramatically reduce the scope for future diplomatic engagement with Moscow. Kremlin officials have echoed these concerns. Speaking in early August, Russian Foreign Ministry North American Department director Alexander Darchiev commented, “If this legislative initiative is passed, it would mean that Washington would cross the point of no return, with the most serious collateral damage to bilateral diplomatic relations, up to their lowering or even breaking off entirely. The US side has been warned.”
Designating countries as state sponsors of terrorism is the responsibility of the US State Department and depends on whether the actions of the country in question meet US definitions of international terrorism. At present, only four countries are officially labelled by the United States as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Designation brings with it a series of new sanctions measures including bans on defense industry and dual use exports along with a range of financial and other restrictions.
There is little doubt that Russia would technically qualify as a state sponsor of terrorism. Since the invasion began on February 24, the Russian military’s war crimes in Ukraine have been widely documented and are currently subject to a number of ongoing international investigations. To date, six countries have joined Ukraine in formally recognizing Russia’s invasion as an act of genocide. Individual atrocities including the mass murder of civilians in Bucha and the bombing of civilian targets such as shopping malls and hospitals have helped fuel calls for Russia to be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Designation would have potentially painful consequences for Moscow and could create significant new barriers to Russian engagement with the outside world. As well as introducing additional restrictions on US economic interaction with Russia, it would also put pressure on international companies that are still conducting business in Russia. Additionally, individuals would be able to sue Russia in US courts.
The designation debate is clearly far from over. Critics insist the move risks damaging relationships with US allies and would further reduce the possibility of any constructive dialogue with Moscow. At the same time, there is also widespread awareness that current sanctions measures have failed to bring Russia to the negotiating table or end the slaughter in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian atrocities continue to mount with millions of Ukrainians in occupied regions of the country facing the threat of crimes against humanity on a daily basis.
Supporters say the time has now come to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. They argue that this would send a necessarily powerful message to Moscow while also reducing the Kremlin’s ability to finance the invasion of Ukraine. If the State Department remains reluctant to take this step, Congress may attempt to do so.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0.pdf
Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection
Abstract:
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 limited impact on increasing available calories. We estimate more than 2 billion people could die from 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.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told wealthy clients there's a chance the US is heading into 'something worse' than a recession, report says
https://news.yahoo.com/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-told-163049048.html
CEO Jamie Dimon talked to some of JPMorgan's wealthy clients on a call Tuesday, Yahoo reported.
He was said to have put the chances of a "harder recession" and of "something worse" at 20 to 30%.
He called current risks "storm clouds," an apparent downgrade from his June "hurricane" warning.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon estimated last week the probability that the US would head into a recession, according to a Yahoo Finance report published Saturday.
Dimon reportedly said on a client call Tuesday that the economy was "strong" but "storm clouds" were on the horizon, including federal monetary policies, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and rising oil prices. The categorization is an apparent downgrade from Dimon's previous comments in June when he warned of an "economic hurricane."
"Consumers' balance sheets are in good shape," he said, per the Yahoo report. "Businesses are equally in good shape. When you forecast, you have to think differently. It is a bad mistake to say, 'Here is my single-point forecast.'"
Jamie Dimon isn't losing sleep over the stock market's biggest fear
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, told Business Insider that while higher-than-expected wage growth and central bank tightening are legitimate concerns, the job growth is more important.
The CEO was said to have estimated the chances of a "soft landing" to be about 10% and the probability of a "harder landing" or "mild recession" to be closer to 20 to 30%. He also reportedly estimated a 20- to 30% chance of a "harder recession" and a 20- to 30% chance of "something worse."
Dimon had originally used the storm-clouds metaphor to describe the US economy back in April, but his outlook grew more dire in June.
"I'm going to change the storm clouds out there. Look, I'm an optimist, I said there are storm clouds, they're big storm clouds: It's a hurricane," he said at the Bernstein conference on June 1, adding: "You better brace yourself. JPMorgan is bracing ourselves and we're going to be very conservative with our balance sheet."
Industry leaders like Dimon have provided various economic forecasts over the past few months, as a strong US labor market clashes with two consecutive quarters of contraction — leaving many experts puzzled over whether the US is approaching a recession or is in one already.
"Right now, it's kind of sunny," Dimon said in June. "Things are doing fine. Everyone thinks the Fed can handle this. That hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. We just don't know if it's a minor one or Superstorm Sandy or Andrew or something like that."
if you do not think they will do everything necessary to reduce the population by billions, you are clearly NOT thinking.
Weird how you find it all funny… "kek"?
famine, drought, radiation, injection, and kinetic war all on deck to join the symphony oof mind and spiritual war already well along.
understand inception and predictive programming for destruction which is already underway
he is not wrong
Deagle, crop and food shortages, drought locations, rivers and reservoirs drying up, supply chain failure, energy cut offs, vaxx rates, and NATO vs China Russia Iran says otherwise.
'god' is whole, nothing to 'fight' or compete against. you must be talking about adversarial dominion, which is something else. Rank and order bullshit, the opposite of whole.
Greek… Boula, Alefantis, etc…
A New Apollo Project Can Help Unplug our Need for Oil
May 5th, 2003 - by admin
by Representative Jay Inslee – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/100516_inslee19.shtml
Is it reasonable to worry about perpetual security threats stemming from our involvement in the Mideast? Yes, we have a right to worry because at the moment our nation has no plan for breaking the addiction to oil that so entangles us in this regional quagmire.
Do Washingtonians long to start skiing but cannot because there is no snow in the mountains this late in the year? Yes, we have a right to worry because a radical reduction in our snowpack is predicted for the Cascades due to global warming, a challenge we have no national plan to address.
To that end, Congress should seize the moment to champion a unified and highly prioritized national program to fulfill America’s destiny of leading the world to a new clean energy future. We should call for a total national commitment to harness the genius of America’s can-do attitude that would design, invent and deploy the new clean energy technologies that befit this new century.
No single national endeavor has such capacity to expand our economy by tapping our innate and unique technological genius for innovation. No single national priority is so critical to reduce the risks from impending man made climate change. No single non-military action can be as effective in avoiding the security challenges that haunt us due to our addiction to Mideast oil.
Now the laws of economics, the laws of physics and the laws of politics all are aligned in a possible perfect storm, allowing us to inspire the nation to achievement just as grand as John F. Kennedy’s challenge to the nation in 1961 to put a man on the moon.
This national endeavor needs a name. It needs a name invested with the historical imagery of American innovation and sense of destiny. We should call it “the New Apollo Project.” What the nation achieved in building the technologies that took us to the moon now can be matched by technologies that keep our launching pad, Earth, in healthy condition.
The New Apollo Project will follow the fundamental law of economics in the new global economy — the nation with the most advanced technology wins. As one representing a district that includes Boeing and Microsoft, the benefits are obvious of leading the world in computer sciences and aerospace technologies, both of which occurred in no small part due to federal government investment in the project.
But we are on the cusp of a “clean energy gap” just as worrisome as the missile gap of the Sputnik era. The dominant wind turbine manufacturer is Denmark, a country that will produce 50 percent of its electricity by wind power within the decade. The dominant photovoltaic panel producer is a German company. The dominant manufacturers of hybrid cars are in Japan.
Why should we, the greatest seedbed of technological innovation in world history, cede these emerging markets to the rest of the world?
The New Apollo Project will create jobs in the unpredictable but ultimately wildly beneficial ways that the Apollo project gave birth to a thousand new products, such as Tang, and to entire new industries, such as the computer industry. We went to the moon but we ended up on the Internet.
The New Apollo Project is also necessitated by a law of physics, which states that the presence of carbon dioxide and other byproducts of burning fossil fuels in the atmosphere traps infrared radiation reflected off the face of the Earth. This “CO2 heat trap” warms the planet and we are now seeing the melting of the Arctic ice cap, a harbinger of things to come.
But we are a responsible and innovative people, and solutions to this man-made problem are surely within our grasp. With the New Apollo Project we can jump-start the technologies that are close to providing market-based power, such as photovoltaics, and take on the more visionary horizons such as the hydrogen-based transportation system. Fear of failure should not stop us.
Lastly, the laws of politics call upon the Democratic Party to demonstrate our sense of optimism, expansive can-do Americanism and unabashed confidence that we can answer the technological call to arms. As long as we are addicted to Mideast oil, we are slaves to the animosity and backlash against the repressive regimes, which have now brought Middle Eastern violence to our own shores.
Since that day in March 1961, when a Democratic president inspired our nation to seek a higher calling that seemed beyond reach, the moon itself, our party has not issued a more stirring call.
“That’s one small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind” — this time toward a new national energy future.
Democrat Jay Inslee represents the 1st District in Congress.
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/2003/05/05/a-new-apollo-project-can-help-unplug-our-need-for-oil/
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Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents
Cardiovascular Effects of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202208.0151/v1
Myocarditis and Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.693085
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Incidence, risk factors, natural history, and hypothesised mechanisms of myocarditis and pericarditis following covid-19 vaccination: living evidence syntheses and review
https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2021-069445