28 Mar, 2023 10:15

UNSC vote on Russian resolution fuels suspicions – Moscow

The Security Council turned down a request for an international investigation into the Nord Stream sabotage

The UN Security Council on Monday rejected a Russia-backed resolution calling for an international independent investigation into the blasts that severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines last autumn. Russian diplomats suggested that the outcome of the vote was the result of diplomatic pressure exerted by the West on other countries.

The draft resolution, which sought to establish an international independent commission to look into “all aspects of the act of sabotage” of the pipelines that directly linked Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, as well as identify the attack’s sponsors and organizers, was supported by three countries (Russia, China, and Brazil). No country voted against the document, with 12 abstentions, resulting in the resolution being rejected.

Vassily Nebenzia, Moscow’s Permanent Representative to the UN, remarked that after the vote “the suspicion [about] who stands behind the sabotage at the Nord Stream will but increase.”

Last month, renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report accusing the US of having orchestrated the attack on the pipelines. While Washington has denied responsibility, last week Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he “fully agrees” with the reporter’s conclusions.

“The more evidence testifying to the involvement of Washington and its NATO allies [in the Nord Stream sabotage] came to surface, the more vocal the Western bloc was getting about alleged inexpediency of an international investigation,” Nebenzia added.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, suggested in an interview with RIA Novosti that theWest had been pressuring other countries over the vote. “I think that all the others were somewhat afraid to support us out in the open.”

Western countries, he added, “made it absolutely clear that they are not interested in a vote that would support the Russian position.”

Commenting on the resolution’s rejection, US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood claimed that the Russia-backed draft “was not an attempt to seek the truth” but rather sought “to discredit the work” of ongoing investigations by Sweden, Denmark, and Germany and “prejudice any conclusions” these countries might reach.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also weighed in, saying that an investigation into the sabotage “will directly harm” the US and its allies, as it threatens to reveal the truth about the incident.

https://www.rt.com/russia/573728-un-vote-nord-stream/

The UN is corrupt, so its never going to investigate real crimes. Actually most that work for UN are criminals. If the crime happened to a western country the investigation would have been done on day one. They knew all about Kiev killing ethnic Russians in Donbass for 8 years, they did nothing.

(Why is the US contributing to WEF?)

ECONOMIC PROGRESS

These countries give the most aid - and are the most principled about it

Apr 4, 2019

Douglas Broom

Senior Writer, Forum Agenda

Politicians sometimes find it hard to persuade their electorates of the value of international aid. Opponents argue that charity should begin at home. But new research shows that the national interest could be best served by a public-spirited approach that meets real needs.

The 2019 Principled Aid Index, compiled by the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute (ODI), also found that the most generous donor countries also tend to be the most principled in the way they give aid.

The index assesses the 30 rich nations who make up the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) against three criteria: the extent to which their aid is targeted at actual need; the degree to which it contributes to addressing problems that can only be solved by global cooperation; and how little of the aid is tied to the donor’s commercial or strategic interests.

Principled Aid scores

Using this approach, Luxembourg is rated the most principled aid donor, followed closely by the UK and Sweden. Ireland and Norway complete the top five nations in the index. Italy is the lowest performing G7 country in the rankings at number 20 while the US, where the administration is reviewingUS aid priorities, ranks at number nine.

ODI says that donors actually serve their national interest better by not tying aid to their own priorities. Principled aid, it argues, alleviates suffering and achieves global development goals, which makes the world safer and more prosperous.

All of the top three nations meet or exceed the UN’s recommended level of 0.7% of gross national income for official development aid (ODA). Denmark, which also exceeds the UN aid target, came 11th in the rankings because of a low score on the global cooperation measure.

The report noted that the four DAC donors from the Asia Pacfic area all ranked in the lower half of the table due to their strong regional focus even though they scored well on global cooperation. ODI says donors should prioritise aid that complies with the principled aid goals and avoids “short-termism, self-regard and unilateralism”.

Last year the OECD warned that aid from DAC donors had levelled off and in some cases fallen dramatically. For example, Spain’s economic crisis had reduced its ODA from 0.46% of GNI in 2009 to 0.19% in 2017. But non-OECD donors such as China and the UAE were making up some of the shortfall.

Official development aid from all donors 2000-2017

In a report published last year, examining progress on implementing the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the OECD’s Secretary General Angel Gurría said that rising global income and wealth inequalities put global development gains under threat. He urged countries to renew strategies and investments to ensure that no nation was left behind.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/principled-aid-donor-countries-that-give-most-2019/

>>18594550

Board of Trustees WEF

>>18593649, >>18593851, >>18593759, >>18593650, >>18593879 Q816: WHY school shootings?

>>18593674 Nancy Pelosi, Chelsea Clinton Connections to Trans Domestic Terrorist.

>>18593838, >>18593842, >>18593823, >>18593841, >>18593868, >>18593777 News articles don't seem to mention her father

>>18593927, >>18593929, >>18593930, >>18593933, >>18593939 Only place anon can find these images are news sites

>>18593905, >>18593922 Someone was lucky to have had the day off

>>18593684 Cabal style clown art at this Covenant school

>>18593849, >>18593893, >>18593948 So no therapist??

>>18593989, >>18594019 At the time of this post, this appearts to be the Trannyfesto

Ghost grab

All post notables

Since Alex Jones lost his trial and all his money and the judge did not allow him to present any defense and evidence, is this another Sandy Hook? His court case was just a way totell the country you can never trust what you know, don’t question any FFsthat are real FFs with no one dead. And free speech is going to be destroyed by them in the courts. His whole case was bizarre, how long was it before the parents decided to sue him? Why so long.

Anons have many of these events the supposed dead are faking dead. Too many inconsistencies on a lot of them.

This would be a perfect Bidan Admin plan, have a tranny shoot up a christian school with innocent children. Get more public talking of trans, find ones on social media saying hateful things. Then the IC agencies found an increase of their new crime and hatred of Trans people.Ultimate goal with Jones and this, kill of the first amendment and free speech for all, because the speech hurts a federally protected category, and the second amendment the right to bears arms

More threat designations at the FBI more crimes. So anyone posting on social media are being monitored.

Was anyone really killed yesterday?How many masons were on the scene?Keep the picture of the tranny, she may show up later At other events.

This is too weird, trans shoots up christian schools, none of the dead adults teacher/janitors images found on tineye, picture of school children and teachers looking like “clowns for a day”, names and pictures of children won’t be released they learned their lesson with Sandy Hook and possibly Uvalde.

Now it makes sense why Bidan had no reaction yesterdayand just talked about chocolate chip ice cream. During his press he said nothing, no condolences about the shooting, but looked at the children and said, “if they allow me, I can take you all upstairs to have ice cream with me”!

Meanwhile buckwheat presser she railed on taking guns away and republicans are bad

>>18594788

My last goodbyeplay acting this person,see you in another life, when I get my new identity for producing more false flags

>>18594817

Or this one

28 Mar, 2023 10:26

Musk announces drastic change to Twitter algorithm

Only verified users will have their content featured in the ‘For You’ timeline

Elon Musk has announced that starting April 15,only verified Twitter accountswill be eligible to be featured on the platform’s recommendation timeline. The tech mogul explained the move in a Twitter post on Monday, stating it’s “the only realistic way to addressadvanced AI bot swarmstaking over.”

Apart from no longer being featured in other users’ ‘For You’ feeds, unverified accounts – those that have not paid the $7 monthly fee to have their account verified with a blue checkmark – will alsolose the ability to vote in polls. Musk again explained the decision by pointing to the prevalence of bots on the platform.

It isunclear, however, if Musk was only referring to polls created by Twitter and himself – as he often gauges public opinion on key decisions through this tool – or all polls on the platform.

Twitter announced last week that it would remove the verified status of some ‘legacy’ accounts by April 1, meaning only those paying a monthly subscription will now have the blue checkmark in their profiles. According to analysts from Sensor Tower, Twitter currently has an estimated paying user base of just over 385,000 mobile subscribers worldwide on both iOS and Android.

Critics of Musk’s algorithm change say it will significantly hinder the recommendation timeline’s relevance, as it will essentially prevent regular people from reaching a wider audience and only feature paying users, brands, and accounts of officials.

Meanwhile, Twitter has been dealing with a source code leak, after an unknown hacker or group of people posted the code on GitHub – a software collaboration platform. Twitter has filed a court petition seeking to identify those responsible for the leak, arguing that the code, whichunderpin the website’s entire operation, could expose security vulnerabilities.

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in late October 2022. After appointing himself CEO and vowing to transform the site into a free speech platform, the billionaire fired nearly three-quarters of Twitter’s workforce, removed some of its more contentious censorship policies, and restored a number of banned accounts, including that of former US President Donald Trump. However, he has yet to make the company profitable, as its value has decline by one half since the takeover, according to the Wall Street Journal, despite cutting the workforce and implementing a subscription model.

https://www.rt.com/news/573729-musk-twitter-verified-recommendations/

28 Mar, 2023 13:21

Russia succeeds in reorienting oil exports – energy minister

The country has found buyers for all of the supplies at risk of being stranded due to sanctions

Moscow has completely redirected all of its oil exports from ‘unfriendly states’ to new markets, Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov stated on Tuesday.

According to the minister, supplies are now destined to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

“Already we can state that we have managed to fully redirect the entire volume of exports which initially fell out due to sanctions.There is no decrease in sales,” Shulginov stated.

Earlier on Tuesday, the deputy prime minister and former energy minister, Aleksandr Novak, also noted that the volume ofexports to India alone rose by 22 timesin 2022. Russia also became China’s top oil supplier in the first two months of 2023, with delivery volumes in January-February surging 23.8% year-on-year.

Late last year, the EU stopped accepting Russian oil transported by sea, while a G7-led coalition imposed a price cap on seaborne Russian crude at $60 a barrel. Russia responded bybanning oil deliveriesto foreign buyers whose contracts mention the price cap.

Another round of sanctions came into effect on February 5. Brussels placed an embargo on imports of seaborne Russian oil products, also complemented by a price cap. The limit was set at $100 per barrel for petroleum products trading at a premium to oil and $45 per barrel for those trading at a discount.

Despite the sanctions, Russia increased both oil exports and crude production last year, by 7.6% and 2%, respectively. This year, Russian energy companies have beenraising output further, with the average daily production of crude oil and condensate reportedly growing by almost 2% in February compared to the previous month.

https://www.rt.com/business/573733-russia-redirects-oil-exports-sanctions/

(Meanwhile EU inflation rises at dramatic percentages. Sanctions never work but they are triply backfiring on EU. And Germany pays the US 6x the price it got LNG from Russia. Bidan family is making out with sanctions though.)

>>18594953the result of US blowing up Nord Steam

JULY 25, 2022

The United States became the world’s largest LNG exporter in the first half of 2022

Monthly U.S. liquefied natural gas exports (Jan 2016�&Jun 2022)

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Liquefaction Capacity Table, and U.S. Department of Energy LNG reports

Note: June 2022 LNG exports are EIA estimates based on tanker shipping data. LNG export capacity is an estimated peak LNG production capacity of all operational U.S. LNG export facilities.

Reposted July 26 to correct footnotes and minor text edits.

The United States became the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter during the first half of 2022, according to data from CEDIGAZ. Compared with the second half of 2021, U.S. LNG exports increased by 12% in the first half of 2022, averaging 11.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). U.S. LNG exports continued to grow for three reasons—increased LNG export capacity, increased international natural gas and LNG prices, and increased global demand, particularly in Europe.

According to our estimates, installed U.S. LNG export capacity has expanded by 1.9 Bcf/d nominal (2.1 Bcf/d peak) since November 2021. The capacity additions included a sixth train at the Sabine Pass LNG, 18 new mid-scale liquefaction trains at the Calcasieu Pass LNG, and increased LNG production capacity at Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi LNG facilities. As of July 2022, we estimate that U.S. LNG liquefaction capacity averaged 11.4 Bcf/d, with a shorter-term peak capacity of 13.9 Bcf/d.

International natural gas and LNG prices hit record highs in the last quarter of 2021 and first half of 2022. Prices at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) in the Netherlands have been trading at record highs since October 2021. TTF averaged $30.94 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) during the first half of 2022. LNG spot prices in Asia have also been high, averaging $29.50/MMBtu during the same period.

Since the end of last year, countries in Europe have increasingly imported more LNG to compensate for lower pipeline imports from Russia and to fill historically low natural gas storage inventories. LNG imports in the EU and UK increased by 63% during the first half of 2022 to average 14.8 Bcf/d.

Most U.S. LNG exports went to the EU and the UK during the first five months of this year, accounting for 64%, or 7.3 Bcf/d, of the total U.S. LNG exports. Similar to 2021, the United States sent the most LNG to the EU and UK during the first half of the year, providing 47% of the 14.8 Bcf/d of Europe's total LNG imports, followed by Qatar at 15%, Russia at 14%, and four African countries combined at 17%.

In June, the United States exported 11% less LNG than the 11.4 Bcf/d average exports during the first five months of 2022, mainly as a result of an unplanned outage at the Freeport LNG export facility. Freeport LNG is expected to resume partial liquefaction operations in early October 2022.

Utilization of the peak capacity at the seven U.S. LNG export facilities averaged 87% during the first half of 2022, mainly before the Freeport LNG outage, which is similar to the utilization on average during 2021.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=53159#

28 Mar, 2023 13:10

Over 5.5 million refugees entered Russia amid Ukraine conflict – TASS

The country is the largest single recipient of people fleeing the hostilities

More than 5.5 million people, including over 749,000 children, have enteredRussia from the Donbass regionand Ukraine since February 2022, TASS reported on Tuesday, citing a source in the security branches of the Russian government.

The figures are an increase on those reported by TASS in early November, when it said over 4.7 million refugees, including almost 705,000 minors, had fled to Russia. By mid-March, that number had reached 5.4 million, the agency said.

According to the latest update, around 39,000 of those who arrived in Russiaremain housed at government-run shelters. The rest have found accommodation with relatives, managed their housing situation independently, or left the country.

The Russian government hastemporarily stopped paying one-time benefitsto refugees, having spent over $160 million on assistance, the source reported. In addition to cash and housing, Russia has providedfree medical servicesto refugees who required them.

The EU’s statistics service, Eurostat, estimates that around 4 million refugees from Ukraine have received temporary protection in member states since the start of hostilities with Russia in late February 2022. Among them, Germany and Poland have received the biggest share, welcoming well over 900,000 people each.

The non-EU nation of Moldova is hosting between 88,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, according to national and international sources.

https://www.rt.com/russia/573737-ukraine-conflict-refugees-russia/

My friend told me about thenew image on Google homepage, I’m sure its not images to support motherhood, so what is it about. What is that woman writing?

https://www.google.com/

>>18595036

They were all speculating to cause demoralization, started with NYTs saying how bad Durham was doing. He’s not just doing a report and spends a 10th of what Mueller did

>>18595013

They look like aliens

>>18595080

I’m wondering what was on Google home page yesterday,could they be sending next target of attack or FFs?

My friend said they had a weird feeling looking at it

>>18594888

Hormones out of balance really do mess people up, have you ever been with a woman going through menopause, they seem to go insane. Not just crying buy extreme rage. Guys taking hormones from body building can be dangerous too

28 Mar, 2023 13:12

Chinese mission leads to major lunar discovery

The Moon may hold up to 270 billion tons of water, a new study claims

The Moon may store billions of tons of water trappedinside tiny glass spheresthat form when asteroids hit its surface, according to a new study of lunar soil samples. The samples were retrieved during China’s 2020 robotic Chang’e-5 exploration mission.

In the study, which was published by the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, a team of scientists claimed to have found water inside impact glass beads gathered by the Chang’e-5 lander from lunar soil.

The miniscule glass beads, which range in size from just 50 micrometers to one millimeter, usually form when an asteroid or comet crashes into the Moon, sending up molten particles which then cool down and become part of the moonscape.

The researchers believe that thebeads fill with water when hit by solar winds, which carry hydrogen and oxygen from the sun across space.

“Solar wind-derived water is produced by the reaction of solar hydrogen with oxygen present at the surface of the lunar glass beads,”planetary scientist Sen Hu said.

The study also looked at water diffusion processes, estimating that the beads could be refilled with water every few years, suggesting“anefficient water recharge mechanismthat could sustain the lunar surface water cycle.”

The scientists estimated that the beads could contain up to 270 billion tons of water.

Commenting on the finding, Mahesh Anand, a professor of planetary science and exploration at the Open University, described it as “one of the most exciting discoveries we’ve made,”adding that this makes “the potential for exploring the Moon in a sustainable manner”higher than ever before.

The Chang’e-5, which was China’s fifth lunar exploration mission, landed on the Moon in December 2020 and collected almost 2kg of lunar samples before safely returning to Earth later the same month.

China has an ambitious lunar programand is working toward staging a landing on the Moon before 2030. Together with Russia, it also plans to establish the International Lunar Research Station, which is expected to become operational by 2035.

In January, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson claimed that the world had found itself in “a space race” and recognized that China had achieved “enormous success and advances”in its space program.

https://www.rt.com/news/573738-china-space-moon-water/

>>18595224

True that, plus Trump took AF1 to Mar A Lago before the event started.Was Trump inaugurated at Mar A Lago when he got there?Remember the message on 4chan Bidan wanted to make a deal with Trump, he was surrendering before the event