Anonymous ID: afe60a June 24, 2024, 9:49 a.m. No.21078073   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

 

Died Suddenly (Shark)

Pirates of the Caribbean actor Tamayo Perry has died after being attacked by a shark while surfing in Hawaii.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1117lwlxyo

 

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Anonymous ID: afe60a June 24, 2024, 9:54 a.m. No.21078097   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

GRRRRR โ€“ Russian Bear

 

 

Russia vows retaliation against US for Ukraine's ATACMS missile attack on Crimea

 

1 Russia says US is to blame for attack on Crimea

 

2 Ukraine struck Crimea with U.S. ATACMS, Russia says

 

3 Russia summons US ambassador in Moscow

 

4 President Putin canes a cultist bitch?

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-blames-us-barbaric-atacms-missile-attack-crimea-2024-06-24/

Anonymous ID: afe60a June 24, 2024, 10:07 a.m. No.21078151   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8276 >>8291 >>8425 >>8488 >>8561 >>8572

Inside the Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the U.S.

 

Last summer, New Mexico state special agents inspecting a farm found thousands more cannabis plants than state laws allow. Then on subsequent visits, they made another unexpected discovery: dozens of underfed, shell-shocked Chinese workers.

 

The workers said they had been trafficked to the farm in Torrance County, N.M., were prevented from leaving and never got paid.

 

โ€œThey looked weathered,โ€ says Lynn Sanchez, director of a New Mexico social services nonprofit who was called in after the raid. โ€œThey were very scared, very freaked out.โ€

 

They are part of a new pipeline of migrants leaving China and making unauthorized border crossings into the United States via Mexico, and many are taking jobs at hundreds of cannabis farms springing up across the U.S.

 

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From California, L. and a handful of other recent Chinese migrants were driven to a New Mexico grow operation called Bliss Farm.

 

They were shocked by what they saw โ€” a hodgepodge of about 200 greenhouses โ€” but because their phones and passports had been taken by their managers, they felt obligated to stay, workers say.

 

"The farm said it would cover food and shelter, so you could save all your wages," a Bliss Farm worker, from China's northern province of Shenyang, told NPR. "But the farm was just a big dirt field." He also requested anonymity because he is applying for asylum in the U.S. and fears being sent back to China.

 

He says he regularly worked 15-hour shifts, alongside the greenhouse's manager, a man from China's Shandong province, and the managerโ€™s relatives.

 

At the end of their shift, the managers left, and the workers slept in wooden sheds with dirt floors, three workers NPR interviewed say. None of them were paid before the operation was shutteredโ€ฆ.

 

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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2108347/green-gold-how-china-quietly-grew-cannabis-superpower

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/1238497863/chinese-marijuana-farms-new-mexico