''APRIL 23 = PAIN''
St George’s Day in England St George died on 23 April, AD303 St George known for slaying the Dragon, symbolised as the Devil
St George's Day is here, offering us all a chance to fly English flags, celebrate our country's heritage and honour the patron saint of England.
While St Patrick's Day, St David's Day and St Andrew's Day are all celebrated with patriotic community events, St George's Day has become less significant over time and has left the nation somewhat confused about how to recognise the day.
But, who was the legendary figure and why is he the nation's patron saint? From the history behind the dragon-slayer, to how you can celebrate the day this year, here is everything you need to know about St George's Day.
When is St George's Day 2019?
St George's Day, the patron saint day of England, falls each year on April 23. Recognised annually on the anniversary of St George's death, the day was previously a national holiday and was once celebrated as widely as Christmas.
Since the 18th century, after England and Scotland united in 1707, celebrations have diminished, although some parades and public activities continue to be held every year.
Who was St George?
https://news.yahoo.com/st-george-apos-day-2019-142111843.html
Don't Tell Bernie: Medicare's Hospital Fund Will Run Out Of Money In Seven Years
Ever now and then we get a vivid reminder that America's biggest threat are not a handful of Facebook ads bought by the KGB, nor Iran's already brittle regime, nor Venezuela's hyperinflating basket case of an economy, but over $100 trillion in unfunded future liabilities. Today was one such day, because that's when the board of trustees for Social Security and Medicare reported that Medicare’s hospital insurance fund - also known as Medicare Part A - will be depleted in 2026, while Social Security program costs would exceed total income in 2020, for the first time since 1982.
Additionally, and in line with previous forecasts, the report also projected that Social Security funds could be fully depleted by 2035, leading to a devastating hit on expected payouts to retirees and other beneficiaries (read none), unless a comprehensive overhaul of the entire program is implemented in the coming years.
As a reminder, the Medicare trust fund comprises two separate funds: The hospital insurance trust fund is financed mainly through payroll taxes on earnings and income taxes on Social Security benefits. The Supplemental Medical Insurance trust fund is financed by general tax revenue and the premiums enrollees pay.
With uncertainty around possible cost-cutting solutions already weighing on healthcare stocks this year, US healthcare costs are expected to be a hot topic during the 2020 presidential campaign; most provocative of all is Bernie Sanders' proposal of “Medicare-for-All” - a plan that would eliminate private insurance and shift all Americans to a public healthcare plan.
It now appears, that Bernie's socialist healthcare vision is at best a pipe dream that will last about 6 more years, in line with Republicans' complains that the Vermont socialist's proposal is impractical and too expensive.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/dont-tell-bernie-medicares-hospital-fund-will-run-out-money-seven-years
Mapping The Countries With The Most Oil Reserves
There’s little doubt that renewable energy sources will play a strategic role in powering the global economy of the future.
But, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, for now, crude oil is still the undisputed heavyweight champion of the energy world.
In 2018, we consumed more oil than any prior year in history – about 99.3 million barrels per day on a global basis. This number is projected to rise again in 2019 to 100.8 million barrels per day.
The Most Oil Reserves by Country
Given that oil will continue to be dominant in the energy mix for the short and medium term, which countries hold the most oil reserves?
Today’s map comes from HowMuch.net and it uses data from the CIA World Factbook to resize countries based on the amount of oil reserves they hold.
Here’s the data for the top 15 countries below:
Venezuela tops the list with 300.9 billion barrels of oil in reserve – but even this vast wealth in natural resources has not been enough to save the country from its recent economic and humanitarian crisis.
Saudi Arabia, a country known for its oil dominance, takes the #2 spot with 266.5 billion barrels of oil. Meanwhile, Canada and the U.S. are found at the #3 (169.7 billion bbls) and the #11 (36.5 billion bbls) spots respectively.
The Cost of Production
While having an endowment of billions of barrels of oil within your borders can be a strategic gift from mother nature, it’s worth mentioning that reserves are just one factor in assessing the potential value of this crucial resource.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, the production cost of oil is roughly $3.00 per barrel, which makes black gold strategic to produce at almost any possible price.
Other countries are not so lucky:
*Total cost (bbl) includes production cost (also shown), capital spending, gross taxes, and admin/transport costs.
Even if a country is blessed with some of the most oil reserves in the world, it may not be able to produce and sell that oil to maximize the potential benefit.
Countries like Canada and Venezuela are hindered by geology – in these places, the majority of oil is extra heavy crude or bitumen (oil sands), and these types of oil are simply more difficult and costly to extract.
In other places, obstacles are are self-imposed. In some countries, like Brazil and the U.S., there are higher taxes on oil production, which raises the total cost per barrel.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-20/mapping-countries-most-oil-reserves
San Francisco Needle Exchange Leaves Streets Littered With Toxic Syringes
San Francisco officials are debating if they should continue a needle exchange program that has left city streets littered with hazardous waste.
We have made an uncomfortable observation on social media: Thousands of needles are scattered on city streets, most likely came the Department of Public Health’s needle exchange program.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors expects to approve a seven-year extension of the exchange program, could cost taxpayers a whopping $26 million.
According to the San Francisco Examiner, the city launched syringe clean up crews last summer that collected 90,000 syringes from city streets in its 180 days on the job.
In 2017, the exchange program distributed 5.3 million syringes and collected 3.3 million, a 62% return rate, according to the Department of Public Health.
Of the 3.3 million syringes collected, 59,000 were discarded into syringe disposal kiosks and 107,136 collected by cleanup sweep teams that operate seven days a week from 7 am to 7 pm, respond to calls and texts from residents requesting needle cleanups.
In 2018, the program handed out 5.8 million syringes and collected 3.8 million, with a higher collection rate of about 65%. The Examiner noted disposals at kiosks increased to 241,080 in 2018, a 300% jump from the 59,000 in 2017.
Sweeps in 2018 picked up 216,969 needles from city streets, about double the amount collected by this means in 2017.
There are about 24,500 injection drug addicts floating around San Francisco last year. These addicts use several needes per day, Tracey Packer, Department of Public Health's director of the community health equity and promotion branch, said at a recent hearing.
With a vote on extending the needle exchange program imminent, committee Chair Sandra Fewer and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Catherine Stefani addressed some of their concerns:
Mandelman asked health officials to put a "finer point" on why The City doesn’t require a one-for-one exchange for needles. He said there is a "narrative out there" from those who see "the proliferation of used needles out on the street" that by not offering a true exchange of a dirty needle for a clean one "we’re doing something wrong."
"Data shows that needs-based programs that allow people to get the number of syringes that they need at that moment to get them to the next time they visit a syringe site are more effective," Packer said. "HIV prevalence remains low and stable among people who inject and we are grateful for the support of the city leadership over the course of the HIV epidemic and San Francisco has lead the nation in syringe programs."
Stefani said she continues to her complaints about needle litter from her constituents and was critical of the collection rate.
“The 62%. That’s like a D right?” Stefani said.
She suggested officials amend the contract to require increased reporting to the Board of Supervisors on issues such as cleanup rates or connection of users to services, but Mandelman said additional requirements would be onerous for the programs.
"The way to get that number higher than 62% is to get more of these folks off the streets, into programs and into housing," Mandelman said.
Earlier this month, the health department sent a memorandum to Stefani indicating that the City Controller’s Office has initiated an audit of syringe access and disposal that would examine the needle exchange program.
"Improperly discarded syringes are a public health, quality of life, and public perception issue," said a description of the planned audit. "There is a need for a coordinated approach to measure how well the City is doing in its syringe recovery efforts, and to determine how or if San Francisco residents and visitors are better off as a result of these services."
By many measures, San Francisco is one of the world's top tech cities and a world-class traveling destination, but city officials are overwhelmed with an exploding homeless population, transforming the city into a drug-infested hellhole.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/san-fransisco-needle-exchange-leaves-streets-littered-toxic-syringes
Jim Quinn: "This Is Their Plan To F**k You"
The ruling oligarchs are running out of time.
This teetering edifice of debt is going to collapse, and they know it.
Those with cash and precious metals are enemies of the state at this point.
They will be making an all-out effort to ban cash and force all transactions to be electronic. This will further enrich the banking cabal, as they get a hefty slice of every transaction.
It will also allow the ruling class to inflict negative interest rates on savings to force you to spend.
I don’t think there will be enough guillotines to dispense justice when the shit hits the fan.
Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work
By Ruchir Agarwal and Signe Krogstrup
Many central banks reduced policy interest rates to zero during the global financial crisis to boost growth. Ten years later, interest rates remain low in most countries. While the global economy has been recovering, future downturns are inevitable. Severe recessions have historically required 3–6 percentage points cut in policy rates. If another crisis happens, few countries would have that kind of room for monetary policy to respond.
To get around this problem, a recent IMF staff study shows how central banks can set up a system that would make deeply negative interest rates a feasible option.
How low can you go?
In a cashless world, there would be no lower bound on interest rates. A central bank could reduce the policy rate from, say, 2 percent to minus 4 percent to counter a severe recession. The interest rate cut would transmit to bank deposits, loans, and bonds. Without cash, depositors would have to pay the negative interest rate to keep their money with the bank, making consumption and investment more attractive. This would jolt lending, boost demand, and stimulate the economy.
When cash is available, however, cutting rates significantly into negative territory becomes impossible. Cash has the same purchasing power as bank deposits, but at zero nominal interest. Moreover, it can be obtained in unlimited quantities in exchange for bank money. Therefore, instead of paying negative interest, one can simply hold cash at zero interest. Cash is a free option on zero interest, and acts as an interest rate floor.
Because of this floor, central banks have resorted to unconventional monetary policy measures. The euro area, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and other economies have allowed interest rates to go slightly below zero, which has been possible because taking out cash in large quantities is inconvenient and costly (for example, storage and insurance fees). These policies have helped boost demand, but they cannot fully make up for lost policy space when interest rates are very low.
Breaking through zero
One option to break through the zero lower bound would be to phase out cash. But that is not straightforward. Cash continues to play a significant role in payments in many countries. To get around this problem, in a recent IMF staff study and previous research, we examine a proposal for central banks to make cash as costly as bank deposits with negative interest rates, thereby making deeply negative interest rates feasible while preserving the role of cash.
The proposal is for a central bank to divide the monetary base into two separate local currencies—cash and electronic money (e-money). E-money would be issued only electronically and would pay the policy rate of interest, and cash would have an exchange rate—the conversion rate—against e-money. This conversion rate is key to the proposal. When setting a negative interest rate on e-money, the central bank would let the conversion rate of cash in terms of e-money depreciate at the same rate as the negative interest rate on e-money. The value of cash would thereby fall in terms of e-money.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/jim-quinn-their-plan-fk-you
Army Orders 100,000 Next-Generation Rifles Amid Threats Of War
Earlier this month, we reported that Textron Systems' AAI Corporation delivered its Next Generation Squad Weapon-Technology (NGSW-T) prototype demonstrator to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Armaments Center and Joint Services Small Arms Program (JSSAP). A new report from Defense Blog shows the Army will purchase approximately 100,000 units of the next-generation weapon that fires 6.8-millimeter ammunition.
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley on April 10 announced the Army would order 100,000 units, mainly purchased for infantry units which engage in close-quarters combat.
U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) officials said the new weapons would include the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R) and the Next Generation Squad Weapon-Automatic Rifle (NGSW-AR).
The NGSW-R is expected to replace the M16 rifle and M4 carbine. The NGSW-AR is also expected to replace the M249 light machine gun in the Automatic Rifleman Role in the Close Combat Force.
The new rifles chamber a 6.8mm cartridge, known as the XM1186. The round has greater range, increased accuracy at longer distances, and better armor penetration capability than 5.56x45mm and 7.62x39mm ammunition. The 6.8mm round is expected to be the most advanced ammunition on the modern battlefield for the next 25 years.
In October, the Army selected the 6.8mm as the official requirements for the NGSW. The new bullet is designed to penetrate the world's most advanced body armor at a range of up to 600 meters.
"Moving from contract award to delivery of a revolutionary, next-generation weapon in just 15 months not only demonstrates the maturity of our Cased-Telescoped technology, but also the project execution excellence our team possesses to rapidly fill critical warfighter needs on schedule," said Textron Systems Senior Vice President of Applied Technologies & Advanced Programs Wayne Prender.
"Our Cased-Telescoped weapons and ammunition offer the growth path to a true next-generation small arms weapon for U.S. warfighters, including increased lethality at longer ranges, while also delivering significant weight reductions to the warfighter."
The Pentagon’s current shift from urban warfare in Iraq and Syria to the mountains and open terrain of Afghanistan have been the driving force behind modernizing standard issue weapons for infantry units. While standard rifles are well-suited for close combat in cities like Mosul and Raqqa, it lacks the range to kill adversaries in open stretches.
The Army is expected to test AAI's NGSW weapon at firing ranges this summer. Full contract award could be upwards of 250,000 units and 150 million rounds. The expected field date is early 2020.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/army-orders-100000-next-generation-rifles-amid-threats-war …
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>>St George’s Day in England St George died on 23 April, AD303 St George known for slaying the Dragon, symbolised as the Devil
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>I think someone posted that today is also "Alice Day". Anyone got sauce for that?
▶Anonymous 04/25/18 (Wed) 10:49:19 f0c1cc (1) No. >>1182526
Today is Alice Day among the sick pedos
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ALICE DAY
April 25
Pedophiles and Sex traffickers brag about their victims for Alice Day
Mystery Donor "Worth Over $200 Million" Wants To See Ocasio-Cortez Defeated Next Election
A wealthy donor "worth over $200 million" wants to make sure Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loses her next election, according to the New York Post, citing Bronx Republican chairman Mike Rendino.
"There’s definitely national energy and money on this race," Rendino told the Post, adding that the mystery donor has "connections to raise money in Manhattan."
The Democratic Socialist, who was elected after convincing voters she was a blue-collar "girl from the Bronx" despite growing up in one of the wealthiest enclaves on the East Coast, already faces challenges from one contender; Egyptian-American medical journalist Ruth Papazian - while a former cop-turned-high school civics teacher and a conservative talk radio producer may toss their hats in the ring as well.
The three potential contenders agree on one thing: They believe Ocasio-Cortez has neglected her district, which encompasses a northeast section of the Bronx including Throgs Neck and Parkchester and a northwest portion of Queens including Jackson Heights and College Point.
It took the congresswoman two months to open a district office in Queens.
“She completely ignores the people in this district,” medical writer Ruth Papazian, 61, told The Post during an interview at the homestyle Italian eatery Patricia’s of Morris Park. -New York Post
Papazian lives several blocks away from Morris Park with her 85-year-old mother in the same apartment she grew up in following the family's emigration from Egypt in 1956.
"I’ve lived here my whole life. I know the heart and soul of this community. The people here have scratched and clawed their way into the middle class, and they’re not about to be impoverished with the high taxes it will take to make the Green New Deal and Medicare for all," said Papazian - referring to two of Ocasio-Cortez's policy goals.
According to former Gov. Pataki deputy, Tom Doherty, a Republican challenger to Ocasio-Cortez would have no problem trying to "raise real national money."
"We need to put individuals forward and make the incumbent work for re-election," said Doherty.
Papazian has met with former Trump campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, at a Lincoln Day dinner in Queens, where a source told the Post: "He was encouraging and offered to be helpful when Ruth has demonstrated that she can raise enough money for a serious race."
AOC won the 14th Congressional District with over 78% of the vote, while Hillary Clinton had 57% in 2016, however a recent Siena College Poll found that while 52% of AOC's constituents view her favorably, just 33% backed her opposition to Amazon bringing a second headquarters to Queens, and just 41% support her Green New Deal.
"She’s only interested in a national platform, and we need local representation," says former NYPD Officer John Cummings. The 58-year-old who now teaches US government at St. Raymond High School for Boys in Parkchester is considering a run against the Democratic Socialist. Cummings acknowledges that "it’s a difficult road because this is a heavily Democratic district."
Her other potential challenger - Mark Levin producer Rich Valdes joked that Ocasio-Cortez's initials could stand for "ambition over constituents." The 40-year-old launched an exploratory committee in February, meeting with Republican clubs in the Bronx and Queens.
"They’re really, really kind of discouraged at the fact that she was elected on this platform of representing the district because she ran against [former Rep. Joe] Crowley, positing him as being no-show, and she’d turned out to be very much the same way a no-show person," said Valdes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/myster-donor-worth-over-200-million-wants-see-ocasio-cortez-defeated-next-election …
>San Francisco Needle Exchange Leaves Streets Littered With Toxic Syringes
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>San Francisco officials are debating if they should continue a needle exchange program that has left city streets littered with hazardous wast
Starbucks is moonlighting as a safe house for both needles users across the country - to install needle-disposal boxes in bathrooms
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-22/modern-opium-den-starbucks-installs-needle-disposal-boxes-across-us-locations …
Mayor De Blasio Violated Ethic Rules in Seeking Donations -
https://kollmanreport.com/2019/04/23/mayor-de-blasio-violated-ethic-rules-in-seeking-donations/ …
''Tuesday, April 23, 2019''
HUGE! Rep. John Ratcliffe Confirms How Comey, Yates, McCabe and Rosenstein Were Caught Lying on FISA Warrants to Spy on Trump (VIDEO)
On Monday night Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) a former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas joined former Rep. Jason Chaffetz on The Ingraham Angle to discuss the latest developments in the deep state attempted coup on President Donald Trump.
Former Rep. Trey Guowdy and Ratcliffe were the only Republicans to see the probable cause evidence and read the the evidence last year behind the FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign operatives. And the evidence centered around the Steele dossier — an unverified piece of political garbage thrown together and paid for by the Clinton campaign.
Ratcliffe told former Rep. Jason Chaffetz that Comey, Sally Yates, McCabe and Rod Rosenstein who verified the document have explaining to do.
They all posted in big bold letters “VERIFIED APPLICATION” all in capitals on all of their warrants to the FISA Court to spy on Carter Page and the Trump campaign.
Ratcliffe added, “So Comey and Sally Yates and everyone who signed the FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign all verified what was in the warrant. And they verified that Christopher Steele was a credible source. They verified that the Steele dossier had been cooborated. None of that was true. So the court can only know what they were told and they weren’t told that Christopher Steele was out to get Donald Trump. They weren’t told that the Steele dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton.”
This is a huge development!
Via The Ingraham Angle:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/huge-rep-john-ratcliffe-confirms-how-comey-yates-mccabe-and-rosenstein-were-caught-lying-on-fisa-warrants-to-spy-on-trump-video/
BAKER NOTABLE
''Why have we been seeing so many Kim Foxx “racially charged death threats” stories in the last 24 hours?''
Maybe to drown this out: “Kim Foxx is being sued for an alleged connection to an activist known for his anti-police agenda.”
Kim Foxx’s Alleged Connection To Chicago Activist Jedidiah Brown Targeted In Police Lawsuit – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)–Kim Foxx is being sued for an alleged connection to an activist known for his anti-police agenda.
The case involves Jedidiah Brown, a Chicago activist who is accused of punching and kicking several officers back in 2018.
Anger over the police-involved shooting of South Shore barber Harith Augustus sparked July 2018 confrontation that erupted between civilians and police.
Brown was arrested during the altercation for allegedly punching and kicking officers.
That case is being handled by Foxx’s office.
Attorneys for the Chicago police officers involved in the lawsuit say they’re concerned about a conflict of interest that may exist due to a Facebook photo Brown posted of himself posed next to Foxx. The lawsuit also claims Brown positioned himself behind her on stage at a Rainbow Push event earlier this month.
(Source: Anonymous)
Brown is charged with a series of misdemeanors for his involvement in last summer’s incident.
In the motion, police lawyers argue “the appearance of impropriety…is overwhelming.”
The lawsuit calls on Foxx to “recuse her office so the court can “appoint a special prosecutor.”
CBS 2 reached out to the state’s attorney’s office and Jedidiah Brown.
Brown claims his only interaction with her was when they posed for the Facebook photo. He rejects the idea of bringing on a special prosecutor to handle his case, he said.
The state’s attorney’s office declined to comment.
Dana Kozlov
((([BEWARE CBS POTENTIAL FAKE NEWS LINK BELOW])))
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/04/22/jedidiah-brown-kim-foxx-sued-chicago-police/
OH boy is this one good NOTABLE!
'Frenchanons viva la France….''
French Prime Minister And Wife Charged With Corruption (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TFFmFH2o1s
Former French Prime Minister and one time leading presidential candidate François Fillon has officially been charged with corruption and bribery together with his spouse.
The Fillon affair (also known as the ‘Penelope Fillon’ affair or ‘Penelopegate’) erupted in 2017 during the presidential campaign, which current President Emmanuel Macron eventually won.
As a certain point, former Prime Minister François Fillon, a candidate for the conservative ‘Republican party’ of former President Sarkozy, was the leading contender, well ahead of ‘En Marche’ candidate Mr Emmanuel Macron and even FN chairwoman Ms Marine Le Pen.
However, the French press discovered that he had ‘created’ jobs for both his children and wife, who had been paid for years to ‘work’ in the office of Mr Fillon during his time in the senate.
The affair began when the satirical magazine Le Canard enchaîné alleged in its edition of 25 January 2017 that Penelope Fillon, wife of François Fillon, received about $600k as a parliamentary assistant to her husband. Furthermore, she was also paid $120k as a literary adviser to the Revue des deux Mondes. The absence of evidence of work by Penelope Fillon and her distance from political life, however, led the newspaper to suspect that these jobs were fictitious.
In addition, the weekly also revealed that two of the couple’s children, Charles and Marie Fillon, received $100k while employed from 2005 to 2007 as assistants to their father, then a Senator.
The French Justice Department has now officially decided to charge both Mr Fillon and his wife with corruption and bribery, which could eventually lead to prison sentences for them.
Sauce :
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/soupcons-d-emplois-fictifs-les-epoux-fillon-renvoyes-en-correctionnelle-20190423
https://21stcenturystate.com/2019/04/23/french-prime-minister-and-wife-charged-with-corruption-video/
Billion Dollars Has Been Raised For Notre Dame Cathedral But We Can’t Fix The Planet:
Historical landmarks like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame are significant symbols of culture, so naturally, people will identify emotionally with these symbols just as they do with their culture. However, let’s face it, the cathedral is just a building, and portions of it burning without anyone getting hurt is the epitome of a “first world problem.”
Historical landmarks around the world are destroyed every single day, both natural and synthetic, but these losses are often ignored or sometimes even celebrated.
There is never a global call to action when indigenous land is destroyed to make way for pipelines, or when their architecture is demolished and replaced by strip malls. Likewise, when bombs are dropped across the Middle East and Africa, the buildings and artifacts lost in those attacks are never paid any mind, even though these historical relics are remnants of some of the earliest human civilizations.
In the case of Notre-Dame, donations have poured in from around the world to assist with the building’s restoration. Nearly a billion dollarshas been raised at time of publishing, most of those donations coming from extremely wealthy donors.
Some of these donations were hundreds of millions of dollars, coming from wealthy families behind clothing brands like Gucci and Louis Vuitton, as well as energy and cosmetic companies. Tim Cook of Apple even said that the multi-billion dollar technology company would contribute to restoration.
Meanwhile, places like Puerto Rico are still struggling to raise money in the aftermath of a natural disaster that happened over a year ago. Despite claims from politicians that the water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been solved, many people in the region are still without clean water, years after the problem was exposed. Poverty and homelessness run rampant in most global societies, with an overwhelming percentage of the population working most of their days and still struggling to afford basic necessities like food and shelter.
Considering all of the issues that threaten both human civilization and animal life on the planet, it seems foolish that people around the world would prioritize replaceable cultural monuments over human life and the health of the planet that they call home. However, this type of behavior is typical for our species, and is precisely the reason why we have problems like war, poverty and endangered species.
People worship their culture like gods, but they treat their natural world and their fellow humans like beasts to be battled and controlled.
The overwhelming charity shown in the aftermath of the fire at Notre-Dame shows that humanity is capable of compassion, and the money to at least start fixing the problems in the world can be raised fairly easily. Of course, it will cost more than a billion dollars to clean up the planet and feed the poor, but if that much can be raised voluntarily in just 24 hours, imagine what can be accomplished if people started to direct their charity to the problems that are actually in the process of destroying life as we know it on this planet.
As an Op-Ed from Carl Kinsella of Joe.ie pointed out, “If two men in a world of more than 7 billion people can provide €300million to restore Notre Dame, within six hours, then there is enough money in the world to feed every mouth, shelter every family and educate every child. The failure to do so is a matter of will, and a matter of system. The failure to do so comes from our failure to recognize the mundane emergencies that claims lives all around us every single day.”
“Everywhere in the world, from Paris to Persepolis, people are suffering. But their suffering is every day. It does not light up a front page, and it does not inspire immediate donations from the world’s wealthiest men,” Kinsella continued.
This failure of priorities is largely the fault of the global media, that shies away from reporting on wars, environmental problems, or economic conditions which could make their sponsors look bad. The people of the world are generally good, they are just being led astray by the cultures that they worship.
https://prepareforchange.net/2019/04/19/billion-dollars-has-been-raised-for-notre-dame-cathedral-but-we-cant-fix-the-planet …
The Very Same Democrats In 1999 Arguing Against the very Same Democrats In 2019 Who Want To Impeach President Trump
These short video clips show from Democrats in 1999, who are still in Congress today, arguing why the Democrats in 2019 should NOT be impeaching President Donald Trump.
The clips below are from the C-Span library from DECEMBER 18, 1998, which had members of the House of Representatives debating for and against articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
The videos below are very short, less than one minute, except for the Peter King video which runs approximately three minutes
The hypocrisy of today’s Democrats.
Today’s Democrats are arguing that President Trump, while not guilty of Obstruction, just him thinking about it was enough to proclaim him guilty of Obstruction and therefore the Democrats want to see him impeached.
Of course, the true motivation is revenge against Donald Trump for the audacity of beating Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
At this time Chuck Schumer was in the House and not the Senate.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Nancy Pelosi Argue Trump Derangement Syndrome
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Mad Maxine Wearing her Mr. Spock Wig
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Bernie Sanders while arguing against impeachment, also proves once again how the Democrats will simply do nothing to fix the problem if it endangers one of their sacred talking points.
It also proves why we need term limits for these useless Congressional meat sacks.
Peter King (R-NY)
The clip of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is important to the events taking place today, because King, a Republican, argued against impeaching Bill Clinton.
King surmised that while Clinton was guilty of lying, perjury, and obstruction, King did feel those crimes reach the level of the ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ needed to impeach a President of the United States.
King’s decision, rightly or wrongly showed that the Republicans were not the partisan hacks the Democrats claim them to be.
https://backroombuzz.com/democrats-in-1999-arguing-against-democrats-in-2019-who-want-to-impeach-president-trump/
For KEKS: Time Magazine: Putin's Nefarious Plot to Dominate the World
''A key US fake-news outlet claims that Trump's election was just the beginning. Russia has far more ambitious goals.''
Vladimir Putin is plotting to dominate the world, or, at least, that the hypothesis to which Time Magazine devoted their latest issue. It is truly an example of how shrill and comical the US media have become.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHdcJR9iOoE
https://russia-insider.com/en/time-magazine-putins-nefarious-plot-dominate-world/ri26831
Trump's declassification is going to expose it ALL.
''More than 3 years worth of lies will collapse like a house of cards. There's no way out. There's no escape.''
Trump's enemies foolishly 'locked' themselves into fake narratives they can't abandon.
This is WAY BEYOND HUGE!!!
''Why did Trump get into politics ?''
Ummmmm No?