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America's empire is bankrupt

John Michael Greer
UnHerd
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:13 UTC
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© Ronald Martinez/Getty Images"We are dancing on the brink" Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
Let's start with the basics. Roughly 5% of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, enjoyed about a third of the world's energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of its raw materials. This didn't happen because nobody else wanted these things, or because the US manufactured and sold something so enticing that the rest of the world eagerly handed over its wealth in exchange. It happened because, as the dominant nation, the US imposed unbalanced patterns of exchange on the rest of the world, and these funnelled a disproportionate share of the planet's wealth to itself.

There's nothing new about this sort of arrangement. In its day, the British Empire controlled an even larger share of the planet's wealth, and the Spanish Empire played a comparable role further back. Before then, there were other empires, though limits to transport technologies meant that their reach wasn't as large. Nor, by the way, was any of this an invention of people with light-coloured skin. Mighty empires flourished in Asia and Africa when the peoples of Europe lived in thatched-roofed mud huts. Empires rise whenever a nation becomes powerful enough to dominate other nations and drain them of wealth. They've thrived as far back as records go and they'll doubtless thrive for as long as human civilisations exist.

America's empire came into being in the wake of the collapse of the British Empire, during the fratricidal European wars of the early 20th century. Throughout those bitter years, the role of global hegemon was up for grabs, and by 1930 or so it was pretty clear that Germany, the Soviet Union or the US would end up taking the prize. In the usual way, two contenders joined forces to squeeze out the third, and then the victors went at each other, carving out competing spheres of influence until one collapsed. When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, the US emerged as the last empire standing.
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WEF orders governments to start limiting food to fight climate change

Baxter Dmitry
The People's Voice
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 04:59 UTC
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The World Economic Forum said jump and corrupt infiltrated governments said how high.

New York Mayor Eric Adams is the first to announce the master plan, justifying his administration's plans to restrict the food supply for New Yorkers, declaring that 20% of New York's greenhouse gas emissions are tied to food.

Mayor Adams promised to take a bite out of New York City's greenhouse footprint Monday by reducing carbon output when it comes to emissions caused by the production and consumption of food — especially meat.

New data released by the city shows that 20% of the Big Apple's greenhouse gas emissions are tied to food — the third largest source behind buildings, which contribute 34% of emissions in the city, and transportation, which causes 22%.

Mayor Adams eats a plant-based diet and he has announced his goal is to reduce food-related emissions produced by city government by 33% within seven years time, and to accomplish that he and city officials are going to restrict how much meat citizens can eat.

He's not wrong about people not being ready to have this conversation. This is fascist, dystopian stuff, straight out of science fiction movies from previous times. It's straight up unAmerican and he needs to realize that we won't stand for it.

Comment: See also:

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Office building occupancy in major US cities falling

Dani Romero
Yahoo
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:28 UTC
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© Kastle SystemsOffice space occupancies in major US cities.New York and San Francisco have some of the lowest office attendance rates but have lower office vacancies than their Texas peers.
Landlords in Houston and Dallas are having a tougher time filling their empty office buildings with new tenants than any other market in the country, according to office market statistics compiled by CoStar and JPMorgan.

Why? One reason: They overbuilt when interest rates were low.

Houston and Dallas put up more new office space between 2010 and 2021 than all regions except New York. Despite the disruptions of the pandemic, they still have millions more square feet under construction. Vacancies now are higher than any other metro area, despite attempts to fill the gaps with heavy discounts.
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'Entire downtown is effectively dead:' Baltimore descends further into turmoil

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 21:13 UTC
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Baltimore's Inner Harbor, mostly empty
Downtown Baltimore is plagued with shootings, carjackings, muggings, and out-of-control packs of teenagers wreaking havoc. Baltimore residents can thank five decades of Democrat politicians for mismanaging this once-thriving town.

Earlier this month, the Inner Harbor district was overrun by hundreds of teenagers that resembled an apocalyptic scene from a Hollywood or Netflix movie. The video below might provide some insight into why people are shunning the area, which caused a plunge in foot traffic, making it difficult for retail stores to survive.


This leaves us with local media outlet Baltimore Brew's reporting about a mall situated on the waterfront, once popular with tourists and residents, had lots of activity, and is now nothing more than a ghost town.
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The latest government line of defense on Covid shots: We said it, but we didn't MEAN it

Chris Bray
Tell Me How This Ends
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:08 UTC
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Back at the end of January, a coalition of medical professionals asked the FDA to change the labels on the mRNA injections for Covid-19. Among other things, the Coalition Advocating for Adequately Labeled Medicines wanted the "vaccines" to be labeled with a warning that they don't prevent infection or transmission. Here, as a PDF file, is the complete (and very long) April 18 response to that petition from Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research — the office at the FDA that regulates vaccines:

If you don't want to read all of that, the remarkably clear heart of the response is on page 12:
The vaccines are not licensed or authorized for prevention of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or for prevention of transmission of the virus, nor were the clinical trials supporting the approvals and authorizations designed to assess whether the vaccines prevent infection or transmission of the virus.
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Russia to amend law allowing gender change on ID papers, banning the practice


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:08 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Maksim Konstantinov
The Russian Ministry of Justice is to review national legislation in order to ban the changing of one's gender in passports and other ID documents, ministry chief Konstantin Chuychenko told TASS on Monday. The existing practice of gender-changing on documents creates legal collisions and doesn't fit Russia's "basic principles" in national policy or "constitutional priorities," he explained.

Russia permitted gender change in 1997. In 2018, a mechanism was created that allowed a person to change their gender at will in any identity papers. Currently, one has to provide a simple clearance certificate from a medical institution to request such a document change. According to Chuychenko, a person does not need to go through gender-reassignment surgery to legally change gender in any documents.
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Wisconsin high school under fire after trans woman, 18, 'exposed their male genitalia to four freshmen girls, 14, in locker room showers'

Joshua Q. Nelson
Fox News
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:59 UTC
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A letter sent by a law group on Thursday claimed that the Wisconsin-based Sun Praire Area School District [SPASD] has not "adequately" addressed a violation of students' privacy rights after a transgender woman walked into a shower with four high school freshmen girls inside of it.

The letter, written by the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty (WILL) urges a response by the SPASD to resolve the issue and claims its actions have "been completely inadequate."

"We are calling on you to address this immediately and put policies in place that will protect the safety and privacy of all students (and provide public notice of what those policies are)," WILL attorneys wrote.
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Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News

Mark Joyella
Forbes
Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:08 UTC
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© Erin Gruznow for The Heritage FoundationTucker Carlson
Fox News has announced that it has parted ways with Tucker Carlson, the network's highest-rated prime time host. "Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," the network said in a statement. "We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor."

The announcement comes just a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle Dominion's defamation lawsuit, which was set to go before a jury. While Fox made no mention of Dominion in its statement about Carlson, his exit from the network follows the departure last week of weekend host Dan Bongino, who left the network after failing to reach agreement on a new contract. At the time, many of Bongino's supporters speculated that the end of his Saturday night show, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, may have been part of a wider talent shuffle related to the Dominion settlement.

Fox said Carlson's Tucker Carlson Tonight had its last episode Friday April 21st. Starting tonight a fill-in show, Fox News Tonight, will air live at 8 p.m. ET. The show will be hosted "by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named," the network said.

Comment: The Guardian reports
Shocked reactions are pouring in across social media on the abrupt departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, with the network announcing that the prominent far-right television host is leaving the channel.

Many were surprised by the announcement given the popularity that Carlson enjoyed at Fox as well as the highest-rated host on cable television.

"Wow," tweeted the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who accused Carlson and other Fox pundits of inciting violence during an MSNBC interview that aired on Sunday.

Some remained skeptical that Carlson's departure from Fox would be the end of his career despite critics who called out his show as racist and inaccurate.

"I'd like to think Tucker Carlson's departure is the end of an era, but I'm quite certain it's the beginning of his political career," the founder of gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, tweeted.
From Reuters:
Fox News Media and its top-rated host Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, less than a week after the Fox Corp (FOXA.O) media company settled for $787.5 million a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson played a starring role.

The outspoken Carlson embraced conservative issues and delivered his views with a style that made his prime-time show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the highest-rated cable news program in the key 25-to-54 age demographic on the most-watched U.S. cable news network. Shares of Fox fell 3.4% on the news, which the company announced on Monday.

Dominion alleged in its lawsuit that Carlson allowed debunked election-fraud claims about the voting-technology firm to air on his show, while casting doubts on the plausibility of those claims in private messages that emerged in legal filings.

Carlson's next move and the reason for his departure are unclear.

Carlson is also key to additional legal battles facing Fox, including a lawsuit filed by his former head of booking Abby Grossberg, who said Fox coerced her testimony in the Dominion case.

Grossberg last month accused network lawyers of pressuring her to provide misleading testimony and said Fox exposed her and others to rampant sexism and misogyny. Fox fired Grossberg, saying her legal claims were "riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees."
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented that he thinks Tucker's lambasting of Big Pharma also contributed to his firing:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing in on the bombshell announcement that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, claiming on Twitter that the exit came because of the right wing personality's "breathtakingly courageous" monologue about pharmaceutical companies.

Kennedy, who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, claimed that Carlson had been "fired" by Fox News, despite the network saying in a statement the two parties had "agreed to part ways."

"Fox fires @tuckercarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers," the 69-year-old nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy wrote on Twitter. "Carlson's breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV's two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless."


Tucker knew it would eventually come to this


Fox News is not faring well on Twitter







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Feds have no data on how regulations reduce emissions audit finds

Marnie Cashcart
Zero Hedge
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 07:30 UTC
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© The Canadian Press/Sean KilpatrickCommissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Jerry DeMarco
The federal government does not know the extent that regulations are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite committing $200 billion towards the issue.

Jerry DeMarco, commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, holds a press conference in Ottawa on April 20, 2023. (The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick)

An April 20 report indicates that Environment and Climate Change Canada does not attribute emission results to specific regulations. The federal department does not measure, nor report on the contributions of each regulation toward meeting the set target for 2030. An audit by the commissioner concluded that Environment Canada "used modelling approaches to estimate greenhouse gas emission reductions."

The federal government does not know if regulations to limit methane emissions are achieving their target, said the report. The audit found that large sources of methane emissions were unaccounted for in inventories and not covered by any existing regulations.

Comment: This audit serves a rare confirmation of abject failure. The solution? Kick the can down the road and double down on the narrative.

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American killed in Sudan: State Department confirms US citizen is among the dead in brutal fighting

Rob Crilly
Internewscast
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:00 UTC
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© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesFighting in Sudan
American killed in Sudan: State Department confirms US citizen is among the dead in brutal fighting as bodies line the streets.
  • An estimated 16,000 Americans are believed to be in Sudan
  • The State Department confirmed that a U.S. citizen had been killed in fighting
  • The Pentagon says it is working on options to evacuate diplomatic staff
At least one American has been killed during clashes between rival military factions in Sudan, the State Department said Friday, as the Pentagon prepares options for evacuating U.S. diplomatic staff.

The African nation has been rocked by violence during the past week as its two most senior generals vie for power.
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