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'Entitled' millennial generation 'never had to sacrifice': BlackRock exec

Ariel Zilber
New York Post
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:18 UTC
Rob Kapito
© Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRob Kapito, the head of the world's largest asset manager, made the remarks on Tuesday during a conference in Austin, Texas.
Inflation and high gas prices are forcing a generation of "entitled" younger Americans to learn the pain of not being able to buy things at the store, the head of asset management giant BlackRock said.

"For the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want," BlackRock President Rob Kapito told a conference in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.

"And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice."

Kapito's remarks were first reported by Bloomberg News.

Kapito said that the US economy is beset with what he called "scarcity inflation," which translates into a shortage of workers, supplies, housing, and even energy.

"I would put on your seat belts because this is something that we haven't seen," Kapito said.
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Best of the Web: Is Russia the REAL target of Western sanctions?

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:10 UTC
Russia sanctions
The first tweet I saw when I checked my timeline this morning was from foreign policy analyst Clint Ehlirch, pointing out that the Russian ruble has already started recovering from the dip created by Western sanctions, and is almost at pre-war levels:


Ehrlich states, "sanctions were designed to collapse the value of the Ruble, they have failed".

...to which I can only respond, well "were they?"

...and perhaps more importantly, "have they?"

Because it doesn't really look like it, does it?

If anything, the sanctions seem to be at best rather impotent, and at worst amazingly counterproductive.
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Brandon's Island

The Good Citizen
Substack
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:30 UTC
Brandon's Island
© The Good Citizen
It's rumored that Joe Biden shit his pants at the Vatican last October. The word around Rome was much more polite, calling it a 'bathroom accident'. The live feed from the Vatican was bizarrely cut off when circumstances required that the holy janitors tend to the latest American President's mess on the world stage.

Foreign visits to The Holy See of American delegations that include the commander-in-chief are now described using phraseology typically reserved for events concerning toddlers at preschools.

Awe, did Bwandon have anuva bafwoom accident?

As with every mishap in his life he gets a pass. Partly due to his decrepit elder condition, partly due to his status as the selected puppet of global management. No President has ever skated by with so many catastrophic blunders unscathed, unquestioned, unacknowledged, or in the case of his crackhead son's laptop of sexual deviance, corruption, and treasonous treasures that tie in the President himself, so thoroughly ignored altogether as if like Marty McFly's future family in that 1955 photograph, the laptop story wasn't just spiked by the establishment, it was, "Erased. Erased from existence."
The latest news on that laptop. (March 29, 2022)
© TwitterThe latest news on that laptop. (March 29, 2022)
They said the last guy was made of Teflon because he could run his mouth and maneuver against his political opponents willy-nilly while deflecting the media's bullets as Wonder Woman does with her magic wrist bracelets.

Teflon Don. The Don made of Teflon.

The media called everything out of his mouth a gaffe. Every breath, every step, strut, look, utterance was constantly scrutinized as if the fate of all mankind were at stake. This was not 'journalism' but endless attempts to collude with the shadow state to manufacture controversy and gaffes to undermine a Presidency. It all backfired, destroying the Corporate media's credibility with anyone capable of rubbing two functioning brain cells together. Gaffes are so 20th century anyway.
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Senators seek to repurpose Russian assets for Ukraine aid

Sophia Cai
Axios
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
PortmanBennet
© KleptoCapture legislation Sabrina Eaton/CanonDailyRecord/FInTelegram/KJNRob Portman • Michael Bennet • KleptoCapture legislation
Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are introducing a bill to repurpose funds from seized Russian assets for a relief fund benefitting Ukrainian refugees and Ukraine's reconstruction, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The bipartisan effort is another sign Congress is keeping close tabs on the blizzard of sanctions imposed on Russia by the Biden administration. In this case, it's also taking the next step to clarify who should benefit and how.

Driving the news: The bipartisan bill, dubbed the RELIEF for Ukraine Act, stands for Repurposing Elite Luxuries into Emergency Funds.
  • It would direct money from liquidation of assets seized by the new Department of Justice KleptoCapture task force into a Ukrainian relief fund.
  • That, in turn, would be used to support Ukrainian refugees, Ukraine's reconstruction and other efforts.
  • The fund would be administered by the State Department, in consultation with the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Comment: This bill is self-serving, vindictive and flat out robbery - Ukraine is the excuse.
The KleptoCrate mission also includes:
  • Investigating and prosecuting violations of new and future sanctions imposed in response to the Ukraine invasion, as well as sanctions imposed for prior instances of Russian aggression and corruption;
  • Combating unlawful efforts to undermine restrictions taken against Russian financial institutions, including the prosecution of those who try to evade know-your-customer and anti-money laundering measures;
  • Targeting efforts to use cryptocurrency to evade U.S. sanctions, launder proceeds of foreign corruption, or evade U.S. responses to Russian military aggression; and
  • Using civil and criminal asset forfeiture authorities to seize assets belonging to sanctioned individuals or assets identified as the proceeds of unlawful conduct.


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Response to those that are whitewashing the far-right, ultranationalist movement in Ukraine

Nat South
The Saker
Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
nazisme ukraine
There are some comments made on social media, to whitewash and downplay the serious issue regarding a far-right/ ultranationalist movement in Ukraine. Such simplistic takes are seen as a sound reason for denying a Russian military intervention* in Ukraine. This article provides some responses to these, by using a combination of corporate MSM and Ukrainian information to address the points made about a handful of far-right groups and individuals and their influence.
  1. How many deputies does Right Sector or other ultranationalists have in the Ukrainian Rada?
Remarkably, people use this stance over and over on social media and in the press to justify that there is no ultranationalism problem in Ukraine. To them, support & evidence and ultra-nationalism ought to translate into votes and winning seats in the Ukrainian parliament. If only it were as simple it is seems. It goes much much deeper, and the roots are deeply established.
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NPC

Ukraine calls on world to ban 'Z symbol' associated with Russian military


MSN
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:02 UTC
Z russia market symbol
© PA MediaA T-shirt with the letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military, is displayed at a street souvenir shop in St Petersburg
Ukraine's foreign minister has called on countries to ban the use of the letter "Z" as a symbol of the Russian war on his country.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Dmytro Kuleba said the letter in some contexts "means Russian war crimes, bombed out cities, thousands of murdered Ukrainians".


Comment: Except the symbol doesn't represent any of these baseless accusations, because Russia has been bombing military installations. Instead, it has gone out of its way to evacuate civilians via humanitarian corridors, that it set up and is maintaining. Only then has it targeted Ukraine's neo-Nazi aligned military, who have based themselves in residential areas in an attempt to use civilians as human shields.


Russian troops in Ukraine have painted the letter Z on the side of vehicles and it has been adopted by some in Russia as a symbol of support for what the Kremlin describes as a "special military operation" in the neighbouring country.


Comment: When compared to US/NATO wars, Russia's incursion into Ukraine is indeed a special operation: The road to Ukraine started with 1999's Kosovo War


Comment: A few German states have already, rather ironically, banned the symbol which actually in part represents Russia's routing of the neo-Nazi element that has been destroying Ukraine from the inside for many years now: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia is LOSING the war in Ukraine! Or is it?



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The exodus from 'liberal' US cities is accelerating, new census data shows

Jon Miltimore
Foundation for Economic Education
Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
moving house america
© ca2hill-iStock
America's largest metro areas saw massive declines in population, new US Census Bureau data show.

Three of the top five metros that saw sharp declines between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021 were in California. Leading the way was the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, which lost 176,000 residents, a 1.3 percent drop. Next was the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro, which saw a decline of 116,000 residents (2.5 percent decline), followed by San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, which shed some 43,000 residents (2.2 percent drop).

"We are in this new demographic era for California of very slow or maybe even negative growth," Hans Johnson, a demographer with the Public Policy Institute of California, told the Los Angeles Times. "And it does have implications for everything in our state — from how we live our lives to which schools are getting closed down to how much capacity we might need for transportation networks, and eventually to housing."

California metros had company, however.

Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Joshua Slocum: We're Living in a Cluster B World



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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Perfect collapse storm commences (Wild foraging may be the future)


Adapt 2030
Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:02 UTC
food

With farmlands being bought up to offset carbon footprints across the globe with reforestation, food is not being produced, not Russia moves to a gold backed currency, Shanghai locks down all ports so most Chinese goods are not coming, fertilizer shortages already are shattering agriculture in Central and South America. Now its time to thing foraging wild edibles to keep you stocks up.

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Magic Wand

Disney vows to help repeal 'Don't Say Gay' law, says Florida Gov. DeSantis shouldn't have signed it

Sarah Whitten
CNBC
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:24 UTC
disney don't say gay bill
© Alisha Jucevic | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWalt Disney employees and demonstrators during a rally against the Florida “Don’t Say Gay” bill at Griffith Park in Glendale, California, U.S., on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
After Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill into law on Monday, the Walt Disney Company condemned the legislation and vowed to help have it repealed.

"Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law," the company said in a statement. "Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that."

Disney's public opposition to the new law comes after CEO Bob Chapek was criticized for not speaking up sooner and with more fervor ahead of the bill passing through the Florida Senate. Employees staged a walkout in protest of the company's lackluster initial response and Disney has been rushing to make amends with its staff and the LGBTQA+ community ever since.

Comment: It is quite likely that that vast majority of those protesting the "Don't Say Gay" bill have absolutely no idea what it's about. The fact that they're calling it by that name is a case in point. It's basically anti-grooming legislation that forbids teachers from talking to very young students about liberal sex ideologies. We wonder how many of these Disney employees realize they're fighting to stop legislation that seeks to protect kids from perverts?

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Our athletes would get banned even without Ukraine conflict, most Russians say


RT
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:31 UTC
russian flag
© RvS.Media / Basile Barbey / Getty Images
A new survey has revealed Russian attitudes to the sporting sanctions imposed on their nation's athletes.

The majority of Russians think athletes from their homeland would be sanctioned by global sporting authorities regardless of the conflict with Ukraine, a new poll has indicated.

Russia and Belarus have been hit with a wave of sporting sanctions in the wake of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine, leading to athletes and officials being ostracized from dozens of international tournaments.

Comment: The people polled are right - bans on Russian athletes pre-date the Ukraine incursion by years. Ukraine just serves as a narrative to cover for what was already happening far and wide.

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