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Naftogaz held talks with US oil companies about energy projects in Ukraine

Shivani Tanna
Reuters
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:23 UTC
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© Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Ukrainian state-owned gas company Naftogaz has held talks with Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Halliburton (HAL.N) and Chevron (CVX.N) about projects in Ukraine as the country looks to lure back foreign investment to its energy sector, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Oleksiy Chernyshov, chief executive of Naftogaz, told the FT that he held meetings in Washington with Halliburton and ExxonMobil in recent days.

"We understand that it's rather hard for the private companies to step in during the war," he told the newspaper, adding that they are working on insurance mechanisms to protect their equity.

The talks with Exxon and Chevron are at an early stage and would take longer to yield results, FT said.

Naftogaz hopes to sign a contract with Halliburton that would help increase production to a target of 13.5 billion cubic metres this year, a jump of about 1 billion cubic metres from 2022 levels, the report added.

Naftogaz, Chevron, Exxon and Halliburton did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
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The left thinks your kids should be in charge of their parenting: This is what it means for America

Karol Markowicz
Fox News
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:50 UTC
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© iStockThe idea that parents don't have control over their own kids is the left's latest way of separating the family unit.
Permissive parenting is the left's newest, totalitarian way to separate the family unit

How much control should a parent assert over their child? Should the kid's wants and desires always win out?

Writing on the Institute for Family Studies website, Dr. Leonard Sax told the mind-boggling story of a mother bringing her child into his medical practice and then saying "her body, her choice" when the child refused to let the doctor examine her throat.

Sax writes, "For the first time, I am seeing a political dimension to parenting. It is now much less common to find left-of-center parents who are both strict and loving. Loving, yes, but not strict. I'm seeing a growing number of parents like the mom I just described — parents who truly believe that it's virtuous to let the kid be in charge, even when the kid is a six 6-year-old with a fever who is refusing to let the doctor look at her throat."

This is the natural progression from the idea that children should be the leaders in parenting, as opposed to the followers.
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MIB

Second gunman — not Mark David Chapman — may have shot John Lennon, author claims

Dana Kennedy
New York Post
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 07:36 UTC
Mark David Chapman might be innocent in the murder of John Lennon,
© APMark David Chapman might be innocent in the murder of John Lennon, according to a British author and documentarian.
Imagine that.

Mark David Chapman might be innocent in the murder of John Lennon, according to a British author and TV producer who said his upcoming documentary and book outline how a second shooter might have killed the iconic singer.

Chapman may have been brainwashed by the CIA to serve as a patsy, according to David Whelan, who spent three years investigating what he called astonishing inconsistencies in the official narrative of Lennon's 1980 slaying as well as weird coincidences.

Whelan, whose book "Gimme Some Truth - The Assassination of John Lennon" and a documentary will be released later this year, told The Post he believes the official narrative that Lennon was shot from behind by Chapman is untrue, and that a more professionally trained gunman shot him from the front, into his chest.

As part of his research, Whelan spoke to the surgeon, Dr. David Halleran, and two nurses, Barbara Kammerer and Dea Sato, who tried to save the dying Lennon at the former Roosevelt Hospital and to the lead detective who handled the case.

Comment:
The man jailed for John Lennon's murder could be INNOCENT - Daily Mail David Whelan TV Producer

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Gold Coins

Zimbabwe to introduce gold-backed digital currency


Bloomberg
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:40 UTC
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© ReutersA man walks past the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in central Harare, June 20, 2014.
Zimbabwe will soon introduce a gold-backed digital currency meant to stabilize the local unit from its continued depreciation against the dollar, state-run Sunday Mail reported, citing central bank governor John Mangudya.

This will allow those holding small amounts of Zimbabwe dollars to exchange their money for digital tokens to store value and hedge against currency volatility, the report said.

The tokens will help ensure that those with low amounts of currency can buy the gold units "so that we leave no one and no place behind, Mangudya told the Sunday Mail.

Comment: This is likely to be about more than just stabilising the currency, this reflects the trend across Africa of nations removing themselves from the US death grip and moving towards their multipolar partners in the East. It also reflects another trend seen across the east of using gold as a store of value, something the West abandoned long ago in favor of their casino banking sector. Whether a digital currency is the way forward remains to be seen, because its roll out in the West is certainly ominous:

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Yellow Vest

German unions end months-long strikes after compensation payment & 2024 wage agreement


Al Mayadeen
Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:53 UTC
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© ReutersProtesters demonstrate in front of 'Landungsbruecken' at the harbor during a nationwide strike called by the German trade union Verdi over a wage dispute in Hamburg, Germany, March 27, 2023.
German public workers and their employers concluded a wage agreement after four rounds of talks concluded on Saturday in Potsdam, outside of Berlin, announced Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced, calling the deal "good and fair."

The deal ends a wage dispute that has brought disruption to Europe's biggest economy.

"The employees perform a good service in the general interest of all of us, and times are very difficult, so we must also pay them appropriately," she said.

Comment: Inflation hasn't stopped rising, nor has a solution to the energy crisis been found - worse, Germany just shut down its last nuclear reactors, and there's reason to believe the backfiring Russia sanctions are going to be dropped - and so whilst an agreement has been reached, now, it's likely that wages won't keep up with rising costs, and there will come a point where businesses simply won't be able to afford wage increases; what then?

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Louisville bank shooter left manifesto stating anti-gun motive for massacre

Greg Woodfield and Caitlyn Becker
The Daily Mail
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:31 UTC
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© John Sommers/PI/ShutterstockSturgeon joined the Old National Bank in 2021 but executives were reported to have lost confidence in him as he struggled to fit in and had reportedly decided to let him go, although his family's lawyer denies that
Chilling 13-page manifesto laid out three reasons for killing spree

Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon wrote a chilling manifesto before slaughtering five senior executives at the branch where he worked, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

The 13-page missive describes his goals before the horror at the downtown Old National Bank, where the 25-year-old livestreamed the massacre on Instagram as he gunned down co-workers at their morning conference.

Sturgeon made three key points in the manifesto, which is in the hands of the police: he wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and he wanted to highlight a mental health crisis in America.

The mass-murderer legally purchased an AR-15 assault rifle on April 4, six days before he entered the bank at 8:33am where he was met by a friendly woman colleague at the entrance. He told her 'you need to get out of here' before he tried to shoot her.
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Arrow Down

Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll

Josh Boak and Emily Swanson
AP
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
Joe Biden
Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high.

That's according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which shows there have been modest fluctuations in support for Biden over the past several months. The president notched an approval rating of 38% in the new poll, after 45% said they approved in February and 41% in January. His ratings hit their lowest point of his presidency last July, at 36%, as the full weight of rising gasoline, food and other costs began to hit U.S. households.

In recent months, approval of Biden had been hovering above 40%.

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Arrow Up

Judge orders Chicago to reinstate employees docked and fired for refusing to get COVID-19 shot

Barnini Chakraborty
Restoring America
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 04:12 UTC
Lightfoot
© UnknownOutgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
An Illinois judge has ruled that Chicago city employees who were fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine must be reinstated and that the mandate be rescinded.

More than 20 unions representing city workers signed on to an unfair labor practices lawsuit with the state panel after outgoing Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot imposed the policy in 2021.

Administrative Law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal said in a 78-page decision that while the city was within its right to implement a vaccine requirement for workers, it failed to negotiate with the union over the consequences, which included putting employees on a "no-pay status" and later terminating them completely. The city should have negotiated with the union until both sides reached an agreement or were at an impasse, Hamburg-Gal said.

She ordered Chicago to reinstate the employees who were punished and have their personnel records wiped clean and pay workers for lost pay with 7% interest.
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'How is Israel a democracy?' Amna Nawaz grills Naftali Bennett

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Arab News/Getty ImagesAmna Nawaz • Judy Woodruff
Last year the PBS News Hour was anchored by Judy Woodruff, who in two marquee interviews, exhibited a callous indifference to the Palestinian perspective. One was her interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last June, barely a month after Israel killed Shireen Abu Akleh. Woodruff pressed Blinken about the Saudis' murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 but said nothing about Abu Akleh. Then last fall, Woodruff did a softball interview of then former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, promoting his new book, allowing him to push for a military threats against Iran — and treating Palestinians as an afterthought, toward whom Netanyahu might have good faith:
"What sort of life do you foresee for them in the years, generations to come?... And do you see a home for Palestinians in years to come?"
Truly embarrassing.

What a difference a year makes. Woodruff has become a senior correspondent, and one of the new co-anchors is Amna Nawaz, an Asian-American and Muslim, who obviously is familiar with the Palestinian narrative and grants it honor.
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Arrow Up

Anti-CRT measures adopted by 28 US states

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:00 UTC
Map USA
Source: UCLA Law CRT Forward Tracking Project
More than half of U.S. states have passed measures against the teaching of critical race theory - for example in schools or government employee trainings. Another dozen have seen successful initiatives on a smaller scale, with single cities, counties or school districts (or both) establishing such laws and directives. This is according to a tracking project at the University of California Los Angeles law school.

Additionally, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, almost all states that haven't yet passed any such measures have seen them proposed on the state level, the exceptions being California, Vermont and Delaware.

In California, however, several school districts have already decided to prohibit or limit the teaching of critical race theory, including in Orange county and Paso Robles.

A few states with no finalized laws or directives on any level remain: They are Illinois, Nevada, Vermont, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Hawaii.
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