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Footprints

Louisiana Supreme Court ruling allows residents to secede from state capital and create new town

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© Dan Swenson | Graphics EditorHow the succession vote broke down in 2019
A Louisiana Supreme Court ruling will allow residents to secede from Baton Rouge and create a new town called St. George.

The state Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision and ruled 4-3 to allow the incorporation of St. George, which will form in southeast Baton Rouge.

Attorney Andrew Murrell, one of the leaders of the St. George movement, issued a statement following the Louisiana Supreme Court's decision.

"This is the culmination of citizens exercising their constitutional rights. We voted and we won," Murrell said.

Comment: How many suburbs would love to secede from Detroit? Entire counties want to sucede from Oregon. Is this the first pebble that may set off an avalanche?


Target

Jimmy Lai plotted mainland China's collapse and installation of US-style democracy, says witness

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© unknownJimmy Lai
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai allegedly tried to trigger mainland China's political and economic collapse, a court in Hong Kong has heard.

Mr Lai, a 76-year-old UK citizen and founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, is facing the prospect of life in prison if found guilty of sedition and collusion charges brought against him under the draconian national security law. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal turned prosecution witness, claimed Mr Lai shared an anti-China strategy with him, which would have paved the path for an American-style democracy.

On Day 63 of the trial, Mr Chan told the handpicked judges of West Kowloon Court:
"Jimmy Lai said, 'according to historical experience, China's implosion would happen very soon because the government mobilised several resources to monitor citizens'."
Mr Chan, the fifth prosecution accomplice witness to testify against Mr Lai, continued his testimony on Friday amid fears of coercion.

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Texas governor says state will ignore 'illegal' Biden Title IX revisions

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© LJ Otero/APTexas Governor Greg Abbott
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday his state will not abide by the Biden administration's sweeping new changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at government-funded schools.

In a letter to President Biden, Abbott railed against the revised rules — which provide new protections for transgender students — saying they're "illegal" and the result of a "ham-handed effort to impose a leftist belief onto Title IX," which Abbott said "exceeds your authority as President."

"You have rewritten Title IX to force schools to treat boys as if they are girls and to accept every student's self-declared gender identity," Abbott wrote in his letter, arguing that step exceeds Biden's authority.

A growing number of Republican-led states have pledged to reject the Title IX rules finalized this month by the Education Department.

Comment: See also:


Arrow Up

The Real Bread Paradigm

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© The Postil Magazine'Baking Bread." Engels Kozlov (1967).
You too can help reform the world

We must stop with our busy schedules and think things through for a while. Our choices as consumers have a profound effect on how the economy works. You keep buying a product, then the company selling it grows stronger. Lower your demand for it and the producer has to adapt accordingly or go out of business.

You as an individual control a fraction of the total power consumers can wield. So if you alone change your ways, nothing noticeable will happen. But if you can coordinate your efforts with your local community or people online, things will start moving.

This is another way of thinking about the re-institution of society. Not everything needs to be done by politicians at the national or supranational level. We too can enact reform in a bottom-up, gradual, sustained and more resilient way.

Light Saber

China buys huge £135billion stockpile of gold

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A World Gold Council report said China now holds a stunning 2,262 tonnes of gold worth roughly $170.4 billion
China is buying up gold at record rates in a move experts claim could mean it is preparing to safeguard its economy against Western sanctions ahead of a possible invasion of Taiwan.


Comment: Before the Daily Mail gets started on the 'China-invading-Taiwan' nonsense, it should be noted that much of the world accepts Taiwan as a part of China - the US did until recently - and it's fairly obvious that the US is attempting to use Taiwan in much the same way as it has Ukraine: US army stations special forces 'permanently' near mainland China's coast, begins training Taiwan's troops


The Central Bank launched its gold-buying spree in October 2022, accumulating hundreds of tonnes of the precious metal in the past 18 months.

A World Gold Council report said China now holds a stunning 2,262 tonnes of gold worth roughly $170.4 billion (£135 billion) - and Beijing in the meantime has offloaded more than $400 billion worth of US Treasury bonds since 2021.

Arrow Up

Interview with Tucker Carlson: Issues of Terminology

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© The Postil Magazine
The interview with Tucker Carlson in Russian has been translated hastily and not quite correctly. On the whole, everything can be understood. But there are a few nuances. I am talking to an American and addressing the American public as a priority. Judging by the thousands of comments, they understood me perfectly well.

So here it is: in the political language of the modern States there are common terms — for example, woke, wokeism — that we do not use. It is a call to all liberals to immediately write denunciations of those who differ from the LGBT (banned in Russia) agenda, or from critical racial theory (the same needs clarification, but that is for another time), who question internationalism and globalism, who question the need to protect illegal and any migration. Then there is the vilification of all patriots and conservatives (present and historical) by accusing them of "fascism." Apparently wokeism is now being actively mastered by the younger generation of the CRPF, but they are not the ones I am addressing.

The logic is as follows: woke left-liberal identifies a victim (conservative), writes a series of denunciations, makes a video on YouTube, Instagram (banned in Russia), gathers a flash mob, etc., and then canceling comes into play — inspections at the place of work, biased interviews reminiscent of interrogations, commissioned articles, and then dismissal, ostracism, search pessimization in social networks, financial checks, ban on loans, account disconnection — in extreme cases, murder (of the figurehead himself or a relative). A complete cycle of left-liberal terror. With a historical figure, the same thing is done to his legacy — books (paintings, movies) are censored or banned, his place in the query hierarchy drops dramatically in search engines, a defamation section appears on Wikipedia that cannot be removed. This process can affect Dante, Dostoevsky, Rowling, and even Scripture if it is found not politically correct enough.

Therefore, when I say "woke" I am immediately understood by everyone in the USA. But in our country, we would have to publish a whole article with explanations and examples, after which many of our domestic leftists and left-liberals would be ashamed (if they have a conscience, and this still needs to be proven).

Stock Down

Major US banks reporting $4.5 billion in losses as 'unrecoverable debt' doubles on last year

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© Seth Wenig / AP
The two largest banks in the US are declaring a loss on $4.5 billion in debts that customers are unable to pay.

JPMorgan Chase says its net charge-offs, which are debts that the bank does not expect to receive, hit $2 billion in the first quarter of this year, reports Reuters.

That's nearly twice the amount of unrecoverable debt compared to the same quarter last year.

Meanwhile, Bank of America reported $1.5 billion in net charge-offs, a surge from $807 million a year prior.

BofA says those losses stem mainly from credit card debt that will likely never be paid.

Comment: With the major Western economies tanking, is it any wonder they're after seizing the assets of Russia? (and that's likely just a start):


Family

Russia defends traditional values the West is abandoning - Dugin to Carlson

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© RTAleksandr Dugin.
The Western world has abandoned classical liberalism in favor of a new version defined by the rule of minorities and woke-ism, the Russian philosopher explained

The ever-growing anti-Russia sentiment in the West stems from the fact that Russia adheres to traditional values that Western "progressives" are trying to destroy, philosopher and political commentator Aleksandr Dugin said in an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson that was posted on the latter's YouTube channel on Monday.

Comment: See also: Tucker Carlson interviews Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin which has a link to the video.

Related articles could be: Is Russophobia more than one prominent aspect of a misanthropic agenda, if one considers the following articles?
A Collective 'Common Enemy' Now Stalks Mankind has:
Elitist mouthpiece Harari deserves credit for blood-curdling honesty, if not for the morality of his and his masters' "visions." He is plainly signalling the view that this writer, the editors of this portal, its readers and the rest of mankind are expendable and apart from whatever economic utility they still might possess are bereft of any inherent dignity or value.
These psychopathic serial killers (we should not mince words) using their vast financial, political and media (brainwashing) resources are inexorably putting into effect a homicidal global depopulation agenda. Depopulation, as Harari has honestly admitted, means physically eliminating as many human beings as they deem superfluous or useless for their purposes. The concept of population control, again not to mince words, is their code for global genocide.
In: The dark origins of the Davos Great Reset there was
Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab's so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great Reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under UN control that has been decades in development. The key actors were David Rockefeller and his protégé, Maurice Strong.
SOTT Focus: The Misanthropic Bankers Behind The Green New Deal
why do so many assume that a "Green New Deal" won't just empower those same forces that have run havoc upon the world for the past half century and just cause more death and starvation than has already been suffered under Globalization?

One might only think to even ask such questions by first confronting the uncomfortable fact that behind such young cardboard cut outs as Thunberg, Margolin, Cortez or the Green New Deal are figures whom one would not associate with humanitarianism by any measure.



Coffee

EU 'sleep walking' into new dependence on Russia - industry major

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© Getty Images/Liudmila Chernetska
Nitrogen fertilizers are the new natural gas, an EU chemical producer has warned

The European Union is "sleep walking" into becoming dependent on Russian fertilizers, just as it did with natural gas, a leading producer has told the Financial Times.

Nitrogen fertilizers, widely used for plant growth, are made with natural gas, and the bloc is importing more and more of the crop nutrients from the sanctioned country, Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Norwegian chemical producer Yara International, told the outlet.

Comment:
The described development was predictable all along. Close to two years ago, on May 19, 2022, Dmitri Medvedev noted in a TG post if translated:
1. Countries importing our wheat and other food products will have a very hard time without supplies from Russia. And in European and other fields, without our fertilizers, only a juicy weed will grow. Well... It's sad. It's your own fault. Now it looks like the West is backing down. It was once again confirmed that all these hellish sanctions are worthless when it comes to vital things. About the supply of energy resources to heat houses. About food to feed people. About millions of citizens who basically want one thing from politicians: the opportunity to live normally, calmly and prosperously. Sanctions prevent this. And NATO expansion is a hindrance. And the mess with debt settlements, payments and other things. And what gets in the way most of all is their own cosmic cretinism. This means it's time to listen not to the trumpet voice of advisers from overseas, but to common sense. It's healthier in every way.
Two years later, following a bombed Nordstream gas line in September 2022, more anti-Russian initiatives, continued financial and arms support for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian (500,000 less), and as another marker for Euopean Democracy, the general silence about the Gaza-fication of the Palestinians (35,000 less), what are the next "logical steps" after this latest alarm from the Yara CEO about "handing over critical food and fertilising power to Russia"? Hard to say, perhaps the EU fertilizer industry need money to go green, or some excuse to not go green. In the latest 10-year industry forecast they write on page 18:
The European Fertilizer Industry has announced its Decarbonisation Roadmap
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Developed in collaboration with Guidehouse consultancy, the study represents a clear indication of the industry's decarbonisation ambitions and sets the path to achieve the Green Deal's goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
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EU fertilizer production is the global frontrunner in cutting emissions. However, to further reduce emissions, huge investments and a complete change in the production process is needed. The European fertilizer industry's journey towards a climate-neutral future is both ambitious and necessary. With the right strategies, investments, and collaborative efforts, this vision can become a reality, ensuring Europe's food security and strategic autonomy for generations to come.
One option for the EU is to learn from Canada and Sri Lanka:
Canada's 35% tax penalty on Russian fertilizer imports is a disaster for local farmers
Feckless Canadian PM Trudeau declares war on fertilizer, follows disastrous footsteps of Sri Lanka

Note: To explain the importance of nitrogen fertilizer there was from this page
Since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing N fertilizer was developed early in the 20th century, its importance in maintaining the global food supply has rapidly grown. Approximately half the food produced now in the world is supported by the use of N fertilizer. Another way to look at this is that inside your body's every cell, protein or DNA molecule, half of the N, on average, is a product of the Haber-Bosch process from a N fertilizer factory.

All N fertilizer begins with a source of hydrogen gas and atmospheric N that are reacted to form ammonia. The most-used source of hydrogen is natural gas (methane). Other sources of hydrogen, such as coal, are used in some regions. After hydrogen and N are combined under conditions of high temperature and pressure to form ammonia, many other important N-containing fertilizers can then be made.
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Because the production of hydrogen gas required for the synthesis of ammonia largely comes from natural gas, the price of this primary feedstock is the major factor in the cost of ammonia production. Ammonia factories sometimes close or open in various parts of the world in response to fluctuating gas prices. Higher energy costs always translate into higher prices for all N fertilizers. There are a number of organic sources of N that are commonly used to fertilize crops. But remember that much of the N in animal manure, composts and biosolids come from crops that received applications of fertilizer N. Therefore, the N in many organic fertilizers originated as inorganic N fertilizer.



Fire

Michigan man arrested in connection with deadly vape warehouse explosion

Noor Kestou
© Macomb County ProsecutorNoor Noel Kestou charged with involuntary manslaughter • penalty up to 15 years in prison
The owner of a Detroit business that exploded in March, leading to the death of a man, has been detained, according to reports.

A Michigan man was arrested in New York on his way out of the country and is facing charges in connection with a deadly March explosion at the vape distributor he owns.

Noor Noel Kestou, 31, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony that carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison, the Macomb county Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.

On March 4, a building in Clinton Township exploded "due to thousands of cans of Nitrous oxide and butane being stored in the building." Kestou owned the building and the business inside it, a vaping industry distributor called Goo. The business had more than 100,000 vape pens stored on site, as well as more than half of the truckload of butane canisters that had been delivered within a week prior to the explosion.

The explosion propelled "numerous" nitrous oxide canisters through the area, one of which struck and killed 19-year-old Turner Lee Salter about a quarter of a mile away from the site of the explosion. Canisters were launched up to two miles from the building.