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@Strangelove Guess she failed the geography test...lol
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Liberals always hide behind Republicans are behind everything especially when it's Asian voters that are playing a role against their agenda. They can't directly blame Asians because that would look racist. So they're relegated to blaming Republicans, aka charging that anyone who votes against what they want is a Republican, to intimidate voters into voting their way. They did it with the school board recall too where again centered on actions by the school board that weren't friendly to the Asian community. Liberals will let you have your say but ultimately if you don't go along with they want, their superior intellect overrides what you want despite democratic values. They want to sympathize with criminals by making punishment for crimes less serious, then they should loosen self-defense laws to counter. Crime is up because criminals know they won't get punished. Well then allow the victims to act upon their victimizers easier.
Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
Posted on June 1, 2022 by Yves Smith
Yves here. Needless to say, this article gives a very different view of the source of the rise in hunger and coming starvation than you see in the so-called collective West. Paraphrasing James Carville, “It’s the sanctions, stupid.”
By Anis Chowdhury, Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and University of New South Wales (Australia), who held senior United Nations positions in New York and Bangkok and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, who was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Originally published at Jomo Kwame Sundaram’s website --
US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved their declared objectives. Instead, they are worsening economic stagnation and inflation worldwide. Worse, they are exacerbating hunger, especially in Africa.
Sanctions Cut Both Ways
Unless approved by the UN Security Council (UNSC), sanctions are not authorized by international law. With Russia’s veto in the UNSC, unilateral sanctions by the US and its allies have surged following the Ukraine invasion.
During 1950-2016, ‘comprehensive’ trade sanctions have cut bilateral trade between sanctioning countries and their victims by on average. The US has imposed more sanctions regimes, and for longer periods, than any other country.
Unilateral imposition of sanctions has accelerated over the past 15 years. During 1990-2005, the US imposed about a third of sanctions regimes around the world, with the European Union (EU) also significant.
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Posted on June 1, 2022 by Yves Smith
Yves here. Needless to say, this article gives a very different view of the source of the rise in hunger and coming starvation than you see in the so-called collective West. Paraphrasing James Carville, “It’s the sanctions, stupid.”
By Anis Chowdhury, Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and University of New South Wales (Australia), who held senior United Nations positions in New York and Bangkok and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, who was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Originally published at Jomo Kwame Sundaram’s website --
US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved their declared objectives. Instead, they are worsening economic stagnation and inflation worldwide. Worse, they are exacerbating hunger, especially in Africa.
Sanctions Cut Both Ways
Unless approved by the UN Security Council (UNSC), sanctions are not authorized by international law. With Russia’s veto in the UNSC, unilateral sanctions by the US and its allies have surged following the Ukraine invasion.
During 1950-2016, ‘comprehensive’ trade sanctions have cut bilateral trade between sanctioning countries and their victims by on average. The US has imposed more sanctions regimes, and for longer periods, than any other country.
Unilateral imposition of sanctions has accelerated over the past 15 years. During 1990-2005, the US imposed about a third of sanctions regimes around the world, with the European Union (EU) also significant.
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Those "sanctions" are actually a light naval blockade. The major shipper companies are European (like MSC, Maersk or CMA CGM) and they refuse to transport cargo to or from Russia. And that is a major cause of the disruptions in the food deliveries to Africa. More business for COSCO I guess.
National average Gas almost $5. Meanwhile in Califonia Mendocino, gas is at $9.60.
If the national average goes to $10 than California average is probably going to be $15-20 lmao.
Soon the average Californian cardboard box will have 5 people living in it.
The West is starting to panic and wants to avoid humiliation lol. No doubt they want a favourable terms that let them humiliation Russia as well. It basically confirms their meetings reported a few days without Ukraine being there.
Guy looks as though someone is twisting his crotch but still, if he is still there, then that must mean that the UK is well and truly out of options and the nation is basically f*cked
Next Idea. On-site emergency nuclear warheads under the school basement.
“We are detonating the Alpha Warheads in T Minus 90 seconds. All Students are advised to hide under the nearest desk or enter the nearest blast shelter immediately” -