Re: #93 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Oasis]

Turkey, Israel, US held talks to bring Iraqi gas to Europe through Turkey, per officials talking to Reuters https://t.co/CrcBnO4HSU

— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) March 28, 2022

[Oasis]

Ukrainians are lucky to be European, they're being met with greater hospitality from European countries. Compare their welcome to that received by, say, the Middle Eastern refugees last year at the Belarus-Poland border. But who remembers that? It's ancient history now. pic.twitter.com/in4SPOSBWR

— RT (@RT_com) March 28, 2022

[Oasis]

#Zakharova: Shocking video footage of Ukrainian militants’ atrocities circled the world recently, showing them beating Russian POWs, shooting them in the legs, leaving them without medical care.

All these war crimes are recorded & the perpetrators will be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/6AWgiM6j1Z

— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) March 29, 2022

[Zambeezi]

Azovstal



Mariupol

[Oasis]

Pakistan PM Imran Khan openly accusing the US of interference in his speech this evening

Big Breaking Now

Pakistan Claims 'Conspiracy' to Oust Imran Khan Hatched by Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, Backed by India.https://t.co/MeRMnIjDUA#India #Pakistan #USA

— Big Breaking (@BigBreakingNow) March 31, 2022

[Abacus]

"Freedom fries"
George W. Bush said he felt ​“that the French position was anti-American”,
and suggested that the country would be excluded from future summits of world leaders.
Then Secretary of State, Colin Powell, somewhat ominously said that France would face ​“consequences” for failing to support the US.

France’s stance also proved to be extremely unpopular amongst some members of the American public, and anti-French sentiment began to sweep the nation.
People began to boycott French products like wine and cheese. Companies started selling bumper stickers that read, ​“First Iraq. Then France.”
Organisations that place foreign exchange students complained that they were having difficulty finding US families willing to host French students.

The French-owned hotel chain Sofitel was forced to temporarily remove the French flags that hang outside their US hotels.
​“We were getting some severe feelings and threats directed toward the safety and security of our employees and customers,” a Sofitel spokesperson told CNN at the time.

https://theface.com/life/france-us-iraq-invasion-freedom-fries-french-fries-sofitel-fuddruckers

[Oasis]

#BREAKING: Pakistan to summon top U.S Diplomat to lodge a formal diplomatic protest against allegedly threatening communication pressuring change-of-government in Pakistan.

"Threatening memo to Pakistan is a blatant interference in internal affairs of Pakistan." - Pakistani NSC

— Wars on the Brink (@WarsontheBrink) March 31, 2022

Key takeaways from Pakistan PM Imran Khan's speech

- Confirms Foreign threat sent by the U.S
- says threat contains much more dangerous stuff than revealed
- confirms No-Confidence Motion on 3rd April 2022
- promises not to bow down, not to resign and fight till the end

— Wars on the Brink (@WarsontheBrink) March 31, 2022

Some Pakistani critics lack critical thinking and still live in a colonial mentality

They think if Pakistan appeases the U.S and accepts its demands, everything will be convenient and they won't come back at you at some point

U.S is a friend of no one but themselves

— Wars on the Brink (@WarsontheBrink) March 31, 2022

[Oasis]

Pakistan PM Imran Khan accuses US of trying to oust him in TV rant https://t.co/m1rFRXSaYe

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 31, 2022

[Oasis]

Big Breaking Now

Reports of panic buying and customers fighting as Shanghai goes on COVID lockdown https://t.co/MeRMnIjDUA#China #CoronavirusUpdates https://t.co/5NZJ9sFaG7 pic.twitter.com/DrtTP7xR9M

— Big Breaking (@BigBreakingNow) March 28, 2022

[Abacus]

The Chollima Report
@ChollimaOrg (March 31, 2022)

BREAKING: The armies of China and Cambodia have signed an undisclosed memorandum of understanding
which will expand military cooperation between the two countries. It comes amidst growing US pressure against Cambodia over its ties with Beijing.

nitter.net/ChollimaOrg/status/1509515362110300161#m

[Zambeezi]

lots of anti-China propaganda flying (of course). the strict lockdown is 4 days for about 6M people of 25M total pop.

COVID-19: Shanghai government admits it was not prepared for latest outb... https://t.co/ZCCuhSa96H via @YouTube

— Georgi Papadopoulos (@GeorgiPapadopo3) March 31, 2022

Shanghai, China
Riesige Warteschlangen für obligatorische tägliche Tests.
Ein Teil der Stadt ging in vollständige Selbstisolation. pic.twitter.com/DSJ0WYWVim

— Angie (@standforAssange) March 31, 2022

Millions of people in Shanghai have to participate in mandatory daily COVID testing to keep their QR code passports valid. Refusing daily covid testing in China is a criminal offense that can lead to prison time. pic.twitter.com/P5JHsWpBTw

— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) March 31, 2022

[Abacus]

(March 31, 2022) Meet the New, Resource-Based Global Reserve Currency
By: Pepe Escobar

A new reality is being formed: the unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past, a multipolar one is taking shape

strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/31/meet-the-new-resource-based-global-reserve-currency/

[Pirata]

https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1509527169105489929?cxt=HHwWksCr1cy99fIpAAAA

I don't give a rats ass what freemasonic retards "agree upon" or not, Scholz is already paying my gas bill, and soon he'll be paying the Gas bill of millions more UNEMPLOYED Germans, if he wants to or not, and if not, the PITCHFORKS will come come out, fucking arsehole traitor!

Scholz can pay for gas as long as he (ECB) is printing euros. because russian gas is costing him some ink and paper. the moment EU has to buy rubles the cost is different. and that is a reason why (((they))) do not want to pay in rubles. basically EU (ECB) has defaulted. euro is worthless and financial system is going down. whole financial system based of petro $. this is the end of printing money and buying peace in country with money printing. now the consequences are going to have to be paid. there is going to be millions of unemployed germans with worthless currency. and millions of immigrants whose government assistance programs has stooped or has been made worthless. and to make it all more interesting lots of guns coming from Ukraine.

https://files.catbox.moe/mh684f.webm

https://files.catbox.moe/mh684f.webm

also, about zelinsky in kiev

https://files.catbox.moe/428ven.mp4

Oh Gawwd please don't remind me of coming Saturday, when I have to fell the second "fruit mummy" Cherry tree 40 years of age.
We have three years of HEATING, since we still got other wood, so yeah, don't worry about me.. we Hillbillies are totally prepared,
as usual.. OUR LIFE  DOESN'T DEPEND ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS, just in case you were wondering.. I am still quarrelling over
getting chickens with my mom, who thinks she no more a hillbilly.. I'll get my chickens, and then she can beg me for some eggs.

[Abacus]

Esha K
@eshaLegal (March 31, 2022)

What a weird coincidence... @CNN ordinary "eyewitness" in Mariupol works for a USAID project.

nitter.net/eshaLegal/status/1509337907303174149#m

[KneelB4Zod!]

[Zambeezi]

CEO of German Chemical Giant BASF Warns Of "Total Collapse" If Russian Gas Supply Cut
https://archive.ph/lGRRg

"we would have high levels of unemployment, and many companies would go bankrupt. This would lead to irreversible damage."
"To put it bluntly: This could bring the German economy into its worst crisis since the end of the Second World War and destroy our prosperity.
For many small and medium-sized companies in particular, it could mean the end. We can't risk that!"

"A delivery stop for a short time would perhaps open the eyes of many - on both sides.
It would make clear the magnitude of the consequences. But if we don't get any more Russian gas for a long time,
then we really have a problem here in Germany."

"At BASF, we would have to scale back or completely shut down production at our largest site in Ludwigshafen if the supply fell significantly
and permanently below 50 percent of our maximum natural gas requirement."

[Zambeezi]

"We have already instructed officials to shut off street lights around the country to help conserve power..."
Sri Lanka Turns Off Street Lights As Energy Crisis Worsens; Fishermen Unable To Sail For Lack Of Fuel
https://archive.ph/RwYWr

The island nation of 22 million people is struggling with rolling power cuts for up to 13 hours a day
as the government is unable to make payments for fuel imports because of a lack of foreign exchange.
The energy-drained country expects a diesel shipment paid for under a $500 million line of credit from neighboring India
is expected to arrive on Saturday, but the situation isn't expected to improve any time soon, as power restriction will need to continue.

Water levels at reservoirs feeding hydro-electric projects had fallen to record lows,
while demand had also hit record levels during the hot, dry season.

if the situation doesn't improve soon, the small country's energy crisis could metastasize into a food crisis:
without fuel, the country's fishermen have been stranded on shore, unable to reel in the day's catch.
The ramifications are being felt by families across the country.

[Zambeezi]

There is a fire at an oil storage depot in Belgorod. No cause has been given yet. https://t.co/eUghCPGiKm pic.twitter.com/vb94qeMzOT

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 1, 2022

Russians With Attitude
@RWApodcast
·
48m
Fuel depot in Belgorod (Russia) on fire - looks like Ukrainian choppers,
probably crossed the border somewhere near Kharkov & flew at very low height
- still a terrible air defense failure

Video of the two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters striking the oil storage facility in Belgorod with rockets. https://t.co/4Lt5l1Xc3S pic.twitter.com/d5zj4GWjou

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 1, 2022

[Talos]

Reports that Ukrainian air force have destroyed at least 2 oil storage sites in the Russian city of Belgorod after air raids

[Pirata]

https://twitter.com/Intel_sky/status/1509535835812765704?cxt=HHwWkIC91Yi2-fIpAAAA

I recommend Croissants filled with Ketchup...

https://twitter.com/911Truth4Adults/status/1509681208199950337?cxt=HHwWgsC5re3Du_MpAAAA

So I heard at least two "inofficial" french got fried in Mariupol?

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1508753172537679875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508753172537679875%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4744473%2Fpg2685

Hey I'll be running a little late. My helicopter needs an inspection.

[Pirata]

Reports that Ukrainian air force have destroyed at least 2 oil storage sites in the Russian city of Belgorod after air raids

Yeah what's up with that, zero air defence.. because it was napping time or what?

[Pirata]

Sri Lanka: 50 injured as protesters try to storm president’s house amid economic crisis

Soon we'll see this all over including US and EU. Never forget that it all started due to "COVID MANDATES" FUCKING UP THE GLOBAL ECONOMY & YOUR FAMILY AS A UNIT, thank Crackhead Bidens for BIO-TERRORIST LABS in Ukraine and fucking up the world in 14 month!

A new world financial order will be negotiated, West will no longer have a veto: Moscow

“No matter if they want it or not, they’ll have to negotiate a new financial order,” Medvedev said. “And the decisive voice will then be with those countries that have a strong and advanced economy, healthy public finances and a reliable monetary system. And not with those who endlessly inflate their public debt, issuing more and more pieces of paper into circulation which aren’t backed by national wealth.”

[KneelB4Zod!]

#Pakistani PM #ImranKhan said that he has received threats from #Washington due to his rejection of establishing #US military bases in #Pakistan.

He said he refuses to resign from his position, stressing that he will not kneel for any entity, nor will he allow his people to. pic.twitter.com/2LD4aajwiB

— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) March 31, 2022

[Zambeezi]

"Someone Is Making A Fortune" Out Of Giving Non-Ukrainian Migrants Fake Ukrainian Passports; Report
https://summit.news/2022/03/31/report-someone-is-making-a-fortune-out-of-giving-non-ukrainian-migrants-fake-ukrainian-passports/




Putin Warns West Food Crisis Will Lead to New Migrant Crisis
https://summit.news/2022/04/01/putin-warns-west-food-crisis-will-lead-to-new-migrant-crisis/

[KneelB4Zod!]

Russian marines in Mariupol pic.twitter.com/a0xAvTy3L8

— Spriter (@spriter99880) March 31, 2022

Sergei Babak, a surviving GUR fighter, tells why helicopters flew to Mariupol. It was the GUR who led this special mission.
GUR is the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/4qesQQdmEi

— Donbas Devushka 🅉 (@meatballsubzero) March 31, 2022

Volley of Iskanders at objects in Kharkiv region. pic.twitter.com/a38TKCbsO6

— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 1, 2022

[Zambeezi]

UN Warns Middle East At "Breaking Point" As Food Prices Hit Alarming Highs
https://archive.ph/wip/PsML5
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/un-warns-middle-east-breaking-point-food-prices-hit-alarming-highs

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine and disrupted the global food supply,
menacing food inflation ripped around the world, crushing emerging market households the hardest.

A new report Thursday via the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) warns a toxic combination of the
►conflict in Ukraine,
►economic disruptions due to COVID-19,
►climate volatility resulting in bad harvests,
are driving food prices to record highs as fears of shortages flourish.

Russia and Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine export about a quarter of the global wheat trade, about a fifth of corn, and 12% of all calories traded globally.


With trading disrupted in both countries, soaring prices and shortages are beginning to impact Middle Eastern and North African countries.

►Bloomberg data shows the most dependent countries on Ukraine wheat are:
Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Turkey.



These countries are also the most prone to social unrest.

[Zambeezi]

the 'shock' is going to come sudden to a 'sleepy' public...

UK Sleepwalking Into Food Crisis As Fresh Produce Set To Vanish From Supermarkets
https://archive.ph/wip/jOGqJ
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/uk-sleepwalking-food-crisis-fresh-produce-set-vanish-supermarkets

because of the inclement weather in the UK...
Farmers grow cumbers, plant peppers, aubergines, and tomatoes in vast greenhouses...


Greenhouses use natural gas for heat,
the crops have become uneconomical to produce.

►Green Acre Salads business, which supplies major supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Morrisons,
are [now] shuttered because costs outpace market prices.
In fact, the farmer would be losing money if he were to grow.

►European gas prices are up a mindboggling 500%
►Fertilizer prices have tripled
►soaring prices for everything related to running a grow operation: packaging, diesel, freight, labor.

"cost increases have far outstripped a grower's ability to do anything about them,"

90% of farmers didn't plant in January.  
Others said they would not grow with elevated gas prices.

UK could increase imports of produce...
but countries worldwide are implementing protectionism measures to keep farm goods domestically to mitigate shortages.

Like many other countries worldwide, the UK is sleepwalking into a food crisis.

[Zambeezi]

Turkey to agree transfer of Khashoggi trial to Saudi Arabia
https://archive.ph/wip/QonUo
https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-to-agree-transfer-of-khashoggi-trial-to-saudi-arabia/a-61322639
amazing what can be 'bought'.

On Friday, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag agreed to request an Istanbul court
shut down the trial in absentia of 26 Saudi suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
On Thursday, the Turkish prosecutor in the case requested
that the trial be suspended and transferred to Saudi authorities.

[刘汉]

UN Warns Middle East At "Breaking Point" As Food Prices Hit Alarming Highs
https://archive.ph/wip/PsML5
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/un-warns-middle-east-breaking-point-food-prices-hit-alarming-highs

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine and disrupted the global food supply,
menacing food inflation ripped around the world, crushing emerging market households the hardest.

A new report Thursday via the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) warns a toxic combination of the
►conflict in Ukraine,
►economic disruptions due to COVID-19,
►climate volatility resulting in bad harvests,
are driving food prices to record highs as fears of shortages flourish.

Russia and Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine export about a quarter of the global wheat trade, about a fifth of corn, and 12% of all calories traded globally.


With trading disrupted in both countries, soaring prices and shortages are beginning to impact Middle Eastern and North African countries.

►Bloomberg data shows the most dependent countries on Ukraine wheat are:
Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Turkey.



These countries are also the most prone to social unrest.

This is extremely interesting.

(1) Egypt.
(a) In Antiquity there were two "breadbaskets": Skythia, i.e. modern Ukraine and Egypt. Egypt lost its status as wheat exporting nation, when the English built the first Assuan dam and switched the economy from wheat to cotton. The dam destroyed the ground-water, because salty sea-water is intruding now into the delta. This needs to be reversed.
(b) An uprising in Egypt and the toppling of the traitor as-Sisi would change everything. This would get very bloody, because the military is completely dependent from US and the money coming in from US to stick to the peace-treaty with the Zionist regime. If there is a hunger-revolt, it would come from the lowest level of the society and they are strictly anti-Zionist.

(2) Lebanon is close to a breakdown anyhow. So this would be the lynch-pin. And then Hezbollah would be forced to take over openly. This would mean war with the Zionist regime.

(3) Pakistan is now in a serious crisis anyhow and Imram Khan could lead an anti-American movement. Yemen is under naval blockade. This would bring Argentina and Brazil into play. They could easily supply Yemen and Pakistan.

All of this would lead to a great shift against the globalist West.

[Zambeezi]

(set your anti-China filters to HIGH; AKA 'blame China' syndrome)
India tries to pry Sri Lanka loose from China’s embrace
https://archive.ph/wip/oleWc
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/india-tries-to-pry-sri-lanka-loose-from-chinas-embrace.html

►Sri Lanka, which adopted the Chinese model of infrastructure-led growth in the early 2000s on the premise
that it would generate jobs and usher in prosperity, is today on the brink of collapse.
►India is trying to reassert its traditional influence in South Asia, wary of Chinese attempts to control strategic ports in Sri Lanka.
►A Sri Lankan expert says Sri Lanka is caught in a Chinese “strategic diplomatic trap.”

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many related articles here:
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Live Updates: Demand for President’s resignation grows; MK Stalin seeks PM Modi’s nod to help Sri Lankan Tamils
https://archive.ph/wip/BJAOu
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-protests-mk-stalin-tamil-refugees-7847136/
snips:

$2.4B AID sought [from Modi] to ease...
economic refugees [into India] escaping unemployment and skyrocketing inflation
shortages of fuel, electricity and milk

Sri Lanka facing:
power cuts lasting up to 13 hours per day
dwindling supply of fuel
huge debt obligations
low foreign reserves
worst economic crisis in memory

►‘Can we eat money?’: Prices high, supplies low, despair in Lanka

Vani Susai, a 31-year-old school teacher working in Batticaloa in Sri Lanka’s eastern province,
recalls the first signs of the economic crisis in the last week of January:


“That Sunday morning, I ran out of gas. I called the agency to check for a cylinder and was told they could not deliver it for several days.
I went in search for one, going shop to shop. I finally found a cylinder after three hours.”

Two months later, the cooking gas supply is down to once a week.
“Everybody goes to this one place on Sunday and stands in a queue that starts forming at 4 am.

Susai says that her usual expense on essentials for a family of three was around Sri Lankan Rs 30,000 a month.
“But this month, I have already spent Rs 83,000.
There is a shortage of milk powder.
One has to struggle for rice and daal.
There is seven hours of load shedding but there are no candles.
A strip of 12 paracetamol tablets costs Rs 420 and many medicines have disappeared.
My salary is Rs 55,000 and we can manage with cash sent by my husband. But can we eat money?”

https://archive.ph/o/BJAOu/https://indianexpress.com/article/world/sri-lanka-ecomomic-crisis-protest-tamil-refugees-7847419/