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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019 (image via YouTube)
Visits to Honiara are part plea, part threat. Delegations are equipped with a note of harassment.
That was the initial Australian effort to convince the Solomon Islands that the decision to make a security pact with Beijing was simply not appropriate in the lotus land of Washington’s “Pacific empire”.
View of Portoviejo Ecuador from a trail on ‘La Tomatera.’
Portoviejo, Ecuador
My friend Dady sent a reminder this morning that April 27 is Dia del Ceibo in Manabi Province. Dia del Ceibo? Really? Yahoo! Yay for Manabi! This post will be a little tardy, but the Ceibos and their special realm deserve some recognition.
Ceibo Loco – Watercolor y Acrylic – Copyright Lisa Brunetti
Jardin Botanico
Jardin Botanico – Portoviejo, Ecuador
Ceibo y Iguana – Hojas de Jaboncillo/Portoviejo, Ecuador
A large Ceibo at Hojas del Jaboncillo/Portoviejo Ecuador
Oftentimes a person is needed to show the scale of a tree like the above, and that same tree seems to dwarf my friend Giovanni in the next image.
Only a few kilometers from the city of Portoviejo, I have been blessed to bask in the presence of some powerful specimens of this species. The rainy season prompts the vegetation into Jack-in-the-Beanstalk…
This morning I checked out how the Capitalism’s civil war is going. I hoped to know how the EU/Russia Gas War may bankrupt Europe and destroy our lives.
Would the EU back down or commit economic Hari-Kiri by refusing to pay for their gas in rubles?.
Not much luck with the Western media all screaming obvious ‘False Narratives’ and the evil Ruskies up to no good.
Then I came across this gem:
“As Russian President Vladimir Putin escalates the war in Ukraine to that of nuclear threats, massacre, and the systemic rape of children in cities like Bucha,China continues its diplomatic support of Russia, including now by threatening the breakup of the European Union”.Anders Corr at the Epoch Times
Ursula:Banning Order now doesn’t break Sanctions Order.
I didn’t bother with CNN, but thought to g0 straight to the horse’s mouth.. to Russia Today.
Alas my trusty laptop informs me that:
“We will not let Kremlin apologists pour their toxic lies justifying Putin’s war or sow the seeds of division in our Union,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
RT it seems is banned by almost all US subsidiaries, even their YouTube music, sports and travel documentaries.
Aha, but time to warm up my trusty VPN, pick a non-west country, and bingo ! I find the facts on RT, wrapped up of course in Russian nationalist POV. (How come the MSM doesn’t trust me to read this without becoming a slave to Putin’s version of dictatorial Capitalism?)
It turns out YES.. the EU has backed down and will buy the Gas in Rubles.. bad news for the Planet I suppose. But the Commission avoids losing face by saying its Banning Order now doesn’t break its Sanctions Order.
What a laugh! So everyone can do what they like, and hardline anti Russians like Poland can just buy Russian gas quietly on the European market (or even cheaper, non-fracking Russian LNG)… Hypocrisy Works!
Putin may be giggling in his glass of vodka this morning, without Coca Cola! It seems the dastardly Russian plan is to escape from the economic dollar-tax that has allowed the US to run up $30 trillion in debt. A plot which could only be done now, post pandemic and flush with cash.
This morning I checked out how the Capitalism’s civil war is going. I hoped to know how the EU/Russia Gas War may bankrupt Europe and destroy our lives.Would the EU back down or commit economic Hari-Kiri by refusing to pay for their gas in rubles?.
Not much luck with the Western media all screaming obvious ‘False Narratives’ and the evil Ruskies up to no good.
Then I came across this gem:
“As Russian President Vladimir Putin escalates the war in Ukraine to that of nuclear threats, massacre, and the systemic rape of children in cities like Bucha,China continues its diplomatic support of Russia, including now by threatening the breakup of the European Union”. Anders Corr at the Epoch Times
Ivermectin was the sixth most popular topic on Twitter in the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon, with more than 46,000 tweets, suggesting that many users were under the impression that the term had been previously censored on the platform.
In fact, the name of the treatment has never been banned, although it has been just one of a number of popularly cited treatments for COVID-19 that has remained controversial throughout the global pandemic.
Con otro lote de 11.000 documentos de Pfizer, publicado el 1 de abril de 2022, la primera revelación explosiva es que la inmunidad natural es efectiva, y Pfizer lo ha sabido todo el tiempo.
Los datos del ensayo clínico mostraron que no hubo diferencia en los resultados entre aquellos con infección previa por COVID y aquellos que recibieron la vacuna. Ninguno de los grupos experimentó una infección grave. La inmunidad natural también fue estadísticamente idéntica a la inyección en términos de riesgo de infección.
Los adultos más jóvenes son más propensos a experimentar efectos secundarios
La segunda revelación es que los efectos secundarios de las inyecciones fueron más graves en las personas más jóvenes, de 18 a 55 años, que en las de 55 años o más. (El riesgo de efectos secundarios también aumentó con dosis adicionales, por lo que el riesgo fue mayor después de la segunda dosis que la primera).
El riesgo de COVID grave es dramáticamente menor en las personas más jóvenes que en las mayores de 60 años, lo que hace que un riesgo elevado de efectos secundarios sea inaceptable.