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.
With Warsaw refusing to pay in rubles, Russia will suspend deliveries starting Wednesday, the Polish state company confirmed
According to a statement from the Polish gas firm, “Gazprom informed PGNiG of its intention to completely suspend deliveries under the Yamal contract at the beginning of the contract day on April 27.”
Earlier on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman announced that “today, Poland is obliged to pay for gas supplies in accordance with the new payment procedure,” referring to Russia’s demand that “unfriendly countries” buy its gas in rubles.
Poland has refused to follow this procedure, and on Tuesday sanctioned Gazprom, which owns a 48% stake in the Polish company that co-owns the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline. The 4,000km line transports gas from the Yamal Peninsula and western Siberia to Germany and Poland via Belarus.
Media reports soon followed, suggesting that the supply to Poland had already been stopped, and that the government in Warsaw had convened a crisis meeting.
PGNiG insisted that supplies to consumers would be uninterrupted, with gas in storage and sourced from other suppliers making up the shortfall.
Poland has been one of the staunchest proponents of the anti-Russia sanctions imposed by the US and EU since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in February, and has allowed Western weapons to enter Ukraine from its territory.
While some gas-dependent countries such as Germany have cautioned the EU against cutting off the flow of gas from Russia, and others like Hungary have stated that they will keep buying Russia’s product, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has vowed to ban all Russian coal, oil and gas imports by the end of the year.
Polish government officials, as well as PGNiG representatives, confirmed that Russia will cut off gas deliveries to Poland, under the supply contract from the Siberian Yamal Peninsula, https://www.onet.pl website reported.
After hearing this news, reference gas futures in Europe, which are listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, increased by 17% in a matter of an hour.
Russia to halt gas shipments to Poland, signaling escalation …https://news.yahoo.com ›Russia will cut off natural gas supplies to Polandand Bulgaria on Wednesday, government and industry sources told Polish news on Tuesday. European gas prices soared on the report, climbing as high as 17%. The move signals escalation between the Kremlin and the European Union, which has imposed a series of …
Russian energy giant Gazprom will cease delivering gas to Bulgaria on Wednesday, the country’s energy ministry announced on Tuesday. The news comes after the Saint Petersburg firm confirmed it will also halt supplies to Poland, with both countries refusing to pay for energy supplies in rubles…..
SOMOS MUCHAS LAS PERSONAS QUE CELEBRAMOS ESTA LECCIÓN AL PUEBLO POLACO, TAN CRISTIANO Y TAN FASCISTA QUE LO MÁS LÓGICO SERÍA REBELARSE CONTRA ESE GOBIERNO Y COMENZAR A ABANDONAR LA ESTÚPIDA RUSOFOBIA QUE IMPONE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA A CUYOS SOCIOS RUSIA DEBERÍA CORTARLES… BUENO, ESO Y EL GAS
Funcionarios del gobierno polaco, así como representantes de PGNiG, confirmaron que Rusia ha cortado las entregas de gas a Polonia, en el marco del contrato de suministro procedente de la península siberiana de Yamal, según informó el sitio web Onet.pl.
Tras conocerse esta noticia, los futuros del gas de referencia en Europa, que cotizan en la Bolsa de Ámsterdam, se incrementaron un 17% en cuestión de una hora.
View of Portoviejo Ecuador from a trail on ‘La Tomatera.’ 
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 
The Free 