Week 13

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2024

2023

The American Dream?

Are we the 'Land of The Free' or are we still run by the monarchy?

Mickey flipped Florida the bird and gave the whole state a giant fuck you.

King Charles dragged into bizarre Disney 'woke' battle with Florida Governor

"Similar royal lives clauses have been used since the late 17th century and still exist in some UK contracts but are much rarer in the US."

"The move to bring in a new board by DeSantis effectively got rid of an agreement between Disney and the State of Florida which had existed since the 1970s that created a special district in which allowed Disney to tax itself in order to provide essential services to its parks."

Don't you wish you could "tax yourself"?

Disney v DeSantis dispute hinges on clause referencing King Charles III

A royal clause is allowing Disney’s magic kingdom to circumvent DeSantis’ board for decades to come

Disney World lawyers shrewdly outmaneuver DeSantis

Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his new Reedy Creek board of its power: bizarre 'Royal Clause' bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'

"Board members, however, insist otherwise, saying it was made without their knowledge weeks ahead of the signing of DeSantis's latest bill, officially HB-9B."

'I thought so much better of [Disney]. This essentially makes Disney the government.'

Disney Pulled Fast One On DeSantis, Used 'Royal Lives' Clause To Preserve Power

Disney quietly took power from DeSantis' new board before state takeover

'Ron DeSantis just got out-negotiated by Mickey Mouse,'

"the new board members said the old board made a 30-year development agreement with Disney just before the state-controlled board took over that stripped them of much of their power. "We’re going to have to deal with it and correct it,” said board member Brian Aungst Jr., the Orlando Sentinel reported. “It’s a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the Governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern.”"

"He went on to say, according to WESH, “I can’t think of a more naked attempt to circumvent the will of the voters and the will of the Florida Legislature."

Disney stripped power of board before DeSantis takeover, new board says

"The previous board, which was known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District and controlled by Disney, approved the agreement on Feb. 8, the day before the Florida House voted to put the governor in charge. Board members held a public meeting that day but spent little time discussing the document before unanimously approving it in a brief meeting. The agreement allows Disney to build projects at the highest density and the right to sell or assign those development rights to other district landowners without the board having any say, according to the presentation by the district’s new special legal counsel."

Presidents

Trump

NY Grand Jury: Soros

Trump claims Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is backed by George Soros. Here's why that attack is an antisemitic trope.

The Ties Between Alvin Bragg and George Soros

Donald Trump blames George Soros for his legal troubles

DeSantis blasts DA Bragg as a 'Soros-funded prosecutor' in Trump probe

How billionaire George Soros funded NYC's woke DA Alvin Bragg to the tune of $1million

Trump indictment news: Alvin Bragg's $1million donations from George Soros

Alvin Bragg's "Soft on Crime" Policies Face Scrutiny as Manhattan DA Goes After Trump

What we know about Trump’s attacks on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s backing by George Soros

"Soros did give a progressive racial justice group called Color Of Change $1 million in May 2021, and in the same month, Color Of Change endorsed Bragg and pledged to spend over $1 million supporting his campaign.However, Soros’ $1 million wasn’t earmarked for Bragg"

"Soros is Jewish. While criticizing his politics is not antisemitic, according to the Anti-Defamation League “when Soros is used as a symbol for Jewish control, wealth, and power, the criticism may be an updated version of traditional antisemitic tropes"

Spot The Propaganda:

GOP Leans Into George Soros Conspiracies In Targeting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

Trump Allies Exaggerate Alvin Bragg-George Soros Link

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's ties to billionaire George Soros are not as close as Republicans claim

Trump Falsely Claims DA Alvin Bragg Is Backed by George Soros

Randi Weingarten torched for saying it’s ‘antisemitic’ to mention Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's ties to Soros

Donald Trump blames George Soros for his legal troubles

Republicans invoke Soros to steer narrative on Trump probe

Trump is indicted! "According To Sources"

Ever wonder what circular reporting is?
Ever wonder what mockingbird media is?

CNNDonald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury on more than 30 counts related to business fraud

"according to two sources familiar with the case"

"The indictment has been filed under seal and will be announced in the coming days. The charges are not publicly known at this time."

CBSDonald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

"The indictment has been filed under seal and will be announced in the coming days. The charges are not publicly known at this time, one source told CNN."

NBCNew York grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

"The indictment has been filed under seal and will be announced in the coming days. The charges are not publicly known at this time, one source told CNN."

Donald Trump indicted in Stormy Daniels hush money probe by Manhattan grand jury

"CNN reported, citing two sources, that Trump is facing over 30 counts connected to business fraud."

Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury

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So what happened to the stories these sources shared yesterday:

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Manhattan DA Lawyers Feared Stormy Daniels Case Against Trump Was Weak

Manhattan Trump grand jury set to break for a month

Grand jury likely won't vote on possible indictment until next week at earliest

AP sources: No more action from Trump grand jury this week

Bread & Butter

Tea Leaves ☕

‘Already past the point of no return’: JPMorgan says the U.S. is probably headed for a recession as economic ‘engines are about to turn off’

Q4 GDP Comes In Below Estimates On Sharp Slowdown In Personal Spending Ahead Of Looming Credit Crunch

Reserve Bank facing major shakeup with report going to treasurer

How bank CEOs can reassure customers their money is safe

Greatest hits of bank runs: Banking scholar and former Fed official

Debt Crisis: Sovereign Defaults Jump to a Record High

Chicago's Public Pension System Owes More Debt Than 44 States

"This Market is Going to be Different in a Couple of Weeks" - Kenyan President Ruto Urges His Constituents Who Hold US Dollars to Get Rid of Them

What does he know?

When Is a Global Economic Meltdown Expected?

Millennials Dominate Insolvencies In Canada As Credit Card, Student Loan And Other Debts Pile Up

World Bank expects slow global economic growth

Trump judges are fighting about whether to crash the economy.

LOL

Jeremy Siegel Says the Fed's Economic Outlook Is 'Absurd'

State Of Commercial Real Estate: Goldman Expects Sharp Spike In Office Delinquency Rates

Credit card debt is at record high as Fed raises rates again

Is A Full-Blown Global Banking Crisis In The Offing?

Weighing up the global banking crisis

IMF chief warns global financial stability at risk from banking turmoil

Goldman Trader: "Nothing Has Gone As Planned: More Things Will Break And A Credit Crunch Is Coming"

David Stockman On The Status Of The Everything Bubble Created By The Fed

National Security

Ukraine / Russia

US/UK Nuclear Escalation

Putin Ally Warns of Worldwide 'Lesson' if Uranium Ammo Used in Ukraine

Russia Has Taken Belarus as a 'Nuclear Hostage'

Belarus ready to host Russian tactical nukes

Ukrainians given depleted uranium training

Depleted Uranium: Highly Effective But Controversial

New Study Documents US Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

Ukraine's getting depleted-uranium tank rounds that can punch holes in Russian armor, and Moscow's not happy about it

A look at the uranium-based ammo the UK will send to Ukraine

U.K. Defends Sending Ukraine Weapons with Depleted Uranium

UK defends sending depleted uranium shells after Putin warning

Depleted uranium dust triggers cancer in human body

DEPLETED URANIUM: Radioactive ammo bound for Ukraine part of US arsenal

UK to Send Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine - A "Dirty Bomb"?

Russia's Putin blasts UK move to send ammo with depleted uranium to Ukraine

Reminder:Depleted uranium--the growing concern

Reminder:NATO bombing Yugoslavia with depleted uranium 'inhumane'

Reminder:NATO carried out 'inhumane experiment' in Balkans

Reminder:Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq

Reminder:Children Born With Deformities Near U.S. Base in Iraq

Reminder:The Pentagon said it wouldn’t use depleted uranium rounds against ISIS. Months later, it did — thousands of times.

Reminder:Depleted Uranium, Devastated Health: Military Operations and Environmental Injustice in the Middle East

Reminder:Statement on Depleted Uranium to the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, New York, 17 October 2016Delivered by Wim Zwijnenburg, PAX, on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons.

Reminder:Iraq to Sue US over Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons

Reminder:Pentagon May Scrap 35 Million Depleted Uranium Rounds Used By The A-10 Warthog's Gun

"The U.S. Air Force has said it has been considering stopping using the controversial ammunition entirely."

Reminder:The Science of the Silver Bullet

"Depleted uranium has been hailed as the military’s new silver bullet and condemned as Kosovo’s Agent Orange"

British activists condemn depleted uranium ammunition shipment and link it to several diseases

Russian environmentalists condemn UK decision to send depleted uranium shells to Kiev

The European Parliament has condemned the shipment of munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine

CND condemns UK decision to send depleted uranium shells to Ukraine

Hungary Warns UK Against Sending Depleted Uranium Ammunition to Kyiv

Russia Says Use of Depleted Uranium Shells in Ukraine Would Harm Population, Land for Decades

Where are the environmentalist and humanitarians?

Putin claimed the UK is ramping up nuclear tensions by sending Ukraine depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. The UK says that's nonsense.

Putin says Russia will react ‘accordingly’ if West sends ammunition with depleted uranium

Putin warns UK it is ramping up war with its 'nuclear component' arms for Ukraine

Geopolitics

Law & Order

J6

QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley is released 14 months early from prison after Jan. 6 footage showed him being 'ESCORTED' by cops inside the Capitol

When are people going to start asking if Chansley was in on it or is he just not that smart? he was escorted everywhere etc personally by cops.... at no point did he question any of it?

Health

Trans

Effect of gender affirming hormones on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen: implications for sporting organisations and legislators

"The 15–31% athletic advantage that transwomen displayed over their female counterparts prior to starting gender affirming hormones declined with feminising therapy. However, transwomen still had a 9% faster mean run speed after the 1 year period of testosterone suppression that is recommended by World Athletics for inclusion in women’s events."

Trans women retain athletic edge after a year of hormone therapy

People

💥 John Durham 💥

Durham report on Trump Russia probe origins should be finished 'relatively soon,'

Durham bombshell: Prosecutor unveils smoking gun FBI text message, 'joint venture' to smear Trump

"a text message that shows a Clinton campaign lawyer lied to the FBI, while putting the courts on notice he is prepared to show the effort to smear Donald Trump with now-disproven Russia collusion allegations was a "conspiracy.""

"Clinton's campaign, her researchers and others formed a "joint venture or conspiracy""

"These parties acted as 'joint venturer[s]' and therefore should be 'considered as co-conspirator[s],'"

"The existence of the text message between Sussmann and then-FBI General Counsel James Baker was revealed in a court filing late Monday night by Durham's team."

""Durham has just shown the whole world what major pieces of our Russiagate investigation revealed," Patel said. "Hard evidence, emails and text messages, showing the Clinton Campaign, Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie, Joffe, and the media were all synced in August of 2016"

Comey Got a Book Deal / Pay Day

James Comey Is a Novelist Now

Florida

Misc

It keeps getting worse: Florida property insurance rates set to jump up to 60%

DeSantis: Florida will not assist any extradition of Trump after indictment

Florida Proves To Be In The Distinct Minority For Removing “Soros-Backed” Prosecutors

Left Smears DeSantis For Pointing Out Truth About George Soros

2 DeSantis election fraud cases end with guilty pleas in Hillsborough

"The pair were included in a string of arrests made last summer by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new election security force."

I haven't seen much meaningful come out of the election security force yet. I do worry that it was a political move and not a meaningful one. I hope I am mistaken and more has gone on that I have not caught wind of - that would make since given the "Red Tsunami" Florida had, still.... I worry it is a show.

'Disney Defenders' launch ballot initiative to put Reedy Creek in Florida Constitution, restore its powers

Misc

2023

Week 13

Last Updated 4/1/2022 @ 12:05PM I am taking a weekend off and will not be updating until Monday.
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Bidens

James Biden

Grassley, Johnson release bank records showing Hunter Biden's ties to China

"One record shows a $5 million wire transfer to Hudson West, a company Hunter Biden invested in and managed, from a partner of a CCP-connected business."

Another contract shows that Hunter Biden was given a $500,000 one-time retainer bonus by Hudson West on top of $100,000 a month while his uncle, James Biden, was given $65,000 month.

VIDEO: Chuck Grassley Reveals Financial Links Between the Chinese Communist Party and Hunter and James Biden on Senate Floor -- And Brings the Receipts

People

Buddhist Monks

Buddhist Monks Keep Getting Arrested for Corruption, Murder and Drug Trafficking

I did not see theis coming.

"Barely a week goes by without reports of monks charged with money laundering, drunk driving, drug trafficking and even murder—rocking the clergy’s reputation in Thailand with each new headline."

Health

Butterfly 🦋 Effect

Pandemic stress leads to alarming spike in alcohol-related deaths

Gee, who could have seen this coming...

Vaccines

The controversial quest to make a 'contagious' vaccine

That which can be used for good can be used for bad the only difference is intention.

Ukraine

Play By Play

What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate?

He didn't miscaluclate he has stated coherently from the beginning what his goals are and you can see is technique of advance-step back-regroup/dispurse-and take a city happen over and over during the last month. We must be coming to the end of the "war" if they are finally sowing seeds of doubt regarding Ukraines inevitable "win".

Russia shells areas in Ukraine where it vowed to scale back

Scale back doesn't mean stop 🤷

Russia Begins Retreat from Kyiv in ‘Major Strategy Shift’: U.S. General

Draft Propaganda

The story that wasn't. Russia does this every year on April 1 and it has nothing to do with Ukraine. Most of these headlines are completely misleading; they could be considered factual but they are misleading.

Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine

Russia says 130,000 new conscripts won't see action in 'hot spots'

"The conscription is part of an annual draft Russia has every spring, which usually begins on April 1."

Putin Calls Up 134,000 Conscripts as Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Enters Sixth Week

Putin ordering draft of 135,000 amid difficulties in Ukraine war

Bio Labs

Returning Soldiers Reveal the Dark Side of Life in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion

"lack of structure and leadership in its ranks. This is something he says has resulted in unnecessary casualties, and could be remedied by embedding a Ukrainian officer in every unit."

“psychos and criminals” drawn to Ukraine not to help the country, but in order to have a “free pass to kill people and act a fool.”

“There were a lot of people that didn't want to go on mission with these guys, because they just were untrustworthy,” he said. “The distinct risk of catching a bullet in the back from some criminal guys [on your side] was a lot higher than comfortable.”

They are already coming back? That didn't take long...
They had no one directing them.. crazy.

TikTok War

Inside the Progressive Movement’s TikTok Army

"Are Gen Z’s social media influencers changing the face of progressive political activism — or just finding new ways to carry water for the White House?"

AKA propaganda

Bread & Butter

Geopolitics

Russia / US

Russia Accuses U.S. of Massive ‘Cyber Aggression’

US is engaging in Cyberwarfare - with no declaration of war?

Elections

Misc