Russia has imposed an indefinite ban on the export of diesel and gasoline to all countries except Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Oil prices per barrel are skyrocketing. Putin is playing the West again. Russia officially enters the trade war. With this move, prices will become too high and there will be a huge problem in the economy of the West.
The moment is not random but was chosen exactly before the beginning of winter. Huge pressure and costs will arise in companies, especially in Europe. Like the previous winter, in which $600 billion was lost due to expensive energy and mostly ended up in Russia’s account, this year will be even worse.
Europe will realize what a mistake it made by becoming an absolute vassal of Washington.
The US and its minions destroyed Lybia for no reason. Lybia’s infrastructure was destroyed to the medieval ages. Lybia could not avoid the damage caused by the burst dam. The US sends $11 million in a moment of compassion.
The entire world wishes we had an actual International Court of Justice. The Americans would be the most obvious target because of their long list of war crimes.
Lou
Tens of thousands of people have died or are missing from recent floods in Libya. Would locals be safer if the country had not been attacked by NATO during the Obama years? Meteorologists say that very well could be the case. We break down how the Obama administration lied its way into a war that has left a decade of devastation in its wake.
“Sanctions <…> reduce opportunities for exporting food and fertilizers to developing nations who need them most,” Sergey Aleynik said
UNITED NATIONS, TASS.
The global food crisis is a result of unilateral sanctions, not of a systemic error, Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergey Aleynik told the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.
“Sanctions <…> reduce opportunities for exporting food and fertilizers to developing nations who need them most. Therefore, the global food crisis is man-made, not systemic, and, as such, it can be easily resolved through the removal of illegitimate barriers,” he said.
“The world has enough food to feed everyone. At the same time, millions of people on the planet are starving. This discrepancy is a result of illegitimate unilateral sanctions, imposed by Western countries in breach of the UN Charter against countries not desirable to them or in order to obtain any competitive economic advantage,” Aleynik added.
To all those LGBT advocates out there who claim that turning children transgender does them no harm, how about the more than one-third of children who suffer serious mental health problems after taking hormone-altering drugs like puberty blockers?
A fresh analysis of a 2011 study conducted by the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the now-shuttering Tavistock Centre Gender Identity Development service and clinic revealed that at least 34 percent of children placed on puberty-blocking pharmaceutical drugs “reliably deteriorated” thereafter.
The pool of those evaluated was only 44, so the sample size is small. Still, a good number of the kids, who ranged in age between 12 and 15, suffered greatly after being prescribed these poisons to become trans. And UK authorities had the gall to later claim that there are “no changes in physiological function” that occur in children who take puberty blockers.
(Related: Did you know that back in June, the Biden regime unveiled a new “Pride” seminar for children that teaches young ones to take puberty blockers and mutilate their bodies to become transgenders as a celebration of Pride, which is one of the seven deadly sins?)
It is a crime against humanity to allow a child to mutilate and destroy his body
Last year, the UK National Health Service (NHS) ordered the Tavistock Centre and its highly controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) to close by no later than the end of 2023. This occurred after Dr. Hillary Cass conducted an interim independent review determining that transgender therapies are “not a safe or viable long-term option” for children.
The planned closure deadline for the Tavistock Centre and GIDS has since been extended to March 2024. In the meantime, whistleblowers and others continue to come forward to tell all about the horrors that children who go trans are now enduring after having their bodies and endocrine systems butchered by LGBT surgeon mutilators.
Dr. Cass produced a full report of her findings, which is now being paired with this new analysis of the 2011 study to warn the world that underage children should never, ever be allowed to get chemically and physically mutilated, especially based on false promises that it is completely “safe” to do such things to one’s body.
Only under very special circumstances, such as clinical trials, will children be allowed to destroy their bodies once the Tavistock Centre and GIDS are shut down for good early next year.
“We are grateful to all of the clinicians and academics who have contributed to this study over the years, and we welcome new peer-reviewed analyses of the evidence around how to support these young people,” said a spokesman from Tavistock and the Portman NHS Foundation Trust, about the latest findings.
“The analysis plan for the original study was independently produced by experts in medical statistics, and the underlying data was published so that other researchers might conduct further analyses.”
In the comments on a story about all this, someone rightfully and correctly pointed out that confusion about one’s own gender is a mental illness, period. And the way to treat said mental illness is to help a child grow out of that confusion and embrace the gender that he or she – there are only two – was born with.
“The confusion comes from the media and schools preying on vulnerable and fragile psyches,” another pointed out about the true source of all this confusion being implanted into children’s brains.
Parents: protect your children from the cult of LGBT at all costs, even if it means making some sacrifices to pull them out of public school and homeschool them instead. Learn more at Homeschooling.news.
The United States ruling class continues to push hard for a global war. The U.S. military-industrial complex now wants to put a military base in disputed territory in Venezuela in order to take control of the oil resources in the contested Guayana Esequiba area.
According to the Caracas foreign minister, Washington is looking to set up a military base in the Guayana Esequiba area, That territory is contested by Venezuela and Guyana, the former’s foreign minister has claimed, according to a report by RT.
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Yvan Gil said that the U.S. considers itself “the sovereign” of Latin America, and is now intervening in the more than 200-year-old territorial dispute between Caracas and Georgetown. “The US government seeks to appropriate our oil resources by using the company Exxon Mobil, which has incorporated the government of Guyana into its ranks,” he said.
Guayana Esequiba is rich in oil and gas. The exploration of the disputed territory has been led by Exxon Mobil, which received a drilling license just last week. Guyana is acting “in total violation of international law” by granting those oil permits, the Venezuelan diplomat said. “Unilateral disposal of a disputed territory isn’t permissible, but the government of Guyana persists in its illegal conduct,” he insisted.
Additionally, the U.S. is determined to militarize the situation and blow it up into a conflict if at all possible. “The [US] Southern Command seeks to establish a military base in the contested territory, with the aim of creating a spearhead in its aggression against Venezuela and consolidating the plunder of our energy resources,” Gil claimed.
Gill announced that earlier this week Venezuela’s National Assembly had “unanimously decided to call our people to vote in a consultative referendum to ratify the defense of our sovereign territory against the aggression of the American empire, which wants to lead us to a war for natural resources.” He did not say when exactly the vote would be held, or reveal any other details. –RT
Earlier this week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols reiterated Washington’s support for Georgetown’s claim on Guayana Esequiba, saying it is “Guyana’s sovereign right to develop its own natural resources.”
The battle lines for World War 3 are continuing to be drawn and the U.S. appears to be on the losing side. The American empire will not stand much longer. It’s best to be prepared because things could pop off at any time now.
A shortage of affordable housing, the opioid crisis and the lingering effects of the pandemic have contributed to a rise in visible homelessness. Ten Montrealers share their stories.
At the camp where Conrad has spent the last three years of his life, everything has its place. A fuzzy red bath mat, a towel and a couple of sweaters hang on a clothesline outside his tent. A barbecue sits on top of some bookshelves. The earth has been swept with a broom and a small drainage ditch draws a circle around the tent.
“It’s a lot of work,” he says. He tries to keep the tent warm with an insulated tarp. “I’ve got my heater, my Coleman stove. It’s not hot but at least, with the tarp, the cold doesn’t really get in.”
Conrad, 61, wants to apply for subsidized housing and an outreach worker who visits him on this day in early September assures him he’ll get it. Conrad smiles and thanks the man, but he’s skeptical. “Five different people like you have told me, ‘You won’t spend the winter there!’ But I’m still here.”
The number of unhoused people in Quebec nearly doubled from 2018 to 2022, according to a provincial survey released earlier this month.
The survey found that about 10,000 people in the province did not have a home, a 44 per cent increase from the previous survey four years ago. More than half of them are in Montreal, though the survey showed a growing proportion of unhoused people are now spread out across the province.
The issue isn’t in Quebec alone. Cities across Canada have seen increases in homelessness. The rising cost of living, a shortage of affordable housing, the opioid crisis and the lingering effects of the pandemic have all contributed, experts say.
“There’s certainly more visible homelessness and what we’re seeing right now in the ecosystem is more complex situations,” says Sam Watts, the director of Welcome Hall Mission, an organization that serves people experiencing homelessness in Montreal.
CBC Montreal interviewed people in unhoused situations over a week this month in Montreal. These are their stories.
Yves Saintil
In March 2020, Yves Saintil’s cleaning business was thriving. He had four employees and was juggling nearly 20 clients, most of them bars.
“I was about to buy my own house. I was about to buy a car for two of my kids,” Saintil, 44, says. “Everything was going great.”
He remembers getting the first notifications on his cellphone that bars and restaurants were closing: “I was like, ‘What the f— am I going to do now?’ Sorry.”
Saintil let his employees go and, by the time the second shutdown came, Saintil was burning through his savings. He lost the apartment he and his girlfriend had recently moved into in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. She went to stay with her parents and Saintil (whose mother died years ago and whose father lives in Florida) opted to sleep on friends’ couches until he figured out a solution.
In the meantime, rents were getting higher and the cost of living was going up. Months passed. He spent some nights outside, though he says that only happened a couple times. During the day, he’d go to Café Mission — a day shelter operated by the Old Brewery Mission shelter.
Last winter, he finally asked if the mission had a place for him to live 24/7. Saintil now sleeps in a dorm with two dozen other men. He says it’s not always peaceful but he’s grateful to have a place to stay while he figures out his next steps. Asking for help has been difficult. The shelter’s workers barely have time to chat or take their own breaks.
“I don’t like asking people to help me search for jobs because I know I’m capable,” he says.
Some former clients have even reached out, asking if he’d come back to clean for them, but he’s worried they’ll find out about his living situation.
“Can I tell somebody that I’m living here?”
Saintil says this is first time he’s made his story public. “Not everybody understands it and that’s a big issue in our society.”
Caroline
Caroline has been at the Old Brewery Mission’s women’s shelter for a few weeks and she’s hoping it won’t be for much longer. When Covid hit, she lost her communications job at an events management company. Faced with the stress of losing her job, the isolation wrought by the pandemic and an injury from a bike accident that prevented her from doing her usual marathon training, Caroline relapsed on an alcohol addiction she thought she’d left in the past.
“Being alone during Covid was horrible,” she says, sitting in a small room at the brightly-painted shelter. CBC has agreed not to use Caroline’s last name because she fears speaking publicly about her situation could affect her future employment. After the relapse, she returned home to France to undergo free public addictions therapy and take care of her ailing father.
But in June of this year, it was time to return to Quebec, “mon pays de coeur” — the country that stole her heart. Plus, she wanted to get her permanent residency after years of wading through bureaucracy to get it. When she got back, Caroline says, “everything had changed in a year and a half. The cost of life, the difficulty of finding a job, all of it.”
She began to have conflicts with her roommate, relapsed again and was hospitalized. Caroline says that’s when she realized she needed to be somewhere with supervision. She spent two days making 40 calls a day until she found a bed at the Old Brewery Mission.
“I noticed there were a lot more shelters for men than for women,” Caroline says. “I feel really lucky to be here until I find myself again, stabilize.”
The week after we spoke, she attended a five-day employment workshop.
Azeez, Joseph and Kazeem
Azeez, Joseph and Kazeem arrived at the Montreal airport from Nigeria within weeks of each other this summer. They are among a growing number of asylum seekers coming to Canada by air instead of by foot, since the unofficial border crossing known as Roxham Road was closed after changes to the Canada-U.S. Safe-Third Country Agreement. Dozens of people still find their way to Canadian airports every day.
Their welcome was far different from what they’d anticipated, given Canada’s reputation for housing asylum seekers upon arrival. CBC has agreed not to use the men’s last names as all three say they faced threats in Nigeria.
Joseph says he spent 47 days sleeping outside and in the city’s Metro network.
“I didn’t have any money on me. So I have to beg to eat,” Joseph says.
Azeez slept outside a church downtown for two weeks, heading into a nearby Metro station when the cool night air or rain became unbearable.
“Talking about it is bringing it to my head and it’s making me feel—,” Azeez says, putting his palm to his forehead. “It’s been hell staying outside. It’s really been hell.”
Kazeem heard early on about the YMCA on the western edge of downtown Montreal that houses asylum seekers, but when he got there soon after his flight, he was told the shelter was full. He slept on benches at the park across the street for five nights. All three men say they would often try to approach Black people on the street on the off chance they were Nigerian, too, or knew where they could go.
In Kazeem’s case, the effort paid off. He encountered a Nigerian man who is a nurse and speaks his native Yoruba. The man brought him food and a jacket, and referred him to Siari, a group offering language and administrative help to refugees.
Siari then connected Kazeem to the Welcome Hall Mission, which has set up a separate dorm for asylum seekers, where the three men have been staying.
The dorm only has nine beds, so some asylum seekers will spend time in the regular shelter, says Fequiere Desir, who runs the mission’s building near Griffintown. The mission wants to avoid newly arrived refugees from falling into drugs and becoming unhoused long term, Desir says.
Conrad and Geneviève
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To Conrad, the next best thing to an apartment is his little plot of claimed land bordering a bike path and some train tracks that cut through the city. Conrad has two neighbours, one man in his 60s and another in his 70s. All three live in tents.
They’ve tried to keep others from setting up camp in the same spot, doing their best to avoid the fate of 224 encampments already dismantled by the City of Montreal this year. CBC also agreed not to publish Conrad and Geneviève’s last names due to the precariousness of their living situations.
Conrad worries a new encampment nearby, where people do drugs and things can get unruly, will attract the attention of police. He and his camp mates allow guests from time to time, like his friend Geneviève. Conrad hosts group dinners, too, cooking up a storm on the grill. He buys his food from grocery stores with the money he makes collecting cans.
“I take care of everybody. People who are on the streets, they’re like me so I help them.” He prefers braving the elements, even the Quebec winters, to staying in a shelter, where nights can be restless and rowdy. Before pitching his tent here, Conrad stayed in a shelter near Mont-Royal Metro station. During the pandemic, the place got busy and he’d already been there a while, so he opted to leave.
Conrad says he’s been homeless for five or six years. He moved out of an apartment his stepmother had been helping him pay for when her payments stopped coming and he didn’t want to ask anymore. “I said, ‘I don’t need you guys. No problem: tent, camping, sleeping bag. I don’t mind.’”
“Our citizens should know the urgent facts…but they don’t because our media serves imperial, not popular interests. They lie, deceive, connive and suppress what everyone needs to know, substituting managed news misinformation and rubbish for hard truths…”—Oliver Stone