[GEO.TV] The United Arab Emirates witnessed record-breaking and highest levels of rainfall for the first time in 75 years with even Dubai flooding under rainwater.
After the unprecedented weather phenomenon, UAE's National Centre of Meteorology issued a red alert, urging residents to remain vigilant as weather conditions continued to get severe.
While the rain has stopped in UAE states for the last eight hours, the government has issued instructions urging people to stay at home.
Dubai's leadership has ordered immediate measures in the city amid rain emergency during a meeting with the crisis and disaster management team.
As per media reports, Dubai experienced record rainfall of two years in just one day.
The sanitary staff in the Gulf country is busy draining rainwater from the roads. In Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and other states, efforts are underway to remove the water accumulated on the roads.
Reports were received regrading an Emirati citizen being swept away in floodwater in Ras Al Khaima.
Al Ain, a region known as 'Khatm Al Shakla', witnessed an astonishing 254.8mm of rainfall in less than 24 hours, as reported by meteorological authorities.
Thunderstorms and lightning strikes persisted throughout the night, intensifying the downpour that continued into Wednesday.
Forecasters predicted the ongoing unstable weather patterns from Tuesday through Thursday, driven by a prolonged "low surface pressure" system and two waves of turbulent weather sweeping across the UAE.
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Perhaps related to that Tonga undersea volcano eruption threw a *bleep*load of water vapor hight into the stratosphere back in January of 2022. Since then, we have seen a lot of wet, stormy daniels weather coming across the US.
an astonishing 254.8mm (aka 10 inches) of rainfall in less than 24 hours
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[Regnum] An explosion occurred on April 17 at a plant for the production of ammunition components of the British company BAE Systems in Wales. This was reported by The Telegraph, citing a source in the company.
“The explosion occurred at a weapons factory. Emergency services were called to the BAE Systems factory in Glascode in Monmouthshire,” the article says.
According to preliminary information, the explosion occurred inside the factory building, there is no information about the victims, the circumstances of the incident are being established.
As Regnum reported, a day earlier, an artillery ammunition plant in the city of Scranton in the US state of Pennsylvania caught fire. No one was injured as a result of the fire. The factory produces large-caliber metal shells and mortar ammunition, including 155 mm shells.
[GatewayPundit] A woman brought a 68-year-old man who was dead, in a wheelchair, to a bank branch to try to take out a loan in his name. The bizarre incident occurred on Tuesday, April 16, at a bank branch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
She conducted the conversation on behalf of the deceased man and raised suspicions among those present. Identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, she was taken to the police station, where she claimed to be the niece and caregiver of the elderly man.
Vieira Nunes’s behavior caught the attention of bank employees, who began filming the dialogue she had with her uncle, who did not respond to her commands. She asked the Biden corpse to sign a paper authorizing the bank to lend him approximately $3,200.
In the "conversation" she asked the supposed relative:
"Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign, sir. If you don’t sign, there’s no way. I can’t sign for you, what I can do, I’ll do".
The police were called to the scene, where they arrested Erika de Souza (Jill Biden?) for the crimes of fraud and desecration of a corpse and she could be sentenced to up to 7 years in prison.
[PJ] "I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China," former TikTok senior data scientist Evan Turner revealed on Monday in a Fortune report. According to Turner, his efforts went far beyond what social media apps usually do, which is to upload every scrap of data they can get hold of to the parent company's servers.
"Every two weeks," the Spectator reported, "Turner emailed spreadsheets filled with data on hundreds of thousands of US users to [TikTok owner] ByteDance workers in Beijing."
"The driver’s licenses of American users were also accessible on the platform," the New York Times wrote last year, "as were some users’ potentially illegal content, such as child sexual abuse materials. In many cases, the information was available in Lark 'groups' — essentially chat rooms of employees — with thousands of members." Just to be clear, ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing and is closely knit with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Worse, if that's even possible, Turner said, "There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this."
After President Donald Trump's ultimately failed effort to ban TikTok, the company promised to establish independence from ByteDance. It would start using U.S.-based servers and stop sending all its data to Beijing. But Fortune also reported that according to Turner, "the stealth chain of command contradicted what TikTok’s executives had said about the company’s independence from ByteDance."
Believe it or not, this grown-up Cold War kid who despises Communist China every bit as much as I did the Soviet Union way back when is less concerned with the data ByteDance gives to the CCP than I am with TikTok's manipulation of kids. The thing to remember about the Western version of TikTok is that it's what I call social malware.
There's a reason Chaya Raichik's LibsOfTikTok has so much material to use. TikTok's algorithm is tweaked to highlight the weirdest, the worst, and the most divisive content — served up to young minds who assume that the weirdest, the worst, and the most divisive is normal. It's what they see, and it's what their friends see on social media.
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the weirdest, the worst, and the most divisive content — served up to young minds who assume that the weirdest, the worst, and the most divisive is normal. It's what they see, and it's what their friends see on social media.
Maybe more attractively packaged, but not more weird than that they hear in a classroom.
[Alt-Market] One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very similar to politics. The propaganda is endless and debunking it sometimes feels like moving a mountain with a teaspoon.
Establishment media sources lie incessantly about our financial conditions, and when they are finally cornered and forced to admit how bad things are, they then lie about the causes. That said, I find that these lies are usually designed to do one of two things: Over-complicate the problem so that people give up thinking about it, or, distract from the problem so that people blame a scapegoat.
As for inflation, here is the bottom line:
Central Banks And The Fiat Flood
Rising prices are caused by two main drivers. The first is money creation, or too many dollars chasing too few goods. Central banks around the world have been FLOODING the system with fiat currency ever since the debt crisis of 2008 and the Federal Reserve within the US is the worst violator by far. We are talking about tens of trillions (or more) in money creation, all supposedly as a means to stall or prevent a deflationary crash.
By the time the pandemic lockdowns were initiated and the Fed dropped $8 trillion+ onto the economy through stimulus measures like covid checks and PPP loans, the total US money supply was already at destructive levels. The covid stimulus was simply the straw that broke the camel’s back. So, if you want to know who is directly to blame for your daily expenses rising 30% or more in the span of three years, the first set of criminals are the central bankers.
Governments and certain corporate partners are also to blame, but the central banks are the root mechanism for all inflationary movements. It’s my belief (according to the evidence) that central banks have deliberately triggered a stagflationary crisis with the intent to forcefully replace cash based economies with a new digital and cashless global economy. However, that’s a discussion for another article...
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'We do not want your paper money, we want your digital scan.' Your EB (Equity Based) totals will appear on the screen and be sent to your secure devise.
Touch the screen once for final checkout. Touch the screen repeatedly for assistance.
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And a garden. Grape vines, asparagus bed, horseradish, fig tree, lots of wild raspberries and blackberries, paw paw trees, walnut trees, hickory trees, chickory plants, wild mushrooms, and many other edible plants.
[Aljazeera] Move in US election year could push up oil prices, but Washington says Maduro has not made promised electoral reforms.
The United States is reimposing sanctions on Venezuela’s vital oil sector over what it says is the government’s failure to adhere to democratic principles ahead of elections in July.
The administration of US President Joe Biden said it would not renew a licence that expired early on Thursday, and which had partially eased the punitive measures since October after a US-backed election deal was reached between the government and the Venezuelan opposition in Barbados.
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Venezuelan Government And Opposition Meet In Barbados, Elias Ferrer, Oct 18, 2023
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Venezuela’s Plataforma Unitaria—the main opposition alliance—and government representatives met in Bridgetown, Barbados on Tuesday to negotiate, following a “memorandum of understanding” laid out in Mexico last year. The meeting was sponsored by two mediating governments, Mexico and Norway, and by the host, Barbados. Just last Friday, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the two parties were in contact again.
The deal between the opposition and the government comes straight after representatives of presidents Maduro and Biden met in Doha last month. The two negotiation processes go hand-in-hand, especially given that the US executive branch and Venezuela’s opposition have been working closely in the past.
[Breitbart] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to a supplemental funding bill for Ukraine that would require members of Congress who vote "in favor" to enlist in the Ukrainian military.
Greene’s amendment comes as House Republicans released the legislative text regarding four bills wrapped into one, according to CBS News.
Under the three bills, $26.4 billion would be sent to Israel, $60.8 billion would go to Ukraine, and $8.1 billion would go to countering the threat of China in the Indo-Pacific and providing foreign aid to Taiwan.
A fourth bill focuses on providing other defense measures to "strengthen" the "national security" of the United States.
"Any Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military," the amendment to the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act 2024 reads.
We have about 1/4 of our US active duty troops stationed around the world.
We have WIDE OPEN BORDERS.
We have a ILLEGAL population of Military age Males 2 to 3 x's the size of our own military.
We have Regime with an Anti-USA agenda that wishes to disarm America.
Simple question, IF! the American "Citizen" voter even supported such an idea, is it logistically feasible and could the DOD still protect the USA itself?
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...why should we fight the Russians? The Euros position for generations has been You (America) and He (Russia) should fight while we have massive social programs. The Euros committed suicide twice in the last century. Why should we fight for them if they won't themselves. It's not like they or we are protectors of Western Civilization anymore.
[Breitbart] Peter Schweizer, the author of Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, dismissed President Joe Biden’s plan to call for raising tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum during a campaign speech to American steelworkers in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
"Joe Biden has given Beijing pretty much everything they want for three and a half years. China knows that Biden has to sometimes take aim at them. But Beijing regards his policies broadly as being highly favorable to them. They call this, ’Big help with a little bad mouth,'" Schweizer said in an exclusive quote to Breitbart News.
Biden, during a campaign stop speaking to the United Steelworkers union in Pennsylvania — a critical 2024 battleground state, will reportedly call on his United States Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, to triple the existing 7.5 percent tariff rates on steel and aluminum from China, amid labor unions’ concerns about Chinese competition and the future of the U.S. steel industry.
As the Democrat presidential candidate in 2020, Biden had previously opposed tariffs on Chinese imports when former President Donald Trump had imposed them, and said he would remove them, according to Forbes.
"Would you keep the tariffs?" Biden was asked.
"No. Hey, look," Biden responded. "Who said Trump’s idea is a good one?" before adding, "We’re going after China the wrong way."
[PJ] Because he was the first juror to be selected, Juror #1 is the jury foreman which is the way they do it in New York. Juror #1 was originally from Ireland and now lives in West Harlem. He's married to a woman who goes to school. They have no kids. He waited tables and is now a salesman. He didn't graduate from college but attended. He likes the outdoors. His media choices include the New York Times and Daily Mail, and he watches MSNBC and Fox News. Sure. Jurors are anonymous and identified only by number. His jury number is B400.
Juror #2 is considered by some court watchers to be a problem for Trump. She's a born and raised New Yorker, lives on the Upper East Side, and works as an oncology nurse. She claims, "I don't really have" an opinion on Trump but told the court she will do her "civil duty" to be on the jury. She told the court that "he will be treated as anyone else can be treated and no one is above the law." This masters-holding individual does not understand that she's being interviewed for a jury gig because Trump is not being treated equally. Oy.
Juror #2's live-in boyfriend works on Wall Street. She has no kids but loves spending time with "family and friends" and walking her dog. She reads the New York Times and Google, so her idea of Trump is that of a Russian spy with horns. Has the New York Times ever apologized for Hillary's fake Russia scandal that her friends in the CIA initiated, and the FBI, DOJ, and White House carried out for her in the 2016 election? Her jury number is B280.
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Juror #8 is from the Flatiron District. She has two children. She has worked for Avenue Capital, for NBC as a special correspondent, and taught graduate classes at Columbia University.
[Hot Air] Seems unlikely, given that his plane went down into the water. But that's Joe Biden's story and he is sticking to it.
First the facts: Joe Biden twice told the story of his uncle Ambrose, who volunteered during World War II and was lost at sea when his airplane crashed for unknown reasons into the ocean new New Guinea. New Guinea at the time did indeed have cannibal tribes.
Do these facts match up with Biden's tale? You be the judge.
So, "Uncle Bosey" did indeed exist and he did crash his airplane in the general region of New Guinea, although it was offshore. The plane was not single-engine (so what? Even I wouldn't remember the type of plane after decades), and one out of the four on the plane was recovered.
Nobody shot down the airplane. The engines failed for some reason.
Brian Krassenstein, a Biden shill, tried to save his butt by claiming the story was factual, but even his rewriting of the facts makes Biden out to be a fabulist.
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A cannibal: "People of Redness,
Like us, are well-known for their fedness,
Per the Leningrad plan:
To serve Soviet man
Irrespective of gender or deadness."
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Biden eating cannibals. Finally a group I would approve of sneaking across the border.
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[Regnum] The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has sent its final message to Earth before it becomes a test bed on the surface of the Red Planet. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced this on its website on April 16.
It is noted that the engineers who worked on the creation of Ingenuity gathered for the last time on April 16 in the control room of the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in order to monitor the receipt of data from the helicopter.
The aircraft continued to communicate with its base station, NASA's Perseverance rover, despite the end of its mission in January 2024. The helicopter will then be used as a stationary test bed for data collection, which should benefit Mars explorers in the future.
As Regnum reported, on January 21, NASA announced the loss of contact with the Martian helicopter Ingenuity. The aircraft conducted its 72nd flight over the surface of Mars on January 18 and during its approach lost contact with the Perseverance rover. Later, communication with the helicopter was restored. The resulting images showed that the helicopter had one or more rotor blades damaged.
NASA announced on January 24 that the damaged Ingenuity completed its mission on Mars. It was noted that he carried out several dozen more flights than originally planned. The Ingenuity helicopter spent more than 1,000 Martian days on the surface of the Red Planet, making 72 flights.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to a supplemental funding bill for Ukraine that would require members of Congress who vote "in favor" to enlist in the Ukrainian military.
