News Burst 23 March 2022 – Get The News!

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• The wife of a former Ukrainian MP tried to leave the country at the Hungarian border with 28 million dollars and 1.3 million euros in cash. Former Ukrainian MP Ihor Kotvytskyy’s wife tried to leave the Hungarian border at Transcarpathia with large amounts of money, according to the Ukrainian press. However, the cash was found by the Hungarian border guards and they were forced to declare it.

• French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his promise to issue struggling families with food vouchers amid sharp rises in fuel and raw materials costs. In an interview with France Bleu radio on Tuesday, Macron said the world is facing “a global food crisis.” Emphasizing that France has advised fellow European countries to come up with a “concerted response” to this issue, the president, who is facing the election on April 10, said his government has already taken a number of measures, including energy caps and fuel discounts, to support the country’s residents.

• A group of international astrophysicists claims that the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres may have originated in the outer regions of the Solar System. According to their research paper, published on the preprint database Arxiv, Ceres stands out among the asteroids located near it because its surface contains a lot of ammonia, something asteroids tend to lack. Other details that distinguish the enigmatic celestial body from asteroids in the belt is a mixture of water ice and minerals bound with water such as clay and carbonates, as well as Ceres’ mantle, which is rich in water. In addition to that, the dwarf planet has low density and albedo, something that is typical of C-type asteroids. However, they don’t have as much water and clay, the scientists write. Moreover, Ceres doesn’t look or act like an asteroid. The researchers have proposed a hypothesis that might solve this puzzle. They believe that Ceres formed on the cold edges of the Solar System, somewhere beyond Saturn, and that it during the reshuffling of the outer planets got planted in the asteroid belt.

• Seth Dillon, the CEO of satirical website Babylon Bee, said he refuses to delete a parody article and tweet about transgender Biden official Rachel Levine being ‘man of the year’. The Babylon Bee article came in response to Levine (who is a 4-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and currently serves as Biden’s assistant secretary for health) being named as one of 12 ‘women of the year’ by USA Today despite being born male. Twitter suspended Babylon Bee’s account and says it will not restore it until the “hateful” tweet is deleted, but Dillon claims it is like being asked to “bend the knee” and beg to be kept on the platform.

• Monday’s devastating crash of a Boeing 737 operated by China Eastern Airlines has gripped the US aviation industry (aka Boeing) in what’s shaping up to be another major scandal barely a year after the plane manufacturer had finally managed to move beyond the disastrous rollout of the 737 MAX 8, which left hundreds dead as a design flaw led to two crashes, one in Ethiopia and the other in Indonesia. Those crashes prompted global groundings and an extensive investigation which revealed that the FAA had essentially abdicated its oversight responsibility – while one internal Boeing email blasted the MAX 8 for being designed by “clowns who were overseen by monkeys”.

• [Former Conspiracy Theory] US President Joe Biden raised eyebrows on Monday after he claimed a “new world order” would soon be established and that it was up to the United States to lead it. During a speech at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, Biden claimed the world was at “an inflection point” which “occurs every three or four generations” and that it was up to the US to determine the outcome. “As one of the top military people said to me in a security meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946, and since then we’ve established a liberal world order and that hadn’t happened in a long while,” the president said.

• China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 crashed in the mountains of Guangxi Province in Southern China on Monday with 132 people on board. The Boeing 737-800 suddenly plunged out of the sky just as pilots were beginning their descent. Footage of the crash that circulated on social media showed the plane nosediving out of the sky in a manner that aviation experts said was “highly unusual”…even within the context of deadly aviation accidents. Chinese authorities did say that their air traffic control tried to reach the pilots of Flight MU5735, but they apparently didn’t get a response.

• China Evergrande Group has become infamous for its unsustainable debt load, the result of runaway development that saddled the company with unfinished and unsold condos, leading it to stiff foreign creditors to the tune of $20 billion. And so, after months of failing to repay its foreign creditors, lenders have decided to take back what’s owed by force: to wit, Evergrande’s more financially stable property services subsidiary recently discovered that more than $2 billion of its cash had been seized by foreign lenders.

• A recent bill that was introduced would “authorize the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal for the purpose of seizing the assets of certain Russian citizens.” So, if the bill passes, children can once again legitimately dream of becoming a pirate when they grow up. The last time the US authorized privateers was during the War of 1812. Centuries ago, whenever Kings and Queens wanted to quietly wage an unofficial war against their enemies, they issued something called a “Letter of Marque” to private sailors known as Privateers. The Letter would legally authorize these Privateers (which was just a polite way of saying ‘Pirate’) to seize other kingdom’s ships and cargo while at sea. It was essentially government-sanctioned theft. Well, the United States Congress is bringing back this practice.

• Councilor to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Vadim Denisenko, said he did not consider the mistreatment of looters caught in the act to be “savage” in wartime. In the video circulated on the Internet, soldiers are seen pillorying two men accused of stealing from a supermarket. Denisenko said: “I don’t think tying a marauder to a stake is considered savage in wartime. Unfortunately, the police force is not enough. The police cannot always arrive on time.” According to the advisor to the Interior Minister of Ukraine, the looter should understand that “he will get what he deserves.” First he will be tied to a stake, then he will be imprisoned for 15 years.

• Jakarta. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and his governors’ recent “Kendi Nusantara” ritual at the “kilometer zero-point” of new state capital Nusantara in East Kalimantan has marked a historic milestone for the city’s development. The Kendi Nusantara ritual consists of pouring soil and water taken from every province in Indonesia into a large jug made of copper. This ritual is as a symbol of how all Indonesians across the archipelago, while living in a cultural diversity, come together to build the new state capital. On Monday, governors of all 34 provinces brought two kilograms of soil and a liter of water from their respective regions at Nusantara’s kilometer zero point.

• [DJT] The 9th Circuit just issued a final ruling in the Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) frivolous lawsuit case against me brought by her disgraced lawyer, Michael Avenatti, upholding the lower court ruling that she owes me nearly $300,000 in attorney fees, costs, and sanctions (not including appeal costs). As I have stated many times throughout the years, I never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, nor would I ever have wanted to. The ruling was a total and complete victory and vindication for, and of me. The lawsuit was a purely political stunt that never should have been started, or allowed to happen, & I am pleased that my lawyers were able to bring it to a successful conclusion after the court fully rejected her appeal. Now all I have to do is wait for all of the money she owes me.

News Burst 23 March 2022