#Current Affairs February 2023

[gkcurrentaffairs]

America declares McMahon Line as international border, Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India.

The US passed a resolution on 14 March. The United States has recognized the McMahon Line as the international border between China and Arunachal Pradesh, according to a bipartisan Senate resolution. Under this, the McMahon Line has been recognized as the international border between Arunachal Pradesh and China and the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has been described as an ‘integral…

[athena5898]

🚨 Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs' Commission: — Testimony of the detainee (S.D), 37 years old, detained since November 2023, currently held in Naqab Prison: I was arrested in November through the so-called 'safe passage' during my displacement from the north to the south. I was severely beaten after my arrest, with the focus on sensitive areas. They even intentionally pulled the hair from my body in a painful and humiliating way while I was tied up and blindfolded. After being transferred to one of the camps in the Gaza Envelope alongside many other detainees, we were subjected to torture around the clock. One of the guards tied my hands behind my back for eight days, and I was beaten on my back until I bled. This is in addition to the insults and systematic humiliation in all forms and methods. In the initial phase, detainees were forced to relieve themselves in their clothes, and we suffered from thirst and hunger. During that period, food was limited to three pieces of bread. All the detainees in that initial phase suffered from fractures and severe wounds, and we did not receive any medical treatment. I spent eight months wearing the same clothes, and we were deprived of bathing for 18 days. The goal of the beatings in the first phase was to execute us and cause permanent disabilities among the detainees. Despite that, we are still subjected to very harsh conditions. We are detained in the tent section, and all of us are suffering from diseases and fractures, particularly skin diseases (https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2093), which have spread due to the lack of cleanliness and poor health conditions inside the prison. I, along with the majority of the detainees (https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2150), suffer from the spread of boils and sores all over our bodies, which have caused severe infections. What worsened the situation were the foam mattresses, which have no covers, and the friction of our bodies with them, along with the lack of cleanliness, intensified our suffering from severe itching and infections. In the section where I am currently held, with 150 detainees, we had been using one bathroom throughout the past period. The blankets are never washed, and during the extreme heat, snakes and insects spread. Since February, the food containers have not been changed, turning them into a major source for the spread of diseases. In April and May, we faced a real famine as we were deprived of food. Only recently, a second bathroom was added for the 150 detainees, and specific hours have been set for its use, from 8 AM to 1 PM.

[sgiandubh]

It all starts with a smoke alarm

This wasn't supposed to happen like that, of course. It was supposed to happen with an ”allow me to introduce myself”, at the least. But hey, I am playing the cards I've been dealt, and since an anonymous ask on Tumblr does not allow pictures or links, this will have to do. We'll have plenty of time later.

Yesterday, I said that reading that Single Report reaped benefits. I have screen capped and summed up all the things that made me rise an eyebrow, to make things easier. Hopefully, this is going to be short: who would wax lyrical about a septic tank, after all?

I did not use my superpowers to do this, but simply the link provided by a very active Anon on several shipper blogs, in order to properly stir shite, I presume: https://corumproperty.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HomeReport-31.pdf

Armed with my wits and a virtual highlighter, I started to carefully read the whole document. Ownership details aside - this, I discussed yesterday -, I remind you that it should give any prospective buyer a good, detailed idea of the available fittings and current condition of the house put on sale.

In Europe and elsewhere, I guess, inspections of this type are rather a dull and thorough affair. And these people did an excellent job: they checked every single nook & cranny, used binoculars to have a closer look at the roof tiles and listed it all on these papers a good researcher should read, before dropping to conclusions.

This is how we know, for example, that the inspection happened on a rainy day:

.. and that the guttering was overflowing. Does that sound like a well loved, lived-in house to you?

Thought so.

This brought a smile. And the image of a Christmas tree left near a London dustbin in June. Home, sweet home?

Like all properties, this also comes with burglar and fire alarm systems. However, apparently not much has been done, in this respect. Or at least, not recently. Not since February 2022, to be accurate: otherwise, they would have been upgraded. Yet, no such thing: it's up to the buyer to do and pay for the upgrade.

Lived-in? Certainly not after February 2022 and probably even earlier, would be my best guess. But lived-in at some point in time, most certainly.

You see, since I was on the real estate agent's webpage, I also took the virtual tour of the house. It is available to everyone, here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=AFKibrk8QiD

Now, I don't know about you, but when I visit somebody's house for the first time, I always check the bookshelves: yes, I am a shameless nerd. I am also well aware that the rest of the furniture was staged, it looked that sad, clinical way it does all over the world. Did not expect to find any books in there, to be honest. And yet, there they were.

I didn't bother with the fashion coffee table books, although I thought they were a nice nod to Ms. B's past, and totally the kind of things she might have on her credenza.

A built-in bookshelf in the basement caught my eye. That did not look staged. It looked as she might have left some of her own books in there, like an afterthought, if you want. And people's choices of books are always speaking volumes to me, about who they really are.

It did not disappoint.

More fash-un. And yeah, Tiffany & Co! I knew it!

A Tina Turner bio or memoir. Awww:

Bette Davis and some feminist literature. Her books, I am pretty sure of that:

And, to save the best for last, lo and behold, what do we have here?

Bear Grylls?

That Bear Grylls?

Hahahaha. Of course. I have all the reasons in the world to believe the music producer/PA/whatever is into masculine thrillers written by a world-renowned survivalist, haven't I?

Not a chance in hell, to be honest. I grinned like the Cheshire cat because, ladies, we do know WHOSE book is this, don't we?

Judging by its jacket, well-read. Not a prop.

Belonging to someone with a dry, wicked sense of humor who apparently also left this gem:

A Captain's Duty. At this point in time, I wasn't grinning anymore. I was laughing like an idiot, of course.

Slàinte mhath, ladies. We'll have time for a proper introduction later.

[mariacallous]

The Catholic Church in Hungary has been engulfed by a series of high-profile sex scandals and child abuse investigations. The situation isn’t just a crisis for the church, but also a challenge for Viktor Orban’s Christian-nationalist government.

“Perhaps we should not refer to these merely as ‘scandalous cases’, but rather as the painful, inhumane, traumatizing injuries suffered by minors, which go far beyond ‘scandalous news’,” read a statement on December 4 by the editors of the independent Hungarian religious affairs magazine Szemlelek, reflecting on a crisis that has recently engulfed Hungary’s Catholic Church.

Since September, a series of scandals relating to sexual misconduct, pedophilia and cover-up in the Catholic church has wrecked the public reputation of five high-profile clerics and occasioned the suspension of a rising, but as-yet unconfirmed, number of their colleagues. Some see echoes of the crisis in the US Catholic church sparked by the 2002 Boston Globe ‘Spotlight’ investigation into child abuse in the city’s archdiocese – a story (and later movie) that plunged American Catholicism into a crisis from which it’s still recovering.

The close government ties of the priests implicated heighten concerns about overlaps between political power, religious networks and child sexual abuse in Hungary. These concerns were first raised earlier this year in February, following the exposure of a successful intercession by Reformed Church bishop (and former Fidesz cabinet minister) Zoltan Balog with then-president Katalin Novak, a fellow Calvinist, to pardon a church member convicted as a pedophile accomplice. News of the pardon led to Novak’s resignation.

Attention is now turning away from the Reformed community and towards the Catholic Church.

From local to national

In early September, the storm started rumbling with the public disgrace of Father Gergo Bese, a priest of the Kalocsa-Kecskemet archdiocese and a prominent social media influencer identified with the governing Fidesz party via its satellite KDNP (Christian Democratic Peoples’ Party). In 2022, Bese conducted a ‘house blessing’ of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office in the former Carmelite monastery beside Buda Castle.

On September 6, Hungarian outlet Valasz Online revealed that Father Bese, a vocal supporter of Fidesz’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda, had been living a double life as a gay porn movie actor. He was also (against church law) receiving a stipend from the KDNP for communications work without permission from his bishop. He is now under disciplinary suspension.

While Father Bese’s activities involved only consenting adults, their discovery, however, prompted revelations about other forms of misconduct by Kalocsa priests, including those involving minors. Two clerics – Gabor Ronaszeki and Robert Hathazi – both with strong ties to Hungary’s ruling parties, are now being prosecuted by secular authorities for alleged child molestation.

In 2023, Ronaszeki underwent a church disciplinary process during which he admitted the offences, and was removed from the priesthood. He’s understood to have offered money and gifts in exchange for sex to underage boys attending his Religious Education group over a three-year period.

Ronaszeki is the brother-in-law of former Fidesz MP and ministerial commissioner Monika Ronaszekine Keresztes, as well as being an associate of the KDNP leader Zsolt Semjen, who is currently serving as the deputy prime minister and minister for church affairs in the Orban government.

Hungarian media reported that Semjen had been a personal guest at Ronaszeki’s remote “recreational farm” near the small town of Janoshalma in Southern Hungary. Responding to the reports, Semjen claimed that “to the best of my recollection” he has not “visited the place in question”.

Handing matters over swiftly to police and prosecutors reflects improvements in practice following recent reforms across the Catholic world. Even so, the scandal has continued to grow numerically and geographically.

In a November 15 interview with Valasz Online, the archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemet, Balazs Babel, said public awareness of the two court cases had led to more complainants bringing allegations against other clerics.

“In recent months, the Archbishop’s Office has received many more reports than before,” he admitted, adding that several other Kalocsa priests have now been suspended pending investigation.

Major Pajor problem

The issue has morphed from a diocesan scandal into a national crisis. That’s partly because the outcry about Kalocsa was heard from early on in the national media, and partly because first central church institutions and then other dioceses became implicated in related misconduct stories.

First came the resignation on October 25 of the national Bishops’ Conference Secretary Father Tamas Toth, amid allegations of serious impropriety in mishandling communications relating to Kalocsa.

And then on December 5 the scandal reached the archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, led by Hungary’s primate, Cardinal Peter Erdo.

On that day, news broke of canonical and police investigations into Budapest priest Father Andras Pajor, a prominent face of Fidesz’s ‘political Christianity’. In 2023, Father Pajor received Hungary’s Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit from Deputy Prime Minister Semjen for his “role in youth education”.

Father Pajor has repeatedly urged Christians to vote for Orban. He has also, latterly, become notable as a spreader of Russian propaganda, claiming in a YouTube video about the Ukraine war that, since 2022, some 35,000 Russian children had been kidnapped “for pedophiles in the West”.

Former altar boys from his parish, speaking anonymously to Valasz Online, tell a rather different story, however. They claim Father Pajor himself frequently made them strip naked, inspected their genitals intimately with his hands, and gave them full body massages.

Anticipating the next day’s announcement concerning Father Pajor, on December 4 the Bishops’ Conference finally acknowledged the pedophilia issue as a national problem in a statement: “The scandalous news concerning our Church in recent months has caused many to feel uneasy and disappointed… for sins committed, we must pray, fast and make atonement.”

The text continued: “The Catholic Church stands with the victims and communities affected. We pray for them and support their healing.”

Political reverberations

In a letter to fellow bishops obtained by the independent news outlet Telex, Archbishop Babel observed that the impact of the successive scandals was greater “because they are interwoven with politics”.

The political dimension magnifies the spotlight on the church, but the connection of religion and pedophilia is a huge challenge for Fidesz – a party that portrays itself at home and abroad as a protector of family values.

The party’s domestic alliance with historic churches long predates its international communication about Hungary as a bulwark of Christian civilisation against Muslim migration and rising woke-secularism.

Churches have vigorously supported government messaging regarding the supposed dangers that, Fidesz alleges, the LGBTQ+ community poses to children, especially ahead of 2022’s ‘child protection’ referendum, which was timed to boost turnout at that year’s general election. Around 75 per cent of Hungary’s state-funded children’s homes are run by churches.

“Orban’s government constantly seeks endorsement from the churches for its Christian credentials,” religious affairs commentator Janos Reichert tells BIRN. This is because, Reichert continues, there are three overlapping themes closely connected in the minds of many Hungarians: “Hungarian nationalism, anti-Communism and Christianity”.

These three motifs organically support each other such that, Reichert says, “criticism of any one of them cannot be tolerated by Fidesz for fear of danger to the other two”.

Thus, anyone who criticises even one of them is “attacking the ideological basis of the regime”, he adds.

Reichert’s take is shared by political journalist Balazs Gulyas. The government’s flagging support amid economic turbulence and the rise of opposition challenger Peter Magyar means that, in his view, Fidesz is paradoxically more, not less likely to double down reflexively on its traditional talking points, including political Christianity.

“Hungary’s governing parties are grappling with a sharp decline in popularity, making it politically expedient for them to cling to their (overstated) role as the primary political patrons of the churches,” Gulyas tells BIRN. “I find it highly unlikely that they’d abandon the program of political Christianity.”

Such views seem to be borne out by the government’s responses to the crisis to date. Far from distancing itself from the churches, Fidesz has rushed to their defence.

In November, the left-wing opposition party DK proposed a parliamentary motion calling for Hungary to follow the example of Ireland and Australia in establishing an independent enquiry into child sexual abuse in the church. The government used its parliamentary super-majority to defeat the proposal.

And addressing parliament’s justice committee on November 14, Deputy Prime Minister Semjen, speaking in his capacity as minister for church affairs, dismissed suggestions that the situation in the churches represented a particular concern. “The number of church cases is a hundredth of the number of secular cases, there is no reason to single out the church world,” he declared.

[theculturedmarxist]

Immediately after Joe Biden announced that he would not seek re-election and instead endorsed Kamala Harris, she was anointed as the Democratic Party presidential nominee with little analysis of her record or her program. In fact, her website, KamalaHarris.com , makes no mention of a political program at all. While foolish debates about whether she should be considered Black garner media attention, questions about policy are largely ignored. Black Agenda Report has been writing about Harris for some time, and we share what we and others have noted about her record over the years.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, July 19, 2017 Kamala Harris and America’s Oligarchs Briahna Joy Gray, Current Affairs, September 3, 2017 How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, January 16, 2019 Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives Teodros Fikre, Ghion Journal, January 16, 2019 Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, January 24, 2019 Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report, January 30, 2019 The U.S. is a Political Prison, Kamala Harris is a Prison Guard Teodros Fikre, Black Agenda Report, January 30, 2019 When Politicians Use Marginalized People As Human Shields

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, February 20, 2019 Kamala Harris: The Fix Is In Marjorie Cohn, Black Agenda Report, July 10, 2019 Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report, July 24, 2019 Kamala Harris Embodies the Most Dangerous Myth of American Exceptionalism Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2019 No Racism, Just Russians

Erica Caines, Hood Communist, August 13, 2020 Political Copaganda and the November Elections

Ahjamu Umi, Black Agenda Report, August 19, 2020 Kamala Harris: Class Struggle and the Illusion of Identity in Capitalism Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, August 19, 2020 “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Black Agenda Report, August 26, 2020 Obama, Harris and the Ruse of Racial Representation

Julie Kuttapan, Black Agenda Report, August 26, 2020 "Kamala Auntie": On the Vulgarity of Bourgeois Identity Politics in 2020

Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, October 15, 2020 The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, November 11, 2020 The Real Resistance Begins Tye Salandy,Trinidad and Tobago News Blog, November 13, 2020 Biden-Harris and the Diverse Faces of U.S. Imperialism

Erica Caines, Hood Communist, February 21, 2021 The Caribbean Diaspora Has a SOUTHCOM Problem

Erica Caines, Hood Communist, June 10, 2021 Kamala Harris and the Americas Ready for Revolution, Hood Communist, January 27, 2022 Biden Harris and the Never Ending Commitment to War Gyasi Lake, Black Youth Project, August 8, 2022 There’s No Such Thing as a “Progressive Prosecutor” In a System Designed to Criminalize Blackness Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, April 7, 2023 Ajamu Baraka Discusses the Zone of Peace and Kamala Harris’ Trip to Africa | Black Agenda Report Salifu Mack, Hood Communist, July 6, 2023 More Than Meets the Silk Press: Kamala Harris and U.S. Imperialism Peoples Dispatch, March 25, 2024 Puerto Ricans Take to the Streets Against Kamala Harris Visit

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report, July 24, 2024 War, Genocides, and Coups: Biden/Harris and the Irreversible Crisis of Neo-Liberal Fake Democracy Jacqueline Luqman, Luqman Nation, The Coup for the Democratic Nomination, July 26, 2024 Darker Than Blue 7/26/24: The Coup For The Democratic Nomination

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

at this point my tumblr is just becoming a british politics blog but anyway, updates on the police misconduct at the coronation:

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Anti-monarchy arrests at coronation to be scrutinised by MPs

Chair of home affairs select committee says decision to be made whether to hold inquiry into use of Public Order Act

Matthew Weaver, Wed 10 May 2023 10.38 BST

The arrest of anti-monarchy protesters at King Charles’s coronation and intimidatory Home Office warnings to campaigners before the event are to be scrutinised by a committee of MPs.

In a statement, the home affairs select committee said it would examine the Metropolitan police’s handling of republican protests at an evidence session next Wednesday.

It will investigate the force’s approach to public demonstrations, the practical implementation of the public order bill and the arrest of republican protesters. A full list of witnesses will be announced in the coming days.

Dame Diana Johnson, the chair of the home affairs select committee, said there were “real questions” about how the new Public Order Act was used to hold leading members of Republic for up to 16 hours during the coronation.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Johnson said she would be interested in reviewing how broad the law was and “what guidance was given to frontline police officers and whether there is an issue about training”.

Johnson added: “So there are real questions about that and we think this morning we’ll need to look at that and decide whether we want to have that short inquiry to learn some lessons and see what the implementation of that act actually means in practice to frontline police officers.”

The force also released without charge three women’s safety volunteers who were arrested on suspicion of committing a public nuisance for carrying rape alarms at the coronation.

Johnson also wants answers about the treatment of these women. She said: “There’s also an issue about the women who were giving out the rape alarms as well and the how they ended up arrested. I don’t think it was under the Public Order Act 2023, but they were arrested as well.

full article here

so, while the home affairs select committee (its basically like a bunch of mps from different parties who examine what the home office is doing. that includes policies, laws, policing, etc.) are meeting to look at what happened, they havent opened an official inquiry, and we dont know if they will.

the last inquiry the hasc opened was on the 7th february this year relating to human trafficking. there is currently an inquiry open on policing priorities (opened 21 july 2022). this seems to have been triggered by the chief inspector of policing andy cooke (truly these titles are pretentious as fuck) who has repeatedly criticised police for not focussing on preventing or solving crime.

you might think that would be the first priority, but considering on the night of the coronation, they were arresting people essentially for thought crimes, youd be wrong. most forces (including the met) often just dont record crimes, and andy cooke is apparently an outlier in believing police should attend every burgulary.

there hasnt been a report published yet for this inquiry but they stopped accepting evidence last november though the evidence transcripts are available for the public to review.

i would like to note that although the hasc is cross-party, 6 out of the 11 members are tories. the rest are made up of 3 labour, 1 independent and 1 snp. as far as i can tell theres no representation for northern island in the committee.

percentage wise, that makes the committee roughly 54% tory, 27% labour, 9% independent and 9% snp. so while diana johnson is labour and from up north, dont get your hopes up regarding an inquiry. i dont know how the ins and outs of their committee, but tories make up the majority.

we do now have official confirmation that six of the protesters were held for 16 hours on suspicion of committing a crime.

im also glad that diana johnson has brought up how the uh taking away the human right to protest act public order act 2023 was implemented. i discussed with my mom how fucking stupid it was to implement a new law thatll affect an event happening the next day.

i am interested as to what she means by the night star volunteers not being arrested under the no seriously guys the right to protest is protected as a human rights act public order act 2023 because why the fuck else were they arrested then? its been reported as "a conspiracy to disrupt public peace", and they were counted within the 64 arrested.

also just gonna mention, diana johnson has said publicly that she wants to review how broad the this law literally suppresses a human right public order act 2023, and idk, it feels like maybe we should have established that before it was enacted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tl/dr: the home affairs select committee are examining whether they should open an inquiry into the police action during the coronation. unfortunately its majority tory so dont get your hopes up for an actual inquiry happening.

[seafoamreadings]

week of february 12th, 2023

aries: an atmosphere of uncertainty doesn't need to slow you down. no need to fear the unknown. the trouble is that the unknown could bring the unwanted but the good news is that necessarily you don't know that and it could just as well lead to a pleasant future.

taurus: the vibes are earthy and fixed which is frustrating for many but solidly in your own wheelhouse. of course it's always better to be flexible than brittle, and magical thinking is powerful for the time being, but your slow and steady approach to things pays off.

gemini: mercury, your ruling planet, trines nurturing ceres. they're both in the other air signs, highlighting all things fun, creative, and interesting - these are some of your specialties even in less supportive times than this!

cancerians: mercury now in aquarius takes some focus off your relationships, in a way that might be refreshing. at the same time, there is a focus on debts and taxes. if you have anything here to clear up it is auspicious to do so in the next couple of weeks.

leo: a flurry of 7th house activity before the start of pisces season. get your commitment/partnership related affairs in order before the shift so that they don't come back to haunt you when it is less auspicious to shuffle things around.

virgo: if you've felt a little *too* focused on the sacred mundane these days, transcendent relationships are about to become a big thing. brace yourself, and try to keep your feet on the ground in case of major romantic swooning.

libra: even with relatively little explicitly libran energy, varied cardinality + airiness + venusian vibes add up to = everyone loves libra. be kind to the pisceans in your life for bonus points, but it should be a good time to you!

scorpio: that strange shimmery quality to the astral plane currently is magic, and that's not a joke. logic and realism have their places, but they don't always work in such a surreal atmosphere. actually if you manage to combine them, that's when you get the best results this week.

sagittarius: those of you with siblings - do something fun with them or at least reach out to them soon if it's at all possible. if not, or for only-child sagittarians, consider bonding with neighbors and your immediate community. big aquarius vibes all week smile on such behaviors.

capricorn: your ruling planet saturn is and has been, of course, in aquarius, but you likely feel it all week as it gears up to move into pisces. it is still good to be frugal, but you can start to plan ahead a bit to small indulgences.

aquarius: if everything seems strangely foreboding right now, that's because it is. nothing happens which isn't a sign or omen of some kind. the good news is, they can be good omens!

pisces: it is the last week before your own season begins; pisces welcomes the sun on the weekend. but in a way, it is already getting started, and you can take what occurs in the coming weeks as omens of what saturn into your sign next week will bring. not to mention you have a lovely conjunction between venus and neptune occurring before the week is up. you may dream of your (future?) lover, or they will make your waking life a sort of dream.

[nothing-but-glitter-and-lashes]

one of the best things that happened to me in 2023

getting a tumblr really was one of the best things that ever happened to me in 2023

let me explain

so i have very… sheltering parents. they like to control what im watching and listening to, they don’t like me having social media. not an insane amount, but just like… to make sure i don’t see or hear anything completely appropriate, cos i am 13 years old. maybe control is the wrong word. but you know what i mean.

the problem with this is, it means that i don’t tend to know about current affairs/events that happen in the world/any major issues going on. not like in a way that lead me to have wrong ideas about anything, like for example the LGBTQ+ community, but in a way that means that i don’t know anything about that community… at all. i didn’t know what the word gay meant until much more recently than probably anyone else on this site. i don’t hear anything about the Palestinian occupation, because my parents will always turn the radio off if it’s talking about something “upsetting”. i mean fuck, i barely knew anything was going on in the middle east until i got a tumblr.

its not that i had the wrong opinion, it’s not that i support israel. i just didn’t have an opinion. full stop.

so when i got a tumblr, i had to very quickly catch up on everything that’s happened… ever. like yes i updated myself on the Palestinian occupation, i learnt what the rest of the letters in the LGBTQ+ acronym were, what they stood for, and what those words meant. but the way i grew up meant that i never heard very much music on the radio, just whatever my parents wanted to listen to. which would’ve been fine, because we have similar music taste. but it was getting genuinely ridiculous. to give an example, i never heard the song Blank Space until 2023.

2023.

that song came out in 2014. hell, it was RE released in 2023. people would sing popular songs and ask me why i didn’t know them. what was i supposed to tell them? that my parents didn’t listen to that music, so i didn’t either?

so why did they act like that? were they scared, for example, that i would become LGBTQ+ if i ever found out that that community existed? nope. i came out at bisexual to my parents February 2023, and they were both pretty ok with it (it was awkward and still is, but they’re not homophobic). were they worried id upset myself by finding out about the horrific things happening to innocent Palestinians? well, even if they were, it’s better that i know, so that i can try to do something about it. nothing can change if we’re all kept in the dark, right?

so. in November 2023, i got me a tumblr. found out about it from Pinterest, which my parents would also kill me for having. i love this site. i love my moots. my parents will never know.

thanks for reading, i guess. i don’t really know where i was going with that, but i am pretty pissed at my parents for not letting me find out about fucking current events. letting me listen to normal pop music like a lot of teens do. i may only be 13, but im not stupid. and they’ll never find my tumblr.

love you all <3

[christinescupofcoffee]

one of my 9 wips — As the Seasons Grey

the other 8:

Quarter After Twelve | Throughout the Dark Months of April and May | Love is Not Enough | Blood & Chocolate | The Confectioner’s Tale | The Skeleton Key | Midnight Oil | Time is Coming | (i also have a few works that are anonymous)

started — February 2023 | genre — erotic romance, fanfic | pov — 3rd person perspective | status — first draft | currently — writing book two (Dark Roots of Earth)! | themes — student/teacher dynamics, higher education, affairs, secrets, escapism, death, unlocking memories, healing

blurb | “You’re a sweet man, Alex—you deserve a break once in a while.” He was the substitute teacher with the hands as fast as lightning, and she couldn't help but feel something with him. But it's a collegiate setting, and there's a boy next to her with unsaid secrets and adventurous streak, a quartet of girls like moths to a flame, a lady with her eyes wide open, and a mysterious woman on his caller ID.

excerpt | She was the kind of person that only entered a classroom once in every while, and yet she seemed like someone who should have been there forever. A spirit in the night, the way that she moved about, everything and more. She wasn’t one to have a crush on anyone else around her, either; merely someone who had come to class to do her work and ask a few questions here and there, to which she held on to every word that emerged from his lips, and she tended to her notes all the while. There was something so hypnotic about her, especially for him. 

She had come to the college on a whim, much like how he had as well. It was as if the stars had bound them together, and yet, there was nothing to tie them by the hip. 

The whole entire thing resembled a dream of sorts, as if something beyond them wanted them to be together forever. 

There was something in the air that day at school as well, especially once she strode into the classroom and took her spot there at the front of the room. She caught him there at the teacher’s desk on the far-left side of the room. He sat there with his back to the classroom: she knew right away that it wasn’t Mr. Hansen. 

note: a personal favorite! This one actually started life as a one shot for Kinkmas 2022 and then I began thinking about how much I love Alex and how much I want the best for him. I started writing this one during a stream of bad snowstorms and we didn’t have internet for four days—before it went out, I caught Lana Del Rey’s then-new song “A&W” and it became sort of a driving force behind it. I made lots of art to go with it, too. I did have to put Dark Roots of Earth on hiatus this past summer because a.) my 10-year-old laptop finally died on me and I had to rely on my iPad to write, and with this, I had to choose what to write over the summer; and b.) I needed to take more notes. Christine is undoubtedly my avatar and her relationship with Alex is undoubtedly one that I think about quite often.

And I won’t go into it—and it’s purely speculation at this point, too, i.e., I can’t really confirm anything—but it seems this fic has more or less gotten me into some trouble recently 😅 oh, well. Nothing I can do about it and I’m pressing on anyway.

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#K5NewsFMExclusive: 'Glitch Techs' celebrates 4th Anniversary, unveiling the New Animatic Season 3 Sneak Preview and beyond at a Virtual Q&A event forum

(Written by Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong / Freelanced News Writer, Digital Media Reporter and Presenter of OneNETnews)

(2nd UPDATE) FORT WORTH, TEXAS -- Nickelodeon's popular American-animated cartoon show 'Glitch Techs', commemorates the 4th anniversary with an exciting update on the anticipated 3rd Season. To mark this occasion, a pre-recorded virtual Discord video conference was held on Friday (February 23rd, 2024 -- Central local time) on a video-sharing platform (owned via Google's Alphabet), hosted by a male YouTuber 'Seekingthesky' from 'NewGamePlus' on his YouTube channel. The guests for the virtual Q&A forum is Mr. Dan Milano, one of the creators of the show, hailing from Long Island, New York, United States of America (U.S.A).

The news team of DWFH-FM 97.7mhz's K5 News FM: Dumaguete can exclusively reveal that the creators of 'Glitch Techs' are breaking their silence for the first time to introduce the show to a broader audience, including us adults in the specified target demographic. They hinted that the 3rd Season is currently on hold, with the animated production frozen indefinitely at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio (NAS), now a part of the 'Nickelodeon Group' under the American streaming company 'Netflix'.

At the start of a pre-recorded Q&A forum on YouTube with a new video message to their web streaming viewers: "You guys are on this journey with Miko Kubota and Hector Nieves (Mee-KO & Hi-5), we have so many other ideas that we wanna do with this project. But you know, it is what it is, we do have a secret Season 3 so… Nickelodeon someday, and hopefully they'll let that out, and let us show you what are plans were with 'Glitch Techs'. But for now, continue to enjoy this show, it really helps us out and keep the awareness of this show out there by you guys sharing it, talking about it and everything that you guys continue to do", Mr. Eric Robles, who is a co-creator of 'Glitch Techs' from a video message and spoke exclusively to 'K5 News FM: Dumaguete' (formerly Radyo Bandera Sweet FM network).

As part of the 4th anniversary celebration, the male YouTuber 'SeekingTheSky' treated fans to an exclusive sneak peek of the animatic episode #7 titled "Mobs and Minions" during this said forum, offering a glimpse into what lies ahead in the upcoming season.

K5 News Patrol #4 reporter of OneNETnews, Station Manager & President of OneNETtv Channel; and a current 'Hinobi' employee in Bailley City, Texas, U.S.A., spilled the beans on 'Glitch Gauntlet' during a candid couch discussion with her daughter's father 'Mr. Hugh Kubota' by wiping system memories of our brains, pretending none of them is going to happen except only Miko. He has ensured if they can play together with their family gaming sessions for Kubota(s).

During the virtual Q&A forum, Mr. Milano reflected on the show's journey over the past four (4) years, highlighting both challenges and successes. Fans were treated to the inside scoop, and a glimpse behind the scenes, building anticipation for the forthcoming 3rd season.

Yet, in a recent Instagram post (owned by Meta Platforms Inc.) in late-November 2023, Mr. Eric Robles hinted at 'Glitch Techs' bidding farewell to the streaming company 'Netflix', and transitioning to 'Paramount+' in the near future, adding a new chapter to the show's evolution.

The anniversary celebration was a joyous affair for dedicated 'Glitch Techs' enthusiasts, offering them a peek into the artistic process behind their beloved series and leaving them eager for more adventures in the world of glitches and tech-savvy heroes, with a touch of a technical support.

SCREENGRAB COURTESY: NewGamePlusLD2512 via YT VIDEO BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLFPiW90Z9g [Referenced YT VIDEO via NewGamePlus] *https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCxfSP0jcakreVZGo9Mxwh0g *https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz28Tu5uJTc/ [Referenced Instagram Captioned Post via Eric Robles] *https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-milano-35324a59 *https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586850/bio/ *https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-milano_glitch-techs-the-power-of-friendship-and-activity-7165076874040205312-QkLK [Referenced LinkedIn Post via Dan Milano] and *https://offcolour.org/2020/09/07/glitch-techs-the-power-of-friendship-and-collaboration-on-and-off-screen/ [Referenced News Article via Off Colour News Bureau]

-- OneNETnews Team

UPDATE #1 (as of March 1st, 2024 -- Manila local time): Per the male YouTuber's response via the X Network with respect, we redact his legal full name for privacy reasons and to be edited out for clarification purpose.

UPDATE #2 (as of March 1st, 2024 -- Manila local time): Corrections made per the male source YouTuber. It's actually 'Seekingthesky', not 'SeekingWithSky' in their misheard nickname. We extremely but sincerely apologize for a confusion.

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22 February 2023 The Cayman Islands Coast Guard (CICG) was honoured to host His Royal Highness (HRH) The Earl of Wessex and Fulfar, at its base in Savannah Newlands. Due to its size and location, the CICG Base was selected as the venue of choice for HRH to receive a Royal Salute from The Cayman Islands Cadet Corps (CICC), and to inspect equipment that will be used by the Cayman Islands Regiment (CIR) when deploying to assist in Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Recovery operations. During this visit, HRH toured the facility, and received a walking brief on the CICG’s current capabilities and future initiatives. While on site, HRH also met with, and engaged in discussions with members of Recruit Class 02, who were participating in training exercises that day. This is the first Member of the Royal Family to visit with the CICG since its inception, and it is was quite an honour, especially as HRH is a staunch supporter of youth development programmes, and maritime conservation initiatives. Accompanying HRH on his tour of the base and his interactions with the CIR and CICC, was HE The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Mr. Martyn Roper. The Minister Responsible for Home Affairs, Hon. Sabrina Turner, and the acting Chief Officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. Julian Lewis. 📸: Adrian Clarke & @picturesbyshankar — Cayman Islands Coast Guard

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National Language of India

According to the Constitution of India, India does not have a national language, rather it has Hindi and English as official languages. Hindi is the language to be used by the central government as per Article 343 while communicating with the states of the Hindi belt. English is the associate official language and the language used when communicating with the states. List of Official Language…

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🚨 Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs' Commission: — Testimony of the detainee (S.D), 37 years old, detained since November 2023, currently held in Naqab Prison: I was arrested in November through the so-called 'safe passage' during my displacement from the north to the south. I was severely beaten after my arrest, with the focus on sensitive areas. They even intentionally pulled the hair from my body in a painful and humiliating way while I was tied up and blindfolded. After being transferred to one of the camps in the Gaza Envelope alongside many other detainees, we were subjected to torture around the clock. One of the guards tied my hands behind my back for eight days, and I was beaten on my back until I bled. This is in addition to the insults and systematic humiliation in all forms and methods. In the initial phase, detainees were forced to relieve themselves in their clothes, and we suffered from thirst and hunger. During that period, food was limited to three pieces of bread. All the detainees in that initial phase suffered from fractures and severe wounds, and we did not receive any medical treatment. I spent eight months wearing the same clothes, and we were deprived of bathing for 18 days. The goal of the beatings in the first phase was to execute us and cause permanent disabilities among the detainees. Despite that, we are still subjected to very harsh conditions. We are detained in the tent section, and all of us are suffering from diseases and fractures, particularly skin diseases (https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2093), which have spread due to the lack of cleanliness and poor health conditions inside the prison. I, along with the majority of the detainees (https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2150), suffer from the spread of boils and sores all over our bodies, which have caused severe infections. What worsened the situation were the foam mattresses, which have no covers, and the friction of our bodies with them, along with the lack of cleanliness, intensified our suffering from severe itching and infections. In the section where I am currently held, with 150 detainees, we had been using one bathroom throughout the past period. The blankets are never washed, and during the extreme heat, snakes and insects spread. Since February, the food containers have not been changed, turning them into a major source for the spread of diseases. In April and May, we faced a real famine as we were deprived of food. Only recently, a second bathroom was added for the 150 detainees, and specific hours have been set for its use, from 8 AM to 1 PM.

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Merry Christmas Colangelo & Pomerantz

"First Cyrus 'Cy' Vance Jr (DA) has Mark Pomarantz (Special Assistant DA/Authr People vs Donald Trump author/Hillary's Attorney) and Dunne cracking the whip on him, then Schumer and Preetinder 'Preet' Singh Bhahara (US Attorney SDNY) show up at his Birthday in October to spank him - Matt Colangelo in December threatening to break his kneecaps- then the leaks and more leaks until he gives in with Cy Vance's garbage case. Uh....this won't be a swell time. This guy is going to find out Soros doesn't pay court costs or keep you out of prison. This in one pile of dog stuff he's going to be sorry he jumped into. Trump will be after his backside too. This man had better lawyer up."

Exclusive: Jim Jordan Subpoenas Manhattan Prosecutor Who Resigned over Suspended Trump Probe April 6, 2023

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republicans’ investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump by subpoenaing a prosecutor on Thursday who resigned from the office last year over the district attorney’s initial reluctance to pursue Trump’s case.

Jordan’s subpoena, reviewed by Breitbart News, directs Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in February 2022, to appear before the committee for a deposition on April 20.

In a cover letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan said his committee had legislative reasons to demand Pomerantz’s testimony.

“Congress has a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former Presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions—like New York County—where the prosecutor is popularly elected and trial-level judges lack life tenure,” Jordan wrote.

Pomerantz, a former special assistant assigned to the years-long Trump case, exited the Manhattan district attorney’s office right after Bragg took over. The move became a public affair when his resignation letter appeared in the New York Times last March.

Pomerantz wrote in the letter to Bragg that he believed Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations” related to his financial statements and that he was

quitting because he thought Bragg’s decision at the time to “indefinitely” suspend the investigation into Trump was “misguided.”

Jordan observed, based on the resignation letter, that Pomerantz had “prejudged the results” of the investigation and that his critical words of Bragg seemingly sparked the district attorney to openly declare that the Trump investigation was “far from over.”

In November 2022, one week after Trump announced he was running for president again, the Times reported that Bragg had revived the Trump investigation and had zeroed in on a hush money scheme involving porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

“For Mr. Bragg, the hush-money developments suggest the first signs of progress since he took office at the beginning of the year, when he balked at indicting Mr. Trump in connection with his business practices,” the outlet reported at the time.

Pomerantz later went on to publish a book about the matter, called People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, in which Pomerantz discussed internal concerns people had about the investigation and worries about the credibility of Cohen, a convicted felon.

“You describe your eagerness to investigate President Trump, writing that you were ‘delighted’ to join an unpaid group of lawyers advising on the Trump investigations, and joking that salary negotiations had gone ‘great’ because you would have paid to join the investigation,” Jordan wrote of the book.

He added that Pomerantz “frivolously” compared Trump to John Gotti, a notorious New York City mob boss, and described him as a “malignant narcissist.”

“The depth of your personal animosity towards him is apparent in your writing,” Jordan concluded.

The subpoena marks Republicans’ strongest move yet in its investigation of the New York County’s indictment of Trump amid questions from some about Congress’s authority to probe open state-level criminal matters.

It comes after Jordanfirst contacted Pomerantz on March 22 seeking his testimony, as well as documents and communication related to the Trump investigation.

Jordan in his subpoena cover letter referenced correspondence on March 25 from Bragg to Pomerantz, which Breitbart News has reviewed, in which Bragg instructed Pomerantz, a private citizen, not to provide Congress with any materials relevant to Pomerantz’s work at the district attorney’s office.

Pomerantz then told the committee on March 27 that he would be complying with Bragg’s instructions rather than Jordan’s requests.🙄

Jordan contended Thursday, however, that Pomerantz is “uniquely situated” to provide insight to the Judiciary Committee and that

he has “no basis to decline to testify” given he has already made detailed accounts of his work on the Trump probe widely public.

EXCLUSIVE: House Judiciary Expands Investigation Into Manhattan DA Over Trump Indictment April 7, 2023

The Federalist: The House Judiciary Committee is expanding its investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over last week’s unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump.

On Friday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Manhattan DA Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo, shared with The Federalist, requesting a transcribed interview. 

According to the New York Times in December, Colangelo was hired four months ago to “jump start” Bragg’s Trump investigations after years spent going after the former president at both the Department of Justice and the New York attorney general’s office.

“Given your history of working for law-enforcement entities that are pursuing President Trump and the public reporting surrounding your decision to work for the New York County District Attorney’s Office, we request your cooperation with our oversight in your personal capacity,” Jordan wrote.

Trump pled not guilty at the historic arraignment Tuesday against a 34-count felony indictment carrying a maximum 136-year prison sentence. The charges stem from 2016 hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in a case prosecutors previously declined to pursue.

The weak nature of the case has led a dozen liberal law professors and Trump antagonists to call the prosecution a dead end.

The House Judiciary chairman reminded Colangelo of Congress’s authority to probe the Manhattan DA’s office after Bragg has spent weeks resisting lawmakers’ oversight requests. Fox News reported Wednesday the back and forth has led the Committee to consider issuing formal subpoenas for Bragg’s office. On Thursday, lawmakers pulled the trigger on a subpoena for Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor under Bragg who resigned last year over slow progress on efforts to arrest Trump.

Jordan revealed on Fox News Monday that Bragg conceded to lawmakers his office used federal funds in the Manhattan DA’s Trump investigation.

“The Committee may therefore consider legislation to enhance reporting requirements concerning the use of federal forfeiture funds and/or to prohibit the use of federal forfeiture funds to investigate a current or former President or presidential candidate,” Jordan wrote in the letter to Colangelo.

The committee is demanding Colangelo hand over documents related to his hiring and sit down for a formal interview. Colangelo was given until April 21 to provide lawmakers with a schedule of availability.

While the Manhattan DA’s office braces for aggressive oversight from House Republicans, members of Bragg’s staff deleted online profiles. The “Meet Our Team” page was also scrubbed from Bragg’s website.

Trump’s indictment last week drew immediate condemnation from House Republicans and the former president’s rivals in the 2024 primary but has been met with silence by Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stepped down from his role on Wednesday following the resignations of several other members of the cabinet amid a wide-ranging reshuffle of the Ukrainian government, the largest since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago. 

The shake-up comes at a critical juncture in the war, as Ukrainian forces seized a chunk of Russia’s Kursk region in a surprise cross-border offensive last month and as Moscow continues to strike energy facilities across Ukraine, leading to rolling blackouts and sparking fears of a grim winter ahead. 

On Tuesday, at least 51 people were killed in a Russian strike on the central Ukrainian city of Poltava. 

“Fall will be extremely important for Ukraine. And our state institutions must be set up in such a way that Ukraine will achieve all the results we need,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Tuesday evening address. “To do this, we need to strengthen some areas in the government—and personnel decisions have been prepared.”

Zelensky is expected to travel to the United States this month to attend the United Nations General Assembly and has said he intends to present U.S. President Joe Biden as well as presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris with a “victory plan” to win the war. 

Ukrainian lawmakers said they expect another round of firings and resignations—which have been rumored as part of a major government shake-up for some time—to continue Thursday. David Arakhamia, the head of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party in Ukraine’s parliament said in a Telegram message that as much as 50 percent of the cabinet of ministers could be reshuffled. 

In a meeting with his party in the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday, Zelensky said the reshuffle was intended to reenergize the government and increase efficiency in certain areas, according to Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

Rumors of a reshuffle have circulated in Ukraine for months. Almost a quarter of cabinet posts have been held by acting ministers following previous resignations, said Andrii Osadchuk, a member of the Ukrainian parliament with the opposition party Holos. 

Ukrainian analysts struggled to explain the logic of the reshuffle, noting that some of those who have tendered their resignations are expected to remain in senior government posts.

“I don’t think anyone can explain why most of the changes are happening,” said Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine. “We cannot say that this is a new team in the government,” he added, noting that many of the new appointees currently serve as deputy ministers or as officials in the Presidential Office. 

Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, and elections, which are typically held every five years, have been postponed indefinitely.

But with much of Ukraine’s foreign policy already being run by Zelensky and Andriy Yermak, the head of the Presidential Office, former U.S. officials and experts saw the moves as a reshuffling of the deck chairs in Ukraine’s cabinet instead of a full-on personnel makeover.

“These are Ukrainian decisions to make and indeed the president’s decision to make,” said former Ambassador William Taylor, who led the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv in an acting capacity until January 2020. “I don’t anticipate this being a problem in relations with the United States.”

In the past year, Zelensky has taken a firmer hand with personnel changes. In September 2023, he swapped out then-Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov for Rustem Umerov and followed that up by replacing the popular Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi as the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces with Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi in February. With the new moves likely to continue to see power centralized in the hands of Zelensky and Yermak, some lawmakers chafed at the changes.

“President Zelensky does not believe in institutions—he believes in people,” said one Ukrainian lawmaker who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the ongoing changes. “But institutions should work, and institutions should have strategy. That’s not how it’s happening in Ukraine.”

In the wake of Kuleba’s resignation, Andrii Sybiha will be nominated as Ukraine’s foreign minister, two people familiar with the decision said. Sybiha was a deputy to Yermak in the Presidential Office until earlier this year and previously Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey. 

“He’ll have a different style from Kuleba,” Taylor said. “He’ll probably instill a little more discipline in the [Ministry of Foreign Affairs]. He’s more formal.”

As part of the changes, the portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olha Stefanishyna is expected to be folded into the Justice Ministry, with Stefanishnya tipped to lead the ministry in an expanded role as the country pursues accession talks with the European Union, said Alyona Getmanchuk, the director of the New Europe Center, a Kyiv-based think tank.

Oleksandr Kamyshin will be promoted to become a strategic advisor to the Presidential Office, two Ukrainian officials said, putting the former Ukrainian railroad and arms czar much closer to the powerful president. 

“For me, it’s time for new challenges,” Kamyshin said in a post on X on Wednesday after Ukraine’s parliament voted through his resignation. “I will remain part of the team and continue doing everything possible to bring our Victory closer. I will keep building the Arsenal of the Free World.” Herman Smetanin, the head of Ukroboronprom, the Ukrainian state defense conglomerate, is expected to take over the Ministry of Strategic Industries.

Ukrainian officials said Kuleba may take an ambassador role in Africa, where he has championed boosting Ukraine’s diplomatic footprint to counter rising Russian influence in the global south, or at a major European institution, such as NATO or the Council of Europe. 

Ukraine has been trying to move ahead with anti-corruption reforms. It has moved up 40 places in Transparency International’s scorecard on addressing corruption over the past decade, despite two Russian military invasions. And experts don’t expect the shake-up to further delay those efforts. 

“Let’s be fair: There’s still this ongoing war, a very serious situation in the east. They’re still scrambling to get the weapons and support that they need in Ukraine from the United States and other partners in the west,” said Jonathan Katz, the senior director for the anti-corruption, democracy, and security project at the Brookings Institution. “Certainly some consolidation of power is seen in scenarios like this where you have an ongoing conflict.”

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New Moon in Pisces

20th February 2023 7:05 GMT

Pisces is associated to ;

Sacrifice, charity, welfare, prayers, mysticism, spirituality, far away lands, isolation, behind the scenes activity, those who live a secluded life, emotions, creativity, illusions, confinements, self- undoings, hidden activity, spying, mafia undertakings, hospitals, mental health and endings.. etc.

Parts of the body - The feet, liver, lymphatic system.

Places - the seas, oceans, swimming / fishing sites, religious places, where chemicals, oils and medicines are kept.

The Sun and Moon will be conjoining at the first degree of Pisces. The specific details highlighted above shall become significant to both the general masses and the state - internally and externally.

A reemergences of traditional values, religious groups and a particular concentration can be placed upon all those workings which are usually hidden from sight. Spiritual aspirations, dreams and other ethereal realities become evident. Creating mental maps or indulging in the imagination can be common and beneficial throughout the month.

Seriousness and structure will be enforced, from behind the scenes and due to far away land activity. Do not believe all that you hear, as many things will be exaggerated, filled with lies. Many mannequins of deception shall be found posing - instigated by the left wing, criminal type currents.

Overshadowing the lunation is Saturn which is in a close conjunction to the celestial event - entering Pisces on the 8th of March ( see my Post for the New Year) new beginnings may require an extra push and disciplined approach - eventually leading to longer / more fruitful ripenings. Avoid acting on rushed or less thought out decisions.

Globally and politically some unconventional news is imminent, technological difficulties, hackings, re- scheduling’s, surprising or unexpected information communicated.

Completely fresh, inspirational and enlightening interactions on topics with other people. A heightening of senses and broadening of the intuitional faculties.

Venus moves out of its exaltation into its fall - in Aries. Women, finances, artists, relationships and all those affairs under the lordship of Venus are expanded.

There is fiery nature to Venus while passing through this sign - physical amusements, rise in opportunities linked to women , creatives or those domains tied to the planet.

Conjoining Jupiter, shedding light on opportunities, alluring experiences, financial gains and attraction towards faith, far away travel, philosophical and law related themes. ( see the new year post discussing Jupiter)

Countries ruled by Pisces.

Russia, Netherlands, Colombia, Portugal etc.

Inbox me for Astrological readings.

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