"The most exceptional thing about this show is the hatred. The writer’s hatred is the only pure thing in the show. That is the one thing about Velma that feels at all genuine."

https://arkhavencomics.com/2023/01/16/first-impressions-velma/

An American fashion designer who raised her two daughters in Shanghai before returning to the US says she misses how her kids were ‘co-parented by the Chinese government’.

https://summit.news/2023/01/19/american-mother-who-lived-in-china-says-she-misses-state-bringing-up-her-children/

"The control of publicly-available information over the last 10 years by WEF, the White House, and intelligence agencies including the FBI has been remarkable.... But all of the above are retrograde attempts to put the Internet genie back in the bottle and thus doomed to fail."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-shocking-number-crazy-sounding-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-turned-about-be-true

"Freedom is always under siege from the roving bandits that seek to tyrannize and plunder the free. To protect themselves, the Founding Fathers of the United States erected the Constitution as a citadel of freedom. Like Minas Tirith, it was built with seven walls. From outer to inner, the walls are:

A written constitution.
A vertical separation of powers.
A horizontal separation of powers.
A government of enumerated powers.
A government of mixed type.
A bill of enumerated rights.
An acknowledgment of unwritten rights.

"All seven walls have been breached. Last week we documented the collapse of the first three walls. This week we’ll discuss the state of the fourth wall."

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-seven-walls-of-fortress-america-383

Guess what happened to Jacinda Ardern!?

https://news.1rj.ru/str/goddek/2528?comment=350093

Zurich
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@QuiteInterestingInformation

🇺🇦⚡️On board the helicopter that crashed in Brovary were the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky and his deputy Yevgeny Enin, they died, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

"Heroism has not disappeared, but subversive undertones have worked their way into all our stories."

https://thesaxoncross.substack.com/p/marvel-morality

🌽 An Energy Crisis Is Seeping Into South Africa’s Food Supply — Bloomberg

The most severe power cuts ever experienced in South Africa are threatening food and water supplies and disrupting the lives of millions of people, including chicken farmers.

In the poultry industry, electricity outages have forced factories to pause round-the-clock operations for as long as half a day at a time. As a result, over 10 million birds designated for slaughter are still alive and consuming feed, creating a backlog that companies fear they won’t be able to fix.

“We actually have enough chickens on farms around the country, but we can’t supply the market because we can’t slaughter the chickens,” Izaak Breitenbach, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Poultry Association, said in an interview. As a stopgap measure, producers have begun using generators, which cost the industry about 75 cents ($0.0439) above the normal price of production per kilogram of chicken.

In response to these pressures, KFC temporarily shuttered some of the 750 fried chicken restaurants it operates in the country at the end of last year.

Agriculture Suffers

Over the last 15 years, Eskom, which provides 90% of all of South Africa’s electricity, has kept its grid from collapse by cutting power when it has been unable to meet demand. Known locally as “loadshedding,” these planned blackouts mainly affected mining operations and heavy industry until last year, when they became much more widespread. As the utility has struggled under a leadership crisis, its assets have deteriorated from age, lack of maintenance and even vandalism, all of which pushed outages to record levels in 2022.

The blackouts have created problems at every step of the agricultural production chain, affecting crop irrigation, processing and storage. Stores have also taken costly measures to keep produce from spoiling on shelves.

Some of the country’s biggest food retailers, Shoprite and Woolworths, have increased investment in standby generators, rooftop solar panels and refrigerated trailer trucks. But smaller businesses haven’t had opportunities to adapt. The Sowetan, a local newspaper, addressed a cover story to President Cyril Ramaphosa that listed dozens of small companies “crippled by every failed promise to fix Eskom.”

The cost has been significant. Shoprite, for example, is currently spending an extra 100 million rand per month on diesel to keep the lights on in its stores.

Among those affected are farmers in the Northern Cape province, who are already suffering under massive heat waves that have seen temperatures in some areas edge toward 117 degrees. Without energy, they can’t irrigate their crops, which include thirsty citrus trees.

“If you don’t have enough electricity, you don’t have enough water,” said Nicol Jansen, president of Agri Northern Cape, adding that cash crops such as soybeans are also vulnerable. “We urgently need more electricity in the irrigation areas.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/an-energy-crisis-is-seeping-into-south-africa-s-food-supply?srnd=premium-africa

https://archive.ph/Tk9fE

NEW - Trump dismisses COVID-19 vaccine safety claims, says the mRNA injections saved "100 million" lives.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-saved-100-million-lives-covid-vaccines-1774178

@disclosetv

I’m in the process of assembling a suggested reading list, or starter library, for young dissident conservatives, with the help of a conservative luminary. But in the meantime, if you’re stuck for something to read during quarantine, this is an amazing list from Rachel Fulton Brown:

https://fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/p/recommended-reading.html

🇺🇸Microsoft to cut 10,000 American jobs as US tech layoffs intensify

🔹US tech giant Microsoft Corp has said it would cut 10,000 American jobs as layoffs are accelerating in the US technology sector with companies bracing for an economic downturn.

Heroes.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/plastic-surgeon-accused-of-giving-391-fake-covid-shots-to-kids-in-125k-fraud-scheme/