News Round Up

RT: China is ‘ghosting’ the US because normal diplomacy has proven useless.

No countries are returning Biden's call. The only one is Zelensky, begging for ... 

Breitbart: Zelensky DEMANDING another $14B.

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Rolling Out: Rapper EGYPXN shoots mother, sister, brother. Drops music video. Then is killed in a police shootout.

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Forbes: OPEC Back in the Driver's Seat.

Why OPEC in the Driver's Seat? Because they can't stand Biden, he alienated them and China will buy all they have. Happy Summer Gas Prices!

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Not The Bee: Arnold Schwarzenegger went viral for filling in a pothole ... turns out it was an active service trench.

Arnold "Screw your freedoms" Schwarzenegger. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving Dick.

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Daily Mail: Elon Musk calls to 'defund' NPR after it quit Twitter over spat with CEO, who branded the public broadcasting.

Taxpayer $ to NPR should have ceased decades ago.

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Breitbart: Former NHL Player Raymond Sawada Dies of a Heart Attack at 38.

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RT: Musk claims Twitter HQ landlord rejected homeless shelter plan.

Twitter owner Elon Musk has blamed his landlord for shooting down a proposal to use vacant office space at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco to help ease the city’s homeless crisis.

“We tried to turn it into a homeless shelter,” Musk said on Tuesday night in a BBC News interview. “They (the owners) won’t let us.” He added, “We’re only using one of the buildings, so the other building could be a homeless shelter.

Elon provides a partial solution.

Liberal Reaction: "We didn't think of this so we don't like the idea. What? Elon suggested it? Double-Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww."

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Forbes: BTC staying above $30K.

"Some say" ... it might be a time to consider buying.

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207-year old Dianne Feinstein (D) asks for temporary fill-in. She'll claw to that Senator Seat until the first shovel of dirt hits her casket. FFS, Retire. 

Breitbart: Dianne Feinstein’s Request for Temporary Replacement on Committee ‘Unprecedented’.

No Republican would be afforded the same political leniency.

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MSN: Kitty gets head stuck in iron grate drain.

Kitty extracted, doing fine and probably back to knocking everything off shelves and countertops.

Germany turns off the hot water.

Daily Mail: Germany turns off the hot water: Hanover becomes first big city to ban hot water in public buildings in response to Russian gas crisis.

Hanover first big city to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings.

Lights to be switched off at night on major buildings like museums and town hall.

Germans told to expect higher electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing.

Move is a response to Vladimir Putin's gas squeeze which has Europe panicking.

Russian state energy giant Gazprom cut gas supplies to Germany to 20 per cent.

Hey, German UN Delegation, is what Trump said in 2018 still funny? Drop a comment.

What's happening in Germany with their energy problems isn't funny. This is coming to the U.S. under Biden and his Handlers. Not having hot water is nowhere near how bad things will be.

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typo fix Handlers. fucking typos

Hey 2018 Germany UN Delegation, is this still funny?

2018: 

Business Insider (MSN Archived): Germany starts rationing hot water and turning down the heating in case Russia cuts off its natural gas supplies.

Germany faces a gas crisis after supplies from Russia were reduced and the situation could worsen.

World News

The International News: Pakistan conducts another successful ballistic missile.

Pakistan today conducted another successful launch of short range surface to surface ballistic missile “Nasr” as part of Army Strategic Forces Command training exercise which included quad salvo on 24 January and single shots on 28 & 31 January 2019[.]

Watch the video at the link.
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BBC: Record fentanyl drug bust at U.S. Mexico border.

Agents on Saturday found 254 lbs (114kg) of fentanyl, as well as 395 lbs of methamphetamine in a lorry at an official US-Mexico border crossing.

A "false floor" was found in the produce truck, said Michael Humphries[.]
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...the cargo of fentanyl had an approximate black market value of $3.5m (£2.6m) and is considered so deadly that even a few salt-sized grains of it could kill a person.

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SMH: Maker of "Happy Birthday"-playing candles fined. Some catch fire, some explode.

Consumer Affairs Victoria took Mr Xu, 59, from Clayton, to court for selling the permanently banned "combustible" candles whose batteries are also at risk of exploding in its smouldering ruins and a range of other products after warnings they did not meet Australian safety standards.

Watch the video at the link. Not to miss!
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EURO News: OPEC cuts back production, price increases.

The 14-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 30.98 million barrels per day (bpd) in January, a Reuters survey showed, down 890,000 bpd from December and the largest month-on-month drop since January 2017.

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Newsy: Toxic Smog in Bangkok.

Hit the link, watch the video. Breath in, breath out.
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The Star: Snakes seeking refuge in toilets due to Australia's heatwave.

Last week, [Luke Huntley, a snake catcher in Queensland]  removed a seven-foot python that had slithered into an open door and climbed into the shower not only to escape the heat but also to find water. Days earlier, he pulled a small tree snake that had coiled in another homeowner’s toilet bowl.

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From snakes in toilets to, sort of, the Royal Family. What a perfect segue.

The Irish Times: Stockpiles of Magnums in case of no-deal Brexit. (Magnums the vanilla chocolate ice cream bars, not the condoms). 

Unilever is stockpiling ice creams in Britain and deodorants in continental Europe to guard against potential supply disruptions in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The Anglo-Dutch consumer giant, which is the world’s largest ice cream seller, makes British favourites like Magnum bars in Italy and Germany, and is building up a few weeks of extra inventory in Britain in case of any border delays.

Likewise, several of its European deodorants, including Axe, Dove and Rexona, are made in Britain.