Day: September 27, 2023

There are, for many a person, some days that just don’t go so well. These days are usually known as “the day from hell.” Donald Trump did have such a day on Tuesday. Trump has been found to have committed fraud. Way to go, and congratulations, Donnie. You were already known as a sexual assaulter and rapist, a traitor, and an insurrectionist. Now, you are also known as a fraudster. What a great time to be alive!

“The documents here clearly contain fraudulent valuations that defendants used in business.” That is from the Judge. Trump has been found to have overvalued his holdings. And now Trump, already indicted four times, is sentenced to — his businesses certificates to go up in smoke.

Gone just like that in a poof of insurrectionist smoke. It is a fitting sentence for the traitor who will ALSO be on the hook for money — lots and lots of money. Money is Trump’s truest love underneath insurrection. So somehow, I doubt the orange one will take this news well.

The empire has come crashing down. Trump’s business is no longer a thing. Like Trump’s mind, it has gone to the birds. I wonder (don’t you) how long it will take for the Truth Social earthquake to come.

When it DOES come, it will shake. It will quiver with rage, this rage, of course, having nowhere to go. Wretched words will spill from the traitor’s mouth as he demands Republican lap-puppies run in and save the day! DO SOMETHING!

Every day, the rotten stench of the Trump footprint gets aired out a little bit more. It really is delicious seeing how 2023 is going for Individual one. These days, hell will come more and more often for him. That’s because Karma has risen up and decided it is time for Trump to pay the piper, time for him to begin answering for all his sins.

And Karma, being a force that most definitely does NOT suffer fools, is now giving to the world’s BIGGEST fool, humiliation after humiliation after humiliation.

When Karma springs forth, she doesn’t stop until her FULL might has been felt, and though this day was a big chunk of that might, something tells me we still have many more delicious days of Karma ahead for Donald Trump.

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In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime.

“All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters.

Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, swept through Thessaly for three days this month, killing 16 people – among them two from Metamorfosi – flooding cities and villages and turning the region into an inland sea.

Hundreds of residents were airlifted or pulled out of flooded homes in lifeboats, crops were washed away and tens of thousands of animals drowned.

Weeks later, the water has turned into mud, revealing the devastation in villages such as Metamorfosi, which had nearly disappeared beneath the water.

Like Kostis, the more than 300 residents of the village are primarily farmers occupied mainly with cotton cultivation, as well as some corn and livestock.

Most of them have found shelter in relatives’ homes or by renting accommodation in nearby villages that did not flood.

“Now, no one lives in the village. Everyone has left. They all come during the day, they clean, they throw things away, they wash the houses, and then they leave again,” Kostis said.

In the empty streets of Metamorfosi, which in Greek means transfiguration, piles of residents’ belongings, framed paintings, furniture, blankets and carpets, are the only spot of colour in the mud.

The cemetery and buildings including the Church of the Transfiguration of Sotiros, a religious site visited by thousands of pilgrims each year, have suffered heavy damage.

The storm’s impact on Metamorfosi was so emblematic of the devastation that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis showed pictures of the submerged village when he met EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen on Sept. 12 to request more aid from the European Union.

Kostis said the village had been hit by a flood in 1994, but then residents had been able to return three months later. This time, it might take longer, he said.

“With 4 metres of water, it will be a bit difficult to come back until spring,” he said.

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Ukraine on Wednesday urged judges at the U.N.’s highest court to dismiss Russia’s objections and hear in full Kyiv’s claim that Moscow abused international law by saying the 2022 invasion was done to stop an alleged genocide.

“The court should promptly dismiss Russia’s preliminary objections and schedule a hearing on the merits,” Harold Koh, a lawyer for Ukraine, said.

Last week Russia urged the ICJ, also known as the World Court, to throw out the case, claiming Kyiv’s legal arguments were flawed.

Ukraine brought the case before the ICJ days after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24 last year.

Kyiv argues Russia is abusing international law by saying the invasion was justified to stop an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine says there was no risk of genocide in eastern Ukraine, where it had been fighting Russian-backed forces since 2014.

Koh said the court should dismiss Russia’s claim the court has no jurisdiction because the central issue is not genocide but use of force, which the ICJ has no jurisdiction over.

Instead the court should focus on what Koh called the real issue before it: “May a powerful state falsely accuse its neighbour of genocide (and) then use illegal force to kill its citizens, devastate their homeland and destabilise the global legal order all on the pretext of preventing and punishing genocide?”

Russia has so far ignored a preliminary ruling by the ICJ in March last year which ordered Moscow to stop its military actions and the court has no way of enforcing its decisions. Experts say a full ruling in favour of Ukraine can pave the way for compensation payments.

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Ukraine’s move to create a shipping channel for grain exports is a positive step for global food security, although efforts continue to reach a new agreement over a broader Black Sea corridor, the top U.N. trade official said on Wednesday.

Russia in July quit a U.N.-backed deal which had enabled exports from Ukraine to sail from three approved ports.

Since then, Kyiv has launched what it calls a temporary humanitarian corridor in an effort to break Russia’s de facto blockade. Two ships have sailed in recent days from the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk using the channel, which hugs the Romanian and Bulgarian coasts.

“We see the alternatives that are being explored to export in a very positive light because the important thing is to get the grain to global markets,” Rebeca Grynspan, who leads the implementation of the U.N. deal with Russia, told Reuters on the sidelines of a U.N. event in London.

Grynspan said while the new corridor that Ukraine is trying to open is among “very important efforts”, she added that “the risks are higher”.

“The only thing that will take the risk away and stabilise … the situation is an agreement that will be backed by all partners,” she said, adding she was unable to provide any timeframe for a deal.

Elsewhere Lloyd’s of London is in talks with the U.N. over providing insurance cover for Ukrainian grain shipments if a new Black Sea corridor deal can be reached, its CEO John Neal told Reuters this month.

Grynspan said “options are being discussed”, adding that “insurance is a big part of the solution”.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sept. 23 that while Moscow does not reject U.N. efforts to revive the Black Sea grain deal, a recent proposal by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was unrealistic.

Grynspan said the U.N. did not agree with this assessment.

“We are convinced that we put forward real solutions to the issues that Russia has raised. We want to have the possibility to still explain why we think that these are real solutions,” she said.

Grynspan told Reuters in May that the U.N. was working with the African Export-Import Bank to create a platform to help process transactions for Russian exports of grain and fertilizer to Africa.

She said on Wednesday that even for Russian banks that had not been cut off from the SWIFT international payments system or had sanctions imposed, “due diligence is a problem”.

“We are putting forward platforms and solutions for these problems – that are problems of procedure, risk aversion in the private sector that we need to solve.”

NPR News: 09-27-2023 10AM EDT

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