With the climate crisis raging, the people of Flint have received permission from a judge to the settlement.

November 11, 2021

By Tyler Clifford and Kanishka Singh

A federal judge on Wednesday (click here) approved a settlement worth $626 million for victims of the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in a case brought by tens of thousands of residents affected by the contaminated water.

"The settlement reached here is a remarkable achievement for many reasons, not the least of which is that it sets forth a comprehensive compensation program and timeline that is consistent for every qualifying participant," U.S. District Judge Judith Levy said in a 178-page order.

Earlier this year, the judge gave preliminary approval to a partial settlement of lawsuits filed by victims of the water crisis against the state....

November 28, 2021

By Isis Simpson-Mersha

Community members in Flint (click here) and surrounding areas are invited to partake in free dinners and turkey giveaways as Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

This year, Thanksgiving takes place on Thursday, Nov. 25.

Events are lined up this week and next for community members to enjoy a free hot meal, a turkey and cases of water to take home....

November 16, 2021

By Ron Fonger

Flint - Hurley Medical Center (click here) is operating at 100 percent capacity as cases of COVID-19 surge in Genesee County and multiple viruses circulate.

Bed occupancy statistics for the Flint hospital as of Monday, Nov. 15, show Hurley is at full capacity based on the number of beds available given current staffing, according to the state of Michigan’s coronavirus dashboard for hospitals.

Hurley’s patient census includes 43 patients with COVID-19, 14 of whom are in the hospital’s intensive care unit....

October 26, 2021
By Ron Fonger

An emergency manager (click here) said no to the river after speaking to environmental regulators. An ex-Flint official said the governor’s office reversed that decision.

Flint - A virtual motion hearing (click here) in the criminal Flint water crisis case of former Gov. Rick Snyder has been rescheduled after problems with the courthouse WiFi system made it impossible for the judge to communicate with attorneys.

Genesee District Court Judge William H. Crawford adjourned the Tuesday, Oct. 26, hearing on a motion for a protective order that had been requested by attorneys for Snyder until Nov. 3.

Crawford stopped the hearing about 20 minutes after it started, while attorney Brian Lennon, who represents the former governor, was addressing the motion.

District Court Administrator Christal Jones said Tuesday that a morning power outage apparently caused the WiFi problem in the McCree Courts and Human Services Building in downtown Flint.

Snyder was one of nine current and former state and city of Flint employees charged with crimes related to the Flint water crisis in January....

Military Style Weapons are now the gun of choice to take to a protest rally. Vigilantism is a live and well. This is the second time a jury has declared a vigilante not guilty, the other was the late George Zimmerman (click here).

The Climate Crisis is reeking havoc and Xi and Putin are planning war. Ridiculous.

While on the subject, let me comment further. Isolation can be a death sentence and is why the Canadian government is moving quickly. There is no way into Vancouver to even replenish grocery shelves of food. Everyone knows this is a dangerous sitution. We saw something as dangerous in the USA that isolated people away from civilization and it wasn't a flood, it was a frozen terrain.

This is the climate crisis. I will tell you these scenarios are going to become more frequent and will overwhelm most if not all emergency measures civilization has put in place. Imagine a population of people in a food desert looking to McDonald's for their regular meals at least once a day. Then a severe storm comes and there is no way to get to McDonalds and when available every bit of food is sold and/or stolen. How are people going to survive? 

I am sure most college folks know the the phenomena of Easter Island. They did not survive and it was due to the lack of food. They created all sorts of godly scenarios, but, ulitmately none of their god worship saved them.

Think of civilization as many potential Easter Islands. Then look at the solutions. McDonalds would probably form a method to fly supplies into a distressed area to provide food to people. Right? I think it was Dominos that stepped up their humanitarian principles in the past and fed people and they did that for one reason, to save others. To save their customers. 

Realize now that flying planes into distressed areas releases carbon and/or greenhouse gases into the air and further complicates the very effect that is causing the distress in the first place.

What is humanity going to do to address these problems? How is the climate crisis suppose to end so long as the emissions of greenhouse gases continues to rise? Is the end game basically the end of human survival?

I ask these questions, not to be cruel or set up some distopian political game, but, because this is all real and no one is dealing with it.

Earth's history and its recovering into ice ages NEVER had this many people practicing consumerism that emits greenhouse gases. NEVER before has Earth been so challenged and it has physics, not a conscience.

 

Lukashenko' is treating human beings as chattel. There is a good example of the communists and their coveted propaganda.

The pompous butt hole of Belarus. I don't recall any summit between Poland, NATO and Belarus where they came together as partners to solve an immigration problem. The land between Belarus and Poland is now a Refugee Camp.

This is just so typical of communists that love propaganda as a leverage point to disgracing The West. Lukashenko takes people that would normally receive a great deal of sympathy for their circumstances and turns them into a weapon. You know, al Qaeda used infrastruture to wage their wars against civilization, basically, Lukashenko is a terrorist.

November 19, 2021
By Steve Rosenberg

Belarus's authoritarian leader (click here) has told the BBC it is "absolutely possible" his forces helped migrants cross into Poland but denies they were invited.

In an exclusive interview in the Minsk presidential palace, he told me: "I think that's absolutely possible. We're Slavs. We have hearts. Our troops know the migrants are going to Germany."

"Maybe someone helped them. I won't even look into this."

However, he denied inviting thousands in to provoke a border crisis.

"I told them I'm not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on I still won't stop them, because they're not coming to my country, they're going to yours.

"That's what I meant. But I didn't invite them here. And to be honest, I don't want them to go through Belarus."

Alexander Lukashenko has been in power in Belarus since 1994 but his re-election as president was widely discredited by the West and not recognised by the EU....

I have been reviewing some of the welcoming of Putin to the world of Wall Street, and he is not the same man as he was then. On November 12, 2001, shortly after September 11, 2001, there appeared an article in "Business Week" entitled "Vladimir'Putin's Russia, At an historic moment Russia is emerging as a key U.S. ally and a rising oil power". It was an article that recognized the fact Russia was the first on the ground in Afghanistan with a medical field deployment to treat injured Americans that were to soon be landing to defeat al Qaeda.

Back then The West saw a Putin that was engaged in expanding it's economy and was making grounds with the sale of oil to The West, including the USA. It was a welcome change to all involved, including Russia. But, then Putin was running for re-election as Russia's president and he ran into communist headwinds. His place as president was waning and it was the communists in Russia that was the power that would remove him from office. So, being the good KGB agent he always was, he turned away from any prosperity The West could bring and catered to those that opposed him, the communists. 

Today, Russia is in isolation from most other countries, except for the occassional G20 Meeting. He has corraled his diasphora, eliminated any dual citizenship within Russian borders and seeks to destroy The West through propaganda granted by for profit IT such Facebook. The Mueller Report clearly demonstrated a spy network that could cause problems politically leading to hostile elections and ultimatly an inept presidet of the USA.

Belarus is an ally to Putin when it should be separating from him and the only reason it is an ally is because of Lukashenko. It is no different than the former Ukraine president that is currently in exile in Russia. Putin is a desperate man these days and has made decisions to exacerbate tensions with The West and there is only one reason, the communist party in Russia has control over his presidency and re-election. They are feeling the opposition to them and they are damnable to achieve their goals.

Putin has been posturing for a fight since President Biden has come into office because he is scared the information fed to him by Trump will soon be obsolute. In other words, between Xi and Putin, "If not now, then when and if not us, then who?"

The people at the Belrus border are propaganda tools. Tools for opposition parties in The West that is food for people like Bannon and tools for the communists who will state The West are liars and have no real compassion. The propaganda won't work in the way it is hoped to work, but, everyone has to try, ya know?

The Belarus Refugee Camp must be addressed by the UN with a humanitarian mission if not already in the works. That is the best anyone can do right now.