Central policy and money laundering have created networks that aid traffickers.
A mixture of unintended consequences and indifference has left China playing a significant role in America’s fentanyl crisis. This has become a point of heated contention between Beijing and Washington. U.S. politicians accuse China of deliberately stoking the U.S. drug crisis; China responds that it has done its part and the United States is scapegoating.
But the actual story of Chinese regulation is far more complex and messy—and shows how powerful the profit motive is and how regulatory effects can have unintended consequences. The Chinese government regulates the production and distribution of fentanyl and its precursor chemicals, but stopping the trade is a challenge. Policies aimed at boosting China’s chemical and pharmaceutical development and exports have instead created a vast cottage industry of hundreds of thousands of small chemical plants and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturers—and with it, a vast money laundering industry that takes advantage of the advanced real-time settlement capabilities of China’s banking system.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer finds pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport’s postal service facility in New York on June 24, 2019. Dozens of law enforcement officers sift through packages, looking for fentanyl. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Understanding how to control fentanyl requires understanding how to make it. Fentanyl has many variants with similar sounding names that are chemically distinct but cause similar reactions in the body; the variants are merely different icing on the same cake.
Since its creation in 1959, researchers have developed at least three different manufacturing methods for fentanyl, each relying on different precursor chemicals as part of the process. Criminals have continued to adapt these processes to use a broader set of more readily available precursor chemicals—like using margarine because you’re all out of butter. The potential manufacturing methods are limitless. Criminals seeking to profit from fentanyl and governments seeking to control its supply are locked in a never-ending competition, with each new countermeasure spurring further innovation to circumvent it.
For many years, Chinese regulators attempting to uphold the country’s traditionally strict anti-drug policies faced a challenge as new variants of fentanyl emerged faster than they could be administratively added to the list of controlled substances. Between 2012 and 2015, only six new fentanyl variants emerged, but there were 63 new variants in 2016 alone. In response, the Chinese government placed all variants of fentanyl on the controlled substances list as of May 2019.
AT&T suffered a massive data breach that saw data from ‘nearly all’ of its customers’ accounts illegally downloaded, the company has confirmed.
The compromised data included records of calls and texts of 110 million wireless subscribers and landline customers over a five month period in 2022, making the hack one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent history.
Although the exposed data did not include customer names, there are ‘publicly available online tools’ capable of connecting numbers with people’s identities, the company said.
AT&T admitted it first learned about the hack in April, but is just now notifying former and current customers who were impacted.
Meta announced earlier in the day that claims of “Zionists” “running the world or controlling the media” would be censored as “hate speech” going forward on both platforms.
DR ROBERT Redfield was at the helm of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2020 when the covid crisis hit. He resigned his post in spring 2021 at the height of the vaccine rollout after disagreeing with policies. Now he confirms what we have been screaming for the last three years: covid vaccines can harm, natural immunity does offer protection, lockdowns were government overreach, mRNA vaccines are immunotoxic, the virus was not natural in origin and, more counter-intuitively, that long covid is real and is caused by vaccine injury.
This is newsworthy not because it’s new information but because Redfield is on the edge of mainstream. The plandemic was not a pandemic. It was a government psyop to seize power & money. The vax was and is a bioweapon until proved otherwise, which it won’t be. The Hamas raid on 10/7 was fully known about beforehand by Israel and USA and allowed to happen. Biden is senile. Trump was a normal conservative American president who emphasized energy, manufacturing, borders, no war. Climate change is a scam not much different from the massive healthcare scam that was the plandemic; and likewise is designed to seize power & money. It is retarded to not know these positions and take them seriously even if you disagree here and there. It’s also obvious to anyone with a brain that USA and the collective West has been entirely taken over by a destructive parasite that hates this civilization and, like commies, intends to ‘remake’ the human mind in its own demented image. ABN
I mean no offense to anyone, not even the photographer, but this is an example of how bad normal photos were in the pre-cellphone camera days. It can serve as an analogy for how people communicate interpersonally before FIML. Before FIML, our communication will be restricted, unsophisticated, clunky, and though it may be expressive as in this photo, probably not what we meant or deeply wanted to say. You can see the people in this photo definitely do not do FIML: 1) because the technique had not been invented in 1970; and 2) because you can. It is my firm belief that when millions of people do FIML we will enter an age of really good communication, much better than today. Just as most people now having a good camera on them all the time has yielded a massive improvements in photography, so FIML will deeply improve the ways we speak and listen and feel about doing that. Cellphone cameras give us many opportunities to shoot good photos and lots of practice in how to make a good photo. FIML is not quite like a camera, but it is a kind of cerebral technology that results in partners communicating much better. When we understand the FIML technique and use it often, our communication will improve at least as much as photography has improved due to widespread use of cellphone cameras. ABN
Air conditioner settings – closed, fresh air, and vent – refer to the different modes or positions of the air vent on your air conditioner unit. Here’s a breakdown of what each setting means:
Closed: This setting means the air vent is fully closed, and the air conditioner is not drawing in outside air. This setting is typically used for maximum cooling or heating, as it allows the unit to focus on circulating conditioned air within the room or space.
Fresh Air: This setting means the air vent is partially open, allowing a small amount of outside air to enter the room or space. This setting is useful for introducing fresh air into the space, which can be beneficial for air quality and odor control.
Vent: This setting means the air vent is fully open, allowing a significant amount of outside air to enter the room or space. This setting is typically used when you want to bring in cooler outside air to supplement the air conditioner’s cooling or heating capabilities.
It’s worth noting that some air conditioner units may have additional settings or modes, such as a “fan only” mode that allows the unit to circulate air without cooling or heating.
Since the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979, Britain has undergone a great experiment. Economically, the UK became the exemplar of neoliberalism in Europe. Politically, the UK has quietly transitioned to a postnational state, undergoing one of the greatest demographic transformations in the West.
Although the landslide victory of Tony Blair’s “New Labour” in 1997 may have seemed like a return to the model of European social democracy that Britain exemplified after the Second World War, Blair’s “Third Way” represented rather the embrace of neoliberalism by the establishment Left, summed up nicely by their spokesman Peter Mandelson’s declaration that “we are all Thatcherites now”.
Under the leadership of both the Conservative Party and New Labour, Britain has transitioned from a traditional industrial and manufacturing powerhouse to a highly financialised rentier economy. The effects have been profound. The average Briton is considerably worse off and entire regions have been left behind at the same time London has become a booming centre of international finance. The UK has been denationalised by decades of mass-immigration and cultural leftism, and has become the prime example of “anarcho-tyranny”, where the state punishes minor offences and acts of dissent against the liberal consensus with extreme force, while serious crime runs out of control in major cities.
The Rentier Regime
The fundamental transformation in the British economy since the 1980s is the movement away from an economy that made things to an economy that made money . Up to then, Britain’s economic might had been centered on its manufacturing. Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, and the dual expansion of its colonial empire and rapid advances in engineering allowed for the creation of a vast trading network, where colonies provided the raw materials and markets for British manufacturing. Northern English cities like Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle became manufacturing powerhouses serving the world.
…The graph below demonstrates the explosion in London-based financial services in delivering growth for the British economy
UPDATE: This is an exceptionally good article. It covers much more than even a longish sample can convey. I highly recommend reading it. It has clarified and altered my understanding of the UK. ABN
PPPD is a type of chronic dizziness. It usually is described as constant sensation of floating or rocking without nausea. It is worse when standing, when tired/towards the end of the day and when in complex visual environments like grocery stores or crowds. It usually comes on after an alarming event such as first panic attack, vestibular migraine, BPPV episode or fainting spell.
Cause
PPPD is a sudden change in the brain’s ability to interpret space/motion. Following an alarming event, the fight or flight system is activated, changing how space/motion is perceived. Once the alarming event stops, instead of resetting, the brain maintains that abnormal perception, causing constant rocking sensation for at least three months. People with migraine or anxiety/depression are at higher risk for developing PPPD, but it can occur in anyone.
Treatment
Treatment is aimed at helping the brain re-establish a better sense of perception and balance. This attempted by using physical therapy, medications that work on serotonin levels in the brain and sometimes psychological therapy to help reduce the anxiety associated with this disturbing condition. Most patients get some relief with the treatments, but some can have symptoms permanently.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, excommunicated from the Church by order of Pope Francis, issued a grave warning, alleging that the pope is an enthusiastic collaborator in the Great Reset.
He claims that the pope's goal is to dismantle the Church and replace it with an… pic.twitter.com/u5wM9hIC8D
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