Flint gets $626 million for incompetence (Continued)

The City of Flint was unable to maintain and operate its water treatment plant, and the untreated water dissolved the lead in its old pipes. President Obama declared a national emergency and the city received a present of 626 million dollars. For the last month the city of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has been without water supply. I understand that the pumps were not maintained and one broke down. The city had no money for the reparation and after a time, the second pump also went out of service. Jackson is 90% African and is blaming the city's former White residents for leaving and abandoning them. I presume Biden will give them national emergency funds to repair the pumps, and that will not be the end, because other Black cities are in a similar pre-emergency situation. 

Anti-Westphalian Trends

 

Henry Kissinger notes that in the Middle East the trend is toward the dissolution of the States: Libya has no central government and its large area is divided among several warring tribes and political factions. Syria has been divided into tribal areas and the formal dictator controls Damascus if even that. Iraq is divided into Sunni and Shi'a parts and a semi-independent Kurdish statelet. Iran is a dictatorship ruled by a utopian clergy. Saudia is owned by one family and Islam's most extremist missionary movement, the Wahhabis. It doesn't look very stable. In all of Africa, there is not one stable Westphalian state. Obviously, the peoples living in the region are unable to organize themselves into working States. Kissinger suggests that they could fall under the protection of willing world power, and mentions China, India, and Russia. Some kind of neo-colonialism. 

Preparing the NATO occupation of Ukraine

 

The media is fearmongering that the nuclear reactors in Ukraine (pic Czernobyl) are emitting radiation and are close to an explosion. I know nothing but it appears to me that they are preparing the psychological ground for taking over these facilities. 

Inflation considerations

 

America is starting to fight inflation. Or is it? The country has enormous debts, and I wonder which policy favors it: inflation and paying back the debt with quasi-worthless paper, or no-inflation or negative-inflation, so its interest payments are lower. 

Drought in China

 

The Yangtze (the long river) has almost stopped flowing. Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai depend on its waters. The Yangtze historically was known for its catastrophic floods. 

Argentina: President warns Attorney General

 

"Nisman se suicido, espero que Luciani no haga algo asi"  that is, Attorney General Nisman "killed himself" (it is known that he was assassinated by the Secret Police) and hope Luciani (the current Attorney General) will not do something similar. It is a death threat. Luciani formally accused Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, current Vicepresident, of managing the 10%  bribe system collected in all public works contracts and asks for 12 years in jail. The 10% was paid by the contractors to Kirchner - in US dollars or transferred to her bank account in the Province of Santa Cruz. All have been documented, including Kirchner's Panama bank accounts. Argentina's 45 million citizens are not surprised. 

Stasis in Ukraine

 

After six months of the war in Europe, the front seems to have stabilized. Ukraine has improved its weaponry with American and German stuff. Russia has attached a border strip largely peopled by Russian ethnics, and is digesting its conquest.  

Experts say this war could go on for years. It is ruining all of Europe. I don't know.