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Former Pro-Kremlin Lawmaker Condemns Ukraine Invasion 

Robert Schlegel in the Russian State Duma in 2016. Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant A former pro-Kremlin lawmaker condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a tweet on Thursday, calling it “a war that no one but Vladimir Putin needed” and commending the “real heroes” in Russia who have spoken out publicly against it.  Robert Schlegel, who has lived in Germany since 2019, was previously a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party and served as a deputy in the State Duma between 2007-2016. “In a situation where Russia no longer has a Constitution, no institutions, no law, not even history, because all this is subordinated to the ego and fears of one person, Russia is alive by the beating of the brave hearts of these people”, Schlegel tweeted, namechecking prominent jailed opposition figures including Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin. The war in Ukraine could have no positive outcome, only catastrophic consequences, Schlegel warned.  During his legislative career Schlegel voted to ban U.S. citizens from adopting Russian children and co-authored Russia’s so-called “Google tax law.”  He was also an activist in the pro-Kremlin youth group “Nashi,” which in 2009 admitted it had been behind a 2007 Russian cyber attack on Estonia. After becoming a German citizen in 2019, Schlegel told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he was "disappointed in politics" and that his views had "changed alot." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/16/black-pr-how-wagner-recruits-mercenaries-and-shapes-russian-politics-a ........................... 8If leftists completely take over America, it will become no better than North Korea By pronouns, Park is of course talking about the transgender cult and its endless merry-go-round of “gender identities” and other such nonsense. That some Americans consider not being referred to by their preferred pronouns as “oppression” came as a serious shock to Park. One of only 200 North Koreans currently living in the U.S.,

Park (sold when a child as a sex slave in N. Korea) officially became an American citizen last year after eight years of living in the country with her family. She first escaped North Korea in 2007 and has since become a target for Pyongyang. In her home country, Park has been censured and labeled a “poisonous mushroom” and a “human rights propaganda puppet.” Park has responded to these allegations by stating that she is glad the authoritarian regime “feel[s] threatened” by her voice. Before attending Columbia, Park thought she found freedom in the U.S. After three years of study there, however, she discovered that modern America is simply a different kind of hell from the one she escaped. This hell is governed by Marxist revolutionaries who want to stamp out the freedom that Park and hundreds of millions of others hold dear and replace it with the kind of tyranny she thought she would never again have to face. “I escaped hell on earth and walked across the desert in search of freedom, and found it,” Park’s book reads. “I don’t want anything bad ever to happen to my new home … I want us – need us – to keep the darkness at bay.” “I need your help to save our country, while time remains.” In 2015, Park wrote her debut novel, “In Order to Live,” which compares the environment at Columbia to that of North Korea. She described Columbia as a “pure indoctrination camp,” which is not what she expected. Instead of being taught to think critically, Park says she was “forced to think” a certain way by Columbia’s left-wing faculty members. Park also criticized her fellow classmates, stating that they are “brainwashed like North Korean students are.” “I never understood that not having a problem can be a problem,” she wrote. “They need to make injustice out of thin air or a problem out of nowhere because they haven’t experienced anything like what other people are facing in the world.” In North Korea, Yeonmi Park says, citizens are divided up into 51 different classes based on their bloodlines. Those whose blood is “tainted” or whose ancestors were “oppressive” are denigrated and pushed to the bottom – sound familiar? “That’s how the regime divided people,” she adds. “An individual doesn’t matter. It’s all about your ancestors and the collective.” https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-15-north-korean-defector-warns-americans-woke-revolution.html .............................. 3 million years ago: sea levels ~15 meters higher than now. 4 million years ago: sea levels ~22 meters higher than now. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/08/30/team-deciphers-sea-level-rise-earth-c02-was-high-as-today/ ………….. sea level rise is about 1.3” per decade but is often expected to grow to perhaps 4” per decade in a few decades. If the Earth experiences 4”/decade rise in sea level, how long till the rise is a meter? One century. Note that there is a lag between CO2 rise and sea level rise, but how long is not very clear, perhaps between 50 years and 500 years or so. Because of this uncertainty the current level of science is far from being able to draw sure conclusions toward the future. What about volcanism on land and undersea? Another unknown. What if around Panama the oceans break through? It would be very significant, but how could we model such a thing? To fixate on one factor alone, CO2, is probably silly and more likely unscientific.

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