🇺🇦 Arestovich resigns as advisor to Zelensky’s office

🔵 Oleksiy Arestovich submitted his resignation from the position of external adviser to the office of the president of Ukraine.

🟨 “I want to show an example of what civilized behavior is: a fundamental error, then resignation,” he wrote on his social media, attaching a photo of his letter.

⬛️ Arestovich was sharply criticized in Ukraine after his statement that a Russian missile that hit a residential building in Dnipro on January 14 was allegedly shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces. “It was shot down, it fell on an entryway. It exploded as it fell,” he said on Mark Feygin’s YouTube program. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov demanded that Ukrainian intelligence respond to Arestovich, while Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko announced a collection of signatures for his dismissal.

⬛️ On January 17, Arestovich apologized for his remarks. “I made a serious mistake on the air. No matter the reason, the viewers heard it. I will from now on be stricter with the information I voice. I sincerely apologize to the victims and their relatives, the residents of Dnipro and everyone who was deeply hurt by my prematurely erroneous version of the cause of the Russian missile strike on a residential building,” he wrote on social media.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/01/17/oleksiy-arestovich-resigns-as-advisor-to-zelensky-s-office

🇺🇦 With the news of Arestovich's resignation, an interview of him speaking critically is making rounds on social media.

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🇺🇸 🇺🇦 US, Ukraine top military chiefs meet in person for 1st time

⬛️ The top U.S. military officer, Army Gen. Mark Milley, traveled to a site near the Ukraine-Poland border on Tuesday and talked with his Ukrainian counterpart face to face for the first time — a meeting underscoring the growing ties between the two militaries and coming at a critical time as Russia’s war with Ukraine nears the one-year mark.

⬛️ Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met for a couple of hours with Ukraine’s chief military officer, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, at an undisclosed location in southeastern Poland. The two leaders have talked frequently about Ukraine’s military needs and the state of the war over the past year but had never met.

⬛️ The meeting comes as the international community ramps up the military assistance to Ukraine, including expanded training of Ukrainian troops by the U.S. and the provision of a Patriot missile battery, tanks and increased air defense and other weapons systems by the U.S. and a coalition of European and other nations.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nato-politics-government-united-states-56bf9dc96a24f62c91903c8861ae7af7

Representative from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria held a meeting with a high-ranking delegation from Russia in the city of Kobani to discuss possible Turkish military invasion.

The meeting, which was held amidst ongoing tensions in the region, aimed to discuss and address concerns of possible Turkish invasion on SDF-held areas.

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🇲🇽 🇺🇸 SINALOA Cartel base 300 meters from Border. Sicarios shooting at U.S. drone.

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JUST IN - Henry Kissinger, Klaus Schwab's mentor, told the World Economic Forum today that Ukraine should join NATO.

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🌐 🇨🇭World Economic Forum 2023: Worries in Davos that globalization is under siege.

⬛️ Few institutions are so immediately connected to neoliberalism and the project of globalization as the forum. In an age of ascendant nationalism and great power rivalry, where the United States itself is waging trade wars, where does globalization go?

⬛️ The latest cover story of the Economist, which every year puts out an issue that tries to define the Davos zeitgeist, bemoaned the “new logic that threatens globalization.” It decried the Biden administration’s “abandonment of free-market rules for an aggressive industrial policy,” pointing to subsidy-laden programs to power the United States’ green transition as well as new efforts to make the nation a hotbed of semiconductor manufacturing.

⬛️ All of this, the classically liberal Economist argued, has “set off a dangerous spiral into protectionism worldwide” and frays the global order that the United States spent decades creating and securing in the aftermath of World War II. It may even imperil “the causes of liberal democracy and market capitalism.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/17/davos-globalization-wef-economic-seige/

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🇩🇪 - Greta Thunberg detained by police in Germany during protest against the opening of a new coal mine.

✝️ ⚪️ Rise in middle-aged white 'deaths of despair' may be fueled by loss of religion, new research paper argues

⚪️ So-called deaths of despair such as from suicide or alcohol abuse have been skyrocketing for middle-aged white Americans.

⚪️ It’s been blamed on various phenomenon, including opioid abuse. But a new research paper finds a different culprit — declining religious practice.

⚪️ The working paper, from Tyler Giles of Wellesley College, Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame, and Tamar Oostrom of The Ohio State University, looked at the relationship between religiosity and mortality from deaths of despair. The paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

⚪️ The authors noted that many measures of religious adherence began to decline in the late 1980s. They find that the large decline in religious practice was driven by the group experiencing the subsequent increases in mortality: white middle-aged Americans without a college degree.

⚪️ The researchers looked at the repeal of blue laws in particular. Blue laws limited commerce, typically on Sunday mornings. “These laws have been shown to be strongly related to religious practice, creating discrete changes in incentives to attend religious services that are plausibly unrelated to other drivers of religiosity,” they said.

⚪️ What’s also interesting is that the impact seems to be driven by actual formal religious participation, rather than belief or personal activities like prayer. “These results underscore the importance of cultural institutions such as religious establishments in promoting well-being,” they said.

⚪️ “The decline in religiosity matches mortality trends in all these characteristics,” they wrote.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deaths-of-despair-may-be-driven-by-loss-of-religion-new-research-paper-argues-11673876749

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸#China apoya el movimiento independentista en Okinawa.

Según varios informes, una gran cantidad de agentes chinos operando en Okinawa están fomentando ideas nacionalistas y aprovechando el sentimiento antiestadounidense en #Japón para abrir una brecha entre los aliados.

🇬🇧China supports the independence movement in Okinawa.

According to various reports, a large number of Chinese agents operating in Okinawa are fostering nationalist ideas and taking advantage of anti-American sentiment in Japan to drive a wedge between the allies.

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The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promised to plunge the Russian Federation into a recession for decades:

"We are imposing the strongest sanctions against the Russian Federation, which plunge the Russian economy into recession for decades, and its industry is deprived of modern and critical technologies."

But for now, the EU is only robbing Ukraine. Last year alone, despite the war and difficulties in Ukraine, the West withdrew 132 billion from the Ukrainian budget to pay for loans, which in Ukraine are falsely called "macrofinancial assistance."

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🇺🇸☠️🇲🇽 FAMILY OF 6 BRUTALLY SLAIN IN CARTEL-STYLE EXECUTION IN GOSHEN —
The Mexicanization of California spreads North

"Two gunmen invaded a home in Tulare County in Central California early Monday, where they killed six people, including a 16-year-old mother and her 10-month-old baby, in what the authorities said was presumed to be a gang-related attack.

[...]

Details about the crime were sketchy, but in a later interview Sheriff Boudreaux told The Los Angeles Times that a deputy responding to the call found the infant cradled in the arms of her 16-year-old mother in a ditch outside the home. Both had been shot in the head.

[...]

“We do not believe that this was a random act of violence,” Sheriff Boudreaux told reporters at the news conference. “We believe that this was very targeted. This was very personal, and we also believe that it was a message being sent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/shooting-goshen-california.html

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