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To: maceng2 who wrote (189107)	6/22/2022 6:29:55 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217557

Re <<Replacements are needed>> Change might be good or ... well ... bad. Team Australia just had one. Team Bulgaria must have read your mind and seems to be having one, as Team Italy starting to as well. Difficult to say what be signals and noises. Need more data points to evolve narrative. MSM 'telling' it as purely / absolutely domestic issue differences / lack-of-consensus and nothing-about the electorates finding selves at cusp of event-horizon of WWIII. Should it in truth be that Russia is in league with Bulgarian Far-right and Bulgarian mafia, then obviously not-good. I do not know enough about Bulgaria. In truth I know nothing at all about Bulgaria other then the fact that at one time it was a member of the now no-more Warsaw Pact. In any case a domain putting in the fourth government within 2-years duration might not be all-well. I may be reading too much into nothingness. So, continue to watch & brief politico.eu Bulgaria’s Petkov points finger at mafia and Russia as government collapses 123 lawmakers out of 239 voted against the prime minister’s cabinet. Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov \| Hristo Rusev/Getty Images Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov planted the blame squarely on Russia and his own country’s powerful mafia after his government lost a no-confidence vote on Wednesday. Petkov, who only came to power six months ago, was voted in on a pledge to fight the country’s rampant corruption and has pushed Sofia to take an unusually strong line against Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. In the vote of no-confidence, some 123 lawmakers out of 239 in parliament voted against his cabinet. “This vote is one tiny step along the very long road ahead of us. I promise we will continue the battle to win the country back and, one day, we will have a Bulgaria without puppet masters, without the mafia — a normal European country,” he said in a valedictory address before the national assembly. Giving a list of the people who had been instrumental to tearing down his administration, Petkov named the Russian ambassador in Sofia and accused Russia of exercising its influence over his removal through lawmakers from the far-right Revival party. The no-confidence vote on Wednesday was precipitated by former television talk show host-turned politician Slavi Trifonov abruptly pulling his “There is Such a People” party out of a fragile four-party governing coalition. Trifonov says he has disagreements over the budget and accuses Petkov of taking too soft a line on allowing North Macedonia to begin EU accession talks. In the past days, much of the political debate centered on whether Trifonov was pulling the plug on the government for reasons related to Bulgaria’s powerful oligarchic mafia, who would stand to lose out in Petkov’s promised crackdown against graft. That interpretation was boosted by a handful of lawmakers from Trifonov’s party, who defected to Petkov precisely because they said their own party was siding with the mafia. Trifonov retorted that the mafia allegations were absurd. Petkov’s party, followed by the opposition, will now have an opportunity to try to garner support for a workable majority. If this fails — as seems probable — the country will be set for its fourth general election since April 2021.

To: maceng2 who wrote (189107)	6/22/2022 6:36:33 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217557

Team Biden WH readying to accuse democratic India and authoritarian China of fighting global inflation bloomberg.com China, India May Be Buying More Russia Oil Than Known, US Says White House economist Rouse discusses latest moves in prices Rouse says she’s heard China, India purchases could be at play Josh Wingrove 23 June 2022, 04:35 GMT+8 China and India may be buying more Russian oil than the US previously believed, easing a supply crunch in global markets and potentially driving a recent price decline, one of President Joe Biden’s economic advisers said. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude has fallen to just over $105 from more than $122 earlier this month -- raising hopes that pressures may ease at the gas pump. “Right now, in particular, oil markets are rather volatile,” Cecilia Rouse, chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “I’ve heard part of the explanation is that China and India are actually purchasing more of Russian oil than maybe we believe, so that there’s more supply on the market.” Read more: Putin Sees Russia Oil Flows to China, India ‘Growing Noticeably’ Rouse spoke after Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gasoline tax, which is 18 cents per gallon, for three months in a bid to deliver consumers some relief. Rouse said she hopes the global price dip is passed on to consumers but that long-term challenges remain. The latest in global politicsGet insight from reporters around the world in the Balance of Power newsletter. Sign up to this newsletter “We welcome those price decreases, hope that those get passed on to the consumer at the pump. But we also know that Russia -- this war is not going to end tomorrow,” she said. Biden wants Congress to suspend the tax “as a bridge to seeing more oil on the market, getting us through these choppy waters as we get inflation down, get this war resolved and get onto a steady, more sustainable economic footing.” There’s no sign that Congress has plans to take Biden up on his call. The president also called on states to suspend their own gas taxes; some had already done so. Further, Biden called on energy companies to pass on declines in crude prices to gasoline buyers. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is due to meet Thursday with energy-sector chief executives. “We need more creativity and collaboration to get us through this unprecedented situation,” Granholm said at a White House briefing on Wednesday. “This is the time to reinvest those profits that will enable them to better meet the needs of our citizens.” — With assistance by Katherine Greifeld