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I couldn’t disagree with Rove more strongly. He seems to fail to look at the evidence staring him in the face. The R’s in Congress clutch their pearls and wring their hands over things Trump does, then acquiesce. Every, single, time. Has the threat of being primary-ed gone away, have Trumps tactics not worked? Nope.
Rove, W’s brain, needs to exit the stage and take a few more R fossils with him. Out of the public eye for the most part, trotted out on occasion every four years to opine, more useless, practically bitter, clinging to outmoded ways of thinking. He is not alone, with plenty of company across the spectrum. Maybe tell Bernstein and a few more for some canasta to take their minds off of what they can’t change.
there is a generational turnover in the GOP. Finally the boomer-era GOP is fading away (ironically led by a septagenarian) and they’re being dragged to the exits.
I don’t see Nancy Pelosi or Chuvk Schumer giving up power
We got octogenarians
Yes we do!
We got octogenarians
How about you?
Go Teams!
If Rove hates the nominees then they can’t be all bad. Not a Dick Cheney in the bunch. oh, horrors. / ;)
adding: here’s Nicole Shanahan talking about the importance of the next head of the USDA, the importance of protecting soils for both health and the climate.
Nicole Shanahan: ” The nomination for head of the USDA is happening right this moment. And there’s an opportunity for the first time ever to get somebody in there who’s a real farmer who’s going to look out for the small family farms and who’s going to revitalize our soil systems. I came to agriculture through a very narrow lens of looking at climate change.”
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1859256210387517803
OK but the biggest part of USDA budget is nutrition assistance (food stamps) and the biggest personnel part is the Forest Service. Not sure “farming”, extension service, NRCS, and the like is that important to the agency regardless its name.
Sure, OK. I agree with nutrition assistance to the needy. That’s important. But why are food stamps now allowed to pay for sugary soft drinks? Sodas are not exactly a nutrition.
Food Stamps For Soda: Time To End Billion-Dollar Subsidy For Sugary Drinks?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/29/659634119/food-stamps-for-soda-time-to-end-billion-dollar-subsidy-for-sugary-drinks
Ahhh… “that appear to show” routine raises it’s ugly, puss filled head with eyes bulging. Whatever next? The DOJ says no dice but the allegations get out there just the same. The people who do not wish to see Gaetz as AG are the best damn reason for making him AG: “The House Ethics Committee obtained records, including a check and records of Venmo payments, that appear to show that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes conducted by both the House and the Justice Department, according to documents obtained by ABC News”.
Any shtick to beat a
KavanaughBill Clinton?, No Waydog. The routine is essentially costless to the interlocutors, and comes with plenty of free publicity, too.> “Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist”: Philip K. Dick and Palestine The Paris Review
>> which of our multiple alternate or phantasmic “pasts” we must reject
Word of the Year candidate: Unburdened.
“Hezbollah chief says it reviewed US truce proposal, cease-fire in Netanyahu’s hands”
For some strange reason, Hezbollah is unwilling to sign up with a deal proposed by US envoy Amos Hochstein where Hezbollah will cease firing on targets in Israel, while Israel agrees that they can target anything that they don’t like in Lebanon at the same time and have their air force constantly patrol the skies over Lebanon. So unreasonable.
Hochstein. Per wiki:
Hochstein was born in Jerusalem, the child of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) prior to moving to Washington, but is not a dual citizen.[13] He was a foreign policy adviser to Democratic Party members of the U.S. government House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1994 to January 2001.[14][15][16]
Sounds like a neutral arbitrator to me. / ;)
Thank you, both.
How do the American people tolerate this?
How? They are completely unaware of it, of course.
You have to already be aware of it to actively go looking for anything that doesn’t toe the line. Anyone in govmt knows their career is toast if they mention anything awkward. Those of us here suffer incomprehending blank looks if we say anything to neighbors. Just see how pro-Palestine protesters are treated vs pro- Israel.
Propaganda works, unfortunately.
True, but 70% of those that are aware are OK with it given Egypt attacked the USS Liberty, Iraqis threw babies from incubators, Saddam had WMD and was planning on atomic attack on the US, Muslims were dancing in Fort Lee NJ and posing with the Twin Towers burning in the background, Palestineans have for no apparent reason being killing Israelis since 100 A,D. and also launched a totally unprovoked attack on October 7, committed mass rape, beheaded 40 babies, and on and on. /s
Thank you.
We have the same in the UK, Assaf Kaplan at No 10, and Israeli security personnel deployed alongside the police and army.
Seymour Hersh’s latest, public excerpt:
‘I WOULD HAVE DROPPED THREE NUCLEAR BOMBS’
Talking to Israelis about the war in Gaza
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/i-would-have-dropped-three-nuclear
The ICC just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/middleeast/international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-israeli-prime-minister/index.html
You think that people wigged out when Trump got re-elected the other day. Just watch people totally lose it today as the news sinks in, especially all those Neocons. This may be the one thing that will bring Biden and Trump together as they share their outrage at this happening. The US may not be part of the ICC but the EU countries would be which means that they got some ‘splainin’ to do to the ICC. Here is RT’s report-
https://www.rt.com/news/607979-israel-netanyahu-arrest-warrant/
Some of the comments on that RT article… whew…
Missing sarc tag… or…?
Today will be neo-con meltdown day. I’ve got “illegitimate” and “rogue Court” on my bingo card.
Netanyahu can cross the EU off his “revenge travel” list.
(Or maybe, he’ll do a revenge tour and have the IDF bomb Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. With some US JDAMS)
If Brussels wasn’t already on the Samson Option short-list, its priority may soon be “reviewed”.
And this will drag down Israel with them – and so it should. Israel can no longer hide who they are or what they are all about. Just ask Caitlin Johnstone-
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-real-israel-15594920af19
When I was younger people asked how the Allies in WW2 could ignore the slaughter of the Jews in the extermination camps and why did they not destroy them from the air at least. But after the past 14 months I think that those people can shut up now as we are seeing another genocide happening in real time that the Collective west is either aiding, supplying, financing or covering for. What an age we live in.
>>>When I was younger people asked how the Allies in WW2 could ignore the slaughter of the Jews in the extermination camps and why did they not destroy them from the air at least.
To be fair, I can get fresh examples of butchery of children, in color and almost live anytime I want online. However, the Holocaust was such an outlier and most of it was done in Eastern Europe out of the range and sight of most of the Allied military, that there is some small defense of the inaction.
However, the allied leadership did fully know by 1943, and they could have done something to interfere with the slaughter at least a little bit. After all, the slaughter machine only really got into full operation in 1943 as it took time to build up a system that could murder eleven million people.
“Netanyahu can cross the EU off his “revenge travel” list.”
I don’t know. Remember the (in)famous picture of Netanyahu in New York for the UN speech in his hotel suite ordering Beirut bombings that the Israelis so happily and proudly published. They seem to revel poking people in the eye lately (metaphorically…..well, also in actuality too I guess). Wouldn’t surprise me if he took a European tour and they published daily pics of him smiling and waving to the camera in front of various famous European landmarks. Dress him in a red and white striped sweater and ski cap and call it ‘Where’s Bibi’?
Just to round up some of the relevant background and details, so we can properly interpret this move:
Neither the U.S. nor Israel are signatories to the Rome Statues, meaning that they do not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, notwithstanding that the body’s authority will be invoked when it is convenient, such as when the court issued a warrant for V. Putin. As others here have pointed out, states party to the court are legally obligated to arrest those with warrants out for them should they visit those countries; recall that Putin skipped a BRICS summit in South Africa last year. The South Africans were talking about changing their laws so that they would not have to arrest the Russian president; in the end, the were saved the trouble.
The ICC has jurisdiction over Gaza and the Occupied Territories, representatives of which have recognized the court since 2015. Without having read the warrants themselves, It would seem likely to me that it is in connection with this jurisdictional authority that they were legitimately issued.
In 2002, the U.S. passed the American Service Member’s Protection Act, often referred to as the “Hague Invasion Act”. The act allows the President to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”. This measure was meant to ensure that Americans and NATO personnel who were credibly accused of committing war crimes during the invasion of Afghanistan would have impunity. I would expect this to be invoked should an (improbable) arrest of Netanyahu occur. Gallant may not be so lucky.
In 2020, Trump placed sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the court for attempting to investigate American torture programs in Afghanistan. I would not be surprised at a repeat performance.
As a rule, a law which is cannot be enforced is no law at all. This is the position we find ourselves in with respect to international humanitarian law and international law in general. There is the problem of having the largest arms manufacturers and former colonial powers with vetos on the U.N. Security Council, precluding the very idea of international justice. Beyond the formal structure, the reality is that the U.S. has maintained a world in which might makes right. Until they drop the exceptionalism, and recognize the equality of other nations, there will be no justice, using the definition of “fairness/reciprocity among equals”.
I’d just add two things to that excellent summary. First, the ICC was always a court of last resort, and it has what’s called ‘complementary jurisdiction’, meaning that it only becomes involved when states are “unable or unwilling” to investigate themselves. It was assumed at the time of the negotiation of the Rome Statute that the most likely application would be in countries where the state and the justice system had broken down after a civil war or something similar. There was never any suggestion that it would simply decide to prosecute anyone it felt like: no state would have signed up to such a treaty. However, as some of us feared at the time, the Court, not helped by a series of incapable prosecutors, has allowed itself to be used as a political too, and has also wanted to be a political actor, which it never should have been. But paradoxically, Israel could get itself out of this mess by announcing that it was opening inquiries into Netanyahu and Gallant, thus, theoretically at least depriving the ICC of jurisdiction.
Second, the US hatred for the Court goes back a long way, when the US did sign the statute in 1998, after many concessions had been made to them, only for Clinton to chicken out of getting it ratified. The Little Bush administration were already trying to sabotage the Court from early 2001, and never really let go. The real issue, I suspect is going to be help with investigations, and states parties will probably be asked by the Court to hand over any evidence they have (which can include personal contacts) to the Court. That is going ruffle a few feathers.
Notwithstanding the ICJ ruling, the un serves the west. If the rest want a un without hegemon vetoes they’ll have to build their own.
Thanks, but the rub is the US will never willingly drop the exceptionalism. George Kennan shows the tone was already set way back in 1948:
“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
great quote – where is it from? – this is the same guy who told us not to poke the Bear – and there is this in Foreign Affairs 1/27/23 about Kennan in a sense countering the last few sentences – or a good example of realpolitik –
“Kennan’s star would dim after 1949 as he opposed the growing militarization of U.S. foreign policy, but he was still venerated as a Russian expert. His advice was sought by the Truman administration when it feared provoking Russia’s entry into the Korean War, by the Eisenhower administration after the death of Stalin, and by the Kennedy administration during the Berlin crisis of 1961. Despite his televised opposition to the Vietnam War and his protests against the nuclear arms race, Kennan was consulted by officials in the State Department and in the CIA well into the 1990s.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/george-kennan-warning-on-ukraine
further on in the article it deals specifically with his view on Russia and Ukraine –
This one was from a State Department Policy Planning Staff report:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v01p2/d4
The quote is buried in there, but is also on his wikiquote page:
en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan
thx
Zelensky’s ATACMS Gambit: Nuclear Red Alert or More Empty Provocations? Simplicius the Thinker
IMO StT it taking a few things wrong on the nature of the ATACMS attack. He states that “Zelenskyy deliberately chooses some defenceless ‘backwater’ showpiece to make a headline splash”. I think it is incorrect. If I am correct it is personnel from the US DoD who inputs geographic coordinates in the ATACMS missiles so it is not Z the one who chooses targets here. Intelligence is also US’s. I bet it is the DoD the one choosing a ‘backwater’ target because they possibly want these attacks to be as inconsequential as possible while satisfying the needs of the sulking President. If it was Z’s deciding targets he would probably want to choose real “headline splash” objectives. Remember, it is really the US doing those attacks not Ukraine.
and/or the capability of western targeting intelligence about Russia might have atrophied over the decades. Anything big, easily seèn ftom space, and high-priority is well-protected
Or may be, they were telegraphing in advance and the article in the NYT was intended in part as a signal.
Idk how anyone knows what they are claiming about this situation. STT’s “The third and most important thing” states Biden’s motive and Putin’s understanding thereof, his consequent choice of action and proceeds from there. Where does that knowledge come from?
Recent moves have me wondering…
The NATO countries have to make themselves more visible in the war against Russia.
Otherwise, it’s even more obvious their narrative makes no sense: their claims to be afraid that Russia will rampage throughout Europe. It makes no sense if Russia could be defeated by a Ukraine.
To secure its reason for existence, it always had to be NATO beating Russia.
At least that’s the plan…
“Third night of protests in Tbilisi: Opposition to rethink strategy. Photo/Video”
See how they go when winter kicks in and snow starts falling. Hard to have a violent Maidan-style revolution when people are freezing their butts off. That’s when you need the Molotov cocktails to come out to warm things up. Well, unless of course this is an AstroTurf protest. Would you believe that there were delegations from Germany, France, Poland, Estonia. Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Sweden speaking to those protestors in their national language of English recently ? Check out the first 40 seconds of Alex Christoforou’s video from the other day-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkfa_xPYPE
Not to be confused with foreign interference of course. Come to think of it, maybe that is why the Georgian authorities let them do their thing. So that the bulk majority of Georgians can see for themselves this direct foreign interference in their own country and support the government more.
Yes these PMC-types, foreign, clearly disconnected from Georgian population and needs, lecturing the populace in a foreign language. What they think they are doing apart from showing they only care about their geopolitical dreams?- Indeed that video is a must see, and scratch your eyes because it is really unbelievable.
Gooooooooooood Moooooooorning Fiatnam!
Attack ’ems (ATACMS) from a long way out was the agreed upon bulwark of democracy in the war on acronyms, in this case, missiles invented during Boy George’s heyday, boy howdy!
Nobody expected shit to go down in Danzig to kick off festivities in early September back in the day, and now it’ll be some almost meaningless town not far from the border that is the catalyst to cataclysm…
39′, by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UptzjhGSA
Biden’s Legacy: Leaving FOIA in Shambles
By Kevin Gosztola
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/21/bidens-legacy-leaving-foia-in-shambles/
This was a good article, thank you. It shows how little by little democratic rights we sometimes take for granted, like FOIA, can be slowly neutered, if not taken away. It reminds me of another Biden legacy I am hoping doesn’t continue: total avoidance of answering questions from the press.
Biden had 15 solo press conferences in 4 years, easily the least going back to Coolidge.
The President should have to answer to the press rather than operate in total secrecy. Now, with his mental decline there is an obvious reason why Biden did it. I just hope it doesn’t become common practice going forward, because not too many in the press raised much of a stink about it. Fortunately, Trump is enough of a blowhard that he probably enjoys mixing it up with the press on a regular basis.
Oops, sorry about that link. Let me try again
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences
Gilbert Doctorow’s transcript of the Trump video played at about 9:00 almost made me swoon:
Why haven’t we seen this reported elsewhere? The video appears to be from a similar YouTube video dated 03-21-23.
Napolitano aired that yesterday. I was stunned.
How is it that it needs to be “reported” at all? How is it that “americans” didn’t figure this out for themselves a long time ago?
In fact, many of us did.
I figured it out myself, but the clarity of thought in Trump’s 2023 video has not had much if any circulation, even here. Sorry if I missed it; I visit this site twice a day.
Agenda47: Preventing World War III
March 16, 2023
> Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia, based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat. But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, USA-hating people that represent us. These globalists want to squander all of America’s strength, blood, and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas, while keeping us distracted from the havoc they’re creating right here at home.
Bibi’s on the run, now
(Sung to the tune of, “Gimme all your lovin'” by ZZ Top)
Melody
You’ve got to take a shot
Cause genocide is oh so sweet
Tribunal’s gettin’ hot
Like a boomerang, history repeats
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women, too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
You’ve got to whip ethnic hatred up
And hit them with a ton of lead
If Joe blows his top
Send kisses while you pile up the dead
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
[Guitar break]
You gotta move them tanks up
And use ’em like Guderian would
Pack those civilians up
Leave rubble where a city stood
Bibi’s on the run, now
Killin’ kids and women too
Bibi’s on a rampage
Won’t let up until he’s through
Not that I can do these, but I was hoping for a “Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer. I can definitely envision Netanyahu in parachute pants cutting a rug.
Is that a rather gaunt John Malkovich attired in simian garb in the antidote, contemplating a life of crime in regards to luxury automobiles?
I think what that ape is saying is this-
‘You Maniacs! You are going to blow it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWphqA1Slrw (1:47 mins)
The simian is thinking: “They wanted me to vote for Harris? I’m not as dumb as I may look!”
Monkey see human doom?
“The great nuclear bunker race: Britons are snapping up Cold War-era lairs for more than 3 times the asking price while fallout shelters are flogged on eBay amid threat of WWIII”
Most people there would be laughing at people spending big money on those things that will never be used except to grow mushrooms in. Then they will learn that Keir Starmer has just had the British armed forces launch Storm Shadows at Russia itself to kill Russians with which will make them wonder if there is an Airbnb for nuclear fallout shelters.
Sixtyish years ago, us neighborhood kids were content to make a dugout fort, all the rage given WWII shows on TV, with a plywood top and stock it with a few cans of fruit cocktail. Before sunset, it was time to retrieve those cans and go inside for supper.
How times have changed.
The only nuclear fallout shelter completely safe from atmospheric radiation is apparently leaking out, and NASA hasn’t outsourced itself to Uber yet… so getting a ride up is tricky~
Six Months in a Leaky Boat, by Split Enz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGpLto1yxU
But think about all the clicks and likes you would get streaming WW3 from the ISS-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6Esz_26mI (1:21 mins)
Well, for a little while that is.
‘There is what appears to be an enormous Shiitake over what used to be the Holyland, now drifting out of view @ my 6:00 position, oh and what a Portobello belle now emerging as we cross into conflict elsewhere.’
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George’s take is that the UK will be first target of any retaliation by Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6rbIsV6Bg
Daymn. Galloway packs a punch !
There isn’t much storage for foodstuff there…
Those bunkers are no fun. This one is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQy89tZ-mRU
That’s what i’m talkin’ about in terms of latter-day troglodyte design, it’d be perfect for a heat shelter and being on top of a hill solves the potential for flooding, but most importantly its full of fun stuff, as you mention.
Key words… No Toilet…
Try Australia. Just a humble hole it the ground
A carbon market would sell coal. A carbon credits market would sell promises.
About that military Trump wants to use for deportations……it will be his military.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-creating-maga-military-purge-generals-veterans-group-warns-1985025
Since the borderlands occupy a lot of ‘land’, wouldn’t combining Space Force with the new and improved Border Patrol, be a natural?
Space Force will be deporting space aliens only.
Puts a new twist on the term ‘illegal alien’ but isn’t that what we have the Men In Black for?
You think that was a documentary?
You think that documentaries are documentaries?
Why did Mississippians always make for the best astronauts?
…they all took up space in school
Der Spiegel’s account:
~a dozen men and one woman on a sailboat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY (1:04 mins)
Please, don´t fall for this nonsense. Nothing has changed since Hersh.
Keep in mind, SPIEGEL is in Hamburg which is a port city and this is a spoof secret agent story where the sea is prominent and for SPIEGEL staff it´s an easy one. They meet the port authorities who feed them the nonsense every day. I would guess they lunch together on a regular basis.
With all the artificially added buoyancy they had, one would expect that no jackets/vests/corsets are needed. No wonder that captain let it slide.
No joke, but I also thought that any captain worth two cents would have insisted. They could have said something like “we’re not going anywhere until you put on life jackets.”
@ Joker
You somehow manage to be even more juvenile than the influencers.
Grow up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWh4xHeFMIQ
“More NATO in the Arctic Could Free the United States Up to Focus on China”
The Cliff Notes version of this article is pretty simple. The US doesn’t really do Arctic weather. Deserts are more their thing. So they are going to have the UK, Canada and the Nordic nations do and pay for any deployments there instead for them. No, seriously. That is what this article is saying.
Well, why shouldn’t Canada and the Nordic nations do and pay for the deployments in the waters that they claim as their own??
They should pay for some geogtaphy lessons first…
I did wonder if the author has ever had anything to do with the Arctic. I must admit i was impressed to learn our Canadian troops are experts in Arctic warfare. I believe our troops returned from their last Arctic exercise complaining that DND procurement managed to buy sleeping bags so bad they almost froze.
Unlike the sheep from the other day, the monkey is worried. Japanese economy must be doing really bad.
“Nooo. They’re turning off the onsen.”
Story about the two influencers drowning may be fake news.
I say this maybe fake news because the devil’s throat is near the Iguazu Falls, which are inland and not on the coast. Perhaps there’s another place with the same name but I was unable to find it, even when I plugged it in search with “Sao Paulo”.
This story was all in the news about a week or two ago so is almost certainly true. You only have to go to YouTube and put in the following search term to see the number of videos about people getting themselves killed trying to take that great selfie shot-
selfie death
What’s it all about selfie
Is it just for the moment we live
What’s it all about
When you sort it out, selfie
Are we meant to take more photos than we give
Or are we meant to be one of a kind?
And if, if only fools are kind, selfie
Then I guess it is wise to be cool
And if life belongs only to the individual, selfie
What will you lend a hand on a glorious perilous view?
As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above
Selfie, I know there’s something much more
Something even non-Youtubers can believe in
I believe in likes, selfie
Without true self-admiration we just exist, selfie
Until you find the self-love you’ve missed
You’re nothing, selfie
When you press the button let your heart lead the way
And you’ll find self-love any day selfie, selfie
Alife, performed by Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NPAz8-O29U
This is interesting. Can we but hope that Bibi follows Cornpop out the door?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/oct-7-2023-netanyahoo-knew-the-attack-was-coming-he-let-it-happen-on-purpose.html
The new scandal is about the cover up of Netanyahu’s foreknowledge.
“The pogrom that wasn’t”
‘We were driven to an industrial estate on the outskirts of Amsterdam and released, apart from one Arab man who was arbitrarily singled out, arrested and taken away. Afterwards, all that remained of the police operation was a drone overhead that monitored our movements. As we made our way back to the city centre, cars began circling around us and the drivers beckoned for us to get in. They introduced themselves as the Moroccan drivers whose colleague had been attacked by Maccabi fans on November 6. In a heartwarming act of solidarity after hours of police repression, they drove us back to Amsterdam, making sure that we got home safely.’
You’ll never see that story on CNN, DW or the BBC.
Adani Back in Turmoil After Tycoon Charged in Bribery Scheme – Bloomberg
NGL…it all sounds like the kind of crooked deals that oligarchs of the world have always made. Steps to become an oligarch.
I suspect investigations heated up after India and Modi didn’t break off political and economic ties with Russia after the start of the SMO.
>>>>Spirit Airlines CEO Got A $3.8 Million Bonus A Week Before Its Bankruptcy
that is standard opersting procedure with a competent legal team.
heads i win. tails i win a little less, but still i win.
Thank you, Lambert.
Further to the European disunion links, on Tuesday, I attended a conference in the City and heard from erstwhile colleagues, trade body and professional services. Three sessions, opening remarks by the trade body chairman and adviser to the consultancy (and ex Merrill Lynch board and Bank of England court member), Basel (bank safety and soundness) and ESG, addressed the issues of the EU and Brexit.
On the way home, I was wondering how to share the tidbits with you, so this link is ideal.
The City is increasingly of the opinion that, as growth rates and political outlooks diverge between the, this time, faster growing periphery and slower growing, if not stagnating, core, the Eurozone crisis could return.
The chairman and his trade body colleagues said they had not anticipated how receptive to the City Labour would be in government and how keen the government is on the City, recognised by the government as a strategic sector, to deliver its agenda and how much contact they have with the chancellor, three meetings in the past month alone.
Slowly, but surely, the remainer City is turning against the EU and no longer interested in any form of rapprochement. Only 15k of 90K jobs forecast have been lost due to Brexit. Threats to the City like moving clearing and portfolio management from London to the EU will take 10 – 15 years to achieve. This appears to Starmer’s view, too.
The City and government recognise that the UK is caught between Trump / the US and EU, but reckon that the UK, outside the EU, can ally with eastern Europe and the Netherlands to promote free trade and isolate a Germany on its knees and a France obsessed with strategic autonomy (“protectionism”). It was implied that if the UK has to choose, a deal with the US would be preferable, but it was recognised that farming and food production, not health, would be causes for concern.
There was some stuff about the UK leading the world in technology, not just AI, and the regulation thereof, which made me think of recent reality checks from Revenant on these pages.
(I have not heard so much wishful thinking, especially that the non-EU member UK can mobilise the EU against co-founding members France and Germany. I also noted that there’s a lot of Trump Derangement Syndrome as the Dixiecrats could have implemented and / or reinstated banking rules, but chose not to, and Biden kept Trump’s tariffs. There was no mention of the BRICS and global south / zone b.)
The trade body said that the government had accepted 90% of its recommendations on banking rules (capital, consumer protection and senior manager accountability), i.e. rolling back the reaction to 2008 (“self harm”), and wants the City to fund net zero etc., implying that a rapprochement with the EU would put the City’s prominence and influence in the UK and elsewhere at risk.
Last, but not least, the City grandee reckons Britons are paid too much.
It was shocking to hear the extent that Starmer and Reeves need the City to do their thinking and even some of the diplomacy.
Over supper with my parents, I told them the above and how much the government is reliant and wants to rely on the City. Mum remarked that on Tuesday the local library felt like a day care centre for the elderly escaping the cold. Library staff went to buy supplies out of their own pockets to feed the visitors. On Monday, local authorities were notified to expect an influx of refugees from Ukraine and to prioritise accordingly.
right now the temp in southern England is right around freezing—which by UK standards is very unseasonably cold. The temp. in Moscow right now is in the balmy mid-40s, 7c. even the weather isn’t on side w/Keir.
Talk about losing the Mandate of Heaven. I get it now why there was such a human obsession with signs/portents throughout history.
Thank you CS. Just that.
Gracias, Ignacio. De nada.
As for labor productivity in the UK since 2007, there has been minimal growth:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02791/
This is a serious problem indeed, made more so by a persistent unwillingness to even acknowledge the lack of productivity growth.
>>>Last, but not least, the City grandee reckons Britons are paid too much.
As is happening with my fellow Americans, if you cannot afford food and/or housing, just how are you being paid too much? It sounds like he expects people to die, human sacrifices for the glories of The Free Market™. It feels almost Aztec like. It almost seems that the fools want to justify socialism or even communism, whatever their protestations against the left are.
Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President’s Brain Is Missing? – Caitlin Johnstone
Yes, C.J., I also see the elephant.
C.J. for the headline win of the week.
Seconded. Fear not, Kamala’s on deck.
Re: Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help
FYI, the comments following this article are hilarious – and brutal. Well worth reading, especially the first 10 or so.
I’ve never met a Windows box I didn’t want to convert to Linux. My Father-in-Law is my latest client. I’m having him return his new Windows 11 compliant machine to Best Buy and he’ll get a slightly used Linux box instead.
Lee Fang vs. immigration
Democrats Need to be Tougher on Immigration
The future of class-based progressive reform requires an end to permissive immigration policies. Here’s the left-wing case against open borders.
https://www.leefang.com/p/the-progressive-case-against-mass
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The battlelines on immigration have hardened predictably. Left-leaning voters proudly display “refugees welcome” yard signs, while Donald Trump supporters cheer his pledge to implement “largest deportation operation in the history of our country”. Amid such partisan attitudes, it has become heretical to suggest that the Democrats need to be tougher on immigration.
But they must. In the long run, progressives have no choice but to acknowledge that huge infusions of migrants stress welfare systems and depress wages for low-skill workers, while damaging social cohesion. Only by accepting this, and making the case for border security and less tolerance for migrant rule-breaking, can the Left reconnect with its blue-collar roots.
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If a BSW in Germany argues this way to get a foothold in the struggle over votes and power it´s one thing. If a reporter who has the liberty to engage in some deeper socio-political analysis does the same I tend to despair.
How short-sighted is this? I suggest we draw walls between all countries based on GDP. So yes I whole-heartedly disagree. And it´s not me who is delusional, it´s so-called “progressives” (Lee Fang? progressive? pinch me)) who have completely lost their way and know only one direction, right.
But Fang was already a disappointment on the abysmal discussion about “USA world´s policeman – yes or no”.
I just have to live with this new hair-raising Zeitgeist of ineptitude to think in broader context.
I’m interested in why you disagree with Fang, as this was essentially Bernie Sanders’ position on immigration as well.
Some immigration is inevitable and arguably essential for a society to remain vibrant and not stagnate. Massive immigration all at once does tend to displace people and damage social cohesion. Just ask those North American First Peoples.
since you suggest asking us, I’ll respond.
what you people did here is what you are doing in Palestine, writ large from the standpoint of the victors. If your elected leaders are successful in their genocide (doubtful since they picked the wrong century to perpetrate it) Greater Israel will use small bantustans of Palestinians as an example of what massive immigration will do with absolutely no sense of irony. Many will boast of being 1/64 Palestinian providing a connection to their noble savages.
There is the moral argument, you help people in need, be it political or economic, and whose decisions to leave eventually have the same sources of origin and which circle back to us.
There is the legal argument of Art. 14 of the Declaration of Human Rights:
“1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”
Due to WWII in Germany this right was especially enshrined. Its hollowing out here had entirely reasons of “neo-liberalism”.
There is the humanitarian argument that since the end of the Cold War migration has increased steadily even if little. However if the destination countries are small in number those few percentages obviously offer cause for big trouble. Which doesn´t make it sensible to try to keep them out. The problem then is only pushed under the rug and will grow
global migration:
1970: 84 mn. (2,3% of global population)
1975: 90 mn. (2.2%)
1980: 101 mn. (2.3%)
1985: 113 mn. (2.3%)
1990: 152 mn. (2.9%)
1995: 161 mn. (2.8%)
2000: 173 mn. (2.8%)
2005: 191 mn. (2.9%)
2010: 220 mn. (3.2%)
2015: 247 mn. (3.4%)
2020: 280 mn. (3.6%)
see this and other statistics on the same page:
https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int/what-we-do/world-migration-report-2024-chapter-2/international-migrants-numbers-and-trends
There is also this neat interactive map on 1960-2012 historical refugee data by the UN:
https://unhcr.github.io/dataviz/#
This map is old, 2008. But it shows the areas of political disruption which is of course a lot the Middle East. It is childish to assume this doesn´t concern us:
https://mondediplo.com/maps/refugees
There is the political argument that other countries with incomparably less resources than any G7 have been harbouring hundreds of thousands and millions of refugees for decades, due to wars which we instigated, e.g. Columbia, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Turkey, Sudan and so on. Besides you have climate change which will confront us with this issue on an entirely new level. So we better prepare and find solutions now not in 30 years.
NC had a book review in April on people moving due to climate change focused on the US:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/book-review-on-the-move-is-a-must-read-account-of-u-s-climate-migration.html
There is the common-sense argument that human beings should have the right to settle wherever on this planet they want.
Additionally wherever you have any restrictions to basic human movements due to need you will resort to violence to enact the restrictions. Which results for instance in 30.000 killed trying to cross the Mediterranean in the past 10 years.
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/892249/umfrage/im-mittelmeer-ertrunkenen-fluechtlinge/
p.s.
Sanders in Germany would probably be member of the so-called conservative, neo-liberal biggest opposition party, CDU
That Bernie is all Mother-Theresa in US comparison is also due to the fact that while the US has a national security state Germany traditionally had a social security state which of course is being eroded more and more for 25 years now. However one of the reasons why CIA had not the troubles with Germany it had with Italy e.g. was the social security state and very high living standards.
p.s.
If I remember correctly, in the summer of 2022, NATO for the first time added “immigrants” as a major threat to NATO/EU, next to RU and China, which as we know have 6000 nukes together. That gives you an unerstanding of how it really works. And if Fang argues in a way obfuscating the real mechanics behind this – believing he is honest – he is an idiot and not much better than those who he criticizes. Since as I said he has a choice as (investigative!) reporter.
From German-Foreign-Policy-Blog, I can only post the entire translated text here since it´s archived and it won´t translate with google as a link.
An example how these political deals work in Europe:
https://archive.is/cwYwJ
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Money for refugees
The EU has signed its third refugee defense deal with a country in northern Africa – Egypt. Cairo is illegally deporting refugees, including Sudanese fleeing militias that once hunted refugees for the EU.
19th March, 2024
CAIRO/NOUAKCHOTT/TUNIS/BERLIN (Own report) – The EU signed the third of its new refugee defense deals with states in northern Africa on Sunday, this time with Egypt. Brussels has promised Cairo 7.4 billion euros in funds over the next four years; in return, it demands that refugees be stopped on their way to Europe. Specifically, this includes people fleeing the civil war in Sudan. The EU had previously concluded similar agreements with Tunisia and Mauritania – based on the model of the EU refugee defense deal with Turkey on March 18, 2016. Human rights organizations are protesting vigorously. Human Rights Watch, for example, points out that Egypt is already deporting refugees in violation of international law; its new agreement with the EU can be seen as an incentive to expand such practices. As early as July 2023, while EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was signing the refugee defense deal with Tunis, dozens of deportees died of thirst in the Tunisian-Libyan desert. Sudanese people, whom Cairo is now supposed to stop, are fleeing from militias that once fought refugee defense in the name of and with the resources of the EU.
Deal with Tunisia
The EU concluded the first of its new refugee defense deals with countries in northern Africa with Tunisia last year. The model: the refugee defense deal with Turkey of March 18, 2016, which essentially involved the payment of six billion euros in return for the promise to prevent refugees from traveling to Europe as far as possible. The deal is still in effect today. On July 16, 2023, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed signed an essentially identical agreement in Tunis, which also provided for the payment of larger amounts in return for a firm commitment to prevent refugees from crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. It was reported at the time that Brussels had promised Tunis 150 million euros in “emergency aid” and 105 million euros directly for measures against refugees.[1] There was also talk of loans of up to 900 million euros. The EU attached additional importance to the statement that it was financing submarine cables from Italy to Tunisia for a mid-three-digit million sum. After lengthy disputes between the two sides over the amount of the payments, the EU finally released the first 150 million euros for Tunis at the beginning of March 2024.
Deal with Mauritania
The second of the refugee defense deals with countries in northern Africa followed on March 7th – in the form of an agreement between the EU and Mauritania. While refugee boats set off from Tunisia mainly for Italy, boats that leave the Mauritanian coast usually head for the Canary Islands, i.e. Spanish territory. Spain has stationed police officers in Mauritania since 2006 – currently around 50 – to help the Mauritanian authorities take action against refugees. Although with the help of Spanish officials it is said that at least 7,000 refugees were prevented from traveling by boat to the Canary Islands last year, Madrid and Brussels believe that this is no longer enough.[2] In the agreement of March 7th, the EU promised Nouakchott financial aid worth 210 million euros, 60 million of which was for refugee defense. Spain contributed a further 300 million euros.[3] In return, Mauritania’s government promised to stop refugees in the future. “Our nation will not be a country for irregular migrants,” said Economics Minister Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh: “In accordance with the joint agreement, we do not want to receive or accommodate them.”[4]
Deal with Egypt
The third refugee defense deal in the new series was concluded with Egypt last Sunday (March 17). EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Egyptian President Abd al Fattah al Sisi signed a corresponding agreement in Cairo. In this case, it is less about refugees who are trying to cross the Mediterranean from Egypt towards Europe; this was the case to a certain extent until September 2016, but was then stopped by Cairo under pressure and in cooperation with Brussels (german-foreign-policy.com reported [5]). The EU states are currently primarily interested in preventing refugees from traveling to Libya; Brussels lacks cooperation partners, particularly in the east of the country, who would stop refugee boats on its behalf. The EU is also demanding that Egypt strictly seal off its border with Sudan.
A murderous civil war is raging in Sudan, which has so far forced more than ten million people to flee, at least 1.7 million of them abroad. In return, Cairo will receive a good 7.4 billion euros from Brussels over four years: five billion in loans, 1.8 billion for investments and 600 million in grants, 200 million of which will go directly to refugee defense.[6]
The EU’s henchmen
Observers point out that in many cases the refugees from Sudan are fleeing from militias that were once equipped with EU funds – and, just like today, to prevent refugees. When the EU worked with Sudan years ago as part of the so-called Khartoum Process to seal off the escape routes from eastern Africa to Europe [7], the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under militia leader Mohammed Hamdan Daglo were among those who intercepted refugees on Sudanese territory. Daglo himself once boasted of having detained refugees on behalf of the EU.[8] This is of interest not only because the RSF emerged from the Janjaweed militias, which carried out massacres on a large scale in Darfur from 2003 onwards. The RSF is now fighting against the regular armed forces in the civil war in Sudan; they are driving countless people to flee again with new massacres. Although the EU denies having directly financed the RSF, it admits to having cooperated with the Central Reserve Police.[9] The US has imposed sanctions on the Central Reserve Police because its members killed demonstrators in 2022 when they suppressed democracy protests in Sudan.
Death in the desert
Human rights organisations are raising sharp protests against the new EU deal with Egypt. For example, Human Rights Watch (HRW) points out in a recent statement that the Egyptian government is not only responsible for harsh repression against critics and opponents of the government. HRW has also documented cases in which refugees and other migrants were arbitrarily arrested and mistreated by Egyptian authorities. In addition, deportations to Eritrea in violation of international law have been documented. According to HRW, there are now also credible reports of the deportation of Sudanese refugees.[10] The human rights organization states that the EU is making itself an open accomplice to human rights crimes with its refugee defense deal on Sunday. This is also the case in Tunisia. There, while von der Leyen was signing the deal to ward off refugees in presumably well-air-conditioned rooms in Tunis on July 16, 2023, at least 27 refugees who had been deported to the desert there by the Tunisian authorities days before were killed in the scorching heat of the Tunisian-Libyan border area.[11] Deportations to the desert on the Tunisian-Algerian border have also been documented for the period afterward.[12]
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Biden’s FAFO plan comes to fruition. Russia fires a MIRV intermediate range ballistic missile into Dnipro. Not nuke. But no way to know that up front. Maybe Russia alerted the west first?
“Ukraine’s Air Force Command says that Russia has, for the first time in the multi-year war, launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) targeting the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. This unprecedented escalation follows Ukraine’s recent use of US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and British Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets deep within Russia. The use of an ICBM is Russia demonstrating its greater capabilities in response to Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes.
A senior Ukrainian military official told the Financial Times that Russia launched an ICBM called “RS-26 Rubezh” that has a range of 3,700 miles and can strike any European capital.”
That’s from ZH. Lots of info on X. This missile was banned by the treaty that Trump pulled out of. Images are horrifying.
Good work all…
the footage of the MIRV re-entry is wild. it hit something that went boom.
impact, https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1859563084269941164
impact + post-impact target explosion, https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1859584745945911746
If this was 1985 and there was an ICBM being used on the planet, it would be headline news for days. Today, shrug. NYT would rather walk about Bibi. What the family blog!
The light of the warheads piercing the cloud cover and reflecting off them is incredibly beautiful.
H-bomb Haiku
Goes up must come down
Hopefully not in my town
When the deal goes down
Pillars of fire,, where have I seen them mentioned before ?
The second video is in fact funny with its contrast. Missiles hit while commuters carry on in their cars undisturbed (listening to music?) in the foreground. Nobody seems to stop!
The objective has apparently been a group of factories of Yuzmash and Yuzhnove involved in the manufacturing of space rockets.
Trump pulling out of INF Treaty was a great 3D checkers move.
as is your user name 😉
btw. does it work by now or not? Sarmat I mean…talking about ICBMs n´ stuff.
Talking about ICBMs, there is only one way to find out if Sarmat works, and we just might, considering that those poking the bear are eager to FAFO.
Talking about IRBMs, I had to check out Wikipedia’s take.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreshnik_(missile)
It says that 9M729 Oreshnik was first announced by Russian president Vladimir Putin during a speech on 21 November 2024. We would not have known it even existed, if it wasn’t for those FAFO folks and their quest for knowledge.
Talking about user name, it’s part ICBM and part stuffed cabbage/vine leaves. 🚀 🍴
>>>Maybe Russia alerted the west first?
The power move would be to not give NORAD warning. Those first 20 seconds would be a doozy….until the US satellite network presumably calculated that the trajectory was somewhere in eastern Europe.
Too bad thst the trajectory (presumably) can’t be eadily adjusted in flight. It would have been something if the lone IRBM seemed like it was on the way to UK…
You are correct, the trajectory can only be slightly adjusted, think more like hitting adjacent cities, not states or countries. Differences in range are easier than changing course to the side. The bus doesn’t have all that much fuel, and inclination changes are hugely energy expensive.
And let Mush For Brains push the Red Button by mistake? I sure hope the Russians would not take that risk…..
Looks pretty much like retaliation. Watch what can we do?- Expect more of this.
However Martyanov yesterday rightly reminded of the ATACMS attack with cluster munition this summer, killing and wounding several at the beach on the route to Kerch Bridge.
So this is not new. Crimea being RU and all…
Someone in the commentariat even made the joke: “They really must hate that bridge”.
It’s not a joke. They have an obsession with that brige (among other things) because it’s undeniable evidence that they are losers. The only big thing they have built are graveyards.
I’ve also heard “They really must hate that bridge” joke in regards to a railroad bridge south of Odessa, that is used to transport stuff from Romania. Russians have been striking it ever since the begining of SMO, but it alway gets repaired somehow. Soviet (Russian) engineers were building some tough bridges.
>”The only big thing they have built are graveyards.”
well said
Bridges, wars and sayings could be a category of its own.
Probably primarily intended as visual message for the WH. While analysts in the Pentagon will send a prayer: “Thank you, thank you, thank you dear Vladimir. May be Sullivan will listen to us now!”
looked up the target on google maps…..it’s a sprawling Soviet-era factory complex, perfect place to test a new missile while minimizing civilian casualties.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/uG5g4TnQH5HBdf927
Factory complex that used to make ICBMs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA_Pivdenmash#Missiles
Freedom of Speech not permitted on a free speech poster wall?
Jewish Federation and Palestine supporters react after UR students accused of putting up antisemitic posters
Not surprisingly, using google one cannot find an actual image of what the posters actually said. Doesn’t seem like alt media has picked it up.
Atlantic article on academic cheating is paywalled which in this case results in what I would consider to be an open and shut case of libel. You get to read the allegations but all the exonerating evidence is hidden behind the paywall. [archive.ph complete article here]
This is all the info The Atlantic gives readers for free:
The last couple of lines copy fine but at The Atlantic they are very light gray and hard to read. You get the denial but not the rest of the detective story in which Schroeder does a lot of work to find the real culprit who is not named in the unpaywalled teaser.
The only reason I went to archive.ph was because the nonpaywalled content suggested two specific people were responsible when the actual two culprits were not named. Building suspense? In a novel, yes. In a news story I would call this libel. I’m not a lawyer but as a writer I would be glad to testify that this is a clear ethical breach. They’re amplifying a lie to sell subscriptions: The Atlantic will mislead you for free, the truth you have to pay for.
If Schroeder or Gino have a lawyer, they should let The Atlantic know that paywall needs to come down immediately.
– btw. re: Germany elections – SPD SoD Pistorius will not be running for chancellor.
Just as I had predicted in one of my posts – do not underestimate Scholz –
as far as this kind of affair is concerned, politics is indeed a question of power. But is that any reference to a meaningful way to manage society and global problems? Not really…
The Doctorow/Judge interview didn’t age well.
A dozen Starmers ( sorry Storms) fired at something in Kursk ( thankfully not the nuke) and an ICBM fired back ( thankfully minus the nuke).
If Micron follows up with some Scalps I think someone will be ‘frying tonight’.
Right on cue, Putin’s message about the Oreshnik last night. Gnashing of teeth in many European countries.
How do they back down without losing face?
Doesn’t appear that any of the strikes did any real damage, though footage of the fireball from the Tver strike with UAVs some months ago is being recycled. Dan Davis discusses with George Galloway. Wonder where the Ukrainians got the aircraft.
Martyanov´s quick post on the RU attack with short footage of the hits:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-i-am-talking-about.html
US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos
I was in Da Nang, Vietnam stationed at the air base working on the A-6 Intruder an all weather bomber used by the Navy and Marine Corps. Our squadron bombed the Ho Chi Min trail in Laos and Cambodia virtually every night. Back in the States, there was total denial that any military action was taking place in these countries. It was the beginning of my awakening to the reality of what the United States was capable of.
I read somewhere than when Laos was trying to normalize relations with the US, US charged it 300 mill USD for the cost of the bombs they (us) used to “liberate” it (laos) from Vietnamese…
I think the cost of bombs dropped provision is included in the fine print of the Rules Based Order.
The very bombs that made parts of Laos still uninhabitable over fifty years later? How nice.