Universe expanding faster than physics can explain — New evidence deepens cosmic ‘crisis’ Study Finds
Scientists Discover Bacteria Trapped in Endless Evolutionary Time Loop Science Alert
Ants never overtake, have smart traffic sense, could solve urban transport challenges Interesting Engineering
Mathematical model shows how conformity influences cultural trends and polarization Phys.org
Octopus Arms Think for Themselves – Scientists Reveal How They Work SciTech Daily
Climate/Environment
These small flying robots could be the pollinators of the future ZME Science
Exponential Abyss New Left Review
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Federal Reserve Says It Will Leave Climate Change Organization US News
One Community’s Journey to Create ‘Energy Democracy’ Through Solar The Allegheny Front
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Newsom strikes deal with major lenders to provide mortgage relief during wildfire crisis Long Beach Press Telegram
Modern “plastic” homes burn faster and release toxic chemicals during fires Environmental Health News
Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn Cal Matters
Pandemics
Game wardens went to shoot geese near Nazareth in bird flu fight and found 1,000s already dead Lehigh Valley Live (Carla)
Report warns fatal deer disease could jump to humans. Unlikely, Michigan says Bridge Michigan
Tik Tok
Monopoly Round-Up: Explaining the TikTok Dispute BIG by Matt Stoller
Trump proposes 50% US ownership of TikTok: ‘We’re going to have a lot of bidders’ USA Today
Lol sorry, this may be good for Trump domestically but internationally the US is looking like an unserious joke – the kind of thing they like to paint as “third world banana republic” stuff when others do it. What do you mean TikTok is back? At least Brazil got a concession out… https://t.co/qArrHwiUOY
— Alonso Gurmendi (@Alonso_GD) January 19, 2025
China?
China’s Industrial Policy for Shipbuilding: The US Pushes Back Conversable Economist
Africa
Kenya’s Safaricom faces abductions backlash Semafor. “Activists have accused Safaricom of sharing customer call records and location data with alleged state agents, allowing them to track and capture targets.”
Samar al-Bulushi on Kenya and the War on Terror Geeska
Pfizer Trial Survivors Recount Pain, Demand Overdue Justice After 29 Years News Central
Old Blighty
Keir Starmer touts relationship with Donald Trump as he seeks US-UK trade deal Financial Times
Corbyn is being smeared again – this time to stop protests against genocide Jonathan Cook
O Canada
Canada’s best response to Donald Trump’s aggression? Socialism The Breach
Inside the Conservative Party’s growing alliance with right-wing Hindu groups The Breach
Syraqistan
Trump’s Middle East envoy is considering a visit to the Gaza Strip amid ceasefire deal NBC News. Commentary:
Are these people serious? Where else in the world does “rebuilding” require expelling the entire population? And if Gazans have to be moved, shouldn’t they go back to the homes they were kicked out of in what is today Israel?https://t.co/xyesIeKJda pic.twitter.com/nnTdthXJmT
— gathara (@gathara) January 19, 2025
TERRORIST MARCH Shameless AK-47-wielding Hamas terrorists come out of hiding to throw PARADE on dawn of Gaza ceasefire & hostage release The U.S. Sun. (resilc): “notice the new toyota truck. how is this possible? did idf take over the toyota dealer?”
No Return to the Status Quo Alon Mizrahi
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One in five Israeli tech firms moved some operations and staff abroad during war Times of Israel
The Former Israeli Spies Building AI Systems At Global Tech Companies ¡Do Not Panic!
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Graham calls for the ‘decimation’ of Iranian nuclear program after ceasefire The Hill. Water is wet.
The MEK terrorist group: from domestic crimes to international deception GeoPolitiQ
Syria’s Al Qaeda Branch Intercepts Iranian Drones and Armaments Being Smuggled to Hezbollah in Lebanon Military Watch
European Disunion
Fear and loathing in Davos: EU frets about its lose-lose choice between Trump’s US and Xi’s China Politico
Pressman Badmouths Hungary in NYT Interview — Balázs Orbán Fires Back Hungarian Conservative
David Pressman’s departure from Budapest today—reprising his provocations on the way out—doesn’t just portend a new dawn in Hungary-US relations.
It marks a key moment in showing that the whole “aircraft carrier” of liberal foreign policy has run aground.
A few thoughts🧵 pic.twitter.com/TO541cMLbd
— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) January 13, 2025
New Not-So-Cold War
Medvedev In His Parting Words To Biden … Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future…
Donald Trump Jr. says Zelensky desperately sought inauguration invite Al Mayadeen
Zelensky, Starmer Discuss WW3; West-Russia War, Russia Advance Quickens; Trump Xi Talk Alexander Mercouris (Video)
Russia Says It Will Counter Any UK-Ukraine Cooperation In Sea of Azov Reuters
Ukrainian air defence system on par with US Patriot announced by Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Ukrainska Pravda. Not sure that’s as impressive as he thinks it is.
South of the Border
Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador Sapiens
Biden Administration
Biden hails ‘extremely successful’ Israeli war that transformed region Al Mayadeen
Biden worked ‘tirelessly around the clock’ — to prevent a ceasefire Responsible Statecraft
Democrats en Déshabillé
‘Lady McBiden’: Alexandra Pelosi Blasts the First Lady Politico
Chartbook 346: Against overcorrection. Yellen’s Treasury defends the legacy of Democratic fiscal policy. Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Vice President Harris faces tough decisions on political future The Hill
Trump 2.0
Trump Inauguration Official’s “Phony Charity” Allegedly Pocketed East Palestine Train Disaster Funds The Intercept. Weasels.
The Billionaires Flocking to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump Bloomberg. Six of the ten richest people on earth so far.
Real estate elite expected at Trump’s inauguration The Real Deal
Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake New York Post
‘Shock and awe’: Trump plans 100 immediate executive actions. Here’s what could be coming. USA Today
Immigration
Maybe if we’d season th’ immygrants a little or cook thim thurly, they’d go down betther. 3am Thoughts
Americans support mass deportation (until you ask them to think in concrete terms about almost any aspect of that policy), according to a new Axios poll pic.twitter.com/L1S0zT2N1R
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 19, 2025
Healthcare?
UnitedHealth mounts full defense of its business in wake of Thompson’s killing Stat
UnitedHealth’s Reckoning: Wall Street Isn’t Buying the Blame Game HEALTH CARE un-covered
Supply Chain
U.S. Companies Stockpile Chinese Goods Amid Tariff Uncertainty Global Trade Mag
Police State Watch
Computer says no fly Lighthouse Reports
Flyover Country
On Development: The cloud is made of concrete Matter
The Great Sherman Land Rush D Magazine. “What happens when $40 billion pours into a North Texas town so small that half its population could fit into a high school football stadium? Sherman is about to find out.”
Biden boosts loan for ioneer’s Nevada lithium mine to nearly $1 billion Mining
Foreign ownership of US farmland continues to rise, but Chinese holdings dip Agriculture Dive
Groves of Academe
MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties The Intercept
The Bezzle
Donald Trump’s memecoin drops 38% as wife Melania launches token Coin Telegraph
What the release of Trump’s memecoin signals for crypto regulations Coin Telegraph
Class Warfare
Locking the Door on Corporate Housing Rollups Boondoggle
COSTCO TEAMSTERS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TO AUTHORIZE STRIKE International Brotherhood of Teamsters
MLK’s Legacy Is One of Class Struggle. To Fight Trump, We Must Carry His Torch. Truthout
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Keir Starmer touts relationship with Donald Trump as he seeks US-UK trade deal”
The current British foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described Donald Trump as a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”. Good luck with the trade deals and the “special relationship”! (LOL)
You think that Trump has already forgotten how Starmer sent over 100 Labour operatives to campaign for Harris against him? Trump does not strike me as the forgiving type. And Lammy is toast for sure.
Lettuce, turnip and pea.
‘Alonso Gurmendi
@Alonso_GD
Lol sorry, this may be good for Trump domestically but internationally the US is looking like an unserious joke – the kind of thing they like to paint as “third world banana republic” stuff when others do it. What do you mean TikTok is back? At least Brazil got a concession out of Twitter lol’
Depends on what sort of deal that Trump is talking about with Tik Tok. I heard that he is talking about a 50/50 ownership but does that mean that US part of the 50% will be owned by a US corporation – like Musk’s Twitter? But if Trump wants a deal where Tik Tok would give the US access to all their files, algorithms, etc. aka their “secret sauce”, then there would be a no deal. Maybe this 6 month deal is all about the US getting ready to ban RedNote too if the Tik Tok deal proves a bust.
Ironically the actual Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin appears to be available for foreigners to join now so that’s another alternative
Thank you, Conor.
Further to the link to the Jonathan Cook article, an acquaintance, an ex US Fed and Bank of England official, was at Saturday’s march and reported how the police were instigating violence. Said acquaintance wonders if Israeli forces were deployed.
Said acquaintance is at every march, volunteers at food banks, reports rising desperation and discontent and wonders if the intimidation of Corbyn and MacDonnell is also designed to head off marches over continued austerity.
Readers interested in payments and dedollarisation may know who said acquaintance is. We work together on operational resilience and belong tothe same professional body.
Each Martin Luther King Memorial day I share this.
https://www.crmvet.org/info/mlk_viet.pdf
“Beyond Vietnam”
Nope, nope. That won’t do. That is not a sanctioned MLK speech or paper. You will be inundated with an endless recitation of l have a Dream and Letter from Birmingham Jail epistles. References to class are verboten on this day (and any day).
“Modern “plastic” homes burn faster and release toxic chemicals during fires”
‘In short:
-Plastic materials in homes, such as furniture foam and vinyl flooring, release toxic gases like hydrogen cyanide and volatile organic compounds when burned.
-Synthetic furnishings ignite quicker and cause rapid “flashover,” making house fires deadlier than in the past.
-Smoke from urban fires, mixed with toxins from burning plastics, poses severe health risks that standard masks cannot block.’
I’m shocked, shocked by this revelation. Oh wait, no I’m not. I heard about the same points brought up in the film “The Towering Inferno” – and that was made back in 1974. But there is a new twist to this story. Teslas. There were a lot of these cars in this area before the fire and when they finish burning – eventually – they leave behind a toxic cocktail that requires specialized removal, especially with all that Lithium-
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/01/17/burning-teslas-fried-battery-storage-systems-slow-la-return/
I’ve read lots of stories like this and they all talk about active fires. They don’t mention post fire, completely cold battery. So I’m not sure if/how toxic a cold dead ev is.
I don’t know how many EV’s there were or home battery systems. I do know that external heat will cause them to burn.
And as has been reported repeatedly, pretty much impossible to extinguish because the gases are under pressure from inside the battery cells meaning you can’t get water into them.
Anyway, it does add an aspect of fire prevention problem that is new.
And also a reason for the new sodium chemistry.
Newer home solar panel installations use lithium batteries as well.
On Development: The cloud is made of concrete – Matter
“Sometimes technology and commerce get a little ahead of themselves. We proceed based not on what we need but on what we are able to do. We set off in new directions before we have thought them through. Before we have even raised the relevant questions: Why are we doing this? What are the implications? Are there long-term costs?
Is an advertising brochure written by artificial intelligence more important than farmland? Are one-day shipping and fast-fashion clothes more beautiful than a mountain gorge cut by a mighty river? Do we need a massive new infrastructure to store our cat videos and uninformed political screeds?”
The last paragraph:
“It sounds so simple to have all of our. electronic devices and magically store our photos and information “in the cloud.” But they are not fluffy, bunny-shaped wisps across the sky. They are concrete. And there are hundreds of them with thousands more to come – giant concrete boxes erupting beneath our spacious skies. I don’t know what we need to do about it, but we can’t find the right answers until we ask the right questions.”
From 1/19 links:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says This Will Be the No.1 Most Valuable Skill in the Age of AI – Inc.
“Figuring out what questions to ask will be more important than figuring out the answer,” he says…
Obviously, Altman isn’t going to be the one.
Altman sounds like just another smug geek who blew off philosophy and other liberal arts classes in college.
Socrates has been around for a while, Sammy ding-a-ling.
Well said.
We’re already at that point in the day when I need a spittoon for contempt overflow.
Foreign ownership of US farmland continues to rise, but Chinese holdings dip – Agriculture Dive
Anything about that in the alleged hundreds of executive orders the press is expecting?
Federal Reserve Says It Will Leave Climate Change Organization
Not even simple interst, I reckon.
Breaking News: He did it. The SOB actually did it-
‘US President Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons for former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as members of Congress who investigated the January 6 Capitol riot.’
https://www.rt.com/news/611306-biden-pardons-fauci-cheney-milley/
So let the fun and games begin by investigating just what those people are actually being pardoned for. I love what Biden said of Fauci – ‘The United States is safer and healthier because of him.’ (bronx cheer)
A point that cannot be made too often: once pardoned, you can still be investigated and lying while under oath is a whole new crime.
Biden just accidentally created a Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Ahh, Katniss, yesterday’s wish has been granted. This should condemn Fauci to a certain level of ignominy, perhaps enough to remove him from the public sphere. I guess they all can join the lobbyist crowd.
“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
Biden solidifies his place in history as the worst US president ever. A monumental achievement.
Well done, Joey.
This administration, more so than any other in my six decades, has made the case for a constitutional amendment that curtails Article II powers during a transition period. If Fauci, Milley, et al deserve pardons on January 19, then surely they deserved pardons on November 1. Would help voters make up their minds.
Of course, turkeys never vote for Thanksgiving, so I don’t see this happening.
Or we could just eliminate the transition period entirely and have the new President be sworn on an ASAP basis. This would, of course, require that we fix our broken election system so that all races are decided by the next day at the latest.
I have a solution. No pardons during the lame duck period. Hell, no executive orders at all. Let the executive nut up and perform these actions before the election or anytime prior.
Biden pardons Fauci. Oh.
Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-fauci-milley-pardons-january-6-3cba287f89051513fb48d7ae700ae747
Milley is a particularly disgusting swamp creature. Biden’s pardons don’t cover the ICJ which might have jurisdiction over war crimes? Genocide of Ukrainians?
‘Scranton Scramble’
Biden almost makes me long for the next teetotalitarian leader
re: Ants never overtake, have smart traffic sense, could solve urban transport challenges Interesting Engineering
It’s always the speeders and racers, those who weave in and out of lanes, those who try to get ahead, disrupting the pace, who cause the red brake lights to light up for miles, creating congestion.
The engineering article doesn’t say how this info about ants can be used, but I’ll make a suggestion – either use FSD in all cars, or narrow the lanes and erect physical walls between lanes, or put cars on rails. These three options seem like the only way to control for the speeders, overtakers and weavers.
BEFNAR* was always the cause of traffic jams on LA freeways…
If we gave ants rear brake lights there’d be mayhem too-
*Brakes Engaged For No Apparent Reason
Wukchumni: Indeed.
On Chicagolandia expressways, BEFNAR is raised to an artform. I recall being (warily) near drivers who can somehow engage the brakelights and accelerate at the same time.
“Russia Says It Will Counter Any UK-Ukraine Cooperation In Sea of Azov”
Zakharova described the Sea of Azov as Russia’s internal sea and she right as it is inside Russia right now. Is the UK going to send in warships like they did off the coastline off Crimea before the war? The UK is already talking about setting up bases on the Ukrainian coastline at the end of the war just like they did before the war started. The Russians will not allow NATO bases to be set up to threaten Crimea with missiles as was planned three years ago by the UK. That sort of talk will only encourage the Russians to roll up the Ukrainian coastline entirely.
One point of interest is that since the bridge was built, Russia has required any vessels seeking to enter/exit the Sea of Azov to take onboard a Russian pilot to navigate through the straits. The Ukrainians muttered about ignoring that and may even have made a token and futile attempt to pass through. The British are so arrogant I can see them attempting to refuse to do so. However, I recall the British navy vessel that sailed too close to Crimea, including with a BBC stenographer onboard, when Johnson was still PM, claiming ‘freedom of navigation, but hastilly changed course when they realised the Russians would sink them if pushed too far.
Regarding:
“Where else in the world does “rebuilding” require expelling the entire population? And if Gazans have to be moved, shouldn’t they go back to the homes they were kicked out of in what is today Israel?”
I fully expect the West (especially USA and Europe) to push towards “relocating” the population of Gaza via some devious, forceful but not military, means.
Let us take the UNRWA. Its budget is highly dependent on the largesse of the aforementioned countries, and last year we saw how fast they cut or suspended the payment of their dues on the basis of the flimsiest accusations by Israel.
Let us also consider the repeated reports (by various UNO agencies, NGOs, activists, reporters, etc) that the operations of the Israeli forces have turned Gaza into an unlivable space (dwellings flattened, hospitals destroyed, medical personnel assassinated, bakeries bombed out, universities, libraries, and schools blown up, agricultural land devastated, energy, water, and sewer infrastructure dismantled, etc).
All those reports were studiously ignored by Israel’s allies; now they will serve as argument to re-direct the funding and activities of the UNRWA. In simple terms: the West will request decreasing budgets for lorries to bring much-needed supplies into Gaza, and increasing budgets for coaches to bring Palestinians out of Gaza — of course, for their own good, to ensure a future for Palestinian children in healthier, livable conditions, to handle the poor victims of an atrocious war in places with suitable medical and rehabilitation facilities… After all, isn’t the UNRWA mission to help Palestinians?
In this way, Israel may achieve a belated, but total victory: the slow ethnic cleansing of Gaza — unstoppable because of its international institutional support enforced via underhand means by wealthy Western allies.
I’d like to know who is going to pay for all this. I mean, coaches out of Gaza to say Egypt, the flights from there to a place like Indonesia (have they even asked them?) and then the cost of setting up the camps for over two million people and the ongoing expenses of running these huge camps. Initially you are talking about hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars. You just know that the Israelis will not cough up even a shekel for this operation but demand other countries – especially Uncle Sugar – to pay for it all. And when Israel refuses to take back any Palestinians what happens to that country or countries that now have all those refugees and are on the hook for them kinda forever.
The budget of the UNRWA amounts to about USD 750 M. It used to be covered to about 45% by the usual suspects (USA, Germany).
All those displaced Palestinians in the Near East (and that includes Gaza and the West Bank!) require quite a lot of support, and administering camps in the Sinai or Iraq would not be fundamentally different from what the UNRWA is already doing.
Sending them to some far away places such as Indonesia will never happen, in my opinion, except perhaps for a few individuals.
Fear and loathing in Davos: EU frets about its lose-lose choice between Trump’s US and Xi’s China – Politico
“…Now, Trump has billionaire China dove Elon Musk in his ear — and he needs Washington to retain good ties with Beijing to keep his electric vehicle company Tesla afloat.
That has the EU worried that if it does break with China, an eventual rapprochement between Beijing and Washington could see the continent stuck out on a very shaky limb.
Luisa Santos, the deputy director general at the biggest EU corporate lobby group BusinessEurope, said the Europeans are alive to the “possibility that there is an agreement at some point, probably after tariffs are introduced, between the U.S. and China.
“That’s why we need to tread very carefully when it comes to China policy at this stage, because we don’t really know if there will be a continuation and possibly an even more assertive policy vis-à-vis China — or whether at one point Trump will have some sort of agreement with China.”
Indeed. I was wondering if officials in other countries were taking that potential outcome into consideration.
Have a Cigar, Joe
Come in here, dear Joe, have a cigar, you really came far
You really flew high, we really thought you’d died, you somehow made it to the top; nobody loves you!
I always had the deep respect I mean that most sincerely
The cease-fire’s just fantastic, that is really what I think,
Oh by the way, what’s that genocidal stink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, Joe?
We call it ridin’ your walkin’ cane!
We’re just knocked out
We heard about the Gaza sellout
You gotta get more pardons out, you owe it to the beltway!
They’re so happy they can hardly count …
Kamalamala is just green
Ignore approval charts
It’s now time to depart
Nance was really such a monster, but we’ll all pull together as a Donkey Team
And did we tell you the name of the game, Joe?
We call it memory care for your brain!
[Acid rock guitar solo outro; Joe exits, stage left.]
Well done!
Interestingly, the article on CWD (chronic wasting disease) affecting deers in Michigan mentions neither the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, nor BSE (aka mad cow disease), all neuro-degenerative diseases caused by prions. Hell, the article does not even allude to the fact that there are other well-known illnesses caused by prions exhibiting the same symptoms and consequences.
Do the authorities want to avoid the impression that there is an out of control “mad deer disease” around?
CWD is just another insult capitalism has had on my indigenous culture. It has begun infecting our reindeer herds where it was never found before. When herding is constrained, the reindeer have a greater opportunity to eat the feces of other reindeer who carry the bad PRNP gene and increases infection in other herds. Our herding communities (siida) used to be nomadic, but the people who invaded our land have us constrained .
I heartily recommend that you read “Lady McBiden” by Jonathan Martin at Politico.
I give if five meows.
Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow.
Note the solicitude of Grand-Duc Henri de Luxembourg, who undoubtedly was worried that Nancy’s pals Lindsay Graham and Chuck Schumer will have Luxembourg visited by a color revolution. If they can find Luxembourg on a map. Hint: It borders Andorra and Narnia.
Then there is this meowful treat: ‘“If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,” Alexandra Pelosi, the former speaker’s daughter, told me Saturday.’ Mixed metaphors! Self-righteousness! Claptrap about buzzword “legacy”! Hint: Joe’s “legacy” is the planned double genocide of Palestinians and Ukrainians in furtherance of wars that have served no purpose.
And this! Worthy of Hillary Clinton: “Desperate to get her the best possible care in the initial hours after the accident, the Pelosis grappled with whether she should go to a U.S. military hospital, which she did, or immediately fly back home for care. And part of that trepidation, I’m told, owed to uncertainty about whether Biden would quickly get her a plane “because we have this wall at the White House,” as as one person familiar with the situation put it.”
Meowlicious. Hint: Nancy didn’t want to go to a “hospital” in Luxembourg or neighboring Germany because she knows that they would have required her to be bled and then force-fed with liver sausages.
This article would be even funnier if these people weren’t the Imperial Court.
I think that recourse to Mr. Guillotine’s clever meat slicer is very much to be desired.
That article was full of last days of the empire gossipy goodness. Well worth a read. I envisioned a “desperate” Queen Nancy vainly searching for medical care to save herself from a future forever condemned to frumpy flats. Oh, the humanity!
“We’re not sure if robot pollinators are a hi-tech revolution or glimpse into dystopia, but either way, they’re edging closer to reality.”
I wish that these people would go away. This only encourages people to say lets forget real pollinators and go for these high tech mini-robots because nothing will ever go wrong with them such as a dodgy software update or a corporation manufacturing these things achieving a monopoly where with prices the sky would be the limit. So maybe instead they should spend the resources on supporting the pollinators that were 120 million years in the development and finely tuned to the environment-
https://www.museumoftheearth.org/bees/evolution-fossil-record
The spirit of the times. And you thought that liberals are spiteful and resentful.
From the article on 100 Executive Actions extravaganza at USA Today:
This is classic middle-management idiocy. Imagine a whole administration run by the worst sort of middle managers — the jobs you walked out on rather than enduring still another day of pettiness and distrust.
“You took two Munchkins!”
Oh, yep: That was what the Biden administration was all about, too.
PS: The part about birthright citizenship in the article is an indication of major trouble in the U S of A. Birthright citizenship has distinguished the United States for some 150 years. The alternatives are not pretty.
Well
Uncle Sugar in the mornin’
Uncle Sugar in the evenin’
Uncle Sugar at suppertime
Be my little Uncle Sugar
And arm me all the time
Money in the mornin’
Money in the evenin’
Money at suppertime
So be my little honey
And arm me all the time
Put your arms around me
And swear by the blue star above
You’ll be mine forever
In a heaven of love
Sugartime
Sugartime
Sugartime
“Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake”
The New York Post must have loved printing this story as it vindicates them entirely. And Trump really knows how to do payback here. Because those 51 spooks and former spooks (is there such a thing?) are having their security clearances suspended, that means that a lot of lucrative jobs will be closed to them as they no longer have clearance. And this will be a warning to others if they try a similar gimmick against Trump again down the track. I note too that he suspended their clearance rather then cancel it outright so he has given them a path back. Trump just killed a chicken to scare the monkeys.