Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a professional” who has learned how to handle Western sanctions, but he understands that more could come if the Ukraine conflict is not settled, US President Donald Trump has said.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump confirmed that the two leaders discussed potential sanctions during Thursday’s phone call. “I would say he [Putin] is not thrilled with it, but you know, he’s been able to handle sanctions, but these are pretty biting sanctions.”

The Russian president, he added, is fully aware that the US could ramp up the pressure. “You know, he’s a professional. It may be coming,” he added.

The atheist’s mantra: There’s none. 

And I am not trying to convert you. It's impossible. 15 Mar 2021

So, god does not exist. Full stop. I had this conversation with a Christian the other day… He believed in the ONLY god, of course, because His is better than yours… (or it could be the same, but with a different colour, or beard or pants)........

Elon Musk has announced that he is moving ahead with plans to create a new political party. The move comes on the heels of a falling out between the billionaire and President Donald Trump over tax and spending policy. 

Both Republicans and Democrats are only wasting taxpayers’ money and damaging the US economy, Musk claimed on Saturday. “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he wrote in a post on X, the social media platform he owns. “Today, the America party is formed to give you your freedom.”

The billionaire did not elaborate on how much progress he had made with his plan. For a new nationwide party to be formed, its founding organization should qualify as a political party committee and register with the Federal Election Commission.

US President Donald Trump signed a sweeping multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” into law during a dramatic ceremony at the White House on Friday that featured a flyover of the American aircraft used in recent bombing raids on Iran.

The signing ceremony took place during an Independence Day picnic hosted by the president for military families. Trump devoted much of his speech to praising the Air Force for conducting “one of the most successful military strikes in all of history,” before shifting the focus from military to economic accomplishments.

In recent years, Americans have become obsessed with learning about their ancient heritage. Only a few years ago, companies such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA celebrated their tens of millions of customers, whom they encouraged, in ridiculous commercials, to travel the world to find and develop deep connections with their far-flung roots.

This Independence Day, Ditch The DNA Test And Learn More About Your American Ancestors

The inside joke of the recent gathering of G7 nations in Canada was that it was a summit of the “group of six plus one”.

“So, the world is just engaging, getting on with things. And then there’s this other guy who, you know, is like the uncle at Christmas time who’s arrived pissed, and you don’t know what they’ll do, because they’re erratic,” a senior Australian government source tells The Saturday Paper.

‘Pissed uncle at Christmas’: Inside Trump’s trade push

The focus on a PM meeting with the US president ignores the realities of his chaotic stance on trade and greatly overstates its significance, insiders say. By Karen Barlow.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli forces killed at least 118 Palestinians and wounded 581 over the previous 24-hour period as heavy US-backed Israeli strikes continued across the Strip and Israeli troops continued to shoot people seeking aid.

Israeli Forces Massacre 118 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past three days
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 3, 2025

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin is “mocking” his US counterpart Donald Trump’s peace initiatives.

The top Polish diplomat took to X on Friday to respond to a series of overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian drone production facilities, an airfield and an oil refinery, which Moscow said was a response to “terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.” .

”President Trump, Putin is mocking your peace efforts. Please restore supplies of anti-aircraft ammunition to Ukraine and impose tough new sanctions on the aggressor,” Sikorski wrote, complaining that a Russian strike had damaged the Polish embassy compound in Kiev.

Mozambican writer Mia Couto once gave a remarkable speech about the political exploitation of fear, in which he denounced “those who fear that fear might end” (quem tenha medo que o medo acabe). In a nutshell: fearmongering — an extremely powerful and effective means of manipulation and control.

In this line of articles and posts, we will invest in various live and dead poets who have "influenced" the style of our Western philosophy which has had nil effect on the mad psychos who run the caper....

Here we also connect with "the New Atheism" or the old one which is much the same but ignores the question of god... Unfortunately, many past rulers have pushed the deist concept to make us sweat...

[I often use the term ‘New Atheist’ b]ecause it’s shorter and simpler than “anti-theistic atheist activist” or some other similarly cumbersome but more exact phrase. Not all atheists are anti-theistic (on the whole, I’m not) and not all are activists. I tend to find that it is the anti-theistic activists who are most likely to accept anti-religious pseudo history uncritically, to use it in their arguments and to reject any correction of it as “apologism” or “revisionism”. They are who I’m referring to by the shorthand term “New Atheists”.

             Tim O’Neill

https://historyforatheists.com/about-the-author-and-a-faq/

The UK Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, has played a central role in spreading false intelligence and engaging in provocative actions aimed at escalating global conflicts, British whistleblower and investigative journalist for The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg, has told RT.

Speaking to host Rick Sanchez on Thursday, Klarenberg said MI6 was at the forefront of efforts to push the West deeper into the Ukraine conflict.

“I have since the very start of the Ukraine proxy war been reporting on how Britain is leading this effort,” he said, adding that many see MI6 as merely a tool of the CIA, but “no, they go into business for themselves all the time.”

As yet another dangerous heatwave pushes temperatures well into the triple digits across much of Europe, climate defenders on Monday renewed calls for stronger action to combat the planetary emergency—including by ensuring that the impending European Climate Law ends fossil fuel use and eschews false solutions including international carbon offsetting. 

Those who enjoy fables are in luck. The nuclear associatives have always proclaimed that nuclear power means independence. Humor. France has just been expelled from Niger, and our impeccable lobby is forced to sell itself to Kazakhstan, at Putin's behest, to obtain its uranium. Putin, the master of the energy game.

French nuclear power in Putin's hands

No uranium, no nuclear power plants. To fuel our 57 reactors, we must import between 8,000 and 9,000 tons of natural uranium each year. France has not produced any since the closure of the last mine, in Limousin, in May 2001.

The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet has confirmed that he will have a successor when he dies, reassuring Buddhist followers around the globe that the 600-year-old institution of the Dalai Lama will continue.

It is a landmark decision for Tibetans, many of whom had feared a future without a leader.

Supporters around the world who see the Dalai Lama as a symbol of non-violence, compassion and the enduring struggle for Tibetan cultural identity under Chinese rule will also be relieved at the decision.

Germany will send navy ships to patrol Arctic waters in response to Russia’s growing military presence in the region, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Monday. Russia has insisted that it is mirroring NATO moves in the far north to maintain balance.

Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that Moscow is  implementing an appropriate response strategy to potential encroachments on the country’s sovereignty across Russia’s 24,000km Arctic coastline.

At a joint press conference in Copenhangen with his Danish counterpart, Troels Lund Poulsen, Pistorius delcared [sic] “as early as this year, Germany will show its presence in the North Atlantic and the Arctic.”