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Blogsat a banquet of boiled beef and turnips....The UK will save £500m by scrapping old military equipment early, the defence secretary has announced, despite a warning that the UK faces "increasing global threats". Ships, drones and helicopters - some more than 50 years old - will be decommissioned ahead of schedule, John Healey told the Commons. But critics said the move would leave UK defence weaker, at a time of growing international tensions and after more than a decade of funding pressures on the armed forces. Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge said Labour was "scrapping capabilities just as the threats to our nation are growing".
genocide in progress....The UN on Tuesday reported that Israel either denied or impeded all life-saving assistance attempts in the northern Gaza Strip in November. "Our colleagues in the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report that none of the UN's 41 attempts to reach Palestinians in besieged areas of North Gaza with life-saving assistance this month has been facilitated by Israeli authorities," deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said at a news conference. Saying that 37 attempts were denied by Israeli authorities, Haq reported that "four missions were approved, but then impeded on the ground and accomplished only partially." With winter approaching, Haq stated that thousands of forcefully displaced Palestinians are "even more vulnerable," and sewage build-up in high-occupancy areas is "putting people's health in jeopardy."
the biden presidency (austin, sullivan and little shit blinken) allows US missiles to attack russia....There is a scene early on in Nathanael West’s satirical 1933 novella Miss Lonelyheartsthat reeks of depression, despair, and genius. It’s hard to forget. The protagonist is a lovelorn advice columnist for a newspaper in New York City who receives a letter from a teenage girl who describes herself as having the makings of a beauty, with a slender figure that many rave about, but she bitterly notes she has never had a date. Can it be, she asks, because she has no nose?
BIDEN’S LAST HURRAH AGAINST RUSSIA AND PUTIN
the difference between tariffs and an armed robber is that the robber is armed....Protectionist tariffs are associated with a long history of economic and social calamities in America. An important reason for this is that protectionist tariffs are a political tool of plunder and theft, and people don’t generally take kindly to being plundered and robbed.
Our History of Protectionist Tariff Train Wrecks
la belle france macronisée dérape........Explosion of bankruptcies in France: post-Covid rebound effect or lasting crisis? The list is growing and the outlook is getting bleaker for French companies. More than 66,000 companies have gone bankrupt in the last 12 months, according to the latest estimates from specialist firm Altares, published in October. A historic increase of more than 20% compared to the previous 12 months, which surpasses the peaks of 2012, linked to the debt crisis in the eurozone, and 2009, caused by the subprime crisis.
joe believes in his destiny....It has been clear since the terror attacks in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001 — the date I choose to mark a great turn in the global order — that America’s abdication of its postwar hegemony was to rank high among the 21st century’s defining events. The questions from that day onward have been how the policy cliques in Washington would respond to such a change in America’s place in the community of nations and what they might do — how great the risks they would take — to avoid, or at least forestall, this world-historical shift. Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’
turditanic project in one basket case.......It’s the biggest and most controversial Defence project in the country’s history with $368B worth of eggs put in the one basket. The Government would have you believe it’s all going well. Former project manager and submariner Rex Patrick serves up the truth. In April 2024, MWM set out the high-level risks associated with the AUKUS nuclear submarine program; political, economic, technical and management, with the article delving into some of the risks already in play. But with the project having passed its third birthday, it’s worth looking at the various stages of the plan on record to see how things are unfolding.
imperialism and culturalism trickle together......
This piece was originally published in the June 1996 issue of Monthly Review. It is based on an article previously published in the December 28, 1995 issue of the Egyptian Al Ahram Weekly, translated from French by Pascale Ghazaleh and edited by Mona Anis, assistant editor. ~ By Samir Amin (re-posted Nov 26, 2024)
austin, blinken and sullivan's parting shots, while joe is in lalaland....This ain’t a click bait title. It is a legitimate question. I discussed it with George Galloway, Thursday morning my time, before we learned of Russia’s missile strike on the massive Yuzhmash defense plant in Dnipropetrovsk. Since then, there has been some troubling warning indicators. Are We on the Brink of Nuclear War? — A Conversation with George Galloway BY LARRY JOHNSON
Consider the following: The United States opened a new military base in Poland two weeks ago — one step closer to Russia. Vice Admiral Buchanan announced this week that the United States is prepared to fight and win a nuclear war with Russia.
cooking and bombing the planet with madness and greed.....For the third year in a row the nations of the world, meeting in solemn climate conclave, have vowed to cook their children and grandchildren alive. COP29, chaired by petro-state Azerbaijan and stuffed to the gills with 1773 oil industry lobbyists, was never going to deliver more than tokenism and lip service to the greatest compound crisis ever to befall H. sapiens. A triumph for greed over commonsense and humanity By Julian Cribb
where are the men in white coats? someone has to remove joe NOW!!!!!!Any move by outgoing US President Joe Biden to help Ukraine obtain nuclear weapons would be “insane”and would amount to treason, Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed. The House representative from Georgia was reacting to a post on Tuesday by entrepreneur Mario Nawfal, who weighed in on efforts by the Biden administration to boost military aid to Kiev, including alleged discussions on nuclear arms. Nawfal described the purported talks as a “desperate” move “to tip the scales against Russia” before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, which would mark an “unprecedented escalation” in the conflict.
la politique française.....French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was on Monday holding talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier as her party intensified warnings it was prepared to topple his government in a move that would fling France into political crisis.
a peace meal deal by the fromage merchants and the masters of boiled beef....The UK and France have “reactivated”talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among European NATO members. Back in February, French President Emmanuel Macron caused controversy by declaring his willingness to send ground troops to Ukraine “to prevent Russia from winning this war.” The statement was quickly disavowed by NATO officials, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters that Ukraine’s Western backers were “unanimous” in their opposition to the idea.
doctors and nurses.....More than 1,000 doctors and nurses are among at least 44,211 people killed in Israel’s 13-month assault on the Gaza Strip, officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave said Sunday. “Over 310 other medical personnel were arrested, tortured, and executed in prisons,” Gaza’s Government Media Office also said in a statement, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency. “The Israeli army also prevented the entry of medical supplies, health delegations, and hundreds of surgeons into Gaza.”
freiheit.....PLEASE STOP BLAMING RUSSIA FOR THE WAR IN UKRAINE — BLAME NATO.
Angela Merkel's book will be launched with fanfare in the West but also in China. Tickets for Tuesday evening's initial presentation of the former German chancellor's 736-page opus at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin sold out online within minutes of going on sale a few weeks ago.
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