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I don’t know where all that money went.......Zelensky has no idea where most of ‘$200 billion’ in US aid went Washington has provided Kiev with just over $75 billion in military and other types of assistance, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has claimed, adding that he has no idea where US President Donald Trump’s estimate of $200 billion originated or where it could have vanished. Trump, who has been highly critical of his predecessor Joe Biden’s generosity toward Ukraine, has argued that NATO states and the EU should “equalize”their contributions with Washington’s support.
qualified to manage flying blind incompetence?.....![]() Past FAA Administrators Endorse Phil Washington, Biden’s Nominee for FAA Administrator March 8, 2023 Republican attacks on Washington’s experience and qualifications drive former leaders to speak out – “We know what it takes to effectively run the FAA”
an adelsonian vision....Once again, US President Donald Trump has waded into the Palestinian issue, proposing radical solutions from a staunchly pro-Israel stance. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which came into effect on January 19, is set to last 42 days, during which both sides have committed to negotiating further steps towards a resolution. However, the US president expressed skepticism about its longevity, noting the scale of destruction in Gaza.
the game of porkies, fake democracy and phoney wars......Cambridge student: “Game of narrative”: Prof Sachs on dictatorship vs democracy and phoney wars By Cambridge Union
saving the world from a catastrophic armageddon....Donald Trump’s “snatch-and-grab” foreign policy rejects the belief in US primacy and exception that was sliding towards a military confrontation with China. Some have been surprised by the speed with which President Donald Trump is moving on his agenda. Yet, his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, served notice only days after last November’s election, declaring Trump had two years to revolutionise the government. Paul Keating says Trump may avoid a major war By James Curran
america — the cynical intentional destroyer of countries......As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed. In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shah. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise.
The Great Game of Smashing Nations 2021 ARTICLE BY JOHN PILGER
la france de du guesclin en declin....
French PM Bayrou says will force through contentious budget without a vote
France’s minority government faced the prospect of a no-confidence motion next week after Prime Minister François Bayrou confirmed he would use special powers to force through his budget without a vote in parliament.
invoking the international emergency economic powers act (IEEPA)....China will file a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and take other retaliatory measures against US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on its goods, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, Beijing sees Washington’s unilateral tariff increase as “seriously violating” WTO rules. Trump announced new tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada on Saturday, citing concerns over the three countries’ failures in stemming the flow of migrants and illegal drugs, such as fentanyl, into the US. In order to hike the tariffs, Trump declared a national economic emergency, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which authorizes the president to unilaterally manage imports.
why australian labor cannot win the next election...As campaigning ramps up ahead of the date announcement for the 2025 federal election, shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would take action in the same manner as US President Donald Trump. Answering a question on Nine’s Today this morning, Cash said Trump was showing that “he’s a man of action” by delivering his promised tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
Dutton would deliver the ‘exact same’ attitude as Trump: Michaelia Cash
“The American people, they expect action. And that is what they’re getting. And they’ll get the exact same attitude under a Peter Dutton government,” Cash said.
big bang kallas.....
In 2024, member states collectively spent an average of 1.9% of GDP on defence, while Russia was spending 9%, Kaja Kallas told the audience of the European Defence Agency annual conference on Monday. The European Union must boost its defence spending to "prepare for the worst" and be able to defend itself "alone if needed" against a belligerent Russia, the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday. "Many of our national intelligence agencies* are giving us the information that Russia could test the EU's readiness to defend itself in three to five years," Kallas told the audience at the European Defence Agency's annual conference in Brussels.
in a stranglehold of neoliberal accountability to look good....What do Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and John Howard have in common with the Piltdown Man? They all managed to sell a hoax that lasted for decades, before it was exposed as completely false. But wait, their hoax is still central to transglobal neoliberal capitalism’s stranglehold on us all, whereas Charles Dawson’s 1912 forged ‘missing link’ skull from East Sussex became a lesson in how dangerous it is to let preconceptions override evidence. Hoaxes that gush for winners and trickle down for losers By Robbie Lloyd
this big bad wolf is a pig.....Jan 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday warned off BRICS member countries from replacing the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a 100%-tariffs threat he had made weeks after winning the November presidential elections. "We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs," Trump said on Truth Social in a statement nearly identical to one he posted on Nov. 30.
you can't handle the truth, but you can handle a few propaganda porkies....NPR Chief's DIABOLICAL Comments on ‘Truth’ Trigger FCC INVESTIGATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyG2p-YBEe8
The CEO Of NPR, Katherine Maher, proudly showed off her lack of respect for the “truth” in a bizarre pseudo-intellectual Ted Talk. Trish Regan rips Maher’s ridiculous and elitist narrative. Is it any wonder that Trump’s FCC just launched an investigation into National Public Radio?
under the weather....The Bureau of Meteorology has been using hundreds of millions of dollars granted specifically for “proactive” maintenance of its ageing weather observing system to prop up the agency’s deteriorating financial position and cover cost overruns on major technology rollouts. According to a scathing audit report, it has also failed to account for this money. The blistering assessment from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has revealed an agency with missing plans or inexplicable broken promises. It is only meeting between 52 and 79 per cent of its own preventive maintenance targets and there are unresolved work orders on its live dashboards that are four years old.
barry jones and coriolanus — the future of democracy....
GUSNOTE: NOT BEING FAMILIAR WITH THIS SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY, I HAD TO DIG AROUND TO FIND A MODERN INTERPRETATION. FROM THE NEW YORKER: There’s cleverness in Ralph Fiennes’s adaptation of “Coriolanus” but little beauty. It would be an insult to prose writers to say that his filming is prosaic rather than poetic; rather, the movie is filmed merely functionally. Fiennes updates the story—of a great and proud Roman warrior whose contempt for commoners results in his exile, where he makes common cause with the city’s enemies, the Volscians, and prepares to make war on Rome—to a current-day “place calling itself Rome” (a reference to John Osborne’s 1973 adaptation; also, a place where Serbian graffiti is legible on walls). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/notes-on-coriolanus
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