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Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe. Between them, the two men, who passed away within a day of each other in December, shaped today’s European Union, warts and all. ATHENS – Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang […]

The post The Two Faces of the Euro: Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble – Project Syndicate Long Read appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

The cutest animal? Could be… A small mammal, native to the Eastern Himalayas and Southwestern China, has been born at Altina Wildlife Park in New South Wales Australia. Rani, Altina’s beautiful female red panda, at 9yrs of age, has proven to be an amazing and loving mother of her new little baby boy, born on the 17th December 2023! It’s unusual for an older inexperienced Red Panda to naturally be a good mother, so staff are excited and pleased with the progress. After three months gestation, cubs are born into a nest made of twigs and grass in the late spring and early summer. Newborn cubs are covered in thick grey fur and their eyes and ears are closed. Cubs will emerge from the nest at about three months of age but stay with their mother until the next breeding season starts. They are considered full-grown between 18 and 24 months and live on average, 8 to 10 years in the wild; up to 15 years in zoos. Red Pandas may live as long as 23 years. They show symptoms of age at around 12 to 14 years old and while females do not usually breed after age 12, males continue to be reproductively capable well into their later years.

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You can see why the Evangelicals love Trump so much He’s such a Godly man. Biden, on the other hand, is a blood drinking satanist. By the way…

An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.

The post What Physicists Have Been Missing appeared first on Nautilus.

The recent International Court of Justice ruling confirms what experts have been saying for months:...

Donald Trump’s very specific form of manipulation We know about Trump’s psychotic behavior. He is a malignant, narcissistic, pathological liar. But he employs a specific manipulative strategy that actually has a name. But I didn’t know that there is a very specific diagnosis. Sidney Blumenthal in the Guardian explains: Time after time, with predictable regularity, never missing a beat, Donald Trump proclaims his innocence. He always denies that he has done anything wrong. The charge does not matter. He is blameless. But this is only the beginning of the pattern. Then, he attacks his accusers, or anyone involved in bringing him to account, usually of committing the identical offense of which he stands accused. But it is not enough for him to lash out. Then, he declares himself to be the victim. Whatever it is, he is falsely accused. But his self-dramatization as the wounded sufferer is only half his story: he insists that whoever has accused him is in fact the offender. He emerges triumphant, the martyr, the truth-teller, courageously unmasking the real villain. J’accuse! Trump’s pattern is textbook manipulation – literally.

A new report shows Norfolk Southern spent $2.3 million to lobby the government in 2023.

The post One Year After East Palestine, Some Senate Republicans “Haven’t Looked” at Rail Safety Bill appeared first on The Intercept.

By imitating early conditions of Earth in the lab, scientists gain new insight into the origin of life.

The post How Did Life Begin? appeared first on Nautilus.

Greg Stoker is a former U.S. Army Special Operations member who left the military and became a committed anti-imperialist. Today, he joins MintCast to discuss Israel, Yemen, and the US role in the chaos.

The post The IDF’s Failing Gaza War, with ex-U.S. Special Forces’ Greg Stoker appeared first on MintPress News.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this insanity. Remember “frazzledrip”? On Tuesday, it was revealed that Marjorie Taylor Greene had shown support for executing Democrats including liking a comment in January 2019 that said it would be “quicker” to remove Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with “a bullet to the head.”  At the same time, it was revealed that the Republican lawmaker had signaled her endorsement of the unhinged “frazzledrip” conspiracy.

The bill defunding the U.N. agency that distributes humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees could be on the House floor in under two weeks.

The post Republicans Move to One-Up Biden and Permanently Defund UNRWA appeared first on The Intercept.

Ansar Allah's second-in-command, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, joins MintPress in an exclusive interview to discuss tensions with the US and Israel as well as the movements' goals and contingency plans in case conflict in Yemen escalates into an all-out war.

The post “We Are Peace Lovers”: Mohammed Ali al-Houthi of Ansar Allah Discusses the Prospects of Escalation, Yemen’s Blockade, and Beyond appeared first on MintPress News.

"Swift’s popularity is being twisted into a threat by a contingent of far-right, Donald Trump-supporting conservatives who have started circulating conspiracy theories about the singer, the Super Bowl, and the 2024 election. — NPR

Taylor Swift wakes up, stretches, and thinks, “How can I destroy America today?” It’s so important to set intentions.

She reaches for her guitar but quickly decides against it. “Not now,” she tells herself. “There are still men out there enjoying their lives because they are not thinking about me. They believe they have found a place on this planet where they are safe from my celebrity. I will find my way into their inner sanctuary. And I will fill that sanctuary with glitter. Everyone knows you can’t get rid of glitter. American men will never know peace.”

I’m listening to some talking heads on TV this morning and realizing for the 2,750,236 times that political conventional wisdom is deadly. I won’t go into details but suffice to say that while many of them are reluctantly admitting that the economy is good they seem to be at pains to explain that Joe Biden is still a great big loser and there’s nothing much to be done about it. Yeah, ok, I exaggerate a bit but it’s not far off. Anyway, this piece by Brian Beutler for his newsletter (which is fantastic, by the way, you should subscribe if you can) was a tonic this morning. If only the talking heads on TV would get the message: Once upon a time (about seven years ago) a Democratic Party critic whose identity would probably surprise you conceded to me that, whatever flaws leading American liberals might embody, Donald Trump is worse—a person, he said, who has “no redeeming qualities.” That description has stuck with me all this time less because of its insight (tens of millions of people already felt the same way) than because of how durable it’s been.

I regard the changes made to the carve-up of GST revenues among the states and territories by the Morrison Government in 2019, with the support of the then Labor Opposition, and continued (indeed extended) by the Albanese Government, as possibly the worst Australian public policy decision of the 21st century thus far. But very few Continue reading »