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Commenting on all the stupid (like Musk’s antics) is tiring sometimes.

I was trying to figure out what to write today. There are about a dozen possible posts, all of which amount to “Trump or Musk are flinging poo at the wall.”

So let’s forget all the stupid little details and cut to the chase.

America is in irreversible decline. If you think otherwise, you are living in a fantasy world. China will even take the lead in Pharma away from the US, probably no later than 2030. The US military can’t even keep the shipping lanes open and Carrier groups no longer have a full support group.

Come on Dems, get this done. When you think about what the Republicans are doing down in North Carolina and, really, all over the country there is no excuse not to do it. They would do it to you in a heartbeat: New York Democrats are poised to delay until November the special election to fill Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat — a move that would deny House Republicans a crucial vote in the closely divided chamber. State lawmakers on Friday introduced a bill that would allow Gov. Kathy Hochul to schedule special elections under some circumstances until the November general election. The Democratic-led Legislature is expected to approve the bill Monday, touching off a bitter feud with New York Republicans in a hyper partisan era. President Donald Trump tapped Stefanik to become the United Nations ambassador. Top Albany Democrats are framing the proposal — which follows consultations between state lawmakers and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ office — as a way to save money for local governments.

Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder

The post When Other People’s Chewing Causes You Pain appeared first on Nautilus.

Australia’s leading Trump supporter, Gina Rinehart, has sent President Trump a thank you card, after the US President introduced tariffs on Australian imports of steel and aluminium. ”Donald is an amazing President and I’m sure the tariffs he puts on... Read More ›

Reporter: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders. Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault. They were assaulted. What I did… pic.twitter.com/LbzrbFM6rb — Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2025 Reporter: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders. Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault. They were assaulted. What I did was a great thing for humanity. He apparently now believes that the people who broke into the Capitol should have been allowed to march in interrupt the joint session, stop the count, hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. He condemned the violence the next day under some duress. And he’s defended them as political prisoners treated unfairly by the legal system.

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

The post Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out appeared first on The Intercept.

Con la interrupción del financiamiento federal a la USAID los medios de comunicación pro-occidentales, de Ucrania a Nicaragua, están mendigando donaciones, y un aparato multimillonario de cambio de régimen entra en modo pánico. Este artículo fue traducido por Misión Verdad. You can read the article in English here. Entre la avalancha de órdenes ejecutivas emitidas por el presidente Donald Trump en los primeros días de su administración, tal vez la más relevante hasta la fecha sea una titulada “reevaluar y realinear la ayuda estadounidense al […]

The post ¿Una orden ejecutiva paralizó por completo a la USAID? first appeared on The Grayzone.

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Climate crisis and environmental degradation is an undeniable reality for most central banks around the world. What does the most recent central bank coalition, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), bring to the conversation?

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The DOGE has found something really great for Donald Trump Hard at work this weekend Donald Trump was on Air force One en route from Mar-a-Lago to the Super Bowl Trump dropped another wild, radical idea. He told reporters that DOGE had found “irregularities” in US Treasuries which means there may be do obligation to pay them. He said,  “maybe we have less debt than we thought.” Are the Wall St boys ok with Trump saying that the teenage DOGEboys have found some “irregularities” in US treasuries and the US may not have to pay them. Maybe we have less debt than we thought,” he said. That’s completely daft but it’s predictable that Trump’s desperately looking for a shortcut to cutting the deficit.

Last Friday 79 nations signed a statement condemning the announcement 24 hours earlier by genocide enabler US President Donald Trump, that he was imposing sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court because they had issued a warrant for the arrest of architect of genocide of the Palestinian people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shamefully, Continue reading »

Australia’s former top diplomat says Donald Trump may achieve what 75 years of post-war anti-Americanism could not: concede the case for moral equivalence. Donald Trump may achieve what 75 years of post-war Americanism could not: concede the case for moral equivalence. Moral equivalence was the accusation that for all America’s claims to the ethical high Continue reading »

On 30 January 2025, CNN carried a long, detailed article, accompanied by photographs entitled Suicidal tendencies and ’80s battlefield tactics: How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia’s war on Ukraine. The article, by a team led by senior journalists Nick Paton Walsh and Rebecca Wright, offered an insight into “the brutal and near-suicidal tactics Continue reading »

The Dural caravan affair stinks to high heaven. If I were Anthony Albanese, I would bow, with every appearance of reluctance, to Peter Dutton’s demands for an inquiry. Far from shrouding this inquiry with a cloud of secrecy of the sort so beloved by the Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and his department, I would opt for Continue reading »

In the grand tapestry of history, no thread is brighter than the one connecting East and West. This intricate exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies — what we might call the Tao of Terra — has shaped our world in profound ways. Historian Will Durant, in his monumental work The Story of Civilisation, opened with Continue reading »

History did exist before 7 October 2023. It existed before 1948 and 1929 and goes back millennia. Archaeological evidence shows the geographic region was known as Palestine as far back as 4000BCE and had a Jewish presence dating from 3800 BCE. In contemporary politics, 7 October 2023 represents a decisive shift in the Middle East Continue reading »

It’s outrageous that leaders of Zionist-controlled Jewish organisations and the Israeli lobby blame Australians protesting Israeli war crimes for rising antisemitism. If any party is responsible for the rise of antisemitism, it is Israel’s heinous occupation, aggression, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and sadistic war of genocide it commits in the name of Jews against the Palestinian Continue reading »

On the third day after Donald Trump announced the imposition of 25% and 10% tariffs on imported Canadian and Chinese goods respectively, Canada yielded and co-operated with Trump’s demands, in exchange for a one-month suspension of the agreement by the US. But China quickly introduced four countermeasures: first, imposing a 15% tariff on US coal Continue reading »

The billionaire’s push to kill the CFPB followed his social media company’s deal that might have been scrutinized by the agency.

Trump takes what he wants now Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic the other day giving his assessment of Trump’s threat to turn Canada into the 51st state. I don’t think Trudeau is given to wild conspiracy theories. This is what he said: “I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state,” he said. “They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those. But Mr. Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country. And it is a real thing.” Trump was asked about it by Fox news’ Bret Baier in his Super Bowl interview and he assured him that he is serious about the 51st state thing but that it’s because of Canada’s trade deficit which he’s inanely convinced himself is a “subsidy” (once more demonstrating that he has no idea how trade actually works.) That’s just his excuse — which he may believe as well — but there’s more to it.

Even if Jordan and Egypt somehow agreed to a US take over Gaza, who would physically remove 2.5 million Palestinians? Trump's proposal is pure fantasy - but what does it reveal?

With billions in defense contracts, Musk’s SpaceX is helping turn Trump’s nuclear vision into reality, threatening to dismantle decades of global nuclear deterrence.

The post The Pentagon is Recruiting Elon Musk to Help Them Win a Nuclear War appeared first on MintPress News.

If enough people are talking with each other about why the rule of law, strong democratic values and human rights are worth defending, the demagogues will fail

Paul Niland dissects the lies and outright skirting of the law being perpetrated by Trump and Musk