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In Manila, overlooking the West Philippine Sea.

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A chap from Chicago calls out the VP, and is made Pope a few weeks later.

09.05.2025 06:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Top British human rights lawyers could be hit by Trump sanctions Some were part of an International Criminal Court panel backing arrest warrants relating to alleged war crimes in Gaza

Absolutely wild: UK lawyers who have worked in relation to ICC Gaza investigation warned they are at risk of US sanctions, not only restricting travel there but potentially freezing their financial assets worldwide observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

27.04.2025 07:59 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 157 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance A new U.S. peace plan offered to Russia and Ukraine proposes American recognition of the peninsula, which Moscow seized in 2014.

Headline should read

β€œUS offers terms of its surrender to Russia”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

25.04.2025 07:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.

04.04.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 2704 πŸ” 988 πŸ’¬ 139 πŸ“Œ 144
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Next level insanity

02.04.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nuts. Totally nuts.

02.04.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€˜Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
β€˜Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student YouTube video by MSNBC

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

27.03.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 1952 πŸ” 697 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 98
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Exclusive: UN Refugee Agency braces for thousands of job cuts UNHCR chief warns Washington's "brutal" foreign aid freeze putting "millions of lives at risk."

DOGE hard at work killing the world’s most vulnerable.

Exclusive: UN Refugee Agency braces for thousands of job cuts www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

20.03.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is a nonsense. And more will come.

17.03.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Remove them from our land’: Prabowo plans to build remote island prison for Indonesia’s corruption convicts Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto said that teachers, doctors, medical workers and farmers have suffered the most from the negative consequences of the unethical misappropriation of state funds by ...

Last year, Prabowo said that he would pardon corruption suspects if they returned what they stole. Now, he wants to build a remote island prison for them.

But it's not a U-turn. The two policies could sit side-by-side.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

17.03.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Trump renounces claims to #Canada and #Greenland.

17.03.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Scoop: UN migration agency cuts more jobs, shutters lifesaving programs The International Organization for Migration lays off 20% of its headquarters staff, cease lifesaving operations from Myanmar to Yemen.

Scoop: UN migration agency cuts more jobs, shutters lifesaving programs from Myanmar to Yemen. At least 20 percent of headquarters slashed. "Entire units are gone. Massive loss of institutional and sectoral knowledge," one source told Devex.

www.devex.com/news/scoop-u...

13.03.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You first.

25.02.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 111050 πŸ” 14066 πŸ’¬ 5559 πŸ“Œ 1133

My only criticism of George Orwell’s 1984 is that it wasn’t titled 2025.

26.02.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 13163 πŸ” 1541 πŸ’¬ 225 πŸ“Œ 43
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No ASEAN member states voted with the United States and Russia against this resolution.

Not even Russia-dependent Laos or Vietnam, or Russia-friendly Indonesia, Malaysia, or Thailand. Even China abstained.

25.02.2025 04:10 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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Germany’s Friedrich Merz says Europe can no longer rely on US protection Frontrunner for chancellor suggests possible nuclear co-operation with the UK and France

Who'd have imagined a German leader asking for Britain and France to extend their nuclear umbrella to Germany? A stark measure of the Trump disaster. Europeans must act together or hang separately. www.ft.com/content/8be4...

23.02.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.

Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.

Extraordinary.

23.02.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 10478 πŸ” 2434 πŸ’¬ 246 πŸ“Œ 304
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Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race Donald Trump abruptly fired the air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of the joint chiefs of staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making…

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity

22.02.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 473 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 38
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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or β€œlethality,” or promoting β€œwarfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

22.02.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 6535 πŸ” 2270 πŸ’¬ 333 πŸ“Œ 171