Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories "have become a byword for incompetence and division".
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Russia and China are strengthening their military cooperation, including on Taiwan, U.S. intelligence officials warned during a congressional hearing on Thursday. read more
@#3 ... This is true. No one who is going to vote for that conman will be be swayed by the court cases. ...
Well, yeah, the Trump cult is not going to change their opinions.
What happens if Trump gets convicted ahead of November? (April 2024)
thehill.com
... The first-ever criminal trial of a current or former U.S. president is underway in Manhattan, renewing questions over what a potential conviction would mean for former President Trump as he campaigns for the White House.
A conviction in the New York case, where Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, wouldn't bar him from the presidential race, but it still could roil his 2024 bid and open up the possibility that this year's GOP nominee is a convicted felon.
"If he happens to be convicted on 34 counts, that takes its toll even on someone like Donald Trump, who seems to be that Teflon candidate," said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and a mediator for the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...
All that aside, I will say, simply, too soon to tell.
@#3 ... She claimed she didn't even know it was in the book yet she recorded the audio version. ...
Wait, what?
Kristi Noem has admitted the Kim Jong Un part of her book isn't true but she read it for her audiobook anyway
www.businessinsider.com
... South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have been caught fibbing.
The rising Republican politician claimed last week she ordered changes to her soon-to-be-released book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," after learning it falsely said she met with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
"I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, I'm sure he underestimated me having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. I've been a children's pastor after all," Noem wrote in her book about an interaction with the North Korean leader that never happened, as Politico reported last week.
CBS News' "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan pressed Noem on Sunday about the false passage in her book.
"Did you meet Kim Jong Un?" Brennan asked the governor.
"I'm not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders, I'm just not going to do that," Noem said. "This anecdote shouldn't have been in the book, and as soon as it was brought to my attention, I made sure that that was adjusted." ...
Wow.
@#20 ... in eastern Ukraine ...
The other aspect of your current alias' attempted rationalization is that Pres Putin has said tht Ukraine (all of Ukraine, not just eastern Ukraine) should not exist.
So, maybe Pres Putin has backed off his original goals of taking over all of Ukraine?
Russians Planned a Victory Parade in Kyiv"but Dumped Their Formal Attire as They Fled (2022)
www.thedailybeast.com
... Russian forces that unsuccessfully tried to take Kyiv were so confident they would win they brought along outfits to hold a parade in the capital, a Ukrainian military official said Thursday. But they wound up dumping their parade attire when they were forced to retreat, according to Oleksandr Gruzevich, deputy chief of staff of Ukraine's ground forces.
At a briefing early Thursday, Gruzevich said Russian troops had left behind formal military attire in the Kyiv region. "If any of you have been in the liberated cities"Irpen, Bucha, Ivankov, Makarov ... you saw how much equipment the enemy left, how much of it was destroyed and how much of it was stupidly abandoned.
Along with that we are finding parade uniforms that they left, meaning the enemy planned to enter Kyiv in two days and then march through," Gruzevich told reporters. "For today we can say that those plans were disrupted and disrupted by the heroic efforts of Ukrainian armed forces and other defense units of Kyiv."
He went on to warn, however, that the capital city still isn't in the clear, as "it is likely the enemy has not given up the goal of a second attack on Kyiv -- there is such a threat." ...
@#23 . ... That was directed at mirands ...
Oh.
Apologies.
But thank-you for that brief, albeit, fleeting moment of joy.
:)