The US is pushing to control all major future infrastructure and mineral investments in Ukraine, potentially gaining a veto over any role for Kyiv's other allies and undermining its bid for European Union membership read more
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The US is pushing to control all major future infrastructure and mineral investments in Ukraine, potentially gaining a veto over any role for Kyiv's other allies and undermining its bid for European Union membership. read more
@#35 ... No you don't. You leave it to some drunken Fox weekend host, who put classified information on a non-secure platform. ...
Nat King Cole - Bring Another Drink (1945)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Last night we had a party
With some mellow chicks
At the gin mill down the street
Just to get some kicks
We sat down at the table
The cover was a deuce
The bad was swingin', in the mood
"Bring us all some juice"
We started lushin', the chicks got high
But they weren't high enough
'Cause we whispered love words in their ears
The chicks got rough, awful stuff
So let this be a lesson
You better stop and think
Before you whisper in her ear
Bring another drink
...
2NU - This Is Ponderous (1991)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
This is ponderous, man, really ponderous
I had this dream the other night
I went to work one day
And nobody remembered who I was
So, I decided to take the day off
On my way out
I run into my boss and he says
Hey, you look familiar
I said, thanks, people say that
A lot in these dreams
Then the horns kicked in
And my shoes started to squeak
Then all of a sudden
I'm standing on a beach
In some tropical part of the world
And there's this sign that says
'Aren't you supposed to be at work'
Sort of screamed out at me
Then I remembered
I'd been here in other dreams
But usually there was a water polo game
And a girl who could talk with her eyes
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And she'd say
'Can you see what I'm saying'
Then the horns kicked in
And my shoes started to squeak
Before I knew it
I was walking near a lake
When a phone rings
And the operator speaks to me
In a language I don't understand
...
An apropos tune? ...
:)
@#40
Israeli officials furious that Signal group chat exposed intelligence, sources say
www.cbsnews.com
Yup.
Reminds me of ...
Horrified' Israeli intel officials were shouting at US counterparts' over Trump leak (2017)
www.timesofisrael.com
... US President Donald Trump's reported sharing of a highly classified Israeli tip with Russia led to incredibly tense meetings between Israeli and American intelligence officials, Foreign Policy Magazine reported Friday.
The Israelis reportedly shouted at their US counterparts, demanding an explanation for Trump's actions, according to the magazine, which quoted a US defense official.
"To them, it's horrifying," the official said. "Their first question was: What is going on? What is this?'" ...
Is Pres Trump doing to the US economy what he did to his casinos?
Donald Trump Owned Several Atlantic City Casinos That Went Bankrupt " Despite This, He Said, 'Atlantic City Fueled A Lot Of Growth For Me' (2023)
finance.yahoo.com
Oh wow ...
Trump Says He "Couldn't Care Less" If Car Prices Go Up Due To Tariffs: "People Are Gonna Buy American-Made"
deadline.com
... President Donald Trump said he "couldn't care less" if international automakers increase pricing due to his 25% tariffs on all foreign-made auto parts and imported vehicles announced several days ago.
The move -- which was was censured by foreign automakers and leaders and led to the fall of shares in stocks for companies like General Motors and Ford, per the Associated Press -- escalated tensions in a looming trade war. The American Automotive Policy Council representing domestic automakers said in a statement that "it is critical that tariffs are implemented in a way that avoids raising prices for consumers and that preserves the competitiveness of the integrated North American automotive sector." ...
@#10 ... The------------- also pardoned the filth-smearing degenerates who are responsible for the deaths of 5 cops who were defending DC on J6. ...
Not only pardoned, but now seems to want reparations given to them.
Trump floats possibility of compensation for Jan. 6 rioters
www.politico.com
Yet Republicans are so against reparations for those who were enslaved.
@#5 ... maybe you public school failures should know ...
Marc Rich - U.S. indictment and pardon
en.wikipedia.org
... In 1983, Rich and partner Pincus Green were indicted on 65 criminal counts, including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during the oil embargo (at a time when Iranian revolutionaries were still holding American citizens hostage).[7][28] The charges would have led to a sentence of more than 300 years in prison had Rich been convicted on all counts.[28] The indictment was filed by then-U.S. Federal Prosecutor (and future mayor of New York City) Rudolph Giuliani. At the time, it was the biggest tax evasion case in U.S. history.[29]
Learning of the plans for the indictment, Rich fled[12] to Switzerland and, always insisting that he was not guilty, never returned to the U.S. to answer the charges.[d] Rich's companies eventually pleaded guilty to 35 counts of tax evasion and paid $90 million in fines,[7] although Rich himself remained on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most-Wanted Fugitives List for many years,[31] narrowly evading capture in Britain, Germany, Finland, and Jamaica.[32] Fearing arrest, he did not even return to the United States to attend his daughter's funeral in 1996.[33]
On January 20, 2001, hours before leaving office, U.S. President Bill Clinton granted Rich a controversial presidential pardon.[30] Leonard Garment, Richard Nixon's acting Special Counsel who had replaced John Dean during Watergate, had both Rich and Rich's business partner Pincus Green as a client since spring 1985 with Scooter Libby representing them as their attorney for the pardon until spring 2000 when Jack Quinn became their attorney.[34][e] Several of Clinton's strongest supporters distanced themselves from the decision.[35] ...
Speculation about another rationale for Rich's pardon involved his alleged involvement with the Israeli intelligence community.[42][43] Rich reluctantly acknowledged in interviews with his biographer, Daniel Ammann, that he had assisted the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service,[2][17] a claim that Ammann said was confirmed by a former Israeli intelligence officer.[15] According to Ammann, Rich had helped finance the Mossad's operations and had supplied Israel with strategic amounts of Iranian oil through a secret oil pipeline.[2] Avner Azulay, a former high-ranking Mossad agent and executive director of two of Rich's philanthropic foundations in Israel since 1993, who played a central role in coordinating the pardon effort, was the one who persuaded Rich's ex-wife (divorced in 1996) Denise to personally ask President Clinton to review Rich's pardon request.[33][34][44] Azulay was also the one who asked Ehud Barak, whom he knew through his prior work at Mossad, to appeal to President Clinton on behalf of Rich for clemency. Barak subsequently raised the issue with Clinton on several occasions.[34] A former Mossad chief, Shabtai Shavit, had also urged Clinton to pardon. ...
Federal Prosecutor Mary Jo White was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate Clinton's last-minute pardon of Rich.[46] She stepped down before the investigation was finished and was replaced by James Comey, who was critical of Clinton's pardons and of then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder's pardon recommendation.[47] Rich's lawyer, Jack Quinn, had previously been Clinton's White House Counsel and chief of staff to Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, and had had a close relationship with Holder.[33] ...
Wow, just friggin' wow.
Ya have to read that article, I cannot quote enough of it to summarize the intrigue.
@#20 ... By early summer the initiative was on life support, with congressional Democrats uniformly opposed and Republicans in disarray.After Hurricane Katrina inundated what remained of the President's support, congressional leaders quietly pulled the plug. By October, even the President had to acknowledge that his effort had failed. ...
Why the 2005 Social Security Initiative Failed, and What it Means for the Future (2007)
www.brookings.edu
... Following his successful 2004 reelection campaign, President George W. Bush designated fundamental Social Security reform as his top domestic priority. This was anything but an impulsive decision. As early as his 1978 congressional race, he had suggested that the Social Security System could not be sustained unless individuals were allowed to invest the payroll tax themselves. Overriding the doubts of some political advisors, he raised the issue while announcing his first presidential race, declaring that "We should trust Americans by giving them the option of investing part of their Social Security contributions in private accounts."[emphasis mine]
Toward the end of a first term dominated by international terrorism, President Bush renewed this call in his 2004 State of the Union address: "Younger workers should have the opportunity to build a nest egg by saving part of their Social Security taxes in a personal retirement account. We should make the Social Security system a source of ownership for the American people." He mentioned the issue repeatedly during the 2004 campaign and was able to argue that his reelection represented a mandate to move forward on what he called personal accounts (and his adversaries called partial privatization). ...
Having invested so much political capital in this issue, President Bush embarked on the first of what proved to be a long series of tours crammed with events at which he pitched his plan to the people. ...
By early summer the initiative was on life support, with congressional Democrats uniformly opposed and Republicans in disarray.After Hurricane Katrina inundated what remained of the President's support, congressional leaders quietly pulled the plug. By October, even the President had to acknowledge that his effort had failed....
@#13 ... Poor Elise thought that cushy UN gig was a done deal, sewn up, in the bag ...
So, another who has been burned by believing what Pres Trump says?