i think that the orange man and his nominees best stick it out to the bitter end or they're done, finished, no longer able to be in charge, lame ducks;
Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth paused for an impromptu press gaggle with assembled media following another day of discussions and questions from Senators. ........watch........
larry johnson is long on videos today with several included in this link;
Within the last 24 hours, two interviews have been published on social media. Last night (Wednesday), CNN aired an interview with Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Rybakov. Today (Thursday), Tucker Carlson published his interview with Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov. This is not a coincidence. Russia is sending a clear message to the West. Here is my reaction.
Two key points: First, Russia is not interested in cutting a bilateral deal with the United States to end the war in Ukraine. Second, Russia’s relationship with China is not a short-term deal........more........
israel, from the point of view of their opposition;
Susan Abulhawa’s blistering speech at the Oxford Union was the most ferocious indictment of Israel in the last decade. Author Abulhawa—who is a long-term human rights activist—summarized the iniquitous history of the Jewish state in a few succinct paragraphs while shedding light on the obscene toxic ideology that has permeated the nation’s doctrine from the very beginning. Abulhawa ignored the fictitious claim that Israel was created to provide safety and security for the Jewish people and, instead, showed that the country’s founders were maniacally focused on seizing land while expelling or exterminating the indigenous population. Ethnic cleansing and land theft are not an unavoidable response to sporatic Palestinian violence, but the cornerstones of the pernicious dogma that animates the Zionist state. Needless to say, Abulhawa’s presentation was met with riotous applause that lasted for more than three minutes as the audience expressed their appreciation for her heartfelt testimony. Here’s part of what she said:
When I was in Gaza, I saw a little boy no more than 9 years whose hands and part of his face, had been blown off from a booby trapped can of food that soldiers had left behind for Gaza’s starving children. I later learned that they had also left poisoned food for people in Shujaiyya, and in the 1980s and 90s, Israeli soldiers had left booby trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.
The harm they do is diabolical, and yet, they expect you to believe they are the victims. Invoking Europe’s holocaust and screaming antisemitism, they expect you to suspend fundamental human reason to believe that the daily sniping of children with so called “kill shots” and the bombing of entire neighborhoods that bury families alive and wipe out whole bloodlines is self-defense........more.........
