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<p>Renowned South African fashion designer David Tlale spoke to CGTN about the journey his brand has taken over the years to the point of showcasing at this year's Shanghai Fashion Week. He also highlighted how "being in China is a beautiful journey," and expressed his enthusiasm for establishing his brand presence in China and engaging further with the Chinese market. </p>
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guid: 1016150 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: New German Government Wants To Ban "Lies"
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<p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/new-german-government-wants-to-ban-lies/"><em>Via Remix News,</em></a></p>
<p>The new German government coalition, which is likely to be the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) is looking to ban “lies,” according to a working paper that emerged from the group “culture and media” between the two parties.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/medien-papier-von-union-und-spd-neue-koalition-will-luegen-verbieten-67e52f80ccbc941ec01faddc">Bild newspaper</a> received a copy of the working paper, which outlines the goal of combating “fake” news on social media, including restrictions on it.</p>

<p><strong>The paper from the CDU and SPD indicates that “disinformation and fake news” threaten democracy.</strong></p>
<p>In fact, the paper argues that freedom of expression does not apply in such circumstances.</p>
<p>Bild contacted a number of constitutional lawyers, and they are highly skeptical of the law.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Lies are only prohibited if they are punishable, for example in the case of sedition. Otherwise, you can lie,”</strong></em> said Volker Boehme-Neßler, a professor at the University of Oldenburg.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">🇩🇪 Extraordinary scenes in Germany as police raid the home of Jürgen Elsässer, the publisher of the right-wing Compact Magazine, and remove various belongings from his residence outside Berlin.</p><p>Germany's interior minister has placed a blanket ban on the entire publication.</p><p>It… <a href="https://t.co/KsV03IbbSs">pic.twitter.com/KsV03IbbSs</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1813205996531003470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>Even determining a lie is a legal complexity.</p>

<p>“It is not an easy question of what a factual claim and what an expression of opinion is. Most courts interpret freedom of expression very broadly,” he added.</p>
<p>He also took aim at a specific part of the working paper, which addresses “hate and agitation.”</p>
<p>He said, “‘hate and agitation’ — these are ‘no legal terms.” He added, <em><strong>“Basically, the spread of hatred in Germany is protected by freedom of expression. An assertion like ‘I hate all politicians,’ does not yet constitute a criminal offense.”</strong></em></p>
<p>Another law professor from the University of Augsburg, Josef Franz Lindner, said that the “deliberate spreading of false facts is not punishable, not illegal.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">AfD politician <a href="https://twitter.com/hallofraukaiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hallofraukaiser</a> has been convicted for publishing gang rape statistic data related to Afghan immigration, with her case now attracting worldwide attention. <a href="https://t.co/4iswSMQoNP">https://t.co/4iswSMQoNP</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1787916568053109080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>He said that if the new government moves forward with a law against “fake news,” it would represent a grave threat to freedom of speech.</p>
<p><strong>He said he can only warn against a “fake news” offense being created, saying “Ultimately, it would expose any controversial statement to the risk of criminal prosecution.”</strong></p>

<p>It is also worth noting that Friedrich Merz himself, who is likely to be Germany’s next chancellor, openly lied when he said that his party would support an end to the debt brake. Almost immediately after the election, he said the debt brake would be lifted, and that Germany would take on historic amounts of debt.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BREAKING: A 14-year-old German boy had his house raided and searched by police in Bavaria for posting a hashtag "Everything for Germany" on TkTok.</p><p>The raid happened on Dec. 6, St. Nicholas Day, which typically sees a Santa-like character bringing chocolates and fruit and putting… <a href="https://t.co/TxwesOOOPw">pic.twitter.com/TxwesOOOPw</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1867166140570460599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>Lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel, who has a broad range of clients related to internet censorship, says the CDU and SPD’s goal with the new paper is to “intimidate the unpopular social media” content producers. He said that such censorship already lacks a “constitutional basis.”</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Supporters and critics of Yoon Suk Yeol take to the streets of the capital Seoul amid ongoing impeachment trial.</em></p>
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<p>Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans rallied for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as the country’s Constitutional Court weighs whether to dismiss him.</p>
<p>On Saturday, main streets through central Seoul were filled with rival protesters, carrying political signs and waving flags despite the cold weather.</p>

<p>Yoon has been <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/8/south-koreas-impeached-president-yoon-released-from-prison">suspended</a> from office since the liberal opposition-controlled National Assembly impeached him over his December 3 martial law decree, which plunged the country into political turmoil.</p>
<p>The Constitutional Court is deliberating whether to formally dismiss or reinstate him. If he is removed, there will be an election to replace him within two months.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609635" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609635" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AFP__20250329__38D3662__v1__HighRes__SkoreaPoliticsCourtYoon-1743241691.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C474" alt="An elderly woman reacts during a street rally in support of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on March 29, 2025, ahead of the impeachment verdict for the President." data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609635"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609635" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">An elderly woman reacts during a street rally in Seoul [Jung Yeon-je/AFP]</figcaption></figure><p>The wait has only emboldened rival camps to hit the streets in greater numbers every weekend.</p>
<p>“The people are overwhelmed with fatigue and frustration as … the ongoing crises remain unresolved,” Lee Han-sol, who was protesting for Yoon’s dismissal, told the AFP news agency. “The ongoing delays have led to a growing sense of scepticism.”</p>
<p>But Yoon supporters, whose members include right-wing YouTubers and religious figures, told AFP his impeachment trial is unlawful.</p>
<p>“The Constitutional Court won’t be able to ignore us. Look at us, there are so many of us here,” said Lee Hye-sook, 58.</p>
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<p>Yoon, a former prosecutor, was detained in a dawn raid in January on insurrection charges but was released in early March on procedural grounds. He has remained defiant throughout and blamed a “malicious” opposition.</p>
<p>A Gallup Korea poll released earlier this month showed 58 percent of respondents supported Yoon’s removal.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="impeachment-trial">Impeachment trial</h2>
<p>The Constitutional Court was given 180 days from the time it took on <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/south-koreas-prosecutors-indict-impeached-president-yoon-for-insurrection">Yoon’s impeachment case</a> to issue a ruling, meaning it has until June to decide his fate.</p>
<p>It has typically issued rulings within weeks for past presidential impeachment cases, but it has taken longer over Yoon’s case, without providing a reason.</p>
<p>At least six of the court’s eight justices must vote to remove Yoon.</p>
<p>South Korea will hold a snap election within 60 days if the court upholds Yoon’s impeachment.</p>
<p>The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, is regarded as the top contender for the next presidential election but faces legal challenges.</p>

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<div><img src="https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1200_4ce85301/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20250329/1441811.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The Russian armed forces have liberated Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"The battlegroup South has liberated the settlement of Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic. &lt;...&gt; The battlegroup Dnepr has liberated the settlement of Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region," the statement said.</p>
<p>Russian air defenses also shot down a JDAM bomb, a US-made HIMARS rocket and 73 Ukrainian drones over the past 24 hours, the ministry added.</p>
<p>TASS has compiled the main information about the special operation progress over the past 24 hours.</p>
<h2>Failed Ukrainian attack on Belgorod Region</h2>
<p>The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 185 servicemen in the Belgorod area over the day, the ministry reported.</p>
<p>"In the Belgorod area, the battlegroup North defeated the manpower and equipment of eight Ukrainian brigades near the settlements of Krasnopolye, Ugroyedy, Prokhody and Miropolskoye in the Kharkov Region. The enemy lost up to 185 servicemen," the statement said.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian military also lost two armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, three field artillery guns, an Israel-made Rada radar station and a Nota electronic warfare station, the ministry added.</p>
<h2>Battlegroup Center</h2>
<p>Russia’s battlegroup Center has wiped out more than 480 Ukrainian servicemen over the past 24 hours, the military said.</p>
<p>"The enemy lost up over 480 servicemen, two tanks, six armored combat vehicles, five vehicles and three field artillery guns, including a US-made 105 mm M101 howitzer," the statement emphasized.</p>
<h2>Battlegroup West</h2>
<p>Russia’s battlegroup West has defeated the manpower and equipment of five Ukrainian brigades over the day, eliminating up to 210 enemy servicemen, the ministry said.</p>
<p>"The enemy lost up to 210 servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, six vehicles, four field artillery guns, as well as two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot," the statement pointed out.</p>
<h2>Battlegroup East</h2>
<p>Russia’s battlegroup East has wiped out up to 150 Ukrainian troops over the past 24 hours, the military said.</p>
<p>"The enemy lost up to 150 servicemen, three vehicles, three field artillery guns, as well as an ammunition depot," the statement noted.</p>
<h2>Battlegroup South</h2>
<p>Russia’s battlegroup South has eliminated out up to 300 Ukrainian troops over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"The enemy lost up to 300 servicemen, a tank, a US-made HMMWV truck, five vehicles, as well as an ammunition depot," the statement said.</p>
<h2>Developments over day</h2>
<p>Russian servicemen hit infrastructure facilities of Ukrainian military airfields, a drone assembly shop, storage sites and control posts over the day, the ministry said.</p>
<p>"Russian servicemen hit infrastructure facilities of enemy military airfields, a drone assembly shop, storage sites and control posts, ammunition depots, as well as accumulations of enemy manpower and equipment in 148 areas," the statement noted.</p>
<p>In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces destoyed 660 enemy jets, 283 helicopters, 48,952 drones, 601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,569 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,532 multiple rocket launchers, 23,064 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 33,499 special military vehicles.</p>


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title: How does the automotive supply chain work?
author: ;Andrew Dorn
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Donald Trump's new auto tariffs also apply to certain car parts — a choice that could hurt suppliers and consumers.

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1742651370
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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AP120330030806-1742652366.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Have you ever been convinced that you remember being a baby? A moment in a crib, or the taste of a first birthday cake?</p>
<p data-start="300" data-end="534">Chances are, those memories aren’t real. Decades of research suggest that most people cannot recall personal experiences from the first few years of life.</p>

<p data-start="536" data-end="789">However, even though we can’t remember being a baby, a new study has found new evidence that babies do take in the world around them and may also begin forming memories far earlier than once thought.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-did-the-study-work-and-what-did-it-find">How did the study work and what did it find?</h2>
<p>A study published this month in Science by researchers at Yale and Columbia universities has revealed that babies as young as 12 months old can form memories via the hippocampus – a part of the brain that stores memories in adults, too.</p>
<p>To observe this, the researchers used a specially adapted brain scan for infants during a single session. It allowed them to watch how babies’ brains responded while they were awake and looking at images of faces and objects. Parents remained close to their babies, which helped keep them calm and alert.</p>
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<p>In the study, 26 infants aged four to 25 months were shown a series of images. It was found that if a baby’s hippocampus was more active the first time they saw a particular image, they would look at the same image for longer when it reappeared a short time later, next to a new one – suggesting they recognised it.</p>
<p>“Our results suggest that babies’ brains have the capacity for forming memories – but how long-lasting these memories are is still an open question,” said Tristan Yates, a postdoctoral research scientist in the department of psychology at Columbia University and lead author of the study.</p>
<p>This is the first time scientists have directly observed how a memory begins to take shape in an awake baby’s brain. Previous <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34022155/">research</a> relied on indirect observations, such as watching whether babies reacted to something familiar. This time, however, researchers observed brain activity linked to specific memories as they form in real time.</p>
<p>Most past brain activity studies have been done while babies were asleep, which limited what researchers could learn about conscious memory-building.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-does-this-tell-us-about-early-life-memories">What does this tell us about early life memories?</h2>
<p>The findings suggest that episodic memory – the kind of memory that helps us remember specific events and the context in which they took place – begins to develop earlier than scientists previously believed.</p>
<p>Until recently, it was widely believed that this type of memory didn’t begin to form until well after a baby’s first birthday, typically around 18 to 24 months. Although the findings from the Science study were strongest in infants older than 12 months, the results were observed in much younger babies as well.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="so-at-what-age-do-we-start-making-memories">So, at what age do we start making memories?</h2>
<p>It is now understood that babies begin forming limited types of memory when they are as young as two or three months. These include implicit memories (such as motor skills) and statistical learning, which helps infants detect patterns in language, faces and routines.</p>
<p>However, episodic memory, which allows us to recall specific events as well as where and when they occurred, takes longer to develop and requires the maturation of the hippocampus.</p>
<p>According to Cristina Maria Alberini, professor of neural science at New York University, the period in infancy when the hippocampus is developing its ability to form and store memories may be “critical”. This window could be important not only for memory but also has “great implications for mental health and memory or cognitive disorders”, she added.</p>
<p>Memories formed in early childhood do not typically last very long, it is believed, which might explain why we can’t remember them later in life. In an ongoing study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany, 20-month-old toddlers <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/are-your-earliest-childhood-memories-still-lurking-your-mind-or-gone-forever">were able to remember</a> which toy was in which room for up to six months, while younger children retained the memory for only about one month.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-can-t-we-remember-anything-from-infancy">Why can’t we remember anything from infancy?</h2>
<p data-start="0" data-end="465">Humans’ near-universal inability to recall personal experiences from before the age of about three is a phenomenon known as “infantile amnesia”.</p>
<p data-start="0" data-end="465">For decades, scientists believed this happens simply because babies’ brains were too immature to store episodic memories.</p>
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<p data-start="0" data-end="465">But the Science study has shown that babies do indeed form memories. The mystery is <em>why</em> those memories become inaccessible as we grow older.</p>
<p data-start="467" data-end="780">One <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw1923">explanation</a>, scientists say, is that babies’ brains undergo rapid neurogenesis – the fast-paced creation of new neurons in the brain. This rapid growth might disrupt or “write over” existing memories. In animal studies, when scientists slowed this process in baby mice, the mice were able to retain memories much longer – similar to adult mice.</p>
<p data-start="1066" data-end="1357">There is also a hypothesis that episodic memory requires language to describe them and a “sense of self” to relate to them. Since these skills don’t fully develop until around age three or four, the brain might not yet have the tools to organise and retrieve memories in the way adults do.</p>
<p data-start="1359" data-end="1665">Some researchers also think the process of forgetting might serve a developmental purpose. By letting go of specific early experiences, the brain might be better able to focus on building general knowledge – to understand how the world works, for example – without being distracted by detailed memories which no longer serve a purpose.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="can-some-people-remember-events-from-infancy">Can some people remember events from infancy?</h2>
<p>Some people claim they can remember being a baby, but there is no evidence that what they describe are genuine episodic memories.</p>
<p>According to the Yale and Columbia study, this belief typically stems from a psychological process called “source misattribution”.</p>
<p>People may remember information, such as that they cried during their first haircut, but not where that information came from. They might unconsciously attribute the memory to personal experience when it actually came from a photo, family stories or a parent’s retelling. Over time, the line between “real” and “reconstructed” has blurred.</p>
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<p>Research shows that early family stories, frequent photo viewings or cultural emphasis on early development can all contribute to this phenomenon.</p>
<p>Yale is currently conducting a new study in which parents will film their babies regularly, either with their phones angled from the baby’s point of view or by using head-mounted cameras on toddlers. Later, as the children grow older, the researchers will show the children these old videos to see if they recognise the experiences, primarily by monitoring brain activity, to find out how long early memories can last, Yates told Al Jazeera.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="could-early-memories-be-recalled-later-in-life">Could early memories be recalled later in life?</h2>
<p>There is debate about whether early life memories are completely erased or have simply become inaccessible and could eventually be recovered.</p>
<p>Yates said that while the latest study does not answer this question, preliminary evidence from other research at the Yale lab shows that early life memories can be recalled in early childhood, but not later childhood.</p>
<p>“I think the idea that at least some of our early life memories may exist in some form in our brains as adults is fascinating,” she said.</p>
<p>Studies of adult rodents have shown that early memories can be brought back through approaches such as optogenetics – activating the specific brain cells which are believed to store those memories. This works by identifying the brain cells involved in forming a memory, then later using light to reactivate those same cells, causing the animal to recall the memory.</p>
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<p>Techniques such as optogenetics cannot yet be used in humans, but the study of rodents suggests that the process by which we retrieve memories is where the issue lies, rather than whether the memories exist at all, according to Paul Frankland, senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.</p>
<p>“Perhaps there are natural conditions where these early life memories become more accessible,” he added.</p>
<p>Psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud believed that early childhood memories are not lost but buried deep in the unconscious, and that psychotherapy might help bring them to the surface by changing mental states.</p>
<p>However, Frankland said that this is a “controversial area” as “it is difficult to verify the veracity of recovered memories”.</p>

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title: EU Publishes Delusional 72 Hour Bug Out Bag Video In Preparation For War
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<p>With all the insufferable quirkiness of a drunken liberal wine-mom, <span data-sanitized-id="snippet-text" data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">EU Commissioner </span></span></span>for humanitarian aid and crisis management<span data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">, Hadja Lahbib, explains the "essentials" of an emergency go-bag in a video designed for the average European facing epic disaster should NATO (minus the US) go to war. </span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The European Union has prepared a survival advisory for a 72-hour bug out bag in preparation for war against Russia.</p><p>Very delusional stuff. War will either go on for years or end within a matter of hours. <a href="https://t.co/XAxtfj7Gzx">pic.twitter.com/XAxtfj7Gzx</a></p>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1905595916473541033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>"In the EU we must think different because the threats are different, we must think bigger because the threats are bigger too," Lahbib told reporters.</p>
<p>Roxana Mînzatu, the Commissioner for preparedness, added that the bloc is "not starting from scratch".</p>

<p>"The COVID pandemic has shown that the added value of acting together in solidarity, in coordination, in the European Union framework is absolutely crucial, This is what makes us more efficient, makes us stronger," she said.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, these are the same people that ridiculed the preparedness movement only ten years ago and then accused survivalists of being "hoarders" during the covid lockdowns.  Suddenly the EU elites claim to be concerned about the survival pantries of the citizenry and this may be a signal of expanding hostilities between Europe and Russia.</p>
<p>The advice given, however, is not useful and one can only conclude that the EU is only trying to make it look like they care should the geopolitical situation go sideways.  <span data-sanitized-id="snippet-text" data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">Hadja Lahbib's video is not tongue-in-cheek parody - She is quite serious.  She claims that in her travels around Europe she gathered perspectives on emergency survival that were eventually applied to the EU go-bag recommendations.  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span data-sanitized-class="style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander"><span dir="auto" role="text" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"><span dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/POG8bNeenwk?start=12" width="640" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">[embedded content]</iframe></span></span></span>   </p>
<p>A true 72 hour survival kit (which is not what the EU is actually promoting here) would only be useful for short term natural disasters as a means to get to a safe place with the assumption of extensive government aid.  It could also be used to shelter in place, but again, relying on government aid and emergency services to arrive swiftly.  A long term widespread crisis like a near-peer war would require extensive preps well beyond a few days.</p>
<p>For example, the bare minimum standard for a survival food supply is three months.  Why?  Because that's how long it generally takes government agencies to show up and start repairing damage to essential services (Think about what happened with FEMA in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene - That response took a whole election and a new presidential administration).  Also consider the fact that what <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/world-war-iii-survival-kit-what-the-eu-says-you-must-pack-in-your-go-bag-before-the-next-war/articleshow/119656015.cms?from=mdr">little government aid</a> is available during a broad spectrum crisis will end up being consumed quickly as public desperation grows. </p>

<p>Beyond slow response time, needy citizens with no preps will need to consider the cost of government reliance.  What will emergency agencies demand from you in exchange for their help?  Will you disarm?  Take a battery of experimental vaccines?  Will your political background determine your access to government help?  There's a lot to consider but the worst possible scenario is that you become a refugee completely reliant on bureaucrats for you and your family's sustenance.</p>
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<p>European governments are currently flirting with the notion of WWIII, yet at no point did they suggest that their citizens purchase radiation treatments like Potassium Iodide or equipment like a Geiger Counter in the event of fallout.  The almost whimsical tone on display is a far cry from the comprehensive Civil Defense efforts of the Cold War era.</p>
<p>In other words, if a legitimate national or international disaster did arise, most Europeans would be screwed.  It's almost as if they are being deliberately set up for failure by EU officials.</p>
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<p><strong>The autonomous Danish territory is threatened by “Russian aggression” and “Chinese expansion,” according to a clip posted by Donald Trump</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A video shared by US President Donald Trump on Friday has promised to defend Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, from both Russia and China. Moscow has not expressed aggressive intentions towards the island and has repeatedly denied Western claims of planning to attack NATO countries.</p>
<p>Trump has talked about making Greenland a part of the US since winning the presidential election in November, arguing that it is needed for security purposes. He has offered to buy the resource-rich Arctic territory from Copenhagen, but also does not rule out the use of force to bring it under American sovereignty.</p>
<p>The video – also shared by other White House figures such as JD Vance and Pete Hegseth – assured the 56,000 people living on the island that <em>“America stands with Greenland.”</em></p>
<p>It recalled the cooperation between Washington and territory during the Second World War, stating that <em>“Americans and Greenlanders stood as sentinels at the top of the world.”</em></p>

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<p><em>“But today Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion,”</em> the clip claimed, consisting of archive WWII videos, images of Greenland’s landscape and footage of modern-day US military hardware.</p>

            
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<p>The partnership between Greenland and the US <em>“is not just history. It is destiny,”</em> the video on Trump’s channel said. <em>“Now is the time to stand together again – for peace, for security, for the future,”</em> it added.</p>
<p>The post followed a visit to Greenland by US Vice President J.D. Vance earlier this week, during which he told some 150 US servicemen stationed on the island that Washington would be <em>“investing in additional military icebreakers, investing in additional naval ships that will have a greater presence in Greenland.”</em></p>
<p>Vance blamed the Danish government for failing the people of Greenland, calling the island <em>“extremely vulnerable right now,”</em> and insisting it would be much safer <em>“under the US umbrella.”</em></p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that <em>“Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic.”</em> He said that the region’s <em>“enormous potential”</em> provides an opportunity for international cooperation in economic development, resource extraction, infrastructure projects and transport.</p>

             
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            <span>READ MORE: </span>Vance delivers Trump’s ‘message’ to US troops in Greenland
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<p>However, he mentioned that Russia is <em>“concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts,”</em> and that Moscow is <em>“closely monitoring developments in the region”</em> and would move forward in <em>“modernizing military infrastructure facilities.”</em></p>

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<p>Is it possible ever to understand the true cost of war? Today in Serbia and across the Balkans, lives are still being impacted by NATO's use of depleted uranium munitions in its bombing campaign 26 years ago. The evidence is mounting not only in the Balkans, but also in Iraq, that these weapons cause cancer and other deadly diseases, and that they are continuing to kill long after they were used on the battlefield. This is a story of suffering that has for too long gone untold.</p>
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<p>Is it possible ever to understand the true cost of war? Today in Serbia and across the Balkans, lives are still being impacted by NATO's use of depleted uranium munitions in its bombing campaign 26 years ago. The evidence is mounting not only in the Balkans, but also in Iraq, that these weapons cause cancer and other deadly diseases, and that they are continuing to kill long after they were used on the battlefield. This is a story of suffering that has for too long gone untold.</p>
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The Social Security Administration is facing a crisis, with planned cuts to staff and service delivery that could jeopardize Americans' access to their hard-earned benefits, and Congress should act soon to protect the program.

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Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, resigned Friday amid the school’s tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and criticism around its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.  Following the announcement, the school’s board appointed Claire Shipman to serve as acting president. Armstrong, the second Columbia leader to step down in less than…

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title: Car Wars: The EU (Probably) Strikes Back
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<p><em>By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank</em></p>
<p>The Trump administration’s decision to slap a 25% tariff on imported cars and parts is yet another move in America’s ongoing trade battles. Following the global steel and aluminum tariffs, this latest escalation puts pressure on the EU to respond. As we noted in a <a href="https://public-eur.mkt.dynamics.com/api/orgs/285245b1-7c6f-ef11-a66d-000d3a4b6c6a/r/VVJZX6ds8E6cy19OqaUDAAAAAAA?target=%7B%22TargetUrl%22%3A%22https%253A%252F%252Fmedia.rabobank.com%252Fm%252F55f9fdd5e8187008%252Foriginal%252Fthe_european_unions_response_to_us_tariffs.pdf%22%2C%22RedirectOptions%22%3A%7B%225%22%3Anull%2C%221%22%3Anull%2C%222%22%3A%7B%22utm_medium%22%3A%22email%22%2C%22utm_term%22%3A%22N%2FA%22%2C%22utm_source%22%3A%22dynamics-rr%22%2C%22utm_campaign%22%3A%221%22%7D%7D%7D&amp;digest=cXxYvbs9TK7ee492UU5LPidIMRMgbmOEPwboeYCB3is%3D&amp;secretVersion=7c13c22c20aa46a1b2fc8b71fde4d19a"><strong><u>special report</u></strong></a> released yesterday, we believe the European Union prefers to make a deal and prevent a full-blown trade war. However, we argue that Brussels’ decision-making procedures are designed in such a way that escalation is ‘technically’ the path of least resistance. Therefore, absent an agreement, or a clear prospect thereof, <strong>European leaders will most likely strike back to any tariffs imposed by the US, even if not fully and with some delay.</strong></p>
<p>We also show in this report that the use of the EU’s (so far never used) Anti-Coercion Instrument is an option open to the European Commission, especially if the US tops up this week’s measures with its already infamous reciprocal tariffs on April 2. This approach, however, would take more time, face more internal hurdles in the EU, <strong>and could provoke an even more severe counter-response from the US, one that may extend beyond economic statecraft to political or military actions</strong>. This complicates an already complex situation. Therefore, at least initially, we expect the EU to bundle its response in rebalancing measures, i.e., rebalancing tariffs. This enables the EU to react as quickly as possible. Additional countermeasures, such as quotas, will only be considered if the US implements tariffs so high that the EU cannot match the economic impact.</p>
<p>In our baseline scenario for the economy, we have long included a 5% tariff hike on all US imports. The current measures announced still fall within this range, so there is no immediate reason to adjust our projections for growth and inflation. However, as Trump’s tariffs continue to accumulate, and as other countries retaliate, the risk of a more significant stagflationary shock has increased<strong>. A plausible scenario for such a backdrop would be if Trump follows through on his threat of an additional 25% tariff on other selected goods</strong>, such as pharmaceuticals and chips, or, even worse (but less likely), a 25% universal tariff.</p>

<p>Fittingly, the US reported another astonishingly high trade deficit number for February. <strong>The deficit in goods amounted to USD 147.9 billion, on top of January’s USD 155 billion deficit</strong>. This averages to a whopping USD 1.8 trillion annualized, over 6% of US GDP. The widening deficit reflects efforts by US companies to secure goods and materials in advance of higher tariffs. In fact, <strong>much of the widening in the deficit since December 2024 can be traced to imports of gold bars, predominantly from Switzerland and the UK</strong>. The (advanced) February data suggests strong imports of industrial supplies – which not only includes gold, but also steel and aluminum – were still a key driver. But even if industrial supplies are excluded, the trade deficit would be at record levels.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">US gold imports <a href="https://t.co/5RpaN5DaQX">pic.twitter.com/5RpaN5DaQX</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1897654125246009396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Obviously, this front-running of tariffs caused quite a scare earlier in March when the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model plummeted to -2.8% annualized for 25Q1. This prompted the modelers to introduce a “gold-adjusted” version. After all, given that substantial portions of these industrial metals are likely being invested in inventories, the direct impact on GDP should be relatively neutral. However, even with gold excluded, net exports remain a considerable drag on GDP. The gold-adjusted estimate currently stands at +0.2% q/q annualized, which is not pretty.</p>
<p>Across the border, Banxico cut the policy rate 50bp to 9.00%, in line with our expectations. Notably, in its statement, Banxico said that “<em><strong>looking ahead it could continue calibrating the monetary policy stance and consider adjusting it in similar magnitudes</strong>.</em>” As such, we <a href="https://public-eur.mkt.dynamics.com/api/orgs/285245b1-7c6f-ef11-a66d-000d3a4b6c6a/r/VVJZX6ds8E6cy19OqaUDAAEAAAA?target=%7B%22TargetUrl%22%3A%22https%253A%252F%252Fmedia.rabobank.com%252Fm%252F3b49efde0c371bff%252Foriginal%252Fbanxico_post-meeting_report_both_sides_of_the_balance.pdf%22%2C%22RedirectOptions%22%3A%7B%225%22%3Anull%2C%221%22%3Anull%2C%222%22%3A%7B%22utm_medium%22%3A%22email%22%2C%22utm_term%22%3A%22N%2FA%22%2C%22utm_source%22%3A%22dynamics-rr%22%2C%22utm_campaign%22%3A%221%22%7D%7D%7D&amp;digest=HyTSoobsloq13G%2FB%2BGsXLzcaU%2B9Sb6EtQ23SGhz4PD8%3D&amp;secretVersion=7c13c22c20aa46a1b2fc8b71fde4d19a"><strong><u>now expect</u></strong></a> a 50bp cut at the next meeting in May and have added an additional 25bp cut to our forecasts. This brings us to five more cuts in 2025 to a terminal rate of 7.50%. Interestingly, Banxico notes that the risks to its inflation outlook remain skewed to the upside. However, the risk of persistence in underlying core inflation has been downgraded, now ranking below the risks of peso depreciation and tariff uncertainty. <strong>So, tariffs are leading to rate cuts.</strong></p>
<p>It is worth noting that on Wednesday, the Bank of Canada also revealed in its deliberations that it would have maintained its policy rate at 3.00% instead of cutting it to 2.75<strong>%, if not for tariff uncertainty and the perceived need to alleviate concerns among consumers and businesses as the trade war impacts the economy.</strong> So here too: <strong>tariffs -&gt; rate cuts.</strong> Of course, an extra cut here or there doesn’t address the bigger problem. Canada’s caretaker PM Mark Carney, who faces a federal election next month and has flipped the polling landscape by pushing back against Trump, has just said: “<em>The old relationship we had with the US –based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation–</em> <em>is over.</em>” <strong>That said, Canada hasn’t retaliated on the auto tariffs yet, as the US says if Canada joins up with the EU, both will see far higher tariffs.</strong></p>
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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/Denmark-criticizes-tone-of-JD-Vance-s-Greenland-comments-1C8KgQmnc2I/img/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of U.S. Vice President JD Vance's comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>"We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.</p>
<p>"This is not how you speak to your close allies, and I still consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies," he said.</p>
<p>Vance made his comments during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, viewed by both Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation.</p>
<p>"Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland," Vance told a press conference.</p>
<p>"You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass," he added.</p>
<p>Trump argues that the United States needs the vast Arctic island for national and international security and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.</p>
<p>"We are not talking about peace for the United States. We are talking about world peace. We are talking about international security," Trump claimed to reporters at the White House on Friday.</p>
<p>Asked about the potential use of force, Vance stressed the U.S. administration did not think that "is ever going to be necessary."</p>
<p>"We think this makes sense and because we think the people of Greenland are rational and good, we think we're going to be able to cut a deal, Donald Trump-style, to ensure the security of this territory but also the United States of America," Vance said.</p>
<p>Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also hit back at Vance in a statement.</p>
<p>"For many years, we have stood by the Americans in very difficult situations," she said, referring to Danish combat deployments alongside American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>"The Vice President's reference to Denmark is not accurate," she said.</p>
<p>Vance was accompanied by his wife Usha, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Utah Senator Mike Lee and former Homeland Security Advisor Julia Nesheiwat, who is Waltz's wife.</p>

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<div><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-29/Denmark-criticizes-tone-of-JD-Vance-s-Greenland-comments-1C8KgQmnc2I/img/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6/1792aaa7d9b942f78e4e4631cb0c8ab6-1920.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of U.S. Vice President JD Vance's comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>"We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on X.</p>
<p>"This is not how you speak to your close allies, and I still consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies," he said.</p>
<p>Vance made his comments during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, viewed by both Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation.</p>
<p>"Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland," Vance told a press conference.</p>
<p>"You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass," he added.</p>
<p>Trump argues that the United States needs the vast Arctic island for national and international security and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it.</p>
<p>"We are not talking about peace for the United States. We are talking about world peace. We are talking about international security," Trump claimed to reporters at the White House on Friday.</p>
<p>Asked about the potential use of force, Vance stressed the U.S. administration did not think that "is ever going to be necessary."</p>
<p>"We think this makes sense and because we think the people of Greenland are rational and good, we think we're going to be able to cut a deal, Donald Trump-style, to ensure the security of this territory but also the United States of America," Vance said.</p>
<p>Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also hit back at Vance in a statement.</p>
<p>"For many years, we have stood by the Americans in very difficult situations," she said, referring to Danish combat deployments alongside American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>"The Vice President's reference to Denmark is not accurate," she said.</p>
<p>Vance was accompanied by his wife Usha, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Utah Senator Mike Lee and former Homeland Security Advisor Julia Nesheiwat, who is Waltz's wife.</p>

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>CAIRO, March 29. /TASS/. The number of Palestinians killed since the resumption of hostilities in the Gaza Strip on March 18 has exceeded 920, more than 2,000 were injured, the enclave's Health Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"The death toll in the Gaza Strip since March 18, 2025 rose to 921, 2,054 people were injured," the ministry said in a statement on its Telegram channel. The ministry pointed out that since October 2023, 50,277 people have been killed and 114,095 injured in the Palestinian enclave.</p>
<p>On March 18, the Israeli army resumed fighting in the Gaza Strip, launching massive attacks on the enclave and violating a ceasefire reached in January. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the radical Palestinian movement Hamas refused to agree to the proposals put forward at the talks by mediators and US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, saying that the goal of the operation in the enclave was the release of all hostages. The radicals blamed Israel and the US for the resumption of hostilities.</p>


guid: https://tass.com/defense/1936181
title: Ukraine loses more than 190 troops in Kursk Region over day — top brass
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army has lost more than 190 servicemen in the Kursk Region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.</p>
<p>"Over the day, the Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 190 servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored fighting vehicle, eight vehicles, an artillery gun, three mortars, as well as six drone control posts and an ammunition depot," the statement said.</p>
<p>The Defense Ministry also said that Russian servicemen had liberated the Veselovka settlement in the Sumy Region.</p>
<p>According to the milirary, the Russian Armed Forces also hit enemy manpower and equipment near the settlements of Gornal, Guyevo and Oleshnya, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Velikaya Rybitsa, Veselovka, Vladimirovka, Vodolagi, Grunovka, Zhuravka, Zapselye, Kiyanitsa, Loknya, Mogritsa, Novaya Sech, Novonikolayevka, Obody, Sadki, Khrapovshchina, Yunakovka and Yablonovka in the Sumy Region.</p>
<p>In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost more than 70,890 servicemen, 402 tanks, 329 infantry fighting vehicles, 290 armored personnel carriers, 2,234 armored combat vehicles, 2,569 vehicles, 590 artillery guns, 53 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and seven US-made MLRS, 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 56 units of engineering and other equipment, including 23 engineering demolition vehicles, a UR-77 demining unit, as well as 15 armored recovery vehicles and a command and control vehicle.</p>


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title: British Push War with Iran to Derail Trump's Plan for Peace
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title: British Push War with Iran to Derail Trump's Plan for Peace
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<p><strong>Mandalay, Bangkok</strong> – <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/29/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-live-over-1000-killed-rescue-efforts-ongoing">Rescue workers in Myanmar</a> are struggling to save people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, following the powerful <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/magnitude-7-7-earthquake-in-myanmar-tremors-felt-in-thailand-all-we-know">magnitude 7.7 earthquake</a> that toppled buildings, brought down bridges, destroyed roads and sent shockwaves felt across the region.</p>
<p>Every street in the city has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/28/why-is-myanmar-so-prone-to-earthquakes">collapsed buildings</a> as a result of Friday’s quake. Distraught residents are waiting outside their damaged and flattened homes and businesses for rescue crews and any assistance from the government, which has yet to arrive.</p>

<p>Mandalay resident Sandar Win, 45, told Al Jazeera how her six-year-old son was trapped under falling debris and suffered a fractured pelvis.</p>
<p>Sandar Win said she brought her boy to Mandalay General Hospital but they were turned away as the facility was overcrowded with victims of the earthquake.</p>
<p>“So we had to go to a private hospital. He is now in the operating room,” Sandar Win said. “He is our only child. My heart is dying to see my son like this.”</p>
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<p>Shops, restaurants and teashops are closed and there are crowds at Mandalay’s petrol stations, with people in need of fuel for electric generators as power is out in the city of more than 1.5 million.</p>
<p>Ambulances have been seen speeding in the direction of Pyin Oo Lwin, a town situated in the scenic hills about 64km (40 miles) east of Mandalay and popular with foreign tourists and visitors from other parts of Myanmar.</p>
<p>Wai Phyo, a rescue worker, said search and recovery teams were doing their best but were overwhelmed by the scale of destruction and the lack of “proper equipment”.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3609818" data-sanitized-id="attachment_3609818" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12931168-1743249533.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513" alt="epa11996483 A view of the collapsed Ava Bridge following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, 29 March 2025. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country on 28 March, according to the Myanmar government. EPA-EFE/STRINGER" data-sanitized-class="size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3609818"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-3609818" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The collapsed Ava Bridge following the earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Friday 29 [EPA]</figcaption></figure><p>“There are many people still trapped under the debris. We hope to get them alive but the hope is not so bright,” Wai Phyo told Al Jazeera, adding that communications were also a problem as they barely had phone lines and access to the internet was almost impossible.</p>
<p>Myanmar’s military has sent troops to the affected areas, but “they are not helping,” Wai Phyo said.</p>
<p>“We don’t need them here,” he said, adding: “We need proper aid.”</p>
<p>The Reuters news agency also reported that rescue workers in Mandalay had to borrow machinery from private businesses to help shift debris, and some residents had taken to Facebook to appeal for donations of equipment to aid the rescue efforts.</p>
<p>Rescue operations in the city are now turning to recovery as the time window to save survivors closes, Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reported from Mandalay.</p>
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<p>“I was just speaking to the fire chief who is leading this operation about the revised figure of 1,000 fatalities across Myanmar and he simply said there are a thousand bodies in this city alone, which suggests those numbers are going to rise, and rise steeply,” Cheng said.</p>

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<p>In Thailand’s capital Bangkok, rescue efforts are focused on a collapsed 30-storey building, which was under construction at the time the earthquake hit and where dozens of workers are believed to be under the ruins.</p>
<p>At least 10 people died in Bangkok on Friday despite the city being more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the epicentre in Myanmar.</p>
<p>“It’s hard to locate the missing,” said Atikom Watkoson, a rescue worker at the scene of what was to be a multistorey government building in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district.</p>
<p>The search has been complicated by the fact there is no clear indication where in the building the estimated 47 missing workers were when it collapsed on Friday, Atikom Watkoson told Al Jazeera.</p>
<p>But sign of survivors have been detected and heavy machinery has been brought in to help clear the mountain of debris from the site, he said.</p>
<p>Still, “there is a lot of work left to get through,” Atikom Watkoson added.</p>
<p>Across Bangkok, engineers and government officials are now inspecting the integrity of the city’s hundreds of skyscrapers, with residents of many high-rise buildings reporting cracks in walls and floors.</p>
<p>“It’s all high-rise buildings in Bangkok’s city centre,” said Sirin Hiranthanakasem, a resident in the capital who fled down 23 flights of stairs when the earthquake struck and is now staying in a hotel, too afraid to return to her apartment.</p>
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<p>“If something was to collapse, we would not survive,” she said.</p>
<p>The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has also opened an online portal for people in the capital to report damage to buildings.</p>
<p>Despite the chaos resulting from the earthquake on Friday and the Bangkok authorities declaring the city a disaster zone, the Thai capital has quickly returned to normal with the city’s airports functioning and light rail system back up and running, with most shops and restaurants back in operation.</p>
<p>Still, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minster Anutin Charnvirakul said all possible resources have been deployed to search for survivors at the site of the building collapse and recover the bodies of the deceased.</p>
<p>“We always have hope,” he told reporters of the possibility of finding workers alive.</p>
<p>“We’re still working around the clock.”</p>
<p><em>Nandi Theint reported from Mandalay, Myanmar; Wanpen Pajai reported from Bangkok, Thailand.</em></p>

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]In this second of a 10 part series of lectures for Russia’s Nasha Zavtra publishing and the Academy for Interntational Cooperation, Matthew Ehret introduces the battle of Plato vs Aristotle as a theme shaping two opposing paradigms over the past two millennia Watch lecture one here:    • An Introduction to Open vs Closed Sys…   Get Science Unshackled here https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/m…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221354
title: Newsom on today’s ‘toxic’ Democratic Party: We tend to be ‘judgmental’
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took a swing at his own party Friday evening, claiming Democrats have become too “toxic” and “judgmental.” Newsom, in an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” was asked about other Democrats’ criticism of the party and those who have questioned the governor for bringing GOP guests on his new…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220984
title: Fired Department of Education employees clean out desks
author: ;Kristen Eskow; Joe Khalil
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guid: 1016138 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: Russia Says UK &amp; France Behind Latest Attack On Its Energy Infrastructure
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<p>There's been another reported attack on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region on Friday. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova conveyed to journalists a Russian military assessment saying a metering facility was <strong>"de facto destroyed" in a Ukrainian HIMARS attack</strong>. </p>
<p>But unlike some of the prior Ukrainian attacks on the area, the Kremlin is directly blaming the West, going to far as to say that orders for the new strike came directly from European capitals.</p>
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<p>We "have reasons to believe that targeting and navigation were facilitated through <strong>French satellites and British specialists</strong> input [target] coordinates and launched [the missiles]," Zakharova <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614920-uk-ukraine-attack-violation/">said</a>, as cited in national media.</p>

<p><strong>"The command came from London,"</strong> she emphasized, describing it as part of a West-backed "terror" campaign meant to degrade and destroy Russia's energy infrastructure. </p>
<p>The Kremlin has concluded this demonstrates that Kiev is "impossible to negotiate with," she explained. The Ukrainians have done nothing to actually uphold the energy ceasefire put forward by Trump, despite that Zelensky "publicly supported" it, she said, suggesting it was all an empty game.</p>
<p>"<strong>Over the past 24 hours, the Kyiv regime continued its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure</strong> using various types of drones and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers," the Russian military had also described.</p>
<p>Russia has alleged Ukraine launched rockets on the Sudzha facility, which had already been damaged in an earlier attack this week, along with nearly 20 drones launched at an oil refinery in the southern Saratov region.</p>
<p>Ukraine is meanwhile denying the Russian allegations, instead suggesting it's a false flag orchestrated <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/28/russian-army-accuses-ukraine-of-attacking-sudzha-gas-metering-station-a88520">by Moscow</a>:</p>
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<p><em>On Friday, Ukraine denied claims that its forces fired on the gas metering station Sudzha and accused Russia's military of striking the facility.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>"Russia has again attacked the Sudzha gas transmission system in the Kursk region, which they do not control,"</strong> Andriy Kovalenko, an official who is responsible for countering disinformation, said on social media.</em></p>
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<p>The two sides have traded blame for violating the energy ceasefire on basically a daily basis since it was proclaimed. It seems to have barely held, if at all, despite ongoing pledges from both sides to uphold it.</p>
<p><em>Large fire at the scene of the metering station attack...</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Kiev has launched another assault on the Sudzha gas metering station, signaling that Zelensky has no desire at all to reduce tensions with Russia or pursue Trump’s peace plan. <a href="https://t.co/H4fe75lU5u">pic.twitter.com/H4fe75lU5u</a></p>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1905599847169663439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The US has claimed that it is not providing intelligence for long-range attacks inside Russia by Ukraine, but only intelligence which is defensive in nature. However, Europe is still in maximum support mode, as President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer put together a 'coalition of the willing' to defend Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Three people have been charged in connection with the defacement early in the year of a “beloved community mural” on an Ottawa Community Housing in Wurtemburg Street in Lowertown.</p>
<p>In a release, police said the graffiti attack occurred on the evening of Jan. 16. The damages were noticed the next day and reported to police.</p>
<p>Police said two of the suspects have been arrested and charged, while  investigators are asking for assistance to locate the third individual.</p>
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<p>Liam McGarry, 29, of Ottawa, is wanted for mischief exceeding $5,000.</p>
<p>Anyone with information about McGarry’s whereabouts, is asked to contact Const. D. Bashford of the central criminal investigations section at 613-236-1222, ext. 2193 or by email at BashfordD@ottawapolice.ca.</p>
<p>Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
<p>The striking nine-storey mural <em>Transformation: The Welcoming Ottawa Mural</em>on the building’s south wall facing 215 Wurtemburg St. was not damaged.</p>
<p>The butterfly mural addresses themes of change and diversity, organizers said.</p>
<p>The mural is on the south wall of the building, facing Rideau Street. It helps to beautify the building and highlight the diversity of the community.</p>
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<p>The work was designed by artist and community arts facilitator<span> </span>Claudia Salguero<span> </span>after conversations with residents from across the city. Salguero brought together a team of more than 60 community members, who created the mural piece by piece in several locations. They were later joined to complete the mural.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Not only does Wikipedia’s propaganda fall far short of any acceptable academic yardsticks, but so do the rest of NATO’s spinmeisters.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Before getting on to the alleged genocide by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War">Russian and Belarusian</a> forces in Ukraine, let’s briefly salute <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides">Wikipedia’s list of genocides</a>, which includes not only that alleged event but Germany’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad">Siege of Leningrad</a> as well several others Germany has yet to atone for. Although there are several “minor” genocides there, which I was either unaware of or had half-forgotten, this alleged Ukrainian genocide is my focus here because it helps to put NATO’s shoddy scholarship and shoddy reporting not only on the current Ukrainian conflict but on many others, such as <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/25/western-complicity-enables-the-ongoing-genocide-of-syria-alawites/">the current Alawite genocide</a>, into focus.</p>
<p>First off, we may note that, as Belarus is not a participant in the war, Belarus can no more be said to be accountable for Russia’s alleged crimes, than Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland can be for the crimes Germany committed a little over 80 years ago. Although that much should be obvious, my main criticism is not with Wikipedia’s shaky standards but with the various “authoritative” sources they cite in notes 54-60 regarding this alleged genocide by Russia.</p>
<p><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159106">Note 54 refers</a> to this <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1159106">United Nations account</a> which is just a superficial 850 word survey of how the war stands. Although attacks on dual purpose schools and children fatalities are mentioned in passing, there is no direct mention of genocide or attempts at genocide. Note 55 is <a href="https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20240221-toll-of-ukraine-war-high-but-exact-figures-shrouded-in-secrecy">this 380 word February 2024 AFP piece</a>, which speculates on the total body bag count and which quotes Zelensky’s fellow Ukrainian Pinocchios to negate any authoritative or trustworthy substance it might have otherwise have had.</p>
<p>Several of my former articles have already dealt at great length with notes 59 and 60, which deal with charges NATO’s International Criminal Court has leveled against Russian President Putin and the even more ridiculous ones against Maria Lvova-Belova. Whereas<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230317151628/https:/www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and"> note 59 links to the now discredited ICC</a>, note 60 links to <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/08/05/deporting-ukrainian-children-and-russifying-them-is-jeopardizing-the-future-of-ukraine_5992568_23.html">this shallow Le Monde report</a> which, though basically telling us that child abduction is as bad in Ukraine as it is in Syria, Africa or Cambodia, does not adduce an iota of evidence regarding Putin’s culpability in this alleged crime. My own opinion, having deduced the evidence as best I can, is that Putin has ordered his troops to go easy on the tough love and the reason the Pope and others express antithetical views is they listen far too much to Zelensky and his fellow Pinocchio puppets.</p>
<p>On the topic of Pinocchios, note 57 refers to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61017352">this BBC report</a>, which conflates Russian reports regarding the need to neutralise Ukraine’s well entrenched fascist extremist movements with a perceived Russian desire to exterminate all Ukrainians. Even leaving aside that it was Zelensky’s Nazis who wanted to do their own mini Final Solution of Russian speakers and that incriminating video evidence abounds as to how they treated the civilian “Ivans” they captured in Kursk, Russia, to my uninformed mind and to that of very many Rusisans, has fought this war with their gloves firmly on. As regards the old fall back of the tourist attraction for NATO leaders of Bucha, to my eyes at least, it was, on the evidence presented at the time, the Ukrainians who perpetrated that massacre. And, though time constraints forbid me from dwelling on it, I know that Wikipedia and the links they share will shed no real light on that crime.</p>
<p>Although note 58 refers to this May 2022 report by the New Lines Institute entitled.<a href="https://newlinesinstitute.org/russia/an-independent-legal-analysis-of-the-russian-federations-breaches-of-the-genocide-convention-in-ukraine-and-the-duty-to-prevent/">“An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent”</a>, one has to wonder how independent this Washington based Muslim Brotherhood lobby group is, given that <a href="https://onthinktanks.org/think-tank/new-lines-institute-for-strategy-and-policy/">it admits</a> to working to enhance American foreign policy. Given that the report was written very shortly after Russia’s military intervention, one has to naturally wonder just how neutral this report by this Washington-aligned group is.</p>
<p>As the report kicks off with a series of maps with such titles as “Russian Destruction of Ukraine” and “Russian Destruction tactics in Ukraine” before going on to “Reports in the media” and linking to a variety of reports praising Syria’s head choppers, we can conclude that, despite the huge financial resources behind this snow job, it is worthless as a piece of research or as a well of background knowledge.</p>
<p>Having dispensed with all the rest, we now move to note 56, the last note standing, which links to a variety of supposedly peer reviewed academic articles.</p>
<p><a href="https://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_14394_eidos_jpc_2022_0031">Mykola Riabchuk’s June 2022 article </a>in the Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities does not mince words. Though Riabchuk uses decidely unacademic language, he believes that the smoking gun of Russian intent to commit genocide can be uncovered “if the anti-Ukrainian rhetoric of Russian officials, pundits, and propagandists is systemically scrutinized, deconstructed, and contextualized”. Though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Riabchuk">Riabchuk’s background</a> as a Ukrainian citizen and unabashed Zelensky apologist might help him in that regard, that blatant partisanship totally invalidates not only his paper but the journal that published it. To phrase that differently, anyone wanting to get to the heart of Russian intent or Russian perfidy in Ukraine would be best off ignoring Riabchuk’s rantings.</p>
<p>Timothy Snyder’s 1000 wood <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-genocide-handbook">April 2022 substack piece</a> is also cited in note 56, no doubt because Snyder regards himself as a “historian of mass killing” which, given the range of genocides Wikipedia adumbrated, is a very wide field and not one anyone, least of all a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder">know-it-all American ignoramus</a>, can be expert on.</p>
<p>Snyder’s main point is that “Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine [which is, he alleges] an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such”. Snyder goes on to say that “denazification” in official Russian usage “just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A Nazi, as the genocide manual explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian”.</p>
<p>Let’s stop the idiot right there. Not only did <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2022/03/20/meet-ukraine-azov-figurehead-olena-semenyaka-europe-female-fuhrer/">my second SCF article specifically finger the Nazi ideologues</a> of today’s Ukrainian Reich but countless others have highlighted how the most innocuous manifestations of Russian culture are under attack not only in the Ukrainian Nazi Reich but in those propping up Zelensky as well. If genocide is being practiced against anyone, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Russians and all they hold dear are the victims.</p>
<p>Not to Snyder, who believes that “the actual history of actual Nazis and their actual crimes in the 1930s and 1940s is thus totally irrelevant” because Russians are sub-human Orcs, to borrow the terminology those who slaughter them use. And, though an argument could conceivably be presented that Russia unfairly leverages Nazi history and Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis for her own ends, the fact of the matter is the Ukrainian state and its Baltic allies still honour Hitler’s Nazis and their war crimes to this very day. This is not to say that all Ukrainians are Nazis but it is to say that Ukraine’s Nazis remain, both those who are festooned with Third Reich tattoos and those who are not, in the driving seat.</p>
<p>It is also to say that Snyder and his April 2022 garbage shed no light on the issue at hand and should, like the rest of notes 54-60, be ignored because they bring Wikipedia into further disrepute. As do these articles <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2185372">here </a>and <a href="https://www.academia.edu/92967824/Ukraine_Russia_and_Genocide_of_Minor_Differences">here</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Genocide_Research">Journal of Genocide Research</a>, and <a href="https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/3420">this gobbledygook from Rice University</a> some Polish crew saw fit to publish.</p>
<p>As the other two cited sources in note 56 are just run of the mill pieces from The Independent and the Washington Post, they are not worth dwelling on, except to point out that they are indicative of how shallow reporting and research is on Ukraine and on all arenas that do not shoehorn into NATO’s own genocidal agenda.</p>
<p>To sum up then, not only does Wikipedia’s propaganda fall far short of any acceptable academic yardsticks, but so do the rest of NATO’s spinmeisters. To phrase that differently, the reports in this journal on the <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/contributors/sonja-van-den-ende/">Ukrainian and Syrian genocides by Sonja van den Ende</a> are academic leagues ahead of any of that dross and that is not so much a clap on the back for van den Ende, as it is a withering condemnation of all journals, media outlets and flunkeys who have parrotted the NATO apologia for their war crimes adumbrated above and who are thereby complicit in them.</p>
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]By Matthew Ehret Today, I would like to say a few words about the suppressed Pythagorean Tradition both as a celebration of a lost art of thinking that gave rise to the greatest revolutions in science and even moral philosophy but also as an antidote to the impotent cult of scientism which has permeated every... <div data-sanitized-class="link-more"><a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2025/03/29/the-pythagorean-revival-needed-to-overthrow-todays-standard-model-priesthood/">Read More</a></div>

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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>DOHA, March 29. /TASS/. Qatar and Egypt are holding consultations with the Palestinian Hamas movement and Israel to reach a new agreement on the Gaza Strip, including the release of five Israeli hostages and a 50-day ceasefire, the Asharq TV channel reported, citing sources.</p>
<p>"Egyptian and Qatari delegations are negotiating with the parties [to the conflict] to reach a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday," the sources said. According to them, "the new proposal involves the release of five hostages in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners and a 50-day ceasefire."</p>
<p>Asharq also reported that Qatari and Egyptian representatives held a series of meetings with the Hamas leadership in Doha, as well as talks with the US and Israel to agree on the details of the agreement. The new proposal also includes the opening of the Rafah checkpoint on the border with Egypt for the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of the injured and sick. In addition, the agreement provides for the return of Israeli servicemen to the positions they held before the ceasefire was violated in early March.</p>


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<p>There is an urgent need to reframe humanity's relationship with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, according to scholars attending the 6th Media Materiality Forum hosted by Tsinghua University's School of Journalism and Communication in Beijing on Saturday.</p>
<p>Professor Liu Hailong from Renmin University of China and Professor Jens Schröter from the University of Bonn, both the event's keynote speakers, told CGTN Digital that technological progress must align with ethical frameworks, cultural diversity and planetary sustainability.</p>
<p>Both scholars criticized viewing technology as mere tools or revolutions, arguing instead for a holistic view of its societal and ecological impacts.</p>
<p>Liu compared Western instrumentalist approaches – where technology is seen as a neutral tool – with East Asian philosophies emphasizing harmony between humans, tools and nature.</p>
<p>"The illusion of infinite computational growth ignores Earth's finite resources," he warned, pointing to AI's massive energy consumption and e-waste.</p>
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<p>Schröter echoed this, adding that quantum computing, while promising faster problem-solving, risks eroding data privacy through its ability to crack current encryption systems.</p>
<p>"What I criticize in my talk is the rhetoric of revolution," he said. "I guess we should think more in terms of evolutionary transformation."</p>
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<p>On AI, both experts rejected binary narratives. Liu stressed that AI's "creativity" is inherently human-dependent. "Machines process data, but humans define the questions and purposes," he told CGTN. Schröter cited generative AI's disruption of education and creative industries, noting that while generative AI aids productivity, it threatens jobs in law, music and content creation.</p>
<p>While their cultural perspectives differed, both scholars agreed on the need for inclusive, cross-disciplinary collaboration. Liu proposed integrating non-human actors – animals, ecosystems, even energy flows – into media studies to better grasp technology's ripple effects. Schröter urged public participation in shaping AI's trajectory, calling for broad societal discussion about "what technologies we need, what technologies we want and in what form."</p>
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<div><img src="https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Due to numerous failures of the control and life-support systems of his rowing boat, traveler Fyodor Konyukhov decided to end the crossing from South America to Australia on the 114th day of the voyage, the expedition headquarters reported on its Telegram channel.</p>
<p>"At the moment, the boat's key control and life support systems have failed. &lt;...&gt; After assessing all the damage and malfunctions on board the rowing boat, the team suggested to Fyodor Konyukhov to finish the crossing for technical reasons and be evacuated on board a passing ship. &lt;...&gt; On March 30-31, favorable weather conditions will be established in the area where the Akros boat is located," the statement said.</p>
<p>"Fyodor confirmed yesterday that a new malfunction has been added to the current ones: the autopilot control unit has completely failed. This means that in the conditions of future storms, the boat will not be able to stay on the set course, it will inevitably be on the side of the wave, which will lead to new overturns and critical damage," the headquarters pointed out.</p>
<p>About expedition</p>
<p>The traveler was going to get from South America to Australia, covering a distance of 18,000 kilometers in 200 days. The passage to Australia became the second stage of the round-the-world route in the Southern Ocean, the first part of which Konyukhov overcame in 2018-2019. He then sailed 11,000 kilometers in 153 days.</p>


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The world has reached an inflection point, another chance to do what is needed to prevent a health crisis.  

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<p><strong><em>In Europa, c’è dai tempi della Prima Guerra Mondiale c’è il detto che “i Balcani sono la polveriera d’Europa”. Purtroppo, quelle parole contengono ancora un fondo di verità.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em> </span><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Nuove tensioni fra Bosnia e Serbia</strong></p>
<p>Il sistema politico disfunzionale della Bosnia, frutto degli accordi di Dayton del 1995 che hanno suddiviso il Paese in due entità governate congiuntamente da serbi, croati (a maggioranza cattolica) e musulmani, con una presidenza a rotazione sotto supervisione internazionale, sta inesorabilmente collassando. In Serbia le proteste contro la corruzione e per un cambio di regime proseguono da mesi, e quelle dello scorso fine settimana sono state le più imponenti fino ad oggi. Le immagini della marea umana che ha invaso le strade di Belgrado hanno fatto il giro del mondo in pochissimo tempo, gettando però anche molta confusione sugli eventi.</p>
<p>In Bosnia, le tensioni recenti sono scaturite dall’emissione di mandati di arresto da parte delle autorità centrali nei confronti del presidente della Republika Srpska  Milorad Dodik, del suo Primo Ministro e del Presidente del parlamento. I provvedimenti derivano dal loro rifiuto di conformarsi alle direttive dell’“alto rappresentante” Christian Schmidt, la cui nomina nel 2021 da parte dell’amministrazione Biden non è stata approvata dal Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’ONU. Di conseguenza, né Dodik né la Russia ne riconoscono l’autorità di questo signore, ritenendo che le sue richieste mirino a ridimensionare l’autonomia della Republika Srpska per favorire la centralizzazione dello Stato bosniaco a vantaggio politico della componente islamica.</p>
<p>Uno degli obiettivi principali di Schmidt sarebbe quello di eliminare il veto della Republika Srpska all’ingresso della Bosnia nella NATO, il che spiegherebbe la pressione internazionale su Dodik e il tentativo di rimuoverlo. Nonostante le divergenze tra le amministrazioni Biden e Trump, quest’ultima non sembra opporsi attivamente a questa strategia. Il Segretario di Stato Marco Rubio ha infatti accusato Dodik di minare la stabilità della Bosnia-Erzegovina, dichiarando che il Paese non dovrebbe frammentarsi; <a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/12/additional-eufor-peacekeeper-troops-arrive-in-bosnia-amid-rising-tensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parallelamente, Dorothy Shea, incaricata d’affari statunitense all’ONU, ha espresso sostegno all’EUFOR</a> (Forza dell’Unione Europea in Bosnia-Erzegovina), lasciando intendere la possibilità di un intervento contro la leadership della Republika Srpska. Niente di nuovo dal fronte atlantico occidentale.</p>
<p>In risposta a queste spiacevoli provocazioni, Dodik ha invitato Rubio al dialogo per esporre il punto di vista serbo e ha avanzato una proposta interessante: concedere alle aziende americane i diritti esclusivi per l’estrazione di minerali di terre rare della Republika Srpska, un affare dal valore stimato di 100 miliardi di dollari, che potrebbe attrarre l’attenzione del Potus, ed ha sottolineato che la politica statunitense nei Balcani è ancora influenzata dal cosiddetto Deep State, in particolare da elementi dell’ambasciata americana in Bosnia, storicamente ostili a Trump.</p>
<p>Non si può escludere un coinvolgimento britannico nelle tensioni bosniache, considerando che il Servizio Segreto Estero russo, l’SVR, ha recentemente denunciato il ruolo del Regno Unito nel sabotare la politica di Trump di riavvicinamento con la Russia, quasi in concomitanza con l’accusa che Nikolai Patrushev, consigliere di Putin, ha mosso verso Londra, dicendo che ha cercato di destabilizzare i Paesi baltici, lasciando intendere che potrebbe agire in modo simile nei Balcani.</p>
<p><strong>In Serbia non se la passano meglio</strong></p>
<p>La situazione in Serbia è altrettanto delicata. Il Paese è stato scosso dalle proteste, iniziate dopo un incidente ferroviario a Novi Sad lo scorso novembre, alimentate dal malcontento per la corruzione, con richieste di responsabilità che potrebbero sfociare in un cambio di governo. Il  movimento di protesta però è eterogeneo, comprendendo sia gruppi legati all’Occidente che nazionalisti serbi.</p>
<p>I liberali globalisti accusano il presidente Aleksandr Vucic di essere troppo filo-russo per non aver imposto sanzioni a Mosca, mentre i patrioti serbi lo considerano eccessivamente filo-occidentale per le sue posizioni ambigue su Kosovo, Russia e Ucraina. Vucic, dal canto suo, sostiene che le proteste contro di lui siano parte di una strategia occidentale per destabilizzarlo, e la Russia stessa avrebbe confermato un presunto complotto per un colpo di Stato contro di lui.</p>
<p>Nonostante le accuse di ingerenza occidentale, Vucic ha mantenuto una cooperazione con la NATO,<a href="https://www.mod.gov.rs/eng/4358/partnerstvo-za-mir-4358"> firmando nel 2015 un accordo di “Partenariato per la pace”</a> che consente all’Alleanza di transitare attraverso la Serbia e nell’agosto 2024, mentre affrontava proteste su larga scala, ha siglato un accordo da tre miliardi di dollari con la Francia per la fornitura di aerei da guerra, sollevando dubbi sulla reale ostilità dell’Occidente nei suoi confronti. In tutto ciò, gli Stati Uniti continuano ad esercitare pressioni su di lui tramite diversi canali.</p>
<p>Le tensioni in Bosnia e Serbia non sono scollegate: l’obiettivo occidentale sembra essere l’adesione della Bosnia alla NATO e il ridimensionamento dell’influenza russa nei Balcani. Se Trump non si opporrà alla politica attuale o non accetterà l’offerta di Dodik sulle terre rare, il rischio di un’escalation in Bosnia potrebbe aumentare.</p>
<p>Geopoliticamente parlando, la dottrina americana della divisione e del controllo continua ad avere la meglio nei Balcani, cercando di escludere qualsiasi possibile riunificazione di Bosnia e Serbia</p>
<p>L’unica possibilità per i serbi di migliorare la loro posizione sarà una stretta coordinazione tra la Serbia, la Republika Srpska e, se possibile, la Russia, per contrastare le pressioni occidentali e ottenere il miglior risultato possibile.</p>
<p><strong>La NATO ne approfitta</strong></p>
<p>In tutto ciò, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nato-kosovo-serbia-normalization-talks-kfor-17641eacc98fcdcc5daafac8763f942c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">la NATO non perde l’occasione di approfittarsene</a>. Il Segretario Generale, Mark Rutte, ha dichiarato che le azioni della Republika Srpska sono inaccettabili e che gli Stati Uniti non offriranno alcun sostegno a Dodik, posizione ribadita anche dall’Ambasciata americana in Bosnia.</p>
<p>L’EUROFOR ha annunciato un rafforzamento del proprio contingente per far fronte alle crescenti tensioni, mandando i rinforzi via terra attraverso i valichi di Svilaj e Bijaca e via aerea all’aeroporto di Sarajevo. Un’ottima scusa per dispiegare un buon numero di soldati a guardia di quella che continua a sembrare, sempre di più, una rivoluzione colorata che vuole coinvolgere ben due Paesi.</p>
<p>Nonostante la crescente pressione internazionale, la Republika Srpska può contare non solo sul sostegno di Mosca e Belgrado, <a href="https://www.tasr.sk/tasr-clanok/TASR:2025032100000401" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ma anche su quello diplomatico di Budapest e Bratislava</a>, che hanno espresso il loro supporto per una risoluzione pacifica della situazione, evitando di partecipare alle velate minacce di carattere militare.</p>
<p>Il 10 marzo, il Capo di Stato Maggiore delle Forze Armate serbe, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/19/la-nato-cerca-di-aprire-il-secondo-fronte-nei-balcani/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milan Mojsilović, ha incontrato a Belgrado il suo omologo ungherese, Gábor Böröndi</a>, ed hanno discusso assieme della sicurezza regionale e globale, nonché delle attività militari congiunte volte a rafforzare la stabilità nell’area. È stata ribadita l’intensità della cooperazione militare bilaterale, con l’intenzione di ampliarla ulteriormente. Particolare attenzione è stata rivolta alle operazioni congiunte tra le componenti terrestri e aeree dei due eserciti, nonché al contributo delle forze ungheresi alla missione internazionale di sicurezza in Kosovo e Metochia.</p>
<p>Appare chiaro che l’unico modo per la NATO di porre fine alla sovranità serbo-bosniaca sia quello di innescare un nuovo conflitto interno, utilizzando gruppi armati locali sulla falsariga di quanto avvenuto in Siria, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/17/will-we-see-new-maidan-in-serbia/">oppure una sorta di Maidan</a> sul modello ucraino del 2014.</p>
<p><strong>Il rischio militare alimentato da KFOR</strong></p>
<p>​La Kosovo Force (KFOR) è una missione internazionale<a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/29/la-serbia-fra-destabilizzazione-politica-e-nuovo-fronte-militare-sui-balcani/Report%20Difesa" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> guidata dalla NATO</a>, istituita nel 1999 con l’obiettivo di garantire la sicurezza e la stabilità in Kosovo, in conformità con la risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite.</p>
<p>All’inizio dell’operazione contava oltre 50.000 soldati provenienti da 20 Paesi membri della NATO e da nazioni partner. Nel tempo la presenza è stata ridotta. A marzo 2022, la KFOR era costituita da 3.770 soldati provenienti da 28 paesi contributori. ​</p>
<p>Per dare un’idea del tipo di dispiegamento, consideriamo che ci sono:</p>
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<li>Regional Command West (RC-W): unità con base presso “Villaggio Italia” vicino alla città di Pec/Peja, attualmente costituita dal 62° Reggimento Fanteria “Sicilia” della Brigata “Aosta”. Il RC-W include anche militari di Albania, Bulgaria, Croazia, Macedonia del Nord, Polonia, Turchia, Austria, Moldavia e Svizzera. ​</li>
<li>Multinational Specialized Unit (MSU): situata a Pristina e comandata dal Colonnello dell’Arma dei Carabinieri Massimo Rosati, questa unità altamente specializzata dell’Arma dei Carabinieri è presente in Kosovo sin dall’inizio della missione nel 1999. Il reggimento è stato impiegato principalmente nella zona nord del paese, caratterizzata da una forte presenza di popolazione di etnia serba, in particolare nella città di Mitrovica.</li>
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<p>Le principali attività operative della KFOR includono:​</p>
<ul>
<li>Pattugliamenti e presenza sul territorio kosovaro attraverso pattugliamenti regolari;</li>
<li>L’attività dei Liaison Monitoring Teams (LMT), che hanno il compito di assicurare un continuo contatto con la popolazione locale, le istituzioni governative, le organizzazioni nazionali e internazionali, i partiti politici e i rappresentanti delle diverse etnie e religioni presenti sul territorio. L’obiettivo è acquisire informazioni utili al comando KFOR per lo svolgimento della missione;</li>
<li>Il supporto alle istituzioni locali, in ottima di non cessione alle richieste della Serbia.</li>
</ul>
<p>Si tratta di forze dispiegate e pronte ad intervenire. Questo è un dettaglio che deve essere tenuto in considerazione. La strategicità di quella zona chiave dei Balcani non viene lasciata in secondo piano dalla NATO.</p>
<p>Messi così alle strette, ai governi di Serbia e Republika Srpska non resta molta scelta: dovranno confrontarsi presto con scelte difficili, che potrebbero significare un radicale cambiamento dell’aspetto dei Balcani.</p>
<p>Insomma, siamo di nuovo davanti al rischio di vedere i Balcani scoppiare, come avvenne poco più di 100 anni fa. Chi sarà stavolta il responsabile dell’esplosione?</p>
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link:
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<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephonic conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, discussing Israel's attacks on Palestine and regional and global issues, according to the Turkish Presidency on Saturday.</p>
<p>The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deepened with Israel's renewed attacks, Erdogan noted, expressing his confidence that Palestinians can overcome this process through unity.</p>
<p>Erdogan said that Türkiye will continue its efforts to make sure Palestine's voice is heard at every platform.</p>
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title: "We Will Not Allow It": Zelensky Rejects New Mineral Draft That Would Recognize US Support As Loans
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<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a Friday press conference <strong>that he won't recognize past US military aid as loans,</strong> after Washington sent a new draft of the minerals deal to Kiev.</p>
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<p>"Ukraine received a new agreement project from the U.S. regarding mineral resources, which is an entirely different document from the previous framework agreement," said Zelensky, adding "<strong>Ukraine will not recognize U.S. military aid as debt.</strong>"</p>
<p>"<strong>We are grateful for the support, but this is not a credit, and we will not allow it,</strong>" Zelensky continued.</p>

<p>The Ukrainian president also said that <strong>they are unwilling to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin "or with someone who would represent Russia,"</strong> and instead said "I think that if there are people, I think there are businesses in Russia, and they have many different regions, including serious business areas. <strong>I think that we would communicate with them if they have a vision of how to end the war"</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇺🇸🇺🇦BREAKING! ZELENSKYY REJECTED TRUMP'S TREATY! He will NOT recognize U.S. military aid as debt.<br>Moreover, Zelensky refused to engage in direct dialogue with Putin.<br>Zelensky is once again confronting Trump and the U.S.</p><p>He stated:<br>"Ukraine received a new agreement project from… <a href="https://t.co/CopihXojCx">pic.twitter.com/CopihXojCx</a></p>
— Myroslav Oleshko (@oleshkomyroslav) <a href="https://twitter.com/oleshkomyroslav/status/1905681265962922252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><em>Via @oleshkomyroslav</em></p>
<p>One Ukrainian lawmaker said on Telegram that the revised mineral agreement is a "horror" that offers no security guarantees from Washington.</p>
<p>Lwwmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a People's Deputy from Ukraine's Holos party, said he obtained a new draft of the mineral deal from the U.S., dated March 23 - which he says would grant the Untied States access to <strong>all existing and future mineral deposits across Ukraine, along with oil and gas throughout the country.</strong></p>
<p>According to Zheleznyak, the new agreement contains "not even a hint" of security guarantees - though he did note that the revised draft wasn't final, "and I hope that the Ukrainian side will demand and achieve significant changes to it."</p>

<p>"This is no longer a framework memorandum of intent, like the one discussed before the scandalous Oval Office meeting," said Zheleznyak, adding "This is a full-fledged, very clear agreement. And it's not in our favor."</p>
<p>"<strong>It can and must be changed. Otherwise, I don't see how it could be ratified by parliament.</strong>"</p>
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<p>The response comes as Kiev and Washington continue to dance around a deal that would allow the US access to Ukraine's mineral deposits, which was originally proposed by Zelensky as part of his five-point "Victory Plan" unveiled last October to secure US support. </p>
<p>Trump, meanwhile, suggests that <strong>the mere presence of American contractors in Ukraine would act as a security guarantee - something Zelensky has rejected.</strong></p>

<p>In a March 12 press release, the US State Department confirmed that Washington DC has provided $66.5 billion in military assistance to Ukraine during the war with Russia which began in 2022, adding that $69.2 billion in military assistance has been provided since 2014.</p>
<p>"We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles," read the State Department memo.</p>
<p><strong>Needless to say, this won't be over anytime soon at this rate...</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Unreasonable response. I saw something about Putin working with the UN to oust Z. Maybe this is why. Not saying what should happen but watching closely.</p>
— Alexandria Irby (@Alexandria74733) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alexandria74733/status/1905682600322322866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is what Zelensky does, he talks to Trump's admin promises to do something. Goes home and tells his people the exact opposite will happen. You cannot work with this kind of person.</p><p>Putin said recently that no real talks can start with him pretending to be in power. That…</p>
— Hank Rearden (@HankRearden_37) <a href="https://twitter.com/HankRearden_37/status/1905691323560329420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">He backed himself in the corner and in loose loose situation. This is what happens when people put in power with zero experience and expertise in politics nether mind deplomacy. I suspect its downhill for Zelensky from now on and we will see some crazy statements in near future.…</p>
— UserWithNoName (@NetiConfetti) <a href="https://twitter.com/NetiConfetti/status/1905684494620770618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Has Z said thank you lately?</p>

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<p><a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/28/content-agnostic-eu-official-denies-anti-free-speech-policies-in-bizarre-letter-to-congress/"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,</em></a></p>
<p>After returning recently from <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/24/a-new-world-order-with-european-values-the-unholy-union-of-globalism-and-anti-free-speech-measures/">speaking at the World Forum in Berlin</a>, I <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/25/turley-to-testify-in-the-senate-judiciary-committee-on-free-speech/">testified</a> in the Senate Judiciary Committee and warned about the building threat to free speech from the use of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has taken up the issue and received a letter from the EU’s Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen. <strong>The <a href="https://api.politico.eu/editorial_documents/ea015e0b-7246-4f6d-8301-e3cde8046bcb">letter</a> is both evasive and deceptive.</strong></p>
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<p>In my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom"><em>The Indispensable Right</em></a>, I detail how the DSA has been used to allow for sweeping speech investigations and prosecutions. In direct contradiction to past statements by the EU, Virkkunen denied any effort to regulate speech or enforce the DSA outside of Europe.</p>

<p>What is particularly maddening is the false claim that the EU remains “deeply committed to protecting and promoting free speech.” Many in the free speech community view the EU and the DSA as the greatest threats<a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/19/the-eu-just-declared-war-on-free-speech-in-america-it-is-time-to-fight-back/"> to free speech</a> in the West.</p>
<p>In his letter, Jordan correctly raised the concern that the DSA could “limit or restrict Americans” constitutionally protected speech in the United States by compelling platforms to crack down on what the EU considers “misleading or deceptive” speech.</p>
<p><strong>In her response, Virkkunen bizarrely describes the DSA as “<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-law-does-not-regulate-speech-eu-tech-chief-tells-us-lawmaker-henna-virkkunen/">content-agnostic”</a> while insisting that the DSA “applies exclusively within the European Union.”</strong></p>
<p>That is not what EU officials previously said or what the law itself allows. <a href="https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act_Article_34.html">Articles 34</a> and <a href="https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act_Article_35.html">35</a> of the DSA require all sites to identify, assess, and mitigate “systemic risks” posed by content, including any threats to “civic discourse”, “electoral processes,” and “public health.” It is up to the EU to define and judge such categories in terms of compliance.</p>
<p>The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President <a href="https://thehill.com/people/margrethe-vestager/">Margrethe Vestager </a>celebrated its passage by declaring that <strong>it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”</strong></p>
<p>Some in this country have turned to the EU to force the censorship of their fellow citizens. After <a href="https://thehill.com/people/elon-musk/">Elon Musk </a>bought Twitter and dismantled most of the company’s censorship program, many on the left went bonkers. That fury only increased when Musk released the “Twitter files,” confirming the long-denied coordination and support by the government in targeting and suppressing speech.</p>

<p><strong>In response, <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1517247388716613634">Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures</a> turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. (Clinton<a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/24/a-new-world-order-with-european-values-the-unholy-union-of-globalism-and-anti-free-speech-measures/"> spoke at the World Forum</a> and lashed out at the failure to control disinformation).</strong></p>
<p>The EU immediately responded by threatening Musk with confiscatory penalties against not just his company but himself. He would have to resume massive censorship or else face ruin.</p>
<p>This campaign recently came to a head when Musk had the audacity to interview former president Donald Trump. In anticipation of the interview, one of the world’s most notorious anti-free speech figures went ballistic.</p>
<p><strong>Former European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services Thierry Breton issued a threatening message to Musk, “We are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”</strong></p>
<p>The EU has long been one of the most aggressively anti-free speech bodies in the world. It has actively supported the evisceration of free speech among its 27 member states. The EU is not “agnostic” when it comes to free speech; it has long championed a type of free-speech atheism.</p>
<p><strong>We have faced EU officials engaging in Orwellian doublespeak for years. Nevertheless, Virkkunen’s letter to Jordan stands out for its sheer mendacity.</strong></p>
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<p><em>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “</em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668047047?tag=simonsayscom"><em>The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage</em></a><em>.”</em></p>
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<p><strong>Tehran is capable of retaliating against any enemy, according to IRGC Navy head Alireza Tangsiri</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Iran will not bow to US pressure to resume talks over its nuclear program, a top naval commander has said, stressing that Tehran is ready to strike back in the event of an American attack.</p>
<p>In an interview with al-Mayadeen TV channel on Saturday, Alireza Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s recent ultimatum urging the country to enter new nuclear talks. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“I have no knowledge of Trump’s message, nor do I care to analyze it,”</em> Tangsiri said. <em>“I hear his threats, I observe his actions, and I prepare myself to counter them. We have the capability to strike all enemy bases, wherever they may be… No one can strike us and escape. Even if we have to chase them to the Gulf of Mexico, we would.”</em></p>
<p>Tangsiri also rejected any negotiations over Tehran’s missile arsenal or its backing of groups in the region. <em>“Iran will never negotiate over its missiles or the capabilities of the Resistance Front,”</em> he said. He also emphasized that the Islamic Republic seeks peaceful relations with its neighbors: <em>“We always extend a hand of friendship to the countries in the region. As Muslims, we do not pose any threat to our neighboring countries.”</em></p>

            
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<p>The remarks came in response to Trump’s comments on Friday, in which he confirmed sending a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal.</p>
<p><em>“You’re gonna have to make a decision one way or the other,”</em> Trump said. <em>“We’re gonna either have to talk and talk it out, or very bad things are gonna happen to Iran. And I don’t want that to happen.”</em> He added that if the US has <em>“to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing.”</em></p>
<p>Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that while the letter seemed threatening, it still contained <em>“some opportunities”</em> for Tehran.</p>
<p>The standoff follows years of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program. In 2015, Iran signed a deal with the US, the EU, Russia, and other world powers in which it agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. However, in 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the landmark agreement, calling it <em>“a horrible one-sided deal”</em> that had failed to achieve its goals. </p>
<p>Iran has not ruled out indirect talks on the matter but has refused to do so under duress. It also maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.</p>

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<p>Ottawa police are asking for help finding Jamie Tait, 62, who was last seen leaving the cancer centre of the Ottawa General Hospital at 2:32 a.m. on Saturday.</p>
<p>Police and medical staff are concerned for his health and safety.</p>
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<p>Shares of the Las Vegas Sphere (officially the MSG Sphere), owned by <strong>Sphere Entertainment</strong> Co (SPHR), have plunged into a vicious bear market this year amid fears that its subsidiary, MSG Networks—a regional sports network—<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cracks-sphere-entertainment">faces potential bankruptcy</a>. Nevertheless, Goldman Sachs analysts Stephen Laszczyk and Antares Tobelem have <strong>initiated coverage with a "Buy" rating</strong>, arguing that the upside potential for the Las Vegas Sphere is solid and that the market has overstated the risks tied to MSG Networks. </p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="82256940-c526-468a-8a1d-7e54a8b4cabb" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="165" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-01-33.png?itok=eMqr8AI7" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>MSG bankruptcy fears have sent SPHR shares tumbling 36% since peaking at around $48 in mid-February. Short interest has surged to 7.7 million shares—<strong>approximately 29.5% of the total float</strong>.</p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6b8bc3ca-8a58-4ad1-afff-37d8860e6038" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="301" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_1cf93e06.png?itok=AiaPkVLb" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>On Thursday, Laszczyk and Tobelem provided clients with a detailed note about their decision to initiate a "Buy" rating on SPHR: </p>
<blockquote>
<ol><li><strong><em>We initiate on Sphere Entertainment (SPHR) with a Buy rating and a $42 price target</em></strong> <em>(12-month), representing 24% potential return. At $33.80 a share (off ~20% YTD through 3/26), we believe that the market is currently under-appreciating two key aspects of the company's growth story and over-estimating a potential risk.</em></li>
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<p>The analysts explained more about their bullish call, outlining three bullish reasons: </p>
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<p><em>Specifically, we believe that the</em> <strong><em>market is under-appreciating the opportunity for the Las Vegas Sphere</em></strong> <em>to continue to reinvent itself with new content and improve execution to grow Revenue and AOI (GSe is ~5% above consensus for Sphere segment AOI),</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>under-appreciating the opportunity to add additional Sphere franchises</em></strong> <em>around the globe (see addressable market analysis inside), and</em></p>
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<p><strong><em>over-estimating the likelihood that a workout of the MSG Networks debt will be value destructive</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
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<p>The value in SPHR is based on the Las Vegas Sphere, the world's largest spherical structure—equipped with a 16K resolution LED screen that wraps around the audience for a fully immersive visual experience, which surpasses even legacy venues like Madison Square Garden. </p>
<p><strong>Org Chart Overview across the MSG Complex</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e68e5c09-f593-4e53-8469-5303c624b326" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="155" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-08-25.png?itok=m5uARBM7" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>The analysts <strong>expect increased operational improvement through increased utilization of show days</strong>, better programming cadence, and higher ticket and hospitality pricing. Their model forecasts the Sphere segment AOI to increase significantly, from -$20M in 2024 to $158M in 2027E, outpacing the average analyst estimates on Wall Street. With premium experiences, flexible scheduling, and continued demand for immersive content, the analysts believe the Sphere is positioned for multiple years of continued growth despite "newness" fading fears. </p>
<p>"While we appreciate the argument that The Sphere has benefited from its "newness" in its first year of operation, <strong>we believe concerns that the venue is a fad and will have difficulty reinventing itself to drive continued interest are exaggerated</strong>. <strong>We see opportunity</strong> for The Sphere to add content, optimize show count and timing, and improve operations in a way that translates into continued growth," the analysts said. </p>
<p><strong>We believe SPHR is currently trading at a value that only captures the visible revenue streams from the LV and AD Spheres</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4431d95b-1375-4840-a3fe-bdce69829b35" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="347" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57.png?itok=eV6-rhkz" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>Las Vegas Sphere Lifetime Foot Traffic</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="150eb718-846a-449a-9af2-71acd0671a6f" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="184" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-51-08.png?itok=vJB4d6sg" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>Each additional Sphere build in a new city could generate low tens of millions in AOI for SPHR through royalty fees alone</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6ae15531-5c72-40b3-a894-abdf4b91cbac" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="248" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-11.png?itok=yLt40NSt" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>The Las Vegas Sphere show count should be near that of the entire 5-venue MSGE footprint by ~2027 due to improved utilization</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8eb2f735-73ca-4429-8748-6b4db7592536" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="347" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-52-57_0.png?itok=Dw5ILjQE" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>The event count for Sphere Experience has stabilized at ~60-70 shows per month...</strong></p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="baf286ba-fbdc-402e-9d97-26e23505dcf9" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="196" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_14-22-29.png?itok=1_MxGVJR" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p><strong>Capacity of the 10 Most Comparable Las Vegas Venues to the MSG Sphere</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="563a1530-46c2-4832-b1dc-515f336a7dfd" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="212" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-54-18.png?itok=1Z4d9-NB" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the <strong>MSG Networks segment faces secular headwinds</strong> from cord-cutting and unfavorable carriage renegotiations. The analysts expect that "successful renegotiation of MSG Networks' debt terms, without the need from Sphere Entertainment to inject significant capital, would be a net positive for Sphere's stock, which we believe appears to be pricing in some risk that Sphere Entertainment uses its own capital to bail creditors out."</p>
<p><a data-image-external-href data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="24e222d3-b59f-4e78-a17c-4ad07b5e3fb1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="319" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-03-28_13-50-25.png?itok=rAeZ58v4" alt typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>
<p>All in all, the analysts have a $42 price target, which reflects a blend of current positive Sphere performance, potential franchise expansion, and a low probability of value destruction from MSG Networks' debt issues. </p>
<p>. . . </p>
<h2>lol </h2>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Grateful Dead played the Las Vegas sphere—imagine tripping balls and looking up and seeing this. There’s no way I’m coming back from that <a href="https://t.co/o1D9dWXYeW">pic.twitter.com/o1D9dWXYeW</a></p>
— ØSØ (@OsoBlanc0) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsoBlanc0/status/1795994610738639301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Don’t do drugs and then go to the Sphere in Vegas. You will have a bad time. <a href="https://t.co/tjm9Q9bbFr">pic.twitter.com/tjm9Q9bbFr</a></p>
— Alpha Liger (@AlphaLiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlphaLiger/status/1879922602346733814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Jerry Garcia would've liked the Sphere <a href="https://t.co/IFPKbzD4eM">pic.twitter.com/IFPKbzD4eM</a></p>
— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) <a href="https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1903524297467134022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p>Every day, the world feels increasingly dystopian, with headlines that read like poorly scripted comedies—except the tragedy is that this is real life. A game show host is now president of the USA. A fame-hungry boyband member is lauded as a hero for aimlessly wandering the earth begging for money to fund an unwinnable war, all while serving as the figurehead of a US puppet state, Ukraine. The UK’s Prime Minister is a personification of malleable grey paint with a permanent cold—like a “Where Are They Now?” episode featuring Wendell from <em>The Simpsons</em>. Perhaps most ludicrous of all, the left are now raging <em>with </em>the machine, transforming into supposedly virtuous war hawks. And that’s before even mentioning the power struggles in France—but we’ll leave “Brigitte” for another day.</p>
<p>Historians tell us that we’re constantly evolving, reaching the pinnacle of civilisation, despite evidence to the contrary proving they’re probably “talking Balbeks”. Corruption and incompetence are more blatant than ever. Even Trump’s most fervent supporters—those who believe he is “draining the swamp”—don’t deny that the swamp exists. Meanwhile, the relentless rise of authoritarianism continues across the West, unfazed by whichever party holds pseudo-power. We are spoon-fed the illusion of democracy and accountability while political stooges grandstand about diversity, equity, and inclusion—all while goading us towards World War III. Indiscriminate drone bombings—now that’s the kind of “inclusion” we’ve really perfected. How virtuous and civilised we’ve become.</p>
<p>With tribalism at an all-time high, orchestrated by puppet masters overseeing the duopoly, the left blames corruption on Big Business, while the right insists Big Government is the problem. Both sides can justify their stance with an abundance of examples. The left points to the fentanyl crisis, asbestos in the food supply, Monsanto and Bill Gates engineering famine to buy up farmland, and sweatshops exploiting child labour to cut costs and maximise profits. The right fires back with Pelosi’s insider trading, the relentless plethora of political scandals (Watergate and Iran-Contra, for example), and witch hunts against candidates deemed problematic to the deep state, such as Trump and Jeremy Corbyn; the water crisis in Flint; and California’s disastrous handling of wildfires. By arguing in this binary, tribal way, both sides obscure the actual cause: it isn’t Big Business or Big Government—the problem is Big itself, and we are all as blind as Carrie Bradshaw, deluded and manipulated, doomed to become wrecks in the city.</p>
<p>The core issue is scale. The larger an institution becomes, the more power it exerts. And power doesn’t just corrupt; it attracts the corruptible. History is littered with examples: from Stalin to the British Empire, from Rome’s transition from republic to empire. As entities grow in size and influence, they become more cutthroat, corrupt, and Machiavellian, all while shedding ethical considerations.</p>
<p>A key driver of this is the erosion of individual accountability. No single executive at a pharmaceutical company explicitly signs off on the deaths of thousands of children in pursuit of profit. But through multiple tiers of management, a series of small decisions snowball into a callous strategy that no one person takes responsibility for. This is how evil operates. As organisations expand, they attract self-serving personalities drawn to power. Whether through ambition, coercion, or blackmail, they become corrupted, and moral rot takes hold.</p>
<p>Once an institution grows large enough, accountability disappears. Employees justify their actions: <em>I was just doing my job. I have a family to feed. It was an order from above.</em> When the public demands justice, a token scapegoat is occasionally thrown under the bus. But real consequences? Hardly. Remember all the bankers who went to jail after the fraudulent derivatives market collapsed in 2008, plunging millions into financial ruin? You don’t—because it didn’t happen. Remember the politicians imprisoned after the <em>Panama Papers</em> exposed their offshore accounts and shady dealings? Nope, because they all walked free. Even capitalist banks were handed socialist bailouts because they were deemed “too big to fail”.</p>
<p>Contrast this with Iceland, where citizens, fed up with corruption, assembled to take power into their own hands. They jailed the bankers and politicians who drove their country into economic ruin. Of course, over time, corruption will inevitably creep back in, but the lesson is clear: power is best kept in check when it remains small and decentralised.</p>
<p>Big Business and Big Government feed into each other. As businesses expand, ethical considerations dissolve in the relentless pursuit of profit. Hostile takeovers create oligopolies that not only eliminate competition but also infiltrate the government itself. Meanwhile, politicians, once idealistic, become complicit in corruption, lured by donations, gifts, prestige, and material gain. Through lobbying and revolving-door careers, industry titans subtly dismantle democracy, ensuring that politicians serve their shareholders, not the people. This fusion of state and corporate power is the <em>actual</em> definition of fascism—not the lazy misnomer used against anyone who questions whether biological men should compete in women’s sports.</p>
<p>Worse still, this corruption has co-opted the media, which now operates as a propaganda machine, indoctrinating the public into believing that it exists to <em>hold power to account.</em> Social media has amplified exposure to incompetence and corruption, but are we just more aware of what has always existed? To a degree, yes. But the problem runs deeper.</p>
<p>Take <em>Survivor</em>, the reality show that perfectly encapsulates the trajectory of human society. Early seasons were about teamwork—contestants collaborated to survive. Self-serving players were cast as villains, and the winners were those who demonstrated integrity. But over time, strategy replaced sincerity. “Outwit, outplay, outlast” became the tagline, and cunning betrayals were no longer frowned upon—they were celebrated as <em>smart gameplay.</em> Likewise, in business and politics, those who climb to the top are often the ones who have abandoned morality in favour of “playing the game”. Narcissists and sociopaths thrive in this environment, and our society rewards them.</p>
<p>Even on a smaller scale, this pattern persists. Children no longer aspire to be musicians for the love of art but for the fame. Islands like Koh Phangan, once havens for genuine hippies seeking paradise, are now overpriced playgrounds for talentless trust fund kids, engaging in faux spirituality while swiping Daddy’s credit card. The sincerity and optimism of pioneers are always usurped by the next generation’s hollow commercialisation.</p>
<p>Humans evolved to live in small tribes of 150-200 people. This allowed for genetic diversity while ensuring accountability within the group. Tribal members with dark hearts were necessary to commit the acts others couldn’t stomach in times of danger—but they were always kept in check. In a modern metropolis, these individuals operate in the shadows, preying on the unsuspecting, moving on onto latest victims with anonymity, facing zero consequences for previous exploitation, reinforcing their behaviour as unproblematic, and climbing the ranks of corporations and governments. This is why our leaders are so openly corrupt and incompetent. The system selects for it.</p>
<p>So how do we expose and dismantle this beast? First, we need to recognise the patterns and underlying mechanisms at play. Second, we must integrate psychological literacy into early education, ensuring future generations aren’t so easily manipulated. Most importantly, we must dismantle <em>Big</em>. Small businesses stimulate local economies and competition. Localised governance ensures accountability and re-engages citizens in the political process. Citizens’ assemblies could act as a check against local corruption. A pragmatic, cooperative approach between regions, driven by surplus rather than manufactured scarcity, is the way forward. Only then can we stop psychopaths from dictating our future—and perhaps, just perhaps, the world will stop feeling like an asylum.</p>
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title: Top vaccine official at FDA resigns citing RFK Jr., ‘misinformation’
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A top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resigned, citing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation” and apparent lack of desire for “truth and transparency.”  Dr. Peter Marks, who has led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), stepped down on Friday after earlier in…

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<p><a href="https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/03/ultra-processed-life.html"><em>Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,</em></a></p>
<p><em>Consuming more of this </em>Ultra-Processed World is not a path to "the good life," it's a path to the destruction and derangement of an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The digital realm, finance, and junk food have something in common: they're all <em>ultra-processed</em></strong>, synthetic versions of Nature that have been designed to be compellingly addictive, to the detriment of our health and quality of life.</p>
<p><strong>In focusing on the digital realm, money (i.e. finance, "growth," consuming more as the measure of all that is good) and eating more of <em>what tastes good</em>, we now have an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</strong> All three-- the digital realm, money in all its manifestations and junk food--are all <em>consumed</em>: <em>they all taste good</em>, i.e. generate endorphin hits, and so they draw us into their synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em>.</p>

<p><strong>We're so busy <em>consuming</em> that we don't realize they're <em>consuming us</em></strong>: in focusing on producing and consuming more goods and services as the sole measure of "the good life," it's never enough: if we pile up $1 million, we focus on piling up $2 million. If we pile up $2 million, we focus on accumulating $3 million. And so on, in every manifestation of money and consumption.</p>
<p><strong>The digital realm consumes our lives one minute and one hour at a time</strong>, for every minute spent focusing on a screen is a minute taken from the real world, which is the only true measure of the quality of our life.</p>
<p><strong><em>Ultra-processed food</em> is edible, but it isn't nutritious.</strong> It tastes good, but it harms us in complex ways we don't fully understand.</p>
<p><strong>This is the core dynamic of the synthetic "products and services" that dominate modern life:</strong> the harm they unleash is hidden beneath a constant flow of endorphin hits, distractions, addictive media and unfilled hunger for all that is lacking in our synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em>: a sense of security, a sense of control, a sense of being grounded, and the absence of a hunger to find synthetic comforts in a world stripped of natural comforts.</p>
<p><strong>In effect, we're <em>hungry ghosts</em> in this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em></strong>, unable to satisfy our authentic needs in a synthetic world of artifice and inauthenticity. The more we consume, the hungrier we become for what is unavailable in an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
<p><strong>We're told there's no upper limit on "growth" of GDP, wealth, abundance, finance or consumption, but this is a form of insanity</strong>, for none of this "growth" addresses what's lacking and what's broken in our lives, the derangements generated by consuming (and being consumed by) highly profitable synthetic versions of the real world.</p>

<p><strong>Insanity is often described as <em>doing the same thing and expecting a different result</em>.</strong> So our financial system inflates yet another credit-asset bubble and we expect that this bubble won't pop, laying waste to everyone who believed that <em>doing the same thing</em> would magically generate a different result.</p>
<p><strong>But there is another form of insanity that's easily confused with denial: we are blind to the artificial nature of this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em></strong> and blind to its causal mechanisms: there is only one possible output of this synthetic version of Nature, and that output is a complex tangle of derangements that we seek to resolve by dulling the pain of living a deranged life.</p>
<p><strong>We're not in denial; we literally don't see our <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> for what it is:</strong> a manufactured mirror world of commoditized derangements and distortions that have consumed us so completely that we've lost the ability to see what's been lost.</p>
<p><strong>Ultra-processed snacks offer the perfect metaphor.</strong> We can't stop consuming more, yet the more we consume the greater the damage to our health. The worse we feel, the more we eat to distract ourselves, to get that comforting endorphin hit. It's a feedback loop that ends in the destruction of our health and life.</p>
<p><strong>Once we've been consumed by money, the digital realm and ultra-processed foods, we've lost the taste for the real world.</strong> A fresh raw carrot is sweet, but once we're consuming a diet of sugary cold cereals and other equivalents of candy, we no longer taste the natural sweetness of a carrot; it's been lost in the rush of synthetic extremes of salt, sugar and fat that make ultra-processed foods so addictive. To recover the taste of real food, we first have to completely abandon ultra-processed foods--<a href="https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar25/addiction-economy3-25.html"> Go Cold Turkey.</a></p>
<p><strong>The idea that we can consume junk food and maintain the taste for real food in some sort of balance is delusional</strong>, for the reasons stated above: junk food destroys our taste for real food and its artificially generated addictive qualities will overwhelm our plan to "eat healthy" half the time.</p>
<p><strong>Just as there is no "balance" between ultra-processed food and real food, there is no balance between the synthetic <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> and the real world.</strong> We choose one or the other, either by default or by design.</p>

<p><strong>Credit--borrowing money created out of thin air--is the financial equivalent of ultra-processed food.</strong> The machinery that spews out the addictive glop is complicated: in the "food" factory, real ingredients are processed into addictive snacks. In finance, reverse repos, swaps, derivatives, mortgages, etc. generate a highly addictive financial product: credit.</p>
<p><strong>Just as with ultra-processed food, the more credit we consume, the more it consumes us.</strong> <em>I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.</em></p>
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<p><strong>The derangements of synthetic food, digital realms and finance have yet to fully play out.</strong> Consuming more of this <em>Ultra-Processed World</em> is not a path to "the good life," it's a path to the destruction and derangement of an <em>Ultra-Processed Life</em>.</p>
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title: NPR’s CEO just made the best case yet for defunding NPR
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After years of objections over its biases, the NPR board hired a CEO notorious for her activism and far-left viewpoints.

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221172
title: Kalshi CEO: Political betting could be ‘a trillion dollar’ market
author: ;Michael Ramsey
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Kalshi says it’s the first regulated exchange where people “can buy and sell contracts on the outcome of events."

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guid: https://www.rt.com/news/614946-johnson-nato-alternative-delusion/
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<p><strong>Boris Johnson has urged European nations to increase defense spending</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Europeans should not be <em>“deluded”</em> that there is an alternative <em>“defense pillar”</em> to NATO, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. In an article in the Daily Mail on Friday, he argued that European countries should allocate more funds to defense.</p>
<p>The Atlantic reported this week, citing a conversation in the encrypted messaging app Signal, that US Vice President J.D. Vance said he hated <em>“bailing out Europe again”</em> by launching military action against Houthi rebels, ostensibly to protect European trade. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly also slammed <em>“pathetic European free-loading.”</em></p>
<p>In his article, Johnson pointed out that the US defense budget <em>“is the thick end of a trillion dollars a year, more than 12 times the UK defense budget, even though the US population is only about five times bigger than ours.”</em> He added that <em>“the US allocates about 3.5 per cent of its GDP to defense while the UK spends about 2.3 per cent.”</em></p>
<p>Just prior to taking office in January, US President Donald Trump called on European NATO allies to increase their military spending, calling on each member state to spend 5% of GDP on defense. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that British defense spending would rise to 2.5% by 2027, three years earlier than planned. Meanwhile, EU countries have announced their own defense strategy aimed at breaking security dependency on the US.</p>

            
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<p>Johnson opined in the Mail that there is no candidate for replacing America’s role on the continent. <em>“We must not be deluded into thinking we can create some European alternative defence pillar, as a substitute for Nato. Who would lead such a thing? France? Britain? Germany? You only have to ask the question to see the problem,”</em> he wrote. The former conservative PM hailed the defense budget boost announced by London, but called it <em>“only a start, and nothing like enough.”</em></p>
<p>America should be <em>“the hegemonic power of the Western world”</em> to stick up <em>“for freedom and democracy, especially in Ukraine,”</em> Johnson claimed.</p>
<p>According to Kiev, it was Johnson – then still prime minister – who convinced Ukraine to keep fighting and derailed its 2022 peace talks with Moscow. Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that episode, saying that <em>“Western handlers... arrived and persuaded the Ukrainian leadership to continue armed resistance to the end, essentially to the last Ukrainian, with the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.”</em> Currently, Moscow and Washington are engaged in talks aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict.</p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221504
title: Musk hits back at Walz over Tesla criticism: ‘Huge jerk’
author: ;Steff Danielle Thomas
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk responded to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) quip about celebrating the dip in Tesla stocks, calling the former vice presidential nominee a “huge jerk.” During an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Musk was asked about the market drop, recent vandalism at Tesla dealerships, and criticism of his work with President…

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1743254562
title: Four in Ukraine killed in drone strike as Russia claims advances on ground
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up their aerial attacks as US pushes the warring parties to agree on a ceasefire.</em></p>
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<p>A Russian drone attack <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/russia-suffers-heavy-losses-in-donetsk-lavrov-scolds-ukraines-zelenskyy">has killed</a> at least four people and wounded 21 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, damaging high-rise buildings and triggering fires in a hotel and homes, the regional governor said, as Moscow claims to have made gains on the ground elsewhere.</p>
<p>Late Friday, Russia sent “more than two dozen drones” to Dnipro, the governor of the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region, Sergiy Lysak, wrote on his official Telegram account on Saturday.</p>

<p>“The massive attack caused large-scale destruction and fires. A hotel and restaurant complex, 11 private houses, garages, and a service station were on fire,” he said, adding that high-rises and cars were also damaged.</p>
<p>Pictures and videos posted online showed flames and large plumes of smoke wafting skyward. Others showed the shattered interior of a building, the badly damaged upper floors of a high-rise apartment block and streets strewn with smashed glass and building materials.</p>
<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Russia had launched more than 170 drones into Ukraine overnight, striking targets in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions.</p>
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<p>On Saturday, Russian forces said they had captured the settlement of Panteleimonivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and Scherbaky in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, areas already under partial Russian occupation, according to the Interfax news agency, which cited the Russian Ministry of Defence. Russian forces also captured the settlement of Veselivka in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, according to the Russian state-run TASS.</p>
<p>In the meantime, Russia’s Defence Ministry accused Ukraine of attacking its energy facilities in the past 24 hours. The ministry said Ukraine attacked power grids in the Belgorod region several times, leaving about 9,000 residents without a power supply.</p>
<p>Both Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their aerial attacks as US President Donald Trump pushes both countries to agree to a ceasefire after more than three years of ruinous war.</p>
<p>Moscow is preparing to launch a new military offensive in the coming spring to maximise the pressure on Kyiv and strengthen the Kremlin’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks, Ukrainian government and military analysts have said.</p>
<p>On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a “transitional administration” to be put in place in Ukraine and promised his army would “finish off” Ukrainian troops.</p>
<p>Zelenskyy dismissed Putin’s call for a UN-run administration as the Russian leader’s latest ploy to delay a peace deal.</p>
<p>“Russia is making a mockery of peacekeeping efforts around the world. It is dragging out the war and sowing terror because it still feels no real pressure,” he said.</p>
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<p>The United States, however, is continuing to try to negotiate a ceasefire in the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/russia-ukraine-black-sea-deal-what-is-it-and-will-it-work">Black Sea</a> and end strikes targeting energy infrastructure in both nations.</p>
<p>While both have agreed to these truces in principle, their implementation remains unclear, and Russia and Ukraine continue to trade accusations that the other is seeking to derail them.</p>

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<p><strong>The economic restrictions are “painful” for Moscow and “represent a powerful lever,” according to the European Commission president</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The EU will not lift its sanctions against Russia for as long as the Ukraine conflict continues, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.</p>
<p>During talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday, Russia and the US agreed to move towards reviving the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which, according to the Kremlin, should include the removal of Western restrictions against Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial institutions involved in the international sale of food and fertilizers.</p>
<p>In her interview with French broadcaster LCI on Friday, von der Leyen made it clear that Brussels will not support the idea of a maritime truce between Moscow and Kiev put forward by the administration of US President Donald Trump.</p>
<p><em>“The sanctions are very significant; they are painful; they have an impact on the Russian economy, and they represent a powerful lever,”</em> she said when asked about the possibility of the EU fulfilling Russian demands to lift some of the curbs.</p>

            
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<p>According to the head of the European Commission, the restrictions <em>“will remain in effect until a just and lasting peace is established in Ukraine.”</em></p>
<p>However, she noted that <em>“when the war is over, the sanctions might be removed.”</em></p>
<p>Von der Leyen also said that for the conflict to end, <em>“security guarantees for Ukraine”</em> are needed as well as <em>“a solid defense industrial base and a deterrent force”</em> in the EU.</p>
<p>The Black Sea Grain Initiative, originally brokered in July 2022 by the UN and Türkiye, envisioned the safe passage of Ukrainian agricultural products in exchange for the West lifting its restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports.</p>
<p>Moscow withdrew from the deal a year later, citing the West’s failure to uphold its obligations. The Americans and Russians now see its revival as a step towards settling the Ukraine conflict altogether.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, President Vladimir Putin asserted that the Russian economy has become the fourth largest in the world in purchasing power parity terms after those of China, the US and India, despite a record 28,595 sanctions being placed on it by Washington, Brussels and their allies. According to the Russian government’s data, the country’s economy grew 4.1% in 2024, surpassing the official forecast of 3.9%.</p>

             
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<p>Putin previously urged the Russian business circles against expecting the sanctions to be fully lifted, describing them as a mechanism of strategic systemic pressure on the country that the West intends to keep using.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2018-10-24T142908Z_546965751_RC1B47769530_RTRMADP_3_EUROPE-MIGRANTS-BOSNIA-1743260241.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>For months now, US President Donald Trump’s administration has been leading a well-publicised crackdown on migration. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have turned deportations into media spectacles, posting videos of chained deportees and releasing their names to spread fear.</p>
<p>Within the past few weeks, the Trump administration has expanded its deportation surge to include even foreign nationals with legal status in the country, including academics. The president has pledged to deport 11 million people – doubling the number removed under President Joe Biden and even surpassing President Barack Obama’s two terms, during which 5.3 million people were deported.</p>

<p>While the world’s attention is focusing on Trump’s anti-migration spectacle, the European Union is quietly carrying out its own crackdown. Its policies are far less visible, yet they are just as ruthless.</p>
<p>In the first nine months of 2024, EU states issued 327,880 expulsion orders, with 27,740 people forcibly removed between July and September. Deportations have intensified, as EU states have begun implementing the new Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was passed in December 2023 and entered into force in June 2024.</p>
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<p>Under its provisions, EU members are fast-tracking removals, expanding detention centres, and strengthening cooperation with third countries to facilitate deportations. However, it is not only member states that will be part of this.</p>
<p>Balkan countries that have to fulfill certain criteria to become part of the EU, through the EU accession process, are effectively being turned into a border zone for the EU. Unlike EU member states, Balkan candidate states had no say in shaping this pact, yet they are forced to implement it and abide by what can only be described as colonial blackmail.</p>
<p>Most recently, the EU made its expectations clear at the December EU-Western Balkans Summit, declaring that, “We need to strengthen our cooperation and strategic partnerships in migration management, which is a shared challenge and responsibility and a key priority.”</p>
<p>This is part of the EU’s broader strategy to externalise migration control and fortify its borders, but also to move away from any responsibility and accountability for violations of human rights and transfer them on to third countries.</p>
<p>A key part of this strategy is the creation of “return hubs” close to and outside the EU’s borders – places where unwanted people can be warehoused. This model, championed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is already in motion. People are being sent to the Balkans, Turkey and North Africa. Frontex, the EU’s border agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) play key roles in enforcing these removals.</p>
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<p>In practice, we can see what that looks like in Croatia, the EU member state bordering two Balkan non-member states – Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Croatia has played an important role in maintaining the EU border regime by normalising pushbacks, which over the years caused numerous deaths and injuries and represented a massive violation of fundamental human rights. Instead of establishing responsibility for this, the EU rewarded Croatia – along with Bulgaria and Romania – by allowing them to join the Schengen Agreement, which abolishes border control between member states.</p>
<p>The EU has also strengthened readmission agreements – bilateral deals that allow EU states to send people back to their country of origin or country of transit, pushing them to the edge of the EU or outside its borders, basically to offload migrants. As a result, the Balkans have become a dumping ground for people the EU wants to expel.</p>
<p>Croatian authorities have not published any reports on migration control since 2020, but Minister of Interior Davor Bozinovic said in January that border police prevented 71,000 “illegal entries” in 2024. The Bosnian Office for Foreigners reported that in 2023, Croatian authorities returned 4,265 people into Bosnian territory. Bosnia, with financial aid from the EU, removed 893 people to their countries of origin or countries that accepted them through interstate agreements, while 96 migrants left through the IOM’s controversial “voluntary return” programme, which scholar Jean-Pierre Gauci has described as “disguised deportation”.</p>
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<p>Currently, Croatia has four detention and return hubs located in Ježevo (near Zagreb), Tovarnik (by the Croatian-Serbian border), Dugi Dol (along the Croatian-Bosnian border) and Trilj (along the Croatian-Bosnian border).</p>
<p>NGOs and journalists have documented widespread rights violations inside these centres, including, inhumane living conditions and indefinite detention. It has also been a consistent practice of the local authorities to send foreign nationals to these centres for a few days and then to take them out and push them across the border with Serbia or Bosnia. There have also been cases of children and single women being detained in overcrowded men’s facilities.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of this year, Croatian police have intensified their activities along the eastern border. Their officers will be joined by colleagues from Slovenia and Italy under a newly signed agreement for joint patrols of the Croatian border. At the same time, border police have received more surveillance cameras and police vehicles equipped with surveillance technology.</p>
<p>After an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels earlier this month, Bozinovic declared that deportations are no longer a “taboo” topic in the EU and that the European Commission was looking into legislative proposals to speed them up.</p>
<p>Croatia’s non-EU borders are already dotted with unmarked graves of people who have perished while on the move to seek safety and security. The new pact will only intensify the brutality asylum seekers face at Croatia’s borders and in non-member states like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia and elsewhere.</p>
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<p>The new pact is allocating millions of euros for policies and technologies that will directly feed into the global politics of dehumanisation of people on the move. It is also empowering Frontex, which has long been accused of complicity in illegal pushbacks and human rights violations, to play an even bigger role in border control and deportations. Its annual budget for deportation-related expenses alone is 18 million euros ($19.5m).</p>
<p>As we write this, alarm bells are ringing across the EU. In Germany, solidarity groups are trying to stop the deportations of Palestinians. In Italy, the government is still looking for ways to send unwanted migrants to centres built for that purpose in Albania. Austria has temporarily halted family reunions for asylum claimants. France has introduced more strict immigration policies and started to deport more people, which led to a row with Algeria due to a high number of deportees.</p>
<p>It is now increasingly clear that Western countries, led by the EU and the US, are using migrants as scapegoats to justify militarised border control. The EU’s collaboration with Israel in developing advanced surveillance and AI technology is central to this strategy. The very systems used to track and control migrants today – drones, biometric databases and predictive policing – were tested in occupied Palestine before being deployed at European borders. Asylum seekers, Palestinians, and those in solidarity with them are the first targets, but they will not be the last.</p>
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<p>If we fail to challenge these policies, this machinery of control will continue expanding, ensnaring more and more people in its grip. The only way forward is to build transnational solidarity networks that resist these injustices and hold those in power accountable while exposing the flawed political and economic systems that allow for the global dehumanisation of disadvantaged communities. The alternative is to remain silent and allow a future where no one is safe.</p>
<p><em><strong>The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</strong></em></p>

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<p><strong>South Sudan finds no respite</strong></p>
<p>In the Horn of Africa, two fragile peace processes are seriously threatened: internal power struggles in South Sudan and in the Ethiopian region of Tigray could turn into regional crises. In South Sudan, as was the case in 2013 at the beginning of the civil war, a competition is underway for the succession of the current president Salva Kiir, 73 years old. The latter seems to favor his son-in-law as his potential successor. Meanwhile, the Upper Nile region is shaken by clashes between the White Army, a Nuer militia, and the South Sudanese armed forces, with dramatic consequences, including the shooting down of a UN helicopter and the killing of a high-ranking general.</p>
<p>During the civil war between 2013 and 2018, the Armata Bianca fought alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Opposition Movement (SPLA-IO), led by the current First Vice-President Riek Machar. Today, tensions between Kiir and Machar are rising again, raising fears of a return to violence in a country already badly tried by decades of conflict.</p>
<p>South Sudan is on the brink of another civil war, the top United Nations official in the world’s youngest country warned on Monday, expressing concern over the government’s sudden decision to postpone the latest peace effort.</p>
<p>Describing the situation in the country as “grave”, Nicholas Haysom emphasized that international efforts to reach a peaceful solution can only be successful if President Salva Kiir and his former rival turned vice-president, Riek Machar, are willing to collaborate and put the interests of the population above their own.</p>
<p>When oil-rich South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict, expectations were high. However, the country slipped into a civil war in December 2013, fueled by ethnic divisions, with forces loyal to Kiir, a Dinka, fighting those loyal to Machar, a Nuer.</p>
<p>The conflict caused over 400,000 casualties before ending with a peace agreement in 2018, which led to the formation of a government of national unity with Kiir and Machar. The agreement called for elections in February 2023, which were subsequently postponed to December 2024 and then again to 2026.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-airstrike-nasir-civilians-military-58e424601f46e57400554097cccd0692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current tensions</a> stem from clashes in the north of the country between government forces and a rebel group known as the White Army, believed to be close to Machar.</p>
<p>Earlier this month,<a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-un-chopper-fighting-nasir-db1ec0bdea98864b48a61b17f0092ee6" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a South Sudanese general was killed</a> along with others when a United Nations helicopter, engaged in the evacuation of government soldiers from the city of Nasir – the scene of fighting in Upper Nile State – was hit by enemy fire. A few days earlier, on March 4th, the White Army had taken control of the Nasir military garrison, forcing government troops to surround <a href="https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-tension-violence-fighting-upper-nile-c0083aec9f62e325bbf53eef94638e8c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the residence of Machar</a> in the capital Juba and arrest several of his associates.</p>
<p>Nicholas Haysom, the UN envoy for Sudan, has stated that tensions and violence are increasing, especially as the elections approach and the political competition between the country’s key figures intensifies. According to him, the lack of trust between Kiir and Machar prevents them from exercising the leadership necessary to implement the 2018 peace agreement and guide South Sudan towards a stable and democratic future; he also emphasized that the rampant spread of disinformation, propaganda and hate speech is further exacerbating ethnic divisions and fueling fear. “Faced with this worrying situation”, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-south-sudan-war-embassy-1b88f1d0b983a2ae5008ea6d5f95aa0a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Haysom</a>, ‘we can only conclude that South Sudan is at serious risk of relapsing into civil war’.</p>
<p>Haysom, who heads the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, which has almost 18,000 members, warned that a return to open conflict would lead to the same horrors the country experienced in 2013 and 2016. The United Nations is taking the risk of the conflict becoming increasingly ethnic very seriously. To avert a new civil conflict, the UN special envoy has stated that the peacekeeping mission is intensifying diplomatic efforts, collaborating closely with international and regional partners, including the African Union.</p>
<p>The common message from the regional and international community is an appeal to Kiir and Machar to meet to resolve their differences, respect the 2018 peace agreement, maintain the ceasefire, release detained officials and address tensions through dialogue rather than military violence.</p>
<p><strong>In Ethiopia, divisions within the TPLF and tensions with Eritrea continue</strong></p>
<p>A few kilometers to the east, in Ethiopia, <a href="https://www.nigrizia.it/notizia/etiopia-fra-la-pace-e-il-tigray-anche-la-crisi-permanente-del-tplf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an internal crisis in the Tigray</a> region risks fueling a wider conflict between the federal government in Addis Ababa and Eritrea. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), formerly the dominant party in Ethiopia and the main opponent of the government in the 2020-2022 war, is now divided into two factions: a conservative one led by President Debretsion Gebremichael, and a reformist one led by Getachew Reda, head of the Tigray Interim Regional Authority.</p>
<p>Debretsion’s faction controls a significant part of the Tigray armed forces and has progressively taken over local administrative structures, often by coercive means. It has also extended its influence over the media. Debretsion’s faction controls a significant part of the Tigray armed forces and has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkml1d206po" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressively taken over </a>local administrative structures, often by coercive means. It has also extended its influence over the media and part of the government in the regional capital, Mekelle. This faction is believed to have links with Eritrea, while Getachew enjoys the support of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.</p>
<p>Relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea deteriorated after the <a href="https://igad.int/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Download-the-signed-agreement-here.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pretoria Agreement</a>, which ended the war between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF in 2022. Both countries accuse each other of supporting opposition groups, increasing the risk of a new regional conflict.</p>
<p>In an attempt to calm rising tensions in the turbulent Tigray region, Ethiopia’s prime minister announced his intention to appoint a new leader for the area, after which he fled to the capital Addis Ababa earlier this month following a power struggle within the TPLF.</p>
<p>In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed asked Tigrayans to propose via email who should be the new leader of the region and also announced that the mandate of the interim administration, initially planned for two years, will be extended for another year. Although Tigray now has the chance to choose its own leaders, Abiy is also sending a signal: “If the prime minister can appoint a president in the Tigray region, he can do so elsewhere too”.</p>
<p>Despite the signing of the peace agreement, Tigray continues to face difficulties, including delays in the disarmament of TPLF forces and serious humanitarian needs. The conflict in Tigray has caused the death of approximately 500,000 people. All parties involved – including neighboring Eritrea, which supported the government – have been accused of serious violations, including massacres of civilians and widespread sexual violence.</p>
<p><strong>The involvement of other states and the fragmentation of international commitment</strong></p>
<p>The risk of an expansion of the conflict is real. Uganda <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/uganda-to-send-troops-to-south-sudan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has already sent troops</a> to support the South Sudanese government, as it did in 2013, while Sudanese forces have intervened in several strategic areas. Over the weekend, militias of the Operational Support Force in South Sudan clashed with units of the SPLA/M-LNL, apparently involved in an operation to obtain weapons from the Sudanese Armed Forces.</p>
<p>The fragile implementation of the peace agreements is one of the main causes of the recent escalation. In South Sudan, President Kiir has removed several members of the government and arrested senior SPLA/M-NLA officers. On the other hand, it is already known that in Ethiopia many provisions of the Pretoria Agreement have not been implemented. Where international diplomacy is not working, the law of the strongest takes over.</p>
<p>Support for stability in the region appears increasingly fragmented, even in international cooperation, which is unable to guarantee effective interventions. In Ethiopia, there is a lack of credible actors who can guarantee respect for the agreements. At the recent emergency summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on South Sudan, only two presidents were present. The United States once played a central role in the peace process, but today powers such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and<a href="https://www.africaintelligence.com/eastern-africa-and-the-horn/2025/01/22/uganda-seeks-to-strengthen-security-ties-with-turkey,110365623-art"> Turkey are</a> exerting greater influence, often favoring individual sides rather than acting as neutral mediators.</p>
<p>Turkey has recently strengthened its relations with Uganda, a strategic move in the African context that draws a rather interesting diplomatic geometry.</p>
<p>Turkey and Uganda have had diplomatic relations since 1962, but it was only in the early 2000s that the bond between the two countries began to strengthen significantly. Today, cooperation between the two nations is solid and extends to various sectors, including trade, investment, security and education.</p>
<p>Trade and investment represent a fundamental pillar of the collaboration between Turkey and Uganda. Turkey has invested heavily in the Ugandan infrastructure and construction sectors, contributing to the realization of important projects such as hospitals, roads and bridges. The two countries have signed several agreements to encourage trade and investment, including a Bilateral Investment Treaty and an Agreement to avoid double taxation, both aimed at promoting the flow of capital and reciprocal trade.</p>
<p>Turkey has also made a significant contribution to Uganda in the education sector, offering scholarships to Ugandan students to study at Turkish universities. This initiative has strengthened the ties between the two countries and given Ugandan students the opportunity to access quality education. Furthermore, Turkey has opened several schools in Uganda through the Maarif Foundation, which provide both primary and secondary education, with the aim of offering Ugandan students a high level of education.</p>
<p>The collaboration between Turkey and Uganda also extends to the security sector. Turkey has provided military training and instruction to the Ugandan security forces, and the two countries have signed agreements to strengthen cooperation in this area. Turkey has supported Uganda in the fight against terrorism, providing equipment and assistance to the Ugandan security forces and intelligence services.</p>
<p><strong>A peaceful and diplomatic solution is needed</strong></p>
<p>With the situation continuing to worsen, high-level diplomatic intervention is needed to prevent further escalation.</p>
<p>More effective international coordination could contain the crisis. One possible strategy would be an informal division of tasks: influential actors such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia could focus on reducing tensions between governments, while European countries could support IGAD and the African Union in local mediation processes.</p>
<p>Then there is another path that must be considered: a fully African solution. The Confederation of Sahel States could offer authoritative regional mediation, and above all, far from the spasmodic Western control.</p>
<p>Who knows if the UN and other international agencies will consider leaving Africa to Africans.</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/427adbebca138204937b0f975c44837a.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney feat. Matt Ehret - WORLD PREMIERE!"></p>March 23, 2025<br><br>But who really is Mark Carney? Or rather, who made Mark Carney? Oxford? Cecil Rhodes? The Council on Foreign Relations? YES! And more. <br>Join us as we debut the first chapter of The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney! Where you can ask Matt questions about this wild, 200-year plan that's now coming to fruition via King Carney.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find more about SuperSpreader’s work at:<br>New Website: https://www.superspreaders.space/<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/SuperSpreaders<br>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@superspreaders1<br>Odysee: https://odysee.com/@SuperSpreaders:9<br>Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/super_spreaders<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney episode 1 here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2025/03/22/the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney-episode-1-the-ghost-of-maurice-strong/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Find links to our films here:  <br>https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/<br><br>**********************************************<br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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<p>Following <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sleazy-dem-rep-crockett-scrambles-explain-hot-wheels-slur-against-gov-abbott">sleazy Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's</a> disheartening remarks about the Texas Governor's wheelchair-bound condition, <strong>GOP analyst Scott Jennings</strong> offered some words of advice to the far-left-leaning panel during Tuesday's edition of <em>CNN NewsNight</em>: </p>
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<p><strong><em>I don't know how Democrats appointed Jasmine Crockett as the unquestioned leader of your party, but thank God</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And I think what she should do is go on TV twice as much -</em></strong> <em>maybe three times as much - because everytime she appears - makes these mistakes - says something radical - it only further divides her party from the other 80% of America who can't stand this - but the problem is - there's an audience for this.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>I heard Jimmy Kimmel's audience cheering on Tesla vandalism</em></strong><em>; I hear that The Daily Show's audience on a tax on Elon Musk; I hear the Human Right's audience cheering on an attack on a man in a wheelchair.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>And I realize this is what the left has become: an angry mob of people</em></strong> <em>who are cheering on attacks on a guy in a wheelchair and vandalism against people who bought people ... it's pathetic.</em></p>
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<p>On X, Jennings wrote that <em>Crockett</em> <strong><em>"will learn no lessons from the "Hot Wheels" episode because the Left's angry mobs eat this stuff up," adding, "Trust me: the unquestioned head of the Democratic Party thinks is a winning vector." </em></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Jasmine Crockett will learn no lessons from the “Hot Wheels” episode because the Left’s angry mobs eat this stuff up. Trust me: the unquestioned head of the Democratic Party thinks is a winning vector. <a href="https://t.co/egtZIbPyDV">pic.twitter.com/egtZIbPyDV</a></p>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1904862129091457446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2025</a></blockquote>

<p>Jennings is entirely correct: The far-left has chosen the path of hate and violence, while the latest polling data from NBC News and CNN shows the party has hit its lowest approval ratings on record: 27% and 29%, respectively.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Has there ever been such a level of coordinated violence against a peaceful company?</p><p>I understand not wanting to buy a product, but this is extreme arson and destruction! <a href="https://t.co/AIL8WPt0uv">https://t.co/AIL8WPt0uv</a></p>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1902778638824591396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Democrats believe <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates">communist revolutionary tactics of firebombing Tesla showrooms</a> and cars are socially acceptable in the era of Trump's law and order to win back votes - yet the imploding party is oblivious and tone deaf that the Overton Window shifted last year - and BLM-style color revolutions are no longer socially acceptable.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Army claims control of Souq Libya, a pivotal commercial hub in Omdurman, solidifying gains in Khartoum’s twin city.</em></p>
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<p>The Sudanese army has said it seized control of a key market in Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city, building on a series of recent successes in its offensive against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).</p>
<p>But the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday, “The joy of victory will not be complete until the last rebel is eliminated in the last corner of Sudan’s land.”</p>

<p>The announcement of the latest gain on Saturday <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/sudan-army-claims-taking-full-control-of-capital-khartoum">comes days after SAF also took control of most parts of the capital</a> in a potentially pivotal victory in the devastating two-year war that has caused the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/sudan-scene-of-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-african-union">world’s largest humanitarian crisis</a>.</p>
<p>The army said in a statement that its forces were now in control of the market in western Omdurman, Souq Libya, having seized weapons and equipment left behind by the RSF when they fled. Souq Libya is one of the largest and most important commercial hubs in Sudan.</p>
<p>The army already controlled most of Omdurman, home to two big military bases. It appears intent on securing control over the entire capital area, which is made up of the three cities of Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri, divided by branches of the River Nile. The RSF has not commented on the army’s advance in Omdurman, where the paramilitary forces still hold some territory.</p>
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<p>Al-Burhan said the following in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr: “The joy of victory will not be complete until the last rebel is eliminated in the last corner of Sudan’s land. We will not neglect the sacrifices of our martyrs. The war has done the worst to the nation and the people. We will not compromise or negotiate. Militias must lay down their weapons, and we thank the groups that fought alongside the armed forces. There is no retreat from defeating and crushing the terrorist Al-Dagalo militia.”</p>
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<p lang="ar" dir="rtl" xml:lang="ar">كلمة رئيس مجلس السيادة القائد العام للقوات المسحلة الفريق أول الركن عبد الفتاح البرهان بمناسبة عيد الفطر المُبارك<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#سونا</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#السودان</a> <a href="https://t.co/cgXiUh3R24">pic.twitter.com/cgXiUh3R24</a></p>
<p>— SUDAN News Agency (SUNA) 🇸🇩 (@SUNA_AGENCY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SUNA_AGENCY/status/1906045869008244965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></p>
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<p><em>Translation: Speech by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. </em></p>
<p>The army senses that the recapture of Khartoum, which had been under RSF control for most of the war, will mark a shift in battlefield momentum that could spread to other areas.</p>
<p>Still, the conflict seems far from over as the warring sides remain in control of large swaths of land each while remaining engaged in fierce clashes.</p>
<p>Fighting is continuing in the huge <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/3/as-the-rsf-surrounds-darfurs-el-fasher-ethnic-killings-feared">Darfur region to the west of Sudan</a>, the Kordofan region in central and southern parts of the country, and Gezira state, a strategic agricultural hub located south of the capital.</p>
<p>Neither side has managed to strike a knockout blow to the other, and there is no sign of a political settlement or peace process in the near future, while each side continues to enjoy the support of its regional backers.</p>

<p>In the meantime, the Sudanese army has accused the United Arab Emirates of backing the RSF, a charge found credible by UN experts and US lawmakers. On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said it would hear a case filed by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the UAE for violating obligations under the Genocide Convention by giving direct support to the RSF and implicating it in genocidal acts allegedly perpetrated by the paramilitary group against the Masalit people of Darfur.</p>
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<p>The Gulf state has repeatedly denied the accusations, calling the ICJ case “<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/6/sudan-files-case-against-uae-at-top-un-court-over-complicity-in-genocide">nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt</a>“.</p>
<p>In January, the United States <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/sudan-rsf-tried-to-polish-its-image-but-its-crimes-are-being-recognised">accused the RSF of committing genocide</a> in Darfur.</p>
<p>The war in Sudan erupted amid a power struggle between the army and the RSF before a planned transition to civilian rule. It uprooted more than 12 million Sudanese from their homes and left about half of the 50 million population suffering acute hunger.</p>
<p>Overall deaths are hard to estimate, but a study published last year said the toll may have reached 61,000 in Khartoum state alone in the first 14 months of the conflict.</p>
<p>In another development, Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the army evacuated hundreds of freed civilian and military prisoners held by the RSF in several detention centres in Jebel Awliya, south of Khartoum, to the city of Al-Qatana in White Nile State.</p>
<p>Sudanese army commander Major General Mohamed Saleh Abu Halima said that the RSF detained approximately 4,700 prisoners under appalling conditions, where they suffered from malnutrition and a lack of healthcare, leading to the deaths of several of them in detention.</p>

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<p><strong>Many of Kiev’s key objectives were never met, according to its former envoy to the EU</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The recent negotiations between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia were a total defeat for both Ukraine and the US, Konstantin Eliseev, Kiev’s former permanent representative to the EU, has said, arguing that his country’s critical points of concern were ignored.</p>
<p>In an interview with NV outlet on Friday, Eliseev weighed in on this week’s talks in Riyadh, which were aimed at restoring the 2022 Black Sea grain export deal. While Moscow has agreed in principle to start providing safe maritime corridors for Ukrainian food exports, it made clear that it would only support the deal if the West lifts sanctions on its financial institutions, particularly by reconnecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT payment system.</p>
<p><em>“Perhaps I’ll disappoint some people but we — and I mean we along with the Americans — lost these negotiations completely. I would say 5–0, one ball after another into our net. We lost. Let’s be honest,”</em> the former envoy lamented.</p>
<p>He argued that Ukrainian interests were left off the table entirely. Chief among his concerns was the absence of any guarantees related to the security of Ukrainian ports. <em>“The issue of ports was not protected from attacks in any way,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p>He warned of a broader trend toward concessions to Moscow, citing early signals of sanctions relief. <em>“There are already hints about removing some Russian banks from [restrictions in] the SWIFT system,”</em> he said. <em>“And that is very bad.”</em></p>
<p>Eliseev added that Russia’s ability to strike Ukrainian targets from naval vessels was not restricted in the talks. He also noted the lack of inclusion of the principle of <em>“all-for-all”</em> prisoner exchanges, something Ukraine has long insisted on. Throughout the conflict, Moscow and Kiev have periodically engaged in POW swaps, with the exact number and composition always negotiated beforehand.</p>
<p>Another major concern was the exclusion of Ukraine’s EU backers from the negotiation process. <em>“Unfortunately — and with the silent backing of the Americans — the Russians have managed to push our European partners away from the negotiating table,”</em> Eliseev said.</p>
<p>While Moscow has insisted on sanctions relief as a precondition for the maritime ceasefire, the EU has rejected the possibility, insisting that restrictions will remain in place until Russia fully withdraws its troops from all territory claimed by Ukraine.</p>
<p>At the same time, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that there <em>“would be a long discussion about many things in terms of the proper way to bring Russia back into the international system,”</em> signaling that the issue of sanctions could be on the table.</p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="article__subhead"><em>Eid begins on Sunday, March 30 in Saudi Arabia. Here’s how to wish a blessed Eid in different languages.</em></p>
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<p>With the sighting of the new moon in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries, the first day of Eid will be celebrated on Sunday, March 30.</p>
<p>Other countries follow their own moon sightings, and those that began fasting on March 2 will announce tomorrow night whether Eid will fall on Monday, March 31.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">BREAKING NEWS: Eid Al Fitr 1446/2025 is tomorrow: Sunday, 30 March 2025</p>
<p>The Crescent for the month of Shawwal 1446 was SEEN in Saudi Arabia today subsequently tomorrow is the beginning of the month of Shawwal 1446 <a href="https://t.co/6om5sAl38D">pic.twitter.com/6om5sAl38D</a></p>
<p>— Inside the Haramain (@insharifain) <a href="https://twitter.com/insharifain/status/1906001740102517192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2025</a></p>
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<p>Eid al-Fitr, the “festival of breaking the fast”, is celebrated at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan by Muslims worldwide.</p>
<p>There are about 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide, approximately 25 percent of the world’s population.</p>
<p>Indonesia has the world’s highest Muslim population, with some 240 million Muslims living in the country. Pakistan is second with about 225 million Muslims, followed by India (211 million), Bangladesh (155 million), and Nigeria (111 million).</p>
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<p>Traditionally, Eid is celebrated for three days as an official holiday in Muslim-majority countries. However, the number of holiday days varies by country.</p>
<p>Muslims begin Eid celebrations by attending a prayer service shortly after dawn, followed by a short sermon.</p>
<p>The day is spent visiting relatives and neighbours, accepting sweets and extending Eid greetings as they move around from house to house.</p>
<p>The most popular greeting is “Eid mubarak” (Blessed Eid) or “Eid sa’id” (Happy Eid). Eid greetings also vary depending on the country and language.</p>
<p>The video and graphics below show Eid greetings in 13 different languages.</p>

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<p>After a blanketing of snow overnight, federal officials issued a freezing rain warning as a spring storm rolls through Ottawa on Saturday.</p>
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<p>Ottawa residents can expect around two centimetres of snow and wind gusts of up to 40 km/h throughout the day Saturday. There is a 40 per cent chance of snow during the day, the weather agency added.</p>
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<p>Ice pellets and freezing rain are expected to begin overnight with wind up to 15 km/h.</p>
<p>The ECCC forecasts more ice pellets and freezing rain throughout Sunday with wind speeds of up to 15 km/h.</p>
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<p>Gina Ressler, a warning preparedness meteorologist with ECCC, said the precipitation is due to a quasi-stationary front pushing cold air from the north and warm air from the south which is pushing precipitation across Ontario. Another storm called the Colorado Low is forming and tracking across southern Ontario on Sunday.</p>
<p>“On Sunday for Ottawa, we’re looking at about five to 10 millimetres of freezing rain accumulation,” Ressler told the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday.</p>
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<p>“Right now, I know Ottawa has a special weather statement out. This might be updated later today to a freezing rain warning, so that it’s something to keep an eye on.”</p>
<p>The City of Ottawa said in a release on Saturday afternoon that crews are clearing and treating sidewalks, priority roads and the city’s winter cycling network. Crews will also remove snow in residential neighbourhoods when required.</p>
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<p>The crash occurred at about 9:30 a.m.</p>
<p>No further information was available.</p>
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<p>In a release, police said Hwy 138 will remain closed between Sand Road and McLean Road for an extended period while the investigation is conducted.</p>
<p>Across eastern Ontario, provincial police have responded to almost 70 collisions between midnight and 9 a.m., according to an OPP social media post on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>The northbound lanes of Highway 416 were also closed between Highway 401 and Country Road 421 south of Spencerville due to multiple collisions in the area. According to an OPP social media post, a northbound vehicle rolled into a ditch at around midnight. Another vehicle skidded out of the lane and struck the vehicle before entering the ditch, resulting in “several people injured.”</p>
<p>Four people were transported to the local trauma centre with serious injuries and at least four others were transported to hospital with minor injuries, police said.</p>
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<p>The area was closed for the OPP Technical Collision Team to complete their on-scene investigation.</p>
<p>“<span>We continue to recommend postponing non-essential travel. If you must be on the roads – SLOW DOWN, leave extra time and distance and drive carefully,” the social media post continued to read. </span></p>
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<p><strong>The French Economic Ministry has reportedly pushed back by saying that the values of the Trump administration were not those of Paris</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Washington has requested that French companies working for the US government end all their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in order to comply with the policies of President Donald Trump, media outlets Le Figaro and Les Echos have reported.</p>
<p>An executive order <em>“concerning the end of unlawful discrimination and restoring merit-based employment opportunities”</em> signed by Trump is mandatory for <em>“all suppliers and contractors”</em> of the US government, regardless of their country of origin, the US embassy told French companies in a letter obtained by Le Figaro.</p>
<p>The US President had previously launched a campaign to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in all federal agencies. The fight against <em>“woke policies,”</em> such as the promotion of so-called gender reassignment treatment among minors, was a key part of Trump’s campaign. He signed multiple executive orders rolling back DEI initiatives after taking office.</p>
<p>In an order dated January 21, a day after his inauguration, the US president called DEI <em>“an illegal, corrosive, and pernicious system”</em> that goes against <em>“our long-standing federal civil rights laws.”</em></p>

            
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<p>According to the French media, each letter was accompanied by a <em>“form of compliance”</em> the contractors had to fill and send back within five days. The document required them to explicitly state they were <em>“in compliance with all applicable federal anti-discrimination laws”</em> of the US and to vow not to offer any DEI programs, Le Figaro said. Otherwise, the companies were reportedly encouraged to provide the embassy with <em>“detailed reasons”</em> for not filling the form.</p>
<p>According to Le Figaro, it is unclear how many companies received the letter. The embassy itself has not confirmed sending it. Instead, the US diplomats said that <em>“measures were taken by the administration put an end to decades of waste, fraud, and abuse,”</em> adding that the diplomatic mission reviewed a total of 15,600 contracts, loans and foreign aid programs.</p>
<p>The move reportedly sparked an uproar within the government of France. <em>“This practice reflects the values of the new American government. They are not ours,”</em> a senior French Economy and Finance Ministry official told Le Figaro, adding that Minister Eric Lombard would <em>“remind his counterparts within the American government of this.”</em></p>

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title: Yves-François Blanchet prend la parole au Conseil général du Bloc – 29 mars 2025
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221578
title: Close call between Delta flight, Air Force jet reported near DCA
author: ;Sophia Vento
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A Delta flight received an onboard alert that an Air Force jet was close by as it took off near Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Friday afternoon, just months after the region experienced the deadliest aviation incident since 2001. The Minneapolis-bound Delta flight — with 131 passengers on board — was cleared for takeoff…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221643
title: Indiana Republican faces fiery crowd after defending Musk, DOGE
author: ;Filip Timotija
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Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) faced a fiery crowd during her two-hour townhall in Westfield, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, after defending tech billionaire Elon Musk and his work for President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  Spartz, who represents Indiana’s fifth Congressional District, was repeatedly drowned out by boos from the raucous crowd during her…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220382
title: Was the Atlantic’s Goldberg wrong in not immediately leaving the chat?
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5220442
title: Signal chat shows isolationist Vance as Trump flexes control abroad
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The war plans group chat uncovered by a journalist at The Atlantic exposed some daylight between Vice President Vance and others in the administration, showing Vance’s hesitance about launching a military strike that President Trump has hailed this week as necessary and successful. It did little to stymie the relationship between the president and his…

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title: The ‘Signal Scandal’: Trump’s cabinet drops truth bombs on Europe
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<p><strong><em>Rather than blame the messenger, Europe’s leadership class should have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Rod DREHER</em></strong></p>
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<p>The Trump administration’s leaked—if you can call it that—discussions of war plans made headlines across the globe after <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-who-behind-signal-text-chain-leak?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a staffer</a> working for National Security Adviser Mike Waltz (inadvertently) added a magazine editor to the senior officials’ group chat.</p>
<p>While American media questioned how on earth this major <em>faux pas</em> could occur, European commenters have been scandalized by the brutality of Team Trump’s behind-the-scenes talk regarding Europe.</p>
<p>In the group chat, Vice President JD Vance cautioned his colleagues that a unilateral U.S. attack on the Houthi rebels of Yemen—this, to re-open the Red Sea trade route—would undermine President Trump’s get-tough approach to Europe. Vance pointed out that only 3% of U.S. trade travels through the Suez Canal, while 40% of European trade does.</p>
<p>Said Vance in the group chat:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mike Waltz then points out how weak Europe’s navies are, making a case that the United States is the only nation capable of carrying out this vital military mission to protect an economic lifeline to Europe.</p>
<p>Vance acquiesces, but remarks, “I just hate bailing Europe out again.”</p>
<p>Now, Europeans should not be prissy about what gets said in private among top government leaders about other nations. Can anybody doubt that some conversations about the United States in the august chambers of Whitehall or the Quai d’Orsay are quite spicy? Besides, none of this is remotely on the level of Obama senior diplomat Victoria Nuland’s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamous 2014 telephone discussion</a> (intercepted and leaked by the Russians) with the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, in which she dismissed potential European opposition to American plans to engineer a transfer of power there.</p>
<p>“F**k the EU,” the diplomat said.</p>
<p>This latest flap is a continuation of European <em>agita</em> over Vance’s brusque truth-telling about Europe’s weakness. The continental ruling class bristled vigorously over Vance’s Munich speech in which he told the gathered natsec worthies that it’s time for Europe to wean itself from the Pentagon’s teat, deal with their domestic challenges, and figure out how to shoulder more of their own defense. Trump signaled in his first administration that he was dissatisfied with Europe’s sponging on American defense capabilities, but most Europeans didn’t take him seriously. Well, in Trump 2.0, the reckoning is here.</p>
<p>What European elites hate about Vance and the administration he represents is that he reveals their own poverty. Why shouldn’t the great and rich nations of Europe be doing more to stand on their own two feet? Why should American taxpayers, over thirty years since the close of the Cold War, continue to subsidize Europe’s defense so European politicians can build generous welfare states while at the same time refusing to deal with the mass migration crisis, which is a clear and present danger to European stability and security?</p>
<p>Rather than blame the messenger—Vance and his colleagues—Europe’s leadership class should swallow hard and have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.</p>
<p>That said, it is troubling that Team Trump is so tone-deaf over how it treats its allies. Vance’s Munich speech was important and necessary. But Trump’s bizarre bullying of Denmark over Greenland makes no sense. Yes, it’s obvious that Greenland is becoming ever more strategically important as the Arctic sea lanes open, and the U.S. has a clear interest in acquiring that territory, if possible. But the idea that Washington can or should bully the Danes and the Greenlanders into surrendering to America is ugly and foolish.</p>
<p>Similarly, Trump’s weird provocations of Canada, America’s neighbor and staunch ally, are impossible to understand or support. The American president keeps saying that Canada should be the 51st state. It was funny, maybe, when he was trolling the smug twit Justin Trudeau, but Trudeau is gone now. Trump’s continued aggression towards Canada, both rhetorically and on trade policy, has had the effect of saving Trudeau’s despised Liberal Party from an election rout.</p>
<p>Before Trump’s anti-Canada campaign, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stood to win the prime minister post in a landslide. Because of Trump, Poilievre is running even with Mark Carney, Trudeau’s successor. If Carney holds on to government for his party, the MAGA Khan will have done more than anybody else to condemn Canadians to more years of woke tyranny.</p>
<p>Trump does not seem to grasp that Americans aren’t the only people who have a right to be nationalist. The core aspect of Canadian national identity is, “We Are Not Americans.” What Canadian patriot, however conservative, could stomach being humiliated and punished by blustery Americans?</p>
<p>Similarly, as much as the European ruling class needs to sort itself out and reform, it is hard to understand how bullying, <em>à la </em>the Greenland gambit, will accomplish much more than making Europeans resent America.</p>
<p>Fat and comfortable European leaders cannot make reality go away simply because Team Trump is at times ill-mannered. On the other hand, if Trump really wants to put America First, he must understand that U.S. nationalism inevitably calls up nationalism in other nations. The surest way to catalyze anti-American nationalism abroad is to pick unnecessary fights for the sake of demonstrating your own dominance. It is confounding, and more than a little distressing, to watch electoral prospects for nationalist-conservative parties in Europe decline because Trump uses a hatchet when a stiletto is more useful.</p>
<p>For all that, the fact remains: the U.S. military attacked Houthi pirates on behalf of Europe because Europe is too feeble to defend its own vital economic interests. That—and not Team Trump’s Signal screwup, including its undiplomatic words about Europe—remains the real scandal here.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/dreher/the-signal-scandal-trumps-cabinet-drops-truth-bombs-on-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The European Conservative</a></strong></p>


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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5221577
title: US Naval Academy latest school to nix affirmative action in admissions
author: ;Steff Danielle Thomas
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The United States Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md., recently joined a growing list of schools that will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission, court documents made public Friday show. The move follows an executive order issued by President Trump earlier this year that called for the shuttering of federal…

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Sunday March 30 Double Header Invitation: Peace Roundtable at 11am ET, and RTF Africa Event at 2pm ET

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Sunday March 30 Double Header Invitation: Peace Roundtable at 11am ET, and RTF Africa Event at 2pm ET

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<p>Greetings everyone</p>
<p>This Sunday March 30, The Rising Tide Foundation will be hosting two events for paid subscribers.</p>
<p><strong>The first event</strong> <span>(at 11am ET) will be our bi-weekly Peace Roundtable #14 (co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow) and will feature several geopolitical presentations on the efforts to avoid WW3 and the dangers facing humanity in the months ahead. [</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ande4fD8DfY&amp;t=5s" rel>Click here to listen to the previous Peace Roundtable</a><span>]</span></p>
<p><strong>The second event</strong> <span>will be our RTF weekly lecture at 2pm ET, and will feature a presentation by</span> <a href="https://africanagenda.net/" rel>Africa Expert P.D. Lawton</a> <span>on the topic of ‘The Right Reverend Thomas Malthus's Malthusianism in Practice in eastern DRC’ [</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMzE4MKYiU" rel>Click here to access PD’s previous RTF lecture</a><span>]</span></p>
<p>Click below to get the zoom links for both lectures:</p>

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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/trump-and-hegseth-shock-on-ukraine
title: Trump &amp; Hegseth Shock on Ukraine
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/sgc-JRj-nqk" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 12 February 2025, I was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour about the remarkable comments President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made earlier in the day about US policy toward Ukraine and Europe more generally. It is clear that the Trump administration is bent on radically altering US policy on Ukraine and fundamentally changing US relations with Europe.</p>
<p>Here is a link for the set-up piece followed by my interview.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hegseth-tells-nato-ukraine-membership-unlikely-as-trump-says-putin-will-discuss-ending-war" rel>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hegseth-tells-nato-ukraine-membership-unlikely-as-trump-says-putin-will-discuss-ending-war</a></p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-israel-lobbys-awesome-power
title: The Israel Lobby&amp;#039;s Awesome Power
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/g8G9I1ZdEGU" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 13 February 2025, I talked to the Judge on “Judging Freedom” about the incredible influence that the Israel lobby wields in shaping US Middle East policy in ways that suit Israel’s interests, not America’s. We also talked about President Trump’s morally reprehensible plan to cause another Nakba and turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East. And of course we talked about the radical moves the Trump administration is making to settle the Ukraine war and reduce the US footprint in Europe.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-tectonic-plates-are-moving-in
title: The Tectonic Plates Are Moving in Europe
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/m5-L5pyXLZQ" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 14 February 2025, I was on “The Duran” with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. We discussed the Trump administration’s hostile dealings with Ukraine and Europe, which are directly related to the administration’s efforts to work with Russia to end the Ukraine war. Momentous events in the world of international politics are taking place before our eyes.</p>
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title: Germany and Genocide
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fmearsheimer.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D-607160551%26version%3D9" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in response to Vice President Vance’s Munich speech on February 14 and his meeting with the head of the AfD that same day:</p>
<p>“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD.”</p>
<p>But, apparently that commitment is reconcilable with German support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, to include going to great lengths to suppress protests of that genocide inside Germany.</p>
<p>And what does this say about Germany’s commitment to free speech?</p>

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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-ukraine-on-the-deep-dive-259
title: Talking Ukraine on "The Deep Dive"
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/q7jhtoM-rcw" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 12 February 2025, I was on “The Deep Dive” talking with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis about Ukraine. Of course, this was the day Trump announced that he had spoken with Putin and Secretary Of Defense Hegseth gave his historic speech in Brussels. Danny and I, however, were not aware of what was coming that day when we were talking.</p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-about-a-ukraine-deal-on-cnn
title: Talking about a Ukraine Deal on CNN
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<p>On 19 February 2025, I was on CNN International talking about the fundamental differences between Europe and the United States regarding how best to end the Ukraine war, and also talking about the likely Ukrainian response to the deal between Russia and the US that now appears to be emerging.</p>
<p><a href="https://video.snapstream.net/Play/aTFPXuWkeNiiRG4aihZMKP?accessToken=cnyhersn3kpab" rel>https://https://video.snapstream.net/Play/aTFPXuWkeNiiRG4aihZMKP?accessToken=cnyhersn3kpab/Play/aTFPXuWkeNiiRG4aihZMKP?accessToken=cnyhersn3kpab</a></p>
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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/talking-ukraine-with-former-ukrainian
title: Talking Ukraine with Former Ukrainian Journalist of the Year: Diana Panchenko
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<p>On 24 February 2025, I was on Diana Panchenko’s podcast with Glenn Diesen and Pavel Shchelin. We discussed the origins of the Ukraine war, what is happening now, and where it is headed. The translation of the show’s title is “War &amp; Peace: Reloaded.”</p>
<p>Below is the English version:</p>
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title: Trump Understands What Needs to Be Done to End the Ukraine War
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/EkE5h6PB3pQ" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 27 February 2025, I was on Judge Napolitano’s show — “Judging Freedom” — where he and I concentrated on examining what Trump is doing with regard to settling the Ukraine War.</p>
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title: The Shootout at The White House
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/44_6wejNGu4" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 28 February 2025, I went on the “Deep Dive” with LTC (ret.) Danny Davis almost immediately after the war of words took place at the White House between Ukrainian President Zelensky and President Trump + Vice President Vance. Danny and I offered our reflections on what happened and what would be the likely consequences.</p>
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title: Israel and Nuclear Weapons
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/ELyfYax3IgU" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 20 February 2025, I gave a lecture on “Israel and Nuclear Weapons” to the University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. After making some introductory comments about nuclear weapons, I focused on 1) describing and analyzing Israel’s nuclear deterrent and 2) assessing how nuclear weapons factor into the Iran-Israel security competition.</p>
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title: Talking about the White House Showdown on Indian Television
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<p>On 3 March 2025, I was interviewed on CNN News18 in India about the controversial meeting Zelensky had with Trump and Vance on 28 February 2025. Zakka Jacob and I talked about what happened that day in the White House and what are its likely consequences.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.news18.com/videos/world/trump-zelensky-clash-john-mearsheimer-in-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-cnn-news18-s-zakka-jacob-9248447.html" rel>https://www.news18.com/videos/world/trump-zelensky-clash-john-mearsheimer-in-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-cnn-news18-s-zakka-jacob-9248447.html</a></p>
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title: Playing Hardball with Zelensky, but Kissing Up to Netanyahu
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title: If You Want To Fight The Machine, Don&amp;#039;t Move To The Right
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<p>People in politics and media who oppose the status quo often drift rightward, especially in the US. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are some clear recent examples, but you see it happen all the time.</p>
<p>This is because the Trumpian political wing offers mainstream power and influence to those with an “anti-establishment” streak, while mainstream progressive politics doesn’t offer anything close. If you’re a right wing “populist” you can get elected president, while anyone to the left of Kamala Harris sees their campaigns sabotaged with smears and rigged primaries.</p>
<p>We see a similar dynamic play out in independent media; you’ll see many solidly leftist commentators drifting to the right as they find bigger numbers in attacking liberal institutions than attacking the Trumpian faction, because anti-establishment sentiment is much more mainstream on the right. A much larger audience pool has been allowed to amass there for hostility toward establishment institutions — because the right poses no threat to real power.</p>
<p>And therein lies the key point. Anti-establishment figures in politics and punditry aren’t drifting rightward because the right has better arguments or is more solidly grounded in truth and morality, they’re drifting rightward because the so-called “populist right” has been allowed to flourish while its mirror on the left has not. Right wing “populism” has been allowed to flourish by the very power structures its proponents purport to oppose, while the authentic left has been systematically dismantled by generations of aggressive imperial operations (look up COINTELPRO for example). That’s why you see Trump backed by oligarchs, empire managers and DC swamp monsters and see Trumpism uplifted by the Murdoch press, while anti-imperialist socialism can barely even be said to exist anywhere in the US-aligned world.</p>
<p>So while the power and influence offered by right wing “populist” factions can be tempting, that power and influence only exists because those factions are supported and defended by the empire itself. Public discontent is being corralled toward establishment-friendly political structures so that it doesn’t head anywhere that can threaten the mechanics of the empire, while authentic opposition to capitalism, militarism and empire building is viciously subverted by any means necessary. Bernie Sanders and AOC play the same role on the other side of the aisle, by the way, as do ostensibly leftist media like TYT who herd people back into support for the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Real opposition to real power is not permitted to ascend to the presidency of the world’s most powerful government. It is marginalized, smeared and subverted, and kept as small as possible. That’s why some who begin with sincere opposition to real power find themselves drawn to the right: it’s larger and offers more opportunities, because it is more aligned with the ruling power structures of our day.</p>
<p>It’s fool’s gold. It sells you power and influence so that you can fight the power, but after you’ve made that bargain you find yourself on the same side as the power. You sold out for nothing. You might as well have skipped the middle part and gone directly to collecting the big bucks whoring yourself out to mainstream politics and media defending the empire without pretending to be something else.</p>
<p>Staying true and authentic can be hard. It comes at a price. You don’t get to see your favorite politicians win elections and take important positions in government. You don’t get to amass tens of millions of loyal followers who hang on your every word. You lose friends and alienate family members with your positions on war and capitalism and imperialism and Zionism. You can’t even watch a movie or a show without being frequently disgusted by the empire propaganda you’ll see. It isn’t pretty. But at least it’s real.</p>
<p>It’s another one of those red pill vs blue pill deals. Do you want disconcerting truths or comforting lies? If you want to be true to what’s true, you don’t compromise your values to support political factions which help prop up the very power structures you oppose. You stay focused on the enemy. You keep throwing sand in the gears of the machine, hoping that if enough people throw enough sand it will eventually come crashing down, but self-assured that you’re going to keep throwing sand either way, win or lose.</p>
<p>Sure it’s hard. Sure it entails a lot of disappointments and losses. But at least it’s real. At least it stands a chance at beating the bastards, however small. As weak and pathetic as you can feel throwing haymakers at a globe-spanning empire some days, it sure beats the hell out of collaborating with it. And that’s exactly what you’d be doing by joining up with fraudulent political factions which claim to oppose the empire.</p>
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<p>I gave a lengthy interview to Der Spiegel on 25 February 2025 about the “shifting world order” — especially as it applies to Europe and trans-Atlantic relations. The interview was published on 7 March 2025.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIGpat3EYM" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p>A Palestinian-Australian man has been criminally charged for voicing criticisms of Zionism during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He could spend months in prison.</p>
<p><span>The Age</span> <a href="https://archive.is/VbNm1" rel>reports</a> <span>that restaurant owner Hash Tayeh has been charged with four counts of “using insulting words in public” for repeatedly uttering the phrase “all Zionists are terrorists” at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne last year. According the The Age’s Chris Vedelago, the punishment for this crime of political speech is “up to two months in prison for a first offence and six months for three or more offences.”</span></p>
<p>“It is believed to be the first time that potential political speech has been deemed a criminal offence that breached the ‘insulting’ law,” Vedelago reports, adding, “The charges are normally levied for using abusive or obscene language against police officers.”</p>
<p>You really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the authoritarian dystopia that Australia has become than a news report about a man getting criminally charged for normal political speech with a law that is normally used to jail people who speak impolitely to the police.</p>

<p><span>These charges for speech crimes against Zionism follow a controversial assertion</span> <a href="http://thejewishindependent.com.au/dreyfus-gives-universities-a-new-year-deadline-to-make-campuses-safe-for-jewish-students" rel>made last year</a> <span>by Australia’s attorney-general Mark Dreyfus:</span></p>
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<p>“The label Zionist is used, not in any way, accurately. When critics use that word, they actually mean Jew. They’re not really saying Zionist, they’re saying Jew because they know that they cannot say Jew, so they say Zionist or words [such as] Zeo or Zio.”</p>
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<p><span>Dreyfus might want to have a chat with outgoing Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who</span> <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-845165" rel>just made headlines</a> <span>by proudly proclaiming “I am a Zionist” at his final press conference on Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span>Trudeau is not Jewish, nor is genocidal war criminal Joe Biden, who</span> <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/10/09/remarks-by-president-biden-during-a-call-with-jewish-faith-leaders-for-high-holidays-2/" rel>is on record</a> <span>saying on numerous occasions some variation of “I’m a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”</span></p>
<p><span>Not all Jews are Zionists, and most Zionists are not Jewish. Zionism is a political ideology which upholds the western decision to drop an abusive</span> <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1725266652609356177" rel>apartheid ethnostate</a> <span>on top of a pre-existing civilization in historic Palestine and defend it by any amount of violence and tyranny necessary, and the majority of the people you see defending this status quo are westerners with no connection to the Jewish faith. The cult of Christian Zionism alone outnumbers the world’s Jewish population by about</span> <a href="https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/factsheets/factsheet-christian-zionism/" rel>two</a> <span>to</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country" rel>one</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>It is therefore wildly incorrect to conflate Zionism with Judaism, and it is also highly immoral. People who do this are assigning all Jews the blame for Israel’s abuses, when the blame actually lies with the state of Israel and its western backers. As much as Israel apologists shriek and moan about “antisemitism” when they really mean supporting Palestinians, the real antisemitism problem in our society is the way our ruling institutions keep lumping all Jews in with the abuses of a genocidal apartheid state and the western empire which supports it.</p>

<p><span>That’s all the</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-is-no-antisemitism-crisis-in" rel>imaginary “antisemitism” crisis</a> <span>is, in reality: people conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. If you declare that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism starts butchering children by the tens of thousands in a genocidal onslaught, you are naturally going to see a rapid rise in “antisemitism” as you have defined it. It’s a fallacious narrative used to justify the strangulation of political speech we are seeing today.</span></p>
<p><span>We’re seeing that strangulation surge ahead in Australia with the</span> <a href="https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/antisemites-under-the-bed-full-blown-mccarthyism-hits-australia/" rel>McCarthyite witch hunt</a> <span>against pro-Palestinian voices, and in a decision by Australian universities to espouse a definition of “antisemitism” which is so speech-suppressing that it has been</span> <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.au/australian-universities-decision-to-adopt-contested-definition-of-antisemitism-is-an-attempt-to-stifle-freedom-of-expression-across-campuses-nationwide/" rel>denounced by Amnesty International</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>We are also seeing Zionism strangling free speech throughout the western world. German police are routinely</span> <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1898481083424890942" rel>assaulting pro-Palestine demonstrators</a><span>. Pro-Palestinian journalists are being persecuted with increasing aggression</span> <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/more-authoritarian-crackdowns-on-speech-thats-critical-of-israel-7b43af329641" rel>in the UK</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/another-journalist-arrested-in-another" rel>throughout</a> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/civil-rights-are-being-destroyed" rel>Europe</a><span>. In the US the Trump administration is working to</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>stomp out pro-Palestine protests</a> <span>on university campuses while</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/06/state-department-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-who-appear-pro-hamas/" rel>using AI to compile lists</a> <span>of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media.</span></p>

<p>Almost every day we’re seeing some new escalation in the western empire’s efforts to stomp out speech that is critical of Israel. Westerners need to understand that we have moved far beyond the point where Israel is a threat only to middle eastern lives: it’s a threat to us all, because the western governments who support it are stomping out our basic freedoms with increasing aggression in order to silence all criticisms of its abuses.</p>
<p>Even if you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel and its western backers because of their genocidal atrocities in the middle east, at this point you need to start opposing them out of sheer self-preservation. This isn’t just about foreigners overseas anymore: it’s about you. Your rights. Your freedom to voice your political opinions.</p>
<p>Zionism is a threat to civil rights everywhere. Zionism threatens us all.</p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTF19-Nesf4" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have</span> <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza" rel>arrested a Columbia University graduate</a> <span>for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza last year.</span></p>
<p>Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is reportedly married to an American citizen and had had permanent residency in the US, but his green card has been revoked by the State Department as the Trump administration works to deport everyone they can possibly get away with deporting for criticizing Israel.</p>
<p>This is the equivalent of the Australian government revoking the permanent residency of my American husband Tim and deporting him because of our work criticizing the Gaza holocaust. The suffering that can be unleashed by a policy like this in the United States is hard to fathom.</p>
<p><span>This comes as we learn that the US government will be</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/06/state-department-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-who-appear-pro-hamas/" rel>using AI to compile lists</a> <span>of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media, and as the Trump administration announces that funding will be killed for any schools which allow “illegal protests” in support of Palestinians on their campuses.</span></p>
<p><span>I have</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>said it before</a> <span>and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and the western governments who support it. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to shut down all criticism of Israel.</span></p>
<p>We’re now seeing escalations in western Zionism’s assault on civil rights on a daily basis. Pretty much every day I’m reading about at least one western government silencing criticism of Israel with some new authoritarian abuse. Zionism is the number one threat to free speech in our society.</p>
<p>Westerners need to understand that Israel and the west’s support for it are a direct threat to our personal freedom. This is about YOU now. If you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel for its genocidal atrocities, you should at least now oppose it to protect yourself.</p>
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<p>Trump supporters are falling all over themselves trying to justify Trump’s assaults on free speech the same way Bush supporters fell all over themselves to justify the authoritarianism of the Bush administration. Republicans haven’t changed. They think they have but they haven’t.</p>
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<p><span>This happens as opposition to Israel becomes more urgently needed than ever. Israel</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/09/israel-cuts-electricity-to-gaza-ramping-up-collective-punishment/" rel>has cut off all electricity to Gaza</a><span>, which is expected to cripple Gaza’s water supply by killing power to critical desalination plants. Once again this genocidal apartheid state is targeting civilians with deadly force in order to advance its depraved agendas, but anyone who wants to criticize such things is being aggressively targeted by increasingly tyrannical measures throughout the western world.</span></p>
<p>❖</p>
<p><span>The most horrifying thing about</span> <a href="https://x.com/Tracking_Power/status/1898032589862052312" rel>all the footage</a> <span>of HTS thugs</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/08/over-1000-reported-killed-mostly-civilians-as-hts-syrian-forces-attack-alawites/" rel>massacring people in Syria</a> <span>is not the violence itself, it’s how happy its perpetrators are in the videos. Grinning. Laughing. Joking. It’s deeply disturbing how easily people can be turned into monsters.</span></p>
<p><span>I’ve been on the receiving end of shrieking vitriol ever since I started this gig for opposing the western empire’s regime change operations in Syria. Got a good dose of it last December when the operation</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/another-nation-absorbed-into-the" rel>finally succeeded</a><span>. Now look. Look where it landed.</span></p>
<p>Always oppose the empire.</p>
<p>❖</p>

<p><span>There’s a</span> <a href="https://x.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1897632322758828097" rel>video going around</a> <span>of young British men at some kind of pro-Ukraine event advocating sending British troops to Ukraine, and when the interviewer asks them if they themselves would volunteer to go put their own boots on the ground they act shocked and start stammering about how they’re conscientious objectors and are not physically fit enough.</span></p>
<p>It’s fascinating how often you’ll see this sort of response from western armchair proxy warriors when you suggest that they should go and fight in this military intervention they’re so keen on perpetuating. They often cannot seem to comprehend why anyone would think it’s a compelling point that they are pushing the continuation of a war that they themselves would never agree to fight in, which is just so very revealing. It shows that they see the idea of other people fighting and dying in a war as a completely different and unrelated category to the idea of themselves fighting and dying in a war.</p>
<p>It shows that they don’t view the people who fight in wars as fully human, with dreams and fears and families just like they have, who don’t want to die a violent death any more than they do. It’s genuinely never occurred to them to put themselves in the shoes of the people who are fighting and dying and getting their limbs blown off, and to think about what it would be like if the same thing were happening to them.</p>
<p>It’s like a video game to these people. They don’t see it as real in the same way their own lives are real. A war is something they watch unfold on social media and cheer and boo like a sporting event, not something involving real people who are just as capable of suffering and loss as they are.</p>
<p><span>A majority of Ukrainians</span> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/19/poll-majority-of-ukrainians-want-peace-talks-to-end-war-with-russia/" rel>now oppose the war</a> <span>and want a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible. If you want this horrific war to continue and yet you are not on front lines serving in the Foreign Legion, then you should definitely shut the fuck up. If you want Ukrainians to keep throwing their lives into a war against their will when you yourself are unwilling to do the same, then you have failed to mature as a human being on this planet. You lack a functioning empathy center in your brain, and it’s a major character flaw, and you should go fix it.</span></p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBx6EjIU80" rel>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</a></em><span>:</span></p>


<p><span>President Trump has</span> <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782" rel>taken to social media</a> <span>to boast about his administration’s</span> <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza" rel>arrest</a> <span>of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for leading Columbia University campus demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, proclaiming that “This is the first arrest of many to come.”</span></p>
<p>“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said.</p>
<p><span>And judging from what I’m seeing online, and the responses I’ve been getting to</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/even-more-assaults-on-free-speech" rel>my criticisms</a> <span>of</span> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the" rel>these abuses</a><span>, most Trump supporters seem perfectly fine with these measures. Many are actively defending them.</span></p>
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<p>Words can’t express how disgusted I am with Trump supporters who defend their president stomping out speech rights for Israel after spending years wailing about the loss of free speech in America. It’s beyond mere political differences. I don’t respect them as people.</p>
<p>Of all the pathetic, groveling, bootlicking positions anyone could possibly espouse, it’s hard to imagine one more egregious than twisting yourself into cognitive knots trying to find ways to excuse a president crushing free speech in your country to advance the interests of a foreign state after spending years yelling “America First” and whining about freedom of speech, just because that President happens to be a Republican.</p>
<p>If you are doing this, you’re just admitting that you don’t stand for anything, and you’re just drifting along with the herd and supporting whatever the man in charge tells you to support. You’re unthinking human livestock. A mindless, useless, pointless NPC. You have wasted all of your time on this planet, because you did not use that time to mature into a sovereign adult with basic intellectual agency and integrity.</p>
<p>Republicans have this adorable story about themselves where they believe they have changed since the George W Bush administration, but that’s not what I’m seeing on social media today. I’m seeing the same shitbrained, power-worshipping sheep who cheered on every authoritarian abuse rolled out by the Bush administration. That’s all this so-called “populist” movement calling itself “MAGA” turned out to be: all the same authoritarian bootlicking, but with more presents for Israel.</p>

<p><span>I saw a</span> <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1897001824676405402" rel>tweet</a> <span>from Michael Tracey the other day, “GOP free speech: You can say ‘retarded’ again, but you can’t protest Israel.”</span></p>
<p>That’s the long and short of it, right there. When Trump supporters spent all those years yelling about the First Amendment, it turns out they weren’t talking about the need to stop the powerful from silencing inconvenient political speech — they just wanted to be allowed to say “retard” and “tranny” on social media. As long as they get those completely irrelevant concessions from the powerful, they’ll happily let their government set all kinds of speech-suppressing legal precedents, because they don’t actually have any values or positions which pose any kind of challenge to the powerful. They’re George W Bush Republicans LARPing as populist revolutionaries.</p>
<p>Someone who actually supports free speech says “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Trump supporters say “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death my government’s right to silence you as long as a Republican is in office.”</p>
<p>Worthless, spineless cucks. What an undignified way to live.</p>
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