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NATO can offer Ukraine two types of security guarantees - Foreign Policy
First: NATO members pledge to send significant economic and military aid to Ukraine for years after the cease-fire agreement; Kyiv could eventually join NATO, but the timeline for inclusion could be years away.
The second: NATO immediately extends to the Kyiv-controlled part of Ukraine its Article 5 protection, including a nuclear umbrella; the EU, the US and Canada commit to defend Ukraine against a new Russian invasion.
The publication notes that the second option is unlikely to be approved by NATO or Russia.
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Hegseth finally pops bubble of illusion: 'No NATO for Ukraine'
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth showed unusual candor in his remarks to the NATO membership about the terms of peace for Ukraine. Although they are unlikely to see things this way, he deserves special gratitude from the Ukrainian and European establishments, for his statement dispels the illusions in which they have been indulging themselves — illusions that if continued could hold up the peace process and increase the dangers to Ukraine.
Before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Group of NATO defense ministers in advance of the Munich Security Conference, Hegseth said the following:
“We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
“A durable peace for Ukraine must include robust guarantees to ensure that the war does not begin again. …That said, the United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. …If any troops are deployed as peacekeepers at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission and should not be covered under Article 5. …To be clear: As part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.”
In practice, Hegseth’s statement also rules out European troops for Ukraine. Russia has made clear that it will accept only troops from genuinely neutral countries as peacekeepers, and European leaders have stated that they would only deploy their own troops if given a cast-iron assurance by the U.S. that America would come to their aid if attacked — an assurance that Hegseth has just ruled out.
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Donald copies Donald: Polish PM calls in billionaire to cut red tape
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has drafted in billionaire countryman Rafał Brzoska to head a task force to deregulate the economy as part of the government’s attempt to reboot economic policy.
Tusk has asked entrepreneurs led by Brzoska to come up with a set of recommendations on how to cut bureaucracy as quickly as possible.
Brzoska is the owner of postal services company InPost, which has in recent years expanded its operations to the UK and some European Union countries.
On February 10, the PM and his finance minister Andrzej Domański outlined their deregulation plans as part of a broader economic vision during a conference titled A Breakthrough Year at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
“We really need to prepare urgent deregulation acts that will free the economy, free your time and also your wallets from unnecessary burdens,” Tusk said, addressing business leaders.
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Israel likely to strike Iran in coming months, warns U.S. intelligence
Israel is likely to attempt a strike on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months in a preemptive attack that would set back Tehran’s program by weeks or perhaps months but escalate tensions across the Middle East and renew the prospect of a wider regional conflagration, according to U.S. intelligence.
The warnings about a potential Israeli strike are included in multiple intelligence reports spanning the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the Trump administration, none more comprehensive than an early January report produced by the intelligence directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The report warned that Israel is likely to attempt a strike on Iran’s Fordow and Natanz nuclear facilities in the first six months of 2025. Current and former U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence told The Washington Post that the finding derives from an analysis of Israel’s planning following its bombing of Iran in late October, which degraded its air defenses and left Tehran exposed to a follow-on assault. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly classified intelligence.
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Global Affairs Canada contributed $1.6 million in taxpayer funds to BBC charity pushing DEI in Africa
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) contributed $1,623,711 in taxpayer funds to BBC Media Action, the charitable arm of the BBC, in 2023–2024, primarily for DEI initiatives in Africa, according to a new report by True North Wire.
Despite this, GAC’s website listed only one BBC Media Action project for that year, costing just over $1.5 million.
GAC praised the program’s impact, citing radio content on women’s rights, DEI training for media professionals, and reports that 91% of listeners showed gender equality awareness, with 42% using counseling services. This aligns with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, which cost $15.5 billion in 2022–2023 alone.
Critics over at True North questioned the spending.
“Canadians shouldn’t be forced to pay for our own state broadcaster, and we definitely shouldn’t have our tax dollars going anywhere near another country’s state broadcaster,”
“With the government more than $1 trillion in debt, we need to open up the books and cut wasteful spending in every department, and that definitely includes Global Affairs Canada.”
US budget deficit hits record US$840 billion over past four months
The US federal budget gap widened to a record US$840 billion for the first third of the fiscal year, propelled by spending increases in areas including health, Social Security, transfers to veterans and debt-interest payments.
For January alone, the deficit grew by US$129 billion. Adjusting for calendar differences, the cumulative deficit for October to January widened by 25%.
The continued widening in the deficit, despite strong economic growth and sustained employment gains, showcases the magnitude of the job that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces as he seeks to get the gap down to 3% of gross domestic product, from 6.4% in 2024. It may also strengthen resolve among fiscal hawks in the congressional Republican conference to press for deep spending cuts in return for backing the major tax-cut package President Donald Trump is seeking this year.
Revenue so far this fiscal year is little changed compared with the same period a year before, at US$1.6 trillion. The 2024 figure was inflated by deferred tax payments from 2023 related to natural disasters that year, a senior Treasury official told reporters.
Revenue rose US$94 billion, rather than the US$11 billion indicated for year-to-date, accounting for that distortion, the official said. The deficit so far this year is 10% wider incorporating that impact.
Spending totalled US$2.44 trillion for the past four months, up 7% after adjusting for calendar differences.
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Will Elon Musk cut as much government as Al Gore did?
After winning a return to the White House, President Donald Trump tapped Tesla CEO Elon Musk to head the DOGE, a body tasked with making the government less costly and more efficient.
It is an arduous and unenviable task. It is also not the first such endeavor: In the 1990s, then–Vice President Al Gore undertook a similar effort. What can we learn from Gore's experience?
Weeks into his term, Clinton had announced "a national performance review" (NPR) to "reinvent" government. He put Gore in charge of the project.
The NPR issued its first report in September 1993, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less. It listed 1,200 recommendations across the entire government that, if implemented, it said could save $108 billion in five years ($235 billion in 2024 dollars).
The government cut its workforce during the Clinton years, with the overall number of federal employees falling from 3.09 million in January 1993 to 2.75 million in September 2000. During Clinton's tenure, the amount of federal debt held by the public barely budged, rising from $3.3 trillion to $3.4 trillion. The government even ran budget surpluses for several years, contributing hundreds of billions of dollars toward paying down the debt.
Can Musk and Trump achieve that much?
Asked before the 2024 election how much he thought he could cut from the federal budget—which currently tops $6.8 trillion—Musk replied, "I think we could do at least $2 trillion."
Such a cut would be difficult, but not impossible: The 2019 federal budget totaled $4.4 trillion ($5.4 trillion in 2024 dollars). Even adjusting for inflation, Congress could cut $2 trillion and spend only $700 billion less in constant dollars than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Musk walked back his prediction after the election, admitting in January that it was just "the best-case outcome" and that "I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting 1."
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How did DeepSeek build its A.I. with less money?
Last month, U.S. financial markets tumbled after a Chinese start-up called DeepSeek said it had built one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems.
A.I. companies typically train their chatbots using supercomputers packed with 16,000 specialized chips or more. But DeepSeek said it needed only about 2,000.Its engineers needed only about $6 million in raw computing power, roughly one-tenth of what Meta spent in building its latest A.I. technology.
How was DeepSeek able to reduce costs?
Most notably, it embraced a method called “mixture of experts.”
If one chip was learning how to write a poem and another was learning how to write a computer program, they still needed to talk to each other, just in case there was some overlap between poetry and programming.
With the mixture of experts method, but DeepSeek was able to solve this problem. Its trick was to pair those smaller “expert” systems with a “generalist” system.
The experts still needed to trade some information with one another, and the generalist — which had a decent but not detailed understanding of each subject — could help coordinate interactions between the experts. It is a bit like an editor’s overseeing a newsroom filled with specialist reporters.
Full story
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Former DNC donor/fundraiser says Joe Biden’s presidency ‘was for sure Obama’s third term’
Former DNC donor and fundraiser Lindi Li has been in the news repeatedly since the 2024 election. She is one of the loudest voices calling out the Democrat party and the Kamala Harris campaign for blowing through more than a billion dollars and losing, with no accountability on how the money was spent.
She recently appeared on the Shawn Ryan podcast and when Ryan asked her who was running the government for the last four years, she said it was Obama’s third term, confirming what many other people have suggested.
She then went on to name people in Biden’s inner circle, such as Anita Dunn, Ron Klain and others.
The Obamas were probably the biggest losers of the 2024 election. They put it all on the line for Kamala Harris and lost big.
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Elon Musk: bureaucrats, like Samantha Power, are getting wealthy at taxpayers’ expense
Elon Musk said there would be investigations into how members of the federal bureaucracy have become rich on relatively modest salaries, during an Oval Office event with President Trump on Tuesday.
The announcement - which came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE, follows a report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary under $250,000.
“Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what happened at USAID,” Musk said.
He added: “We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don't know why. Where does it come from? And I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That's the honest truth of it.”
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Trump won't endorse J.D. Vance as his successor
President Trump declined to endorse Vice President J.D. Vance as his successor, saying it was too early to make such a determination.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier Trump said “no” when asked if he viewed Mr. Vance as his successor.
“No, but he’s very capable,” Trump said. “I think you have a lot of very capable people. So far I think he’s doing a fantastic job. It’s too early.”
The British want to change the political system, what is it about?
The British electoral system is single-member. The country is divided into 650 constituencies, in each of which party and independent candidates compete for a seat in the House of Commons.
It is not difficult to stand for election: you just need to make a deposit of 5 thousand pounds, and if you get more than 5% of the votes, this deposit will be returned to you (this is how they try to exclude outright freaks from participation). The candidate who gets more votes and becomes an MP. Therefore, it is important for parties to develop the work of local structures, neighborhood cells and that their candidates take each district.
The most famous parties in Britain are the Labor and Conservative parties.
Conservatives are more than two hundred years old, Labor - more than a hundred.
Therefore, the recognizability of the candidate from them is not always important: you can put up even a chair in the left district of Liverpool, and he will win, because the district is traditionally Labour. You can do the same in rich right-wing constituencies, where an unknown Tory candidate will still win because the constituency is traditionally Conservative.
But lately the bipartisan consensus, with Tory and Labor competing with each other, has been breaking down. In the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, the Reform Party. They got millions of British votes, while Labor got
33% of the total. But because of the constituency system, that was enough to get a super-majority in the House of Commons, where now over 400 MPs are Labor. Obviously this disproportionality does not correspond to how the British voter sees reality, the same Germany or Poland have a proportional electoral system that works to reflect how the country really votes.
Supporters of Britain's current electoral system say it creates a bond between the MP and the electorate in the constituency. People know the candidate personally, and the candidate knows them. The constituency is made up of about 120-130 thousand people, so you can work with them personally, in 2011 there was already a referendum on changing the electoral system.
Then the Conservatives formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, and the latter demanded to change the electoral system to rating voting. But the majority of Britons voted against it simply because people did not really understand how the new system would work.
Now Nigel Farage's Reform Party is already gaining more than 28% of the vote. It is clear that a new player is coming into the British two-party reality. Both the Liberal Democrats and the Greens remain strong parties.
Therefore, it is possible that both Labor and the Conservatives will have a record low result in the next election. Apart from them, all other British parties are in favor of changing the electoral system. Therefore, in the late 2020s and early 2030s we may see a new electoral system and even the political death of the two previously leading British parties.
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Zelensky during the talks between Trump and Putin 😆
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Meet the GOP lobbyist doing China's bidding
Former Rand Paul aide Brian Darling helps Chinese drone manufacturer, online retailer fight sanctions
When Washington’s top lobbying firms dropped many of their Chinese clients last year, fearing members of Congress would blacklist their lobbyists for aiding the CCP, two of the communist regime’s largest companies—drone maker DJI Technologies and online retailer Shein—turned to a boutique lobbying shop founded by a former aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), giving the Chinese companies a powerful ally in Washington as they aim to avoid U.S. sanctions.
DJI and Shein hired Brian Darling, the owner of Liberty Government Affairs, in Feb. 2024, according to lobbying records. The move came days after reports surfaced that members of Congress planned to close their doors to lobbying firms that represented Chinese clients. Darling, who served as Paul’s counsel and senior communications director until 2015, has since received nearly $250,000 from the two firms.
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American security contractors walking thin line in Gaza
Former private soldiers say this new way of war — unofficial boots on the ground — could go sideways, while giving governments political cover
The notion of sending private contractors to Gaza has been floated numerous times, to mixed-to-poor reviews.
Despite the disquiet, U.S. private contractors are ultimately going to Gaza to work on checkpoint and security maintenance as part of a multinational consortium created pursuant to the recent ceasefire and hostage deal. Two American contracting outfits are involved: Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) and UG Solutions.
Experts say, the private military industry in general — thanks to the built-in profit incentive and overarching opacity of its operations — lends itself to exacerbating and prolonging violence and conflict, not restraining it.
Indeed, the rules governing private military and security contractors’ conduct rest on shaky foundations due to the legal ambiguities created by operating abroad as non-military personnel.
We should not be surprised that contractors are being used to provide security in this volatile situation because contracting has become one to engage in war without incurring political baggage or accountability. Indeed, former contractors say the practice can actually feed conflict.
#USA #Palestine #FindTruth
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Trump aims to put CBS News out of business
Following CBS’ being forced to release the full, unedited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris from before the election, President Trump has doubled his lawsuit damages figure from $10 billion to $20 billion, charging that the network edited the footage to make Harris appear more coherent.
Trump believes the newly released footage, overseen by the Federal Communications Commission, is even more damaging and proves that CBS was attempting to interfere with the election.
Trump added several more points to his lawsuit, also claiming that CBS engaged in unfair competition, alleging that the deceptively edited Harris interview diverted traffic and viewership away from his own media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, which includes Truth Social.
Trump’s attorneys claim, “The damages suffered by President Trump stem in substantial part from consumers’ withholding of trade by reduced engagement with content distributed by Truth Social and President Trump’s other media holdings, and was exacerbated by increased expenses associated with clarifying the true nature of the Interview and its content.”
Trump clearly wants to see nothing less than bankruptcy for the outlet.
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Industry chief contradicts Scholz: ‘German deindustrialisation is real’
Nicole Grünewald, president of the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce, has dismissed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s remarks about the state of the country’s economy.
While Scholz glossed over the situation during his TV debate on February 9 with Christian Democratic Union opposition leader Friedrich Merz, Grünewald said she saw clear signs of deindustrialisation in the relocation of investments abroad.
Grünewald, who represents 150,000 companies as IHK Köln chief, says that German companies are moving abroad because the country was increasingly seen as an unattractive business location.
During his TV debate with Merz, Scholz claimed that, while the mood about the German economy was down, there was no deindustrialisation. In reaction to this, Grünewald said: “We see it diametrically differently than Olaf Scholz. The fact that an incumbent Chancellor denies ongoing deindustrialisation is a problem for our economy,” she added.
“We live in times of fake news and disinformation. It would help if the Chancellor stuck to the facts. And one fact is: Germany is experiencing deindustrialisation.”
#EU #Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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Chinese cars are rapidly taking over European markets, and sales of BYD electric cars have surpassed those of Tesla in many EU countries
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U.S. police are increasingly using AI and facial recognition data as the only reason to arrest a suspect, according to the Washington Post
Most police departments are not required to report the use of facial recognition, so few keep records on the use of the technology.
Documents from 23 departments where such records exist show that 15 departments in 12 states practiced, arresting suspects identified through AI matches without any other evidence linking them to the crime.
As a result, 8 people were arrested illegally. All of the cases were eventually dismissed. It turned out that all of these people could have been ruled out as suspects before their arrest through basic police work - alibi checks, tattoo comparisons or DNA and fingerprints left at the crime scene. But none of this was done. In one of these cases, the falsely arrested person has already sued the police for $300,000.
The total number of false arrests caused by AI matches is impossible to know because police and prosecutors rarely report that they have used these tools. And all but seven states don't have laws explicitly requiring disclosure of this information.
But one of the leading facial recognition software companies, Clearview AI, said in a speech to potential investors that its tools are used by 3,100 police departments - more than one-sixth of all U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Indeed, why go to the trouble of collecting evidence when there are cameras with facial recognition and AI? Especially since no one has canceled detection rates.
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USAID staff cry for their fiefdom
The largest foreign aid agency on earth has, courts willing, abruptly closed its doors in the past week and sent most of its staff home. Finding their virtue has no place to strut its worth, the response of many has been indignation and assurances of retaliation.
Many of them had been working from home for years, but now must rouse themselves to show such indignation for being sent (i.e. remaining) home on full pay. Like being told to continue as normal, perhaps, but in a way that exposes uncomfortable realities to those in the community who are actually paying them.
While we now see USAID employees standing in the street protesting for being told to stay home on full pay, we did not see such protests a few years back when average American workers were told to stay home and lost pay or businesses.
There were no protests in DC in support of hundreds of millions of day laborers in poor countries who lost all income and savings for a virus that posed minimal risk to them. For apparently ideological reasons that required considerable callousness or cowardice, many actually promoted this approach to Covid-19 whilst continuing to take their own salaries.
While working from home after the virus’s inevitable escape, they supported a response that ignored risk and good public health practice, wrecking the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions. They stood for corporate profit over the welfare of the many. Virtue signaling now is unlikely to help. The real harms accruing from USAID shutdowns are very much its own doing.
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The Bidenomics atrocity: 7 migrant jobs for each American job
The results are in: The Democratic Party’s strategy produced a score of just 160,000 extra jobs for Americans during each year of President Joe Biden’s presidency.
President Joe Biden’s policy also created jobs for 4.7 million migrants — including almost three million illegals, according to federal data collected by the Center for Immigration Studies and reported on February 7.
So Bidenomics created 7.3 migrant jobs for every job gained by an American, even as it also exploded the national debt by $8 trillion.
The Bidenomics 7:1 policy — 4.7 million jobs for migrants, 645,000 for Americans — was deliberate.
#USA #Biden #Economy #FindTruth
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Bird Flu Terror: Egg Rationing Hits U.S. Grocery Stores
An accurate accounting of just how many chickens have been slaughtered in the name of The Science™ — in the name of combatting a virus that has never been shown to transmit from human to human and is vanishingly rare even with the occasional fraudulent PCR positive they can gin up — would be difficult to ascertain.
But even by corporate state media metrics, it’s in the hundreds of millions.
Via CBS News (emphasis added):
Whether it’s ducks or chickens, since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized. It’s a staggering number, there is no doubt
SpaceX to switch capsules to bring 2 stranded astronauts back to Earth sooner
NASA says they have revised their strategy in order to expedite the homecoming of two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been aboard the space station for eight months, are now slated to return to Earth in mid-March—two weeks earlier than the previously anticipated late March or April timeframe, according to NASA.
The change in plans involves SpaceX altering its capsule assignments for upcoming missions.
“Human spaceflight is full of unexpected challenges,”
Dems slam military budget increases
Republicans want to add another $150 billion to the DoD
A group of Democratic lawmakers led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) slammed a Republican proposal to pour $150 billion into the military beyond the increases already planned for 2025.
“Republicans are putting the Pentagon before the people,”
Trump has offered F-35s to India
During a meeting at the White House, US President Donald Trump announced plans to offer Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to India, part of a strategy to deepen defense ties between the countries. The U.S. will increase military sales to India “by many billions of dollars,” Trump said during a joint press conference.
Trump stressed that the proposal would be a step toward reducing the trade deficit between the U.S. and India, although implementing such a plan could face difficulties due to India's long-standing defense relationship with Russia.
In addition, the deal could be complicated by India's purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems. The country has already received enough of the systems to win the acquisition back. Should the two sides reach an agreement and India does purchase the F-35 while retaining the S-400s, it would also give Turkey the opportunity to rejoin talks with the U.S. about returning to a program from which it was excluded in 2019 during President Trump's first term.
Trump's proposal clearly demonstrates the US' desire to strengthen its influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
#USA #India #Trump #FindTruth
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Egypt's Sisi cancels planned White House visit after Gaza plan, Trump’s awkward references
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will postpone a planned visit to Washington amid growing tensions between Egypt and the United States.
The visit, which was scheduled for 18 February, has been delayed indefinitely due to Cairo’s opposition to a US plan touted by President Donald Trump to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan.
Senior Egyptian officials have described relations with Washington as at their most strained in three decades, following what they said were strongly negative responses from the Trump administration to Egypt’s concerns over the proposal.
But one of the factors behind the decision to delay the visit was reportedly President Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Sisi as "the general", a term used again during a recent White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Egyptian officials viewed this as dismissive.
And then there was this during Trump's first term, back in 2019 at a G7 summit:
"Where’s my favorite dictator?"
Colombia’s president claims ‘cocaine is no worse than whiskey’ – and suggests drug is only ‘illegal because it is made in Latin America’
In a first-of-its-kind, six-hour live broadcast ministerial meeting in the South American country, Colombian President Gustavo Petro argued that cocaine is only illegal because of global politics — further claiming that it can be consumed as casually as alcohol, according to a report.
“Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey,”
“cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey.”
“If you want peace, you have to dismantle the business of drug trafficking. It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”
CNN's Anderson Cooper freaks out over DOGE, calls guest a 'd***' on Live TV
Things sure are getting interesting in the legacy media these days.
Perhaps no finer example of this came when CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who normally tries to present himself as a serious journalist, called former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu a “d***” on live TV as they argued over Elon Musk and the DOGE.
It takes a while to get there in this clip—it happens at the : 49 second mark—but the leadup was fascinating too as Cooper’s face got noticeably redder. Meanwhile, the legal pundit Jeffrey Toobin, who probably wishes he hadn’t been around when Cooper brought up male anatomy, couldn’t even get a word in edge-wise.
#USA #DOGE #Cooper #FindTruth
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Intelligence Community welcomes Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard took the oath of office to serve as the eighth Senate-confirmed and first female combat veteran Director of National Intelligence (DNI). DNI Gabbard currently serves in the U.S. Army Reserve and previously served as a four-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
DNI Gabbard issued the following statement:
“I am honored and grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to serve our nation as the Director of National Intelligence. From my experience in the military and in Congress, I know firsthand how critical accurate, unbiased, and timely intelligence is for the President, Congress, and our military to ensure the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.
Unfortunately, trust in the Intelligence Community is at an all-time low. President Trump's reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to end the weaponization and politicization of the IC. As DNI, I look forward to working with those who are charged with the critical mission of securing our nation to do just that.”
The balance of power on the eve of the German elections
The three leading German political parties have each lost 1% of the popular vote over the past week. This is explained by the desire of the leader of the Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz to pass through the parliament amendments to the migration law, tightening the rules of entry of migrants into Germany.
Moreover, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was chosen as an ally in such a decision, any cooperation with which is perceived as akin to a crime.
Nevertheless, victory on February 23 is likely to be won by the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, which currently have 29% of the vote.
#Germany #Elections #FindTruth
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