The growing global influence of American entrepreneur Elon Musk through his companies including SpaceX and Tesla has been a headache for the administration of US President Joe Biden . The White House is very “tensed” due to a number of points, reports, in particular, the agency Bloomberg.

First, Biden’s inner circle fears that Elon Musk, as the CEO of several important government contractors and with federal security clearance and close ties to some of the top US political elites, is nonetheless promoting his own policy toward “Russian state media”, which runs counter to the official Washington one.

 

There are two Volodymyr Zelenskys: the one we have known since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, who has since been celebrated every day in the Western media as a hero with a spotless white (or green) vest; the other, who was less well-known prior to this significant escalation of the war, which, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, began in 2014. (Here are details on the actual start of this war in 2014).

The war crimes charges against Vladimir Putin brought by the International Criminal Court mean that the Russian leader, in theory, is unable to travel to two-thirds of the globe without risking arrest in the 123 countries that are parties to the United Nations treaty underpinning the court's operations and therefore obligated to detain him.

In practice, the situation is more complex — with some ICC member states condemning the arrest warrant, and others having set a precedent of flouting the court's orders.

 

 

 

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17 YEARS AGO WE PUBLISHED THIS CARTOON.... NOW, AS GOVERNMENTS COME AND GO, WE STILL HAVE THE SAME COMBO... SHIPS AND SUBMARINES.... AS LEAST THE PRICE THEN WAS NOT IN BILLIONS AND THE SUB WAS FIGURATIVE... BUT THIS TIME, THE BRIBERY IS US, PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR SOMETHING USELESS: AUKUS SUBMARINES THAT WILL SPOIL THE FUTURE OF YOUR KIDS... SEE:

 

Defence Minister Richard Marles has now told us why we need nuclear submarines – not to defend Taiwan or attack China, but to defend our merchant shipping. Sounds credible until one does the maths.

 

By Percy Allan

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has stood by his controversial pension reform in his first public remarks since pushing the measure through without the approval of lawmakers. He said the move, which has deepened ongoing unrest in the country, had been postponed for way too long by his predecessors.

Macron was adamant about the decision to increase the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 during a televised interview on Wednesday, insisting the only mistake he had made was “failing to convince people” of its merits.

“When I started working, there were ten million retirees; today there are 17 million, and by 2030 there will be 20 million,” he said. “Do you really think we can continue with the same rules?”

Faustus is gone:  regard his hellish fall,

     Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,

     Only to wonder at unlawful things,

     Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

     To practice more than heavenly power permits.

 

AND THAT IS US, THE STUPID COMFORTABLE BOURGEOIS UNDER THE THUMB OF LEADING GREEDY PSYCHOPATHS WHO ARE FULL OF HYPOCRISY TO THE RIM: THE DEVILISH MONGRELS IN WASHINGTON TO WHOM WE SOLD OUR SOUL, EVEN IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY....

 

...

FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,

     Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,

     And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!

     Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,

A SIMPLE ADVICE TO THAT (SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS) COMEDIAN ON THE ABC: BIAS IN COMEDY HAS TO BE "INFORMED"... YOUR SEGMENT ON "VLAD" WAS A TOTAL DISGRACE THAT WOULD MAKE A CIA OPERATIVE FOAM AT THE MOUTH WITH DELIGHT.  YOU USUALLY ARE A CLEVERER BLOKE WHO DOES NOT SEEM TO APPEAR ON THE LIST OF REGULARS OF THE "WEAKLY" — THUS YOU "DO NOT EXIST".

YOUR IGNORANCE BASED ON THE GENERAL RUSSOPHOBIA AND PUTINOPHOBIC CRASS POLITICAL FANFARE OF THE WESTERN MAIN-STREAM MEDIA (OR MEDIOCRE MASS MEDIA DE MIERDA) WAS ASTONISHING.

IN THE CARTOON ABOVE, I HAVE FEEBLY TRIED TO RESTORE SOME "BALANCE". 

YES, DEAR WHATSISNAME, YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF THE GREATER GEOPOLITICAL GAMES IN WHICH OUR FRIENDS, THE USA, ARE THE MOST BEASTLY, NASTY AND AGGRESSIVE PEOPLE.

One Sunday night during the spring of her last term in highschool Janey was in her room getting undressed. Francie and Ellen were still playing in the backyard. Their voices came in through the open window with a spicy waft of lilacs from the lilacbushes in the next yard. She had just let down her hair and was looking in the mirror imagining how she’d look if she was a peach and had auburn hair, when there was a knock at the door and Joe’s voice outside. There was something funny about his voice. 

“Come in,” she called. “I’m just fixin’ my hair.” 

She first saw his face in the mirror. It was very white and the skin was drawn back tight over the cheekbones and round the mouth. 

“Why, what’s the matter, Joe?” She jumped up and faced him. 

REVEALED: BORIS YELTSIN PRIVATELY SUPPORTED NATO EXPANSION IN 1990’S

Declassified British files show how Russia’s President repeatedly told his Western counterparts he was “not against” NATO expansion—and even devised a flagship agreement with NATO to bring the Russian people onside.

 

BY MATT KENNARD

 

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday told Americans the nation’s financial systems were safe, seeking to project calm following the swift and stunning collapse of two banks that prompted fears of a broader upheaval.

 

“Your deposits will be there when you need them,” he said.

U.S. regulators closed the Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after it experienced a traditional bank run, where depositors rushed to withdraw their funds all at once. It is the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual. But the financial bloodletting was swift; New York-based Signature Bank also failed.

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WASHINGTON — A scene like one right out of “Ted Lasso” unfolded at Monday’s White House press briefing as actor Jason Sudeikis, who plays the show’s namesake soccer coach, fielded a question from the fictitious sports critic Trent Crimm.

The lighthearted exchange came as several cast members made an appearance at the daily press briefing to talk about mental health, a popular theme on the hit Apple TV+ show.

THE INTERVIEW BY SARAH FERGUSON OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA ON 20/03/23 WAS A DEMONSTRATION OF BEAUTIFULLY EXPLOSIVE ANGRY AGGRESSION, MAGICAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS, LOVELY BIAS AND NORMAL GRANDSTANDING OF GUTTER JOURNALISM FROM THE AROMATIC SEWER MEDIA OF AUSTRALIA.