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Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?
This video is a great one to watch.
Former intelligence member explains the Iranian/Epstein war. Daily.
#SheShed
My latest op-ed. The fog of war in the age of AI will become thicker. Science fiction has become realist and under the Trumps administration, any potential guardrails are being degraded at warp speed 🧵https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-the-age-of-ai-the-fog-of-war-thickens/
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
I don’t think the Trump administration realizes how much it has benefited from Russia’s war in Ukraine. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://help.ft.com/faq/gifting-and-sharing-an-article/what-is-a-gift-article/. https://www.ft.com/content/09fa5c20-2c8f-4f41-9d91-c78476eaac20 Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities this week in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack. Fars News Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Thursday that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in recent drone strikes. Experts say Amazon’s facilities were likely targeted by Iran. Microsoft said it had not experienced any outages in the region. The strikes mark what is believed to be the world’s first military attack against the US “hyperscalers” that dominate the global cloud computing market. That could create a chilling effect on the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s plans to spend billions of dollars on local AI infrastructure in the coming years, a crucial plank of the oil-rich states’ efforts to diversify their economies. “The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.
Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try ... 128 participants in the WTO agreement on investment facilitation will again seek consensus to add their "plurilateral" deal to be added to WTO rules when ministers meet this month
11 failed attempts so far tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/1...
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didn't see "instead of the US providing interceptors to Ukraine to shoot down Iranian drones, they're buying Ukrainian interceptors to shoot down Iranian drones themselves" coming
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
private equity reading this like "I smell an opportunity to improve operational efficiency!"
Everyone should read Trump’s long word salad quoted in full by @hcrichardson.bsky.social when he was asked why the government has not been able to help get Americans out of the war zone.
Joe Biden was forced out of the presidency for less.
Mark Carney is giving an address to Australia’s parliament in which he calls for the two countries to shape middle-power coalitions: “In a world of great power rivalry, middle powers have a choice: compete for favour or combine
for strength.”
He's saying we're not going to participate in offensive actions against Iran, but might need to defend our allies.
Chill, people.
My Trade Secrets today. Latest superpower energy offers to emerging markets:
China - cheap green tech to wean you off hydrocarbons.
US - coercion into trade deal to buy US fossil fuels, then huge chaotic war creating global oil shock.
WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE? 1/2
as.ft.com/r/8b8df69a-5...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
article assumes that Trump could simply cancel USMCA (with six months notice). Given wide support for USMCA from US business that's unlikely. He's right that we will live with uncertainty for some time to come. But that's been true since before Confederation. There's no cure for geography
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
So is the argument here particular to the policies that have been pursued under the heading of net-zero or with the very idea of net-zero itself?
bsky.app/profile/saro...
So, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) was NOT an act of war, but a preventative “Special Combat Operation”, right?
The war in Iran is likely to cause a huge global shortage of air defense with dire implications for Ukraine. The Gulf states, US, Israel are using an enormous amount of Patriot interceptors. We can produce about 600/yr. They are using that up in 1-2 days. So... 1/
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
🧵Cans of Worms possibly opened by Trump's war of choice in Iran, a running list:
(not exhaustive, with the caveat that I am not an expert on the region so these are questions from a US foreign policy perspective, please add others) 1/?
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Did he think the Globe wouldn’t write about his letter? Or did his puppet masters in Washington insist he write it? 2/2
Somebody could request an apology for almost every one of Cathal Kelly’s columns, which are often over the top If the Globe answers this snowflake's letter, I hope they tell him to take a long walk off a short pier 1/2
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
Critical minerals alliance with Australia example of how middle power should respond to ‘rupture’ in global order, Carney says
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
The biennial WTO Ministerial Conference starts in three weeks. Don’t expect negotiated outcomes. The draft on agriculture would simply commit members to continue talking. The talks’ chair will submit the draft to the General Council, which meets next week.
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