Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media.
New from me:
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De har lært av staten: Man må finne på selskapsnavn som ikke sier noe om hva selskapet driver med, og for all del ikke hvem som eier det.
Some people carnot believe it, but it's true
Feels like one of those times when it’s worth keeping in mind that financial markets move very quickly and the actual economy takes a lot longer to respond to changes.
Trump said he can “live with it” if a report confirms a U.S. strike killed a school full of children in Iran.
That isn’t strength. It makes America sound like the very thugs we claim to oppose.
Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."
Nå brukte NRK #nyhetsmorgen 9 minutter (8:21-8:30) på å diskutere "Hvem skriver i kommentarfelt?", med en redaktør og en forsker, og det ble ikke nevnt med _ett eneste ord_ _muligheten_ for at _noen_ av disse kommentarene kan være maskingenererte (eller betalte) av aktører med skjulte agendaer. 🤦♂️🙄😒
New from Jay👇
A key take-out for me was the deteriorating Russiean economy;
- Their 'welfare fund' aka war chest is empty.
- Higher oil price may postpone the collaps, but their own economists stated that only a 200$/barrel price could save them.
- If they cant ship the oil, price don't matter
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
How the tables have turned!
Now, please remind me why Ukraine is still not accepted into NATO, when its unique experience in modern warfare could significantly strengthen the alliance?
På norske sosiale medier (særlig Facebook) er det for eksempel tusenvis av anti-EU-bots. Falske profiler som utgir seg for å være nordmenn, og skriker høylytt ut mot EU. Sannsynligvis fra Russland.
1/5 European democracies face an existential threat: the takeover of social media by anti-West bots.
To survive, we have two options:
1) Enforce stricter regulations to eradicate bots, or
2) Fight fire with fire and build our own 🧵
Ja, nå må Norges Bank og andre sentralbanker velge på nytt. Er det riktig å kontre en oljepris på 200 dollar med å skru rentene kraftig opp? For det er det modellene deres nå viser at man bør gjøre. Eller kan det tenkes at det vil gjøre vondt verre?
e24.no/internasjona...
You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.
Natural gas supply shocks have stagflationary effects in the €zone. A 10% increase in gas prices raises core prices by ~0.5% and reduces economic activity. Gas shocks pass through to core prices more strongly than oil shocks, due to role of gas in European electricity production
God kronikk om hva som styrer inflasjonen i Norge.
www.dn.no/kronikk/rent...
This looks like it could be a really handy tool.
www.imf.org/en/publicati...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
Ukraine: Kharkiv is still mourning the victims of a russian drone strike that killed 11 people just two days ago.
Tonight the city was attacked again. At least six people are reported injured so far, including children.
After a successful week of urging Ukraine's partners to remove Russian oil sanctions, Russia has resumed its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's civilian population.
Mass murder in Kharkiv, with seven people confirmed dead, including two children, a 13-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy.
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
The people in Hungary are showing that they have enough of Orban.
it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.
if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.
"In the 90s, tariffs rose by 30–35% annually, and we are gradually returning to this situation,"
Konstantin Krokhin, chairman of the Housing Union 3/3
ZBB: Interesting contrast to the increase in dollar billionaires in RU 🇷🇺 which now own $493 billion combined.
"This is the first statistically significant evidence of an acceleration of global warming"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
