Perhaps a bit embarassing for all the progressives who for generations has denied the connection between Latin American leftist insurgents and the cocaine trade. But then, the CIA aren´t exactly innocent either, so there´s that...
Nor is whiskey harmless. I mean, what did the Colombian head of state drink before this cabinet meeting, I wonder?
Colombia´s president defends cocaine as "no worse than whiskey"
I assume this is China´s version of the American "Star Wars" program. You know, the fake high tech military program that broke the Soviet economy.
Is this China´s bluff to break the American economy? Or have the Chinese finally lost it for real? A kind of imperial overreach without an empire...
China is building a giant laser
När Göteborgs förskolor nyligen skulle uppmärksamma samernas nationaldag (!) valde man att servera hjortkött från Nya Zeeland (!!), eftersom detta visade sig vara billigare än renkött från lappmarkerna (?!). Ger en helt ny innebörd åt uttrycket "go Woke, get broke"...
Kritik mot att hjortkött serverades
Lustigt att feministernas gräns alltid går vid aborter...
Sveriges Kvinnoorganisationer vill behålla kvinnan i abortlagen
Trump recently floated the obviously insane idea that the United States should take over the Gaza Strip (and turn it into a "MAGA Strip") while removing all of the Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan (both of which will refuse to take them in). Has the Donald finally lost it? Even Netanyahu looked embarassed at that press conference! As far as I can tell, there may be three "rational" reasons for why Trump makes this kind of statement. All three are based on the assumption that he´s bluffing.
1. "Madman Strategy". Does Trump want to scare Hamas and/or Israel and/or the Arab states into compliance by pretending to be insane? It doesn´t seem to work on Hamas. Besides, the Madman Strategy only works if the president pretending to be mad actually *isn´t* mad, but rather extremely sly and cynical (read: Nixon).
2. Trump may want to throw out some red meat to the right-wing Zionists in Israel and the Christian Zionists in the United States, both of whom "should" be skeptical to the armistice and hostage deal with Hamas. After all, the deal looks like the policy favored by Joe Biden! By rhetorically pretending to be Meir Kahane, Trump can defuse the opposition. MPAI in action.
3. It´s a gigantic diversion from something else Trump wants really badly. Probably the approval of the Senate for his cabinet picks or DOGE´s purge of the administrative state. The YouTube clip above argues for this possibility. Note the bizarre fact that Trump makes his "proposal" during complicated peace talks between Israel and Hamas, a proposal that would make Hamas leave the negotiating table if they had taken it seriously.
Probably number three or a combination of two and three. I suppose we all have to wait and see...
Breitbart News pretends that "The MAGA Strip" is a serious and workable proposal. It´s really just a more hair-brained version of the old super-Zionist idea "Jordan is Palestine". And probably a typical Trumpite diversion of some kind...
Exclusive: Israel may propose moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia
This was...awkward. The first trans-woman ever nominated for an Academy award in the category Best Actress, Karla Sofia Gascón, turns out to be an anti-Black/anti-Asian racist and Islamophobe.
The acting actress is still a nominee, but Netflix has removed him from the promotion campaign for the film in question, "Emilia Perez". The problem? He is the, ahem, lead actor of the movie...
Overheard somewhere on the web:
>>>As EO Wilson noted, “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
The most recent American cult? A new podcast claims that nonverbal autistic children are really, really special and can communicate telepathically. Their immortal souls gather at a place called "The Hill" where they can paranormally learn new skills. Et cetera.
Two of the links below goes to skeptical articles, the third is a (rather unconvincing) response from the Telepathy Tapes podcasters.
I think it´s obvious that this is just the latest iteration of the New Age phenomenon known as Indigo children or Crystal children.
The Telepathy Tapes prove we all want to believe
Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudo-science
