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From India Today:
The United States has issued an alert for its citizens in Lahore, Pakistan, urging them to leave the city or seek shelter. This development follows a previous travel advisory and suggests potential security concerns. The alert is seen as a significant indicator of the US intelligence assessment of the situation in Lahore, particularly after recent events in Muridke and the reported targeting of Lahore’s air defense system.
Barflies might also find Larry’s view pertinent:
https://sonar21.com/did-western-intelligence-play-a-role-in-the-latest-terrorist-attack-in-kashmir/
Mr. Johnson has a wild idea his old friends are up to old tricks. Whoda thunk it?
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 8 2025 14:59 utc | 1
Berlin, Germany.
As in 2024, flags and banners of the former Soviet Union, Belarus and the Russian Republic of Chechnya are banned, but not those of the attacked country, according to a lawsuit filed by Ukrainian associations. The ban also includes the wearing of military uniforms or parts thereof, the wearing of military insignia, “the single or prominent display of the letters ‘V’ or ‘Z'” and the display of so-called St. George’s ribbons. In addition, pictures of the Russian, Belarusian and Chechen heads of state may not be held up. Some diplomats and veterans of the Second World War are exempt from this.
Also prohibited: the playing and singing of Russian marching or military songs and the display of symbols and signs that glorify the Russia-Ukraine war, such as depictions of Ukraine without the Russian-occupied territories and the flags of the Russian-dominated separatist areas.(morgenpost)
Ukrainian flags and banners as well as Ukrainian marching and military songs are permitted at the Soviet memorials.
Posted by: Passerby | May 8 2025 15:01 utc | 2
India Thwarts Pakistan’s Missile and Drone Attacks as Conflict Escalates
https://www.rt.com/india/616873-pakistan-operation-kashmir-strikes/
Updating.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 15:39 utc | 3
[jukebox] Billy Joel – Leningrad
yt official music video, which was written based on Billy’s experiences in Russia during his historic 1987 tour there.
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad
Posted by: persiflo | May 8 2025 15:59 utc | 4
Very insightful stuff from Simon Hunt.
-India/Pakistan conflict arranged low level conflict to prevent either unpopular government from falling
-US fleet defeated in Houthis, withdraw without Israel’s consent
-US does not accept Russia’s demand re. Ukraine, Russia will roll over more of Ukraine until the real negotiation starts
-EU peripheral and some core nations want to get rid of Brussels control, amid massive EU caused problems in social and financial fields
-EU business circles want warmer relation with China, but EU commission does not
-Oil price to bottom out over coming weeks or months below 50, rise 70-80 in a few years, and spiking at 150 by 2028 coinciding with potential US/Israel war with Iran
-China’s supply and production chain outruns everything else in the world, fully automated with minimal human labor
-One more washout in the metal and stock markets, FED and governments to throw everything into the pot, causing a major multi-year inflationary rally, then you better be careful after that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYGuU8VrHFg
Posted by: unimperator | May 8 2025 16:24 utc | 6
Russia’s India vs. China’s Pakistan, with one of more Indian Rafaels downed.
Posted by: Don Bacon | May 8 2025 16:25 utc | 7
White Smoke still rising…at St Peter’s Square, the Vatican City.
Posted by: pepe | May 8 2025 16:29 utc | 8
AI is a Perfect Storm Threatening Humanity
https://www.rt.com/news/616850-ai-end-world-vuca/
“AI and VUCA are rapidly converging to create the preconditions for the worst unemployment crisis since the Industrial Revolution. AI as the VUCA force multiplier.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 16:50 utc | 9
At presant their is a large drone swarm battle taking place between India and Pakistan. (From both sides)
Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2025 16:55 utc | 10
The Yanks wangled it to get their own pope in – no doubt he’ll be pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel – his pope name is Leo XIV.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 8 2025 17:20 utc | 14
The Yanks wangled it to get their own pope in – no doubt he’ll be pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel – his pope name is Leo XIV.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 8 2025 17:20 utc | 14
XIII did the Rerum novarum, so … calm down the messy masses?
Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 17:26 utc | 15
Good side of new guy:
1) Prevost earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at Villanova University in 1977 (
2) He’s essentially been in Peru since 1985
3) Augustine Order
Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 17:27 utc | 16
Fac Americam humilem iterum.
Did he really just say that?
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 17:27 utc | 17
Huawei unveils first laptop running self-developed …
South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com › Tech › Big Tech
7 hours ago — HarmonyOS on PCs includes a wide range of software catering to both work and entertainment needs, such as WPS, China’s alternative to Microsoft Office, and …
Posted by: denk | May 8 2025 17:31 utc | 18
Fac Americam humilem iterum.
Did he really just say that?
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 17:27 utc | 17
Full Hail Mary
Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 17:35 utc | 19
‘Indian Rafale Shot Down by Pakistan’ French Intelligence …
The Aviationist
https://theaviationist.com › 2025/05/07 › indian-rafale-s…
19 hours ago — CONFIRMED: One of the three Indian Rafale jets Pakistan claimed to have downed is now confirmed. Wreckage bearing serial number BS-001 was found in Bathinda, …
Posted by: denk | May 8 2025 17:35 utc | 20
Did Pakistan just use most advanced Chinese missile to shoot down Indian jets?
https://trt.global/world/article/8cecc4c3cc0c
On women and men
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/she-doesnt-need-a-man
Revealed: Britain’s Labour Government Sent 8,000 “Munitions of War” to Israel After Saying It Had Stopped
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uk-israel-munitions-shipments-palestine
Posted by: Dogon Priest | May 8 2025 17:35 utc | 21
Thank you b! Continuing on with what I was suggesting in the Week in Review thread on Sunday, I for the first time turned off from walking with Alex Christoforou in sunny Cypress – he could not stop talking about Trump. I’m going to stay away until somebody tells me here that he’s not doing that. Same goes for the other Duran outlets. I love them but it’s too much. I could mute the dialogue, yes, but no. Sorry beautiful clear water at Limasol. Sorry Alex.
No more Trump. This man needs to be ignored. He is on the wrong track. He doesn’t even know how wonderful the World Cup hosted by Russia truly was. If they are banning Russia, time to ban the World Cup!!
Posted by: juliania | May 8 2025 17:40 utc | 22
White House Meeting Between Trump and Carney Underscores Historic Breakdown in US-Canada Relations
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/08/qddl-m08.html
“…Carney, who sat silently during most of the press conference as Trump delivered a series of rambling fascist tirades, used his opening remarks to effusively praise his host.
‘Trump is a ‘transformational President, with a focus on the economy, with a relentless focus on the American worker, securing your borders, ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids, and securing the world,’ declared Carney.
‘The history of Canada and the US is we’re stronger when we work together. And there’s many opportunities to work together.’
Later he applauded Trump for ‘revitalizing NATO’, before adding, ‘My government is committed to a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership.’
A subsequent statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Carney’s summit with Trump confirmed the Liberal government’s commitment to massively divert resources to building up Canada’s military-security apparatus to ensure Canadian imperialism’s role as a protagonist in the repartition of the world, preferably on Washington and Wall Street’s side…”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 17:44 utc | 23
Pakistan claimed 3 Rafale downed, seems to be collaborated by Martin Baker, the eject seat manufacturer just updated its pilots saved count from
7744-7788..
https://x.com/revolt_71/status/1920112582658302285
Posted by: denk | May 8 2025 17:49 utc | 24
Important developments in the Trade War were revealed during today’s Hudson & Wolff chat on Nima’s Dialog Works program–Europe and China have discovered their shared Trade War problems can be averted by increasing trade between them. Hudson cites a new Financial Times article on the subject that I couldn’t find but did discover something similar on Global Times, “China remains stable, predictable investment destination for European businesses, despite US tariffs: EU chamber”. The moves by Europe and China exemplify what the Global Majority is also doing–realigning their trade policy to avoid the Outlaw US Empire. Other important points were made during the chat barflies will better understand by watching the program than for me to try and paraphrase all of them. There is one great point of irony I will explain–China has told the Empire many times to cease its Cold War Mentality/Thinking when dealing with China because it won’t work, but it appears the Empire can only think within that paradigm and no other, and that’s what will ultimately cause Trump to lose the Trade War and further cripple the Empire. That point is made during the last fifteen minutes of the chat.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 8 2025 17:50 utc | 25
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I was listening to Sean Foo say that 6% of Canadian exports to America stopped, but Canada has increased exports to the ROW by 24% or so.
It’s like Trump is advertising to the world where the American economy is vulnerable.
The problem with being a hegemon is that it cannot reflect or acknowledge areas for improvement.
While it is taking longer than all of us would like, this era of white supremacy and colonialism is coming to an end, I believe forever. The necessary conditions of asymmetry in power and technology will not occur again, IMO. That period was an aberration.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 18:03 utc | 27
My take on Scott Bessent, at best a mediocre investment manager who ran on the coat tails of Soros, and one who is utterly incapable of effectively doing his job. An utter light-weight. Scott Bessent: A Soros Sidekick Who Failed When He Struck Out On His Own
I see that the market is rallying hard on the trade “deal” with vassal Starmer, where the US removes the extra tariffs on cars and steel and aluminum (25%), but keeps the across the board 10% tariffs on UK imports. The UK granted market access to US agricultural products, but crucially did not change any of its food standards and regulations which to all intents and purposes keep the disgusting products of the US agri-businesses out. A meaningless fake “victory” for US agriculture. The UK also keeps its Digital Services Tax, which hits US tech firms. This is also just a “framework for agreement” as the details will take many weeks to work out, and even longer to get ratification in both countries. The US actually ran a US$11.9 billion trade surplus with the UK last year.
This whole thing is just really fluff compared to what will be needed with the EU and China etc. that have much, much more bargaining power. Once the short term euphoria is over reality will set back in.
India is also looking like a possible candidate for the next trade deal, but its average tariff is only 17% (the US one was 3.3% before the tariff war). India ran a US$45.7 billion trade surplus with the US in 2024. India may remove tariffs reciprocally in some areas, but the reality is that India is a very poor country with a very small share of the population being able to purchase US produced goods. Changing the tariffs will not change this reality. Domestic Indian production, and products from its South East Asian neighbours and China are much more aligned with the purchasing needs of the average Indian. So any such agreement will also be a relatively irrelevant piece of fluff.
The important ones are the EU (US$220 billion trade surplus with US in 2024) and China (US$295 billion surplus with US in 2024) and Mexico (US$172 billion surplus), and Vietnam (US$123 billion surplus), and Canada (US$102 billion), and Japan (US$63 billion surplus). None of those is pending, quite the opposite.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 8 2025 18:05 utc | 28
JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 17:44 utc | 23
*** Later he [Carney] applauded Trump for ‘revitalizing NATO’, before adding, ‘My government is committed to a step change in our investment in Canadian security and our partnership.‘
A subsequent statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Carney’s summit with Trump confirmed the Liberal government’s commitment to massively divert resources to building up Canada’s military-security apparatus to ensure Canadian imperialism’s role as a protagonist in the repartition of the world, preferably on Washington and Wall Street’s side…” ***
Which would translate into an declaration that Carney would prefer to make Canada (officially) a minor State of the USA slice by slice rather than all at once.
Posted by: Cynic | May 8 2025 18:28 utc | 30
@Roger Boyd | May 8 2025 18:05 utc | 28
Read your hatchet job on Bessant on the mobile earlier. Ta much.
Agree that UK deal not a big deal. But still 10% across the board is no joke for struggling UK economy.
On the big ones – wait and see …
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 18:33 utc | 31
The key variable in these tariff negotiations will be treatment of services. Watch that aspect closely.
Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 32
What coulor is he ?
Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2025 18:19 utc | 29
The pope? White, probably french ancestry
Interesting the choice of Leo, the last dealt with a similar period in short cycles
Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 18:38 utc | 33
A U.S./Ukraine investment partnership—-aka, the Limited Partnership Agreement—would demonstrate to Russia, according to Sec Bessent, the degree of commitment the U.S. has to Ukraine.
Weirdly, DJT’s tariffs have driven tariff-targeted countries to begin striking deals w/ *each other*—-creating bilateral & trilateral coalitions in an effort to avoid the sclerotic & peripatetic DJT. Meanwhile, DJT has been walking back select tariffs.
In DJT’s deal w/ the UK he has used tariffs not as a means of raising revenue for the U.S. but to spawn a hair-on-fire panic as a result of the chaotic way he launched his economic salvo. DJT thought countries would be desperate to make a deal. He thought the same thing about Russia regarding a quick end to the war in Ukraine—-“Russia’s losing millions of men. Russia’s economy is cratering”—but the propaganda DJT uttered was neither believable nor real. Moreover, China quickly proved itself desperation-proof too.
The crappy instability DJT has introduced into economies, distant & wide, results in lack of trust undoubtedly: can Vietnam, for example, believe that DJT, in a pique, won’t slap additional tariffs on its textile industry on a whim-? Hard to see the surety in that. An economy like Vietnam’s can’t plan for reliable industry under wiggy circumstances like this.
Meanwhile, domestically, both Starbucks and McDonalds are losing sales from the middle class and also from the low-wage earning portion of the U.S. population. Starbucks and McDonalds rely upon these sectors to keep their profits buoyant. This is an example of how DJT’s domestic economic policies favor the wealthy and not the duffers down below the millionaire-level, the normies who have a tough time buying a latte, for instance, after paying for rent, car loans & childcare.
The U.S. has refused to appoint a judge to the World Trade Organization, in effect crippling the ability of the WTO to empanel a court to adjudicate matters and permitting the U.S. carte blanche when it comes to slapping willy-nilly tariffs on distant economies, because the WTO is toothless in the face of these abuses.
Weirdly, the U.S. has no leverage over China, in a transactional sense, as far as the 145% tariffs are concerned. When Sec Bessent sits down w/ his Chinese counterpart over the weekend in Switzerland he’s going to encounter a tough mind-set. China has already said it will not negotiate @ the point of a bayonet.
Additionally, China is not going to make a *bad* short term deal that will allow the U.S. to import like mad for a 90-day period only to restart the trade war w/ a vengeance after stocking up on the tariff-free cheap goods.
That would be like Russia agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine only to find that after 30-days the EU and the U.S. have massively flooded Ukraine with weaponry and that NATO Reassurance Forces have posted up in Odessa—a hostile tripwire military—in effect.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 18:40 utc | 34
the US forced in another fake Catholic, when the Church trampled over Francis’s funeral to setup a meeting between Trump and the cokehead something was obvious up. I’m not sure if the Church can survive another 10 years of a “social justice” American anti-Pope, the African Catholic Church is going to start pushing for more independence
Posted by: Kadath | May 8 2025 18:41 utc | 35
Posted by: Cynic | May 8 2025 18:28 utc | 30
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Canada isn’t a sovereign country. It is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the UK.
All of this cosplaying about Canada being a real country is annoying and a tremendous distraction, IMO.
Canada does what the UK wants it to do.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 18:46 utc | 36
Peculiarly, DJT’s trade war w/ China is isolating the U.S.
The Tariff Wall is inspiring countries to seek products/items/resources/services from *partners* other than the U.S. as a means of avoiding the onerous & destabilizing tariffs imposed upon them sweepingly by DJT.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 8 2025 18:51 utc | 37
I noticed Russia’s MFA had a new icon/link at its website that reveals On Victory Day which is a series of links to photos of celebrations globally. At the top of the page is another link that gives you WW2 archive photos and documents in Russian. Meanwhile at the Kremlin all the formal events are occurring with the many foreign guests. And as expected, Ukraine continues its combat actions in trying to enter Russian territory, so there’s no truce along the border.
(This could also have gone on the Palestine thread)
Food
People can go to extraordinary lengths to preserve their lineages, when threatened by an ever-present enemy with no scruples, or extinction.
One case I can point to, is that of the Baining people and the Tolai people. Two different tribes on the island of New Britain, in the Bismark Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Their situation has eerie similarities to the Palestinians versus the Zionists.
“Baining” in the Tolai language meant food. (Possibly only in popular placetalk; plestok) The Tolai were more “advanced” than usual for pre-European-contact tribes. They had a form of money, (Shell rings, used for weddings mainly), trade, made sophisticated dugout canoes, and shared the same absolute defense of tribal lands, common to all PNG tribes. The Bainings, were less “advanced” as they used barter, and were generally at an earlier stage of development. One physical advantage for them was that they lived over 200m meters higher up, in the hills and forests, and suffered less from the various forms of Malaria there are on the coast. Even now villages do not let a single blade of grass grow near their huts.
As I mentioned, they were hunted for food and ritual purposes (finishing on the grill). They lived in isolated small groups in the interior of the island. (The Tolai lived on the coast). So to ensure the Baining’s peoples continued existence, they swapped children, starting with the first-born sons. This was to ensure the genetic diversity necessary for any ethnic group, (although they wouldn’t have heard of “science”).
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So nowadays we again have a people threatened with extinction (genocide) in Gaza. Many, many, orphans are now brought up by community members, and there are some “refugee” camps in different countries, for those who are displaced and hunted. The Zionists CANNOT hope to eliminate all the diaspora Palestinians who have a right of return. The present Zionist emphasis on killing kids stems from a similar desire to eradicate an entire people. Although Netanyahu tries to draw parallels with the Amalek, who were presumably not very numerous by todays standard, and who probably only inhabited a restricted geographical area, and in small villages or towns.
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Although the Tolai national dress was to go stark naked, it is unlikely that the zionists will do the same. This posed problems when PNG introduced Toana days (fridays) when students were supposed to wear their traditional costumes to school to foster national identity. Up until a suitable covering (lap-laps) were designated as their “traditional” clothes.
Part of the initiation ritual that the Tolai did to become “adults”; Young men, for their acceptance into the tribe, would seize a Baining girl and retire to a closed hut. There they would rape her for several days, then kill and eat her. Zionist prisons do the same, possibly with the exception of the barbeque.
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Talking about lack of food. My grandfather, born in Ireland before 1880, was one of five children (four boys and one girl), was brought up by another family as his own parents could not feed him. I do not know any of my relatives in Ireland as all records were lost in the destruction of the Public records office in 1922, and family ties were lost. However, I now have a visceral dislike of people deliberately starving others.
Karma being what it is, I also starved during the first nine months of my life. Born during the war – and there was not enough food available. Memories are not kept from the first four years of life, (approximately) but the sequels stay forever.
“The pope? White, probably french ancestry”
Posted by: Newbie
French, Italian and Spanish.
Posted by: Apollyon | May 8 2025 18:59 utc | 40
Newbie @ 33
Thanks.
One with a background of white opression would of been more usefull , things being as they are geopoliticaly.
A palistinian pope would have been even better.
Cheers
Posted by: Mark2 | May 8 2025 19:04 utc | 41
Must be a disappointment for the UK Political Establishment that there is comparatively little public enthusiasm for celebrating 80 years of Britains’s military and political occupation by the USA.
Posted by: Cynic | May 8 2025 19:29 utc | 42
@ Stonebird | May 8 2025 18:58 utc | 39
1901 and 1911 Census here for Ireland
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Do an DNA test
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/c/ireland-dna
But do you really want to meet all those Irish relatives? Why not …
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 19:30 utc | 43
I do not know any of my relatives in Ireland as all records were lost in the destruction of the Public records office in 1922, and family ties were lost…
Posted by: Stonebird | May 8 2025 18:58 utc | 39
AFAIK that was 1916 not 1922. The Irish rebels of the Easter Uprising used the General Post Office, where the records were kept, as a HQ. The British bombed the building.
By the way, the Mormons in the USA have a practice,near as I can make out, of re-troactively making their ancestors Mormons as well. And, since they are pretty good at record-keeping, you may just find that they have some records where the Irish authorities do not.
I have the same problem, fyi.
Posted by: NH | May 8 2025 19:52 utc | 44
NH | May 8 2025 19:52 utc | 44
Although I knew of 1916, there is also the Public Records Office fire in 1922 (used as a munitions making building).
https://nationalarchives.ie/engage-and-learn/exhibitions-and-loans/public-record-office-of-ireland-the-story-of-a-building/
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Don Firineach | May 8 2025 19:30 utc | 43
My father tried his best to make a”family tree”, which is also now lost (by me), due to carelessness during rebuilding a house. The oldest mentioned were a couple of tombs in Timoleague Abbey that he sent me to look for once. There are probably lots of other relatives (Five children and the four others would probably have started a family somewhere).
As you say…. why not…
but cheez, how long would it take !
We are seeing the kind of accountability in Africa, that i have not seen in my lifetime. General Assimi GOÏTA is draining the swamp. He is rooting the rotten apples out, forcefully.
They will not put Mali to shame, they will not put Africa to shame.
The revolution must succeed, we must make imperialism tremble.
In response to an announcement that the military President of Mali is sending 11 state ministers to jail for an 80 million CFA (approx $140M USD) corruption scandal.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 20:22 utc | 46
+ @45
I should add that one of the problems is that I have one of the commonest surnames in Ireland. It’s not that there are no namesakes, but I do not think my ancestors were THAT active.
Will Pope Leo XIV grasp the nettle and distinguish the Religion of Catholicism from the Cult of Zionism?
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 8 2025 20:23 utc | 48
Canada does what the UK wants it to do.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 18:46 utc | 36
Pretty much. Canadianplay is why helicopter banker asked the orageatang to cool it with the 51st state stuff, it makeds herding the sheep difficult when they are all rilled up eh:)
Posted by: Tannenhouser | May 8 2025 20:34 utc | 49
Echoing what was said by Drs Hudson and Wolff, Dr. Warwick Powell has written an excellent summary of how Trump defeated his Trade War all by himself, “Oops! Strategic Miscalculation and the Evolving Global Trade Game”. Unfortunately for those within the Outlaw US Empire, Trump’s Trade War has already done great damage to most Americans and especially his voter base. Importantly, however, is the fact that he did this all by himself–neither the media or the Ds did anything to derail his Trade War. What remains to be seen is how well his defeat will be explained by US media. This weekend in Switzerland, China doesn’t need to do much more than listen because as Dr. Powell notes, “As the US scrambles to re-engage with China in Switzerland, it does so not from a position of strength but from necessity.”
Will Pope Leo XIV grasp the nettle and distinguish the Religion of Catholicism from the Cult of Zionism?
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 8 2025 20:23 utc | 48
As a pope leo he might want a reboot of Rerum Novarum, but given current situation in western europe maybe as agostinian update De Civitate Dei might be a good idea
Posted by: Newbie | May 8 2025 22:01 utc | 51
Thee Pope from the most powerfull jewish magasin, the tablet:
Fr Peter Gallagher SJ, Provincial of the Jesuits in Britain, was among the first to welcome his election. He said: “The Jesuits in Britain welcome the election of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV with joy and prayerful support.
The Order of St Augustine, founded in 1244, follows the Rule of St Augustine, written by St Augustine of Hippo in the fifth century.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/cardinal-robert-prevost-osa-from-united-states-is-pope-leo-xiv/
The rest is just the usual stuff- you have all read it before:
https://catholicvote.org/survivors-urge-vatican-investigate-cardinal-prevosts-handling-abuse-cases/ from 31 march 2025
https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/cardinals-former-diocese-denies-claim-of-clerical-sexual-abuse-cover-up/ from sept 17 2024
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-prevost-never-investigated
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 8 2025 22:23 utc | 52
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 20:22 utc | 46
Thanks LoveDonbass Link pls.
“In response to an announcement that the military President of Mali is sending 11 state ministers to jail for an 80 million CFA (approx $140M USD) corruption scandal.”
Just a humble reminder:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/algeria-and-mali-a-dangerous-rift-at-the-heart-of-the-sahel/ april 2 2025
https://apnews.com/article/mali-algeria-drone-shot-down-tensions-f3ee1d72963b16ae72cd3e061fb56e45
Maybe this?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/algeria-receives-the-first-su-35-but-still-waits-for-the-su-57
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 8 2025 22:35 utc | 53
Thanks LoveDonbass Link pls.
“In response to an announcement that the military President of Mali is sending 11 state ministers to jail for an 80 million CFA (approx $140M USD) corruption scandal.”
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 8 2025 22:35 utc | 53
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https://x.com/AskPerplexity/status/1920606535509524979
I’m not sure what the reminders were for. I rarely rely on European colonizers for African news.
That would be like asking a rapist about Valentine’s Day.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 22:53 utc | 54
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 22:53 utc | 54
That would be like asking a rapist about Valentine’s Day.
I thougth that you were positive about the news about the arrests from Mali.
After that incident with the Drones flying into Algeria, with Burkino Faso and Niger supporting it, i got a feeling that maybe all was not so straigt forward as appeared.
US and France gave up their bases with suprisingly little fuss.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | May 8 2025 23:00 utc | 55
@Stonebird 45 & 47
Townlands for Timoleague, Co Cork in 1901 here
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Timoleague/
Have fun!
Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 23:09 utc | 56
Paul from Norway | May 8 2025 22:23 utc | 52
So new boss, Pope same as the old boss Pope
I never get tired of posting this:
The Pope Song. Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDNXOzKm2A
Tim changed public discourse with a 3min song.
The 3rd most powerful Catholic clergy was refusing to cooperate with a Royal Commission inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse.
Tim wrote and released this in one day. It went viral on steroids.
Pell had to submit, and was ultimately jailed. He’s rotting in hell now, if there’s a god.
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) – Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHOmforqxk
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 8 2025 23:11 utc | 57
Western Values, according to ursula
“….a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.”
please remember, folks, that just since the late 1990s, Nato/EU destroyed Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and many of them also participated in the great war-crime of the 21st century, the destruction of Iraq
https://x.com/wallacemick/status/1920411006531953148
Mick Wallace @wallacemick
Yeah, “enemies laid down their arms” when the Russian Red Army defeated the German Nazis…
And the EU is not a Peace Project, it’s promoting War in Ukraine and supporting a Genocide in Gaza…
https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/1920380409671508213
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen
Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 23:59 utc | 60
Yves has another long rundown on India vs. Pakistan, for anyone with the patience:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/a-us-or-uk-hidden-hand-how-an-india-pakistan-war-could-derail-central-asias-future.html
One of her commenters sternly challenges the strange notion that everything going wrong everywhere in the world can be blamed on the United States. But I search in vain for any counterexamples, past or present.
I hope I’m wrong in my impression that cia/mi6 stage false flags to stir the pot at an opportune time to hobble and humble Central Asia. If I’m wrong, this mess could settle down. But if I’m right, we’ll see the usual suspects continue with their usual antics: nuclear chicken salad for the wretched of the earth.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | May 9 2025 0:06 utc | 61
There is gossip going around that Trump is going to give American nuclear technology to the Saudis.
I put nothing beyond the Saudis or Americans, but it seems clear to me that Trump is trying to make KSA the Ukraine of West Asia against Iran and the North-South Corridor.
I don’t have any thoughts specifically on what that would mean if true. Trump loves to announce audacious things, but he follows through on few of them.
America does love to take one group and set it against another. Chechens vs Russia. Georgia vs Russia. Ukraine vs Russia. Pakistan vs India. Taiwan vs China. South Korea vs North Korea. Iraq vs Iran. Lebanon vs Palestine.
There are probably dozens more examples, many in Central and South America.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 0:20 utc | 62
There is gossip going around that Trump is going to give American nuclear technology to the Saudis.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 0:20 utc | 63
Why? KSA financed pakistan’s nuclear program and is due nukes and rockets
Posted by: Newbie | May 9 2025 0:26 utc | 63
On the sidelines of the visit of the commander of the Iranian security forces to Niamey
Niger and Iran signed a cooperation agreement on Thursday to strengthen the fight against terrorism, trafficking of all kinds, and illegal migration.
“Niger and Iran, through the Ministry of Interior, Public Security and Territorial Administration and the Iranian Security Forces Command, have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation, particularly in the fight against terrorism, cross-border organized crime, trafficking of all kinds, border control and illegal immigration,” the Nigerien Ministry of the Interior announced in a statement published on its Facebook page.
The agreement was signed following a meeting between Niger’s Interior Minister, General Mohamed Toumba, and an Iranian delegation led by Iranian security forces commander General Ahmed Rezaei Radan, who is on a working visit to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, the same source said.
Since the coup d’état of July 26, 2023, Niger has embarked on a “sovereignist” approach consisting of turning to new partners in various fields. Thus, it has broken its military agreements with France and the United States of America in the fight against terrorism and in the fight against illegal immigration with the European Union.
photo
https://x.com/cecild84/status/1920637821578027182
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 0:34 utc | 64
-repost from Palestine thread-
Apologies if this has already been posted..
Investigative journalist and longtime critic of Zionism Jonathan Cook is nominated for an Amnesty International People’s Choice journalism award, up against establishment ghouls like the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen & Lyse Doucet.
Patrick Cockburn, Owen Jones and the Novara Media crew are also nominated, but despite some creditable work on Palestine the last two have a pretty unsavory reputation so Cook looks like the obvious choice. If you don’t mind handing over your email to a USAID/NED-adjacent outfit like Amnesty, you can vote for him here:
amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
Posted by: S.P. Korolev | May 9 2025 0:39 utc | 65
And here I was the other day, boasting I have the tech savvy of a slug.
Seems it’s actually less than a slug.
Sorry folks.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 0:47 utc | 66
Amnesty International People’s Choice journalism award.
Why not Patrick Lancaster.
He’s on the frontlines and reporting what no one else is accessing.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 0:54 utc | 67
Raw Minchin links
The Pope Song. Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WDNXOzKm2A
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) – Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHOmforqx
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 0:56 utc | 68
So Burkina Faso is tight with Russia and now Niger is getting tight with Iran.
Egypt is buying military equipment from and training with China.
The Axis is expanding its diplomatic footprint, shrinking the opportunities for the West.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 1:18 utc | 69
Just a fart-thought
When The Orange Retard in Chief posted an image of himself as Pope.
Did he know the fix was in for a U$ Pontiff?
That’s why Qanon was A Thing back in 2015-17.
There’s a whole quadrant of Trump that triggers the conspiracy|truthers.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 1:40 utc | 70
I think we all need to step back a bit from this Pope business.
His being born in Chicago may or may not count for anything. Same goes for his being a Peruvian prelate: Some Latin American prelates are Oscar Romero-style liberals; others — including the one occupying the seat Romero once occupied — fascist bootlickets.
All we really know at this juncture is that he’s a pedo protector (surprise!!! /s), is anti-LGBT, and is a Major Player in Vatican politics. This last factor is by far the most important one.
Posted by: malenkov | May 9 2025 1:55 utc | 71
🇺🇸💸 Capital votes with its feet.
Bloomberg reports: Asia’s richest families are dumping U.S. assets at “unprecedented” scale, calling America too unpredictable under Trump’s trade war.
One Chinese billionaire family office exited the U.S. entirely.
Top Asian bank exec cut 60% of U.S. assets—now holding cash and gold.
When even the ultra-rich lose faith, it’s not just a trade war.
It’s a confidence collapse.
https://x.com/OopsGuess/status/1920670263047582157
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/asia-s-super-rich-rapidly-scale-back-us-exposure-on-trade-war
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 2:45 utc | 72
Putin-Xi Talks Lasted 7 Hours – Tass
https://www.rt.com/russia/617054-putin-xi-talks-kremlin/
“The two leaders have signed dozens of cooperation documents covering a wide range of areas following the talks…”
Russia Celebrates 80th Anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany: LIVE UPDATES
https://www.rt.com/russia/617074-russia-victory-day-celebrations/
“The day marking the Great Patriotic War is one of Russia’s most revered holidays…”
Join the celebration of Victory Day live from Moscow at 10:00 AM local time – (3:00 AM Eastern, Friday)
LIVE COVERAGE: https://www.rt.com/on-air/
Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 9 2025 2:53 utc | 73
Not sure if this will be humorous to the rest of the @bar.
Aussies might muster a muffled guffaw.
Post election blues in the bunker:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy1uLO-ERTg
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 2:58 utc | 74
I only just came across this video, but haven’t found a supporting article to match.
Burkina Faso & North Korea The Alliance That’s Shaking the World
Supposedly, North Korea is selling arms and has stationed Commandos (the DPRK has a lot of Commandos) with Burkina Faso.
If accurate, who could have predicted that North Korea would be making military diplomatic deals on other continents in 2025?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 3:26 utc | 75
@Posted by: Don Firineach | May 8 2025 18:33 utc | 31
Hatchet Job? Rather an accurate offset to the utter bullshit spouted by the Trump administration and media about this very lucky in life mediocre guy. I have seen their types many times in business, floated to the top through a mixture of luck, personal relationships and being in the right place at the right time. Some get very rich, like Bessent. Both his hedge funds failed while he made lots of money.
@Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 32
Aaah, the US runs a big surplus on services that why Trump only wants to talk about goods. That services surplus is mostly with China, Mexico, the EU, Canada and Japan. A chunk of it is related to import related services (insurance, short term funding, handling etc.) and foreign students. A reduction in goods imports, plus the new Xenophobia and ICE empowerment, will create a hole in that services surplus. I expect the bigger players to play some hard ball on services.
@Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 18:46 utc | 36
No, Canada is owned by the US and has been for decades. Just like the UK.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 9 2025 3:34 utc | 76
Badrakumar avoids shooting himself in the foot by criticizing India for starting an unnecessary war but ends up shooting himself in the head instead with a whopper of article about Ukraine.
His claimed “battle hardened” army is currently fertilizer.
India has ramped up attacks on military sites due to the huge embarrassing losses suffered.
As an Indian who had family members fight against Pakistan in 1971, I have to say unequivocally India is in the wrong.
Posted by: Suresh | May 9 2025 3:44 utc | 77
So Trump decides to eliminate tariffs on UK steel. I was under the impression that England has shut down or is in the process of shutting down their last remaining steel production plant. So much winning from 2 loser country’s.
Posted by: ScreamingMonk | May 9 2025 3:59 utc | 78
From many threads ago:
UK NATIONALIZES CHINA’S BRITISH STEEL OPERATIONS
The UK government is taking control of Chinese-owned British Steel after emergency legislation was rushed through parliament in a single day.
§|. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg17g39x41
“Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told MPs the government’s likely next step would be to nationalise the Scunthorpe plant, which employs 2,700 people.
“He said he was forced to seek emergency powers to prevent owners Jingye shutting down its two blast furnaces, which would have ended primary steel production in the UK.
§| Starmer said the government would “pay the fair market rate” to shareholders in the event of nationalisation but added: “In this case the market value is effectively zero.” 😎
§| Why did the Chinese buy it for £1.2 billion in 2020?
~ The mill was part of a larger set of assets. It was losing money, so they wanted to shut down that specific plant. It gave them a foothold into the greater European steel market.
~ It was losing $1m a day
~ the mill is ancient and labor heavy. Newer electric arc furnace is more cost effective and require fewer people to run, but that wouldn’t go well politically, because it would result in loss of jobs.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 9 2025 4:07 utc | 79
Musk tasted his own poison: after trying for years to politicize his brands, he is now sanctioned by non-fascistic consumers who refuse to play in the hands of the promoter of witch hunts and racism.
Let’s hope laymen start to see they can do the same with the media and universities.
Posted by: Minaa | May 9 2025 4:21 utc | 80
Breaking news:
India’s Salal Dam gates are now open, Chenab River water flows towards Pakistan
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 4:39 utc | 81
That was from RT
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1920699523023700210
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 4:40 utc | 82
For shits and giggles
World Donkey Day in 2025 is on May 8th .
It’s a day to recognize the contributions of donkeys, educate the public about their needs, and promote initiatives to improve their well-being.
FYI
A donkey is a general term for the species Equus asinus, while a jackass (aka ASS) specifically refers to a male donkey. In other words, “jackass” is a sex-specific term, while “donkey” encompasses both males and females.
The term “jack” specifically refers to a male donkey, while “ass” is a common synonym for a donkey.
Thought you should know how important today is!!!
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 9 2025 4:49 utc | 83
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 9 2025 4:49 utc | 83
Re: Equus asinus…
From Etymonline:
asinine (adj.):
c. 1600, “obstinate, stupid, offensively silly,” from Latin asininus “stupid,” literally “like an ass,” from asinus “ass,” also “dolt, blockhead”. The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s.
I wish I had been taught more Latin in school. It really is quite useful for learning about science, botany, medicine, and etymology.
My mum always lamented the removal of it from common curricula in the West c.1970s.
Guess I could point the finger at that D Rottenfella guy, asinine bastard that he was.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | May 9 2025 6:15 utc | 84
Let’s play a game of:
“How Far Will Zelensky Actually Send His Drones Towards Moscow on May 9th”
My gut tells he me is not so stupid as to cause such international backlash by intentions or accidents or even near misses of Putin, Xi and many other world leaders.
I suspect the AFU will thoroughly enjoy and take advantage their 3 days of lesser RF fighting on the fronts but still send drones TOWARDS Moscow suburbs and elsewhere … but stop short of explosions in Red Square and the Kremlin bedrooms.
Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | May 9 2025 6:26 utc | 85
So the Roman Catholic Church has made its move. A Polish pope when the Soviet Union disappears, an American pope to oversee changes in the US.
Posted by: Passerby | May 9 2025 6:41 utc | 86
Xi Jinping on fascism & US empire:
“The just forces of the world, including China and the Soviet Union, fought bravely and defeated the arrogant fascist forces… 80 years later, unilateralism, hegemony and bullying are extremely harmful. Humanity is once again at the crossroad”
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1920436993307075058
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 9 2025 6:52 utc | 87
The UK is the inaugural country to get a trade deal with President Trump *after* Liberation Day—a distinction indeed. DJT underscored that the UK was first in line on account of Brexit itself, perhaps whetting the appetite for *other* European countries to jail-break themselves from the bloc.
The contrast could not have been starker: while DJT was glad-handing w/ Lord Mandelson, the British ambassador to Washington, in the Oval and chatting amiably w/ Sir Keir over the speakerphone, officials in Brussels were finalizing $100 billion of retaliatory tariffs against the US.
The US-UK trade deal won’t save the British economy, but it is far better than anything EU countries currently enjoy. So the Special Relationship is *special* again-! Lord Mandelson said the deal was “not the end, it’s the end of just the beginning,” which is a great line. Moreover, it will be *a lot* easier to sell into the US from Britain than it will be from anywhere inside the EU.
Which leaves the bloc fretting. Currently planning levies on passenger planes, chemicals and steel, alongside bourbon and spirits, Brussels is pushing on with a tit-for-tat trade war that will likely escalate over the next few weeks. Very soon DJT and Ursula may well be imposing 30 per cent, 40 per cent or even 50 per cent tariffs on each other’s products.
If the bloc tries to put more pressure on the US by playing footsie w/ China, the risk is that Europe will be turned into a dumping ground for Chinese goods that have been locked out of the American market. European companies will face huge barriers in the US and ferocious Chinese competition in their home market–none of which will haunt the fully-Brexited UK.
So the deal DJT struck w/ Sir Keir may torque Europe uncomfortably in a horrid financial mixmaster.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 9 2025 7:15 utc | 88
The Genocide Jews made a big mistake when they bombed Yemeni infrastructure in retalliation for the Houthi warning shot on a Ben Gurion Airport carpark with a hypersonic missile.
Imo, nobody would go the trouble of acquiring and launching unstoppable hypersonic missiles unless they were capable of striking targets with extreme accuracy.
Of course Wasrael’s Supreme Beings would naturally assume that the harmless Houthi missile strike was the result of incompetence. So it’s going to be lots of fun when the Houthi begin targetting VITAL Wasraeli infrastructure with extreme accuracy – and prejudice!
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 9 2025 7:37 utc | 89
Don Firineach | May 8 2025 23:09 utc | 56
Found your post this morning. Thanks a lot. I have already found one sort of lead.
Can’t stop curiosity !
Dassault shares drop after reports of Pakistan shooting down India’s Rafale jets:
“The French aviation giant’s value dropped from $373.8 to $362.05 after Pakistan claimed to have shot down multiple Indian Rafale fighter jets.”
Defense Markets Reflect Strategic Realities
India’s recent missile strikes on Pakistani territory have not only escalated regional tensions but also triggered significant shifts in the global defense market. The repercussions of these actions are evident in the contrasting trajectories of two prominent fighter jet programs.
Rafale’s Market Performance:
Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of the Rafale fighter jets, has experienced a notable downturn in its stock performance. This decline is attributed to concerns over supply chain disruptions and delivery challenges, which have impacted investor confidence. The market’s reaction underscores the sensitivity of defense stocks to geopolitical events and operational performance.
JF-17 Thunder’s Ascendancy:
Conversely, the JF-17 Thunder, a collaborative effort between Pakistan and China, has garnered increased attention. Recent reports highlight Pakistan’s initiatives to enhance the JF-17’s capabilities through operational upgrades, including advanced radar and avionics systems. Additionally, the aircraft’s participation in international exercises, such as “Spears of Victory-2025” in Saudi Arabia, showcases its growing prominence on the global stage.
Behold the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 9 2025 9:25 utc | 91
Behold the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 09, 2025 at 09:25
Afterthought:
Perhaps the path to peace is to guarantee Western arms manufacturers a humiliating and widely publicised defeat on the battlefield, thereby forcing them to pressure their puppets in the state apparatus to exercise diplomacy …
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 9 2025 9:28 utc | 92
I suspect the AFU will thoroughly enjoy and take advantage their 3 days of lesser RF fighting on the fronts but still send drones TOWARDS Moscow suburbs and elsewhere … but stop short of explosions in Red Square and the Kremlin bedrooms.
Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | May 9 2025 6:26 utc | 85
I don’t think these idiots have that kind of self-restraint.
Chabad Jews are like that.
Chutzpah to the very end.
Pissing on all morality.
No reverse gear.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 9 2025 9:44 utc | 93
Before and during the start of the SMO the west had no realistic acheivable plan justifying its provocation of Russia. Just some hair brained idea of toppling Putin and stealing Russia’s resourses.
So
Whats the point of a 30 day seacefire ?
Walk away from a fight or not. Dont expect your oponante to let you have 5 minuetes to catch your breath.
Posted by: Mark2 | May 9 2025 13:03 utc | 94
A bit of odd news but for those bearing witness, perhaps data point, or you’re just wondering why?
Blood service friend had a doctor in the other day for blood work, the friend and doc have a back history of working at a hospital together.
Doc says to friend, “I’m so glad I didn’t take that f’n vaccine.” Friend asks why, Doc says “he is facing a explosion of turbo cancers of young patients in his clinic (he’s just one doc out of how many practicing?) he completely blamed the Vax, says it is unprecedented the types of fast acting cancer patients he is treating……even the fucking docs know the damn Vax was POISON!
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 9 2025 13:11 utc | 95
Don Bacon | May 8 2025 16:25 utc | 7
“Russia’s India vs. China’s Pakistan”
Over the past 20 years India now buys more weaponry from the West than Russia. Gone from 75% Russian to 36%, Pakistan is 81% Chinese arms.
https://x.com/whyvert/status/1920201571776016498
It must look ominous that J-10 + PL-15 beats Rafale + Meteor. Meteor is IIRC in service with most European air forces.
Re Irish ancestry, it was in 1922 that the damage was done, not 1916. Civil war between two Republican factions, one of which was in Government. Absolute tragedy for those of us with Irish ancestry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dublin#Public_Record_Office_explosion
“Several hours before the surrender, at either 11:30 or 2:15 the Irish Public Record Office (PRO) block located in the western block of the Four Courts, which had been used as an ammunition store by the Four Courts garrison, was the centre of a huge explosion, destroying Irish state records going back to the Norman conquest.”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 9 2025 14:06 utc | 96
Mark2@94….the Britkrainia plan was to break through the Donbass and he sweep around the rear of the LDPR forces, then sever the LDPR from Russia. They were not provoking Russia, their plan was to retake the LDPR, at the time not part of Russia. Russia reacted to that plan.
Cheers M
…toppling Putin, confiscating Russian resources and vast wealth, has always been an Imperial Western goal going back to the Crimean Wars..Putin is just the new face on the Marquee….
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 9 2025 14:12 utc | 97
Le Petit, host the monsters that he backs – Macron’s administration, which never normalized relations with the former government of President Bashar al-Assad, yet Le Petit can’t get enough of the proscribed head-choppers.
“Syria’s de facto leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in his first visit to a European country.
Jolani, who remains under United Nations terrorism sanctions due to his leadership of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, was granted a rare exemption to travel to France.
Macron shook hands and posed with Jolani, who previously had a $10 million bounty for his capture on the US terror list, before he took over Syria.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 9 2025 14:38 utc | 98
South Korea to hold Presidential elections on June 3rd – who will be the next US puppet leader of SK, possibly Lee Jae-Myung.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 9 2025 14:46 utc | 99
German security declared AFD extremist, currently being appealed in a court, But Merz declares an emergency over immigration issues today. Bit ironic hypocritical and surely double standards.
Posted by: Jo | May 9 2025 15:04 utc | 100