No reason for linking this. I just do. I believe her grad degree is in architecture, his in law. They built a very successful production company together. No small thing. They were happy, comfortable. Somehow I hope they, with their kids, will be so again in future. reporteri.net/en/lajme/bot...

Reformation. It's not what you mean, but maybe admire, say, Germany a bit and get well? Deal with a bad part of the past that keeps on giving? (Some people in Germany would probably be willing to help....No conflicts to declare, by the way!)

Thanks for many helpful posts here.
There's also confusion between democratic socialism and national socialism which could be further apart, correct?

Also, more dignity for all participants to this meeting had respect for the victims of Nine Eleven been in the air, in the background. Respect is OK. Weren't there as many victims of Nine Eleven as at Pearl Harbor? The Nine Eleven victims were civilians. Weren't the killers linked to Saudi Arabia?

Thanks for doing the right thing.
Not quite what my text says, have to say.
What about admiring, say, Germany a bit and getting well? By dealing with a past that's continuing? No, this story won't be called bowing by some but ...

On how the US support of dictatorship led to the imperial presidency in action now...

Agree.

Good sign perhaps that the phrase democratic socialism seems to be tripping off tongues more and more.

A 79-year-old U.S. citizen has filed a civil rights lawsuit demanding $50 million after being arrested and injured during an immigration raid at his business in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

And having a US accent outside the USA is just that much more suspect. Sort of "guilty until proven half-innocent."

Whoops... "supports war more than peace"

Driven by Greed - The Deutsche Bank Story: Putin’s Bank – DW – 04/24/2024 Deutsche Bank managers driven by greed set it on the wrong track in the 2000s. For many years, the financial institution maintained close ties with Vladimir Putin.

Deutsche Bank may be like a "nexus" of information? If so, it could now raise its reputation by coming forward, being hilfreich...

VPutin and DB
www.dw.com/en/driven-by...

DTrump and DB
www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

JEpstein and DB
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...

Yes, and the Putin plan might well seem smart to a threatener of tariffs? Both are saying, Pay me to stop?

Effective imo and "hearable" by people of various persuasions.

"A Russian proposal translated by the White House. A proposal that overall supports more than peace." (not verbatim but I hope close)

Especially as expressed, the observations are useful, the tone helpful.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/...

www.statista.com/statistics/1...

Everybody has already read this. So why am I putting it here? I don't know. Safety and sovereignty to Ukraine.

? Don't know about these things. Found this ?

Nine Eleven?

"Piggy" is a label. Labels are bully words. Bully words are meant to throw a target off. After being hit with a label, was the target below (in the shadows opposite the finger continuing her work) expected to look thrown, etc.? Was that the idea?

Make songs about it? Get on as best we can while keeping memorialising music alive in the background, available to be turned up when the time comes? So, not numbed but not rattled either?

Crazy...

Invite Ukraine & Russia (if it pays Ukraine reparations, returns stolen people, covers cost of rebuilding what it has destroyed through invasion/occupation) to join NATO.

Militaries share a language and a world and so have "cooperative means." Most people in militaries don't like war.

She is so happy simply to hear no alarms for a while as she goes mushroom picking, my friend who works and lives in Kyiv. Very worrying. Way too much hurt. She had refugee status here and lived with a neighbour but returned to Ukraine by choice.

Also, no chipshots this time about the “right” clothing. And an expressed desire not to make a guest uncomfortable. The contrast was not lost on anyone, least of all this up-to-speed visitor.

Bush Has Given the Saudis a Free Pass Rachel,

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Surely any SA person senses dignity in conversation with a US person only if there’s a background feeling of respect for victims of Nine Eleven? Were not most of the attackers linked to SA? Were not as many US people killed as at Pearl Harbor? Were they not all civilians?

James B Stewart on what seems potentially like Camus' Fall where the narrator confesses his sins for the explicit purpose of manipulating his listener into confessing their own unworthiness and secrets....

On "the Epstein class," a useful phrase referred to in a recent Ro Khanna article

Was Saudi Arabia not the country most linked to the Nine Eleven attackers? Didn't as many people die in the Nine Eleven attack as died in the Pearl Harbor attack? Weren't the Nine Eleven victims all civilians?

Well done. Thank you. Admiration.

Excellence is at odds with elitism: Fair? Yet another Epstein learning?

Elitism is not determined strictly by money, although in the Epstein/Maxwell case, as you know, it was very much entwined with money, perhaps sometimes dark money? Genuine question.

My brief notes from the article. If interested, click on the image and enlarge.