Phil’s days (69-73 for me) are distant but very present. Your book brought a lot back. New project for about to turn 70 is Cory Haven, of Waiheke Island, NZ. Has just started releasing material on streaming platforms. It started with that AC30 in the Phil’s basement. Go well.
07.05.2025 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Until they can find their way to recommend that the US apply to re-enter CPTPP, they might as well save their ink.
26.04.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With hostage deal stuck, U.S. won't budge – and is waiting for Hamas to crack
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"From Washington's perspective, there is only one deal on the table: the Witkoff framework... as far as the US is concerned, that's the offer, nothing more to discuss. If Hamas wants in, it's welcome. If not, Israel is free to proceed as it sees fit." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
31.03.2025 07:04 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
‘NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which VP JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method. “But there are others, too,” Trump added. Asked to share another method, Trump simply responded “no.”’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
31.03.2025 07:14 — 👍 61 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 3
Better late than never? EU finally has readouts of Sefcovic's China meets
"Discussions included longstanding systemic issues, the need to level the playing field for EU companies on the Chinese market, a number of key market access issues, as well as investments in electric vehicles supply chain"
31.03.2025 08:47 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Ladies and gentlemen, the Deputy Director of the FBI:
24.02.2025 03:16 — 👍 245 🔁 79 💬 10 📌 3
Apart from the many disqualifying features of Patel & Bongino, there is no indication either has any ability to run the FBI. Neither has *any* leadership experience at *any* level of *anything*, much less leadership experience relevant to the largest law enforcement agency in the U.S.
24.02.2025 02:00 — 👍 2079 🔁 413 💬 99 📌 17
I’m sure the fact that Brett McGurk was a driving force behind the Biden administration’s Israel-Saudi normalization gambit—which included offering Saudi Arabia a U.S. defense guarantee—was just a coincidence.
24.02.2025 04:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Expanding West Bank Campaign, Israel Sends Tanks for First Time in Decades
Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that 40,000 Palestinian residents displaced from militant hotbeds would not be allowed to return to their homes.
The Israeli army has deployed tanks in the occupied West Bank for the first time in two decades, and the defense minister has told troops to "prepare for a long stay over the coming year" in camps from which 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/w...
24.02.2025 08:13 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 1
I have rarely seen such coordinated diplomacy by Macron, who once tended towards pesky unilateralism. Before his Trump meeting today in Washington, he has met or spoken to 30 European leaders (from Starmer to Orban) and allies (Trudeau), and has spoken to Zelensky four time in the past week alone
24.02.2025 07:48 — 👍 621 🔁 117 💬 24 📌 11
India-UK: Jonathan Reynolds in Delhi to relaunch trade talks
British trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds is in Delhi to kick-start two days of discussions on the deal.
"India and the UK will restart free trade talks on Monday, nearly a year after negotiations were paused ahead of general elections in both countries. Jonathan Reynolds, the UK's business & trade sec'y, is in Delhi, where he will meet his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
24.02.2025 10:48 — 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Hypothesis: we're still seeing a split in Europe between 'radicals', e.g. Merz warning NATO might vanish by June, and 'engagers', like UK, who think priority is to engage Trump to shape Ukraine diplomacy & keep the US engaged, even if at a lower level of presence and/or commitment. Discuss.
24.02.2025 10:26 — 👍 262 🔁 30 💬 92 📌 13
Dan Bongino, a Right-Wing Commentator, Is Named FBI Deputy Director
The choice of Dan Bongino is a radical departure from the bureau’s history of having a veteran agent serve in the key role that oversees operations.
Today a group of Very Serious senators will go on TV and pretend that this is a normal & healthy appointment. "Dan Bongino, a former...police officer & Secret Service agent turned right-wing pundit & podcaster, will be the next deputy director of the FBI" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
24.02.2025 13:02 — 👍 216 🔁 44 💬 19 📌 3
The President of the United States is selling guns.
23.01.2025 02:40 — 👍 105 🔁 27 💬 17 📌 2
where the world stands on the paris climate agreement, as of today:
22.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 1448 🔁 507 💬 79 📌 52
I can’t believe I used to work with Bob. He has gone so hard MAGA—part of a cadre who blend hawk maximalism with political opportunism and screw everyone who’s not on board
22.01.2025 21:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Fallacy of the Abraham Accords
Why normalization without Palestinians won’t bring stability to the Middle East.
“The central premise of the Abraham Accords—that regional peace and stability could be achieved while sidelining Palestinians—has been totally upended by Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel, and everything that has happened since.”
— @elgindy.bsky.social:
www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/falla...
22.01.2025 21:56 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I mean, this is just an absolutely comical opening paragraph to the Quad FM statement that absolutely nobody that matters in the current U.S. administration believes.
23.01.2025 01:52 — 👍 53 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Two thoughts on the Gaza ceasefire:
- I'm glad there is a ceasefire
- Its easy to agree to a ceasefire when there isn't much left to fire upon.
15.01.2025 18:38 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
A few thoughts. Will the ceasefire get past the first phase? There will be right-wing pressure on Netanyahu to resume the war in six weeks. He promised total victory over Hamas (whatever that means) and didn't deliver. But pressure will work both ways. 🧵
15.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Turner is one of the most pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin Republicans and as intelligence chair has access to the gritty details of what our adversaries are up to.
This is an intra-party purge in the service of opponents of our democracy — and a preview of what’s coming when Trump takes power in five days.
16.01.2025 01:21 — 👍 2910 🔁 1150 💬 111 📌 151
This is a little misleading. The ability to penetrate - and potentially exploit - foreign computer networks has always been a critical element of defending against cyber threats as they take shape. We just don’t talk about it openly, for good reasons.
16.01.2025 03:07 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Rubio's going to spend the next several months desperately trying to reconcile MAGA dogma with reality and dogma is always going to win.
16.01.2025 04:18 — 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 0
Can confirm that the South Koreans are royally pissed about Hegseth’s remarks.
16.01.2025 04:45 — 👍 251 🔁 66 💬 13 📌 3
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