These Karoline Leavitt "press conferences" are completely worthless propaganda full of shameless lies. They should be ignored by the media and all of us.

Admiral Bradley can take the hit for an administration that doesn't give two shits about him or the military in general, or he can drop his retirement papers and out every single political appointee involved. We'll soon see what kind of officer and leader he is.

🚨No other country in the world set up an unlawful VIP lane to buy PPE during the pandemic.

£10billion+ of tax payers money wasted.

1million pallets of PPE incinerated.

🎥Watch the film here ⤵️

www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

There’s reportedly no progress on territorial concessions, ABC News reports. Russia refuses to discuss a ceasefire along the front line, while Ukraine stands firm against giving up territory.

The sides also touched on frozen Russian assets, security guarantees, and elections, but no breakthroughs.

During his visit to France, President Zelensky met with Éric Trappier, President and CEO of Dassault Aviation. The meeting likely focused on deepening defense cooperation and future aerospace collaboration.

As someone who does website stuff for a living - the idea that the head of your organisation should be across both the type of CMS you use and exactly how it behaves when creating urls for PDF uploads is very... lol

Two big health stories today. 1) The price of drugs is going to go up and we don’t have clarity on who is paying for it. 2) Doctors strikes have been announced at a time when we’re facing a mega flu outbreak and a likely Covid spike in new year.  Many questions here.

The “closer relationship with the EU” is indeed vital, but needs to be far-reaching to have any significant economic (and political) benefits

Don Winslow

I think the world needs to hear this AGAIN.

Italy has approved a new military aid package for Ukraine. Signed by Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and coordinated with the foreign and economy ministries, the package includes military equipment, vehicles, and supplies. For security reasons, the full list remains classified.

If Ukraine falls, Georgia falls, then all the other Russian satelites, then the smaller countries of Eastern Europe. Putin has been fighting a hybrid war against the west for over 10 years, buying politicians in governments and oppositions, sowing division, using our own prejudices to divide us.

This headline about Trump and Ukraine from February seems relevant again in a $300bn way @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Putin has ordered the creation of a "security zone" along the Ukrainian border in the area of responsibility of Russia’s "North" grouping. In effect, this signals plans to expand control over border areas in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.

Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"

Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC

Dems release a video reminding troops of their responsibility to disobey illegal orders.

They’re called seditionists.

WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike.

WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!”

This is why you disobey illegal orders

I think Zack Polanski was right to make this point, it highlights the gross inequality between the super rich and the rest of us.

Fuming? It must be eating away at their very core, I’d say their soul but we all know they sold that years ago. Zack Polanski is everything the right is not: charismatic, genuine, popular, and intelligent.

Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.

"a country she said she had never been to...."

www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

Prime Minister condemns 'Brexit template' as 'utterly reckless' during Lady Mayor's speech Sir Keir Starmer is speaking at the Lady Mayor's Banquet in the City of London, where prime ministers traditionally make speeches on foreign affairs. He is expected to talk about the UK's relationship...

At last some honest words from Starmer about the disaster of Brexit, not only about our economics but also about our body politics. But where is the action, beyond tinkering at the edges? If Brexit was a disaster, start the process if reversing it!
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"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare practiced by Japanese forces in brutally attacking helpless survivors of a torpedoed vessel and demands effective assurances from the Japanese Government that such criminal acts, which are contrary to all standards of civilized conduct, will not be repeated in the future. It is expected that the Japanese Government will at the same time punish those persons who with premeditation and full knowledge of their actions have so flagrantly violated the primary humanitarian concept of maritime warfare.” Request Swiss Minister Tokyo51 to telegraph date of delivery to Japanese Government

Worth remembering now

Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944

"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020.

Both were later sentenced to life in prison!

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault.

You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

EU tells Trump: You can’t pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine Any move to “wipe the slate clean” for Russia in a peace deal would be “a historic mistake of huge proportions,” the EU justice commissioner tells POLITICO.

Donald Trump’s drive to secure peace in Ukraine must not let Vladimir Putin off the hook for war crimes committed by Russian forces, a top EU official has warned, effectively setting a new red line for a deal.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Is this compliance with the law of armed conflict in the room with you right now?

The Gibb machine in overdrive mode.

I pointed this out in May. When it comes to choosing between growth/public services and reducing (legal) migration, the government chooses the latter.

ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...

'The Tory leader has given three different reasons why Reeves should resign in the past month, and of all these, “actually, Britain’s economy is in better shape than the government says” is definitely the most surprising.'........

Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules After Another Filing Discrepancy Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.

Scoop: They tried to bury this news on Black Friday, but, well...

Trump crypto partner Alt5 Sigma told the SEC its auditor quit in Nov.

We called the auditor.

He resigned in August.

That's the second SEC filing with an apparent conflict that Alt5 Sigma has made in recent weeks.

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Mark Kelly, "Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth runs around on a stage like a 12 year old playing army"