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North Korea called U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “the worst destroyer of international peace and stability,” accusing her of inciting anti-North Korea sentiment and enraging China during her Asian tour earlier this week.

Pelosi traveled to South Korea after visiting Taiwan, which had prompted China to launch military exercises including missile strike training in waters near the self-governed island. 

While in South Korea, Pelosi visited a border area with North Korea and discussed the North’s nuclear program with South Korean National Assembly Speaker.

“Pelosi, who had come under a volley of due criticism from China for destroying regional peace and stability by visiting Taiwan, stirred up the atmosphere of confrontation” with North Korea during her stay in South Korea. 

Was that deliberate or accidental?   Just a thought.

Draghi..

Italy’s latest political crisis comes at a dreadful time. Prime Minister Mario Draghi, formerly at the helm of the European Central Bank, offered to resign after losing the support of a key ally in his national unity government. He may struggle to form an alternative executive, paving the way for the likely victory of a less euro-friendly government amid a spiralling gas crisis. That’s bad news for Italy and for the euro.

Draghi became premier in February 2020 to address the pandemic emergency. His decision to quit follows an open clash with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which failed to back his plan to combat the rising cost of living.

Italy faces the threat of having to ration energy this winter if Russia does not resume its regular export of gas, a move that would surely trigger a recession. Keeping the experienced economist in charge at such a critical juncture would reassure investors that Italy’s already large sovereign debt, 151% of GDP, would not spiral out of control. 

Draghi would also be able to push through the annual budget law and secure the unlocking of much-needed European Union pandemic funds.

Italy followed the US on Russian Sanctions and now they are looking for Energy from anywhere and for any price. Thanks to the Sanctions.

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Police announced a breakthrough Tuesday in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a man from Afghanistan himself a Muslim with two of the slayings and identifying him as a prime suspect in the other killings that put the entire community on edge. 

Muhammad Syed, 51, was taken into custody a day earlier after a traffic stop more than 100 miles away, authorities said.  

Investigators received a tip from the city's Muslim community that pointed toward Syed, who has lived in the U.S. for about five years, police said.  

When asked specifically if Syed, a Sunni Muslim, was angry that his daughter married a Shiite Muslim, Deputy Police Cmdr. Kyle Hartsock did not respond directly.  

The Afghan saga continues. These are the good guys who helped the Americans, may be.

Crash..

The fatal crash happened around 9:50 p.m. as the 48-year-old victim was riding uptown on the Henry Hudson Parkway near West 104th Street, police said.

The woman lost control of the scooter and hit the center divider. The impact carried her into the path of a man riding a motorcycle in the downtown lane, cops said.

EMS workers transported the woman to Mount Sinai Morningside where she was pronounced dead. Her identity was not immediately released.

The motorcycle rider was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi’s visit last week infuriated China, which regards the self-ruled island as its territory and which responded with test launches of ballistic missiles over the island’s capital for the first time and the cutting of some areas of dialogue with Washington.

In a statement later on Sunday, the ministry said it had detected 14 Chinese warships and 66 Chinese aircraft in and around the Taiwan Strait.  But a late-evening commentator on Chinese state television said the Chinese military would now conduct “regular” drills on the Taiwan side of the line, saying the “historic task” of China’s “reunification” could be realized.

Starting a war over there, so we can take the talk away from the Misery at home. Just a thought. Just a thought.