Slouching..

 

This psychological picture has quickly gained popularity and only requires staring at an art piece that will either show the viewer a man's face or a slouching woman with her face turned away.

Depending on what you first see, this back-and-yellow art piece will show you are a very generous person or much more secretive with your friends.

Those that see the slouching woman when looking at the picture are people with the "highest morals." "Not only are you kind and forgiven, but you're also generous. You are admired for your positivity and do things will efficiency."

Wish..

 

Teflon..

 

The initial evidence from public opinion surveys is that, indeed, this indictment is a source of more serious concern across the political spectrum. But it hasn’t shaken Republican solidarity with Trump and may have actually strengthened his position in the 2024 Republican primary — as his first indictment almost certainly did. 

The best evidence of Trump’s enduring intraparty “teflon” is a CBS News–YouGov survey with post-indictment data. It shows 75 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents either supporting or “considering support” for Trump. 

And among that solid majority of probable primary voters next year, only 4 percent said the indictment makes them less likely to vote for the former president, while an astonishing 40 percent said it makes their support more likely.

fully 76 percent of likely GOP-primary voters agreed that the indictments were “politically motivated.”  Perhaps even more striking, when asked if Trump should be able to serve as the 47th president if he is convicted in the classified-documents case, 80 percent of likely GOP-primary voters had no problem with that scenario. That’s loyalty... WIll the Democratic Party is trying.. Just a thought.

DownGrade..

 

Millions..

 

Considering that millions of people lost their lives in the wars before and after Carter's presidency.

 The Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan – the fact that the Carter administration did not wage war on any country makes it unique in American history.   Just a thought.

Outcome..

 

The primary aim of sanctions is to induce major disruption to the economy of the sanctioned country. So, the real question is whether sanctions on Russia have achieved that goal. 

The current consensus appears to be that, to date, sanctions have had, at most, a very limited impact on the Russian economy.

Critics point to the slight fall in Russian real GDP – despite predictions to the contrary a year ago, and the maintenance of oil and gas exports from Russia – as sanctions’ minimal effect. 

This raises the concern that the sanctioning nations may gradually lose the willpower to keep restrictions in place, particularly in the face of the resulting disruption to the world economy and supply chains, especially in the energy and agriculture markets.

One year on, it is useful to consider what predictions were made a year ago and the continue on the same wrong path that led to prices increases and inflation worldwide.

Exacerbate..

 

The United Nations Security Council convenes in New York on Thursday, officials from the U.S. and other countries plan to push Russia to stop using food as a “weapon,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Russia announced last month that it would end its participation in a deal that had allowed ships carrying millions of tons of Ukrainian grain to exit through the Black Sea.

Biden administration officials had previously said that the exit would “will exacerbate food scarcity and harm millions of vulnerable people around the world.”

Earlier with President Biden's sanctions

“President Joe Biden said that the world will experience food shortages.
“‘It’s going to be real,‘ Biden said at a news conference in Brussels. ‘The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.'”

War..

Thousands of Marines backed by advanced U.S. fighter jets and warships are slowly building up a presence in the Persian Gulf.

 It’s a sign that while America’s wars in the region may be finished, its conflict with Iran over its advancing nuclear program continues to worsen, with no solutions in sight.
The dispatch of the troop-and-aircraft-carrying USS Bataan to the Gulf, alongside stealth F-35 fighters and other warplanes, comes as America wants to focus on China and Russia.
But Washington is seeing once again that while it’s easy to get into the Middle East militarily, it’s difficult to ever get fully out.

 President Kennedy speech on June 10, 1963.   

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough--more than enough--of war and hate and oppression. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on--not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace. 

Rice..

 

There is plenty of rice available for Americans, said the U.S. rice industry in sharply criticizing India, the world’s largest exporter, for cutting off three-quarters of its overseas shipments. 

“This is another example of India playing games with global food security,” said Bobby Hanks, a Louisiana rice miller and a USA Rice Federation official.

India’s restrictions on exports, announced two weeks ago, were viewed “as a cynical ploy to strengthen their domestic market” while jeopardizing food supplies in countries that rely on Indian rice imports, said the USA Rice Federation, a trade group.  

Earlier, President Biden said that a food shortage is "gonna be real" following the sanctions that were placed on Russia by the U.S. government as a result of Russian invasion into Ukraine.

"With regard to food shortage, yes we did talk about food shortages, and it's gonna be real," Biden said during a press conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, following a meeting with other world leaders.

Peace..

 

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. 

Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. 

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children--not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women--not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.  Just a thought.