G20---23

 

President Biden announced plans for a new rail and shipping corridor that will connect India, the Middle East and Europe — a long-term push to improve the way goods, energy and information moves across borders, that notably does not involve China.

Biden made the announcement with other world leaders at the G20 — a summit that China's President Xi Jinping chose to skip this year. Afterward, Biden clutched hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to mark the moment.

Earlier ... As a presidential candidate, Biden had said the kingdom should be made a "pariah" on the world stage because of Khashoggi's murder. 

Bam..

 

President Joe Biden's reelection bid could be facing a serious test – how might it be forced to react to the fact that his troubled son could face years in prison for lying on a federal form to purchase a firearm. 

Hunter Biden had previously reached a deal that would have made the felony gun possession charge essentially go away if he met certain conditions over a 24-month period.

However, his plea deal to resolve two tax charges fell apart in court earlier this summer, and the future of the gun deal had been left in limbo.  

It is a federal crime to lie on the ATF form that is used to conduct a background check at the time of purchase."

However, Hunter acknowledged in his memoir "Beautiful Things" that he was struggling with crack cocaine addiction at the time of the purchase. He purchased a handgun at a Delaware gun shop and owned it for about 11 days.

Fire..

 

President Biden's decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine in its fight against Russia has sparked concerns from NATO allies and an outcry from human rights activists who say it's a mistake. 

More than 120 countries have signed a convention banning cluster bombs and U.S. leaders debated the issue for months.

Is there something here that Human Rights organization, Nato Members and 120 countries can't see? 

"Against Us"..

 

You’ve heard the expression that the coverup is worse than the crime? Well, in the case of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), the opposite might be true.

Cuomo is under bipartisan fire after an aide admitted that his administration deliberately delayed releasing information showing the true extent of covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes, out of fears, according to the aide, that the information “was going to be used against us.”

Cuomo's administration provided inaccurate data to public health officials in real time, at the beginning of the crisis, when government scientists were desperately trying to figure out how the virus was spreading, who was most vulnerable and how to stop it. 

Instead, the Cuomo administration provided incomplete data about nursing home deaths apparently because he feared real data would hurt him politically. That is like providing false intelligence to battlefield commanders about the location of the enemy in a time of war.
  

 The Cuomo administration reported only 8,500 nursing home deaths, when the real number was about 20,000 — an undercount of at least 58 percent. 

Worn out..

 

Lieutenant General Frédéric Goetynck, the head of the Belgian Army's logistics department, commented on the possibility of supplying fourth-generation fighters.

According to him, Belgium will not be able to transfer the aircraft to Ukraine even if it receives the F-35.

Earlier, Belgium confirmed that it was ready to train pilots of the Ukrainian Air Force.

However, it is out of the question to supply fighter jets because they are worn out.

Belgian F-16 Fighting Falcon will be retired. They have flown a lot of hours during their service life and the design has worn out.

Frederik Goetink stated that it is impossible to send aircraft to Ukraine that Belgium itself will no longer use. 

He compared the transfer of worn-out F-16 Fighting Falcon to the supply of expired medicines to African countries.

Pellosi..

 

"There's no point in saying ‘good morning’ because it certainly is not one.  This morning, the radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans' rights and endangering their health and safety.  

But the Congress will continue to act to overcome this extremism and protect the American people.  

Today, the Republican‑controlled Supreme Court has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman's right to make their own reproductive health decisions.  

Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party – their supermajority on the Supreme Court – American women today have less freedom than their mothers."

Radical Pelosi wants you just to look at something else, it's the time for election.

 Just a thought

Conflict..

 
In a conversation with The Economist, Henry Kissinger, who will be 100 this month, warns that China and America are “on the path” to confrontation.  

 “Both sides have convinced themselves that the other represents a strategic danger,” he says.   

The stakes could not be higher: both are nuclear-armed. Both are also dabbling with unpredictable artificial intelligence. 

The elder statesmen worries that, just as before the first world war, the superpowers will stumble into catastrophe.

Is Biden and Pelosi doctrine are at the helm to create conflict with China after Russia? Just a thought.

Sexed Up..

 

The British government released a once-secret draft document that was drawn up to justify going to war in Iraq, succumbing to three years of pressure from freedom of information campaigners.

The 32-page document, written by a former director of communications at the Foreign Office, cites intelligence sources to state that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and could easily use them since it had done so before.

Yet the document, amended in the margins, makes no mention of Saddam Hussein being capable of launching weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a false claim later used in another government dossier to make the case for going to war.

The much-disputed 45-minute threat was made in what came to be known as the “dodgy dossier”, a document the BBC subsequently alleged was “sexed up” to make the case for war stronger.

Compete..

 

The US White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that America will not stop other countries from choosing partners to trade with. She emphasized that the US is focused on trading with all countries and won’t interfere in their internal affairs.

US policy does not ask our partners to choose between the United States and other countries. We have repeatedly emphasized that the US does not want to limit countries’ partnerships with other countries. But we want countries to have choices on how to deliver results to their citizens as well,” she said.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that Berlin is not worried about BRICS expansion. She stressed that all countries are free to forge alliances according to their national interests.

We do have a policy of not interfering...huh? Just a thought.

Misguided. .

 

The US and European leaders seem to be using the ‘democracy versus authoritarianism’ discourse as a way to raise the stakes of the war and to generate political and moral support from their people. 

Yet, regarding it as a battle between democracy and authoritarianism is misguided.

Furthermore, arguments emphasising the democratic nature of Ukraine could end up giving ammunition to those who point out the high levels of corruption in the country and cases of mistreatment of the Russian-speaking population in the Donbas region, despite Russia’s claims of genocide being groundless. 

Since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support. Mainly Military. Just a thought.