Kathy Love

This too!!

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We've come to a sorry state when people in the Middle East are describing and condemning this unprovoked, unnecessary war with Iran with more honesty and clarity than anyone in the Trump regime or Congress can muster.

Apparently, Lindsey Graham's drunken Fox News bullshit isn't working in the more clear-eyed Middle East.

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One way to avoid the conflict might have been not to attack. Just a thought. (And no, Iran, was not about to produce nukes capable of reaching the US, so don't pull that one!)

Oh.

Yes they have. Although AFAIK there is no necessary connection between a constitution and jury trial. Some countries, like the US or Canada, have both. Some, like most EU countries, have a written constitution but no jury. The UK has no constitutional document, but it does have juries.

Actually, an enduring problem for all commodity markets is the fact that the vast majority of the trades are no longer based on supply of or demand for the commodity itself, just punts on price movements. This undermines the fundamental operations of the markets and leaves them very vulnerable.

Yes, that makes sense. In those days there were a lot of people getting into the oil markets purely as traders, with no need for (and in many cases no knowledge about) oil. They only wanted to make money on the turn. It also makes you realise the fantastic utility of the €, doesn't it?

It doesn’t work like that when:

1) oil infrastructure is blown up

2) the war has already shown the US cannot defend the Gulf states, so shipping risk stays high - pushing up insurance costs too

3) Iran can choke Strait of Hormuz

4) previous wars have seen oil stay high long after war.

Comparatively inexperienced people benefit most but more complex higher/level tasks still need the judgment and skill of experienced people. An obvious question is how starters will acquire the necessary judgment and skill if they don’t actually do the foundational work themselves but leave it to AI

And now they’re telling us that he was talking at a private event and his comments weren’t intended to be published.

Is he really that stupid to think that anything he says is going to stay private?

If I'd utterly destroyed my reputation as a cool, fun, popular PM by obediently following the US into a disastrous forever war in the Middle East I'd probably be trying to blend into a wall right about now. Jesus.

I think it is based on the misapprehension that the ‘re-set’ (not a term I’ve heard used on this side of the Channel) is as important to the EU as it is to the UK.

Oh yes, the #EpsteinFiles

Has Trump's illegal war on Iran... all the deaths, destruction and global economic chaos... taken our minds off his close, perverted, working relationship with Epstein yet?

No.

#Iran #r4today #bbcnews #Israel

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The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

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This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.

Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

It may well be that for England the right decision is to retain jury trial. But I wonder whether, in discussing this policy, there was any serious analysis of how other countries —including almost all those in the EU — have effective justice systems without juries?

What is your specific grudge, Mark? (I don’t know much about Repsol.)

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

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“When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.”

— Minnie Aumônier (1865–1952)

Flowers now blooming in my garden to brighten your day. #SolaceInNature

There is no accountability for these grifting charlatans. Nothing. They torch the economy for everyone else, make everyone’s life harder, fail abysmally, lie to us all and yet, on they go. Scamming away.
No shame. No comeuppance.

same as it ever was

More of this please.

Thats a claim of fascists, death is mercy for the sick, or whomever you want to replace it.

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Trump suggests US could end Iran war soon, as UAE and Turkey intercept more missiles The US president tells CBS News that the

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Another day ends, and

Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail!

SLAVA UKRAINII!

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As a US citizen living in Europe, I am going to tell you they don't. At least the European part of the world doesn't. But Europe definitely respects Minnesota.