In October 2019, Trump threw the Kurds under the bus in N Syria. The Turkish Army were dragging Kurdish leaders into the street and executing them in broad daylight. SecDef Mattis resigned in disgust. The Kurds will *never* trust Trump again.
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"The imperial boomerang is a concept that repressive techniques to control colonial territories by governments will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens" versus "but that would be illegal"
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Iran is not going to surrender, conditionally or not. They just have to out wait Trump's plunging popularity. Eventually, America and Israel will run out of targets and then what?
That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
All the best people
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Trump shooting affordability in the middle of 5th Avenue.
Jared Kushner going to have some explaining to do.
I think we know how this story ends.
Iran's foreign minister says that the country is "not asking for a ceasefire" as the war between Iran, the U.S. and Israel spreads across the region and that "there is no request for the negotiation with the U.S."
Thousands flee Beirut after sweeping Israeli evacuation order ft.trib.al/3ytKeHi
Lewandowski to dump her in 3...2...
"outperform" doing a lot of work here, and I don't mean literally.
"ChatGPT, will you go make me some coffee please?"
For example, say your are a college kid waiting tables making $18k/year. Even if you claim exemptions and have no Fed Inc tax withheld, when you look at your paycheck (based on $2.13/hr wages) and it's $0 because of Social Sec/FICA/FUTA withholding, it sure feels like your paying alot of taxes.
This headline is designed to provoke passions, but
1. currently, only about 60% of Americans pay income tax. The rest are children, elderly, disabled, or earn below the poverty line, and
2) define "income tax." Lotta people paying Social Security, State & Fed unemployment etc, just not Fed Inc tax.
Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on March 5, sending millions of residents into bomb shelters as the US-Israel war with Iran entered its sixth day and just hours after moves to halt the US air assault were blocked in Washington reut.rs/3Pi9EjJ
A man with the government has been at the last two hearings relating to the contempt claim. Both times, he sat in the section of the courtroom open only to parties and counsel. Although not at counsel’s table, Littman and Jean Lin, the other Justice Department lawyer present at both hearings, has repeatedly consulted with him during both hearings. After today’s hearing — and after not being able to figure out for myself who he was after the last hearing — I asked him who he was. I had my press pass visibly displayed and identified myself as a reporter. He said he didn’t want to do that. I suggested that he must be a government official or employee, sitting where he was, and, if so, I asked incredulously if he really was not going to tell a reporter at a hearing who he was. He said no. Then, the people leaving — myself included — got to the elevator. Littman, Lin, mystery man, and two other people sitting with mystery man on the government side of the courtroom during the hearing on Wednesday were getting into the elevator. Some of them were already in the elevator. When I stepped in, mystery man said he would wait for the next elevator. Everyone else then got out of the elevator. Left in the elevator alone, I looked at these five adults — all of whom I believe have to be government employees, hence, paid by the public and allegedly working for the public — and was some combination of bemused and appalled. “You are all ridiculous,” I simply said. The door closed.
And, the story of the mystery man.
www.lawdork.com/p/lamberth-c...
I wonder what basis Claude uses for "suggesting targets?" There is a basic rule of battlefield technology -- never release a new technology onto the battlefield unless you have a defense for it, because eventually it will be used against you. Do we have a defense for Claude? For ChatGPT 5.3?
The war in Iran threatens to unleash a wave of inflation at a time when economies worldwide are already in a tight spot. Read more in the Canada Daily newsletter.
Gasoline futures now up 90c/gallon YTD, if that all flows through to retail and prices stay here it’s a $120 billion/year drag for US consumers:
What if this is just misinformation designed to lure Iranian forces out of hiding?
Iranian bombers were ‘two minutes’ from striking US air base before Qatari planes shot them down, @mostafasalemcnn.bsky.social reports: www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/m...
When Judge Jeffrey Bryan took the bench at his courtroom in Minnesota, he had serious questions for the Trump administration: What happened to the personal property of some two dozen immigrant detainees and why shouldn’t officials be held in contempt as a way of ensuring those items get returned?
Blasting microwaves at people in a car to disable their car cannot be healthy for the people.
White House says Trump using preventative skin treatment for neck rash, offers no other details reut.rs/3N4Q4qD
Beth Hammack tells @nytimes.com that the Fed should be on hold for "quite some time"
The next move may also not necessarily be down: "If we don’t see inflation moving toward target as I expect, it could mean that we need to put more restriction on the economy" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...
The Pentagon has a vice grip on information, combine that with an Iran that has generally turned off the internet, we are only getting the US positive news quickly & just about everything else through a slow drip of rumor, leak, & eventually confirmation
China’s government has told the country’s largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts the arrival of crude from one of the world’s largest producing regions
Iran attacking commercial interests where ever they can.
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