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Trump certainly harbors visions of himself sieg heiling from the supreme podium, as did Adolph Hitler in Berlin, 1936. But there are crucial differences.
Hitler’s hatreds of blacks, Jews and other untermenschen were horrifying. Likewise, Trump’s Reichmarshall, JD Vance, has already issued nasty warnings against visitors coming from “shit hole countries.” Even if they are certified competitors in the upcoming Games, Vance says, they’re here on shaky ground.
This author refuses to jump out of an airplane. I do not even like roller coasters. I am not a thrill seeker. Nonetheless I am going to write about mRNA vaccines with the same apprehension I would have if jumping off of a cliff. This will likely cause me to lose a few friends. As a retired Pharmacist, I believed most of the prevailing wisdom throughout the Covid lockdowns. I have given thousands of Covid vaccinations during my career, because I believed in them.
In apparent anticipation of the 2028 presidential election, California Governor Gavin Newsom has been cultivating an image as the “anti-Trump.”
But on nuke power and renewable energy, Gavin and Donald are soul mates…to our universal danger and detriment.
Trump loudly hates wind and solar, but loves fossil fuels and atomic energy.
Newsom paints himself green. He loudly favors banning new gas-fired cars in California after 2035.
But he’s killed the landmark plan he signed in 2018 to phase out California’s last reactors at Diablo Canyon. He’s also gutting the state’s once-booming renewable industry, even sending his attorneys to fight solar installers in court.
US Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to launch an investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is a leading Muslim-American civil liberties group, claiming the largest Muslim organization in the US has terror ties.
Look who is talking! Ever since he became a U.S. Senator, Cotton put the interests of Israel ahead of the good old USA.
* First, he called Biden last year a "coward" if he does not unleash "devastating military retaliation" both inside Iran and across the Middle East (on behalf of Israel, of course). I have no clue how bombing Iran benefits the American people or the people of Arkansas?
* Would Sen. Cotton care to tell us what he gets out of lobbying on behalf of a foreign lobbying organization that is not even registered in compliance with US law?
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S.-backed Thailand and China-assisted Cambodia signed an extended 13-point peace agreement on August 7 silencing their five-day border war, but the stench from uncollected corpses and fear of their shadowy ghosts are haunting troops and residents along their disputed frontier.
"Both sides agree to a ceasefire involving all types of weapons, including attacks on civilians and civilian objects and military objectives of either side, in all cases and all areas," the document signed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, stated.
"There shall be no troop movements, including patrols, towards the other side's position.
"Both sides agree not to increase forces along the entire Cambodia-Thailand border," which curves 500 miles long and has been disputed for the past 100 years because of squabbling over vague and imprecise French colonial maps.
The new ceasefire agreement also "includes military activities to enter the other side's air space and territory, or positions."