“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday accused Russia of planning a major terrorist campaign against aircraft.
“I can only confirm that Russia planned acts of air terror, not just against Poland but against airlines across the globe,” said Tusk during a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The New York Times reported in recent days that U.S. intelligence warned the White House that Russia was planning to smuggle incendiary devices onto cargo planes heading to the U.S. The White House, according to the Times, warned the Kremlin to stop the operation.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-planned-terror-attacks-airlines-around-world-donald-tusk-says/
Reading the Bible literally is more of a modern phenomenon. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, the official teaching was the Bible is not to be read literally when it comes to things we can know by science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXc6VJ0GF0o
Everyone was an evil asshole, so don’t demonize particular empires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyWcSL3VD4
DOGE’s wall of receipts has been full of basic mistakes that makes it look like DOGE isn’t familiar with the organizations they are cutting.
DOGE is less a efficient tech support generally improving the efficiency of government, and more a political project broadly cutting things they don’t like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt36SP81zxA
How Iran Became a Theocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Yl9P9zcQY
Rich Guy’s Inequality Revolution Rant Stuns Morning Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfEM2T9ib8
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/jack-smith-special-counsel-report-takeaways-00198252
“For 11 days, Musk — the world’s richest man and a prominent backer of President-elect Donald Trump — allegedly failed to properly disclose that he had acquired a major stake in Twitter, the SEC said in a court filing in Washington. As a result, the agency said Musk benefited from “artificially low prices” as he snatched up shares in the company, which he eventually purchased for $44 billion and renamed X.
“In total, Musk underpaid Twitter investors by more than $150 million for his purchases of Twitter common stock during this period,” the SEC said in its complaint. “Investors who sold Twitter common stock during this period did so at artificially low prices and thus suffered substantial economic harm.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/sec-sues-elon-musk-over-twitter-purchase-disclosures-00198295
“Raising the pension age has long been one of the most contentious issues in French politics. The country enjoys a generous welfare state, but as public debt piles up, policymakers are increasingly desperate to make savings.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-prime-minister-francois-bayrou-retirement-age-socialists/
“Twenty-five years ago, the European Union reacted with outrage at the prospect of a far-right politician, Jörg Haider, entering Austria’s government, turning the country into a virtual pariah.
This time? Crickets.
With Herbert Kickl, a right-wing hard-liner who advocates “remigration” for second- and third-generation immigrants, poised to become Austria’s next chancellor, the reaction from EU leaders so far has been to grin, bear it — and hope that Kickl won’t prove as disruptive around the EU leaders’ table as his prior positions suggest he might be.”
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““At this point, which country doesn’t have a right-wing populist in government to reckon with?” asked the first EU diplomat. “It’s really coming down to being pragmatic and practical, not morality.””
https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-far-right-herbert-kickl-europe-populism/