AM Grind: A Morning of Hot Take Updates
Wassup with Trump? How'd China & Russia's kanoodling go? More on J6?
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A bit of Good News - Congrats to a J6er!
Where’s the Trump Indictment? Arrest? Hello?
After all the hullabaloo, is New York DA still pursuing an arrest?
Read: Will Donald Trump be arrested today? The former president’s moving indictment timeline
The grand jury’s proceedings were called off on Wednesday 22 March, likely delaying any eventual indictment. After hearing from all witnesses, the jury could then vote on whether or not to indict Mr Trump.
A Trump spokesperson clarified the former president’s team has been given “no notification” of an impending arrest beside “illegal leaks”.
Honestly though, doesn’t the DA have better things to do?
Check out: NYPD Announces Citywide Crime Statistics for January 2023
Where are all the violent protests Trump was instigating this week?
Read: Trump called for protesters. They turned up and demanded his arrest
These people are amazing. I can't believe the nerve;
we don't show up to protest and the counter-protesters who did show up now get credit.
As though they're Trump protesters. Please. . .
~ @TrashDiscourse
But, but, GEORGIA!
Investigators have a large volume of substantial evidence related to a possible conspiracy from inside and outside the state, including recordings of phone calls, emails, text messages, documents, and testimony before a special grand jury.
By the way. . . Truth Bomb
What’s the latest on the Russia-Ukraine front?
=>To disseminate: Interactive Map: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
=>No ‘Path to Peace’ or Government War Machines Refuse Peace
Read: No path to peace: Five key takeaways from Xi and Putin’s talks in Moscow
No meaningful path forward on Ukraine
New world order and alignment against the US
‘Military mutual trust’ and defense ties
Economic and energy boost
Divided world
It’s win-win for China. Is it lose-lose for United States?
Read: Think tank on Russia-Ukraine war: China is winning either way
“Together, we should push forward these changes that have not happened for 100 years.”
~Xi to Putin
=>Will Pentagon be sending fighters and drones to Ukraine next?
Read: Pentagon will expedite delivery of tanks, Patriot systems to Ukraine
The Pentagon is on track to send Abrams tanks and Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine faster than originally planned. The U.S. military in mid-January began training a group Ukrainians to use the Patriot missile system at Fort Sill, Okla., after first promising the advanced weapon in December. (as we also previously reported here).
The lessons, expected to last for several months, “went faster than expected” given the troops’ “propensity and their eagerness to do the training,” Ryder said.
==>Call it like it is: Ukraine is a money-pit
Read: Ukraine needs $411 billion for reconstruction, recovery: World Bank
==>An Irishman’s opinion
We are duly reminded that we are not an ‘island’:
There is continuing tragedy in the World.
Brazil:
Major flooding in São Paulo
Read: 2023 São Paulo, Brazil FloodsAuthoritarian-owned Brazil papers cheer ‘Lula! Lula! Lula!’
Read: Street papers in Brazil have expressed “relief” after Lula – defeated far-right populist Jair BolsonaroLula gets admonished by China, ergo gives more Power to ‘her’ State,
disguised as market reforms, new fiscal framework
Read: Brazil's Lula to announce fiscal framework after China visit, criticizesBrazil ousted most ‘illegal’ gold miners from Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation; plans to remove miners from six more reserves in 2023.
Read: Brazil evicts miners from Yanomami territory, prepares for more removals
(has pay wall)Good news? Cannabis may be legalized for medicinal and industrial purposes.
Read: Brazil court to rule on cannabis cultivation, may open door to planting
Uganda: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Read: Uganda Anti-Homosexuality bill: Life in prison for saying you're gay
Expecting anytime now for the LGBTQ community to take to the streets here to protest.
We are also duly reminded: U.N. is no stranger to fearmongering
Read: UN warns against 'vampiric' global water use
The world is "blindly travelling a dangerous path" of "vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment", the report says.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says water, "humanity's lifeblood", is being drained by "unsustainable water use, pollution and unchecked global warming".
Congratulations, Japan. We mean it. Really.
{{sniffle}}
Read: World Baseball Classic final: Japan beat defending champions USA 3-2 to win third title
Thoughts for today
From a good friend of America Mission, GP:
My concern is that secular states are secular when it comes to Judeo-Christian beliefs but not for others. My point is equality of secularism. I find these events all over the Western world. We are made ashamed of our western heritages and cultures and religions and presented with other heritages and cultures and religions without the same Bias.
Live and let live. But stop this censoring of one, western, and glorification of all of the others. They are all equal. This leftist guilt trip about events that no one alive today was party to is an attempt to destroy the cultures, heritage, beliefs, and religions of western civilization.
I've been all over the world. People at the normal level are all the same, stop making western kids feel like they have to apologize for their ethnicity and/or religion. I am not religious. I am for equality of stature for all schools of thought. The left is undermining western civilization. They will fail but it’s infuriating to see them so dedicated to the eradication of western culture while preaching diversity and inclusivity for all others.
The obvious Bias is in plain sight. When did we the people of the west vote for our politicians, teachers, and universities to oversee the destruction of our societies.
We didn't. Its a sinister agenda.
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