Day: October 18, 2022

Tulsi Gabbard CALLED OUT by Kim Iversen For Supporting PRO WAR Republicans

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Oct 17, 2022 – Zac & Gavin react to Tulsi Gabbard getting called out on Twitter by Kim Iversen (formerly of The Hill’s Rising).

Tulsi Gabbard CALLED OUT by Kim Iversen For Supporting PRO WAR Republicans – The Vanguard

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Trump Advisor: Bolduc’s Ukraine Comments ‘Disqualified’ Him for U.S. Senate

Bolduc, who lost a GOP Senate primary in 2020, has been taking a steady stream of incoming fire over wild speculation he made during a Fox News TV appearance last weekend. His comments about how the CIA or military could “get in there on the ground” in Ukraine, using “special operations troops” and “indirect fires and direct capabilities” to attack Russian targets were viewed as so inflammatory, he was called out on the air by the network’s Pentagon correspondent.

How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis

In those interim years, the fictional story of how the missile crisis was resolved became foreign-policy folklore. None of the early memoirs by top Kennedy aides, such as Schlesinger and Sorensen, contained the real history. These incomplete accounts became the basis of the foreign-policy models and paradigms in political scientist Graham Allison’s highly influential book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. A full generation of scholars, analysts, foreign-policy makers, and even presidents learned the wrong lessons from the most significant superpower conflict in modern history.

Sixty years later, however, the Biden administration at least has a more complete record of history to draw on as U.S. policymakers and the world confront another time of crisis in the nuclear age. How applicable the lessons of the missile crisis will prove to be in preventing an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war remains unknown. But the mantra of reason that Stevenson shared with Kennedy in October 1962 seems more relevant than ever: “Blackmail and intimidation never, negotiation and sanity always.”

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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor

DPR delegation visiting Damascus thanks Syria for its support to the UN

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On 16 October 2022, a delegation from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) arrived in Syria. One of the objectives of this visit was to determine new ways and possibilities of interaction between Syria and the DPR as an entity of the Russian Federation. The DPR also thanked the Syrian authorities for Damascus’ vote against the UN resolution condemning the referendums held in the DPR, LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic), Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

DPR delegation visiting Damascus thanks Syria for its support to the UN

Payback For OPEC+ Cuts? Biden May Press U.S. Companies To Limit Saudi Business, Report Says

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Payback For OPEC+ Cuts? Biden May Press U.S. Companies To Limit Saudi Business, Report Says (archived)

The Biden administration wants to leverage U.S. companies with ties to Saudi Arabia but without sacrificing regional security efforts, according to the report.

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The Biden administration will immediately begin scaling back its diplomatic and military activities in Saudi Arabia, at least until OPEC+’s next meeting on December 4, NBC reports, citing an unnamed senior administration official who said the meeting will “be a key test” of how OPEC+ will respond to European Union sanctions that ban Russian oil imports, effective December 5.

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The OPEC+ conglomerate–a Saudi-led alliance of oil-producing countries, including Russia–plans to curb oil production by 2 million barrels a day beginning in November. The move, characterized by the Saudi government as an effort to stabilize energy markets, is expected to increase global oil prices and raise gas prices. The Biden administration has vowed “consequences” for Saudi Arabia over the announcement, and Democratic lawmakers have urged the president to halt arms sales to the kingdom, but the White House has yet to announce how, exactly, it will retaliate and is not expected to do so until Congress returns from recess after the November midterms.

Doom mod that you kill Margaret Thatcher in played by ex Labour leader

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Sep 26, 2022 – A Doom mod that lets you kill Margaret Thatcher, called Thatcher’s Techbase, has been played by ex Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Doom mod that you kill Margaret Thatcher in played by ex Labour leader

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Suspicions arise as Sweden ‘shuns’ formal joint investigation of Nord Stream leak

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Suspicions arise as Sweden ‘shuns’ formal joint investigation of Nord Stream leak

Journalist Ali Abunimah commented that Sweden’s refusal to take part in such a joint exercise suggests that its administration knows Moscow did not sabotage its own pipeline.

He wrote in a post on Twitter: “Could there be clearer confirmation they know it wasn’t Russia?”

TRT Reporter Ali Mustafa also quested whether this meant Sweden had information which suggested the US was behind the Nord Stream destruction.