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Biden wasn’t aware for days that Defense Secretary Austin was hospitalized

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President Joe Biden was not aware for days that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan ultimately informed Biden late Thursday afternoon, soon after Sullivan himself learned Austin had been hospitalized, the source said. Austin was admitted to the hospital on New Year’s Day due to complications from an elective surgery.

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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks periodically assumed the duties of the defense secretary while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico during the time Austin was hospitalized, two US officials said. Hicks had arrived in Puerto Rico prior to Austin’s hospitalization.

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The congressional oversight committees were not notified of Austin’s hospitalization until Friday night, according to three congressional aides familiar with the matter.

Biden wasn’t aware for days that Defense Secretary Austin was hospitalized

How’s that promise to be transparent going, Biden?! /s

What happened to Prigozhin? Is Putin behind it? Lukashenko responds to all fakes, rumors

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MINSK, 25 August (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko visited Belarusian State University on 25 August. After a lengthy conference about the future of the country’s leading higher education institution the head of state met with reporters and answered key questions people had been dying to ask after the tragic accident that happened to the business jet of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company (PMC) Wagner. BelTA summarized statements made by the president on the occasion.

What happened to Prigozhin? Is Putin behind it? Lukashenko responds to all fakes, rumors

Video via Russian News

Related:

Satellite Images Show Wagner Camp In Belarus Being Dismantled

USG-funded propaganda outlet publishes it, corporate media parrots it!

Biden calls global warming bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war during NYC speech

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President Biden gave Manhattan donors an update on his thoughts about nuclear war Tuesday, saying that he currently views global warming as a greater threat — less than four months after he casually told a different set of New York City donors that the world was close to nuclear “Armageddon.”

Biden calls global warming bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war during NYC speech

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

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One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

Related:

Upcoming: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism’s Court Jester (YouTube)

U.S. Policy Toward Yugoslavia (NSC-NSDD-133)

The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia

Feet on the Ground in St. Petersburg: The Public Mood

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by Gilbert Doctorow

One of the first questions put to me by a reader via the Comments function with respect to Monday’s report of my initial impressions after arriving in St Petersburg was: and what is the general mood of people? I begged off answering, saying that I would have to speak to a lot more people before I could confidently answer that question.

Feet on the Ground in St. Petersburg: The Public Mood

Sanctions don’t seem to be effecting the wealthy or the middle class, in Russia, much.