The danger in suspending aid to Ukraine longterm
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“The pause was meant to bring Zelensky to the table, not provide a good reason for Moscow to walk away from it.” (03/10/25)
Trump warns “monster” nukes could end the world “tomorrow”
Source: New York Post
“President Trump has warned that ‘monster’ nuclear weapons are the biggest threat to humanity and could easily ‘end the world’ tomorrow. The commander-in-chief gave the grim warning as he lamented the dangers of stockpiling nukes amid his push to kickstart arms control talks with Russia and China again. ‘The greatest [threat] is sitting on shelves in various countries called ‘nuclear weapons’ that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles,’ Trump told Fox News’ ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ He went on to lament the amount of money the United States, which has the second-largest stockpile of nukes in the world behind Russia, has spent on its nuclear weapon program.” (03/10/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/10/us-news/president-trump-fears-monster-nukes-could-be-end-of-the-world/
Can Trump’s Gold Card Scheme Work?
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“American citizenship is already on sale; it’s all a matter of price.” (03/10/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/can-trumps-gold-card-scheme-work/
North Korea fires missiles as South, US launch military drills
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles as South Korea and the United States initiated military drills. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday that North Korea’s fifth launch event this year fired several missiles off the west coast into the sea. The launch came as South Korea and the US began their annual Freedom Shield joint exercises. The drills are scheduled to last until March 20. That drew condemnation from nuclear-armed Pyongyang, which issued a statement calling the exercises a ‘dangerous provocative act’ that increases the risk of military conflict.” (03/10/25)
Free Talk Live, 03/09/25
Source: Free Talk Live
“daylight savings :: Robert calls about GMT :: stop jacking the clock around :: teacher sells test score enhancement pills :: Russia missiles Ukraine :: ‘unprovoked’ attacks highly provoked :: Ricky from the commonwealth calls about Ukraine :: skeeter calls with more contradictive nonsense :: solutions without tryanny :: Sarah calls about the public park being a tragedy of the commons :: she advocates for speeding cars hitting drunk panhandlers :: is animal ‘rescue’ just theft? :: DOGE removes $18M/month funding for empty facility :: David in NM calls about avoiding taxes :: courtroom strategies :: 2025-03-09 Hosts: Stu, Rich E Rich.” (03/09/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2025-03-09
Tariffs raise prices, spark conflict and impoverish everyone
Source; Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“We’re now at the ‘good and hard’ part of H.L. Mencken’s definition about democracy being ‘the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it.’ That’s certainly the case with economic policy. If you occasionally check your retirement accounts and did so after the last two times President Donald Trump imposed 25-percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, you will have noticed that they dropped precipitously. The markets understand the basic truth about tariffs, which are taxes consumers in our country pay for imported goods. They raise prices, reduce our access to foreign goods and spark reciprocal tariffs that then punish our country’s farmers and manufacturers. They lead to less growth and more unemployment. They increase bureaucracy by requiring officials to calculate duties and enforce them. They create hostilities and have led to actual war.” (03/09/25)
Trump’s Democratic “Allies”
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions are usually wrong (remember a victorious Kamala Harris?). He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances. Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left. That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises. Most recently, Dr. Carville diagnosed Donald Trump as suffering from tertiary syphilis. Carville’s ‘proof’ was his identification of a bruise on Trump’s much-used shaking hand, along with his supposed brain dementia. As confirmation, Carville described Trump as a ‘fat f—ing slob’ with a ‘beached whale body.'” (03/10/25)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/10/trumps-democratic-allies/
Hundreds of flights cancelled as strikes hit German airports
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Hundreds of flights have been cancelled across Germany as airport workers stage a nationwide strike over pay, posing a major disruption for air travellers. The industrial action, led by the trade union Verdi, began unexpectedly on Sunday at Hamburg Airport, before expanding to a nationwide strike. Passengers at Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and other major hubs have been urged not to travel to airports, with operations severely disrupted. Frankfurt, Germany’s busiest airport, said passengers would be unable to board flights and transfer would ‘almost certainly’ be affected. Verdi, which represents public sector and transport workers, is in an ongoing dispute over wages and working conditions. German media reports thousands of flights could be cancelled across the day, disrupting travel for more than 500,000 passengers. The Lufthansa group, whose main hub is in Frankfurt, confirmed ‘delays and extensive cancellations’ across all its airlines.” (03/10/25)
Ukraine Deserves Better Than Trump and Zelensky
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Donald Trump may put on a big show of aping like Pat Buchanan with dick jokes, but his foul-mouthed isolationism usually amounts to little more than a hustle. The fucker is basically just against any war that he can’t personally profit from, and Trump’s ties aren’t made in sweatshops in Kharkiv. What Trump really wants to do is to strip Ukraine of the copper wiring before he shifts the American Empire towards consolidating its flagging control over the Western Hemisphere with a new Monroe Doctrine on Drug-War steroids then launching his own world war against Russia’s sponsors in China. … Volodymyr Zelensky has become … a sexy Semitic action figure regurgitating neoliberal talking points in roguish broken English while he sells one generation of Ukrainians after another into forced military prostitution. The man has become a monster but unlike Trump he didn’t start out that way.” (03/09/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/03/ukraine-deserves-better-than-trump-and.html
NORAD intercepts civilian aircraft flying near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Source: United Press International
“U.S. fighter jets twice intercepted civilian aircraft flying in restricted airspace near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend, military officials said. North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement that a civilian aircraft violated the Temporary Flight Restriction over Palm Beach where Trump’s residence is located at about 1:15 p.m. EDT Sunday. An F-16 fighter jet responded from the Continental U.S. NORAD region to intercept the unidentified aircraft. The aircraft was ‘safely escorted out of the area’ by the F-16, which had to deploy flares to get the civilian pilot’s attention — flares that may have been visible to the public, NORAD said.” [editor’s note: Nothing says “monarchy” like militarily restricting the airspace around one guy’s house – TLK] (03/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/10/Mar-a-Lago-aircraft-intercepted/7201741594703/