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Apparently we humans won't give up until the last person on earth has been exterminated. War, hatred, racism, fanatical rights, oppression and I could list many more facts, every country thinks they are "the better people" - today we didn't have that already? I wish you a great Sunday

But I'll do you all a favour, I'll close the comment section.

So a well known welsh oldtimer on here suggested I blogged why DT, the famous one
was a 'victim' of unfair treatment and all that and why I oppose the vilification and basically agree with him that it's all a big witch hunt to try bring him down and out of the way. Rite...

Now- here is the good news-
there is a few brainiacs who is not a typical rightie, deplorable
you-name-it loser from way out of america (me) who is so lost in time and space
he don't know what he is talking about this poor fella (me) -
no instead I am presenting to yous:
Mr. Jimmy Dore!
Guess where he comes from.... drumroll.... da left!
TYT (The Young Turks and all that..ring a bell?).
So now he is not only a stand up comedian but also a youtube personality.
This his full time job now. Yes those two. And he tend to bring in interesting guests as Joe Rogan do, often journalists; the real type I mean. More often he is analyzing and commenting on present day events as they unfold with his small regular studio crew.

So, instead of me telling you how crazy it all is over there- check this video out.
Here Jimmy Dore with his studio friends
lay out some of the main points of why the ones who run after Trump
simply is not trustworthy.
About 20 minutes, not the longest educational video you ever watched.

Chris Christie announced he's formally suspending his campaign for the GOP nomination for the 2024 presidential election. I've seen a few of his public meetings and news casts where he was asked to speak. His goal was clear and his statements accurate, however he didn't have the campaign funds and more importantly never had the polling numbers to continue.

By Invitation | Pakistan
Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce
His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison

image: dan williams
Jan 4th 2024

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Today pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.

The public is hearing that elections will supposedly be held on February 8th. But having been denied the same in two provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over the past year—despite a Supreme Court order last March that those votes should be held within three months—they are right to be sceptical about whether the national vote will take place.

The country’s election commission has been tainted by its bizarre actions. Not only has it defied the top court but it has also rejected my Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pti) party’s nominations for first-choice candidates, hindered the party’s internal elections and launched contempt cases against me and other pti leaders for simply criticising the commission.

Whether elections happen or not, the manner in which I and my party have been targeted since a farcical vote of no confidence in April 2022 has made one thing clear: the establishment—the army, security agencies and the civil bureaucracy—is not prepared to provide any playing field at all, let alone a level one, for pti.

It was, after all, the establishment that engineered our removal from government under pressure from America, which was becoming agitated with my push for an independent foreign policy and my refusal to provide bases for its armed forces. I was categorical that we would be a friend to all but would not be anyone’s proxy for wars. I did not come to this view lightly. It was shaped by the huge losses Pakistan had incurred collaborating with America’s “war on terror”, not least the 80,000 Pakistani lives lost.

In March 2022 an official from America’s State Department met Pakistan’s then ambassador in Washington, dc. After that meeting the ambassador sent a cipher message to my government. I later saw the message, via the then foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and it was subsequently read out in cabinet.

In view of what the cipher message said, I believe that the American official’s message was to the effect of: pull the plug on Imran Khan’s prime ministership through a vote of no confidence, or else. Within weeks our government was toppled and I discovered that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had, through the security agencies, been working on our allies and parliamentary backbenchers for several months to move against us.

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The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots

• Published January 5, 2024, 5:10 PM EST | Washington, D.C.

NEWS By Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.

The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up a case from Colorado stemming from Trump's role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Arguments will be held in early February."


More to follow as things unfold..... news worth following.

As much as I learned in school, anyone can run for President as long as they are over 35 and a natural born citizen of the US. It is part of democracy that our forefathers determined made a free country.
Around the world we see how the people don't count and votes don't either. From Kings to Dictators to military rule, leaders are ordered and appointed, not elected.
Putin has a simple answer to a rival..put him in jail in Siberia. Other countries just cause accidents or threats to prevent anyone running against the chosen leader. And his henchmen.
Now we have states saying Trump can't be on the primary ballots. They site some part of number 14 that is about insurgents. It doesn't matter that Trump has not been found guilty of the part they say he played on Jan 6. The judge is judge and jury and states to H with the trial, she says he is guilty.
I see a major break down in our democracy. Putin/Navaly...the libs/Trump.
I guess Trump is lucky that he hasn't fallen out of a window, drank tea or had a plane failure.
Also, I see what the Dems are doing is voter suppression and over turning a free election the same way.
Long ago a man ran for POTUS from his prison cell. I guess back then, we still were a Democracy and not a Banana Republic.

Ekaterina Duntsova – the next president of RF?



“JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST
A mother of three, 40-year-old Ekaterina Duntsova lives in Rzhev (55,000 inhabitants), the second largest city in the Tver region bordering the Moscow region.
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The biggest news of the last months in Russia and among every one else, who is interested in Russian Federation. She is running for a president of RF. She’s against the war.

Now it’s known, that she’s been denied some procedure to continue here move. Do you watch? Do you care? Do you support? I do.

An absolutely superb documentary film on what happened in the Arizona 2022 mid-term elections. Please watch

How did former cricketer Imran Khan come into politics?
Khan entered politics in the mid-1990s as the leader of a newly formed political party, the Pakistan Movement for Justice, or PTI. The young, popular former cricketer quickly grabbed the nation's attention. He offered an alternative to a political establishment that, perhaps ironically, was riddled with allegations of corruption. Pakistan is stuck in dynastic politics.

It's reported that former vice-president Mike Pence dropped out of the race to win the Republican presidential nomination today. He's quoted as saying: “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today."
Sorry Mike, you didn't have a prayer to begin with...
While many think you shouldn't have tried for a campaign, being at the bottom of the polls and never gaining traction. This decision is months overdue.