Former US diplomat and Balkan mediator James Pardew talks to DW about the current administration in Washington, its foreign policy and whether or not President Trump will manage to finish his mandate in the White House.
Daily Archives: March 22, 2018
Blaming Russia for nerve agent attack, EU to recall ambassador to Moscow
The EU will recall its ambassador to Russia for consultations in response to a nerve agent attack on an ex-double agent in England. Several EU member states are also considering expelling Russian diplomats.
French-Dutch firm to make blue British passport as Brexiteers howl ‘national humiliation’
lol.
Brexiteers hailed the decision to reintroduce the pre-1988 dark blue passport as symbolic of Britain’s newly regained sovereignty. The EU doesn’t require member countries to issue passports of any particular color.
Thursday Open Thread | Does This Smell Like Selling State Secrets? Just Asking for a Friend.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly bragged about having White House senior counsel Jared Kushner “in his pocket” and may have used highly sensitive intelligence from the President’s Daily Briefing in his violent crackdown on dissent in Saudi Arabia, The Intercept reported Wednesday.
Three sources told The Intercept that Kushner had revealed names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince.
“The Saudi figures named in the President’s Daily Brief were among those rounded up; at least one was reportedly tortured,” The Intercept explained.
Mohammed bin Salman also was said to have told UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed that Kushner was “in his pocket.”
Kushner communicates with both the Saudi and Emirati crown princes via Whats-App. A source claims that Kushner’s lawyers have since told him not to use the app for government business.
You didn’t think that Jared was reading the President’s Daily Briefing for fun, did you?
There was a reason for that story about the four countries that admitted that they choose to meet with Jared ALONE.
UH HUH
UH HUH
Saudi Crown prince said he has Kushner ‘in his pocket’ after allegedly receiving sensitive information from the President’s Daily Briefing
Bob Brigham
21 Mar 2018 at 19:30 ET
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly bragged about having White House senior counsel Jared Kushner “in his pocket” and may have used highly sensitive intelligence from the President’s Daily Briefing in his violent crackdown on dissent in Saudi Arabia, The Intercept reported Wednesday.
Three sources told The Intercept that Kushner had revealed names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince.
“The Saudi figures named in the President’s Daily Brief were among those rounded up; at least one was reportedly tortured,” The Intercept explained.
Mohammed bin Salman also was said to have told UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed that Kushner was “in his pocket.”
Kushner communicates with both the Saudi and Emirati crown princes via Whats-App. A source claims that Kushner’s lawyers have since told him not to use the app for government business.
“Oops!” Price to pay: Antibiotic-resistant infections cost $2 billion a year | CIDRAP
Source: Price to pay: Antibiotic-resistant infections cost $2 billion a year | CIDRAP
Antibiotic resistance adds nearly $1,400 to the bill for treating a bacterial infection and costs the nation more than $2 billion annually, according to a study yesterday in Health Affairs.
The study, which is the first national estimate of the incremental costs for treating antibiotic-resistant infections, also found that the share of bacterial infections in the United States that were antibiotic resistant more than doubled over 13 years, rising from 5.2% in 2002 to 11% in 2014.
47 Incredible Colorized Photos of Russian Beauties From the Early 20th Century
Grin – only Euro-Russians in Russia or Russian Empire of old? These amazing photos which were colorized by Olga are portraits of Russian beauties from the 1900 and 1910s.
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| Mathilde Kschessinskaya, circa 1900s |
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| A fashionable lady from Kashin (Tver region, Russia), circa 1900s |
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| Agrippina Vaganova, circa 1900s |
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| Alexander Institute for Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg, circa 1900s |
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| Alexander Institute for Noble Maidens, St. Petersburg, circa 1900s |
Imagine having so much money you can spend it on Instagram “influencers”
That so much money concentrates at the top that capitalists can’t find useful outlets for it, and that capitalism produces huge amounts of junk we don’t need or want, was reinforced for me upon reading a New York Times article on what apparently has become a war against Instagram bots.
You can’t make this up, can you? So much capital is thrown into marketing that huge sums of money are thrown at Internet “influencers” who apparently are “influencers” because they have large numbers of followers on Instagram. The problem here, from the marketers’ perspective, is that large numbers of those followers are fake. They’re bots created to inflate the size of followings.
Although I couldn’t read this business-section article without laughing at the absurdity of this, it did also nicely illustrate the tremendous amount of waste in capitalist production. You’ve got to have a lot of capital lying around to…
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Fears of a ‘Coup’ at Broadcasting Board of Governors
via aleksey godin Employees fear the Breitbartization of U.S.-government funded international media outlets
Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News 