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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

‘Take Out’ Russian Missiles? U.S. Envoy’s Remark Spurs Anger, and Pullback – The New York Times “Walk back didn’t even take two hours…”

The American ambassador to NATO used vague language that sounded like an American threat to strike Russian missiles preemptively. She later clarified her meaning.

Trump mocking Christine Blasey Ford shows how women are silenced | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Can’t get much lower but I am sure he will try… Ford is facing the same humiliation as thousands of sexual assault complainants before her. We need to rip up this script of male domination

I believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford. I found her testimony of a violent sexual assault by supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh powerful and convincing, as did many, many others who watched her give evidence before the Senate committee last week. Even Donald Trump said at the time: “I thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me, very fine woman.”

It is of course foolish to expect any kind of consistency from that man. He had already questioned on Twitter why the 15-year-old Ford had not reported the assault to police. And on Tuesday night, at a campaign rally in Mississippi, he mocked her and her testimony in front of a baying and cheering audience. We already know that Trump considers himself to be quite the impressionist, and so here we see him imitating her inability to remember certain details from the events of that night 40 years ago.

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US Nato envoy’s threat to Russia: stop developing missile or we’ll ‘take it out’

How long will it take to walk this back?

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  • Kay Bailey Hutchison seems to raise prospect of strike
  • Washington says cruise missile breaks 1987 INF treaty

The US ambassador to Nato has warned Russia that if it does not halt the development of a new cruise missile in violation of a treaty between the countries, the US will “take out” the missile.

Kay Bailey Hutchison was speaking to reporters about a longstanding issue of contention, a Russian ground-launched cruise missile which Washington says breaks the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

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Trump reportedly picks handbag designer as ambassador to South Africa

This is why people laugh at him.

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Lana Marks, whose products retail for $10,000 to $400,000, was born in South Africa but has not lived there for more than 40 years

A luxury handbag designer in Palm Beach, Florida, has reportedly been chosen by Donald Trump as the next US ambassador to South Africa.

The appointment of Lana Marks, whose products sell between $10,000 and $400,000, would be likely to cause some surprise: Marks was born in South Africa but has not lived there for more than 40 years.

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US begins denying visas for same-sex domestic partners of diplomats | World news | The Guardian

“This will have an insidious impact on same-sex couples from countries that ban same-sex marriage or only offer civil unions,” the group’s deputy UN director, Akshaya Kumar, wrote. “The US government should recognize, as it had for almost nine years until today, that requiring a marriage as proof of bona fide partnership is a bad and cruel policy, one that replicates the terrible discrimination many LGBT people face in their own countries, and should be immediately reversed.”

Source: US begins denying visas for same-sex domestic partners of diplomats | World news | The Guardian