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January 28, 2022

Biden administration to deny $130 mln in military aid to Egypt - sources

Source: Jerusalem Post

By REUTERS Published: JANUARY 28, 2022 19:59

The Biden administration is set to deny $130 million of military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, three sources familiar with the decision told Reuters.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in September that the aid would be withheld if Egypt did not address specific human-rights related conditions.

Rights groups had called on the administration to block the entire $300 million of Foreign Military Financing to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government. Sisi, who ousted the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, has overseen a crackdown on dissent that has tightened in recent years.

One source said members of Congress had been briefed on the administration's decision to withhold the aid, which accounts for 10% of the $1.3 billion that Egypt is still expected to receive from the United States this year. As of now there are no plans to withhold the rest of that aid, the source said.

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-694897

January 28, 2022

'Oncoming Train': Gaetz Alleged Sex Crimes Bombshell Exposed

Funny they should mention the word train, because if Gaetz ends up going to prison for sex with minor. . .

January 25, 2022

UK would deploy troops to Europe if Ukraine invaded - BBC News

Every time Russia's bluff has been called, they've backed down. Truman, Ike, JFK, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, doesn't matter. They know they're a Potemkinesqe Third World country.

January 23, 2022

UK warns Russia will face severe sanctions if it installs Ukraine 'puppet regime'

Source: Reuters

LONDON/KIYV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Russia will face severe economic sanctions if it installs a puppet regime in Ukraine, a senior UK minister said on Sunday after Britain accused the Kremlin of seeking to install a pro-Russian leader there.

Britain made the accusation late on Saturday, also saying Russian intelligence officers had been in contact with a number of former Ukrainian politicians as part of plans for an invasion.

The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the comments as "disinformation", accusing Britain and NATO of "escalating tensions" over Ukraine.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian adviser to the presidential office, said the allegations should be taken seriously.

"There'll be very serious consequences if Russia takes this move to try and invade but also install a puppet regime," British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told Sky News on Sunday.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-faces-severe-sanctions-if-it-installs-puppet-regime-ukraine-uk-minister-2022-01-23/

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I'm in favor of seending Ukraine all the weapons it requests, offensive and defensive, as we are clearly not going to go to war with Russia even if Donnie's Dom actually does invade.

January 23, 2022

"This is on Aaron"

Say what you want, but Aaron Rodgers wasn't bad tonight! Wouldn't you agree, Stephen A ?

January 10, 2022

Aaron Rodgers Lost!

Sure, the Packers had already secured the No.1 seed in the NFC, but he started the game, so he must have had some investment in the outcome! C-C-Could it be that Holy Aaron is NOT the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ???

Fact Check - Rodgers is an overrated One-Ringer who won the Big Game a decade ago, and has been cruising on it ever since!

Personally, I'm hoping he gets blown out in the first game he plays in the postseason. Maybe then His Devoted Acolytes will finally get the message and STFU!!!

January 9, 2022

Is the US uniquely bad at tackling climate change?

Shannon Osaka,
Grist

A Democratic president was in the White House. The Democratic Party held a majority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. But a single senator — a moderate Democrat from West Virginia — blocked the White House’s preferred climate plan.

No, this wasn’t 2021 — the year was 1993: Jurassic Park had just been released, Bill Clinton was president, and atmospheric carbon dioxide was only 357 parts per million (it’s 415 ppm today). Senator Robert Byrd of fossil-fuel laden West Virginia was the chair of the Senate Appropriations committee, and without his support, the Clinton administration couldn’t pass a tax on carbon emissions to address climate change. The White House opted to support an energy tax instead, which passed the House but, faced with substantial opposition and fossil-fuel lobbying, never became law.

It was the first climate policy failure of many. Four years later, Byrd spearheaded a resolution that prevented the U.S. from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Other efforts to pass climate legislation stalled nearly every year after. Indeed, the last three decades of U.S. climate policy look like a graveyard of failed bills: Carbon taxes have died on the Senate floor and been torched by attack ads. Cap-and-trade systems have been endorsed — and then abandoned — by Republicans and Democrats alike.

According to the Climate Change Performance Index, the U.S. is 55th in the world when it comes to climate policy; another analysis by Yale University and Columbia University ranked the country 24th for environmental performance. Now, as Democrats struggle to regroup after current West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s refusal to support President Joe Biden’s landmark climate and social welfare bill, it seems to be happening again. The U.S. is within reach of passing climate policy, but perilously close to falling short.

Biden’s giant climate bill — known as the Build Back Better Act — is still in play. Democrats have vowed to try and pass it regardless of Manchin’s stance, while the West Virginia senator has said publicly that the climate sections of the bill may be easier to reach agreement on than, say, the Child Tax Credit. But earlier this week, Manchin also claimed that there have been “no negotiations” about the bill. For the moment, Build Back Better looks like a grim bookend to decades of inaction on climate change.

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I wonder what John Denver is thinking from On High. . .