Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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Funny how Musk has this weird affinity with the UK, huh?
He grew up in South Africa and Canada, -former- colonies . Makes it less weird perhaps. And he’s not done yet:
The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2025Never gets old.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/61fBhhLctZ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 24, 2024
John Day,
What about the Ekathimerini Soup Kitchen being charged with 600,000 Euros “embezzlement” in 3 years? It seems like they didn’t keep records of cash food purchases or something and are being made an example of. What say You?
The article is 3 months old, and talks only about charges. I don’t think there’s been a verdict yet, let’s await that. He denies the whole thing. Innocent until proven guilty. We distanced ourselves from him 5(?) years ago, because we didn’t like the way he handled things. And I don’t think he could have mishandled much of what TAE provided before that time. We are not blind.
But this is a whole other story. He’s now accused of gambling a lot of money away. 600,000 Euros is insane. The Monastiraki kitchen via TAE gets maybe 5,000 a year. And we won’t let anyone steal that. It’s for the people.
“..picture-uploads not enabled right now at TAE..””
Huh, what?
Nobody told me. Or Oroboros, apparently.
Anyone seen a reason why the X videos no longer embed/show? It’s a nuisance. I may have to steal some of Oroboros’ pics to live up the place.
DBS et al. the address for Checks and Money Orders has been up forever under “Store and Donations” in the menu (where else can you put it?):
Daniel Jarvis
494 Hamilton St. SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
USAAre you sure this is the Kitchen that TAE readers supported for 9 years?
What is the question, Dimitri?
Wayne Hall sends this comment: Oxymoron, reader of my 14th September dog story at the Automatic Earth blog says that is “interesting to read but felt incomplete somehow”.
For him/her and for anyone else who likes stories to have a moral, here is my postscript: “The actions of Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis, for the few months remaining before his assassination, enjoyed a flattering ambiguity. Putin is conceivably not Khrushchev and Sir Keir Starmer is certainly not John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For Mr Starmer and his allies, whether their destiny is to be alive or dead, there is already – and henceforth will be – NO ambiguity benefit. They will have either the fate of Khrushchev or something much much worse.”
Jim Kunstler tells me his host is down, but he’s also been posting his articles on Substack for a while.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-votes-and-who-counts-them
Bit disappointed. So much here to make something of, but few people do it. I’d like to know how you see it. Only knowing how I see it is too limited. Maybe we should do a poll: who thinks Kamala can win?
More from last night. Noirette disappoints me:
Yes. TAE used to be about energy and the economy dependent on that (a bit like Gail T., link below, site, Our finite world, at least to some degree.. )
I explained about energy and the economy, extensively. BTB, You will never see Gail mentioned here. Long term readers may be capable of explaining why.
IT posted world wide news. Now it has become a purely US-mainstream news commentary site, focussed on ‘top’ USA issues as touted by the MSM, such as Kabala vs. Trumpy, which is interesting as an example or internal political moves and propaganda, but not important for the state of the world, as US Presidents from either side of the aisle pursue identical policies while fooling the public with ‘switcheroos’… Still there are many good posters here.
That’s pretty insane. No world wide news?! All I’ve been trying for years is to steer TAE away from MSM, and she steers it back. And I’m not that crazy, I know I succeeded to a large extent in providing a different view from western media. That people are not aware of that effort, and that that costs me a lot of donations, is maybe a different story. But I still know.
From yesterday’s comments (more about that later):
Dimitri:
This site is becoming increasingly:
1. Very USA centric and
2. So last day’s news.More US? Nah. Always like that. Well over 70% of readers are American, so that will be reflected.
For example no mention today of the kitch-woke fest that was yesterday’s Opening Ceremony in Paris.
Now it’s a bad thing I don’t watch the Olympics opening? My, times change…
But we have piece after piece about the assassination attempt that happened last century and if it was a bullet or a piece of glass when we all know what it was.
It’s not every day a US president gets shot. And even that goes through the lies machine. I think that warrants attention.
Meanwhile Europe is burning while is transforming into an authoritarian nightmare but this is treated as an afterthought that takes place in the margins of the Trump campaign or the machinations of the chaotic Democratic Party.
Europe has ceded its voice to the US, Trump or Dems. Not my doing. But Europe’s news is made in the US. Also not my doing,
Last day’s news? 95% of “news” is. And I have no roving reporters at hand to speed that up.
Just last week, Joe Biden said:
Then last night happened, and Biden’s reaction was:
“I am grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information,” Biden told reporters hours after the incident. “There’s no place for this kind of violence in America.” “We cannot allow this to be happening..”
But you cannot both call for violence against your competitor -and we all know what a bullseye stands for- and at the same time condemn it. You knew what you were saying, how people could interpret it. You literally “allowed it to happen”. You even encouraged it. Trump would never wish the same on you. He wants to beat you at the ballot box only. And a debate.
Most Voters Want Biden To Step Down, Oldest Voters Least Concerned
Word has it he’s still quite popular among 81-year olds.
Real suddenly, “my” Twitter/X is filling up with anti-Trump “tweets”. This is a prepared campaign. Lots of senders, multiple topics, telling.
I expected some kudos for the Paul Simon video. But no. You guys! 🙂
I’m in a 100+F heatwave now. Makes work challenging. Life itself, even… It’s only early June…
How crazy are they? it’s hard to measure… BBC:
How does the plan to fund Ukraine work?
Essentially there is an idea of how to make more cash for Ukraine by using all the Russian assets that were frozen when the country invaded Ukraine – it’s about $300bn in all. They’ve decided they can’t go full hog and take the whole thing, because of the financial ramifications of that.
But this pot is generating a lot of interest – around $3bn a year – so their idea is to use that interest “in a creative way”. The idea is to take out a loan on the international markets, give about $50bn to the Ukrainians each year, and use the $3bn to pay off the interest on that loan each year.
Ergo, Ukraine debt rises by $47 billion a year. $235 billion in 5 years. They are already broke.
“Not only Scott Ritter was pulled off that plane to St Petersburg, so was Judge Nap(olitano).”
That’s a hard no. The judge says so himself,
That clip is 13 days old. It has no bearing on what happened to either Ritter or Nap in the past two days.
Re: Oroboros’ comment #160147
I am beginning to stockpile Guy Fawkes masks.
They will be all the rage fairly soon.I wouldn’t be surprised.
Or a Trump mugshot mask.
how come you never feature one of hunter’s paintings?!
They’re all hidden in private collections, waiting to accumulate value
Slovak PM Robert Fico is in serious danger after having been shot. He’s one of the last sane voices left in Europe.
I have a perhaps silly notion that there is less news than before; on the topics that I (we) would find worth discussing, that is. But I can’t seem to find a reason why I think that. Please help me. Not by unleashing your own grand theory of the planet, though I’m sure it’s lovely, but by addressing my perception. Thanx.
They dug up my street in Athens, and deep! No way they fill that back in today. Plus the diggers have no clue what all those dozens of cables are for. First victim: internet. In a bar now, but that gets old too: I work minimum 12 hours per day. We’ll play it by ear, shall we?!
The judges rejected six of Assange’s nine grounds of appeal, but said they would grant appeal on three issues: freedom of speech, Assange’s claim that he faces disadvantage because he is not a U.S. citizen, and the risk he could receive the death penalty.
Coverage of the Assange ruling is a bit confusing, but he won’t be on a plane anytime soon. Confusing because RT says: “ASSANGE WINS RIGHT TO FIGHT EXTRADITION TO US”, while the BBC reports UK prosecutors are merely looking for a few extra US guarantees, like no possible death penalty. “Assange faces wait on ruling as judges seek US assurances” “The Wikileaks founder faces a further wait to find out whether he can bring an appeal against his extradition to the US.”
The US Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision that former President Donald Trump will be allowed to remain on primary and general ballots in the 2024 US election, after several states removed the former president under the 14th Amendment.
Only option they had. Imagine a president elected by half the country.
BREAKING – SHOCKING – DEEP STATE STRIKES AFTER BEING FIRED BY CBS:
A federal judge Christopher Cooper has just held investigative reporter Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) in civil contempt for refusing to disclose her source for stories about a Chinese American scientist… pic.twitter.com/rLgQVBplRx— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 29, 2024
aspnaxz et al
Linking to rt.com is no use, it’s banned in much of the west. I use mirror site swentr.com these days (rt news spelled backwards), that seems to work.
