As the speed of the economic system takes off in ’27, Democrats will take credit for it, pointing back to ’25 as terrible and taking advantage of an abundant economic landscape to take credit.
This will annoy the f**k out of Trump, and by extension the intellectually honest who well understand exactly how the policy seeds were planted.
Remember, leftists never create anything. Their skillset is in exploiting the success created by others, and tearing down the policies that make it possible.
Democrats do not create value in anything. They are, by nature, opportunists to extract revenue from the value created by others.
This is indeed what has been good about Trump, and it’s a significant good. The bad is either he has been bribed and threatened by Bibi and his enormous gang in USA, Israel and the world; or he has been a secret agent within that gang all along and done everything willingly. Some claim Trump is a crypto-Jew, which though not proven is not inconceivable; that is a common role played throughout Jewish history. If Trump has been a clandestine actor working for Bibi’s gang all along, then the possibility that the Butler ear wound was staged is much greater. It’s also possible Trump had foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as did others in his administration. Kirk’s assassination was an act of terror aimed at the elite. Trump may also be a victim of MKULTRA, controlled surreptitiously by some highly advanced frequency. You can parse Trump’s reality in many ways, but there is no way to know for certain and probably never will be. To me, he did seem scared to death at several points. For many of us, if a gang plausibly threatened our loved ones, we would fold. It is important to understand that top elites are playing a very violent game. And they do get killed or disabled often. ABN
Chinese President Xi Jinping has shown no interest in hosting a three-way summit on Ukraine with Russia and the U.S., German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Nov. 1 after speaking with the Chinese leader in Beijing.
From Xi’s perspective, there are no preparations underway for Chinese-hosted Ukraine talks, Steinmeier said in an interview with German television, when recounting his talks with his Chinese counterpart on Oct. 30.
China’s leader was surprised by the proposal and noted that European officials should be involved in resolving the war, as it is taking place on the European continent, the German president added.
While U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Xi may meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Shenzhen, China, in mid-November, the latest comments cast doubt on whether Ukraine would be on the agenda.
Bob Dylan kept his hood up and even left his gloves on as he met Pope Leo at the Vatican on Wednesday.
The legendary musician, whose career has spanned more than six decades, was granted a private audience with the pontiff at the ornate Apostolic Palace.
While the 71-year-old head of the Catholic Church wore his customary white cassock, Dylan sported a black coat, black gloves and a black hooded sweatshirt, carrying a matching black umbrella.
Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Vatican official and Jesuit known for building relationships between the Church and figures in the entertainment industry, said on Instagram that he had helped arrange the meeting.
‘It was hard not to feel the emotion of being part of an encounter that had a real sense of history about it, with the feeling that, at every step through the Apostolic Palace, absolutely anything could happen!’ he said.
The Vatican’s newspaper said Leo had ‘received in private audience Mr Robert Allen Zimmerman’, using the name the musician was given at birth in Duluth, Minnesota.
Leo, who is originally from Chicago, is known to be a Dylan fan.
A few broken lines of ancient writing may preserve a lost account of Christianity’s most extraordinary claims.
Researchers have deciphered a roughly 1,600-year-old Christian manuscript that they believe describes Jesus’ death, descent into the underworld and return through his resurrection.
Written in Greek, the fragment measures just two by three inches and was held among unpublished papyri in the Austrian National Library.
Researchers have deciphered a roughly 1,600-year-old Christian manuscript that they believe describes Jesus’ death, descent into the underworld and return through his resurrection
The team’s tentative translation includes references to someone who ‘died’ and a figure who ‘descended’ and apparently ‘ascended again,’ although missing letters leave parts of the wording uncertain.
Amphilochios Papathomas and Marianna Thoma, of the University of Athens in Greece, believe the passage concerns Jesus and could belong to a Christian work that did not survive through medieval copying.
Their analysis favors a fourth- or fifth-century date, placing the manuscript hundreds of years after the crucifixion but within the ancient Christian world.
They suggested it may preserve a sermon, possibly written by a church father or an Egyptian religious leader, although a hymn or another religious composition remains possible.
…According to a longstanding Christian tradition, Jesus entered the realm of the dead before his resurrection and freed the righteous who had died before him.
The researchers supported their interpretation by comparing the wording with passages attributed to Eusebius and with Christian hymns describing the Savior descending into the regions of death.
A food delivery driver from northeastern China, whose whirlwind marriage to an American teacher captivated social media, has announced their divorce.
Liu Hao, 28, from Liaoning province, met Hannah Harris, 31, an English teacher from Alabama, in November 2024 after delivering food to her flat.
Charmed by Liu, who greeted her in the lift with the simple English phrase “Hello, I love you,” Harris soon bonded with him over their shared love of food, sport and pets.
The relationship progressed rapidly. Liu proposed at an underground station in January last year, and the couple married two months later.
Their union drew widespread praise on Chinese social media, particularly because Harris set aside traditional marriage customs and asked for neither a flat, a car nor a bride price.
I was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw 1994-98. While that was a long time ago, I knew personally many of the people at the heart of the current crisis, such as Donald Tusk and Radek Sikorski.
…Ukraine is central to this. Simply put, the nationalist right has had its fill of Zelensky, whereas Tusk is a devotee of the von der Leyen/Kallas/Merz war-hawk line.
For British people, Ukraine is another “far-away country of which we know nothing”. To Poles it is a neighbour, of which they know a very great deal indeed. Poland probably houses more Ukrainian refugees than any other state, both in absolute numbers and per capita. Part of the antipathy from the nationalist right is anti-immigrant resentment.
But Ukraine really is an extremely corrupt state, and the Poles understand this very well. Poles contribute to the vast sums which the EU has poured into the Zelensky regime, and Poles also have a close-up view of Ukrainian regime-aligned figures in supercars buying top-end properties. Ukrainians are the largest foreign buyers of Polish real estate. This is simply true.
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski ended up on the Civic Coalition side of the equation, because his primary loyalty is, and always was, to NATO, as befits a member of the Bullingdon Club and husband of crazed Russophobe Anne Applebaum.
A combination of events in Ukraine and the advent of President Nawrocki have caused a shift of the nationalist right to a much more sceptical position on Ukraine. Nawrocki is of a younger generation of politician – he is 43 and was only 15 when I left Poland. But his entire professional career prior to becoming President was connected to World War II commemoration.
Zelensky had been given Poland’s highest award. The Order of the White Eagle. Nawrocki cancelled the award and made Zelensky return it, due to Ukrainian official commemoration of Nazi-allied figures and units who had participated in the massacres of Poles during World War II. Other senior Ukrainians also returned their Polish decorations. That is a pretty startling diplomatic split, hugely under-reported in the West.
…What does appear highly probable is that the European Commission had advance notice of the coup, because the speed with which they jumped in to support Tusk and Pietrowska’s takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal was remarkable, given the complexity of the situation. Personally I cannot see any argument whatsoever that Pietrowska’s action was legal.
This is a reasonable overview from someone with personal experience in Poland and a foreign perspective. It’s worth reading, but for me lacks any sense that Poland today appears to be central to a hardening of the EU and its provocations of Russia. The excerpt I posted is but a small piece of the full essay. ABN
A Colombian businesswoman who is accused of killing two girls with poisoned raspberries ‘tricked’ the children into thinking they were a free gift, a court has heard.
Ines de Bedout, 14, and her friend Emilia Forero, 13, died days after eating chocolate-covered raspberries laced with the highly toxic metal thallium, known as the ‘silent killer’, in April last year.
Zulma Guzman Castro, who is wanted in Colombia accused of murdering the two girls, was discovered to be hiding in Britain after she was seen drinking from a Buxton water bottle during a TV interview.
The 55-year-old is currently battling against extradition back to Colombia at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Ms de Bedout was the daughter of Guzman’s former lover, Juan de Bedout, and her friend was visiting for a sleepover when the deadly delivery arrived.
She allegedly carried out the poisonings as an ‘act of vengeance’ following a failed affair with Mr de Bedout.
Ines de Bedout, 14, and 13-year-old Emilia Forero (pictured) died days after eating the poisoned raspberries in April last year
Poison is a common weapon, often used against victims who trust the poisoner. I have myself been poisoned and am highly aware of how easy it is to do and how unsuspecting I was. The purported motive in this case is vengeance for ‘a failed affair’. Poison is also used to disable but not kill. Parasites and social climbers use it that way. For me, imagining the mindset of a poisoner is deeply revolting. ABN
Tonight, the introduction of martial law is planned – an extraordinary event in Poland. This state grants enormous powers to the government, including censorship of the internet and platforms like X.
Jacek Karnowski, a Polish journalist, just said live on television: according to his sources, at midnight tonight, a state of emergency or martial law is to be introduced. The goal is to pacify the protests and “freeze” society.
One of the reasons for introducing the state is an imagined threat from Kaliningrad as a pretext, although experts say there is no real threat.
If I don’t post anything on X tomorrow, it means Poland has plunged back into darkness like in the 1980s.
