Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.
After trade negotiations broke down between the two countries last weekend, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, vowed to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar” and unveiled a list of nearly 900 American goods that will face 25% to 50% tariffs starting on 8 September.
Paper products are among the hardest-hit sectors, with Canada threatening to put tariffs of between 25% and 50% on “toilet paper or face tissue stock” from 8 September in retaliation for a 50% hike from Washington DC.
Though American toilet paper and tissues are often made domestically, they heavily rely on lumber-rich Canada for raw materials. Procter & Gamble, the owner of Charmin toilet paper, said last year that it would have to increase prices amid tariffs that were in place at the time.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is slamming Donald Trump as a “loser” and the “king of bankruptcies” after the U.S. president criticized him on social media on Monday afternoon.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to Ford by name as “the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford.”
The post came hours after an interview with The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll in Ottawa, in which Ford said that Trump could “kiss my ass.”
At a news conference in Hamilton on Monday afternoon, Ford initially said that he wouldn’t respond to a “dictator” and “bully” like Trump before going on a prolonged rant about the U.S. president.
Ford also doubled down on his earlier remarks, saying “I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass.”
“I am not going to take any advice off a guy that is the king of bankruptcies and he is actually tariffing his own people, taxing his own people,” Ford said of Trump. “I am going to be reaching out to every single governor, every single senator, every single congressperson and when it comes to the (U.S.) midterms I have a message to the Americans: don’t vote in a person that is going to kill your jobs.”
However, it unfolded just moments after Trump’s Truth Social post.
At one point during the news conference Ford addressed the U.S. president directly: “Your own people, President Trump, don’t even like you,” he said.
He then predicted that Americans would “speak loud and clear” during the upcoming midterm elections and offered that he would be “door-knocking” himself if he could.
When asked about the personal nature of Trump’s criticism, Ford said “bring it on.”
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Ford’s comments on Monday come after Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian vehicles by 2027.
Speaking with reporters, Ford said he believes “everything should be on the table” amid the renewed trade war with the U.S., including a surcharge on electricity exports that Ontario introduced and then scrapped earlier in the trade war.
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“I cannot speak for other premiers but a couple premiers have a lot of power to protect Canada, massive power,” Ford said. “Everyone needs to be on team Canada and throw everything and the kitchen sink at them (the U.S.) no matter if it is electricity, if it is fuel, potash or uranium. We need to have everything on the table. But we need a buy-in from cost to coast.”
Note that the threat to end /surcharge cheap hydro-electricity exports to the US is a big deal, and given this year's record El Niño, it's likely that this won't result in potential sales being literally flushed down river.
I'm nodding in approval, and I don't want to be nodding in approval.
The use of American subsystems has always been complex for European defense contractors, since it gives Washington a veto over potential exports, and even before Trump, these limits were frequently applied more for industrial protection rather than security concerns.
Today, there is absolutely no trust remaining.
US firms seeking to tap into ballooning European defense budgets are finding a new roadblock emerging: a desire by European capitals to avoid US control of weapon sales. There have long been concerns about how American International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrict foreign governments’ ability to sell or transfer domestically built weapons that contain components originating in the US. And that concern is becoming harder to ignore as skepticism surrounding US and European relations has led to a serious push on the continent to move away from buying weapons with US-controlled parts, according to a half-dozen people who talked to Breaking Defense.
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In its simplest terms, ITAR is
a set of US government rules to regulate the export and import of
defense and military items on the United States Munitions List (USML),
including services and technical data.
Scott Wise, a partner at Crowell &
Moring and a member of the law firm’s international trade group, said
the bulk of foreign governments’ concerns on ITAR is the “see-through
rule.” That rule, he told Breaking Defense, means ITAR regulators track
the US-made components inside a foreign-built weapon system and control
where those parts go and what they’re used for.
There has been no small amount of tension between Brazil's Lula da Silva and Trump, but I never imagined that Brazil would simply refuse entry to US officials.
In this case, said officials were sent to create a false narrative about the upcoming Brazilian elections, so the denial is justified, but still this is unprecedented, at least as directed toward the US.
Brazil has denied visas to two senior State Department officials whom the Trump administration planned to dispatch on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before millions of Brazilians vote in a presidential election on Oct. 4, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
A U.S. State Department delegation, including Trump political appointees Riley M. Barnes, an assistant secretary, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant secretary, had planned to depart for BrasÃlia, the capital, in coming days, according to a senior State Department official and three Brazilian officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.
But Brazilian officials, apprised of the plans, denied the Americans permission to travel, the Foreign Ministry said. The U.S. officials applied for visas through the Brazilian consulate in Washington, saying they planned to hold “meetings with authorities involved in the electoral process,” Brazilian officials said.
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Two senior Brazilian officials told The Washington Post on Thursday that they had recently learned of what they described as the American “ploy” and had vowed to block the U.S. officials from entering the country.
“It is a ploy that is completely incompatible with Brazilian democracy,” said one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. This official said the Brazilian government would move to “protect our voting system.”
The Brazilian officials said they suspected that the Americans’ goal was to meet with electoral skeptics and produce a report that could be used to delegitimize the nation’s electronic voting system. Samson in the past has produced department reports that critics say brought a partisan lens to human rights issues.
Trump was attempting a ret-f%$#ing, and Brazil was having none of this.
The fact that many central banks are repatriating their gold reserves from the UK and US stems from the belief that if their government falls afoul of Washington, DC, they will lose access to their gold stores at a critical point.
Maintaining one's own gold reserves is a PITA compared to allowing the gnomes in The City of London and Wall Street keep them in their vaults, unless you stop believing that they can be relied on.
Global central banks are removing gold from vaults in London and New York as they become more skittish about storing bullion outside their own borders, according to a new survey.
The central banks of India and France are among those that have relocated huge volumes of gold out of the US and UK in the past year to store more domestically — part of a trend of the institutions bringing bullion home and also diversifying the storage location of their reserves.
For years, central banks have been increasing their holdings of gold, which recently surpassed US Treasuries to become the world’s top reserve asset, as many seek alternatives to the US dollar, the world’s de facto reserve currency.
However, increasing geopolitical conflict, sanctions regimes and a decline in trust have put strains on a gold trading system that relies heavily on London — where huge vaults at the Bank of England store more than $700bn of the yellow metal — and on New York, the world’s largest gold futures market.
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The news comes as Singapore and Hong Kong have been working to offer vaulting services to central banks that are looking to diversify their storage. Singapore’s deputy prime minister on Monday said the city-state would launch an over-the-counter clearing system for gold this year, along with a vaulting service for central banks.
One of the biggest recent repatriation programmes has been in France, which removed 129 tonnes of gold from the New York Federal Reserve between July 2025 and January 2026 and now stores all its gold domestically.
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Over the past three years, India’s central bank has also repatriated most of the gold it held overseas with the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements.
The share of its gold held overseas by the Reserve Bank of India dropped to 22 per cent in March 2026 from 55 per cent in March 2023, according to the central bank’s data. The RBI did not respond to a request for comment.
Let me be clear here, I do not believe that gold reserves are that significant in the modern financial system, but the movement of these assets is an indication of reduction of trust in the US and UK, and that is significant.
Iran has announced plans to introduce a system of
maritime fees in the strait of Hormuz in two months, after the 60-day
period of negotiation that has been triggered by the signing of the
memorandum of understanding.
Tehran, claiming a
historic victory over the US, said the strait was under its control and
a European plan for a naval mission to escort ships though the strait
would not be welcome. The US on Thursday lifted its blockade of Iran,
and oil tankers began freely moving through the critical channel.
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The talks, which are the first direct meeting between the two sides since they met in Islamabad on 12 April, will be focused on how to implement the 14-clause memorandum, including how to lift sanctions on Iran’s oil exports and ensure that commercial traffic starts to flow freely through the strait of Hormuz.
In a blow to those hoping the strait of Hormuz would be restored to full and permanent freedom of navigation, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator, said the strait needed to be managed, which would come at a cost.
I got it wrong when I said that there was no deal on the table as well. There will be a signing a deal in Switzerland. (Apparently Trump signed the deal at Versailles, doubtless while eating cake.)
You gotta hand it to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It took the Vietnamese 14 years to defeat us, it took the Afghans about 20 years, and it took the Iraqis about 6 years.
It took the Iranians about 16 weeks to kick our ass, as demonstrated by this 14 paragraph memorandum.
The end of hostilities, including in Lebanon, and this applies to Israel as well.
Mutual respect of Iranian and US sovereignty.
A 60 day deadline this deal unless both sides agree to extend it.
The US will end its blockade and remove some troops in 30 days and Iran.
Iran will charge no transit fees on the Strait of Hormuz for the next 60 days.
Iran gets $300,000,000,000.00 in aid to rebuild. (Maybe not from the US)
The US will waive all sanctions immediately and rescind all sanctions as quickly as is practical including those by the UN Security Council and the IAEA.
Iran will not develop nuclear weapons.
An agreement to remain at the pre-hostilities status quo.
The US agrees not to create or renew any sanctions.
The US agrees to release frozen and seized Iranian assets.
There will be some sort of arrangement to enforce the final deal.
Final status negotiations when paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10 and 11 are all being implemented.
This agreement shall be formally approved by the UN Security Council.
So, the US withdraws troops from the area, ends the blockade, releases Iranian assets, ends sanctions, arranges for Iran to get three hundred billion dollars, and leans on Israel to end its attacks on Lebanon.
In return, the Iranians agree not to develop nuclear weapons (which they have always said was the case) and not to charge transit fees on the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days.
Donald Trump has claimed a deal well over a dozen times in the past few months, so the White House's credibility is below that of the Tooth Fairy.
With a draft deal between the United States and Iran now on the table, speculation has been swirling about exactly what is in the agreement.
President Trump insisted on Friday that reports circulating about details of the proposed deal were incorrect. In a post on social media, he said the terms “Iran leaked” to the media “have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing.”
There were conflicting accounts of the deal in Iranian media, with one hard-line news outlet reporting terms more favorable to Iran and the state news agency providing a more measured description. On Friday, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that a deal “has never been closer,” but added that “the media should refrain from entering speculation about its content.”
Much about the emerging deal remains murky, with both sides keen to frame it as a victory. What is known is that a “memorandum of understanding” between the two sides is under discussion.
I do not see any way that a deal that is acceptable to Iran could be cast as a victor for the United States, since the Iranian government, for very good reason, does not believe that the United States can be trusted to keep its end of the bargain.
As such, I think that any deal that would be signed would necessarily include a removal of sanctions, a repatriation of frozen Iranian assets from the US, and a redeployment of US forces out of the region.
I do not believe that (even with the horrible US press corps) that this could be sold as a victory, and Trump is terrified of being seen a loser.
It turs out that the WSJ is wrong. There is no
agreement, perhaps because the deal proposed is more one-sided than the notorious
pre-WWII foreign concessions in China.
The deal is proposed/being negotiated by Undersecretary of State for Economic
Affairs Jacob Helberg, a "Senior advisor to Alex Karp Palantir."
The details are:
The US will take control of 4,000 acres in the Philippines.
A lease renewable for 99 years and a rent of $0.00
The area will have diplomatic immunity.
The area will operate under us "Common Law". (Whatever the f%$# that is.)
Unlike in the US, the memories of colonialism are still very much remembered in Far East societies. (Somewhere between ¼ and 1½ million civilian deaths as a result of US actions during the Philippine Insurrection)
The clarification came during the visit by US Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jacob Helberg to New Clark City, where he joined Philippine officials in unveiling a marker for the proposed 1,620ha Pax Silica industrial hub under the Luzon Economic Corridor initiative announced in April.
Mr Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), said the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction.
“That’s their request, but we did not agree to that,” Mr Bingcang told the media when asked about a Wall Street Journal report on April 17 claiming the hub would operate under US laws and enjoy diplomatic protections.
“There will be no special arrangement accorded to the US,” he added.
Mr Bingcang said the project would instead fall under the Special Economic Zone Act, which governs investment incentives and operations in Philippine economic zones, as well as BCDA law that oversees the conversion and development of former US military bases into investment and commercial hubs.
I'm not primarily writing about this. I'm writing about Undersecretary of State for Economic
Affairs Jacob Helberg.
Look at him. He's a f%$#ing lizard person. There is no humanity behind those eyes.
That and $31.87 will get you a trenta vanilla sweet cream cold
brew with two pumps of vanilla, three pumps of caramel syrup, two pumps of
cinnamon dolce syrup, two pumps of hazelnut, two pumps of toffee nut syrup,
two pumps of mocha, two pumps of white mocha, two pumps of pumpkin sauce,
three pumps of maple pecan syrup, and five shots of espresso at Starbucks.
Otherwise,
I see it as worthless.
Over the period of less than a year, the US
and Israel have launched strikes while negotiations were ongoing.
It's
telling that Iran's 10 point plan in response increases their demands.
While a part of this may be gamesmanship, the Iranian's clearly
feel that they have the upper hand.
Just 90 minutes before President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline to “wipe
out a whole civilization” with massive strikes on Iran’s energy
infrastructure and bridges, he granted a two-week extension for diplomacy to
continue.
"Granted"? That's an interesting way of describing TACO Trump chickening
out once again.
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Trump said his ceasefire decision was in response to an
appeal from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and military chief Gen.
Asim Munir, whose government has been serving as mediator between the United
States and Iran.
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After Trump’s announcement, a
statement posted by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, which he
attributed to the Supreme National Security Council, said it too was
responding to Pakistan’s request and Trump’s “acceptance of the general
Framework of Iran’s 10-point proposal for negotiations.”
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In
the 10-point proposal Trump said was a basis for negotiations, Iran demanded
a permanent end to the war as well as an end to any attacks against the
“Axis of Resistance,” as it calls its proxy groups in the region, including
Hezbollah. According to a government statement reported by Iranian media
late Tuesday, demands also included establishment of a formal protocol for
passage through the Strait of Hormuz “that ensures an oversight role for
Iran.”
The U.S. must fundamentally commit to guaranteeing
non-aggression.
Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Acceptance that Iran can enrich uranium for its nuclear program.
Removal of all primary sanctions on Iran.
Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign entities that do
business with Iranian institutions.
End of all United Security Council resolutions targeting Iran.
End of all International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions on Iran’s
nuclear program.
Compensation payment to Iran for war damage.
Withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region.
Cease-fire on all fronts, including Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in
Lebanon.
This does not sound to me like a country that has been cowed into submission.
The biggest problem with any negotiations is that the US in general, and Trump in particular, have shown themselves to be untrustworthy negotiating partners.
I rather expect the United States to violate the cease fire in the next few days. It's kind of our thing.
This was also foreseeable before the shooting started.
An Iranian official threatened the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a narrow waterway dividing Yemen from Africa and providing a critical trading route from the Red Sea, if the U.S. “dares to repeat its foolish mistakes,” threatening further disruptions to global trade.
Key Facts
In an English language post on X, Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said the U.S. opposition “views Bab al-Mandeb as it does Hormuz”—the key oil-transport route Iran has effectively closed to maritime traffic as the war with the U.S. and Israel drags on.
Although Iran does not border the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Yemen does, and Iran is closely allied with the Houthis, the Yemeni militant group that previously conducted dozens of strikes against Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea in 2023 and 2024 in response to the war in Gaza.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused global oil prices to skyrocket and has pushed average gasoline prices in the U.S. above $4 per gallon, according to GasBuddy data.
The statement came hours after President Donald Trump again threatened Iran’s power plants and bridges over Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The willingness of the Houthis to support Iran in this war is not a surprise. They have been close allies for decades, and Iran has shown repeatedly that they can be trusted by them.
In contrast, the United States has not been a trustworthy ally for decades, which is why our Nato allies are profoundly disinterested in forcing the Strait of Hormuz.
I do not expect Iran to reciprocate, because they (IMHO correctly) believe
that this is merely a ploy by the Americans to time for the next round of
attacks.
I think that Trump's announcement on social media that there have been, "Very
good and productive conversations," probably has another motivation, personal
profit.
It seems that someone was trading on this information, and my guess is that
their name rhymes with Ronald Lon Rump.
Unusually large futures trades placed minutes before a major geopolitical
announcement have sparked allegations of potential insider trading, after
market participants pointed to timing and scale that appeared closely
aligned with U.S. policy developments.
According to
data
shared by the market-tracking account unusual_whales, approximately $1.5
billion in S&P 500 futures contracts were purchased while roughly $192
million in oil futures were sold just five minutes before President Donald
Trump announced a halt to attacks on Iran.
The trades were
reportedly four to six times larger than typical order sizes observed at
that time.
The sequence of events has raised questions over
whether the trades were informed by non-public information, given the
immediate market reaction that followed.
What will the SEC do about these suspicious trades?
I think that they will take a cue from Inspector Renault.
One of these days, I need to watch Casablanca in one sitting.
As President Trump’s assault on Iran enters its third week, European leaders are largely resisting his bellicose demands for help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
At the same time, they are trying to avoid irreparably damaging their relationship with the United States over their opposition to another war of America’s choosing.
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The American president also issued a not-so-veiled warning in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday, saying that “it will be very bad for the future of NATO” if European nations do not join the United States in its effort to reopen the vital waterway to tankers carrying oil, gas and fertilizer. At Monday’s event, he said: “I think we’re going to have some good help. And I think we’re going to be disappointed in some nations, too.”
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“My leadership is about standing firm for the British interest, no matter the pressure,” Mr. Starmer said without specifically referencing the president. He added that British officials were working with “all of our allies, including our European partners” on what could be done collectively to reopen the Strait.
Even America's poodle is not willing to send their ships into a meat grinder for them.
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“This is not our war; we did not start it,” Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, said on Monday morning. He said Germany wanted diplomatic solutions and “sending more warships to the region will likely not help achieve that.”
Even the Germans aren't interesting in this war. That's gotta hurt.
People do not take kindly to vindictive bullies,
*It's a very old joke.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto are being pursued by Apaches, and they are chased into a box canyon.
The Lone Ranger says, "Well Tonto, this looks like the end," and Tonto says, "Fuck you white man."
Look How Much Canadians Hate the United States Now
—POLITICO, noting that a solid plurality of Canadians believe that the United States is the greatest threat to world peace.
When even Tiger Beat on the Potomac notices this, we are in very strange times.
It’s the world’s most awkward breakup.
More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot.
New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love.
Their message to America: It’s not us, it’s you.
Canadians don’t see Trump’s America as merely an annoyance, the survey found. They consider the superpower next door the world’s greatest threat to peacetime.
Considering facts over the past few decades, this is not an unreasonable conclusion.
I guess that Trump was serious about wanting Canada, or at least the oil rich
parts of it.
The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa.
Leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group of far-right separatists who want the western province to become independent, met US state department officials in Washington three times since April last year, according to people familiar with the talks.
They are seeking another meeting next month with state and Treasury officials to ask for a $500bn credit facility to help bankroll the province if an independence referendum — yet to be called — is passed.
“The US is extremely enthusiastic about a free and independent Alberta,” Jeff Rath, APP legal counsel, who attended the meetings, told the FT.
He claimed he had a “much stronger relationship” with the Trump administration than Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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British Columbia premier David Eby described the FT’s report of the meeting as alarming because Trump is “not particularly respectful to Canada’s sovereignty”.
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason,” he told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday.
Seriously, these jamokes make the Bay of Pigs invasion look like an episode of Mission Impossible.
Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Donald Trump Is a Dangerous,
Lunatic Moron
—The Daily Beast,
on Donald Trump's completely deranged missive to the Prime Minister of
Norway about Greenland
I was going to write about it, but DB writer David Rothkopf has kind of
nailed this.
Short version: Trump wrote to the Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre
explaining that because he did not get a Nobel Peace Prize, he was going to
have to invade Greenland.
Notice a couple of things:
The Nobel Prize committee is a private entity and the government in Oslo has
no authority over it.
It is Denmark, not Norway that has sovereignty over Greenland.
Threatening invasion to get the Nobel Peace Prize is fucking insane.
No matter who you are, no matter how close you are to him, he
does not represent you or even care about your interests.
No.
He’s none of the good or great things the
slavering fluffers in his Cabinet
or on his White House staff make him out to be. And none of the defenses his
enablers on Capitol Hill and in the press and across the country have used
in the past work any longer.
Living in Greenland is far more difficult than living in New Hampshire, and polar bears are far larger, and far more aggressive, than are the black bears that are the only member of the family Ursidae in the Granite State.
Doubtless, any such attempt will result in a collapse through technical issues, fraud, or bear maulings.
I favor the latter, particularly for Marc Andreeson.
This past week, President Trump removed any remaining ambiguity about his intentions toward Greenland. During a White House event, he declared he would take the Arctic territory “whether they like it or not.” Then he laid down what sounded like a mobster’s threat to Denmark: “If we don’t do it the easy way we’re going to do it the hard way.”
Trump also reportedly ordered special forces commanders to come up with an invasion plan, even though senior military officials warned him it would violate international law and NATO treaties. In an interview with the New York Times, Trump said, “I don’t need international law.
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Given the massing opposition to Trump’s quest for Greenland, and questionable security benefits from annexing the island, what’s really going on here?
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But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections.
Ken Howery, Trump’s ambassador to Denmark and a PayPal co-founder with Thiel and Musk, has reportedly been in talks to set up these low-regulation zones.
There’s an ironic clash of interests here: the national security establishment wants strong state control over strategic territory. The tech-billionaire funding Trump want the opposite: a deregulated playground for their anarcho-capitalist experiments. Both share a common blindness to Greenlandic sovereignty and Indigenous rights.
I'm hoping for bear maulings, lots, and lots of bear maulings.
Even if the committee allowed this, it would not have her installed in Caracas.
Even a cursory examination of her support in country shows that she is about as popular as a case of the clap, and her stint as a US puppet would last about as long as a neutrino detection.
The organisers of the Nobel peace prize have said
it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after Venezuela’s
opposition leader, MarÃa Corina Machado, said she wanted to give her award to Donald Trump.
When Machado was named Nobel laureate in October, it was seen as a snub by the White House, despite Machado rushing to dedicate the prize to the US president and his “decisive support of our cause”.
Trump has made no secret of his strongly held desire to be awarded the Nobel peace prize, the winner of which is selected by an independent five-person committee in Oslo.
She thinks that Trump is a delicate snowflake whose feelings were hurt because he did not get an award, which is true, but she also thinks that Trump would be grateful enough to put her in charge if she gave him the prize.
Trump does not do grateful.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the Nobel Committee is beginning to regret giving the award to her inb the first place.
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