Fu*%face Von Clownstick

Couldn't help but laugh at this statement in the article-

Musk vowed the department would be “maximally transparent.”
Funny coming from the man who won't disclose his financials and possible conflicts of interest, which are many...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

The clock’s ticking: Elon Musk under fire for skipping public financial disclosure 3 weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in; legal experts demand answers

Elon Musk has not yet submitted the mandatory financial disclosure form required of high-level government officials. Nearly three weeks after his appointment, his financial details have not been made public. The White House asserted that Musk has complied with federal laws, but has not...
economictimes.indiatimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com

www.usatoday.com

Elon Musk has to fill out a public financial disclosure, legal experts say. Where is it?

Elon Musk has to publicly disclose his wealth and debts, legal experts told USA TODAY.
www.usatoday.com

www.warren.senate.gov

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
 
It appears that the US and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia for peace talks and have decided not to invite the other party (Ukraine) involved in the conflict. The only remaining question is how much is Trump going to concede, capitulate, and surrender to Putin?

www.bbc.com

Starmer says ‘there must be a US backstop’ for any Ukraine peace deal

The prime minister says a "US security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again".
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

www.politico.eu

The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.

“I do not know what it is,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu

www.rferl.org

Zelenskyy Arrives In Middle East, But Kyiv Says Peace Talks Not On Agenda

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv has not been invited to attend U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia over ending Moscow's war on Ukraine.
www.rferl.org www.rferl.org
 
An open letter written by a Florida judge about the CANADA/USA relationships & history.
By Robert Meadows (Circuit Court Judge, Florida).
Here is one American’s take on the growing trade war with the US and Canada.
"Have you ever stopped to consider how lucky we Americans are to have the neighbors we have? Look around the globe at who some folks have been stuck sharing a border with over the past half century:
North Korea / South Korea
Greece / Turkey
Iran / Iraq
Israel / Palestine
India / Pakistan
China / Russia
"We’ve got Canada! Canada. About as inoffensive a neighbor as you could ever hope for. In spite of all our boasts of “American exceptionalism” and chants of “America first,” they just smile, do their thing and go about their business. They are on average more educated, have a higher standard of living, free health care, and almost no gun problems. They treat immigrants respectfully and already took in over 35,000 Syrians in the last two years.
"They’re with us in NATO, they fought alongside us in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, Afghanistan, the Kosovo War and came to our defense after 9/11. There was that one time when Canada took a pass on one of our wars: Vietnam. Turned out to be a good call.
"They’ve been steady consumers of American imports, reliable exporters of metals and petroleum products (they are the biggest importer of U.S. products from 37 states), and partnered with NASA in our space missions.
"During 9/11 many aircraft were diverted to Newfoundland, an island province off Canada's east coast where Americans were housed in people's homes for two weeks and treated like royalty. In return for their hospitality, this administration slapped a 20% tariff on the products of Newfoundland's only paper mill, thereby threatening it's survival.
"And what do Canadians expect of us in return? To be respected for who and what they are: Canadians. That’s what I call a good neighbor.
"But the King of Chaos couldn’t leave well enough alone. Based on his delusions of perpetual victimhood, out of the clear blue, he’s declared economic war on Canada. On CANADA! And he did it based on Canada being a national security risk to the US! For no good reason, other than the voices in his head that told him it was a war he could win. So why not do it, then?
"Again, we’re talking about Canada. Our closest ally, friend and neighbor.
"On behalf of an embarrassed nation, people of Canada, I apologize for this idiotic and wholly unnecessary attack. Please leave the back channels open. We the People of progressive persuasion stand with you."
 
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An open letter written by a Florida judge about the CANADA/USA relationships & history.
By Robert Meadows (Circuit Court Judge, Florida).
Here is one American’s take on the growing trade war with the US and Canada.
"Have you ever stopped to consider how lucky we Americans are to have the neighbors we have? Look around the globe at who some folks have been stuck sharing a border with over the past half century:
North Korea / South Korea
Greece / Turkey
Iran / Iraq
Israel / Palestine
India / Pakistan
China / Russia
"We’ve got Canada! Canada. About as inoffensive a neighbor as you could ever hope for. In spite of all our boasts of “American exceptionalism” and chants of “America first,” they just smile, do their thing and go about their business. They are on average more educated, have a higher standard of living, free health care, and almost no gun problems. They treat immigrants respectfully and already took in over 35,000 Syrians in the last two years.
"They’re with us in NATO, they fought alongside us in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, Afghanistan, the Kosovo War and came to our defense after 9/11. There was that one time when Canada took a pass on one of our wars: Vietnam. Turned out to be a good call.
"They’ve been steady consumers of American imports, reliable exporters of metals and petroleum products (they are the biggest importer of U.S. products from 37 states), and partnered with NASA in our space missions.
"During 9/11 many aircraft were diverted to Newfoundland, an island province off Canada's east coast where Americans were housed in people's homes for two weeks and treated like royalty. In return for their hospitality, this administration slapped a 20% tariff on the products of Newfoundland's only paper mill, thereby threatening it's survival.
"And what do Canadians expect of us in return? To be respected for who and what they are: Canadians. That’s what I call a good neighbor.
"But the King of Chaos couldn’t leave well enough alone. Based on his delusions of perpetual victimhood, out of the clear blue, he’s declared economic war on Canada. On CANADA! And he did it based on Canada being a national security risk to the US! For no good reason, other than the voices in his head that told him it was a war he could win. So why not do it, then?
"Again, we’re talking about Canada. Our closest ally, friend and neighbor.
"On behalf of an embarrassed nation, people of Canada, I apologize for this idiotic and wholly unnecessary attack. Please leave the back channels open. We the People of progressive persuasion stand with you."
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Yup pretty on point. One correction is that Canada entered WW2 years before the US, so we joined them technically as we were also waffling with eugenics and fascism
 
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rico said:
It appears that the US and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia for peace talks and have decided not to invite the other party (Ukraine) involved in the conflict. The only remaining question is how much is Trump going to concede, capitulate, and surrender to Putin?

www.bbc.com

Starmer says ‘there must be a US backstop’ for any Ukraine peace deal

The prime minister says a "US security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again".
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

www.politico.eu

The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.

“I do not know what it is,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
www.politico.eu www.politico.eu

www.rferl.org

Zelenskyy Arrives In Middle East, But Kyiv Says Peace Talks Not On Agenda

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv has not been invited to attend U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia over ending Moscow's war on Ukraine.
www.rferl.org www.rferl.org
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Here's Trump (or Rubio or Hesgeth) holding up the promise from Putin that he won't seek any more territory in Europe.

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Is Elon aware of how much it cost taxpayers to fly an Air Force C-17 from Washington DC to Daytona Beach carrying the presidential limo and motorcade and communications suite, just for an afternoon, then fly it back to Andrews AFB? And to have a four engine 747 fly the president and a handful of passengers on a round trip from Palm Beach to Daytona so he could take a victory lap at a sporting event he knows nothing about and has probably never watched in his life? And to have the Air Force 757 that serves as the backup to Air Force 1 fly a big circle from MacDill AFB down to Palm Beach, up to Daytona and back MacDill to escort him to the race? And then fly the circle backwards to escort him back to Maralago hours later? And to have a KC-135 tanker and a couple of fighter jets flying in circles for hours and hours on end over Maralago to provide air cover? And then to have another tanker out of MacDill go fly in circles over the Atlantic while he attends the race? And what about the expense of all the police detail from Secret Service down to state troopers, sheriffs, local police at both ends of this publicity stunt? And the incalculable expense to those tied up in traffic?

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Yesterday's tweet from Javier Corrales:

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes checked off:

1. President thinks he is saving the country.
2. Ruling party acts like a rubber stamp. They like his policies and/or fear his retribution. Either way, they never say never.
3. Overuse of executive orders, including declaring national emergencies.
4. Colonize the federal bureaucracy. Fire the staff. Replace them loyalists.
5. Defund institutions as a way to force compliance.
6. Trash-talk institutions that the govt dislikes. Treat them as guilty actors and harming agents, without conducting reviews or involving court procedures. Justify their purges as efforts to save taxpayers' money
7. Mobilize hate across society. Encourage people to develop intense hate of some out-group (illegal immigrants, trans folks, ethnic minorities, Hollywood celebrities, elite colleges, dissenters).
8. Replace the rule of law with autocratic legalism, which means: for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law. Autocratic legalism requires you to end the independence of the justice department
9. Harass the free press. Create a hierarchy: good press (treat me kindly), full access; bad press, no access. Entangle news organization in legal battle
10. Create information blackouts: https://doge.gov/savings
11. Defy the courts. Make sure you have a conflict with the court, so that you can counterattack them en bloc
 
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the OSHA website and tells staff that any physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled."
Almost all of them are not associated with DEIA topics but appear to have been targeted because they include a DEIA-related keyword used in a completely different context.
For example, one of the purged publications is "OSHA Best Practices for Protecting EMS Responders During Treatment and Transport of Victims of Hazardous Substance Releases." Popular Information was able to obtain an archived version of the publication through the Internet Archive. The 104-page document — a collaboration between dozens of government agencies and NGOs — was published in 2009 to detail the steps "employers need to take to protect their EMS responders from becoming additional victims while on the front line of medical response." DEIA issues are not discussed.419b5bd1-81ec-4c98-ac2f-22a31242a3f0_1196x1566.png
On page 94 of the publication, however, the words "diversity" and "diverse" are used in a context that has nothing to do with race or gender. The publication notes there is a "diversity of state-specific certification, training, and regulatory requirements" for "EMS agencies" and "diverse conditions under which EMS responders could work." Similarly, on page 96, the publication notes, "EMS responders are a diverse group" and "risks vary with their primary and secondary roles."

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Elon’s gutting of USAID and their halting of funding and programs is having real life and death consequences for those who are involved in clinical trials.

www.democracynow.org

Patients “Abandoned”: Trump Order to Halt Global Medical Trials “Profoundly Unethical,” Says Dr. Faden

We speak to bioethicist Ruth Faden about the Trump administration’s abrupt shutdown of USAID-funded clinical trials, ending access to critical healthcare and putting patients at serious risk. “We’re in a situation in which we’re going to leave people abandoned. And that’s utterly ethically...
www.democracynow.org


www.statnews.com

The abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical

USAID's stop-work order threatens to undo decades of progress in medical research ethics and cause harm to clinical trial participants.
www.statnews.com www.statnews.com
 
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