Nancy Mace and Markwayne Mullin Are the Definition of Hypocrisy | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Nov 20, 2024 | The MAGA movement has a hypocrisy problem and it's more widespread than we could ever imagine. Steve Schmidt examines recent comments from MAGA Republicans and reveals the duplicity of everything they say and do.

America has turned into a SICK JOKE! FA! FT! – © Mark Alexander

The Ring of Fire: MAGA Judge Kills Overtime Pay for 4 Million Workers

Nov 20, 2024 | A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has blocked an overtime pay rule from the Biden Administration that would have guaranteed overtime pay for more than 4 million salaried workers across the country – and millions more would have been eligible next year. The rule has been stalled as employers were trying to prevent having to pay workers for their time, and now millions of people will be forced to work longer hours without any overtime. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this ruling.

The world had better STOP looking toward America for LEADERSHIP. That country is not a LEADER in anything much of any IMPORTANCE. The country has grown too big for its boots, or as an American might say, too big for its britches. The country pretends to be a Christian nation, but in actual fact, it is nothing of the sort. The nation is BACKWARD. “BIGLY”! We in Europe should stop looking Westward to the USA for inspiration; instead, we should start looking Eastward. We Europeans could teach Americans a whole lot. Let Americans suck up all that Trump has to offer them. Let them enjoy the bumpy ride ahead of them. They need to fasten their seatbelts. They will get no sympathy for their suffering from me; and they should get none from you, either. They will deserve all they will have to suffer through. The USA can no longer show the world the way forward. Good night, America! It's been nice knowing you. — © Mark Alexander

U.S. Closes Its Kyiv Embassy, Warning of ‘Significant Air Attack’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The unusual alert came a day after Ukraine used American-made ballistic missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time.

The United States Embassy in Kyiv issued an urgent warning on Wednesday morning that Russia might launch “a significant air attack,” closing the embassy and telling employees to shelter in place.

Air-raid alerts are a daily fact of life in Ukraine and the capital often comes under drone and missile attacks, but the embassy rarely issues such a specific alert or shuts down.

The warning came one day after Ukraine’s military used American-made ballistic missiles to strike into Russian territory for the first time, after receiving long-sought authorization from President Biden to do so. The Kremlin had long warned that such strikes would be treated as an escalation, and on Tuesday vowed to respond.

“We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia,” Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei V. Lavrov, said at a news conference on Tuesday. “And we will react accordingly.” » | Marc Santora | Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine | Wednesday, November 20, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As Trump Pushes Peace, Russia Intensifies Assaults on Ukraine: Overextended and exhausted, Ukrainian forces lack manpower and artillery against Russian forces willing to absorb staggering casualties. »

Russia Will React Accordingly to ATACMS Strike, Says Foreign Minister Lavrov

Nov 19, 2024 | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the use of ATACMS by Ukraine against Russia is a signal that the US wants "escalation" in the conflict. "Without the Americans, it’s not possible to use them,” he said while speaking to reporters at the G-20 in Brazil.

Richard Wolff: The Decline of the US Empire Is Shown by the Record High National & Corporate Debt

Monday, Nov 18, 2024 | The relative economic decline of the US and its allies (G7) versus China and its allies (BRICS) leads to (1) realignment of global trade and investment, (2) changed global politics and alliances, and (3) basic cultural shifts inside and among nations.

The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?


The USA is sinking into the mire. Donnie baby hasn’t got a chance in hell of turning this sinking ship around! If anything, his policies will force the ship to sink further and more quickly! America’s position in the world as the world’s superpower is about to be usurped, I fear. Americans insist on living beyond their means. They insist on believing in their delusion of the “American Dream”. One can but wonder who will take over from the leadership of the “delinquent” USA! – © Mark Alexander

UK Must Choose between EU and Trump, Trade Experts Warn

THE OBSERVER: Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war

The former head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that the UK should side with the European Union over trade and economic policies rather than a Donald Trump-led US, as fears grow over a possible global trade war.

Pascal Lamy, who was head of the WTO from 2005 to 2013, said it was clear that the UK’s interests lay in staying close to the EU on trade, rather than allying with Trump, not least because it does three times more trade with Europe than the US.

His comments came after a key Trump supporter, Stephen Moore, said on Friday that the UK should reject the EU’s “socialist model” if it wanted to have any realistic chance of doing a free trade deal with the US under Trump and, as a result, avoid the 20% tariffs on exports that the president-elect has promised.

In an interview with the Observer, Lamy said: “It’s an old question with a new relevance given Brexit and given Trump. In my view the UK is a European country. Its socio- economic model is much closer to the EU social model and not the very hard, brutal version of capitalism of Trump and [Elon] Musk. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, November 16, 2024

I've already made my choice. FA! – © Mark Alexander

Say No to Trump’s Shitshow! Say No to Trump’s Advances. Let Us Not Join the Circus

MARK ALEXANDER: The Americans have destroyed the West. They have destroyed the wonderful way of life that Westerners were once able to lead. Americans have destroyed Western values, too. What can we thank Americans for? They have destroyed family life. They have forced mothers out into the workplace, thereby abandoning their traditional roles are mothers, caring wives, and caregivers. Look at women today! And then compare them with women and mothers of yesteryear! Simply put: There is no comparison.

Have the Americans taught the world how to eat healthily? Hardly! Americans are largely overweight, even obese, and they fill their tummies with junk food. Hardly a way of eating to follow which is conducive to good health!

Have Americans taught the world how to dress? Hardly! Elegance is as hard to find in the States as is a needle in haystack! Unless, of course, your idea of elegance is a baseball cap and a T-shirt!

Have Americans taught the world how to enjoy family life? Again, hardly! If anything, with their insistence on working mothers, Americans have destroyed any semblance of wholesome family life.

Have Americans improved the English language? Again, hardly! Just listen to American videos and American TV, they are replete with foul words. The F bomb is dropped with alarming regularity, without anyone batting an eyelid.

Manners have largely disappeared from American life. Gone are the days in which one was addressed as “Sir” in a shop over there.

Americans talk a hell of a lot about Christianity. But do they live their lives in a Christian way? Hardly! First of all, the American’s understanding of Christianity is extremely skewed, to say the least. They believe that Jesus was all about making money! I would wager that the god that Americans worship is not God, but Mammon!

Can Americans teach us how to run a healthcare system? Again, hardly! Americans spend far, far more on healthcare than probably any other nation, yet the outcomes are worse. Furthermore, millions, literally millions, of Americans cannot afford for themselves any healthcare at all.

One could go on. And on!

Just about the only lessons we can learn from America, Americans, are in technology and IT. The rest, we are better off ignoring.

© Mark Alexander
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Trump Will Force UK Choose between ‘Socialist’ Europe and the Free-market US | Senior Trump advisor

Nov 16, 2024 | “We have a smaller government where our taxes are generally lower than those in Europe, and that has worked well for the US, and I think it would work well for Britain.”

Labour must choose a free market American model and ‘socialist’ Europe if they want a trade deal with Trump, especially after Rachel Reeve’s “crazy” budget, says Stephen Moore, senior economics advisor to president-elect Trump.


Say NO to that SHITSHOW! All good things come from Europe, not America. – © Mark Alexander

What Donald Trump Means for Britain and the EU - Byline Interviews EP #3 | Mike Galsworthy

Nov 15, 2024

European Movement here »

Donald Trump’s Spiritual Advisor Says There Will Be “No More Rainbow Flags” after Re-election

LGBTQ NATION: He also said reproductive rights are now a thing of the past.

Kenneth Copeland
An elderly Christian nationalist televangelist has said there will be “no more rainbow flags” now that Donald Trump has won re-election.

In a recording of his Sunday sermon following Election Day, 87-year-old Kenneth Copeland said, “I believe it’s here right now, the [Christian spiritual] awakening we’ve been waiting for…. Now the atmosphere has been cleansed…. No more rainbow flags. No more.” An audience member can be heard exclaiming, “Thank you, Jesus!” in response.

Copeland continues, “And the spirit of Margaret Sanger is gone.” Sanger is an American birth control activist and sex educator who opened the first birth control clinic in the nation, and established other organizations that evolved into Planned Parenthood, local clinics that offer reproductive and women’s health, especially to low-income individuals. » | Daniel Villarreal | Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Jeezus! What have Americans gone and done? America has begun its descent into eternal darkness! The lights are going out all over America! And this is just the beginning. Surely we will soon be able to hear the weeping and gnashing of teeth! — © Mark Alexander

Donald Trump als Messias? Die USA nach der Wahl | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

Nov 11, 2024 | Die Welt hält den Atem an: Was bedeutet der Ausgang der Präsidentschaftswahl in den USA? Wird sich das «Land der Freien» neu vereinen? Oder aber weiter kritisch, gar kriegerisch spalten? Ein Gespräch über das Schicksal der wichtigsten Demokratie der Welt.

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A Night at The Garden - Field of Vision

Oct 11, 2017 | In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.

A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and anti-Semitism in the United States.

Directed by Marshall Curry

This is age-restricted, so it cannot be embedded on external websites. Instead, it must be viewed on YouTube itself. To watch this disturbing footage, please click here.

Iran Executes German-Iranian Dissident after Years in Captivity

THE GUARDIAN: Berlin warns of ‘serious consequences’ for ‘inhumane regime’ after 69-year-old Jamshid Sharmahd put to death

Iran has executed a 69-year-old German-Iranian political scientist after years in captivity, sparking outrage in Germany and beyond.

Berlin warned of “serious consequences” for Iran’s “inhumane regime” after Jamshid Sharmahd was put to death on Monday, while a Norway-based human rights group labelled the execution the “extrajudicial killing of a hostage”.

Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent and a US resident, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 while travelling through the United Arab Emirates, according to his family.

Iran, which does not recognise dual citizenship, announced his arrest after a “complex operation”, without specifying how, where or when he was seized. » | Agence France-Presse in Berlin | Monday, October 28, 2024

A Divided America Responds to Nazi Persecution | Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sep 21, 2022 | Reports out of Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s showed that life was increasingly dangerous for Jews. Some Americans urged the US government to offer refuge to those attempting to flee, but most did not want to open the doors. In 1939, 20,000 Americans packed Madison Square Garden—the stage adorned with swastikas and American flags—for a pro-Nazi rally. Outside, 100,000 Americans protested the event.

Guest Ron Coleman, Chief, Library, Rubenstein Institute, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Host Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

USA: Abortion - The Price of Pain | ARTE.tv Documentary

Oct 22, 2024 | Over 60,000 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 American states where abortion has been banned since 2022, even in cases of non-consensual sex. The right to abortion is still a deep dividing line in American society and a major issue at this year’s presidential elections.

BEWARE: This documentary is not suitable for children. – Mark Alexander

Chesterfield Cigarettes in World War II | Tobaccoland at War | Industrial Film

Jan 21, 2017 | Chesterfield Cigarettes presents “Tobaccoland USA at War,” a black-and-white circa 1943 “new kind of pictorial adventure” examining tobacco production in such states as Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas — areas that have made “Chesterfield synonymous with American smoking pleasure.” We visit the offices of Liggett & Myers Tobacco, Inc. (Chesterfield’s parent company) in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina starting at mark 01:04 and view production lines and tobacco fields, meeting some of the “fine families” who grow the product. We watch as families work together in the fields (mark 02:25) and later processed. There’s a look inside a farm’s curing barn starting at mark 03:21where the product is later sold at auction — a process shown starting at mark 04:40. The film continues as the plant undergoes a “new” and “scientific” process, shown starting at mark 06:37, which restores to the tobacco leaves the precise amount of moisture needed for a perfect flavor. Eventually, the final product — Chesterfield cigarettes — roll off an assembly line at mark 08:44.

Released during World War II, the promotional film makes note that Chesterfield cigarettes are enjoyed by “fighting men” around the world and is “one of the few comforts” of home as we see a filmed scene of soldiers in a bunker pausing for a smoke (mark 09:25). Starting at mark 09:55 the film visits “the fighting fronts” and a group of US Marines in combat at land and at sea, followed by scenes aboard a US Coast Guard vessel (mark 11:23) and US Navy ship (mark 12:27), as well as the Merchant Marines. Through various battle scenes, the narrator reminds the viewer that American servicemen gain its strength not only from its weaponry but also from support from the home front. As scenes from the Army Air Force fill the screen starting at mark 14:56, the narrator says that “with each pounding the enemy is weakened” And while fathers and sons are away from home, families at home continue to tend to the farms — and the tobacco crops — to continue to meet the demand for Chesterfied’s. …


Not so much an ad, more a propaganda film really! 😊 Don’t be a wussy! Smoke a Chesterfield! Light up! Inhale deeply! Wait a few seconds! Exhale! Oh, the pleasure! 😊 – © Mark Alexander

The Lincoln Project: Near Miss

Nov 17, 2023 | Antisemitism is not foreign to America. We must remain vigilant in our fight to resist it. If you don’t believe it, just see it for yourself.

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