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On it! Har bare skummet meg gjennom de første 30 sidene av Italia 1919-1929, har ikke skjedd det helt store enda, men denne tidlige kritikken om at fascismen var så pragmatisk fordi de ikke hadde noe ordentlig doktrine er jo kanskje ikke det man helt forbinder med fascismen.. eller hva vet jeg. Ellers så kjenner man jo igjen litt av den økonomiske politikken fra den tidlige fascismen; redusere offentlige utgifter, frihandel, kapitalisme, støtte til 8-timers arbeidsdag, bedre skattestruktur, eliminere de fleste subsidier.. men dette med "stato nuovo" og "calls for dictatorship" ser jeg ikke de helt store parallellene til. Er knapt kommet til 1923 enda, men er kanskje i 1925 ting først begynner å skje?

Noen direkte lesetips da?

Men det er jo nettopp det jeg etterspør... hvilken fascistisk leder som er mest lik Trump og man bør lese om.

Hm alle republikanske presidenter fra og med Reagan har jo sagt de skal legge ned/strupe Department of Education, men kan Trump faktisk bli den første til å gjennomføre det?

Så hvis man leser litt om Mussolini og venner vil man få et godt bilde av Trump? Og motsat, hvis man leser om Trump vil man få et godt bilde av Mussolini?

Hvilen annen fascistleder er Trump mest lik egentlig?

Det er jo også en måte å avfeie kampen om artic på.

See How Russia Is Winning the Race to Dominate the Arctic Moscow is growing its footprint at the top of the world, working with China—and leaving the U.S. behind Russia’s growing international isolation following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 helped cement closer ties with China. Russia has increasingly opened its Arctic territory up to Beijing as Beijing has propped up the Russian economy and provided dual-use equipment to buttress its military. That support has been prominent in the Arctic, where Chinese companies are significant investors and equipment suppliers in Russian energy projects including the Yamal LNG and Arctic 2 LNG projects. Russia, in return, has been shipping fuel to China using its so-called shadow fleet, by which sanctioned vessels make illicit deliveries of Russian oil to markets in Asia. Last year saw a record volume for transit cargo through the Northern Sea Route from northwestern Russia to the Bering Strait, according to Rosatom, the Russian agency that oversees the waterway. Almost all of that cargo went from Russia to China, and more than half was crude oil. The total volume remains a fraction of crude-oil traffic through the Suez Canal: While the northern route’s shorter distance can cut transit times by two weeks, sea ice remains a treacherous obstacle despite shrinking ice cover. Map Shows Locations of NATO and Russian Military Bases in the Arctic Russia has 32 "continuously attended military sites" in the Arctic region as of 2024. Norway has 15 "continuously attended military sites," while the U.S. has 10, Canada eight, Denmark three (situated on Greenland) and Iceland one.

Vance to take first foreign trip to France, Germany Vice President Vance will travel to Europe next week for his first foreign trip since the inauguration, a VP spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. Vance will travel to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in France and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, The Washington Post first reported. ..hvorfor heller ikke Oslo for å besøke Gahr Støre og Barth Eide.

Kan du fortelle litt om hva du synes var bra ved forslaget da, og hvorfor du er av den oppfatning av dette var noe GOP generelt ønsket?

Schumer har blitt helt MAGA.

Marco Rubio: ‘I’m the Acting Director of USAID’ “And we owe the American people the assurances that every dollar we are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers our national interest.” RUBIO: Well, look, I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It’s a completely unresponsive agency. It’s supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so. And so I’m very troubled by these reports that they’ve been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do? Who gets the money? Who are our contractors? Who’s funded? And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of mature and serious review that I think forne writ large. Joni Ernst fortalte også om problemer og obstruksjoner fra USAID i DOGE podden i går.

Og går man enda lenger tilbake, til Trumps første periode, så fikk også Trump Mexico til å sende tusenvis av soldater til Mexicos sørgrense, i tillegg til tropper til nordgrensen..

Hva med å faktisk svare på noen av de få konkrete spørsmålene jeg stilte?

Det er ikke helt riktig. USAID tildeles en pott i budsjettet som de har til rådighet, kun en del av denne potten brukes på programmer vedtatt av kongressen, resten ligger under utøvende myndighet. Man må ikke bruke opp hele pengesekken kongressen har gitt de til rådighet. Selv kongessen sliter med å få innsyn i USAID.

Graham er ganske standard intel community politiker, og vil nok i ni av ti tilfeller foretrekke det etablerte hvor han vet hva får i stedet for noe nytt og ukjent som bryter med det.

Litt overraskende, Lindsey Graham sier han kommer til å stemme ja til Tulsi Gabbard (dersom hun i hele tatt får en floor vote).

Legacy media not happy.

Trump ødelegger faktisk livet hennes.

Du behøver ikke vente på at byråkrater i EU skal gjøre det, du kan være føre var og gjøre det helt selv. Du kan blokkere en nettside på flere måter, men er kanskje like greit å legge til to linjer i filen som heter "hosts" som ligger i \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ : 127.0.0.1 x.com 127.0.0.1 pbs.twimg.com

D.C. U.S. attorney fires Jan. 6 prosecutors, launches new probes And he appeared to set his sights on scrutinizing the nation’s top elected Democrat, sending what he called a “letter of inquiry” to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) about his quickly walked-back statement in a March 2020 rally that two of Trump’s recently nominated Supreme Court justices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for a vote against abortion rights. “We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,” Martin wrote Schumer in a Jan. 21 letter obtained by The Post. Hvem skulle tro - kan det få konsekvesener når toppdemokrater kommer med trusler mot Høyesterettsdommere? Noen som forresten vet hvordan det går i denne Arizonasaken der Trump truet å ta livet av Liz Cheney? Blir det tatt tiltale etter endt presidentperiode?

I og med du aldri har kommet med konkret er det vanskelig å vite hvorfor du mener forslaget var bra. Når du ser på hva Trump gjør og har planer om å gjøre, mener du fortsatt at forslaget ville vært bedre, i så fall hvorfor? Hvilke begrensinger ville forslaget lagt på Trump?

DNC skal velge nytt overhode denne helgen. Choosing new leaders, Democrats are still in denial On Thursday night, the candidates gathered at Georgetown University for a final forum. The event was moderated by not one, not two, but three MSNBC hosts. The key issue facing the DNC now is, of course, reforming the party after its defeat in the 2024 elections. Nearly every jurisdiction — states, counties, cities, and suburbs — moved to the right from the 2020 election. The Democratic Party’s losses were across the board. One might think such a drubbing would motivate a party to examine its mistakes and take a hard look in the mirror. But that would not be the DNC way, or the MSNBC way. So, the Georgetown forum was, in significant part, an exercise in denial. Perhaps the key moment came when Capehart asked the candidates and the audience for “a show of hands — how many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’s defeat?” Everyone onstage and in the audience raised his or her hand. It was unanimous. “OK, so that’s good,” Capehart said. “You all pass.” What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party Certainly, pushing back against Trump will be a vital task for the new top team. But that’s not enough. Democrats need leaders who will drive a radical transformation of their party’s character and vision. What’s needed is a Democratic Party where grassroots activists and their allies in labor, environmental, and civil rights organizations sweep the pablum of past messaging aside and replace it with an absolute commitment to economic and social and racial justice that gives frustrated Americans something to vote for. That means that the next DNC chair cannot be simply a competent manager—or, worse yet, a mere fund-raising complement to the party’s plodding congressional leadership. The chair, along with the vice chairs, must lead in a way that ensures that Trump and his minions aren’t the only ones defining our political moment.

Prioriteringer. Enten må borgerne betale mer i skatt eller så må man hente penger ved å kutta andre utgifter. Gjerne en kombo. Forsvar koster.

Hva! Hvordan kan Musk finne seg i dette?!