#music #rihanna - 4 April 2025 - Happy birthday webmaster John Nichols

4 April 2025

It is with great regret at 89 today I must stop publishing but with the current political scene in the world today with 2 "wannabe" dictators #Trump #netanyahu & the dictator #putin and the atrocities (war crimes) happening in both the #ukraine #Israel / #Gaza  and elsewhere in the world this will be my last post.

Just publishing this news is depressing but you can follow news here

Democracy Now

When I was in Korea in 1955 I was in the United Nation forces stationed opposite Gloucester Hill with the British Royal Signals (video of attack 4 years earlier)

Why are they not keeping the peace in Ukraine

I need to return to enjoying my music for which I am told I have a good ear for noticing music picking the Rolling Stones; Eric Clapton´s first records for being famous + many more and Rihanna´s first CD c2007/2008 when I was diagnosed with cancer. About that time a lady from UA dreams Donetsk (UA Dreams) wrote to me and we corresponded for about 18 months before she moved to Germany. I warned her then about the Russians when they invaded Georgia

Too much hot air throughout the world and not enough action

Future of Ukraine discussed at UN Security Council 

Thank you for following my posts all over these years on this site and others - my My Google Maps photos

The blogs can be found here

Hope that history rights itself and that there will be love and peace in the world: those breaking it will meet their karma before they bring their tyranny to the peace lovers of this world

Passing out parade at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Summer 1958 John Nichols Dettingen Company

https://archive.org/details/dettingen-company-royal-military-academy-sandhurst-winter-term-1964.

 

I 

#trump #hegseth #jdvance - Former Trump advisor warns Europe, NATO not to overreact: Interview with John Bolton | DW News

28 March 2028

Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton warns Europe and NATO members not to overreact and break up the Western alliance. In an in-depth interview with DW’s Washington Bureau Chief Ines Pohl, he talks about how Europe should deal with the Trump administration, and offers his views on the planned European military mission for Ukraine.

Bolton also assesses the fallout from the Signal scandal and downplays fears of a constitutional crisis in the US.

#trump #hegseth #jdvance

#Ukraine #Trump #Putin - Why Trump is selling out Ukraine for peace with Russia: Caspian Report

22 March 2025

Stay better informed https://ground.news/caspian and access world-wide perspectives on global developments. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through my link. Behind closed doors, #Trump has allegedly offered #Putin concessions on #Ukraine. Through this appeasement policy, Trump looks to flip Russia to contain #China.

#Ukraine #Trump #Putin

Steve Witkoff is a ‘Kremlin lover’ | Andrew Neil

What it tells us that Russia is sending low-ranking diplomats to the ceasefire talks | DW News

Today, we held meetings focused on diplomatic efforts. I spoke with Rustem Umerov. Yesterday there was a meeting with the U.S. team. Today, U.S. representatives spoke with the war team—that is, with representatives of Russia. After that, another meeting took place between the… pic.twitter.com/ZNNtU86ZLG

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 24, 2025

We know Kremlin's methods well.
1949 March 25, operation Priboi: occupant deported more than 90,000 people from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union. To stop resistance. But over 70% of the deportees were women and children under the age of 16. pic.twitter.com/sKIgT9HfQj

— Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine (@LithuaniaMFA) March 25, 2025

#trump #politics #ai - I Asked AI If Trump Is a RUSSIAN ASSET. And Here’s What It Said: I Ask AI

13 March 2025

Today, I’m asking AI to break down the real reasons behind Donald Trump’s admiration for Putin, where this kind of behavior could lead, and whether there’s any truth to the rumors that Trump was actually a KGB agent with the codename ‘Krasnov.’

Stick around until the end to hear ChatGPT’s take on all of it.

#trump #politics #ai

https://x.com/TonaldDrump45an

#Putin #Trump #Ukraine - Europe prepares for ‘imminent war’ with Putin as Trump deemed unreliable | Robert Fox: Times Radio

21 March 2025

“We are in an imminent, if not actual, state of war.” Keir Starmer has realised that Europe must step up to combat “Trump’s unpredictability” as the Ukraine-Russia war escalates, says The London Standard’s Robert Fox.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reiterated calls for extending NATO's Article 5 security guarantees to Ukraine, arguing that doing so would demonstrate whether Russia is serious about peace, she said in a speech to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on March 19.

Article 5, the cornerstone of NATO's collective defense, says that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. It has only been invoked once, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

"Extending NATO's Article 5 to Ukraine seems to be the simplest and most effective proposal of all, also because it would help call a possible bluff," Meloni said.

🚨 NO FLY ZONE FOR UKRAINE ?! A group of European experts and elected representatives are proposing that we send 120 European and British jet fighters to the skies of Ukraine to protect civilians - and help bring peace : operation Sky Shield. Let me explain 👇 pic.twitter.com/5WbYBm2t4O

— Zelenskyste 🇫🇷🇺🇦 (@VolodimirZelen1) March 6, 2025

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski:

“How we came to a place where we're fighting now with Canada, and we're making nice with Russia. It's beyond me…”pic.twitter.com/uXFOAZA0lu

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 20, 2025

#USA #finance #investment - 'Clear Possibility' that US Becomes Un-Investable under Trump: Peter Atwater: Bloomberg

20 March 2025

Financial Insyghts President Peter Atwater talks how investors should approach the volatility of policy changes in the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates, splitting with the US central bank as officials weigh the economic cost of his tariff push. 

“The Fed would be MUCH better off CUTTING RATES as U.S.Tariffs start to transition (ease!) their way into the economy,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Do the right thing. April 2nd is Liberation Day in America!!!”

Trump’s post Wednesday evening comes as his administration prepares to unveil a fresh wave of tariffs, which Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled was hanging over forecasts. 

Fed officials held their benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday for a second straight meeting, as expected by economists. Powell downplayed simmering concerns about a slowdown but acknowledged tariff uncertainty was a factor and already contributing to goods inflation, but may prove transitory. Trump’s administration is preparing to announce a fresh wave of tariffs on April 2, though the exact scope isn’t clear. Trump has promised so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on at least some nations, though his administration has not specified which ones or at what rate, and his key economic advisers have competing views on the best way to approach tariff policy. 

The public push back on interest rates comes as the Trump White House tries to make its case for stiffer tariffs amid a mixed economic picture in the US. Inflation has not abated as much as American consumers would like. High interest rates are squeezing the housing market, and economists now see economic growth slowing in the upcoming months. 

Trump has sent repeated mixed messages on the Fed — at times calling for cuts and otherwise declining to intervene. Similarly, during the campaign, he vacillated on how independent he said the Fed should be from the White House.

Featured Video Podcasts

#DonaldTrump #Putin - Journalist on Russia's 'wanted list' breaks down Putin's message to Trump: CNN

19 March 2025

Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist on Russia's "wanted list", joins CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss the call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin where they negotiated a month-long mutual pause on attacks against “energy infrastructure,” which Putin has already violated.

#CNN #News

#USA #trump #economy #canada - ‘Idiotic and dangerous’: Republicans running out of answers for Trump torching the economy: MNSBC

13 March 2025

David Gura, Bloomberg News Anchor and Correspondent and Matina Stevis Gridneff, New York Times Canada Bureau Chief join Nicolle Wallace with the latest impact of Donald Trump’s intentional trade war, the impact it has had on our relationships with our former key trading partners and the negative impact it will have on all Americans as price begin to rise across all aspects of the American marketplace.

#trump #economy #canada

#USA #MSNBC #DonaldTrump #ChuckSchumer - Lawrence on Trump's 'vile, antisemitic' attack on Schumer: Trump's mind is gone. It is shattered: MSNBC

x

13 March 2025

In the Oval Office today, Donald Trump used “Palestinian” as a slur and said the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, Chuck Schumer, is “not Jewish.”

Those comments went unchallenged by the reporters in the room. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains the problem with reporters learning not to be outraged by anything Trump says.

#MSNBC #MSNBC #DonaldTrump #ChuckSchumer