USA news & politics

[Welsh Exile]

The influence Israel has over US politics is ridiculous and so out of proportion to their relative power on the world stage.

Americans being convinced that they must do everything they can to assist Israel and that it's gods will they do so it's the single most successful piece of propaganda spread through that country (maybe competing with the idea that trickle down economics works).

I believe in the late 19th century when there were a load of pogroms in Russia you had about 2 million Jews who ****** off to America as there weren’t really many safe places for them (until America shut its doors to them in I can’t remember when exactly but think it was early 20th century) so that’s why there’s a load of them there. I agree it’s very small and they wield a lot of influence relative to their size but then there’s a fair few that have worked themselves into very influential positions so not surprising really.

I think it’s changing though, I think Isreal has always been thought of positively amongst traditional republican voters (and even many Dems) but as we’ve seen with a shift in other attitudes I think there’s maybe more negative feelings as there’s an overriding priority for isolationism but that’s just a feeling I have rather than anything more than that.

 

[AlRums]

Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination withdrawn

Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Merezhko said he has "lost any sort of faith and belief" in President Donald Trump.

www.newsweek.com

 

[BrokenWing]

Kudos for having any at all, let alone for this long.

 

[AlRums]

Let's not forget this isn't the first time American politicians have barefaced lied to the world.



You can read it simply, if you click on the link

 

[Seeker]

Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination withdrawn

Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Merezhko said he has "lost any sort of faith and belief" in President Donald Trump.

www.newsweek.com

That would be embarrassing to anyone but Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if he had his own peace prize made in his honor. Anything for more attention.

 

[Seeker]

Let's not forget this isn't the first time American politicians have barefaced lied to the world.



You can read it simply, if you click on the link

The Bush years, both Dad and son and with the help of Dick Cheney. They lied a lot about our involvement in the Middle East. They sold us out to Big Oil.

 

[AlRums]

The Bush years, both Dad and son and with the help of Dick Cheney. They lied a lot about our involvement in the Middle East. They sold us out to Big Oil.

Not only that but they lied to the rest of the world to get others to participate in their wars.

 

[Seeker]

Not only that but they lied to the rest of the world to get others to participate in their wars.

 

[Yulia]

Not only that but they lied to the rest of the world to get others to participate in their wars.

Poor those others! They naively believed in American lie..they just wanted to follow the light of Democracy with American brothers....how can they trust someone else after that...

 

[AlRums]

Without trying to sound too conspiratol
7.5 millions Jews in USA 2.4% of population, 4.5% of the US population of them qualify for Israeli citizenship. (I dont know why there a number difference if you consider Jews a race).

This ubder half the world's Jewish population with most of the other being Israeli

There are a lot and they are influential block.

Its nothing more complicated than that.

Jewish conspiracy theories go to the bin though.

Interestingly Bernie Saunders touched on this with Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan asks Bernie Sanders if he will run for president again, what he would do on day one

Sanders spoke about what his major priority would be from the ‘first day in office’ and beyond.

nypost.com

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Trump is angry with a world that won't give him easy deals | Rafael Behr

In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crises, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlRums]

Trump is angry with a world that won't give him easy deals | Rafael Behr

In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crises, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Good article that

 

[Ddanno]

Behr is such an irritatingly good writer.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

US embassy in London has just tweeted out that if you're going to the US to on a non-immigrant student visa you need to have all your social media profiles set to public

Crazy

 

[Ddanno]

US embassy in London has just tweeted out that if you're going to the US to on a non-immigrant student visa you need to have all your social media profiles set to public

Crazy

I guess we're one of those 'shithole countries' then.

 

[dirty harry]

US embassy in London has just tweeted out that if you're going to the US to on a non-immigrant student visa you need to have all your social media profiles set to public

Crazy

Germans have been all over this for a while, they are desperate to impliment it!

 

[TommiG88]

US embassy in London has just tweeted out that if you're going to the US to on a non-immigrant student visa you need to have all your social media profiles set to public

Crazy

Freedom of speech init.

I remember DH and Chicago praising Trump and Vance saying we had no freedom of speech init Europe.……….. pair of numpties

 

[Kiwiwomble]

Freedom of speech init.

I remember DH and Chicago praising Trump and Vance saying we had no freedom of speech init Europe.……….. pair of numpties

as much as i disagree with it....i can see the counter argument being "freedom of speech, not freedom of consequence", theyre not stopping people saying things, just removing the gift of entry if they dont like what people have said

 

[dirty harry]

as much as i disagree with it....i can see the counter argument being "freedom of speech, not freedom of consequence", theyre not stopping people saying things, just removing the gift of entry if they dont like what people have said

The idea is supposedly identification purposes, but key searches in national security will be conducted, it'll be common place in EU soon enough with AI's progression apparently it'll double the processing speed...

Until its abused as much as possible.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

as much as i disagree with it....i can see the counter argument being "freedom of speech, not freedom of consequence", theyre not stopping people saying things, just removing the gift of entry if they dont like what people have said

I don't think it's great but it's not the biggest issue imo. It's the criteria they use to determine you can't enter that will be the problem. If they decide criticising Trump is grounds to deny entry then they can kiss goodbye to most of their foreign students.

It's whether it is actually done for national security reasons or petty political reasons, denying access to anyone who disagree with the administration.