As he not so stealthily lays the groundwork for a 2024 run, Pompeo has controversially exploited his position to deliver partisan speeches, hold exclusive dinners for wealthy backers, woo Christian groups, tour key domestic battlefields such as Iowa, get chummy with authoritarian foreign leaders – and tailor US foreign policy to his hawkishly regressive views. … [Read more...] about Unscrupulous and aggressive, Pompeo plans to be the next Trump – but smarter
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‘Homegrown insurgency’: General McChrystal compares MAGA rioters to Al-Qaeda – saying they also followed a ‘powerful leader’ – and claims that ‘Stop the Steal’ is a rallying cry like the Lost Cause was after the Civil War
'Similarly, the people behind January 6, 2021, mobilized right-wing extremists of every stripe - white supremacists, neo-Nazis, QAnon, anti-Semites, antigovernment militias, xenophobes, anti-feminists - and brought them together as a movement in what amounted to a Woodstock festival for extremists. … [Read more...] about ‘Homegrown insurgency’: General McChrystal compares MAGA rioters to Al-Qaeda – saying they also followed a ‘powerful leader’ – and claims that ‘Stop the Steal’ is a rallying cry like the Lost Cause was after the Civil War
How Trump supporters are radicalised by the far right
It adds: “Ask them questions such as: ‘What are conservatives conserving? Why are we losing? Is it a coincidence that Hollywood, corporations and media are all against us? Who is responsible?’ (Don’t go into Jews controlling everything, they worship Ben Shapiro [US conservative commentator], they need to come across that idea themselves).” … [Read more...] about How Trump supporters are radicalised by the far right
Hunt for ‘world’s first Covid patient’ who disappeared from Wuhan lab is STILL going on despite year-long search
A briefing document from the State Department read: "Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one." … [Read more...] about Hunt for ‘world’s first Covid patient’ who disappeared from Wuhan lab is STILL going on despite year-long search
China threatens Australia with a ‘counterstrike’ after government condemned Beijing’s assault on democracy in Hong Kong
Canberra considers the situation in Hong Kong to be so grave it suspended its extradition treaty with the city on July 9, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying the National Security Law erodes the democratic principles that have underpinned Hong Kong's society and the One Country, Two Systems framework. … [Read more...] about China threatens Australia with a ‘counterstrike’ after government condemned Beijing’s assault on democracy in Hong Kong
