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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...glock-election

Republican US Senate candidate Kari Lake has told supporters to “strap on a Glock” ahead of the 2024 elections as she struggles to gain ground against her Democratic rival in Arizona.
In a campaign speech made to a crowd in Arizona’s Mohave county on Sunday, Lake echoed Trump-like terms in calling Washington DC a “swamp” – and used a reference to carrying guns when she told people to prepare for an “intense” election year.
Lake hopes to represent Arizona in the seat to be vacated by Democrat turned independent Kyrsten Sinema.
Lake told the crowd: “We need to send people to Washington DC that the swamp does not want there. And I can think of a couple people they don’t want there. First on that list is Donald J Trump; second is Kari Lake.
“He’s willing to sacrifice everything I am. That’s why they’re coming after us with ‘lawfare’,” Lake said, referencing the ex-president’s many legal troubles as he stands trial in New York.
“They’re going to come after us with everything. That’s why the next six months is going to be intense. And we need to strap on our … ”
Lake briefly paused before deciding on the item her supporters should strap on. After suggesting a “seatbelt”, a “helmet” and “the armor of God”, she said: “And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”
Before running for the Senate seat, Lake ran for governorship of Arizona in 2022 on a hard-right platform where she echoed Donald Trump’s false claims that he was not beaten in the 2020 presidential election by Joe Biden. She lost to her Democratic rival, Katie Hobbs.
She told supporters on Sunday, referring to constitutional gun rights and free speech rights: “We’re not going to be the victims of crime. We’re not going to have our second amendment taken away. We’re certainly not going to have our first amendment taken away by these tyrants.”
But despite Lake’s assertive remarks, more voters are now moving towards her Democratic opponent, Ruben Gallego, Politico reported.
Politico cited election analyst Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, which moved the likelihood of the open Senate race from “toss-up” to “leans Democratic”.
It’s not yet clear how much the issue of abortion will sway elections in the state, where last week the Arizona supreme court ruled a divisive 19th-century near-total abortion ban would soon go into effect, almost two years after the overturning of Roe v Wade’s federal abortion rights protection by the US supreme court. The revived historical law in Arizona makes no exceptions for rape or incest and only allows abortions if the mother’s life is at risk.
Lake has flip-flopped on the issue, previously supporting the law and now saying she opposes it.
Democrats in the Arizona house of representatives are seeking to repeal the pending 1864 ban on abortion, but they

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Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky on Tuesday said he would co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate, which would boot Johnson from the speakership if it passed, leading the speaker to defiantly tell reporters that he would not be resigning.

When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” why the foreign aid packages weren’t broken up months ago, given Ukraine’s desperate need for aid, Johnson said that it takes “a long time to socialize and build consensus when you have the smallest majority in US history.”

“Look, we know what the timetable is,” he added. “We know the urgency in Ukraine and in Israel, and we are going to stand by Israel, our close ally and dear friend, and we’re going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn’t March through Europe.”

Johnson appeared unfazed by threats to oust him, insisting he doesn’t “walk around thinking about the motion to vacate.”

“It’s a procedural matter here that I think has been abused in recent times,” he said. “Maybe at some point we change that, but right now, I got to do my job, and so do all my colleagues.”
Johnson under pressure

The loan structure around aid comes after a meeting and news conference with Johnson and former President Donald Trump, who said in February that the US should stop providing foreign aid unless it is structured as a loan. That weekend, Johnson earned full-throated support from Trump at a perilous time in his speakership.

Johnson had announced Monday evening the House will take up separate bills this week to provide aid for Israel and Ukraine, heeding demands from the far right to keep the issues separate. But the final product is expected to be lumped together as one big package that will be sent to the Senate, according to sources familiar. The House can do this though an arcane procedure, something that is enraging the right wing of the Republican party but it’s what Democrats have been insisting on as a condition of their support.

The speaker has been facing mounting pressure to make tweaks to the foreign aid package proposed earlier this week – and not just from his most right-wing members. While conservative House Freedom caucus members have been sounding the alarm on border security and the foreign aid bills since Tuesday’s caucus meeting, the shouts have now spilled into the rank and file.

Moderate New York Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis on Wednesday told the speaker “go back to Biden & Schumer and tell them he needs a border security measure to pass foreign aid.” Johnson said in his letter to members that he will bring forward an immigration bill that looks like the House’s HR 2.

A number of far-right House Republicans have been quick to shoot down the border bill that Johnson announced would be included with the foreign aid bills expected to be voted on Saturday, dispelling any hope that the border provisions would placate the speaker’s right flank.

In an embarrassing defeat for Johnson on Wednesday evening, the House Rules Committee failed to pass a rule on the GOP border security bill, with Republicans threatening to vote against the measure in committee.

Moderate GOP Rep. Mike Lawler called on Massie, Texas Rep. Chip Roy and South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman to resign from the panel, accusing them of blocking the speaker’s agenda.

“The three members who refuse to support the Speaker’s agenda should resign from the Rules Committee immediately. If they refuse, they should be removed immediately. They are there on behalf of the conference, not themselves,” Lawler said in a social media post.

The border bill, which includes the core provisions of another House passed border package that remains dead in the Senate, was seen as a messaging exercise by Johnson in an attempt to placate his colleagues demands on the border, and it clearly does not appear to be working.

Greene, who is leading the effort to oust Johnson, said on X: “You are seriously out of step with Republicans by continuing to pass bills dependent on Democrats. Everyone sees through this.”

Conservative hardliners were quickly fuming at Johnson for his decision to move ahead with billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine and loudly warning him it could cost him his job.

An angry Roy said he is “very disappointed” in the speaker, and he is “past the point of giving grace.”

“I need a little bit more time today, but it is not good,” Roy said when asked by CNN if it is time for him to get out of office.

Firebrand Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz called Johnson’s decision to move ahead with the foreign aid bills as tantamount to “surrender,” vowing to vote against the package and work hard to pressure others to not support the move. Other Republicans also expressed anger and wouldn’t rule out voting against Johnson on procedural motions that could upend the bill.

In a first key test of the measures, the House Rules Committee will meet Thursday morning to advance Johnson’s plans for the foreign aid package. However, the three hardliners on the panel who blocked the border security bill Wednesday have also threatened to oppose a rule on the foreign aid bill.
Democrats could be needed

With Republicans only controlling the House by a razor-thin margin, Johnson will likely need Democrats to pass the foreign aid bills – and save his job should the motion to vacate come to the floor.

House Democrats are waiting to weigh in on precisely how much they will help with procedural votes on the aid package until they see if it includes a must-have item for them: $9 billion in humanitarian aid to Gaza and other conflict zones around the globe. The billions in humanitarian aid includes not just money for Gaza but for Sudan, Haiti and other areas that Democrats have been quick to point out.

During a caucus meeting on Tuesday, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told his caucus they would not accept “one penny” less of humanitarian aid.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday offered his first explicit endorsement of the plan offered up by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Israel is facing unprecedented attacks from Iran, and Ukraine is facing continued bombardment from Russia that has intensified dramatically in the last month,” Biden said in a statement.

The state of the battlefield in Ukraine is beginning to “shift a bit … in Russia’s favor,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on Wednesday as he urged for passage of the supplemental aid package for Ukraine.
House Speaker Mike Johnson attends a press conference at the US Capitol on April 16, in Washington, DC.

“In terms of, you know, what happens going forward and how long Ukraine will be able to sustain its efforts, I think we’re already seeing things on the battlefield begin to shift a bit in in terms of in Russia’s favor,” Austin told the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee.

However, House Democrats are divided over whether they would try and save Johnson if an effort to oust him gets underway in the chamber, with institutionalists insisting that voting against a motion to vacate could protect the body from devolving into chaos mere months before a presidential election. Progressive members, meanwhile, warn that helping Johnson now could ultimately undermine the party with its base, which already may be less than enthusiastic about showing up at the polls in November.

Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi and Jared Moskowitz have said publicly they would not support an attempt to oust Johnson, but other Democrats – including one who held the same job as Johnson – aren’t ready to make that kind of commitment.

“Let’s just hope that that does not happen, and that we can do our responsibilities, protect and defend our own democracy as we protect theirs,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

If Johnson is indeed ousted, it could plunge the House into chaos once again, with zero legislation getting on the floor until a new speaker is elected.


https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/17/p...aid/index.html

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https://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-3/p...quo-392156.htm

I Kennedy si muovono in massa per fermare la pecora nera della famiglia. Quindici contro uno. Succederà oggi. In Pennsylvania va in scena l’incontro tra quindici membri della famiglia presidenziale più famosa d’America e Joe Biden, impegnato in campagna elettorale nello Stato dove è nato, cresciuto e rischia di perderlo ai voti il 5 novembre.
Tutto il clan dei Kennedy era già andato alla Casa Bianca a marzo, il giorno di San Patrizio, per posare in una foto ricordo simbolica e che avrebbe dovuto togliere ogni dubbio agli americani sul candidato che appoggeranno.
Ma nel frattempo la pecora nera, Robert Kennedy Jr, 70 anni, attivista, avvocato, complottista, leader del movimento no-vax in Usa, ha rinsaldato la sua posizione di candidato indipendente e conquistato almeno il dieci per cento nei sondaggi. È un dato che non si registrava dai tempi del miliardario texano Ross Perot, il “terzo uomo” nelle elezioni del 1992. […]
Kennedy Jr può erodere i voti destinati a Biden ed è per questo che il resto della famiglia si sta mobilitando. Ad appoggiare il presidente ci sono i fratelli e sorelle dello sfidante: Joseph, Kerry, Rory, Kathleen, Maxwell e Christopher.
All’incontro, durante la campagna elettorale, sono attesi in quindici, ma anche gli altri rappresentanti del ramo familiare, tra cui altri fratelli, hanno annunciato il loro sostegno a Biden.
La sorella di Kennedy Jr., Kerry, introdurrà il presidente a un evento. E lo stesso farà Joe Kennedy III, nipote del leader dei novax, a un altro appuntamento elettorale. Nessuno nasconde l’inquietudine della candidatura del parente ribelle, che ha definito il presidente la “peggiore minaccia per la democrazia americana” e difeso Donald Trump. Il tycoon ha colto l'assist, facendogli i complimenti per la candidatura e definendolo un paladino della libertà.
Biden continua a risalire nei sondaggi, ma nel 2020 ci furono almeno tre Stati - Arizona, Georgia e Wisconsin - in cui il democratico vinse per un pugno di voti. Anche lo spostamento di diecimila voti può diventare decisivo. E con Kennedy Jr in campo, un ambientalista che piace ai giovani e che per conquistarne altri ha scelto come vice l’ex signora Google, l’avvocata ecologista Nicole Shanahan, 38 anni, ex moglie del fondatore del gigante tech Sergey Brin. […]

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Il clan Kennedy è da sempre famoso per le sue connessioni - non dimostrate - con la Mafia, quindi non è strano che si schieri a favore di un Presidente che vuole proseguire nel declino nazionale.



PS: comunque tutti i giornali italiani sono di sinistra, questo è significativo

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https://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-4/b...ora-392198.htm

NEGLI ULTIMI DIECI ANNI, GLI STATI UNITI SONO DIVENTATI IL PRINCIPALE PRODUTTORE AL MONDO DI GREGGIO

GLI USA SONO RIUSCITI A SUPERARE L’ARABIA SAUDITA SVILUPPANDO NUOVE TECNOLOGIE DI ESTRAZIONE: HANNO IL PETROLIO DI SCISTO NEL SOTTOSUOLO. QUESTO HA RIDOTTO IL POTERE DI RICATTO DELL’OPEC ALLARGATA ALLA RUSSIA

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https://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-4/b...ora-392198.htm

NEGLI ULTIMI DIECI ANNI, GLI STATI UNITI SONO DIVENTATI IL PRINCIPALE PRODUTTORE AL MONDO DI GREGGIO

GLI USA SONO RIUSCITI A SUPERARE L’ARABIA SAUDITA SVILUPPANDO NUOVE TECNOLOGIE DI ESTRAZIONE: HANNO IL PETROLIO DI SCISTO NEL SOTTOSUOLO. QUESTO HA RIDOTTO IL POTERE DI RICATTO DELL’OPEC ALLARGATA ALLA RUSSIA

E' una delle ragioni per cui e' scoppiata la guerra in ucraina.

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E' sottinteso che la riduzione del potere di ricatto vale solo per gli stati uniti, l'europa rimane ricattabilissima, anzi

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E' sottinteso che la riduzione del potere di ricatto vale solo per gli stati uniti, l'europa rimane ricattabilissima, anzi

Il threas riguarda gli US
Peraltro gli Stati europei non hanno capacità serie di proiezione della forza.

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«Un maiale hitleriano»
Lo staff della Casa Bianca userebbe questo appellativo per riferirsi all'ex presidente Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON - «Maiale hitleriano». Sarebbe questo l'appellativo con cui lo staff della Casa Bianca è solito chiamare Donald Trump nelle mail e nelle comunicazioni interne. Lo rivela Politico sottolineando che secondo le fonti si tratta di impiegati «giovani e nativi digitali».
Joe Biden non ha mai usato quel termine, precisano i funzionari, anche se in privato si riferisce al tycoon con termini più «pepati» di quelli che usa in pubblico.

https://www.tio.ch/dal-mondo/attuali...ale-hitleriano

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https://www.dagospia.com/rubrica-4/b...ora-392198.htm

NEGLI ULTIMI DIECI ANNI, GLI STATI UNITI SONO DIVENTATI IL PRINCIPALE PRODUTTORE AL MONDO DI GREGGIO

GLI USA SONO RIUSCITI A SUPERARE L’ARABIA SAUDITA SVILUPPANDO NUOVE TECNOLOGIE DI ESTRAZIONE: HANNO IL PETROLIO DI SCISTO NEL SOTTOSUOLO. QUESTO HA RIDOTTO IL POTERE DI RICATTO DELL’OPEC ALLARGATA ALLA RUSSIA

Anche la produzione Usa è al massimo storico.
Anche grazie alle esportazioni Usa verso l'Europa per sostituire il gas russo.