Thursday, July 11, 2024

Biden's dual NATO mission: Reassure America and the world

 


Biden's dual NATO mission: Reassure America and the world

President Biden wants to use this week's NATO summit in Washington to reassert his leadership over two anxious audiences: the Democratic Party, and Western allies unsure what to make of the unfolding political crisis.

Why it matters: The summit, which kicked off Tuesday and commemorates 75 years since the alliance was established, is Biden's first major international event since last month's debate raised doubts about his capacity to lead NATO's most important ally.

More than 30 leaders have descended on D.C. to discuss critical issues like Ukraine's roadmap to NATO membership, air defenses against Russian missile and drone attacks, and the joint challenges posed by China.

Many NATO leaders and diplomats are also privately eager to see Biden up close, having tracked the fallout from his debate fiasco from afar.

The intrigue: "People are coming to witness whether Biden is or is no longer [in charge]," one European diplomat said. — Axios

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  1. https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1811521168295236033?t=i5waBR-ktC-TgpzLN9QGwA&s=19

    🚨#BREAKING: Watch as President Joe Biden accidentally introduced Ukraine’s Zelenskiy as 'President Putin' as he handed over the microphone to him, causing gasps at the NATO summit before correcting himself

    https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1811522006996652523?t=Vpv6jImLDW5LgQVe-HIMUQ&s=19

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  2. The Almighty will recall him soon..one way or the other..

    Can't imagine he can handle the Presidency for 4 more years.

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  3. Another trap has been sprung... unelected european bureaucrats ...

    "The only easy day was yesterday"...

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    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1811805084981834164?t=prTo7lxrsq--Dfoa05FJtQ&s=19

    We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth

    https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1811699711591489637?t=B_7v_B1kdOnJSk0bAhvW-A&s=19

    Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦

    Now with X, our preliminary view is that:

    ❌They deceive users

    ❌They infrige #DSA

    X has now the right of defence —but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines & require significant changes.

    https://www.deccanherald.com/business/companies/musks-x-charged-with-deceiving-users-via-blue-checkmark-risks-fine-eu-says-3104179

    Musk's X charged with deceiving users via blue checkmark, risks fine, EU says The EU executive's preliminary findings or charges sent to X targeted the company's so-called dark patterns that shape user behaviour, its advertising transparency and data...

    Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/companies/musks-x-charged-with-deceiving-users-via-blue-checkmark-risks-fine-eu-says-3104179

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    1. Didn't MY iniatiated a variation of a similar theme recently, tugging on the emotional hearstring?

      Look like the battlefield for control of what goes into the mind is not for the fainthearted...

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      https://x.com/davidjthunder/status/1812020946615570925?t=MLdPwOEOy2B5IRaxpqCbUQ&s=19

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  4. Australian Senator Gerrard Rennick.

    At the moment, Malaysia, nada. Malaysia is really effup country, being put on the altar globalist slaughter. The Minister of Health did say something in parlimen recently that seems to imply he got "a gun on him by powerful forces in the shadow" and a chief minister of northern island state promoting hpv on men, oblivious to the great concern from humanity that is so drunk on the madness of manipulating human basic structure. And clueless doctors that only care for their wallet than upholding their hippocratic oath.

    Even though the stone structure was demolished many years ago, the intent to reduce world population to 500million in perpetual balance remain a vicious demonic vision for some...

    As though there are not enough alarm clock to wake the asleep.

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    https://x.com/SenatorRennick/status/1811546308056088645?t=fRQwiX0TOb_agD_ZXfVlDQ&s=19

    The TGA have just admitted they don’t understand the risks of the COVID vaccine.

    The fact that this relates to risks to the immune system is just plain negligence.

    As set out on page 45 of the Pfizer non-clinical report the lipids of the vaccine entered nearly every organ of the body including the spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow.

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    1. Do we prefer deeply stupid politicians, or does Canberra just make them act that way?
      Canberra has harboured plenty of political duds over the years, but Queensland’s latest offering to the national capital takes the cake, writes Madonna King.


      Madonna King
      Nov 25, 2021, updated Nov 25, 2021

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      Liberal Senator Gerrard Rennick during debate on One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson’s vaccine discrimination bill in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)
      Liberal Senator Gerrard Rennick during debate on One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson’s vaccine discrimination bill in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)

      In the long line of political ratbags Queensland has sent to Canberra, Senator Gerard Rennick might just snatch the gold medal.

      And the competition has been stiff. Clive Palmer. Pauline Hanson. Peter Slipper. George Christensen. Malcolm Roberts. Andrew Laming. All of those have been from the conservative side of politics, although Labor’s Mal Colston tried to make it onto the medal dais too.

      Before this week, how many Queenslanders had even heard of Senator Gerard Rennick, who we elected in July 2019 to represent the State?

      No-one I could find yesterday. No-one. But we should, because he has no right to represent us in the shoddy way he is now – and he needs to know that.

      His views are so extreme – and so polar to what most of us believe – that it raises the question of why we even pay him to turn up. And what we can do when our politicians don’t listen to the people they represent?

      On paper, Gerard Rennick looks the real deal. From the Darling Downs, he received a commerce degree from the University of Queensland. He then went on to nab a master’s degree in taxation law, as well as a master’s degree in applied finance from Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

      But, as we teach our children, academic ability is not a vaccine that prevents stupidity and the national contribution by this father-of-three looks more like a bid for attention, than anything based on fact.

      His latest foray into public debate, arguing against mandated vaccines, does not reflect the views of those he serves.

      His Facebook page, and please don’t add to his viewer count there, is brimming with anti-vaccination stories that are fuelling the silly and dangerous mob that are gathering in public places each weekend with gallow-talk and abuse directed at those attempting to keep the nation safe.

      Should he be obliged, as a Senator, to check the information he is espousing? Particularly when he is representing our views, nationally?

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      While he’s basing his vaccine argument on some convoluted idea of constitutional freedom, he’s aligning himself to the same camp as those who are threatening politicians and attacking Australians who are double-dosing in a bid to keep their families safe.

      He, along with a few of his friends, is on a chaotic mission to ensure his party loses government. And this week, his lack of nous showed through when he allowed Labor and the Greens to suspend an inquiry into the ABC and SBS.

      But politics and meeting with constitutional laws and re-election chances aside, Gerard Rennick’s anti-vaccine stance is undermining public health experts, fueling the ignorance of a small minority, and hindering vaccine rates.

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    2. Really, pity those having to deal with autism child. Someone says, lots of them now in MY. I have several cousins of that state, 80s and 90s child, and friends of the 00s.

      Guess somebody will pay.

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