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Trump has prohibited overseas US funded organisations from discussing abortion= reinstated Regan policy.
Quite ironic for the US to scrap the TPP whilst using our playground to further their pivot to Asia.
In two years the odds are shortening on us sending them an Electricity Bill
The most amusing part about that Reagan quote is that 99% of people cannot be anti-Communist by default.How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election’s results even as he seeks support for his legislative agenda.
The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact-checkers. The new president’s willingness to bring it up at a White House reception in the State Dining Room is an indication that he continues to dwell on the implications of his popular vote loss even after assuming power.
As part of that conversation, Mr. Trump asserted that between three million and five million unauthorized immigrants voted for Mrs. Clinton. That is similar to a Twitter message he posted in late November that said he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
Quite ironic for the US to scrap the TPP whilst using our playground to further their pivot to Asia.
In two years the odds are shortening on us sending them an Electricity Bill
One week into Presidency and President Alternative Facts has
Reinstated torture at CIA black sites
Issued a ban on any US funded organisation talking about abortion or contraception
Started an inquiry into totally bogus claims of voter fraud (so that the system can be re manipulated)
Starts the Mexican wall
I wonder when sufficient people with brains and balls will say "that's it" and pull the plug on this lying megalomaniac
You forgot to mention he is pulling out of the UN, stop Muslim immigration and will tear up the fake UN Paris agreement.
One week into Presidency and President Alternative Facts has
Reinstated torture at CIA black sites
Issued a ban on any US funded organisation talking about abortion or contraception
Started an inquiry into totally bogus claims of voter fraud (so that the system can be re manipulated)
Starts the Mexican wall
Stupid, useless UN. Wanting to unite the nations of the world, save the children, rescue refugees, establish human rights, save the planet, stop war crimes (or at least raised the issue quietly).
Who need useless things like that ey noco?
What the world need is a man with tiny hands to grab the world by the...
I guess every Rome has its Nero and Caligula.
Yeah. Great article Noco. Well balanced. informative eye opening. Certainly makes one think about the need to reform the UN and the difficulties of doing so.
Up to the usual excellent standards of The Guardian. Maybe you should include it on your reading list ?
Trump has just pi$$ed on Germany , so are we next ?
Well, the UN ain't what it used to be 70 years ago and the critics in the link below will tell you why.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/what-has-the-un-achieved-united-nations
A decade ago, the UN launched its most enduring report into reform. A panel – co-chaired by the prime ministers of Mozambique, Norway and Pakistan, and including the then British chancellor, Gordon Brown – wrote a devastating document. It ticked off criticisms which said the UN was badly failing those it was supposed to help. Its work on development was described as “often fragmented and weak”; its governance was called “inefficient and ineffective”.
The report said the UN’s taste for setting goals at the expense of delivering results failed the poorest and most vulnerable. It also criticised a system of funding for many UN programmes in which officials had to beg for money from governments year after year, making it difficult to plan.
“Cooperation between organisations has been hindered by competition for funding, mission creep and by outdated business practices,” it said. “In some sectors, such as water and energy, more than 20 UN agencies are active and compete for limited resources without a clear collaborative framework. More than 30 UN agencies and programmes have a stake in environmental management.”
The organisation has grown so big that at times it is working against itself. Critics point to large numbers of support staff doing ill-defined jobs. Staff costs account for two-thirds or more of some UN agencies’ outgoings. “Performance management is a joke,” said one official. “Almost everyone gets ‘above average’ in their assessment.”
The UN is so fragmented that each agency has its own IT system.
The reform report noted that about one-third of the UN operations in 60 countries had a budget of less than $2m per agency, which meant that they could do little more than afford the cost of running the office.
The report proposed extensive changes to promote greater collaboration and efficiency under a programme called Delivering as One. This included myriad UN agencies in a single country coming under the authority of one official, and working more closely with the governments of those countries, which often had no idea what the UN was doing.
It is hard to believe this has come from the Guardian......Maybe they speaking the truth for once.
Something I don't get is the ASX being as high as it is.
With Trump in and his actions thus far you'd have to be an extreme optimist to think that Australia wasn't going to be hit in some way. And yet optimism seems to be exactly what the markets are expressing.
Doesn't make sense to me so I guess I'm missing something.
My guess is that the Market believes that Trump will throw away environmental regulations, CC stuff, get friendly with Russia to end the sanctions, start a few proxy wars with China... all will lead to more demand in fossil, oil, arms and free trade.
Bad for the world and future generations, good for the bottom line next few quarters though
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