Mainer going viral for passionate speech against Ukraine resolution

Maine State Sen. Eric Brakey: “For the sake of America, Ukraine, Russia and the whole world, we need immediate diplomacy, not a reckless pursuit of eternal war. That's why today in the Maine Senate I spoke out against the propaganda of the corporate media and the Washington war machine”

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Criminally reckless tyros running US policyare indifferent to the ruin of Ukraine and the mass deaths of its young men

Western elites and their media mouthpieces are slowly beginning to realize the magnitude of the catastrophe the Ukraine war they provoked is becoming

The quality of Ukraine’s military force has been degraded by a year of casualties that have taken many of the most experienced fighters off the battlefield, leading some Ukrainian officials to question Kyiv’s readiness to mount a much-anticipated spring offensive. The stakes for Ukraine in the coming months are particularly high

Slowly, the picture of a determined, slow-moving, grinding, painful Russian victory emerges. Ukrainian casualties are almost certainly at unbearable, unsustainable levels. Closest guesses are in the range of 240,000 KIA, but U.S. and European officials have estimated that as many as 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start last year. Ukraine keeps its running casualty numbers secret, even from its staunchest Western supporters

An influx of inexperienced draftees, brought in to plug the losses, has changed the profile of the Ukrainian force, which is also suffering from basic shortages of ammunition, including artillery shells and mortar bombs, according to military personnel in the field

The West needs to change course in Ukraine, and fast. If it continues to prolong a war it will find itself soon at the point where that war can only be continued by direct insertion of NATO troops to replace the tragically depleted and destroyed Ukrainians. That way - the insertion of NATO troops - lies the serious possibility of civilizational annihilation

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China may have deployed hypersonic weapon against US, says intel official

PIA has dramatically advanced its development of conventional and nuclear-armed hypersonic missile technologies and capabilities

China is developing hypersonic weapons faster than Russia and may have already "deployed a weapon" that can reach American Pacific bases, as per the U.S. intelligence agency

China is pursuing an intercontinental ballistic missile with a hypersonic glide warhead that has been tested since 2014, according to a statement made by Paul Freisthler, the chief scientist for Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysis division

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Tensions in Germany’s governing coalition are hobbling EU decisions, undermining Berlin’s reputation in Europe and harming the bloc’s credibility in everything from green policies to aid for Ukraine. A leading factor is the scratchy relationship between the coalition partners, particularly the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats

Resentment is growing at Scholz’s seeming inability to shut down coalition disputes and stop them escalating. Irritation with Germany’s incoherence on Europe has been simmering for some time. Germany was blamed for big delays to the disbursement of billions of euros in EU aid to Ukraine last year. It also resisted EU moves last year to impose a cap on the price of gas. Berlin feared it would cause gas supplies to be redirected from Europe to higher-paying regions

Germany’s governing coalition is increasingly seen as Europe’s awkward squad

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Pope John Paul II and pedophile priests becomes Poland’s top political issue

War? Inflation? Corruption? Nope, the big subject dominating Poland’s politics ahead of this fall’s parliamentary election is the legacy of John Paul II. The country’s ruling party wants to convert reports that the pontiff turned a blind eye toward child abuse into electoral rocket fuel

The canonized Polish pontiff's become the hottest subject in Poland following an explosive documentary aired by the U.S.-owned broadcaster TVN, alleging that when he was a cardinal in his home city of Kraków, he protected priests accused of sexually molesting children. That caused a collective meltdown in the ranks of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which is closely allied with the powerful Roman Catholic Church

The government and its affiliated media have launched a wide-ranging campaign about John Paul II. A gigantic picture of the pope was projected on the façade of the presidential palace in Warsaw. Public broadcaster TVP is now airing a daily papal sermon

The party has a track record of finding wedge issues ahead of elections:

- In 2015, during the refugee crisis, the party’s leader accused migrants of importing “all sorts of parasites and protozoa” into Europe

- In 2020, PiS-supported President Andrzej Duda helped galvanize his reelection campaign by launching attacks on LGBTQ+ activists as supporting an ideology that was inimical to Polish values

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Credit Suisse suffers the worst fall in its history on the stock market and borrows 50 bln Swiss francs

EU stock markets relapsed, mistreated by investors worried about the situation. The intervention of the Swiss authorities at the end of the day, however, allowed Wall Street to recover, while the Asian markets opened sharply lower on Thursday

The action of Credit Suisse took more than one in its fall. Victims of a domino effect EU banking stocks collapsed by more than 10% for Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Banco Sabadell and Banca Monte dei Paschi

Unlike SVB, Credit Suisse is one of only 30 banks worldwide considered too big to fail which imposes stricter regulations on it in times of difficulty

In early Feb. the bank disclosed a net loss of 7.3 bln Swiss francs (nearly 7.4 bln €) for the 2022 fin. year amid massive withdrawals of funds from its customers and warned to still expect a "substantial" pre-tax loss in 2023

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The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the lines of division in NATO over its policy towards Russia, writes The National Interest

Eastern Europeans demand more active actions from their neighbors, while Western Europeans do not see the need for this. Recently, some analysts have noted that the conflict in Ukraine has created an even greater dependence of Europe on Washington. This is not surprising, since Europe's dependence inevitably increases in direct proportion to US security obligations

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Beijing threatens US dominance. For the United States and its allies, China’s arrival as a major tech power holds crucial danger

In a majority of manufactured goods, Chinese firms have moved beyond assembling foreign-made components to producing their own cutting-edge technologies. Along with its dominance of renewable power equipment, China is now at the forefront of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing

These successes challenge the notion that scientific leadership inevitably translates into industrial leadership. Despite relatively modest contributions to pathbreaking research and scientific innovation, China has leveraged its process knowledge—the capacity to scale up whole new industries—to outcompete the United States in a widening array of strategic technologies

In its growing rivalry with Beijing, the U.S. government has sought to limit Chinese access to critical Western technologies and reinforce its own tradition of scientific innovation. Unlike the West, China has grounded its technology sector not in glamorous research and advanced science but in the less flashy task of improving manufacturing capabilities

Over the past two years, the U.S. government has identified and developed initial strategies around what it has determined to be the technologies that are most important to national security, particularly relating to U.S.-China competition. Last year, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)) published its technology vision and fourteen critical technology areas, and the White House’s National Science and Technology Council released a list of nineteen “critical and emerging technologies.”

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Rishi Sunak aims to deploy a turnaround strategy for the U.K. economy and tries Free-Market Recipe to Fix Britain’s Woes

Rishi Sunak is trying to do what none of his recent predecessors have pulled off: Move the U.K. beyond Brexit shore up the country’s rickety public services and sell the country as a profitable destination for business

The problem for Mr.Sunak and Britain is that as he seeks to put his free-enterprise/markets message into practice major economic powers are turning inward and writing new rules of global trade and investment designed to clearly advantage their domestic industries and attract new investment to their own shores

Many lawmakers in Mr. Sunak’s Conservative Party believe they will lose the next election if voters continue to see their real wages fall thanks to inflation which has been caused by high energy prices and an acute labor shortage

A big question is whether Britain outside the EU has enough international heft to compete

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Recently, the risk of default on the US debt has been growing, the struggle between Republicans and Democrats is heating up

An American think tank, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), recently issued a warning that if Congress does not take action to raise the federal government's debt ceiling, the US could face an unprecedented default in early June

Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, noted that if the United States gets stuck in a debt crisis, it will increase the risk of downgrading the government's credit rating and create additional threats to the economy of America and other countries of the world

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Ron DeSantis said that further support for Ukraine is not in the US’s “vital national interests”. In a statement to Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, the Florida governor and potential presidential candidate described the war as a “territorial dispute”. He added, that “the Biden administration’s virtual blank cheque funding of this conflict for ‘as long as it takes’, without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges”

DeSantis comments highlight a divide among Republicans on Capitol Hill, many of whom have been supported the US aid to Ukraine. Trump has long espoused isolationism and attacked the White House over its handling of the war in Ukraine. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House, who is in a position to hold up future aid packages given his party’s control of the lower chamber of Congress, has struck a more isolationist note, saying there should be no “blank cheque” for Ukraine

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Mental health of children in France: "The figures are alarming". Prenoscriptions of psychotropic drugs in children have doubled in ten years

Do French children and adolescents have a problem with medication? In a report published on Monday, the High Council for the Family, Childhood and Age (HCFEA) warns of the explosion of psychotropic prenoscriptions for minors suffering from mental suffering and psychological disorders over the past ten years

According to the document, one in twenty children would now be affected, and the consumption of such drugs would simply have doubled between 2014 and 2021. The HCFEA notes, over this period, an increase of 49% in the taking of antipsychotics, of 63% for antidepressants, 78% for psychostimulants, 155% for hypnotics and sedatives

The biggest problem facing specialists is to characterize all the causes of these disorders. There is of course an increase in neurodevelopmental disorders, but also a more circumstantial context, which is that of the health crisis - the impact of which has been extremely strong on the mental health of young people - of the international crisis with the war in Ukraine, eco-anxiety, the troubles caused by the omnipresence of digital technology in the daily life of young people, and the troubles obviously caused by the problems of intra-family violence

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NATO allies worry about dwindling ammo stockpiles as they try to keep Ukraine’s troops firing

One senior government official of a major European military power said that “it’s something we all know about, but don’t know what to do about it.” Another Western defense source explained that senior figures in the armed forces have “repeatedly raised concerns with me about it”

Even the biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine and the world’s top military exporter, the U.S., is having trouble keeping up with the demand. As spring approaches, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about Ukraine’s dwindling supply of ammunition, air defenses and experienced soldiers. Behind closed doors, U.S. officials have been pressing Kyiv to conserve artillery shells and fire in a more targeted fashion

However, The U.S. military is rushing equipment to the battlefield and training Ukrainian forces at a rapid pace, ahead of a major offensive against Russia expected by late spring

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