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Fullt helsekaos i USA. – Det vil føre til dødsfall.
Landets nasjonale sikkerhet er i fare, advarer smittevernsjefer som trekker seg i protest mot helseminister Robert F. Kennedy jr.

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Smittevernsjefer i USA trekker seg i protest mot helseminister Kennedy. Smittvernbyrået CDCs vaksinepolitikk skaper stor konflikt.
Kennedy, en kjent vaksineskeptiker, har sparket flere CDC-ledere og presset endringer i vaksinepolitikken.
Kennedy utnevnte Jim O'Neill, som mangler medisinsk bakgrunn, til fungerende direktør. Dette skaper bekymring for landets helsesikkerhet.

 

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/Ey7XGo/helsetopper-trekker-seg-i-protest-mot-kennedy

[Shoxx]

USA er så ferdig! Forstår ikke de som ser hverken opp til Trump og administrasjonen hans,eller systemet de har der borti USA. Er skole eksempel på hvorfor vi skal forsvare vårt sosialdemokrati og gode velferd. 

[Jarmo]

https://e24.no/internasjonal-oekonomi/i/MnKkKo/trump-i-tollskvis-en-risikabel-strategi

[Reg2000]

2 hours ago, Jarmo said:

https://e24.no/internasjonal-oekonomi/i/MnKkKo/trump-i-tollskvis-en-risikabel-strategi

Høyesteretten er jo blitt en vits som gjør det Trump sier så dette har ingenting å si.

[Enceladus]

Trump har fornærmet India, så nå søker de en annen vei. 

Fyren er et geni! 🙄

 

Amerikanerene skal få litt av en oppvask hvis de klarer å stable på beina et nytt demokratisk styre.

 

[Reg2000]

46 minutes ago, Enceladus said:

Trump har fornærmet India, så nå søker de en annen vei. 

Fyren er et geni! 🙄

Trump har klart å gjøre BRICS relevant.

[JK22]

Trump's Military Moves Ratchet Up Threat of State-on-State Conflict

In Donald Trump's increasingly addled worldview, if he can imagine it, he has the authority to do it. "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States," he told reporters this week in the Oval Office, justifying his decision to deploy armed National Guard units to Washington, D.C., and his threats to send forces to Chicago and beyond. "If I think our country is in danger - and it is in danger in these cities," he said, "I can do it."

Trump is using the military to beta-test an American police state. And he is going about it in a way that could stoke conflict between military units of Republican- and Democratic-governed states, says Ret. Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who spoke to reporters on a conference call, Tuesday. "That's the scariest thing about what we're watching right now." 

Trump signed a stark executive order this week directing the Pentagon to "immediately" create a special police unit inside the D.C. National Guard to enforce "public safety and order" in continued response to the "crime emergency" he's declared in the nation's capital. (Earlier this year, the federal government touted that violent crime in the district was at a three-decade low.) 

But the executive order is not limited to the federal capital, where Trump wields broad powers. The order calls for building similar capacity in Guard units across the country, as well as the creation of a "standing National Guard quick reaction force" available for "rapid nationwide deployment." Trump's order anticipates Guard members "quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety."

Trump's move to direct the might of the U.S. military internally is raising alarms among legal scholars. "There is no statutory authority to federalize the National Guard for the purpose of policing local crime," says Liza Goitein, a national security expert at the Brennan Center, who highlighted for reporters the pernicious effects of Trump's orders. "At minimum, using soldiers as a domestic police force creates a chilling effect" - in particular, she said, for people seeking to protest "the person who commands the soldiers."

Trump's order does more than marshal the military. It envisions civilians entering the fray to enforce the president's notions of law and order. The executive order calls for the creation of an online portal where Americans with "law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience" can apply to "join Federal law enforcement entities" to "support the policy goals" of the president. 

The language of the order, first flagged by The New York Times, is ambiguous. Would these civilians join in a paid capacity? Or as "civilian volunteers," as the Times described it, resembling a federal posse? A White House official would not clarify beyond telling Rolling Stone that the portal hopes to attract qualified applicants who support Trump's initiative to "crackdown on crime" in D.C.

Trump's order puts a task force chaired by top White House adviser Stephen Miller in charge of the recruiting effort. Trump's most nakedly authoritarian lieutenant, Miller regularly demonizes anyone to the left of Trump's MAGA movement. In an appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity this week, Miller described Democrats in ways that would make a demagogue blush:  

"The Democrat Party is not a political party, it is a domestic extremist organization," Miller said. He peppered his diatribe with false claims that the Democratic Party does not "represent American citizens" and but is "devoted exclusively" to the "defense of hardened criminals, gang bangers and illegal-alien killers and terrorists." Miller blasted Democratic mayors as "evil," while falsely alleging they are "rejoicing in" subjecting residents to a "constant blood bath." He called Trump's militarization of the streets of the nation's capital a "liberation," declaring: "President Trump has literally set the people of Washington, D.C., free."

Strident "enemy-within" bluster is not new from the Trump administration. But advancing the notion that Trump's militarized police state ought to be turned against one of the two major political parties is harrowing - and a bright-red flag for anyone tasked with recruiting security forces. 

The language of Trump's EO itself is also troubling. It can read like a dog-whistle to the right's own extremists. The ranks of the Oath Keepers, for example, are brimming with ex-military and law enforcement. As detailed in court proceedings, its leaders were waiting on an invitation from the president during the tumult of Jan. 6 to join a violent crackdown on Trump's enemies in D.C. The militia group had infamously stationed its own, armed, "quick reaction force" across the river in Virginia. These convicts are now at large after Trump's mass pardon spree. 

Beyond this troubling recruiting, "the mission is the problem here," Max Rose, a former Democratic congressman from Staten Island, New York, tells Rolling Stone. "The president's intent is to scare the hell out of millions of people - principally his political opponents," Rose says. "That's why it's being done in such a public, brazen manner."

Rose, like Eaton and Goitein, was a panelist on the press call, which was organized by the Vet Voice Foundation, a group devoted to defending democratic values. Its CEO, Janessa Goldbeck, denounced Trump's "steady march" to using the military as a "partisan tool," calling the new executive order the "most dangerous step yet" by the president. "It's a blueprint to use America's military forces to police our own citizens," she said.

Several panelists on the call highlighted the danger of Trump potentially shattering precedent by deploying National Guard units from one state into another - against the will of that state's governor. "This norm has been treated as inviolable, because the alternative is blatantly unconstitutional," said Goldbeck. "Put bluntly, the Constitution prevents states from invading other states."

This invasion threat is no longer an abstraction. In a press conference this week, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois spoke directly to "my fellow governors" who might consider sending National Guard units "into my state against the wishes of its elected representatives and its people." Pritzker spoke with a firmness that could be read as a veiled threat: "Any action … violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator," he said, "will be responded to."

Retired Maj. Gen. Eaton is a Vet Voice adviser. Using military jargon, he raised the specter of a "blue-on-blue" conflict - a form of "fratricide," as he described it - in which American military units "wind up shooting at each other" when they "both believe they're doing the right thing, but their chain of command is flawed." 

Eaton imagined a dangerous scenario in which a state like South Carolina or Mississippi were to deploy Guard troops to California, only to be told by the governor: "You will not enter the state of California."  

"This can spin out of control if the governors feel that they are the last line of defense for the U.S. democracy," Eaton says. And America's current cold war between Republican and Democratic governed states could suddenly turn hot. "The last time America had a blue-on-blue," he cautions, "was the Civil War."

Da guvernør Pritzker sa republikanske politikerne vil bli gjort ansvarlig for Trumps handlinger fordi de beskytter og hjalp ham, var dette et tydelig signal om at polariseringen er i ferd med å når statlig nivå, og at Trumps aggressivitet mot politiske dissidenter som utgjør et statsdekkende parti som det demokratiske partiet, kan få meget seriøse konsekvenser. Det kan ende med at nasjonalgardister fra ulike stater kommer til å slåss mot hverandre, at delstatsregjeringer vil ikke ha annet valg enn å gå til revolt for å berge delstatssuvereniteten - og at soldater kommer til å bruke vold mot hverandre i anarki når man ikke kunne eniges om hvem å følge. Grunnlovsfedrene hadde gjort det meget klart at alle militære må avlegge deres ed mot konstitusjonen fremfor mot president, kongress og delstat. Republikanerne nektet å respektere dette, og Trump arbeider meget hardt - med Hegseth som er en kvinnehatende rasist - og Miller, som er definitivt 100 % nazistisk - med å sette inn lojalister som vil begå landssvik til fordel for presidentmakten. 

Chicago Mayor Orders City to Counter Trump Troop Deployment

Hvis de republikanske folkevalgte i kongressen ikke tar til fornuften, risikere de at alt kommer til å brenne opp. I flere delstater meldes det om voksende trass mot føderalmakten som i øyne på mange har blitt en repressiv kraft; 

“We will protect our constitution. We will protect our city. And we will protect our people. We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want to see families ripped apart,” he said, adding that the executive order would “ensure that every Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared, and every part of city government is directed to protect the people of Chicago from federal action.”

Alle delstater har deres egne konstitusjoner, som føderalmakten må respektere for at disse skal forbli innenfor unionen så lenge disse akseptere den føderale konstitusjonelle ordningen. Men hvis ordningen skulle gå opp i limingen og føderalmakt skulle ikke respektere delstatssuverenitet, da kan det få meget uante følger. Blant annet at demokratene og moderate republikanerne vil se seg nødt til å gjøre opprør for å beskytte deres land og folk mot tyranni og maktmisbruk. Det finnes meget få delstater hvor det ene partiet har sterk støtte i folkedybden, deriblant California - de fleste er på 40% til 60 % balanse mellom begge partier, flesteparten av byene er under demokratisk kontroll for eksempel. Og flesteparten av høyutdannede er demokrativennlige, dvs. at de vil ikke tolerere konstitusjonsoppløsning. 

Da må kongressen tre sammen og tvinge gjennom øyeblikkelig avsetting av hele Trump-administrasjonen medregnet visepresident Vance - og få Trump arrestert eller... likvidert. De risikere at hele USA vil komme i oppløsning når folk går mot hverandre i raseri, forvirring og fortvilelse. 

[JK22]

 If you're too dumb to vote against your own interests, then I'm not sure how to help you.

These MAGA Parents Are Getting Dragged After Their Vote Completely Destroyed Their Own Son's Career

Disse som stemte på Trump har bare seg selv å takke. Når borgerkrigen komme, kan dette få meget mange familier til å bli permanent splittet for alltid. Mange som hadde nektet å forstå faresignalene og konsekvenser, kan dessuten ikke regne med å få hjelp eller sympati. 

Trump is shredding America’s most important alliances – and its credibility

Washington DC – As Americans fire up their barbeques this Labour Day holiday, few will divert their attention from the hamburgers sizzling on the grill, and pause to reflect upon events a world away in the Chinese city of Tianjin.

But in every way, the meeting there of the Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation (SCO) hosted by President Xi Jinping and attended this year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Turkey, Iran and Belarus, is the harbinger of a new, dramatic chapter in global affairs.

Xi told his visitors on Sunday that the SCO now bore “greater responsibilities” for keeping regional peace in the midst of a “fluid and chaotic” international situation. “The world today is swept by once-in-a-century transformations”, claimed the Chinese leader.

Nothing is more remarkable at the SCO summit than the sudden, burgeoning relationship between Xi and Modi. They have been unwittingly propelled into one another’s embrace by US President Donald Trump, and are creating an alliance that shreds three decades of American efforts to lure Delhi into Washington’s corner.

For that, only Trump and his global trade war are to blame. A mere six months ago, the sight of Modi breaking bread in China with Xi was unthinkable. Successive American presidents, including Trump during his first term, engaged in a non-stop charm offensive to reverse decades of Cold War tension and enmity between India and the United States.

But Trump’s lumbering, clumsy handling of the bilateral relationship with New Delhi has consigned all of that to history’s ash-heap, and created an opportunity for India and China to bury their own hatchets.

On Sunday, Xi and Modi agreed to be partners “based on mutual respect”, not rivals, the Indian prime minister said in a video posted on X.

From the administration of Bill Clinton onwards, successive US presidents viewed India as the country of the future, with a growing economy to match. No longer hostage to Cold War relationships that had boosted Pakistan’s standing in Washington, they rapidly expanded economic and strategic cooperation with an array of Indian leaders.

By 2014, with Modi elected to power in Delhi, the US would even reverse a decade-long travel ban imposed on him over “severe violations of religious freedom” during sectarian riots in 2002, when he served as Gujarat’s Chief Minister.

The high-watermark in US relations came in September 2019. India’s Prime Minister travelled to the Texas City of Houston where Trump joined him for “Howdy Modi”, a day of celebration that brought 50,000 people to hear the US President describe his guest as “one of America’s most devoted, most loyal friends”.

Modi’s currency in Washington continued rising during the Biden presidency. India served as a cornerstone of “The Quad”, a revived grouping alongside the US, Australia and Japan that sought – in Biden’s words – to play “a defining role in the region” countering Chinese expansionism. India became such a trusted ally that only last year Washington approved Delhi’s request to purchase $4bn (£3bn) of MQ-9B Reaper drones, as well as joint production of fighter jet engines that are considered some of America’s most sensitive military technology.

All of that now appears to have been sacrificed on the altar of Trump’s global trade war, and his sudden, surprise determination to single India out for punishment over its continuing purchase of Russian oil. Modi can be excused for thinking that he has been blindsided by Trump. Their personal relationship always appeared authentically warm, and went off the boil with extraordinary rapidity in June.

Then, to the grave irritation of Modi, Trump personally claimed credit for brokering a truce after a flare-up in tensions between Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed region of Kashmir. Trump’s race to declare on social media that he had negotiated a “full and immediate ceasefire”, took Delhi by surprise, with Modi insisting the Americans played no role in negotiations. Pakistan, by contrast, nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Last month, Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on Indian exports to the United States came into force, the President grousing about Delhi’s “obnoxious” trade barriers to American goods. “WE HAVE A MASSIVE TRADE DEFICIT WITH INDIA!!!” he wrote, as he imposed secondary sanctions over Delhi’s purchase of Russian oil.

Modi is now voting with his feet. He has reportedly refused to take Trump’s calls since June, and instead has raced headlong to mend fences with China. In Tianjin on Sunday, the two leaders pledged to resolve lingering territorial disputes over their own bilateral border, and to seize the opportunity to remind Washington of the enormous market that exists for two-way trade between them.

“The interests of 2.8 billion people in both our countries are tied to our co-operation”, Modi told Xi. The Chinese leader said the two nations must “enable each other’s success, and to have the dragon and the elephant dance together”.

Also in Tianjin for the summit was a host of other figures eager to upend the rules-based international system. Putin was warmly welcomed, along with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. More than 20 heads of state are there, sending a clarion message to Washington: that while Americans are marking the end of the summer season with a holiday weekend, their country’s hegemony on the world stage is coming to an end.

Dum-dum-dummest! Jo mer man lærer hva som hendt mellom Trump og Modi, jo mer latterlig bli det, det hadde vist seg at Trump hadde hetset med Modi med en språkføring som sjokkerte den indiske statsministeren som hadde blitt tvunget til å stoppe krigen mot Pakistan etter omfattende amerikansk press. Trump forlange all ære for å ha stoppet krigen, roset pakistanerne for at de holde tilbake, og deretter prøvd å presse Modi til å være med på støtte hans ambisjon om å få Nobels fredspris! Det var intet som helst politisk i det hele tatt, selv om Trump hadde vært altfor gavmild - så meget, at Modi feiltolket amerikaneren og dermed fikk seg trukket inn i et uansvarlig eventyr som måtte stanses. 

I tretti år hadde USA prøvd å lokke India ut av hulen og bli medlem av det store alliansesystemet, alt dette forsvant i løpet av få minutter fordi en gal mann oppfører ekstremt barnslig i møte med en stolt mann som vet at hans land er en stormakt som ikke kan la seg hetses med som hvis det var et lilleputtsland! 

[N-4K0]

Typisk Trump.

Hver gang det blir suksess er det Trumps fortjeneste, kun han alene har oppnådd denne suksessen.
Hver gang det slår feil er det noen andre sin skyld, for Trump gjør ikke feil.

Er det i det hele tatt noe salat igjen han kan tråkke i?

[Pop]

Neppe... han vil jo detaljstyre alt. Snart kommer en "presidental order" som sier man kun kan legge takstein på eget med mønster av MAGA eller et amerikansk flagg.

[Apathy]

4 hours ago, Pop said:

Neppe... han vil jo detaljstyre alt. Snart kommer en "presidental order" som sier man kun kan legge takstein på eget med mønster av MAGA eller et amerikansk flagg.

Ikke gi ham ideer.

[Imaginacíon]

Trump er ikke død, men noe har skjedd. Han har blitt observert men kun på god avstand. Pressen får ikke se på når han spiller golf, noe de vanligvis gjør. Det er nå 7 dager siden sist han var i normal gjenge. Har han hatt et lite hjerneslag?

[SilverShaded]

Imaginacíon skrev (1 time siden):

Trump er ikke død, men noe har skjedd. Han har blitt observert men kun på god avstand. Pressen får ikke se på når han spiller golf, noe de vanligvis gjør. Det er nå 7 dager siden sist han var i normal gjenge. Har han hatt et lite hjerneslag?

Er det fastslått at han faktisk har vært på golfbanen, da ? Eller mener du at han ikke har vært der ? (Neppe stedet han ville være etter et slag..)

[obygda]

Imaginacíon skrev (1 time siden):

Trump er ikke død, men noe har skjedd. Han har blitt observert men kun på god avstand. Pressen får ikke se på når han spiller golf, noe de vanligvis gjør. Det er nå 7 dager siden sist han var i normal gjenge. Har han hatt et lite hjerneslag?

Han er gammel...spiser usunt..Han kan fort forsvinne.

Blir det noe bedre med Vance?

[Tussi]

obygda skrev (1 minutt siden):

Han er gammel...spiser usunt..Han kan fort forsvinne.

Blir det noe bedre med Vance?

Vance er mkndre impulsiv og mer ideologisk

[obygda]

Tussi skrev (1 minutt siden):

Vance er mkndre impulsiv og mer ideologisk

Men blir det bedre?

[Tussi]

obygda skrev (Akkurat nå):

Men blir det bedre?

Kommer vel an på hvordan man ser på det... tallmessig tror jeg det blir bedre.Vance er heller ikke rasist på samle måte, men jeg tror noe kan bli verre også. Min største bekymring utenriks med denne administrasjonen er jo at de skal svikte kurderne igjen

[Imaginacíon]

4 minutes ago, SilverShaded said:

Er det fastslått at han faktisk har vært på golfbanen, da ? Eller mener du at han ikke har vært der ? (Neppe stedet han ville være etter et slag..)

Det ble tatt et utydelig bilde av han på vei til golfbanen. Men ingen bilder av han på selve golfbanen.

https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1962543250000200003

[Imaginacíon]

10 minutes ago, obygda said:

Han er gammel...spiser usunt..Han kan fort forsvinne.

Blir det noe bedre med Vance?

Vance har ikke draget på fansen så jeg tviler han blir noe annet enn en svak figur.

[Svein M]

obygda skrev (34 minutter siden):

Han er gammel...spiser usunt..Han kan fort forsvinne.

Blir det noe bedre med Vance?

Ja jeg tror det blir bedre. Og jeg tror nok dette bytte kommer til å skje denne 4 års perioden.