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On 2/1/2025 at 11:06 PM, janea4old said:

From the President of México regarding tariffs against México:

https://x.com/Claudiashein/status/1885857655094415528

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo  @Claudiashein

Rechazamos categóricamente la calumnia que hace la Casa Blanca al Gobierno de México de tener alianzas con organizaciones criminales, así como cualquier intención injerencista en nuestro territorio.

Si en algún lugar existe tal alianza es en las armerías de los Estados Unidos que venden armas de alto poder a estos grupos criminales, como lo demostró el propio Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos en enero de este año.

Nuestro gobierno ha asegurado en cuatro meses más de 40 toneladas de drogas, incluyendo 20 millones de dosis de fentanilo. También ha detenido a más de diez mil personas vinculadas con estos grupos.

Si el gobierno de Estados Unidos y sus agencias quisieran atender el grave consumo de fentanilo en su país, pueden por ejemplo combatir la venta de estupefacientes en las calles de sus principales ciudades, lo que no hacen y el lavado de dinero que se genera por esta actividad ilegal que tanto daño ha hecho a su población.

También podría iniciar una campaña masiva para evitar el consumo de estas drogas y cuidar a sus jóvenes, como lo hemos hecho en México. El consumo y la distribución de drogas está en su país y ese es un problema de salud pública que no han atendido. Además, la epidemia de opioides sintéticos en Estados Unidos, tiene su origen en la prescripción indiscriminada de medicamentos de este tipo, autorizados por la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA) como lo demuestra el juicio contra una farmacéutica.

México no quiere confrontación. Partimos de la colaboración entre países vecinos. México no solo no quiere que el fentanilo llegue a Estados Unidos, sino a ninguna parte. Por ello, si Estados Unidos quiere combatir a los grupos delictivos que trafican droga y generan violencia, debemos trabajar conjuntamente de forma integral, pero siempre bajo los principios de responsabilidad compartida, confianza mutua, colaboración y sobre todo, respeto a la soberanía, que no es negociable. Coordinación sí; subordinación, no.

Para ello propongo al presidente Trump que establezcamos una mesa de trabajo con nuestros mejores equipos de seguridad y salud pública.

No es con la imposición de los aranceles como se resuelven los problemas, sino hablando y dialogando como lo hicimos en estas últimas semanas con su Departamento de Estado para atender el fenómeno de la migración; en nuestro caso, con respeto a los derechos humanos.

La gráfica que el presidente Trump ha estado subiendo a sus redes sociales sobre la disminución de la migración fue elaborada por mi equipo de trabajo, que ha estado en constante comunicación con el suyo.

Instruyo al secretario de Economía para que implemente el plan B que hemos estado trabajando, que incluye medidas arancelarias y no arancelarias en defensa de los intereses de México.

Nada por la fuerza; todo por la razón y el derecho

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https://x.com/politicomx/status/1885826744139088298

 

Here is formal statement from  President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum
She's speaking in Spanish and it has English subtitles

 

Sounds like a scam...

 

https://deadline.com/2025/02/trump-tiktok-sovereign-wealth-fund-1236276916/

Congrats to people who VOTED for THIS. 

People are now going to be paying from their own pocket for his LUNACY.

The leaders of Canada and Mexico talked Trump out of it today, for now.

It's going to be like this at the end/start of every month, isn't it?  Just constant threats of tariffs and goal posts moving.  Canada already announced on December 17, 2024 that they were going to spend 1.3 billion on border security, we just didn't get a lot of the details yet.  All this posturing and destroying trust between two allies was pointless.  Trump just wanted attention and act like he "won." 

7 minutes ago, Toups said:

It's going to be like this at the end/start of every month, isn't it?  Just constant threats of tariffs and goal posts moving.  Canada already announced on December 17, 2024 that they were going to spend 1.3 billion on border security, we just didn't get a lot of the details yet.  All this posturing and destroying trust between two allies was pointless.  Trump just wanted attention and act like he "won." 

Great analysis. 

20 January 2025,  new president of USA tries to send human rights back 200 years.

MEANWHILE, in Afghanistan

20 January 2025,  Taliban official speaks out in favor of education for women and girls.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/03/mohammad-abbas-stanikzai-taliban-minister-flees-afghanistan-over-support-girls-education 

“There is no excuse for this – not now and not in the future,” Stanikzai said. “We are being unjust to 20 million people. “During the time of the prophet Muhammad, the doors of knowledge were open for both men and women,” he said. “There were such remarkable women that if I were to elaborate on their contributions, it would take a considerable amount of time.”

(He was forced to leave the country, but still, very brave)

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls

A senior Taliban minister who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country.

Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Khost province, near the Afghan-Pakistani border, on 20 January, Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, criticised the government’s ban on girls attending secondary schools and higher education.

“There is no excuse for this – not now and not in the future,” Stanikzai said. “We are being unjust to 20 million people.

“During the time of the prophet Muhammad, the doors of knowledge were open for both men and women,” he said. “There were such remarkable women that if I were to elaborate on their contributions, it would take a considerable amount of time.”

After this speech, and reports of Stanikzai criticising him, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, allegedly ordered the minister’s arrest and issued a travel ban, which pushed Stanikzai to leave Afghanistan for the United Arab Emirates.

Stanikzai confirmed to local media he had left for Dubai but claimed it was for health reasons. The Taliban were contacted for comment but did not respond.

Since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021, the rights of women and girls to education, work, travel and appearing in public have been severely curtailed.

Last month, the international criminal court’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afghanistan’s chief justice on the grounds that their persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity.

When even people from the Taliban start to look more progressive than our own president...!

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I don't know how I inadvertently gave my post about the Taliban minister some repeated sentences.  But the idea was worth the emphasis, so I guess my typo makes sense.

 
I mean when a Taliban official can be that brave, why aren't the U.S. Democrat Senators brave enough to vote NO in the confirmation hearings of Tr*mp's cabinet?

Oh and actually more h*ell freezing over ....
Mitch McConnell has been voting no to some of Tr*ump's ideas and nominations.

Edited February 4Feb 4 by janea4old

19 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Oh and actually more h*ell freezing over ....
Mitch McConnell has been voting no to some of Tr*ump's ideas and nominations.

Isn't he expected to retire at the end of his current term?  If so, that might explain why.

https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3lhedepidos2g

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html

 

non-paywall copy of same NYT article:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/thousands-of-u-s-government-webpages-have-been-taken-down-since-friday/

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhevo7cdew22
Trump signs an order to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council and "review American involvement and funding in the UN"

(I didn't embed the bluesky post because it's a video of Tr*mp saying those things, and we don't really need to see his face again.  But you can click to see/listen if you want)

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/trump-netanyahu-gaza
Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza
President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Edited February 4Feb 4 by janea4old

Rubio is now Secretary of State (US equivalent of "foreign minister").

The biggest news is that El*n M*sk shut down "USAID", (the foreign aid agency)
calling it "a criminal organization" on his twitterX.
USAID employees were fired and locked out.  Congresspersons showed up at the USAID office to complain, and were not let in.
Rubio intends to fold foreign aid into his Dept. of State.

USAID is the largest giver of foreign aid, including medical/humanitarian aid worldwide.
That's all shut down.  Including things like vaccines and AIDS treatments in countries that cannot afford them.

Explainer about USAID from  The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/what-is-usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk-foreign-aid-freezes

USAID is funded by Congress, so the Executive Branch should not be able to shut it down.
But there is so much chaos right now, that Congress simply cannot catch up to what's happening, and everything is being steamrolled through by El*n M*sk working for Tr*mp.

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I have a twitter account, just to read things, but I don't tweet.  Moving over to bluesky.
I still read a few twitter accounts by people who haven't moved over to bluesky yet.
Anyhow, a couple of years ago, I blocked El*on M*sk on twitter so that I wouldn't have to see his nonsense on my feed -- that was back when it was selfish arrogance.

Am now becoming aware (by news reports) by the utterly evil things that M*sk is  outright proclaiming on twitter.
To think this creep is running the U.S. government right now?
He's technically Tr*mp's  unelected consultant/minion, but he seems to have been given full leeway to do whatever, in the capacity as the person running "DOGE" Dept of Government Efficiency - created by Tr*mp for M*sk to run.  Not created by Congress.

Edited February 4Feb 4 by janea4old