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Russia threatens Finland and Sweden
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Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico: The Drug Cartel's President Won't Impose Economic Sanctions on Russia
[NBC] Mexico's President López Obrador declines to impose economic sanctions on Russia

The latest action from the Mexican president stands in contrast to the international sanctions imposed on Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s actions.

"We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all the governments in the world," López Obrador told a news conference.

López Obrador’s position stands in contrast to the international sanctions imposed on Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s actions.

Russia has built strong links to various governments in Latin America, especially authoritarian administrations in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, but its ties with Mexico are seen to be limited due to the strong U.S.-Mexico relations.

The Mexican and U.S. economies are deeply intertwined. But leftist leader López Obrador has at times had testy relations with the United States and has criticized U.S. foreign policy.

López Obrador’s comments came in response to a question about the interest in Mexico of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil and Russian airline Aeroflot.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Latin America will follow. China will side with Russia as well. The world is changing and not as our political media is trying to manage. Big fat black eye on swamp people.
Posted by: Dale || 03/03/2022 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2 

Shouldn't we support Mexico on this position?
☺/☻

Think of all the drugs that will be diverted to Russia instead of the USA. ☺/☻
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/03/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Realpolitik I can get behind!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2022 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Trotsky didn't kill himself, either, AMLO
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  If all the global economics experts who have started commenting here since the Ukraine thingee began are correct about America collapsing in a pathetic heap, the Mexicans are just gonna love what that does for their economy too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  This will work out well. Whatever Putin bans to the US Mexico can import. With a slight mark up ship to US.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/03/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#7  America won't "collapse in a pathetic heap." It will certainly become much weaker and poorer.
Posted by: Zenobia Elmomoque6257 || 03/03/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

#8  "The Mexican and U.S. Chinese economies are deeply intertwined. "
Posted by: Gleanter Slaviter3694 || 03/03/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  US can shatter Mexican economy overnight by stopping or heavily taxing remittances from their illegal migrants in the US.
Posted by: Nero || 03/03/2022 15:43 Comments || Top||

#10  #9 US can shatter Mexican economy overnight by stopping or heavily taxing remittances from their illegal migrants in the US.

Sadly that will never happen.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 18:25 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Boeing tries to restart business in Moscow almost a week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Sounds like something in the works for a while and they didn't respond quickly enough when the political climate changed.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/03/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Makes sense; rather obscure paperwork project running mostly on auto-pilot perhaps?

Little Virtue Signal ought to buff that right out. Too bad The Adjudicators aren't as curious about Team Brandon.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Treason is all the corporate rage. Just ask Google and Facebook.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 18:24 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Alabama Member of the Oath Keepers Pleads Guilty to Seditious Conspiracy
[EpochTimes] Joshua A. James, one of the Oath Keepers charged with trying to prevent the counting of Electoral College votes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official government proceeding, and will face 7.25 to 9 years in prison when he is sentenced this summer.

As part of a plea agreement, James, 34, of Arab, Alabama, will cooperate with Sherlocks and could sit for questioning before a grand jury on the role the Oath Keepers played at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The guilty pleas are an important win for federal prosecutors, who first introduced sedition-related charges into the investigation after the one-year anniversary of Jan. 6. As part of his pleas, James admitted that he was part of a seditious conspiracy that had the goal of disrupting the certification by Congress of the Electoral College votes.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2022 01:22 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  keep him in solitary another year and he'll finger Trump as the mastermind of Judge Crater's disappearance..
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/03/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Modern day Spanish Democratic Inquisition.

What ever happened to a speedy trial?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/03/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  This establishes that Jan 6 WAS sedition, which can now be used in trials against anyone else associated with it, up to and including Trump.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/03/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 is correct.
And U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta is part of the conspiracy to prosecute Trump. You're going to see his name a lot.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/03/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Which is exactly why the Jan 6 people were held in solitary confinement without a hearing or bail - nevermind a speedy trial. Just needed for someone to 'crack'.

Whatever happened on the actual, organized, assault on the White House while Trump was President by BLM/Antifa?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/03/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Promotions and a corner office. They don't walk the beat anymore, just train the next crop for 2024.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Actually I think the whole Jan. 6 thing is dead.

You will notice its conspicuous absence from Biden's speech.
Posted by: Tom || 03/03/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I think the dems understand it will be dead after the house flips in November and they are in the expectation lowering phase now. The people who were rolled up will have to hope there will be pardons at some point, which may not be easy even for a Republican president who wins in a landslide.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#9  The basis for the 14th Amendment ploy needed this, and the abhorrent and criminal treatment of the J6 prisoners was the leverage to crack someone. The guy who just committed suicide took an off ramp to save his soul, and this guy broke. Tragic to see this Lubyanka style treatment in America, but it is the nature of our home-grown socialists to emulate their mentors. The Deep State and the Magic Kenyan's minions have turned much of our government into believing they rule, not serve, the public. The Augean Stables await a deep cleansing to end the stench of corruption on the Potomac it seems...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/03/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||

#10  How long before it comes out this guy works for the FBI?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/03/2022 17:51 Comments || Top||

#11  In some cases, torture works.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||


Former Illinois Speaker/ Chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party Mike Madigan Indicted
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 

Dug a little more...
The 106-page indictment includes charges alleging the ComEd bribery scheme, a deal on a parcel of land in Chinatown, and other alleged wrongdoing...

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/03/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Comon, Mike. Roll on Pritzker and they'll set you up at FPC Eglin. Weather ain't bad and there's a golf course next door.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/03/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't the FPC have a (Illinois) Governor's Room?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/03/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Room? I thought they needed an entire wing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/03/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Blagojevich have anything to say about the hospitality at the Federal Courthouse?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/03/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama not worried.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||


How Congress Invested in 2021
[Zero Hedge] Some folks made about average, some lost some, a few lost a lot. Lots of charts, graphs, and specifics at the link. One item of interest:
Nancy Pelosi made a 48% return last year investing $970K in NVIDIA in July and $695K in Roblox in March. What’s even more interesting is that these returns are just considering the stocks she bought last year and not including the options returns [8].

But on the matter of whether to restrict trading by lawmakers, this was Pelosi’s response

We are a free-market economy. They (Congress) should be able to participate in that. - Nancy Pelosi
"You expect us to live on what you pay us? Have you seen my freezer??"
As I highlighted at the beginning of the article, it’s high time that we bar elected representatives from trading stocks. This would be at least a step in the right direction to gain back the trust that the general public has lost in their representatives. Until then, we can try following their trades to find that all-elusive alpha! This article from The Business Times summarized it best for me.

US Congress can trade stocks or keep the public trust. Not both
Posted by: Bobby || 03/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
"We are a free-market economy. They (Congress) should be able to participate in that. - Nancy Pelosi"

Should be also added
Especially when we can get inside info for helping these companies.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/03/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  So please tell me--what is she buying now so I can stock up?
Posted by: Tom || 03/03/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Pity there is not a Congressional mutual fund the public could invest in so we all could benefit from their wise governance.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/03/2022 12:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Gets Sued, Sez She Has 'The Biggest D*ck In Chicago'
Such a charming 'lady', isn't she?
[Zero Hedge] - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been accused in a new lawsuit of throwing a temper tantrum over a plan to display a Christopher Columbus statue in the city's annual Columbus parade last fall - threatening to pull the permit for the entire parade and then berating city officials in a 'hastily called Zoom meeting.'

In a lawsuit against Lightfoot and the city, Former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel George Smyrniotis says he was tasked with hammering out a deal with lawyers for an Italian American group in order to try and settle a lawsuit over Lightfoot's removal of Columbus statues from the city. According to Timothy King, then the district’s top lawyer, and then-superintendent Michael Kelly, the lawsuit needed to disappear "as soon as possible."

Smyrniotis says that after hammering out the deal to display the Columbus statue in the annual parade (last, and covered up until the very end), Lightfoot flipped out.

During the contentious Zoom call with Park District Officials, Lighfoot "proceeded to berate and defame" the lawyers for the city - reportedly asking "Where did you go to law school? Did you even go to law school? Do you even have a law license?"

She then told them that they had to submit their pleadings to a city lawyer for approval, and were told "not to do a fucking thing with that statue without my approval," according to the Chicago Tribune.

"Get that fucking statue back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you fired," Lightfoot said, per the complaint.

Smyrniotis then says Lightfoot made obscene comments to he and King - calling them "dicks," and asking "What the fuck were you thinking?"

"You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians. ... You are out there stroking your dick over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot," she allegedly said, adding "My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago."

Posted by: Raj || 03/03/2022 13:33 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Has”? most likely she meant “is”
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 03/03/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  *clears throat*

Another example of a woman who obtained her position based on who she slept with.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/03/2022 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^ Her only redeeming value is as a dumpster.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/03/2022 16:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Mrs Mundi has an especially white-hot hate for women in power who routinely take a big Cleveland Steamer over all the actual professional women out there who put in the effort every day.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/03/2022 17:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Dildos don't count.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/03/2022 18:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Someone slept with that?
Posted by: Slappy || 03/03/2022 19:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, not slept, but scissoring. Her husband/wife/whatever probably got splinters from Groot
Posted by: Frank G || 03/03/2022 21:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Someone slept with that?

She’s a l3sbian, Slappy. Different standards, one presumes.

I agree with Mrs. Mundi, Rex.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/03/2022 21:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Be like sleeping with a case of Brillo pads....not that I'd know.
Posted by: Slappy || 03/03/2022 23:31 Comments || Top||

#10  And now the BIG DICK comment has merit.
Posted by: Slappy || 03/03/2022 23:33 Comments || Top||

#11  She'll always be the picnic ant lady to me. Those eyes! Those EYES !
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/03/2022 23:34 Comments || Top||

#12  I think Beetlejuice every time.
Posted by: Slappy || 03/03/2022 23:39 Comments || Top||



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