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    Should I Stay Or Should I Go

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    100 days of war: Russia-Ukraine war leading to a permanent conflict in Donbas?
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    Investigators find 2 pilots allegedly asleep in air

    ABC News


    Investigators found that two airline pilots on a flight from JFK to Rome were allegedly asleep while their plane was still in the air.
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    The billionaire class: a threat to democracy?


    Business Beyond | DW News


    There are just a few thousand billionaires in the world. But their number is rising. And combined, they control a vast chunk of the entire wealth of the planet. They are also getting wealthier. According to Oxfam, the 10 richest in the world have doubled their collective wealth since the start of the coronavirus pandemic - helped by soaring stock markets and our increased reliance on technology.

    In this edition of Business Beyond, we'll look at what it takes to become a billionaire in the countries which produce the most. We'll even speak with one. And we'll ask a key question: should billionaires be allowed to exist?

    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    01:42 USA: The World’s Richest
    06:00 China: The Most Billionaires
    09:02 Russia: Oligarchy
    12:45 India: Nikhil Kamath
    14:45 Inequality
    16:27 Sharing The Wealth
    19:08 Billionaires: Do we need them?
    20:15 Goodbye
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    Liz Cheney on Jan. 6 insurrection and the "ongoing threat"

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    Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and its attempt to overturn Donald Trump's election loss, talks with CBS News' Robert Costa about what the upcoming hearings will reveal to the American people about the threat to democracy. She also says there is a GOP "cult of personality" around Trump, presenting a moral test that the Republican Party is "failing."
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    Liz Cheney on Jan. 6 insurrection and the "ongoing threat"

    CBS Sunday Morning




    Jun 5, 2022

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    She is a disturbed being...
    All the above is all and only my opinion. It may contain some sharing of components of my current operating strategy and some foundational components of my current world view - all subject to change and not meant to be true for anyone else regardless of how I phrase it.

    It's just a ride

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGD...vgBsCHmlC13jOg

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    I'l go with the synonyms of disturbed such as in ...

    She's appears to be quit troubled, agitated, and unquiet regarding Jan.6
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    Too Posh To Parent
    (Wealthy Families Documentary)

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    From etiquette lessons to professional potty trainers who guarantee results in three days, this documentary follows some of the people providing specialist childcare services - and the wealthy families who can afford to hire them.


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    Angela Merkel on Ukraine, Putin and her legacy

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    "It's an objective breach of all international laws and of everything that allows us in Europe to live in peace at all. If we start going back through the centuries and arguing over which bit of territory should belong to whom, then we will only have war. That's not an option whatsoever."

    Merkel conceded that there could have been a harsher response to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, but said that serious steps had been taken. She cited Russia's exclusion from the Group of Leading Industrial Nations (G8) and NATO's stipulation that members spend 2% of GDP on defense.

    Merkel also defended her opposition to Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO in 2008.

    She said that if NATO had granted them membership, Russian President Vladimir Putin could have caused "enormous damage in Ukraine." She also cited systemic corruption issues in Ukraine.

    "President Zelenskyy is unbelievably bravely fighting against corruption, but at the time, Ukraine really was a country governed by oligarchs, and so there you can't just say "ok tomorrow we'll take them into NATO," she said.

    "I don't blame myself for not having tried hard enough," Merkel responded to a question about how much she could have done to prevent an escalation with Russia. "Fortunately, I tried sufficiently. It is a great sadness that I did not succeed."

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    Here a tsar, there a tsar, everywhere a tsar tsar ...


    Putin compares himself to Peter the Great
    in Russian territorial push



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    Putin’s veiled threat to neighbouring nations in
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    "Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Russian tyrant Peter the Great, drawing parallels between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to reconquer Russian lands.

    After months of denials that the Kremlin has been driven by imperial ambitions with the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president appeared to offer the clearest glimpse yet of his true goals.

    Speaking on the 350th anniversary of the tsar’s birth, he said: ‘Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them. He did not take anything from them, he returned (what was Russia’s).

    ‘Apparently, it also fell to us to return (what is Russia’s) and strengthen (the country). And if we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in solving the tasks that we face.’

    Putin’s words will also be seen as a thinly-veiled threat to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which fear being occupied once the war in Ukraine is over.

    Sweden and Finland have also been moved to apply for NATO membership in response to the invasion.

    Putin has repeatedly sought to justify Russia’s actions in Ukraine, where his forces have devastated cities, killed thousands and put millions of people to flight, by promulgating a view of history that asserts Ukraine has no real national identity or tradition of statehood.

    Peter the Great, an autocratic moderniser admired by liberal and conservative Russians alike, gave his name to a new capital, St Petersburg – Putin’s hometown – that he ordered built on land he conquered from Sweden.

    Prior to Putin’s visit to the exhibition, state television aired a documentary praising the tyrant as a tough military leader, greatly expanding territory at the expense of Sweden and the Ottoman Empire.

    In recent years, Putin’s interest in Russian history has loomed ever larger in his public appearances.

    In April 2020, as Russia entered its first coronavirus lockdown, he compared the pandemic to ninth century Turkic nomadic invasions of medieval Russia.

    In July 2021, the Kremlin published a long essay by Putin in which he argued that Russia and Ukraine were one nation, artificially divided.

    It laid the groundwork for his deployment of troops to Ukraine.

    Moscow says it acted to disarm and ‘denazify’ its neighbour. Ukraine and its allies say Putin has launched an unprovoked war of aggression.

    In the run up to what Russia calls its ‘special military operation’, Putin blamed Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, for creating Ukraine on what Putin said was historically Russian territory.

    By contrast, he offered cautious praise for Josef Stalin for creating ‘a tightly centralised and absolutely unitary state’, even as he acknowledged the Soviet dictator’s record of ‘totalitarian’ repression.

    Putin has a history of praising leaders sharing his own conservative views.

    Meanwhile, leaders seen as antithetical to a strong, unitary Russian state, including Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev, have seen their contributions played down.

    ‘Putin likes leaders he sees as tough, strong managers,’ said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

    ‘He wants to be seen as a Peter [the Great]-style moderniser, even though he will go down in history as a cruel ruler more like Ivan the Terrible.’"

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    This video's conversation is healthy and insightful for those who are invested in the future, whether one believes in its premise or not.
    Has Capitalism Killed the American Dream?

    Jacobin founding editor, Socialist Manifesto author, and former co-chair of the Democratic Socialists for America Bhaskar Sunkara squares off with Libertarian Nick Gillespie, editor at large of Reason and host of the podcast, The Reason Interview, to determine whether capitalism is the best economic system for the country, or are we in dire need of revamp. Michael Moynihan Moderates.
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    All the good, the bad and the ugly stuff ...

    Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: Love and War

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    Tom Steinfort hosts a special program examining the extraordinary saga of the now-destroyed relationship of Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. From a love story that had the world gushing to a spectacular falling out that’s been played out in courtrooms across England and the United States, Johnny V Amber: Love and War is an explosion of he-said, she-said claim and counter-claim.
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