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ParticipantParticipantMichael Hudson: Europe’s Surrender
Posted on August 9, 2025 by Yves Smith
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Participantvia ZeroHedge …
Trump, Putin To Meet As Soon As Next Week In Potential Breakthrough
(more Trump lies?)
Participantvia Moon of Alabama:
By Punishing India Trump Is Creating More Tariff Damage For The U.S.
Today President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff had a three hour meeting with President Putin of Russia. There is no announcement yet of the outcome of the talk.
But shortly after the meeting was over President Trump amended this Executive Order:
ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
“I have received additional information from various senior officials on, among other things, the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to the situation in Ukraine. After considering this additional information, among other things, I find that the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066 continues and that the actions and policies of the Government of the Russian Federation continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.To deal with the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to impose an additional ad valorem duty on imports of articles of India, which is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil. In my judgment, imposing tariffs, as described below, in addition to maintaining the other measures taken to address the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066, will more effectively deal with the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066.
Sec. 2. Imposition of Tariffs. (a) I find that the Government of India is currently directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil.
(b) Accordingly, and as consistent with applicable law, articles of India imported into the customs territory of the United States shall be subject to an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25 percent.
How a total 50% tariff on products from India is supposed to counter alleged threats to the United States by the government of Russia is hard to explain.”The increased tariff on India will come into force in 21 days.
India’s President Narneda Modi has not yet commented on it. He will however visit China at the end of this month:
Cont. reading: By Punishing India Trump Is Creating More Tariff Damage For The U.S.
ParticipantThe Cranes
I sometimes have a feeling that those soldiers,
Who failed to come back from the bloodied plains,
Not in our earth were laid amid the boulders,
But were transformed into white-feathered cranes.Until this day and from the earliest ages
They’re flying high so we can hear their cries.
Is this a reason why on some occasions
We stare in silence at the joyless skies?Today, I see the cranes are stately soaring,
Amidst the evening fog their flight proceeds.
The line they’ve formed comes from the days of warring,
When they, as soldiers, walked the battlefields.They fly, their journey is both long and languid,
And they are calling someone by their name.
Is that a reason why the Avar language
And cranes’ flight calls for epochs sound the same?They’re flying, flying in a V formation,
Their flight is heavy in the evening mist.
And in their ranks there is a gap position —
Perhaps, a place that was reserved for me.The day shall come, and in the haze unending
I’ll join the cranes on their long journey forth,
From high above my creaking calls descending
To all of you whom I have left on earth.~ Rasul Gamzatov, 1968
Translation from Russian in the original meter (iambic pentameter).
From Wiki:
The original poem by the Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, who, while visiting Hiroshima, was impressed by the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who contracted leukemia as a result of the radioactive contamination of the city. Following a Japanese tradition, she made a thousand paper cranes, hoping (in vain) that they would save her life. The memory of the paper cranes folded by this girl haunted Gamzatov and inspired him to write this poem.Written in the Avar language, the poem was translated into Russian by Naum (Rambah) Grebnev in 1968. The following year it was turned into a song and became one of the most famous ballads in the Russian language. It was originally performed by Mark Bernes to the music by Yan Frenkel. It would be Bernes’ last recording, his swan song, for he would die of lung cancer a month later.
The image of flying white cranes became a symbol of the fallen soldiers of World War II.
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17270083-The-Cranes–Rasul-Gamzatov–1968–by-Kirill-Tolmachev
ParticipantA Thousand Cranes
On August sixth of nineteen forty-five,
Hiroshima was bombed. A little girl
Named Sadako came out of it alive,
Despite defenestration by the hurlOf one of Little Boy’s rampaging arms….
She loved to run and, at eleven, made
Her class’s relay team. Free from alarms
Since toddlerhood, by fearful dreams unpreyedUpon, she found, one morning in November,
Lumps upon her neck and behind both ears
And, later, each a tiny violet ember,
Purpura spots upon her legs. The fearsOf okāsan and tōsan came to be
When leukemia was the diagnosis.
With not much time left, in hospital she
Built her life to its apotheosisWhen a friend suggested she pass the days
In folding origami paper cranes.
This, at the time, was something of a craze
(Alongside that of cutting dolls in chains)And drew Sadako to it. Where to get
The paper, though, was not an easy task,
So she tried magazine page, serviette,
And, when her best friend came by, thought to ask,‘Chizuko, could you get me some from school…?’
Remembering a legend that she’d learned
About a man who (certainly no fool)
Had folded a thousand, and thereby earnedA granted wish, she took that as her aim….
Over the months, she sickened bit by bit,
Suspicioning that no one overcame
Such a disease as this yet, full of grit,Surpassed her target. One day in October,
Requesting tea on rice, she took a bite,
Said, ‘It’s good,’ in a lucid voice and sober,
Slowly closed her eyes and gave up the fight.<hr />
Poet’s Note: Sadako had folded close to 1,400 cranes by the time she died. Some have been donated to significant places around the world, such as the 9-11 memorial and Pearl Harbor. In 1999, a statue of her holding a ruby-red Crane was unveiled at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Its plaque reads, ‘This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth.’
Okāsan and tōsan mean mother and father.
Peter Austin is a retired Professor of English who lives in Toronto with his younger two daughters.
ParticipantLifted from Larry Johnson’s Sonar site in the comment section:
“The Dept of Homeland Security has changed its terms & conditions, removing Trump’s requirement that states do business Israel in order to receive disaster relief.
“— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has quietly updated its Terms & Conditions and removed the requirement for cities and states to do business with Israeli companies in exchange for disaster relief
The previous version of the document is still online.
@Middle_East_Spectator”
ParticipantBack in June 2025, internationally recognized former UK Diplomat Alastair Crooke predicted Russia’s current response to Ukraine’s bomber attack, and gave a grave warning to Trump about the dangers of sabotaging peace.
ParticipantYes, it’s Zh … but relates to a bill offered by MTG … you might consider sharing with those who don’t believe US Gov’t manipulates the weather … or not.
ParticipantThank you Mr. P for this reminder … ordered today for grandson and others who need to know …
ParticipantThank you for posting this … will share widely!
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