7 hours ago, BruceVC said:

And if Saudi Arabia wants to suddenly enrich Uranium to 90% they will receive the same negative attention that Iran is getting from the likes of the IAEA

I believe that uranium enrichment and PUREX reprocessing are used in both civilian reactors and weapons production, so we'd be reliant on our intel to find out their intent. Plus their oil money and influence can skew the findings. Hence I'm heavily skeptical.

Officially, the US doesn't even accept that Israel has nukes.

(It's far more likely that Saudi just buys Pakistani warheads for their DF3s, if push came to shove. They did after all finance the Pakistani nuclear weapons program by most accounts. But yes, the US attitude to Saudi ambitions is probably best summed up by the fact that very few people know that Saudi has a stockpile of nuclear capable missiles- DF3s aren't much use for anything else other than nuclear given their lack of accuracy)

Edited July 24Jul 24 by Zoraptor

obviously minion of usa work on different rule

south africa have nuke once

world should rejoice

for tariff is back

against forced labor this time

guess the world really should heavily tariff the nation with the biggest forced labor prison population

If I were cynical, I might suppose the latest tariff move is to distract from the oil situation. Then again, I might suppose the Iran move was to distract from the Epstein files. Maybe it's time to bring up those files again?

Tariffs are one of the things where I'd suspect the timing is purely coincidental. His temporary tariffs are expiring, so he needs to replace them with something at least theoretically permanent.

(Though of course it's hard not to see these 'new' ones as being a spurious way to reapply the old ones, because that is very obviously exactly what they are. Which no doubt will last until the next successful legal challenge, at which time another set of 'new' tariffs with a different spurious reason- IP infringement, maybe?- will be trotted out)

The Trump administration is threatening my kid's school district for being woke or whatever by withholding federal funds. So they're suing to get the money because they're already struggling to get by. Because better we have no school than a school that trans kids feel safe in, obviously.

Watching Rand Paul go after Dr. Fauci shows how bankrupt the conspiracy theory right has become. But thanks for "saving us from science", Dr. Paul. 🙄

US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries on map of Africa

Heh, I see the administration has fully embraced AI; it aligns perfectly with El Jefe's near complete divorce from reality.

How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - wh...

The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.

This Spanish migration disaster started with Spain giving citizenship to 500k illegal migrants so you create a false impression about "Spain welcomes illegals "


Then fake news and a misunderstood Spanish court ruling led to this latest incident of the 50k plus illegals thinking if they get to Ceuta they will somehow get citizenship and access to the EU

Its stupidity on an unparalleled level for these migrants, people still believing SM as truthful

But the Spanish government needs to also take responsibility for its original decision around giving papers to the 500k illegals

" Italy is not the only country to see Spain as soft on migration, though.

Meloni's call for an urgent meeting of interior ministers to be held on Tuesday was signed by almost two dozen EU heads of state, calling for the elimination of all policies that could be "pull factors" to Europe.

Above all, they mean Spain's controversial move to allow hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants apply for residence and work permits and "regularise" their status.

The government's pragmatic: Spain is ageing and needs workers.

But those who flocked to the beaches of Ceuta this week were not heading to sign up for a campaign that's already closed.

Sanchez himself points instead to a recent ruling by Spain's Supreme Court: it said those who enter by sea cannot be pushed back immediately.

The prime minister argues that was misrepresented by smugglers to promise an easy path to Europe.

The crowd heading for Ceuta didn't need to pay smugglers, though, because most were Moroccan and the route is well known.

The message was actually spread online.

Migrants have shown social media posts to reporters with people shouting that "Spain is Open" and jumping into the sea.

Multiple accounts we've checked ourselves show young people in wetsuits and flippers, or filming themselves already swimming, mixed with pictures from inside Ceuta itself.

Some have only been active for weeks. Several have tens of thousands of likes.

All their promises were false.

The crowds who made it to kiss the shore in Ceuta with joy were met with nothing. Without food or shelter, and with no way on to continental Europe, most quickly turned back."

Every time Ceuta and Melilla are mentioned I get to laugh again at Spain complaining about Britain holding onto an exclave in Gibraltar. Though I imagine the inhabitants there are even less keen to go back to Morocco than the Gibraltans are to go back to Spain.