Yesterday the Israeli Air Force began joint military exercise for the first time as Germany's guests. The flights are being carried out using NATO's combat doctrine.
Aug 19
Israel is making new friends by the handful these days. First the UAE deal , then new discussions with Sudan , a long-time enemy. Haidar Badawi was fired from his job as Sudan's Foreign Ministry spokesman a day after he said there is 'no reason to continue hostility between Sudan and Israel'.
August 20
Brazilian Vice President #HamiltonMourao invited Leonardo DiCaprioto to take a ride with him along a poorly maintained road in the remote far western Amazon near the town of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. Leo's folks haven't responded to the offer.
August 21, 2020: I shouldn't be but am surprised that some Blue Jays apologized for wearing 'Homeless Jays' shirts, which poked fun at their displacement from Toronto this season. If you have ever played sports or been around jocks, you know their banter is lively and sometimes crude. Alleged negative stereotypes about marginalized groups, blah, blah, blah is the crapola reason for the apology.
August 22, 2020: I rarely think of these two nations as partners. Britain and Belgium signed a statement
of intent to work together after both countries acquire the MQ-9B
drone, the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System which is built by General Atomics
Aeronautical Systems of San Diego.
Sept, 2, 2020: Yep, I'm surprised and pleased that Macron refuses to condemn the re-publishing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Prophet Mohammad, as the trial date nears for the gunmen accused in the 2015 massacre of Hebdo employees.
Sept 28: President Obrador announced Mexico has issued arrest warrants for police and military personnel suspected of being involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students in Iguala.
Oct 9: I'm surprised at the tactic used to get 39 countries to support a Germany-led UN initiative denouncing China for human rights violations. They kept the list classified until minutes before Germany's UN
ambassador #Heusgen read the statement in New York, in fear that China would poach signatories at the last moment.
Oct 18: The sale of a PLASTIC crown worn by rapper The Notorious B.I.G. sold for almost $600,000 at Sotheby's auction.
Jan 8, 2021
I'm definitely surprised that British IM #PritiPatel is using #Brexit to require visiting EU nationals to present passports at UK borders because there has been a proliferation of fake EU ID cards.
June 20, 2021
I'm definitely surprised that #Mariani , a National Front candidate, is ahead in the polls in his bid to be president of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, a region in southeast France. A victory could bode well for #LePen in her race against Macron in 2022.
June 27, 2021
#mariani lost and check out the strategy used to defeat him: Muselier won an estimated 57.4% of the vote in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, defeating Mariani, He surged to victory on Sunday after the socialist and green parties effectively threw their support behind him by dropping out of the race and because Macron had endorsed Muselier early on, withdrawing his own candidate from the race.
July 15, 2021
I'm not surprised that some Muslims are upset at the menu in French public schools - so bring your own lunch.. Public schools in France don’t serve meals under halal, kosher, or any other religious dietary requirements. However, Alsace-Moselle, a borderland where France’s laws on laïcité (loosely translated as secular) don’t apply because the area was under Prussian rule when the laws were first adopted in 1905.I'm surprised at legal exceptions to legislation.
July 31, 2021
I agreed with Macron when he refused to condemn the re-publishing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Prophet Mohammad, but now wonder about Macron's lawyers and his political party filing legal complaints alleging that the depictions of him in Hitler's clothes are a public insult.
#Flori , who put up the caricature on billboards, said he has been contacted by police acting on the complaint.
Sept 18, 2021
I shouldn't be but am surprised that Brussels will name a new street after #EuniceOsayande, a murdered Nigerian, undocumented, migrant sex worker, as part of a wider campaign to recognize women in Belgium. She was stabbed to death by one of her customers in June 2018.
Granted her murder was horrible , but naming a street after her?????. He!! they name boulevards in the USA after Malcom X, a one time pimp.
Dec 21, 2021
While I should know better, I'm surprised that Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said this aloud in reference to Manchin and West Virginia
“We cannot hang the futures of millions of Americans on the words of one man who represents a state that has a tiny percentage of the country’s entire population,” .
Ms Jayapal: Please read the definition of a republic.
Dec 10, 2022
I was caught off guard yesterday while watching a re- run of the feel-good intro by Milton Berle and Danny Thomas to the "United Nations of Show Business" production. I kept waiting for a punch line that was never delivered. Episode #3.37 aired May 29, 1951.
Berle first appeared on television in 1929 in an experimental broadcast in Chicago which he hosted in front of 129 people.
July 25, 2023
About time: PM Sunak will relax some expensive measures to reduce the carbon footprint of residential homes to avoid a backlash in the UK.
Aug 1, 2023
Sunak wakes up! UK will grant hundreds of new licenses to seek and drill for gas and oil in the North Sea.
Aug 10, 2023
Reading History on the Swiss battles with Austrian monarchs in 1300s. Surprised to see Switzerland is outside the EU Customs Union and has authority to stop travelers to carry out customs checks SWI/AUS border.
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