Folker Wood 🇵🇸🇧🇷

The US is now facing its biggest defeat since Vietnam.

NOW: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The C-130J and two Black Hawk helicopters are still searching for the F-15 pilots in Iran. Locals and Basijis shoot at them with rifles and AKs. There are increasingly calls to arm the local population of the western provinces with MANPADS.

JUST IN - Pete Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George — Reuters

As a very new Democrat, I am so damn concerned about this. The Democratic Party will not win nationally and will not win in battleground states if they abandon their support for Israel.

🇺🇸📊🤯Vixeeee S&P ta ficando feio como em março/2023 quando bancos regionais Americanos quebraram junto com SVB, na época começou corrida de saques então Yellen que estava no tesouro salvou com o programa de liquidez BTFP. E agora, vão salvar como? Se MACD cruzar pra baixo de fato, vai ficar bem feio e bem rápido. Ações na gringa podem cair 30% rapidamente.

Milei en caída libre: recesión, desempleo y una inflación que no afloja golpean su imagen. El desgaste del gobierno de Javier Milei ya no se puede disimular. En medio de una recesión cada vez más profunda, con comercios que bajan la persiana y una pérdida sostenida del poder adquisitivo, la imagen del Presidente atraviesa uno de sus momentos más críticos desde que llegó a la Casa Rosada. Las promesas de estabilización rápida chocan contra una realidad que aprieta: el desempleo crece, la actividad económica se enfría y la inflación, lejos de ceder con fuerza, sigue castigando el bolsillo de millones de argentinos. En los barrios, el ajuste se siente sin anestesia y la paciencia social empieza a mostrar límites. Mientras el Gobierno insiste con su hoja de ruta, crecen las críticas incluso entre sectores que inicialmente respaldaron el rumbo económico. El “shock” prometido se traduce, para muchos, en una caída abrupta del consumo y una incertidumbre que se instala en la vida cotidiana. Con este escenario, el capital político de Milei parece entrar en una zona de riesgo: la economía no da respiro y la calle empieza a hablar. Y cuando la calle habla, la política tiembla.

My statement re Prohibiting the Latin Patriarch of entering Church of Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday: While all Holy sites in the Old City are closed due to safety concerns for mass gatherings including the Western Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Al Aqsa Mosque, the action today by the Israel Nat'l Police to deny Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and 3 other priests from entering the Church to offer a blessing on Palm Sunday is an unfortunate overreach already having major repercussions around the world.  Home Front Command Guidelines restrict any gatherings to 50 people or less.  The 4 representatives of the Catholic Church were well below that restriction.  Statements from the Gov't of Israel indicate the action to prohibit Cardinal Pizzaballa entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher were for safety reasons, but churches, synagogues, and mosques throughout Jerusalem have met with the restrictions of 50 or less.  For the Patriarch to be barred from entry to the Church on Palm Sunday for a private ceremony is difficult to understand or justify. Israel has indicated it will work with the Patriarch to accommodate a safe means of carrying out Holy Week activities.