Ego-Stroking Putin Hails 'Real Man' Trump - The Friday AM Quickie 11/29/24
I've got another abbreviated holiday newsletter for you today. Jacob returns Monday when we and MR resume regularly scheduled programming. Peace! - Corey
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THE BIG NEWS
World Tour: Police Gas Protesters in Tbilisi After Georgian Leaders Suspend EU Bid
- 'A Real Man': Putin Flatters Trump and Threatens Kyiv with New Weapon 'Comparable in Strength to a Nuclear Strike' Some proposals put forward by Trump's chosen envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Army Gen. Keith Kellogg, include ceasefire "negotiations that would see Ukraine agree to not join NATO for the foreseeable future and give up trying to militarily regain its occupied land," positions Ukraine has rejected. via NBC News, the Guardian, and the Washington Post.
- Israel Strikes Continue After Lebanon Ceasefire; Hezbollah Keeping 'Hands on the Trigger' "Nobody won. Our homes are destroyed. Our leader is gone," says Samia Baalbaki, who recently returned to her home city in Lebanon after fleeing when it was bombed in September. via the New York Times and the Guardian.
- European Investigators Suspect Chinese Vessel That Disembarked from Russia Deliberately Cut Baltic Sea Data Cables By Dragging Its Anchor The bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is now surrounded by NATO warships; Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson yesterday said he had formally requested that Chinese auhtorities "cooperate" to "create clarity on what has happened." via the Wall Street Journal and BBC News.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Calls Bullsh*t on Trump Claim She Bowed to His Border and Tariff Threats "By Sheinbaum's account, Trump appeared to lack basic knowledge about current conditions in Mexico." via the Washington Post and the AP.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Latino Factory Workers in Tennessee Were Kept on the Job and Left to Die During Hurricane Helene While workers and patients at a hospital in Erwin were preparing to evacuate from the roof by boat and helicopter, the largely Latino workforce at nearby Impact Plastic were told to carry on working in the windowless factory as the floodwaters outside rose. via the Washington Post.
- Defense Secretary Intervenes in War Crimes Proceedings to Prevent Settlements for Tortured Terror Suspects Lloyd "Austin wanted to make sure 'we aren't surprised by anything for the remainder of the term,' said a senior Defense Department official." via the New York Times.
- At Least 5 Congressional Democrats from Connecticut Got Thanksgiving Day Bomb Threats at Home "There is no place for political violence in this country, and I hope that we may all continue through the holiday season with peace and civility," Rep. Jim Himes said. via the Associated Press and the Hartford Courant.
- Scientists Find Fossil Footprints Showing Separate Species of Early Humans Coexisted in Kenya 1.5 Million Years Ago Unlike Homo erectus, which had a humanlike anatomy, Paranthropus boisei "featured smaller brains, massive chewing muscles and large molar teeth," and was faster to go extinct. via NBC News and the AP.
SOME NUMBER
$12
That's the hourly wage of Shah Alam, the 74-year-old Manhattan fruit seller who sold the banana that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan taped to a wall for his ironic art piece "Comedian," which sold at auction for $6.2 million last week. As the New York Times reports, the buyer of the piece has offered to buy 100,000 bananas from Alam's stand, although Alam says this will create logistical problems for him, besides benefiting the stand's owner more than himself.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
11/29: MR live shows resume Monday.
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PARTING WORDS
"Everything is expensive!"
-- That's what protesters chanted as they marched through Bolivia's capital, La Paz, last week, amid a prolonged fuel shortage and a growing scarcity of imported goods. Per the Associated Press, protesters, many of whom support former President Evo Morales, are frustrated that President Luis Arce's government denies the inflation problem; Morales, Acre's former member, is challenging him for control of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party.
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