🔥 The UN could run out of cash within months — The Economist

The united nations headquarters towers majestically over Manhattan’s East River. Yet its escalators are often out of order, casualties of sweeping cost cuts by the secretary-general, António Guterres. He must hope that by forcing country representatives to climb up on foot he will save on maintenance and perhaps remind their governments to pay their bills.

On May 5th the un will brief members on a previously unreported $600m (17%) cut to its $3.7bn budget aimed at avoiding default this year. It will include a hiring freeze while officials consider further savings that a Western diplomat describes as “moving jobs from New York to Nairobi”. Yet it may not be enough. A combination of deadbeat members and mad budget rules have led to a liquidity crisis. Now, a leaked White House memo proposing that America stop paying its mandatory contributions threatens a financial crash in the citadel of peace and security.
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I respect people who have a different opinion, but this is mine:

Some people ran the U.S. intelligence machine for years, ensuring that human sex, drug & child trafficking were carefully in the blind spot*.

Anybody who does not want FLYNN to take a blow torch to the perverts & politics that enabled such abuse to go on an on... needs to be looked at.

Do you want our agencies **BACK ON MISSION and putting and end to the epidemic of child trafficking? Then let Trump hear your voice for who you know will get it done.

Make Obama Afraid Again.
#GenFlynn for #NSA.

*Objective One: Get these agencies back on mission.
**Objective Two: Dig into who created and maintained the blind spot in reporting and operations. There's something BIG there.

🚨Steve Bannon says a constitutional crisis is coming: “The next 100 days is going to be three times more intense, dramatic, and meaningful than the first 100 days,” he says.

Here’s why:

"We're now getting into the zone I call the convergence of the crises.

…President Trump, in his Article Two powers, he's saying, hey, look, let me be blunt. On the unitary theory of the executive, I'm the chief executive officer of the United States by the Constitution. That means I can fire people at these agencies or at my cabinet as I want.

…Number two…if he deems [federal programs/funding are] not hitting their targets or they should be re-appropriated, he can impound the money.

…They're going to fight that…He's already in court, I think, in 50 different lawsuits about that.

His second power is as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. He's declared a national emergency at the border, a national security emergency. He can deport these people.

…And he's already at the Supreme Court on this, and this is going to force, I think, the Supreme Court sometime in June, to rule on it.

And if they rule that a court has supremacy over him as Commander-in-Chief, I happen to believe that's going to be an issue, and we're going to have to sort that out.

…[The next thing is] we're stuck with still $6.5 or $7 trillion of spending. Now we have to have a budget, to get serious about defense spending, get serious about Medicaid, get serious about these other social programs.

All of the cuts are going to hurt.

It just is, because everybody's got a constituency, whether you're a defense contractor or part of the military and/or if you're Medicaid and/or if you're social programs.

… We can't finance $2 trillion a year. It's not doable. The Chinese Communist Party ends up financing a part of it. It puts us more in their grip.

The third one is obviously stopping these wars.

That's why this Russian rapprochement, to break them away from their alliance and allegiance with the Chinese Communist Party [is so important]…The Ukraine, either economic deal and peace deal, is a subset of that. The situation with the nuclear power in Persia—which I am adamant that should not be bombing, it's got to be part of this deal. And the third is the situation in Gaza and the Red Sea.

So these things are hurtling towards I think a climax this summer."

@Bannons_WarRoom

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government could not guarantee the safety of foreign delegations visiting Moscow to attend the Victory Day Parade next Friday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

“Our position is very simple for all countries traveling to Russia on May 9: We cannot be held responsible for what happens on the territory of the Russian Federation,” Zelenskyy told reporters, according to a report by Ukrainian news agency Interfax on Saturday.

“They provide you with security; therefore, we won’t give you any guarantees. Because we don’t know what Russia will do these days,” Zelenskyy was quoted as saying. He also warned that Russia could orchestrate provocations, including “arson, bombings and so on, only to blame us.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are among the leaders set to attend the celebrations to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over Nazi Germany on May 9 in Moscow, according to several media reports.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and the country’s former president, referred to Zelenskyy’s statement as a “verbal provocation” on his Telegram channel, according to Reuters.
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💚 Happy May 4th, frens 💚

Wait, wait, wait... Wait a damn second...

".. reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ".....

Already rebuilt?!
Already enlarged?!

Like the work is already completed? Just re-open it now?