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mel-rhodes-place · 1 day ago
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DONALD TRUMP WAS WRONG
President Donald Trump, center, speaks with the media as he greets Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and his wife Victoria at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/international-news-apwire/2025/07/golf-and-politics-trump-meets-with-uks-starmer-in-scotland/) While visiting the UK…
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mel-rhodes-place · 15 days ago
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GERMANY THINKING NUCLEAR
  Friedrich Merz has not ruled out nuclear weapons development for Germany (https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/possible-next-german-chancellor-does-not-rule-out-nuclear-sharing-talks-with-france-uk/3489288) The Road to the Bomb Foreign policy experts in Berlin are advising caution when it comes to pursuing independent nuclear armament for Germany or Europe. Simply placing oneself under the French…
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mel-rhodes-place · 21 days ago
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AMERICANS THREATENED
I Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi (The Week magazine, June 29, 2025) In a June 28, 2025, interview with the Iranian broadcasting authority, Mohammed Reza Naqdi, IRGC deputy commander for coordination, warned that if there is any harm to, or attempt to harm, any Iranian grand ayatollah, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, no American will leave the region alive. He added that all…
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mel-rhodes-place · 1 month ago
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SORRY NO BLOG THIS WEEK
I’ve got what feels like the flu. Hopefully I’ll be up and running next week!
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mel-rhodes-place · 2 months ago
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GERMANY CAN’T AVOID CONSCIRPTION FOREVER
(German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said his coalition’s plans for a voluntary military service could be reconsidered. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa, Tue, June 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM EDT) Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz seems serious about his pledge to make the Bundeswehr the ‘strongest conventional army in Europe.’ Yet less than a month into his chancellorship, a daunting realisation…
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mel-rhodes-place · 2 months ago
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GERMANY WILL DO EVERYTHING TO BECOME STRONGEST MILITARY IN EUROPE
(Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers his first major speech to parliament. The chancellor added that Germany aims to have the ‘strongest conventional army in Europe.  Image:  Kay Nietfeld/dpa/picture alliance On May 22, Germany celebrated the formal commissioning of its Lithuanian Brigade, with a ceremonial military roll call in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. On paper, this brigade…
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mel-rhodes-place · 2 months ago
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FUTURE OF CANADA AT STAKE AS KING OF CANADA ADDRESSES NATION
(King Charles delivers the speech from the throne in the Senate in Ottawa, Canada, May 27, 2025. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP) King Charles III was in Ottawa, Ontario, at the beginning of the week to address the Canadian people, as he delivered the Speech from the throne. The speech was roughly 25 minutes and was mostly written by Prime Minister Mark Carney.  It was given in both…
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mel-rhodes-place · 2 months ago
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GRAYSON RIDES A HORSEY
He may not be “the lone ranger” yet, but he’s made a start and is definitely enjoying himself.  Our youngest grandson (6) is making progress since starting at his special needs school.  He still can’t speak.  It turns out that mold sensitivity is one of his huge problems, among many others.   At a cost of over $55,000 the house has been treated twice.   Grayson is starting to make the right…
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mel-rhodes-place · 3 months ago
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PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON VE DAY
(Mum and her boys: Nigel, Melvin, Michael, Paul, David, and Martin) Thursday May 8th was a big news day, particularly in Europe. It was VE (Victory in Europe) Day, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. For us in the Rhodes household, it was also our mother Grace’s birthday.    She would have been 99 this year.   She was born in 1926, which means that she was 13 when war in Europe…
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mel-rhodes-place · 3 months ago
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AFTER SUEZ
(https://geography.name/suez-canal/) It’s been almost 70 years since Britain lost the Suez Canal, an event which radically altered the make-up of the Middle East.  It also effectively ended the British Empire. The British financed the building of the Canal, which was also part-owned by France.  It opened in 1869.   Twice as much traffic passed through the Canal compared to the Panama Canal.  A…
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mel-rhodes-place · 4 months ago
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LEFT DESTROYS FRENCH DEMOCRACY,  Bars Chief Opposition Leader from Running for President
(Photograph: Michel Euler/AP) Marine Le Pen was leading in the polls for the 2027 French presidential election, but that doesn’t matter anymore:  on Monday, a judge in Paris found her guilty of misappropriating European Union funds. She has been sentenced to prison (although she will apparently not serve her sentence behind bars but by the practically equal humiliation of wearing an ankle…
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mel-rhodes-place · 4 months ago
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ARE EUROPEANS PATHETIC FREELOADERS?
A few years ago, I saw a young man wearing a tee-shirt emblazoned with the words: “America: running the world since 1776.”  Hopefully, this very patriotic young man has enrolled in a history course at his local college.  Or even just read a book. For the record, in 1776, nobody knew who would win the revolutionary war.   And, a century later, America was still not fighting for any other nation’s…
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mel-rhodes-place · 4 months ago
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STARMER’S COALITION OF THE WILLING
(https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250302-europe-to-launch-new-coalition-of-the-willing-to-help-ukraine-says-starmer) Sir Kier Starmer, the British prime minister, is going around Europe, trying to put a “coalition of the willing” together to defend Ukraine and stop Russian expansionism. But he’s no Winston Churchill.  He’s not even a Margaret Thatcher. President Macron of France has joined…
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mel-rhodes-place · 5 months ago
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AFRIKANERS INVITED TO AMERICA
The South African government has denied there are any concerted attacks on white farmers and has said that Trump’s description of the new land law is full of misinformation and distortions. (https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-afrikaners-0120efec17122b47e3371e0e39fe1db8)  (Editor – When we were there, we witnessed white farmers begging on street corners because their land had been taken…
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mel-rhodes-place · 5 months ago
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WHO WILL BE THE NEW LEADER?
Friedrich Merz and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, in December. (Michael Kappeler / dpa via Getty Images file) Every Wednesday at 12 noon (7 am Eastern time), the British parliament holds Prime Minister’s Question Time.  Any subject may be raised.  Any question may be asked of the UK’s prime minister. Yesterday (26th February) I turned the TV on to get the morning’s news, just in time to…
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mel-rhodes-place · 5 months ago
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USAID
My first encounter with USAID was in a Ghanaian marketplace.   This was during the famine there that followed the 1981 revolution.   At the time, we had eaten most of our food reserves, so I went to the market to see what was there.   I came across rice, sacks of the stuff that were being sold to anybody. Well, almost anybody.  Anybody with 50 cedis, the Ghanaian currency.  This was back in 1982…
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mel-rhodes-place · 6 months ago
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THE LAST TIME THE US USED TARIFFS
Rep. Willis C. Hawley, left, and Sen. Reed Smoot co-sponsored the 1930 tariff bill. (Library of Congress) The Smoot-Hawley Act was passed by Congress in June 1930.   It dramatically changed America and is thought by many to have led to World War II.  The Senate passed the act 44 votes to 42.  It was very close. The act famously raised tariffs on all goods coming into the United States,   Within…
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