This does not mean that this war crime is the only one commited by Russia.
This means that the abduction, and deportation of children has enough proof, and more importantly, links and intent to and from the Kremlin to hold Putin to it.
The largest burden to the ICC is to link the intent of the actions to the accused. Most accused will either deny knowledge of what their troops were doing, or will deny true intent under the “messiness of war”.
This is also meaningless so long as Putin doesn’t step foot outside Russia. If they ever finally overthrow him and he runs, there will be an official reason for authorities anywhere to try busting him, but so long as he’s ensconced in his homeland, this isn’t really gonna change anything.
This is possibly the last report the IPCC will issue before we hit the 1.5C threshold, after which damage to the climate will rapidly become irreversible. Temperature has already increased 1.1C above pre-industrial levels and if current trends continue, we’ll hit 1.5C around the end of the decade.
On Twitter, Trump supporters are pissed at the DigSantis. IIRC, it was Trump who started throwing insults at Francesca first, so why are they so offended?
Well, the New York grand jury isn’t meeting today and tomorrow’s meeting is on standby, so there’s a decent chance the doorknob isn’t getting indicted this week.
The NY grand jury, of course, is only considering his payout to Stormy Daniels. It doesn’t have anything to do with his other fraudulent business practices, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, that pesky insurrection on Jan 6 or his possession of classified documents. Though in regards to the latter, it seems a federal judge has pierced attorney/client privilege with two of his lawyers, ordering them to comply with subpoenas after Trump deliberately misled them.
Last week it was revealed, however, that Alan Weisselberg’s former daughter-in-law also testified to this same grand jury. Her testimony has never been revealed to have anything to do with the Stormy Daniels stuff, but rather to the business practices cases that are already going on and that Weisselberg has already been convicted on. So it is possible that the Manhattan DA is pursuing more than just the hush money payments, and that those payments may have also been used to cover up a second crime, which rises beyond misdemeanor and into legitimate criminal territory. So this may be more serious than most of us are currently projecting, although still less serious than what Georgia and the DOJ are looking into. Still, goddammit, can they get on with it and indict him if they’re gonna do it, already?! Let’s get it started!
Ugh, nevermind. It turns out that she was there testifying to a separate grand jury on the same day, and the stories got lumped together and my usual source hasn’t reported on it yet, so I didn’t know that it had been debunked until I went looking for it. It’s still possible and even likely that Bragg is going after more than the hush money considering the nature of most Trump crimes, but it won’t be involving anything Jennifer Weisselberg said last Monday. Here’s the clarifying link.
Johnson has been forced into defending himself at the committee investigating Partygate. Hopefully, this will see him suspended and finally put an end to any political value he has, although judging by some of the newspaper headlines, it’s clear some are still hedging their bets.
Meanwhile, Trump’s sexual battery civil trial starts next month and the judge has decided to seat an anonymous jury. Neither side requested it and neither objected to it.
“Mr. Trump’s quite recent reaction to what he perceived as an imminent threat of indictment by a grand jury sitting virtually next door to this Court was to encourage ‘protest’ and to urge people to ‘take our country back.’ That reaction reportedly has been perceived by some as incitement to violence,” [Judge] Kaplan wrote in an order Thursday.
“And it bears mention that Mr. Trump repeatedly has attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters,” the judge added.
This MP left the Liberal caucus after an allegation that he advised a Chinese diplomat to delay the release of two Canadians until after the election in 2021. If true, holy shit.
After releasing a weird video where she dared the NZ PM to ban her from entering (something that isn’t within his powers) and “roll the dice”, “see how it works out for you”, Posie Parker has quit her first rally in New Zealand.
