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Board of PeaceIf member states choose to contribute money, the Board of Peace will "implement the highest financial controls and oversight mechanisms," the official said.
"Funds will sit only in approved accounts at reputable banks (with CFO due diligence; Executive Board approval), and payments will require the right multi-signatory approval threshold, KYC/AML and sanctions screening, and supporting documentation. Oversight is enforced through an Audit & Risk subcommittee and an independent annual external audit with published financials," the official added.
And the orange man has just the guy for the CFO job.
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Imagine thatDOGE back in the news.
Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.
Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245
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Meeple MountainHoly cow, the world is full of board gamers!
https://www.meeplemountain.com/articles/the-board-gamers-guide-to-board-game-conventions
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Board of PeaceHe wants to be king of the world.
President Donald Trump’s suggestion Tuesday that his Board of Peace “might” replace the United Nations is likely to compound concerns that the body meant to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza – and that he will indefinitely chair – will instead become a vehicle for him to attempt to supersede the body established 80 years ago to maintain global peace.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/trump-gaza-board-of-peace-united-nations
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25th Amendment. Seriously.Donald Trump waged a teeny, tiny battle with a binder clip Tuesday morning during a live TV press conference.
While speaking to reporters at the White House during a briefing televised by CNN, the president again hit out at Joe Biden's administration, repeating to attendees once again a false claim that Biden actually lost the 2020 presidential election.
Then, as he held up a "book on accomplishments" his team has allegedly achieved during the first year of his second term in office, Trump nearly shut his finger in a large binder clip holding the thick stack of documents together.
The 79-year-old slightly recoiled as a loud snapping noise was heard after he removed the clip from the papers, while he exclaimed, "Ooh, I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've done some damage."
Still, he assured reporters, "You know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain."
He lingered on the topic for the next few seconds, asking the room, "Did you hear that?" before calling the snap "nasty" in the moment.
"But, I would not have shown the pain," he reiterated. "I would've acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was nasty. I think somebody did that."
He then looked around the room and pointed toward a member of the press, smiling as he said, "It was him. It was my man. How are you?"
Trump then threw the clip off to the side of the podium, and it could be heard clanging around on the floor beside him. He then shifted his attention to the contents of the stack of papers behind the podium, lifting it up as he rifled through the pages.
"Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. It's big stuff, too," Trump said, calling the United States "the hottest country in the world" before tossing the papers to the ground as reporters in the room laughed at the gesture.
https://ew.com/donald-trump-nearly-shuts-finger-binder-clip-live-tv-11888923
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US TreasuriesTrump’s request to purchase land under the jurisdiction of another nation has not gone down well with the Western world. While the U.S. may be the biggest economy on the planet, patience is wearing thin among its allies, after a year of barbed back-and-forths over tariffs and military spending.
This weekend’s power flex may be a stretch too far, economists are now warning, and Trump’s weakness may prove to be America’s voracious spending habits.
Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid highlighted that Liberation Day tariffs in April were stepped back a week later, after U.S. Treasury yields saw a “scary” session as investors retreated to safety, away from American borrowing.
“Financial markets may play a big part in how this situation resolves itself,” Reid wrote in a note to clients this morning. “The main Achilles Heel of the U.S. is the huge twin deficits. So while in many ways it feels like the U.S. holds the economic cards, it doesn’t hold all the funding cards in a world that will be very disturbed by the weekend’s events.”
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US TreasuriesDanish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of U.S. Treasuries, worth some $100 million, by the end of this month, blaming weak U.S. government finances.
https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/
So what will his response be? A 200% tariff on Danish blue cheese?
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His one year recapWasn't a good look. Split screen of him touting his Accomplishments along side current stock market trading (markets closed way down).
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-white-house-press-briefing-davos-greenland/
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So about GreenlandGreenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory.
“It’s not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out,” Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a press conference in capital Nuuk on Tuesday.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greenland-pm-tells-people-prepare-162519127.html
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Seasoning a kidWhat’s a season if you’ve only circled the sun a few times? And can’t really remember what it was like at this time last year?
A young child’s sense of time must be overwhelmingly abstract. Time is the ever-present now. While the rhythms and routines mark the daily cycle—breakfast and bedtime, bathtime and naptime—beyond a day, the cycles become too vast to comprehend. Our four-year-old still doesn’t understand what a week is, let alone a month or the phases of the moon. “Why is it a weekend?” he asks, as we head to the forest instead of daycare.
https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/seasoning-a-kid/?user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472
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Helping stroke patients speakVery small study but sounds promising.
Researchers have developed a wearable, comfortable and washable device called Revoice that could help people regain the ability to communicate naturally and fluently following a stroke, without the need for invasive brain implants.
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The bluebirds of happiness@Mik said in The bluebirds of happiness:
We know they are around, but only see them once a year or less, usually in very cold weather.
I've never seen one in real life.
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Board of PeaceHe has well and truly gone off the deep end.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne after French President Emmanuel Macron was reported to be unwilling to join his “Board of Peace” on Gaza.
When asked for a response by a reporter in Miami about Macron’s stance, Trump dismissed the French leader’s influence and said he would use trade penalties as leverage.
“Well, nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon,” Trump said. “So you know, that’s all right. What I’ll do is, if they feel like [being] hostile, I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes, and he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join.”
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So about GreenlandAnd the Russians love the Greenland controversy.
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So about GreenlandBessent channels Donald Rumsfeld. Remember the unknown unknowns?
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/18/bessent-national-emergency-tarriffs-00735660
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How now Brown Swiss cowIf it were April 1st I would have thought the videos might be AI.
I cracked up at the idea of the researchers racing to observe the cow. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that the area the cow lives in is beautiful. A science boondoggle.
