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EU’s net payers prepare revolt as €1.8 trillion budget takes shape – POLITICO

EU’s net payers prepare revolt as €1.8 trillion budget takes shape – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

In addition to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Ireland and Belgium are expected to be represented in the talks, which are being held ahead of a General Affairs Council in Brussels where the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (long-term budget) is to be debated. But a rival camp of 16 countries — including Italy, Spain and Poland — are pushing back on the mooted cuts. They argue that spending on agriculture, payments to poorer regions and fishing must be increased from the Commission’s budget proposal, where they make up less than half of total spending. “In the Commission’s proposal, Cohesion Policy, CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and the CFP (Common fisheries policy) are the only policies facing reductions in real terms, despite the overall increase in the size of the new MFF,” the countries wrote in a joint statement on Monday evening that was coordinated by Romania. Signatories include Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Swedish European Affairs Minister Jessica Rosencrantz talks to …

When Unfairness Is Systemic, The Consequences Are Flight, Resistance, Revolt

When Unfairness Is Systemic, The Consequences Are Flight, Resistance, Revolt

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Now that we’ve drained the aquifers of a stable society, the replacement form of “wealth” is a delusional credit-asset bubble that generates the illusion of “wealth.” Let’s weave together two threads that look different: systemic unfairness and civilizational psychosis. As I often note, social species that organize themselves into hierarchies (i.e. primates, including humans) have an innate sensitivity to fairness, as this trait is essential to maintaining social stability, and therefore it has been selected as advantageous. This sensitivity applies both to individual instances of unfairness / injustice and to systemic unfairness / injustice. If there is no redress when an individual is treated unfairly or abused, the social order is weakened. This is why early civilizations instituted legal codes and systems of redress as they expanded into nations / empires that needed bureaucracies to organize, manage and enforce the rules and responsibilities of every class. If the mechanisms of redress have become empty shams, then the unfairness is systemic: it isn’t just some individuals who have been treated unfairly–everyone is being …

‘A bridge too far?’: As GOP senators revolt, Trump defends fund

‘A bridge too far?’: As GOP senators revolt, Trump defends fund

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — For much of Donald Trump’s second term, Republican senators have largely stayed in line, wary of defying a president with a history of targeting those who cross him. This week, that dynamic noticeably shifted. Senate Republicans blocked two of Trump’s legislative priorities, angered by the push to create a $1.8-billion federal fund to compensate people who claim to have been politically persecuted, including rioters who assaulted the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The revolt forced Republican leaders to pull a planned vote on legislation to fund the president’s immigration crackdown and security features for his White House ballroom project. In response, the president defended the fund and lashed out at its critics. “I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media website. “Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt and weaponized Biden Administration, receive, at long last, JUSTICE”! The president also called Republican senators who broke with him quitters who …

Eagle Rock’s Read Books launched revolt against Los Angeles landlords

Eagle Rock’s Read Books launched revolt against Los Angeles landlords

Published by Sam Flores

On a Tuesday evening in Eagle Rock, used-bookstore owners Jeremy and Debbie Kaplan were closing up for the day when a stranger rushed through the entrance. He tossed an envelope onto the counter, said something like: “Building’s been sold,” and slipped out. Inside the envelope, the Kaplans found a 30-day notice: The shop’s $1,200 monthly rent would be increasing to $2,805 on April 1, they were required to decide whether they would accept the more than 133% price hike a month in advance, and they’d need to agree to a three- to five-year lease if so. The letter arrived Feb. 17, which meant the Kaplans had 11 days to accept the new landlord’s terms or leave. “We couldn’t even consider it,” Jeremy Kaplan said. “It would be suicide.” The couple looked around the 680-square-foot shop. From the floor to ceiling, more than 20,000 books were crammed every which way into shelves they’d built and stained themselves nearly 20 years before. “My first reaction was panic,” he said. “How are we going to move out of …

Labour voters ‘will revolt over holiday tax’

Labour voters ‘will revolt over holiday tax’

Published by Sam Flores

Labour’s planned holiday tax on British staycations will threaten its parliamentary majority, a new poll has shown. The tourist tax will allow mayoral authorities in England to impose a levy on the cost of an overnight stay in their areas – a policy that critics have claimed will be a “death knell” for British seaside resorts. New polling by the industry body UKHospitality has found that 56 per cent of Britons oppose the tax, which would add more than £100 to the cost of a two-week family holiday. The survey of more than 10,000 people also found that voters were nearly 10 times as likely to punish an MP who backs the policy than to reward them, at the ballot box. In 200 of the 411 seats Labour won at the last general election, the number of voters who said they would be less likely to support their MP because of the policy exceeded the party’s majority in that seat. The policy will allow mayoral authorities in England to impose a levy on the cost …

Miliband facing Labour revolt on North Sea drilling

Miliband facing Labour revolt on North Sea drilling

Published by Sam Flores

Ed Miliband is facing a rising backbench revolt over his refusal to back North Sea drilling. A growing number of Labour MPs are for the first time publicly calling on the Energy Secretary to reconsider his net zero agenda, amid pressure to shore up domestic energy supplies in the wake of an energy crisis caused by the Iran war. It will pile pressure on the Left of the Cabinet to back “pragmatic” North Sea oil exploration, a policy already supported by the Conservatives and Reform UK. Earlier this week, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, said she would be “very happy” to support extraction at two proposed new oil and gas fields: Rosebank and Jackdaw – breaking away from Mr Miliband and opening a rift between government ministers. Mr Miliband has been facing opposing voices from a growing number of party colleagues – ANDY RAIN/Shutterstock Sir Keir Starmer has refused to weigh in, stating repeatedly during the last Prime Minister’s Questions before recess that approval for Rosebank and Jackdaw was a quasi-judicial decision for Mr Miliband alone. …

Palestine 36: A film about a revolt that nearly changed history | News

Palestine 36: A film about a revolt that nearly changed history | News

Published by Sam Flores

Director Annemarie Jacir on how Palestine 36 traces today’s crisis back to British colonial rule. Before Israeli occupation, there was British colonialism. We speak to director Annemarie Jacir about Palestine 36, her epic film about the 1936 Palestinian revolt that almost succeeded, the often-forgotten roots of today’s crisis, and why this history still feels painfully present. In this episode:  Episode credits: This episode was produced by David Enders, Sonia Bhagat, and Sarí el-Khalili with Spencer Cline, Chloe K. Li, Catherine Nouhan, Tuleen Barakat and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Tamara Khandaker.  Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer.  Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Published On 3 Apr 20263 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran

Lindsey Graham just triggered a MAGA revolt over Iran

Published by Sam Flores

When the strange political force that would become Trumpism began to take shape eleven years ago, Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who embodied the GOP’s interventionist wing, denounced Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency. Trump had promised to end what he called “stupid wars,” and Graham had entered the 2016 presidential race in part to smother the anti-war sentiment simmering inside the Republican Party before it could become something more than a factional irritant. The senator later admitted he couldn’t bring himself to vote for his party’s Republican nominee. “I voted for Evan — whatever the guy’s name is,” Graham said after the election, referring to Evan McMullin, the conservative who ran as an independent and won just 0.54 percent of the vote. The GOP was still arguing with itself about regime change wars ever since the Iraq catastrophe. That conflict — launched by George W. Bush’s administration and championed by the neoconservative ecosystem that dominated the party at the time — ended in a grinding quagmire that killed hundreds of …

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers

Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers

Published by skeptic

In the lead up to the United States and Israel’s attack on Iran, prediction markets saw a frenzy of activity tied to the conflict. Speculators rushed to guess when the first missile strikes would begin and who might be impacted, placing trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars in total. There are already big winners—and some big losers. This weekend, following the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Kalshi faced a customer revolt over how it handled a $54 million market about the fate of Iran’s leadership. “People are absolutely livid,” says Kalshi trader Nicholas Mahoney. The market offered “yes” or “no” contracts on whether Khamanei would be “out” as the nation’s Supreme Leader. On Saturday morning, while rumors of Khamenei’s death circulated online but an official announcement had not yet been made, Kalshi was promoting the market on social media. After his assasination was confirmed, many traders who had purchased “yes” contracts assumed they had turned a profit—after all, Khamenei was demonstrably no longer the Supreme Leader. Instead, Kalshi paused the market for review …