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President Zelensky To Address the House of Commons at noon Eastern + Biden Announces New Actions (LIVE)

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President Zelensky is set to address the House of Commons at noon Eastern time.

It sounds like there will be live simultaneous translation via headphones for the House of Commons.  I am assuming that there will be subtitles on here, but I don’t know for sure.

This one for sure has English in the feed.

ETA: Also, President Biden is set to announce new actions to continue to hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    I hope there are subtitles!

    if not and you find a link where it is simultaneously translated or one that has subtitles, please add the link in the comments. I am in the parking lit at the vet school where they are trying to get Henry’s allergies figured out, so I’m not doing a lot of googling.

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    Why the NYTimes needs to die an ignominious death, installment #312,589. Hed on an article yesterday “Zelensky is seen in his office in Kyiv for the first time since invasion began.” Written by “breaking news reporter” Jesus Jiménez, sitting comfortably in NY, presumably having never set foot in Kyiv, where Zelensky has been – obviously and publicly – every fucking day since the Russian war of genocide began. Having been called out on Twitter a couple of thousand times, @jesus_jimz has done precisely what you would expect from a NYT reporter: nothing. No retraction, no correction, no “hey, maybe I misunderstood the situation.” The NYT of Walter Duranty is back, baby!

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    @Gin & Tonic: The entire organization is allergic to introspection, from top to bottom. They must either hire for that trait or drill it into every new hire’s brain during the onboarding process.

  7. 7.

    Yarrow

    I hope he tears the current British government a new one. They deserve it for their pathetic sanctions on Russian oligarchs (sanctioning very few of them), the fact they’ve given oligarchs 30 days to move their money out of the UK, and their appalling response to the Ukrainian refugees (“You need a visa! The visa office is closed!”).

  15. 15.

    citizen dave

    On my cell at least, Zelensky’s english is being crowded out by the simultaneous Ukranian translation.

  16. 16.

    Sloane Ranger

    There’s live translation. But I’m sure anyone watching will already have worked that out

    They were running the translation at the same sound level as Zelinsky’s speech but have since muted the President so English speakers can hear the translation.

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Friend I’m staying with returned from the gym and announced that, because of the Russian oil cutoff, we were going to costco right that minute to gas up my car for the return trip. The line there wasn’t too bad–three or four cars. Gas was just under $4 for costco members, which she is

  18. 18.

    Alison Rose ???

    Hmmm…can barely hear the translation, to the point that I can’t even tell if it’s English being spoken by the second person. Hopefully there will be a post-live version with subtitles

  19. 19.

    Alce_e_ardillo

    @Gin & Tonic: Has he started whining about how the little people have no idea how hard he works flipping through rolodexes, and collecting quotes from spokespersons on background?

  20. 20.

    Sloane Ranger

    Ooh! Channelling Churchill just a bit there.

    Calling for increased sanctions from UK, but thanking him for what he’s done so far.

    Speech bookended by standing ovations.

  22. 22.

    john b

    from below (because of course a new thread appears as soon as I decide to reply to someone):

    @Starfish: NEW: McConnell is forcefully opposing a provision in the omnibus spending bill that would extend waivers that have allowed schools to serve universal free meals during the pandemic, per sources close to the talks.

    I know this is from hours ago now, but this has been such an unmitigated good from the pandemic. Eliminating the barrier / stigma to ensuring kids get fed at school is such a cheap way to improve / simplify the lives of kids and families. Of course McConnell / the GOP oppose it.

  24. 24.

    ETtheLibrarian

    The thing about really being f**ked is that it can free you throw away some of the conventional niceties and strictures people (and yourself) place on one’s actions and it can just mean going all out and doing whatever needs to be done.

  26. 26.

    Raoul Paste

    A recent image of Zelensky  showed him with dark circles under his eyes.  It’s worrying, and it definitely contrasts with the comfortable politicians sitting in Parliament

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    Looking forward to the Fox unholy trio (Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham) tonight…the topic: “Why Biden Banning Russian Oil Isn’t REALLY About Helping Ukraine”.

    subtext: “It’s ALLLLLLLL about sticking it to oil companies and ushering in the soshulist Green New Deal”

    Nickel bet.

  30. 30.

    MisterForkbeard

    @john b: We send our kids to school with lunch every day, and they take advantage of this once or twice a week. It’s just normal to them now – they have options, and lots of kids eat school lunch

    No stigma at all.

  31. 31.

    Kay

    Glenn Greenwald
    @ggreenwald
    ·Mar 7
    From a Feb. 23 poll, just over 2 weeks ago: “A majority of Americans oppose a major US role in the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia.”
    When both parties’ leaders fully unite in messaging with almost all of the US corporate media, it’s potent.

    When the polling supports Glenn Greenwald’s position- a bad poll for Biden for example, which he gleefully cites- it’s the organic, unmediated expression of the views of the American People. When the polling doesn’t support his position it’s a manipulated result based on “corporate media”.
    The “corporate media” influence is very selective.

  32. 32.

    catclub

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: ummm. Oil prices are fairly transparent.  The spot market price is effectively the acquisition price for the refinery.

    Are you suggesting that oil companies SET the spot market price? I don’t think they do.

  34. 34.

    Kay

    @MisterForkbeard:

    I was on a school council for years and honestly it doesn’t make a lot of sense to charge them. When I was there there were three categories- free, reduced and full price and just setting those up at the start of every year was a PITA. Then there are the accounts and monitoring the delinquent accounts and carrying the fucking delinquent accounts over to the next year and then putting in the various escalating sanctions – it’s dumb. Let’s stop making people do dumb useless work.

  35. 35.

    Calouste

    @Yarrow: You’d think the Moscow Stock Exchange would have to reopen for that first, and that hasn’t happened yet. It was closed yesterday and today because of International Women’s Day, so maybe tomorrow.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    @Kay: Oh, fuck, you mean our local commenter didn’t write that? It’s fucking real? For reals?

    ETA: I take back any time I complained to that commenter for making up GG quotes.

  43. 43.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Yarrow:

    “Ni hau – I’ll give you 43 Renminbi and some pocket lint for a controlling share of Gazprom. Deal?”

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    @Kay:  Greenwald is pretty predictable with this stuff and has been for ages. He’s got lots (lots!) of words that can be boiled down to Republicans/Putin/some leftists/authoritarians = good and Democrats = bad.

  48. 48.

    Kay

    @zhena gogolia:

    He’s kind of scraping the bottom. He’s featuring that Fox News general now.

    It’s amusing to me because Zelensky himself is the best argument for the validity and authenticity of an independent Ukraine. He behaves like a democratic leader who assumes he has to govern by consent. He persuades. Over and over and over, to really any audience he can find. This is someone who thinks he can get you over to his side without arresting you. Compare to…. the other one.

  52. 52.

    Kay

    Here’s Glenn’s expert:

    Julia Davis
    @JuliaDavisNews
    · Mar 6
    #Russia’s state TV keeps broadcasting clips of @FoxNews repeatedly inviting retired Army Col. Doug Macgregor (who gave multiple interviews to the Russian state media in the past). He does nothing but bash Ukraine & defend Russian “interests.” Very useful for Putin’s war efforts.

    I thought we had to know who was paying retired generals who appear on cable?!? No more?

  54. 54.

    debbie

    There was a clip on Twitter yesterday or the day before where Zelensky starts by saying he’s back in his office. I’d bet that reporter took that a bit too literally. ??‍♀️

  56. 56.

    Gravenstone

    @Kay: Gee Glenn, it’s almost like something might have happened a couple weeks ago or so that might, maybe, just possibly have swayed public opinion towards getting involved. Inconceivable, I know…

  57. 57.

    Jeffro

    Help America out by doing your part now, snooze media!  Plenty of opportunities to report on:

    • oil company profits
    • green energy initiatives, savings, and the potential for tens of thousands of new, not-exportable jobs
    • how domestic energy independence promotes our national security

    What’s that?  Too busy taking stenography from Big Oil, the RNC, and Fox news?  Oh well…maybe next time!

  58. 58.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Wonder how much those 50+ year old Russians I saw interviewed who are so affirming of whatever Putin does are going to enjoy learning a servile form of Mandarin?

  59. 59.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Kay: I think an Army that promotes people like Doug Macgregor and Mike Flynn to General level needs to take a long, hard look at its personnel practices.

  61. 61.

    geg6

    @Jeffro:

    Shockingly, I saw report on our local CBS station (owned by the network, no less) that actually discussed your second two bullets.  No mention at all of the first, though.

  63. 63.

    dm

    @Gin & Tonic: When it happens we’ll start to wonder if Xi got Putin to delay the invasion until after the Olympics in part because he knew mud-season would be underway and he was hoping Putin’s military would get bogged down (at the other end of the continent — bonus!).

    Of course, Xi is no doubt in favor of Putin’s success, because he has his own bit of territory off the coast that he’d like to “reclaim”.

  64. 64.

    raven

    @Jackie: I went to the VA hospital in Augusta last Thursday and the line at the Costco was huge. All the sudden our 50 mpg Kia Niro is looking better and better.

  65. 65.

    Soprano2

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: How do you explain their blatant profiteering before war broke out? I think they’ve been profiteering since sometime in 2021. They’re trying to make back the money they didn’t make in 2020.

  68. 68.

    geg6

    @raven:

    Yep, my Jetta and my 2 1/2 mile commute to campus is looking pretty damn good right about now.  I hate living here in suburban hell but right now it’s convenient and cheap.

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Gin & Tonic: To be fair, Doug stalled out at Colonel.  It is interesting that MacGregor and McMaster both got their inititial fame and reputations from their performance in 2/2ACR during the 1991 Gulf War.  MAJ MacGregor was the squadron operations officer and CPT McMaster was a troop commander. Both went on to write books critical of army brass and gain reputations as innovators.  Both also did well as armor commanders in the initial phases of the Iraq War.  I think both peaked as operational commanders and field grade officers.  Neither turned out to be a great strategist.

  71. 71.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Gin & Tonic:

    All joking aside, I wonder how much those folks are going to enjoy being conscripted in order to operate the broken down dregs of 50s and 60s era hardware?

  72. 72.

    Soprano2

    Part of me feels sorry for people having to buy lots of gas – I was in a conversation this morning where people were talking about paying $60 or more to fill up their tank, and that was before yesterday’s increase from $3.59 to $3.79, which will probably be $3.99 by the time I go home. Part of me wants to say snarkily “Well, no one made you buy that 8 mpg gas hog that you really don’t need, or live out 30 miles from town” (lots of city employees don’t actually live in the city where they work – they think it’s way too dangerous here *rolleyes*, or they just like being in the country).” I interjected the idea that maybe we need to get completely off gasoline and go toward electric powered vehicles. Most of them don’t actually need those big pickups or SUV’s, they just like having something big. One of our supervisors has a little tiny car that’s not quite a Smart car – he’ll be smiling for awhile.

  73. 73.

    Geminid

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve read that Michael Flynn was an efficient intelligence staffer when he had McChrystal overseeing him. When they put him on his own as DIA chief he was intolerable to work with.

  74. 74.

    Spanky

    I saw this morning that in our little Tidewater corner of the People’s Republic of Maryland Except Don’t Mind The Governor, regular gas was $4.19 for the 4 stations I went past. You can subtract 3 or more cents/gal for the various discounts, but definitely getting up there.

  75. 75.

    geg6

    @Spanky: ​
     
    That’s about where our prices are here in WPA. I have my Giant Eagle points that will get me 60 cents off a gallon, though.

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Geminid: I really do think that a lot of these guys functioned under the external discipline of the military.  Once they were out, they couldn’t function normally.  They were “institutionalized” in the Shawshank sense.

  78. 78.

    Geminid

    @debbie: Xi does want a revived JCPOA to limit Iran’s nuclear program. I think he’s going to get it, maybe by this weekend.

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: Yeah, but a 1LT you can fuck up, and figure it out eventually. A General means you’ve been there for decades and have undergone countless promotion reviews. Figuring out that he’s loyal to an adversary, after he’s retired, is a little late.

  84. 84.

    Geminid

    @Baud: Iran will export more oil, although it may take a while for them to gear up production. I’ve read that they have a lot stored up on land and in ships, waiting for the green light.

  87. 87.

    Geminid

    @Geminid:

     

    @Baud: Also, not all U.S. sanctions will be lifted immediately. For instance, I think some of them are tied the first stage of the agreement, where Iran has to give up most of their 7200 lbs. of enriched uranium, including the portion enriched to 60% U-235.

  88. 88.

    Stuart Frasier

    This is your periodic reminder that getting off fossil fuels will cut off the power of rogue states such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Texas.  Electric cars are cheaper to operate and nicer to drive.  You can do your best smug liberal impression as you drive past the gas station.

  89. 89.

    Geminid

    @Baud: U.S. officials visited Venezuela recently, talking with their Venezuelan counterparts about increasing that country’s oil production. That would be a medium and long range project. Venezuela has very large reserves, but their infrastructure is decrepit. Also, the oil is very heavy and requires a special refinery setup.

  91. 91.

    patroclus

    I think it’s amazing that Zelenskyy totally aped Churchill’s most famous address ever – the 6/4/40 “we shall fight on the beaches” speech that he gave after Dunkirk that rallied America to enact the Two Ocean Navy Act, pass a peacetime draft, do the destroyer-for-bases deal, pass the first massive appropriations bill and, ultimately to enact lend-lease.  Perhaps the most powerful rhetoric ever and Zelenskyy just channeled it a few hours ago.

  94. 94.

    patroclus

    @patroclus: And the invocation of Shakespeare with the “to be or not to be” quote was particularly apt as well.  The Commons was enraptured – there is a rule in parliament that there can be no applause (which is why you always hear “hear hear” and other non-clapping), but he got two standing ovations and everyone was tremendously moved.

  96. 96.

    Geminid

    @Aziz, light!: I read that renewable sources exceeded 95% of Scotland’s consumption last year. Transitioning to renewable electricity is not that heavy a lift now. It’s heavy transport and industrial sources of carbon emmissions that are tge tough problems.

  97. 97.

    Stuart Frasier

    @Aziz, light!: 
    Electric cars use less fossil fuels than gas cars even when the grid is relatively dirty. The average equivalent emissions for an EV in the US was 88mpg in 2018. The best thing about electric cars is that they get cleaner as the grid does, unlike gas cars that pollute more as they age.

  98. 98.

    Aziz, light!

    @Stuart Frasier: Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for EVs replacing ICEs, but we are a long way from eliminating the 61% of our power generation from fossil fuels. We also need a great many more charging stations (not just in big cities/interstate highways) and longer EV ranges to make this transition possible.

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