Representative of Russian Federation [United Nations]: In the statements of many previous speakers, the idea that our shared planet is experiencing irreversible changes was mentioned., Right in front of our eyes, there is a New World Order being born. Our future is being shaped by a struggle, a struggle between the global majority, in favor of a fairer distribution of global benefits and civilized diversity, and between the few who wield near colonial methods of subjugation in order to maintain their domination, which is slipping through their hands.
Representative of Russian Federation: The West is one that is truly an Empire of Lies.
Representative of Russian Federation: The Soviet, and then the Russian leadership was given concrete political assurances regarding the non-expansion of the NATO Military Alliance to the east. The relevant records of these negotiations are, both in our, and western archives, and they are in open access. But these assurances by western leaders were just deception. They in no way intended to uphold them…by expanding NATO's towards Russia's borders, they violated official commitments that were made at the highest level in the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe].
Representative of Russian Federation: One certainly has the perspective that the US and these western collective, that is fully subordinate to it, had decided to turn the Monroe Doctrine into a global one. These ideas are totally illusionary; they're extreme, but the Pax-Americana will not stop it.
Representative of Russian Federation: We do hope that with the assistance of the UN, the Libyans can prepare for general elections in a long-suffering country, that for more than ten years has not got back on it's feet after the NATO aggression that destroyed their state and opened the floodgates of terrorism to the Sahel region, and waves of millions of illegal migrants to Europe and other areas of the world. The analysts have said, as soon as Muammar Gaddafi abandoned his military nuclear program, he was destroyed. Thus the west has created astonishing risk for the entire nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Representative of Russian Federation: When we see the nervous relation of the west to recent events in Africa, in particular Niger and Gabon, one cannot fail to recall how Washington and Brussels responded to the bloody coup in Ukraine, in February, in 2014. A day after agreement was reached on settling under [inaudible] guarantees, the issues, but unfortunately the opposition just trampled on this. The US and it;s allies supported the coup, hailing it as a demonstration of democracy.
Representative of Russian Federation: I would like to draw attention to the egregious phenomenon of rehabilitating nazis and collaborators in Europe, in particular, Ukraine and the Baltics. A particularly concerning fact is, for the first time, last year there was a GA resolution to combat glorification of nazism, but for the first time, this was voted against by Germany, Italy, and Japan. This regrettable fact calls into question the true repentance of these states for the mass crimes carried out against humanity by them during World War II. It also runs counter to the conditions under which they were accepted into the UN as fully-fledged members.
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TEXAS: "Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching his party affiliation and becoming a Republican, citing disconnects with the Democratic Party on crime policy. It makes Dallas the largest city in the country with a Republican mayor, passing neighboring Fort Worth.
“Today I am changing my party affiliation. Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary,” Johnson wrote. “When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.”
Though he wrote that the switch may come as a surprise to many, few Dallas Democrats appeared to be shocked by the move. Texas Democratic Party leadership called the switch “welcome” and said he was dishonest for running as a Democrat for his reelection in May this year. Dallas state Rep. John Bryant, a Democrat, also piled on against the mayor.
“Switching parties? I didn’t know he was a Democrat,” Bryant said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Dallas is one of Democrats’ strongholds in red Texas; Dallas County voted in favor of President Biden by a 32-point margin in the 2020 election. The only major Texas county that had a stronger Democratic lead was Travis County, which contains Austin."
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/dallas-mayor-switches-from-democratic-to-republican-party/