A full-scale military conflict in Europe has become more likely due to the standoff with Russia, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has claimed, while warning member states against relying on the US to defend them.

Several other European officials have cited a heightened military threat in recent months, with UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps saying last week that the world is moving from a “post-war to a pre-war” state due to the alleged threat emanating from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made a similar “pre-war” assessment in March.

 

US facing worst risks since WWII – JPMorgan boss
Geopolitical tensions and political polarization at home threaten “America’s global leadership role,” Jamie Dimon has warned...

The US is facing grave risks in the wake of rising global geopolitical tensions and the nation’s domestic political polarization, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, has warned.

In an annual shareholder letter on Monday the CEO of the largest US bank cited large amounts of government spending and efforts by the Federal Reserve to shrink its balance sheet, as well as the Ukraine conflict and the Israel-Hamas war, as creating an environment that “may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since World War II.”

Macron teams up with Cameron for Russia conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXxaBZ01DlM

 

France's foreign minister said on Monday, April 8, it was no longer in Paris's "interest" to talk to Russia after differing accounts emerged from a rare phone call about last month's deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall.

"It is not in our interest currently to hold discussions with Russian officials because the statements and the summaries issued about them are lies," Stéphane Séjourné told broadcasters France24 and RFI.

Two decades after the Howard Government spied on Timor-Leste’s seabed boundary negotiating team, for oil company Woodside, the Albanese Government is still fighting against the truth coming out. Reporting on the biggest cover-up in Australia’s history, Rex Patrick explains why.

DFAT submissions found in the long-running FOI battle reveal how the commercial interests of Australian fossil fuel companies still take precedence.

 

Spies Like Us: why the Government is still backing Woodside over Timor-Leste

    by Rex Patrick

 

 

"The lingering cry of a crane is heard over the swamp.

I am listening, having gotten rid of unnecessary rhymes.

Sleep, torn and bloody land,

Shuddering from explosions, disrupting the heart's rhythm.”*

 

Lack of American funding is the reason Ukraine is failing on the battlefield, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday. He demanded the House Republicans pass the $61 billion aid bill as soon as possible.

Ukraine spares clowns from military draft – RIA
Circus performers have been declared a category of special strategic importance not subject to conscription

The government in Kiev has designated several circus troupes as enterprises of critical importance, whose employees will be exempt from mobilization, two lawmakers confirmed on Monday.

Last week, President Vladimir Zelensky enacted changes to the draft allowing the army to conscript 25-year-olds and abolishing several categories of exemptions from military service. However, certain state employees can still avoid the draft if their work is considered ‘critical’.

U.S. President Joe Biden seems to be using a foreign acquisition of an American company as a rallying point for his upcoming re-election bid. Biden says Nippon Steel’s acquiring U.S. Steel will be a threat to national security, and the loss of a “national treasure.” The question is, “Is this Japanese buyout really the central issue?” By the time you’re done reading this report, you’ll understand why it is not.

 

BY Phil Butler     What’s Behind the Hoopla Over Nippon Steel Acquiring U.S. Steel?

 

 

Within just 24 hours of the horrific mass shooting in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22nd, which left at least 137 innocent people dead and 60 more critically wounded, US officials blamed the slaughter on ISIS-K, Daesh’s South-Central Asian branch. For many, the attribution’s celerity raised suspicions Washington was seeking to decisively shift Western public and Russian government focus away from the actual culprits - be that Ukraine, and/or Britain, Kiev’s foremost proxy sponsor.

 

How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS
by Kit Klarenberg

 

WELCOME TO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH EXCLUSIVE HORROR STORY OF THE DAY: OUR YOUTH ARE ENCOURAGED TO DO CRIMES BY INSTAGRAM AND THE LIKES (SUCH AS FACEBOOK?)… WE’RE SHOCKED!

OR IS THIS REPORT — WITH A FRONT PAGE POSITION, A DOUBLE SPREAD OF TEXT AND PICTURES, PLUS A CARTOON AND AN “EDITORIAL” — A WAY TO GET BACK AT META FOR REFUSING TO PAY CASH FOR NEWS CONTENT GENERATED BY NEWS OUTLETS?

HUM….

 

GUS INVESTIGATES:

 

SAY THE CARTOON BY WARREN (BROWN) IS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF YOUTH DOING SOME YOUTH CRIMES ON OUR YOUTH!!!! 

... In a scathing column in the Daily Mail, Johnson wrote that the attacks on the WCK convoy were “shattering” but then defended Israel, claiming it was sending warnings of the IDF’s attacks, which are “trying to use precision munitions”.

They are using precision munitions. They murder innocent people with them, including white people on aid missions.

Johnson added: “If the west continues to crumble – and especially if Britain and the US crumble – then the Israelis will be prevented from getting into Rafah. They will be prevented from achieving their objective: of finishing Hamas as a military force in Gaza.”

Half of Americans are struggling to afford their rising housing costs, and the financial squeeze is so severe for many that over one in five skip meals to get by, a new poll has revealed.

The survey, commissioned by Seattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin and released on Friday, showed that 50% of US homeowners and renters have had difficulties making their housing payments. Many respondents said they had to make sacrifices to cope with inflationary pressures. For instance, 22% reported that they had skipped meals, 21% sold some of their belongings, and a combined 37% either worked extra hours or took on additional jobs.

 

Is there now a moral void at the heart of Western societies?  That question haunts us as governments in the United States and Europe act as accomplices in Israeli’s atrocious crimes against the Palestinians. The Jewish state’s conduct meets the standard of genocide as stated in the United Nations Convention on Genocide of which they all are signatories. Confirmation is likely to come soon in a conclusive determination by the International Court of Justice.

 

Michael Brenner explores the moral conundrum of the U.S. backing of Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

 

I had a funny dream by 2:22 AM... Weird. The producer of this show — Ms Gus Leonisky — my feminine side — had gone to buy a couple of bananas, still wearing the director’s headphones, to illustrate how the president of Australia would be a Minogue, either Dannii or Kylie, depending on which banana would rot first. The day was April 9th 2028, tomorrow.

By 2028, at the end of the second Trump tenure, due to his crafty deal between all the illegals in the USA and vacuum-cleaners, the UK Crown had gone to Harry the first, and decrepitude had set in the general media, by Royal decree.

King Charlie III had to give up the throne, due to a something which shall remain obscure and William the fourth had to also give up due to a hunting accident — as King Williams always do. 

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has threatened Chinese companies with “consequences” if they supply parts or equipment to the Russian military. During a multi-day trip to Beijing, Yellen also accused China of saturating global markets with cheap goods.

“Secretary Yellen emphasized that companies, including those in the PRC, must not provide material support for Russia’s war against Ukraine, including support to the Russian defense industrial base,” the US Treasury said in a statement released after Yellen met her Chinese counterpart, He Lifeng, in Guangzhou on Friday.

Yellen warned that these firms would face “significant consequences if they do so,” the statement continued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHJKKsOHtAk

Why were climate models so wrong about 2023? Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about why 2023 was hotter than we expected it to be and what effects need to be factored into future climate modeling with climatologist at NASA Goddard Institute, Gavin Schmidt.

How 2023 Broke Our Climate Models with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Gavin Schmidt

 

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Australia is conducting its first climate risk assessment and developing an adaptation plan. Not only humans experience heat stress, so do other animals and plants. If you must feed wild birds, listen to the experts’ tips. 

 

Assessing Australia’s climate risks