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America cannot afford “a truculent child president” if it is to fulfil its global leadership role [read "maintain the empire"], the former US secretary of state John Kerry said on Thursday as he lambasted Donald Trump for failing to attend a key Armistice Day commemoration ceremony in Paris at the weekend.

How did we get there?...

 

History is a bitch. What we are told is deliberately incomplete, does hide our bad deeds, and is a mashed-up muck designed to taste bland without the real human ingredients of proper comprehension. History rarely contains the hidden conspiracies that led us to here and there.

 

 
Jesuit doors in Germany... These doors are highly significant. On the left panel one can see the Jesuit symbol. On the right there is a pig. This is highly significant as well. 

Trump’s Misleading Claims About California’s Fire ‘Mismanagement’

On Twitter, the president claimed that the state’s wildfire woes are a result of poor forest management. The truth is more complicated.

Despite being punished with the illegitimate reimposition of nuclear sanctions, Iran continues to comply with the requirements of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA):

Armistice Day & the Resurrection of the Old Lie

Kit Knightly

The mental scars passed down by our great-grandfathers are still raw to the touch. To truly honour their memory, we must never let new liars get away with telling old lies.

 

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The close link between Australia’s major coal lobby and the prime minister’s office under the Coalition government runs ever deeper, whoever the leader is at the time.

The chief of staff of new prime minister Scott Morisson is John Kunkel, the former deputy CEO of the Minerals Council of Australia, the same group that thoughtfully provided a lacquered lump of coal for the then Treasurer to wave around parliament in February last year in the middle of a drought.

The soldiers standing with their machine guns can't see us behind the mirrored windows of the SUV as we speed past. A long succession of pickup trucks line the road along the shore, with men in uniform standing at the ready behind the MGs mounted in their beds. 

A lack of research into platypus numbers is leaving the iconic mammal vulnerable to extinction, an expert has warned. 

We’re only individual tiny specks of dust in the history of civilisations — even the more well-known of us, like the warring Caesars and the invading Hitlers.