Former president Donald Trump has taken to the stage in Florida to claim victory in the US election.

It is expected that he has secured enough votes to win the electoral college, with JD Vance as his vice president. 

"This is the greatest political movement of all time," Trump told supporters at his West Palm Beach election night event.

"Now it is going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal."

It is only the second time a US president has won non-successive terms, after Grover Cleveland did the same in 1884.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is to spend election night with Donald Trump in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort, he said on X/Twitter. 

Mr Musk, the owner of Tesla and X, has been aggressively campaigning for the Republican candidate in swing states across the country.

Trump's campaign is hosting watch parties including at his Mar-a-Lago home and also Palm Beach Convention Center for thousands of supporters.

The tech billionaire has emerged as one of the most important backers of Trump and donated more than $119m (£91.6m) this election cycle to America PAC - a political action committee he created to support the former president.

Ever since 25 July 1945, the U.S. Government has had, as its #1 objective, to take control ultimately over all other countries (“hegemony”); and its main targets to conquer have been the world’s largest country, which is Russia, and then the world’s most populous country, which has been China. In order to do this, the U.S. regime needed to deceive their public to believe that ‘freedom and democracy’ were what they spread around the world by their coups and invasions, ...

 

The federal government has quietly delayed plans to introduce local content requirements for major streaming platforms, with no indication of when it might return to work on the policy.

Local content quotas were a centrepiece of Labor's major arts policy, which was aimed at rejuvenating the local industry after the pandemic and released nearly two years ago.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has designated as a lie the statement made by US Vice President and Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris that US troops are not deployed in any war zones.

During the presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on September 10 Harris said that there currently was "not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.”

 

"I know [US] troops [are] in war zones. As vice president, you're privy. You know the official troops and the unofficial troops. What she said was a flat-out bold-faced lie. Next-level bold-faced lie. An absurd lie," Musk said in a podcast with Joe Rogan released on Tuesday.

 

The presidency must be destroyed. It is the primary evil we face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.

 

BY The Misesian

The US and its allies are waging a hybrid war against Russia, but their aggressive sanctions are hurting the world’s poorest nations the most and backfiring on Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.

Lavrov delivered his remarks at the Inventing the Future symposium in Moscow on Monday, where he asserted that the United States and its allies are reviving the spirit of the Cold War by declaring the need to eliminate perceived “threats” to their dominance from Russia, China, and other countries pursuing independent national policies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3_xRGoJqpU

'The Five' not silent about Kamala Harris going mum on Trump

 

The co-hosts of 'The Five' take a closer look at Vice President Harris opting to no longer mention Trump by name in rallies in the final hours before Election Day.

 

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

“It’s hard to do cartoons without laughing…”

         Gus Leonisky

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Monday, in his first visit to Germany as the alliance's chief.

Of particular security concern for the NATO countries at the moment is the recent addition of North Korean soldiers to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, marking a new escalation of the conflict.  

This presidential campaign season may be one of those turning points in history for reasons good and bad. Anyone watching the one debate between the Republican and Democratic Party candidates would not have come away with the view that this was a great battle of competing principles and visions for the future.

 

BY RON PAUL

 

It was a campaign of name-calling and bullets, where one candidate avoided discussing ideas at all costs – and even avoided the media at all costs. Where the other candidate dodged two attempted assassinations while throwing red meat rhetoric to an understandably angry population.

The US and UK are setting up continental Europe for a military face-off with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed.

Lavrov issued the warning during his speech at the Inventing the Future symposium in Moscow on Monday.

Speaking about the Ukraine conflict, the top diplomat stressed that “the Anglo-Saxons [the US and UK] expect to defeat our country with the hands of the Kiev regime, just like Hitler, gathering most of Europe’s countries under the Nazi banner.”

“And, as a back-up plan, in case [Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky’s regime fails, they are preparing continental Europe to rush into a suicidal adventure and enter into a direct armed conflict with Russia,” he said.

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has admitted there “really is” a dictatorship in his country, and it is one of “stability, security, order, kindness and hospitality.”

Lukashenko made the comments on Saturday at a ceremony honoring farmers in the country’s Grodno Region. Speaking about Western sanctions imposed on Belarus, he recalled that in July, Minsk expanded its visa-free regime to include the citizens of 35 European countries, allowing more Westerners to see the country for themselves.

“Already about a million people have been able to see with their own eyes that there really is a dictatorship in Belarus,” he said, according to Belta news agency. He clarified that this is “a dictatorship of stability, security, order, kindness and hospitality. A dictatorship of justice.”

The Foreign minister Penny Wong should recall Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to Washington.

Australia badly needs an ambassador who performs the traditional diplomatic role of trying to prevent a war: in this case, one involving Australia, China and the US. Instead, Rudd is promoting a new book in the US, “On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World”. He has also been performing his many other ambassadorial roles.

 

Recall Rudd    By Brian Toohey

 

We aren’t being smart. I want us to be smarter. 

You want to win the culture war? Make America smart again. 

Allow me to introduce “Smart-ism”—a cure to what Donald Trump so rightly named “Stupid-ism”  in his recent interview with the philanthropist Tom Klingenstein. Trump coined the term “Stupid-ism” while he and Klingenstein were trying to find the most fitting moniker to give to our left-wing opponents. 

 

BY Tiffany Marie Brannon

 

"Many Western states and elites have consented, actively or passively, to the devastation of the Gaza Strip and the massacre of its population by Israel. To reach this conclusion, anthropologist Didier Fassin immersed himself in the analysis of the events that have shaken the region of Palestine since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.

 

Professor of ethics at the Collège de France (where he holds the chair of Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies) and at Princeton University, he has just published Une étrange défaite (La Découverte), a book in which he questions the interpretations to which this conflict has given rise. All the while keeping in mind this question that underlies most of his work: is one life worth another?"