Apparently, in a video, JEAN-DOMINIQUE MICHEL, a Swiss scholar (anthropologist), accused the French satirical papers — CHARLIE HEBDO  and Le Canard Enchainé — of being the voice of the French government, with, I suggests, a few disagreement like dead weeds in order to appear independent....

In the cover above, Mr Leonisky restored some sanity in the dreadful narrative by the awful Charlie that thinks with a broomstick up its butt, — rather than use a philosophical intelligent satirical brain — being as sarcastic as a dead duck frying on a spit in a nuclear fusion oven...

The porous southern border is a catastrophe for the rule of law. Although Congress has legislated the types of immigrants the U.S. may admit and in what numbers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flouted those rules by welcoming millions of migrants without visas. The House should impeach him.

By JASON RICHWINE

Australia announced an AUD $110 million (USD $74 million) military aid package to Ukraine this week including 28 M113 armored vehicles, 28 MAN 40M medium trucks, and 14 special ops vehicles. Unfortunately for ordinary Ukrainian troops, experience has shown Aussie vehicles to be worse than useless against Russian forces.

A scandal is brewing in Australia over Canberra’s decision to pawn its Vietnam War-vintage military equipment off on Kiev, with local military experts questioning how the aid that has been announced could possibly add up to $110 million AUD, while opposition leader Peter Dutton said it’s “frankly embarrassing” that Australia is sending equipment to Ukraine that’s so clearly “not fit for purpose.”

French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that social media platforms and video games helped to fuel riots across the country, amid a major bout of unrest over the death of a 17-year-old at the hands of law enforcement. 

Speaking after an emergency security meeting to address the ongoing riots on Friday, Macron noted that around one-third of those arrested over the last three nights were “young or very young,”suggesting the internet was having a negative influence on children and teens.

“Platforms and networks are playing a major role in the events of recent days,” he said of the unrest. “We’ve seen them – Snapchat, TikTok and several others – serve as places where violent gatherings have been organized, but there’s also a form of mimicry of the violence which for some young people leads them to lose touch with reality.”

A ROTTEN CHIP OF THE PUTRESCENT OLD BLOCK…

IT IS STILL ASTONISHING THAT JOE BIDEN REMAINS PRESIDENT, BUT NOT SURPRISING. THE DEMOCRAT BACKERS OF JOE BIDEN DO NOT WANT KAMALA HARRIS TO TAKE OVER THE REINS AS SHE IS MOST LIKELY TO PRESS THE NUCLEAR RED BUTTON IN AN ACCIDENTAL FIT OF LAUGHTER. 

IN ORDER TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN OR REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE FOR SENILITY, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO FIRST REMOVE KAMALA FROM THE VICE PRESIDENCY. THIS COULD PROVE HARDER THAN IT LOOKS: SHE SEEMS TO BE STUPID ENOUGH TO BE UNTOUCHABLE.

12:50am: EU leaders back security commitments for Ukraine

European Union leaders declared on Thursday they would make long-term commitments to bolster Ukraine's security as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged them to start work on a new round of sanctions against Russia.

At a summit in Brussels, the leaders restated their condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine and said the EU and its member countries "stand ready" to contribute to commitments that would help Ukraine defend itself in the long term.

In a text summarising the conclusions of the summit, the leaders said they would swiftly consider the form these commitments would take.

In the last few hundred years, we have invented gun-powder, the steam engine, the aeroplane, genetically modified organisms and tamed radio-waves.

Thinks about it… I will repeat: take a minute to think about it.

In parallel with these inventions, we, humans, have been at war with each others or anything that moved/crawled and stung.

So we have used these great inventions as tools of war, have we not? You might disagree with me for including GMO in this war business, but we have to agree that GMO have been designed “to combat nature”. We create GMO to protect our crops against bugs, diseases and weeds. And we still don’t know what these GMO do to our “natural” internal systems. Do we care?

The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs.

Where is the antiwar protest by progressives, libertarians, environmentalists, civil rights advocates, academics, clergy, community volunteers, artists, et al? This book will focus on how military largesse infests such public sectors' interests. 

CONCERT IN SUPPORT OF JULIAN ASSANGE
July 3, 2023 – at 7:30 p.m.
AT LA MAROQUINERIE

– 23, RUE BOYER 75020 PARIS

Métro Ménilmontant (line 2) or Gambetta (line 3)
Single price: 20€
Info & reservations: www.lamaroquinerie.fr and usual points of sale

Arthur H, Amazigh Kateb and Serge Utgé-Royo will take the stage at La Maroquinerie on Monday July 3 for a concert in support of Julian Assange. Founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange is the most awarded journalist of the 21st century and the symbol of the free press.

Australian supermarket food prices have increased by a new peak of nearly 10 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing annual inflation as the cost of living continues to rise.

Australia's weighted inflation rate for May came in at 5.6%, sharply lower than April's figure of 6.8% and lower than the 6.1% expected by economists polled by Reuters. Headline inflation for May came in at 5.8%, lower than April's figure of 6.9%. It was the lowest recorded rate since April 2022. 

THE LOWER INFLATION RATE WAS DUE TO A FALL IN THE PRICE OF FUEL

The latest monthly consumer price indicator shows inflation fell sharply to 5.6 per cent over the 12 months to May, down from 6.8 per cent in April. 

Can Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted "coup" reverse the fate of arms in Ukraine? This was the wish of Nato, which hoped for this uprising and awakened its sleeper agents in Russia. The United Kingdom and the United States wanted to finally bring about the partition of the country that they had been unable to complete in 1991 [1].

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion

by Thierry Meyssan 

Contrary to the comments of the Western press, Yevgeny Prigozhin never attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin. He wanted to blackmail him in order to preserve the exorbitant privileges he had accumulated since the creation of his private military company. Then he came to his senses and returned to his post.

New York City is known for its pizza, but some city restaurants may have to rethink how they’re cooking up the pies.

Interview by Hocine Neffah

L'Expression: In your opinion, is there a hypocritical approach to the West, fueled by the major European media?

Jacques-Marie-Bourget: The problem is that, alas, Europe has no face since it has no existence of its own, personality, will, character.

Europe is only a simple colony of the United States, quite incapable even of being hypocritical since it is only obedient.

It's a continent that asks no questions, like a hound it rushes.

It is frightening to see a mosaic of nations committing suicide.

What if the Prigozhin “Coup” is Maskirovka? I want to explore that possibility. Earlier today (Saturday on the east coast of the U.S.) I was sketching out a piece with the catchy title, “PRIGOZHIN — PUTSCH OR PLOY?” Well, that swell idea was blown away like the Kakhovka Dam when the narrative about the Prigozhin plan to march on Moscow and personally strangle Russian Defense Minister Shoigu went full-on Nadia Comăneci — i.e., back flip. Prigozhin ordered “his” troops back to their bases, cut a deal with the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, to go into exile and will face no judicial punishment. WHAT????? No bloodshed? No miles of burning tanks? And no Mussolini neck tie for Vladimir Putin? What the hell?!!

Multinational tax avoiders and the OECD have won a reprieve from the Albanese government which has delayed legislation aimed at shining the light on tax avoidance. Jason Ward explains why the backdown is bad news. 

The Labor government made an election promise, a budget promise, a legislative promise and held two consultations on landmark legislation to implement global tax transparency for multinationals. Now it has bent to corporate pressure. Landmark legislation for public country by country reporting was set to be implemented as of 1 July. 

Late last week, it was announced that implementation will be pushed back for at least a year.