Paris has played a highly active role in NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, delivering billions of euros-worth of war materiel and repeatedly threatening to deploy ground troops.

France will need to prove its ability to wage war with Russia in large-scale exercises planned for next year, a senior commander has said.

“We used to play war. Now there’s a designated enemy, and we train with people with whom we’d actually go to war,” French Land Forces Commander General Bertrand Toujouse told European media, commenting on France’s plans to deploy a brigade’s worth of troops to Romania for the Dacian Spring 2025 drills next May.

CNN — Yet again, the federal government spent far more than it collected in revenue, racking up a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Netanyahu cancels defense minister’s US visit
The Israeli PM reportedly insists that he first needs to agree a response to Iran’s attack on the Jewish state with President Joe Biden first, according to Axios

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from visiting the US, the Pentagon has confirmed, with multiple sources speculating the PM wanted first to speak with US President Joe Biden.

Gallant’s trip to Washington was arranged last week after Iran fired over 180 ballistic missiles at targets inside Israel. The strike was said to be a reaction to the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah.

NIMA: So nice to have you back, Richard and Michael. And let me just manage this. And let’s get started with the main question here that would be: Why is the United States not interested in putting an end to the conflict in the Middle East and in Ukraine? Which we know in both of these cases, they’re capable of doing this.

And before going to the answer of this question, I’m going to play a clip that the foreign minister of Lebanon is talking with Christiane Amanpour about his point of view and why they couldn’t reach a ceasefire.

Pope Francis has just ‘created’ (appointed) twenty-one new cardinals, twenty of whom under the age of 80 will elect his successor. Among them is a bishop in Australia.

Dear O dear! The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan (7/10/24) is “confused” by Pope Francis’ appointment of 44-year-old Mykola Bychok, bishop of the Ukrainian Eparchy (diocese) of Australia, as a cardinal. The Eastern rite Catholic bishop is one of twenty-one new cardinals named last Sunday by Francis.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is in a dangerous hiatus during outgoing President Joe Biden's lame duck period, which several US allies are trying to exploit, Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, told Sputnik.

"President Biden is not really in full control anymore, both because of his waning mental status and his lame duck status," Sachs said. "We are in a dangerous hiatus. [Israel's Benjamin] Netanyahu is exploiting that hiatus, and [Volodymyr] Zelensky is trying to as well."

The United States backs Israel’s reckless behavior, talks openly about war with China, and continues a delusional policy in Ukraine that is bleeding that country while threatening to provoke more escalation, Sachs explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26yf9jxsdyU

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., discusses how the government failed to prepare for Hurricane Helene on ‘Hannity.’

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6362865400112

'Common Sense' Department: The CSD is perplexed by claims that the Biden admin seems to be blocking private citizens from helping rescue people in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

IN THE PAST, PHILOSOPHERS DISCUSSED WHAT THE IDEALS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR SHOULD BE. ALEKSANDR DUGIN ANALYSES WHAT IS… HE EXPLORE THE DEVIOUS NATURE OF THE BRIGANDS AND DANGEROUS PSYCHOS WHO RULE THE WORLD BECAUSE WE LET THEM TO.

WE SOMEWHAT FEAR, BUT REALLY ADMIRE, THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO PUSH THEMSELVES TO THE TOP BY CRUSHING OPPONENTS, USING THEIR CUNNING ABILITY TO FIGHT, WHICH IN TURN WE THINK AS A VIRTUE TO DEFEND US. IT'S NOT. THE TOP DOG WHO RULE THE PACK COULD NOT CARE ABOUT US EXCEPT IN OUR EXISTENCE AS FODDER FOR THEIR LUNACIES AND THEIR RAPING FANTASIES...

FOR EXPOSING THIS REALITY, THE PHILOSOPHER DUGIN IS OFTEN VILIFIED BY IDEALISTS WHO DO NOT SEE THAT THEIR ATTITUDE IS HYPOCRITICALLY FASCIST…

PRESENTLY THE WEST WANTS ISRAEL TO STOP ITS AGGRESSION BUT THE WEST IS STILL SUPPLYING MORE AND MORE WEAPONS FOR THIS AMAZINGLY UGLY MODERN “GENOCIDE”… 

“I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists,” was the headline The Sun in London gave to a piece last week by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, defending the expenditure of 22 billion pounds on the cargo cult of carbon capture and storage. This headline captured the delusion at the core of climate-policymaking around the world: that there is an economically non-disruptive path out of the climate emergency. There isn’t.

From Ukraine’s perspective, the military confrontation with Russia appears to have finally reached a stalemate. Vladimir Zelensky’s latest diplomatic tour, aimed at shaking up support for Kiev in the West, has brought no breakthroughs. And the future of the conflict is now very much up in the air.

By Vitaly Ryumshin, Gazeta.Ru political analyst

The hopes of the Ukrainian leadership have revolved around a so-called ‘victory plan’. The title of the document should speak for itself – it’s apparently Kiev’s strategy for defeating Russia, and it consists of four or five not entirely comprehensible points. In any case, Zelensky went to the United States last week to present it.

Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said.

Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out "arson, sabotage and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" in Britain after the UK backed Ukraine in its war with Russia.

MI5 had also responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022, he said, although he added the majority of its work still mostly involved Islamist extremism followed by extreme right-wing terrorism.

The complex mix of terror-related threats and threats from nation states meant MI5 had "one hell of a job on its hands", he warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwWfKmVC5b8

Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing Kamala Harris's recent appearance on "Call Her Daddy," the response from the left and the media about this as Kamala's "girl boss" moment, Kamala's hypocritical comments about domestic violence while the media ignores the allegations against her husband Doug Emhoff, and more.

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

Cripes. Yours [BORIS JOHNSON] truly is in a bit of bother. Or perhaps I should say a bit of Bozzer! You know how it is. You have a few glasses of wine too many at lunchtime and you wake up six months later to find your publisher is wondering how your book is coming along. So you start writing in a panic, only to remember that a few keys on the laptop don’t walk. Dammit, I meant work. Still, I’m sure everything will be OK in the end. As Sappho once said – I think it was her – nothing can beat a stream of unconsciousness.

On Saturday, former US First Lady Hillary Clinton called for increased federal regulation of the internet and repealing Section 230. “If the platforms… don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” she said, raising the question of who “we” represents in that statement.

The recent purge of YouTube accounts, including those from Mark Sleboda, Rachel Blevins, Glenn Diesen, DD Geopolitics, Fiorella Isabel, Larry Johnson, and Eva K. Bartlett, it is clear that the Western leaders are scared of their populations finding out the truth about their policies and actions.

It has been a year of erasing a people, systematically, ruthlessly and unrelentingly. A massacre here and another there. 500 killed yesterday and ‘only’ 140 today.

It has been a year of obliterating a culture, an identity and a collective memory. A year of levelling universities, libraries and museums. A year of burning archives, photographs and centuries-old manuscripts. A year of bombing mosques and churches.

It has been a year of rendering the land uninhabitable, inch by inch. An olive orchard bulldozed here and a water treatment plant bombed there.