Since Australia has mortgaged its future to this nation [the USA] it is worth debating the matter.

The preambles to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as statement of ideals are inspiring but the reality is far from these ideals. It is true that the Americans fought a civil war partly based on abolition of slavery but three quarters of a century after landmark civil rights legislation, only one percent of CEOs are black. Anyone who has lived in Washington metropolitan area and travelled on the red line of the metro can attest to the racial divide. Travelling from the affluent suburbs of Bethesda to the city, the clientele is predominantly white. The train loops through the city and back into the poorer suburbs of Maryland where the passengers are mostly black and visibly poorer.

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the global dynamic of moving toward a multipolar order and away from one dominated by Europe and the United States.

The Russian leader noted that Western sanctions, intended to strangle Russia’s economy, have instead accelerated the process of decentering the West and spurred new relationships between Russia and partners in Africa and Asia. He also pointed to increased trade in rubles and yuan, although he cautioned that Russia has never intended to “de-dollarize” its economy.

Professor Joe Siracusa, a political scientist and dean of Global Futures at Curtin University in Western Australia, told Sputnik on Friday that Putin was “simply registering what is already a reality.”

In this video, watch Professor Jeffrey Sachs speak with Dr. Heinz Gärtner at the International Conference for Peace in Vienna (June 2023). Dr. Sachs' lays out clearly and succinctly how belligerent the foreign policy of the United States is and how a small group of elites keeps dragging the country's diplomacy to the brink of nuclear war—time and again.

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

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Information — true or false

Transmission — old media/new media

Distraction — unimportant news/social scene/sports

BEWARE! DON’T LISTEN TO THE IDIOTS INSIDE YOUR HEAD!

IT’S DISTRESSING TO SEE GOOD JOURNALISTS SWALLOWED BY BAD MEDIA AND BECOME PART OF THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE.

TRADITIONAL GOOD JOURNALISTS FEAR SOCIAL MEDIA AS A THREAT TO THEIR VERSION OF THE TRUTH AND REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE WHAT THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PEOPLE (NON-JOURNALISTS) HAVE TO SAY. THEY ALSO THINK THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS A NEWS VERSION OF THE UNIMPORTANT SOCIAL SCENE. NOT SO STRANGELY, MANY COMMENTATORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE JOURNALISTS THAT GAVE UP ON THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CHALLENGE THE PROPAGANDA.

THE TUCKER CARLSON EP#4 IS GOING TO BE SEEN AS A SATIRE CLASSIC — POSSIBLY BIGGER THAN A VOLTAIRE PAMPHLET. WE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LET YOU SEE IT AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF.

AS USUAL, THE JOE BIDEN LOVERS ARE GOING TO HAVE TREMORS IN THEIR CONFLICTED BRAINS, BUT FEAR NOT, JOE IS NOT THE DICTATOR. HIS TELEPROMPTER COULD BE...

HERE'S TUCKER ON YOUTUBE:

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

THE FOX EMPLOYEE WHO PUT UP THE BANNER IN THE IMAGE AT TOP GOT THE SACK IMMEDIATELY.....

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There has never existed any government so evil and repugnant that it has been unable to find lawyers, and particularly judges, to do its bidding.

Hitler did not need to manufacture lawyers and judges. A very significant number, indeed the majority, of established and reputable German lawyers were prepared to participate actively in Nazi law, both its development and implementation.

That of course includes Roland Freisler, a Doctor of Law from the University of Jena, who was a practising solicitor before his elevation.

The United States of America is at war with Russia. There is not much point in using terms such as “proxy war” to describe the situation. If a belligerent in a war is acting as a proxy for another power and that power is not engaged directly in the war, the term can be useful. But when the power, for which the “proxy” engages in the war, is directly involved in the war itself, then it is a co-belligerent, a party to the war directly, not simply by proxy.

The issue is whether each state is pursuing its own interests and has its own independent means of doing so, or whether the interests and forces of the allied powers are subordinate to the interests and forces of a leader.  In such a case, the enemy being attacked can regard all its opponents as a single entity.

The Albanese government’s embrace of the AUKUS security pact faces a second internal rejection in as many weeks, with the Victorian branch of the Labor Party poised to condemn it on multiple fronts, writes Phillip Coorey in the AFR.

Two weeks after the Queensland branch of the ALP, at its state conference, refused to support a motion congratulating the Albanese government ‘‘for investing in the AUKUS agreement’’, two motions condemning the government’s actions will be moved at this week’s Victorian state conference.

Many recent human endeavours have been focused on “saving the planet”. THANK YOU…

From Greta to Blackrock, we want to save the planet…

So we need to ask a few questions:

Why do we need to save the planet?

What is threatening the planet?

What are we doing to save the planet?

Is it important to save the planet?

ARE WE DOING IT RIGHT?

What is “the planet”?

The threats to the planet, as most enlightened humans see it, come from our adventurism in doing things.

— POLLUTION 

— PRODUCTION OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

— MANUFACTURE OF POISONS 

         AND GENETIC MODIFIERS

— GLOBAL WARMING

— BAD BEHAVIOUR — INCLUDING WARS

Humans are compulsive doers, makers, fiddlers, inventors, the list of stuff we make is unfathomable. 

As former President Donald Trump was arrested and arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami, where he pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges around his handling of classified documents, we speak with Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He predicts Trump “will challenge every aspect of this prosecution,” but says there is no reason the trial can’t begin within the next year. Trump is the first president to ever be arraigned on federal charges, just months after he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges in New York in a state investigation involving hush-money payments during the 2016 election campaign. This all comes as the former president, who was impeached twice and is now facing multiple indictments, is now running again for the White House.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has argued that mishandling state secrets is a common behavior in Washington and typically goes unpunished. He made the comment in response to the indictment of former US president Donald Trump.

“All kidding aside, it’s not wrong to say that the indictment of Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents is a case of selective prosecution,” Snowden said on Friday in a Twitter post. “Spilled secrets are very much the currency of Washington, and Trump was not alone in splashing them around. He was just the least graceful.”

The CIA has known since at least October that Russia did not blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. While the report claimed that the CIA had attempted to foil a Ukrainian-led plot to bomb the pipelines, a competing report alleges the agency actually carried out the demolition job.

The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were destroyed in a series of near-simultaneous explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm in late September. The blasts severed a key conduit for Russian natural gas to Europe, effectively removing the possibility of European countries lifting their sanctions on Moscow and restarting gas purchases.

On Friday The Guardian Australia website carried a news report, with a follow-up piece on Monday, whose implications for free speech are profoundly disturbing.

They concern a Radio New Zealand, or RNZ, broadcasting employee — unnamed, but everyone in the small New Zealand broadcasting world will soon know who it is — who has been placed on leave while their professional conduct is investigated.  Obviously, a career hangs in the balance. 

Russia has been declared the biggest security threat in a top German strategic policy paper. Presented on Wednesday, Germany’s first ever National Security Strategy describes Moscow as a force threatening both regional and global order while stating that NATO is “always ready” to “defend its allies.”

Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, which the document repeatedly terms a “war of aggression,” is described as a “breach of international law and the European security order” in the paper. In it, Berlin accuses Russia of carrying out an imperialist policy and seeking to establish a sphere of influence on the continent.

IT IS CUSTOMARY FOR THE MEDIA TO POINT AT THE FAILURES OF BERLUSCONI. AND THE SMH DID NOT DISAPPOINT, YESTERDAY. SILVIO, THE MAN, WAS A BUFFOON. RICH MEDIA PROPRIETOR, PRESIDENT OF ITALIA AND THE TERROR OF CHICKS... AT THE TIME OF HIS OFFICIAL TENURE, OBAMA WAS THE BIGGEST LYING BASTARD IN THE WHITE HOUSE BEFORE JOE BIDEN. UNLIKE THE SMH, WE CLAIM THAT OBAMA, FAR MORE THAN BERLUSCONI, HELPED FOSTER THE ARRIVAL OF TRUMP... 

TRUMP IS THE ANTI-POLITICIAN, LIKE BERLUSCONI. BOTH PROFESSED TO CLEAN UP THE PLACE FROM THE RATS IN THE SYSTEMS, BUT THEIR RESPECTIVE ESTABLISHMENTS — THE CATHOLIC/COMMUNIST/MAFIA IN ITALY AND THE PENTAGON OUTFIT IN THE USA STOPPED THEM FROM GETTING ANYWHERE — BY LETTING LITTLE BOMBS EXPLODE, FROM THE GFC TO COVID, AND WARS FOR OIL IN LIBYA. HERE IS THE SCORNFUL SYDNEY MORNING HERALD....