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No big surprise to see Craig Foster elected chair of the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) last night. But in his first address to ARM members, he flagged a change to how the movement operates.

Peter FitzSimons has been the leader of the ARM for the past seven years. The author, SMH columnist and former rugby union player has been the recognisable face of an organisation which has supported the idea of an Australian head of state since 1991. It counted FitzSimons, novelist Thomas Keneally and Malcolm Turnbull among its founding members, and the latter went on to spearhead the campaign leading up to the 1999 referendum which was defeated, to the surprise of many at the time.

For the Western press, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party offered a number of signals which—if read in good faith—could have been perceived as reassuring.

Instead, establishment outlets reverted to familiar narratives regarding China’s Covid mitigation strategy and tied these into renewed predictions of a long-prophesied economic disaster—one that would inevitably befall China as a result of its government’s decision to forsake the orthodoxy of open markets.

More than anything else, corporate media fixated on Hu Jintao’s departure from the congress hall, engaging in tabloid-variety speculation around the fate of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 79-year-old predecessor.

The way the U.S. provoked and now sustains its Ukraine proxy war is no more ethical than its invasion of Iraq. If people can’t see this, it’s because the propaganda around the latest war hasn’t cleared from the air yet.

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com

New research published by France’s Ecole de Guerre Economique has revealed some extraordinary findings about who and what the French intelligence services fear most when it comes to threats to the country’s economy.

The findings are based on extensive research and interviews with French intelligence experts, including representatives of spy agencies, and so reflect the positions and thinking of specialists in the under-researched field of economic warfare. Their collective view is very clear - 97 percent consider the US to be the foreign power that “most threatens” the “economic interests” of Paris.

UNITED NATIONS – Are 8 billion humans too many for planet Earth? As we reach this milestone on Nov. 15, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest residents.

“Eight billion people, it is a momentous milestone for humanity,” said United Nations Population Fund chief Natalia Kanem, hailing an increase in life expectancy and fewer maternal and child deaths.

“Yet, I realize this moment might not be celebrated by all. Some express concerns that our world is overpopulated. I am here to say clearly that the sheer number of human lives is not a cause for fear.”

So, are there too many of us for Earth to sustain?

No, she’s not simply an idiot. Nor do the Hansiatic elites consider us to be so stupid. The nuclear dystopia or frozen future we may all soon experience is all about economics. So, they have us over a barrel, so to speak. Since they control the distribution of energy, which is the only true measure of success or failure nowadays. Ukraine, climate change, the green movement, freedom of this or that all boil down to profit, as I am sure you already know. Unfortunately for us, the last battle for a Btu or megawatt will be fought by us, for them.

by Phil Butler

Queen Elizabeth II of England advised the governor-general he could overthrow the elected government of Australia – and he did, Jenny Hocking and Peter Cronau report.

It is 47 years since the Australian governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismissed without warning the elected Labor government of Gough Whitlam.

For decades after Whitlam’s dismissal, a disarmingly simple narrative had been locked in place, which kept the role of the queen and the Palace courtiers out of public view. 

Biden’s teleprompter 'Absolutely Believes' There is No Need for New Cold War With China

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Joe Biden expressed confidence on Monday after his first face-to-face presidential summit with China's Xi Jinping at the G20 in Bali. Following the meeting, he claimed that there need not be a new cold war with China.

“I absolutely believe there need not be a new cold war,” Biden told reporters after the talks.

He also expressed confidence that Beijing has no intention to invade Taiwan.

“I do not think there is any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan,” Biden added.

Kladderadatsch (onomatopoeic for "Crash") was a satirical German-language magazine first published in Berlin on 7 May 1848.[1] It appeared weekly or as the Kladderadatsch put it: "daily, except for weekdays."

THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT STILL GETS THINGS WRONG ON UKRAINE. ONE SHOULD NOT WONDER WHY…

NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FOLLOWS THE US ADMINISTRATION LIKE A GOOD DOG ON A LEACH. THEIR CONTRADICTORY POLICIES ARE: TAIWAN IS A SEPARATE ENTITY TO CHINA, BUT “UKRAINE” IS INDIVISIBLE. THE ONLY EXPLANATION HERE IS THAT WE’RE IN THE BUSINESS OF ANNOYING THE CHINESE AND THE RUSSIANS, BY BEING HYPOCRITICALLY FOCUSED ON BOTH FRONTS FOR CONQUEST. I DON'T REPEAT THIS OFTEN ENOUGH....

Nashville • It wasn’t exactly news when a principal in Nebraska censored a high school newspaper, canceled the school’s journalism program and abruptly disbanded its student newspaper. I mean, it’s news news, but it’s not surprising news. Red state bureaucrats and politicians have been at war with the First Amendment for a while now.

Even school officials’ reason for shutting down The Viking Saga, the award-winning 54-year-old student paper at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb., wasn’t exactly a shock.

BY Margaret Renkl

The Premier seems ambivalent about the 800 COVID-19 cases onboard the Majestic Princess (“Ship with 800 COVID cases set to dock”, November 12). Haven’t we learnt from the outbreak on the Ruby Princess in 2020? With cases numbers rising to 19,800 last week, the government seems very relaxed about its spread. Why isn’t the Premier mandating use of masks in shopping centres and on public transport rather than doing nothing? Both parties are too frightened to implement mask-wearing and boost the number of vaccinations, in case they lose votes in March. 

Robert Pallister, Punchbowl

The modern soldier is half-human/half machine

That lives on amphetamines to maintain alertness

And on sleeping pills to allay sleeplessness.

On orders to kill while on tour of duty

Fighting to protect the country 

From enemies that mad politicians invent

To keep alive a grand hegemony

Of conquering the world in a sickly sadist sad intent.

The modern soldier was invented by Marinetti —

An Italian fascist creator of plastic food 

For these defenders of deceitful mood

Decorated with armour, camera, kevlar, boots

Eating futurism without cutlery.

Futurism…

The fascist poet dreams of metallising the human body… 

War beautifully fertilising a flowering gully

And a gentle meadow, with flaming orchids from machine guns… 

America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia.

From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was furious when he found out in March 1945 that his supposed World War II ally, Washington, was negotiating with the German Nazis behind his back. In fact, by the accounts of some historians, American spy and future CIA director Allen Dulles essentially kicked off the Cold War when he held secret talks with Waffen SS General Karl Wolff as Hitler's regime was nearing its collapse.

By Tony Cox