For the last few Februaries the Director-General of the ASIO, Mr Mike Burgess, has delivered an “annual threat assessment” by way of a speech to as many worthies as he can gather before him. He’s no doubt got the 2024 edition well in the works and invitations to the event in the post. Potential invitees should brace themselves by building up their reserves of patience because if he’s true to form Burgess will test them to their limit.

 

Mike Burgess’ “annual threat assessment”: Testing our reserves of patience    By Paddy Gourley

 

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on Wednesday disputed Moscow’s claim that Kiev’s air defenses shot down a Russian plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war scheduled to be exchanged.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Il-76 was transporting 65 Ukrainian captives when it was shot down by a Ukrainian missile over Belgorod Region. Six Russian crew members and three officials were also on board. There were no survivors.

“We must determine all the hard facts – as much as possible, given that the plane crashed on Russian territory,” Zelensky said in a video published on his website.

He added that the Ukrainian authorities are investigating the incident and working to “determine the fate of all POWs.”

Currently the information on the Gaza war (for example on January 24 on the 1 p.m. news of France Inter) reserves a preponderant part for the 24 Israeli soldiers who died in a single day in the fighting on the ground.

 

BY Philippe ARNAUD

 

January 25, 2024

ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President

FROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS)

SUBJECT: Throwing Good Money After Bad: Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum

Dear President Biden:

Nikki

Nikki Haley made strides for women in politics. There’s just one problem: Trump
Nikki Haley is testing the limits of how much GOP primary voters care about gender.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/22/nikki-haley-gender-gop-trump-00137060

GENDER?

NIKKI IS A DANGEROUS WOMAN... SHE HAS MADE MUCH NOISE ABOUT GOING TO WAR AGAINST CHINA (NOT A COMPETITOR BUT AN ENEMY) AND SHE WANTS PUTIN/RUSSIA TO BE CRUSHED. DIPLOMACY ISN'T HER SKILL. SHE'S A CRUSHER. SHE'LL GET THE WHOLE WORLD DESTROYED TO SATISFY HER WITCHERY....

BUT SHE'S IS A WOMAN (POSSIBLY ONE OF THE 1 PERCENT WHO ARE SOCIOPATHS). WITH TRUMP BEING MARTYRED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT, SHE WOULD FULFIL THE ESTABLISHMENT WISHES OF WARS WARS AND WARS....

Australia has just taken another step, as part of the AUKUS agreement with the US and the UK, that is leading us towards an event that should be unthinkable – involvement in a major war against China.

 

‘We’re being sold a false choice on war’    By Sue Wareham

 

The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and to at least question such obvious electoral fabrications, such as the kind George Santos perpetrated—are prime examples of what Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored from 1996-2010, identified as News Abuse.

 

By Robin Andersen / CounterPunch

 

The US has become a more dangerous nation and Donald 2.0, with his instinctive aversion to war, may even be less threatening to the world.

 

American elites may fear Trump return, but the rest of us need not     By Alex Lo

 

Joe Biden’s presidency has very little to write home about. When it comes to foreign and trade policies, he has not only continued his predecessor’s, but also maximised them. While Donald Trump started mainly a trade war with China, Biden has switched to full-spectrum containment short of a hot war.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky declared six Russian regions to be “historically inhabited by Ukrainians” in a decree published on Monday. The list does not include any of the territory that Kiev claims sovereignty over in the ongoing conflict with Moscow, and focuses on globally recognized parts of Russia.

The document includes Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, all of which border Ukraine. It also lists Voronezh, Rostov, and Krasnodar regions, all of which bordered Ukraine before 2014, when Crimea decided to join Russia in a referendum and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics declared independence from Kiev.

THE REALITY IS THAT THE "YUCKRAINIAN" KIEV REGIME IS FASCIST. HISTORICALLY, KIEV HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH NAZIS, EVEN BEFORE WW2, BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING ABOUT 600,000 JEWS. 

THAT ZELENSKY IS A JEW IS A SMOKESCREEN TO MAKE US ACCEPT THAT HE IS A DECENT GUY. ZELENSKY IS NOT. HE IS AN ACTOR EMPLOYED BY THE AMERICANS TO PLAY A ROLE WHICH INVOLVES LYING, GRANDSTANDING AND CORRUPTION ON A GRAND SCALE.

THE KIEV REGIME HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ETHNIC CLEANSING: SAY ELIMINATE THE LARGE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF "UKRAINE".

IT IS BECOMING AUTHORITARIAN (IT HAS BEEN AT LEAST SINCE 2000) UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NATO, WHICH IS ALSO A FASCIST ORGANISATION THAT LIES

THE KIEV REGIME HAS ELIMINATED ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES IN ITS PARLIAMENT.

Last week the French government joined the German government in claiming that the Genocide Convention does not apply to Israel. Because the convention was created in response to the Shoah, Israel should have legal immunity for any war crimes it commits, including the genocide which it is currently conducting against Palestinians in Gaza.

 

The Western club- with its own morals, rules and rewards    By Scott Burchill

 

Paris has also suggested that regardless of the verdict in the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, it would ignore any decision that was unfavourable towards Israel.

On 15 February 2021, BBC Panorama aired a “hit job” on several prominent doctors and scientists who had the integrity to speak out against the covid agenda.  The title of the programme was ‘Vaccines: The Disinformation War’.  BBC’s reporter for the programme was none other than disinformation agent Marianna Spring.

 

Two weeks of winter storms in the United States have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix.

Selected players scattered around the Beltway silos of power, diligently working as messengers for the people who really run the show in the Hegemon, have concluded that a no holds barred confrontation with Russia would lead to the collapse of all of NATO; undo decades of US iron grip on Europe; and ultimately cause the Empire’s downfall.

 

The Ukraine Charade, Revisited   BY PEPE ESCOBAR 

 

On November 29, 2023, former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut; he was 100 years old.

Like a well-rehearsed orchestra, the corporate media immediately subjected the public to rendition after rendition of what a model “statesman” and exemplary human being he was. True to form, the corporate media suffers from a chronic affliction of lies, misinformation, “turning history on its head,” and a “sanitization” of the doers of evil.