British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will again ask US President Joe Biden to allow Kiev strike targets deep inside Russia with Western weapons, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.

The UK and France have donated a number of Storm Shadow/Scalp cruise missiles to Ukraine. The US, which provides some components for the European long-range weapons, has a say on how they are used. Biden has repeatedly rejected calls by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to allow strikes deep inside Russia, which Moscow said would seriously escalate the conflict.

Every four years, politicians and lobbyists urge citizens of the United States to participate in the “most important elections” in the history of the country. Whereas 2024 is no different in that regard, there is in fact a now-or-never sense of urgency looming over the current race to the White House.

On the other side of the world, far removed from the average American’s direct line of sight, Palestine and Lebanon remain in a state of bloody unrest at the hands of the Israeli government.

 

‘No Revolution within Counter-Revolutionary Party’ – Dr. Stein Speaks to Palestine Chronicle

 

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly spoken to Vladimir Putin about Russia's war in Ukraine, urging the Kremlin not to escalate the conflict. 

The Washington Post is reporting Trump took the call from his home in Florida on Thursday local time and used the conversation to remind Mr Putin of America's significant military capability in Europe.  

Overnight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and the president-elect had spoken three times in recent days.

"These were good and very important conversations," Mr Netanyahu said in a statement. 

Hollywood and its waning political influence are both following the same trajectory.

Every time there’s a US presidential election, much is made in the mainstream media of celebrity endorsements. Others promise to bail out of the country if their candidate doesn’t win. Because apparently the democracy they want is the one where the plebes do what they’re told at the voting booth by a handful of entertainers.

 

And the Oscar for the best Trump-related meltdown goes to…

All that Hollywood A-listers’ did for Harris failed to bring her to office and some of them are now threatening to leave America...

 

BY Rachel Marsden

 

Some talking heads on radio talk to me

I have no clue about what they bark about

Either I’ve gone dumb, senile or darn silly

They have increased their IQ beyond doubt

Grabbing the grand old word democracy

With little meaning peppered by senseless ideas

In which Trump dot Trump does Trump dot piss

In vain and derision of ugly win galore seems 

Cracking in my deaf ears around the seams

As my comprehension is close to zero-nil

They blab-on non-stop uninterrupted

Without a breath spewing a word-salad meal

A noise made self-important to being them

Rumbling loud as farts on the way to heaven

They do but don’t say it’s my fault Trump got elected

But in these shivering white waves of radio hell

The sword of democracy like a sacred mantra

Reappears flag-bearing a pointed conversation monologue

Foreign secretary David Lammy has dismissed comments he made about Donald Trump previously as "old news".

The row over the Labour politician's years-old comments has rolled on since he congratulated Trump on his historic win in the US presidential election.

While official speeches commonly cite ‘democracy’ among the causes for which Australians and our allies have always fought, we are free to wonder if that is not ‘the lie in the soul’ this Remembrance day.

Remembrance Day ceremonies, especially at a local level, sincerely seek to honour the war dead, and to offer solace to the grieving. Worthy objectives.

 

“The lie in the soul”: True respect on Remembrance Day     By Douglas Newton

 

Donald Trump swept to victory on Tuesday by chipping away at groups of voters which Democrats once believed would help them win the White House for a generation.

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, many triumphantly claimed that the liberal voting coalition which had elected the first black president was growing more powerful, as the makeup of America changed.

 

BY Anthony Zurcher

 

The second administration of US President-elect Donald Trump will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling it to take back all the territory it has lost to Russia, Bryan Lanza, a senior campaign advisor to the US president-elect, has said.

Lanza, a veteran Republican party strategist who has worked on campaigns with Trump since 2016, made the remarks to the BBC on Saturday. While he expressed respect for the Ukrainian people, Lanza said the US priority would be to achieve “peace and to stop the killing.”

Western media never tire of citing the atrocities of Hamas while diminishing and justifying the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, even when the majority of them are women and children. But how accurate is this portrayal of events?

 

Atrocity propaganda: Hamas, human shields and genocide   By Craig Nielsen

 

My name is Craig Nielsen and I am a born again, evangelical Christian, living in Adelaide, South Australia. My father was a police officer and served in the 2nd A.I.F. for 6 years in WW2. Family members have served in Australia’s armed forces from Gallipoli and the Somme to the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea.

Are you OK? It seems an important question as the unhinged and unrestrained president Donald Trump is swept back into power and the world contemplates the implications for the climate, for civil discourse, for women, for minorities, for society as a whole, and for our children and their children.

 

World teeters on brink as Trump and cronies prepare to flood the zone with shit     By Giles Parkinson

 

The coalition government has collapsed at a moment when Germany's mood is already down. Many people are feeling unsettled by multiple crises.

French President Emmanuel Macron said this week that the way for Europe to respond to President-elect Donald Trump's election victory is to become an "omnivore."

Macron's Remarks

"For me, it's simple. The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. If we decide to remain herbivores, then the carnivores will win and we will be a market for them," Macron said during a speech to European leaders, Politico reported.

"I think, at the very least, we should choose to become omnivores. I don't want to be aggressive, just that we know how to defend ourselves on all these subjects," Macron added.

Trump to meet with Biden at Oval Office, White House says
Outgoing president Joe Biden has vowed to ensure a peaceful transition process as Donald Trump enters the White House. Meanwhile, the Republicans have edged closer to controlling Congress.

US President-elect Donald Trump will meet with outgoing president Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

"At President Biden's invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Saturday.

Such meetings are typically part of the transition process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHaE-w4GfqQ

Gutfeld: Joy Reid has completely lost her crap over Trump victory

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSh8zz3CyMo

Laura Ingraham: Dems finally learned what happens when reality strikes back

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Hy1gbHSuw

Megyn Kelly Highlights Dems' Five Stages of Grief as They Try To Understand Trump's Massive Victory