Ten men, some wearing camouflage, others in vests loaded with ammunition for their AR-15 rifles, gathered under the morning shade of oak trees in Central Florida last month. They were there to learn marksmanship tactics common among Special Operation forces and elite law enforcement units.

Their instructor, Christopher Eric Roscher, an Air Force veteran, introduced himself and then led the group in prayer.

“Lord, you would use them as assets, to be protectors in this world, in a world that’s full of evil,” he prayed.

Kyiv, UkraineCNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said two Chinese nationals fighting in the Russian army have been taken prisoner in eastern Ukraine.

Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukrainian forces fighting in the Donetsk region obtained the Chinese nationals’ documents, bank cards and personal data.

Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, and now its seizing of their land is the worst example of genocide since the horrors of the genocides of Darfur in Sudan in 2003 and Rwanda in the 1990s.

Candidates running in the 2025 federal election, particularly those in marginal seats, must be held accountable for their actions and attitudes concerning the conduct of one of Australia’s closest allies.

 

Greg Barns

Federal election: Time to hold MPs accountable for stance on genocide

 

US President Donald Trump has raised the tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% in response to retaliatory measures imposed by Beijing earlier on Wednesday.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that “based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately.” 

He expressed hope that Beijing would realize that “ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.”

The move came hours after China’s Finance Ministry announced a tariff hike of its own, which brought tariffs levied on American imports to a total of 84%, thus mirroring Washington’s previous increase by 50%.

European countries have once again “taken up arms” against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, commenting on the increasingly hostile stance of many governments toward Moscow.

Addressing the constant calls to prepare for a presumed Russian attack – a notion which Moscow has dismissed as baseless – Lavrov said all previous global conflicts were sparked by similar aggressive actions from Europe.

“We are witnessing another wave in which Europe is taking up arms against Russia, and by the looks on some faces, even growling at Russia. After all... all global tragedies began with aggressive actions by Europeans: The Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and World War II,” he said in an interview for the TASS Children project released on Wednesday.

In the US, the freshly installed administration of President Donald Trump is attempting to drastically reshape science. Here we focus on interventions that are relevant to epidemiology and public health.

These include: (i) restricting or eliminating access to health data; (ii) dictating what kinds of research can be conducted; (iii) cutting ties with international health bodies; and (iv) firing early-career researchers.

 

Alistair Woodward and Stephen Leeder

Making science great again – or not

 

 

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday and reaffirmed their desire for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, both claiming that there are other countries willing to take in the Palestinian population.

 

Trump and Netanyahu Reaffirm Their Vision for the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump called Gaza an 'incredible piece of real estate' and suggested the US could be a 'peace force' there

 

Iran's Noor News Agency, affiliated with the Supreme National Security Council, has characterized recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding direct negotiations with Iran as a complex and planned psychological operation aimed at influencing both domestic and international public opinion. This perspective reflects Tehran's skepticism toward Washington's overtures, especially in light of heightened tensions between the two nations.​

 

Iran claims USA conducts complex psychological operation to affect public opinion

Today, there is still a lot of racism in the media and in society. We face serious human rights issues, including the removal of children from their mothers, the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal people, particularly children and young people, in conditions that are very inhumane.

Australia now is not the country I grew up in, when openly racist, derogatory language was used. But there's more coded racism now. For example, the terribly sad issue of Aboriginal child sexual abuse is used as an excuse for removing children from their families.

There’s a lot of resistance to our rights being recognized, even the right to have our own national indigenous body, which should not be argued about in this day and age.

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that "boys will be boys" after Elon Musk took to X to call Peter Navarro, a long-time aide to Donald Trump, a "moron" who is "dumber than a sack of bricks."

The public spat between Musk and White House trade advisor Navarro has shed light on a rift between key Trump aides over the US president's decision to slap tariffs on nearly all of the country's trading partners.

Navarro is widely seen as the architect behind Trump's trade policies, which are designed to boost manufacturing in the US. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrqQ7NJ30k

The West Is DESPERATE For A Ceasefire In Ukraine. But Why?

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

In the United States, there always comes a time when the urge to restart the circus strikes. Seemingly lacking any theoretical or doctrinal framework, taking shape as they go, the mechanisms implemented by Donald Trump effectively defy orthodoxy. A trade war with China, Mexico, and Canada, the public humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky, a raid on Ukrainian raw materials, open contempt for the European Union, threats against Greenland and Panama, tougher sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela…

 

Inside USAID

BY Maurice LEMOINE 

 

 

Morrison intervened in Australia Post awarding 4 watches but did absolutely nothing to stop Communist China taking over the military port of Darwin for an entire century. 

Scott Morrison told the media that in 2015 he could do nothing when the Northern Territory Country Liberal government leased the Port of Darwin to Communist China for a century.

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was only a couple of months ago when polar scientists called an extraordinary emergency meeting to discuss shocking developments: “Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetimes.” (Source: Our Science, Your Future: Next Generation of Antarctic Scientists Call for Collaborative Action, Australian Antarctic Research Conference, November 22, 2024).

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces have bombed a tent housing Palestinian journalists near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing two and wounding nine others while burning them alive.

At least nine journalists were injured. They are Ahmed Mansour, Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed Al-Agha, Mohammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab Al-Bardini, Mahmoud Awad, Majed Qdeih, and Ali Eslaih.

At least two of the wounded journalists are in critical condition, one of them with severe burns and the other with a head injury from shrapnel.

In a disturbing footage circulating on social media, journalist Ahmed Mansout can be seen consumed by fire as people and rescue workers tried desperately to put it out. Mansour is a father and a journalist for Palestine Today.