When the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, recently claimed that Australia was losing its “strategic autonomy” and turning into “the 51st State of the United States”, the current Prime Minister froze in the headlights.

Possibly caught before his staff could give him a few dot points, Albanese said “Paul was a great Prime Minister – that ended in 1996. Paul has views. They’re well know. The world has changed between 1996 and 2024. My government is doing what we need to do today, and everyone will get a go here.”

 

A timid PM, frozen in the glare of the Keating headlights    By Paddy Gourley

 

Minnesota’s collapse of K-12 education achievement since Tim Walz’ election as governor is well documented. (1) Once known for its relatively high educational performance, Minnesota’s shocking decline substantially exceeds the decline of the nation as a whole. (2)

Why is this happening? Governor Walz has dramatically transformed the purpose of education in Minnesota. Academic achievement is no longer the primary goal. Instead, Walz’s education focus is transforming the students’ values, attitudes, and beliefs into the woke worldview. This indoctrination is called “culturally relevant” teaching and is woven throughout the Walz education program. Social emotional learning and restorative justice are just two examples of how this “culturally relevant” teaching has been embedded into Minnesota’s K-12 curriculum.

 

In this recent, revealing interview into the mindset of the British and Irish security services, Assistant Irish Police Commissioner Michael McElgunn, who fronts Ireland’s Intelligence and Security Bureau, unequivocally states that Ireland’s main security danger comes from Russia. In citing China, ISIS-K, social media, the so-called far left and the so-called far right as the other top priority threats, McElgunn’s interview gives us a good template to identify the main threats NATO faces on its home front.

 

Ireland’s keystone cops are hot on the heels of Russian spymaster Vladimir Putin

BY Declan HAYES

 

'Heinous': Children Among 100 Killed by Israel Bombing of Gaza School Just Hours After US Weapons Approval
"It is hard to comprehend how the Biden administration can justify rewarding Israel with new weapons, despite Israel's persistent defiance of every single plea the Biden administration has made urging a modicum of restraint."

 

BY JON QUEALLY

 

Bill Shorten all but confirms to Q+A the federal government will reject calls from some in his party for a total ban on gambling advertising.

Ads during kids' TV will be targeted but Mr Shorten says media companies need gambling revenue in a battle with social media giants.

Economic and financial sanctions often backfire. The most notable example is the weaponization of the dollar against Russia. The measure has sparked a global movement to de-dollarize, the opposite of the punitive move’s strategic intent.

The historic miscalculation didn’t stop US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida from introducing a bill in Congress to punish countries that de-dollarize. The bill seeks to ban financial institutions facilitating de-dollarization from the global dollar system.

 

De-dollarization the path to global financial freedom

 

By JAN KRIKKE

 

On Monday (August 5) a US federal judge ruled Google has violated antitrust laws, saying the organization

is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.

Google disputes the ruling. Its president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said: “this decision recognises that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available.”

 

Google is an ‘illegal’ monopoly – and the internet will never be the same

 

By ZENA ASSAAD

 

Gathering in New York in September 2024, the world’s nations will be challenged to ‘end the scourge of war’, before it’s too late. All of them know that a nuclear cataclysm has never been so close.

The United States’ veto in the Security Council and its military colossus imperil the world’s nations, solely for the sake of perpetuating US global hegemony. In America, which regards itself as ‘exceptional’ and ‘indispensable’, whoever wins the coming presidential election, is unlikely to change entrenched US hostility to Iran and China. Neither Trump nor Harris is likely to head off war, regardless of its terrible cost.

 

AMERICAN POLITICS ARE A DISTRACTION DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT CHOICE WHEN THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE PROPELLANT: THE DEEP STATE AND THE PENTAGON TELL THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT TO DO. WHEN PRESIDENTS DO NOT FOLLOW THE SCRIPT THEY ARE REMOVED BY WHATEVER TRICKS. FOR DONALD TRUMP, THE LOOSE CANNON, IT HAS BEEN A LITANY OF EXHAUSTING COURT CASES, TWO IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPTS, PLUS AN ASSASSINATION THAT FAILED BY half an inch. 

It was 20 Frimaire Year VI (December 10, 1797). The Directory, the public officials, the assistants were lined up in their places, impatiently awaiting the illustrious man whom few of them had seen. He appeared accompanied by M. de Talleyrand, who was responsible for presenting him; because it was the negotiator who was being congratulated at the moment.

 

The US is promoter of the war while China is advocator for peace talks and immediate cease-fire. When people get tired of fighting, China's approach becomes more and more attractive.

China's approach becomes more and more attractive when people get tired of fighting
By: Global Times | Published: Jul 24, 2024 10:00 PM

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1316668.shtml

 

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Memorial service held in Beijing to commemorate Tsung-dao Lee's scientific contributions and endeavor in cultivating Chinese talents

By GT staff reporters

Battle between death and night

The child was in front of this thing, silent, astonished, his eyes fixed.

For a man it would have been a gallows, for the child it was an apparition.

Where the man had seen the corpse, the child saw the ghost.

And then he didn't understand. 

The attractions of the abyss are of all kinds; there was one at the top of this hill. The child took a step, then two. He went up, while wanting to go down, and approached, while wanting to go back. 

He came very close, bold and trembling, to reconnoitre the ghost.

Arriving under the gallows, he raised his head and examined it.

As Bad As Nixon Was, Things Got So Much Worse After He Left the White House

Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace on the threshold of impeachment as a result of the Watergate scandal.

Two years earlier, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixon’s re-election committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate Hotel.

 

Nuclear power provides the nuclear explosives and a cloak for hiding the development of nuclear weapons.

Last week we remembered the nuclear bombing of Japan by the United States in August 1945. On 6 August 1945, a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Highly enriched uranium was the explosive. Three days later, another B-29 bombed Nagasaki, which had negligible military facilities, with an atomic bomb containing plutonium as the explosive.

 

The intimate relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear power    By Mark Diesendorf

 

The majority of American politicians, journalists, pundits and most commentators have decided that the war between the Zionist forces and the Palestinian resistance started on October 7th 2023. Not over 76 years ago, or more.

 

Compounded dishonour    By Jafar Ramini

 

They totally ignore the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in 1947 – 48, when 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted and displaced with no chance of return to their homes and land. They also ignore the 560 towns and villages that were razed to the ground and the Palestinian inhabitants of those towns and villages either massacred or kicked out.