Welcome to meaningless planet

Where happiness is measured by parking meters

Bio-mechanical levers mimicking an electronic device

Vandalised by inspectors of numbers

Thinking their laziness and your honesty shall suffice

Your overstay anyway by death be met

Welcome to disinterested planet

Where the rising seas have reached under the trees

For the brown skin rangers angels under the stars

Hesitate to take a deep freeze

In the twirling space now filling with useless Mars

As deaths by flowing tears are met

Welcome to a useless blue planet

Where little princes want you for toiling slaves

Unless you're female for them to be whores

A demented President raves

By declaring terribly painful and deadly wars

Having fun while losing his biblical bet

Trump’s Secretary of Defence invoking divine violence against Iran has intensified concerns about the fusion of religion, politics and war in US leadership.

Jon Queally

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ during an Evangelical Christian service at the Pentagon on Wednesday in which he called for American soldiers to be blessed with “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy” and for “every round to find its mark” as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues despite widespread disapproval by a majority of US voters and global condemnation.

What happened to Labor and Australia, the ‘Land of the Fair Go’? In the 4th of his Light on the Hill series examining the party’s retreat from reform, Andrew Brown looks at housing inequality.

The consequences of political retreat are not abstract.

They are lived.

Light on the Hill. Labor and the cost of caution

by Andrew Brown

They arrive as rent notices and eviction letters. They sit in empty fridges and crowded shelters. They echo through emergency departments and police call outs. They narrow lives, not by accident or misfortune, but by design.

Housing is where this becomes undeniable.

All I asked was if Labor would help the states make public transport free...

Free public transport during a fuel crisis just makes sense. The PM could have used national cabinet this morning to make it happen everywhere.

But instead of answering the question, Minister Wong could only deflect.

Unlike this Labor government, we've been pretty vocal about our opposition to war crimes. We just want the government to get on with addressing the growing fuel crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwwuh-x52jg

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

Former compliance officer for the international financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) she was fired in 2018 after raising concerns about suspicious banking activity from accounts owned by financier and sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, as well as accounts linked to Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, adviser, and business partner. The allegations come from an FBI interview report included in the Justice Department’s latest release of Epstein-related documents.

Since the turn of the century, the expansion of solar power has surpassed expectations, more than any other energy source. 

Once extremely expensive and only used in remote regions, space travel or pocket calculators, today's solar modules — easy to set up and operate — generate cheap electricity all over the world.

Solar is winning the energy race

Gero Rueter

The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.

Global solar energy capacity has skyrocketed over the last decade:

Some old truths about warfare have been knocking on the door of the Oval Office in the month since US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent US and Israeli warplanes to bomb Iran.

The failure to learn from the past means that Donald Trump now faces a stark choice. If he cannot get a deal with Iran, he can either try to declare a victory that will fool no-one, or escalate the war.

Jeremy Bowen: Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn't working

by Jeremy Bowen

You’re not imagining it.

Everything costs more. Everything is monitored.

Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom.

That’s because it is.

The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite

BY John & Nisha Whitehead

The government has turned everyday life into a revenue stream—funding endless wars, bloated agencies, surveillance systems, and profit-driven policing… all on your dime.

You’re not just paying taxes. You’re paying to be watched. Paying to be policed. Paying to be controlled.

This isn’t government. It’s a business model.

After one month of war against Iran, one conclusion stands out more clearly than anything declared in all the press briefings: Neither the US nor Israel entered this confrontation with a plan for a long war.

The campaign was conceived as a short and brutal episode, a shock operation designed to break Iran’s will, force Tehran back to the table on humiliating terms, or in the most ambitious fantasies circulating around Donald Trump’s political circle, trigger internal collapse and perhaps even regime change.

A month of war has shown the strategic failure of attacking Iran

What the US and Israel saw as a quick campaign, Iran sees as a fight for survival. Costs are rising and the end is nowhere in sight.

BY Murad Sadygzade

This isn’t just a weapons deal.
It’s a shift in air superiority — and who controls the skies over the Gulf.

You’re not about to watch a story about fighter jets being delivered.

You’re about to see how one strategic transfer can change detection, engagement, and survival in modern air warfare.

Russia Secretly Delivered 48 Warplanes to Iran — $6.5B Fighter Jet Can Blind All U.S. Radars in Gulf

Right now, reports indicate Iran has secured a deal for up to 48 advanced Russian Su-35 fighter jets, part of a multi-billion dollar agreement that could redefine its air force capabilities.

Not gradually. Structurally.

[24 October 2022]: Questions have been asked about a mystery account said to be supporting the campaign of Trump-backed Joe Kent – triggering wild speculation and theories about the former Green Beret.

A report published at the weekend claimed that a company listed by the 42-year-old Maga champion as paying his salary, did not appear to exist.

I write these lines at a particularly difficult moment for Venezuelan sovereignty. The imperialist attack of January 3 and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and Congresswoman Cilia Flores marked a new escalation in an aggression that now spans more than twenty-six years against the Bolivarian Revolution.

This is not an isolated episode. It is a new chapter in a broad and multifaceted strategy aimed at taking away the Venezuelan people and government’s power of decision and, ultimately, reversing the political path inaugurated in 1999.

The Commune and Popular Sovereignty in Times of Imperialist Siege

By Cira Pascual Marquina

US President Donald Trump has boasted that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader, is “kissing my ass” and must “be nice” to the US.

Trump made the remarks on Friday at the Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s annual forum in Miami, amid the US-Israeli war against Iran, which sparked retaliation in which Saudi facilities were targeted.

During his address, Trump reminisced about his ties with 90-year-old Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. “I… love the king of Saudi Arabia. What a man he is. When I was there, we bonded,” he said, recalling that the king once grabbed his arm to get up.

A fully automated news site with no journalists shows how easily AI can mimic credibility – and how exposed Australia is to manipulation.

_The Daily Perspective_ is a month old and looks professional and sleek. Its team of journalists uploads articles every few minutes.

They come from culturally diverse backgrounds that reflect their expertise – pretty rare in our local media landscape.