Germany should stop paying social benefits to Ukrainian refugees residing in the country and redirect the money to authorities in Kiev instead, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has argued. The diplomat claimed that generous handouts serve as a disincentive for Ukrainian men to return to their homeland and join the military.

According to Eurostat, more than four million Ukrainians are currently living under temporary protection in the EU, with Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic hosting the highest numbers.

As of June, Germany was home to almost 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees, Statista estimated, while in Poland that number currently stands at over 981,000, according to UN data.

Pro-Harris sticky notes pop up in women's restrooms and gyms and on tampon boxes
Word about the grassroots campaign has spread on social media, primarily on Facebook, with women putting "Woman to woman" notes in places where other women will see them.

In the weeks before Election Day, a loose-knit group of women are organizing online to blanket their communities with pro-Kamala Harris messages — not on yard signs or fliers, but on sticky notes. 

The idea is simple: Take a pad of sticky notes, write messages and post them wherever women may see them — bathroom stalls, the backs of tampon boxes, bathroom mirrors, the gym. 

The messages vary slightly, but a typical one reads something like: "Woman to woman: No one sees your vote at the polls. Vote Harris/Walz."

If bullshit was fungible, both Israel and Ukraine would be rolling in dough and not need another dime of foreign aid. The nonsense spilling out of Tel Aviv and Kiev is legendary and much of the Western public is slurping it up like a ravenous dog eating a bowl of rabbit stew.

BY LARRY JOHNSON

President Joe Biden has formally apologised for the US's role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years and was heckled at the event by a Gaza war protester. 

"This to me is one of the most consequential things I've ever had an opportunity to do in my whole career," Mr Biden said in his apology in Arizona.

"It's a sin on our soul. … I formally apologise."

Hundreds of people attended the event and many of them were wearing traditional tribal clothing.

The crowd cheered as the US president apologised to the Native American community for the generational trauma caused by the boarding schools.

Extremist US provocateur Candace Owens’ Australian visa has been cancelled, as the Labor government warns that her attacks on Jewish, Muslim and trans people have the capacity to incite discord.

Immigration Minister Tony Burke confirmed that the Donald Trump-aligned influencer – who has claimed that Israel was founded by a “cult” and that “secret Jewish gangs” operate in Hollywood – would not be allowed in Australia as federal Labor attempts to lower the temperature on domestic protests about the war in the Middle East.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/extremist-influencer-candace-owens-australian-visa-cancelled-by-immigration-minister-20241026-p5klj9.html

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN in the memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named for the prize, Roy announced that her share of the prize money will be donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. She named Alaa Abd el-Fattah, British-Egyptian writer and activist, a ‘Writer of Courage’ who she would share her award with. The following is her acceptance speech for the prize, delivered on the evening of October 10, 2024, at the British Library.

“It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol.” – Paul Keating, Redfern speech.

Reaching out to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be daunting for non-indigenous people, until respect is safely established, and an equal listening approach. In my own journey of learning how to form connections over more than three decades, the first few awkward approaches were quickly followed by wide smiles and regular ‘taking the mickey,’ a sign of trust and friendship.

The European Union needs to stop “lecturing” other parts of the world and be more respectful towards its partners if it aims to combat the growing influence of Russia and China, European Council President Charles Michel has said.

In an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday, Michel admitted that the bloc has become “convinced that we know what is right and what is wrong” and often fails to make an effort to understand why other countries may think otherwise.

He noted that in the EU there is a “reflex which is close to a form of lecture” when communicating with developing countries with which the bloc has signed agreements on strategic, trade or political cooperation.

As the world's most enthralling recruitment process reaches its denouement, maybe it is worth carrying out a thought experiment.

Let's imagine you are running a small business — a fast food franchise, for the sake of topicality — and recruiting a new manager. What would be the red flags in considering applicants for the job?

Maybe the fact the candidate is a convicted felon, with three outstanding criminal cases still awaiting judgement, would be cause for concern. Perhaps a long history of racism would be a deal-breaker — including a recent false claim that members of a local immigrant community were eating cats and dogs.

Kamala Harris’ Hitler-Focused Closing Argument Is A Shameful Stain On Her Party 

Democrats are the party of mass censorship, the weaponization of the CIA, FBI, and DHS, and the politicization of everything. What does that sound like to you? 

Michael Shellenberger on X: "Kamala Harris’ Hitler-Focused Closi...mocratic presidential nominee, U.S. https://t.co/JUPB2cZOvJ" / X 26/10/2024, 6:01 pm 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen writes in her recent report that the EU should create a new intelligence body to deal with external threats.

EC chief Ursula von der Leyen’s call to create a new united intelligence body for the EU is a product of the EU institutions seeking to strengthen the union’s “federal aspect,” says former Swedish Air Defense officer Mikael Valtersson.

“Their long-term goals are to turn the EU into a federal state like the USA,” Valtersson tells Sputnik, referring to the EU institutions. “There are both federalist and antifederalist forces fighting about the future of the EU within the organization. Those that want a more federal EU use every pretext they can find to strengthen and create new federal institutions.”

Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected a visit to Ukraine by UN Secretary General António Guterres over his trip to Russia, a source in the presidential office has told the BBC.

After attending a Brics summit in the Russian city of Kazan this week, Guterres had wanted to visit Kyiv, the BBC understands.

"The president did not confirm his visit," the source told the BBC. "After Kazan and after he shook hands with the war’s instigator and spent UN Day on the territory of the aggressor country, it would be somehow strange to host him here."

Guterres' visit to Russia - who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 - was met with dismay across Ukraine.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The editorial board of US newspaper New York Post has officially endorsed the candidacy of former US President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.

The newspaper said on Friday that supporting Trump was "the clear choice for a better future."

New York Post cited several aspects of Trump’s program, such as border security and a sensible immigration system, city safety and support for law and order, low-tax economic policies, as well as maintaining respect for the US in the international arena, as reasons for backing the Republican candidate.

A FORMER SENIOR Israeli government off

In Washington, DC, the NGO Doctors Against Genocide held a conference to continue publicizing the voices of health care professionals against the genocide they have witnessed in Gaza.

Forced famine, bombed hospitals, untreated disease, medicine shortages, garbage which hasn’t been collected for a year, mass homelessness, deprivation, grief, indescribable and ceaseless psychological trauma.