The Albanese Government’s obsessive enthusiasm for matching Coalition and News Corp demands with policy responses was on show twice last week. On both occasions it was enshrined in legislation, the first on immigration detention and the other on laws to restrict social media access.

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE (OCTOBER 31, 2024) THE ELECTION RESULTS...

On the eve of what could be the most consequential election in US history—perhaps even global history—the elite class representing their favored stalking racehorse seem to have thrown in their towels and hung up their riding crops.

What we’re seeing is unprecedented. For a couple months leading up to now, it felt like the unusual calm was merely a portent for some grand scheme being formulated in the webby dungeons beneath the DNC citadel. When Trump’s popularity shot up and Kamala’s tanked, the uncharacteristic silence from the other side took on an even stranger tenor. 

BY SIMPLICIUS

“IDF will fuck the Arabs!”, “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!” Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans chanting on 8 November, as reported by The Times of Israel. Yet the BBC just compared them to Jewish victims of the Nazi pogroms. Why this story matters is because of the outsized influence of the BBC – its content is shared as gospel by countless other broadcasters.

Police in Italy have seized more than 2,100 forged artworks that were attributed to dozens of greats like Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Banksy.

Investigators said on Monday that the artworks had a potential market value of €200 million ($215 million).

The chief prosecutor of Pisa, Teresa Angela Camelio, said experts from the Banksy archive assisted with the investigation and considered it to be "the biggest act of protection of Banksy's work."

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a staunch ally of Israel and a foreign policy hawk, to serve as the next ambassador to the UN.

“I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump said in a statement to the media on Monday.

If confirmed by the Senate, Stefanik, a congresswoman from New York, would replace career diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who has been representing the US at the UN since 2021.

In a post on X on Sunday, Stefanik wrote that the US was “ready for a return to President Trump’s MAXIMUM PRESSURE campaign against Iran.” She argued that Tehran has been “emboldened by the weakness of the Biden-Harris Administration.” 

Forty (40) years ago, the ALP ran its national conference at what was then called Noah’s Lakeside Hotel, with uranium, Timor, taxation, David Combe and south-west Tasmania prominent in discussions. But, who is this meeting up on the dancefloor after the day’s debates and double-crossings?

Kiev has reportedly chosen to channel military resources to its incursion into Kursk Region in Russia rather than reinforcing its positions in Donetsk People’s Republic, newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday.

According to Ukrainian servicemen fighting in Kursk Region who spoke with the Spanish outlet last month, while they occasionally experience shortages of weapons and equipment, there are no such problems with personnel.

The soldiers reportedly told El Pais that Ukrainian troops fighting in Kursk Region rotate every ten days. In comparison, servicemen operating on the front line in Donetsk People’s Republic get replaced on average only every 25 days.

Australian territory has been used in supporting US B-2 bombers en route and in return from strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on October 17, and highlights the profound strategic significance of this event for the future role Australia may play in US strategic bomber operations against China, in the Asia Pacific and beyond.

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Germany's top election officials at both federal and state levels were due to meet on Monday to discuss how to prepare for snap elections, which will be the likely outcome of an upcoming parliamentary vote of confidence on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's minority coalition. 

However, following the collapse of Scholz's coalition comprising the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens last week, it remains unclear when the parliamentary vote will take place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvYlk8XhF1Q

If Trump puts American interests first he'll make America great again, if it ever was!. The Battle of Donald's Ear. Up the Rhine without a paddle. And lies about the Amsterdam 'pogrom'........

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

“It’s hard to do cartoons without porkies…”

         Gus Leonisky

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.

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