While official speeches commonly cite ‘democracy’ among the causes for which Australians and our allies have always fought, we are free to wonder if that is not ‘the lie in the soul’ this Remembrance day.

Remembrance Day ceremonies, especially at a local level, sincerely seek to honour the war dead, and to offer solace to the grieving. Worthy objectives.

 

“The lie in the soul”: True respect on Remembrance Day     By Douglas Newton

 

Donald Trump swept to victory on Tuesday by chipping away at groups of voters which Democrats once believed would help them win the White House for a generation.

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, many triumphantly claimed that the liberal voting coalition which had elected the first black president was growing more powerful, as the makeup of America changed.

 

BY Anthony Zurcher

 

The second administration of US President-elect Donald Trump will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling it to take back all the territory it has lost to Russia, Bryan Lanza, a senior campaign advisor to the US president-elect, has said.

Lanza, a veteran Republican party strategist who has worked on campaigns with Trump since 2016, made the remarks to the BBC on Saturday. While he expressed respect for the Ukrainian people, Lanza said the US priority would be to achieve “peace and to stop the killing.”

Western media never tire of citing the atrocities of Hamas while diminishing and justifying the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, even when the majority of them are women and children. But how accurate is this portrayal of events?

 

Atrocity propaganda: Hamas, human shields and genocide   By Craig Nielsen

 

My name is Craig Nielsen and I am a born again, evangelical Christian, living in Adelaide, South Australia. My father was a police officer and served in the 2nd A.I.F. for 6 years in WW2. Family members have served in Australia’s armed forces from Gallipoli and the Somme to the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea.

Are you OK? It seems an important question as the unhinged and unrestrained president Donald Trump is swept back into power and the world contemplates the implications for the climate, for civil discourse, for women, for minorities, for society as a whole, and for our children and their children.

 

World teeters on brink as Trump and cronies prepare to flood the zone with shit     By Giles Parkinson

 

The coalition government has collapsed at a moment when Germany's mood is already down. Many people are feeling unsettled by multiple crises.

French President Emmanuel Macron said this week that the way for Europe to respond to President-elect Donald Trump's election victory is to become an "omnivore."

Macron's Remarks

"For me, it's simple. The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. If we decide to remain herbivores, then the carnivores will win and we will be a market for them," Macron said during a speech to European leaders, Politico reported.

"I think, at the very least, we should choose to become omnivores. I don't want to be aggressive, just that we know how to defend ourselves on all these subjects," Macron added.

Trump to meet with Biden at Oval Office, White House says
Outgoing president Joe Biden has vowed to ensure a peaceful transition process as Donald Trump enters the White House. Meanwhile, the Republicans have edged closer to controlling Congress.

US President-elect Donald Trump will meet with outgoing president Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

"At President Biden's invitation, President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Saturday.

Such meetings are typically part of the transition process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHaE-w4GfqQ

Gutfeld: Joy Reid has completely lost her crap over Trump victory

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSh8zz3CyMo

Laura Ingraham: Dems finally learned what happens when reality strikes back

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Hy1gbHSuw

Megyn Kelly Highlights Dems' Five Stages of Grief as They Try To Understand Trump's Massive Victory

 

Trump’s stated positions on major international issues, e.g. climate change and the value and importance of multilateral institutions, both political and economic, and on particular issues such as Ukraine, the Middle East and relations with China, give grounds for plenty of concern when compared with Australian interests and policies.

 

Can Trump make the Planet Safe, as well as America Great?     By Geoff Miller

 

WASHINGTON (TNND) — MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday decried President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory in a lengthy on-air rant.

Maddow has openly opposed Trump and his supporters, such as billionaire Elon Musk. The anchor on Tuesday described Musk’s relationship with the U.S. an “untenable reality” for national security.

Sharing her reaction to Trump’s projected win, Maddow called on Americans unhappy with Trump's victory to do “more for your country than you have ever before.”

 

“We don’t just flip a switch and the American system of government is gone, democracy is gone,” she said. “It doesn’t work like that.”

Barely a day after declaring victory in the US election, President-elect Donald Trump is facing his first revolt from the establishment.

The world's most powerful central banker has thrown down the gauntlet at the soon-to-be world's most powerful leader, in a struggle between dominance and independence that could define the future of Trump's second tour of the White House.

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, just hours after delivering Trump's yet to be formed administration a gift in the form of a 0.25 percentage point interest rate cut, declared he was sticking around to serve out his term and the president-elect could not remove him.

The Guardian has offered its journalists free counseling and mental health support to help them process Donald Trump’s win in the US election, according to an internal email seen by Guido Fawkes, a British political gossip blog.

Written by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, the email was sent to the liberal paper’s employees on Wednesday, Guido Fawkes claimed.

“I know the result has been very upsetting for many colleagues,” Viner wrote. “Our US teams in particular have covered the election with brilliant reporting…They will be most directly affected by the result. If you’re not in the US, do contact your American colleagues to offer your support.”

The fascist trend in America’s politics portends a lasting erosion of the underpinnings of the ties which have bound Australia to its most important ally and provides a powerful reason for us to loosen these ties. 

 

The US on the road to fascism: a time to loosen our ties     By Jeremy Webb

 

Over two months from Inauguration Day, the Trump team has apparently taken its first steps toward making good on the candidate's promise to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, with a WSJ report outlining options for freezing the crisis. The purported peace plan is a good first step, but would need tweaks to become acceptable to Russia, an observer says.

Citing informed sources, including members of Trump's inner circle, the Wall Street Journal's report outlines a proposal to freeze the Ukrainian front and set up a demilitarized zone along its length, force Kiev to abandon its pursuit of NATO membership for at least 20 years, but continue deliveries of arms to Zelensky.