HOPE IS AN IMPERSONAL HEROE…..

Who tries to defy net zero

contrarily to RATIONEMACY

Forgetting SAPIENTIAMACY

And abandoning IUSTUMACY

The eternal rose on my desk

Could appear as grotesque

Being made of fine Chinese silk

Like so many fakes of her ilk

Contemplating alternative to DUMBOCRACY

There’s no answers in the aequus of MAGICRACY

Sprinkling dust into our naive eyes

As we see pies in the stormy skies

While the fake rose maintains beauty

Beyond my own life’s fading bounty

Surviving the ravages of climate change

Unlike the natural flower that can’t last

A day of sunlight's wavelength range

Perishing with hope of a seed blast

May be may be NOT

As the weather gets quite HOT

Hope is an IMPERSONAL HEROE

Trying to define DEMOCRACY

MORE THAN A HANDSHAKE, THERE ARE WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE PROMISE MADE BY REAGAN TO GORBACHEV....

MORE TO COME.

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

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

US–Israel manoeuvring over Gaza is already widening the conflict. As Sudan burns and propaganda intensifies, Iran may be the next target — with Australia again at risk of being drawn in.

The ‘Board of Peace’ in Gaza that the US and Israel got the UN Security Council to agree on will be anything but that. And the Palestinian Authority went along with it. Now watch the Zionists’ war elevator as it moves up another level: Iran.

Alison Broinowski

Journalists from Michael West Media have scooped the pool in this year’s Walkey Awards for Excellence in Journalism taking home no less than 28 Walkeys*.
This year’s Gold Walkey (not sponsored by Woodside) was a hard-fought affair with Rex Patrick taking out the gong for his body of work on government transparency and Australia’s 60-year campaign to steal Timor’s oil and gas.

Michael West Media scoops the prize pool in the 2025 Walkey Awards

by Michael West

READ MORE:

https://michaelwest.com.au/michael-west-media-scoops-the-prize-pool-in-the-2025-walkey-awards/

Two rival peace proposals for Ukraine have emerged – one from the US, echoing long-standing Russian demands, and another from Europe. Kyiv has rejected the US plan as written, insisting its sovereignty cannot be bargained away.

A flurry of recent diplomatic activity has seen two competing peace plans for Ukraine emerge.

The first, widely touted as a US plan, was apparently  hashed out between Kremlin insider Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Russia point-man.

Matthew Sussex

Over three and a half years into the conflict, US president Donald Trump is trying to sell the world on a grand bargain for Ukraine – a peace plan, based on discussions with all parties and originally laid out in 28 points. After a tense weekend of talks in Geneva, that plan has been cut down and rebranded as an “updated and refined peace framework,” but the core reality hasn’t changed: Washington, key EU capitals, Kiev and Moscow are all reading from different scripts.

A Ukraine peace plan: Where things stand – and why the West still isn’t on the same page
What began as a US-led blueprint to “end the war by Thanksgiving” has turned into a three-way tug-of-war between Washington, the EU and Kiev – while Moscow waits...

Do you know how to trace the path your water takes before it comes out of your tap?

Can you name five edible native plants from your region?

Are you familiar with the lunar cycles and the growing seasons of your local plants?

In reality, what knowledge do you have of your territory, what connection do you have with the soil you walk on, with the living beings with whom you share your life?

Understanding bioregionalism

BY LEA DUMAS

Etudiante en architecture

Transcript of Steve Witkoff's conversation with Yuri Ushakov on October 14

[phone rings]

Steve Witkoff: Hi Yuri.

Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you?

SW: Good Yuri. How you doing?

YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.

SW: Thank you.

YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.

SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you.

YU: Yes, yes, yes. Yes. You know that’s why we suspend the organisation of first Russian-Arabic summit.

SW: Yes.

The servant of the people has his hand in the cookie jar

While soldiers die on the battlefields afar

But the Guardian tells us all is okay

and that the President Yuckrainian can be cocky

             Robert Urbanoski — November 2025

Are we too smart for the status of our animality?

Do we need religion to help poor people cope with angst?

And here we are with pauline doing her burqa stunt again trying to prove that extremist right-wingers do not like Islam. We don’t like her sausages as well either…

London: A deal to end the war in Ukraine has gained more ground in talks to settle deep disputes over land claims and military power, as leaders from the US and Europe claim progress in revising the terms to be put to Russia.

US President Donald Trump claimed an agreement was “very close” and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the “good result” on the potential deal, overcoming the uproar at the original White House plan revealed last week.

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pushed back at European leaders for seeking changes to the initial US proposal to cap the size of the Ukrainian army and give Russia formal control of large tracts of eastern Ukraine.

Pauline Hanson has worn a burqa in the Senate, repeating a widely condemned stunt as she sought to ban the Muslim face covering on national security grounds – despite being unable to name a single safety incident linked to the burqa.

The special envoy for Islamophobia warned the stunt could “deepen existing safety risks for Australian Muslim women who choose to wear the headscarf, the hijab, or the full face and body covering, the burqa”.

For years one of the most hazardous places to stand was between mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and a microphone. These days the even-wealthier Gina Rinehart is challenging Forrest on visibility and hyperbole.

Most have become very familiar with Forrest eulogising about the climate-induced end of the planet. At the other extreme, Rinehart is sermonising about the catastrophic effect that environmentalists and leftist “watermelons” are having on Australian industry, farmers and even schoolchildren.

War of the megaphones: Australian billionaires push their climate agendas

Jowett and O’Donnell (2012), scholars in the field of political communication and propaganda studies, define propaganda as “the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behaviour to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.”

Propaganda has always been a weapon of war, but in today’s Europe, and especially Germany, it has reached new levels of sophistication. What once targeted foreign adversaries is now increasingly directed at domestic populations.

Propaganda, Cognitive Warfare, and Europe’s Path to Self-Destruction

Ricardo Martins

Ukraine working with US to look for 'compromises that strengthen, not weaken us,' Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted that “the core principle that kept Europe peaceful longer than at any other time in its history must be respected,” as borders should not be changed by force.

Speaking via a videolink at the opening session of the Crimea Platform parliamentary summit in Sweden, he warned that if this principle “does not work in Europe, then were will it work?”