A former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff says more than over 10% of Gaza’s population of approximately 2.2 million was killed or injured since October 2023.

Belying persistent efforts by  Israel and its defenders to deny the staggering number of Palestinians killed during the 23-month Gaza genocide, the general who led the Israel Defence Forces during most of the war acknowledged this week that about 220,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded.

 

China’s recent display of its newly acquired military might surprised not only international observers, but also its own seasoned diplomats.

As Fu Ying, the former ambassador to Australia and the UK, told the Financial Review Asia Summit this week, she had not realised how far China’s military capacity had advanced.

 

Geoff Raby

China’s giant military parade didn’t surprise just the West

 

THE ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE KIRK MAY NOT CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY, BUT UNLIKE THE MURDERS OF JFK, MLK AND OTHER POLITICIANS VYING FOR POWER, IT HAS IMPACTED THE WHOLE OF AMERICA, WITH A SINGLE BULLET TO AN AVERAGE SPRUIKER.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A FEW OF THE COMMENTS/OPINIONS FROM THE GENERAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA… WHAT HAS BEEN OMITTED IS WHERE DID THE GUY WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE (THEN DENIED) SHOT KIRK LEARNED HIS SHARPSHOOTER'S SKILLS. AT MOST TIMES, THE MEDIA GOES ON A FLURRY OF CLUES ABOUT THIS OR THAT SHOOTING CLUB OR ARMY, YET THERE HAS BEEN MOSTLY SILENCE ON THE ISSUE.

THIS EXPOSé IS POSTED AS A RECORD OF WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID, NOT ABOUT WHAT GUS THINKS. TRYING TO FIND A CARTOON HAS BEEN STRANGE TO SAY THE LEAST, AS SOME GOT CANNED QUICKLY BY PUBLISHERS, INCLUDING SOUTH PARK.

WAS KIRK SHOT BECAUSE HE DISPLEASED NETANYAHU?

 

It seems likely that our prime minister will meet Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly later this month.

AUKUS submarines will cost five times the entire annual defence budget. We can’t fund both AUKUS and a self reliant defence capability. We must choose self reliance.

 

John Menadue

Australia needs to diplomatically disengage from our 'dangerous ally'

 

Anthony Albanese has been wise not to heed the Austral-Americans urging him get to Washington as soon as possible to meet Trump. He decided not to join the Conga line of heads of state and government prostrating themselves before Trump, only to be humiliated.

The president of the UN General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, has said she could imagine UN peacekeeping forces being deployed to Ukraine to secure a ceasefire and postwar peace if supported by the majority of UN states.

Baerbock, the former German Green and foreign minister, who took over the UN job on September 9, was speaking to German weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

 

 

Killing the Hamas leaders in Qatar would clear the way to ending the Gaza conflict and the return of Israeli hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, just days after the Jewish state bombed the militant group’s top members in Doha.

Hamas has said that its leadership was not taken out by the Israeli attack, which it described as an attempt to assassinate negotiators working on a potential settlement to the Gaza conflict.

“The Hamas terrorists chiefs” in Doha have “blocked all ceasefire attempts in order to endlessly drag out the war,” Netanyahu claimed.

“Getting rid of them would rid the main obstacle to releasing all our hostages and ending the war,”Netanyahu wrote on X on Saturday.

The Government has just announced a spend of $1.7B on new ‘Ghost Shark’ underwater drones. But there appears to be more stealth in the budget than there is in the capability. Former submariner Rex Patrick reports.

Pete Quinn must be pretty happy.

 

Ghost Shark drones – “music to Trump’s ears”

by Rex Patrick

Quinn was the Head of Navy Capability for five years. His responsibility in that role was to identify the needs and requirements of Navy’s future capabilities and to plan for, develop and deliver them to the fleet.

While he was in that role, Anduril Industries (Anduril) were successful in two limited tenders; one awarded in 2021 for $4.9M and the other awarded in 2022 for $77.5M.

 

Several days after its absurd endorsement of renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War and calling for a more aggressive posture against Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Washington Post stated that signing a follow-on to the New START Treaty was “reckless.”  New START is actually the last remaining nuclear arms-control treaty between the United State and Russia and it is due to expire in February 2026. 

 

Washington Post Targets Disarmament in Its March to the Right

MELVIN GOODMAN

 

New START is the only stepping stone to pursuing deeper cuts in the U.S. and Russian strategic arsenals as well as to pursuing serious arms control negotiations with China, which is currently growing its strategy arsenal at a record pace.

In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, asserted: **“**We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country … expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

 

David Rosen

The politics of extermination

 

We’ll look back on 2024 as the year we sailed passed 1.5. Marine heatwaves in 2024 and 2025 seriously damaged the Great Barrier Reef, again. Insufficient land and money to create enough new forests to offset carbon emissions. Iceland sends a letter to the future.

We’re getting hotter faster and are already past 1.5oC

 

Peter Sainsbury

Environment: Earth is getting hotter faster thanks to human

 

Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, saying he wants to do "everything possible" to support the recovery of thousands of servicemen seriously injured in the war.

As reported by The Guardian, during his trip to the Ukrainian capital, he and the team from his Invictus Games Foundation intend to set out in detail new initiatives to support the rehabilitation of the wounded, with the ultimate aim of extending help across all regions of the country.

State lying is not an accident of politics: it is its mother tongue.

Brutal dictatorship attacks the body, but insidious tyranny targets the mind and the means of survival. One can escape the blows; one does not always recover from a lifetime spent pretending to believe in them. 

 

The Empire of Lies: A Success Story

 

by Azzedine Kaamil Aït-Ameur

 

[GUSNOTE: THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS IN MORE DETAILS WHAT WE "PHILOSOPHICALLY" EXPOSED IN 2006: "The Age of Deceit"]

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius requested 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) more over the next two years for military support to Ukraine than was approved by the German government, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday.

Due to this disagreement, planned contracts with the Ukrainian defense industry must now be suspended, and support measures for the Ukrainian armed forces will have to be partially canceled or reduced, the report said.

The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains.

Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see?

 

No controversy, please. We are the Aussie Government!

by Rex Patrick

 

In the current Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, parts of a document can be redacted if the contents would disclose deliberative matter; that is, advice, recommendations and consultations. It’s a catch-all exemption deployed regularly in response to document requests.