Monday 10th of February 2025

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biden or trump, captain america is going through the S-bend to a sewage pond...

The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. These self-inflicted wounds, characteristic of all late empires, will cripple and destroy the tentacles of power. And then, like a house of cards, the empire will collapse.

 

Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs

 

vote early before the heat of the day, vote often before sunset.....

There is a marked immaturity in the reporting of opinion polls and other political developments in Australia at the moment. I see problems in two main categories.

First is the seemingly endless pursuit of uniquely Australian explanations for what are obviously global trends.

The second is the tendency to ignore the historical reality that polls three months out from an election can be important signposts, but do not justify attempts to forecast likely election outcomes with any specificity.

 

Australian electoral prospects    By Bob McMullan

 

god doesn't exist and DOESN'T CARE about you....

The catastrophic conflict between Israel and the Palestinians (the present “ceasefire” notwithstanding) has done nothing to relieve the centuries-old contradictions that exist between and within our three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

 

Why doesn’t God save the day?     By Eric Hunter

 

the EU dictator, ms von de whatever, has been telling many many many lies....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paNpI6zfnpM

Richard Wolff: The FALL of the US Empire–US Denial, Europe Burns, BRICS & China Rise

 

Richard D. Wolff exposes the hard truth for the US empire and its client states in the West: their economic decline is fast becoming a crash that no amount of sanctions or tariffs can reverse. In this must-watch video, Prof. Wolff explains how BRICS & China's rise is giving way to a new economic order which is shaking the US's economic foundation to its knees.

 

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

 

         Gus Leonisky

a long trail of painful questions......

The catastrophe of the Ukraine War will leave a long trail of painful questions. Because this hubristic proxy confict has become such a pie-in-the-face fiasco for the West, there will be plenty of resistance to honest answers for a very long time.

But facts undermining self-serving Western narratives have started emerging already during the war. Most recently, revelations about the activities of USAID have delivered another hard blow to Western – and official Ukrainian – deception and self-deception.

 

Trump’s USAID purge has revealed US scheming in Kiev, but won’t stop it
It’s fun to watch “independent” media and NGOs get outed, but Washington will always find ways to manipulate others

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

 

remember you are mortal....

In recent decades, the West has witnessed a growing trend among increasingly hubristic US leaders to proclaim the United States as “indispensable.” This rhetoric reflects a mindset often seen in declining empires: the belief that their peak is yet to come, despite mounting evidence of decay.

 

America and the forgotten memento mori (remember you are mortal)    By Les MacDonald

 

scientific observation vs social engineering....

...These ideologies – and they include catastrophic climate change, diversity politics, #MeToo feminism and transgender rights, as well as critical race theory – are, in fact, deeply conservative, especially in their economic and political effects.

Graham Hryce — Australian journalist and former media lawyer…

 

THIS IS A “SUBPRIME” BUNDLE OF IDEOLOGIES. BY SUBPRIME, I express what happened when the AMERICAN  financiers sold below-par bundles of properties at PREMIUM values — an act of robbery that led to the 2008 financial crash which still influences the strange steps of the “market”. We expect better from Graham…

a feminism revival at the white house.....

It was US President Donald Trump – a man who looked at Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner, and thought, “Now there’s a guy with life figured out” – who somehow became the only person in charge willing to pump the brakes on the surreal spectacle of born males bulldozing women on the rugby field, then waltzing right into the women’s locker room along with them. All while intersectional third-wave feminists are on the sidelines, basically acting like the hype squad… for the “dudes.”

 

How Trump suddenly became a feminist champion
The ban on biological men in women’s sports is an actual move to protect women, unlike most of the leftist posturing done to date

the reduction has prompted a lawsuit from a major government workers' union....

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is riddled with almost unprecedented levels of corruption, and should be shut down, President Donald Trump has said.

In one of the first executive orders after his inauguration, Trump suspended all US foreign aid, pending a three-month review, amid a wider push to cut government spending.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio subsequently halted a number of projects assigned to USAID, Washington’s main agency for administering funding to political projects abroad.

Elon Musk, leading the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is evaluating federal agencies’ spending, has branded USAID a “criminal organization.”

not as strong as superman, nor as brainy as batman... it's plastic strawman.....

US President Donald Trump has promised to sign an executive order against paper straws next week. The move would reverse former President Joe Biden’s plan to phase out single-use plastic products in government buildings by 2027.

Trump made the announcement on Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!”

Trump has frequently expressed his dissatisfaction with paper straws. 

During a campaign rally in 2020, he remarked, “Has anyone tried those paper straws? They’re not working too good.” He criticized them for disintegrating during use and questioned their practicality. 

atheists unite!..... ateis bersatu!.....

A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and nonbelievers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on official documents, and that marriage must conform to religion.  

 

Atheists say Indonesia denies right to live religion-free
David Hutt

In Indonesia, it is legally required to specify a religion on official documents. Nonbelievers say they are being discriminated against.

the values of paper shells and golden beads......

The BRICS nations will not be able to find a replacement for the US dollar even if they try, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has claimed.

The comment comes as members of the economic group, including Russia, China, and India increasingly shift to mutual trade settlements in their national currencies.

 

No alternative to dollar – US treasury secretary

 

The BRICS countries have ramped up efforts to reduce reliance on Western currencies in bilateral trade in recent years, especially after sanctions froze Russia's euro and dollar reserves held in EU clearing houses, following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

response to all of this has been underwhelming.....

In the period since 7 October 2023, serious questions have arisen as to whether the Australian Government is properly discharging its obligations under international law in light of Israel’s devastation of Gaza, invasion of Lebanon and the escalation of settler violence in the illegally occupied West Bank. In November 2024, Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman introduced a package of 3 bills — the Genocide Red Line Package — aiming to require compliance by Australia with its international law obligations in relation to genocide, serious breaches of international law and illegal settlements in occupied Palestine.

 

could it, in a dream?.....

Bent like a crooked hook, my old body falls apart

The grocery bags are scratching the ground

Arms weakened by muscle-mass loss abound

Lady walking ahead has a bargearse fart

From too tight pants that value a butt-crack

Short legged with tattoos ending higher forever

A pigeon walks like a distinguished drunken hack

Comes man in black — lorikeet on shoulder

A bird that constantly speaks its mind

In birdsong full of expletives and horrendous puns

The bread shop smells of hot butter buns

A dry-cleaner effluxes trichloroethylene in kind

Temperature is strangely balmy in this dream

At the best corner for best of average planets

Twenty-one degrees in this shady city of Ganetz

Two roads cross and split like a rainbow beam

Into gentle slopes of old crumbling homes

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