The clock is ticking to block Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

The UN General Assembly is meant to represent the world’s majority.

But while Baerbock was shaking hands with Benjamin Netanyahu, millions of people across the world were marching to demand the end of the Gaza genocide.

A criminal like Baerbock does not — and must not — represent us.

The Dalai Lama – spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism – turned 90 on Sunday and celebrated in the small Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where he has lived in exile since fleeing Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has dismissed efforts by members of the European Parliament to oust her, branding her critics “conspiracy theorists” and accusing them of acting on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Von der Leyen blames Russia for no-confidence motion
The EU chief has labeled her critics “conspiracy theorists”

Von der Leyen is facing a parliamentary motion of no-confidence in her presidency, which is scheduled for a vote on Thursday after being tabled by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea. Addressing the parliament during a debate on Monday, von der Leyen said those backing the proposal were following “the oldest playbook of extremists” and were attempting to undermine public confidence in the EU with “false claims.”

Iran-Russia Defense Pact Rejection:

Iran previously declined a formal defense pact with Russia for religious and strategic reasons—they didn’t want to be obligated to support a war they didn’t endorse.

Instead, the January 17 agreement allows for loose military cooperation, including potential Russian air defense support for Iran.

Putin Throwing Bulls**t at Trump? /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKVW-Fg8eKg

Iran is realizing it needs better air defenses more than flashy weapons like 5th-gen aircraft, especially given Russia’s success with missile intercepts using systems like the S-500.

Trump’s Flip-Flop on Ukraine Aid:

French President Emmanuel Macron began a three-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday, which will see him address parliament and try to rekindle a purportedly warm relationship with King Charles III.

Macron and his wife Brigitte were greeted off the presidential plane at an air base northwest of London by heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales.

Macron hailed an "important moment for our two nations" on X.

Under President Erdogan, Türkiye has moved away from its earlier identity as a secular, peaceful Cold War ally. Instead, it is now trying to become a strong regional power by following a foreign policy influenced by Islamic values. This question looks at how a country’s image and role are changing in today’s world.

The Hindu Op-ed: Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman foreign policy

Staff from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) participated in a post-war Gaza real estate venture aiming to turn the enclave into a for-profit trade zone, according to the Financial Times(FT).

The project envisioned artificial islands, blockchain-based real estate, and what was branded the “Trump Riviera.”

Leaked documents revealed the involvement of TBI in a plan to expel Palestinians and lure investors to rebuild the enclave

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Ever since Israel launched its illegal war of aggression against Iran on 13 June, speculation has swirled around the role played by MOSAIC – a tool created by shadowy spy-tech firm Palantir. 

This software has been deeply embedded within the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) operations, particularly its “safeguarding” mission: inspections and monitoring state compliance with non-proliferation agreements. 

The IAEA's MOSAIC weapon: Predictive espionage and the war on Iran
Backed by US funding and Palantir’s AI tools, the IAEA turned its Iran inspections into a surveillance regime that blurred the line between monitoring and military targeting.

Trump & Israel fired the first shot in a major war on BRICS as Iran's resilient defense shocks the world. Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar joined the program directly after Iran's attack on a US air base in Qatar to react to the significance of the 12-day war and what's to come as the Collective West panics over the power of the multipolar world led by the emerging BRICS countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqO-z05j43M

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

I haven't much faith in

   A Peace that commences 

With hacking off limbs

   Or in sniping from trenches.

Yet some say 'tis Peace that

   We're now fighting for;

If THIS brings us Peace,

   What on earth brings us War?

R. H. LONG, 'Peace', in Verses (1917). A comment on the 1914-18 War.

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Our final conclusion, therefore, is that it will be necessary for our government to plan in depth for two general contingencies. The first, and lesser, is the possibility of a viable general peace; the second is the successful continuation of the war system.

“Never in our history,” declared a TV anchor, “has there been such an avalanche of information, so little believed or believable.”

This was no anguished lament over AI or social media. This was 1967, the era of the Vietnam War, racial tension, and urban blight, when a group of liberal satirists launched a prank so well-executed it would later be called “the hoax of the century.”

Inside Iron Mountain: How a group of liberal satirists pulled off America’s ‘hoax of the century’
By James Rosen

On July 4, 1945, the great atomic scientist Leo Szilard finished a letter that would become the strongest (and one of the very few) real attempts at halting President Truman’s march to using the atomic bomb – which was two weeks from its first test at Trinity – against Japanese cities.

It’s well known that as the Truman White House made plans to use the first atomic bombs against Japan in the summer of 1945, a large group of atomic scientists, many of whom had worked on the bomb project, raised their voices, or at least their names, in protest. They were led by the Szilard. On July 3, he finished a petition to the president for his fellow scientists to consider, which called atomic bombs “a means for the ruthless annihilation of cities.” It asked the president “to rule that the United States shall not, in the present phase of the war, resort to the use of atomic bombs.”

After the federal election on 3 May, dissection of the Liberals’ turmoil received top billing.

But there has also been a “get the Greens” movement. Everybody has been piling on. The Greens are too extreme on everything. The brawl is of deeper significance.

Gaza as Exhibit A. The Greens have been too extreme on Gaza, say the Libs and Labor and their acolytes and the pundits.

Evan Jones

THE FOLLOWING PAPER BY JUDITH CURRY (and Harry DeAngelo) IS THE NEXT STEP IN CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL. YES GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING BUT IT’S NOT AS BAD AS THE ALARMIST WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK. DOING ANYTHING TOWARDS NET ZERO WILL BE CATASTROPHIC FOR THE ECONOMY AND WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE IMPACT ON THE CLIMATE… GUS LEONISKY Inc. CHALLENGES THIS VIEW. MY COMMENTS AT THE END.

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A Critique of the Apocalyptic Climate Narrative

Posted on May 7, 2025 by curryja | 123 Comments