Sunday 9th of February 2025

Gus Leonisky's blog

fire-breathing spokesperson for the donald....

President Donald Trump’s improbable honeymoon with the media may have coincidentally ended on the same day that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gave her first briefing.

Not because of anything Leavitt said or did, though she clearly walks out to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room ready to do battle. “We know for a fact that there have been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets about this president,” she told the assembled reporters, who may soon find themselves wishing for the halcyon days of Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany. 

 

BY W. James Antle III

 

dutton to be marooned....

The mystery independent contender for Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson (Qld) is solved with the announcement Climate 200-backed environmental consultant Ellie Smith to contest the seat. Andrew Gardiner reports.
She is not a “Teal,” Smith insists, but a “Maroon” independent.

 

‘Maroon independent’ to take on Dutton in Dickson unveiled
     by Andrew Gardiner

 

mon dieu! le french gouvernement vire à droite....

Prime Minister François Bayrou sparked outrage from the opposition, and indignation from his allies, when he referred to a feeling of being “flooded” by immigration taking root in France. The prime minister was accused of citing the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory that has fuelled the far right for decades.

 

French PM Bayrou sparks outrage with far-right rhetoric on migrant ‘flooding’

 

global warming: the world economic forum knows a shit storm when it sees one....

For the second year running, lies have emerged as the primary risk facing humanity, in the Global Risks Survey 2024-25 conducted by the World Economic Forum of 900 experts worldwide.

Disinformation and misinformation are now deemed more dangerous, in the short run (next two years), than violent climate events, wars and societal disintegration.

 

Lies, damned lies and catastrophic risks    By Julian Cribb

 

olaf's good germans.....

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called US billionaire's Elon Musk backing of a rival party in the country’s upcoming election “disgusting.” 

The SpaceX and Tesla founder has endorsed the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of next month’s parliamentary vote. Appearing via video link at the party’s rally over the weekend, Musk urged Germans to reject the notion of generational guilt.

“I disagree completely with Elon Musk and what he is doing,” Scholz told reporters, in English, on the sidelines of a campaign event in Berlin on Tuesday evening.

over and done with, soon....

The Ukraine conflict could end in two months of Kiev is deprived of the money and ammunition it depends on to continue fighting, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking to reporter Pavel Zarubin on Tuesday, Putin was asked about the possibility of a negotiated end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“They can’t exist without their Western sponsors. They won’t last a month if the money and ammunition run out,”Putin told Zarubin.

“Everything can be over in a month and a half to two months. Ukraine practically has no sovereignty, in that sense,” the Russian president added.

According to Putin, if Kiev’s western backers truly want peace, “this is very easy to do,” adding that Moscow has already spelled out its terms very clearly.

killing europe to save the kiev nazis.... gusnote: the kiev nazis are losing.....

President of Poland Andrzej Duda said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace agreement.

Source: Duda in an interview with BBC; European Pravda reports

Details: Duda said that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been in use since 2022, "should be dismantled".

capitalism needs some improvements.....

When dreaming up a name for a bold new research hub, the team at the University of Auckland Business School took on a semantic minefield. “We knew when we called our centre Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism that the word ‘inclusive’ would upset half the world, and ‘capitalism’ would upset the other half,” says Professor Susan Watson, dean of the Business School and interim head of the centre. 

 

Can we do capitalism better? This new research hub is up for the challenge 

 

how the chinese beat trump and OpenAI......

The hype around Artificial Intelligence, the now failed U.S. attempt to monopolize it, and the recent counter from China are a lesson in how to innovate. They also show that the U.S. is losing the capability to do so.

In mid 2023, when the Artificial Intelligence hype gained headlines, I [MOON OF ALABAMA] wrote:

'Artificial Intelligence' Is (Mostly) Glorified Pattern Recognition

the bad will of europe is inspired by the american empire........

The European Idea is anchored by the desire to banish war from the continent forever and foster collective development by creating a quasi-federated Europe. This idea is embodied in the step-by-step creation of the European Union (EU). That idea today looks exceptionally compromised, not least due to growing European divergence about how the EU’s best interests can be secured. Moreover, despite its fundamentally destabilising impact, American power ruthlessly shaping this outcome is compliantly welcomed by European elites. Any “Euro-tiger” image once projected by the EU in its prime has now vanished.

 

How Europe is degrading in Europe     By Richard Cullen

 

why does the western media always huff and puff about putin?.....

BEFORE GOING TO A VERY SLANTED/BIASED/ERRONEOUS ARTICLE FROM THE ABC IN REGARD TO YUCKRAINE, WE NEED TO STATE:

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT (except the writer of the ABC article).

 

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freedom challenges the traditional view that morality requires freedom....

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed it would be on the SPD and Greens if he had to pass it with votes from the far-right AfD.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Monday announced his intention to propose legislation on Wednesday to bring back permanent controls at Germany's borders with more police presence. 

the constipated deal-maker thinks with the wrong end of his digestive tract.....

Moscow is open to dialogue with the new US administration but no contact has been established yet, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has stated.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Ryabkov said that a phone call between the two countries’ presidents is not being planned while there is no agreement or understanding on the matter. All contacts are currently being carried out at the embassy level, he noted.

US President Donald Trump, who took office last Monday, has said he is ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as quickly as possible to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin had previously stated that Moscow is ready to talk and is awaiting signals from the Trump administration. 

“As the Russian President has repeatedly said, we are open to dialogue and contacts, conversations and meetings,” Ryabkov reiterated.

the whale may have been passing gas at the time.....


British ships spent several days tracking down a suspected Russian stealth submarine before concluding the suspicious sonar signature may have actually belonged to a farting whale, a Royal Navy source has told The Sun.

Two mystery sounds were picked up off the northwestern coast of Scotland, between Applecross and the Isle of Raasay, according to the UK tabloid. Convinced they were man-made, the Royal Navy went on a deep-sea hunt.

“We have been analyzing the sounds and now believe it was a marine mammal. A whale,” an anonymous naval official told The Sun, adding that the whale may have been passing gas at the time.

“We are taking it very seriously,” another Royal Navy source said. “We have to assume the worst.”

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