French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has accused the US of abandoning the democratic world, saying Washington’s sudden pivot toward closer ties with Russia has undermined the trust of its allies and shaken the global order.

In remarks delivered on Tuesday, Bayrou said the US, once seen as the linchpin of the Organization of Free Nations and a guarantor of international law, had abandoned core Western values. He added it was “shocking” that a country long seen as a pillar of the global order “could suddenly side with the aggressor.” 

Moscow and Washington have been engaged in negotiations since US President Donald Trump took office in January. The two countries have held several rounds of high-level talks focused on a possible peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict and also on restoring bilateral relations.

With 48% of voters paying little or no attention to the campaign, according to an Essential poll, Senator Kim Carr, a former Labor minister, takes a look at how the two major parties have performed in what he describes as an uninspiring campaign.

Kim Carr

With Easter and Anzac Day approaching, what has so far been an uninspiring election campaign will grind to a halt as the country takes a holiday break.

Peter Dutton’s budget reply Speech is full of distortions and many of the key polices are flawed or we cannot be sure they will work as intended. The Labor Party might be criticised as too cautious, but the Coalition is clearly not ready for government.

Michael Keating

March 29, 2025

On Tuesday, the Treasurer in his budget speech detailed Labor’s policies and provided costings for them going forward. Except for the income tax cuts, there were no real surprises. Almost all Labor’s policies had been already announced prior to the Budget.

Hollywood star Mel Gibson, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, has urged the US government to reveal the “truth” about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Australian-born actor shared a clip from journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with former Congressman Curt Weldon, which was published on Monday. The tragedy that took place nearly 25 years ago “might be the biggest scandal in American history,” he wrote on X on Tuesday.

The actor has described the 2001 attacks as “the biggest scandal in American history”

The Trump ascendancy has forced international economic issues and the future strategic outlook onto the Australian election agenda, even if they are at the margins.

This campaign — while dominated by domestic issues, notably the cost of living — is taking place against the background of an extraordinarily volatile external situation, with major implications for Australia’s future.

Michelle Grattan

In December 2021, Russia demanded that the West respect the MINSK AGREEMENTS... These agreements, SIGNED BY RUSSIA, UKRAINE, FRANCE AND GERMANY, allowed the Breakaway provinces of Ukraine to stay as UKRAINIAN AUTONOMOUS REGIONS... THE WEST refused. AS WELL, the west refused to acknowledge security guarantees for RUSSIA TO EXIST — and the West pushed for NATO EXPANSION into Ukraine. These Agreements had been broken by the KIEV regime since the date they were signed....

We also need to know that the AMERICAN EMPIRE has wished to destroy RUSSIA since 1917. 

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has branded incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz a Nazi after he allegedly suggested that Kiev should destroy the Crimean Bridge.

In an interview with state broadcaster ARD, Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the likely future leader of Germany, stated that Berlin could supply long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, but only if it is done in coordination with other EU nations.

Kiev should in the future use Western-supplied missiles to go on the offensive and destroy, for example, “the most important land connection between Russia and Crimea,” Merz said.

Vladimir Zelensky’s office announced on Tuesday that it has fired the head of Ukraine’s Sumy Regional Military Administration, Vladimir Artyukh. The move follows accusations that Artyukh organized a military awards ceremony that was targeted in a Russian missile strike.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it carried out a precision strike the previous day on a gathering of Ukrainian command staff in the border city of Sumy. Two Iskander-M missiles were used in the attack on Sunday, it said, adding that over 60 senior Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the strike.

The local Ukrainian authorities have claimed that the attack targeted a military awards ceremony for the 117th Territorial Defense Brigade. Officials reported that the strike resulted in 35 civilian deaths and 129 others injured. 

Holy freakin' crap... Bill Maher is FLIPPING after meeting Trump....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0182h4Q3YJQ

Celebrities did not respond kindly to comedian Bill Maher visiting the White House for dinner with President Trump and were even more incensed over his retelling of the dinner.

As Breitbart News reported, Maher finally divulged the details about his dinner with Trump weeks after teasing it, describing the president as gracious and completely different from the man he knew on television.

CNN: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to exempt electronic devices — like smartphones, iPhones and laptops — from tariffs was only a temporary reprieve but those products will face separate levies, adding more confusion to an already chaotic rollout of tariffs on Chinese goods.

Whoever is an aspiring Marian Christian like the writer obviously has in his heart a deep devotion to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina who in his diary made a bitter prophetic statement about the “Christian Homeland” which unfortunately turned out to be spot on…

• Fabio G.C. Carisio

Gas is the talk of the town, while nuclear is not, but a massive increase in solar power generation capacity has already put Australia on the fast track to a 100% renewable energy future. Solar cell engineer Andrew Blakers explains.

An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas heaters a few years ago and installed electric heat pumps for space and water heating. His gas bill went to zero. He also bought an electric vehicle, so his petrol bill went to zero.

    by Andrew Blakers

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky should never have started a war with Russia, US President Donald Trump has said.

In a press conference alongside El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump commented on Zelensky’s recent offer to finance $15 billion worth of Patriot air defense batteries with the aid of Kiev’s European backers.

“He’s always looking to purchase missiles,” the US presided noted.

Zelensky started the war then begged for missiles – Trump
The Ukrainian leader has recently renewed his call for Washington to supply air defense systems

“When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war,” he said of Zelensky. “You don’t start a war against somebody that’s 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

The American Empire is still fighting to be top dog — especially under Trump, who has inherited a declining empire from the Democrats… Some “democrat”-inclined people are still saying that the economy under Biden was solid, but in fact “Bidenomics” were on the skids, due to the increasingly unmanageable HUGE deficit being used to “finance the cushions”… 

Joining too many dots, mainly Jewish….

BY GUS LEONISKY

Palantir Technologies — its name derived from the “seeing-stones” of deception (Palantir) that allow their holder to see across great distances to track friends and foes, in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — has been called the “most evil company on the planet” by critics[1] — on both the traditional Left and Right.