ONE NEEDS TO REREAD “IL PRINCIPE” DAILY… OKAY, WEEKLY… SURE, MONTHLY… DO IT ONCE A YEAR IF YOU ARE LAZY… AT LEAST ONCE IN A LIFETIME.....

... non lo potrà mai fare se non trae di quella equalità molti d'animo ambizioso e inquieto, e quelli fa gentiluomini in fatti, e non in nome, donando loro castella e possessioni e donando loro favore di sustanze e di uomini, acciocché, posto in mezzo di loro mediante quegli mantenga la sua potenza ed essi mediante quello la loro ambizione, e gli altri siano constretti a sopportare quel giogo che la forza, e non altro mai, può fare sopportare loro.

WE KOWN FROM RECENT EVENTS IN CANADA THAT THE UKRAINIAN NAZIS FOUND SOLACE IN CANADA... THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FROM "THE CANADA FILES" EXPLAINS: 

New Year’s Day always brings a degree of optimism.  It’s a fresh start. And the New Year can’t be as bad as the one just concluded, can it? 

2023 saw the war in Ukraine drag on even though it became clear after its expected failed offensive that Kiev cannot win the war, and after the Ukrainian side admitted it had a deal with Russia just after the war started that would have saved hundreds of thousands of soldiers’ lives. Ukraine would have lost less territory too had the U.S. not scotched the deal.  

And 2023 saw the start of a genocidal war by Israel against Gaza in a renewed push to complete Israel’s 1947 dream to control all of historic Palestine by driving even more Palestinians off their land.   

Labor will have – already has – squandered its time and its opportunities. It needs leadership of guts and vision, not timidity, caution and mortal terror of offending anyone.

The holiday season, about midterm in the life of the Albanese government is a good time for academics and journalists to begin making notes, commencing diaries and preparing pitches to publishers about the fate of the government.

Ukraine is a mere tool in the hands of the collective West which is using it to fight Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. He was speaking at a military hospital in Moscow where he met servicemen wounded during the ongoing conflict.

Asked about the enduring Western support for Kiev, the president said the elites of the collective West were actually the true enemy of Russia, rather than Ukraine itself. 

“The point is not that they are helping our enemy, but that they are our enemy. They are solving their own problems with [Ukraine’s] hands, that’s what it’s all about,” Putin stated.

The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024. 

In a new year's message, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for "prolonged fighting". 

James Stavridis, the retired Navy Admiral and NATO’s former supreme allied commander for Europe, has made another prediction.

At the beginning of 2023, Stavridis predicted that Russia would “be burned through and exhausted, losing so many men, so much equipment.” His prediction for Russian President Vladimir Putin? Putin will meet the same fate as Nicholas II.

BY Bradley Devlin

Despite this outlandish prediction, Stavridis had a rather sensible prescription: “Let’s all push for a negotiation sometime mid-2023.”

The presumption of innocence the French leader invoked in discussing the sexual assault allegations against the actor is a principle worth defending. But to proclaim pride in a man who regularly displays his contempt for France and his admiration for Vladimir Putin is ludicrous.

Le Monde editorial

Since 2017 and the revelations about predatory film producer Harvey Weinstein, the wave that has liberated the expression of women victims of sexist and sexual violence has also shaken up the way societies, in France as elsewhere, view these acts and their perpetrators, whether anonymous or famous. Because their lives are scrutinized by public opinion as a whole and because their behavior is considered emblematic, artists have fueled debate, often scandal and sometimes progress.

One of two Diggers to die during the Iraq conflict, Jake Kovco, was shot by his own gun, and John Howard made a great show of attending the corporal’s funeral in his small Victorian High Country hometown to calm fears and criticism about the war. But Australians remain none the wiser about what prompted the prime minister to go to war nearly 21 years ago. And they may stay in the dark for a little while longer.

The National Archives of Australia on Monday released the cabinet papers of Howard’s government, but the submissions relied upon by the nation’s spy agencies to justify the decision to join the “coalition of the willing” were missing in action.

China looms large in the Australian psyche. On a practical level, what happens in China largely determines the success of global action to deal with climate change, the profitability of our rural economy and the financing of our universities. Our national leaders are concerned about rising tensions in our region and the interplay of US-China relations. How are we to find our way through media doom and gloom and come to grips with the reality of China?

Modern Ukraine is the bastard child of (Russian) communism and (German) fascism — a child that the American Empire is trying to steal from its bickering divorced parents. The western media is supporting the robbery.

Take this crap for example by "the Conversation"...:

Ukraine can still defeat Russia, but it needs the right tools to do it.

Ukraine’s strategic position has declined over the last six months. The summer offensive, which sparked hope among Ukraine and its supporters, failed to deliver significant territorial gains.

Investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger died at age 84 on Saturday at his home in London, his family announced on Sunday in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Pilger was known for his hard-hitting exposés on the human cost of empire, from the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Iraq, to Western democracies’ systematic repression of their own working classes. His documentaries include ‘Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia’, ‘Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror’, ‘The War on Democracy’, ‘Palestine is Still the Issue’, and ‘The Coming War with China’. 

“Every journalist, even though they may not know it, owes a debt to John Pilger,” Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi told RT on Sunday, calling the award-winning filmmaker “one of the greatest journalists in all of history.”

The recent escalation in reckless Houthi attacks originating from Yemen threatens the free flow of commerce, endangers innocent mariners, and violates international law. The Red Sea is a critical waterway that has been essential to freedom of navigation and a major commercial corridor that facilitates international trade.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement from Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Ensuring Freedom of Navigation in the Red Sea

Countries that seek to uphold the foundational principle of freedom of navigation must come together to tackle the challenge posed by this non-state actor launching ballistic missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) at merchant vessels from many nations lawfully transiting international waters.

That the Albanese government could further compromise Australia’s sovereignty, international integrity and national interests seemed inconceivable. Yet, intelligence, a vital government function inextricably connected with independence and protecting national interest, is being penetrated and colonised by the Americans.

A repost from August 3, 2023. 

By Mike Scrafton

On the anniversary of Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen's death (September 1923), the horrible man, and on the present killing of nearly 10,000 children by the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) and on the grooming of (millions of?) kids as exposed by the movie Sound of Freedom, we should ask what is wrong with the world... The answer is simple: us. 

NO WE DO NOT DO THE KILLINGS, BUT WE FIND EXCUSES FOR IT... NO, WE DO NOT DO THE ABUSE, BUT WE REFUSE TO SEE THE MOVIE....

Child sexual exploitation is a form of sexual abuse where offenders use their power, (physical, financial or emotional) over a child or young person, or a false identity, to sexually or emotionally abuse them.