https://www.rt.com/business/588426-no-science-fossil-fuels-reduction/

 

https://www.rt.com/news/588411-kerry-climate-coal-phase-renewables/

 

https://expose-news.com/2023/12/02/charles-demands-5-trillion-per-year-for-climate-change/

 

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6053

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8_sDjFN1uM

 

Proposals for Gaza by the EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell reflect long-standing European concerns, and show an aspiration to become more involved in a cooperative solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Can these European concerns and aspirations have some tangible bearing on Palestinian political prospects?

 

“EU has to learn to use the language of power” says Borrell    By Benedict Moleta

 

After seven weeks of relentless Israeli bombing throughout Gaza, according to the modest estimates of the UN as of November 23 (right before a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect), more than 14,800 people have been killed in the enclave, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women.

 

I lived through two Israel-Gaza wars. This one is the worst

 

JOE BIDEN IS A CHEAT. HE WILL ROB YOU WITH A BIG CLOWNATIC SMILE RATHER THAN A GUN, THOUGH HE MIGHT THREATEN YOU IF YOU DON’T COMPLY IN HANDING OVER YOUR HOUSE. NOTHING MUCH DIFFERENT FROM (MOST OF) AMERICAN POLITICIANS… JOE IS AN AVERAGE LOVELY JOE. HE’S NOT UNIK, HE’S THE PRESENT increasing DUMBWIT THAT REPRESENTS AMERIKA’S POWER AT ITS BEST: F**K THE REST OF THE WORLD… ACTUALLY, WE OWN IT. I can't remember anythink...

 

SO, HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE JOE — SOCIOPATHS, LIARS, SPIVS — grifters, chiselers, defrauders, gougers, scammers, swindlers, flim-flam men and women — END UP AT THE TOP OF THE PILE?

HERE ONE SHOULD DIVERT THROUGH TULSI GABBARD FOR A MINUTE. SHE SHOWS THE GYMNASTICS THAT MAKES pirouettes look like a siesta position… Whyohwhy change ethical ideas and adopt the despicable reverse?

 

IS IT BECAUSE HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS? 

It is now clear that the Ukrainian offensive of the summer and fall of 2023 has failed, with minimal gains and enormous losses. There has been no repeat of the sweeping Ukrainian victories of 2022. Ukrainian army chief General Valery Zaluzhny has admitted that the war has now entered a stalemate.

 

BY ANATOL LIEVEN

 

SHANGHAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently suffering is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health Organisation official said, reiterating that no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the recent cases.

Recently, the issue of “Publish-or-Perish” has come back onto the Australian science policy agenda, with the Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, saying that existing narrow research metrics are creating a “Publish-or-Perish” culture, perversely incentivising researchers to “publish iteratively”, chasing publication volume and citations rather than quality research.

 

Publish or Perish: Escaping the hamster wheel of academic research pursuits    By John Howard

 

Dwindling public attention to the Ukraine conflict will be “fatal,”German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said, in the run-up to a key NATO meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.

The first meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on the level of foreign ministers took place amid a “stalemate” on the frontline, as described by the top Ukrainian general, Valery Zaluzhny, earlier this month. Dmitry Kuleba, Kiev’s top diplomat, rejected the assessment ahead of the meeting.

Western fatigue with Ukraine and its problems topped the agenda during the session, but according to German news program Tagesschau, the ministers offered no concrete solutions.

“The view of Ukraine is currently disappearing from the public – that is fatal,” Baerbock warned, as quoted by the German Foreign Ministry on social media.

Anyone who tries to pressure X (formerly Twitter) through advertising can “go f**k yourself,” the platform’s owner, tech billionaire Elon Musk, said on Wednesday.

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Musk at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday whether his recent trip to Israel was “an apology tour” prompted by allegations of anti-Semitism on X that caused many major advertisers to ditch the platform.

“I hope they stop. Don’t advertise,”Musk responded, to Sorkin’s shock. “If someone’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.”

“Go. F**k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is,” he added. “That’s how I feel. Don’t advertise.”

Say what you want about Napoleon Bonaparte, but there’s no denying that he was an absolute alpha who can still blow a beret right off the head of a Frenchman. The kind that sorely lacks nowadays in Western leadership roles. Which would explain why a new poll, released just as a Ridley Scott-directed biopic about him hits theatres, has found that 74 percent of French view his actions positively. 

 

BY Rachel Marsden

 

The German opposition has questioned Olaf Scholz’s competence as chancellor and urged him to resign, citing his inability to address crucial economic problems.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz was mocked by his peers in the Bundestag while talking about the supplementary budget for the year 2023. In his speech, he stressed that the German economy is facing an energy crisis and that a declaration of “state of emergency” is a legal way to suspend the “debt brake.” This was met by the bitter laughter of opposition members.

For any motorist inching their way through part of Sydney’s inner west, the state government’s traffic modellers have seriously miscalculated the flow-on effects from incorporating a massive spaghetti junction into the road network.

It has turned arterial routes and local streets in the inner-west suburbs of Balmain, Rozelle and Annandale into car parks during the morning rush.

For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.

In the Commonwealth’s prosecution of whistleblower David McBride for his disclosures of possible crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, the Crown has (to date) been successful in arguing something that will surprise most Australians – that being that an Australian soldier does not serve Australia, or the Australian people or the public interest. Instead, a soldier’s oath obliges him or her to swear to do nothing more or less than to “well and truly serve [only] Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and Successors according to law,” and to “resist Her enemies.”

 

Recent statements by a top Ukrainian MP show that the so-called Bucha ‘massacre’ was staged by Kiev to disrupt the peace process with Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

The two countries could have struck an agreement in March 2022 but Kiev backed out of the talks following an intervention from London, Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia claimed last week.

The apparent ‘massacre’ in Bucha made international headlines in April 2022 when Ukrainian forces supposedly found the bodies of hundreds of civilians in a suburb of Kiev that had been under the control of Russian troops, who had left the area days before as part of a “goodwill gesture” as talks continued between the two countries in Istanbul.

Israel has problems with the United Nations. When it comes to the country’s conflict with Palestine, Israeli diplomats quickly become furious as they defy the world organisation and its member states. The ongoing bombardment of the population in Gaza – of densely populated residential areas, refugee camps, schools, hospitals, civilian infrastructure, and journalists and their families – shows that Israel is violating international law.

 

Israel and the United Nations.  by Karin Leukefeld, Bonn and Damascus

 

UN membership subject to conditions