It started about 18 months ago. It was shocking then and is even more so now. 

Listeners, viewers, friends, colleagues and family started to contact me, all with roughly the same question, then and now:

"Is this ad I've seen with you in it real? And should I buy the product?"

What they had seen was a video or article, via Facebook or Instagram, which featured me flogging supplements or weight loss products purporting to treat heart disease, diabetes or obesity. 

 

Deepfake videos of Norman Swan are tricking people into buying unproven supplements at a risk to their own health

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/deepfake-norman-swan-videos-spruiking-unproven-medicines/105038482

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has said that the United States' export controls on artificial intelligence chips to China were "a failure," as companies were turning to locally-developed cutting-edge technology.

"I think, all in all, the export control was a failure," he said, underpinning that companies would use the "second best" option if they couldn't get chips from the American AI leader.

Political developments over the past few weeks in Australia suggest that we may be witnessing the embryonic emergence of a new populist party in this country.

The conservative Liberal/National party coalition suffered a devastating and catastrophic loss at the recent Australian federal election. The incumbent Labor party government won 93 seats in the House of Representatives, while the coalition managed to win only 43.

 

Is a new populist force about to emerge?
As mainstream Australian conservatives become indistinguishable from their Labor opponents, a split in the coalition may give them hope
By Graham Hryce

 

Then this week, in an extraordinary development, the National party refused to renew its coalition agreement with the Liberals that has been in place for decades.

The European Union is providing €;5.5 million ($6.2 million) to support Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) after the broadcaster lost US public funding.

US President Donald Trump's administration suspended funding to the 75-year-old broadcaster in March, accusing it of promoting a news agenda with liberal bias.

But on Tuesday, EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc is releasing the emergency funding as a "safety net for independent journalism."

Australian politicians will go to extraordinary lengths to obfuscate, excuse and lie about their country’s arms trade with Israel but recent investigations by human rights groups, independent media and the Australian Greens reveal that Australia is in breach of every international law prohibiting the sale of arms to countries committing war crimes.

 

Nothing to See Here: Australia’s Hidden Arms Trade With Israel

       By Stefan Moore / Consortium News

 

 

Mark Halperin describes the first time he noticed the beginning Biden’s cognitive decline back in 2017 and Joe Scarborough tells Mark when he realized that the Biden family’s tragic events were starting to take a toll. They also debate whether his public missteps prior to the 2020 election and after he assumed office, were signs of decline or just Biden’s classic gaffes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj8Wlt6_9WE

 

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From October 2, 1919 and for some weeks afterwards, First Lady Edith Wilson (October 15, 1872 — December 28, 1961) unofficially ran the U.S. government following her husband’s (then President Woodrow Wilson’s) life-changing stroke.

Keir Starmer has vowed his EU reset deal will deliver cheaper food and energy for British people, heralding a “win-win” as he sealed the high-stakes agreement with concessions on youth visas and fishing.

“Britain is back on the world stage,” the prime minister said after shaking hands on the deal with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen in London. “It gives us unprecedented access to the EU market, the best of any country … all while sticking to the red lines in our manifesto.”

In this fourth part of our analysis of the foundations of the Jewish myth, after highlighting the historical and theological falsifications and Zionist lies that underlie the construction of the State of Israel, we will examine a crucial aspect of contemporary manipulation with deceptive semantics.

 

The Construction of the Jewish Myth – Part 4

by Phil Broq

 

The Coalition’s election wipeout has rolled like a tidal wave through federal parliament, upending the 80-year-old partnership between the Liberal Party and Nationals, which have typically needed to join forces to win enough seats to form government.

But on Tuesday, Nationals leader David Littleproud delivered the shock announcement that the partnership was over because the Liberals had refused to agree to the Nationals’ policy demands.

Why has the split happened?

Essentially, the Nationals gave Opposition Leader Sussan Ley an ultimatum, and she refused to agree to their terms.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut interest rates, taking the cash rate below 4 per cent for the first time in two years.

At its May meeting, the RBA's monetary policy board decided to decrease the cash rate by 0.25 of a percentage point, to 3.85 per cent.

Following the decision, the Australian dollar dropped from around 64.5 US cents to 64.2 US cents, as expectations of further interest rate cuts rose.

"With inflation expected to remain around target, the board therefore judged that an easing in monetary policy at this meeting was appropriate," the RBA board said in its statement.

France’s foreign intelligence service has denied claims that its director pressured Telegram founder Pavel Durov to censor political content on the messaging platform.

Durov claimed on Sunday that the government of a Western European country – which he hinted was France – had asked him to block conservative Romanian content on Telegram ahead of the country’s presidential runoff. After Paris denied involvement, Durov identified Nicolas Lerner, head of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), as the official behind the request.

PLANETARY MOTION WAS KNOWN WAY BEFORE GALILEO GOT SPANKED BY THE CHURCH FOR CLAIMING THE EARTH CYCLES AROUND THE SUN AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND... MUCH OF WHAT WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM HAD BEEN HIDDEN FROM VIEW — AND STILL IS, BECAUSE IT IS INCONVENIENT TO KNOW... 

SOME KNOWLEDGE IS HIDDEN BY FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES, FOXNEWS AND INGNORAMUSES — OR IS BADLY USED BY A FEW DISINGENUOUS PSEUDO-SCIENTISTS — TO PREVENT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENT GLOBAL WARMING.

 

In times of age old professionalism, it was reasonable to make requests to leaders of powerful institutions and expect a reply, but in times unduly influenced by the alleged efficiency of managerialism, public interests and requests are too often ignored.

 

Stuart Rees

Inaccessible, indifferent, out of touch? A vice-chancellor’s non-response

 

That process and outcome occurred in relation to the ANU vice-chancellor’s non-replies to letters sent by speakers at a public meeting, “Vote for Humanity, Why Genocide is a Key Election Issue” held in a lecture theatre at the Australian National University on Sunday 27 March.

Just days before Donald Trump’s critical phone call with Vladimir Putin, top European leaders are racing to influence his approach amid growing fears that he may broker a peace deal favoring Moscow. Concerned that Ukraine’s core interests could be ignored, Berlin, Paris, and London are urgently coordinating with Trump to prevent any surprise settlement that could shift the balance of the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7lfSKVE-A

 

Fearing a Backroom Deal, Europe Makes Last-Ditch Push to Influence Trump Before Putin Call

 

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

 

One of the more intriguing international stories in recent weeks was the report that Donald Trump, now back in the White House, is set to fly aboard a lavish Boeing 747-8 once owned by the Qatari royal family. While some media dismiss it as just another Trump indulgence, the real story is more revealing – and more political – than it first appears.

 

Made in America? Why Trump’s new jet has ‘Russian roots’ and a Qatari tail
Trump’s jet reveals the collapse of US aerospace prestige and rising Gulf influence

By Alexander Ermakov