"Everything I believe in, everything that I hold sacred is based upon my belief in the honesty and nobility of my fellow agents, and that belief is unshakable, unarguable and incontrovertible. Of course, I could be wrong." - Maxwell Smart, in "The Decoy."

France is a perfect example of centrist elites wrecking the West
Political crises seem to be taking down Western nations one by one, their leaders clinging to hubris and showing a disdain for democracy

It is almost as if some EU capitals have a tenacious death wish. After Berlin’s amazing and ongoing self-Morgenthauing act of industrial suicide for the greater glory of America’s NATO and Zelensky’s Ukraine, Paris is now self-Waterlooing. As France’s newly-discharged prime minister Michel Barnier almost correctly noted, the “country is going through a profound crisis.” 

The use of media and propaganda during the First World War served a multitude of purposes. It was not only used to encourage young men to sign up to the army, it also aimed to keep morale high, and maintain the nation’s will to fight.

Recruitment campaigns 

The most well-known campaign was that of Lord Kitchener’s appeal for volunteers to sign up to the army. Lord Kitchener was Secretary of State for War and had been a career soldier; he believed the war would last up to four years and millions of men would need to be mobilised to win the war. Therefore he created a new volunteer army – soldiers had to be at least 18 years old to join, and 19 before they could be sent abroad to fight.

After President Joe Biden issued an unusual blanket pardon for his son, Hunter, Democratic Congressman Ed Markey has urged the president to extend "preemptive pardons" to other top Democrats whom Donald Trump believes "harmed him" and might otherwise be treated by him in a "fascistic way."

BY Ekaterina Blinova

Gay jihadis: Western media’s latest scam
Terrorists on the offensive in Aleppo seem to be attempting to give themselves a facelift, suddenly embracing diversity

BY Rachel Marsden

Al-Qaeda is back on the rampage once again in Syria, and sounding like their monkey bar training exercises were replaced with a social justice brainwashing course. 

When Canada's parliament praised a Ukrainian war veteran who fought with Nazi Germany, a renewed spotlight was put on a controversial part of Ukraine's history and its memorialisation in Canada.

Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian veteran who was applauded in [THE CANADIAN] parliament [….], served with a Nazi unit called the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS - also known as the Galicia Division - that was formed in 1943.

His appearance was criticised by Jewish groups and other parliamentarians alike. MP Anthony Rota, who invited him, has since resigned as the Speaker of the House of Commons, saying he deeply regretted the mistake.

Megyn Kelly is joined by The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles, host of "The Michael Knowles Show," to talk about the growing feud between Morning Joe and their guest David Frum, Frum's joke about Fox News and Hegseth that started it all, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zelkAt7wU

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

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

Incoming US President Donald Trump will force us, as citizens of the ‘West’, to face the demon in the mirror. 

They “will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.” Donald J Trump about the people of Gaza and their defenders.

“Western justifications for their barbarism is well-established – after all, genocide is a Western liberal value.” Professor Joseph Massad.

New Zealand, Australia and the rest “are aiding a regime that is starving people, they are aiding a regime that is preventing children from having anaesthetics in an operating theatre.” Professor Mohammad Marandi.

Space between hell and sky

Days of unbearable heat

Cooking in an oven like a pie

Swiftly forgotten when cool days come

Desiccating together alone

Gifting ourselves another carbon treat

But knowing what to do about

This unbearable hot place

For history is the controller of space

Time between hell and a hot sky

Demands we do something about

Days of unbearable heat

That we forget when one cool day comes

Swiftly burning another carbon treat

Commitment erased we do nothing about

Cooking in an oven like a tart

Be welter hell conditions our homes

Days of misunderstanding heart

Guilt soon dissolved for we cheat

Days of unbearable heat

Burning the million-years of buried past

Swiftly forgotten when cool days come

Confessing this secret sin of dioxide

The Gaza Strip is a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations has said.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.

That is one child killed every 30 minutes.

Thousands more are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.

The surviving children, many of whom have endured the traumatic impact of multiple wars, have spent their lives under the shadow of an Israeli blockade, influencing every aspect of their existence from birth.

Among the documented children killed, there are at least:

GUSNOTE: SHOW ME AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THAT ADMITS ITS MORAL ERROR AND I WILL SHOW YOU A DUCK LIVING ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON...

When we try to reconcile opposing moral opinions we usually appeal to shared ethical principles. Yet often enough the principles themselves are opposed. We may then try to reconcile opposing principles by clarifying how we arrived at them. But since most of our principles are cultural inheritances, discussions halt at a tolerant mutual respect, even when we remain convinced that the other person is wrong. What is needed is a method in ethics that can uncover the sources of error.

En direct, allocution d’Emmanuel Macron : pas de démission, une loi de finances spéciale avant la mi-décembre… Ce qu’il faut retenir de la prise de parole du chef de l’Etat

Le président de la République a annoncé jeudi soir qu’il nommera « dans les prochains jours un premier ministre ». Il a reconnu que la dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale, en juin, « n’a pas été comprise » par les Français.

The Five Eyes multinational intelligence sharing network has sounded an unprecedented alarm about the threat of young people being radicalised by extremist online content, as authorities warn Australian children as young as 12 are at risk of becoming terrorists.

In a first-of-its-kind intervention, security and law enforcement authorities from Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand said in a joint paper that they were battling to combat an alarming rise in young people who support extremist causes or plan terrorist attacks.

Government spending is keeping Australia out of recession, just as this week’s feeble GDP numbers tallied 7 consecutive quarters of negative growth. Michael Pascoe reports on the moaning business lobby.

A funny thing happened after Wednesday’s weak national accounts figures: a large part of the economic commentariat poured scorn on government spending and investment for keeping the economy afloat. 

In 1947, former British prime minister Winston Churchill famously observed that: “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

This aphorism has been repeated countless times since, especially by those advocating the increased adoption of the Western democratic model of electoral politics around the globe.