Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, saying he wants to do "everything possible" to support the recovery of thousands of servicemen seriously injured in the war.

As reported by The Guardian, during his trip to the Ukrainian capital, he and the team from his Invictus Games Foundation intend to set out in detail new initiatives to support the rehabilitation of the wounded, with the ultimate aim of extending help across all regions of the country.

State lying is not an accident of politics: it is its mother tongue.

Brutal dictatorship attacks the body, but insidious tyranny targets the mind and the means of survival. One can escape the blows; one does not always recover from a lifetime spent pretending to believe in them. 

 

The Empire of Lies: A Success Story

 

by Azzedine Kaamil Aït-Ameur

 

[GUSNOTE: THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS IN MORE DETAILS WHAT WE "PHILOSOPHICALLY" EXPOSED IN 2006: "The Age of Deceit"]

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius requested 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) more over the next two years for military support to Ukraine than was approved by the German government, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday.

Due to this disagreement, planned contracts with the Ukrainian defense industry must now be suspended, and support measures for the Ukrainian armed forces will have to be partially canceled or reduced, the report said.

The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains.

Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see?

 

No controversy, please. We are the Aussie Government!

by Rex Patrick

 

In the current Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, parts of a document can be redacted if the contents would disclose deliberative matter; that is, advice, recommendations and consultations. It’s a catch-all exemption deployed regularly in response to document requests.

In reshaping the world for prosperity, humanity has undermined the very foundations of progress.

So warns the latest study from the World Bank Group, entitled Reboot development: the economics of a liveable planet.

 

Julian Cribb

Can we save a 'livable Earth'?

 

 

There is a lot of opinions about “Russia invading Poland with drones”…

Some commentators are suggesting that the Russians are "invading Poland with drones" deliberately so to distract the NATO forces from what is happening at the “front” (where there are "no NATO troops"), while forcing the military in NATO territories to scramble… Trump has called it a “mistake” as if the event was accidentally done by the RUSSIANS… while he hopes the conflict will stop soon under his command... Fat luck....

From a Russian perspective, there is nothing to gain for Russia having its drones cross the Polish border. All this does is bring brickbats from most decent people around the world onto Russia…

So, who benefits? The Nazi government in Kiev is the main immediate beneficiary…. We know… False flag? 90 per cent...

Washington has dismantled its decades-long strategy of balancing competing regional powers in West Asia, opting instead to destabilize the region through its full-spectrum military, diplomatic, and intelligence backing of the Israeli occupation state. 

Where the post-9/11 years were defined by US-led regime change and nation-building, today's strategy is defined by state-breaking and governance erosion.

This transformation is most clearly reflected in Israel’s new audacity. Biden administration official Amos Hochstein declared Tel Aviv to be “the absolute, overwhelming, dominant military hegemon of the Middle East.” In the past few days alone, Israel has bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and for the first time, the US-aligned Qatar.

 

OUR DEMOCRACIES rely on voters. Voters have to make choices as to who or what ideas are going to represent these choices. Choices are made on various influences:

— what’s best for me?

— what’s best for the “community”

— I trust an ideology

— Party politics

— PROPAGANDA

 

PROPAGANDA is a funny beast as it can be the truth being spruiked or lies being promoted as truth.

 

How do we find out we are not lied to?

Being an old dog — a political cartoonist since 1951 — Gus hopes that he gets it right at most times. Experience tells you that roses have thorns and cupboards may have skeletons in them…

Nature can tell us a lot about deception and traps or webs of deceit, in order to assure survival of a species — or the extend of territory. 

 

Countries of the South Pacific have good reason to encourage China and other countries to assist them with infrastructure. And there is nothing that Australia should, or could, do about it.

But climate change is far more important

 

John Menadue

Climate change, not China, is the real threat in the South Pacific

 

Within minutes of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk being assassinated at an event in Utah on Wednesday, authorities had arrested at least one suspect – a Boomer – before releasing him and confirming that the perp remains at large. One can hardly call that profiling surprising these days.

 

Brainwashed Boomers are ready to kill for the Western establishment
The generation associated with all kinds of revolution is now smashing the rebels and protecting the rulers

BY Rachel Marsden

 

President Donald Trump has vowed to pursue not only the assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk but also those he accused of funding and fueling “radical left” political violence across the United States.

In a video statement posted Wednesday night on Truth Social, Trump described Kirk, 31, as a “patriot”and a “martyr for truth and freedom,”praising him for inspiring young Americans through debates on college campuses nationwide.

“Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country,” Trump said. “An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed, because together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and his legacy will live on for countless generations to come.”

The little dog was not fussed

His master was mad but nonplussed

Screaming obscenities at the crossing crowd

Smoking a butt in a vanishing white puff

While pushing a pram of recycled stuff

Making a trotting mutt so most proud

The master was saving the whole planet 

On such important business taking a bet

For the mad ruler of the universe in Tel-Aviv

Was killing an inferior race he led us to believe

Starving kids

Bombing mothers

Shooting fathers 

Murdering brothers

Assassinating others

Bulldozing for quids

Only a mad cat would befriend such a crappy rat

With a circumcised dick and a little round hat

Such humans hope god Yahweh will love them

More than most chosen as they create mayhem 

On their ruthless way to dying Jerusalem. Amen

 

 

India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with Western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity. 

 

India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU

BY M.K. Bhadrakumar

 

The plain truth is, the real obsession of the Western media was to vilify the U.S. President Donald Trump for having “lost” India by caricaturing a three-way Moscow-Delhi-Beijing partnership as an attempt to conspire against the United States. 

Half-truths and hypocrisy: GPS-jammed Ursula von der Leyen speaks again
From “Europe must fight” to drones sold as peace and a tale of stolen children debunked, the EU president’s state of the union was heavy on rhetoric and light on reality.....

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual state of the union speech in Brussels on Wednesday. It was a performance full of urgency and sweeping rhetoric – Europe’s “fight,”an “independence moment,” and even plans to turn frozen Russian assets into weapons for Ukraine.

But behind the soundbites, her vision is riddled with contradictions.

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s de facto foreign minister (and former prime minister of Estonia), is unusually, grotesquely incompetent, even for an unelected EU apparatchik.

Like former German Foreign Minister Annalena “360 Degrees” Baerbock – now instagraming like an excited upper-class teenager from her ill-begotten UN sinecure in New York – Kallas also displays an enormous capacity for being pleased with herself. She appears never happier than when holding a mic to her own platitudes, presented in a mortifyingly basic form of very labored English, while being obsequiously soft-balled by a fawning interviewer.