I live in the inner west/southwest of Sydney, traditional lands of the Gadigal, Wangal and Darug-speaking peoples. Our built heritage traces the area’s development and amplifies its desirability, economic viability, and people’s quality of life. According to Time Out, Marrickville and Enmore are some of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world.

Britain’s left-wing Party, Labour, has now disappeared into being a ‘competitor’ ‘against’ Britain’s right-wing Party, the Conservatives, competing for conservative voters, condemning progressive voters, and has abandoned voters who are to the left of center. Voters to the left of center have no longer political representation in either Party. Here is how that result was engineered by Britain’s billionaires (who basically control British politics):

Neoliberalist theory and practice went so horribly wrong because governments that put their faith in markets forgot one word – competition.

From the early-1980s, much of the Western world began turning to neoliberalism – a faith in free markets and smaller government. The collapse of the Soviet Union by the end of that decade confirmed neoliberalism as the dominant economic philosophy. But neoliberalism is now dead. Who killed neoliberalism and what will replace it?

I write this brief letter and appeal on this fifty-second day of conflict between the Israeli government and the hapless population in Gaza. I also write as a child of Holocaust and concentration camp survivors.

LETTER TO THE DANDENONG COUNCIL, Melbourne, Australia, ABOUT THE IMMINENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA, November 29, 2023.

The Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has apparently revealed the true goal of his country’s enduring support for Ukraine and it has nothing to do with defending “democracy” or even battling Russia, but boils down to the modernization of the US military-industrial complex, ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of the country’s National Security Council, took to social media platform X on Sunday, commenting on a speech made by Austin at the Reagan National Defense Forum in the US.

“We’ve launched what the Army calls ‘the most ambitious modernization effort in nearly 40 years’ for our defense industrial base,” the Pentagon boss said during the event.

OUR DESTRUCTION OF nature IS LEGENDARY

as we burn more OIL than IS necessary

FURTIVE SHADOWs OF PASSING PLANES

That BOMB showers of goodwill in vain

because THE DEAD SPEAK ILL of THEMSELVES

FOR the survivors do their BEST

To hate and dream OF revenge lest

IN ALL HONESTY, I could be DISHONEST

NO WORRIES, mate, I WILL WALK AROUND TROUBLE

through the mud of life and THIS little soap bubble

in the SLOW wake of DANCING scented men…..

Dressed in flowery shirts next TO some dirty villain

STINKING OF dried and bleeding BLOOD mixed with cordite

alight

Her SINGING IF ALLOWED WOULD MAKE THE MILK CURDLE

Freedom of speech in America and most European nations has fully receded into a mythological concept. The American constitutional right is no longer valid.

Take it from someone whose entire YouTube channel has been demonetized and suppressed. My name on Facebook and Instagram is a synonym (at least from Meta’s point of view) of the words “election interference.” Any positive press about me is suppressed, and accounts that support me get punished. X, formerly Twitter, deboosts and shadow-bans me. I am not alone but one of the thousands, maybe millions, of voices the powers that be want to be silenced. We don’t follow the narrative that supports the military-industrial complex of the West.

BY TARA READE....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/25/liz-truss-washington-dc-republicans-ukraine-war/

https://www.rt.com/russia/588361-ukranian-elections-cancelled-us/

https://www.rt.com/news/588418-nato-chief-stoltenberg-ukraine-bad-news/

https://www.rt.com/news/588387-white-house-ukraine-aid/

The point here is the West is slowly working out an “exit strategy”… etc...

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?

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.

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.