THE VOTES ARE in, the people have spoken, and Dominion has chosen the winner. Elon Musk will be stepping down as CEO of Twitter!

As of the moment this was written, there’s been no confirmation from Musk that he’ll actually follow through on this, and if so, when. It will certainly be interesting to see if he does. But also, who cares? Ultimately it makes little or no difference.

“These companies know their climate pledges are inadequate, but are prioritising Big Oil’s record profits over the human costs of climate change,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney.

A trove of internal documents from companies including BP, ExxonMobil, and Chevron reveal how the fossil fuel industry has continued to make massive long-term investments in oil and gas extraction even as the corporations have publicly claimed to be committed to aiding in a transition to a renewable energy economy.

By Guest author Julia Conley

FROM TURDY ABBOTT — no more Mr Nice Guy — TO SCAMMER SCOMO, THE "DEREGULATION, THE POWER SELL-OFFS AND THE ANTI-WINDMILLS" "LIBERAL" (AUSTRALIAN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVES FOR PROFIT, GREED, GUNS AND GOD) POLICIES PLUS THE AWFUL HALF-BAKED MALCOLMIAN NBN, ORDINARY AUSSIES HAVE BEEN SHORT CHANGED.

NOW THE LABOR GOVERNMENT HAS HAD TO "INTRODUCE" (LEGISLATE) A PRICE CAP ON GAS TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE TO YOUR GAS/POWER BILL. MEANWHILE THE GREEDY GAS COMPANIES, ALREADY SUFFERING FROM LARGE SUBSIDIES, ARE BLEEDING TO DEATH FROM A GENEROUS TOP-END GOLDEN-MARK FOR THIS GAS TO CONSUMERS... THE (KONSERVATIVE) MEDIA OBLIGES....

It’s an interesting time for culture war red herrings in the shadow of the empire. 

There are no major electoral races currently underway. Government Covid regulations have been mostly rolled back. The empire is waging an extremely dangerous and continually escalating proxy war with Russia that should be getting a lot of scrutiny. 

If one didn’t know better one might expect this to be a time when the rank-and-file public would be doing a bit less barking and snarling at one another and a bit more at the people in charge.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, urging US lawmakers to drop all their disagreements and unite behind Ukraine, while advocating for the passage of a $1.7 trillion spending bill that includes $45 billion in military and other aid earmarked for Kiev in 2023.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked all members to attend in person to hear the “historic” speech, which Zelensky delivered in English, repeatedly interrupted by standing ovations. After several minutes of applause, the former actor opened his speech by thanking “all those who value freedom and justice.”

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Isaac Herzog late on Wednesday night to announce he has successfully formed a government, nearly 40 days after the Likud chairman received the mandate to form a government from Herzog, taking the deadline down the wire.

Netanyahu told Herzog that the new government, which will be comprised of the Likud, Religious Zionists Party (RZP), Shas, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), Otzma Yehudit and Noam factions, will work for "all Israeli citizens," a statement published by the Likud noted.

According to the diaries of former Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Keating told the British Labour leader of Murdoch: "He's a big bad [expletive], and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad [expletive] too." 

But as Trump is no doubt aware, the media baron's idea of a personal connection is just as transactional as his own is often said to be.

Or as one witness, in evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, said witheringly of one Murdoch paper's treacherous dealings: "It's just business.”

GUS: DEBT HAS BEEN USED BY THE WEST, AKA THE USA, AS A MEANS TO KEEP MANY NATIONS UNDERFOOT. IT'S THE NEW (OLD) FORM OF COLONIALISM THAT IS MANIPULATED BY THE SUPPLIERS OF CASH. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO PERSONNAL DEBT IN MANY COUNTRIES, THERE ARE NO OVERSEERS TO THE WAY, SAY THE IMF OR THE WORLD BANK TWEAK THE DEBTS TO KEEP MANY COUNTRIES IN A STATE OF SLAVERY. MANIPULATION OF CURRENCIES LIKE THOSE MADE BY SOROS AND OTHERS, INCLUDING THE IMF AND THE WORLD BANK SHOULD BE ILLEGAL AS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THEY DO NOT REFLECT THE TRUE NATURE OF THE MARKETS...

SO HERE WE GO:

The external debt of the world’s low- and middle-income countries at the end of 2021 totaled $9 trillion, more than double the amount a decade ago. Such debt is expected to increase by an additional $1.1 trillion in 2023.

Patrick Lawrence delivered the following remarks, based on his book Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, before the Committee for the Republic in Washington on December 15. The Committee is a nonpartisan group founded in 2003 that advocates a restoration of the U.S. Constitution, notably the War Powers Act, which assigns Congress, and not the Executive, the power to declare war.   

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By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost

The White House stated on Tuesday that reviving the nuclear deal with Iran is “not our focus right now,” after an unconfirmed video of US President Joe Biden calling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “dead” was put online. 

“There is no progress happening with respect to the Iran deal now. We don't anticipate any progress anytime in the near future. That's just not our focus,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on a briefing call, when asked about the video.

Biden apparently made the admission after a campaign rally last month in California. In the short video, posted on Twitter by user Damon Maghsoudi and reported by Axios on Tuesday, a woman asks Biden to announce that the JCPOA is dead.

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk is looking for a new chief executive to lead the company after the platform’s users voted for him to resign, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing its sources.

People familiar with the matter told the media outlet that Musk’s search for a new CEO has been ongoing and began before the Twitter poll.

On Sunday, the billionaire posted an informal poll asking Twitter users if he should step down as head of the company. Warning the audience to “be careful what you wish, as you might get it,” Musk said he would abide by the results of the poll. The businessman also noted that nobody to replace him had been found yet.

AND HERE I WAS THINKING THAT THE OLD POLITICAL DIVISION BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT WAS KAPUT. THE LEFT (IN AMERICA AND IN EUROPE) PRESENTLY SUPPORTS THE NAZI ZELENSKY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES — BECAUSE OF THEIR WHITE HATE OF PUTIN WHO'S TRYING TO SAVE RUSSIA FROM THE NATO DEMOLITION DERBY.

THE LEFT IN THE UK WENT TO WAR UNDER FALSE PRETENCES WITH THE RIGHT OF THE USA (BLAIR JOINING BUSH AND HOWARD — OUR LITTLE LIAR/WARMONGER). OVERALL, POLITICS IN THE WEST HAVE HEAVILY LEANED TO THE RIGHT, DESPITE SOME COUNTRIES BEING "GREEN", "OF THE LEFT", IN THEIR NON-PRACTICAL APPLICATION: THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS HAVE BEEN DECIMATED, THE BOURGEOISIE THINKS IT HAS JOINED THE ELITE, WHILE THE ELITE THAT CONTROLS (NO-ONE REALLY CONTROLS THIS) THE "ECONOMIES" STEALS FROM EVERYONE.

One after another, statistical surveys on the level of French pupils confirm the appalling deterioration of education in the country. Whether we compare today's French pupils to those of yesterday (like the last survey on spelling in CM2) or whether we compare them to pupils from other countries, as in the PISA statistics [the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment. It measures 15-year-olds' ability to read, process mathematics and science], for example, all stats point in the same dismal direction.

BY Denis COLLIN

THIS CARTOON FROM SUPERMAN (1943) SHOWS AN ANTIQUATED THINKING, WHEN FIGHTING WAS "MANO A MANO".....

MORE TO COME.

DECEPTION:

TACTICS:

ARSENAL:

KNOWLEDGE:

"DETERMINATION":

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW………………..

https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/45958

IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE STUPIDITY OF THE WESTERN LEADERS AND THE IDIOCY OF THEIR ZELENSKY NAZI PUPPET, WE NEED TO EXPLORE WHAT THE WEST DEPLORES: THE FRONT LINES OR "MEAT GRINDER" WHERE THE "UKRAINIAN" ARMY, THE "UKRO-ANTLANTICIST" ENABLER (*) IS LOOSING "THE WAR".... AND SADLY, CIVILIANS GET CAUGHT IN THE CROSS-FIRE. THIS IS A BLOG FROM THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE (RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN ORANGE)....

by Erwan Castel