The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has admitted there “really is” a dictatorship in his country, and it is one of “stability, security, order, kindness and hospitality.”

Lukashenko made the comments on Saturday at a ceremony honoring farmers in the country’s Grodno Region. Speaking about Western sanctions imposed on Belarus, he recalled that in July, Minsk expanded its visa-free regime to include the citizens of 35 European countries, allowing more Westerners to see the country for themselves.

“Already about a million people have been able to see with their own eyes that there really is a dictatorship in Belarus,” he said, according to Belta news agency. He clarified that this is “a dictatorship of stability, security, order, kindness and hospitality. A dictatorship of justice.”

The Foreign minister Penny Wong should recall Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to Washington.

Australia badly needs an ambassador who performs the traditional diplomatic role of trying to prevent a war: in this case, one involving Australia, China and the US. Instead, Rudd is promoting a new book in the US, “On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World”. He has also been performing his many other ambassadorial roles.

We aren’t being smart. I want us to be smarter. 

You want to win the culture war? Make America smart again. 

Allow me to introduce “Smart-ism”—a cure to what Donald Trump so rightly named “Stupid-ism”  in his recent interview with the philanthropist Tom Klingenstein. Trump coined the term “Stupid-ism” while he and Klingenstein were trying to find the most fitting moniker to give to our left-wing opponents. 

BY Tiffany Marie Brannon

"Many Western states and elites have consented, actively or passively, to the devastation of the Gaza Strip and the massacre of its population by Israel. To reach this conclusion, anthropologist Didier Fassin immersed himself in the analysis of the events that have shaken the region of Palestine since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.

Professor of ethics at the Collège de France (where he holds the chair of Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies) and at Princeton University, he has just published Une étrange défaite (La Découverte), a book in which he questions the interpretations to which this conflict has given rise. All the while keeping in mind this question that underlies most of his work: is one life worth another?"

BUT FIRST LET'S INVESTIGATE THE MAIDAN "REVOLUTION" (ARTICLE FROM FEBRUARY 2024)

Ten years ago, a sniper massacre of police officers and Maidan activists created a highly explosive atmosphere on the Maidan in Kiev and triggered the coup against the Ukrainian government that followed two days later. In an interview with Multipolar, political scientist Ivan Katchanovski from the University of Ottawa explains the course of events, the available evidence, the questionable role of the german broadcaster ARD and the findings of a recent Kiev court ruling on the mass murder. The judges found that right-wing extremist Maidan fighters fired from the Hotel Ukraina, and other places, and are responsible for the deaths of at least ten people.

In meteorological terms, the current geopolitical world view points to hurricane force winds of a magnitude we have never seen before.
   There is the deliberately misrepresented war in Ukraine, the brutal slaughter in Palestine and the civil wars in Myanmar, in the Republic of Congo, in Syria and Venezuela. Climate change-related disasters occur in Africa and the Caribbean, mafia violence dominates life in Haiti.
 

While so many in the world hold their breath for Harris or Trump it would also be wise to keep an eye on Germany. A sharp eye! A look at history books would also be advisable. For between Alps and Baltic, Rhine and Oder, the fearsome rhythm of marching boots is once again growing in volume.

    By Victor Grossman

Just 15 years ago, Chinese consumers were flocking to Western brands. Now they prefer Chinese ones.

The fate of the Starbucks Group is telling: Sales and profits in its current 7,300 stores in China are declining. The Chinese are not drinking less coffee, but prefer Chinese brands, partly because they offer more for less money.

Luckin Coffee, which was only founded in 2017, is rapidly taking market share from the American market leader. Even outside of China, such as in Singapore, Luckin Coffee stores are popping up everywhere and competing with Starbucks.

Yeltsin grinned while Clinton cried.

The Russian president had just blurted out his unfiltered reaction to American news reporting.

It was October, 1995. Clinton and Yeltsin had just spoken at the United Nations 50th anniversary meeting.

The next day the two presidents got together at Hyde Park, New York for a bilateral meeting followed by a press conference.

    by William Dunkerley

British King ‘making millions’ from secret property empire – The Times
The royal family earned nearly $65 million last year alone, including rent received from the army, NHS and schools, a media investigation has found

King Charles III and his son Prince William have contracts with UK taxpayer-funded public services, charities, government departments and even a prison, which help them earn millions every year, the Sunday Times has claimed. That’s in addition to the so-called sovereign grant the royals get from the government. 

In 2023 alone, Charles and William’s “private fiefdoms,” the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall - raised £27.4 million (over $35 million) and £23.6 million ($30 million) respectively for the British royal family, the newspaper found as part of a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches program.

Das Europaparlament attackiert eine UN-Resolution, die Chinas UN-Mitgliedschaft regelt. Ziel ist die Aufnahme Taiwans in UN-Organisationen. Damit attackiert das Europaparlament zugleich eine rote Linie Beijings.

masterminds against China

The European Parliament is attacking a UN resolution that regulates China's UN membership. The aim is to admit Taiwan into UN organizations. In doing so, the European Parliament is also attacking a red line of Beijing

If you want to read an excellent example of schizophrenia, take time and read the NY Times piece published on Friday — As Russia Advances, U.S. Fears Ukraine Has Entered a Grim Phase. It is a mixture of truth and lies. The following passage is emblematic:

American military and intelligence officials have concluded that the war in Ukraine is no longer a stalemate as Russia makes steady gains, and the sense of pessimism in Kyiv and Washington is deepening.

The dip in morale and questions about whether American support will continue pose their own threat to Ukraine’s war effort. Ukraine is losing territory in the east, and its forces inside Russia have been partially pushed back.

IT IS NOT AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT KAMALA AND DONALD HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND ITS FUTURE... SO HERE IS A LIST OF ISSUES — SIMPLIFIED FOR THESE AMERICAN POLITICAL CIRCUS CLOWNS:

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES:

UKRAINE — SEND MORE WEAPONS AND START WW3?

ISRAEL — SEND MORE WEAPONS AND KILL MORE WOMEN AND CHILDREN?

BRICS — NEVER HEARD OF IT?....

GLOBAL WARMING? WHERE?

EUROPE — CONTAINED VASSAL FULL OF LEADING IDIOTS?

LOCAL ISSUES:

EMPLOYMENT — CHINA IS THE ENEMY — RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA... 

WAGES — WORKERS ARE THE ENEMY

WOKISM vs CONSERVATISM — GENITALISM FUN vs MARRIAGE IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH

FREEDOM OF SPEECH — EXCEPT IF IT'S CONTRARY TO "MY" VIEWS

PURPOSE:

CONQUER THE WORLD?

COOPERATE WITH THE WORLD?

Kemi Badenoch has been elected as the new leader of the UK’s Conservatives in a vote on Saturday, replacing Rishi Sunak and becoming the first black woman to lead a major British political party.

Born in the UK and raised in Nigeria and the US, the 44-year-old beat leadership rival MP Robert Jenrick by 12,418 votes, according to the state broadcaster the BBC. In her victory speech, Badenoch, who became an MP in 2017 after a career in banking and IT, vowed to renew the party after it suffered its worst defeat in the general election in July.

She has stressed the need to “bring back” voters that have abandoned the Tories, claiming that the party is “critical to the success of our country.”

The Five Eyes intelligence group is reportedly considering the creation of a top-secret cloud environment that would allow its members to more easily share data, the outlet Breaking Defense reported on Tuesday.

Officials from all of the group’s member countries, which include the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, reportedly agreed at a recent Department of Defense Intelligence Information System conference (DODIIS) that such technology would “turn information technology interoperability into a reality,” the outlet said.

It is also envisioned that the information stored on the cloud could be “tagged” with metadata that would help identify where the intelligence came from, according to Brig. Gen. Eric Vandenberg, who heads the general intelligence enterprise for the Canadian Department of National Defense.