The US has removed Syria’s al-Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organisations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
Britain and France have unveiled a new agreement to coordinate their nuclear arsenals more closely, citing what they see as heightened “threats”to security in Europe. Moscow has called the move part of NATO’s overtly anti-Russian policy, warning it would factor the agreement into its military planning.
America Just Made the Greatest Mistake of the 21st Century
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky claimed he had no idea about the atrocities committed by the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during the World War II until confronted on the issue by Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, the latter has told the Polish RMF24 broadcaster.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a flooding: With apologies to T. S. Eliot
THE DEVIL OF MONEY
We see people of adventure
who hunt this curse
To lock it in their purse
each judges one’s misfortune
that to make awful times better
one would have to stop the blither.
All of you who criticise the spirit of this image,
I’m mesmerised by a beautiful system
Full name is spelled De-mo-cra-cy
It demands trust in a ma-jo-ri-ty
A barking pack of dreadful MAGA men
When half of the people plus one are dumb
And the others are super-intelligent like me
Not a chance we have to really be
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'*
Is all very well, but I think that before I
Would try it, I'd rather the maxim were amended
Thus-'Patriots are more useful living than when dead.'
In deciding to hold off on another interest rate cut, the Reserve Bank’s board appears to be waiting to find out what the past was like. Michael Pascoe reports.
