White House unveils Africa strategy
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President Joe Biden is hoping to stand against Beijing with democracy, vaccines, and climate policy
The White House on Monday published its new strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, which explicitly aims to counter China’s extensive investment on the continent and oppose Russia’s supposed “harmful activities” there.
The plan does not set out any concrete dollar amount that the US intends to spend in Africa. Rather, it outlines Washington’s broader policy aims on the continent, some of which overlap with the $600 billion ‘Partnership for...
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President Joe Biden is hoping to stand against Beijing with democracy, vaccines, and climate policy
The White House on Monday published its new strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, which explicitly aims to counter China’s extensive investment on the continent and oppose Russia’s supposed “harmful activities” there.
The plan does not set out any concrete dollar amount that the US intends to spend in Africa. Rather, it outlines Washington’s broader policy aims on the continent, some of which overlap with the $600 billion ‘Partnership for...
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Dee Devlin celebrates 35th birthday with 'Conor' tattoo
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Dee Devlin has marked her 35th birthday with a tattoo dedicated to her fiance Conor McGregor.
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Dee Devlin has marked her 35th birthday with a tattoo dedicated to her fiance Conor McGregor.
Barry Keoghan shares picture of newborn son and reveals name
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Irish actor Barry Keoghan has shared a picture of his newborn son and revealed his name.
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Irish actor Barry Keoghan has shared a picture of his newborn son and revealed his name.
Galway charity inundated with requests to surrender dogs
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Madra has stopped taking calls from outside Galway and Mayo as a result of the massive backlog.
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Madra has stopped taking calls from outside Galway and Mayo as a result of the massive backlog.
‘Significant deterioration’ in compliance levels in disability centres
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Information provided to Hiqa revealed there was a marked difference in overall levels of compliance.
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Information provided to Hiqa revealed there was a marked difference in overall levels of compliance.
Donegal man drowns in accident in Greece
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A Co Donegal man has died in a tragic accident while holidaying abroad.
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A Co Donegal man has died in a tragic accident while holidaying abroad.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad says no ceasefire if members not freed
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The armed group and Israel disagree on details of truce to end Gaza bombardment, raising spectre of more violence.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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The armed group and Israel disagree on details of truce to end Gaza bombardment, raising spectre of more violence.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
Iran nuclear deal could be near as EU circulates ‘final text’
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The European Union says it is time for a political decision, but Iran appears to want more changes to the final text.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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The European Union says it is time for a political decision, but Iran appears to want more changes to the final text.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
US President Joe Biden surveys flood damage in Kentucky
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The trip is Biden’s second to Kentucky, which has been hard hit by a number of devastating natural disasters.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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The trip is Biden’s second to Kentucky, which has been hard hit by a number of devastating natural disasters.
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US announces fresh military and financial aid for Ukraine
Russia suffered 70,000 to 80,000 casualties – troops killed or wounded in action – since war began, US official says.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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US announces fresh military and financial aid for Ukraine
Russia suffered 70,000 to 80,000 casualties – troops killed or wounded in action – since war began, US official says.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
USA to provide additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine; takes the total funding to $8.5 billion
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Russia stripping its passenger jets to secure spare parts and keep airlines functioning
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The Masque of Pandora
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What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)?
Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph:
“This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring …
“Carnage has already arrived in the developing world, with power outages from Cuba to South Africa. Sri Lanka is just one of a cascade of low-income countries where leaders face being driven out of power in an ignominious blaze of petrol droughts and loan defaults.
“But the West is not going to escape this Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be its epicentre – and Britain, its Ground Zero. In Europe and America, a technocratic élite system built on mythology and complacency is crumbling. Its founding fable – which prophesied the nation states’ glorious enmeshment in world government and supply chains – has metastasised into a parable of the perils of globalisation.
“This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors … Put simply, the emperor has no clothes: The Establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is Net Zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an élite that has become unhinged from the real world”.
Yes, the western sphere has become so prone to a ‘head-spinning’ disorientation (as was intended), through the constant rain of disinformation labels, stuck haphazardly across anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’, and by outrageous, obvious lying, that a majority in the western world has begun to question their own and surrounding levels of sanity.
In their bemusement, they have come to see the ‘messaging’ of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as ‘perfectly rational’. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider’s web. Bewitched.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass)
Yes, the Beast’s Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome – similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th–17th Centuries – but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the ‘rough beast’ with its’ gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’, is better known simply as Ideology.
The word ‘ideology’ is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corr...
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Strategic Culture Foundation (RSS)
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)?
Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph:
“This is the summer before the storm. Make no mistake, with energy prices set to rise to unprecedented highs, we are approaching one of the biggest geopolitical earthquake in decades. The ensuing convulsions are likely to be of a far greater order of magnitude than those that followed the 2008 financial crash, which sparked protests culminating in the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring …
“Carnage has already arrived in the developing world, with power outages from Cuba to South Africa. Sri Lanka is just one of a cascade of low-income countries where leaders face being driven out of power in an ignominious blaze of petrol droughts and loan defaults.
“But the West is not going to escape this Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it looks set to be its epicentre – and Britain, its Ground Zero. In Europe and America, a technocratic élite system built on mythology and complacency is crumbling. Its founding fable – which prophesied the nation states’ glorious enmeshment in world government and supply chains – has metastasised into a parable of the perils of globalisation.
“This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors … Put simply, the emperor has no clothes: The Establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is Net Zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an élite that has become unhinged from the real world”.
Yes, the western sphere has become so prone to a ‘head-spinning’ disorientation (as was intended), through the constant rain of disinformation labels, stuck haphazardly across anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’, and by outrageous, obvious lying, that a majority in the western world has begun to question their own and surrounding levels of sanity.
In their bemusement, they have come to see the ‘messaging’ of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as ‘perfectly rational’. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider’s web. Bewitched.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass)
Yes, the Beast’s Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome – similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th–17th Centuries – but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the ‘rough beast’ with its’ gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’, is better known simply as Ideology.
The word ‘ideology’ is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corr...
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A catastrophic energy crisis will fuel a revolt against our failed elites
Politicians cannot shirk responsibility now for the extreme hardship millions of people are about to face
Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists and It’s Effing Adorable
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The Times has published an article titled “Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents are exactly as horrifyingly idiotic as you would imagine.
Here are the first three paragraphs of the article by Ben Macintyre, because if I had to read them then so do you:...
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The Times has published an article titled “Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents are exactly as horrifyingly idiotic as you would imagine.
Here are the first three paragraphs of the article by Ben Macintyre, because if I had to read them then so do you:...
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Israeli State Terror in Action – Again!
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By Stephen LENDMAN
On Friday, the scourge of Israeli apartheid state terror reared its ugly head again against long-suffering Gazans.
Along with its 2008-09 Cast Lead aggression and three other preemptive wars that followed, the IDF terror-bombed and shelled the Strip many times — murdering civilians, destroying vital infrastructure, attacking Gaza fishermen at sea, shooting Palestinian children for target practice.
On August 5, Israeli Yair Lapid regime terror-bombing killed at least 12 Strip residents, including a senior freedom-fighting Islamic Jihad official, injuring about 75 others, some severely, Lapid roaring:
His regime will continue terrorizing Gazans for “as long as it” takes to achieve his diabolical aims.
In response, the Al Haq human rights group condemned Israeli aggression, saying the following:
What began Friday “is the gravest escalation since Israel’s full scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip in May 2021, killing 240 Palestinians, including 151 civilians.”
In summer 2014, Israel’s previous aggression on the Strip, the Netanyahu regime’s Operation Protective Edge killed 2,192 Palestinians, including 524 children.
After creation of the Jewish state in May 1948 on stolen Palestinian land, its ruling regimes committed repeated crimes of war, against humanity and related atrocities on their long-suffering people.
Yet for the past 74 years, accountability never followed.
The US-dominated West — and world community overall — largely turns a blind eye and deaf ear to the worst of Israeli crimes, and all others.
Israel’s latest aggression is all about wanting to quash legitimate “resistance to its illegal colonial settlement expansionism, de facto and de jure annexations, while further entrenching its institutionalized regime of systematic racial discrimination and oppression on both sides of the Green Line,” Al Haq stressed.
It followed the illegal arrest of Islamic Jihad (IJ) leader, Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, on August 1.
Since then, IJ’s self-defense military wing, Saraya Al-Quds, has been on high alert.
Al-Haq “documented the heavy presence of military aircraft in the skies” over Gaza for the past 5 days.
The Lapid regime hardened its Gaza blockade by closing all crossings to the Strip.
Illegal blockade and closure prevents free movement of goods and people, Al Haq stressing:
The Strip’s 2 million people face what may become “a humanitarian disaster (from Israel’s) deliberate imposition of living conditions denying the right to life, and prohibited as inhuman acts as defined by the 1973 Apartheid Convention under Article 2(a)(i), 2(a)(i) and 2(b).”
IDF terror-bombing killed al-Quds Brigades commander, Taysir al-Jabari.
Murdered civilians include 5-year-old Alaa Qaddoum and her father.
According to family member, Mohammad Abu Jabal:
Alaa’s mother Rasha “is in great shock.”
“She lost her daughter and husband in a blink of an eye and left behind three children. We are all shocked.”
“What is the fault of an innocent five-year-old girl (and her father) to be killed in this way?”
According to a Gaza eye-witness to Israel’s latest state terror against its long-suffering people, his clothing blood-stained:
“(A) huge explosion hit the tower (where) we live. We ran away.”
“The sound was massive. We were very shocked as the place is full of civilians.”
“I saw many casualties (being) evacuated.”
Gaza-based activist, Rana Shubair, lives in the al-Remal neighborhood terror-bombed by IDF warplanes.
We heard “four to five loud bangs,” she said, adding:
“I was asleep and found myself waking up running, wondering what happened.”
“There was panic in the area, people running.”
“You can ima...
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By Stephen LENDMAN
On Friday, the scourge of Israeli apartheid state terror reared its ugly head again against long-suffering Gazans.
Along with its 2008-09 Cast Lead aggression and three other preemptive wars that followed, the IDF terror-bombed and shelled the Strip many times — murdering civilians, destroying vital infrastructure, attacking Gaza fishermen at sea, shooting Palestinian children for target practice.
On August 5, Israeli Yair Lapid regime terror-bombing killed at least 12 Strip residents, including a senior freedom-fighting Islamic Jihad official, injuring about 75 others, some severely, Lapid roaring:
His regime will continue terrorizing Gazans for “as long as it” takes to achieve his diabolical aims.
In response, the Al Haq human rights group condemned Israeli aggression, saying the following:
What began Friday “is the gravest escalation since Israel’s full scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip in May 2021, killing 240 Palestinians, including 151 civilians.”
In summer 2014, Israel’s previous aggression on the Strip, the Netanyahu regime’s Operation Protective Edge killed 2,192 Palestinians, including 524 children.
After creation of the Jewish state in May 1948 on stolen Palestinian land, its ruling regimes committed repeated crimes of war, against humanity and related atrocities on their long-suffering people.
Yet for the past 74 years, accountability never followed.
The US-dominated West — and world community overall — largely turns a blind eye and deaf ear to the worst of Israeli crimes, and all others.
Israel’s latest aggression is all about wanting to quash legitimate “resistance to its illegal colonial settlement expansionism, de facto and de jure annexations, while further entrenching its institutionalized regime of systematic racial discrimination and oppression on both sides of the Green Line,” Al Haq stressed.
It followed the illegal arrest of Islamic Jihad (IJ) leader, Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, on August 1.
Since then, IJ’s self-defense military wing, Saraya Al-Quds, has been on high alert.
Al-Haq “documented the heavy presence of military aircraft in the skies” over Gaza for the past 5 days.
The Lapid regime hardened its Gaza blockade by closing all crossings to the Strip.
Illegal blockade and closure prevents free movement of goods and people, Al Haq stressing:
The Strip’s 2 million people face what may become “a humanitarian disaster (from Israel’s) deliberate imposition of living conditions denying the right to life, and prohibited as inhuman acts as defined by the 1973 Apartheid Convention under Article 2(a)(i), 2(a)(i) and 2(b).”
IDF terror-bombing killed al-Quds Brigades commander, Taysir al-Jabari.
Murdered civilians include 5-year-old Alaa Qaddoum and her father.
According to family member, Mohammad Abu Jabal:
Alaa’s mother Rasha “is in great shock.”
“She lost her daughter and husband in a blink of an eye and left behind three children. We are all shocked.”
“What is the fault of an innocent five-year-old girl (and her father) to be killed in this way?”
According to a Gaza eye-witness to Israel’s latest state terror against its long-suffering people, his clothing blood-stained:
“(A) huge explosion hit the tower (where) we live. We ran away.”
“The sound was massive. We were very shocked as the place is full of civilians.”
“I saw many casualties (being) evacuated.”
Gaza-based activist, Rana Shubair, lives in the al-Remal neighborhood terror-bombed by IDF warplanes.
We heard “four to five loud bangs,” she said, adding:
“I was asleep and found myself waking up running, wondering what happened.”
“There was panic in the area, people running.”
“You can ima...
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Israeli State Terror in Action – Again!
On Friday, the scourge of Israeli apartheid state terror reared its ugly head again against long-suffering Gazans. Along with its 2008-09 Cast Lead aggression and three other preemptive wars that f…
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US senators battle over who can get pregnant
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All Democrats voted in unison against an amendment defining pregnancy as occurring only in biological women
US Senate Republicans were fighting a losing battle in trying to block passage of President Joe Biden’s $740 billion climate, tax and health care bill, but they tried to score some ideological points by introducing an amendment acknowledging that only biological women can get pregnant.
It turns out the GOP lost that fight, too, as every Senate Democrat voted in unison on Sunday to reject the provision limiting the federal government’s pregnancy programs to women. The party-line vote in the evenly divided Senate was...
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All Democrats voted in unison against an amendment defining pregnancy as occurring only in biological women
US Senate Republicans were fighting a losing battle in trying to block passage of President Joe Biden’s $740 billion climate, tax and health care bill, but they tried to score some ideological points by introducing an amendment acknowledging that only biological women can get pregnant.
It turns out the GOP lost that fight, too, as every Senate Democrat voted in unison on Sunday to reject the provision limiting the federal government’s pregnancy programs to women. The party-line vote in the evenly divided Senate was...
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NYT writer accuses Trump of flushing documents down toilet
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Trump’s team called the evidence “fabricated” and journalist Maggie Haberman “desperate”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman released photos on Monday apparently showing former President Donald Trump’s handwritten notes flushed down two toilets, supposedly in violation of White House protocol. Trump himself ridiculed Haberman, and his office called her scoop “desperate.”
Published by Axios on Monday, the photos show two torn-up wads of no...
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Trump’s team called the evidence “fabricated” and journalist Maggie Haberman “desperate”
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman released photos on Monday apparently showing former President Donald Trump’s handwritten notes flushed down two toilets, supposedly in violation of White House protocol. Trump himself ridiculed Haberman, and his office called her scoop “desperate.”
Published by Axios on Monday, the photos show two torn-up wads of no...
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Greek PM says ‘unaware’ of opposition politician’s wiretap
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis describes surveillance by Greece’s intel agencies as ‘politically unacceptable’.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis describes surveillance by Greece’s intel agencies as ‘politically unacceptable’.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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Russia suspends inspections of strategic arms under US treaty
Russia says it’s halting inspections under the New START treaty but remains committed to all provisions of the treaty.
Published On 8 Aug 2022
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Russia suspends inspections of strategic arms under US treaty
Russia says it’s halting inspections under the New START treaty but remains committed to all provisions of the treaty.
Published On 8 Aug 2022