France has summoned Italy’s ambassador following “unacceptable”remarks made by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini about President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to send troops from EU members to Ukraine, French media has reported, citing a diplomatic source.
Salvini suggested on Wednesday that the French leader should go himself.

I have entered the age of incomprehension
Possibly because of the infernal confusion
Up there in my old lofty pigeon
Due to a blow from a truncheon
Not even wearing an hearing aid
Would sort this inner devil afraid
Did she say a bunch of arseholes
Or announced the next batch of households
Should I say I am too old for this piss
As Donald trumpets talks of peace

This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.
This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook.
We have been traveling this slippery slope toward a police state for some time, but under Trump 2.0, the descent towards outright tyranny is accelerating.

Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust.
Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide
ALAN MACLEOD, MINTPRESS NEWS
In the wake of the Economic Reform Roundtable Gunnamatta and Deep T discuss the submission made by Deep T to the event. Recorded last weekend (prior to the meet) the discussion ranges over the financialisation of Australian housing, from the way rising prices of houses mean that the banking system doesnt need to raise
International Reading: Sony Hikes PlayStation 5 Price To Cover Tariffs And Gamers Are Furious: ‘Trump Is 100% To Blame’ – Fortune Texas hit by another round of layoffs across tech industry – Chron Americans can afford only 28% of homes on the market – News Week Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions
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In the wake of the much-anticipated Anchorage summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian philosopher and nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin ignited controversy with a social media post on X.
Dugin claimed that Putin had handed Trump “solid, considerable documents on Russian history proving that Ukraine is a fake.”
Asian share markets are generally doing better although local shares are falling back on probable profit taking as other risk markets sentiment remains neutral going into tonight’s Jackson Hole conference. The USD is pushing slightly higher against the majors with Euro breaking below the 1.16 handle while the Australian dollar remains very weak at its
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