Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot, no matter what the cost, support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide. Genocide is the crime of all crimes. It is the purest expression of evil. We must stand unequivocally with Palestinians and the jurists from South Africa. We must demand justice. We must hold Biden accountable for the genocide in Gaza.

Source: The Case for Genocide – The Chris Hedges Report

The LNP threw the fundamental pillars of this country’s Democracy out the window. The believed they were the rulers not the elected employees of the Federation. The Separation of Powers was a concept disposed of in their trash can of history. The Judiciary, Religion and Public Service weren’t just absorbed but taken. They rid the nation of ASTIC as they couldn’t acknowledge first peoples but rather than a Multicultural mistake. Indigenous Australians weren’t be truly recognized with a voice as other Colonial states had in the past they were immigrants aliens in Australia. The Intervention was Howard’s major redirect of policy and control along with budget cuts increased by their self-declared best mate Tony Abbott and celebrated by the IPA and Mining Companies in the Murdoch and other corporate mainstream media as long as Abbott and the LNP promised to neuter the ABC.

Justice Helen Murrell says principles of open justice trump national security and urges Albanese government to publish initial ruling ‘with as few variations as possible’

Source: Secrecy of Bernard Collaery trial risked damaging public’s faith in administration of justice, court rules | Witness K case | The Guardian

“The U.N. was created in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, with the very intention of ensuring ‘Never Again,'” said Rabbis for Ceasefire. “We are here as Jews, as rabbis, to urge the U.N. to follow through.”

Source: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

The Epstein List : Ehud  Barak ex Israeli PM 37 (visits), Alan Dershowitz 137 mentions Israel’s Lawyer, Robert Maxwell Mossad agent was- Ghislaine’s Father. Epstein’s home seemed to be Mossad Central and the informal Israeli Club in London providing sex for influence and information. The UK has a long history of this sort intrigue.

The appearance of ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s name on the Epstein list has fueled previous claims the pedophile was a spy for Israel who mined Prince Andrew for intel.

Source: Epstein list reignites suspicion the pedo financier was working for Mossad and blackmailing the elite with help of information he gleaned from ‘useful idiot’ Prince Andrew – after meeting Israeli PM Ehud Barak at least THIRTY SIX times | Daily Mail Online

Bad Moon Rising by Mr Fish

Have a look at ScheerPost’s top original stories of 2023 articles, Mr Fish, and Videos

Source: Best of ScheerPost 2023 – ScheerPost

A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.

Source: Vale John Pilger – Pearls and Irritations

Israel would send in the IDF and start bombing any American city mindlessly yelling “it started today, it started today”

If today is a typical day in the United States there will be two mass shootings somewhere in the 50 states.

Source: America’s mad love for guns: 650 mass shootings in ’23

Fatima and Ahmed al-Khaldi were killed, and their 4-year-old son Adam (right) was severely wounded, during a December 21, 2023 Israeli raid on their Gaza City home.

Watchdogs= Journalists, UN workers, Medical Professionals Israel managed not to kill

A prominent European human rights group on Monday submitted a report to the International Criminal Court and United Nations special rapporteurs documenting “dozens of cases of field executions carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.”

Source: Watchdog Submits Evidence of Israeli Executions of Gaza Civilians to UN, ICC – ScheerPost

Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of law at Queen Mary University in London, recently explained to Anadolu on October 23, 2023 that “Israel is working hard to legitimize the war crimes it commits” in Gaza by using a “dehumanization” strategy to portray the “Palestinians” as “human animals.” After all, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant even said: “We are fighting against animals” — while “comparisons of Palestinians to `rats or snakes’” are often heard on “Israeli social media accounts.” As Gordon wrote, “Palestinians are presented as barbarian and as primitive and as people who do not understand the laws of war, people that do not make distinctions between civilians and combatants, and so forth, and therefore they are immoral, while Israel claims that it tries to protect civilians” (but in reality does just the opposite to the Palestinians).

In this sense, Israel’s “brutality” to Palestinians is a “curse of extremist emotion,” which is not rational in policy evaluation; therefore, for this reason, it ends up being “self-defeating” by “harming” its own security (and also the security of its main supporter, the U. S.), as well as the security of Jews worldwide.

Source: Why Israel’s Brutality to Palestinians Endangers itself and Jews Worldwide

With the entire Fourth Estate controlled by so few, Michelle Pini and Dave Donovan examine the media’s role in setting the default position on some of the top stories of 2023.

Source: Murdoch-led media’s relentless stranglehold won’t deter fearless truth-tellers — like IA

Killing babies isn’t a crime abortion is in America

“What kind of weasel-mouth defense of Israel is that?” asked one observer, who quipped that “…deliberately killing babies is a war crime in Ukraine, but for Israel it is self-defense.”

Source: US Official Won’t Call Forced Abandonment of Gaza Newborns a War Crime

Hey has Trump stolen Peter Dutton’s politicking or is it the other way round? Was Tony Abbott in both their ears?

As Johnson put it so concisely and so eloquently, the Trump con is all about convincing these people that they have “somebody to look down on”. Trump has given them a few targets: Muslims, “illegals”, the LGBTQI community, “Libtards”, coastal elites, soy boys (that’s me) and pretty much anyone north of the Mason Dixie line.

Source: Washington burning: Trump’s bitter path to the White House

Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. You’ve heard the claim echoed ad nauseam in Western corporate media. Yet numerous reports from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other human rights groups have found the allegations, which are brought to bear by Israeli officials nearly every time Gaza hits the news, to not only be untrue, they’ve discovered that Israel itself has consistently engaged in wanton use of Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields.

When an article begins with ” the devastating Oct 7 Hamas attacks”  and is followed by “the subsequent Israeli attacks” you begin to feel a it’s not worth reading. Little or no mention that the devastation was as much due to Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships killing Israelis as it was to Hamas or that Israel’s intelligence had known weeks and days before about what was going to happen and did nothing.

Was it, one wonders, that Israel saw it as an opportunity, an excuse to invade Gaza and also devastate the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank? More than just another opportunity to “mow the lawn” in Gaza but to “decrease that Palestinian lawn” in the West Bank and thereby gain greater political support for Netanyahu? After all his aim was never a two-state solution. For him “from the river to the sea” meant taking all the land, from the Palestinians.

There are no “settlers” in the West Bank only 500,000 illegal Israeli colonizers supported by the now Inglorious fascist State of Israel, aided by its conscripted IDF. A Goliath assisting in the illegal plundering of Palestinian lives, livelihoods, and homeland just as they have done in Syria’s Golan Heights.

There has never been anything less “subsequent” in Israel’s actions when Israel has historically been noted for breaking the peace agreements in devastatingly regular fashion, and not the Palestinians. ( 2008, 1440 340 children dead, 2014 2200 550 children dead) So much so even the Pope has called it out as terrorism.

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: Since the Gaza war began, violence against Palestinians has also surged in the West Bank – and gone virtually unnoticed

Where were the LNP ministers at the time?  Peter Dutton was actively raising Pezzullo’s image in the public eye withe the number of times he deferred to him when being questioned on Immigration issues and then taking Pezzulo with him to Home Affairs. Who was the Minister?

One of the most powerful figures in the public service has been dumped after leaked conversations revealed the depths of his attempts to influence the government on policy and the shape of government.

Source: Powerful home affairs boss Mike Pezzullo dumped after investigation into backchannel lobbying – ABC News

FightinG Fake News with REAL, 18/11/23, Every Picture Tells a Story, Humour, Policing Opposition to Genocide, Weasle Words from a Murdoch Thong ( Flip Flop) Andrew Bolt,

Peter Dutton seems panicked because he is. All 83 persons released were put in detention by the LNP and he did nothing about the possibility of this High Court Decision while Minister. Both Peter Dutton and Kevin Andrews are vying for the position of the most incompetent Immigration Ministers in history. Both were Dumb but who was dumber? It seems Dutton takes the medal and the quadrella. Health, Defence,Immigration and Home Affairs.

Peter Dutton says parliament should keep sitting until legislation is passed to address the High Court decision that has led to the release of 83 people from immigration detention, among them criminals.

Source: Dutton suggests parliament continue sitting until legislation passed on High Court immigration ruling – ABC News

Australia once signed an international agreement to welcome asylum seekers and we saw that broken. The LNP called them “illegals” if they arrived by boat. First Nation Peoples were aware that promises of a Voice to parliament had been broken by Australian governments in the past so requested their right to a voice be enshrined in our constitution on moral and ethical grounds and we voted No. Treaties and promises can be broken at the drop of a hat, and have by governments like John Howard’s. We saw Peter Dutton’s attitude when he laughed about Pacific Islanders with Tony Abbott and Scot Morrison on TV no less. Treaties are easily broken Howard simply got rid of ASTIC.

In addition, the announcement this week of an Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is groundbreaking. Under this deal, Australia will provide migration pathways for people from Tuvalu facing the existential threat of climate change. It is the world’s first bilateral agreement on climate mobility.

Source: Australia’s offer of climate migration to Tuvalu residents is groundbreaking – and could be a lifeline across the Pacific

According to Peter Dutton to demonstrate against Israel is to be Anti-Semitic and anti-Australian. But to demonstrate against Asylum seekers, Muslims, Africans, and Indigenous Australians is being a true blue Aussie.

In Gaza, the 16 year old ghetto of two million people that Israel created, it seems that we are looking at Israel’s own hideous “final solution” with their collective punishment of a whole civilian population, their catastrophic genocidal practices and their mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. After decades of a systematic, sustained and strategic oppression, the Israeli policy appears to be nearing its final completion.

Source: Gaza: Israel’s hideous “final solution” – Pearls and Irritations

If Donald Trump wins back the presidency, he plans to quickly detain millions of undocumented immigrants in vast camps in Texas, try to end birthright citizenship, renew a version of his effort to ban Muslims from entering the United States, and deny visas to foreigners whose politics his advisers don’t like, the New York Times reported Saturday.

Source: Donald Trump Is Reportedly Planning an Anti-Immigrant “Blitz” – Mother Jones

My thought for the day

Commitment to the use of critical reason, factual evidence, and scientific methods of inquiry, rather than faith and mysticism, is the best way of providing solutions to human problems.

American exceptionalism has a lot to answer for. ( John Lord )

Source: Who is this guy? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Refugee Action Coalition Media Release PNG refugees have been left without income, food vouchers for at least the last two weeks – in some cases longer. Some have had their power cut because they cannot afford to pay for electricity. Transport has been cut. Medical appointments at PIH (Pacific International Hospital) now have to be…

Source: No money, no food: PNG refugees can’t wait another week – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Netanyahu invoked scripture that calls for the total destruction of the enemy, sparing no man, woman or child:

“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” ( Netanyahu)

Dutton labels PM ‘weak’ for abstaining on UN Gaza truce vote

By Angus Thompson

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton also accused the government of failing to send a clear message about the nation’s values to the world after Australia abstained from a United Nations vote calling for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas.

The United Kingdom and Canada also abstained, while Israel and the United States were among those that voted no.

Dutton told Sky that Australia should have been standing with “our long-standing allies, including the United States in support of Israel”. 

Who was Dutton referring to when he said “Our Long Standing Allies”? Not the UK or Canada it seems. It’s easy yelling from the bleechers.

“The prime minister had an opportunity here in the United Nations to send a clear message about our values and where we stand. And he failed that test. And I think it was an incredibly weak display of leadership from the prime minister,” he said.

“The prime minister parading around on the red carpet but then scrimping it when it comes to the tough decisions. I don’t think that’s in our country’s best interests.”

Zionist oppression of Arab peoples since World War II is not the result of the will of Jews, but of a willingness of a section of Jews who embrace a racist ideology to shape the Israeli state to the needs of imperialism. Many Jews opposed this and still do. This number of anti-Zionist Jews is growing, but the overwhelming power lies with the imperialist nations. They must be called to account for their crimes! They and their Netanyahu-ist partners in Israel must be stopped from committing further crimes against the Palestinian people.

The struggle for a new, just social order centered on human commonality and cooperation—the not narrow, ugly, brutal sectarian madness of Zionism or a Hamas— is the urgent task for Jews, Palestinians, and all humanity.

Source: Israel’s Kristallnacht – CounterPunch.org

The  LNP still maintains Israel is a Democracy and our government isn’t doing enough in support. When Israel’s Gantz and Cohen demand that the UN Secretary-General “doesn’t live in “their world” they simply telling the UN to fuck off. They’re right the majority of Nations on this planet don’t agree with Israel and it doesn’t make them anti-Semitic.

Individuals commit crimes Mr Cohen nations shouldn’t. Israel once pursued those individual criminals and it did relentlessly after WW2. They didn’t reign Collective Punishment down on the Germans, the Dutch or wherever those Nazis went to hide. They sought justice and brought them to heel before the International courts. They didn’t bomb the bejeezus out of Buenos Aires

Today 2.2M people are merely “collateral damage” in their pursuit of Hamas. They are not being Collectively Punished Hamas is using them as shields. Israel’s strategies today are far removed from what they once were. Mind you the 1948 Nakba suggests otherwise. When Israel took 25% more land than they’d been allocated by that body they now hate the UN and displaced 80% of the Arabs that lived there.

Netanyahu’s right-wing government is a failure. It’s security failed and now his government’s over- reaction has failed. He’s running a failed Liberal Democracy while being the 4th most armed power in the world and becoming least stable in the eyes of the rest of the world. Netanyahu is betraying his own people hardly a role model of a Jewish State.

“Protecting civilians does not mean ordering more than one million people to evacuate to the south, where there is no shelter, no food, no water, no medicine and no fuel, and then continuing to bomb the south itself.”

Israel on Wednesday morning (AEDT) demanded Guterres’s resignation and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen asked: “Mr Secretary-General, in what world do you live? Definitely this is not our world.”

Source: ‘In what world do you live?’ Furious Israel slams UN chief

Source: Israel-Hamas conflict: Opposition wants Anthony Albanese to speak with Benjamin Netanyahu