Settlers are awaiting the appearance of a ‘blemish free’ red cow, which, according to Judaism, is central to the prediction about the “end of times”, and therefore paves the way for the acceleration of the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque to make way for the so-called Temple.
Source: In Israel, Religious Zionism’s End-of-Days hope for “Red Cow” emboldens Extremism
IIn his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. “We have the greatest fighting force in human history,” he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds “who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values.”
…… yes, the U.S. military is indeed exceptional and being so, being #1 (or claiming you are anyway) means never having to say you’re sorry, no matter how many innocents you kill or maim, how many lives you disrupt and destroy, how many lies you tell.
Was Morrison ever caught on camera by News Photographers or Paid and Bought Freelancers? ” Lights Camera Action ” feed the press.
The current chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is also proving stellar in his own right: 21,808 euros was spent on hair and makeup in 2023, and 38,910 euros the previous year. These totals would be questionable at the best of times, but Scholz’s case is even odder. How do you justify generous remunerations to hairstylists for someone with little to no hair to work with? Is the pate particularly delicate, requiring tender care? German taxpayers must be pondering the mysteries.
Source: Keeping Up Appearances: Merkel’s Hair and Scholz’s Pate – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This isn’t The Chaser. It’s a reflection of what the ABC was forced to become during those past 13 years of the LNP and now for Peter Dutton “Lets Humanise the @#$%$#. They are going to try to Normalise him Fuck you very much!!
Crabb is adept at using humour not to satirise, but to minimise. It can’t be so bad if we can have a good laugh about it together over lunch, can it?
What does a Liberal vote mean if the ultraconservatives take over the party’s mechanisms?
Source: The insurgency within the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network
With only 25% of the devastated area searched by rescue teams, developers and realtors are already swooping in to try to buy land from displaced locals—a callous incarnation of our current social order.
The struggle now is the one that punctuates all moments of crisis: the forces of disaster capitalism versus the people attempting to build a paradise out of hell.
Source: Opinion | Empire and Capital Set Maui Ablaze | Common Dreams
Remember when Andrew Bolt kept telling us the world was “cooling”. He no longer does but parrots off that the proposed “solutions” to climate change are wrong. Has the worm really turned?
The indefatigable Creighton does though use one of the most recent versions of the denialist position with the proviso: “Noone denies that climate changes. It always has, for reasons obviously unrelated to human activity. The question is how much of its our fault”.
for some time now, researchers have suggested that the balance of arguments propagated by climate sceptics or denialists has shifted from denying or undermining climate science to challenging policy solutions designed to reduce emissions.
“To comprehend the truth and not act upon it – is there a greater sin than this? Knowledge masked is murder.”
We might also take solace in all this with A.E.Housman’s “The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in, and ready at any instance to fall…..It is and it must in the long run be better for a man to see things as they are than to be ignorant of them.”
But then it’s hard to see things clearly if you read Adam Creighton and watch Fox news or Sky After Dark.
Source: What do climate denialists say when the facts change? – Pearls and Irritations
Wealth inequality is a global crisis and taxing the super-rich is a pathway to saving the planet from environmental catastrophe, writes Robert Gordon.
The two openers for the New Pakistan : Caught and bowled by Imran Khan
For a year and a half, Pakistani politics has been gripped by word of a diplomatic cable said to describe U.S. State Department officials encouraging the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan from power. Last week, The Intercept published the contents of the cable, known internally as a cypher, which revealed U.S. diplomats pressing for the removal of Khan over his neutral stance on the conflict in Ukraine.
Since it was published, the response to the story from Pakistani and U.S. officials has been both defensive and contradictory.
Source: Pakistan Denies Conspiracy Against Imran Khan, Confirms Cable
For 75 years, Israel has been waging an ideological war to manufacture a legitimacy it does not have. Fissures, however, are now visible in Israel’s carefully crafted and managed narrative.
What is taking place in Occupied Palestine is clearly not a “conflict,” a word which implies a fight between two people with equal political and military resources and equal claims. And while the media perfunctorily describes Israel as a “democratic state,” they avoid using the more accurate “apartheid state” description.
In light of the open racism of Israel’s extremist government, and the unrestrained violence of Jewish “settler-colonists,” the country is finding it increasingly difficult to whitewash its entrenched apartheid system in occupied Palestine.
Source: Uncovering Israeli Propaganda: Wars to Wage with Words to Bamboozle – CounterPunch.org
While the world’s attention is drawn away from the Middle East Israel’s Extremists take advantage
Bezalel Smotrich’s settlement plan is to annex the West Bank, increase settlements and bring an end to the Palestinian Authority. He works silently, away from the cameras and the Knesset podium. He is a professional politician who knows how to swim against the tide.
WTF What’s going on?
In the age of Donald Trump, not even 91 criminal charges – which, remember, is 91 more than his predecessors combined – puts him out of the presidential running. On the contrary. Trump’s grand slam of criminal indictments in New York, Miami, Washington DC and now Atlanta – and all in the same calendar year – has solidified his lead in the Republican primary race. What explains the change?
Source: Tired of Donald Trump surviving each new outrage? Blame Bill Clinton
Donald John Trump’s indictment in federal court for sedition and in state court for racketeering are both legal means of sanctioning him for trying illegally to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Although he is the first president to be criminally charged for such a crime (or at all), he is not the first world leader to be taken to court for trying to overthrow the government.
What’s the Scam? Banks are covered you’re not
The financial complaints authority appears to have made inconsistent rulings on whether to give customers refunds after phishing scams, based on whether customers admit to clicking dodgy links.
The Sofronoff Inquiry’s failure to address the juror who caused the Lehrmann rape trial to be aborted raises questions about the A.C.T. legal system, writes Paul Begley.
Source: Sofronoff Inquiry failed to question rogue Lehrmann juror
She’s suing who?
Former Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has recanted her Supreme Court evidence that she was never told by a chief of staff that Brittany Higgins had disclosed “I remember him on top of me”.
Is hydrogen the “miracle fuel” to ramp up Australia’s decarbonisation or an over-hyped distraction by the fossil fuels lobby to jag government subsidies whose pursuit can only damage the climate further? Rosco Jones reports.
Source: Hydrogen: a “miracle solution”, or over-hyped stalking horse for fossil fuels lobby? – Michael West
The American Deal has always been a RIGGED DECK.
The deal: First YOU PLEAD GUILTY THEN – It has never changed since the days of signing the historic and broken Treaties with the Indian Nations that saw them locked up on Reservations or Jails
Should any plea deal be successfully reached and implemented, thereby making Assange admit guilt, the terms of his return to Australia, assuming he survives any stint on US soil, will be onerous. In effect, the US would merely be changing the prison warden while adjusting the terms of observation. In place of British prison wardens will be Australian overseers unlikely to ever take kindly to the publication of national security information.
Source: Assange be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Albanese of old isn’t today’s man. He once disagreed with our subservience in favor of our Indpendence
“At the height of the Cold War, Prime Minister Menzies agreed to the British request for a permanent site to test nuclear weapons… This was a political decision by a government that was subservient to the British government, and today there are parallels, with the Australian government being once again subservient to the decisions of a foreign power.” “Our government is about to redefine us in the eyes of the world as willing backers of US militarism.” – Anthony Albanese, 2003.
$3.1B
During Monday’s segment of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, economic analyst Steve Rattner left panelists astounded after providing an in-depth look into the root of ex-President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s “$3.1 billion cash haul.”
Media Capitalism is where the ratings are the product for sale anything else is merely a tool in the manufacture of the rating numbers. The “camp followers” are the numbers attempting to follow and replicate the biggest Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News
As president, Trump was fully enmeshed in the alternate reality spun by his TV propagandists. He would spend hours a day watching right-wing cable news channels and sent nearly 1,300 tweets in response to Fox News and Fox Business alone from September 2018 to the end of his presidency. Trump treated Fox hosts as members of his kitchen cabinet, enacting policy based on what he saw on their shows and seeking their counsel in private. People would go on his favorite channels seeking to influence his administration’s decision-making, at times snaring government contracts or presidential clemency because he happened to be watching.
Hours later, Trump called Judge Chutkan “highly partisan” and “very biased and unfair,” adding, “She obviously wants me behind bars.”
Friends, Trump is daring Judge Chutkan and other judges involved (or soon to be involved) in these four proceedings to revoke his release pending trial. He believes he can get away with intimidating and harassing potential witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, and judges. He is confident he is above the law.
He must be shown he is not above the law. His release pending trial must be revoked.
What do you think?
Immigration has dramatically changed Australia, mainly for the better. I don’t think any country has done it as well. If I could be more precise, I think Australia has benefited most from refugees. Whilst the first generation of refugees may often lack skills and education, they more than make up for it in enterprise, courage and risk-taking. That enterprise and high aspirations are often expressed through their children. Refugees are by definition risk-takers who will abandon all for a new life. They select themselves much better than a migration officer can ever select them.
Source: Australian multiculturalism: Our greatest achievement? – Pearls and Irritations
Agents of News Corp have been propagating patently false information about The Voice, leaving us all worse off, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
Now let me make it clear that I have nothing against people being in business and making a buck. After all, this is a capitalist system and I’m not going to suggest that those benevolent employers who only exist to give people jobs should be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot when the revolution comes. However, it does strike me as a little inconsistent when businesses argue that they’re the ones taking the risks and so they should be entitled to great rewards, only to turn around and say that the risk didn’t work out so someone should do something because life shouldn’t be this unfair when they’ve taken the risk and started/taken over/inherited a business. We all remember how some businesses took the JobKeeper money and kept it, even though they made a profit and there was no obligation on them to establish that they lost revenue during the pandemic. They didn’t even have to prove their parental status.
Source: The Coalition Hate Childless People! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
How many corporate directors or managers are today sitting in our jails? How many even went through the justice process? It’s generally a rapid process for those now sitting in jail for mental health, addiction, and poverty reasons. Some like Indigenous Australians too quick. Getting out is hard and back in too easy.
If Lendlease tax whistleblower goes down in court while the Tax Office continues to dither for more than four years enforcing its ‘double dipping’ rules against the property giant, the question could well be asked, why would anybody do the right thing and blow the whistle again? Michael West reports.
Source: Not too quick: Tax Office dithering on Lendlease scam puts whistleblowers at risk – Michael West
A “Plea Deal” Julian is required to plead Guilty. Now that’s what America calls a bargain
The United States is considering a plea deal that would allow WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange to return to Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy told the Morning Herald that there could be a “resolution” to Assange’s now-four-year detention in Britain. Assange, an Australian citizen, has been held in a London prison since 2019 while combating U.S. extradition efforts. He faces 18 criminal charges in the U.S., 17 of which allege violations of the Espionage Act.
Source: U.S. Official Hints at Possible Plea Deal for Julian Assange
U.S. efforts to secure strategic mineral supply chains may squeeze China out of the Australian market with the Antipodean nation being used as a raw materials supplier like the days of the British empire, writes Tony Kevin.
Source: US Move to Secure Minerals Risks Australia’s Sovereignty
Would Dan allow a decision like this to happen in Australia? Or would kids trying to sue the State in Australia be decreed “Vexatious Litigants” and have them arrested for contempt?
A healthy climate is included in your constitutional rights, at least if you live in Montana. On Monday, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the 16 young plaintiffs who sued Montana three years ago, arguing that its pro–fossil fuels legislation violated their right to a safe environment. Seeley ruled in the case, Held v. Montana, that “plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate as part of the environmental life support system.”
Source: Sixteen Young People in Montana Just Won a Historic Climate Lawsuit – Mother Jones
The combination of the blood line related requirements to be considered Jewish by the Orthodox Rabbinical Court and the restriction of marriage requiring religious ceremonies shows an intent to maintain race purity. At its core, this is no different than the desire for pure blooded Aryans in Nazi Germany or pure blooded whites in the Jim Crow Southern United States.
Those who support these discriminatory laws and embrace Israeli apartheid are blinded by willful ignorance, racism or cynicism. Their goal is to dehumanize Palestinians, champion an intolerant Jewish chauvinism and entice the naïve and the gullible into justifying the unjustifiable. Kennedy, bereft of a moral compass and a belief system rooted in verifiable fact, has not only failed the Palestinians, he has failed us.
Source: Chris Hedges: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot – scheerpost.com
In New York State, nonprofits complicit in Israel’s illegal settlements rake in tens of millions of dollars in tax-exempt donations per year. Socialist lawmakers are fighting to change that — and loosen the Israel lobby’s stranglehold on US politics.
Source: New York Socialists Are Showing How to Stand Up to the Israel Lobby
Key Facts
Trump was one of 19 defendants named in the indictment, alongside others like his former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and right-wing legal scholar John Eastman.
Trump was charged with 13 felony counts, including a violation of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, conspiracy to commit forgery, making false statements and writing, filing of false documents and more.
Big Number91. That’s how many felony counts Trump has been charged with across four jurisdictions since announcing his third run for the White House in November. Before the Georgia indictment
Source: Trump Indicted By Fulton County Grand Jury In Georgia Election Interference Case
A lot is made of the comparison between this referendum and the 1999 referendum on a republic, which took that question off the table for at least a generation. There is one fundamental difference, however: the Liberal–National Coalition is a spent force in Australian politics and, with its track record on climate change, women’s rights, integrity in politics and marriage equality, its opposition to the Voice may well relegate it to an irretrievable status, a place of opprobrium and irrelevance from which it may never recapture an electorate weary of hateful culture wars.”
Source: “It is… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
There is an enormous moral disjunct between being Jewish and Israel
A great illustration of how much of the media totally overlooks the huge grassroots campaign for Yes is the fact that the Jewish community’s far-reaching campaign has been unsighted in mainstream media coverage of the referendum.
The Stand Up campaign sums up much about the community wide activity missed by the media saying: “The Jewish Community has a long and proud history of working together with first Australians on their journey towards justice and reconciliation. And this year, we have an opportunity to recognise first Australians in our constitution and give them a say on the issues that matter to their communities.
Source: Will the media miss another massive grassroots campaign? – Pearls and Irritations
While opposed to constitutionally entrenching a “divisive Canberra voice,” Opposition Leader Peter Dutton advocates “very strongly” for passing laws to create local and regional Indigenous advisory bodies.
On Sunday, his Coalition partner, the leader of the Nationals, David Littleproud, declined to back that stance.
Source: ‘Clear as mud’: Cracks in Coalition over Voice to Parliament details | The New Daily
The latest global report on the gender gap shows Australia reversing its recent sharp downward slide, reports Alan Austin.
From 1974
Fast forward to 2023 and we find the Government of Anthony Albanese has a majority of 55 women among its 104 senators and House members, the first Commonwealth nation to achieve this. It also has an all-time high number of women in the federal cabinet.
Source: Albanese’s team making progress on Whitlam’s promise to women
Economic Theory overlooks reality,
It is not that the sacred market cannot pay workers better, but rather that it is not convenient. A person in a state of need (tied to debt or poverty) is a modern, docile, manipulable, functional slave. Just like the indebted countries—the indebted poor, not the indebted rich.
Source: Supply and Demand Is a Scam to Disguise Inhumane Working Conditions | The Smirking Chimp
Australia is a nation built on people running away in hope of escaping war and its consequences
Refugee freedom walker Neil Para and the coalition of refugee groups supporting him welcome the increase in the humanitarian intake announced yesterday by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.
Racing to become a war economy is more part of the American dream than the Australian. Beware of what you dream of look where it has led the USA. If America counts all its affiliated military businesses it’s economically bigger than all the world’s other 9 biggest war economies combined. Almost bigger than the world’s total economies exporting war machinery. Our ALP government’s aspiration is to join the top tier of the world’s madness
The Australian economy is increasingly becoming a war economy. The PM talks of the economic benefits of weapons manufacture, and of how the military and a growing military-industrial-complex is almost a job creation scheme. The media works diligently to build and sustain a sense of fear. But even so, the warmongers of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and their stablemate, Strategic Analysis Australia (SAA) are not satisfied.
Source: ASPI’s call for a militia – a step to military madness – Pearls and Irritations
“Disaster capitalism will happen yet again unless they act proactively.” Jessica Corbett Aug 13, 2023 6
Source: As 93 Confirmed Dead, Locals Fear Lahaina Rebuild Dominated by Rich Outsiders
ALP Government’s “token gesture” to Palestine makes their “yes” campaign look like just a mere “gesture” as well.
Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Penny Wong, has announced Australia will return to use of the term “occupied Palestinian territories”.
Last month, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure severely limiting the Supreme Court’s powers. The central motivation: ensuring the courts won’t be able to interfere with plans to vastly increase the number of Israeli squatter settlements on Palestinian land.
Source: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Is About Supercharging the Occupation of Palestine
Get on with it Georgia
The messages and court documents suggest Trump’s team was connected to the January 2021 voting systems breach.
Texts and other evidence collected by investigators in the Georgia criminal probe indicate Trump’s lawyers tried to gain access to Coffee County’s voting systems so Trump’s allies could produce evidence for the unfounded theory that the election was stolen, according to CNN’s sources.
Source: Trump’s Legal Team Linked To Georgia Voting Systems Breach: Report | HuffPost Latest News
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