He’s been walking free in Dutton’s and Cash’s world for years. They never said a word
Former radio host Alan Jones has been accused by The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), in an article written by journalist Kate McClymont titled “‘He’d go the grope’: Alan Jones accused of indecently assaulting young men”, of sexual assaulting 4 males which includes staff at radio station 2gb and other men.
The Quid pro Quo promise between Murdoch and the LNP made years ago that Abbott took on board to change the ABC and Australia’s Democracy
INSIDERS IS NO longer a program viewers can rely on for accurate information and analysis. This is extremely disappointing. This has come about through excessive reliance on Rupert Murdoch’s mendacious “news” outlets for its content.
Source: ABC complaint over Insiders’ collaboration with Murdoch’s News Corp
While all this noise about the superior economic prowess of the Coalition hails from the Coalition itself, its symbiotic relationship with Australia’s media means even a murmur is soon amplified to a deafening cacophony.
Source: Taylor and Ley continue long Coalition tradition of fudging the figures
why is Australia beholden to Israel? Come on Mr. Albanese and Ms. Wong. You could start by explaining why you don’t accept that Israel is an apartheid State. So much flows from that. Then you might explain why, back on 30 December 2022, Australia voted against a UN General Assembly resolution requesting the ICJ to investigate practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Readers may also be interested in:
Source: Australia has abandoned international law – Pearls and Irritations
2 in 3 Israelis want to leave Israel 80% want Netanyahu sacked. The thought police laws in Israel’s Democracy have been increased.
As the repression of Palestinians and dissenting Israelis escalates amid Israel’s renewed onslaught in Gaza, domestic tensions are getting harder to conceal. Jacobin spoke to an Israeli trade unionist who stands against the war and the occupation.
Source: Israeli Unionist: Grow the Mass Movement to Stop the War in Gaza
The Rape of Gaza Isreli Lies
“Go South = Netanyahu’s condom”
” I’ll cleanse a little bit if it hurts I’ll stop”
” This hurts me more than it hurts you”
“I had no Hannibal Directive even though I knew what was going to happen”
The prospect of a dual displacement will exacerbate the historical injustices endured by these refugees. Hence, Western powers, especially those funding Israel and failing to call for a ceasefire, hold an added moral duty and a profound responsibility to ensure this does not happen.The Conversation
Source: Gaza: Israeli Rhetoric fuels fears of Ethnic Cleansing as Israeli Assault continues to push South
The Myth
The official story is that on October 7, 2023, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews. Nothing was done by the Israeli government to provoke this attack, and nothing of any relevance happened prior to this date.
The Effect
If you question any part of this official story, you’re an evil Jew-hating monster who loves terrorism and wishes Hitler had won. You should be censored, fired from your job, kicked off campus and disappeared from polite society, because you support genocide and you want good people to die.
The Required Result
Does this make you feel like you’re going crazy? Good. That means it’s working. That means the official story is taking root in your mind. Let it blossom and bloom inside of you. Stop struggling. Relax. The more you struggle, the more it will hurt. Just let your mind go blank and obey. This will be over before you know it.
Source: The official story of October seventh – Pearls and Irritations
What has always been suspected but never reported that the Hannibal Directive was in play on October 7th however the Israelis blew it and witnesses were left to tell.
An air force colonel has said that Israeli airstrikes may have intentionally killed Israeli captives rather than let them be taken to Gaza.
Speaking in Hebrew about the airstrikes, Colonel Nof Erez told a Haaretz podcast in November, that “the Hannibal Directive was apparently applied” and that 7 October “was a mass Hannibal.”
After weeks of claiming that 1,400 “civilians” were killed that day, Israel last month revised its death toll down to about 900 civilians plus around 300 soldiers and police. An official Israeli account posting to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday appeared to lower the death toll even further
Source: We Blew Up Israeli Houses on 7 October, Says Israeli Colonel – ScheerPost
Israel’s excuse for wholesale murder in their declared “Safe Zones”
Gazans crammed into Rafah on the southern border with Egypt, heeding Israeli leaflets and messages saying that they would be safe in the city after successive warnings to head south.
But more than 20 people were killed in apartments there sheltering displaced civilians from the north late on Wednesday, said Eyad al-Hobi, a relative of some of those killed.
“All apartments in the building suffered serious damage,” he said as people brought out two apparently lifeless children.
Another relative, Bassam al-Hobi, said the building had been hit by three rockets.
“They targeted women and children, as you can see, and the guests who were told the south would be safe,” he said, gesturing to bodies wrapped in white cloth, some small, lined up on the ground and surrounded by mourners.
Israel said militants had fired at least one rocket from Rafah and 12 from the desolate area of Al Mawasi on Gaza’s southern Mediterranean coast where it has also advised displaced people to gather, leaving the status of the areas unclear.
Source: Hundreds more killed in Gaza as Israel pursues Hamas
The Republican Party is in an integrity death cycle. As the GOP is taken over by Trump’s enablers and sycophants, the few remaining principled Republican lawmakers want out. As they depart, the Trump rot spreads.
Republican lawmakers who remain are the most self-aggrandizing and least principled. Which in turn causes the GOP to degenerate further.
Tragically and frighteningly, this means that if Trump regains the presidency, Republican lawmakers in Congress and the states will be even readier to do his bidding.
Isn’t this a case of the dog wagging the tail the only political strategy the LNP pursues whether in Opposition or in Government which has been a total disservice to this nation for the whole of this century. The ALP in the meantime does what is required of responsible management to carry out its promises without media support. How on earth can we believe the likes of Dutton and Cash they need to go the way of Price and Mundine so heavily promoted in the media before the referendum but gone like smoke immediately after.
While the government has included the judiciary in the process of seeking re-detention, the process has a distinctly punitive flavor, constituting a form of secondary punishment. It is also especially discriminatory, applying to non-Australian citizens. Yet again, the non-citizen is being treated as a non-person. As Michelle Peterie and Amy Nethery pertinently observe, “Australians with the same criminal histories and risk profiles will not be subject to the preventative detention regime under this legislation.” A potential legal challenge, for precisely that reason, maybe in the offing.
As the political clock ticks relentlessly, there is little time for substance over optics in parliament Katharine Murphy for the Guardian and The National Times
Source: National Times – As the political clock ticks relentlessly, there… | Facebook
All this for America’s second-hand subs as the promised new ones will never made or be delivered
The Albanese Government has just announced another $3B into the US submarine industrial base, in addition to the $4.7B already committed. It’s money that should have been spent in Australia instead. Rex Patrick reports on a widening foreign expenditure sinkhole.
Source: Join our Team! AUKUS foreign expenditure sinkhole blows out to $12B … already – Michael West
As of December 4:
Source: Gaza Conflict: Deadliest Month for Journalists on Record
I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this.
Governments like the US and UK have legal tools in place that they use to stop foreign governments from influencing their national politics, but they generally only use them when the influence would be coming from governments which aren’t aligned with the western empire like Russia, China and Iran. If backing Israel militarily and diplomatically didn’t serve the interests of the empire, those legal tools would long ago have been used to shut the lobbying down. But because lobbying activities actually benefit the interests of the empire by keeping US-aligned war machinery targeted at all non-US-aligned groups in the geostrategically crucial middle east, they not only allow but actively encourage such lobbying.
It’s just one of the many types of adhesives necessary for keeping the disparate parts of an unacknowledged empire always moving in the same directions. The Israel lobby lets groups like Israelis, western Zionists and American fundamentalist Christians fund the influence operations of the western empire out of their own personal coffers. Why would the empire managers stop that from happening? It’s a great deal.
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
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Source: Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs Who Say Greed Is Good—Even if It Kills Us All – Mother Jones
The carbon impact of war is still not counted in the global stocktake of carbon emissions – an essential reference for climate action. But far from the sound and fury of the explosions, warfare’s environmental impacts are persistent, pervasive and equally deadly.
Source: Another Reason to be anti-War: It Systemically Ruins the Earth’s Entire Ecologic System
When Hugo Chávez won the election to the presidency of Venezuela in 1998, he said almost immediately that the resources of the country—mostly the oil, which finances the country’s social development—must be in the hands of the people and not oil companies such as ExxonMobil. “El petroleo es nuestro” (the oil is ours), was the slogan of the day. From 2006, Chávez’s government began a cycle of nationalizations, with oil at the center (oil had been nationalized in the 1970s, then privatized again two decades later). Most multinational oil companies accepted the new laws for the regulation of the oil industry, but two refused: ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil.
Source: ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America | The Smirking Chimp
With the figures of science essentially excluded from these hot air gatherings in favour of industries that see them as troubling nuisances best ignored, the prospect for local and domestic reform through informed activism becomes the only sensible approach. There are even heartening studies suggesting that climate protest can warm frigid public opinion, the only measure that really interests the vote getting politician. Unfortunate that this seems a last throw for much of humanity and the earth’s ecosystem.
Source: COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Trump is flagrant about his goals because he knows the only people who are paying attention are already either fierce supporters or people who were going to vote against him anyway.
Source: Trump is hiding his fascist plans in plain sight | Salon.com
On our ABC’s The Drum on 5/12/23 An LNP Elder claimed that to Fan the fires of Insecurity is what Politicians are paid to do. The LNP ( Tony Abbott) did it in opposition and they continued to do it for 14 years as Government and are now back again continuing it in opposition. Remember “Pink Bats” when 5 people accidentally died and how the ALP was blamed. In the meantime, the LNP killed thousands of people and watched them die. While according to Michaella Cash the LNP were ” Keeping them Safe”. How do we forget Robodebt, Covid, Off Shore Detention, Health & Welfare cuts, and Homelessness, all increased benefits of the LNP’s good Federal Government management?
” Despite the fact that this was not the government’s decision, that offenders are released into the community all the time after serving their sentences, that some of this cohort have not committed serious crimes and yet have not seen freedom for years, the media has bought into the idea that “these people” are inherently dangerous, that we must keep them locked up at any cost.
Source: ” Despite… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
Dance partners Dutton and the Corporate Media continue to their political two-step on a non-government but high-court decision that was an LNP bill and mistake in the first place while Dutton was the sitting minister
Peter Dutton and Selective Outrage ( By Rachel Withers and The Politics ) The media needs to take a good hard look at itself, and the racist moral panic it has enabled One can’t help but wonder whether certain members of the Coalition and the media were secretly thrilled to hear that two of the detainees released under the High Court’s NZYQ ruling had allegedly reoffended. The news has become the story of the day, dominating front pages and interviews and Senate motions, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton hysterically ramping up his calls for the ministers for home affairs and immigration to resign, while stoking fears of further “attacks”. (One former detainee, a sex offender, has been charged with indecent assault against a woman in Adelaide, the other with drug possession. Both are “entitled to the presumption of innocence”, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance, as is a third ex-detainee who has today been arrested for breaching reporting requirements.) It’s worth pointing out, again, that offenders who have served their sentences are released into the community all the time. As Crikey’s Emma Elsworthy writes, “recidivism does not typically make headlines”, despite Australia’
Source: National Times – Peter Dutton and Selective Outrage ( By Rachel… | Facebook
World War 3
Total fossil carbon dioxide emissions are projected to be at a record high of 36.8 billion tonnes in 2023, as outlined in the annual Global Carbon Budget released at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai.
Source: Carbon emissions at a record high, new report finds – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Trigger warning: this article contains descriptions of an alleged sexual assault that people, especially victims of sexual assault, might find traumatic. Please exercise caution and care.
Source: Anatomy of a rape: Brittany Higgins takes the stand – The Shot
And so, as we hurtle toward authoritarian aristocracy, we must normalize the idea of wealth redistribution. There is no good reason against it, not a single one. We can have either billionaires or democracy, not both.
Source: We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both. – CounterPunch.org
Australian university staff have collectively lost almost $159 million in stolen wages.
Academic freedom and freedom of expression on university campuses across the Anglosphere have continued to come under attack in the past week with Israeli lobbyists conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
As Israel resumed its bombing campaign, now focusing on southern Gaza, the push to hold back the growing tide of disgust is intensifying, as the official Palestinian death toll in the strip nears 16,000.
On Tuesday, the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are being hauled before a U.S. congressional committee to face accusations that protests on their campuses were anti-Semitic in nature.
While we invest in Israel Israel warns its citizens not to come here “Australia is dangerous” .
Documents obtained under FOI reveal Australia’s Future Fund has shares in controversial Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems, a company associated with the making of cluster-bombs. Michael West and Kim Wingerei report.
How many war crimes does it take?
Israeli troops deliberately attacked MSF rescue vehicles and destroyed them with tank fire.
Lawrence Davidson delves into the history behind the founding of Israel as a European settler state and how it came to see international law as a danger to defy and overcome. By Lawrence Davidson
Israel’s mass destruction in Gaza is one of the worst criminal acts committed by a state since World War II.
For those illogical enough to think it is anti-Semitic to point out such enormous Zionist sins, I would point to the growing number of Jews in the Diaspora who condemn Israel’s actions. I take my stand with them.
Israel is not representative of all Jews. And Israel’s goals and leadership arguably represents a betrayal of the best of Jewish values. In this strange convoluted way, the real enemy of the Jews are the Zionists.
Let’s end by taking a quick look at a list of 74 countries adhering to the U.N. charter. This is the so-called Multilateralism index and it ranks how these countries adhere to the United Nations’ Charter and its goals.
Guess who is at the very bottom? You got it, the United States of America. Guess who is second to last? Right again. It is Israel. Enough said.
Netanyahu declares there are no “safe zones ” for Israelis ” who want to leave Israel apart from America but declares there are for Palestinians in Gaza and then he bombs the bejeezus out of them. Having done that he sends in the tanks snipers and ground troops who have been told every Palestinian is Hamas because they hate us.
The last days have been the hardest we have experienced since the war began, here in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Until last Friday, this area was designated a “safe zone” — a farcical description considering the Israeli army has bombed the city non-stop, but one that nonetheless brought an influx of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from the northern parts of the Strip, which Israeli troops have directly occupied for more than a month. Now, the army’s invasion of southern Gaza is underway, and residents have nowhere to run.
Source: Thousands flee Khan Younis on the cusp of Israeli invasion
It seems all restraints have been removed, but Israel’s unrepentant backers in the West continue to turn a blind eye as the Palestinian people face a genocidal assault.
Source: Opinion | Israel’s AI Targeting Puts All the People of Gaza in the Crosshairs | Common Dreams
INSIDERS IS NO longer a program viewers can rely on for accurate information and analysis. This is extremely disappointing. This has come about through excessive reliance on Rupert Murdoch’s mendacious “news” outlets for its content.
Source: ABC complaint over Insiders’ collaboration with Murdoch’s News Corp
When the Media reports what you say rather than what you did. It’s not Australian it’s News Corp
Dutton created the ideal environment for criminals to exploit Australia’s visa system. The recent report by Christine Nixon lays bare Dutton’s failures on border protection.
Sadly, few Australians will remember Dutton’s failures on border protection. They will remember Dutton’s rhetoric and fear mongering on border protection.
Raising our kids with equal opportunity of being imprisoned
MUDDLE-MINDED politicians have built 17 children’s prisons (juvenile detention centres) across Australia, with five more slated for construction. More than one in two incarcerated children go on to adult incarceration. One in 50 living Australians have been to prison. Because of the intergenerational sins of this nation, one in six of the living descendants of this continent’s First Peoples has been to prison.
Source: Queensland’s answer of more prisons for troubled children is wrong
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
Is it possible to be an Antisemitic Jew I believe Netanyahu has proved it is. He has raised antisemitism to tsunami levels. Zionists both Jewish and Christian celebrated anti-semitism with the 1914 Belfour Declaration. A Declaration that was not just crooked; it was a contradiction in terms. The national home it promised to the Jews was never clearly defined and there was no precedent for it in international law and was opposed by the people of Palestine who were never consulted. Just as Zionists planned in 1914 and did in 1948 Jenna Price writes
Netanyahu has given people reasons to unleash their antisemitism. I pray he has also given Israelis the power to unleash their votes against him.
Why is that knowledge good news? It means Israelis must be several steps closer to ditching Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who must accept not just significant responsibility for the devastation and murders in Gaza, but also for the continuing despair of what remains of the Jewish diaspora. The man who pretends to be strong but is not. The man who could not even defend his own country despite considerable advance warning of the attack.
Hello. My name is Jenna Price and I’m Jewish. It’s a line I use when I find myself facing raging antisemitism. It interrupts the conversation and warns antisemites I’m about to take them on. You’d be surprised by the number of people who think it’s hilarious to make jokes or tropes about Jews. I don’t share your sense of humour, if that’s what you call it. I don’t think it’s funny when you mock Aboriginal people or Indian people or people of Muslim faith. You are a bigot and a racist.
I’m appalled at what’s happening to Palestinians. I’m appalled successive Israeli governments have seized land that was not theirs and dispossessed men, women and children from their homeland. I’ve moved from being a person utterly wedded to the two-state solution to being one who despairs that there will ever be a solution of any kind, except a horrific one. Netanyahu’s popularity, and that of his party, Likud, is in the basement. Now Israel is in the most precarious position it’s ever been in: a brief reminder Israel exists because of the Holocaust.
Source: Israel war: Hamas plan revelations must force nation to ditch Benjamin Netanyahu
When Rabbis call the children Vermin and Netanyahu agrees to kill them like rats
Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a map with supposedly safe zones, almost no one in Gaza has access to the map because of electricity outages and lack of internet access. Moreover, many Palestinians don’t have transport, and there is nothing to eat or drink at those places anyway. Many are refusing to move again, since so many are already internally displaced persons crowded into inadequate United Nations Works and Relief Shelters, which lack sufficient food, water and other necessities for these hundreds of thousands of people made homeless.
Source: This is a War on Children, and “Safe Zones” are Death Traps: UNICEF
A state of containment scaring its own citizens from leaving are Israelis imprisoned by their own government? Are Australians welcome if not why not? Isn’t this what they claim is illegal trade practice BDS? Are Christians and Muslims restricted from entering the Holy Land? Israel claims says there’s a terrorist problem. While it’s keeping Israeli citizens in Israel they’re encouraging a rush to colonize land they claim not by God but by successive Israeli Governments.
Settlers are Israeli citizens who live on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The vast majority of the settlements have been built either entirely or partially on private Palestinian land.
More than 700,000 settlers – 10 percent of Israel’s nearly 7 million population – now live in 150 settlements and 128 outposts dotting the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
A settlement is authorised by the Israeli government while an outpost is built without government authorisation. Outposts can range from a small shanty of a few people to a community of up to 400 people.
Some of the settlers move to the occupied territories for religious reasons while others are drawn by a relatively lower cost of living and financial incentives offered by the government. Ultraorthodox Jews form one-third of all settlers.
The threat level for many countries in western Europe, including Britain, France and Germany, for South America, including Brazil and Argentina, as well as Australia and Russia, has been raised to level two, with the recommendation to “exercise increased precaution”.
Mainstream media outlets repeat, ‘Hamas, a terrorist organisation designated by the US and other western governments.’ Tagged to that description is a daily reminder of the brutality of Hamas’ attack on October 7 and the taking of over 200 hostages. Intimidated journalists and ill-informed politicians then promote the Israeli message that Hamas is a monster without precedent and must be destroyed.
Examination of the terrorist colonisation of Palestine could start in the 1940s when the Jewish Stern gang attacked British personnel, airfields, railway yards and other Palestinian installations. They assassinated British officials overseas and sought alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
Leader of the Stern gang, Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel, 1983-84 and 1986-90.
The Jewish Irgun gang is remembered for the July 22 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British army and of the Palestinian administration. Ninety-one people were killed. On April 9 1948, Irgun and Stern gangs murdered over one hundred residents of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. An Israeli intelligence officer reported the massacre was indiscriminate, no one was spared.
Leader of Irgun terrorists, Menachem Begin, became Prime Minister of Israel, 1977 to 1983.
Convenient binary analyses of history, those which depict good nations against bad, saving victim Israel from aggressive Hamas, supporting honourable western democracies against the other, are inaccurate and deceitful. The latest dangerous deceit promotes the view that Hamas fighters from Gaza are terrorists without precedent.
The checkered history of US-armed Israel, let alone accounts of the unbelievable terror of Israel’s bloody war against the children of Gaza, challenges those who prefer to only demonize Hamas.
Source: De-Mystifying Hamas: who are the Israeli terrorists? – Pearls and Irritations
By Jessica Wolfendale, Case Western Reserve University | – Some commentators have criticized Israel for causing what is claimed to be disproportionate harm to civilians in its military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Others have defended Israel’s actions, claiming that such force – and the risk to civilians involved – is necessary to eliminate Hamas, which some Israelis believe poses an existential threat to Israel. As of Nov. 25, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of whom are women and children. But one of the arguments given
Source: Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist
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