Tag: An Informed Opinion

Israel

Gatekeeping Against a Shared Humanity – ScheerPost

So as we travel this place in shared space-time, let us connect however we can. The small things, as we interact with each other and plant seeds of commonality. I think many would be surprised how these beliefs and actions can take root. A basic foundation of shared humanity is enough to halt almost every ill. We need to advance the notion that the brave stance is this, not the false bravado, the chest-thumping that comes from internal feelings of inadequacy—the feelings that breed violence and compartmentalization. We can be so much more than our own insecurities. We have power, but it’s locked up in belief systems that benefit only a ruling class, and even for them, it’s a pathology of misery. If in the end, it truly turns out to be futile– planting these seeds with perhaps no long-term human survival on the docket…well, it’ll still make the trip around that much better for us all if we begin to erode this fallacious notion of separation. Bitterness and hate takes its toll. We don’t have to be mired in the horror of the world every moment;we have an obligation for joy as well, but we certainly never have to turn off our hearts and agree with the sickness. If we know a party is to end, it doesn’t mean we decide…. hey let’s murder the host of the party, take their stuff and shit on the floor. But right now, that’s kind of how humanity is acting at the party.

Source: Gatekeeping Against a Shared Humanity – ScheerPost

Israel

Opinion | The International Community Is Killing Palestinians Through Useless Debate | Common Dreams

Relatives mourn over the body of Palestinian Yazan Al-Najmi

Are priorities so misplaced that world leaders cannot articulate the necessity of a permanent cease-fire as the way to alleviate the Palestinian people’s suffering?

Source: Opinion | The International Community Is Killing Palestinians Through Useless Debate | Common Dreams

Murdoch

Abbott appointment formalises relationship with the Murdoch family

Quid pro Quo backroom deals, Fake photo shoots, and Dismantling of the ABC to Maintain this nation’s colonial course. News Corp & Abbott are determined to show we are White, Christian, and Monarchist. Murdoch has appointed a psychopath with a trail of broken promises and hate to a governor of Rupert’s interests down under. The American media invasion will continue with a wannabe Knight on the board who still dreams of being PM.

Tony Abbott’s appointment to the Fox Corporation board next month will formalise a long and fruitful relationship between the former prime minister and the Murdoch family.

Source: Abbott appointment formalises relationship with the Murdoch family

Anti- Media

Bullshit and spin – The Shot

During his rise to power in 1930’s Germany, Adolf Hitler’s inner circle had a major problem – their leader was an unpalatable weirdo. A peculiar, solitary figure who lived alone, had manic temper outbursts and scowled at cameras, Hitler was quite the spin doctor’s challenge.

Source: Bullshit and spin – The Shot

ALP Government,

Bright and shiny things – » The Australian Independent Media Network

While the former Coalition Government was never one to consider the frail, elderly, unwell or jobless as full members of society, you would expect better from an ALP Government. Perhaps we are expecting too much.

Source: Bright and shiny things – » The Australian Independent Media Network

USA

Caitlin Johnstone: War Machine vs. Balloons

In what Austin journalist Christopher Hooks has called “one of the stupidest news cycles in living memory,” the entire American political/media class is having an existential meltdown over what the Pentagon claims is a Chinese spy balloon detected in U.S. airspace on Thursday.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: War Machine vs. Balloons

Uncategorized

The legacy of the “visionless plodder” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Let’s hope that it is decades before our secular nation is taken over by the appalling sanctimonious religious hypocrites, alpha male misogynists and corrupt self-serving elitists who seem to be holding sway within the LNP! Australia has a long, proud history of keeping religion out of politics – let’s keep it that way by never voting LNP again.

Note: Thankyou to Dr Binoy Kampmark for the term “visionless plodder.”

Source: The legacy of the “visionless plodder” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel, Uncategorized

The Guardian view on Israel’s democracy: killing with impunity, lying without consequence? | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

In the last nine months of 2018, according to the United Nations, Palestinians – many of them children – were killed at the rate of around one a day while taking part in protests along Israel’s perimeter fence with Gaza about their right to return to ancestral homes. They included medics and journalists. Most of the dead were unarmed and posed no danger to anyone, with little more than rocks in their hands and slogans on their lips. Yet Israel continued with an immoral and unlawful policy that sees soldiers of its military, which is under democratic civilian control, shoot, gas, shell and kill protesters, including those who pose no credible threat.

Hospitals in Gaza, which already struggle under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, have been stretched to breaking point in dealing with the flood of patients ferried in from the protests. In its defence, Israel’s diplomats cast Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, as terrorists who are organising demonstrations in “a war zone”. It would appear, sadly, that Israel wishes to conduct a war over the airwaves, as well as one on the ground, against the Palestinians. This blatant disregard for Gazan lives and the lack of accountability is underpinned by a politics of resentment and dissembling that has profound repercussions for Israel. If one can kill with impunity, then can one lie without consequence?

The novelist Amos Oz’s words that “even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting occupation” have been ignored for too long. Mr Netanyahu’s nearest rival brags that he sent parts of Gaza “back to the stone age” when in the military. Mr Netanyahu would dismiss Oz’s warnings; but perhaps he ought to take heed of the recent spat between the historian Benny Morris and the writer Gideon Levy. The former, who made his name by lifting the veil on the ethnic cleansings on which Israel was founded, but drifted rightwards to say that these heinous crimes did not go far enough, and the latter, a leftwing columnist, agree that the two-state solution is a fading prospect. Mr Netanyahu lulls the public with the notion that a two-state solution will wait until Israel deems the conditions to be ripe. He hints that new friends in Washington, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi will come up with a proposal the Palestinians will swallow. This is pure cynicism. There is no new plan – just a rebranding of the status quo, maintained by force by Israel, and with Palestinians within and without Israel’s borders subjugated and dependent. Israelis must turn away from the occupation, which is debasing their society and suffocating the Palestinians.

via The Guardian view on Israel’s democracy: killing with impunity, lying without consequence? | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian