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Israel

The Rages of Equivalence: The ICC Prosecutor, Israel and Hamas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The legal world was abuzz. The diplomatic channels of various countries raged and fizzed. It had been rumoured that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his cabinet colleagues, had been bracing themselves for a stinging intervention from the International Criminal Court, a body they give no credence or respect to.

Unfortunately, many a just cause sprouts from crime, and the protagonists can always claim to be on the right side of history when the world takes notice of a plight. Only at the conclusion of the peace accords can stock be taken, the egregiousness of it all accounted for. Along the way, the law looks increasingly shabby, suffering in sulky silence. These applications for arrest warrants are merely a modest measure to, pardon the pun, arrest that tendency. It is now up to the pre-trial chamber of the ICC to take the next step.

 

Source: The Rages of Equivalence: The ICC Prosecutor, Israel and Hamas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Primetime genocide apologists and the annihilation of Gaza – The Shot

Yesterday, the Australian Senate voted 56-12 to condemn the use of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, because it allegedly “opposes Israel’s right to exist, and is frequently used by those who seek to intimidate Jewish Australians via acts of antisemitism”. And yet there was no similar motion condemning (or even adequately acknowledging) the ongoing slaughter that stands in opposition to Palestine’s right to exist. If your suss-O-meter isn’t firing yet, it is well and truly broken.

“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”. Today, you will not find a clearer example of the phenomenon Macolm X was referring to than Israel’s wholesale slaughter of Gaza and the mesmerising cover provided by truth-discordant imperial apologia we sometimes call “the news”. 

Reject it all. It is swallowing your humanity. 

Source: Primetime genocide apologists and the annihilation of Gaza – The Shot

Israel, Israel Crimes

Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza

This doesn’t typically happen as a result of any grand monolithic conspiracy; it’s mostly just the natural consequence of having all the major news platforms controlled by wealthy and powerful people who each have a vested interest in manufacturing consent for the status quo upon which their wealth and power are premised. 

The oligarchs control the media, and they hire the executives who run the media, and the executives hire the editors who write the headlines and guide the reporters to report a certain way, and this gives rise to a system where everyone working for the outlet conducts themselves in a way that just so happens to suit the powerful people on top.

Then before you know it you’ve got editors at The New York Times — a paper that’s been published by the same family for over a century — packaging a story about starvation caused by an Israeli siege to look like it’s a story about an innocent crop failure.

Odds are nobody told them to do that; they just learned over the years that that’s how you rise to the top in an outlet like The New York Times.

Source: Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza

Alan Jones

How alleged paedophile Alan Jones has been protected by the old media for decadesKangaroo Court of Australia

Alan Jones

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.

Source: How alleged paedophile Alan Jones has been protected by the old media for decadesKangaroo Court of Australia

Fox News

Tucker Carlson makes a compelling case against Biden’s infrastructure plan for climate deniers and white supremacists | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson makes a compelling case against Biden's infrastructure plan for climate deniers and white supremacists

Source: Tucker Carlson makes a compelling case against Biden’s infrastructure plan for climate deniers and white supremacists | Media Matters for America

Education

Jacobin

We need high-quality, entertaining class-struggle television. The BBC’s period drama The Mill, which was ahead of its time when it debuted in 2013, shows us how it’s done.

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Culture

Changing the whitewash channel on Australian television – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

People of non-Anglo backgrounds are vastly underrepresented in Australian TV, a new study shows.

Source: Changing the whitewash channel on Australian television – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Humour

Most Australians Now Contestants On A Cooking Show
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By on August 4, 2015

The majority of Australians spend their evenings competing on a televised cooking program, new figures have revealed.

Demographer Caroline Netherby said the average person now spends 4.5 weeks a year on a TV cooking show, with nearly 80% of the population preparing food for the cameras on any given weeknight. “Most of those remaining spend the night at home, watching the cooking show,” she said.

One network executive said it was becoming harder for new cooking shows to achieve the sky-high ratings of years past. “People aren’t sitting in front of their TVs as much as they used to be. Most of them are preparing for a mystery box challenge”.

Social researcher Gabby Henderson said the way we cook at home had changed as a result. “Most people now describe out loud how they are cooking something, while they are cooking it, which is a great new development”.