Open Thread – March 2024

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  1. mh says:

    The Age

    More than 100 killed as Israeli troops fire on Palestinians seeking food


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  2. mh says:

    King George 👑

    Galloway on course to win Rochdale by-election ‘comfortably’, party claims

    George Galloway’s party believes it has won the Rochdale by-election, one of the most divisive contests of recent years.

    Representatives of Mr Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain said they expected to win the election “comfortably” as votes continued to be counted in the Greater Manchester constituency.

    James Giles, Mr Galloway’s campaign manager, told the PA news agency: “It is going better than our wildest hopes. George will win here by a fair margin.”

    Mr Giles said Labour’s one-time candidate Azhar Ali, who the party disowned after an antisemitism row, had also failed badly.

    He added: “Mr Ali’s family were here earlier to scrutinise the votes – and they left within the hour.”

    Independent candidate William Howarth said votes were piling up for Mr Galloway and another independent candidate, local businessman David Tully.

    Chris Williamson, a former Labour MP and deputy leader of Mr Galloway’s party, said the result would “send shockwaves through the Palace of Westminster”.

    He told Sky News: “It will also, I think, give hope to tens of thousands, if not millions of people in the country who are looking for a genuine alternative, because our democracy has been stolen from us.

    “The Labour Party and the Conservative Party are effectively often the same thing.”

    He added that a victory for Mr Galloway represented “a total rejection of mainstream party politics”.

    Early on Friday, officials announced a turnout of 39.7%, slightly higher than recent by-elections in Wellingborough and Kingswood …

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/live-rochdale-by-election-2024-28722761


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  3. Old bloke says:

    Does anyone know who is referred to here?

    Traitor Former Politician MAY Still Have Access to Parliament House – Malcolm Roberts – 4 mins.


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  4. mh says:

    Powerful victory speech from The King

    Landslide Victory for George Galloway in Rochdale

    Consortium News
    25.3K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW973CqSxBI

    “Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are two cheeks of the same backside.

    And they both got well and truly spanked tonight”


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  5. mh says:

    Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
    @jacksonhinklle

    🚨🇬🇧🇵🇸 Congratulations to the LEGENDARY @georgegalloway on becoming Britain’s newest MP. I feel elated knowing that Parliament will once again have a courageous voice of reason fighting for a CEASEFIRE in GAZA & peace with RUSSIA!

    https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1763439495888634284?s=20


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  6. mh says:

    Senator Penny Wong
    @SenatorWong
    Statement on today’s catastrophe in Gaza.

    https://x.com/SenatorWong/status/1763434617791766716?s=20


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  7. mh says:

    If Jewish civilians are blocking the humanitarian aid, where is the 46.5 million going, Penny?

    Jeremy Loffredo
    @loffredojeremy
    Today at the Nitzana border crossing Israeli citizens are bringing their machine guns and small children to block all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. The military is having fun. The kids are cooking cotton candy.

    https://x.com/loffredojeremy/status/1762480372963508266?s=20


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  8. mh says:

    Think of the poor IDF not the victims of the Flour Massacre?

    KernowDamo
    41.1K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuYNEXVx9Y


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  9. Old bloke says:

    George Galloway attempting to describe the democratic process to a Sky news reporter.

    George Galloway: ‘I despise the prime minister’ – 8 mins.


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  10. mh says:

    George Galloway: ‘I despise the prime minister’ – 8 mins.

    lol

    Epic MSM fail 🤡


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Scott Morrison, last month.

    1/
    Rally in Sydney

    Scott Morrison accused the UN of antisemitism at a rally in Sydney. He apologised to Jewish members in the crowd for their persecution in Australia.

    “We are deeply sorry,” Morrison said. “Sadly instead of finding consolation, on too many occasions you found isolation, and even abandonment, and even persecution, in this, a free country. Instead of safety you were confronted with threats and even hatred.”

    2/
    Valedictory speech

    A few days ago, he signed off from Federal Parliament. In his valedictory speech, he talked about the values of his Christian faith.

    “It is about respecting each other’s human dignity through our creation by God’s hand, in God’s image, for God’s glory,” Morrison said.

    “This is the basis for our modern understanding of human rights.”

    He went on to speak about his Christian faith and Judeo-Christian values. As someone who also supports and advocates Judeo-Christian values, I am now not sure what they are. Maybe we are referring to different sets of values?

    Mr Morrison, what exactly are these values you have mentioned?
    And the respect for “human dignity” and “human rights”?

    Palestinian Christians living in the Holy Land are persecuted by their occupiers. They have been ill-treated and killed. Some of these Palestinians are descendants of the first Christians.

    Can you explain these Judeo-Christian values that were the focus of your speech?

    You are concerned about the persecution of Jews in Australia and you are right. But during your visit to Israel, following the October 7 attacks, did you meet the Palestinian Christians who have direct connections to this Judeo-Christian heritage? Did you have any words of consolation and comfort for them and the persecution they suffer in their homeland?


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  12. mh says:

    Piss off, Morrison.

    Everyone hates you.


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    Continuing with the second point in this comment – anyone who supports the Palestinian cause and calls for a ceasefire is regarded as a Hamas supporter.

    Hamas have been in power since 2006. But how and when did Hamas come into being?

    1/
    Israel’s historical role in the rise of Hamas

    The international focus on the war in Gaza has helped obscure the fact that Israel in the 1980s aided the rise of the Islamist Hamas as a rival to the secular Palestinian Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah.

    2/
    The conflict in Gaza is all the fault of Hamas?
    Going back to 1948?


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    3/

    23 February 2024
    Hamas Has Destroyed Israel (But Not How You Think)

    Israel is going down a dangerous road in Gaza. Their stated goal is to eliminate Hamas but in reality there is no way they can achieve this goal. Hamas does not pose a long term threat to Israel, it never has and it never will. October 7th was the result of a failure in Israeli defense, not an advancement of Hamas military capability. The reality is Israel wants to take over the entire Gaza region and these horrific actions against the people in Gaza are the biggest threat to the long term security of Israel.

    ************

    (Posting a response related to Welby in the Lenten Reflection article since it fits in with mh’s comment.)


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Flour Massacre
    1/
    Jake Shields

    This is a real news headline

    Thousand of hunger Palestines where waiting to get food when the IDF opened fire killing over 100 people

    Even when they are slaughtering innocent civilians they play the victim

    From the article:

    The Israeli army called starving Palestinians waiting for food aid around humanitarian trucks a “violent gathering” which made its soldiers feel “unsafe”, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

    Israeli soldiers then proceeded to indiscriminately open fire on hungry Palestinians, killing dozens and wounding hundreds.

    2/
    Michael Fakhri, U.N. expert on right to food

    Every single person in Gaza is hungry right now. We’ve never seen an entire population, 2.2 million people, made to go hungry this quickly and this completely.

    3/
    Daniel Prinsloo


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    4/
    Biden has announced the US will be dropping humanitarian aid.
    From Oxfam:

    “Oxfam does not support US airdrops to Gaza, which would mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza.

    Oxfam is right in calling out the fake concern, but every bit of aid, however paltry, is needed and should be delivered.

    5/
    From “Conservative media” like Powerline
    (see also Old bloke’s Sky News (“Conservative media”) clip on Galloway, upthread)

    Read the first para in the linked article. It is just 3 sentences.
    There are starving millions, but the writer of the article and most of the comments are all clearly of the opinion that this is a bridge too far.

    6/
    I suppose this group is also made up of Hamas supporters.

    1 March 2024
    Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
    issue statement on the recent attacks on crowds gathering to receive humanitarian aid


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  17. mh says:

    “Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are two cheeks of the same backside.

    And they both got well and truly spanked tonight”

    Where are the political cartoonists?

    So much material.


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    I have mentioned it here before. I am a Collector.

    I collect all sorts of things (objects) ・゚゚・*:༅。.♪ 。༅:*゚✼:*  but more so some treasures (online)💬 📜 📩 during my internet hunts.

    These are memes that range from funny to serious – humour, quotations, questions, riddles, prayers, ponderables and whatnots. I collect them because many of them are either funny and are good to view when one is in low spirits or they are something to reflect on or a well-expressed thought that can be read and pondered on whenever the mood is on.

    I keep meaning to share them here on the blog but with so much happening in the news, I tend to forget about them, especially because my time here is limited. Recently, I came across another great twitter account where I picked up many more memes for my treasure chest collection. I decided that even if I am very busy, I’ll try to pop in and post one of these.

    Will I be able to do that? Daily? I don’t know. But since it is the beginning of the month, I thought I’d give it a try. Well begun ….etc. Some of the memes are riddles or questions. You can work them out for yourself. If it is not a personal question and you want to share on the thread, you are welcome to do so.

    Coming up ….. the first round of a German numeros (Mixed Bag) set.


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  19. mh says:

    The REAL Threat to British Democracy | Peter Oborne

    Double Down News

    480K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrE2LeJqJHk&t=25s


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  20. mh says:

    ⬆️ Peter Oborne does a good summary, but like most UK commentators has a blind spot.

    It’s because he refuses to consider who the real string pullers are. Just saying ‘the far right’ is very limiting. The UK government AND Opposition is under pressure as they are supporting a genocide being carried out by Israel. The Jews that run the UK have said enough is enough, and every one of their media outlets have now said that UK Parliamentary democracy is about to fall due to Islam and those naughty protestors waving Palestinian flags.


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  21. mh says:

    George Galloway MP
    @georgegalloway
    Gaza is the moral centre of the world right now. You are either with its children and their mothers or you are with those who are murdering them. The prime-ministerial robes of Rishi Sunak hang about him like on a dwarfish thief. Keir Starmer is his accomplice.
    8:37 PM · Mar 2, 2024


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  22. mh says:

    Peter Osborne is a guest on this LBC clip

    Analysing Rishi Sunak’s ‘blatant bigotry’ after ‘extremists’ speech

    LBC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcSQQG0nRM

    ——

    @clivesmith9377
    6 hours ago
    Are we still pretending that the UK government is not controlled by an external power?


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  23. Old bloke says:

    The REAL Threat to British Democracy | Peter Oborne

    The political establishment, call it the duopoly or uniparty or whatever, doesn’t like challenges to their hold on power.

    It looks like the UK will go down the same path as Germany which is attempting to ban the AfD.


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:

    I haven’t spent a great deal of my blogging here on issues re Australia because I have been juggling which topics are priorities in terms of time. My focus has been on the Gaza war, US elections and more recently events in the UK.

    What happens overseas, will follow here as well. Unless we have the facts, we won’t be able to make informed decisions. That is, if we are seeking the truth, not the narrative being fed to us by the media and the politicians.

    With the elections in Dunkley, is the LNP really a better option than Labor?

    Labor holds Dunkley in Victoria
    supported by the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome ever seen in Australia

    In what has to be one of the worst cases of Stockholm Syndrome ever seen in the western world, Labor has retained the Victorian seat of Dunkley on the Mornington Peninsula in a by-election today with an overall swing of 3.9 per cent to the Liberal Party….

    Stockholm Syndrome Dictionary.com:
    noun Psychiatry.
    1. an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    George Galloway attempting to describe the democratic process to a Sky news reporter.

    George Galloway: ‘I despise the prime minister’ – 8 mins.

    1/
    Even after the battering by Galloway, the Sky News ‘journo’ Sam Coates was still pushing the agenda of his masters: Voters of Rochdale not happy with bad man Galloway.

    If they can lie even with video evidence, can we trust the ‘news stories’ they report?
    .

    2/
    The Daily Telly – UK edition
    Extremists are trying to undermine British democracy, says he.
    .

    3/
    The Anna Botting interview that George mentioned in his interview with Coates.


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver
    TEARS into ‘unelected PUPPET’ Rishi Sunak for ‘GASLIGHTING’ the British people

    Neil Oliver says that after years of neglect, politicians are starting to feel afraid as their poor decisions catch up with them.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Digital ID

    1/
    Eva Vlaar

    The EU parliament officially approved the ‘European Digital Identity Wallet’ yesterday.

    Although they say it’ll be voluntary – just like they said the digital vaccine passports would be voluntary – this system is the foundation for a Chinese social credit style digital surveillance state.

    2/
    In Australia

    When is a Digital ID not a Digital ID? 🤡

    And if it’s so great why can’t it even be debated? and why is anyone why questions it shut down as a conspiracy theorist?

    Because they know you would say no!


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    At this point, it appears the three front-runner Presidential candidates for the 2024 US general election in November are the following Democrats:

    1/ Joe Biden, Democrat, and running as part of the Democratic party
    2/ Donald Trump, Democrat, but running under the Republican banner
    3/ Robert F Kennedy, Democrat, but running as an Independent.

    Here is one Democrat attacking his Conservative Republican opponent.
    He claims he is going to get everything done in 3 months, 6 months, a year.

    Some of the comments:

    – I remember when he said this in 2016.

    Guess what. Nothin got done.

    – He couldn’t get it done in FOUR years

    – Again, WHY DIDN’T HE GET IT DONE IN FOUR YEARS?!? He said it should ONLY take a year, but he got NOTHING done in four. WHY?!? And why does the MAGA cult allow him to get away with it?!?

    – All talk no action. Can’t govern. Will sign anything the Democrats put in front of him if they say something nice about him.

    – He had the WH, a Senate majority, and a House majority for 2 full years.
    Did none of the stuff he says he can fix in 3 months.

    – Same crap

    – Well he didn’t get it done in four years, so…

    – Do these people forget that he was president for four years?

    – What a jealous man. I wonder why he harbors such resentment? Must be all the accomplishments Gov. DeSantis had in this past week alone. He should feel grossly inadequate.


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    The GOP deemed this candidate unsuitable. He’s a Conservative who has a record of implementing policies based on conservative values. Just this week…..

    1/
    Jeffrey Epstein – Sex Trafficking

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bipartisan bill into law authorizing the release of grand jury transcripts from an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

    The new legislation, signed by the Florida governor on Thursday, will allow a public release of the jury’s transcripts from the 2006 probe into Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. The new measure goes into effect July 1….

    “The public deserves to know who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking,” DeSantis said in the news release Thursday. “Nobody should be protected from facing justice due to their wealth or status, and those who harm children should be exposed and punished to the fullest extent of the law.”

    2/
    DEI – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

    To comply with the Florida Board of Governor’s regulation 9.016 on prohibited expenditures, the University of Florida has closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors.

    Conservatives will whinge about what is going wrong and how it should be set right. They get a candidate who has proven in the past that he does what he says he will do. If he says he’ll need 8 years as President, it means he is going to do a thorough clean up in that time. He isn’t about charming talk at a podium, he is about action.

    But given a choice between empty promises or real action, guess what the Maga-GOP prefers?


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:

    Gaza is the moral centre of the world right now. You are either with its children and their mothers or you are with those who are murdering them.

    Galloway is asking The Question that each of us needs to answer.
    Which side are you on? There is no fence to sit on.

    George Galloway is not some flawless hero riding to the rescue. There will be some of his past actions I would disagree with and I’m sure he’ll fall short of expectations in the future. But the reason he has got back into the political ring, as he has made clear, is for Gaza. For the innocent civilians – the women and children who are being persecuted, starved and murdered.

    In just winning – and by a wide margin – he has ruffled the establishment, and that is a joy to behold. He is a fine orator and has the facts, so it will be great to see him dealing with the WEF underlings in Parliament.

    Two cheeks of the same posterior. All over the Western world.

    2cheeks-1
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    2cheeks-2
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    2cheeks-3
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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    4/
    Matt Le Tissier

    The speech from Rishi Sunak yesterday smelt of desperation and fear. They fear the electorate realising that our government are crooks and every day the numbers are growing. It’s beautiful to watch the awakening although if we could speed it up a bit that would be great

    5/
    A GG quote
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    6/
    UK Extremists
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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕
    And for this Sunday….
    It is the Third Sunday of Lent.

    Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

    “Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley” is a beautiful traditional Lenten spiritual whose origins are shrouded in obscurity. It first appeared in U.S.A. hymnals during the second half of the twentieth century.

    .

    A Ponderable


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  33. mh says:

    4/
    Matt Le Tissier

    The speech from Rishi Sunak yesterday smelt of desperation and fear. They fear the electorate realising that our government are crooks and every day the numbers are growing. It’s beautiful to watch the awakening although if we could speed it up a bit that would be great

    To me it was so unlike what a PM should do, so he must be getting forced to do that by his controllers. Snap press conferences outside of No 10 are for resignation speeches. So call another press conference Rishi and do the right thing this time.


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  34. mh says:

    Matt Le Tissier
    @mattletiss7
    Complaining about everybody else and blaming everyone else is a great diversion from the boiling the frog policies taking away our rights and freedoms. We see you @RishiSunak you sadly are causing the division that you talk about
    6:21 AM · Mar 2, 2024 · 88.2K Views

    https://x.com/mattletiss7/status/1763660909023522860?s=20


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  35. mh says:

    Follow the money … lol

    George Galloway no longer favourite in Rochdale

    Star Sports
    13.4K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStdQJP0ksY


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  36. Old bloke says:

    Kaysee posted this above, it’s worth a look if you haven’t watched it already.

    Neil Oliver TEARS into ‘unelected PUPPET’ Rishi Sunak for ‘GASLIGHTING’ the British people – 11 mins.


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  37. mh says:

    The triumph of King George has got the public interested.

    This honest YouTube toiler is suddenly getting over 100,000 views

    George Galloway just gave a masterclass in monstering the media!

    KernowDamo
    42.2K subscribers

    106,668 views 18 hours ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf6-5O0MacE


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  38. mh says:

    MOAT – Mother of all testimonies

    George Galloway vs the US Senate (FULL TESTIMONY)

    George Galloway MP
    367K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dD48d-yjxc


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  39. mh says:

    The Age

    After 10 years of trying, a Palestinian woman had twins. An Israeli strike killed them both

    It took years of in-vitro fertilisation for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.


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  40. mh says:

    Lecturn stunt by Despicable Little Rishi in his built-up shoes

    George Galloway MP
    371K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxOwxbHwlr0


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  41. mh says:

    You be the judge

    BBZ News – Aaron Bushnell

    Tadhg Hickey
    53.3K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09f4BHVKM0


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  42. mh says:

    The UK government response of trying to shut down opposition to Israel – the US Republican Party response too, btw – is looking unlikely to become the US Democrat or Biden pathway. You can detect this from the media tv networks that are tools of the elites.