Senator Pauline Hanson has been found by a court to have racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi in a tweet telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
October 1957
Flood causing loss of life and damage to property.
A natural disaster
October 2024
Flash floods with heavy downpours causing loss of life and damage to property.
A natural disaster.
The explanation of the 2024 flooding according to the experts.
Scientists trying to explain what happened see two likely connections to human-caused climate change. One is that warmer air holds and then dumps more rain. The other is possible changes in the jet stream — the river of air above land that moves weather systems across the globe — that spawn extreme weather.
If it is human-caused “climate change” in 2024, it must have been human-caused climate change/global warming in 1957 ….. 67 years ago
The ones who imposed lockdowns and forced people to take the vaxx, claim they’ve saved lives. Such as: WA Premier Roger Cook
we literally saved thousands of lives through the measures that we put in place.
What the medical research continues to show: Dr James Royle, UK surgeon
‘Many of my multidisciplinary team colleagues, fellow surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and specialist nurses all acknowledged to me sudden change in patterns and dramatic increase in these incurable advanced cancers that we’ve observed in these past two years.’
I am carrying this over from the Muse Thread to the Open Thread because it is not connected to Hollywood and movies. And the Open Thread is looking a bit lonely. 😉
It’s not my real name. (I’d like for you to use my real name, but…)
Many of us who take part in online conversations have chosen to use an alias instead of our real life names. It isn’t intended to deceive others or hide something but to safeguard our privacy and identity in the online world.
When we are talking in the blogosphere, I refer to a commenter by the name they have chosen. Unless it happens to be a long name, in which case I would use a part of the name.
Having ABC Classic FM on in the background, working from home, means navigating around the Welcomes to (our own) Country etc, but an education in classical music…
Years ago, I used to listen to ABC Classic FM. Then, one year, they chose to focus on the October Revolution in the month of April and played Russian composers. I enjoy listening to Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich, but that particular day was Holy Saturday. A day for Handel and Bach. I was annoyed.
Soon after, fiddling with the radio channels, I came across Fine Music and it became my new station for my fix of classical music. I haven’t listened to it much lately.
It is an FM station FM radio (at 102.5FM.) But I don’t know whether you can pick it up on the same FM location anywhere in Oz.
Back when it happened, when I still so wanted to believe that ‘conservatism’ was a real thing, when I routinely defended the likes of Tony Abbott from those incorrigible “lefties”, I tried valiantly to put out of mind his role in Pauline Hanson’s wrongful imprisonment. So relentless were the ‘two-party political’ attacks on him, it didn’t compute that he should be the ‘villain’, acting against another ‘underdog’; it just didn’t seem right to be critical of him.
A “brief period” – is that how he referred to her nearly three months in gaol? Is that how he would have referred to his daughter, sister, wife being forced to endure a similarly frightening, humiliating, undeserved experience? I only have to think of the months under “lockdown”, across a ‘closed border’ from family in 2020-2021, and its lingering effects (not having grown up in Russia, for example, to be better prepared for such smiling-faced government brutality), to relate in my own small way.
I understand she’s since forgiven him, but I was wrong to ‘gloss over it’ myself, in my eagerness for a sense of belonging to a political ‘team’ or ‘tribe’.
In a way, that “brief period” of injustice could be said to have been a harbinger of the much more widespread infringements of liberty to come under Covid. From what was tolerated – or overlooked – then, to what was tolerated in the last five years, to what may yet be tolerated in years to come.
I am carrying this over from the Muse Thread to the Open Thread because it is not connected to Hollywood and movies. And the Open Thread is looking a bit lonely. 😉
🙂
Soon after, fiddling with the radio channels, I came across Fine Music and it became my new station for my fix of classical music.
Thank you! It reminds me… I don’t think there’s an emoji for something you’d forgotten – or put out of mind – that you missed, is there?
I’m very grateful for this site, even if it is only this few of us 🙂
The Australian government is in a very very weak position (…) When it bans people from performing or speaking, it shows just how desperate the government is
Lara Logan
February 2024: Testimony in Washington DC
Award-winning journalist Lara Logan delivers a powerful first-hand account of the censorship and persecution faced by truth-tellers who dare to challenge establishment narratives, underscoring the vital role of free speech in safeguarding the future of freedom itself.
“For too long, we have allowed non-profit organisations to masquerade as non-partisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins, whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way. And along with them, the long held and cherished ideas of free speech, free thinking and free minds.”
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology and by courtesy, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine.
He stopped using Bluetooth earbuds because he experienced lymph swellings behind his ears and felt heat effects, which made him concerned about potential health risks.
That’s from the same publication which, nearly a year earlier, was calling for a collective leapfrogging over sundry ‘stages of grief’, a group galloping past mere acknowledgement, let alone accountability.
Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.
I rarely even look at these publications anymore but this in The Weekend Australian :
There needs to be a reckoning. Because politicians and bureaucrats had no excuse – hindsight was not needed, as anyone reading these pages would know, the core failings and missteps were obvious early.
Most politicians were drunk on power and deliberately fuelled fear to underpin their power, and a sensationalist media was complicit.
Good, commonsense advice there. I’ve never used those headphones – thought they made people look like robots.
I do worry (as if we don’t have enough to worry about, but I do) at times about all the good, trusting people who’ve had half a dozen or more of those shots. I pray for them.
Good reminder not to be on any devices, or focused on negative “news”, for too much of the day.
There needs to be a reckoning. Because politicians and bureaucrats had no excuse – hindsight was not needed, as anyone reading these pages would know, the core failings and missteps were obvious early.
Most politicians were drunk on power and deliberately fuelled fear to underpin their power, and a sensationalist media was complicit.
Is the writer referring to Global Warming, Covid, Abortion, Euthanasia or lgbtqism?
Will the same writer, in a year or two, also be calling for the reckoning about a major news item where there have been failings, missteps and complicity by the MSM, Alt Media, governments and politicians for the past year?
Have you heard the phrase, “Ora et Labora” before? What about the maxim, “Pray as if everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.”
The following story is a running list of journalists and politicians who have taken part in organised tours to the Middle East on the dime of lobby groups or governments, or at their own expense. It was last updated on October 16, 2024.
For decades, Israeli advocacy groups have sent journalists as well as elected and aspiring politicians to the Middle East on what the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies calls the “Journalists’ Mission to Israel”…..
On the other side of the border, Palestinian advocacy networks have also run tours of their own, albeit without the five-star experience of Israeli trips.
But the science is now crystal clear – the vaccine is safe for pregnant women. There have now been over 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations during pregnancy in England and Scotland, 160,000 in the US, and millions worldwide. Not a single legitimate concern has been raised about their safety.
So why the lingering vaccine hesitancy? Much of the blame lies at the door of private messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
Officials from Gaza’s health ministry on 4 November issued a “final distress call” about the dire situation developing in north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, which has been under a violent siege by the Israeli army for the past several weeks.
“Perhaps a last distress call: The occupation forces continue to heavily bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital, affecting all of its facilities. There are numerous injuries among the medical staff and patients, and the medical teams are unable to move between the hospital departments or save their injured colleagues,” the statement reads.
“It appears that a decision has been made to execute all the staff who refused to evacuate the hospital.”
Israel’s rightist government celebrates as Trump claims victory
JERUSALEM, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist government celebrated on Wednesday after Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the U.S. presidential election.
The outcome is a relief for Netanyahu’s coalition, which has clashed with President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration over the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Congratulating Trump, Netanyahu said the former president was set for “history’s greatest comeback”.
“Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America,” he said in a statement.
“This is a huge victory.”
Far-right ministers in the government also welcomed the results.
“Yesssss, God bless Trump,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads one of two hardline, pro-settler parties in Netanyahu’s coalition, said on X.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who heads the other pro-settler party, said: “God bless Israel, God bless America.”
Israel’s settler leaders also welcomed the election results after Biden’s administration imposed sanctions and asset freezes on settler groups and individuals involved in violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
“We expect to have an ally standing unconditionally beside us as we fight the battles that are a war on the entire West,” Israel Ganz, chairman of the main Yesha settler council, said in a statement to Reuters.
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Valencia, Spain
October 1957
Flood causing loss of life and damage to property.
A natural disaster
October 2024
Flash floods with heavy downpours causing loss of life and damage to property.
A natural disaster.
The explanation of the 2024 flooding according to the experts.
If it is human-caused “climate change” in 2024, it must have been human-caused climate change/global warming in 1957 ….. 67 years ago
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The ones who imposed lockdowns and forced people to take the vaxx, claim they’ve saved lives. Such as:
WA Premier Roger Cook
What the medical research continues to show:
Dr James Royle, UK surgeon
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Signed.
29,421 signatures so far.
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I am carrying this over from the Muse Thread to the Open Thread because it is not connected to Hollywood and movies. And the Open Thread is looking a bit lonely. 😉
Many of us who take part in online conversations have chosen to use an alias instead of our real life names. It isn’t intended to deceive others or hide something but to safeguard our privacy and identity in the online world.
When we are talking in the blogosphere, I refer to a commenter by the name they have chosen. Unless it happens to be a long name, in which case I would use a part of the name.
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Years ago, I used to listen to ABC Classic FM. Then, one year, they chose to focus on the October Revolution in the month of April and played Russian composers. I enjoy listening to Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich, but that particular day was Holy Saturday. A day for Handel and Bach. I was annoyed.
Soon after, fiddling with the radio channels, I came across Fine Music and it became my new station for my fix of classical music. I haven’t listened to it much lately.
It is an FM station FM radio (at 102.5FM.) But I don’t know whether you can pick it up on the same FM location anywhere in Oz.
More info here and here.
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Back when it happened, when I still so wanted to believe that ‘conservatism’ was a real thing, when I routinely defended the likes of Tony Abbott from those incorrigible “lefties”, I tried valiantly to put out of mind his role in Pauline Hanson’s wrongful imprisonment. So relentless were the ‘two-party political’ attacks on him, it didn’t compute that he should be the ‘villain’, acting against another ‘underdog’; it just didn’t seem right to be critical of him.
A “brief period” – is that how he referred to her nearly three months in gaol? Is that how he would have referred to his daughter, sister, wife being forced to endure a similarly frightening, humiliating, undeserved experience? I only have to think of the months under “lockdown”, across a ‘closed border’ from family in 2020-2021, and its lingering effects (not having grown up in Russia, for example, to be better prepared for such smiling-faced government brutality), to relate in my own small way.
I understand she’s since forgiven him, but I was wrong to ‘gloss over it’ myself, in my eagerness for a sense of belonging to a political ‘team’ or ‘tribe’.
In a way, that “brief period” of injustice could be said to have been a harbinger of the much more widespread infringements of liberty to come under Covid. From what was tolerated – or overlooked – then, to what was tolerated in the last five years, to what may yet be tolerated in years to come.
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Thank you! It reminds me… I don’t think there’s an emoji for something you’d forgotten – or put out of mind – that you missed, is there?
I’m very grateful for this site, even if it is only this few of us 🙂
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What Happened To Australia? Australia is no longer what it once was.
Aussie Cossack
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In the lead-up to the US elections, I have been praying for what really matters.
These are the facts not just for American voters but also for the world.
One
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Two
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Three
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Esme, I want to respond to some of the points in your comment, but they are not brief replies. I’ll come back to that at some later date.
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DARTH TRUMP
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Very clever. Can’t deny there’s lots of entertainment in it all
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Garbage Time Edition.
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Trump easing favourite
Sportsbet
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New leader of the Tories
Same as the Old?
Kemi Badenoch
Kemi-1
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Kemi-2
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Kemi-3
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Lara Logan
February 2024: Testimony in Washington DC
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Is it safe to use wireless headphones?
Andrew Huberman
If you can’t view the entire thread, see this.
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How do you know it is Election time?
Election-1
Election-2
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They have indeed attacked her sanity:
A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality
That’s from the same publication which, nearly a year earlier, was calling for a collective leapfrogging over sundry ‘stages of grief’, a group galloping past mere acknowledgement, let alone accountability.
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I rarely even look at these publications anymore but this in The Weekend Australian :
“Widely Discredited” Bakersfield Doctors
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Good, commonsense advice there. I’ve never used those headphones – thought they made people look like robots.
I do worry (as if we don’t have enough to worry about, but I do) at times about all the good, trusting people who’ve had half a dozen or more of those shots. I pray for them.
Good reminder not to be on any devices, or focused on negative “news”, for too much of the day.
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Great links, kaysee. Let’s all think of the halfway decent people involved, and try to find ways to be uplifting 🙂
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Is the writer referring to Global Warming, Covid, Abortion, Euthanasia or lgbtqism?
Will the same writer, in a year or two, also be calling for the reckoning about a major news item where there have been failings, missteps and complicity by the MSM, Alt Media, governments and politicians for the past year?
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And for this Sunday…
Ora Et Labora?
Pray About It? Or Just Do It?
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A Ponderable
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Israeli Settlers Are Coming For Gaza.
Noah Samsen
500K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyUWyNTOVc
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This is not a site I read, but I came across this link elsewhere and clicked to check. The article was written last year but updated recently.
Which Australian journalists and politicians have gone on trips to Israel and Palestine?
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Israeli police have arrested Eli Feldstein, a top aide to Netanyahu, over allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media.
What he did.
More info
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The new leader of the Conservative Party in the UK
Wrote this article in January 2022
The Covid vaccine is safe for pregnant women and their babies
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‘Final distress call’ from Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
as Israel turns facility into kill zone
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Tedros still doesn’t like critics of Covid vaxx.
During a recent speech, the WHO Director-General said:
“It’s time to be more aggressive in pushing back on anti-vaxxers.”
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Instant classic
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Who are they really voting for?
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Trump takes lead
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Nick’s biggest stream ever
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Reuters
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AP declares it
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Mr.Kittlez Vs The Haitians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drxPY29BAX0
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Tears at the Age
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The Trump Dimension
placeboing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEeAzl9Weo
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