It is one week since the Hamas attack in Gaza. Across the media, a great deal of discussion. People are reacting by splitting up into factions/groups and choosing a certain position.
Much of it is a response to what is being fed from whatever source they are following. We are all at the receiving end and not immune to the info flowing out. But instant reactions are can be emotional and not rational.
Why and how have we reached this stage?
Where are we headed?
We learn when we ask questions and listen to other opinions even if at first they may seem to be some conspiracy theory or not in line with what we believe. We can dismiss it later if it is completely baseless.
….. Soviet defector and KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, specializing in the fields of Marxist-Leninist propaganda and ideological subversion; warned us about the silent war being waged against America as part of a long term plan to take over and destroy the American system and way of life.
In the video, Yuri explains:
“Ideological Subversion” is broken up into 4 phases:
When Yuri is describing the first phase, Demoralisation, he talks about a person refusing to understand even when shown the proof. He says: He [the person] will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crashes, then he will understand ……
There will be NO pro-terror demonstrations in Hungary!
We will protect the people of Hungary.
Responses to Orbán’s post:
– Dear sir, please may i come and live in your country. I have a pension so can support myself and I’ll spend money to help your economy. Kind regards. A worried and thoroughly cheesed off Brit
– Do you take native Brits? I’ll try and learn Hungarian.
– Sounds like Hungary and Poland respect their peoples wishes. I wish I could say the same about the USA. You have done a good job))
– Good!
don’t fall for political correctness.
return those supporting terrorism to the area they defend
– You’re probably not a fan of immigrants but room for one more? 🙄
– Can you come be PM in Australia 🇦🇺
– Keep Hungary Hungarian and you will have zero problems.
– You accepting Americans ? I’m one of the productive ones. Christian as well.
– Will you grant me asylum?
Unfortunately I have a German passport.
Still, it’s better to ride the wave of updates than put them off. Nefarious types would be interested in any weaknesses the updates are meant to repair and try to use them against vulnerable computers.
There’s settings to pause updates if you look but anyone who does that probably ends up with a backlog. My Lenovo work laptop updates pretty fast despite its age while my ‘vintage’ home PC takes some time…
There’s settings to pause updates if you look but anyone who does that probably ends up with a backlog.
I decided not to use that option because I know I will forget about the updates.
Win7 used to have the pop-up window to let you know that there are updates ready for download. If you were in the middle of something on your computer and did not want the interruption, you could delay it by a few hours. Then when you are ready, you set them to begin and go off to do other tasks.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Conservative former businessman Christopher Luxon will be New Zealand’s next prime minister after winning a decisive election victory Saturday.
People voted for change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has pledged to push ahead with reconciliation and acknowledged the “strong feedback” against an indigenous Voice, saying she respects that voters here “are not ready”.
Not ready, so they will have to re-educate Australians.
All six states and the Northern Territory. The ACT was the only place where the Yes vote won.
I was listening to a Professor of something or the other was talking on the ABC yesterday as the NT votes were coming in. She couldn’t believe that the polling stations in the remote Aboriginal settlements were all coming in with a strong No vote.
I want to thank Julian Leeser for supporting the Yes case and resigning from the front bench. This allowed Jacinta to get appointed as shadow Indigenous minister.
Currently, the NT seats in the lower house are taken by Labor. If Jacinta could get one of those in the next election, it would be good. She needs to get to the House Of Reps.
She has passion, fire and love for the country. She is an intelligent person. She has leadership qualities. It would be easy for her to learn what she needs to about the workings of government.
This is an article from earlier this month, in the Oz.
Paywalled – so I haven’t read it.
Jacinta Price has made her mark so profoundly it’s hard to imagine national politics without her. The Coalition should plan for the day when Australia is led by the first female Indigenous prime minister.
Warren Mundine explodes at the Brisbane press gallery and good on him, well deserved.
“We had a vote tonight that said Australians want to get things done, wake up to yourselves and start asking real questions and making governments accountable!
The commenters are well-pleased.
– Better the honest passion of Warren Mundine. than the phoney deceitful commentary of Albo
– Bloody brilliant. Thank God someone actually pulled the media up for their inane pathetic questions.
40 beheaded babies’ : How media amplified an unconfirmed story | The Big Picture S3E3
Middle East Eye
mh, I have been following reports on this story from the day it broke but have not commented on it. The reporter in this Middle East Eye video is pushing the pro-Palestine case and so is going with the story that the killing of babies is not true.
Warning: Graphic images.
1/ AI generated images
The released images have been put through image software to determine where it is “human” or “fake”. That has set up a controversy. Depending on which side a person supports, the photo got labelled accordingly.
One side said it was human baby, the other side said it was a puppy. Looking at the photos, it would seem strange for a healthy puppy to be placed in a baby body bag. Also, why would there be stains on the sheet if there is healthy puppy?
Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore has blasted the “ugly, Trumpian tactics” and “harmful misinformation” perpetuated by the ‘No’ campaign following the crushing defeat of the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
“It’s a sad, sad day,” the lord mayor said in a statement released on Sunday following the referendum defeat, adding that the outcome was “devastating and tragic”.
“While I’m grateful that the vast majority of the City of Sydney accepted the generous invitation from First Nations communities, I share your profound disappointment and sadness at the overall result and the rejection of this opportunity to build a brighter future for all.”
Moore confirmed Aboriginal flags would be flown at half mast this week across all council buildings in response to the referendum result.
Flags will also be flown at half mast throughout Sydney’s inner west council from Monday.
Just letting all commenters here know that I am going to be busy with some projects over the coming weeks.
I will still come in and post comments. There is plenty happening, so I’ll find something to add to the threads. But the long rantings ^.^ and posts will be on hold till time permits.
The hunt for Hamas
1/
Israel has issued warnings to the Gaza residents to leave the areas that they will be targeting. They have dropped leaflets on the city.
2/
Hamas leaders rumoured to be sitting safely in hotels in Doha and have told residents not to leave.
They tell the civilians to stay because it is their home and they should stay there. Real reason is to use these residents as human shields in the hope that Israel will not attack if there are civilians.
Questions have been asked about why hospitals and schools are being targetted by the IDF. It’s because Hamas is known to use these locations to store weapons.
But Cairo won’t let Palestinians enter from its Rafah crossing.
Israel’s defensive operation in Gaza will be difficult and bloody, as the military tries to weed Hamas terrorists out of a densely populated urban environment. Lest American or European politicians or commentators suffer any confusion about who is ultimately responsible for what comes next, here are a few facts:
Israel’s military on Friday warned roughly 1.1 million civilians to evacuate the northern part of the Gaza strip. The hope is to minimize civilian casualties as much as possible. This is the opposite of Hamas’s strategy in its invasion last weekend, when terrorists staged a surprise assault with an explicit goal of killing or abducting as many Israeli civilians as possible, including women and children.
If Hamas cared about Palestinian civilians, it would encourage them to leave Gaza. But instead it is demanding that they remain. The terror group intends to use its own people and the hostages it abducted from Israel as human shields. Their hope is that either Israeli concern about causing collateral damage or global opprobrium will force Israel to scale back its counter-invasion.
Egypt is the only place to which Gaza’s civilians can flee for now. Yet Cairo insists on maintaining its strict quota for entries from Gaza via the Rafah crossing—with only 800 able to leave on Monday, and the crossing reportedly closed in recent days.
@guycharles9105
6 hours ago
Probably your best ever broadcast, Brian – I couldn’t stop listening and I have learned so much about a conflict that, unlike the Ukraine, I had been woefully ignorant of until now. You explained so many anomalies about the true reasons for the Hamas attack and their affilations, the apparent Israeli unpreparedness and how the attack benefits their government, and of course how the USA continues to control virtually every major player in this as in most other global conflicts.
This is superb analysis of Hamas and the politics of Palestine, and explains so much:
Bookmarked to watch later.
I asked that as a rhetorical question.
It is strange that the West has accepted refugees who are Muslims when there are so many Christians in refugee camps who should be taken in here. It would be a seamless integration and assimilation.
If the Middle East and the Muslim world are quick to protest and shed tears for their own people, why don’t they take them in. In fact, they can take all the Muslims from the Western nations too, and we could live in peace.
On the subject of the massacre, there are plenty of questions about how it could have taken place. I watched a video where Col Macgregor said that it is too early for us to know what really happened.
Cartoon/meme via Andrew Tate
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How Israel will affect Ukraine – Intel Round Table w/Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern
Judge Napolitano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-eefUfSPQ
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The day has arrived.
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J.Leak
2/
For Yes.
The Liberal Party and its broad church
3/
The referendum booklet didn’t provide the description of the Proposed Law.
Will this be how The Majority Vote?
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To other Windows 10ers out there.
If it hasn’t already happened,
There’s a Biggggggg update coming up with 25 fixes.
You have been warned.
Nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon ……
I don’t mind the updates. Just wish they would provide the pop-up notification and options like they used to in Windows 7.
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It is one week since the Hamas attack in Gaza. Across the media, a great deal of discussion. People are reacting by splitting up into factions/groups and choosing a certain position.
Much of it is a response to what is being fed from whatever source they are following. We are all at the receiving end and not immune to the info flowing out. But instant reactions are can be emotional and not rational.
Why and how have we reached this stage?
Where are we headed?
We learn when we ask questions and listen to other opinions even if at first they may seem to be some conspiracy theory or not in line with what we believe. We can dismiss it later if it is completely baseless.
Ben Bradbury
Some thoughts …..
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KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America
This was filmed in 1984.
In the video, Yuri explains:
“Ideological Subversion” is broken up into 4 phases:
1/ Demoralization
2/ Destabilization
3/ Crisis
4/ Normalization
When Yuri is describing the first phase, Demoralisation, he talks about a person refusing to understand even when shown the proof. He says:
He [the person] will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crashes, then he will understand ……
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Poland
Dominik Tarczyski
Polish Law and Justice Party
1/
Tarczyski-1
Poland is NOT worried about Friday’s “Day of Jihad.”
There will be no jihadis in Poland because they don’t let them in
2/
Tarczyski-2
Democracy in Poland
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Hungary
3/
Viktor Orbán
Responses to Orbán’s post:
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Still, it’s better to ride the wave of updates than put them off. Nefarious types would be interested in any weaknesses the updates are meant to repair and try to use them against vulnerable computers.
There’s settings to pause updates if you look but anyone who does that probably ends up with a backlog. My Lenovo work laptop updates pretty fast despite its age while my ‘vintage’ home PC takes some time…
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Voice Referendum
Counting in progress
Sky News The Voice Debate
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AEC – Tally room
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I decided not to use that option because I know I will forget about the updates.
Win7 used to have the pop-up window to let you know that there are updates ready for download. If you were in the middle of something on your computer and did not want the interruption, you could delay it by a few hours. Then when you are ready, you set them to begin and go off to do other tasks.
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From Sky News
Overall
NO vote is ahead across Australia.
YES camp hopes are on Tassie.
The further away you get from Tas, the more likely the NO vote.
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Sky News Australia’s chief election analyst Tom Connell has called NO as the winner in the national Voice to Parliament referendum.
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Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺
@PaulineHansonOz
Australia has voted No to the Voice of Division.
Today we are One Nation, One Country, One Mob.
Thank you Australia 🇦🇺
https://x.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1713110443706003673?s=20
***
Great lady, great Australian.
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65% No in QLD after 30% of votes counted.
This will have implications on federal politics.
Albo may get rolled before the next Federal election.
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Courier Mail
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SBS coverage is ignoring the aboriginal audience that voted no.
It’s an echo chamber of losers.
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Albo speaking.
Should of been a resignation speech.
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You won’t be seeing this on SBS
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Powerline’s: The Week in Pictures: Mass Hypocrisy Edition.
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Bolt – telling it like it is
‘Brilliant day’: Andrew Bolt reacts to Voice referendum defeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqRdoI2Aqfs
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Check out the comments, lol
‘Cool your jets’: Fiery debate erupts between Chris Kenny and David Littleproud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMdIt1qFjao
Kenny needs to step down for a few months.
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Watching Sky News
Chris Kenny is really embarrassing himself now.
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All six states have voted No
Australia is united.
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QLD No vote now over 68%
I cannot see how the PM will still be there leading Labor at the next election, going up against Qlder Peter Dutton.
Just look at the turnover of PMs since 2007.
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‘Sit back for once and listen’: Andrew Bolt lambasts Chris Kenny on Voice take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W88sB8AROQ
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Chris Kenny needs to put the big boy pants on and go and do something he understands.
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The people spoke
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Choc delivers
Anthony Mundine launches into an unhinged rant about the Voice as No vote wins – saying it would have ‘enslaved humanity’
‘This was about the World Economic Forum, what they wanted to do to enslave humanity, and use aboriginal peoples to do that,’ he said …
… ‘I’m just disappointed in a lot of people that I thought that sold out, got paid, pushed this Yes campaign.
‘I want Australia to walk as one, it doesn’t matter what you are.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12630473/Anthony-Mundine-launches-unhinged-rant-Voice-No-vote-wins-saying-enslaved-humanity.html
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‘40 beheaded babies’ : How media amplified an unconfirmed story | The Big Picture S3E3
Middle East Eye
787K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFtE9HMtiOc
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So far
Yes 39.75
No 60.25
But Labor not getting the message
Not ready, so they will have to re-educate Australians.
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Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺
@PaulineHansonOz
Thank you One Nation. You were the backbone of the No vote.
https://x.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1713316825155666412?s=20
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Actor Not Sure if He’s Supposed to Support Israel or Palestine
Ryan Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Pw_TxBe7w
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All six states and the Northern Territory. The ACT was the only place where the Yes vote won.
I was listening to a Professor of something or the other was talking on the ABC yesterday as the NT votes were coming in. She couldn’t believe that the polling stations in the remote Aboriginal settlements were all coming in with a strong No vote.
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Ryan Long (again)
Hamas Responds to Mia Khalifa’s Support
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tp8-zO5riJo
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Brilliant analysis from the bald one on
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I want to thank Julian Leeser for supporting the Yes case and resigning from the front bench. This allowed Jacinta to get appointed as shadow Indigenous minister.
Currently, the NT seats in the lower house are taken by Labor. If Jacinta could get one of those in the next election, it would be good. She needs to get to the House Of Reps.
She has passion, fire and love for the country. She is an intelligent person. She has leadership qualities. It would be easy for her to learn what she needs to about the workings of government.
This is an article from earlier this month, in the Oz.
Paywalled – so I haven’t read it.
Regardless of October 14’s referendum result, Price will be the biggest winner
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Brisbane press gallery
The commenters are well-pleased.
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Bill Maher
1/
A few years ago, on Islam
2/
This week, on HBO’s “Real Time
Your Moral Compass Is Broken’
if You’re a Lefty Siding with a Regressive Terror Group over Progressive Israel
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mh, I have been following reports on this story from the day it broke but have not commented on it. The reporter in this Middle East Eye video is pushing the pro-Palestine case and so is going with the story that the killing of babies is not true.
Warning: Graphic images.
1/
AI generated images
The released images have been put through image software to determine where it is “human” or “fake”. That has set up a controversy. Depending on which side a person supports, the photo got labelled accordingly.
One side said it was human baby, the other side said it was a puppy. Looking at the photos, it would seem strange for a healthy puppy to be placed in a baby body bag. Also, why would there be stains on the sheet if there is healthy puppy?
2/
Doll or baby?
3/
The Telegraph – article
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News dot com
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Culture Critic
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Lipstick on the Mirror
Ladies would you please …..
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2/
MAGA-Trump
This entire primary cycle between Trump and his supporters:
.
3/
Bill Maher
Welcome to Country
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Rukshan Fernando
@therealrukshan
North Territory No.
Canberra Yes.
Tells you everything you need to know
https://x.com/therealrukshan/status/1713159377027481999?s=20
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Just letting all commenters here know that I am going to be busy with some projects over the coming weeks.
I will still come in and post comments. There is plenty happening, so I’ll find something to add to the threads. But the long rantings ^.^ and posts will be on hold till time permits.
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The hunt for Hamas
1/
Israel has issued warnings to the Gaza residents to leave the areas that they will be targeting. They have dropped leaflets on the city.
2/
Hamas leaders rumoured to be sitting safely in hotels in Doha and have told residents not to leave.
They tell the civilians to stay because it is their home and they should stay there. Real reason is to use these residents as human shields in the hope that Israel will not attack if there are civilians.
Questions have been asked about why hospitals and schools are being targetted by the IDF. It’s because Hamas is known to use these locations to store weapons.
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3/
On the other side of Gaza is Egypt.
Hamas and Egypt
4/
The Border
5/
The Map
…
Question asked:
Why don’t these rich Arab nations take in Palestinians?
They are quick to protest about the plight of the Palestinians, so why don’t countries like Saudi Arabia take them in?
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6/
Egypt Can Save Gaza’s Civilians
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KC, I linked above, but will link again.
This is superb analysis of Hamas and the politics of Palestine, and explains so much:
@guycharles9105
6 hours ago
Probably your best ever broadcast, Brian – I couldn’t stop listening and I have learned so much about a conflict that, unlike the Ukraine, I had been woefully ignorant of until now. You explained so many anomalies about the true reasons for the Hamas attack and their affilations, the apparent Israeli unpreparedness and how the attack benefits their government, and of course how the USA continues to control virtually every major player in this as in most other global conflicts.
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Bookmarked to watch later.
I asked that as a rhetorical question.
It is strange that the West has accepted refugees who are Muslims when there are so many Christians in refugee camps who should be taken in here. It would be a seamless integration and assimilation.
If the Middle East and the Muslim world are quick to protest and shed tears for their own people, why don’t they take them in. In fact, they can take all the Muslims from the Western nations too, and we could live in peace.
On the subject of the massacre, there are plenty of questions about how it could have taken place. I watched a video where Col Macgregor said that it is too early for us to know what really happened.
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