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Just thinking about that Malcolm Roberts video above, how long before the bureaucrats appearing before a Senate Estimates committee refuse to testify without having legal representation. When the word “malfeasance” starts to be heard, it’s time to engage legal assistance.
Poor old Professor Brendan Murphy, remember when he was appearing on the evening news with PM Morrison as new lockdown and vaccine mandates were announced, what a jolly good fellow he was, probably had the right school and Lodge credentials, now Morrison is gone and good old Murphy is left to carry the can.
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They were all on board the Yes campaign.
I don’t want my taxes gifted to them.
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Interesting interview with a Saudi political analyst
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Mohammed Zubair
@zoo_bear
Hello @GoldsteinBrooke, That’s not an Israeli Pregnant woman. It’s an old video of mexican cartel removing the heart of a man.
https://x.com/zoo_bear/status/1714740166047523174?s=20
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The Treasurer’s priorities lie elsewhere
AFR
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers skipped international economic meetings with foreign finance ministers and central bank governors in Morocco last week,
Shirley not! .. isn’t it against Liars pardy policy to skip an O/S freebie .. Luigi & the chap will be very unhappy 1st class seats went empty …..
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I’d say Albo was desperate.
Treasurer Dim Jim wouldn’t have chosen to ditch the overseas trip for a week selling a shit sandwich to Queenslanders.
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Grim Jim
Solutions required, Jim.
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Meanwhile
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Every health regulatory body in the world has to be held accountable for their approval of these untested jabs.
Greater scrutiny needs to be on how the vaxx was approved for children.
8-year-old COVID vaccine poster child dies from heart attack
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I think that the last thing Netanyahu wants at the moment is having Albo show up. Zelensky wanted to go when Biden went, Netanyahu told him not to bother.
That photo you posted yesterday of Netanyahu and Biden embracing was funny, like two wooden figures who wanted the photographers to bugger off quickly. Netanyahu and Biden loathe each other.
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Victoria’s Secret ditches prioritizing wokeness over ‘sexiness’
after sales drop
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The final comment suggests Pauline Hanson was a big influence on the LNP backflip
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Nah.
He’s busy.
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Agreed, the way it was given to children in Australia was on Roberts mind in that session. Administration of the drug to children was approved only for children who had existing co-morbidities, yet it was also given to other healthy children without approval.
This was the first point when Roberts asked the TGA if they understood the word “malfeasance”.
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The Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS) has taken it upon themselves to conduct an independent inquiry, and they’re taking it to Parliament House, Canberra.
On Wednesday 18 October, a panel of Australian and international experts will address an audience at Parliament House in an effort to answer the question: What is causing Australians to die at unprecedented rates?
Too Many Dead – An inquiry into Australia’s excess mortality – Cairns News
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It pays to be a journo….
Fox News’s Bret Baier Lists DC Home for $32 Million
— a Potential Record
If it goes for the listing price, it’ll be the most expensive DC sale of all time.
Take a look.
You might find some useful ideas to jazz up your mansion, too.
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mh, in Galloway’s interview with Jackson Hinkle, there was a convincing discussion between the two of them on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
I decided to check out Hinkle’s twitter account. It is not as sane as I hoped it would be. Seems like some kind of rabble-rousing where it is less about facts and more about personal agenda.
A post from him today:
With this image of himself.
He sees himself as a Commie?
So many claiming they are America First/MAGA fighting a war against the US deep state. But in reality, they are being divisive and fighting each other.
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KC, young Jackson Hinkle is a ‘goodwill ambassador’ to North Korea. lol
He is not claiming he is AF. You can fight the US deep state and not be AF or a Trumper.
But sometimes he brings something to the table, like his recent demolition of Piers Morgan.
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Seeing as you mentioned MOATS, Scott Ritter was filling in for GG yesterday
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Latest from Brian
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Andrew Tate
@Cobratate
Alex Jones x Andrew Tate: The 10-Minute Interview
Watch now:
https://x.com/Cobratate/status/1715030885995573284?s=20
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Queensland dumps TREATY. Maybe: Annastacia Palaszczuk Treaty Backflip
Australian Agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NShCdyLFu8
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Big bang in Melbourne.
Another Warning Shot from Space: Melbourne, Australia Experiences a “Loud Bang” – WUWT.
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Meme
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The Blame Game | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2fR4Ge7dY
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Are there still employers who insist that all staff have had the jab?
Global Oncology Alert: Unsettling Trends Post Covid-Booster Shots, A Plea for Pause – IMREAL LIFE with Danny Jovica – 5 mins.
Leading Oncologist Prof. Angus Dalgleish rings alarm bells about a concerning rise in cancer relapses post Covid-booster shots. With stories pouring in from worldwide, it’s time to question – Is the ‘booster’ boosting more than immunity? #HealthFirst #CriticalInsights
Angus Dalgleish: Professor of Oncology at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London: “At the end of last year I reported that I was seeing melanoma patients who had been stable for years relapse after their first booster (their third injection). I was told it was merely a coincidence and to keep quiet about it, but it became impossible to do so. The number of my patients affected has been rising ever since. I saw two more cases of cancer relapse post booster vaccination in my patients just this last week.
Other oncologists have contacted me from all over the world including from Australia and the US. The consensus is that it is no longer confined to melanoma but that increased incidence of lymphomas, leukaemias and kidney cancers is being seen after booster injections. Additionally my colorectal cancer colleagues report an epidemic of explosive cancers (those presenting with multiple metastatic spread in the liver and elsewhere). All these cancers are occurring (with very few exceptions) in patients who have been forced to have a Covid booster whether they were keen or not, for many so they could travel.
So why are these cancers occurring? T cell suppression was my first likely explanation given that immunotherapy is so effective in these cancers. However we must also now consider DNA plasmid and SV40 integration in promoting cancer development, a feature made even more concerning by reports that mRNA spike protein binds p53 and other cancer suppressor genes. It is very clear and very frightening that these vaccines have several elements to cause a perfect storm in cancer development in those patients lucky enough to have avoided heart attacks, clots, strokes, autoimmune diseases and other common adverse reactions to the Covid vaccines.
To advise booster vaccines, as is the current case, is no more and no less than medical incompetence; to continue to do so with the above information is medical negligence which can carry a custodial sentence.
No ifs or buts any longer. All mRNA vaccines must be halted and banned now.”
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The Colonel thrashing out a few geopolitical scenarios
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Important to hear this side of the story
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@kevinlind4741
4 days ago
I WAS in the SADF (South African Defence Force) 1990-1994. I served three 3-months tours of duty, in various South African townships, in 1991, during “apartheid” and we NEVER did (what the IDF did and still does, to the Palestinians) to the local people, living in the South African townships. We were there to protect and mostly, to STOP the “faction fighting”, between the Zulu and Xhosa tribes. What the IDF, are doing and have been doing in Israel, to the Palestinian people, is NOT “apartheid”, it is what the Nazi’s, did to Jewish people, in the ghettos, of Lodz and Poznan, which is ETHNIC CLEANSING, but slowly, so that the world won’t notice.
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Quick back up from the boys following Joe Biden’s idiotic address to the nation
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Biden bringing the US to war.
Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq1SjC7u8l0
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I want to ignore the outside world and this war in the Middle East, be selfish, and focus on my own project lists. But I feel a need to share on this blog my reflections because I find myself learning from what I am gaining from what I read elsewhere. If no one shares, we don’t learn. And are the poorer for it. Same as in the past few years.
Main topic of global discussions:
2020-2021: Covid
2021-2022: above + Covid vaxx and deaths
2022-2023: above + Ukraine-Russia war
2023 -……. : above + Israel-Palestine conflict
Two weeks now since the Hamas massacre in Gaza. I check out what is being published in the Legacy media because it gives me the “news”.
Beyond that, I have been listening to talkback radio to get the views from Aussies. And I check twitter to pick the info there, mostly from US posters.
There is a minefield of biases and deliberate misinformation out there, so it is quite difficult. But I want to take in as much info as possible and learn from sources and opinions outside my limited bubble so that I can eventually arrive at a conclusion that is carefully thought through, reflected on and objective.
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People are taking sides based on whatever they believe or want to believe or think is right. Which is okay. The problem is the hostility, name-calling and labels not just between the right-wing and left-wing, but between people (conservatives) who until two weeks ago were in agreement, and on the same side.
You get labelled if you don’t follow the expected response.
If you have questions about:………….. You are:
Global warming ……………………….Climate denier
Gender ideology………………………Homophobe, transphobe, bigot
Covid jabs …………………………….Anti-vaxxer
BLM /Voice…………………………Racist
Ukraine war………………………..Putin apologist
MAGA and Trump…………………..TDS-er
and now
Israel-Palestine conflict………..Anti-semite
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Two videos:
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11 October
If Piers Morgan would let his guests speak with less interruption, it helps to hear the other person. There is some attempt at a civilised debate here.
Israel-Hamas War:
Piers Morgan Debates Palestinian Mustafa Barghouti Over Conflict
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19 October
Memri TV, Al Arabiya Network
The interviewer Rasha Nabil asks Khaled Mashal, Hamas’s external leader, some tough questions. Mashal is based in Qatar.
Interview with Khaled Mashal
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There are many people, all over the world, who have not followed the complex politics of the Middle East, until now. They genuinely want to understand what is happening and are focussed on the loss of lives and the suffering of ordinary people.
They are also concerned with the problems in their own backyard and paying their own bills.
Some comments:
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War-2
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Ben Shapiro on War
Then and Now
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See this:
Hinkle is just 22 years old. In a few months, he has amassed a following of over a million on twitter. I would agree with someone who does not support war, but his activism is Commie-driven and I am wary and suspicious of his motivation.
In his interview with Galloway, he said that Jesus was a ‘Palestinian Jew’ and George nodded to that. Whenever someone claims that Jesus was a Palestinian, it is obvious they have an agenda and are distorting facts.
During his earthly ministry, Jesus was a Jew and lived in the Kingdom of Judea, which was a part of the Roman Empire. Rome changed the name of Judea to Palestine, much later.
If someone can provide facts to prove otherwise, I’d be happy to check that out.
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Hinkle interviews Scott Ritter
Ritter provides a short history lesson on Israel, Netanyahu and War.
22 mins.
It is a quick summary of the past few decades and how the conflict has reached this stage. Sometimes, long, detailed videos are hard to digest but Ritter provides an overview in under 20 minutes.
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Thanks.
That got a lot of views in a few hours.
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Antisemitism is Everywhere
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Insurrection Manque Edition
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50 years or so ago, all Jews living in Israel identified as being a Palestinian Jew. The Jewish daily newspaper in Jerusalem was called The Palestinian, the name Israel was not adopted till after the British protectorate ended in 1948.
It was only after Yasser Arafat achieved notoriety, and he identified as a Palestinian, that the term started to apply to a mixture of people, predominately Arabs, who were living in Israel and along the eastern side of the Jordan River in present day Jordan.
The name Palestine was applied to the land by a Roman general after he had put down the last Jewish uprising against Rome. He named the land after the Philistines who he was told were the Jews greatest enemy. This was long after Jesus (Yeshua, the abbreviated form of Yahoshua meaning Yah’s Salvation) walked the earth so Jesus was never a Palestinian Jew in any possible meaning.
He was of the Tribe of Judah, and a descendant of King David in both his paternal and maternal lines. His paternal line is found in the first chapter of the opening book in the New Testament, the Book of Matthew, and his maternal lineage is in the Book of Luke.
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Greta – anti-Semite
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First I’ve heard of it, Spain had plans to invade and take over the British colony of Sydney in the colony’s early days. It never happened though so we all missed out on midday siestas.
How Europeans Almost Divided Australia | History – 12 mins.
Sydney residents feared a Russian invasion in the 1850’s, hence they built fortifications such as Fort Denison in Sydney harbour. This was when England was fighting the Russians during the Crimean War, Russophobia dates back many years
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PJW
Greta cancelled?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2ejh-Dwn0
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Joe Biden: Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4962369/user-clip-joe-biden-israel-usa-invent-israel-protect-interest-region#
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Redacted News on the disappearing bank branches and ATMs throughout the Anglosphere.
Oh Sh*t! Thousands of these just disappeared overnight! Get ready for CBDC’s | Redacted News – 18 mins.
Bank West, a small WA bank, sent out a letter to customers last week advising them that they would limit the amount of money which their customers could transfer to crypto currency every month. The promoters of CBDCs don’t want competition from the crypto currencies.
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Thanks, Old bloke. I started hearing the term “Jesus was a Palestinian Jew” in the past few weeks and wondered where that came from. I checked with a priest from my parish and he was surprised. He said he had never heard it before.
It is probably being used by those who are pro-Palestine anti-Israel in the hope that they will gain Christian supporters to their side.
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Israel attacks Damascus, Aleppo airports, puts them out of service: state media
An Israeli missile attack targeted Damascus and Aleppo international airports early on Sunday, killing one civilian worker and putting the airports out of service, Syrian state media reported.
Scheduled flights to and from Damascus and Aleppo airports were diverted to Latakia International Airport, according to the Ministry of Transportation.
Reuters
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What a spectacle of chaos in the US House of Reps.
Anyone who is thinking of acting on something of major import, would have a plan in advance, if they have some level of intelligence.
Plan A: Intended action
Plan B: Next step
If it doesn’t work, go ahead with Plan C.
If that doesn’t work, next step.
However, in the US House, a group of 8, led by Gaetz, decided to chuck out the Speaker McCarthy, the man endorsed by their god in January. They were prepared to join with the enemy (Dems) to get their way. Wasn’t that why the term RINO was coined? For those not loyal to their party?
Having stabbed McCarthy, this MAGA group thought their mission done.
But the House was now without a Speaker. What next? Is there a plan?
Yes, Trump will be Speaker.
No. He declines.
Trump endorses Jordan.
Expectation: Every member will rush to vote based on Trump’s endorsement.
Nope, not everyone cares what Trump says. Jordan is out.
Who is going to be the next Speaker? Had they planned this far?
Or did they think that the Dems will join them in voting for whoever they picked?
Was there a Plan B? Plan C? Any kind of planning?
Congress is at a standstill because of the antics of a MAGA group. There are problems in the country, parts of the world on fire and yet nothing can happen in the House – which has a GOP House majority but no one acceptable as GOP Speaker.
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US Election 2024
MAGA Plan A: Trump should be the nominee.
Any plans beyond that on winning the general election?
Can he win the minimum 270 seats required?
Yes, the polls. The polls. Believe the polls.
MAGA is not capable of thinking beyond the first step. They have been brainwashed into believing their god is invincible. When the Dems win 2024, they will claim the election was stolen.
Republicans drop Jim Jordan’s US House speaker bid after third failed vote
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Eva Vlaardingerbroek shares her views in a long twitter post.
She concludes with this:
At this stage, I’m on the same “side” as you, Eva.
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RINO is meaningless.
The GOP of Bush and Romney is dead.
Mike Pence represents that dumpster fire, and is polling at around 1 percent.
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Leave your home and your land or you’re a terrorist.
The chutzpah!
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Joseph Mercola
Is a new world war about to begin?
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Via RT
A local politician from Türkiye’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has publicly praised Adolf Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, adding that he was “praying” for the Nazi leader.
Suleyman Sezen, who represents President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party in the Atakum district council in the province of Samsun, made the comments at a meeting on Wednesday.
“Hitler had this remark, ‘You will curse me for every Jew that I did not kill.’ Such true words, as Zionist Jewish Israel today is behind every single attempt at creating chaos in the world,” the politician declared in a rant shared online. He added that he prayed for “God’s mercy and grace on [Hitler] for his words.”
Sezen expressed hope that Israel “will soon cease to exist and there will be peace in the world once it is cleansed of Jews.” A fellow council member pushed back after Sezen’s remarks, suggesting they were an emotional outburst.
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Foul stuff, but an example of emotions running hot in that part of the world.
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Breitbart article
Fake news from media. The church wasn’t bombed by Israel.
The civilians
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I had bookmarked a twitter post which included the UK Met Police defending the Islamist protesters waving ISIS flags. According to the Met Police, the flags had been checked okay by their “specialist officers”.
There’s been a backlash. They have now deleted the post with the video. But it is here.
Yasmine Mohammed
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Henry Kissinger:
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts”
If you realised it was a mistake, what have you done to rectify it?
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No Voters, it is all your fault
‘The majority of Australians have committed a shameful act’:
Yes campaign blames Coalition for referendum failure
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And for this Sunday …..
Salve Regina
450 voices – virtual choir
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A Ponderable
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Standard fare from the NewsCorp stable
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They are not outsiders of course.
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This is Rita Panahi two days ago
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Rita is off with the fairies.
If the AFL did take a stand, it would most likely support Palestine.
Sporting codes should STFU.
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Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas
The Intercept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0
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The bald oracle
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Kaysee, re the Greek Orthodox church story – Hamas had a site right next door, which was not a secret. That was the target.
Perhaps ‘sheltering’ next door to a Hamas site is not a great idea?
Story reeks of Hamas propaganda.
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Nick Griffin
@NickGriffinBU
Rishi Sunak meets “victims of terrorism” (but no Palestinian ones) in the King David Hotel. Scene of the deadliest Zionist terror attack on BRITISH soldiers, with 91 dead.
Is it ignorance, indolence or arrogance?
https://x.com/NickGriffinBU/status/1715122170085416975?s=20
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How about …
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Alex Christoforou was talking this morning about Biden’s New World Order speech, and YouTube slapped a “context” message on his video saying that New World Order is just a conspiracy theory. Perhaps someone should tell old Joe that he shouldn’t spread conspiracy theories.
They are going to run out of space in the Mediterranean Sea. There will be two US aircraft carrier battle groups off the coast of Lebanon, the Chinese are sending six warships, and the Turkish Navy is talking about sending humanitarian shipments to Gaza and breaking the Israeli blockade.
On top of that, Russia has announced that they will keep two MIGs flying over the Black Sea armed with Kinzhal missiles. The Kinzhal missiles are hypersonic and can’t be shot down, and they carry the aircraft carrier bombs. One missile will sink an aircraft carrier, it strikes the deck at hypersonic speed, crashes through the deck, crashes through the ship’s superstructure, and exits though the hull. After it exits the ship it explodes and lifts the aircraft carrier right out of the water which breaks it in half, then the two halves immediately sink to the bottom of the ocean.
The US Navy thinks it’s still fighting WW II, as Douglas Macgregor says all the world’s navies have two types of crafts, one is called submarines, the others are called targets.
Biden, we need a new world order. EU angry with Ursula. China, six warships to Middle East. U/1 – Alex Christoforou – 35 mins.
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From 2017:
John Mearsheimer – Changes in the Israel Lobby
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
9.56K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Mgdm_6-e0
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AFR toon
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The Colonel joins Tucker
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Noel Pearson would approve
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Lord Dawson of Penn killed many men
That’s why we sing “God Save The King”
That’s a ditty of unknown origin about the man who murdered King George V, who was most likely encouraged to do so by Edward VIII.
The Murder of King George V, 1936 – They Got Away With Murder – 59 mins.
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Going to post some long war-related comments this afternoon.
Yes, I know. I keep promising myself that I am just going to stick to short and quick comments and not the time-consuming long ones. But we have major occurrences taking place in the world and the “news” you receive depends on the bias or inclinations of the media sources, sites, blogs, publications.
We all have our leanings on various topics. I have mine, too. There are the instinctive reactions but if we make the effort to consume from different sources with an open mind, we let ourselves get varied info. Then we take that and sift through it to find the truth.
I am torn with keeping my info to myself and saving my time which is limited, or passing it on for those who are similarly searching for truth.
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In regard to the wars taking place around the world:
With the Russia-Ukraine war, it was apparent, quite soon, why Russia invaded, and that the provocation could have been avoided. Or could have been resolved through peace negotiations. In this particular war, Russia was in the right and I could see why Putin invaded Ukraine.
This Israel-Palestine conflict is far more complex. I am not taking “sides” until I understand more about the history and facts of this ongoing warfare. I loathe all the terrorist groups and wouldn’t be shedding tears over their complete annihilation.
I am trying to understand this hostility. Why has it not been possible to resolve it for so many decades? Is the fault on one side?
The weekend of the massacre, when I read the news, my initial reaction was sympathies with the Israeli side and condemnation of the other side. As I came across details, I began to wonder about the facts and decided to hold off on aligning myself either way.
A question: Are those who are reading this blog the ones who voted YES in the referendum this month? You didn’t? Why not? Didn’t you trust the government when it told you to vote Yes but did not provide you with details? Did you accept Albanese’s advice that it would be the right thing to do?
The government is not prepared to carry out an audit of the funding that indigenous groups have been receiving for years. They have shut down the call for an investigation into child sex abuse in indigenous communities. Said No to a Royal Commission into what happened during Covid.
Do you trust what your government says and its decisions?
If you do not trust what your own government tells you, would you trust what the government of any other country says? Do you trust what Biden or Trudeau or Macron or Sunak say? Do you trust what the Israel government and Netanyahu tell the world?
Netanyahu is on criminal trial for multiple corruption charges: bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Is it just a witch-hunt or are they legit? He was the Covid tyrant in forcing the vaxx on the public. He has close links to WEF and Pfizer.
But trust him. He is a good guy.
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Ron Paul (2009):
Israel Encouraged and Started Hamas
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How Benjamin Netanyahu empowered Hamas … and broke Israel
Polling shows majority blame the PM not just for military failures but for ‘propping up’ the terrorist group in the first place
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If I criticise Albanese, if I say negative things about the indigenous activists, if I mock some Australians for their wokeness, would that make me anti-Australian?
For months now, I have been thinking about the subject of anti-semitism. As I understand it, it means a prejudice or hatred of Jews because of their connection to Judaism. Yet, the term gets tossed around for any criticism related to Israel, its government, some Israeli citizens or corrupt people who happen to be of Jewish heritage.
I don’t support terrorism. I don’t support killing, torture, kidnapping of innocent civilians.
I am not a pacifist. A perpetrator does whatever, repeatedly. The victim is supposed to forgive and forget. When a crime is committed, the legal process should be followed and the criminal should be punished.
If you are a resident of a country not at war and want to make your case or state your views on the war in another country and can do it in a civilised, peaceful manner, sure.
If someone is a resident of one country but has divided loyalties and wants to support killing, terrorism and the wars taking place in another country, buy a one-way ticket and go live in that country. There you can protest, fight, threaten, incite violence, do whatever you want. And pay your dollars to help the war.
I feel sorry for all the innocent civilians who have suffered as a result of this conflict. I have no tolerance for the kind of protests that have been taking place around the Western world this month. Put those protestors on a plane out to the Middle East and they can see which of their common creed nations will take them in.
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Last week, while listening to the radio, I heard a caller share her story. She said that people are talking about the difficulties faced by the Muslims or the Jews due to the ongoing conflict. But no one mentions the plight of the Palestinian Christians and what they have endured.
She is grateful that she now lives in Australia, but she described her childhood and how they were treated by the those governing the place (Israelis). She is a Christian and she provided examples of how she and her family lived under terrifying conditions. It was a sad story to listen to.
So I am going to share here what my research has led me to on the subject of Christians in this same conflict zone.
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A US-based Catholic put up a twitter post expressing sympathy for the people who were suffering in that region. His post was pro-Israel and anti-Hamas. He included these sentences:
There were several comments in response. Those with no lived experience, agreed with the post. Some other responses:
Some short videos
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Sept 30, published one week before the Gaza massacre
New Jersualem cardinal calls Gaza under Israeli control an ‘open prison’
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20 October
Archbishop Hanna:
Gaza witnessing new Nakba, ethnic cleansing
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Dec 2022
When Will the Peace of Christmas Come Home?
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johanna, where will people go for shelter when there are bombings, rockets and air raids all over the area? Many of their homes are destroyed or would be unable to withstand the strikes.
Both IDF and Hamas are firing missiles.
The IDF continues to strike in the Gaza Strip. During the last day, the IDF struck hundreds of Hamas terror structures
They go to churches because these are stronger structures and therefore safer. As well as providing spiritual comfort to people who are terrified – especially women and children.
Hamas propaganda. Israeli propaganda. Media propaganda.
Innocent civilians are caught in the literal cross-fires. Where else is there a safe zone if there are rockets being shot across from multiple locations?
Where will they go?
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Video
Destruction at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza
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Greece Voices ‘Deep Sorrow’ Over Bombing of Church in Gaza
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This last one for this afternoon is not connected to the Middle East. But it is about the killing of innocent people.
Has the media been reporting this? Heard this in the news anytime?
Report warns 50,000 Christians killed in Nigeria over last 14 years
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Kaysee, about your recent comment regarding the term “Jesus, the Palestinian Jew”, I think this is partly the promotion of a concept which will aid a great deception in the (possibly) not too distant future.
Muslim eschatology teaches that the Mahdi will appear in a time of great world-wide turmoil, and he will be aided by his chief disciple, the Muslim “Prophet Jesus”. Muslims believe that Jesus will return and will convert the world to Islam, everyone must worship the Mahdi or have their heads chopped off.
Here we see the warnings in The Revelation about a false messiah called the anti-Christ who is accompanied by someone called the False Prophet. The anti-Christ comes as a man of peace (from somewhere to the north of Israel, possibly Syria, Turkey or, most likely, from Iran), and the False Prophet comes from Syria.
The concept of a “Palestinian Jesus” fits into that narrative.
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AFR
It won’t.
Also at AFR
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Seeing as KC’s link is not paywalled, I will paste the UK Tele article:
How Benjamin Netanyahu empowered Hamas … and broke Israel
Polling shows majority blame the PM not just for military failures but for ‘propping up’ the terrorist group in the first place
By Paul Nuki, Global Health Security Editor16 October 2023 • 8:04pm
There is a reasonable chance Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as both Hamas’s nemesis and its enabler.
Today, and for however long it takes the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to neuter the military wing of the Islamist group in Gaza, the great bulk of the country’s body politic will stand behind its leader. In Gaza at least, Hamas’s capacity to wage jihad will be crushed, together with much of the political and paramilitary infrastructure through which it governs, analysts expect. Although sharply cognisant of the attendant risks, few in the Israeli mainstream believe they have much choice given the terrible events of Oct 7.
Yet national unity is being delivered through gritted teeth. Recent polling shows a significant majority of Israelis blame Mr Netanyahu not just for the military and intelligence failures that allowed the attack but for “propping up” the terrorist group in the first place.
“For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank – bringing Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group”, wrote political correspondent Tal Schneider in the Times of Israel last week. “The idea was to prevent Abbas – or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government – from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state”.
Dmitry Shumsky, a columnist for Haaretz, took a similar line, arguing that Mr Netanyahu had pursued a policy of “diplomatic paralysis” in order to avoid negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution – a solution despised by the country’s extreme Right. This flawed strategy turned Hamas from “a minor terrorist group into an efficient, lethal army with bloodthirsty killers who mercilessly slaughtered innocent Israeli civilians”, said Mr Shumsky.
Mr Netanyahu is a populist and some say it is too much to say he actively propped up Hamas as a pre-planned strategy; rather he found it convenient that there was division in Palestinian politics and allowed it to thrive to Hamas’s benefit.
Certainly, the various coalition governments he has led in recent years can be seen to have had the effect of aiding the movement.
Despite being formally designated a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US and much of the West, Mr Netanyahu has largely ignored military provocation from the group since the last major Israeli ground incursion of 2014, and has simultaneously allowed huge sums of cash to flow into Gaza.
The money is said to have come in suitcases via Qatar, where Hamas’s political leadership is based, but also via trade with Israel that has boomed in recent years as tens of thousands of cross-border work permits have been issued to Gazans.
Although careful in public, in early 2019 Mr Netanyahu was quoted as saying behind closed doors that those who opposed a two-state solution should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because it worked against Palestinian unity, according to the Times of Israel.
Others point to more mundane reasons for the Oct 7 intelligence failure, notably the ongoing corruption scandal that has plagued Mr Netanyahu and distracted him and the religiously motivated demands of his far-Right coalition partners, which have seen military resources diverted to settlements on the West Bank.
At the tense opening session of the Knesset’s winter session on Monday, Mr Netanyahu sought to rally the nation, branding Hamas as part of Iran’s “axis of evil” and an existential threat. He added, however, that there were “many questions surrounding the disaster that befell us 10 days ago” and promised they would be investigated in “every aspect” after the current military mission was completed.
There are not many in Israel today who think the prime minister will come out of that well. Even Ehud Barak, the former prime minister and IDF commander, who served with Mr Netanyahu in a commando unit in the late 1960s, has described the Oct 7 attack as “the greatest failure in Israeli history”.
Israel’s strategy towards the Palestinians had backfired, Mr Barak told the Economist, “because the deaths were mainly of civilians and the state has forsaken its most basic commitment to its citizens – to keep them alive – this was the worst type of negligence”.
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Brian Berletic speaking on Western propaganda and the “think tanks” behind them. The Australian Financial Review published an article prepared by ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) which is funded by the Australian government, plus the US State Department and various defence industries.
How the West is Laundering Lies Through “Experts” to Target Gaza – The New Atlas – 30 mins.
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Hi Old bloke,
I was just about to post that!
It’s another masterclass from Brian.
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Queensland father fights for compensation over covid vaccine | 7 News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ilUD7EjNM
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Conservatives in the UK are on the way out and a landslide to UK Labour is expected, but the globalist uni-party will continue unchanged.
Rishi Sunak’s time as UK PM is running out – The Duran – 20 mins.
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George Galloway Fired From talkRADIO After ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet | Good Morning Britain
Good Morning Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M04Cqc7MTc
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@qamarfarooq4003
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This video was uploaded 4years ago and only now, in 2023, they are allowing comments, which show unanimous support for George. They silence discussion when it doesn’t follow their narrative
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Florida’s DeSantis bans pro-Palestinian student group
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/floridas-desantis-bans-pro-palestinian-student-group-2023-10-25/
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HIGH ALERT! So THIS Is Why They Want WAR In The Middle East
Russell Brand
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk_NY86qGEU
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R A W S A L E R T S
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🚨#BREAKING: Law enforcement has reported that 22 people are confirmed dead in Lewiston, ME shootings at 3 locations – Walmart distribution center, a bar, plus a third location
11:29 AM · Oct 26, 2023
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Poor old Albo, he’s going to the White House for dinner with Joe and Dr. Jill and he was expecting to be entertained by the B52s while Joe sniffed his hair, but Dr. Jill cancelled the band as she thought it inappropriate.
From the 32 minute mark – Haley demands UN Guterres resign. Macron’s plan to fight Hamas. Elensky delusions of grandeur. U/1 – Alex Christoforou.
If Albo commits Australian troops to Syria, Iran or wherever old Joe wants them to go, then the ALP will lose all its seats in western Sydney and lose government. This will be a blow to Albo and he didn’t even get to meet the B52s.
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Today
Economists … 🤦
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‘You’ve got to stand for something’: Why this Nationals MP stands alone on Gaza
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Quik Quiz
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