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I did not realise how devious is the intent of the Albanese government in pushing through this Mis-Dis Info bill until I did some research on it. Are they are bowing to their globalist masters in the US – masters who have not been elected by the Australian citizens? If they win on this bill, we will lose our freedoms in a very big way. Small blogs like this one will not be able to survive because of the legal costs. We won’t be able to freely post our opinions or even news that does not comply with “the truth”.
Big Brother (via ACMA) will be watching every word we speak or write.
I was busy with some project yesterday, but when I saw the deadline of this bill as 30 September 2024 – just a few days away – I stopped my other work and wrote out the post with as much information as I could find. I knew about this bill and I had posted about it in the past week, but I realised how it will affect us after reading details about it on twitter and other sites. I did not want to delay it because this info needs to get to as many Australians as possible so that they can respond with submissions, even though there aren’t many days. I tried to make it as easy as possible by putting all the info in one place. Anyone who wants to make a submission won’t need to scramble around to get details, but can find all the links they need and quickly send it.
I am back here 24 hours later. And I am wondering:
Are there any readers here who after seeing my Post on this bill have:
– Sent their submission to the Senate or have written a draft which they will be sending in the next day or two?
– Urged family, relatives, friends, others to also make a submission?
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Time-saving method. I am going to be using the short-cut of posting material (memes, toons, tweets, or other) related to the US elections, the ME war or other topics with just links and limited explanation. I do not have the time to fact-check all the links, so please go ahead and post any updates or fact-checked versions if you find any errors.
I do not want to get too involved with what is happening in Lebanon because it is too much to take in. It is similar to Gaza:
the same perpetrator, the same lies, the same justification, the same allies providing the bombs, the same murder of innocent civilians, the same destruction of property and the same MSM reporting it.
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The Hezbollah Pager Explosions Are More Dangerous Than You Think
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US Elections
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The Age
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Kosher sausages?
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Can you believe Australia calculates inflation this way?
AFR:
So if the Fed government gave grocery vouchers to Aussies, our bean counters would see this as a fall in grocery prices?
Are we a serious country or not.
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This SBS interviewer basically tells Penny Wong that the government is all talk, no action.
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This Mis-Dis-Info bill started off during the reign of Morrison. I had reviewed that document and posted the summary of points – on Sinc’s blog – but no one cared to respond. Plenty of commenters talking about everything else, but this got ignored.
Here we are in September 2024. Now I have gone much further and provided all the info needed. All that is required is to open your email account, pick out a few sentences from the tips provided, add in the email address and subject line and send it off. Can be done in a few minutes.
Or the FSUA tool can be used. Again a few minutes.
In the last century, young men went to war and gave their lives to defend our freedoms. Today, we can’t spare a few minutes to ensure that we continue with these freedoms. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone to make that submission. No one had the time or cared enough to respond to my post with their opinions and comments about freedom and the attempts by the government in trying to restrict our free speech.
If this topic does not directly affect you, what does?
If loss of freedom and free speech does not matter to you, what does?
If you are so busy that you can’t find the time to send the submission while we still have the freedom to do so…..???
Should I have bothered to stop my work yesterday and put that post together for the information of other readers? Maybe no one cares. Is it apathy? Let others rant and rave about what is going wrong. Someone else can spend their time and effort in research and posting comments.
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We have a blog here – all costs paid by Adam, the blog owner. We are not required to pay $$$, asked to Donate or have Ads flashing across to pay the blog bills. We have Free Speech here that counters the MSM narrative. We don’t have personal abuse, sniping or useless chatter.
Yet, it seems that many do not want to use this vital gift of freedom. Readers prefer to lurk, watch, criticise the content of this blog, but they will not join in with their preferred topics. We have the opportunity to keep a track on those who seek to destroy our democratic way of life – whether they are in the country elected to do the will of the people, or the unelected globalists.
I have urged, encouraged, ranted and nagged readers on this blog (the serious ones) to join in and take part. To participate and contribute to the discussions and news. In the past, there were some who said that they would like to take part but didn’t know what to say or post. I have provided personal experiences and suggestions about what to do and how to join in, if you want to do so. Yet, there is a silence.
I have just checked the first thread on this blog, from over three years ago, and can see that mh and I joined this site on the weekend it was set up. We have stayed here since then – unaffected by those who left for other pastures – and have been regular posters. I have agreed with mh on some issues, differed on others, expressed my disagreement at times, scrolled past some of his comments, as well. And I am sure that mh has also done the same – agreed or disagreed with some of my comments or even ignored a number of them. But we have continued here because we have valued having a free speech site. We come in and post whether anyone responds to our comments or not, whether anyone disagrees with our opinions or not, whether we are the only commenters on the blog, or whether there are others on it.
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I post long comments and I rant because we are facing a war against the WEFfing globalists and their acolytes. I want to be part of the global group of battlers who are trying to win the fight against them. This blog provides a platform for that. Is there any point in a few of us spending time on this blog trying to fight? Is it just one or two or three of us who realise that we don’t get the truth from the MSM and hence value a free speech blog? And want to use it?
It is possible to have all kinds of ideas and suggestions to make a blog interesting and meaningful, but it needs intelligent readers to respond. To express an interest. To put up their hands to join in. To participate. To speak up and share something. To support those who are doing their best to keep the blog running.
If the Albanese government can push its way through with this Mis-Dis Info bill, we can say goodbye to freely expressing our opinions, or even just sharing info based on what ACMA or the government’s “Ministry of Truth” decides is acceptable and what is not.
We won’t have a Free Speech blog. Just the government-approved propaganda sites.
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Age headline
Why is the US pleading with Israel?
The US supplies the IDF’s military equipment.
Is America going to threaten Israel with shutting down their military supplies? NO!
Can the media stop going along with these farcical narratives.
Or at least someone should call them out.
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Jews Gone Wild!
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mh,
Seems as if you will be the only one posting here. I hope you can keep the blog going.
Until I complete my projects, I cannot spend much time here. I will come and try to post some quick comments because there is so much in the news that is hard to ignore. And it is also not fair to expect you to carry the blog, alone.
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The reckoning will come. Along with every Western country, it should include the media, lobbies, organisations and all those who have supported the perpetrators and their allies. All those who have attacked those who speak the truth about the Middle East conflict. All those who have stayed silent in the face of the genocide.
US, not Israel lobby, driving Albanese Government’s Gaza policy
In the article, Scott Burchill, the writer, refers to a certain media group and its newspaper. Take a look at today’s online edition of that paper and the number of articles up there about one specific subject. It proves what Burchill is saying. I’ll post one of them in another comment.
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It is a long tweet. Scroll down – provides some details about Australia.
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Campus protests: A view from a seasoned observer
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From the safety of my comfort zone in the Western world, I decide that what is happening in the Middle East war zones is too gruesome to watch. And, anyway, what can I do from so far away? And, I believe what the MSM is telling me. Their narrative must be the truth (see above Scott Burchill article).
What I saw was worse than any warzone I’ve ever been to”
United Nations General Assembly
Diplomats exiting the UNGA while Netanyahu speech started
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Comments like these may well be classed as “hate speech” and “mis-dis information”. The video created by a doctor who has worked in Gaza must be mis-info. These medics who are working in the hospitals there must be giving us the fake news.
The UNGA video clip is posted by a correspondent from the Israeli media.
But the truth won’t matter. While some fight for Free Speech and against the Mis-Dis Bill:
Labor’s laws ‘won’t stop the spread of hate’,
says Executive Council of Australian Jewry
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Did that really happen? Or is it AI video? Even if it did, he seems to be nervous. I checked the replies and they are mostly derogatory comments about Haitians probably made by the supporters of the Presidential candidate who set this off.
The problem is illegal immigrants and a border crisis which is legitimate. The debate should have been about policies and the failures of the Biden admin. But to target a section of people based on unconfirmed rumours (which turned out to be lies), is wrong. I don’t know the details of the immigration issue in the US, but we could have similar problems in Australia if those in positions of authority don’t behave as leaders should.
Ohio Bishops:
Springfield Falsehoods Risk Igniting a Dangerous Blaze
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Mike DeWine
I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.
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What is worse/unethical:
a/ Doing something that may not be right (like stealing animals – if true) from a desperate need for the basics of life: eating a meal or going hungry?
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b/This, from billionaires?
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Just what you need when you cannot afford to buy groceries or pay your bills.
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Imagine being paid $237,500 to fund-raise for a candidate who is your spouse. Who paid the bill?
Campaign fund statements have, in the past, also shown that her personal stylist received a 6-figure payment.
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“He is really a family man” — Melania Trump, who currently does not live with her husband
The question being asked is: how much was she paid (from campaign funds) for this interview?
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The lurkers won’t be getting any fantasy merchants like Scott Ritter. Israel is finished! Yeah, right. That’s why I stopped posting that drivel months ago. The lurkers got Fuentes, and the reality of Jewish power.
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Al Jizz
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Israel Strikes While Kamala Bombs Edition
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Hassan Nasrallah, brown bread.
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How to spot a conspiracy theorist
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Russell Brand baptisms
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Covid PCR tests
Is it true they’re still using these things??
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Illegal to keep unregistered chooks in Britain from next Tuesday
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UK supermarkets going cashless in next few months
Heard about this from a young local cashier who said he’d been caught out in the recent Crowdstrike outage, not carrying any cash – full cart of groceries and no way to pay for them.
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Stay classy
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Bisan Owda was nominated for an Emmy award (two comments on the story here.)
She has won that Emmy Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story.
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This Sunday (US time) there is some Rescue the Republic talk fest in Washington DC. How do they plan to rescue their republic? How many of these speakers will call out what’s gone wrong with their country? Will they be brave enough to spell out the facts?
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Max Blumenthal today at the Anti-War rally
…. calling out the disturbing lack of criticism against Israel at the #RageAgainstWar rally. Israel IS the War Machine! Pay attention all you Zionists and RFK Jr fans pretending to be anti-war.
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Anti-war RFK
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Do they let her have the win as some sort of gesture of even-handedness? Her video made me think of a sort of modern-day Middle Eastern version of movies about the Blitz, which had us on the side of the targets of the bombing. Now, we are relentlessly propagandised to believe the bomb-dropping “Germans” are fighting a “just war”. Compare it, also, to the millions of dollars dropped on a celebrity music spectacle at the start of big football game in Melbourne.
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They are ‘new narrative network’ folk, so the ‘truth’ will go ‘so far, and no further’.
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LMAO
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This might also be contrasted with (‘new narrative networker’) Tucker Carlson’s parting admonition to the Australian ‘freedom conference’ audience not to do anyone any harm, because doing harm is wrong… What’s that quote about being able to get people to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously provided the ideas are kept far enough apart?
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To be fair to the organisers of the Emmy Awards, they didn’t buckle under the pressure from the “entertainment industry leaders” when they called for her nomination to be rescinded. Maybe Bisan got the award because of the attempts made to suppress her voice via her video.
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Esme, a couple of weeks ago, we had a brief chat about having a section of our blog discussions on non-politics topics. I wanted to allow some time for any others who may want to join in.
There haven’t been any other responses. Are you still interested in it?
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Yes.
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I have some thoughts about how we can do it – will get to it another day. In the meantime, would you be able to come up with a name for it – so that it can be differentiated from the regular threads?
We call threads like this one, Open Thread, which explains that it is a general thread. Similarly, we could have another name – just a short word or two (not a long one) as a descriptor for the series.
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That guy is not in a good place.
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And for this Sunday…
Angel talk.
Today is the feast of the Archangels: St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael.
Wednesday, 2 October, is the feast of Guardian Angels.
How Guardian Angels Actually Work
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Guardian Angel
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Still the highlight of an abysmal campaign
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It’s time to RESCUE THE REPUBLIC
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If something needs rescuing, I wouldn’t be asking Jordan Peterson for help.
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Trump’s favourite son says the US must support the “peace-seeking nation of Israel”
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The Age
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kaysee, maybe just something like Culture Thread ?
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Scooter madness
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