Bygone Diva

Time Traveller & Artist.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
(Thoreau)
If borders can be changed by force, no one can feel safe.
(Tsahkna)

[The Chaser @chaser]

Today, Pauline Hanson complained about people who have difficulty speaking English. Luckily, her speech provided the perfect example for anyone wanting to learn the language.

[Bygone Diva @BygoneDiva]

@chaser Can't bear listening to that whiny voice. Horrible creature. Worst speech imaginable. She wants to wreck our beautiful multicultural country. For what exactly? Nazi parades outside public institutions? Racist violence on the streets? Workers being stripped of their rights? Shill!

[Emelia🌙 @Em21brave]

How will you continue your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him?

Not because he had lost hope in life, but because he could hear his daughters’ final breaths beneath the debris. Their tiny hands were holding his in the darkness, as if pleading with him one last time. He was the father who had always been their safe refuge, yet this time he was powerless to pull them from the dust and shattered concrete.

Only his head was visible above the wreckage. He looked into the eyes of the rescuers, his own eyes exhausted by fear and helplessness, and said:
“Leave me… my daughters are here… I do not want to come out alone.”

What heart can bear such a scene? What language can describe the agony of a father who realizes he is losing his daughters one by one, while still holding their hands until they grow cold, unable to offer rescue or even one final embrace?

How will your day go on after knowing this story? How will you sit at your table in peace, or laugh at something trivial, knowing that somewhere there was a father whose last wish was not to survive alone?

And the question that continues to haunt the human conscience remains:

How much pain must the world witness before it finally hears the cry of a single father there?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Israel got the war.

America got the bill.

The U.S. fired more than 200 THAAD interceptors defending Israel during Operation Epic Fury. That's roughly half of the Pentagon's entire inventory of that system. We also fired more than 100 SM-3 and SM-6 interceptors from Navy ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel fired fewer than 100 Arrow interceptors and about 90 David's Sling interceptors.

One U.S. government official told the Washington Post that America fired roughly 120 more interceptors than Israel did and engaged twice as many Iranian missiles.
Each THAAD round costs $13 million. Lockheed Martin makes 96 of them a year. Replacements won't arrive until 2028 at the earliest.

Now here's the part that should make you stop.
Israel's defense budget is roughly $44 billion. That sounds like they're pulling their weight. What that number doesn't tell you is that the United States provided nearly $18 billion in military aid to Israel in a single fiscal year. Much of what Israel "spent" on this war was bought with American money, on American weapons systems, made by American defense contractors.

We funded their military. We burned through our missiles defending them. And now Congress is writing a $10.6 billion check to replace what the war consumed.
And while you were watching the war, Congress quietly passed Section 224 out of committee. It now goes to the full house. It would permanently merge U.S. and Israeli defense research, production, and procurement into a single structure, permanently, buried in the must-pass NDAA, shielded from the annual vote that currently gives Congress any leverage at all.

Israel got the war they lobbied for.

America got the bill.

And Congress is making sure we keep paying it forever.

That's not where I want my tax money going. How about you?

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

Congrats to the press galley - you showed yourself utterly useless.

Only @msmarto can walk out knowing she remains a journalist of worth. #npc

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

She's right

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Pauline Hanson complaining about people not speaking English properly is peak hypocrisy.

#NPC

[stranger @strangerous10]

Hanson goes hard-Trump again, demanding a ban on abortion, & then attacking SBS’ Anna Henderson for asking about her intention to cut SBS. Says she’s “going to be without a job”

She’s got MAGA written all over her. Surely everyone can see that now.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pauline Hanson goes a full Trump, attacks The Guardian’s Sarah Martin calling her a “trashy journalist” just for daring to ask if she has anything to do with her daughter’s taxpayer-funded career.🙄
A total glass jaw—Clearly working off the MAGA playbook. #auspol

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

My dad is older than Israel. Yet this pathetic man utters the claim that the U.S. wouldn’t exist without Israel?

Let’s pull all financial and military support and see how long the genocidal welfare queens last.

[Cucumberman @BersekEv]

La actriz española Ester Expósito y un grupo de actores y actrices leyeron durante más de 10 horas una lista con los nombres de los niños asesinados por el sionismo de Israel.

Solo nombres de niños durante más de 10 horas...y no pudieron terminar.

Palestina merece justicia.

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Just a reminder that One Nation openly says they want to “review” over $3 billion worth of medications on the PBS…

This is a reminder of how much we’d be paying if we didn’t have the PBS:

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was “constant” and “relentless” pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.

Clinton recalled hours-long phone calls where Israeli officials used leverage tactics, frequently telling her their "planes are on the tarmac" to imply an imminent, unilateral strike.

Clinton says she would respond to pressure like that with: "Well, good luck."

The New Yorker’s David Remnick asks if she felt the U.S. was being manipulated or "played" by a foreign ally that receives an enormous amount of American aid, Clinton agreed and said it happened "all the time" due to Netanyahu's intense focus on the issue.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Every American should be forced to watch this, knowing we did it. Our leaders aren’t even man enough to.admit it.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It is beyond disgraceful that the 'Great Israeli Real Estate' event was allowed to go ahead.

Once again, the government has exposed its flagrant contempt for international law as well as its shameful complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation.
https://t.co/ole6xWxq91

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The two-state solution is illusion and mirage.

“The two-state illusion still served important political purposes both for Israelis, who would pay it lip service while continuing their steady encroachment on Palestinian lands — and for US politicians who could point to the mirage as an excuse not to pressure Israel too hard on its human rights violations.

“Yet, whenever any U.S. official actually tried to reach that shimmering oasis of a two-state solution, it would recede into the distance.

“Then, the Israelis would rely on their friends and allies in the news media and politics to blame the Palestinians.”

ROBERT PARRY from 2017: Netanyahu Unmasks Israel – Consortium News

https://t.co/WmN6EJFUSN

[Bygone Diva @BygoneDiva]

@PeterCronau 😳 A two-state delusion.
10 years on, Robert Parry correct about Netanyahu's plan.
Oct 7 was 🔮 "whenever some Palestinians act up, Israel will wage war against them, killing thousands at a time & destroying their homes & infrastructure, what Israelis call “mowing the grass.”

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

If Pauline Hanson wants a 'monocultural' society she's come to the wrong place.

This land has held the world's oldest living cultures for 65,000 years. We've built one of the most successful multicultural nations on earth.

Her "one cultural umbrella" is division, not unity.

[Vaxatious Litigant 💉⚖️👨‍⚖️ @ExposingNV]

Haha Pauline Hanson gives her address to the National Press Club and this banner drops down behind her 😂