Dave K

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

POGROMS
against defenseless civilians
all over the West Bank (while Gaza is under fire).

Israeli civilians and army joining forces.

It is not just Nethanyahu and few "rotten apples".

THIS IS ISRAEL

ARMS EMBARGO NOW - STOP TRADE NOW

This is what intl law requires.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

Is there a term to describe the politics of a State whose police service deliberately erases a victim of violence due to their ethnic background in favour of highlighting and favouring the suffering of another group?

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Zack Polanski’s bravery for Palestine 🇵🇸 is outstanding

Refusing to yield to media intimidation:

‘I’ve not seen hate crimes’
‘These are marches for peace’
‘Outrageous slur on those marching’
‘It’s the world upside down’
‘Let’s deal in facts & evidence’

Well done Zack!

👏

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski: "The 50 wealthiest families in this country own more wealth than 34 million people. That's unsustainable. The govt say there is no money left. There's plenty of money. It needs to be in our communities, both for the environment & for the people we serve"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel is keeping two hostages who they kidnapped in International Waters 1000km from Israel.

Saif Abukeshek, a dual Spanish-Swedish citizen.

And Thiago Avila, a Brazilian citizen.

Don't let there be silence for this outrageous crime.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"

Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is an abomination that Apartheid Israel, while continuing its genocide undisturbed, is allowed to patrol European waters, seize boats, kidnap people.

Hostage taking is a crime. Palestinian and @gsflotilla hostages must be released now.

European countries:
BREAK
THE
SIEGE

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

How Australia’s media used to report Israeli atrocities.
(with credit to Jose Teixeira)

A 1948 account of the Jewish ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ronald Monson, Daily Telegraph (Sydney) correspondent in Jerusalem.

The tone of Monson's reporting was remarkably different to much of the Western media reporting from Palestine and Lebanon today.

Monson did not try to downplay Zionist crimes and he humanised the Palestinian victims.

Reporting when journalists were carrying through with their mission, to out the truth and did not succumb to pressure from lobbies with $$$ and threats.

Report:
They massacred Arab babies

From RONALD MONSON
In Jerusalem

Jewish mortar bombs were coming over the Damascus Gate, bursting with shuddering explosions in narrow alleys when I visited the Jacob E. Spofford Memorial Hospital - American institution — close by the Gate today (Wednesday).

I had come to visit the Arab orphans from Deir Yassin. I carried no sweets, because their nurse, Miriam Bedrossian, doesn't think sweets are good for year-old babies.

Miriam had cared for these 15 babies since they were brought to the refuge a few days after the massacre of their parents last March. There were 16, but one died of wounds - aged nine months….

[Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic]

davidshoebridge: 'You need to know about these laws. You don't have to do anything wrong and ASIO can question you for 24 hours. You can be strip searched, put in restraints. If you don't answer questions you can go to jail. It you tell anyone, you can go to jail.'

#auspol

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Utterly shameful, 160,000 Australians to be cut off the #NDIS, with $15 billion to be cut by 2030 from its annual projected budget. While we don’t tax foreign gas companies which would raise at least $17-$18 billion annually with a 25% levy. Help it make sense!

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Special thanks @jommy_tee

We now find out taxpayers forked out $61, 736.68 for special Envoy Jillian Segal's trip to Israel.

"But no one can explain or will reveal details of the purpose of the trip."

$440,000 salary, $61, 736.68 + offices + staff.

Jillian sure is "special"

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"When the most powerful person in the country [ie @AlboMP] takes a public swipe at a child abuse survivor to get a laugh at a News Corp event, you begin to understand the scale of the machine she is up against."
https://t.co/z77vQwfjAL

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

This appalling war that Labor supports is unravelling into chaos as Trump now calls for a Coalition of the Unwilling to send warships. Australia must refuse and instead join with other nations, not to fight this illegal war, but to help end it.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Genuinely we are in uncharted territory when it comes to bullshit. I predict the person who published this story will win an award lol.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Every other post on here is an American being like, “yep, 100% we’re about to experience a false flag attack, there is zero reason or logic to Iran doing something like that”. They are fed up and awake. Meanwhile the Australian govt keeps playing in our faces with bullshit.

[Senator Lidia Thorpe @SenatorThorpe]

Three years ago a series of racist threatening letters were sent to the Victorian Greens. They were covered in white supremacist hate, swastikas and explicit threats against my life and my family. They were reported to police. But as far as I know nothing came of it 🧵

https://t.co/lJhqcxde1q

[Noely 🤔 @YaThinkN]

"The erosion of Australian democratic rights and the violent scenes in NSW, cops jacked up on the impunity of tyrants and malignant racism, is exactly what people mean when they say none of us are free until Palestine is free." @DaveMilbo https://t.co/3mwpGcq3i2

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

This is so profoundly evil. I cannot bear it, how can anyone bear it? My 3-year-old has cancer and every day, here in the lap of privilege, is a battle. Do you have any idea how cruel this is? They are killing everyone, right down to the sickest child, who they call “a threat”.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Jack White on Donald Trump's racist meme about the Obamas:

"This post would basically get anyone, at any job, fired immediately...except for arguably the most important position in the world.

"That's right, Trump is a racist, a rapist, a felon, a grifter (currently ordering the U.S. government to pay him $10 billion simply because no one will stop him), and a full-on dementia sufferer, and yet he has the power to send in Gestapo ICE soldiers to klll our citizens, and so much more dangerously, he has the nuclear codes and the ability to end humanity at any moment based on an egotistical whim.

"How is it possible we've given this evil man so much power? The two-party system, the Electoral College, the responsibility the internet has brought to humanity and its direct conflict with truth, and America's obsession with celebrity, are all to blame, but the fact that we aren't stopping it is…insanity.

"Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th Amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man.

"This longtime friend of pedophile Epstein, who appears 40,000 times in the files. This demolisher of the White House, demolisher of the Constitution, demolisher of the Bill of Rights, this demolisher of America, full stop.

"It's hard to believe the government does almost nothing about this lunacy and we all just have to sit back and watch as a people. And when he's finally gone? we had better put into place new laws and regulations that don’t allow anyone to find dangerous loopholes based solely on the assumption that our President has some sort of dignity and decency.

"Abolish these loopholes. Abolish the Electoral College. And if we had any sense, we would abolish the two-party system (that George Washington advised us never to have) that got us here in the first place and has failed not only Americans, but everyone else in the world who is currently suffering from our policies and the whims of this sick, deranged man who I will state again, has his tiny, bruised fingers on the nuclear launch button."

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