Patti Brook

freelance radio and tv producer

[stranger @strangerous10]

JCA’s Sarah Schwartz tells the Royal Commission that she’s contacted every day by Jews “terrified of speaking out” to criticise Israel or to support Palestinians, in fear of being abused or vilified.
Says Israel ‘shields itself from a lot of criticism’ by claiming to be victim💥

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

Australians don't hate Jews, @joshburnsmp.

Australians hate GENOCIDE. The dehumanisation and diminishing of Palestinian experiences at the hands of Israel has to end, as does the GENOCIDE, the APARTHEID, the TORTURE & the ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. #auspol
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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We already knew Karl Stefanovic would almost certainly be fired from his new job pairing up with Eddie McGuire on ARN Media, witches.

And we also knew it was all or nearly all because of us witches.

How did we know?

Because we’d already received aggrieved communications from ARN after we first posted about Karl and Eddie starting their bloke-fest Friday on ARN a few weeks ago, and we also knew they didn’t want MFW’s #KancelKarl campaign (which led to him being booted from the Today Show last week) to also target their new Eddie-and-Karl festival of bro.

As we said last week, we hadn’t yet decided whether or not to extend that campaign to the ARN show. But now, we don’t have to make that decision, since the point is moot.

Karl is kaput.

Here’s proof:
“It was not a hard decision for the company. Stefanovic’s own media venture, The Karl Stefanovic Show, had begun to increasingly cater for a One Nation-aligned audience, and the interview with Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had caught the eye of activist group Mad F—king Witches. MFW declared they wanted to start a boycott campaign linked to Stefanovic. ARN last month agreed to pay more than $12 million to part ways with its former top breakfast host Kyle Sandilands, whose crude style of broadcasting had led to an MFW boycott that cost the company more than $26 million in advertising revenue.”
https://t.co/hQYIBys3Dl
https://t.co/ww3OUYZbEl

And yes, we’re glad.

Karl doesn’t deserve a mainstream media platform while he’s willing to engage in a love-fest with a known abuser and neo-Nazi, particularly as he didn’t even pretend to hold Tommy Robinson to account on any of his lies and hate. And even more so because of other bullshit he’d been spouting about Pete Evans, BRS and others.

There’s something else we want to say, too.

Which is that for the last fucking time: Karl didn’t plan any of these sackings. He didn’t want them to happen. He’s lost a shitload of money from being booted from at least two shows. He’s lost potential lucrative podcast sponsors, and the goodwill of hundreds if not thousands of people who thought he was a genial and uncomplicated media mate or contact. And he’s lost industry friends he desperately didn’t want to lose.

So why are people claiming this furore was orchestrated on his part?

Well, mainly to discredit us witches, of course. There are shitloads of people out there who don’t want to acknowledge our power or our influence, so would prefer to spread or believe rumours that Karl interviewed Robinson on purpose to get out of his Nine contract.

Yet there’s NO evidence to support those claims. Since there IS no evidence: they’re a load of fucking bollocks.

What really happened? It’s not difficult: Karl just got too big for his boots. Was enjoying new conversations and discussions with people like Hanson and Sandilands and Evans (among others), so thought he was untouchable because all those far-right dickstains around him were blowing smoke up his arse. Unlike his employer Nine, there was nobody to put the checks and balances on his behaviour needed, so he fell into the trap of thinking anything he did would be fine.

He didn’t do the research, and didn’t think anyone could harm his career.

And he was wrong. Simples.

Once again we’ll take this as another huge victory, witches. And once again we’ll thank this incredible community, who stand permanently ready to say enough is fucking-well ENOUGH.

Do we want to be the arbiters of media morals, ethics and decent behaviour, witches? No, no we certainly don’t. But as the mainstream media refuse to regulate themselves and continue to hero-worship the sad, stale older men who’ve had all the say for far, far too fucking long, there’s nobody but us to do this work and we will do it while it needs to be done.

Who’s in?

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1/2

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Another shonky Israel real estate mob selling stolen Palestinian land to Australians .. without a licence, regulators doing nothing?
https://t.co/PlKl4PRDLR

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Firstly, who the fuck is thinking, "Karl Stefanovic interviewed a white supremacist, I really need to know what James Packer thinks about this". And second, why did it take three people to churn out such bootlicking tosh?

[Wendy Bacon @Wendy_Bacon]

It is very hard to assess anything CEO ASIO Mike Burgess says about antisemitism in Australia when Mossad advises ASIO & is also very open about it huge exercise in embedding agents in Iran

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

What the fuck is Backbench Barnaby doing in London? Did we pay for it?

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

It’s cost $2.4 billion all up to compensate the Robodebt victims. Those still alive, that is. An outrage. Yet those incompetent thugs Morrison, Robert and Tudge escape scot-free. And their successors have the gall to lecture us on responsible government. https://t.co/B95sKE1sC3

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Yes, we’re considering running a new campaign protesting that one of @Channel9’s main “stars” is now interviewing violent fascists on his podcast.

We’d need support and assistance to run this campaign, but are up for it if we can get enough enthusiasm.

Please like, comment and/or re-tweet if you’re in favour.

Anyone?

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

KPMG chairman Martin Sheppard and senior auditors are set to resign but so much more needs to be done to fix the rot throughout KPMG & the regulatory failure of the Big 4.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

@mishtal Dear David

Since 1948 colonists from the West have been stealing Palestine. This is a violent process.

Hezbollah is a resistance army that emerged to protect Lebanon from repeated Israeli invasions.

Iran funds Hezbollah because they stand against ISRL's perpetual genocide.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Today we were united in grilling KPMG over accusations of sharing confidential client information to rig audit tenders, using AI to cheat on internal exams, breaching audit independence & mistreating a whistleblower. How can the govt continue to justify using KPMG’s services?

[Acyn @Acyn]

De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.

I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.

I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.

I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.

I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.

And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Newly compiled data from the Parliamentary Library reveals Labor currently has 297 active contracts with KPMG - total value of $653 million. Despite multiple scandals, the Government continues to employ KPMG’s service. This government is completely addicted to KPMG.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is South Lebanon today.

Israel has now bombed Lebanon more than 3,500 times during a so-called “ceasefire.”

Read that again.

3,500 Israeli bombs dropped during a “ceasefire”.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

We've stopped talking about Taylor's "Cayman Is. Entity" which was paid $80,000,000 for water.

The deal was set up & approved by the $32,000 a day drought envoy Barnaby Joyce.

The water ended up being imaginary, the money very real, has never been recovered.

He wants to be PM!

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Most MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES actually would disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. Pretending money doesn't affect MENTAL HEALTH is privilege.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

My piece in the @GuardianAus today arguing govts can't afford to repeat the mistakes they made with the gas industry.

With huge investment in data centres - why aren't we asking what this is all for and how Australians are going to benefit from it?

If we do want data centres and multinational tech giants are going to use Australian land, Australian energy, Australian water & Australian workers to build the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution, then Australians deserve a fair return.

That's the lesson we failed to learn with gas. We shouldn't wait another generation to learn it again.
https://t.co/HJvwk474L9

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.

When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.