Their crimes are always mistakes.
This word is doing extraordinary work.
A mistake is when you miscalculate.
When you act in good faith and the outcome is bad.
Three million dead in Vietnam: mistake.
A million dead in Iraq based on fabricated intelligence: mistake.
Decades of funding death squads across Latin America: mistake. Or complicated. Or a different time.
The word "mistake" contains an entire theology.
It preserves the intention.
It says: we meant well, it went wrong, we are still the people who mean well.
The alternative word, "crime," does something the theology cannot survive.
Crime implies a perpetrator.
Crime implies a victim with standing.
Crime implies accountability.
So it is never a crime.
It is always a mistake.
Always.
Across every administration. Every decade. Every continent.
The most consistent mistake-makers in modern history.
You do not break the slave mind
by switching sides.
You break it
by switching questions.
Stop asking,
"Who should I support?"
Start asking,
"Who is using me?"
Stop asking,
"Which flag is right?"
Start asking,
"Why do they need my belief so badly?"
Every empire needs believers.
The day you stop being one,
you become dangerous.
This should make every one of us very, very afraid
It's not enough in Australia that we have a small, minority group forcing a distorted reality on us, we also now need to know some of those same powerful, well organised people are looking to own facts and information
There's a specific American reaction when you point out what their military has done.
"You just hate America."
Not: is this true?
Not: how do I reconcile this with what I was taught?
"You hate America."
The country has been converted into a person.
Criticizing its documented actions is reframed as personal animosity.
The conversation about evidence is replaced with a conversation about your feelings toward a nation-as-identity.
This is not defensiveness.
This is a trained reflex.
The reflex exists because if the country can be criticized on its record, the people who built their sense of self on that country's righteousness become criticizable too.
It was never about America.
It was always about them.
The Tank Man image is so powerful that most people believe tanks crushed protesters at Tiananmen.
They didn't. The tanks stopped for Tank Man. He lived.
The Israeli bulldozer did not stop for Rachel Corrie.
She was 23.
She was American.
She was wearing an orange vest.
She died on March 16, 2003.
Marco has never posted about March 16.
We broke significant national news this week and not a single mainstream media outlet wanted to cover it or follow up.
It isn't surprising, but it is illustrative.
Put simply, they're all owned and operated by Zionist billionaires.
This is why indie media needs to exist.
The union movement was enmeshed with the pro-Israel lobby back in the day of Bob Hawke, (the senior Leiblers, etc)
Aust unions rely on the Israel lobby, financially and politically
There are numerous Labor/union/Israel groups in Australia, (which is strange in itself). They market themselves as friendly dialogue groups, while all the while working at keeping the union movement to heel
They're very effective of course, as we can see by the evidence in front of us of the Australian union movement's total evasion of the Israel-Gaza issue
The #Robodebt Royal Commission findings were handed to the shiny new NACC on 6 July, 2023 - 5 days after the NACC began operations.
But it took the NACC almost a full year to declare that they would not be investigating the Robodebt allegations of corruption.
It took 1 year to say they wouldn't be doing anything.
What exactly took them so long?
Why did it take so long for the NACC to say they wouldn't be doing anything about Robodebt?
It's hard to say but for one thing, the NACC was busy racking up $1.1 million in travel costs in its first year of operation.
It appears, that while the Robodebt investigation was of no importance, the NACC staff were however, very busy undertaking 124 separate 'presentations' around Australia and overseas.
Not sure what exactly 'presentations' are in this sense, but they certainly accounted for a lot of air fares and accommodation.
1 conviction.
Zero public hearings.
"Never forget," they say.
But they choose what you remember.
Never forget Tiananmen.
Never forget 9/11.
Never forget the Holocaust.
But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.
You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.
You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.
You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.
This is not a culture of remembrance.
It is a culture of selective memory.
People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with western backing.
The Shot just exposed Australia is manufacturing nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose & RDX for Israel's bombs.
These explosives are made in govt-owned plants, leased to Thales, trucked at night to ports, sent via US/Singapore - straight to Gaza & Lebanon.
Jewish convert @charliepick wants to silence Australian Grace Tame on behalf of the Israeli government.
Ironic that he calls Grace Tame, an abused woman, problematic, while on a podcast with wife beater Avi Yemeni who throws chopping blocks on women.
He also thinks he is owed a Palestinian persons house because he converted to Judaism making him “indigenous to the Middle East” according to his Zionist ideology.
He thinks people give a shit about offending those who committed a genocide. What a joke! Counter cancel him.