cat with an aranet

[反貧困ネットワーク（公式） @anti_poverty_NW]

ナヴィーンさんが東京入管から収容を解かれナオミさんの元に戻りました。当たり前ですが奪還成功！
とりあえずはゆっくり休んでください。
来週はスリランカカレーを食べにいくよ！

[HARA Bunjiro 原 文次郎 @harabun]

大切な友人であり仲間であるスリランカ難民のナヴィーンさんは本日午後に収容を解かれて奥様にも再会することができました。この間の皆様からの応援、ご支援に感謝とのことです。

[Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv]

A hard-hitting piece by Judge Christine Van den Wyngaert 🇧🇪:

"I believe in the ICC. I served as one of its judges 9 years. And precisely because I believe in it, I think it deserves honest support—not applause that papers over real problems..." @euobs
https://t.co/dIT65zoHHF

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Apparently, my NDIA contact says, they gave up on me after I did not answer my long dead email address - there is nothing in the NDIA MyGov messages account - nor did I manage to get to the phone within the six rings that were granted me before the phone rang out.

They never rang back. And now, it seems, I have a $1 plan.

That means nobody to help you shower.
No replacement for my bald power wheelchair tyre.
Nobody to help change your tampon, nor help you with your luggage off a baggage carousel (we are driving to Sydney at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, then flying to WA).

There was no explanation. No consultation. No follow up phone call, just my one-dollar plan.

Here's the thing.

While former ministers glide into the boardrooms of the scheme, participants are being told they can lose their plans if they don't answer the phone. The Agency's proposed reforms contemplate suspending supports and ultimately revoking participant status where the NDIA decides a person is "uncontactable."

Some advocate recently did what advocates do. They FOI'd the NDIA's own National Contact Centre - the phone line participants are expected to answer and call - and asked how well it answers us.

The numbers, released under FOI 25.26-3532, are astonishing - in a very double plus ungood way. In the first half of 2024 alone, the Agency's own contact centre logged 50,983 abandoned calls, with average speed of answer blowing out to a massive 5 minutes 28 seconds and peaking at over 9 minutes in February and March. And those figures are the FLATTERING numbers: they don't include time trapped in the automated menu, exclude callback waits, and don't even count calls abandoned inside the first 60 seconds.

Think about that for a moment. The Agency wants the power to cut off your funding because you didn't pick up. But when you call them, you can wait nine minutes and then be counted as one of fifty thousand people who gave up.

But hey, I am not going to be gloomy about my impending death. I have decided to sign up with a brand-new provider. He is running the gloriously named 'Brighter Road Ltd' with his pastor wife. His name?

Former Minister Stuart Robert.

A dollar in a cripple's plan. Nine minutes on hold. And a former minister in the NDIA seat selling "access to the highest levels of the NDIS." That is not a system with a few bad outcomes. And it's certainly not the 'anxiety' of a few Nervous Nellies who are worried about our funding. That is a system working exactly as designed for everyone except the participant.

https://t.co/C6zFH6qOLu

[masashi hiraaki @hiramasaisafish]

今朝ナヴィーンさんに友人と面会。
うつ病で固形食が食べられず水分だけで生活。右耳下の腫れと激痛に外部の批判を気にしてか職員が珍しく即応。外の目が効いている。

だが最大の問題は自主帰国の準備をして出頭した彼を無視して収容したこと。ふざけている。

今すぐ解放しろ。

[sakaguchi @eric_dolphy_]

7.17 金
東武浅草駅前🍉　
#パレスチナ連帯アクション

18時半から19時半　

短い時間でも是非🇵🇸
プラカードあります。

⚠️あと、妨害者は完全無視で！
挑発に乗らないようにして下さい。
#FREEPALESTINE
#FREE沖縄

グランドルール続きます↓

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

If anyone, after three years of US- supported genocide, aggression, extrajudicial executions, & widespread destruction abroad and persecution at home, still had any doubt that the violent lawlessness and fascistic arrogance of the US government (and its Israeli partner) was a threat to the entire world, this open declaration of unlawful intent should settle the matter. The US is expanding its unlawful attacks on the ICC, on the broader system of international law, and on the very concept of human rights. If the world does not rise from its knees to stop the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis, it will damn itself to a generation or more of unprecedented darkness. Stand up or learn to live on your knees.

https://t.co/SnJxnZZq5g

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

The stoush between journalist, Sarah Ferguson, and @s_m_marandi on ABC's 730 on Thursday evening has attracted international as well as local interest, primarily because of Professor Marandi's refusal to accept loaded expressions and assumptive questions without challenge, his clear statements of factual and historical backgrounds and his direct calling out of Ferguson's journalism.

It's interesting watching the interview but the personal stoush shouldn't be permitted to overshadow the very real significance of some of Professor Marandi's comments.

Although he does not speak officially for the Iranian government he mentioned the illegality of the US/Israeli war on Iran and inferentially of the US holding of Iran's stolen assets; the US violations of the MOU on the one hand and the legality of Iran's actions in accordance with it on the other, and on more than one occasion emphasised Australia's support for the illegal war on Iran and the genocide in Palestine.

There can be no doubt that Iran, the rest of the Muslim world and probably the whole world, observed with raised eyebrows PM Albanese's plunge over the cliff as the first leader of any country to publicly support the illegal US/Israeli invasion of Iran, our supply of a spyplane and missiles to the UAE and our ongoing diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, as well as supplying it with at least parts of military equipment or materiel – in contravention of our legal obligations under international law - throughout its genocide in Gaza and possibly the West Bank and Lebanon.

Now couple that with Pat Conroy’s recent announcement to the world at the NATO summit, that Australia should relinquish its position of relatively secure geographical isolation to join unmeritorious overseas wars in which it has no direct interest and you can see Australia's continuing fall from grace as an international actor of integrity and credibility.

When the current conflict subsides Iran is likely to retain control of the Strait of Hormuz and a chokehold on the world's supply of oil and petrochemical products, including to the refineries in Southeast Asia that provide Australia with fuel. How Iran might exercise its power to control these resources might be open to question but one can clearly infer from Professor Marandi's comments that Iran will not be doing Australia any favours.

Whether we like it or not, we reap what our political classes sow. Little wonder that Linda Reynolds said in her evidence before the AUKUS Public Inquiry that parliament can never be permitted to decide whether the country should go to war because the parliament would never say yes.

#auspol

https://t.co/POBEVGVNw2

[cat with an aranet @increbedog]

As Upton Sinclair noted, it's difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it. Sarah Ferguson, like so many mainstream Australian journalists, is an embarrassment to the profession. @FergusonNews

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

As usual, Australia's ABC blames the victim in an interview with a "supporter of the regime..."

[cat with an aranet @increbedog]

@AlboMP @SenatorWong: Why do you keep supporting these Nazis? https://t.co/3jR5swcJsU

[sakaguchi @eric_dolphy_]

7/10金
東武浅草駅前🍉　
#パレスチナ連帯アクション

18時半から19時半　
短い時間でも是非🇵🇸
プラカードあります。

⚠️あと、妨害者は完全無視で！
挑発に乗らないようにして下さい。
#FREEPALESTINE
#FREE沖縄

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

“Israel Says” is not journalism.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Another death - this one up Wollongong way, in hospital as a ‘social admission’ waiting for the ndis funding that never arrived.

It’s almost every day now.

You’d think that eventually it would be less upsetting.

I guess democide, like genocide or other acts of terribleness, is always awful.

The value of a human being in their modeling is 5.8 million, but that’s from birth to death and doesn’t account for DALY - disability adjusted life years.

They sold mass deaths in our community in exchange for gas and AUKUS and by God we will never let them forget it.

[cat with an aranet @increbedog]

@AlboMP @Mark_Butler_MP Supporters of social murder in Australia as well as genocide in Gaza.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Tears of anger. No, *rage*.

@Mark_Butler_MP you told Australians on @InsidersABC
that nobody would die because of these changes.

I want you to read these posts. Half an hour ago, a suicide farewell by a young woman, a wheelchair user, in an NDIS group.

You too, @AlboMP. @JEChalmers . ALL of you men.

Not a modelling report, not a bloody budget paper.

This is what we do every day. Spend our lives watching other disabled person’s lives unravelling in public. Waiting for their final messages.

We have done the usual mop up for you butchers. That’s what we community members do. Only this one locked down her profile and is probably dead in Logan, Qld. Do you care?

You can bet @PaulineHansonOz doesn’t.

If you’re in the group, over weeks and months, you can watch it happen. Because you are killing us every day. Another one today, in an Illawarra hospital, a ‘social’ admission.

Now this young woman.

First, her wheelchair funding was removed because the NDIS decided Functional Neurological Disorder wasn’t the “right” kind of disability for funding. She lost the wheelchair that allowed her to leave home.

Then came the isolation.

A broken second-hand wheelchair that caused pain. Fewer supports. Weeks alone. No friends. No community. No way to leave the house without someone else pushing them.

Their world became smaller and smaller.

They wrote about being trapped, losing hope, about feeling abandoned by both the health system and the NDIS.

Then they wrote:

“I don’t want to be here anymore.”

“This will be my last post ever.”

“It’s now time to say goodbye.”

I’ve just gotten off the phone from another young woman who attempted suicide in January after the cuts that took away her ability to live safely. Why only now? Because she’s been in a coma for four months.

Now there’s yet another disabled Australian whose life has been reduced to surviving alone inside four walls - this week.

And today, I don’t know whether they’re alive.

That sentence should stop every minister in their tracks.

You said nobody would die.

Can you honestly say that after reading this?

You have been warned and warned and warned. Do we need to haul corpses to the Labor conference to make you say no to your shitty cuts, even if you don’t actually care?

Because if you don’t care about us, you sure as shit should care about losing the election.

We have had enough. Blood is on your hands.

[cat with an aranet @increbedog]

https://t.co/J14vqFMNvk

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

*Danger to the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Please share as much as possible!*

New information received from Adv. Nasser Odeh, the attorney for Dr. Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who visited Dr. Abu Safiya at the "Rakefet" underground detention facility at Nitzan Prison, indicates a severe deterioration in his condition, to the point of an immediate threat to his life. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and his attorney are demanding his immediate transfer from the facility and an urgent visit by a judge to assess his condition firsthand—before it is too late.

Following new information received from a visit conducted by Adv. Nasser Odeh on July 2nd at the "Rakefet" facility in Nitzan Prison:

According to Adv. Odeh's affidavit, Dr. Abu Safiya arrived at the visit handcuffed and shackled, accompanied by masked prison guards. Fresh and severe injuries were visible on his head, around his eyes, on his ears, and on his neck, to the extent that his attorney had difficulty recognizing him. During the visit, Dr. Abu Safiya struggled to breathe and speak continuously; he appeared extremely weak, had difficulty sitting without falling over, and on several occasions leaned backward in a manner that raised concerns that he was about to lose consciousness. According to Adv. Odeh, he appeared terrified and in severe distress, and struggled to express himself for fear of retaliation. It is the attorney's direct and immediate impression that Dr. Abu Safiya is in immediate danger of death.

Dr. Abu Safiya told his attorney that shortly after the hearing (on June 10, 2026) regarding his appeal to the Supreme Court against the extension of his detention order, while he was held in isolation at Ganot Prison, four or five prison guards entered his cell and beat him all over his body, according to him with a hammer and batons. He added that since his transfer on June 24, 2026, to the "Rakefet" facility, he has been subjected to violence and beatings on a daily basis, and has lost consciousness several times, all without receiving adequate medical treatment. He told his attorney that he fears for his life, stating: "This is the last time you will see me... They brought me here to kill me. I am not imagining it. I see it. This is the end."

Following the visit, Adv. Odeh urgently contacted the Israel Prison Service (IPS) demanding an end to the abuse of Dr. Abu Safiya, his immediate transfer to another detention facility, and that he be granted urgent medical examination and treatment due to the real concern for his life.

Furthermore, Physicians for Human Rights has urgently appealed to the Attorney General, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, the National Public Defender, and the Commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, demanding an immediate visit to Dr. Abu Safiya by an official entity outside the IPS, and to allow him an independent medical examination, due to the serious concern for his life.

Despite the High Court of Justice ruling this June against his release, Physicians for Human Rights reiterates its demand to release Dr. Abu Safiya and all other doctors held without charges or trial.

It should be noted that the "Rakefet" facility is an underground interrogation and detention facility at Nitzan Prison, regarding which severe testimonies and allegations of violence and abuse against detainees have been published in the past.

Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that given Dr. Abu Safiya's health condition and the information provided by his attorney, any delay in intervention could put his life in real danger.

*Danger to life.*
*He must be removed from there! Today.*
(Translation from Hebrew by Gemini)

[asadori_Qly @AsadoriQ]

本日は飯能「イスラエルはジェノサイドをやめろ」スタンディングに参加。I took part in a protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land, held 5 Juoly 2026, at Hanno station, Saitama.

#StopIsareliGenocide
#StopIsraelWarCrimes

[Michiko 🇵🇸#誰も殺すな。 #FreePalestine #StopGenocide @_TiredPony]

金曜日、イスラエル大使館付近と東武浅草駅前にて。
#FreePalestine

[sakaguchi @eric_dolphy_]

2026 7.3
東武浅草駅前　
#パレスチナ連帯アクション
今夜も参加ありがとうございました。

#FREEPALESTINE
#FREE沖縄

[cat with an aranet @increbedog]

@scott_jon22812 @DropSiteNews Um wot? 🤣🤣🤣