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Radio conversations against convention on 3CR; NO: war, consumerism YES: humane behaviour, material equity.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

You have now been at war for 232 out of 249 years of your existence. You are the largest arms exporter on earth (40%), with 800+ military bases across 70+ countries. You are the greatest enemy of peace the world has ever known.

[Sami Ramadani سامي @SamiRamadani1]

All you need to know about Trump’s Board of Peace:
a leading war criminal explains how to enslave the Palestinian people, while the Israeli genocide continues as he speaks.
Blair helped kill a million Iraqis & profited millions of dollars after 2003 US-led occupation of Iraq.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's our documentary footage of what really happened at the protests against Isaac Herzog's state visit to Australia
https://t.co/eucSib7RdV

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

An unprecedented threat has been issued by ASIO against ABC Four Corners.

▪️It is exceptional for ASIO to publicly threaten the media — let alone to threaten to take “further action” rather than “further legal action”.

▪️It is exceptional for ASIO to itself directly take on the ABC rather than via its portfolio Attorney-General’s department.

▪️In my experience, it is exceptional for ASIO to take such an aggressive tone in its direct communications with the ABC.

But this time it’s different:

▪️ASIO has spied on ABC journalists in the past — including filming them meeting with contacts.

▪️ASIO has long received cooperation from the ABC in reporting its policies and Director General’s statements, and the agency campaigns such as against China and Iran.

▪️This threat by @ASIOGovAu against @ABCnews indicates the high stakes involved in reporting to the public the apparent failures of the agency to protect Australians from the Bondi attack, the most lethal terror attack in modern times.

ASIO: “If the ABC chooses to publish claims it cannot substantiate – particularly ones it has been told are untrue – we will reserve our right to take further action.”
(Full statement attached.)

https://t.co/DxQ9JJ28Be

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You are proving my point, not refuting it.

You say the Bible "cannot be weaponized except for evil," yet in the very next breath you carve out an exception large enough to justify violence, killing, and national sanctification.

You invoke goodness, repentance, and virtue, and then immediately reserve the right to decide who "threatens liberty," who counts as an enemy, and who deserves to "meet their maker" early.

That is not a moral firewall.

That is moral discretion backed by power.

Every ideology that claims it cannot be weaponized always makes one exception: when we do it.

Christian texts have justified crusades, colonization, slavery, forced conversion, segregation, genocide, and empire.

Not because the words uniquely demanded it, but because power selected, interpreted, and enforced them.

The same mechanism you accuse others of using.

You say the Bible calls for virtue.

So do the Quran, the Torah, Buddhist sutras, Confucian ethics, Marx’s human emancipation, and Enlightenment liberalism.

Yet when violence emerges from Western actors, the ideology is treated as irrelevant or benign, and when violence emerges from Muslims, the ideology is treated as sufficient explanation.

That is the asymmetry.

You say, "Just don’t mistreat your enemies."

History says enemies are always defined by the powerful.

Native Americans were enemies of "liberty."

Vietnamese peasants were enemies of "freedom."

Iraqis were enemies of "security."

Palestinians are enemies of "self-defense."

In each case, the Bible was not blamed.

Liberalism was not blamed.

Christian civilization was not blamed.

Violence was contextualized.

Justified.

Normalized.

And that is precisely why claiming moral immunity for one tradition while essentializing another is not analysis.

It is narrative privilege.

You are allowed complexity.

Others are reduced to essence.

You are allowed self-defense.

Others are reduced to pathology.

You are allowed history, context, threat assessment, and proportionality.

Others are reduced to scripture.

That is not because one text is uniquely peaceful and another uniquely violent.

It is because one civilization controls the language, the media, the institutions, and the moral frame.

This is not about whether you personally believe in virtue.

It is about who gets to define violence as tragic necessity, and who is pre-labeled as barbarism.

And until that asymmetry is acknowledged, every invocation of goodness will continue to coexist comfortably with empire, war, surveillance, and collective punishment without ever having to name itself.

That is the category error.

[trying to make the economy work for us @JackM3cr]

The level of thought gone into this makes it a powerful piece of propaganda for a horrifying message. Clearly AI generated but a very specific set of prompts reflect a deeply held imaginary past. What do you notice about the people?

https://t.co/Fx6DL5QF7L

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

I think this is right up there with one of the best things
@NickFeik has ever written.

A must read.

👉 https://t.co/Vimsr7dZfV

*cough-former730host-cough*

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Don't worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong:

Try to imagine this utterly intolerable, dystopian future:

1. We reach a point where the corporations have grown so large and so fabulously rich that politicians can no longer afford to upset them by legislating to curb their power. The corporations are simply too big to fail.

2. In fact, politicians only pretend to be in charge of policy. Like other sectors of society, their services have effectively been bought by the corporations. Secretly, the politicians prioritise the interests of these corporations, and the billionaires who stand behind them, over the interests of the publics they are supposed to represent. Democracy serves as a facade behind which a kleptocratic class rules.

3. The corporations use their power to advance legislation allowing them to concentrate their wealth even further. They monopolise huge chunks of the economy, like a parasite feeding off the blood of its host. When they disastrously mismanage these monopolies, as they do intermittently, they lean on the political class – their servants – to bail them out with public monies.

4. The biggest profits are made from war, which is ever-present. The corporations use their politician-servants to manufacture enemies from which the public needs defending. This proves a great success. In a fear-driven society, the public is readier to tolerate austerity – the gradual dismantlement of public services, which the corporations can then take over and run as profit-generating enterprises.

The public are persuaded that the flow of money out of their own pockets into corporate coffers – into expanding the war machine – is necessary for national security. The public’s most cherished freedoms have to be sacrificed, they are told, to prevent society from growing weak and vulnerable. And the corporations vilify anyone who questions their power as an internal enemy, allied to the external enemy.

5. This grand deception works only because the billionaires also control the media, which serves their interests. The media tolerate limited dissent to give the public the feeling that there is a full plurality of voices. But anyone who really dissents – who challenges corporate power – is denounced by these very same media outlets as a crank, a socialist, an antisemite or a terrorist. Few hear their actual arguments, either because these labels are enough to justify denying them a platform or because the media corporations use their control over the algorithmic basis of modern communications to make sure dissent is secretly corralled into social media dead-ends.

6. As the rule of the corporations goes wrong ever more catastrophically – the resources needed for endless growth run out; the externalised costs of the corporations’ rape of the planet create ever more toxic waste-products and disturb the fragile equilibrium of the climate – the media’s role grows.

Its task is to distract the public with an endless diet of smaller crises that can be blamed on “enemies”, nature or chance, but never on the corporations themselves. Public energies are invested in worrying about – and arguing over – the threat from Eurasia and Eastasia, the dangers of terrorism, the menace posed by immigrants, the narcotics epidemic, health emergencies, unexpected “weather” events, the AI apocalypse, the hazards of free speech, and so on.

And while the public worries about these things, the corporations suck more money out of the economy, claiming it is needed to protect everyone from Eastasia today and Eurasia tomorrow. That new technologies must be developed to root out terrorism and to stop the boats. That a sophisticated war is being fought at home and abroad against the drugs barons. That a brave new world of medical breakthroughs is being engineered. That vital “green” technologies are being invested in and will save the day. That AI safeguards are being created. That more responsible ways to police speech are being devised.

All of this is a dark vision of one potential future. Most likely, it will not come to pass. Our societies are too robust, our freedoms too secure, the corporations too contained for this bleak world ever to emerge.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Israel’s ambassador to the UN calls Francesca Albanese ‘a witch’ for her report on Israel’s genocide against Gaza. Francesca responds virtually at the UN and puts him in his place.

[trying to make the economy work for us @JackM3cr]

@slantchev @afshinrattansi If u think economic sanctions 🟰US alone choosing not to buy, it is you who is unserious. The US has the capacity to freeze national assets ➕prevent all members of its strategic alliance from buying VNZ’s main export➕💵constant internal destabilisation strategies. Catastrophic.

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it
myself.
I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help:
Name the flavor or suggest ingredients
Or design the pint packaging
Tag @yobencohen, @MagnumGlobal use #JusticeforPalestine to submit
Use your voice when Ben & Jerry’s can’t — to secure peace, justice, and dignity in Palestine
#FreeBenandJerrys

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Huge news that Spain and Italy have sent navy boats to protect the Sumud flotilla - the world should support and join them protecting the flotilla in international waters

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

We need this globally. Enough is enough.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

You’re watching masked federal agents assault and disappear an American citizen into an unmarked van.

Her name is Amanda Trebach—an ICU nurse and a U.S. citizen.

She was lawfully participating in a community observation patrol near an ICE staging area, monitoring unmarked vans believed to be participating in immigration raids.

For that, she was kidnapped, thrown face-down, cuffed, and hauled off in an unmarked van.

If they can do this to a nurse on a public street, they can do it to you.

This is America under Trump.

[trying to make the economy work for us @JackM3cr]

It’s taken me too long to understand this but the two state solution is Zionist cover. There is no justification for a theocratic ethno-stare comprised of Europeans in the Fertile Crescent. This is a tactic to legitimise this genocidal colony.

[Nadine نادين @nadine_chemali]

Did they offer Mandela a two state solution for ending Apartheid?
Asking for a Palestine

[trying to make the economy work for us @JackM3cr]

@socialiststeve6 Violence, arrogance and the imperial core.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel is acting systematically and deliberately to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.

The “Our Genocide” report is based on documentation and research by Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis working together out of a shared moral commitment to human rights.

Genocide is the violent and deliberate destruction of a distinct group in whole or in part, or an attempt to destroy it, whether physically, socially or economically. It does not require the mass killing of all members of the group, but rather refers to any act committed as part of an intention to destroy the society and render its continued existence impossible.

Israel is inflicting a system of total destruction in Gaza:

– Mass killing of civilians
– Forced displacement of millions
– Destruction of homes and infrastructure
– Starvation as a weapon
– Bombing of hospitals and clinics
– Erasure of schools, universities, and cultural institutions
– Collapse of every civil system that sustains life

This is not “collateral damage.” It is the deliberate dismantling of a society.

Genocide is not only about what is done – it is about why it is done.
In Gaza, destruction is not limited to military targets, it is directed at Palestinian life itself. Civilians are killed because they are Palestinians. Children are starved because they are Palestinian. Homes are flattened not to win a battle, but to ensure that there is no life to return to.

The genocide in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation. It builds on decades of occupation, apartheid, and the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy laid the ideological and political groundwork for this moment, shifting from domination to erasure.

The horrific Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, accelerated a process already in motion and served as a catalytic moment in which the Israeli regime shifted from a system of violent control to overt genocide. The trauma suffered by Israeli society and fear it generated were instrumentalized by Israel’s extremist, far-right government to advance policies that key actors had long sought to implement. It provided the justification for every action undertaken by Israel in Gaza since. The language of vengeance and elimination became common in Israeli discourse, as explicitly declared by senior political and military officials.

The actions of the Israeli military in Gaza were not a deviation, but the direct and almost verbatim execution of those threats.

The same regime, commanders and army are also intensifying violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and within Israel. Across all of these areas, Palestinians face mounting violence, forced displacement and collective punishment. While the genocide is committed in Gaza, the appropriate trigger could cause it to spread rapidly to other areas controlled by Israel.

There is no mechanism in place to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians, who have been left with no protection.

This is genocide and it is happening now, in real time and in full view of the entire world. Genocide must be named, and everything must be done in order to stop it. There can be no justification or explanation for genocide.

Read the full report, “Our Genocide” >>
https://t.co/s6yp30kgmr

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

I have just posted this update on the Zionist legal action against me in the Federal Court, to supporters, via my Chuffed page: 🧵

On Tuesday 29 July our Strikeout application will be heard by Justice Stephen McDonald in the Federal Court in Adelaide. The hearing is expected to be live-streamed.

Since my last update there have been numerous developments. Justice Darryl Ranghia found Antoinette Lattouf was removed from her on air role because the ABC panicked due to a campaign of complaints ‘by the Israel Lobby’ (one of the things I am accused of is being a ‘conspiracy theorist’ because I believe there is such a thing as the ‘Israel Lobby’, and that it has influence).

Secondly, Justice Angus Stewart stated in his judgement (para107) in the matter of Wertheim V Haddad, that Zionism is an ideology or philosophy, and that criticism of Israel and Zionism, no matter how inflammatory or adversarial, is not antisemitic.

And in an encouraging sign for the Arts, Khaled Sabsabi was reinstated as Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale - for next year.

Meanwhile, Israel continues its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians it is starving, and proposes to herd them into a concentration camp until they ‘leave voluntarily’. U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned by Israel’s biggest supporter, the US, following her latest report setting out the economic sanctions that must be applied to Israel, warning of consequences for corporations and individuals who contribute to the genocide and ethnic cleansing in any way.

The Antisemitism Envoy Gillian Segal has presented the government with a shopping list of repressive measures ostensibly to contain growing antisemitism but for many critics including Louise Adler and Prof Ben Saul, aimed at suppressing speech and controlling the narrative, and fail to address the actual cause of any rise in antisemitism - the genocide and the failure of Zionist leaders to condemn it. It is extraordinary that we now have an antisemitism envoy with a voice to not only parliament, but any and every institution, yet an Indigenous voice to parliament had to be the subject of a failed referendum, despite continued shameful deaths in custody and high levels of incarceration of children.

Meanwhile the only person injured as a result of the Israel Palestine conflict here has been lawyer Hannah Thomas who was an observer at a peaceful rally. She may lose her site in one eye, apparently as a result of police brutality.

Very recently a new 18c case was filed against the University of Sydney and two academics there, John Keane, Professor of Politics, and Dr Nick Riemer, senior lecturer in the Dept of English. I expect the documents for that case to also become available on the Court’s public interest portal. And pianist Jayson Gillham’s case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will be heard in early December.

So far, spooked by the Israel Lobby, both Federal and State parliaments have failed to protect our freedoms, and a great number of our institutions are falling over themselves to classify innocuous words and symbols as harmful, and thus oppress the Palestinian community, many of who have lost family under rubble, with growing resentment among Australian citizens more generally, on the receiving end of authoritarian measures. Cont

[trying to make the economy work for us @JackM3cr]

@bridges_walls @lexkelandjun You are delulu if you think near two years of bombarding civilians, deliberate starvation, infants dying from orchestrated malnourishment, mass rapes, murdering journos doctors and aid recipients isn’t genocidal mass murder. Open your eyes.