Nicholas Anthony

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC They won in Tobruk because it was Australian soldiers, not the British

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.

Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.

Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.

I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.

I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.

Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.

Another, raped by 700 men over three years.

Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.

This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.

I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.

The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?

They can piss off.

I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.

Our report will be out very soon.

When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.

I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@MarcScottEmery @spencerpratt @OneNationAus plenty of material in Australia to use this type of advertising and strategy at the next election

[Australian Patriot. @JimThom90458694]

Fraser was still shouting orders after the blast. Stay back. More mines. Stay back.

Second Lieutenant John Fraser, 23, from Surfers Paradise, was lying in a minefield in the Long Hai Hills with wounds that would kill him. His men were running toward him. He told them to stop.

Hours earlier, on 24 March 1968, Fraser had been leading 9 Platoon, C Company, 3RAR, through the Hon Vung feature.

The jungle ridge was seeded with mines. The Viet Cong had buried M16 bounding mines along every approach. When triggered, the device launched one metre into the air and detonated at waist height, spraying steel in every direction.
Fraser stepped on one. He heard the fuze arm.

Standard doctrine said drop flat. But his men were too close. A bounding blast would cut through them at chest height. Fraser forced both feet together on top of the mine and drove his weight down.

The explosion tore through him. It knocked the men of 9 Platoon off their feet. But the mine never bounced. Fraser's body absorbed the force that was meant to kill at range.

Three soldiers nearby were wounded. All three survived.

Before he was a platoon commander, Johnny Fraser was a Gold Coast kid with a gap-toothed grin. He grew up on the Gold Coast Highway in Surfers Paradise, played First XV rugby at both Nudgee and The Southport School, and was selected for the Combined GPS First XV. He started medicine at the University of Queensland. Lasted one term.

Switched to a cadet role with an agricultural company.

When his birthday was drawn in the national service ballot, Fraser trained at Scheyville. Instructors noted his calm under pressure and natural authority.

His two-year obligation was nearly finished when 3RAR began preparing for Vietnam. He could have gone home. Instead, he applied to extend his service and deploy.

He sailed with the battalion to Vung Tau in December 1967, took command of 9 Platoon, and led his men in the 3RAR ballad, "There Won't be Many Coming Back." Gallows humour from men who knew the odds.

On 24 March, Fraser didn't come back.

He was evacuated by helicopter. He died before it reached Vung Tau. The radio message to battalion headquarters was short. Johnny Fraser was dead.

He is buried at Allambe Memorial Park in Nerang. A park 280 metres from his childhood home carries his name.

At The Southport School, the most respected rugby trophy is not awarded for tries scored. It goes to the best tackler, the player who puts his body on the line for the team. It is called the Lieutenant John Fraser Memorial Trophy.

His name is inscribed on Panel 5 of the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial.

Lest we forget

Rod Hutchings
Director
Virtual War Memorial Australia

Share to keep his story alive 👇🏽

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@Amelia558rs Nan

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@RossAndRussel
Nangiloc Colignan

A town in the Mallee, also can be read backwards

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@50YearsAgoLive @grok provide the text to this newspaper story

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@OMGTheMess @grok who was brigadier George mansford

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@PrometheanActn Great presentation, very informative

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING 🚨 The UK Government wants to ban 𝕏 in their country. Do NOT retweet this video of Elon exposing the UK for putting people in jail for posts

“Several Thousand people in the UK have been given prison sentences for social media posts”

WE HAVE YOUR BACK ELON MUSK

[Nova Peris OAM OLY @NovaPeris]

Cathy Wilcox — one word: ‘Pathetic’

We are not mindless drones.
We are independent, critical thinkers who love Australia 🇦🇺 Our Australia.

Many of us spoke publicly after this national tragedy out of a commitment to justice and a determination to confront terrorism, not excuse it.

To portray Australians from across professions who call for accountability as agents of Jews or Israel is vile, dehumanising, and deeply insulting to families who watched their loved ones & innocent people hunted with military-grade weapons by Islamist terrorists.

These families did not lose loved ones to a cartoon. They lost them to real violence. Real hatred. Real evil. Here. On our shores. At our iconic Bondi Beach.

This is how it has always begun.

With the lies. With mockery. With cartoons that strip Jews of humanity and agency, insinuating that Jewish suffering is exaggerated, manipulated, or politically manufactured.

This is the language of libels. And libels have always preceded pogroms.

For centuries, Jews were depicted as schemers and manipulators, as bribers, controllers, sub-human caricatures blamed even for their own deaths. These lies were never harmless. They created permission. And permission led to violence.

This cartoon sits squarely in that tradition.

It mocks the dead, grieving families, and Australians who stand up by portraying calls for accountability as obedience, corruption, and manipulation. Depicting supporters of a Royal Commission, including grieving families, next to a dog holding a sign ‘Dogs for RC’ being “rewarded” by unseen hand giving a bone is unmistakable dehumanisation. It’s sickening.

Mockery in the face of terror is not political insight. It is moral collapse.

History has seen this before. And it never ends well.

Do better for goodness sake and importantly for the safety and love of this great nation.

#RoyalCommission #Antisemitism #Terrorism #extremism #radicalislam

[Saul K @saulkavonic]

One of the most important articles yet on need for Bondi Royal Commission:

"We did not fight this threat overseas so Australia could manage failure at home" says former SAS Commander Quentin Masson. 

"For veterans, this is personal. Many of us spent our careers confronting extremist threats in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere to prevent exactly this outcome. 

When prevention fails and scrutiny is constrained, it inflicts the same moral injury identified by the recent Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide; the injury that occurs when those asked to defend national values see those values eroded by caution, process and institutional timidity."

"That royal commission identified patterns Australians should now recognise: warning signs identified but not acted on; responsibility fragmented across agencies; accountability mechanisms without real consequence; and affected communities left carrying unresolved doubt.

These are precisely the conditions under which extremism takes root and public confidence erodes.

Issues of national security, intelligence co-ordination, law enforcement preparedness, online radicalisation, social cohesion and the protection of vulnerable communities cannot be examined behind closed doors or within administratively convenient boundaries. They demand a process with the power to compel evidence, test assumptions, examine cross-agency failure and report publicly to the nation. Only a royal commission can do that."

Quentin Masson is managing director of Wandering Warriors and chairman of the Queensland Veterans Council. Quentin is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and former SAS squadron commander 
including command of an SAS Sabre Squadron as a major. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his leadership in Iraq.  

We didn’t fight foreign extremism to fail at home https://t.co/F4F6vHmTfh via @australian

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

Sick. The @smh and @theage have published a cartoon by @cathywilcox1 which advances the type of antisemitic imagery of Nazi era propaganda (example below) prior to the Holocaust. The Age has particular form here. A reminder that the late Bill Leak was hounded to death over a cartoon which was far less offensive than this.

This also completely undermines decent Australians who have spoken out against antisemitism and suggests they are actually being manipulated. Previously this sort of bile would be posted anonymously. The fact that this is so normal now is shocking.

Advertisers and subscribers should be spending their dollar elsewhere. Cathy Wilcox and whoever approved this owes an apology and their resignation.

[Nicholas Anthony @nicholasanthony]

@GemmaTognini @OMGTheMess @theage @smh @AlboMP This is profoundly reprehensible on multiple fronts. It represents one contributing factor to the ongoing annual decline of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

[Fusilier @firstfusilier]

He’s not fucking wrong is he? https://t.co/CHMIIoIbp6

[Jack Out The Back @JackOutTheBack]

Bondi showed how quickly Australians are blamed instead of told the truth.
Share this. Share your voice Australia

[John Anderson AC @JohnAndersonAC]

In this historical clip, @MelanieLatest provides a stark warning that the return of anti-semitism is not an isolated hatred but a symptom of a society losing its grip on reason, evidence, and moral restraint.