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[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@OldeWorldOrder @Rightanglenews Have you forgotten the knife wielding madman at Bondi Junction was taken down by a policewomen?

[Crikey @crikey_news]

The latest nuclear reactor to start in the United States has seen consumers whacked with big price increases. That's why it will probably be the last, writes @bernardkeane and Glenn Dyer. https://t.co/qghGMxSpLJ

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing “we will annihilate everyone” in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives.

Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble by Israeli forces.

Israel propaganda looks like the Israeli president waving around an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf and claiming it was found in a child’s room in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like all the top western and Israeli human rights institutions declaring that Israel is an apartheid state.

Israel propaganda looks like posting cutesy pictures of female IDF troops and saying “when you’re mean to Israel this is who you’re being mean to”.

Palestine propaganda looks like statistics showing that Israel is mostly killing women and children in Gaza.

Israel propaganda looks like Israel releasing what it claims are audio clips of intercepted Hamas communications in an effort to exonerate itself from accusations of war crimes, after claiming that its intelligence services had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7.

Palestine propaganda looks like a UN special rapporteur explaining that it is inherently illegal under international law for Israel to be bombing Gaza at all.

Israel propaganda looks like the IDF publishing a computer-generated video of a multi-level Hamas command headquarters underneath Al-Shifa Hospital.

Palestine propaganda looks like humanitarian organizations saying Israel has been bombing hospitals throughout Gaza and shooting patients through hospital windows.

Israel propaganda looks like an IDF soldier pointing to a normal calendar with the days of the week in Arabic at Al-Shifa Hospital and falsely claiming it was a shift schedule for Hamas kidnappers.

Palestine propaganda looks like social media accounts dedicating themselves to keeping a running tally of the thousands of children who are being killed by Israel.

Israel propaganda looks like the Israeli government sharing a bogus video of a woman falsely posing as an Al-Shifa Hospital nurse condemning Hamas for their presence there.

Palestine propaganda looks like Palestinian journalists working tirelessly to document Israel’s mass atrocities in Gaza while being murdered one by one by the Israeli war machine.

Israel propaganda looks like the Israeli government repeatedly posting things on social media that it then has to delete after people highlight the falsehoods and/or accidental confessions that they contain.

Palestine propaganda looks like Palestinians recording the suffering, displacement, death and dismemberment of their fellow Palestinians in real time.

Israel propaganda looks like screaming at people who oppose the ongoing massacres in Gaza, and accusing anyone who criticizes Israel’s actions of being an anti-semite and a terrorism supporter.

Palestine propaganda looks like saying true things and sharing factual evidence.

It’s not hard to see who’s in the wrong here.

[Dov Ben-Shimon @DovBenShimon]

Warning: extremely difficult text to read below.

Last night I surrendered my phone and signed a waiver. And then I sat with a small group and an Israeli military attaché and we watched the 45 minute compilation of Hamas videos from October 7th.

1/12

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The appalling images & accounts of what innocent Israelis suffered on Oct7 are utterly heartbreaking.
And so are the appalling images & accounts of what innocent Palestinians have suffered since then.
If you disagree with any part of this, you have no humanity or moral compass.

[björk @bjork]

is this what you call sharing ?

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

A small reminder.

#CeasefireForGazaNOW #FreePalestine

[Peter Botsman @PeterBotsman]

The Ugly Australian*

Australians are apt to think themselves better than Americans or Brits: frendlier, more informal, egalitarian, more worldy than most insular "septic tanks" and less class bound than "poms".

After October 14, 2023 the lie is exposed.

The 1958 novel The Ugly American was about the innate arrogance of American diplomats in South East Asia and their failure to understand local culture in the context of the Vietnam war.

After the 2023 Australian Referendum we can now talk about the Ugly Australian. The Ugly Australian is someone who suggests:

- people are people no matter what the colour of their skin/but knows no-one but their own insular mainstream Australian family group

- Aboriginal people should not see themselves as victims/without reflecting on their own relative wealth and affluence and where it came from.

- Aboriginal people should just get a job and live like everyone else/total ignorance of the cultural differences and unwillingness of many first nations people to assimilate into what they consider a destructive economy and society

- 'real' Aboriginal people did not really want “the voice”/this fabrication reflects a long tradition of listening to Aboriginal people who say only what the mainstream society wants them to say.

- Australia should not be divided on racial lines/complete ignorance of the massive inequality and racial division that exists in Australia

- Spiritual connections with Aboriginal people were more profound than ‘political connections’/again this is a construction of acceptable Aboriginal people and beliefs that do not threaten the status quo

- Constitutional change was permanent and might cause harm over a long time/exhibits complete ignorance about the nature of the founding Commonwealth document written by white misogynistic horse and buggy era colonialists which in itself is damaging and destructive.

- Politicians of all persuasions cannot be trusted/while believing the worst racist, fear mongering populists and just being lazy about learning anything about civil society and its functions.

- People are people no matter what race or colour and should not be treated differently/this is again just another sop for a status quo in which White and mainstream Australia lives supreme.

- The Uluru Statement of the Heart was not a true reflection of the deep spiritual sovereignty of Aboriginal people/ this once again cherry picks Aboriginal people who mainstream Australians want to hear as against those they dont.

- “The voice” would be another welfare rort for grifters, bludgers and elites that wouldnt do any good/blatent lie that in fact protects the many mainstream Australians who benefit from what is called the Aboriginal industry, the voice would have reformed and brought accountability to the “Aboriginal industry”

- Recognising Aboriginal people symbolically was safer than allowing them to question the nation’s government and politicians/ another indicator of laziness and mainstream Australian protection of their own insular culture and lifestyle

- The voice would be a permanent place for Aboriginal people to complain and not take responsibility for their own issues/again just a fabrication the opposite was the case

- Aboriginal people just need to connect back to their roots and their own spiritual needs/plain hypocrisy when most Australians have no connections to land other than to benefit from its exploitation and abuse

- the Aboriginal world and the world of politics and government should not be mixed up with one another/this is just another rationale for assimilation and for not being “different”

- Like lock-downs and vaccination the voice was just another exercise in big government that would take away every one, including Aboriginal peoples’ freedom/in fact it was a product of a process of deliberative democracy in which Aboriginal leaders wanted to take responsiblity for cleaning up welfare and government spending in their own communities.

- The best way to help Aboriginal people was to police their communities and stop child abuse, violence against women and bludging/this is short hand for police state, apartheid, justification for the extreme levels of Aboriginal incarceration.

- Welfare and sit down money is the main reason for Aboriginal people’s problems they should just work and earn a living like everyone else/Aboriginal Australians have their own culture, economy and society, welfare or market capitalism, expresses that reality.

- voting no in the 2023 referendum was not about racism or guilt, it was just common sense, only politicians, academics and bleeding hearts supported the voice and they were a cancer on our society. They did not have a practical bone in their body/In fact the no vote was impractical and unwise. It sets Australia on a more confrontational, rights based, courts based process to determine how Aboriginal and mainstream Australians live alongside one another. This now seems to be the main pathway to ensuring that the 97 per cent of new Australians respect the rights, culture and society of the first peoples of Australia.

- the ugly Australian like the ugly American of the 1950s has no concept of how he/she is viewed by the world and by anyone other than an insular peer group of like minded people of limited culture and intelligence. Social media confounds this issue.

4 November, 2023

*feel free to tighten this up and share

#October14nomorelies

#thetruthwillsetyoufree
#TheShadowofNo
#theenlightenednovoter?
#questionsafterthereferendum
#theabc
#October14
#theygolowwegohigher
#theuglyAustralian

[Satbir singh @kukasingh1]

@POTUS It’s right to stand in solidarity against Hamas but also stand with Palestinian people also.

[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@crikey_news @jasemurphy Parking restrictions would be a good start. They're too wide to park in a "normal" car park or on-street parking space.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

The reason malignant narcissistic psychopaths like Scott Morrison see no harm in their lies is they honestly believe their wishes and personal interpretations of events are so much more important than anyone else’s that their version is more truthful than the truth.

He seriously sees nothing wrong with his behaviour and never will.

Donald Trump is just the same.

And so is Rupert Murdoch.

This is why all people like this have to be removed from any situation where they’ve any power over other people’s lives.

They cannot be reformed, fixed or helped.

Sack them, deride them, lock them up, take away their power by hurting their income, expose them, and/or fire them into the fucking sun.

It’s our collective choice, and the future of humanity is at stake.

Who’s in?

#NewsCorpse
#ScottMorrisonIsALiar
#TrumpForPrison

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Bill Shorten was consigned to the scrap heap

His crime: grossly overestimating Australians.

He wanted to do good things. Turned out voters didn't want things that were good for them. They rejected the offer & punished the man who tried to give it to them.

I'll never understand

[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@RhondaGarad The Sustainable Australia party has a lot to offer young people.

[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@WillKingston Most jobs have qualifications. If you don't qualify, you don't get to do that job.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The world just had its hottest day ever. On the same day, Labor approved a new thermal coal mine.

Climate change is here, and Labor needs to start taking it seriously.

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Extraordinary.

[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@dbyrd000 @griffiths_rj @MikeHudema Does this graph take into account the improvement in the latest fire fighting ability? Satellite imagery, planes and helicopters dumping fire retardantchemicals, highly trained and well equipped fire-fighters, advanced warning capabilities, and lots more. No, didn't think so.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

How to recognise 15 common cloud formations:

[Ruth @somewhereinaus]

@JonathanPieNews He's a slice short of a pizza 😉