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Australian human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti has been noted for his statements about Israel and Gaza. Australian whistleblower seeks support. Over the weekend the Israeli army has continued its bombardment in North Gaza, blocked school children in Hebron and killed more children ( and families) is airstrikes. Al Jazeera continues to track IDF social media Continue reading »

Get a load of this: Trump’s just blurting out whatever comes into his head: Former President Donald J. Trump told supporters on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term during an end-of-campaign rally where he vented angrily about a spate of new public polls showing him losing ground to Vice President Kamala Harris and joked about reporters being shot at. The former president also described Democrats as a “demonic” party at the rally, at an airport in Lititz, Pa., his first of three swing-state stops planned for his second to last day on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump’s voice was audibly hoarse and his speech sluggish as he made unfounded claims about election interference. He praised himself for ditching his prepared remarks, saying it meant the “truth” could come out. “We had the best border, the safest border,” Mr. Trump said of his time in the White House. He said that the economy had been in good shape, before mentioning the chart he had been pointing to featuring immigration statistics when he was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pa., in July.

Some of you who aren’t on social media may not have heard about this since it’s getting zero coverage in the mainstream media. I suspect this is what the rumor everyone was talking about week or so ago was all about. In another time, it would be an earthquake but in this election I think they’ve decided that it’s just too much. The Daily Beast reports: Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump’s “closest friend” and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast. The convicted pedophile even boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express. Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author Michael Wolff in August 2017, two years before being found dead in his jail cell. Wolff was researching his bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury at the time.

Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist, Robert Kennedy JR, has promised to make tin foil hats mandatory for all Americans, should Trump win the Presidency. ”We can’t have good honest Americans walking around with their thoughts unprotected,” said Robert Kennedy Jr.... Read More ›

Considering what Obama, Biden, Walz and others have meant when they say that America might not survive another four years of Trump. “I think you have to look at what the definition of ‘survive’ is. You can put me on a breathing tube tonight, but it wouldn’t be surviving like I’m surviving now.  That’s the best way of putting the threat that I’ve heard from anyone. We might survive but we’ll never be the same. Clinton gave a wide ranging interview to CNN and it’s quite good: Over nearly three weeks straight of 10-hour days – which means he’s had a much more active schedule than Harris, Trump, Tim Walz, JD Vance, Joe Biden or Barack Obama – Clinton is adamant in his speeches about his unique perspective as the only person on the planet who’s done the job and personally knows both candidates on the ballot Tuesday. “You did pretty well when I was president, and I think I’m entitled to my opinion about who would be better,” he often says, his soft Southern accent now with a permanent rasp.

“Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face” The anti-fluoridation conspiracy theory is so old and crazy that Stanley Kubrick warned us about it in Dr. Strangelove (1964). For a half century it was THE political litmus test for nutjobs. RFK Jr is now trying to normalizing it.🙄 pic.twitter.com/ylpk4Kzm7r https://t.co/iPVCiS4ZEm — Sanho Tree (@SanhoTree) November 3, 2024 Anti-flouridation conspiracy theories were a staple of Bircher propaganda back in the day. It was so ubiquitous that Dr. Strangelove, 1964, mocked it in the greatest satire of the right ever made. Unfortunately, we are not living in a movie satire. Check this out: That would be just another crazy RFK rant except for this: He’s not backing down: The Republican Party continues to show itself to be completely spineless toadies. If Trump pulls out a win he will be seen as the unbeatable Colossus, a literal god, and they will do anything to please him. After all, they already are. It will only get worse.

[*sigh*] To paraphrase the Giant in Twin Peaks…”It is happening again.” What I’m referring to, of course, is life imitating the art of a certain 1964 film: The General elaborates further: General Jack D. Ripper : Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk… ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream. Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : [very nervous] Lord, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper : You know when fluoridation first began? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : I… no, no. I don’t, Jack. General Jack D. Ripper : Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works. Context? JICYMI: From my 2016 piece on Dr. Strangelove: “Mein fuehrer!

On the homepage and across two pages in the paper: Their headlines and story placement have been terrible this year. But they’ve come around here at the end with some great features on the stakes and the editorial board is not pulling any punches.

This is a US operation being carried out by Israel but with complete complicity by the United States and silence by Europe. We fought trillions of dollars worth of wars at the behest of the Israel Lobby, at the behest of Netanyahu. Netanyahu was the great cheerleader for the Iraq War. He was the great Continue reading »

Israel’s unholy policy trinity – destroy, kill, lie – has been underway for decades. But since October 2023 it has reached horrific levels. The horror of Israeli destruction, torture and slaughter is apparently taken for granted by Israeli citizens and by supporters in western countries, largely because telling lies as a feature of warfare is Continue reading »

Palestine’s problem is only partly expressed as a frustrated 2-State Solution; it might, more effectively be understood as a 2-Israel problem. The times are desperate, and the belief systems and politics that create them must be called out and described for what they are: preposterous. The poets make more sense of than most; Yeats, especially: Continue reading »

As we approach the end of election season in the USA and are faced with a very uncertain future, it’s worth commenting that democracy is dead. At least democracy as we understand it: the idea of having a vote which means having a say in how your country is run. This idea really is dead Continue reading »

Mr Shaoquett Moselmane, a popular politician amongst the Sydney’s multicultural community has been urged to nominate for the preselection for the federal seat of Barton recently vacated by Linda Burney. Community leaders have called on the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to endorse him. Announcing his willingness to do so, Mr Moselmane while addressing his supporters Continue reading »

Private schools have seized on an opportunity provided by an Amendment Bill before the Parliament to attempt to lock-in billions in Commonwealth over-funding for years to come. In a submission to a Senate inquiry on the Bill, Independent Schools Australia (ISA) has proposed that the current cap on Commonwealth funding be replaced by a floor. Continue reading »

The new Queensland Premier, David Crisafulli, has made some moderately progressive comments about climate and nuclear energy but they are, when considered in the context of the latest Zurich-Mandala Climate Risk Index, insignificant compared to the scale of the problems the State faces. For a start he has ruled out repealing the State’s ban on Continue reading »

With only days until the US Presidential election on 5 November and with polls calling the race 50:50. Michael Lester in discussion with Amelia Lester, Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy magazine, Washington DC, discuss what the conduct of the campaign tells us about the health of American democracy and the integrity of its electoral processes and Continue reading »

A long line has been drawn between two dots across what looks like a credibility chasm by Barnaby Joyce.  But his recent interesting Israel-China comparative analysis implicitly lends robust support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement directed against Israel. Continue reading »

A great surrogate speech: Some people just surprise you. She’s really good at this.

Michele Morrow argues her lack of formal education experiences is a plus in the race to oversee North Carolina’s public schools.

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Medan Piketty ser det ekonomiska systemet som en ojämlikhetsskapande faktor ser Waldenström marknaden som lösningen … Piketty och Waldenström är eniga om politikens, demokratins och utbildningens viktiga roll för den utveckling som skett mot ökad jämlikhet. Den stora skillnaden ser vi i inställningen till presenterade fakta. Waldenström säger att Pikettys analys är ”bitvis ideologisk”, men […]

Millionaire garbage and billionaire fools American politics look different with a little geographic perspective. 7News Melbourne has plenty of distance for it. I had to check to be sure this wasn’t an Australian version of SNL’s Weekend Update. Stuart Stevens says what we’ve all known about Donald Trump’s subcontracting the RNC’s GOTV operation to Elon Musk and PACs like America Pac, Turnout for America, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action and America First Works. The con man is being conned: One of the more amusing aspects of this campaign has been watching @elonmuskmake a fool of himself babbling on about a subject he is completely ignorant. The consultants he is paying to set up an “organization” are taking advantage of him like an 18 year old frat boy with $1,000 in a strip club. They tell him what he wants to hear, and he puts in more money. There is a view that Musk is not some genius, that he stumbled into making a fortune in PayPal (which was a stumble; read Peter Thiel’s biography, “The Contrarian”) and had a lot of ambition and passions and a high risk tolerance.

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People touched by the justice system worry about the plan’s call to scale up attacks on reform-minded prosecutors.

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