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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 22:00

They found one another. Of course they did. It doesn’t matter how. Fate finds a way.

I see some of them sunglass-faced sitting outside of cafés laughing over espressos, playfully touching elbows. I know they’re whispering about me after they make love—two heads on one pillow, tracing the chin of the other.

Another two pair up, vacation across Italy together, and pose for pics in front of beautiful sunsets and seas stretching into horizons. They look so happy because they are. Of course they are. Why wouldn’t they be? They have nothing in common but me—and that’s all the bond they seem to need.

A couple of my exes find another couple of my exes and double-date. Those four find another four, those eight another eight. This goes on—a big bang of sorts, a chain reaction. My multiple pasts expand exponentially into a future, coalescing. The gravity sinks in. There are larger dinner parties, planned camping trips. They meet parents, exchange holiday gifts, celebrate birthdays.

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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 20:18
The Revival Of Anti-Semitism By Israel And Its Defenders

Anti-semitism has been over-stated and used as a political weapon for generations now. It became beyond the pale after World War II and has stayed that way in the West and America. This isn’t to say there weren’t anti-semites, but they were powerless and damn near meaningless.

But that is changing, and it is going to keep changing. The problem is the constant use of the charge of anti-semitism itself to ward of criticisms of mass-murder, child killing, and other crimes by Israel in Palestine.

Israel wraps itself in the cloak of “we are Jews” to justify its crimes.

The distinction between Israeli, Zionist and Jewish isn’t being blurred most dangerously by Israel’s enemies, but by Israel itself.

And the intellectual propaganda is making it worse.

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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 19:40
Something that’s bothered me for a while is the relationship between politics and friendship. Not just close friendship but also people who you are happy to hang out with socially. Some topics – I’d include Brexit, trans rights and Israel/Palestine – are especially divisive in that people who disagree on these seem to find it […]
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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 15:50

KEEPING the doors open is the driving aim of the Upper Orara Hall committee who maintain and manage the historic 116-year-old building. A morning tea last Thursday saw committee members celebrating the installation of a new water tank with Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh, thanks to a $10,980 Regional NSW Community Grant. Advertise with...

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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 15:35

A WOOLGOOLGA property with a long history of unpaid rates and charges to the City of Coffs Harbour was sold at auction on Friday. The hammer came down for the four-bedroom two-bathroom property at $555,000. Around 70 properties were slated for the auction at the Hub2 at South Coffs Harbour, however all but one were...

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Thu, 30/05/2024 - 09:00
Newsmax host Todd Starnes wants Trump to make a run for the border: Here’s Trump sputtering today: Maybe his lawyers didn’t tell him that they had he ability to call witnesses too? The jury asked for Pecker testimony to be read back to them today. The consensus among the legal beagles is that the prosecution is likely happy about that since it means they are looking at corroboration of Cohen’s testimony. We don’t know but it’s likely that Trump isn’t going to sleep well tonight.