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  An internal report that Defence tried to keep secret highlights the high risks involved in growing a civilian workforce to maintain nuclear reactors for AUKUS submarines.

Secret Defence docs: we need a large civilian workforce for AUKUS nuclear submarine reactors

by Rex Patrick | Apr 26, 2024

 

Middle East

Belgium’s Development Minister Caroline Gennez said in a statement that 33-year-old Abdallah Nabhan and his seven-year-old son died after a bombardment by the Israeli army in the eastern part of the southern city of Rafah.

Nabhan, whose citizenship was not disclosed, worked for the Belgian Enabel agency, assisting small businesses.

Aid worker killed as Israel pounds Gaza’s north

April 25, 2024

New court documents reveal that ministers David Cameron and Kemi Badenoch authorised UK arms sales to Israel right after an airstrike killed three British charity workers in Gaza, writes James McEvoy.

UK Armed Israel Days After IDF Killed 3 UK Aid Workers

 

 

 “Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

UN rights chief demands international probe of mass graves near Gaza hospitals

By Jake Johnson Apr 26, 2024

 

Palestine Peoples Dispatch Protest

The Party for Socialism and Liberation wrote in a statement, “In an outrageous act of intimidation against peaceful protest, Columbia University administration is threatening to call for the National Guard to crack down on the student movement against the genocide in Gaza. It is even more outrageous that this comes nearly 54 years to the day since the infamous Kent State massacre. The student movement is exploding across the country in a historic wave of protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people. No amount of repression can stop it — Palestine will be free!”

Columbia University Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Evict Gaza Solidarity Encampment

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Rest-of-World Offers Trump Hush Money Payment So We Never Have to Hear That Whiny Fucking Voice Again

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“Israel’s flagrant disregard for international law is compounded by the failures of its allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed meted out in Gaza,” Amnesty Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said on Wednesday.

“Alongside Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, the growing number of armed conflicts, and massive human rights violations witnessed, for example, in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, the global rule-based order is at risk of decimation.”

Human rights face ‘most serious threat’ in decades

 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his federal government are using political capital, which they have a short supply of, escalating a fight with billionaire Elon Musk over censorship and free speech on […]

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s “free speech” battle with Elon Musk’s X could backfire badly

By Shane Dowling on April 25, 2024 • ( 10 Comments )

Texas State Troopers in Riot Gear Crack Down on UT Students' Gaza Protest 

 

Opinion

Put US Aid to Israel in an Escrow Account Until Human Rights Violations End

Fighting Fake News with REAL 25/4/24, Rossleigh, Pezzullo, ALP, India, & The ABC,

 

  The debate continues to rage over Elon Musk’s refusal to take down videos of the church stabbing from X. Musk claims freedom of speech, and the Government wants to censor the world.

Elon Musk vs Australia: will global content take-down orders do more harm than good?

by Dan Svantesson | Apr 24, 2024

Anyway, there’s heaps more strange things like Tony Abbott being Minister for Women or Peter Dutton having perfect eyesight until he lost his hair but there’s a limit to how much strangeness you can have in a day… It’s true: the communist Albanese government has imposed it and I read it on X!

 

Source: Why I’m Confused By Peter Dutton And Other Strange Things… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 On Monday night's episode of 7.30, former Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo admitted that he “made mistakes” and “let people down� ...

Mike Pezzullo sacked years too late: FLASHBACK 2023

Abul Rizvi

 

 The Albanese Government is funding a predicted mining boom that will have devastating consequences for the environment.

Albanese Government turning Australia into world's unsustainable mine

Sue Arnold

 

One wonders how the Australian mainstream media will react to the news that India, the so-called biggest democracy in th…

World’s biggest democracy expels ABC journalist but little noise in Australia

Media, Politics, World

By Sam Varghese

Apr 24, 2024

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 Free Market

Even in times of low official unemployment levels, the latest polling from the Freshwater Group (AFR 15 April 2024) shows that Labor’s primary vote has dropped to 31 per cent after just two years in government.

This is a crucial loss of 1.8 per cent in Labor’s support base or 2 per cent after preferences. Only Peter Dutton’s flat preferred prime ministerial ratings are keeping Labor two-party preferred vote at 50 per cent within the usual margin of error in all responsible polling.

 

Source: Political Futures: Prepare for the Onslaught from Professionalized Lobbyists – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

 Why does Bruce Lehrmann appear to be such a protected species? Rosemary Sorensen offers her analysis.

Uncovering the protection racket behind Bruce Lehrmann: Does he know too much?

News

The U.S. House on Saturday passed a bill including a prohibition on funding the agency, due to Israel's unsubstantiated claims that UNRWA employees have terrorism links.

'Damning' Independent Probe Finds Israel Has Yet to Provide Evidence Against UNRWA 

 

StoryApr 22, 2024

“Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank

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Michael West Media

Westy breaks down the biggest scams of the week including Bruce Lehrmann own goal, Peter Dutton’s homework, Richard Marles goes shopping while getting whipped by men in sandals

The Lions Den | Scam of the Week 

 

 The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) survey shows Australia rapidly recovering from the nine disastrous Coalition years, as Alan Austin reveals.

Australia's fiscal health under Labor reaffirmed in latest IMF rankings

Alan Austin

 

Apart from all the terrorist and non-terrorist attacks, there’s been a bit of chatter about the introduction of disinformation and misinformation laws. The concern has been that media companies and politicians are concerned that there’s a lot of incorrect stuff being posted on social media, and they feel that it’s their job to spread misinformation. Like when social media named the wrong person as the Bondi attacker and Channel 7 just assumed that it was correct and went with it. It was social media to blame and not Channel 7 who can’t be expected to have the resources to do a simple check when so much of their resourcing goes to getting important stories which cost a lot in terms of Thai massages and steak dinners…

Source: A Lot Has Happened While I’ve Been Away… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

 

  Newspoll 51–49 lead, unchanged from the previous Newspoll in late March.

  Essential poll: 48-46 Labor regains lead after Coalition blowout

 Morgan poll: 50.5–49.5 Coalition takes lead

 Albanese’s net approval was up one point to -6, while Peter Dutton’s net approval was steady at -15. Albanese led Dutton as better PM by 48–35 (48–34 in March).

 Other recent polls from Resolve, Freshwater and Morgan have Labor deteriorating, and it’s now close to even on two-party votes.

Labor maintains narrow Newspoll lead but drops in other polls

 

 Senator Tom Cotton Inciting a Repetition of Charlottesville

 Then voicing specific support for violence and inflicting pain on protesters, Cotton asserted, “If they glued their hands to a car or the pavement, well, probably pretty painful to have their skin ripped off, but I think that’s the way we’d handle it in Arkansas. And I would encourage most people anywhere that get stuck behind criminals like this, who are trying to block traffic, to take matters in their own hands.”

US senator recommends ripping skin off Gaza protesters

Michael F. Brown 20 April 2024

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Describing it as minor tweak to Australia’s citizenship requirements, Anthony Albanese says applicants will now need to provide evidence that they have launched a 30kg pole at a mass murderer in order to have their submissions processed.

“It’s a fairly straightforward requirement,” the PM told a press conference today.

“We’re simply asking people to answer some basic questions such as, ‘What is the meaning of ANZAC Day?’ ‘What is on the Commonwealth Coat of Arms?’ and ‘When was the last time you stopped a knife attack with a piece of street furniture?’ I don’t think that is too onerous”.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said the change was ridiculous, and suggested the Prime Minister had lost touch with the wants of Australia. He said citizenship should only be granted to people who had stopped knife attacks using a bollard while working as an au pair.

More to come.

New Citizenship Test Requires Applicants to Fend Off Knife Attack With Bollard

 

 

 Ramzy Baroud responds to revelations about The New York Times “guidance” on language about the Israeli mass slaughter in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7.

Cruelty of Language — the NYT’s Leaked Gaza Memo

 In Australia, during a tour of the Far East in 1974, Frank Sinatra appallingly referred to Aussie journalists as "pimps", "whores" and "fags".

Bill McAuley

When Ol' Blue Eyes saw red

 

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 The inflaming of race relations in New Zealand provides a basis for repudiating the “No” case made against The Voice.

NZ race relations provide clearer picture for Australia's Voice denial

Mark Christensen

Woolworths boss Brad Banducci says Australia’s complex and inflexible industrial relations system makes it nearly impossible to avoid paying senior executives their full salary entitlements.

Woolworths Blames ‘Complicated’ IR Laws for Accidentally Paying All of Their Senior Executives Correctly

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The cyclonic wind that whistled across the nation at 1:15pm last Monday was the exhalation of a thousand sighs of  

One might have thought this week’s careful, considered and comprehensive findings would give Albrechtsen, Reynolds and their torrid band of supporters pause for thought.

Let them read Justice Lee’s judgment, and then the bloody room, and leave Brittany Higgins the fuck alone.

Once more unto the den: Lehrmann cops a mauling

 Woolworths boss Brad Banducci says Australia’s complex and inflexible industrial relations system makes it nearly impossible to avoid paying senior executives their full salary entitlements.

Woolworths Blames ‘Complicated’ IR Laws for Accidentally Paying All of Their Senior Executives Correctly

 

 Wait times for elective surgery at public hospitals have blown out to the longest on record, prompting calls for ...

Elective surgery wait times longest on record

When I was in graduate school studying Economics decades ago there were two names that were most prominent: Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. It was the early 1970s, and revolution was still in the air, so Marx was more popular with students. For me it was simple. In Marx’s landmark Das Kapital (Capital) he showed how Capitalism contains the seeds of its own ruin, becoming increasingly monopolistic until declining profits result in system collapse. It seemed pretty obvious then, and seems even more obvious now.

As popular as Marx was among the students, he was largely ignored by the faculty, who were focused in various ways on making Capitalism work. There were two approaches to advancing this agenda, Monetarism – controlling the money supply, and Keynesianism, the use of taxation and government spending to stimulate the economy in recessions and depressions and slowing it down in times of rapid expansion. It is the art of balancing boom and bust. Keynes's renowned work The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money introduced his ideas in great detail.

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Predictions Of The Future

 

 9 October 2023, Gaza Strip. “It was as if flames were spewing from the jaws of Israeli tanks and the F-16 missiles, I took this picture from the 19th floor of a skyscraper in Gaza. In my 25-year career as a photographer, I never felt such fear and distress. I felt that I was filming a cinematic movie scene, I had to remind myself that it is all too real. I don’t have the words to describe this picture, but I know the terror I felt watching the flames lighting up Gaza in a night drowned in darkness with the electricity cut-offs on Gaza.”

Gaza’s Carnage Through the Eyes of Palestinian Photojournalists

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Israel and Iran are following the rules of the jungle, not the rule of law

 Norwegian physician and professor emeritus Mads Gilbert opens up about his decades-long experience working in the occupied Palestinian territories and how the current situation is — in terms of Israeli brutality against Palestinians — unlike any other he’s witnessed in an exclusive interview with TRT World Digital. He also reflects on his activist side, inviting viewers to consider our shared humanity and what is required on the part of the international community, however challenging, to end Israel’s genocidal assault against Gaza.

Palestine Talks | Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s “systematic strategy” to destroy Palestinians 

 

In this exclusive TRT World roundtable discussion featuring Israeli American activist and writer, Miko Peled, and Palestinian activist and professor Sami Al-Arian, who is the director of Center for Islam and Global Affairs based in Istanbul, Zionism is explored as a means of developing anti-Palestinian fear in its followers, a persecutory force against those who – in accordance with key moral principles and international law – stand up for the rights of Palestinians, and, finally, is embedded within American institutions of power. Drawing largely from their own lived experiences, including remarkable challenges in relation to Zionism they have had to overcome, Miko Peled, who eventually rejected his Zionist upbringing to become an unwavering and outspoken ally to the Palestinian people, and Sami Al-Arian, who was wrongly imprisoned in the United States after having been framed by Zionist supporters for aiding “terrorism”, speak to how pro-Palestinian solidarity, education and activism can upend Zionist oppression worldwide and lead to a future where both Palestinians and Israelis alike can actually live together – as equals.

Palestine Talks | An Anti-Zionist Roundtable with Miko Peled and Sami Al-Arian

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 The Senate Inquiry into supermarket pricing resulted in a showdown between Greens Senator Mick Nikim and Woolworse CEO Brad Bandouché.

Senate Inquiry into criminal gangs posing as supermarkets

Independent Australia

 

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Unlike the formation of Israel the US denies Palestine 

 The vote in the 15 member security council was 12 in favor, the US opposed and two abstentions, the UK and Switzerland… Without recognition of Palestine as a state it allows Israel to continue the brutal illegal occupation… They also believe it hands them a get out of jail free card to continue to assist the genocide of Palestinians…

The US has effectively stopped the UN from recognising a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to deny the Palestinian Authority full membership of the world body.

The US says an independent Palestinian state should be established through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and not through UN action.

US blocks Palestinian bid for full UN membership

 

Caitlin Johnstone on moves by U.S. authorities to shield the system from political fallout over the Assange case.

The U.S. provided the assurance against the death penalty (which they’d previously opposed doing), and for the free speech assurance they said only that Assange will be able to “raise and seek to rely upon” U.S. First Amendment rights, adding, “A decision as to the applicability of the First Amendment is exclusively within the purview of the U.S. Courts.”

Which is basically just saying “I mean, you’re welcome to TRY to have free speech protections?”

Assange Case Moves Forward as CIA Covers Its Tracks

 

 In other words, starvation has been effectively used by colonial powers to control populations, acquire land and the wealth that comes with that. This colonization was accompanied by an “entitlement approach” and the belief that Indigenous populations are inferior to the lives of the colonizer.

Colonialists have long used Starvation as a Tool of Oppression

 

Egypt is preparing for a possible Israeli ground attack on Rafah, an unnamed official told the UK-based, Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, adding that the operation was accepted “in exchange for not carrying out a large-scale attack against Iran.”

Israel’s next step still a mystery – media

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As Iran retaliates, Israel contemplates its response. Cool heads and calm reflection are needed as the Middle East spirals towards full-scale war.

Eve of destruction. Can war in the Middle East be avoided?

Middle East

 1) Israel will retaliate

 2) Occupy Gaza West Bank & East Jerusalem

 3) Will continue to "force transfer" by any means

Israel will make its own decisions, PM says

 The Federal Court finding that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, though a huge step forward, will not reverse years of victim bashing ...

Court finds Lehrmann raped Higgins, MSM: Sure, but did she object enough?

Michelle Pini

 

Finance 

The collective wealth of the top 10 per cent of households has soared 84 per cent during that time, from $2.8 million to $5.2 million.

‘Disturbing’ gap between haves and have-nots

 

Peter Dutton exposed the Liberal Party cover-up, to protect rapist Bruce Lehrmann, when he shot of his mouth supporting Senator Linda Reynolds on Tuesday (16/4/24). Dutton said rape survivor Brittany Higgins and […]

Peter Dutton exposes the Liberal Party cover-up protecting rapist Bruce Lehrmann

By Shane Dowling on April 18, 2024

Database Exposes 'Illicit Network Undermining Democracy Around the World'

Brett Wilkins

Apr 17, 2024

 

Opinion

If the US and UK Have Any Shame, They Will Welcome Palestine as a UN Member State