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“I admire what Liz Cambage said,” this Indigenous athlete says, “but
it is easier for her, from America, where she is surrounded by famous
black athletes, and a strong movement for black people. Here, we are
nearly invisible, have no mention in the Constitution, and are not
recognised in a mostly white world. If I said what she said, from here, I
would be torn apart by mainstream and social media , and it is not just
worth it.”
This athlete also points out that while we have indeed had many wonderful Indigenous and POC Olympians – 52 to be precise – they are underrepresented in the Sporting Hall of Fame.
Embarrassing Facts
Cathy Freeman is there, but that’s it. Where is Nova Peris, who represented Australian in not one, but two Olympics sports – hockey and athletics – and was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal? And why is Patrick Johnson not there, the only Australia to have run a sub 10 second 100 metre sprint! Nor is Kyle Vander-Kuyp there, who made the Olympic hurdles final and is still the Australian record holder. Wider than the Olympics, there are some 570 inductees in the Hall of Fame, yet only six Indigenous athletes – which is 1.05 per cent, against the 4 per cent of the population who identify as Indigenous.
“It’s not that we’re not good enough to be in there,” my caller said, “we’re simply overlooked.”
Source: ‘We’re overlooked’: Why aren’t some of our best athletes in the Sporting Hall of Fame?
India and Russia show what happens when authoritarians deny reality. The Trumpists would have the US follow suit
It warms Trumpster hearts even more to call this a war. If only Trump could have done the same domestically in America. However, Biden certainly isn't pissed off either and supports Netanyahu's fake narrative of keeping Israel safe. It's a common theme among right-wing authoritarians. Even Scott Morrison does it. Meanwhile when it comes to Jews around the world they are ashamed.
Multiple US commentators have been celebrating the Israeli bombing of an international media tower that houses offices for AP, the BBC, and Al Jazeera.
May 15, 2021 15:58
After videos were published on social media showing the destruction of the building by Israeli missiles, people from around the world – including many journalists – condemned the bombing, calling it terrorism, a war crime, and an attack against the free press.
Several high-profile conservative commentators in the United States, however, mocked the bombing and expressed their support.
“Looks like the IDF took out Hamas’s PR team,” reacted television commentator John Cardillo, who was recently a host at Newsmax TV, while conservative journalist David Reaboi also celebrated the bombing.
‘Warms your heart to see’: American conservatives celebrate Israeli bombing of AP & Al Jazeera offices
FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED
THE MUSEUM WHERE TRUTH DIED
The Australian Museum claims
it’s putting on the most important show in its 194-year history. And
it’s right: This proves that truth is now officially dead.
That is a huge deal for a museum.
On Saturday, the Australian Museum will open Unsettled, an exhibition about the “devastation” of colonisation that it says “illuminates the power of truth-telling”.
But truth-telling is the last thing to now expect in a museum we funded for generations to promote it.
THE ABC OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
In all wars, truth is the first casualty. And with missiles now falling on Jerusalem we’re reminded truth dies fastest when it’s Israel under attack.
Again we get that media script. Palestinians must be the victim. Israel must be the aggressor, even when hundreds of rockets are again fired into it.
And the truth can’t get in the way of that narrative.
Let me demonstrate by going through the tweets of the ABC’s Middle East correspondent, Tom Joyner. Consider this a too-typical case.
Hundreds of hand made rockets many not even reaching Israel most landing in the south vs a 21rst century military force with the highest grade technical weaponry. It's a David and Goliath story that Andrew Bolt likes to believe but it's in reverse. Making out Israel is the victim defending itself is bullshit. There is no war when fire works and rocks are up against the IDF tanks and airforce. The numbers killed over 30% children alone and a considerable number of women in Gaza were the victims of precision bombing. Is it really precision when thousands wounded in the ghetto deprived of hospitals medical equipment medicines? In a prison camp riddled with Covid all it's people imprisoned by Israel's walls, barbwire and from which there is no escape out or aid let in. How Hitler of a State that experience should have taught them better but whose PM is saying "we are achieving what we have set out to do"
Israel knows it's losing the PR war so it blew up the offices of the International media to ensure their narrative is the only one to get out and of course with the help of Murdoch media. One only needs to follow the timeline on how this Israeli aggression escalated. Why civil war has taken place in Israel itself as a response to what occurred and began weeks ago at the hands of Israeli settlers and police preventing prayers to be held at the al-Asqa Mosque, and the forced colonization by right-wing settlers taking over Palestinian property in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district and Palestinian enclave. Facts Andrew Bolt conveniently ignores just as he does Australian history.
The fact is Jews and Palestinians around the world are demonstrating together against the Israeli State's harsh actions conducted for the purpose of Netanyahu staying out of jail and continuation of his leadership. That hasn't been certain because he hasn't been able form a majority government. So he's doing what Trump wished he could creating fear and chaos in a very fragile democracy.
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