Wednesday 9 November 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 9/11/22, Who Israel supports, Australia's leading Climate Denier, Pussy Riot, Abbott the reluctant Warrior,

 

 

"I Voted" stickers cover a table at a polling station (LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s unclear whether the “Red Wave” the Republicans have been talking about since early 2022 will eventually materialize, but one thing is certain: Something is happening in early voting and it’s helping the Democrats.

Source: Democratic early voting trounces GOP in three states — analysts see something “different” | Salon.com

 

Israel is hardly Jewish

AIPAC and Jewish Republicans are a puzzlement. They are financially supporting over 100 racists, climate deniers and election deniers running for Congress, because they express unqualified support for Israel’s occupation, expansionist settlements and denial of Palestinian human rights. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of the more powerful lobbies in the country, has targeted progressive Jewish candidates such as California’s Sara Jacobs for unseating. How can such smart people become so deeply invested in causes and candidates destructive to our interests as Jews and Americans? As Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) has pointed out, AIPAC itself is a sort of “hate group,” which uses charges of anti-Semitism as a campaign tool, while fueling anti-Semitism by its ugly tactics at the same time.

Source: Why is the Major Israel Lobby supporting over 100 Antisemitic Racists, Climate Deniers and election Denialists for Congress?

 

Yes, Murdoch is heavily invested in Fossil Fuels and is on the board of Genie Oil. Exploring for black gold illegally in the Israeli occupied territory fo Syrial https://michaelwest.com.au/compromised-genie-energy-and-the-murdoch-medias-climate-denial/

The UN has issued a dire warning at the start of COP27 that our world is speeding down a “highway to climate hell”.

Australia is prone to devastating natural disasters, from the current flooding to the recent Black Summer bushfires. In this article from 2019, Dr Norm Sanders examined how the Murdoch media is fuelling the flames of climate change denial.

Source: Rupert Murdoch is leading Australia to climate ruin: FLASHBACK 2019

Pussy Riot perform at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London on 6 November 2022.

Last night I saw Pussy Riot, on the London leg of their Riot Days European tour to raise money for a children’s hospital in Ukraine. Their producer, Alexander Cheparukhin, came on stage to introduce them. I guess he was about my age, I couldn’t be precise because I didn’t have my glasses. He vibed the sort of age, where you can’t see things without glasses. He described how he met Maria Alyokhina (who also goes by Masha Alekhina), one of the founding members of the band who was first imprisoned in 2012 and then under constant surveillance, harassment, house arrest, arrest-arrest and persecution, until she escaped from Russia to Iceland earlier this year. When her sentence was handed down 10 years ago, he said, it was the first time in his life he had witnessed the political imprisonment of artists.

Source: I saw the magnificent Pussy Riot last night. If only the world had listened to what they were saying a decade ago | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

 

 The speech by the great political 'divider' spruiked a universal " compulsory call up" for school leavers at the heartland of Australian conservatism the IPA. Abbott who has never done National Service himself and who made court appearances for vandalism when he was a youth claims going to war and dying for ones country as being an exercise in  cohesion. We saw just how unifying he was when leader of the opposition and PM.
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Tony Abbott proposes national service for school-leavers. ( National Times )
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for a return of national service for…

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