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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

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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