Fighting Fake News with REAL, 21/4/24, Lehrmann, The Shovel, Elective Surgery, Predictions, Gaza Photojournalists, Israel & Iran, Palestine Systematic strategy, Miko Peled,

 

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