.@MaxBlumenthal has a message for Zionists. pic.twitter.com/FtwxUsEYc2
— ScheerPost.com (@scheer_post) March 23, 2024
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Max Blumenthal: baby-killing Israelis are not fellow humans
Canadian parliament votes against sending more weapons to Israel
Prohibit neural networks from breaching copyright and privacy
Petition asks Oz Gov to prevent apps from illegally listening
This petition was recorded in Australian Hansard 18 March 2024.
Personal Information and Privacy
It's been proven that Google and other streaming services use microphone app on devices to listen to what people say .this
needs to stop.
We therefore ask the House to investigate why apps like google and others are breaking Australia law by illegally listening
to your conversation while using device
from 18 citizens (Petition No. EN5706)
Petition - Prominence Framework for Connected Television Devices
The petition below appeared in the Australian Parliament Hansard dated 18 March 2024.
Free-to-Air Broadcasting
The Prominence Framework for Connected Television Devices is a transparent attempt to ensure that the government's
propaganda outlets, the ABC and SBS, will receive speical priority on smart TV devices. The people of Australia have been
propagandised enough over the last four years, during the so-called pandemic and Voice referendum campaign. We don't want
any more. Perhaps the reason "local content" is struggling to find an audience is because people are tired of it; it's not providing
what they want. The very notion is Orwellian in its intrusiveness. I don't want the government having a node in my home.
We therefore ask the House to reject any prominence framework legislation put before it.
from 15 citizens (Petition No. EN5646)
Peace demos -Melbourne & Nationwide 16 March
That young person may have
Double-sided A5 Palestine leaflets printed from A4 landscape PDF
The following was posted to the Canberra Conversations Facebook Group
The article, linked to below, has been adapted from a double-sided A5 leaflet,[1] which I handed out during the Melbourne protest for Palestine (now yesterday) on Sunday 18 February. The protest started at 12:00pm outside the State Library. After about 1 hour of speeches, the protest proceeded through the streets of the Melbourne CBD ending up outside Flinders Street Station. I believe I managed to hand out around 150 leaflets to protest participants and another 300 to other members of the public, who were, themselves, not participating in the protest, but were in close proximity to the march. The latter was the main intended target as the protestors would have already been aware of much that was in the leaflet.
Please feel most welcome to produce leaflets from this PDF file https://candobetter.net/files/endAustraliasSupportForGenocide_18feb24.pdf which is attached to the article below or any other PDF files that you may find on my web-site at https://candbetter.net if you think you may be able to put them to good use.
Footnote[s]
[1] I have formed the habit of using Officeworks to print leaflets. If you look at the PDF File, you will notice that it consists of two identical landscape A4 pages. On each A4 landscape page are two A5 portrait A5 pages, the first being the front of a double-sided A5 leaflet and the second being the back of the same leaflet. It costs 10c per side. So each double-sided A4 sheet costs 20c to print. After the A4 sheets are guillotined into A5 sheets (for a charge of $1 for up to 200 A4 sheets, I think or $2 for more), each double-sided A5 leaflet costs marginally more than 10c. Whilst it is a challenge to put sufficient information on an A5 sheet, I find that A5 leaflets are easier to hand out than A4 leaflets.
Update: have spoken to staff of Parliamentary Assange supporters
Yesterday, on Monday 11 February, at around 3:30PM, I spoke to members of staff at all four Parliamentarians who will be speaking to both tomorrow's 10:30am Press Conference for Julian Assange and at the protest on the lawns of Parliament House. All acknowledged that they had received my email. Each said that he/she would draw the attention of the Parliamentarian he/she respectively works for to that email.
Hopefully my email will have been read, or will be read by Josh Wilson, Bridget Archer, Andrew Wilkie and David Shoebridge and that they will all understand my point that, no matter how well tomorrow's press conference and rally goes, unless they attempt to put to Parliament the motion which calls upon the Government to act effectively to end the illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange, it will be much harder for them to hold this Government to account for its likely continuing failure to do so.
Even were the necessary procedural motion to suspend Standing Orders to be lost, if this time, Assange supporters were to call for a division, then it will be possible for us to know the name of each MP who used his/her vote to prevent debate. It will then be possible to hold each of them to account for having prevented the voices, of those Australians who want the government to act effectively in support of Julian Assange, from having been heard in our Parliament.
Should the motion be put, then it is highly unlikely that those opposed could win the debate, even should a majority subsequently vote against the motion.
All the pertinent facts about the monstrous treatment of Julian Assange by the Swedish, UK and US governments since June 2012 and how Assange could be freed today were the Government to choose to act would finally be put on record on Hansard. Also, on record, there would be whatever 'justification' for its inaction the Australian Government would try to put to Parliament. With the knowledge gained from this, I think very few members of the Australian public would judge the conduct of their government towards Julian Assange as conscionable.
See why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer
[CDB Editor: Whilst we welcome political comments calling attention to the utter injustice, the lies and horror currently being inflicted on Gaza, Candobetter has had to edit this comment brutally for a number of reasons. The comment does not distinguish between Zionists and Jews in general. Since there are many Jews who have dissociated themselves from Zionist massacres of Palestinians, to lump them together could be inferred as racist, which is illegal in Australia. The comment makes claims about Jacob Rothschild which, whilst probably partly true, are not verified. But Rothschild died on 26 February 2024 and, since he is dead, he cannot be defamed. This comment must have been posted shortly before he died. He has children who survive him, however, who could be defamed by inaccurate information. For instance, the comment alleges that the Rothschild family backed both sides of every war since Napoleon. There had to be some they missed out on, even if that were basically true - but the comment lacks documentation.]
How many Palestinians have been killed by Israel? More than 15,900 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 -Palestinian health minister. [Candobetter Ed. Now over 30,000.] Ramallah, West Bank, Dec 5 (Reuters) - More than 15,900 Palestinians, including 250 health workers, have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of war on Oct. 7, see why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer money 1- Because the God of Money of our World is a Jew who lives in Israel. [Links to picture of Jacob Rothschild, estimating his fortune at 500 trillion dollars, but we cannot verify this. Also asserting that the Rothschild family financed both sides of every war since Napoleon. Does not document this assertion, which seems unlikely to apply to every war in the world.] For more details, click on the following link. https://mega.nz/file/FqhzGKbB#bsX4PD-O59HEA0-rynD29xkk47dmddycY5CjZfoDLYg 2- Because https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555.
See how innocent children are killed by the most powerful Israeli using American bombs at Al Jazeera Arabic Live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo
If you do not do something such as going on the street and telling your government which is [strongly supportive of Zionism] to stop killing the Gaza people and stop the Israeli War and send food to the starving people of Gaza.
If you can not do it then forward this message [to people who will], so that the world will know [about] the new mass murderers of the world. It is ironic that [some] Holocaust [survivors] are creating a new Holocaust against the Philistines in Gaza. [Philistine is similar to an ancient name for some of the inhabitants of the area known as Palestine and the Old Testament described Goliath in David and Goliath as a Philistine]
If you do not do this also then you do not have a HEART.
[CDB Editor: As most readers would realise, Candobetter has often published articles supportive of Palestine and condemning what is happening in Gaza. James Sinnamon has frequently published leaflets on this site to be handed out at pro-Palestinian rallies.]
Oliver Stone asks for action to support Julian Assange
Oliver Stone calls attention to protests in London and globally on February 20-21 as Julian Assange's final UK court hearing nears
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 12, 2024
"He's one of us, he's more than that - he is the collective us - if he goes down a part of each one of us goes down" #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/Kxamf84QLY
US self-defence-claim wrong since it illegally occupies Iraq
Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/download/117317/129039/141159/?url=
Phil Taylor comments on the US excuse that it acted in self-defence when it recently bombed 85 targets in Syria and Iraq, killing about 30 people, causing extensive property damage, and destroying a 1200-year-old archeological site. Self-defence is not a defensible argument when your troops are illegally occupying the territory of sovereign governments. The US should get out of Syria and Iraq now!
To Parliamentary supporters: please put motion for Assange
I sent the following e-mail to four Parliamentary supporters of Julian Assange early in the morning of Monday 12 February, the day on which the House of Representatives resumes sitting :
Dear Andrew Wilikie, Bridget Archer, Josh Wilson and Adam Bandt,
Firstly, can I congratulate all four of you for having organised that protest and press conference at 10:30am this coming Tuesday 13 February outside of Parliament House in support of Julian Assange? Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it up there from Melbourne on that day.
As I wrote in an article about the the planned protest on my website (which which was adapted to become a PDF file for a a leaflet of which I have already distributed 400 copies), I welcome the fact that, contrary to what even a number of supporters of Julian Assange seem to believe, your publicity for the protest makes it clear that you believe that the Albanese government could make the UK government end the illegal imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange today, if it chose to.
But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has chosen not to act to end that illegal imprisonment. By not doing so, he has failed to uphold his basic duty of care towards an Australian citizen. For this, he and his government must be held to account before the Australian public who overwhelmingly want to see Julian Assange freed.
Whilst I think the planned protest and press conference are a fantastic and positive initiative for the campaign to free Julian Assange, unless motions, which demand that the Albanese government act to free Assange, are not also soon put to the House of Representatives and/or to the Senate, it will be much harder for the Albanese government to be held to account for its failure to act.
Whilst we all understand the great difficulty that members and Senators will face were they to try to put such a motion, the alternatives pursued by members of the Parliamentary Assange Support group in recent years have had little to no impact, as far as I can tell. These alternatives are: asking Government ministers what they are doing for Assange in Question Time, presenting petitions in support of Assange and making statements.
Whilst I can see that government ministers (from my recollection, Albanese and Wong) have felt uncomfortable when faced with questions about Assange, those questions have had almost no enduring effect on the government's conduct.
As far as I can tell, petitions and even the very informative and eloquent statements made on the floors of Parliament in support of Assange have had zero impact on any Government minister.
But were a motion which, if carried, required the government to act to end Assange's imprisonment were to be put, then those in support of Assange, in speaking for that motion, would be able to put on record the overwhelming evidence that
(1) Assange has been refused due process in a court system rigged by crooked judges;
(2) There is no way that any judge with integrity or any fairly selected jury would have put Assange behind bars even for one night;
(3) Assange's imprisonment in solitary confinement serves no judicial purpose and can only be explained by malice on the part of the judges;
(4) Should Assange be extradited, he faces the same kind of extreme torture that Chelsea Manning was subjected to for many years;
(5) No-one has been prosecuted for any of the crimes revealed by Wikileaks;
(6) If Assange, who, apart from his supposed 2012 'misdemeanour' of 'skipping bail', has broken no British law, can be treated in this way, then any other Australian citizen, who may have embarrassed members of the US government or its military, could also be treated this way.
In the face of all this evidence, regardless of how many vote in support of Wilkie's motion, the government will clearly be seen by all interested Australians, in the course of any debate, to not have a leg to stand on.
The motion that Andrew Wilkie and Adam Bandt tried unsuccessfully to put on 2 December 2021 is included below in the Appendix (see in the article above). This motion, or an adaptation of it could be used today.
Whilst, the necessary motion to suspend Standing Orders, could be defeated, if, this time, unlike in December 2021, Andrew Wilkie called for a division, then we would know the names of each of those MPS who would have used their vote to prevent debate and they could be treated accordingly by their constituents at the next election, if not before.
Yours faithfully,
James Sinnamon
Min for Youth & Housing Rose Jackson's grotesque comment
In an article about how youth and middle classes are being priced out of housing ("Sydney should act now to prevent young people, middle class from being priced out of housing, NSW treasurer says"), the NSW Minister for Youth & Housing has grotesquely scapegoated older generations, rather than point to the role of overseas buyers via the internet, massive migration, and government subsidies to the property development industry, none of which were ever put before any Australian electorate. How dare she!
"Minister for Youth and Housing Rose Jackson said young people weren't at fault.
"It's older generations who are too lazy and careless to show up to the platforms and the forums young people inhabit to engage them in the conversations they want to have," she said."
With ministers like this, don't you wish Australia had a real democracy? How can the ABC quote comments calculated to increase confusion, without pointing out how false and harmful they are?
In the meantime, in the name of 'more housing', whilst 77% of Australia's population growth is descretionary - i.e. comes from overseas migration - Sydney is throwing more precious green space to developers:
"It comes as the state government revealed plans today around the 114-hectare Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney.
The proposal includes housing, commercial spaces and green space near the Nancy-Bird Walton Airport due to open in 2026.
"Bradfield City Centre could deliver 10,000 new homes in the coming years, making a significant contribution to more, and more diverse, housing supply in Western Parkland City," Minister for Planning Paul Scully said."
Read more at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/nsw-sydney-housing-crisis-san-francisco-treasurer/103426896
Gaza genocide and Yemen blockage on Red Sea are related
Blood on Biden's hands
What human rights are being violated in Palestine? Deprivation
of the right to self-determination, extrajudicial killings,
restrictions on freedom of movement and assembly and illegal
settlements were some of glaring manifestations of human rights
violations of the Palestinian people see why Israel can kill
innocent children with American taxpayer money 1- Because the
God of Money of our World is a Zionist who supports and lives
in Israel. For more details, click on the following link. https://mega.nz/file/FqhzGKbB#bsX4PD-O59HEA0-rynD29xkk47dmddycY5CjZfoDLYg 2-
Because https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555
See how innocent children are killed by the most powerful Israeli using American bombs at Al Jazeera Arabic Live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo
if you do not do something then you do not have a HEART
The site is still alive, yes.
Is this site still live
Yes, Mary was married. I just forgot to mention it.
Not sure what happened with Mary's comment ... Apologies
was sent previously? - If censored out - fair enough.
Australia in war again without asking parliament or the people
Outspoken Palestine supporters repeat baseless smears of Hamas?!
Thank you, South Africa, for bringing to the ICC just some of the mountains evidence of Israel's thoroughly evil conduct in Gaza. However, I am concerned that a large proportion of even the most outspoken supporters of Palestine, even from South Africa, still believe the BIG LIE that Hamas fighters killed 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis, many in cold blood, on 7 October.
Most of the dead were IDF/IOF ('O'='Occpuation') footsoldiers. 253 were Israeli civilians. They were killed as consequence of the order given to IOF forces to kill all the Hamas 'terrorists' on 7 October, regardless of the consequences for the hostages.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/ https://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6727/israels-own-news-services-idf-tanks-helicopters-special-forces-not-hamas From Israel's own news services: IDF tanks, helicopters, Special Forces - not Hamas - killed 260 civilians at the Supernova Music festival (30/10/23)
It's clear that the Hamas fighters were exceptionally well disciplined and, in spite of what that must have endured from Israel throughout their lives, were quite humane and decent towards their Israeli captives - unlike Netanyahu, his offsiders and many Israeli footsoldiers. To describe the Hamas fighters as cold-blooded murderers is a baseless smear - whether intentional or not.
Well done, Mary
Oct 7 survivors sue Israeli Defense Forces
US warship in Red Sea nearly hits Gabon tanker in 'hysterical' a
- By Al Mayadeen English
- Source: Al Mayadeen Net URL Source: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-warship-in-red-sea-nearly-hits-gabon-tanker-in--hysterica
- 24 Dec 2023 21:57
The head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation Muhammad Abdul Salam revealed that an American warship "hysterically" released fire during a Yemeni Armed Forces' exploratory mission in the Red Sea.
The head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation Muhammad Abdul Salam revealed that an American warship "hysterically" released fire during a Yemeni Armed Forces' exploratory mission in the Red Sea.
He clarified that "While a Yemeni Naval forces reconnaissance aircraft overpassed the Red Sea in an exploratory mission, the American warship hysterically fired using multiple weapons, an act that unveiled its confusion and concern."
He also added that one of the missiles fired by the battleship exploded near a Gabon-owned tanker sailing through the Red Sea from Russian ports.
If US attacks Yemen, its battleships will be struck
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Earlier this week, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement warned the United States of America against attacking Yemen, stressing that American battleships and vessels would become a target for Yemeni missiles in the event of any attack.
In a speech, the Yemeni Resistance leader Sayyed al-Houthi said, "If the United States is considering targeting Yemen, we will not stand idly by," adding that engaging in a direct war with the US and “Israel", instead of US proxies, is what they aspire for the most.
He stressed that “if America wants to fight Yemen’s stance in support of Palestine, then it would have to confront the entire Yemeni people,” adding that “if that is what America wants, then it will face a harsher situation than that it faced in Afghanistan and Vietnam.”
Sayyed al-Houthi warned Washington against launching any strikes because that would render it completely involved, stressing that Yemen has developed its capabilities on many levels.
Regarding the military US navigation in the Red Sea, he called it “illegal” and “a reckless and foolish aggression that only serves Israel,” stressing, however, that European countries that are complicit in the US move are risking their interests.
He stressed that the Yemeni Naval Forces’ only target in the Red Sea is Israeli ships and “Israel”-bound vessels because the Yemeni actions are never meant to undermine international navigation. Rather, the only target is to support the oppressed Palestinian people, he added.
On the US-led coalition in the Red Sea, Sayyed al-Houthi announced that its actual goal is not to protect international navigation; Rather, it only aims to implicate countries in protecting Israeli ships, in pursuit of militarizing the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and Bab al-Mandab.
Israel's use and abuse of water against Palestinians
December 3rd Anniversary miners' rebellion & Eureka Stockade 184
[See Candobetter Editor's comment at the end of this comment on use of the term 'White Australia.']
On this day 1854 the diggers of Ballarat made a stand for democracy and justice against an old order of patronage and privilege.
The miners "rebellion" on the Ballarat gold fields of 1854 left Australians a powerful legacy: The Eureka Stockade incident and its Southern Cross Flag were elements in defining who the Australians were in the then environment of imperial control of the continent.
Today, the freedoms won by past struggles - from our working conditions, to our culture, heritage and European derived identity - all the values that make for our Australian way of life - are being undermined by the UN/Globalisation Agenda, presided over by Lab/Lib/fake Greens.
Yet a rebellious spirit is on the march in declining Australia today as Australians consider their national future.
The men of Eureka were not a riotous mob, but had formed the Ballarat Reform League on 11th November 1854, which submitted their complaints to authority in an orderly fashion through democratically decided resolutions, appeals and formal deputations.
The miners’ grievances related to restrictive licence fees, and enforcement. They were also disturbed by the presence of “coolie labour”; wanted access to land, and sought the vote and representation in government. But in the face of an authoritarian administration serving colonial interests, they sought to attain their rights as free men.
This was the first time on our continent that men from the old nations of Europe joined together with an Australian mindset and under a uniquely Australian flag. Australia's nativist movement, from the 1850's onwards, celebrated the Eureka Stockade as an inspiration for the character and identity of Australians - European, democratic, independent, mateship, disliking of authority, determination, just returns from labour.
The Southern Cross flag was subsequently taken up in the quest for independence and freedom from colonialism in the struggle to build "the Great Southern Nation". In our history it has been acclaimed as "the Australian flag", "the safeguard of Australian nationality", "the symbol of Australian liberty and unity", "the emblem of White Australia".
In confirmation of solidarity, hundreds of the diggers swore an oath - "We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by one another and to fight to defend our rights and liberties".
The fight took place at 4 a.m. on Sunday 3rd December 1854 when the diggers’ stockade was charged by the troopers and police, being overwhelmed in a short time, the stockaders and bystanders continuing to be brutalised after surrender. The camp, as a peoples’ militia, was a failure, with some thirty diggers killed, as well as five troopers. Our Cross of the South was trampled in the dirt of Bakery Hill.
But at the price of the diggers’ blood, although the true spirit of their demands was never accepted, the basic reforms they sought later came to be implemented, and the incident passed into our folklore tradition as "the finest thing in Australian history".
In these new times our Southern Cross flag remains above all, a flag to be raised high in our struggle for survival against the globalisation agenda for foreign dictates and financial control, overpopulating by mass immigration, doctrines that compromise a future for our Australian nationality, and disaster for the ecological order of our ancient continent.
The Eureka flag reflects the spirit of Australians still - freedom, identity, democracy, independence.
Commemorate the Anniversary.
Editor's comment
Candobetter Editor: Note that the White Australia policy, although later remarketed as something gratuitously racist, was historically an anti-slavery and cheap labour policy obtained by workers in exchange for allowing a free market to manufacturing. It was supposed to protect Australian workers' wages and conditions from being undermined by the import and use of slave labour.
The British had managed with difficulty to gain an agricultural foothold in Australia, first by using ‘white’ slaves in the form of convicts, many of whom were convicted of crimes of political resistance or of poverty. Their number was later supplemented by indentured labour, displaced aboriginals, and, until Federation, ‘black-birding’ – the practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders and bringing them to work in Australia, principally for the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company.
The gold-rushes of the 1850s attracted capital, finance and economic migrants, resulting in rapid population growth and economic and class diversification, and the formation of a working class. This class made a national wage-fixing pact with capital at Federation in 1904 and also obtained the agreement of the Colonial Sugar Company (CSR ) to outlaw black-birding and the importation of other 'non-white' labour, widely perceived as synonymous with slaving. Australians did not want the problems that slavery had brought the United States.
“With Federation, the Commonwealth Parliament became dominated by spokesmen for ‘White Australia’. In October 1901 legislation was passed prohibiting the introduction of Pacific Islanders after 31 March 1904.” ( McKillop, R.F., referring to Bolton, G.C., A Thousand miles away: A History of North Queensland to 1920, ANU Press, 1972, p. 239, in “Australia’s Sugar Industry” on the Light Railway Research Society of Australia site, www.lrrsa.org.au/LRR_SGRa.htm)
The Colonial Sugar Company aroused similar responses among indigenous Fijians who also objected to black-birding as well as to the importing of Indian indentured labour. (“The Indian Connection”, Frontline, Volume 17 - Issue 12, June 10 - 23, 2000, www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1712/17120130.htm.)
The White Australia policy was abolished by the Whitlam Government. At the time, Australia had a relatively robust system of state industrial awards and a reasonable system to deal with industrial disputes across state boundaries. This system meant there was little profit in importing labor from overseas because you had to pay most industries according to the awards and that applied to migrants too. Under John Howard around 2009, this was radically changed with the abolishing of state awards, and it became profitable and possible to import cheap labour. Migration has since been massively ramped up. (See https://candobetter.net/admin/blog/4612/sheila-newman-kennett-population-policy-numbers-and-flow-ons-regional-migration-and)
See also https://candobetter.net/sheila-newman/blog/287/overpopulation-immigration-multiculturalism-and-white-australia-policy
After Labor's abandonment of Assange, primary vote has hit 31%
— Australians For Assange 🗣 (@Aus4Assange) November 26, 2023
Children sing in praise of IDF killing 15,000 Palestinians!?
Israeli children sing “We will annihilate everyone in Gaza”. Song & video created by Israeli public relations firm Rosenbaum Communications. English subtiles added by The Electronic Intifada. This is seriously sick propaganda pic.twitter.com/m89r61hqev
— Tranquilizer (@Tranquilizero) November 20, 2023
See also Israeli Children Sing Of Gaza Annihilation In HUGE Public relations Fail! (26/11/23) | Jimmy Dore Show
Why the US opposed Israel pausing its murder of Palestinians
The REAL reason Biden wouldn't call for a ceasefire is sickening: pic.twitter.com/VqaawEDesl
— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) November 24, 2023
Should Facebook visitors be protected from 'sensitive content'?
The following was posted to Facebook about the above article, which shows a picture of a Palestinian boy, wounded by the Israeli 'Defence' Forces' (IDF), moments before his death.
How many here would prefer to be protected from 'sensitive content' which reveals evidence of crimes committed by Israel in its war of extermination against the people of Gaza (So far, since 7 October, 14,500 have been murdered by the IDF)? https://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6757/facebook-protecting-visitors-sensitive-content-or-trying-hide-evidence
Labor would take 513 years to build promised 800,000 homes
Syrian Girl reveals: Real Maoris support Palestine
Real Maoris support Palestine, and aren’t a rent a crowd of bikie gangs. pic.twitter.com/uURB6kE6O3
— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾🎗 (@Partisangirl) November 19, 2023
Protest for Gaza today 2pm King George Square Brisbane
Palestine supporters can post here overcome Facebook censorship
I posted the following to Facebook :
I have posted the following beneath my article "From Israel's own news services: IDF tanks, helicopters, Special Forces - not Hamas - killed 260 civilians at the Supernova Music festival" (30/10/23) at https://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6727/israels-own-news-services-idf-tanks-helicopters-special-forces-not-hamas#comment-278422#comment-278422
Please feel welcome to also post anything you post here to the abovementioned artcle, to "Young Israeli woman condemns Netanyahu's mass murder of Gaza Palestinians" (26/10/23) https://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6725/young-israeli-woman-condemns-netanyahus-mass-murder-gaza-palestinians or to anywhere else which you may find to be suitable on my website.
Try to also include a link (URL) back to your Facebook post while it still exists (whilst I realise links to Facebook posts are usually very long). You may have to wait a few hours for us to to moderate your post you make sure it is not spam, it certainly won't be deleted.
Once again, the IDF, not Hamas, killed 260 Israelis on 7 October
I posted the following to the
October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles (27/10/23) | The Grayzone by Max Blumenthal
What really happened on 7th October? (24/20/23) | The Cradle by Robert Inlakesh and Sharmine Narwani
Why Israel Does NOT Want Hamas To Release Their Captives Katie Halper - Video (31/10/23) YouTube video by Katie Halper, Why Israel Does NOT Want Hamas To Release Their Captives - Katie Halper and Ali Abunimar (11/11/23) | Candobetter by Sheila Newman
Video shows Israeli turning to shake the hand of her Hamas captor as she is being released. She shook his hand because he had treated her humanely and given her the same food as they ate. On 7 October, it was the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) that began shooting with bullets, bombs and rockets at the Hamas fighters with their Israeli captives. Begin, not Hamas, killed 260 Israelis on that day. (See 2 articles linked to at the top for the evidence in articles which cite sources from within Israel including Haaretz.)
The deaths of those Israelis were then blamed, by Netanyahu and the corporate newsmedia, on Hamas. Those 260 deaths were then cynically used as pretext for the IDF to lanch its war of extermination on Gaza. So far, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza so far by the IDF.
Begin is a mass murderer and a liar.
2pm Sunday November 12, 2023 protest King George Square Brisbane
IPAN AGM tomorrow Sunday 12 Nov 2023, 2.30pm AEDT via Zoom
Canberra Sunday: Protest trial of Whistleblower David McBride
Truth NOT WAR Festival
— GongSteve (@GongSteve) November 6, 2023
Sunday 12-Nov-2023, 1:00pm
Glebe Park, Canberra ACT#BringAssangeHome #UnitedWeWin
Protest the trial of David McBride!
Monday 13-Nov-2023, 8:00am
Supreme Court, Canberra ACT#ConvergeOnCanberra#Mission4McBride#Justice4McBride@H11Karyn @MurdochCadell pic.twitter.com/nDid0IrOVQ
How many people understand this?
Finally, the ICC is investigating Israel's war crimes in Gaza
The International Criminal Court finally opens an investigation into war crimes in Gaza. Many people think - myself included - that it's about time. I hope the ICC acts quickly and decisively. We cannot wait for the genocide to be stopped.
— Ione Belarra (@ionebelarra) October 29, 2023
The only fair outcome for Assange is to have his day in court
The following was posted as a comment beneath ‘Enough is enough’: Albanese talks to Biden about Assange (23/11/2023) | The Age :
The fairytale is expecting that private requests should overturn due process and openness in court - the things Julian campaigned for, instead of trying to avoid openness and do things secretly - as here.
Having his day in court is the only fair outcome - avoiding it is enough is enough.
My comment : For Julian Assange to '[Have] his day in court' would require that, unlike all previous court hearings, the case would be decided by a fairly selected jury, rather than, as was previously the case, by a succession of crooked judges each of which was under direct orders from the British government. In such a trial, Assange, or his barrister would have the right to effectively cross-examine each of the hostile witnesses and have heard testimony from a large number of sympathetic witness. No court, which had tried Julian Assange in this way, would have been capable of keeping him behind bars at the conclusion of the trial.
Russian UN envoy: US crocodile tears for murdered Palestinians
For the second time, The United States has used its veto on the UN
Just to make things clear. The UN Security Council had a choice today between US draft giving a license to Israel to kill more Palestinian civilians and conduct ground operation in Gaza, and a Russian one, calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Both drafts condemned what…
— Dmitry Polyanskiy 🇺🇳 (@Dpol_un) October 25, 2023
Spanish Minister: Europe must act to end murder of Palestinians
We need more of this 🔥
— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 25, 2023
Spain’s Minister of Social Rights calls on European countries to halt Israel’s genocide in Gaza by:
1) cutting ties with Israel
2) imposing sanctions
3) enforcing an arms embargo
4) prosecuting Netanyahu for war crimes at the ICC. pic.twitter.com/FdQjEraHvL
Actions against Julian Assange are unconstitutional and unlawful
This breaching of a Person of the Commonwealth right to personal freedom is unacceptable.
No doubt the piece of paper from the police employee would be addressed to an entity in Capital letters. Such an entity is the property of the State Corporation, and is not that of the living person it was handed to.
The claim for a debt under a fine as issued is in clear breach of the Imperial Acts Application Act which denotes Fines and Forfeitures before conviction are illegal and void. The same illegality emanates from the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights, and as per our Constitution.
Check out Constitution Watch, and Know your Rights websites.
Illegal intent from such paper should be rejected by posting it back to originator.
What sort of low grade individual could abuse this inspirational lady with her commitment to righting the appalling treatment to Julian.
No wonder recruits to police employees is reported to be collapsing.
The best to Lorine.
Looks like someone's fantasy will become reality
Will we ever wake up?
Leaflets make protests for Julian Assange much more effective
I posted the following beneath an Adelaide for Assange Facebook post which announced that they protested every Tuesday outside of the Adelaide of of the Foreign Minister Penny Wong :
In my experience, our Friday evening vigils for Julian Assange, outside of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station are a lot more effective when we hand out leaflets.
Last Friday evening, we handed out approximately 250 copies of the double-sided A5 leaflet entitled "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, end the illegal torture and imprisonment of Julian Assange or step aside". The PDF file from which the leaflet was printed is at https://candobetter.net/files/endTheIllegalImprisonmentOrStepAside_29sep23.pdf . It is embedded within the article of the same name, which has been adapted from the leaflet. The article is at https://candobetter.net/geoffrey-taylor/blog/6711/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-end-illegal-torture-and-imprisonment.
If you would like to hand out copies of that leaflet next Tuesday, please feel encouraged to download that file. I got those leaflets printed at Officeworks. I print them in black and white (colour costs quite a bit more ) for 10c per side. I then get charged $1 to have the printed A4 pages guillotined into twice as many A5 leaflets. So, to print out 300 double-sided A5 leaflets, I pay $31 .
Reckless, dangerous experiment
Housing demand and the ghost of Gladys
Please look what is happening around the world and to Assange
Imprisonment of Assange intimidates all journalists
Inquiry notes coordinated submissions pro & contra abortion
The Senate Inquiry Committee has responded overall to submissions, announcing, as follows:
"Coordinated campaigns and form letters
The committee has received a large volume of material associated with two coordinated campaigns, including from a third-party coordinated campaign and the Australian Christian Lobby, as well as three form letters from Fair Agenda, Surrogacy Australia and Cherish Life.
Correspondence associated with the campaigns and form letters either note that they do not support abortion services, or that they do support abortion services.
In light of the similarities of the views expressed in the campaigns and the form letters, the committee has agreed to publish a sample of each of the campaigns and form letters along with the key topics raised by individuals and the number of emails received in respect of each campaign.
The committee will also be providing details of each of the campaigns and form letters in its final report."
Source: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/ReproductiveHealthcare
Royal Park Protection Group AGM - 12 Aug 2023 - Walmsley House
Theories on racism and suburbia
I heard an interview on Radio National today about this. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/report-blames-nimbys-for-a-more-racially-segregated-sydney/102622354 They seemed to be basing it on black & white neighbourhoods in America, an entirely different scenario. Apart from that, Sydney is west vs east whereas Melbourne luckily is more scattered with its low socio-economic areas, Frankston right next Mt. Eliza, Footscray in another direction etc. so we are quite different to Sydney demographically. They also don't take into account that a lot of migrants want the big house with a back yard in the suburbs. A lot of Indians buy in new estates in Wyndam when a lot of them could probably afford a townhouse in Hawthorn for example. And they never talk about heritage and character being the main reason for NIMBYism of course most if this being in a city's oldest inner suburbs, although from memory the interviewer Andy Park did query this in the interview.
Another point is that when the American soldiers returned from the war they were allowed to apply for government mortgages but only whites could apply. So I suppose a lot of segregation in the suburbs started from thereon. Although I know things were racist there before that, but when the soldiers cames back it was when America really prospered and the middle class and sprawling suburbs were created but the blacks had no help to be part of it.
Outrageous erosion of our environment and amenity
US Assange supporters should support RFK Junior, not a Green!
The following is in response to a US Action for Assange Facebook post:
Robert F. Kennedy Junior is far more capable or acting to free Assange than could Cornel West be by standing as a Greens candidate. How, given the idiocy of US 'instant runoff' voting, could Cornel West facilitating Donald Trump's victory over Joe Biden (or vice versa) possibly help free Julian Assange?
To be better informed, please visit RFK Junior's Twitter page at https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr . See also Help America put another Kennedy in the White House to free Julian Assange (5 May 23 - artcle above).
When RFK Junior becomes the Democrat Party nominee, I sure hope that Cornel West has the good sense to step aside and throw his support support behind RFK Junior.
Unsettle investors in high rise and population jugganaut
Developer calls protesters 'NIMBYS', talks of 'undersupply'
The developer wanting to build up on 446-450 Nepean Hwy, Danny Ciarma, was quoted describing the people fighting for height limits as NIMBYs and seemed to think Kilkenny acting on behalf of her electorate was somehow a slur.
"But the developer of 446-450 Nepean Highway, Urban DC founder Danny Ciarma, said the minister’s intervention was “suspicious”, “a slap in the face” and would “undermine investment confidence in the whole state, not just Frankston”. “She’s unsettled the whole investment fraternity, which is going to further exacerbate the whole undersupply issue that we face.”
“It is very clear to me that Sonya bowed to her voters as a local member of the area and put her local constituents in front of and before the greater planning policies of the state,” Ciarma said.
Premier Daniels Andrews has flagged a housing and planning reform package, expected within the next two months, that is widely expected to include greater state government planning controls and a smaller role for councils.
No decision had been made yet by VCAT, and Ciarma said he was unsure what the overlay would mean for the decision.
“I’ve spent the last 18 months working with council and the council planners very closely in formulating a design that meets the proposed structure plan in every way,” he said.
“It’s not for some disgruntled local NIMBYs to put their thoughts forward and have their wishes granted to the detriment of the greater good.”"
Source: Article by Rachael Dexter in the Age, 5 July 2023, "Minister intervenes on ‘Great Wall of Frankston,’" https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/minister-intervenes-on-great-wall-of-frankston-20230705-p5dlxh.html
Interim DDO14 with mandatory 3 stories Frankston foreshore
Royal Park Special meeting presentations re Corroboree Grounds
Many will remember Julianne seeking proof of corroboree grounds in the park during the fight against East West link. Friends of Royal Park and Royal Park Protection Group have organised a Special meeting with presentations about the Wurundjeri relationship to Royal Park.
You are invited to hear 2 presentations.
"(Not) Royal Park” – Recovering the Enduring Importance of a Kulin Nations Gathering Place for Culture, Health, Wellbeing and Healing”.
Presentation by Alasdair Vance, Associate Professor, Child Psychiatry, Royal Childrens’ Hospital, University of Melbourne & Janet McGraw, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Design, University of Melbourne
“A name for Royal Park – Quor-nóng?” Presentation by Andrew Tanner, Graduate Researcher, Linguistics, La Trobe University.
When: July 15th at 2pm
Where: Walmsley House
Regards
Paul Leitinger
Convenor – RPPG
SE Queensland 'development' spells doom for koalas
Need for comprehensive factual leaflet about Ukraine conflict
I posted the following beneath Ukraine Timeline tells the Story (30/6/23) | Consortium News by Joe Lauria:
Thank you, Joe. This is the best example of basic facts on the Russia-Ukraine conflict I have been able to find, so far. Still, I think this could be improved upon by additions (e.g. the US bombing of Nord Stream in September 2022 and Kiev's criminally insane bombardment of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant) and images to become a comprehensive fact-sheet about the Ukraine conflict - something to show our Parliamentary 'representatives' when they give sanctimonious speeches, which omit basic facts, in support of the Kiev regime. See also Zelenskyy's war of choice may have killed 300,000 Ukrainians at beneath the article "Putin rebuts in detail US-NATO accusations, provides dishonoured Ukraine neutrality agreement" (18/6/23).
Zilenskyy's war of choice may have killed 300,000 Ukrainians
It is surely even more in the interests of the Ukrainian people than it is in the interests of the Russian people to have the war ended now. One somewhat dated estimate of Ukrainian military dead is 300,000. So, at least many tens of thousands have died on both sides. This vast tragedy could have been avoided had Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelenskyy lived up to his April 2019 election promise to end the war. There is no way that any informed Ukrainian (apart from the nazis in the Azov battalion and the Right sector) who has seen through the lies of the Ukrainian state media, would want a peace settlement that does not include the arrest and trial of US puppet President Zilenskyy. It is in the interests of Ukrainians, most of all, that Russian soldiers, whether inside the Wagner Group or not, fight as hard as possible to remove Zilenskyy from power.
.The above is part of a post that I posted beneath the video embedded below:
Last Warning To Ukraine | Prigozhin breaks his silence on the mercenary rebellion in Russia
On Douglas McGregor's comments on his own role in the Gulf War of 1990-1991
In the above Video, Douglas McGregor likens the strategic choices faced by the Russian general staff in 2023 to those faced by himself and the similarly outspoken ex-marine intelligence officer, Scott Ritter, during the Gulf War of 1990-1991. Whilst this may be valid in a technical-military sense, and whilst I admire Douglas McGregor for so courageously informing the world truthfully about the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2023, he seems, to consider the Gulf War to have been a just war by the United States and its allies against Iraqi aggression.
The fact is, that Saddam Hussein was deliberately set up by, amongst others, then US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. After the Kuwaitis, provocatively slant drilled, beneath the border, into Iraqi oil fields, he approached Glaspie to ask how the US would regard an Iraqi conflict with Kuwait.
Glaspie told Hussein that this would not concern the US.
However, after Iraq occupied Kuwait, contrary to what Glaspie had told Hussein, the US then launched its war against Iraq, with devastating consequences to both the people and infrastructure of Iraq, For more information, see Gulf War Documents: Meeting between Saddam Hussein and US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie (2012) | Global Research.
Thunberg meets Zilenski impossible ecology group
Absolutely - I agree with you. I like this idea
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Senator Penny Allman-Payne responds to support Julian Assange
I received the following from the office of Greens Senator Penny All-man Payne:
Re: Please use your voice in Parliament this week to help free Julian Assange (Case Ref: PA6751)
Senator Penny Allman-Payne <[email protected]>
5:56 PM (3 hours ago)
to me
Dear James,
Thanks for your email to Senator Allman-Payne calling for the release of Julian Assange. My name is Kirsten and I am responding on the Senator’s behalf.
The Australian Greens will continue to call on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to pick up the phone to the UK and US governments immediately to secure Julian’s freedom.
The information released by Julian Assange in Wikileaks has been used as evidence in court cases around the globe, freeing prisoners and exposing scandals, torture, murder, and illegal surveillance.
The decision of the United Kingdom to extradite Julian Assange to the US has sickening consequences for Julian, his family and for press freedom around the world. His deteriorating health condition and the ongoing proceedings are unjust and torturous. Extradition to the United States sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom across the world.
You can read Australian Greens spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Senator Jordon Steele-John’s, article on freeing Assange here: Free Assange | Australian Greens
It is time to bring him home. It is time for the Albanese government to do more.
The Greens will always support journalists’ right to speak truth to power, and we will continue the fight to bring Julian home.
Just last month, Senator David Shoebridge, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, Senator Janet Rice and Senator Allman-Payne had the opportunity to meet Mrs Assange in Canberra. We are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Stella and the Assange campaign in this ongoing fight for justice for Julian.
Thank you again for your email and for your advocacy on this important matter. For any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact our Justice spokesperson, Senator David Shoebridge: [email protected]
In solidarity,
Kirsten Kennedy
Office Coordinator and Executive Assistant
in the office of @senatorpennyqld
www.pennyallmanpayne.com
Ilhan Omar can best help free Assange by supporting RFK junior
I posted the following to a the US Action 4 Assange Facebook page:
It seems to me that the best way that Ilhan Omar and other US supporters of Julian Assange can help win his freedom is to support RFK Junior's campaign to be the Democratic Party's candidate in the November 2024 Presidential elections. To find out how outspoken RFK Junior has been, please see his and related Twitter Pages https://twitter.com/rfk4potus https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kennedy24?src=hashtag_click - and long Video Discussions with RFK Junior, for example, "Live Discussion Robert F. Kennedy Jr & Elon Musk: Presidential Candidate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db9tSsFIfuA "Rekindling the Spirit of the Classic Democrat | Robert F. Kennedy Jr." at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1h5AhrDajI , etc., etc.
RFK Junior faces the same crooked Democratic National Committee which suppressed (bizarrely, with Sanders' own collusion) the 2016 grassroots campaign to make Bernie Sanders the Democrat Presidential campaign, but with RFK Junior's leadership and with a sufficiently large grass-roots campaign, he could succeed.
Whilst January 2025 when, hopefully, President Robert Francis Kennedy junior will be inaugurated, seems too long to wait for Assange to be freed, RFK junior's campaign should still greatly help to lift the profile of the Assange campaign, including here, in Australia[1] and quite possibly make the difference necessary to free him.
FOOTNOTE[S]
[1] Here, In Australia, Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has, so far, since he assumed the office of PM in May 2022, failed to use the power vested in him as the leader of a sovereign state to end the illegal imprisonment of Julina Assange Assange
The whistleblowers being persecuted by Anthony Albanese
Two whistleblowers now being persecuted by the Albanese government are David McBride, who revealed war crimes by Austrlian SAS soldiers in Afghanistan and Richard Boyle who exposed corruption in the Australian Tax Office (ATO). David McBride's speech, to the Sydney protest for Julian Assange, last Thursday 25 May, is embedded below.
Mr Albanese is entitled to his opinions
Australia First says 'End plague-level immigration.'
End Politicians plague-level immigration and resultant overpopulation chaos. Clogged roads, crowded schools/hospitals/public facilities, pollution, waste, eco-system/environmental decline, home invasions, house price-rent madness, homelessness, wages falling, poor living conditions - Aussis now strangers in the street!
Population has increased by 30% in 13 years -
70% being alien immigrants/ foreign
students, and 457 Visa workers.
The Conservation Society holds to 14 Million People as the Sustainable Population for Australia:-
Australia First will:-
I] Introduce a Peoples’ Commission for Population, with paid delegates from community and environmental groups to oversee sustainable population directions for our Native Land and Australian civilisation.
ii] The Commission to be authorised under the Citizenship Act, to direct Legislators for closing down the Lib/Lab/fake Greens destructive Immigration Programme.
iii] The Commission to oversee orderly repatriation of [edited out for legal reasons] immigrant excess, to pursue a population level in accord with the Conservation Society optimum for our Australia.
iv] Repatriation to involve [edited out for legal reasons] , welfare parasites, fake refugees, criminals, drug cartels, 457 visa workers, foreign students, etc.
v] A Public Educative programme to expose the extensive overpopulation effects to our Ancient Continent and its Ecological Order, Australian Heritage, and cause for economic decline to
our People.
End all immigration!
Australia First Party
Reclaiming the Vision Splendid
Russian Film-blog about soviet literature and propaganda
Biden cancels Australia visit out of fear of Assange supporters?
The following was posted to Faceboook in response to the article VIDEO: Quad meeting called off after Joe Biden cancels visit(17/5/2023) | ABC News:
Joe is too afraid of Australians and so he should be!!! We want our man back HOME and NOW!!! QUAD maybe CANCELLED but we will still be in SYDNEY FOR EVENT ON 24TH MAY AT 10AM HYDE PARK SYDNEY!
Frankston residents and visitors ripped off
The observations in this article mirror my perceptions
His views on COVID-19 vaccination reason to oppose RFK junior?
I posted the comment further below in response to:
RFK Jr is an anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist. Just because he supports the release of Julian Assange is no reason to support him politically.
The above was posted beneath Australian prime minister feigns concern for Assange but defends “national security” secrecy (/5/5/23) | wsws by Oscar Grenfell, in response to an earlier comment in which I agreed with what was written in that article. My response to the above comment follows:
If RFK junior's views on COVID-19 and vaccination are so bad, that would surely be made evident in the televised debate that RFK Junior wants to be held between all who are contesting the Democratic Party pre-selection to be that party's presidential candidate.
However, the Democratic Party National Committee (DNC) has refused to allow this debate. Even if we disagreed with RFK Junior's views on COVID-19 and vaccination, should we not support a candidate who wants to end the shipment of billions of dollars worth of US weapons to the Zilenskyy regime in Kiev and close down all foreign US bases as well as free Assange?
Perhaps the editors of this World Socialist Web Site should ask someone to write an article here about the 2024 US Presidential elections. To article could explain whether or not any of the candidates for pre-selection in either the Democratic or Republican parties deserve support or, indeed, whether or not workers in the US and the rest of the world have any stake in the outcome of these elections.
Bobby Kennedy's support has now reached 19%
Robert F. Kennedy Junior's support amongst registered Democrats has now reached 19%, where (I think) it was previously 8%. He still has some way to go before he secures the Democratic Party nomination to be their candidate for the 2024 Presidential election, but this looks, to me, like good progress.
Looks like Americans are waking up! pic.twitter.com/SgqSaz8eYs
— North Carolina Music (@NewNCMusicScene) April 27, 2023
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like Americans are waking up! <a href="https://t.co/SgqSaz8eYs">pic.twitter.com/SgqSaz8eYs</a></p>— North Carolina Music (@NewNCMusicScene) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewNCMusicScene/status/1651599713479557126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
WaPo, NYTimes confronted for concealing US Nord Stream sabotage
My friends and I confronted the executive editors for @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @latimes, @Reuters on their censorship of Seymour Hersh, Uhuru, Julian Assange, Tucker Carlson, Russiagate..Then the Dean of Columbia and security pushed me to the ground and tried to silence me. pic.twitter.com/Tm1u48n5Xu
— Jose Vega — Vote Diane Sare! (@JosBtrigga) April 25, 2023
RFK Junior fights for debate with incumbent President Joe Biden
The following was tweeted by Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who is seeking to become the Democratic Party Candidate in the 2024 Presidential elections following the decision by the Central Committee of the US Democratic Party not to allow him to debate the incumbent Democratic Party candidate sitting President Joe Biden in the forthcoming Democratic National Convention:
Retweet if you think @JoeBiden should have to debate @marwilliamson and @RobertKennedyJr. And please. Sign the petition. @Change @democracynow #Kennedy2024 #RFKJr2024 #DemocracyNOW https://t.co/I4KmcAh5ru pic.twitter.com/WgMzpsw9xN
— RFK Jr for President (@Rfk4POTUS) April 26, 2023
China 1981 and now
Remove military bases of the country now torturing Assange
I pull no punches as the time for polite discourse with these three Judases is long past.
To say that Australia as a government have no say over the protection of its own citizens is absolute bullshit of the ALP kind...
Let me make a suggestion, PM can tell Britain, now no longer great that unless it releases Julian Assange, we can cut contacts and trade with that decaying once great stealer, robber, rapist and genocidist of nations of the world and...for...
The US: Unless it releases Julian Assange forthwith, it can remove all its Australia bases and take them back to where-ever it likes...
Are these suggestions helpless?
What is helpless is that the Three Clown Judases of the ALP prefer to kowtow to the interests of a Foreign nation over and above our very own and they have a hide to insist that Australia has sovereignty over our political decisions...see ex PM Paul Keating's excellent interview in the ABC Journalists Club...
More foreign countries including organisations and Democratic members of Congress of the US are calling for the freedom of Julian Assange yet, our three faking Judas clowns are twitting their fingers doing fuckall saying they can do nothing. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9MDpxVl0lY)
This I can say: Henceforth, I will no longer vote for or support the ALP and I exhort all True Believers to work to remove all three including Richard Marles who is instrument to yoke our Australian Treasury to continue to pay contributions and tribute to the UK and US for software upgrades, spare parts, maintenance etc. etc...And...
To add insult to injuries, the Yanks will have a lapdog to do the fighting in proxy for them whilst they sit back to direct the wars plus the US can say if and when we can use the nuclear submarines for whatever purposes we liked.
Good one???
Richard Seeto
Editor's comment: Thank you, Richard Seeto, for your insightful and informative comment. I have changed the title from "Pensioner's Discount" to "Remove military bases of the country now torturing Assange."
I think that the kind of Australian government which acts to make the US desist from its illegal efforts to extradite Assange would also remove, from Australian soil, all military bases of the US and its UK ally and it would end the military occupation of Northern Australia by 2,500 US Marines. Such a government would not need to allow such bases to remain in return for the US abandoning its illegal and morally repugnant efforts to extradite Assange. Could I also suggest that next time you post a comment, not to boldface the whole comment with the <strong> </strong> tags, but, for now, I have left the content of the above comment the way you originally posted it.
Usability of Assange Supporters International Facebook page?
Earlier this morning I posted, to the Facebook Page Julian Assange Supporters - International", the following:
Thank you for allowing me to post here and make comments.
I am trying to get the Australian government use the powers vested in it, as the leadership of a sovereign nation, to make the British government end its illegal imprisonment of Assange and make the US government desist from its ilegal efforts to extradite him.
You can view past speeches I have made at our weekly Melbourne Friday evening vigil for Julian Assange on my YouTube Channnel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwD1peYXVZK-BFdAVGPDPpw . I have written articles about Assange on our web-site, candobetter.net/. Two recent examples are Letter to Attorney-General Richard Dreyfus, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong concerning Julian Assange (9/4/23) at and How, with your help, we can free Julian Assange (28/11/22) .
The fact that the Australian government has not even approached the British or US governments to ask, or even beg, for Assange's freedom, let alone demand it, makes the Australian government complicit with the US and the UK in the imprisonment and torture of Assange.
What is almost as bad is the fact that there is so little discussion of Assange in the Australian Parliament, even though there are 40 members of the Bring Julian Assange Parliementary Support Group" (https://www.assangecampaign.org.au/bring-julian-home-campaign/). Hansard shows that so far in 2023, Assange has only been mentioned twice. The frequency of Assange being raised was little better in the previous two years.
Once back in December 2021 an independent member of Parliament, Andrew Wilkie tried to move a motion which called upon the Australian government to act to free Assange, but the major parties (Liberal and Labor) colluded to prevent that motion even being put. So, there hasn't even been debate on Assange in Australia's Parliament.
Sadly, neither Wilkie nor any other supporters of Assange in Paliament, have made any further attempts to have Assange debated since then. 'Debate' is limited to a very occasional statement made in support of Assange or the presentation of a petition. These rarely even draw responses from the government, far less action to free Assange.
My post was approved. However, I subsequently could not find my own post from the main page of Julian Assange Supporters - International. I could only find it again, because I had previously bookmarked that page on my Firefox web browser. If I am not able to find that post, then how can any other visitors to Julian Assange Supporters - International find my post? I had truly thought that what I had written could help build the campaign to free Julian Assange by drawing the attention of other Assange supporters what is obstructing our campaign and making suggestions about how we can overcome those obstacles.
Video: visit by High Commissioner to Julian Assange yesterday
Stephen Smith, High Commissioner of Australia to the UK visited Julian Assange in prison yesterday:
Dead right on overdevelopment and voting
Barbara, you are dead right. The Sustainable Australia Party seems to be the only one serious about stopping overpopulation and overdevelopment. Hard to imagine which independents to vote for, but having more independents may undermine the major parties, which are so invested in population growth and overdevelopment. It is a shame that Clifford Hayes was not voted back in. He made some excellent attempts to reform the land-shark system that the Victorian State government takes advantage of.
For those concerned about overdevelopment
Great Wall of Frankston on Channel 9 tonight
3 April 10.30am Frankston Life Saving Club help stop the Wall
Risk of death from COVID acquired in hospital is 1/10 - Dr Ryan
The following video shows Independent MP Dr. Monique Ryan speaking to the House of Representatives yesterday on Thursday 30 March 2023 on the risks of death from acquiring COVID-19 during a visit to hospital. One in 10 can die from a COVID-19 infection acquired in hospital. This speech can be found in Hansard.
Today I represented the voice of my constituent @SMpwrgr, along with other vulnerable Australians.
— Dr Monique Ryan MP (@Mon4Kooyong) March 30, 2023
Sadly, Australians are still dying from COVID, every day.
I call on the Government to review its public health measures in respect to COVID19 pic.twitter.com/qBDCpVAUDF
Julian Assange
I look forward to Dr. Monique Ryan being just as outspoken in support of Julian Assange as she was on 30 November last year.
Greens Senator Whish-Wilson has been quite outspoken for Assange
Could more be said in Parliament help free Julian Assange?
My post to Facebook :
If, from Monday 20 March, when Federal Parliament next resumes, a lot more was said on the floor of Parliament about Julian Assange, than what has been said so far this year. that might help free Assange?
"Why has so little been said in the Australian Parliament about Julian Assange?" (18/3/2023) https://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6584/why-has-so-little-been-said-australian-parliament-about-julian-assange
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Writers' Week ideal for ideas
Help the community fight this at VCAT thru crowdfunding
The Community Groups appealing at VCAT really need money to pay for legal representation at VCAT and have launched MyCause fundraising campaign at https://www.mycause.com.au/p/309833/stop-the-great-wall-of-frankston
Iran and Axis of Resistance not intimidated by Israel's bullying
This morning (+10), neither Iran nor the rest of the Axis of Resistance appear to have been intimidated by Israel's bullying threat to try to start a global war, should Iran, respond, as iran has warned it would respond, to the planned attack by the baby-killers in Tel Aviv. Notwithstanding the fears expressed by George Galloway above and by Scott Ritter at US Marine Scott Ritter: "As an American I'm am SCARED over what's about to happen" on YouTube, this seems to be the least worst course to be followed by Iran.