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Police promise action at weekend’s anniversary protests if [Hamas & Hezbollah] flags are flown

SMH

It’s amazing what some public pushback can do.

Now, let’s see what transpires.

Meanwhile, why is it that what was deemed within the law on 29 September shall be outside of it on 7 October?

Is enforcing the Commonwealth criminal code and related state laws a moveable feast?

Is it to placate the longsuffering Jewish community? And then, after 7 October, it’s back to giving the anti-semitic rabble a free hand?

That’s not the rule of law…if anyone in authority knows what that is meant to be anymore.

Huh huh

Due to the urgency created by the ongoing war, some soldiers have been given fast-tracked or shortened training periods, sometimes as brief as 2 to 4 weeks, especially during times of high demand for reinforcements on the front lines.

Breaking, from the Daily Tele.
Police file court order to stop pro-Palestine October 7 protestsA pro-Palestinian gathering planned in Sydney CBD for October 7 may not go ahead after NSW Police made the decision on Tuesday night to apply to the NSW Supreme Court for an order preventing the event.

Jackie Lambi saying it’s not tough enough!!!!!

Labor’s misinformation bill could be ‘dead in the water’

You know, if/when the cheating lands Kamaltoe in the Oval Office, there’s a silver lining—aside from the potential for total world annihilation and mass starvation, of course. Just imagine what it will be like with this DEI genius playing pretend as president! Imagine the circus!

‘The scale of the deception is jawdropping’: Elon Musk slams media silence on report of over 420,000 criminal illegal immigrants released into US

How pathetic that something like this is even necessary. The world has truly gone mad.
EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee Sues California Over Unprecedented Crackdown On Satire, Parody

@Based1717

The Government doesn’t care about any of us. Don’t they dare TELL US not to donate and help. Fk them!

Just saw an interview with some US dude with years of experience in the ME. He reckons that in Lebanon, where he was stationed for years, Hezbollah are not just in STH Lebanon but all over the city. He reckons it will be impossible for Israel to eliminate them.

He said although the US have battleships off Israel which helped in the overnight assault from Iran, he said the US is not in any shape to help in a complete out and out war in the ME.

Meantime, Sarah Abo, the anchor on Ch 9, who is of Lebanese background, burst into tears on the Breakfast show re the attacks on Lebanon!

Turnbull said he would vote Yes despite his misgivings that the voice was inconsistent with his “republican and egalitarian principles” that all offices in a constitutional democracy should be open to every Australian.

This is from Janet’s article. Turnbull is the epitome of the rot at the heart of the elites and monied classes. They know their decisions are horrible but still persist as they feel the negative effects will only be felt by the people who don’t matter, they and their families will be fine as they are insulated by their wealth and positions. This is what evil looks like.

Iran provide the bulk of Hezbollah funding, they would be nothing otherwise, all eyes should now turn to that Sauron.

Rosie, the best long term solution to the Middle East terror organisations is to starve them of funding which means Iran must be bankrupted so it is no longer able to provide that funding.

This is where the US comes in with economic and trade sanctions though not likely under any Democrat government. No wonder Iran has assassination teams in the US aiming at Trump, they know what will happen if he wins.

As to what happens to Iran internally, that is the Iranians’ problem but the west must help if they make another move against the mullahs. I think they have also learned not to try it when Dems are in power. Funny how American internal politics affect the world, oh for those long ago days when their domestic politics ended at the water’s edge.

QLD Premier Steven Miles sups with the devil:

Says he will share power with the Greens.

You know what to do, regional QLD voters!

The Coalition will deliver a misinformation and disinformation policy prior to the election

Flat White, The Spectator (Australia), 1 October 2024

We were right to be sceptical of the Liberal Party’s denouncement of Labor’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. Having gained the first positive political traction from the Blue Ribbon base since their opposition to the Voice to Parliament, Senator Jane Hume has summarily dismantled any delusions that the Liberals have learned their lesson or committed themselves to civil liberty.

(And if the following is a mistake, or a misspoken reply, by all means let us have the Coalition step forward and forever promise to leave this legislation in the shredder.)

Speaking to the current bill on Sky News Australia yesterday, Senator Hume said:

‘The Coalition will deliver its own policy prior to the election, but our priority right now must be to defeat this very bad bill.’

The Liberals were told that the only way to salvage their battered reputation would be to publicly denounce their former role in the creation of this ‘very bad bill’.

Voters have begged the Liberal Party to abandon, in its entirety, any Parliamentary desire to curate the public conversation through various censorial laws disguised as ‘misinformation and disinformation’, ‘digital safety’, or the ‘protection of children’.

The wider Australian community has expressed, through thousands of submissions to this bill, an overwhelming demand that the government stop messing around in the public forum where they are not needed, invited, or wanted. Their problem is not with this specific bill, it is with the lurch within politics to obsess about public speech.

Nobody trusts the government with censorship powers. News that the Coalition will be busy drafting Misinformation and Disinformation 2.0 once they finish voting down Labor’s bill comes as a cold chill through conservative politics.

This refusal to give up on digital censorship sadly fits with the pattern seen in the leadership of the Opposition, where Peter Dutton frequently voices his approval for various infringements on digital liberty. Some of the worst thought bubbles in this field are his.

The most dangerous of these is the age restriction of social media via facial recognition – something Labor has taken and run with. Turning social media access into something done at the pleasure of the government (first through age, then through whatever it likes) paves the way for government to grant access to the public forum. It is a provision that effectively erases the concept of a free and open environment for speech.

Citizens may like to remind the government that it did not create social media, nor would it ever be visionary enough to do so. Attempts to regulate social media come from an allergy to the chaos of unfiltered thought which Parliament wrongly sees as a threat to stability. It remains my hope that with enough vocal opposition to these censorial bills, the Coalition will finally drop the bone that is censorship from their policy portfolio.

As for the views of Senator Hume, if I were able to interview her, I have some questions in relation to the protection of medical freedom and ensuring that government opinion regarding medical ‘misinformation’ is not allowed to silence whistle-blowers and victims who expose drug companies on social media.

I notice that in the past, Senator Hume has expressed a negative view of ‘dangerous’ medical information that appeared on social media during the pandemic.

On August 27, 2021, Senator Hume said:

‘Misinformation is dangerous. Ignore those pushing it, like Clive Palmer. Let’s stick to the National Plan, get vaccinated and get back to the lives that we want.’

Those left permanently injured or dead from vaccine side effects of course, cannot return to the lives ‘they want’. During the pandemic, most of what the government and its health authorities published turned out to be misleading, fictitious, or false. Admissions have been made that many of the pedantic pandemic rules were employed to manipulate public behaviour and compliance. That, to me, is a misuse of government trust. In everything from social distancing rules, to contact tracing, to safety and efficacy claims – the government has acted as a purveyor of misinformation. Meanwhile, the truth found on social media was wrongly misidentified. Why should the government have a say in the truth when its current track record is in tatters? Trust is earned, not legislated.

Senator Hume also said in March of 22, ‘The tech giants – the largest digital platforms – have transformed from tools that index context or enable communication, to surveillance platforms and gatekeepers of innovation.’

Remind me, is it X or the former Liberal government that drafted Digital ID legislation to track citizens through the digital world and tried to claim that there was no safe way forward for the digital economy following Covid except through the gatekeeping of government ID?

The point here is not to drag Senator Hume over the coals but to point out what an increasing number of health experts are saying in response to Labor’s current bill – the government is not fit to make decisions on truth and that it made serious mistakes during the previous pandemic.

No matter what their ‘good’ intentions are, the Coalition should not be seeking to replace Labor’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill with another one of their own. Even if their next bill were ‘perfect’, it would set in law the ability to censor public speech and open the door to constant amendments which would, over time, create a tyrannical mechanism for government to misuse. Just. Stop.

You wouldn’t know that the Liberal Party is officially committed to freedom of speech and minimising government interference in our lives.

Evidently Dutton & Hume don’t.

reaching consensus about “consensus” being a weasel-word

@amuse

HURRICANE: Communities across the south are being told to prepare for extended power outages as a result of a massive short of critical electrical equipment. It turns out the Biden-Harris regime hasn’t just sent the bulk of our artillery shells to Ukraine – they’ve also sent them our nation’s stockpile of critical electrical equipment.

The U.S. has always kept a stockpile of critical electrical equipment—like transformers and switchgear—to quickly restore power in the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Helene.

Now, with 360 substations in desperate need of new transformers, the country should be ready to respond. But here’s the catch: the Biden-Harris administration recklessly drained our stockpile by sending these crucial resources to Ukraine.

So while they’re prioritizing foreign aid, millions of Americans could be left in the dark for months, suffering through extended power outages because of their poor decision-making. Once again, it’s America last under this regime.

Oh and don’t get me started on selling our nation’s strategic petroleum supply to China…

Now, with 360 substations in desperate need of new transformers, the country should be ready to respond. But here’s the catch: the Biden-Harris administration recklessly drained our stockpile by sending these crucial resources to Ukraine.

I believe North Carolina and Georgia are swing states electorally. Let’s see how this disaster and the Biden/Harris admin’s response to it works out for them. I suppose they can always make it up with the illegal immigrants’ votes.

Underestimating your enemy is the biggest mistake you can make.

So is overestimating them. Most of their prosperous ME neighbours despise them – eg the Emirati, Egypt, Saudis et al.

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