Open mike 10/01/2025

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  1. Subliminal 1

    Not only has Israel deliberately caused the highest number of child amputees in any conflict but among the list of items denied access to Gaza (that includes anaesthetics and sleeping bags), is crutches. The suffering caused is deliberate and designed to maximise pain. This is ongoing child torture, fully supported and enabled by the Biden administration.

    https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1876941502577868998

  2. Tony Veitch 2

    He hasn't even assumed office yet, but he's already upsetting a lot of world leaders – and it will only get worse!

    6 mins long

  3. Sabine 3

    A link to the X space with Musk and Alice Weidel from the AFD.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/7pkSYdlRdE8

  4. Jenny 4

    The Ministry of Truth, is the fictional hub of the fictional empire of Oceania, in the dystopian novel by George Orwell. George Orwell's inspiration for the Ministry of Truth, came from his experience of working as a journalist at the BBC head office in London, the city where his novel plays out..
    Room 101 at the BBC was the room at the BBC where BBC journalists were grilled on how to present news to benefit the very real British Empire.

    With his real world experience of imperialism in Burma and elsewhere, Orwell found the indoctrination he experienced in Room 101 to present the news the way the BBC wanted, as unbearable Orwell used the very real Room 101 at the BBC as the inspiration for the fictional torture chamber in his dystopian novel. As a result 'Room 101' has entered the English language lexicon as a generic term for a place of fear and horror.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_101_(disambiguation)

    Orwell was never physically tortured in Room 101. Orwell's experience working as a journalist at the BBC was greatly exaggerated and magnified for dramatic effect, as a warning.

    As the genocide in Gaza has continued, the very real Western global economic and military empire headed by the US, that incorporates Britain as a junior partner. has tried to persuade the world that this genocide is something justified and reasonable and necessary.

    With its massive global audience the BBC has been central to this propaganda campaign.

    The BBC's role in presenting this pro-genocide narrative is a very sensitive issue, for the BBC and the British state. How for instance would the BBC present to their gloval audience the news that tens of thousands of UK citizens are protesting outside their offices accusing them of being liars?

    An effort to protest the role of BBC is being met with active suppression.

    This is not what democracy looks like.

  5. tWig 5

    Trudeau calls out Trump's hard-ball tactics, threatening to annex Canada, as a ruse to distract US voters from the price increases they will experience when tariffs go on Canadian oil and forestry products.

  6. Incognito 6

    The awareness of the Regulatory Standards Bill appears to be confined to the fringes, which is predictably sad or joyful, depending on one’s personal political inclination.

    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2501/S00020/the-bill-for-individualism-corporations-and-neoliberalism.htm [from RH Media feeds]

    Mainstream media are not covering this Bill.

    No hits on RNZ website in the last week.

    One letter on Stuff website that raises the same pertinent point:

    Why is there so little media coverage and political debate around this bill?

    https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360521752/letters-editor

    Nothing on the NZ Herald’s (of course).

    One mention on Newsroom:

    https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/04/anne-salmond-hunger-games-in-the-beehive/ [excellent piece by Anne Salmond with a very good discussion in the Comments]

    By design and timing this Bill is overshadowed by the Treaty Principles Bill, which is aggravated by the one-week extension for submissions on that Bill.

    Several trees fallen or burnt down in the forest, but nobody reported it, so nobody knows about it [no reference to LA fires that have been trending on Google Trends, but don’t tell Alwyn].

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