On Saturday, July 29, a march and rally in opposition to a neo-Nazi gathering, organised by the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, was held in Sunshine West. Assembling outside a local supermarket in the early afternoon, the rally marched to Continue reading

The passing of Sinad OConnor last week shocked the world and rekindled discussions about the urgency of treating mental health issues, writes Jenny LeComte.

CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses mental health issues and suicide

IRISH singer-songwriter, political activist and warrior queen, Sinad OConnor, spent her entire life searching for meaning but sadly never really found it prior to her death at the age of 56. She trembled with the truths she felt compelled to tell and was a brave, often brash, polarising, divisive and cathartic figure.

She was born Sinad Marie Bernadette OConnor in Dublin on 8 December 1966, later changing her name to Shuhada Sadaqat when she converted to Islam, although she continued to perform under the stage name of Sinad OConnor.

The third of five children, Sinad had a horrific childhood and was plagued with mental health issues throughout her life. At the age of 15, she was placed in a Magdalene asylum for 18 months because her shoplifting and truancy had gotten out of control. Discussing her experience in later life, Sinead said of her time in the asylum, I have never and probably will never experience such panic and terror and agony over anything.

In June 1993, Sinad wrote a letter to The Irish Times in which she alluded to extreme physical and mental abuse by her mother. This was later confirmed by her brother, Joseph.

She poignantly wrote:

If only I can fight off the voices of my parents and gather a sense of self-esteem, then Ill be able to REALLY sing.

She said later that month:

Our family is very messed up. We cant communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I, for one, am in agony.

From about the age of 15, Sinad became interested in music as a means of sublimating her awful childhood. Through an ad she placed in Hot Press...

Offshore gas exploration permit 38602, held by Todd Energy, was due to expire today, and I was looking forward to announcing its demise. First granted in 1993 to Todd Energy, it was apparently the site of a gas discovery in 2004. But rather than exploit it, Todd sat on it for twenty years, repeartedlyt extending the permit for "appraisal" to ensure they could claim the value of this "asset" on their books. The most recent extension was in 2019, and was one of the first signs of the emptiness of labour's offshore gas ban. But when I checked today, it looks like Todd have applied to convert it into a mining permit.

This is perfectly legal, thanks to Labour's chickenshittery. While they banned issuing new offshore petroleum permits, a sneaky little transition clause buried in a schedule ensures that reapplications must be determined "as if the Amendment Act had not been enacted". Because we wouldn't want that "ban" to actually mean anything, would we? But the new Crown Minerals Amendment Bill (currently waiting for its committee stage) seems to fix this, with a new transition clause saying that existing applications will be determined in accordance with the amended Act (which of course includes the offshore ban). The question now is whether Labour will actually pass this before the election, or whether by cowardice and chickenshittery they'll effectively enable a continuation of offshore drilling, in violation of their own "ban". And if they do, will voters tolerate that gutlessness at the ballot box?

[For the curious, I'm tracking petroleum permits here. The next expiry after this isn't until December next year, though if we're lucky we'll see some surrenders as a result of "drill or drop" clauses]

Temperature records are being broken everywhere, Europe is on fire, the Gulf Stream is about to collapse, so of course National reannounces its perennial election policy of "more roads!", coupled of course with "less public transport".

There are plenty of reasons to hate this - sprawl, dodgy costs, National punishing cities who don't vote for them - but the big one is simple: this is the exact opposite of what we need in a climate crisis. More roads equals more traffic equals more emissions equals more fires, floods, and cyclones. Its a clear sign that National just doesn't get it on the biggest challenge facing Aotearoa. And that means they're unfit to govern.

Labor must establish a safe haven for koalas and put an end to the destruction of their habitat, writes Sue Arnold. 

POLITICAL HYPOCRISY needs to be exposed. "Keeping the bastards honest" is the legitimate role of the fourth estate. 

The promise to establish a Great Koala National Park by the incoming NSW Labor government is the best example of this hypocrisy.

A national park dedicated to koalas would be a global first. A uniquely Australian park that recognised the importance of this iconic species, now facing extinction. Creating the park is more than a NSW state issue. In Indigenous culture, there are many koala dreamings, their loss kills country.

Koalas are struggling to survive. Time is of the essence.  

Environment Minister Penny Sharpe has repeatedly said the park will be established in the first term of government". The term is four years and theres no guarantee of a second term.

In reality, the establishment of the park could take another three-plus years. Meantime, the Forestry Corporation is allowed to log koala hubs in the proposed park for the next 12 months. If the establishment of the park is not undertaken until the last year of government, how much more logging will be allowed?

The evidence of double-speak and in-fighting in government between forestry interests and koala survival is hard to ignore.  Agencies contradict each other.  Its increasingly obvious koalas are in the way of political expediency.

The Minister continues to assert in the mainstream media that Labor gave a commitment in its pre-election promise that there would not be a moratorium on forestry activities".

The assertion doesnt stack up.  IA has gone through every press release, article, comment to find any Labor...

Greg Sheridan made an interesting comment on Insiders where he told us that if the Voice fails to get up that means that Peter Dutton is not a racist because most people agree with him. Interesting logic. Does that mean that the American South werent racist for excluding African-Americans from certain places because most people

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Amare Love.

Nocere Hurt.

Redemptionis Redemption.

*

Amare Love.

Should it happen, that curiosity was to ask me,

What need drives you to write such turgid poetry,

I believe Id be hard-pressed to give answer logically,

Except to say I am drive by a thread attached to me.

A thread invisible to the eye, words, emotions, symmetry..

That draws together feelings so difficult to explain in plain prosetry,

Ariadnes golden thread through the labyrinth of relationships.

And in that eureka moment of discovery,

Everything changes..for in that instant,

What was dull..shines, tedious..exciting, mundane..delights,

All is turned on its head..one springs from bed,

Ready and keen to face the world..All is hooray!

Can there be enough hours in the day..?

Likewise is the love of so many things,

Be it country, family, culture.. that special occasion.

Surely it is that woven thread of sensitive familiarity,

The eyes, the soul, the heavenly spirituality,

That beckons the heart to risk all for companionship,

Lest a thing so precious is wrenched from our grasp!

That, is the best I can make of this mystery called Love.

*

Nocere Hurt.

It is dangerous to love too much, my mother warned,

And I could see in her eyes a hungered look of forlorn,

For I wondered on such an unsolicited confidance,

Could it be from an experienced and hurtful incident,...

Finally an explanation for why the reptiles have assiduously avoided mentioning any climate news at either the top of the digital edition or on the front page of the tree killer version. 

They were waiting for some Killer science to disperse idle talk and false alarums ...

Killer, it will be remembered, is not just an expert in Covid and masks, he's also an expert in climate science and there's absolutely no reason to put quote marks about that expert use of 'expert':

 

Should a re...

Australias official media watchdog is no longer fulfilling its intended purpose, reports Alan Austin.

A CAMPAIGN OF malicious lies about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media is well underway. This highlights the urgent need for mechanisms to alert Australians to deliberate falsehoods so they can be stopped in their tracks.

Unfortunately the Australian Press Council (APC) is not achieving this end. This is a great pity, as this column has long supported the Council.

Take the latest adjudication as an illustration. The Council criticised the Daily Telegraph on 7 June this year for an article published in March 2020 reporting a 2019 manslaughter trial. The APC judged the article had referred to the victim as transgender when her gender status was not relevant to the offence.

The lag between writing the defective article and its exposure as breaching APC standards is more than three years. That is far too long if the remedial process is to have any effect on current events.

Offenders never named and shamed

We know the offending story was run in News Corps Daily Telegraph and possibly other Murdoch outlets. But we are not told who wrote it, or the editor who approved the final shonky version.

Covering up offenders names diminishes the educative purpose of an adverse APC decision and reduces the punitive effect close to zero. Who at the Daily Tele, or anywhere else, needs to do anything differently following this ruling?

Prioritising...

IMAGE: Weatherzone Australia, 07.10.2021

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27 JULY 2023

Press Conference by Secretary-General Antnio Guterres at United Nations Headquarters

Following is the transcript of UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres press conference on climate and the situation in Niger, in New York today:

I have now seen the Barbie movie. It is not a children's film, but deals with issues of the meaning of life from a feminist perspective. It is useful to look at because it connects feminist politics with a modern metaphysics - and we get to see what is lost in the process.

I do need to set out the basic plot to explain this (so...spoiler alert). We begin in Barbie land which is a matriarchy where not only do the Barbies rule politically, but the Kens (the male dolls) are merely accessories. The Kens try to impress the Barbies but the Barbies aren't that interested, as every night is girls night.

Then Barbie is afflicted with an existential angst and is forced to go to the real world (where humans live). Barbie had expected to be greeted there as a heroine who had empowered women; instead, the patriarchy still rules. Ken loves that he gets some respect in the real world and returns to Barbie land to set up a patriarchy of his own. Barbie gets to meet her creator in the real world, and then returns to Barbie land with a mother, Gloria, and her daughter. Together they attempt to restore the matriarchy.

The best place to begin in analysing the film is with the metaphysics. Barbie's creator (a God figure) tells Barbie that "I created you so you wouldn't have an ending", i.e. that there are no ends or purposes to her life, but that she must choose for herself what she will be and do. The assumption in the film is that there is no given meaning to things, none given by a creator, so that everything is made up by ourselves and that we as humans subjectively create our own meaning and purpose.

This is the essential frame through which all else follows. What you see in the film is how some things, once thought to be a core aspect of being human, radically lose meaning within this frame.

This is particularly true of relationships between men and women. Some reviewers complained that the film was man-hating. I didn't find this to be so, not directly at least. The men are nearly all well-intentioned. The problem is that...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's tome understandably sacrifices depth for breadth, writes Elizabeth Spiegel. 

THIS BOOK IS a monster: its 1,262 dense pages (plus index) weigh 1.5kg. The 'select bibliography', available from the authors website, is a 140-page pdf; a pity that supplementary material could not also have included family trees and more maps than the two included on the endpapers.

Its content ranges across four millennia and every inhabited continent. This is not a book for the casual browser: if you dont pay attention, its easy to lose track of who is related to whom, particularly when one individual may be referred to by multiple names or titles. Switches in focus can induce whiplash: at one point the text refers to an attack on Constantinople; a footnote informs the reader that on the other side of the world, Teotihuacan burned in a popular uprising.

Perhaps because the focus of this book is families; many women appear, not only in their relationships with men as concubines, mothers and wives, but also as writers, rulers, fighters and businesswomen.

The first author whose name we know, Enheduanna, was a priestess and princess of the Akkadian empire two thousand years before Christ. In 1782, the widow Helene Amalie Krupp brought out of bankruptcy the company which would go on to arm Germany. The mother of Shaka Zulu, Mnkabayi, plotted against him. Simon Bolvars lover, Manuela Senz, fought beside him to drive the Spanish from Peru.

Unsurprisingly in a book of this size, there are errors, some of which are apparent from context: Galvano Fiamma referred to the east coast of North America in his Cronica Universalis in 1339, not 1139, while Lord Shrewsburys parliamentary attack on Buckingham was in 1674, not 1774. The wreck of the Batavia is described as taking place on 'one of the VOCs first voyages to Australia'.

I had to wonder at the statement that Zulu King Shaka w...

By Denis Bright   Decades ago in 1951 the ANZUS Pact promised ongoing consultations about strategic policies within the US Global Alliance. Now, from the elite surroundings of Queenslands Government House in Brisbane, media statements from AUSMIN have taken everyone back to school days. Our elected leaders are now the principals in a frightening

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It was there for all to see. Embarrassing, cloying, and bound make you cough up the remnants of your summit lunch, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III stopped by one of the vassal states to make sure that the meal and military service was orderly, the troops well behaved,

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Despite the polarised debate surrounding Barbie, we should all remember that the film primarily benefits its commercial overlords, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

AS THE ancient Greeks reminded us, bone-cold definitions as starting points are essential in any discussion. One current discussion, insignificant to posterity but amusing for advertisers and the presently bored, is the ludicrous reactions to a plastic doll rendered into celluloid form. 

And as a doll, it can be no other. Mattels Barbie has become, courtesy of Greta Gerwig, a talking point so silly it deserves to be treated trivially. But money, advertising and Mattel wont allow that.

Commentators, whatever their ilk, cannot help themselves. Evidently struggling to earn a crust or two, Jourdain Searles asks two banal questions. 

This first:

'In a cinematic landscape drowning in IP, would a live-action film about the Barbie doll, Mattels flagship toy, be held up as proof of the continued commodification of cinema as an artform?'

The second is not much of an improvement:

'And in a more progressive cultural landscape, could a woman-directed film about Barbie dolls be feminist?'

Not necessarily.

The New York Times does not disappoint in its silliness: 'Can a doll with an ingratiating smile, impossible curves and boobs ready for liftoff be a feminist icon?' No, it cannot, but stating something so embarrassingly asinine is very much in character with this field. 

From the conservative, domestic, home stove huggers, this is distinctly not on. Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire lamented the unironic use of 'the word "patriarchy" more than 10 times'. Toby Young in...

Before getting on to a generous serve of bothsiderism and whataboutism, the pond realised it was remiss yesterday and didn't feature the lizard Oz tree killer edition, and what a beauty it was, with the demonic Fauci risen from the grave to dominate, hand on worried forehead, exuding black and white criminality...

Is there an irony in the lizard Oz denouncing the silencing of science, while routinely disappearing climate science and climate change news into the cornfield? 

Possibly, but the pond was too overwhelmed to notice. Sunday is a quieter time, a time for a little prattle and a few cartoons and guests overlooked in yesterday's comments section ...

Now there were some doozies. Ramesh Thakur's reference to "sectarian ancestry" was beyond the valley of the fruity. 

In ancient times, the pond understood that "sectarian" as a tribal thing, as per the dictionary definition of an excessive attachment to a particular sect or party, especially in religion. Suddenly...

Using sectarian ancestry as the organising principle to add a chapter to the nations foundational governance document will inject the poison of race-based preferential access to parliament and government into the heart of the body politic.

What was even more astonishing was the tag:

Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor at ANUs Crawford School of Public Policy and is a former UN assistant secretary-general.

The pond...

9:15 It looks like weve got most of the 2PP count well get tonight and the swing is sitting on just over 22%, which is pretty substantial but Labor will still retain the seat easily.

8:04 Were getting a 2PP count now, but we dont have a sense of where the booths are coming from. At the moment this count has about half as many votes as the primary vote count and Labor is on 67%, which would be a swing of just over 20%.

7:54 Labor will clearly win this seat. Its not clear what the final margin will be but it should be reasonably safe. The Liberal is currently on 17.65%, trailing Labor on 49.81%. That leaves over 32% of the vote available as preference flows. If those split evenly, that would leave Labor on about 66%. Much less than in 2021, but still very solid.

7:33 The primary vote swing against Labor is generally over 30%, ranging from 29.3% at Safety Bay Senior High School to 37.4% at Hillman PS. But not very much of that swing is going to the Liberals. The swing to the Liberal Party is ranging from 3.1% at Safety Bay PS to 7.9% at East Waikiki PS. Over 10% of the vote has gone to Legalise Cannabis, and over 15% has gone to independents, mostly to Hayley Edwards.

7:16 I hadnt been planning to cover this but I am back home now so I might drop in a few comments.

For now we dont have a 2CP count. So far we have primary vote counts in five out of ten booths. At the moment Labor is on 48.5% of the primary vote, with the Liberal candidate second on 15%. Independent candidate Edwards is very close to the Liberal on 14.8%. Apparently the WAEC will be holding back on the 2CP count until it becomes clearer who will make that count.

6:00 Polls have just closed in the by-election for the Western Australian state seat of Rockingham.

Im out tonight so wont be covering this by-election but feel free to use this post to discuss the results.

You can read my guide to Rockingham here.

Senior Australian conservative figures continue to attend conferences backed by illiberal Hungarian leader Viktor Orban. The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) hosted its 2023 London Summit in late June, featuring Alexander Downer and Greg Sheridan as two of the five speakers. Australians must focus on connections between our Right with Hungarian fascistic politics.  Peter Browne of

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All they (the secret corporations masquerading as government) want is money, not justice Cal Washington, co-founder InPower

There are so many stories of all-powerful government oppressing the isolated individual in the past three years that can make one depressed and apathetic. But the real-life story of a Christian construction contractor in Canada trying to figure out how to beat predatory divorce court system has spawned a grass roots legal education movement called InPower that gives citizens tools and information as to how to win over tyrannical courts, hospitals banks, energy companies and green power cooperatives.  This effort has resulted in ten top judges, government officials and public utility officers around the world stepping down from their positions for fear of massive financial liability, including the top un-elected official in Canada and the premier of Western Australia. Say what?! Read on.

After some failures and unanticipated successes over the last five years, InPowers legal method is now moving into stopping the assumed compulsory installation of smart meters, vaccine mandates, and obtaining settlements for mysterious fire storms on homes with smart meters installed.  Maybe stopping the roll out of digital banking will be next?  After all the bad news it is almost unbelievable.

Cal Washington and two other partners have founded InPower, a non-lawyer, self-help legal education organization to assist local groups around the world to use the hidden legal structure of corporations, masquerading as government, against themselves.  InPower is not a profit-making enterprise but a membership organization.  To get this far, Washington has over the past 10 years had to endure seemingly un-ending divorce court proceedings, shake downs by double-dealing lawyers on both sides who worked against him to enrich themselves and jail sentences to intimidate him to drop his legal cases.  Washington is not some hateful radical but a mild mannered, rational person who is apparently motivated out of religious values.

Why InPower Works

Washington explains that the breakthrough for him in his understanding of how the legal system works was when he took a course in commerce law. Through this course he discovered that most government agencies and courts are corporations, not government entities, including the USA and your local incorporated city (not charter cities).  As we are painfully finding out, private corporations like Twitter and Google are not bound by the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights guaranteeing its users free speech.  Neither are the courts, your local public health department, and many other agencies that Washington says masquerade as government entities. And, like all cor...

Some years ago, in Australia, I appeared on a platform with a prominent intellectual, many times more famous than I. We were asked what it took to be good.

The famous intellectual, who had had a brilliant career, answered that in order to be good, you had to be intelligent. When my turn came to answer, I said that the previous answer was not only wrong in fact but appalling in its implications.

It seemed to me, I said, that there was no connection between intelligence and goodness, and since the previous speaker was obviously referring to the 1 percent of the population or so that she thought might be approximately her intellectual equal, she was in effect saying that the vast majority of human beings could not be good. I count myself a misanthrope, but I am not as misanthropic as that.

She tried to deny that she had said any such thing, but the audience corrected her: She had indeed said it, and, without resorting to Freudian analysis, I think it revealed her true belief in the matter.

I know what she meant, however. To be good, you must have the right opinions about important abstract questions affecting humanity, and to have those you must be well-informed and capable of drawing correct conclusions from a large amount of information. In short, to be good you must both be highly intelligent and agree with me.

The intelligent are much given to the sin of pride, a sin that is not shared, in my experience, by the truly brilliant. Charles Dickens, for example, who knew himself to be a man of genius and called himself the Inimitable (which he certainly was), once wrote that he held his talent in trust. He meant by this that it was God-given and he had a duty to use it for the benefit of mankind. Few people have worked harder than he, but no amount of effort by itself would have sufficed to produce so many immortal characters and pages. For reasons that will never be elucidated, he was born with a spark that the rest of us do not have.

The idea of goodness as having the right ideas on abstract questions is a godsend to mediocrities. It allows them to learn and repeat a few phrases or formulae and think that they are good and therefore ought to have a special role to play in the direction of society.

I have no disdain for mediocrity and mediocrities as such; they are, indeed, very necessary to the functioning of any society, as is hypocrisy. (Try to imagine a world without hypocrisyhow dull, frightening, and unbearable it would be! There is, of course, hypocrisy and hypocrisy, of the laudable and necessary, and of the abominable and dangerous, kind, with everything in between.)

Mediocrity is very well in its place; among other things, it oils the wheels of administration. Much has to be done routinely, and if everyone were constantly brimming with brilliant ideas demanding that they be put immediately into practice, chaos would result. Besides, many people like to lead their lives....

As the ancient Greeks reminded us, bone cold definitions as starting points are essential in any discussion. One current discussion, insignificant to posterity but amusing for advertisers and the presently bored, is the ludicrous reactions to a plastic doll rendered into celluloid form. And as a doll, it can be no other. Mattels Barbie has

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From country to rock, indie to Indigenous, it's been an exciting week for Australian music, including a win for a band more people need to know about. IA music man David Kowalski shows us why Australia's music scene is still world-class.

DMA's WINNING THE HOTTEST 100

In the news this week is the recent Triple J Hottest 100 event marking 20 years of the breakfast show staple, Like a Version, where musicians both local and international are asked to play a cover song of their choosing. Listeners were asked to vote for their favourite moments from the segment.

The winner was Sydney band the DMA's doing their cover of the 1999 Cher track, Believe. The sad thing is that for a lot of Australians, this cover is the only DMA's performance they are aware of, as exemplified by the fact that they had to play it during the halftime entertainment at the AFL grand final in 2020.

The fact that they play the main stages of huge festivals like Glastonbury and The Isle of Wight in the UK every year or two seems lost on those that program playlists in Australian media circles.

Congratulations to the band on picking up the win. Personally, I think the voting constituency did Alex Lahey a "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Chemical_Romance" target= "_blank">My Chemical Romances Welcome To The Black Parade into...

As correspondents have noted, The Weekly Beast is once again full of essential information, not least the penny-pinching antics at News Corp, as the bean counters draw the line at tree killer rags infiltrating the bunker ...

Meanwhile, delusions of grandeur erupted last night and continued apace this morning, in a splendid Sharri-style shyte show... with one illustration the pond's personal favourite ...

For those wondering, the first source cited in this lizard Oz World Exclusive Investigation was this dude ...

<p><a href= "https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/fascism-will-fall-when-action-speaks-louder-than-words,17759?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed" title= "View Information: Fascism will fall when action speaks louder than words"> <img alt="Fascism will fall when action speaks louder than words" src= "https://independentaustralia.net/_lib/slir/w1000/i/article/img/article-17759-hero.jpg" style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0;"></a></p> <p class="lead"><em>Supporting anti-fascist movements takes more than endless explaining online, it takes action to prevent neo-Nazi events from taking place, writes <a href= "http://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/tom-tanuki,905" target= "_blank">Tom Tanuki</a>.</em></p> <p>THERE IS A neo-Nazi event being held today at a space called the Legacy Boxing Gym in Industrial Drive, Sunshine West. The gym was deregistered last year by <a href= "https://www.boxingvic.org.au/home/" target="_blank">Boxing Victoria</a> when <em><a href= "http://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/inside-the-melbourne-boxing-gym-with-a-neo-nazi-underbelly-20221223-p5c8ga.html" target="_blank">The Age</a></em> uncovered its White supremacist ties, but Legacy has persisted and now serves a strictly neo-Nazi clientele. </p> <p>National Socialist Network (<a href= "https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/power-of-the-people-derails-melbournes-neo-nazis,17531" target="_blank">NSN</a>) members are gathering from across Australia to do powerlifting, listen to shit Nazi bands, and luncheon together (their words). Anti-fascist group <a href="https://www.carf.melbourne/" target="_blank">Campaign Against Racism & Fascism has called a counter-rally to protest the event theyre meeting at 2 PM today at the Sunshine West IGA. (Attend. Bring a mate. Showing up is important.)</p> <p>I noticed a response to these events by a group called <a href= "https://trackingterrorism.org/" target="_blank">TRAC</a> (which stands for Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium). Specifically, I was stunned to see it post the whole and unadulterated NSN flyer to Twitter. It attached no analysis, no thought and certainly no call to oppose the event in any way. It included the link there for anybody interested to join the NSN Telegram channel, essentially serving as an ad for neo-Nazis on a big tech platform.</p> <p>I messaged the Australian anti-fascist research group the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseSocAU" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>, to ask them for more info on who TRAC is:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>TRAC promotes and disseminates extremist content for free on behalf of neo-Nazis, especially accelerationists. We saw them repost E...

Thank your teachers. In your individual case your teachers probably included your parents, family, siblings and almost definitely the teachers when you went to school. In your school, the teacher was the one that convinced you to put the effort in to learn how to read the squiggly lines on a page or a screen

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For most of my working life, I worked in marketing and advertising, so I know how people are influenced, persuaded or swayed by branding and repetitive advertising. Companies spend millions of dollars to brainwash you subtly, to align you with a specific brand, product or belief. The book Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard was written in 1957

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