AM - From the Parramatta River to the Harbour @amulla

Big up, Uncle Ian Wright for speaking up, and he's 100% correct. Look how Qatar got dragged when they were hosting the World Cup.

Israel completely destroyed Hussein’s restaurant and resort in southern Lebanon. One of the most beautiful places in the south is now ashes

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Hadi @HadiNasrallah

4 months ago

🇱🇧 This is Hussein Fayad, a Lebanese chef cooking for the displaced Lebanese civilians across the country. Let’s help him by donating here: fundahope.com/en/campaigns/l…

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In 2011, Joseph Mizzi travelled to Zambia to donate bicycles to schoolchildren. He arrived and found that the reason children needed bicycles was a seven-kilometre walk to the nearest school, each way. He went back to New York and built something more permanent instead. What followed was a school, a health clinic, teacher housing, and landscaping across 100 acres in Chipakata Village. The design breaks from the standard linear classroom block separating rooms, opening space between them, placing everything under a wide metal canopy that lifts above the roofline to let heat escape and air move through. Masonry base. Timber. Local materials throughout. The community pavilion was raised with the participation of the village people themselves. The agricultural fields surrounding the school generate food for the students and income for the facility. The school funds itself by feeding the land that feeds it back. This is what aid to Africa should look like. Not a cash transfer that dissolves into overhead and corruption before it reaches a child. A building. A field. A skill transferred to the hands that will maintain it after the donor has gone home. Infrastructure that the community owns because the community built it. Cash is the easiest thing to give. It is also the easiest thing to lose. Permanent structures, working land, and trained local hands are harder to misplace. Chipakata Children’s Academy, Chipakata Village, Zambia 🇿🇲 | Susan Rodriguez (Ennead Architects) + Frank Lupo + Randy Antonia Lott | 14+ Foundation | 20,000 sq.ft | 2015 | 📷 Rob Duker, Fabian Bedolla

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Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.

RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa

2 months ago

"Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah?" Little British patriots grow up.

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No condemnation from our politicians. No outrage from the media. No action by the police. British Muslims are sent a clear message: You are fair game for hatred.

Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar

2 months ago

This is vile, but because it’s targeted at Muslims, the Met Police don’t care. Imagine if a pro-Palestine march had someone on stage mocking Orthodox Jewish women.

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Please retweet.

Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins

2 months ago

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours: “On 30

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The most important thing America exported in the post-WWII period was not consumer goods. It was not democracy. It was not culture, though that came close. It was the dollar. The Bretton Woods system made the dollar the global reserve currency. Every country that wants to trade internationally needs dollars. Every commodity, especially oil, is priced in dollars. Every country must maintain dollar reserves. The United States can run trade deficits indefinitely because demand for its currency is structurally guaranteed by the architecture of global trade. This is called "exorbitant privilege," a phrase coined by a French finance minister in the 1960s who understood exactly what it meant. It means the United States gets to consume more than it produces, indefinitely, because the world needs its currency. It means sanctions are a weapon of mass economic destruction because cutting a country off from dollar systems is cutting it off from the global economy. It means the Federal Reserve's domestic monetary policy decisions, interest rate changes made for American economic reasons, immediately affect the debt servicing costs of every country that has borrowed in dollars, which is most of them. No one elected the Federal Reserve to govern the global economy. It governs the global economy anyway. The ladder was not just industrial policy. The ladder was also this. The ladder was the whole system.

Here is the complete architecture of how you keep a poor country poor while convincing its educated class that this is their own fault: Step one: During colonialism, extract capital, destroy domestic industry, structure the economy around export of raw materials. Step two: Grant formal independence while maintaining the economic structure, the debt obligations, the currency arrangements, and the trade relationships established under colonialism. Step three: When the economy underperforms, as it must, being structurally designed for extraction, not development, offer loans conditional on policies that deepen the existing structure. Step four: Train the country's economists in Western universities where the theories taught do not acknowledge steps one through three as economically relevant. Step five: Staff international institutions and domestic finance ministries with these economists. Step six: When the policies fail, attribute failure to cultural factors, corruption, and weak institutions. Step seven: Publish a report with recommendations. Step eight: Return to step three. The machine runs on its own now. The colonial administrator retired. The indebted finance minister presenting his structural adjustment plan to the IMF board doesn't think of himself as administering colonialism. He has a PhD from LSE. He genuinely believes the model. This is not a conspiracy. It is an education system.

Este hombre se llama Mohamed Bzeek, vive en California y esa niña que tiene en brazos murió pocos días después de que le hicieran la foto, también en sus brazos. No era su hija. Era uno de los diez niños que han muerto bajo su cuidado. Porque Bzeek es padre de acogida y solo acoge a niños en estado terminal, para que no mueran solos. Nació en Trípoli en 1954, antes de irse de Libia corría maratones. En 1978 entró en Estados Unidos con un visado de estudiante y allí se quedó. Vive en Azusa, una de esas localidades del extrarradio de Los Ángeles por donde circulan camiones y donde las casas tienen una pinta genérica, agrupadas sin llamar la atención. En 1989 conoció a Dawn Rowe, que ya era madre de acogida desde principios de los ochenta, se casaron y empezaron a acoger juntos. En 1995 tomaron la decisión de dedicarse exclusivamente a niños con enfermedades terminales, los que nadie quería. Me pregunto cómo fue ese momento exacto en que dos personas se sientan en una cocina y deciden que van a abrir su casa a los niños que se mueren, y en cómo esa decisión se toma, sin actas, sin nada que la registre, y sin embargo organiza el resto de una vida. La primera niña que murió en su casa tenía un año, espina bífida, parte de la columna le crecía fuera de la piel. Murió el 4 de julio de 1991, mientras Mohamed se duchaba y Dawn preparaba la cena, él recuerda haber salido del baño y haber encontrado médicos en su salón. Lloró tres días. Desde entonces ha acogido a unos ochenta niños, diez han muerto en sus brazos. El condado de Los Ángeles, cuatro millones de habitantes, lo llama cuando no hay nadie más. Lo llaman el padre de último recurso. Muchos llegan sin nombre, nacen en hospitales y los abandonan, las familias no los nombran y en el papel pone "Baby boy", "Baby girl". Mohamed los nombra, les pone un nombre antes de que mueran. Un nombre es gratis, cuatro sílabas, pero ese gesto, cuando se pone el nombre, decide si un niño que vivirá tres semanas existirá como persona o como registro administrativo. Su hijo biológico, Adam, nació con osteogénesis imperfecta y enanismo, se ha roto casi todos los huesos del cuerpo. Dawn murió en 2015 de una enfermedad pulmonar y desde entonces Mohamed sigue solo, solo puede ocuparse de un niño a la vez. Cuando un periodista del Los Angeles Times entró en su casa en 2017 cuidaba de una niña de seis años con microcefalia, ciega, sorda, pies zambos, caderas dislocadas, no movía brazos ni piernas, tenía convulsiones. La había recibido con siete semanas de vida y le habían dicho que viviría unos meses. La sostenía durante las convulsiones y le hablaba aunque no oyera. Sé que no puede oír, sé que no puede ver, pero le hablo, tiene sentimientos, es un ser humano. En 2016, a Bzeek le diagnosticaron cáncer de colon, le pidió tiempo al médico, no puedo operarme todavía, tengo a un niño en casa que es terminal y tengo a mi hijo, que es discapacitado, no hay nadie más para ellos. En el hospital, ingresado, solo, dijo que por primera vez entendió lo que sentían los niños que cuidaba. Si yo a esta edad estoy asustado, cómo estarán ellos. Se operó y siguió. Bzeek es musulmán practicante. Su historia se hizo internacional en febrero de 2017, justo cuando Trump firmó la orden ejecutiva que vetaba la entrada en Estados Unidos a ciudadanos de siete países de mayoría musulmana, Libia era uno de ellos. Ese mismo mes, en Azusa, el único padre de acogida de toda la ciudad de Los Ángeles dispuesto a llevarse a casa a los niños terminales era un libio musulmán. Aunque mi corazón se rompa, dijo una vez, la muerte es parte de la vida, estoy con ellos hasta el final, los conforto, los quiero, quiero que sientan que tienen una familia, que tienen a alguien. Que no están solos.

More shameless Israeli hypocrisy. They bulldozed the graves of Australian diggers in Gaza. Knowing full well what they were doing.

Sharren Haskel השכל שרן @SharrenHaskel

3 months ago

As we observe ANZAC Day this Saturday, we honor the bravery and sacrifice of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who played a decisive role in the liberation of this land. The State of Israel will never forget the deep historical bond forged between our nations, and remains

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BBC BROKE EQUALITY LAW AND GOT CAUGHT Carrie Gracie spent 30 years at the @BBC. She spoke fluent Mandarin. She ran the Beijing bureau. She was one of four international editors, two men and two women. Then in 2017 the BBC was forced to publish salary data. Gracie looked at what her male equivalent, the North America editor, was earning. He was on nearly double her salary. She had explicitly said equal pay was a condition of taking the China role. The BBC agreed. Then quietly paid her far less anyway. She asked for equal pay. The BBC offered her a raise that still left her below the men. She turned it down. She resigned from the China post in January 2018 and published an open letter telling the licence fee public exactly what their broadcaster was doing. The BBC then put her through nearly a year of an internal grievance process that went nowhere. It took three meetings with the Director-General and the threat of an employment tribunal before she got a public apology and the backdated pay owed to her. The total came to £361,000. She donated every penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety), the gender equality charity. She said the fight was about principle, not the payout. A publicly funded institution, legally obligated to follow equality law, paid women less than men in identical roles, got caught, dragged it out for a year, and only coughed up under threat of a tribunal. That is not a pay oversight. That is a policy. Gracie did not ask for a favour. She asked for what she was owed. The BBC made her fight for it like it was a privilege. Sources: @BBCNews, @guardian, @thetimes, @Independent.

They could barely bring themselves to say her name and when they did used the dog whistle “Hezbollah aligned” in order to dehumanise Amal and justify her killing by I$rael. Amal Khalil was a friend to me and many others having worked in the field since the 2006 war. What she did was unique, reporting from the south and raising the voices of the people there who are subjected to brutal treatment and attacks from I$rael. Amal had herself received numerous death threats, some warning her to leave and if she didn’t her head would be removed from her shoulders. It’s a testament to her that she defied those threats and up until the end continued to expose I$raeli war comes. She was a brave and courageous journalist, a daughter of the south and her mic and her pen was a tribune of the people. This is what made her so dangerous, with I$rael fearing a camera and a pen more than a Hezb0llah fighter. Her body wasn’t “found under the rubble” as though it had been mysteriously placed there. I$rael targeted a car in front of her, when she sheltered in a building it was struck collapsing it, then the emergency operations were delayed for at least 7 hours as ambulances and civil defence workers were fired on. This was a deliberate assassination and a war crime. But try as they might they will never stop journalists here from reporting the truth.

Sky News @SkyNews

3 months ago

BREAKING: The body of a Lebanese journalist has been found under the rubble after an Israeli strike. Sky's @DiMagnaySky reports. @SkyYaldaHakim | trib.al/zff6Z7W

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Amal Khalil was alive for hours. She phoned her family and the Lebanese military for help. People followed in horror as her colleagues updated the world on what was happening. And yet Israel blocked the Red Cross from reaching her for seven hours. That is stone cold murder.

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand

3 months ago

"Khalil was trapped alive under rubble for hours, having made a phone call to her family and the Lebanese military for help, Qudah told CNN on Thursday. 'The Red Cross was blocked for seven hours and when they reached her after seven hours, she was already dead,” she said. 'This

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Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon. Every. Single. One. All journalists. Targeted and assassinated intentionally. For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

Well here we are. The Israeli envoy has led universities to indulge in book destruction. We all know what kind of societies ban & burn books. Not even on the basis of book content! Attack on Aboriginal works for the sake of hiding genocide by foreign regime. Shameful stupidity.

tim anderson @timand2037

3 months ago

Authors dump UQP after "shameful" Zionist censorship. Prize winning author Evelyn Araluen: "You have made a decision today to destroy culture, to destroy story, and to destroy any pretence of integrity UQP might have once held in the community,"  abc.net.au/news/2026-04-2…

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This is a picture of my grandfather with his parents and siblings, taken in Jerusalem in 1934. My Christian family lived in Jerusalem continuously since the time of Jesus, and our family tree that we have today can trace our roots back to around 1400 in Palestine, though it goes much further than we can track. Until 1948, when Zionist terrorists ethnically cleansed them from their city, stole their home, personal belongings, clothes, documents, books, money, and properties… and turned them into refugees overnight. Today, NONE of my family lives in Jerusalem. ZERO. Not a single one. And that is because of Israel, not Muslims.

BREAKING: Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was just found under the rubble in Al-Tiri, South Lebanon. Israel hunted her down, and dropped bombs on the house where she had taken refuge — assassinating her. This was deliberate.

“I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me.” Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil speaking before she was killed by Israel.

Morgan McSweeney telling Sir Philip Barton, the former top civil servant at the Foreign Office, to bypass security for Mandelson’s appointment: “Just F…ing approve it” Anyone still believe McSweeney had his phone stolen?