Author: linda seymour

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In happy happy news Toby’s Estate Coffee Roasters in Sydney Australia was just named the best coffee shop in the world!!!! Yeah!!!!

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“Runners up were Onyx Coffee Lab of Arkansas, America, Gota Coffee Experts of Vienna, Austria, Proud Mary Coffee of Melbourne, Australia and Tim Wendelboe of Oslo, Norway.

The other top 10 coffee shops were from Singapore, France, Malaysia and Colombia” (via CNN and theworlds100bestcoffeeshops.com/top-100-coffee-shops)

posted 25 February 2025 – image by Zoe via unsplash – opinions on blog my own

(4 April 2024 – spent a blissful morning watching one my all time favourite things – Jon Stewart and The Daily Show is baaAAaack and all is right with the world ❤️ Highly recommend. Am such a fan of that talented human used to record every show to binge watch later in the week. Am ensuring the pencils are sharp, coffee cup filled, shoes polished, bowing repeatedly)

(21 January 2025)

Turning tears of sadness due to political horror into tears of laughter – Thank God for the brilliance of Jon Stewart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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(via CNN) “Kazakhstan’s Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve is a different place now than it was a decade ago. The delta ecosystem, which occupies around 4,000 square kilometers (1,603 square miles) across the country’s Almaty and Balkhash region, was devoid of large mammals, and its scrub, marshland, and woodland were degraded.

Fast-forward to 2024. Rare mammals like the Bukhara deer and the Kulan, a type of wild ass, graze on vegetation, surrounded by over 50 hectares of restored forest.

Thanks to the World Wildlife Fund and other environmentalists the region is about to welcome back an animal that hasn’t been seen in the wild there for over 70 years – the tiger.”

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17 December 2024 – in additional great news “Rewilding Argentina and Tompkins Conservation, are releasing jaguars into northeastern Argentina, in the hopes of reviving a lost population”

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2 May 2025 – via CNN

“Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of houses in villages across the country.

Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is experiencing one of the most rapid solar revolutions on the planet”

And thank you to some great politicians continuing to reduce coal use and striving to facilitate peace and prosperity.

posted 18 November 2024 – image by others

“Pour réaliser de grandes choses, il faut d’abord rêver” – Coco Chanel

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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28 July 2024 – CNN reported “French swimmer Leon Marchand – one of the host nation’s top hopes for gold in the pool – just absolutely destroyed his competition in the 400m individual relay and set an Olympic record while doing so” Éloge

30 July 2024 – Wow. Pan Zhanle. Wow 😎

2 August 2024 – Australia has won the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay and the Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay 😎 Meg Harris, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon, Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister, Brianna Throssell, Ariarne Titmus 🤩

(American swim team are leading the overall medal tally at this swim meet – it’s about seeing the positive)

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Truly great – congratulations ❤️

(opinions on blog my own – grasshoppers can dream)

(this morning was discussing America winning at cricket – welcome to the wonderful world of cricket – it has slightly blown our minds – proof positive America can do anything)

Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Prime Minister of Thailand ❤️

(originally posted 18 August 2024 – opinions on blog my own)

(22 January 2025

Some very good news ….

“Hundreds of same-sex couples are getting married in Thailand this week as the country recognises marriage equality for the first time”

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(image via BBC)

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(the best gadget ever – wooden or bamboo toothbrushes are warm to the touch and look stylish – every plastic toothbrush takes a long time to decompose hundreds of years – just saw bamboo toothbrushes like this on sale online in Australia for less than a dollar each and recommended and for sale at some dentists. Honestly didn’t know timber handled toothbrushes existed until this week)

Whilst snacking on wholegrains was reminded of my father’s love of gardening. Dad was an engineer that loved to discuss with wonder how a seed only a few millimeters in size could encode all the information required to build a tree – the information permanently stored until the correct temperature and moisture activated it and although seeds may look similar each is encoded with instructions to build a unique species of plant – an extraordinary piece of engineering.

We now have electron microscopes and 3D printers – seeds are cellulose and some other things – 3D printing seeds would be so so so so cool

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posted 21 April 2024 – image by Flavia via unsplash

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One of our favourite happy places

We have loved every second of every episode for decades

P. S. 

All studies show that teenagers that play video games have markedly higher IQ’s and social skills than those that use facebook

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An example of one of the great people was privileged to grow up around ….

Can remember (someone) as a short person (around ten) following me around all day when was volunteering at his fathers clinic – as a short person he had more knowledge and knew the job better than I did. Seeing his huge smiling head on a billboard again this morning made me laugh out loud (in a good way) Still one of the most dazzlingly brilliant, giant hearted and gifted people have ever seen. Have fun buddy ❤️

(although own properties here am no longer a permanent resident in oz – not relevant to anything just blurb)

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For anyone at all concerned about the spectacular crash of a few bureaucrats during the past few weeks …. it’s ok …. we can rebuild them ….

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yang Center for Bionics has successfully trialed a bionic leg that is fully controlled by the human nervous system, allowing them to talk and walk and move like anyone else. “With the new bionics, participants stated it was the happiest moment of their lives”

“Participants with the bionics increased their capabilities 41%, matching the ranges and abilities of people without amputations” “It feels natural, as if the bionics were made of flesh and bone. It’s as if the central brain isn’t aware there had been an amputation because the brain is getting normal sensations” Wow – world changing spectacularly great use of technology ❤️

(maybe one day for pets too)

(posted 6 July 2024 – opinions on blog my own – if we could recoup the trillions in tax payers funds some of those bureaucrats funneled that would be cool too)

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On the weekend the people of Iran elected Masoud Pezeshkian as their new President

President Masoud Pezeshkian is a former heart surgeon and has pledged reform and moderation in extraordinary beautiful Iran’s domestic and foreign policy

This post dedicated to Mahsa Amini, Abolfazl Aindezadeh and many others

Always remembered ❤️

(originally posted 8 July 2024 – opinions on blog my own – am not involved in politics and other than dreaming of flying through rainbows for a few nights a few weeks ago (had no idea why) had no idea elections were on in Iran and this election result is not being mentioned much by (western) media so wanted to mention)

Absolutely the best news have read all week ….

“French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inequalities in access to medications.”

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(originally posted 20 June 2024 – opinions on blog my own)

(8 July 2024 – am not involved in politics but the election result on the weekend in extraordinary beautiful France suggests the people of France actually love their President as much as we all do – genuinely is sweet watching the French squabble with President Macron – we know they love each other – in our opinion France is one of the healthiest and strongest democracies in the world

Kind of wish oz had lots of smaller political parties rather than the two-party system – lots of smaller parties seem more representative and less prone to corruption)

What was remarkable about this was the way the driver (partially shown standing on the left) was attempting to blame the tram driver apparently the tram should have swerved rather than crashing head on like that. Apparently this disaster is all the trams fault.

(many people have asked if the driver was Jill Biden – in the interests of accurate rather than censored reporting am able to confirm that it was not.

In my completely irrelevant opinion retirement from politics long overdue for a few dangerously incompetent stalky weird fibbing bureaucrats. Also irrelevant but am not a fan of Rump)

(entire planet in actual danger but am shushing now honest)

In the entire history of humanity 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded.

(25 June 2025 – “Almost one-third of Tuvalu’s population is seeking a landmark climate visa to live in Australia” of course they are welcome and could we stop mining coal please!)

In good news thanks to some great corporations and people during 2023 coal use in Germany reached its lowest amount for nearly seventy years (around 27% nationally) Coal use in Japan decreased around 7% last year. Despite the worst efforts of a few coal bureaucrats renewables are being installed rapidly by the private sector in Australia (currently around 80% renewables in NSW and increasing with the largest coal electricity plant in the country producing a quarter of NSW electricity set for early closure in around twelve months**) And many other countries similarly. “The Philippines is on track for an annual decline in coal-fired electricity output for the first time in nearly two decades”. Chile is closing coal electricity plants at a dazzling pace. Ireland closed its last coal-fired electricity plant in June 2025. South Korea has joined other countries in Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), committing to abandon all their coal-fired electricity generation. China more than doubled its solar capacity during 2023.

The International Energy Agency predicts renewables will overtake coal as the main energy source for electricity worldwide by early next year.

(23 July 2025 – in good news “according to a report compiled by multiple United Nations agencies 92.5% of all new electricity capacity added to the grid worldwide in 2024 came from renewables”)

(**2 June 2024 – Gosh “Reportedly sleazy Albanese-Min’s NSW Government inexplicably last week extended the operations of Earing for another two years the deal will use NSW tax payer funds to compensate any losses to Earing Coal Station up to $225m a year for those two years. Similarly, should Eraring turn a profit, it would pay the government 20% or no more than $40m a year.”

Wow $450million in tax payers funds funneled to the coal industry with maybe $80million paid to tax payers – aren’t corrupt talentless sleazy freemasons consistently not clever.

(29 May 2025 – am trying not to write on blog anymore but not-the-voice-freemason-sleaze-Albanese at it again this week

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(2 October 2024 – reportedly a week or so ago sleazy Albanese corruptly approved more coal mine extensions. Coal contributes more than half of global greenhouse emissions. A few hundred jobs per coal mine and coal puts at risk important high-revenue and high-employment industries such as hospitality, agriculture and drought/water security – putting the quality of life for generations of Australians at risk.

The majority of Australians would like to see a cessation of coal use and yet coal-guzzling sleaze Albanese keeps on approving more coal mines at huge huge cost to many)

(25 July 2025 – in very good news “the NSW court of appeal has overturned the approval of the largest coalmine expansion in the state after a community environment group successfully argued the planning commission failed to consider the impact of all of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions” (via the Guardian))

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(11 January 2025

Destruction including damage to property and loss of life due to fires is tragically happening more and more regularly having an enormous negative economic impact.

“Some utility companies in the state are already moving to bury power lines in fire-prone areas, although the process can cost millions of dollars per mile”

That is fibbing freemason costing of things there is no way it costs millions of dollars to dig only one mile of cable trench (even if under roads and buildings etc) if that’s the best estimate from contractors then the government can easily employ a dozen or so people directly to dig the cable trenches (easy to use small low-cost power tools with cameras attached that dig cable tunnels under roads or buildings – even skinny me can use them – push a button with one finger and watch it dig) Have watched them do it to ensure no damage to property they tunnelled under driveway and to house in less than an hour without breaking a sweat – the utility company arrived a day or so later to lay the cable (noticed them measuring it to the millimetre to bill) – and no subsidence in the many years since.

Power lines go underground.

Water. Water. Water.

And urgently cease use of coal – the largest contributor to greenhouse gases.

We have the same problem in some parts of Australia too.

In our thoughts and prayers.

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(8 April 2024 – truly great – solar electricity generation exceeds coal in Texas for the first time ever

Huge huge kudos ❤️

That’s some great people and some great corporations genuinely saving all life on earth

(full disclosure used to (work) at service stations when very short (was assembling carburetors etc before attended school) – am very much let the market and consumers decide – simply switch off coal and more than half way there to reduce greenhouse emissions – easily done and huge positive impact to reduce electricity costs to consumers and reducing the negative impact of extreme climate fluctuations including water shortages – bonus for humans and critters)

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(21 March 2024 – (via Aljazeera)

“Around 62 million tonnes of e-waste was generated in 2022 and only 22 percent of e-waste was properly collected and recycled in 2022. Currently, only 1 percent of the demand for the 17 minerals that make up the rare metals is met through recycling. Metals – including copper, gold, and iron – made up half of the e-waste and if recycled were worth around $91bn.”

A boom industry 😃  )

(Image by Emre via unsplash)

(20 June 2024 – “in the most recent edition of its highly regarded Levelised Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+) Analysis, US investment bank Lazard compares the cost of generating electricity from renewable technologies to conventional technologies, across various scenarios and sensitivities – the report finds that wind and solar power are half the cost of coal and gas and one-third the cost of nuclear” Lower cost reliable electricity for consumers makes a lot of sense – half the cost electricity bills for consumers seems pretty reasonable)

(27 January 2024 – ignore this – gosh – reportedly on Friday Biden cancelled permits he had previously issued for some upcoming gas drilling projects – yes but coal produces more than half of all greenhouse emissions globally and Biden has increased coal use domestically in less than a term and for the first time in more than a decade – please switch off the bloody coal electricity plants bureaucrat. Honestly.

Amongst a gazillion gazillion other appalling bureaucratic nonsense cancelling LNG projects on Australia Day thereby pushing more people onto using coal – absurd sleazy bureaucratic twit Biden. Consistently the worst approval rating of any bureaucrat this century and amongst a few of the worst in history absolutely earned by the deceitful Bidens. Honestly.

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(18 March 2024

“Global average ocean temperatures in 2023 were 0.25 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous year, that rise is “is equivalent to about two decades worth of warming in a single year,” he told CNN. “So it is quite large, quite significant, and a bit surprising” (via CNN)

1.5 degrees Celsius rise is extinction level for many species humans included.

Am typing this at a beach haven’t visited in around a decade – the seagulls are different than last time visited – much less of them and the seagulls look unhealthy – was thinking this morning (and last night) there should be more seagulls – a decade ago hundreds now only a few dozen. Perhaps not enough fish for them.

Action to reduce greenhouse emissions especially coal use is absolutely vital and easily done.

And reported by others this week Rio de Janeiro has just recorded an all time record temperature of 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.14 degrees Fahrenheit) – that is simply not survivable for many species humans included.

(28 March 2024 – (via CNN)

Apparently the earth’s rotation is being negatively effected by melting sea ice – “as ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which further slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation – the process is like a figure skater spinning with their arms over their head. As they bring their arms down toward their shoulders, their spin slows.” Gosh)

Copernicus Atlas #atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas

Many good politicians, great people and great corporations are taking positive action to reduce coal use. Only a few appalling bureaucrats continue to funnel tax payer funds into weapons deals and coal subsidies at huge huge cost to many)

Envisage cities where all skyscrapers are built elevated from touching the ground (similar to Australia Square) people no longer walk around the city block in heat, rain or snow but rather through the city as the crow flies protected from the elements with ample sheltered plazas with cool breezes for cafes, sculptures and gardens.


Imagine suburbia without fences – without all the fences – suburbia would be transformed.


Grew up with only a line of trees marking the fence line with the neighbor on one side – great way to live – less fenced in and makes everyone’s yard feel bigger – so much nicer to look at neighbors garden rather than a fence (with careful planting of shrubs and trees and good architecture and screens privacy can be maintained without solid fences that are real eyesores in suburbia – suburbia is often lots of nice houses with really crappy fencing). And for decades we have had a property with no fences with neighbors or the national park behind – the fence line is a pile of rocks at each corner and you can pace it out from there. Children and critters free to run around (neighbors cows munched our grass but never ventured into the literally hundreds of kilometers of national park behind – short me used to tell the cows run for the hills! – cows never did always waiting by the main gate every day – remarkable)


“Beauty is not tiny fenced yards, beauty is the limitless horizons and colours of the outback”

A world without borders is a beautiful place to envisage.

Whilst on the subject of friendships are built on our differentness ….

Have spent the better part of a year attempting to read someones autobiography – read a paragraph then throw it over my shoulder, stow it under the sofa, jump up and down on it a few times then dribble it under the table (am a chapter or so in so far – this may take a while)

That person actually likes the bureaucratic conduct of that bureaucrat and that bureaucrat (note all polls indicate around 80% of people do not like the bureaucratic conduct of that bureaucrat or that bureaucrat)

Am Australian so my opinion is irrelevant – am neither a Biden nor Rump fan and would simply like to state …

If given the choice between two Penn State Penitentiary Alumni then am going with option C

(image by Marisa via unsplash)

(originally posted 24 April 2024)

When I asked my father for advice on what a good wife should do this was his reply “ensure a balance of give and take, and in general ensure there is a healthy balance (for example if your husband is stressed by work be sure to organize an afternoon for him to play golf) organizing a balance of socializing and quiet time is best, never ever repeat anything your husband says to you to anyone and most importantly (he emphasized) the most important task for a good wife – be prepared to apologize to others for the dumb things your husband does often”

Every now and then it feels like apologizing to others for the dumb things that people I love a lot do may be my full time task.

So here goes.

Apologies. It wasn’t me. Nor was I involved in that decision.

I do know that (someone) respected and loved some extraordinarily gifted people as much as I do.

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The United Nations Children’s Fund do amazing work every day of every year – especially this year please consider donating something to your favourite charities 

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May there be peace on earth

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This week a rose bush quietly bloomed. And it make me realise people squabbling “it’s mine!” “Noooo it’s mine!” “Mine not yours!” and meanwhile a rose bush quietly bloomed – honestly am with Jesus the whole way on this one


Love and peace ❤️

(10 December 2023)

Beautiful words

“We are in a pivotal moment in the Middle East, standing at a crossroad and facing the challenges before us from the distressing conflict in the Gaza Strip to the pressing humanitarian needs in Yemen and Syria, and we call upon all of us to unite in taking action,”

“We strongly believe that violence has never been the solution, that military actions and clashes have never been an option. It’s important for us that we work together towards dialogue, and here in Qatar, we have always been advocates for dialogue and diplomacy.”

Thank you for the continued effort to negotiate peaceful outcomes

Incidentally locally manufacturing low-cost holistic pharmaceuticals is a great industry to start for some countries (many people are seeking to purchase ethically manufactured products)

There is lots and lots of hope that peace can be attained

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(for those unaware Jews and Muslims read the Bible too and am someone that finds theological discussions with people of different religions infinitely uplifting and delightful. In our opinion this costly weaponised conflict is an unfortunate corrupt bureaucrat problem nothing at all to do with religion several of the bureaucrats involved are currently correctly under corruption investigation and/or have multiple criminal charges against themselves or several of their close relatives – not awesome)

This is the season of love and joy and may it help to bring peace on earth.

(12 December 2023 – the UN resolution agreed today by Australia and many other nations (all except bureaucrats from ten nations actually) demands an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza and expresses “grave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population” – Huge Kudos)

(5 January 2024 – “France announced that a French and a Jordanian military transport aircraft airdropped 7 metric tons (7.7 tons) of medical aid to a Gaza Strip field hospital during a joint operation” Huge Huge Kudos)

(14 March 2024 – Hey José Andrés!

“Ship carrying aid to Gaza set to reach shore on Thursday morning | Gaza | The Guardian is amazing that a newspaper like ⁦@guardian will have so many factual mistakes! And not talking to the only people that really know this operation!”

Huge amounts of respect and kudos!

“Food and water and respect for each other should be universal”)

(14 December 2023)

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Welcome to Australia Plestia xo

(23 March 2024 – Cindy McCain stated this week “Our obstacles are many, we have to be cleared at every level, the Israelis block the – whether or not we’re cleared – drivers are cleared, we don’t have the access on the roads. We need clear, unfettered access to get in at scale, so we can feed the millions of people who are on the verge of famine.

We don’t need vetoes, we need food and we need it now”

(Cindy McCain is the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (and wife of the truly great Senator John McCain))

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(25 March 2024 – due to great diplomacy by many today the UN Security Council called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

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3 April 2024 – the International Court of Justice has issued a ruling requiring Israel to ensure humanitarian aid is delivered to Gaza (this ruling of the ICJ upholds the Geneva Convention)

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(12 June 2024 – “Australian Andrew Forrest (Fortescue/Minderoo) is offering to build a secure gate system on the Israel-Gaza border that could allow tens of thousands of tons of food aid to be delivered each day to starving Palestinians. SafeGates at three points along the Israel-Gaza border, could be up and running in three weeks, if Israel gives the green light. In a separate statement, Forrest said the project had been devised in consultation with Israel and Palestinian communities for the past two months” Huge huge kudos)

(17 June 2024  – reportedly “during May the UN received an average of 68 trucks of aid a day, according to figures from the UN humanitarian office, known as OCHA. That was down from 168 a day in April and far below the 500 trucks a day that aid groups say are needed.” (smh)

Apparently this week Netanyahu has finally agreed to a pause in weapons use for a few hours each day to facilitate humanitarian aid being delivered safely. About time.

Hopefully a permanent ceasefire can be put in place soon)

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(22 January 2025

“The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate reports that some 200 journalists have been killed and at least 400 injured since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza

This week Israeli activists gathered in Tel Aviv to take part in a vigil in solidarity with Palestinian journalists in Gaza”

A video of the vigil can be viewed here ….

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(16 December 2023 

Woke up this morning to read that IDF has killed three Israeli hostages and Al Jazeera reporter Samer Abudaqa. The Palestinian New Press agency says one of its journalists, Ramy Budair, was “reporting from the field” when he was “directly targeted”

A valid question “Why has Netanyahu’s military campaign led to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months?”

When asked Bidens government stated that they see no evidence of journalists in Gaza being targeted.

“Reporters Without Borders is investigating every one of these incidents and has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court saying that there is evidence of war crimes by the Israeli military”

Due to international pressure Netanyahu’s office stated on Friday that an humanitarian aide corridor into Gaza will be reopened effective immediately – so that’s a positive.

In our thoughts and prayers

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(8 January 2024 – reportedly Netanyahu’s IDF has just killed two journalists in a car in Gaza – one of the journalists killed in the car by an IDF military drone (that reportedly flew through the windshield) was the son of Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza Wael Al-Dahdouh – and reportedly no one else was targeted by the attack by Netanyahu’s IDF only the journalists.

Rather than negotiating a ceasefire Biden remains the only bureaucrat on the planet egging on bureaucrat Netanyahu. (Correction: in an unfortunate classic display of short man syndrome** typical freemason bureaucrat Scholz (currently polling at around 13% approval) has reportedly just stated that he stands in solidarity with bureaucrat Netanyahu’s conduct – those two bureaucrats see eye to eye) (incidentally bureaucrats Netanyahu, Bidens, Scholz are all under corruption investigation and they kind of reek of it – that is astonishingly awful bureaucratic conduct – including clear war crimes being committed repeatedly)

(18 May 2024 – reportedly more than 500 medical professionals have been killed by Netanyahu’s forces in the last seven months. More medical professionals, humanitarian aid workers and reporters have been killed by Netanyahu’s forces in the last seven months than in any other conflict in history)

(9 January 2024 – “This week the World Health Organization has stated that Netanyahu has just denied another request the WHO made to deliver medical supplies to Gaza

“This marked the fourth denial of a mission to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and Central Drug Store in Gaza City since December 26, leaving hospitals in northern Gaza without access to life-saving medical supplies and equipment” the WHO said this week”

Around 200 children a day in Gaza are suffering amputations often without anaesthesia.

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Distinguished American political science professor Walt just expressed it thusly Biden’s conduct during the Gaza war is making “Biden look heartless or clueless (or both) and many see him as no better than Trump”

(Walt is an American political science professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. Others have mentioned a “member of the realist school of international relations Walt has made important contributions to the balance of threat theory”)

(21 March 2024

Unfortunately in my opinion both Biden/Rump have the same policies in a few areas (deceit, funneling tax payer funds, hows the budget deficit coming bureaucrats and corruptly misusing public office for own or family members gain amongst their similarities).

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(11 January 2024 – crikey – “a U.S. lawsuit by around 77 groups (representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents) has been filed accusing Biden, Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide” in Gaza”)

(12 January 2024 – “Using publicly available data, Oxfam calculated that number of average deaths per day for Gaza is significantly higher than any recent major armed conflict including Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8)”

The average daily death toll in Gaza is around 200 Palestinians per day.

“More than 10,000 children (1% of all children in Gaza) have been killed by Netanyahu’s airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza in nearly 100 days of violence, with thousands more missing, presumed buried under rubble, Save the Children said”

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(18 January 2024 – sleazy Netanyahu has declared a mere 2.5sq miles of desolate, sandy terrain within Gaza to be the humanitarian area to evacuate to (an area half the size of London’s Heathrow Airport) and 1.8million Palestinians are now there without shelter, water, food, medications or sanitation and are in the worst conditions most experienced aid workers have ever seen.

Netanyahu has repeatedly blocked water, food, medical and other supplies from arriving – due to international pressure during the past few weeks some supplies are now arriving but conditions are dire.

Most people have never seen the UN reacting so strongly – this is the worst humanitarian crisis most aide workers have ever seen – and calls for an urgent ceasefire are justified)

(12 January 2024 – An historian has stated “Gaza’s rich civilization has endured centuries of wars, but not Netanyahu’s war” – 4,000 year old buildings and artifacts are being destroyed)

(20 January 2024 – CNN have reported witnessing Netanyahu’s troops bulldozing cemeteries in Gaza.

Basic hand held scanning equipment can determine what is buried underground up to a few metres. Bulldozers would not be used to clear suspected munitions sites (they would explode) – the only reason Netanyahu’s troops are bulldozing graveyards is to clear ground for a building development – no reason cannot built there – um. Or perhaps Netanyahu is attempting to destroy evidence of how many people (mostly women and children) have been killed during the past 100 days.

And that takes attempting to eradicate people to a whole other level)


(** not all short men suffer from this unfortunate syndrome my father was under six feet tall)

(completely irrelevant am not paying attention to current bureaucratic anything but the snippets of Scholz seem quite similar in looks and personality to Australia’s current bureaucrat freemason Albanese (freemasons are easy to spot) – we know your 13% approval rating pain Germany. We had good politicians once too – more good politicians would be great – world changing even)

(11 January 2024 – as an example of great politicians during the 1982 Lebanon War President Reagan called Prime Minister Begin to ask him to stop the bombardment of Beirut. Reportedly twenty minutes later Prime Minister Begin called President Reagan back to tell him that the bombardment of Beirut had ended)

(24 December 2023 – it’s Christmas and wasn’t going to type on blog about appalling bureaucratic disasters but have just found out that due to the ongoing weaponised conflict Christmas has been cancelled in Bethlehem this year. For thousands of years Christmas has been celebrated in Bethlehem through wars and other events – not this year Biden has mismanaged and cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem – just when you think a bureaucrat cannot possible create any more disasters – Biden has cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem for the first time EVER that pretty much sums up gosh awful Biden’s constant costly bureaucratic disasters exactly.

There was a U.N. Security Council vote this week seeking a humanitarian ceasefire only one bureaucrat held out kept delaying complaining that the wording wasn’t right – Biden – and he eventually removed the wording humanitarian ceasefire and replaced it with humanitarian aide. Biden cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem. Let that be remembered.

And whilst on the subject of humanitarian aide more UN aide workers have been killed during he past two months in Gaza than during any other conflict – including the tragic killing this week by Netanyahus IDF of veteran UN aide worker Issam al-Mughrabi and his wife, children and their entire extended family in their home in Gaza. Let that be remembered too)

(30 December 2023 – UN ERC Griffiths has again strongly stated that “attacks on humanitarian workers are unlawful” after Netanyahus IDF reportedly open fired on a clearly marked UN aid convoy travelling on an authorised route this week. Despite clear evidence of war crimes being committed by Netanyahu reportedly Biden has again sidestepped Congress approval and sold weapons to Netanyahu this week using a rarely used bureaucratic loophole. And meanwhile South Africa has this week lodged a case of committing genocide against Netanyahu with the International Court of Justice.

Completely irrelevant am not interested by some current absurdly appalling bureaucrats (oz included) at all and am someone that rarely says or types a bad word but there are some mumblings about corrupt bureaucrats towards the bottom of the blog – again and again gosh awful fibbing Biden. Gosh)

(24 December 2023 – Following a series of meetings between the Yemeni government, the Houthis and UN diplomats** a ceasefire and peace accord in Yemen has been attained this week “the parties’ have committed to a set of measures to implement a nationwide ceasefire, improve living conditions in Yemen, and engage in preparations for the resumption of an inclusive political process”. Huge Huge Kudos)

** non Biden diplomats – unfortunately Biden has absolutely no clue on what good politicians do. Clearly.

(3 January 2024)

Rather than a few appalling bureaucrats chucking bombs and fuel on the fire good politicians have stated “What is needed here is a political process. When you don’t offer people whom you’re subjugating any form of a political horizon that’s going to lead to freedom, then you’re going to expect resistance, rebellion, and retaliation” Sounds pretty reasonable.

Reported today if an election were to be held tomorrow in Israel then Netanyahu would lose by a very large margin. Language used is important it is Netanyahus appalling corruption and deceit (not Israel or Jews) Australia unfortunately has awful bureaucrats too now and then. And in more good news Israel’s Supreme Court has just overturned a key component of Netanyahus attempted corrupt judicial overhaul – so that heartening. Good will win.

And in more good news Israeli survivors of the tragic October 7 attacks are have filed a case suing Netanyahus government for negligence (and corruption)

Go Jesus! 🙂

(4 January 2024)

(via the guardian) “A group of prominent Israelis has accused the country’s judicial authorities of ignoring “extensive and blatant” incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza by influential public figures.

In a letter to the attorney general and state prosecutors, they demand action to stop the normalisation of language that breaks both Israeli and international law.

“For the first time that we can remember, the explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes, as stated, against millions of civilians have turned into a legitimate and regular part of Israeli discourse,” they write. “Today, calls of these types are an everyday matter in Israel.” Signatories include top academics, former diplomats, former members of the Knesset, journalists and activists.”

There are lots of beautiful people in Israel and Palestine.

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(some people are meant to set high examples of ethics and goodliness – they know who they are)

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(18 January 2024 – There are many Jewish organisations peacefully seeking a ceasefire in Gaza such as Not in Our Name Vienna (Austria) and If Not Now (America). Irrelevant but Jews are only around 2% of America’s population am not convinced that and that and that etc is all Jews fault – perhaps corrupt lobby groups trying to blame the Jews for everything. The Jewish people I know and love (since short) are very opposed to any form of violence or using weapons and are horrified by Netanyahus conduct. Just my opinion but it almost seems a bit of a blame the Jews or Muslims thing going on. Corrupt lobby groups (weapons, oil) blaming Jews or Muslims – Biden could easily get a ceasefire.

(19 January 2024 – On top of the humanitarian disaster being created and how bad Biden’s conduct in opposing a ceasefire looks internationally is Biden aware of the cost of all Muslims globally boycotting products. And NYT the newly appointed French Foreign Minister’s comments were off the cuff and have been widely rebuked. In actuality France has gone to enormous effort to deliver medications to Gaza and is being widely applauded for doing so. A ceasefire and peaceful diplomatic solution can be obtained.

This is disastrously awful bureaucratic conduct from Biden and he is repeatedly selling and/or dropping bombs without any congressional approval. Astonishing.

Australia has lived happily and peacefully next door to around 200 million Muslims in Indonesia for centuries (Islam is a peaceful religion) – and a few of the absurd bureaucrats now dropping bombs had a great time visiting Indonesia on tax payers dime a few months ago – its a beautiful place)

Getting a ceasefire rapidly prevents the divisions, anger, hate speech and conflict from spreading and protects both sides and many good politicians are attempting to do so)

(18 November 2024

The G20 meeting in Brazil this week unanimously announced “united support for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza and in Lebanon”

Some great politicians in that photo

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(4 January 2024)

Just saw a Muslim woman quietly praying in this rose garden and my heart just …

محبة

(BTW the call to prayer drifting from the Blue Mosque in KL remains one of the most beautiful sounds have ever heard – enchanting)

(27 January 2024 – wish could photograph what am looking at right now to respect peoples privacy am not – quite a few people taking photos of each other in that rose garden (a few Muslim but mostly non Muslim) A reminder of the beauty of the human spirit striving for peace and love. A few bureaucratic twits with big guns falsely think that makes them powerful – it does not. The billions of people that choose not to use weapons have the real power. This is a beautiful planet filled with beautiful people there is no doubt)

(28 October 2024

Ziad Abu Helaiel dedicated his life to promoting peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. Ziad Abu Helaiel was beaten to death at his home near Hebron by Netanyahu’s soldiers on October 7 2024.

“In the courtyard of their home, Abu Helaiel’s wife of 43 years, Basma, is sitting alone in one of the two chairs she and her husband used to sit in. Beside her are the flowers and trees that Abu Helaiel, who was 66 when he was killed, lovingly tended to.

He preferred the scent of natural basil flowers, she explains as she wraps his old keffiyeh around her shoulders. This is where they used to drink their coffee after dawn prayers every day and wait together for the sunrise. Then their children would go off to work and their grandchildren to study.”

Always remembered

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(28 October 2024 – ignore this post – just my opinion but even the Nazi’s were rounded up and bought to trial then placed in prison. What on earth do a few appalling deluded deceitful sleazy bureaucrats think they are doing – appointing themselves judge/jury/executioner – defies comprehension. This is unacceptable and blatantly criminal bureaucratic conduct repeatedly)

(29 October 2024 – Got to be kidding “Netanyahu’s forces have burned down the UNRWA-run Al Fakhoura school in the Jabalia refugee camp and are blowing up houses in the area”)

(28 January 2024 – as for Biden/Albanese and a few other bureaucrats announcing on Friday a suspension of funding to the UN relief agency in Gaza ….  “UNRWA shares the list of all its staff with host countries every year, including Israel. The Agency never received any concerns on specific staff members.” Many have mentioned the allegations emerged on the same day as the ICJ ruling. And once notified the UN have immediately taken appropriate action including suspending the twelve UN aid workers mentioned whilst a full investigation is conducted. Only 12 UN aids mentioned as having possible Hamas connections and 152 UN aid workers killed in Gaza during the past few months (the most ever) Funding to the UN relief efforts in Gaza are vital and many good politicians have stated their continued support for UN relief efforts.

(12? those numbers seem like more deliberate unintelligent bureaucratic nonsense but perhaps that is being cynical. That’s a lot lot of intel glitches from Biden/Netanyahu)

(18 August 2024

newly elected Iranian Foreign Ministry

(20 August 2024

OH Dear Gosh after simply posting the above clipping reported by others apparently Biden announced this “the US government has concluded the Iranian government is behind the hack and leak operation targeting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and also attempted to target the Biden-Harris campaign, the FBI and other US intelligence agencies said Monday.” Uh huh. Cos dats where some of the best hackers in the world are.

For those unaware a peaceful election in Iran a few months ago elected a new Iranian government led by a former heart surgeon who has pledged reform and moderation in Iran’s domestic and foreign policies)

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(6 February 2024 – reportedly a UN offical has stated this week “The UN are thoroughly investigating the allegations but Netanyahus assessment – which claimed that amongst the more than 10,000 staff around a dozen UNRWA staff had been involved in the October 7 attacks – had been leaked to the media by Netanyahu but Netanyahu has not yet presented any evidence to the UN agency” Gosh)

(and completely irrelevant there are much more important things but yet again a police car just happened to do a drive by a few minutes after posting that (videoed by me) – let’s just call that another coincidence eh absurd bureaucrats.

(ignore this am suddenly in a mood) Biden/Netanyahu/Albanese-Min can figure out how to give absurd talentless cowardly bully threats to a woman but they cannot figure out actually important intel – perhaps indicates something.)

This was posted prior to the saddening news of the drone strike in Jordan. Our deepest condolences.

Most analysts agree a ceasefire in Gaza will immediately end all other hostilities and return hostages safely. Deescalation rather than escalating weaponised conflict is vital. Continuing the facilitation of humanitarian aid to the around two million innocent civilians currently displaced in Gaza is vital (the plight of the millions of civilians in Gaza is one of the most catastrophic humanitarian crises many aid workers have ever seen)

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(10 March 2024 – in good news the Canadian government and this week the Swedish government have resumed funding to UNRWA being satisfied with the UN’s due diligence and assessment.

Referred this week to the ICC (International Criminal Court) Albanese is yet to resume funding to UNRWA – apparently Albanese is busily funneling hundreds of billions in tax payer funds to weapons deals (including around $370billion in Australian tax payer dollars for unsuitable for oz coastline nuclear submarines) and the genuinely destroying all life on earth coal industry OR just a few million Australian tax payer dollars would help prevent around half a million innocent civilians (mostly women and children) from starving to death or children suffering amputations without anesthesia. The majority of Australians would like a ceasefire in Gaza and Ukraine.

“After WWII the Geneva Convention of 1949 was specifically created by some truly great intelligent ethical people to provide specific rules to safeguard combatants, or members of the armed forces, who are wounded, sick or shipwrecked, prisoners of war, and civilians, as well as medical personnel, military chaplains and civilian support workers of the military.”

(18 March 2024 – this week the Australian government resumed funding to UNRWA)

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(30 May 2024 – via Al Jazeera “Netanyahu has instructed the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to vacate its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem within 30 days, the Times of Israel reports. In a letter to UNRWA, the Israel Land Authority also claims that the UN agency owes them 27,125,280 shekels (about $7.3m) for operating on Israeli land without permission for seven years.”)

(3 June 2024 “The Maldives has announced it will ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country amid its war on Hamas in Gaza” ❤️)

(10 April 2024 – “Turkey says it will impose restrictions on exports to Israel until there is a ceasefire and increased aid in the Gaza Strip after Netanyahu’s government refused to allow Turkey to airdrop aid to civilians in Gaza.

The Turkish Ministry of Trade said on Tuesday it will no longer send to Israel items in 54 categories spanning iron and steel products, jet fuel, construction equipment, machines, cement, granites, chemicals, pesticides and bricks”)

(3 May 2024 – President Gustavo Petro of Columbia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel due to Netanyahu’s conduct during the Gaza conflict.

Additionally “Colombia has formally joined an alliance of nations calling for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to prevent the “omnicide of planet Earth”, President Gustavo Petro announced at Cop28” We should be so lucky to have great politicians again. Urgently ceasing using of coal is vital.

Best of luck with that constantly constantly fibbing bureaucrat Hilary – that’s mentioned (months ago) somewhere towards the bottom of the blog. Ain’t freedom of speech grande.

(6 May 2024 – gosh – amongst other appalling bureaucratic conduct reportedly yesterday Netanyahu closed Al Jazeera’s offices in Israel and blocked anyone in Israel from accessing the Al Jazeera website over the internet. Netanyahu’s government reportedly stated “broadcast equipment will be confiscated, the channel’s correspondents will be prevented from working, the channel will be removed from cable and satellite television companies, and Al Jazeera’s websites will be blocked on the Internet.”)

In my completely irrelevant opinion retirement from politics long overdue for a few blatantly fibbing sleazy bureaucrats (Rump included) and two decades clearly too long for Netanyahu disastrous bureaucratic conduct at huge cost to many – Biden etc supporting corrupt Netanyahu conduct is appalling bureaucratic conduct)

(10 May 2024 4:28pm EDT – CNN ran this opinion piece by Richard J Davis “Netanyahu and his extremist allies are endangering Israel’s long-term security”

Richard J. Davis was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration and former assistant Watergate special prosecutor.)

The existence of Palestine does not exclude the existence of Israel (and vice versa)

(5 May 2024 – College Democrats of America mentioned this week “It should be made abundantly clear that calling for the freedom of Palestinians is not Antisemitic and neither is opposing the genocidal acts of the far-right radical extremist (Netanyahu) government.”

Please become president in a few years beautiful people)

(opinions on blog my own – notes on peaceful positive activism somewhere at the bottom the blog)

(8 May 2024 – “Trinity College Dublin has announced it will complete a divestment from investments in Israeli companies that have activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and appear on the UN blacklist”)

(4 May 2024

Noticed some bureaucrats taking sides and some good politicians instantly placing hands on both sides of the canoe attempting to steady the ship.

There are rights and wrongs and sensitivities on all sides of conflict – negotiating diplomatic solutions rather than resorting to violence is the correct and sophisticated approach and many great people are striving to do so.

And upholding International Law is a vital basic requirement.

(Other than ist hate speech) people being free to express their opinion without fearing violence retribution or censorship is vital.

Does there have to be a side – instead of Pro-Israel or Pro-Palestinian being Pro-Peace Pro-Prosperity Pro-Stability Pro-Freedom is respectful to all. People (mostly women and children) are being killed, thousands of years of architectural heritage being destroyed in seconds by absurd talentless corrupt sleazy bureaucrats. Respectful and intelligent conduct from some appalling bureaucrats preferred especially when it comes to respecting peoples fundamental inalienable right to freedom of choice of religion without persecution.

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(30 August 2024 – reportedly after more than seven months of Netanyahu’s bombardment of civilians in Gaza (the most destructive use of weapons since World War II) only eight hostages have been retrieved by Netanyahu’s military operation.

Perhaps diplomatic solutions and a ceasefire after a month or so would have been more effective and returned hostages alive rather than flattening everything in sight with bombs as corrupt sleazy Netanyahu has done.

Add the boycotts being put in place by around three billion Muslims – that’s disastrously unintelligent bureaucratic conduct by Netanyahu at huge huge cost to many)

(28 August 2024

Kaid Farhan al-Kadi a Muslim hostage of the Gaza conflict returns home

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(28 August 2024 – being welcoming and hospitable to travelers brings blessings from (Allah) in the Muslim faith – and is something Muslims take very seriously. So what happened starting around the 1980’s that caused normally peace loving Muslims to start taking American hostages. What caused that …. were Palestinians being kept hostage in Gaza in the 1980’s ….

Peace can be attained

As an example, Australia has been happily and peacefully living with around 300million Muslims in Indonesia as our closest neighbor for centuries)

(14 September 2024

“The UAE refuses to be involved in any plan aimed at providing cover for the Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip,” a statement released by the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

“When a Palestinian government is formed which meets the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people, and is distinguished by integrity, competence and independence, the UAE will be fully prepared to provide all forms of support to that government,” it added.

Her Excellency Reem Al Hashemi is the Minister of State for International Cooperation in the UُِAE

(Her Excellency Reem Al Hashemi has a degree from Harvard)

(opinions on blog my own)

(28 September 2024

“Qatari Minister of International Cooperation Lolwah Al-Khater announces $100M for funding of UNRWA for humanitarian responses in Gaza”)

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(6 September 2024 – reportedly the UN has said this week that more than one million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August, adding the “humanitarian situation in Gaza remains beyond catastrophic”

Got to be kidding – that is appalling and criminal bureaucratic conduct

That is blatant criminal bureaucratic conduct from deceitful corrupt sleazy Netanyahu (and forced to resign Biden) – a ceasefire can be easily attained)

(17 September 2024 – genuinely ignore this

In our opinion women look equally beautiful with or without headscarves.

And if another imbecile criticizes, teases or demeans a woman based on what she is wearing – swear to gosh. Perhaps fix own backyard first and demand Catholic nuns blow dry their hair each day instead of criticizing women for simply wearing head scarfs. Honestly. Some Muslim women know used to love wearing appropriate designer clothes to the office with headscarves – and looked great. Perhaps see the positive in seeing women for their intellect and personalities and beautiful faces. Making people feel confident and comfortable whatever their outsides look like would be a good goal.

If some ist idiots are obsessed with criticizing other peoples religions then perhaps consider what do Catholic nuns wear, what did the Virgin Mary wear, what do Amish women wear. Headscarves are required before entering some Buddhist temples. Other people have the right to practice their religion without judgement from others. (Protestants can make jokes about Catholics) Love Amish furniture and as much as technology is useful there is something beautiful and pure about the Amish lifestyle. My great-grandfather (my fathers grandfather) built a few churches by hand around a century ago – hand sawed all the timber including building pews himself.

A friend suggested that the constant war between Israel and it’s neighbors is partly to do with weapons deals and is partly because they circumcise males. Have no comment on that. But women wearing headscarves seems mild by comparison.

Someone else suggested today that corrupt Netanyahu is attempting to reduce the Palestinian population to prevent them voting in elections – let’s hope that is not the case.

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(17 September 2024

It is impossible to comprehend that amongst the other crimes against humanity currently being perpetrated by deceitful corrupt bureaucrat Netanyahu that there are a few sleazy bureaucrats in America attempting to state that Gaza must be under corrupt Netanyahu’s bureaucratic control. Clearly Netanyahu has failed to provide security and prosperity to Israel. Despite a unanimous UN Security Council resolution a few months ago requiring a ceasefire by corrupt Netanyahu a few sleazy bureaucrats in America are continuing to facilitate the atrocities being perpetrated by corrupt Netanyahu. And it is immoral to deny delivery of humanitarian aide to civilians.

More than 40,000 Palestinian’s (mostly civilians and mostly women and children) have been killed by Netanyahu’s troops this year. Corrupt Netanyahu has repeatedly (illegally) ordered civilians in Gaza to relocate to a safe zone refugee camps and then drops bombs on the safe zone refugee camps. Corrupt Netanyahu has perpetrated more destruction to civilian buildings in Gaza including private residences, schools, churches and hospitals than in any conflict since World War II. More than a million Palestinians are currently unable to access medical treatment and are experiencing famine due to corrupt Netanyahu.

Corrupt bureaucrats like Netanyahu are not important – civilians and hostages are important. Netanyahu and some other corrupt bureaucrats will correctly be facing trial for crimes against humanity.

For those unaware Judaism studies only the Old Testament (Torah) – Christianity studies the Old Testament and the New Testament and Islam studies the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Quran. Islam teaches that Jesus was the son of (god) and Mohammed was a beloved prophet (but not the son of (god)) Muslims are highly intelligent, sophisticated, spiritual and peace loving people (as are most Jews and Christians). Israel is mentioned in the Quran (something that Muslims take very seriously) and the existence of Israel is not under threat by Muslims.

Bullying will not make Palestinians leave their homeland. A two state solution of both independently governed Palestine and independently governed Israel is the correct solution.

“Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Known as “the Arab capital of Israel”, Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and commercial center for the Arab citizens of Israel. The inhabitants are predominantly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 69% are Muslim and 30.9% Christian” living peacefully together.

Here are the highly contentious Israeli settlements corrupt Netanyahu is bulldozing land to build ….

It doesn’t cost a lot to make buildings look beautiful on any budget those settlements are clearly poorly constructed and appalling. Despite crying poor the dodgy developers building those poorly constructed settlements are making significant profits – a few months ago one of the dodgy developers posted a video showing Netanyahu’s tanks and bulldozers in Gaza and falsely claiming he would be building similar settlements there soon.

Here is some Muslim architecture ….

Gaza will be beautiful again

(images by others – won’t list all the architects involved in designing the above beautiful buildings but think a few shown above were built recently by some Australian architects. The beautiful art gallery shown above involved French architects.

Wish a few appalling fibbing sleazy bureaucrats comprehended how bad war is for business – peace brings prosperity)

(18 September 2024 – the Christian minister that had that lilting from their very good PA system – that was beautiful – keep praying and please write letters to politicians requesting peace and a cessation of weapons use)

(20 September 2024 – along with a gazillion other appalling criminal bureaucratic things we didn’t watch but others reported that yesterday a few of deceitful corrupt sleazy Netanyahus military troops released a video of themselves throwing Palestinian bodies off the roof of a building – our absolute contempt cowardly corrupt sleazy Netanyahu. Another utterly appalling sleazy bureaucratic stunt. Netanyahu and a few other appalling deceitful corrupt talentless sleazy bureaucrats upcoming trial for crimes against humanity absolutely warranted)

(20 September 2024 – ignore this post

The death toll from the tragic October 7 attack has been reported as 1139 – 695 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), 71 foreigners and 373 security forces. Reportedly 251 people (both Israeli and foreigners) were taken hostage during the attack.

Haven’t looked at any of the footage and haven’t seen it reported how many (Hamas military) crossed into Israel on October 7 and killed 373 of Netanyahu’s security forces (it has been suggested there were only a few dozen Hamas military using guns and there were no bombs used – am not sure how accurate that is)

Given the obvious criminal cowardly conduct of corrupt Netanyahu’s troops including the way corrupt Netanyahu’s troops have been taking pot shots at anyone in Gaza (mostly women and children) there must have been bullets flying everywhere on October 7 it is a valid question to ask how many of those deaths during the tragic October 7 attack were caused by friendly fire.

That’s a lot lot of intel glitches bureaucrats.

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(20 September 2024 – ignore this post

What year do you think this is delusional Biden – or perhaps more importantly – what war do you think this is sleazy Biden.

The 911 attacks on America were horrifying and are etched into everyone’s memories. But what would have happened if those pilots instead crashed the planes randomly into NYC – the loss of life and collateral damage would have been significantly significantly worse two jumbos jets randomly crashed into NYC would have demolished miles of buildings. Instead that strike was conducted with surgical precision – it looked like the planes were approaching in slow motion perhaps deliberately as slowly as possible so as not to fly through the building and crash it onto others. It was horrific and tragic BUT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE and clearly the intent of the Muslim pilots was to minimize the loss of life and collateral damage.

More people die in America of gunshot wounds each year than are killed globally each decade by terrorist attacks – no one thinks all Americans are crazed gun toting murderers. Falsely implying all Muslims are terrorists is beyond ist and well on the way towards truly evil. Muslims are peace loving people. Extremism occurs in all religions and only a handful of extremist Muslims were responsible for the 911 attacks decades ago certainly not all of them. The majority of Muslims were horrified by the 911 attacks as were most people.

And we thought that war was concluded years ago – we were one of America’s staunchest allies during that despite the clear disputable intel about weapons of mass destruction etc etc

That’s a lot lot of intel glitches bureaucrats. mrna. Afghanistan. etc etc

Reportedly a few weeks ago fibbing sleazy Albanese was stating he wanted to resettle Palestinians in Australia. Um – the point is that Palestine is the home of Palestinians and advocating an immediate ceasefire and delivery of humanitarian aide to Gaza would be the correct political conduct! – and fibbing sleazy Albanese is not doing that (or anything good bureaucratically in any field in general) Around eighty percent of Australians would like to see a cessation of weaponized conflict in Gaza.

Corrupt Netanyahu has perpetrated the most destructive use of weapons since World War II – blatant criminal bureaucratic conduct.

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(23 September 2024 – reportedly the Australian government announced this morning an additional $10million in humanitarian aide to Gaza.

Something positive)

(8 October 2024 – deceitful-flip-flopping-constantabsurdfibbingwaffle-coal-guzzling Albanese took part in a memorial for the Jewish community in Melbourne on October 7. “The vigils came as Jewish leaders in both states condemned what they said had been rising incidences of anti-Semitism”

What’s the bureaucratic plan this week fibbing Albanese – relocate all Israelites to Australia – um – Israel is the home of Israelites and simply attaining a CEASEFIRE is the correct political approach.

Incidentally coal-guzzling-sleazy-Albanese-Min and lets-go-nuclear-Dutton were pretty much the only politicians anywhere in the world attending vigils on the anniversary of the tragic October 7 attacks – because good politicians are striving to attain a ceasefire to benefit both sides. Yet again appalling bureaucratic conduct from absurd deceitful bureaucrat Albanese – am not paying attention to anything those bureaucrats do beyond what others mention occasionally but apparently typical fibbing freemasons coal-guzzling-sleaze-Albanese-and-Min and nuclear-waste-Dutton were the only Australian bureaucrats attending vigils happily there are still many good politicians in Australia.

Am not someone that normally ever says or types a negative word – this post an indicator of my and many other people’s frustration at a few bureaucrats in Australia conduct.

(7 October 2025 – it is worth noting that no vigils were attended by bureaucrats in Australia on the second anniversary – it’s a process)

Are Australian tax payer funds being used to provide weapons to sleazy Netanyahu deceitful Albanese – that’s a pretty simple question for a bureaucrat to answer. Sleazy Netanyahu will be facing trial for crimes against humanity – that actually matters – blatantly criminal bureaucratic conduct actually matters.

A ceasefire can be obtained.

(20 October 2024

Reportedly a review is currently being conducted of military export permits to Netanyahu that were approved by Albanese.

Reportedly (am not sure how accurate) but reportedly in the first year and a bit of months of public office absurd Albanese approved 66 military export permits to Netanyahu prior to the tragic October 7 attacks (and if true what a stupid number from sleazy bureaucrats) (the number of permits reported via The Guardian)

Gosh.

“Albanese has had twelve months to review exports of military equipment to Netanyahu, with notice from many international bodies, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ)” add constantly fibbing absurd Albanese’s many other continuing blatant violations of ethics and the law that is not awesome.

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(Incidentally the Birrabirragal people and a Christian Sir Henry Browne Hayes were the original inhabitants of Vaucluse. Irrelevant but I lived in Vaucluse for around two years and one of our favourite places in Sydney – not sure why it irks to see a small protest march there endorsing weaponized conflict attended by some truly absurd bureaucrats – it just does. Everyone has the right to freely practice their religion and let’s honestly and openly talk about the conduct of Netanyahu towards Palestinians fibbing Albanese. Exponentially more Palestinians (and other Arabs) mostly civilians and mostly women and children have been killed by Israelites during the past few decades than the other way around (amongst other appalling things reportedly today Netanyahu has just again bombed southern Lebanon (more than 120 rockets in an hour)) a de-escalation of weaponized conflict is the correct political approach.

Absolutely appalling absurd bureaucratic twits – blatantly corrupt deceitful sleazy Netanyahu will be facing trial for crimes against humanity – that actually matters – blatantly criminal bureaucratic conduct actually matters.)

Am honestly not someone that normally says or types a bad word and as always after typing the above was feeling guilty for being mean and nasty and apologizing to (god) when a large bush turkey appeared in front of me pecking on a packet of LeSnack. (god) has a sense of humour of that am certain.

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(20 November 2024 – irrelevant but wasn’t involved in any of the above banners on Parliament House. But was just thinking there is a real difference between peaceful protests outside parliament and bureaucrats protesting outside peaceful law-abiding people’s homes – bureaucrats protesting outside peaceful law-abiding people’s homes is something else entirely – add the gazillion other blatant violations of ethics and the law by a few bureaucrats that is not awesome – that is blatant repeated criminal bureaucratic conduct)

(27 September 2024

“Almost a year into the war on Gaza, Israel’s economy is facing its deepest decline in years.

Military spending is ballooning, borrowing is rocketing and revenues are drying up.

International trust in Israel’s economy is also waning, while thousands of highly educated and skilled workers are leaving the country. Israeli economists now fear a wider war in the Middle East could strain the economy even further and say only a ceasefire can help repair the financial damage.”

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(11 October 2024 – incredibly good to see

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(14 October 2024 – gosh– reportedly sleazy Netanyahu’s troops have backed a tank through the front gate of UN peacekeeping headquarters and reportedly fired on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon multiple times during the past few weeks including tragically killing some of them – reportedly Netanyahu has just accused UN peacekeepers of “providing a human shield for terrorists” and urged UN peacekeepers to evacuate. Consistently astoundingly deceitful appalling bureaucratic conduct from Netanyahu)

(14 October 2024 – reported today Biden has ordered deployment of American troops to assist Netanyahu)

(15 October 2024 – reportedly (am not sure how accurate) but reportedly Biden is selling depleted uranium bombs that Netanyahu is using to bomb Gaza and Lebanon. Depleted uranium bombs have been linked to increased incidence of cancers in civilians and military personnel.

Add the estimated around 800,000 tonnes of asbestos dust Netanyahu’s bombings have created in Gaza and other humanitarian disasters – that is not awesome – halting Netanyahu’s corrupt and repeated blatantly violating international law bombing campaign would be a good approach)

(13 December 2024  

Happily a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was attained on 27 November 2024 and Israel withdrew from Lebanon.

And then a week and a bit later, convicted of war-crimes sleazy Netanyahu yet again violated international law by entering the Golan Heights demilitarized zone and reportedly further encroachments into Syria.

“Zunes, a politics professor and Middle East expert at the University of San Francisco, said the Israeli military’s push into Syrian territory was a clear case of “further expansionism” by an opportunistic Israel.

“One can argue about whether Israel should bomb weapons facilities that could get into ‘the wrong hands’, as they say. But the ground invasion has no logic to it whatsoever, no strategic rationale,” Zunes told Al Jazeera.

“This is clearly taking advantage of the fact that Syria is not in a position to defend itself anymore,” Zunes said. “With most of their navy and air force destroyed, with the leadership in flux and the government trying to hold things together. This seemed to be the perfect opportunity for further expansionism,” he said.

“Already there are tweets from Israelis looking forward to building a ski resort on Mount Hermon and talking about holding on to this area for an extended period. I mean, they clearly feel they can get away with this,” he added.

In recent days, Israeli forces have moved deeper into Syrian territory, including the Syrian side of the strategic Mount Hermon that overlooks Damascus” (via Aljazeera)

Reportedly the UN is deeply concerned about the hundreds of air raids Netanyahu is conducting across Syria during the past week saying there is an “urgent need to de-escalate violence on all fronts throughout the country”)

(14 December 2024 – reportedly Turkey (a member of NATO) has offered to assist the new Syrian government with military training. Playing cricket in the neutral zone will be awesome too)

(15 October 2024

Many good politicians are striving for a ceasefire for the benefit of both sides especially civilians caught in the crossfires of some appallingly deceitful corrupt bureaucratic conduct

“Almost a year into the war on Gaza, Israel’s economy is facing its deepest decline in years.

Military spending is ballooning, borrowing is rocketing and revenues are drying up.

International trust in Israel’s economy is also waning, while thousands of highly educated and skilled workers are leaving the country. Israeli economists now fear a wider war in the Middle East could strain the economy even further and say only a ceasefire can help repair the financial damage.”

)

(24 October 2024 – “BRICS members stress the urgent need for an immediate comprehensive and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and detainees from both sides who are being held illegally, and the unimpeded, sustained and large-scale flow of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip, as well as an end to all aggressive actions” reads the Kazan Declaration on Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Peace can be attained)

(10 February 2024 – my grandfather served in both world wars as a “mechanic” stationed in France and wore a black beret every day of his life – his stories of the war smuggling people across borders and secret passageways were different to most. Très bien)

(14 October 2024 – excerpt from various sources (opinions on blog my own)

“The images of the children in Gaza covered with blood held by their parents remind me of Japan 80 years ago,” Mimaki stated, fighting back tears.

“(Children) lost their fathers in the war and lost their mothers with the nuclear bomb.

They became orphans,” the campaigner, who is a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, added.

Nihon Hidankyo also known as Hibakusha, received the Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

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)

(my grandfather respected Japanese people during the post-war years enormously)

(18 February 2024 – President Lula Da Silva stated this week “What is the size of these peoples hearts who are not seeing what is happening in the Gaza Strip. It’s not a war between soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army against woman and children” This week the governments of Canada, New Zealand and Australia issued a joint statement requesting a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as have many others)

(18 May 2024 – reportedly surveys indicate “around 80% of British people support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and end to supplying munitions”)

(4 September 2024 – reportedly “this week Germany’s top diplomat Baerbock announced a €50 million increase in Gaza aid in her latest trip to the region. Baerbock said that the total amount pledged by Germany for the Gaza Strip since last year is more than €360 million

Baerbock stressed that efforts to establish a two-state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories should be maintained”)

(24 October 2024 – reportedly “Scholz (Germany) authorized more than $100m in military exports to Israel in the last three months, Foreign Office data showed” – astonishing bureaucratic conduct. Coal-guzzling-freemason-sleaze-Albanese is flip-flopping and being duplicitous about weapons deals prompting a referral of Albanese to the ICJ.

24 November 2024 – reportedly a few weeks ago sleazy Albanese was placed under serious corruption investigation in a separate matter – that’s a long list of deceitful corrupt conduct from sleazy Albanese)

(12 December 2024 – reportedly Albanese has for the first time voted in favor of a UN resolution calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza” (Albanese is a genius – honestly). Biden and Netanyahu were amongst the few to vote against the resolution)

(17 December 2024 – reportedly Netanyahu closed Israel’s embassy in Ireland on Sunday due to Ireland’s striving to attain a ceasefire in Gaza. Am wishing we had decent politicians in office now (e.g. Hawke/Keating))

(22 December 2024 – 440 days of bombing by Biden and Netanyahu remains some of the most deceitful inhuman criminal and cowardly bureaucratic conduct have ever seen

“If you are not appalled by what is happening in Gaza, if you are not shaken to your core, there is something wrong with your humanity.”

The full text of Reverend Munther Isaac’s sermon in Bethlehem can be read at indcatholicnews.com/news/51360

There is absolutely no justification for the use of bombs in Gaza at this point

(opinions on blog my own)

(24 December 2024 – ignore this – got to be kidding – please tell me sleazy constantly fibbing bureaucrat Biden did not just do that again – get cognitive tested sleazy Biden – honestly – that is absurdly appalling beyond delusional and way into criminal bureaucratic conduct again from Biden)

(4 April 2025

“According to the UN at least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured each day in Gaza since Netanyahu broke the ceasefire on March 18”

The Vatican announced this week that CAFOD, the Catholic development and relief charity “urges the international community to take action to stop the war in Gaza amid growing devastation, dire humanitarian conditions and the urgent need for a ceasefire. At least 112 Palestinians were reportedly killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Friday, most of them women and children. Continuing war in Gaza will not bring security or peace.”)

(12 May 2025

“Families in Gaza are starving while the food they need is sitting at the border. It’s imperative that the international community acts urgently to get aid flowing into Gaza again.” Cindy McCain said in a statement.

19 May 2025 – this week the UK, Canada and France are threatening sanctions against Israel if it does not uphold International Law and facilitate humanitarian aid being delivered to Gaza.

23 May 2025

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(8 June 2025)

4 October 2025 – more than two million people attend rallies in Italy on Friday to support Palestine

(12 July 2025 – “Protesters in Tel Aviv have gathered to hold a silent vigil for children killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza and call for a comprehensive ceasefire to end the war”)

(10 June 2025 – via BBC “UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have sanctioned two Israeli government ministers – both Israeli ministers will be banned from entering the respective countries and will have any assets frozen” Other countries are reportedly considering further sanctions)

(22 July 2025 – “the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada and 21 other countries, plus the European Union, have issued a joint statement stating that the war in Gaza “must end now” stating “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths””)

July 2025 – President Macron has stated France will recognise Palestinian statehood starting in September.

3 August 2025

August 2025 – the UK, Canada and Australia have stated intent to recognise Palestinian statehood starting in September as have other countries

August 2025 – Germany and Spain have announced a cessation of weapons exports to Netanyahu

10 August 2025

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(31 July 2025 – “Arab and Muslim states including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have for the first time issued a joint call for Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to end the war in the territory”)

(2 July 2025 – “The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in its war on Gaza”) (22 August 2025 – via CNN “Reportedly Microsoft has announced an “urgent” review of the Israeli military’s use of its technology during the ongoing war in Gaza”) (26 September 2025 – after review Microsoft has ceased some services to the Israeli military)

(August 2025 – the Guardian reported Israeli military intelligence shows 83% of Gaza war dead are civilian. “Conflict researchers say that ratio is almost unparalleled in modern warfare”) (September 2025 – BBC has reported “the United Nations estimates 92% of housing units in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, 91% of schools and 98% of cropland is damaged”)

(30 July 2025 – via the Guardian “Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights have stated Netanyahu is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”)

(16 September 2025 – “A United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that Netanyahu has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”)

(27 September 2025 – after many delegates walked out Netanyahu was left to deliver a speech to a mostly empty auditorium at the UN this week, an indicator of Netanyahu’s policies growing international isolation)

(20 May 2024 – via CNN “The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.”

“France was among the countries that have supported the ICC decision alongside international rights groups. Human rights organization Amnesty International has hailed the arrest warrant request as a “crucial step towards justice””)

(8 January 2025 – in more good news “a Netanyahu soldier reportedly fled Brazil last week after a court in the South American country ordered an investigation into allegations that the soldier was involved in war crimes in Gaza”)

(22 November 2024

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes.”

Reportedly Netanyahu has stated that Mohammed Deif was killed by a missile strike. The arrest warrant for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has been issued for “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024″

Reportedly yesterday Biden called the ICC arrest warrant “outrageous” and Netanyahu stated he is “disgusted by the absurd and false actions and charges [of the ICC]”

(“Numerous reputable human rights groups have concluded that Netanyahu’s atrocities in Gaza, which UN experts have described as a genocide, are war crimes that do not fall under the right of self-defence”)

European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stressed that the ICC ruling must apply to all state members of the European Union. “I take note of the decision of the @IntlCrimCourt to issue arrest warrants for Israel PM Netanyahu, former Minister Gallant, and Hamas leader Deif. These decisions are binding on all States party to the Rome Statute, which includes all EU Member States”

Guido Crosetto Italy’s defence minister stated that they would arrest Netanyahu and his defence minister and Deif if they came to the country.

Reportedly British politicians have stated intent to uphold the law as have politicians from many other countries.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong commented “Australia respects the ICC’s independence and importance of international law. The Australian federal government has been clear that all parties to the conflict must comply with international humanitarian law. Civilians must be protected. Hostages must be released. Rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian relief must reach civilians”

Senior Palestinian official Basem Naim said the decision was an “important step on the path to justice … But it remains a limited and spiritual step if it is not backed practically by all countries.”

)

(11 May 2024 – “UN member nations vote overwhelmingly to back Palestinian membership bid. The UN resolution won a resounding majority of 143 votes in favor. With emotion running high on Friday, more than 100 national representatives asked to speak about the resolution, with most emphasizing strong support for Palestinian statehood.” ❤️

)

(5 January 2024

“The U.N. ERC has urged all involved in the ongoing Gaza Israel war to observe international law “including to protect civilians and meet their essential needs, and to release all hostages immediately”

“We continue to demand an immediate end to the war, not just for the people of Gaza and its threatened neighbors, but for the generations to come who will never forget these 90 days of hell and of assaults on the most basic precepts of humanity. This war should never have started. But it’s long past time for it to end.”

)

(8 October 2025 – a Gaza peace plan has been agreed to including the return of hostages, delivery of humanitarian aid and a withdrawal of troops)

(19 January 2025

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“A better future for all between the river and the sea”

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(23 May 2024)

President Carter
President Carter

Thankyou for your extraordinary service President Carter ❤️

(opinions on blog my own)

(8 December 2024)

During the period from 2009 until 2024 the Syrian refugee crisis has been one of the largest humanitarian disasters in the world. More than half of Syria’s population is currently displaced (an estimated 16.7 million people)

On Sunday 8 December 2024 Syria’s refugee crisis ended

“It’s an indescribable feeling. We are so happy,” said the man. “After all the years of dictatorship we have lived in our lives! We were in prison in 2014 and now we’re out thank God. We won because of our men, our fighters, and now we are at the moment that we are going to build the greatest Syria!”

“We call our sisters and brothers who left the country to come back,” he added. “Our hearts and homes are open for you.”

(via BBC)

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(via The Guardian)

And in the category of same olde same olde from Netanyahu …. “reportedly Netanyahu immediately seized the Golan demilitarized buffer zone after the overthrow of Assad on Sunday.

Golan is around a thousand square kilometers on the border between Syria and Israel.

Syria and Iran signed an armistice in 1974 and a UN observer force has been in place on the ceasefire line since 1974.

Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US Trump Administration did so unilaterally in March 2019.

There are more than 30 Israeli settlements in the Golan, which are home to an estimated 20,000 people. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

The settlers live alongside some 20,000 Syrians, most of them Druze Arabs, who did not flee when the Golan was captured on the weekend.

Reportedly Syria has always insisted that it will not agree a peace deal with Israel unless it withdraws from the whole of Golan.”

(10 December 2024

“the UN warned on Monday (9 December) that Israeli military activity along the Golan Heights buffer zone in Syria “would constitute a violation” of a 1974 pact on disengagement between Israel and Syria. Told of the Israeli plans, UN peacekeepers “informed the Israeli counterparts that these actions would constitute a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement, that there should be no military forces or activities in the area of separation” a UN spokesman told a news conference”)

(20 December 2024

“France Foreign Ministry spokesperson Christophe Lemoine reiterated that “all actors” must respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and added “Regarding Israel’s operations in the Golan, we reaffirmed our full support for the United Nations (UN) forces in the region, whose role is to observe the withdrawal.” Lemoine said France has made it clear that any military deployment in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria would violate International Law”)

(19 December 2024 – “an international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run ‘machinery of death’ under Assad. One of the largest mass graves ever found in history estimated to contain around 100,000 people tortured and killed by the Assad government since 2011 has been found this week” (via reuters))

Aljazeera reports ex-Syrian Bashar al-Assad-appointed ex-prime-minister al-Jalali being peacefully led from parliament

(10 December 2024 – On Monday Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Safadi reminded that “A buffer zone was established in 1974 to separate the Israeli-held and Syrian territories, with UN peacekeepers stationed there since then” and he condemned Netanyahu’s conduct in taking control of the buffer zone referring to it as a violation of International Law.

Safadi also said “The Jordanian government will support any political path the Syrians devise to end the crisis and restore security and stability to their country. A stable Syria is a top strategic interest for Jordan and the entire Arab region”)

(12 December 2024

Reportedly the UN is deeply concerned about the hundreds of air raids Netanyahu is conducting across Syria during the past week saying there is an “urgent need to de-escalate violence on all fronts throughout the country”)

(14 December 2024  

“Qatar will soon re-open its embassy in Damascus, after having severed all diplomatic relations with Bashar Assad’s regime and closing its embassy in 2011. The re-opening of the embassy is reflective of the “continuation of the State of Qatar’s firm and supportive position towards the Syrian people and their struggle to wrest their legitimate rights to a decent life””)

(19 December 2024

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani met in the Saudi Arabian ancient north-west city of AlUla (a Unesco heritage site – well worth a visit) to discuss Syria and stated the importance of “the unity of Syrian territory and added that any governance should include all Syrian people”

(via The National)

)

(18 December 2024)

The Greek Herald reports people attending church in Syria this week

(20 December 2024)

via aljazeera.com

(20 December 2024

Germany, China and many other countries are offering to assist Syria with rebuilding)

(18 December 2024 – in another dazzling display of efficiency the first elections in decades in Syria have already been scheduled to be held on March 1 2025)

God Bless

(30 March 2025

Syria’s new government has been sworn in

“This moment, in which we announce the formation of the first government, is a declaration of our shared will to build a new, strong, and stable state, one that places the interests of the nation and its citizens at the forefront of its priorities and works to restore life to every corner of our beloved country. It is decisive moment in our history, and as President of the Republic, I promise you that I will stand with you at every step on the path to building the future. Together, we will provide a homeland worthy of all our sacrifices. I want to stress that this government is the government of change and development, a government that bears the responsibility of the peoples aspirations and hopes of a bright and sustainable future. We believe that hard work and loyal work, along with cooperation between the people will be the key to achieving these goals.”

We should all be so lucky to have politicians that make speeches like that.

Elections in Syria are to be held in four years.

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(14 December 2024 – (via skynews)

“Seven days after the Assad regime fell, Syrian civilians have returned to their daily lives. People freely attending churches, mosques and temples.

Schools and universities were once again filled with students after the new government instructed them to open again”)

love and peace ❤️

(in no particular order schools, health care, agriculture, government services and infrastructure, carpenters and builders, recyclers of scrap metal/glass/concrete, gardeners, artisans, airbnb for tourists, cafes, restaurants, create a few new tech corps and voilà! Am amongst the many people who would love to visit Syria. The world just got a whole new country to visit and do business with and that’s exciting!

Freedom brings out the best in people)

“They had found peace, and a reason for living, and they had to find a way to keep the flame of peace alive and protect it against the forces of evil.

They had survived, and discovered in the end that life with all it’s beauty and tragedy and terror at times was worth living.

Life is beautiful, and nothing could change that, scars and all.”

D.S. ❤️

(opinions on blog my own)

Here are some quotes from another of my life-long heroes American Ralph Bunche

“The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace – as well as freedom, honor and self-respect – is secure.”

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity – a steadily better life.”

“You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.”

“I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.”

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(originally posted 20 October 2024)

(originally posted 14 April 2024)

(image source US government)

President Jimmy Carter installing solar panels at the Whitehouse in 1979

A beautiful artist reminded me of one of my all time favorite politicians this week and some of the great work that politician has done especially in striving for peaceful resolutions in conflict zones.


Including the Camp David Accord of 1978 – almost two weeks of negotiations between President Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat – Israel and Egypt had been at war for almost three decades prior to President Carter creating the accord. President Carter said an indication of how entrenched the notion of war had tragically become within a few days of negotiations it became clear having Begin and Anwar in the same room was not a path to peace and so that Camp David Accord was created without Begin and Anwar ever speaking to each other President Carter went back and forth between each in separate rooms until an agreement could be reached.

After decades of costly war for fifty years the Camp David Accord has been peacefully upheld providing great prosperity and strength to both Israel and Egypt.


During his Nobel Peace Prize speech President Carter quoted Ralph Bunche**


“To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.”


The existence of Palestine does not exclude the existence of Israel. Those suggesting the existence of Israel excludes the existence of Palestine are fundamentally flawed.


Any idiot can fire a rocket launcher – that requires zero skill – any politician who thinks differently best step away from politics.

A peaceful resolution can be attained.


And attaining peaceful resolutions via diplomacy and negotiations is what great politicians do.


** The Nobel Peace Prize 1950 was awarded to American Ralph Bunche “for his work as mediator in Palestine in 1948-1949”

In 1963, Bunche was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F Kennedy.


“97 year old Reverend Alan Stuart is in good spirits despite being arrested on the water at the Peoples Blockade. If charged he’ll be the oldest person ever charged in Australia”

Reverend Stuart stated “I think it is my duty to do what I can and to stand up for what I know is right”

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(update – NSW Police decided not to press charges against Reverend Stuart and the severe bruising Reverend Stuart sustained from NSW Police whilst being arrested has healed)

(image source various including Rising Tide Australia)

(24 November 2024)

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Act Locally Sink Globally

For the person who spent dinner throwing cooked prawns out the window of the yacht whilst shouting Be Free! Be Free! and took a full solid foam life jacket with them when visiting Lake Eyre just for the photo op (Lake Eyre is a salt pan with ankle deep water at most)

I Love You. Always have and always will.

❤️

(originally posted 14 November 2024)

23 December 2024 – for the only person have ever told a moon story too (and told them that the first time we met at a friends house)

Mmmmwwwwaaaa xo

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(am stubbornly not using email for a bit due to stalky monitoring by some bureaucrats)

Am incredibly protective of peoples privacy but this post long overdue …. true story ….

When I first saw a stunningly beautiful woman on the cover of the magazine was reading I knew instantly that was the person that (someone love enormously) was meant to be with. Am not sure how but I just knew with every fibre of my being and it filled me with joy – that’s her! – strong vivacious and stunningly beautiful. Those two meeting and falling in love was destined (and nothing to do with anyone else) A few months later they met, fell in love, got married and had a beautiful life together. IB is the love of that persons life.

Huge amounts of love and respect xo

(impossible to apologise enough for the offensive nonsense coming from a few absurd deceitful idiotic corrupt bureaucrats during the past few years absolutely appalling and my sincere apologies)

(opinions on blog my own)

(image by Hannah via unsplash)

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(23 November 2023 (evening) – “At least we can be thankful for the trees” “largest white tree in America” etc etc Smaaack Bam Pow! Ow! Feel like attended a dinner and it wound up in arguments and tears. Love to you all. (27 November 2023) – am not convinced typing “so NER” counts as influencing foreign elections – seems more an Australian swim team chant – but of my own volition the ethical virgoan in me has removed this part of the post and love love love love 🙂)

(30 November 2023 – If atrocities occur and no one reports it did it really happen “According to the Committee to Protect Journalists this is the deadliest conflict for media workers ever – at least fifty seven (fifty Palestinian and seven foreign journalists) have been killed and another hundred injured in just seven weeks. So far more than a hundred UN aid workers have been killed since the beginning of the war in Gaza, the highest number of UN aid workers killed in a conflict in the Organization’s history”

See the forest.)

(7 December 2023 – welcome back to the side of goodness and intellect stylish NYT. Welcome back 🙂)

19 December 2024

(via aljazeera)

“Thai authorities tracked an illegal wildlife shipment as it moved from Madagascar through Indonesia and Malaysia before entering Thailand.

A team of wildlife officers and veterinarians in Thailand were then able to rescue more than a thousand animals (16 ring-tailed lemurs, 31 brown lemurs, 155 radiated tortoises, and 758 spider tortoises – all ranging from vulnerable to critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List) from animal traffickers and are about to return them to the wild”

❤️

13 January 2025

We are reporting ….

(image by others)

Occasionally when we were alone Dad used to tell a story of Rupert Murdochs farewell party. Here is a shortened version ….

Rupert left being showered with streamers, confetti, champagne corks and cheers.

After Rupert left Dad raised his champagne glass and toasted “Rupert has left for America!” Pip Pip Hooray! Pip Pip Hooray! Pip Pip Hooray!

Then, someone else raised their champagne glass and toasted “That’ll be the end of them!” Pip Pip Hooray! Pip Pip Hooray! Pip Pip Hooray!

Let’s hope that is not the case

(Am all for the good guys winning and in our opinion unfortunately the fibbing sleazy Biden’s and fake-hotels-Rumps are not good guys – not even close to being good guys tending towards consistently awful but that’s just my opinion.

In fact American politics has actually become so boring it is unlikely we will be commenting at all.

Happily other media outlets will hopefully be uncensored and report appalling bureaucratic conduct accurately)

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(posted 2 April 2025 – we went to see Normie Rowe perform in Les Mis almost a dozen times – apologies for the crackling audio and video it was the only one could find on my not at all hacked everything – opinions on blog my own)

The few appalling bureaucrats funnelling tax payer funds to dodgy weapons deals and coal use genuinely putting all life on the planet in danger are not awesome and crimes amongst humanity must never be tolerated – write letters to the local and federal government representatives, donate where possible and staying focused on inclusiveness and creating something beautiful every day is vital

Love beats hate every time

The doctors of Gaza, the architects and gardeners creating beautiful community spaces, the environmentalists protecting nature for all future generations and all those striving for peace are some of the people we admire enormously – this is a beautiful planet filled with extraordinary beautiful people 

❤️

(opinions on blog my own)

(15 November 2023 – “More than 500 political appointees and staff members representing some 40 government agencies sent a letter to Biden on Tuesday opposing Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and demanded a cease-fire and for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians, the restoration of water, fuel, electricity and other basic services and the passage of adequate humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip” American democracy is a beautiful and powerful thing and we have huge amounts of respect for America. God Bless.)

War sucks

P.S.

Wanted to post something cheerful but every sketch this week came out like the above 

It’s been a while between posts because feinted shortly after the last post and have been drifting in and out of consciousness since

Gentleness beauty and extraordinary strength in everything they do 

Walked past this today and it made me pause to look at it for a long time thinking about people in other countries. There are no holes in that building it is intact.

(22 October 2023)

P.S.

That extraordinary beautiful woman was a hero of mine too for as long as can remember and to this day

We both love you 

Always ❤️

(image by others)

Reportedly more than a hundred dolphins have just died in the Amazon river as water temperatures exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius)

Ouch

Real action to urgently reduce destroying all life on earth coal use can and must happen

This is not a drill

(ignore this am in a mood – in our opinion deceitful talentless corrupt coal guzzling Albanese Biden Modi etc are a few of the worst bureaucrats have ever seen in decades – so many great people and corporations doing great things to reduce coal use all polls indicate a vast majority of people want politicians to action a reduction in coal use (many good politicians are) and yet a few absurd talentless corrupt bureaucrats just keep on signing forms and funnelling tax payer funds to subsidise and increase coal use and that is absolutely appalling bureaucratic conduct

US coal use data shown above and global fossil fuel subsidies shown below – incidentally upon taking office typical freemason Biden immediately increased coal use domestically and internationally – apparently freemason Biden’s son Hunter Biden (another typical freemason) mismanaged several fossil fuel businesses)

There are a multitude of ways to easily and rapidly produce low cost reliable electricity without coal

(opinions on blog my own)

Anyone that has ever swum with dolphins understands (there are some mumblings somewhere at the bottom of this blog – this post not intended as a partisan anything and irrelevant but am not a fan of Rump)

(16 October 2023 – “Albanese to consider an interim listening mechanism after a no vote on voice” There’s an idea!

Gosh awful typical freemason Albanese scheduling that the day after Friday 13th just reeks and some other not awesome unintelligent bureaucratic stunt things for their own faux political points)

(20 October 2023 – am honestly not paying attention to bureaucratic anything and we didn’t watch nor read just saw a photo – please tell me absurdly gosh awful Biden did not just have a person doing sign language behind him during a reportedly appalling speech. Get cognitive tested Biden. Honestly. Consistently appalling bureaucratic conduct.

Amongst many other not awesome things was that just yet another intel accident bureaucrat or was that church just deliberately bombed by delusional fibbing corrupt talentless bureaucrats.

Good politicians are using intellect and diplomatic skill striving for a cease fire.)

(21 October 2023 – NSW Teachers Federation (representing 60,000 teachers) has slammed the NSW government for it’s approach to the conflict in Gaza/Israel – “the government’s decision-making and public commentary has had the “effect of unnecessarily fanning the anger and profound sadness of Palestinian communities here in Australia”. Teachers are smart people.

Peace can be attained)

(22 October 2023

Jewish people that I know and love don’t use weapons nor do the Muslim people that I know and love nor the Christians etc etc – Indonesia etc no violence for decades and decades – this therefore actually has nothing to do with religion and is simply a few awful fibbing corrupt bureaucrats absolutely appalling bureaucratic conduct.

With emphasis on absurdly not awesome unethical unintelligent costly bureaucratic conduct from a few unfortunately blatantly corrupt fibbing way too much bureaucrats.

Peace can be attained.

(parts of this post moved to the absurd corruption page of blog)

Back to happy thoughts)


(1 November 2023 – thank you for your continued great diplomacy and intellect Penny Wong. Huge kudos. Australia is lucky to have at least one great politician currently in office. More good politicians with intellect and talent would be great – world changing even)

(11 November 2023 – a good politician in Australia stated in parliament this week “Few people know that Australia has one of the most secretive, unaccountable weapons export systems in the world … Our government doesn’t tell us who we’re exporting weapons to; doesn’t tell us what the weapons are; doesn’t tell us who profits here in Australia from the sale of weapons … Even the US has more transparency on weapons sales than Australia” Time to improve and ensure transparency in how Australian tax payer funds are being spent by a few bureaucrats. Am amongst those that had no idea weapons deals were unaccountable. Stunning and huge kudos.

This is a democracy and it is absolutely vital that no (possibly corrupt) bureaucrat has the ability to use tax payer funds to buy and sell weapons without transparency and accountability – absolutely vital. A budgetary line item that simply states weapons manufacture without detailing specifics is acceptable but buying/selling/donating weapons must absolutely be fully disclosed – an incredibly dangerous bureaucratic loophole that must be closed – categorising weapons as humanitarian aide funding is not acceptable)

(21 November 2023 – “Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war – the boats will carry more than 4000 people from 40 countries” Similar to the weapons port blockades happening in Australia.

We have problems with corrupt bureaucrats now and then too but the conduct of a few current corrupt bureaucrats is absolutely appalling.

Lots of commentary and discussion by people (Jewish Muslim and others) saying other than calling for ceasefire repeatedly what else can be done – sending a thousand ships is something! A few bureaucrats sending war ships and instead a thousand ship peace flotilla from 40 countries feels good 🙂 Kudos

The good politicians negotiating the peaceful release (exchange) of prisoners and adherence to international law and the U.N. Security Council resolution a few days ago calling for a humanitarian pause in weaponised conflict to provide humanitarian aide to civilians is also something. Kudos)

(14 November 2023 – “Albanese agrees to resettle climate refugees from Tuvalu in Australia in exchange for security pact” Ok. And even better could we cease shipping coal that is genuinely destroying all life on earth and contributing to more than half of global greenhouse gases and rising sea levels please.

RBA estimates ceasing coal mining/use will be a temporary loss of only 0.1% of Australia’s GDP without factoring in the real positive growth for agriculture, tourism etc – Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal, a coal mine employs a few hundred people in hazardous and life threatening working conditions – sectors negatively impacted by coal use such as agriculture, tourism etc employ significantly more people and contribute significantly more to the local economy)

(27 November 2023 – a recent report from America has stated “US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people in America during the past 20 years” Gosh)

(more examples of absolutely appalling delusional deceitful talentless criminally corrupt bureaucratic conduct violating pretty much everything imaginable mentioned towards the bottom of the blog)

Back to happy thoughts.

(10 October 2023

Great! “Local power systems that bypass the grid to supply mostly renewable energy to individuals or communities have been cleared for wide-spread installation on the National Electricity Market under new rules published by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) on Thursday.”

In America “Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.”

With the added bonus that no power lines means no outages or fires due to fallen lines.

An example study by Climate Smart Ventures in Singapore and Green Finance & Development Center at FISF Fudan University found that “retiring coal plants early can benefit investors, communities and climate. In particular retiring existing coal electricity plants early and bundling the refinancing with renewable energy investments, the enterprise values would more than triple even in the ‘worst case’, business-as-usual scenario whilst making significant profits. Accelerated phase-down becomes a triple-win opportunity”

(11 November 2023 – EU Commission has announced almost three billion euro in funding to encourage the early shutdown of remaining EU coal electricity plants. Huge Kudos)

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My great grand mother hand baked cookies with a wooden spoon using flour and butter.

My grand mother used to purchase a tin of biscuits to serve whenever unexpected guests arrived. A tin of biscuits lasted a month or more. We still have some of her biscuit tins.

My parents purchased a packet of biscuits and had a few every day at morning tea. A packet of biscuits lasted a week or so.

I purchase a packet of Tim Tams to share with a girlfriend and an entire packet of Tim Tams lasts less than an afternoon.

Some twenty something relatives get their biscuits hand delivered by Uber ordered via an app and are genuinely mystified that anyone could walk rather than drive to the shops.

Some teenager munchkins will only consume cookies made with fair trade chocolate and organic flour – either hand made or purchased is acceptable but only in paper or cardboard packaging never plastic.

Fascinating. Truly.

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(image by Mae via unsplash)

Sharing is best and am not involved in that. Apologies.

The enormous socio-economic gains from abundant low cost renewable electricity and manufacturing processes are already starting to be realised. 

Solar panel manufacturing and installation employ significantly more people long term than the few hundred people employed in hazardous conditions at a coal mine. 

As an example Australia’s first large scale green steel recycling plant is currently being built – melting and recycling steel using hydrogen not coal. Very cool. As another example a factory in Nelson Mandela Bay is currently being built to produce green ammonia – powered by a nearby solar farm and getting its water from a local desalination plant the project will permanently employ 20,000 people – currently producing ammonia accounts for around 1.8% global greenhouse emissions – green ammonia has zero negative emissions and is a useful biofuel.

Unlike temporary employment until the coal mine is empty – employment in renewables is permanent – hydrogen can be produced indefinitely. 

Being able to step outside without feinting due to extreme heat is a useful bonus.

The green industrial revolution is bringing a boom in permanent job creation and manufacturing solar panels, biofuels, hydrogen, desalination, batteries etc means lots of manufacturing plants being built in country areas and money circulating in the local economy.

An exciting period for humanity filled with lots of opportunities!

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(image via unsplash)

The best and the best ❤️

(opinions on blog my own – completely irrelevant am not involved in politics at all but amongst other not awesome things just saw a bureaucrat refuse to shake Lula’s hand – same bureaucrat happily met with Bolsonaro and am typing this with clenched jaw)

(“Since President Lula da Silva won office deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has already fallen more than 34 percent in the first half of 2023, preliminary data shows, reaching its lowest level in four years” An extraordinary effort. Thank you)

A code of ethics for online software platforms really needs to be established by governments to protect user privacy and particularly how their online data is handled by tech corporations – similar to the telecommunications industry and the finance industry.

International data brokers are a real deal problem – especially location doxing (as an example there is no doubt my location was being handed to coal lobby twits every time updated this blog until some good engineers intervened a while ago etc)

Am amongst many simply not using any exploitative creepy corp platforms (fb etc) until safeguards for humans and ethical conduct is put in place.

Amongst other things ensuring content creators are paid a proportion of revenue earned from content posted to platforms is included in the definition of ethical conduct (and many good platforms do so)

Can be easily done and is long overdue.

(19 September 2023 – purely by coincidence this week Britain enacted legislation to protect people’s privacy online. Many European countries have similar legislation enacted or underway. That’s really great.

A few bureaucracies are yet to legislate privacy safeguards for people online despite petitioning from many human rights organisations)

(there are some irrelevant mumblings somewhere at the bottom of the blog)

(29 September 2023 – Gosh – others mentioned today that Biden’s state department has issued a new report stating that “China is manipulating global media through censorship and data harvesting” Gosh. Honestly. Anyone else censoring media and engaged in data harvesting and data brokering? Other countries are buying data off whom – who sells harvested data.

Censorship of differing viewpoints is fundamentally wrong.

(ignore this am neither involved in nor interested by some current absurd bureaucratic nonsense but gosh) Are mrna vaccines suitable for or required for children bureaucrat. How’s the budget deficit coming bureaucrat – perhaps simply increase the tax on data brokers. Due to coal use causing global warming people are suffering burns by simply falling to the ground during extreme heat in some states – any real action to decrease rather than increase destroying all life on earth coal use bureaucrat. How many new immigrants so far bureaucrat – one in every few hundred people living in the country have only been in the country for a few months and do those people have access to health insurance bureaucrat and if not that is likely to increase the incidence of what in the community. Are all males of a certain age (even conscientious objectors) still banned by Ukrainian bureaucrats from leaving Ukraine (and no Ukrainian male immigrants of a certain age allowed? Seriously?) Other than the absurd 34? killed announced a few days ago what’s the real casualty count on both sides for the war in Ukraine so far bureaucrat. Peace talks would be good!

Suppose it all depends on what consider as a vital action for national security. 

A truly great American politician filled with integrity has elaborated extensively on these points)

“If we take everything into account – not only what the ancients knew, but all of what we know today that they didn’t know – then I think we must admit that we do not know. 

But, in admitting this, we have probably found the open channel. This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. 

This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in – a trial-and-error system. This method was a result of the fact that science was already showing itself to be a successful venture at the end of the eighteenth century. Even then it was clear to socially minded people that the openness of possibilities was an opportunity, and that doubt and discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

A few sentences from “What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character” – Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton

Highly recommend reading anything by Feynman again and again uplifting brilliance

(opinions on blog my own)

“The season of renewable records on Australia’s main grid continues apace, with the first days of Spring also adding a new milestone for solar in South Australia.

The combined output of rooftop and large scale solar reached more than 100 percent of total demand again this week”

Have a great day ❤️

Nature is very cool

Seeing a dandelion always reminds me of my father laughing as he blew the seeds into the air and gently holding a seed between his fingers carefully explaining the engineering and physics involved – see how the seed spins as it floats to the ground so that it is well planted – remarkable!

Those that lived through the horrors of the second world war like my father firmly believed their duty was to live their best lives for those that were killed, create something beautiful for future generations, to always strive for peaceful resolution of conflict and to leave the planet better than they found it.

Love and peace 

Along with the other devastating climate emergencies that are occurring India has currently run out of rice and tomatoes due to extreme weather.

India supplies around 40% of the worlds rice catastrophically leaving several billion people without their primary food staple. 

Reportedly McDonalds in India is serving hamburgers without tomatoes leaving millions more without their primary food staple and being without tomato sauce, bruschetta, lasagne, salsa is simply not possible to comprehend.

This really is a climate emergency.

Switching off destroying all life on earth coal use can and must be rapidly done. 

It’s easy. Really.

(a few hours after typing that have been very eloquently reminded that there are plenty of noodles – that’s good. The optimist in me would type that could be a boon for wheat producers except most are unfortunately currently drought effected due to extreme heat. 

Mains irrigation to farmland would make sense a very practical use of tax payer funds and very high reward for minimal cost – as an example mains irrigation to all farmland in Australia (that doesn’t already have it) would be a small fraction of the cost of that absurd costly bureaucratic nuclear submarine deal – those submarines are so big they are visible from space not exactly stealthy and only a few is non optimal for the vast coastlines and shallow waters around Australia.

Mains irrigation to farmland provides significantly more employment than coal mines, permanent drought proofing and guaranteed food security – vital for national security)

(4 September 2023 – Gosh – unfortunately a few unintelligent corrupt freemason federal Australian bureaucrats today inexplicably approved yet another coal mine to be operational for another fifty years causing huge backlash from many. Signing that coal mine paperwork requires absolutely zero skill ethics nor integrity. Got to be kidding bureaucrat this has been a decade of the warmest years on record and more climate disasters to come.

Why did some good engineers create the Snowy Scheme several decades ago – and still reliably producing zero emissions electricity more than seventy years on. Was there any snow this year unintelligent bureaucrat)

(ignore this post it just made me chuckle – image by others)

(ignore this too – inexplicably a few bureaucracies are inexplicably heading for their around seventh dose of (never used before in decades for lots of reasons) mrna whilst some simply used zero side effect inactivated vaccines for the general population – we know how to rapidly make effective against lots of variants zero side effect flu shots right bureaucrats. Always speak with a medical professional never anything online including this blog)

Huge huge kudos MC 😎 Absolutely deserved

(regional champion in open contest at school my only claim (my parents – that genuinely love a lot regardless – would not to drive me to Sydney for state finals) would love just once beat a Turkish person at backgammon decades and that still eludes me)

Stubbornness is a family trait no doubt ….

Changing the thumbnail on one of my favourite clips of him of all time is mean – that clip reminds me of lots of people and is mostly about other people but it is step for step exactly precisely recreating something and I love that clip and the look on someone’s face in the original thumbnail.

Opening the door to find I Love You written in rose petals and/or the room filled with flowers even when he was on the other side of the planet explains something about that person. An extraordinary gentleman. That’s actually incredibly private but got the feeling wanted me to say something.

That beautiful gifted person is so loved by so many people for a reason.

Always ❤️

One of the strongest, bravest, calmest, funniest, most beautiful, most centred, honest, gentle, talented and intelligent people have ever known. When we met he was in disguise I told him he danced like (someone) and he had a giggle fit – he had giggle fits often.

(completely irrelevant but am currently in the middle of taking out a restraining order of some sort against some (stalky corrupt bureaucrats etc) theoretically when that is done shall be able to attend things again. Apologies. All good)

Donations to help Maui rebuild after the devastating wildfires in Hawai’i can be made at

Aina Momona kaainamomona.org

The Salvation Army hawaii.salvationarmy.org

The Red Cross redcross.org/donate/hawaiiwildfires

Sending all our love

The future is in very good hands ❤️

(reportedly Jean-Pierre did not speak to this brave beautiful articulate person after the meeting because “it was eight o’clock and (Jean-Pierre) had to get home to her kid and make sure the kid went to sleep” (comments recorded and published by Forbes)

A doctor in Arizona stated this week people are suffering burns simply falling to the ground during extreme heat – a lot of intelligent rational people are advocating a reduction in fossil fuel use for lots of very good reasons and it can be easily done bureaucrats)

(opinions on blog my own, thank you Houston for the full clip. Contrary to his public statements Biden has significantly increased destroying all life on earth coal use more than any previous administration (occasionally a few Australian bureaucrats are similarly not awesome) Completely irrelevant but am not a fan of Rump and this post not intended as a partisan anything)

Cheyne means oak hearted and many environmentalists are broken hearted by the pilot whale stranding

Hopefully humans will learn to understand more about the beautiful species this planet is blessed with

(are the whales mimicking a symbol they have seen human divers showing them – the scientific part of my brain wonders whether the drone footage was hacked and AI generated (from a loosely formed circle into a shape is an easy cludge and have seen some sophisticated hacks and stalky bureaucratic conduct over the years) – the spiritual part of me wonders about the interconnectedness of all life on the planet. There is more to this universe than we currently have mathematical equations for of that am certain)


(originally posted 2 August 2023)

Love this – instead of lifeless concrete reflecting heat good engineers built a stormwater using stone blocks scattered to replicate natural boulders. 

This is only a few metres wide (the same width as concrete stormwaters) and yet after only a decade or so has lush growth supporting bandicoot, several species of possum, birds, bats, land frogs and more. Water living species seem to not like the stormwater but the plants thriving along the banks help to remove any toxins before the water reaches the ocean. 

Because it is natural forest very low maintenance, less cost to build and more effective than solid concrete stormwaters (plants remove significant water helping to reduce flooding) – lower cost to build means more tax payer funds available for other projects.

The plants drawing water from the stormwater keep the soil constantly moist creating a shady cool micro climate even during extreme heat – a boardwalk protects plant roots, facilitates walking along the sloped sides and allows people to enjoy a beautiful walk to school, work or shops even on the hottest days.

Residences and professional suites on either side of this stormwater enjoy private decks and patios looking onto lush forest.

Brilliant urban design

So much better than this typically awful freemason creation

(image by others)

Gosh

Unfortunately yet another indication of how some absurdly deluded talentless corrupt bureaucrats are repeatedly blatantly violating ethics and the law – a week or so after posting this some absurdly corrupt bureaucratic twit did this at the start of the photographed boardwalk and that requires zero skill – absolutely appalling. Seriously.

“Today an EU law was passed that requires all member countries to introduce measures to restore nature on a fifth of their land and sea by 2030.

The intent of the law is to improve or reestablish biodiverse habitats, reverse the decline of pollinating insects and restore marine habitats such as sea grass.”

Huge kudos ❤️

(and huge kudos to KC for being such an inspirational environmentalist for so many people for decades)

(video taken in natural forest a few metres from residential buildings, shops and cafes – it is an absolute joy and privilege to be able to step from enjoying bustling cafes and shops into the tranquility of nature and especially being able to take children for walks in nature a great way to unwind boisterous munchkins they are instantly happy for the rest of the day like magic – the finch is snacking on natural food not being fed)

“To see the world through the eyes of a child”