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4·17 hours agoIn short:
NSW Police have arrested a man possessing a water pistol following reports that a replica gun was discharged near NSW’s parliament.
About 1pm, officers were called to Sydney’s CBD following reports that a white replica gun was discharged.
What’s next?
It’s not clear whether the man will be charged given the legality of possessing a water pistol.
1·1 day agoWhy do you reckon it wasn’t made up? Was it submitted through a public platform or something?
I hope so!
6·2 days agowhat aid group said that?
From the article:
Eight international aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, said in a report that Israel had failed to meet the demands by the Tuesday deadline.
If you want the full list, though:
Signatories
Anera
CARE International
MedGlobal
Mercy Corps
Norwegian Refugee Council
Oxfam
Refugees International
Save the ChildrenSource: https://www.nrc.no/news/2024/november/joint-statement-israel-receives-failing-grade-on-u.s.-demands-in-gaza (this page has the full text of the joint statement and a link to the full report)
Hamas infested unrwa
UNRWA - the organisation that Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Japan, Sweden and the European Union determined they should restore their funding to after investigations into allegations were concluded - were not one of the aid organisations referred to by the headline, no.
9·4 days agoWhy is it virtually impossible to deliver on? Higher education has been free in the past, right?
2·5 days agoBut don’t call it the “best Australian songs of the 90s” if you’re going to leave out so many of the best songs of the 90s.
Yeah, the title is intentional click-bait/engagement-bait
Madison Avenue - Don’t Call Me Baby
I had no idea this was Australian! Now you’ve mentioned it, though, there’s a noticeable lack of hard ‘r’ in some lines (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mRcnF5tSc).
Some classics in this list. Such a list can’t exist without people pointing out who was missed, though. This reads like a top 50 of what JJJ had on high rotation. It’s missing several acts that were bigger than most of the names on this list.
Agreed - and thanks for making your list of things it omitted - but the list was compiled by a poll of Double J staff, so it was always going to be biased towards deep-cuts, and it’s a good thing to bring lesser-known and forgotten music to attention (so long as people don’t take the list to be authoritative).
6·5 days agoJoke’s on them, though, because we’ll all be dead in 30!
“People who believe system is failing have less faith in system”
I know it’s the headline writer, who I think isn’t usually the author of the article (I don’t know how The Conversation does it, though), and much less still is it reflective of worth of the study, but these kinds of headlines still annoy me. Maybe they’re written to annoy people, I don’t know.
The headline isn’t even accurate. The question asked in the survey isn’t about whether respondents think inequality is high, but whether they think income distribution is fair (the exact wording is: “How fair do you think income distribution is in Australia?”).
Department of Home Affairs Strengthening Democracy Taskforce
This is a slightly terrifying phrase. I still associate Home Affairs so strongly with Dutton - as the mega-portfolio that was created to placate him - that it’s hard not to read ‘Strengthening Democracy Taskforce’ in the same way as American war-mongering rhetoric of ‘SPREADING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY’.
This impression is not helped by this bit of double-speak later in the article 😂:
The Department of Home Affairs’ 2024 Strengthening Democracy report describes Australia’s democratic resilience as “strong, but vulnerable”.
This suggests Australia’s satisfaction with democracy is at risk. It may erode further if voters think the major parties aren’t sufficiently responsive to the economic pressures they are under.
Not to defend the state of our ‘democracy’, but I feel compelled to point out that thanks to preferential voting we can vote for parties other than the major parties. Unfortunately many of the minor parties are also in favour of policies that would increase inequality, but the Greens consistently campaign on reducing inequality. I suppose a lot of people who might be roughly characterised as ‘right-wing populists’ and against status-quo neoliberalism would find the Greens unpalatable, though. Do we need a party that’s like the Greens but with One Nation’s aesthetics or something?
Trump, unlike Biden/Harris, feels no need to pretend to be doing anything to stop Israel
The pretending is in some ways worse.
In practical terms Biden/Harris have given the Israeli government everything they wanted. Harris is participating in a genocide. Nobody should have voted for her.
But the Biden/Harris Whitehouse paying lip service to humanity/sanity (including ceasefire) seems to have given a lot of people a fig-leaf to vote for a génocidaire, and more generally to go about their lives as if their government is not committing genocide.
See also ‘kids in cages’. There’s a sizable number of Americans who, it seems, can only see the atrocities their government is committing when there’s a Republican in the Whitehouse.
6·12 days agoI’d recommend browsing the Lexicanum wiki: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page
For books, a common recommendation for starting with the setting is the Eisenhorn trilogy (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Eisenhorn_(Novel_Series)). Another common recommendation is reading the first few books of the Gaunts Ghosts series (https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Gaunt's_Ghosts_(Novel_Series)).
The lore in this meme (the Razing of Monarchia) is covered in the Horus Heresy novels. If you wanted to jump straight in with the Heresy series it’s generally recommended you read the first five of them^, then branch out into whichever subseries interest you.
^ Horus Rising, False Gods, Galaxy in Flames, Flight of the Eisenstein, Fulgrim
Haha, holy shit, what a damning excerpt! Thanks for saving me some time.
Correct, after that the EU, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Australia, etc. determined that UNRWA was not a terrorist organisation, and resumed their funding.
I’m assuming you mean live streaming of the attacks on 7 October? Do you have a source for this? I can’t even find anyone claiming this.
As far as I’m aware, the nature of the evidence against UNRWA staff (if there was any) was never made public. If there was live streaming, I think the Israeli government would never stop talking about it.
In any case, there were accusations against 12 UNRWA staff. UNRWA employed 13,000 people within the Gaza Strip, so even if those unproven accusations were true, it would hardly be indicative of UNRWA being a ‘terrorist organisation’.
That’s incorrect. The IDF claims that Sinwar had in his possession the passport of an UNRWA teacher. The passport expired in 2017, and its owner is a 40-year-old man who has been in Egypt since April.
I’m not sure how people imagine this to be some kind of smoking gun for UNRWA being a terrorist organisation. No government donors to UNRWA seem to have considered it worthy of taking any action.
You asked:
when do you think the Palestinians will give up and sue for peace?
And I gave you an answer that they’ve been in ceasefire negotiations since November 2023. It’s been on-and-off, sure, but your question was when would they sue for peace and the answer is that they have done already.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg742e3rexo
Qatar’s foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Qatari mediators had “re-engaged” with Hamas since Sinwar’s death, but there was “no clarity” over the groups current plans with regards to ceasefire talks.
ABC News quotes a Hamas official here:
A senior Hamas official says the group has told Egyptian officials it was ready to stop fighting in Gaza if Israel committed to a ceasefire deal.
The official said on Thursday a Hamas delegation discussed “ideas and proposals” related to a Gaza truce with Egyptian officials in Cairo.
“Hamas has expressed readiness to stop the fighting, but Israel must commit to a ceasefire, withdraw from the Gaza Strip, allow the return of displaced people, agree to a serious prisoner exchange deal and allow the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” the official said.
source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/ceasefire-talks-in-doha-hamas-israel-gaza/104515680
guess you’ll need to recheck your “facts”
Firstly: Rude.
Secondly: Do you think “the Israeli government doesn’t actually want a ceasefire” is an original observation of mine, or something?
“But we are committed to continuing the war after a pause, in order to complete the goal of eliminating Hamas. I’m not willing to give up on that.”
- Benjamin Netanyahu, June 2024
See also:
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/20/why-netanyahu-wont-let-israel-stop-fighting-after-killing-hamass-sinwar
- https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/middleeast/ceasefire-hostage-deal-talks-tensions-israel-intl/index.html
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-netanyahu-wont-cease-fire
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/the-goal-is-to-destroy-gaza-why-israel-rejects-a-ceasefire-with-hamas
I think you’re on to something here. Any behaviour becomes 10x more threatening to the public/cops when the person doing it has brown skin.
Thing is, he’d already left the scene when he was arrested. They had to track this guy down to arrest him and confiscate his property, and it’s not even clear that he was breaking any law. Seems like they would have had time to check that?
I also don’t know why they keep saying it was “discharged” like that’s a relevant detail. It’s not like it made it more threatening, because if you see someone pull a trigger and it doesn’t make a loud pop, then you know it’s not a real gun (or at very least it’s not a loaded gun). Unless this is a weird kind of water pistol that does make some kind of a pop? Also, if people are close enough to see the trigger being pulled then they’re probably also close enough to see the spray of water. It’d be far more effective to just brandish it if you wanted to scare people.