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Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
US citizens rejected Trump and the Zionists. They did not vote for the Democrats out of genuine belief in them. Nevertheless, Trump refuses to change course and is even doubling down. What do the Zionists have on him?
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Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
His first response to a Democratic landslide that he had little to do with is to bleat about finding ‘bipartisan common ground’. Do you think Republicans would be talking about bipartisanship if they had just secured the biggest House majority for decades?
Sigh.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that his party is “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground” in order to work with Republicans on the ongoing affordability crisis. abcnews.visitlink.me/ymEF7Q
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ICYMI Outrageous US interference from US State Dept imposed Jillian Segal on Aus public. @CombatASemitism, which will hold Local Gov conference Nov 25-27, partners with State Dep $ CEO is in Tel Aviv michaelwest.com.au/foreign-a…
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Lib candidate for Hastings in VIC election has barely got a mention but Deputy Special Envoy Frank Schiefler would’ve had big input into Jillian Segal’s repressive plan. Other experience? Lib staffer & army intelligence
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:
- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.
What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.
The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
US intelligence agencies believe @Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy
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Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Returning the favour, have just warmed up the crowd at the Berry Writers Festival for @Peter_Fitz and @Lisa_Wilkinson tomorrow afternoon. Berry is a magic town, an absolute jewel.
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Segal arrogantly sees herself as judge, jury and executioner. She is a hardline, right-wing menace to freedom of speech and independent journalism.
ABC Alumni is outraged at the continued insistence by Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism,that the ABC and SBS are contributing to antisemitism.
Read ABC Alumni's statement here. abcalumni.au/statement_segal…
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Zionists calling Jewish people who say Israel is committing a genocide antisemitic will one day seem as ridiculous as it is : it’s time to all stand up against this rubbish.
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
This is so strong and clear.
You can't help but notice that if this was in the UK context - you wouldn't be able to get a single one of these sentences out without a journalist barracking the person saying it constantly.
The UK media is in quite a state.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Whenever mainstream Western media cite unnamed senior Iranian officials, you can be confident they are lying.
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ABC Alumni is outraged at the continued insistence by Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism,that the ABC and SBS are contributing to antisemitism.
Read ABC Alumni's statement here. abcalumni.au/statement_segal…
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Also, when children write their names on their arms & legs so they can be identified if/when they’re shelled & torn to pieces by the Israeli military is a most telling and heart-wrenching attempt at being recognised & reunited with their families even in such a brutal death. The horror, fear & pain inflicted on Palestinian children by the Israeli genocide is beyond comprehension & forgiveness.
Meet one of the most intelligent and caring women alive today. Expert on Israel's war on childhood.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a Palestinian scholar who has spent decades studying what happens when political violence enters the bodies, bedrooms and minds of children.
Here are ten of her most devastating insights.
1. You can destroy a child's childhood without killing the child. Fear, imprisonment, humiliation and the constant possibility of death can rob a child of everything childhood should be.
2. Before you can brutalize a child, you must first make that child seem dangerous. Strip away innocence. Replace it with suspicion. Violence becomes easier to justify.
3. Call it security, and almost any cruelty can become a precaution. Even children can be treated as enemies.
4. Terror enters the mind long before a bomb strikes. The sound of footsteps, a knock on the door, a strange noise at night. Fear colonizes the imagination.
5. Occupation enters the bedroom. It determines whether families can live together, whether parents can protect their children, whether a home can remain a home.
6. Destroying a house destroys more than walls. It destroys the place where a child learned to feel safe.
7. Palestinian women face multiple forms of domination. Political violence from outside, patriarchal control from within. Neither should excuse the other.
8. Even death does not guarantee dignity. Shalhoub-Kevorkian writes about ashlaa’, the Arabic word for scattered body parts. Parents searching rubble for pieces of their children. A ring identifying a mother. Pajamas identifying a child.
9. How can a child recover from trauma when the trauma never ends? There is no meaningful after while the terror continues.
10. A little girl in Gaza begged her cat not to eat her if she was killed by a bomb. Shalhoub-Kevorkian understood something profound in this plea: even a terrified child was trying to preserve the dignity of her own body.
And when parents gather the scattered remains of their children, they are doing more than preparing a burial.
They are refusing to let violence have the final word about who their children were.
That is perhaps the most extraordinary insight of her work: even when human beings are reduced to fragments, love still struggles to make them whole.
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
No Democrat in Congress should vote to support a single dollar for this illegal, inhumane, insane war. Period.
There's a behind-the-scenes debate going on among civil socity/NGO/antiwar groups in DC over how hard to push to end Trump's war immediately. One letter currently circulating -- backed by Win Without War, MoveOn, NIAC, Indivisible, and J Street -- had included a line that set off alarm bells with groups that want to take a hard line against the war. It read:
“We, the XX undersigned civil society organizations, urge you to respond to this mandate by voting down any defense authorization or defense appropriations bills that would continue funding this disastrous war or increase Pentagon funding beyond the already outrageous $1 trillion that the White House pushed through Congress last year...If Trump continues the war into the new year, we further urge returning members to prioritize and pass legislation expressly defunding this war early in the new Congress.”
The problem there is the "if Trump continues the war." Opponents of that language argued there was no reason to give Trump November and December to wage war, and it should be forced to an end now.
Also, the government won't be funded by a defense appropriation bill, but by a CR that has to pass on or before Dec. 11.
Sen. Chris @VanHollenForMD and @RoKhanna have said the fight should be had in the CR.
After I reached out for comment, I was told that that particular line is being stripped out of the letter. Several of the signatories said they support pushing hard now to end the war, not waiting until January. NIAC spokesman Ryan Costello said NIAC interprets "defense appropriations bills" to include the CR.
"We want immediate action to end this war. Anything less is unacceptable," Costello said.
Matt Duss, executive director of CIPA, one of the signatories, emphasized his support for the more aggressive approach proposed by Van Hollen. “Congress needs to use every tool it has right now to stop this war,” he said. “We want everyone to be going all the way.”
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Self proclaimed Wolverine😂 Senator James Patterson and Jennifer Parker have been rolled out in a vain attempt to discredit the AUKUS public Inquiry.The inquiry report was informed by a former PM, Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministers, military experts, academics and the public.
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
Hi Ben, this is a truly disgusting (and cowardly) tweet. So glad I have spent the past year turning down your repeated invites to appear on your show.
For the record, this is a Jewish journalist interviewing the Jewish *author* of the IHRA antisemitism definition for Zeteo, and it is Stern himself who thinks it’s a mistake to use the IHRA definition in the way the government is.
But since you can’t engage with the substance of any of this, you resort to smear by insinuation.
Interested Bystander 🇵🇸 retweeted
It’s a scam and all Jews know it. Israel, AIPAC and the ADL increase antisemitism by perpetrating war crimes and silencing critics. Then they raise money and sympathy of the hatred they create. They do it daily at the expense of Palestinians, Jews and freedom of speech and they enjoy the profits. They cannot be allowed to keep doing it.
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Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
