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๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐•๐ˆ๐ˆ โ€“ ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐“๐Ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ A Current Affair โ€“ Tues, 3 Jun 2026 This isnโ€™t one rogue ATO officer anymore โ€” itโ€™s an institutional pattern ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ, with four new systemic investigations triggered, and the ๐€๐“๐Ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ซ still dodging 18 questions and refusing to even...

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politic@l spinnervor 4 Monaten

Three victims confirmed so far. How many more are there? Fuck Unbelievable stuff

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Glen Schaefervor 4 Monaten

You never cease to amaze me Richard with your dedication to this issue and holding the ATO to account.

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

Thanks Glen. Thatโ€™s very kind mate. The whole whistleblower thing was devastating for me which is no secret. But when it comes to preventing abuse by the rogue criminal cabal within the ATO, I seem to find more energy. This viscous bunch of criminals needs to be exposed. โš–๏ธ

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Oz Troopervor 4 Monaten

Rest in Peace Ms Jang , horrible to hear.

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

I will pass on your condolences to Jae and his family. Thank you for your concern and care. โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ™

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Jolanda Cvor 4 Monaten

Every government department plays by the same playbook. I have been trying to expose the process for over 20 years to no avail. ๐Ÿ”—

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Love Marilyn โค๏ธvor 4 Monaten

Thanks for sharing. I don't watch main stream media but it's good to see a glimpse of actual reporting

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

Dan Nolan is doing an incredible job. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

Ping @RonniSalt โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

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Citizen | Therapyvor 4 Monaten

Covid has provided evidence that all public serpent entities have been corrupted. Should also look into Commissions like NHPO who is funded by AHPRA. IBAC is also complicit to corruption. Everyone is focused on politicians when they should be focused more on these corrupted public serpents. I have a letter from the fas for ombudsman, stating my matter is an ATO issue, and I have a letter from the ATO stating its a fair work ombudsman issue. We are at war.

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Spud from WAvor 4 Monaten

There are some mean mother f'ers there on power trips

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

That there are, no doubt. Not just mean, a criminal enterprise.

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Snowyvor 4 Monaten

Seems we need a full clean out of all government departments.

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Avvy.vor 4 Monaten

We want these ATO scum all arrested and named NOW!

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ronwestvor 4 Monaten

Someone once described the ATO audit culture as 'wait until someone's down and then kick him in the head.' That was many years ago and seems like nothing has changed.

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Richard D Boylevor 3 Monaten

UPDATE: Thursday, June 18, 2026 .

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Tim Bakervor 4 Monaten

It's called unconscionable conduct

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Barron65vor 4 Monaten

@LT_Aust They need to look at their unbelievably unrealistic penalties they charge! Itโ€™s a joke and they should be completely overhauled!

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Viviane Kingvor 4 Monaten

@MikeCarlton01 This story might go further if itโ€™s not on Channel 9 and introduced by an orange presenter. Try to get it on real news if you want credibility ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

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Mary-Ann MARTINEK #Veteranvor 4 Monaten

I am one of thousands who successfully had the ADF abuse investigated in 2011-2014 and after that there was a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicides. My lived experience was being issued a false Employer Group Certificate which had to be un-issued because it was wrong and caused me significant stress at the time. 2001. Many many former ADF are being affected by govt departments. This is a large problem not a small one. Thank you ACA for investigating and thank you Richard for fighting ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

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Marvin the Martian Hates Elonvor 4 Monaten

@MikeCarlton01 My fave! ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Deborah Cardiervor 4 Monaten

ATO use to employ all long term unemployed or unemployable โ€ฆ.

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Ryzakillvor 4 Monaten

Is there a class action for this? I have similar stories

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Richard D Boylevor 4 Monaten

Follow back and DM me. โœŒ๐Ÿผ

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Yasmina

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Iโ€™ve been called โ€œwogโ€ before. It nearly destroyed my life. I have no idea how I coped. It stopped me from starting a family, building a business and buying a home. It stopped me from being involved in Australian politics and even impeded my ability to sue a sitting Prime Minister from the executive of a major political party. It was debilitatingโ€ฆ ahhhh, no. In truth, Australia is one of the most welcoming and fair-minded places in the world. When my grandparents migrated here from southern Europe some more than 100 years ago, they assimilated. They wanted to be Australian, their kids wanted to be Australian. After all thatโ€™s why they came. I was brought up Australian. We spoke English at home, and had friends of all backgrounds. But the one thing we had in common was our shared love for this country and a common Australian culture. I started growing up here before Paul Keating talked about multiculturalism. I donโ€™t understand why people would leave their homelands and not want to be a real and full part of the Australian experience. If people want to keep their culture intact, and raise their children as something other than fully Australian, why come here at all? Some might say that there are cultures that are totally incompatible with our Western system, and I am not prosecuting that case, but if immigration (which has always been a part of the Australian story) is going to work and serve Australia, then surely people must be prepared to accept a new way of life upon arrival. Itโ€™s not as if the country has not afforded everyone great opportunities in the past - before the new post Covid era today, where there seems to be a total lack of opportunity for anyone. I always find it disturbing to hear politicians and talking heads in the media call Australia a racist nation - calling Australians racist. Many of these speakers are themselves recent immigrants. They sit in the Australian parliament and are paid by the Australian taxpayer, or they work for the ABC among other senior private and public sector positions. Many have much better lives and opportunities than people who have been here for hundreds of years, and even tens of thousands of years. They are privileged to have a voice, and instead of using that voice to thank the people of this country for the opportunities afforded to them, they slander us all. Call us names and try to shame us. Many of us gave up the cultures of our heritage to be a part of the Australian story and that is the only way we will have anything like social cohesion moving forward. Gratitude goes a long way, especially when one considers the fact that most immigration has been an imposition. There has rarely been a national conversation, or even any airtime given to those who would want to insist on a reduction or ending of the immigration programme. More, it is a sin to suggest that multiculturalism has failed. Forget the loss of trust and rights (like speech) that have been the absolute consequence of a system so obviously under pressure. I donโ€™t care where you come from, what you believe, or who you think you are, if you donโ€™t think you get a fair go here โ€“ you could always go back to wherever it is you come from. Iโ€™m sure it is the same advice I would be given if I were to go to whatever country that is and whinge about just about anything. The reason people stay is, even with the terrible political situation, it is still the best country in the world to live and raise a family and there are opportunities for anyone who wants to have a go. We must restore trust, and that starts with frank and honest conversations โ€“ even if they are unpleasant or inconvenient. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

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Fuel shortages are now a reality in Australia. We are a resource rich nation. This should not be possible. If we had responsible politicians, it wouldnโ€™t. But Australian elections have become a choice between two bad options for decades, with few exceptions. Worse, no matter which side we have voted for we get just about the same thing. Nobody has changed course. Elections in Australia are a cross between an economics lesson and shared distraction, as both sides of politics hope you donโ€™t see their bribery of voters with taxpayer money for what it is. A giant scam. As the government has grown. As they have taken over more and more of the economy and regulated whatever they donโ€™t totally control into oblivion, our industry has collapsed and that has pulled down our strategic preparedness. Australia is a shadow of the nation that emerged from the 1940โ€™s. Industry has been in decline since the 80โ€™s and we are not even a patch on what we were in the early 2000โ€™s, the last time the West entered conflict in the middle east. The global strategic landscape is also much more perilous, and we are more vulnerable than we have ever been. Our political class has been irresponsible, trading our future for their power, and feeding the pocketbooks of their powerbrokers in the Unions, the lobbyist class and the education sector. We are not in this mess by some unhappy accident. Whilst Kevin Rudd flipped out over so-called manmade climate change, and Turnbull flipped out over not being Prime Minister, and whilst Scott Morrison betrayed the Australian people, winning by holding up a lump of coal and losing for implementing Net Zero, we now have Albanese who spent much of his first term losing โ€œThe Voiceโ€ referendum. Since then, he has broken promise after promise as he pretends the future can possibly be made in Australia. A complete disaster. Local oil refineries closed because the cost of energy and the impossibility of employing Australians grows and grows. Competing with a bloated public sector, an NDIS and an Industrial Relations system that treat businesses as crรจches for the underperforming and unproductive. Those who are crazy enough to try and employ people in this country are seen by the government as an extension of the overgrown welfare system. Successive governments have spent most of their time trying to solve problems that donโ€™t exist, whilst causing new problems and I think that has been their intention. I no longer give these people the benefit of the doubt. I am not sure I ever really did. Because if you look closely at the decisions they have made, and the legislation they have rushed through, if you think about the consequences of their busy work, Australia could only be weakened as a nation by what they have done. Much of the commonly held wisdom among the ABC chattering class, has obviously failed us. From multiculturalism to the energy transition, to the NDIS, the industrial relations system, the family courts, the Aboriginal industry as well as the big borrowing and spending agenda, that and more have all failed us. It was always going to. By now, much of the pain caused by these things is being broadly felt. It is becoming clear to more and more people, that the government and decades of kneeling to globalisation is to blame, but not everyone can yet see the connection between the horrendous outcomes and the latest idea from the Australian Greens. Or the utter corruption of the trade unions. Or the damage caused by the morally bankrupt lobbyists. Or the complete uselessness of the advisors, pollsters and spin-doctors. But I am sure as this economic crisis in Australia deepens, everyone will see the source of the problem. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Just as a ball thrown in the air is pulled back to earth by gravity, so too is government borrowing and spending crashed back on our heads by inflation. What goes up must come down, and the empty economic abys that is Australia is not here by some unlucky happenstance. It has been the achievement of decades of corrupt, inept and lazy politicians, who live deeply in bubble of self-congratulation. A fuel shortage does not only mean the prices of everything goes up more than they have already, it also means Australia runs the very real risk of grinding to a halt. If this crisis deepens, it will mean people will die. COVID will look like the entrรฉe. We have every right to be furious with these people. I certainly am. It is time to put these grifters in the dustbin of history. I just want Australia back.

Matthew Camenzuli

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The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is Also The Key To Ending It The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed available in the Gospel Rescue Mission, but Ms. Johnson, a person, doesn't want it? Doesnโ€™t wish to leave their pet. Her Rottweiler's not permitted there. So that is a difficult question for a person and a difficult policy question..." What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem. "Many people have mentioned this is a serious policy problemโ€ฆ So, the policy questions in this case are very difficultโ€ฆ.Martin speaks in terms of someone who is involuntarily homeless and that raises all of those policy questionsโ€ฆ We usually think about whether state law, local law already achieves those purposes so that the federal courts aren't micromanaging homeless policyโ€ฆ" I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isnโ€™t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why havenโ€™t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? The answer that many homeless advocates give is that itโ€™s because we donโ€™t have enough homes, and poverty has increased. But neither is true. Poverty has steadily declined since the 1980s, when homelessness first became an issue of public concern. And very few people are on the street simply because they canโ€™t afford the rent. The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of people on the street are there because of untreated mental illness or addiction, which leads people to use all their money to support their drug habit and be high, rather than work. People who canโ€™t afford the rent but are able to work and arenโ€™t in the grip of addiction or untreated mental illness find a cheaper place to live, move somewhere cheaper, or live with family and friends. Itโ€™s true there arenโ€™t enough shelter beds, case workers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals to care for the homeless. But a big part of the reason for that is that advocates for the homeless have, for 40 years, demanded that funding for dealing with the homeless go into giving people private studio apartments rather than building sufficient shelter beds. They call this โ€œHousing First,โ€ and its record is awful. Few stay in housing, and many die because it fails to treat the cause of the problem, addiction, and untreated mental illness rather than the symptoms. Studies find that cities that prioritize basic shelter over expensive housing reduce the deaths of homeless by 3-fold. And so in LA, homeless die at a rate 3 times higher than New York because living inside protects people from murder, drug overdose, and car accidents. Making matters worse, homeless advocates, along with the ACLU, have opposed expanding psychiatric hospitals, and mandatory care in general, because they believe itโ€™s worse to mandate hospitalization for people who are dangerously psychotic or manic than to simply leave them on the street. But itโ€™s not. Last year, 112,000 Americans died from drug overdose and poisoning because we failed to mandate treatment. Two of my friends from high school would still be alive today had we mandated they get treatment for addiction rather than letting them die. What is happening on homelessness is a record of failure. The number of drug deaths quintupled from 20,000 in 2022 to 112,000 last year. Thatโ€™s more people dying per year than died in Hiroshima. Homelessness is not a fundamental problem of housing. Itโ€™s a problem of enabling addiction and untreated mental illness, both of which lead people to give up on work, lie, steal, cheat their families and friends, and live on the street, where they turn to petty crime to sustain their drug habits. This seems cruel to many people, which is why homelessness has gotten worse. In other words, the reason homelessness has gotten worse is because weโ€™ve enabled it, and subsidized it, rather than funded treatment and recovery. Nobody has subsidized homelessness more than California, Washington, and Oregon. And itโ€™s been in those states that homelessness has worsened the most. Why? The homelessness groups really believe itโ€™s more cruel to mandate care than to let people die on the streets. But there is an ideology behind this, too. Itโ€™s the idea that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are victims of society or the system, which is fundamentally evil. And, according to their logic, to restore justice in the world, we must give victims whatever they want, including the right to camp anywhere and use hard drugs, even if it results in their death. You might call this "pathological altruism. Think of the Kathy Bates character in Misery. Or of the mother who poisons her child in order to have a sick person to take care of, like in โ€œSixth Sense.โ€ Itโ€™s no coincidence that the same people who believe this also think civilization is evil and should be replaced by something more akin to primitive anarchism, like the kind romanticized by intellectuals since Rousseau. The alternative to this dystopia is tough love. We need to give people the care they need, but thatโ€™s not through enabling addiction and illegal behavior, but rather enforcing laws and mandating care, as an alternative to jail, when they are broken. Itโ€™s not enough to do what many Republicans want to do, which is to enforce laws and recriminalize shoplifting and hard drugs simply. We need to do that, for sure. But states must also have caseworkers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals so there is an alternative to jail, and so states can provide people with the specialized care where itโ€™s available, which simply isnโ€™t going to be in many of the small towns, like the one at the center of the Supreme Court hearing. The dirty little secret about homelessness, which is also the key to ending it, is...

Michael Shellenberger

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Ambassador Chas Freeman: Israel Is Worse Than Nazis Itโ€™s very clear what Israel wants. Itโ€™s made no secret that it wants to depopulate Gaza by whatever means it can, by starving people into leaving, expelling them, or killing them all. And thereโ€™s no question that it meets the definition of genocide. They have the intent to destroy an entire people. They have the ability and they are, in fact, carrying out an operation intended to do so. I think itโ€™s also quite clear why Hamas did what it did. This was in the nature of a jailbreak from the worldโ€™s largest concentration camp. And having been treated like animals they behaved like animals. What they did was horrifying, it was inexcusable, but it was understandable. The Israeli reaction has been vastly disproportionate and that is Israelโ€™s custom. It tries to react disproportionately in order to intimidate and deter anyone from attacking it. That is not new but what is new are the genocidal statements and proposed emptying of Gaza. 60% of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been destroyed and we know that over 12,000 Palestinians have been murdered by one means or another. Israel has destroyed most of the hospitals in Gaza. It now seems to be working on the schools. So it is totally ruthless and the whole thing is particularly macabre because it is such a vivid reminder of the Warsaw Ghetto, a very parallel situation in which driven beyond any ability to tolerate what was being done to them, the Jewish inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto rose against Nazi Germany and the Nazis exterminated them all and leveled the ghetto. One would think that the survivors of that Holocaust and the larger Holocaust in Europe would not wish to repeat a holocaust against another people but evidently, that is expecting too much of human nature. It now appears that much of the killing at the music festival was actually done by Israeli forces who fired indiscriminately at both the Hamas warriors and the milling crowds at the festival. Similarly, some of the major damage in the kibbutzim and the murders of the settlers there were done not by Hamas but by Israeli forces firing tank bullets into houses and hellfire missiles into cars and so forth. So this was a dreadful beginning to what has turned out to be an absolutely nauseating months and a half of slaughter, not finished. The United States has the ability to stop this by halting armed supplies to Israel but does not do that, opposes a ceasefire in support of Mr. Netanyahuโ€™s revenge against the Palestinians, and Mr. Netanyahu, I would remind you, is on record many years ago as expressing hope for a war in which Israel could expel all the Arabs in its midst and seems to be taking advantage of this to do that hoping, I suppose, that his reputation which has been greatly damaged by charges of corruption and by his suspension of judicial independence in Israel, can somehow be redeemed by this act of revenge. Where we are is a very bad place. What Israel is reporting is extraordinarily crude propaganda, some of it obviously, utterly false, and theyโ€™ve been caught. Even some of the mainstream media are beginning to report that the Israeli Defense Forces are lying about a huge number of things. Younger people, generally in the West, certainly in my own country the United States, are far more inclined to be sympathetic to the Palestinians than they ever were before. Itโ€™s not that they dislike Israelis but now confronted with with graphic images of horror, the murder of 12,000 [Palestinians], theyโ€™re not dispassionate. Not only are they demonstrating in all of the worldโ€™s capitals for a ceasefire which their governments declined to support for the most part, but social media is now overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian as opposed to pro-Israeli. But I think the Palestinians, generally, have been motivated to remind the world that they exist. That their problems canโ€™t be set aside. The Israeli government, with the connivance of the Biden Administration, and before that the Trump Administration, was making an effort to set the Palestinian issue aside in order to produce Arab-Israeli normalization. And the Palestinians set out with this raid into Israel to demonstrate that that is impossible, that the only way that you can have peace in Palestine is with a two-state solution. And oddly enough, although Hamas, of course, started as a movement funded in part by the Israelis โ€” Mr. Netanyahu has openly admitted that he corroborated with Qatar to fund Hamas in Gaza in order to divide the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza โ€” I think Hamas seized the moment to provoke Israel into doing exactly what Israel has predictively done in order to make it clear to the world that you have to have a two-state solution which had become a talking point. There was no reality to it at all. There had been no peace process for twenty-some years. Now there must be. People have recognized that the one-state solution โ€” which many favored, meaning a purely democratic one-man-one-vote arrangement in Palestine in which inevitably the Jewish population given its higher level of culture, civilization, and finance, would have called most of the shots โ€” is off the table. After all the hatred that has been demonstrated on both sides, coexistence in one state is obviously impossible in Palestine. Two states, however, would give the Palestinians a stake in peace. They have no stake in peace at the moment. Theyโ€™re like a rabbit being swallowed by some kind of boa constrictor. As time goes on they go farther and farther down the throat of the snake and theyโ€™re crying out, and they were doing so at a pitch that, apparently, no one internationally could hear. And now their cause has been dramatized. We canโ€™t have a resolution of what is going on now that takes the form of another expulsion of Palestinians, more tolerance of massacres, the condoning of genocide... and I think those in the West, including President Biden, who has been prepared to give Israel a pass on these issues, are beginning to pay heavily in terms of their political prestige in their domestic politics. Settler colonialism invariably leads to some attempt at genocide. That was the case in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It wasnโ€™t the case in New Zealand because the Mฤori were too tough. It wasnโ€™t the case in South Africa because the Zulus, and other South African blacks, were too tough. It wasnโ€™t the case in Kenya because, eventually, black Kenyans rose up in the Mau Mau movement, which was itself a horror, but it did result in a separation from the colonial rule of the British. The same thing could happen. Now the difficulty of all this is obvious in terms of the fact that youโ€™ve got an Israeli cabinet that is the most determined, genocidal cabinet the world has ever seen, and I donโ€™t excuse the Nazi cabinets from that comparison. The overt statements of genocidal intent are unmistakable. Thereโ€™s no effort, as the Germans did make, to conceal what is in store for the Palestinians. Thereโ€™s no fake camp for Jews like the one the Nazis set up to bring the Swiss Red Cross in to show how wonderful they were treating the people they had taken away from their homes. No effort whatsoever of that sort, just bombing and strafing and murder on the ground. Israel appears to be paying quite a heavy price for that in terms of combat losses, but, of course, is not reporting accurately what is happening.

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EU gave โ‚ฌ225 million to projects in #Gaza between 2021-2023, a place that was under the full control of #Hamas since 2006. How much of the EU money given to projects in Gaza ended up in the hands and pockets of this terrorist organisation? I asked Commissioner Olivรฉr Vรกrhelyi this and other questions in the Budgetary Control committee on October 26, 2023. Watch and share this video along with the transcript. MEP Cristian Terheศ™: "Thank you so much. Before I go into my questions I just want to make a note that this committee has on paper 55, 54 MEPs, and we are in this room, right now, only five [MEPs] and two over there. I think it is outrageous that, for an important topic like this, that is discussing about how the Commission is spending or wasting people's money, apparently the Left is not interested in see[ing] what exactly and how exactly people's money was spent. Going back to the questions, I have six specific questions. The first one is related to the books printed under the supervision or under the authority of the Palestinian Authority. And I saw, I carefully read the answer from the European Commission, which pretty much acknowledged that there was a problem, and I restate that, that there was, in the past, a problem with these books. And the answer says that "EU has stepped up its engagement with the Palestinian Authority to ensure that further curriculum reform addresses problematic issues identified in the shortest possible timeframe". So the "further curriculum" will address this issue. Well, here's an example of a book. This is a literature book for the fifth grade that is used in the UNRWA schools. In this book, this is what the Arab kids are learning. If you're not aware of who this person is, her name is Dalal Mughrabi. On March the 11th, 1978, along with other terrorists, [she] hijacked two busses. And when the Israeli authorities tried to free those people, they blew themselves up and killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children, and over 70 people were wounded. So how is it possible that now, in 2023, and I'm not talking about past booksโ€ฆ This is 2023. These kids are still learning that this is a role model for them. And now, out of the blue, we are surprised that people are blowing themselves up and killing innocent people. I'm not interested what are you going to do in the future. I hope that you will do something and we will make sure that you will do something. But what have you done so far to make sure that these Arab kids, these Palestinian kids are not indoctrinated with this kind of evil figures? The second question is about the "Pay for Slay". #PayForSlay According to the Palestinian law if a Palestinian person is killing a Jew, his or her family is getting a pension. So we are rewarding terrorist activities. And this was done for years. A few years ago, when Trump was president, a U.S. military guy was killed in one of these terror attacks. And U.S. Congress passed a law called "Taylor Force Act", which is conditioning any U.S. money for the Palestinian Authority to make sure that these families of the terrorists are not getting reimbursed for life after these terror activities. Why arenโ€™t we imposing exactly the same rules? Because, according to the answer from the Commission, we are paying pension and pensions to these people. Third question, the issue of Gaza. According to your official answer, you're stating, and I quote: "Between 2021 and [20]23, EU funded โ‚ฌ681 million for the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA. A third of this money went to Gaza." A third means โ‚ฌ225 million from 2021 to 2023. But we know for a fact that in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza, after 2006 or [200]7, Gaza is under the control of Hamas. You said here that you will run a survey or whatever, an analysis to see how the money was spent. What have you done already? Hamas was called, and recognized and acknowledged as a terrorist organisation. How was it possible to pour โ‚ฌ225 million in a place that is fully controlled by a terrorist organisation and nobody did anything or said anything? It is absolutely absurd! Forth question. Following reports about stealing of pipelines for rocket production and fuel for hospitals, to what extent can the European Commission or the Court of Auditors verify or assess the damage caused to EU and European funded projects in Gaza? Fifth question. Following news that Hamas is directing money for social allowances to members of this terrorist organisation, how do you verify that such money gets to those really in need? Nevertheless, following reports about control of Hamas of the teacher unions and UNRWA workers union, what are the steps you are taking to verify that EU money for UNRWA is not used to serve Hamas agenda? Thank you." Commissioner Olivรฉr Vรกrhelyi: "Madam Chair. I want to assure all the participating members of this committee that I very much appreciate their presence and their engagement with us. And I think that this is very important that we have this discussion, no matter how many members of the committee are here. Now, first of all, on the Gaza project. Let me make it very clear what has been done in Gaza since 2006 when the IDF and Israel has left the Gaza Strip. I fully agree with you. The control and the governance of that strip has been de facto exercised by the Hamas. Unfortunately! And it was for that reason that all institution financing activity has been stopped and it is for that reason that only projects of public interest have been continued in the Gaza Strip. Now, with the emergence of the horror that we have seen instigated by Hamas, the review also has a very clear message to those projects that we have tried for many, many years to create for the benefit of the people in Gaza, like the Gas for Gaza project or the desalination plant creating fresh water for the people in the Gaza Strip or building a new hospital in the Gaza Strip, that are on hold. And it is not possible even physically to continue on those projects. And we will have to wait until the end of this war to see what engagement would still be considered in the in the Gaza area, if feasible. Now, in relation to the broader question of the review, what is the timeline? The timeline is that we are already doing it. We have a methodology established and our review is carried out by the whole House, mainly the DG Near, but also other parts of the Commission, DG Budget and also the other external family members of the Commission. The result of the review is going to be presented to the College [of Commissioners]. So the College is going to take the conclusions of these findings and they will be, I very much hope, endorsed by the College. In terms of its cost, we do not foresee any additional cost for this, and we want to act rapidly because, as I said, given the very fragile security situation, we have to act immediately to filter out all those who have, even indirectly, participated or contributed to the violence that we have seen emerge. Now, when it comes to the textbooks, to be honest with you, it's very difficult to answer your question because this is the question I have been putting since the very beginning of my mandate. How is it possible to embed hatred and nurture hatred in textbooks? How is it possible to teach kids to hate? How is it possible? And we have been sitting down several times with the Palestinian Authority. We have run a study that came to the same conclusion as you have. And we have had difficult discussions also in this House. But now I see that there is a change in the position of this House, which is, I think, very important. And it is not only very important, but we took very, very careful note of a request from the Parliament, because there is also a request adopted by the plenary, to look into this issue. And this is what we are going to do and this issue will have to be addressed. The result that we have achieved was that we have raised the issue with the Palestinian Authority, and I don't think there's disagreement between us and them that this is an issue. Second, we are working very closely with our partners in UNRWA. I'm very sad to see that this is a training material or education material that you have shown today, which is used by UNRWA, because UNRWA was the one who not only was able to talk about this problem, but undertook commitments with us to eradicate any material, any views expressed, including on social media or in the territories of the schools of this kind, glorification of terrorists, glorification of hatred, anti-Semitism. And this is why we have concluded a three year financing contract with UNRWA. This was a very important element for us that UNRWA started to cooperate and we have seen results coming in. But, of course, I agree with you. We cannot rest until the very last of these materials disappear. And I'm fully committed to deliver on that, including in the discussions for next year. On the "Pay for Slay". We have a list to check that direct beneficiaries do not appear on any of the terrorist list. But, if there is one, I wouldn't like to draw any conclusions of the review, but, if there is one issue to look at is, of course, that we do not create the possibility of indirect benefit for those who are involved in terrorist activities or for those who have been even convicted for such acts. And this is what we are addressing also in our review. Now, on the on the damage to our projects in Gaza, I cannot tell you now. What we see is that there is clearly devastation in the northern part, serious level of damage in the south, but it will be only after that the war will stop that we can go back and take a look at that. Now, on the humanitarian aspect and how to guarantee that our humanitarian aid is not going to be misused. If you look back at the statement the European Council has adopted just last weekend, you see also a very clear call for them to make sure. And this is why our decision has been to channel our humanitarian aid through our own institutions; DG Echo is delivering on the ground and in-kind. So we are providing help, in-kind, not providing financing. We're not providing other items that could be used for other purposes. And we are coordinating our work with international organisations only, so to ensure that it doesn't get to the wrong hands. So there was one more question about the breakdown of the โ‚ฌ103 million, and I think I can confirm what you said that we have composed the โ‚ฌ103 million by โ‚ฌ50 million that were allocated in support of payments of salaries and pensions. These are going directly as direct budget support into the budget of the Palestinian Authority. However, we want to check the final beneficiaries and we have a list. And now we're looking at indirect beneficiaries as well as part of the review. The 40 millionโ€ฆ The other element is the โ‚ฌ40 million support for the most vulnerable families. Again, this is this is paid in the form of direct budgetary contribution. And the third and lastly, the โ‚ฌ13 million, this is the remaining part of 103 [million], is financing the East Jerusalem hospitals that we have paid already in April 2023 to keep the health care system running in East Jerusalem. I hope with this I have answered all the questions that have been raised. Thank you."

Cristian Terhes MEP

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Secretary Rubio! Secretary Marco Rubio Marco Rubio With deep regret, I must inform you that the Ukrainian government have once again acted irresponsibly, undermining the peace efforts initiated by President Trump and personally supported by you. Civilians in Ukraine continue to suffer and die. These tragic losses could have been prevented if a ceasefire had been achieved in line with President Trumpโ€™s peace plan. There is blood on Putinโ€™s hands, as his forces continue to strike Ukraine. But there is also blood on Zelenskyโ€™s hands, as he desperately tries to save the state power. When Zelensky brings photos of Ukrainian victims to the White House, he is not honoring their memory. He is using their pain to extend his presidency and preserve a regime built on corruption and fear. This is not about protecting Ukraine. Every day of war means more lost territory. And itโ€™s not about preserving the future of the Ukrainian nation. This war is destroying not only lives, but the future of the Ukrainian nation - there will be no one left to give birth to the next generation. This is about one manโ€™s obsession with power. Zelensky is not fighting now to defeat Putin - he is fighting to avoid elections. For him, staying in office has become an end in itself. Like Gollum clutching his precious ring, Zelensky clings to power, terrified of the vote he knows he would lose. I am the only Member of Parliament in Ukraine who has officially appealed to the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution and call for presidential elections. Zelensky fears this case so much that he has forbidden the Ukrainian media to report on it. My lawyers - who were working on this case - were abducted by the Ukrainian Security Service, the same agency responsible for the torture and death of Gonzalo Lira. During the initial hearing, Supreme Court Judges Semyon Stetsenko, Volodymyr Bevzenko, Vasyl Sharapa, Serhiy Chyrkin, and Nataliya Kovalenko [include names and photos] rejected my case, violating the Constitution. On May 15, the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine will consider the final decision: will Ukraine remain a democracy - or will Zelensky officially become a dictator in the heart of Europe by canceling elections? Mr. Rubio, the United States has long stood as a champion of democracy around the world. Now is the moment to take a clear and principled stand, and help the Ukrainian people defend their right to choose peace and leadership through free elections. As a Member of Parliament and a representative of the Ukrainian people, I respectfully urge you to consider personal sanctions against Supreme Court President Stanislav Kravchenko and Judges Stetsenko, Bevzenko, Sharapa, Chyrkin, and Kovalenko. These sanctions are essential to defend the rule of law in Ukraine and to protect American interests in global stability and security. I believe this step would send a powerful message to Ukraineโ€™s judicial system: that their duty is to the people, not to a president who refuses to leave office. President Donald J. Trump Ambassador Mike Waltz Steve Witkoff Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Elon Musk Donald Trump Jr. @amuse Cillian MAGA Resource Natali Morris Tucker Carlson Fox News James Bradley General Mike Flynn

Oleksandr Dubinskyi

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Alright. I waited. I read enough. I sat with it long enough. Thereโ€™s still a lot more to dig through and a much deeper dive to be done, but hereโ€™s what needs to be said right now: Elon was right! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ The only problem is, he conveniently forgot to mention that he was also named in the files. Now, do I think Elon was up to no good with Epstein? No. I think Elon was a target who had no bad intentions, unlike others who were more than willing to engage in sexual relations with minors. I donโ€™t think anyone seriously doubts anymore that this guy was exactly what many of us have been saying for years, a Mossad operative (So much for โ€˜the greatest allyโ€™ of the united state). To me, it also looks like he was extremely close to MI6, which raises an obvious question, what exactly was the CIAโ€™s role in all of this? Now we understand why Britain is so thoroughly compromised and willing to harm its own citizens to serve Zionist goals and agendas. And letโ€™s be very clear, Zionists are not just Jewish. They are Christian as well. This is a cabal operating in plain sight, right under our noses and we keep giving them taxpayer money to do more harm. A few months ago, I did an episode on Pizzagate. I had zero doubts about the kind of pedophiles we were dealing with. I also know how tightly connected these people are to Hollywood. I come from the acting world. What weโ€™re seeing now with the Epstein files makes one thing undeniable: we are ruled by a criminal, pedophile cabal. It doesnโ€™t matter which side you look at Democrats or Republicans, it is the same club! The law only applies to regular people. In America, the rich and powerful get away with murder, rape, and massive financial crimes. Theyโ€™re not rich because theyโ€™re smarter than you. Theyโ€™re rich because they stole from you. But God forbid you steal a dollar, youโ€™re going to jail. You want to know who isnโ€™t in the Epstein files? At least, I havenโ€™t seen him yet, and Iโ€™ve been slowly dissecting the files since their release. Putin is nowhere near the Epstein files. The most demonized man by the west is not in the files. :) Follow my Youtube for more. Link in bio.

ELIZABETH LANE

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MUST LISTEN: Congress Rep Chip Roy Exposes How Corrupt US Government Has Become โ€œIโ€™ll be damned if I'm going to empower a government to extend beyond its constitutional limitsโ€ โ€œGovernment that is now tyrannically using its power to: - Go after the American people - Go after former politicians, including the former president - That is spending money we don't have - That is using that power to regulate us to death on virtually every bill that virtually every Republican on this side of the aisle that claims to be a limited government conservative votes for Why? Because they don't want the Fraternal Order of Police or other law enforcement organizations to come after them.โ€ โ€œOver the last 16 months, there's been a battle which represents the larger war brewing within the Republican Party because unfortunately my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are so far gone, down the rabbit hole of radical progressive policies that absolutely destroy our country every single day, littering our country with regulations, littering our country with all sorts of crime, littering our country with open borders, engaging in endless wars. All of the stuff that is happening because our Democratic colleagues are frankly undermining the American dream and undermining Western civilization and undermining everything we hold dear. There's been a battle going on for the soul of the party in the country within the Republican Party. And I want to tell you, I'm not in the majority. I'm not. Say, Chip, you're in the majority in the House. You have a razor-thin majority. No, I'm not. I'm not in the majority. I'm in the minority. A minority of Republicans who try to wake up here and change this place rather than just campaign on it.โ€ โ€œI work for 750,000 Texans. I respond to them, to God, and the Constitution of the United States. I do not work for anybody in this chamber. I do not work for any organization. I don't work for any donor. I work for the people and I work for a people who are sick and damn tired of this institution run by a bunch of people who campaign saying one thing and they get here and do another.โ€ โ€œ34.5 trillion of debt, $1 trillion every three months. We already spend more on interest than our defense. We're about to crack $1 trillion of interest. They say we will hit $2 to $3 trillion of interest by 2030. - Our borders are wide open - We have kids dying. We had Austin, Texas. Four more people the other night died from fentanyl poisoning. Bunch of others had to be resuscitated with Narcan. The people of Texas are continuing to deal with thousands of people pouring across the border. It's not in the headlines right now because universities are in the headlines. But everybody in Texas who are reeling from inflation, who can't afford a car, who can't afford their home, who can't afford the interest on their mortgage, who can't afford to buy groceries, who are dealing with crime on their streets, who are dealing with open borders, they all want some sort of sanity coming out of this institution. And what do we do? What do Republicans do in all of their infinite wisdom? We fund more of it. We fund the Department of Homeland Security again. We give the FBI a brand new $200 million headquarters. You can't even make this stuff up. We give more power to the intelligence community to spy on Americans. Don't even protect Americans with warrants. You can't even make it up.โ€œ

Wall Street Apes

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โœจWORLD WIDE WONDERโœจ - Starlight & Wonder - VeXpo! 2026 theme song Now available on Bandcamp! Streaming soon ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ”— I want to tell you guys a bit about why this song came to be A song with so many featured singers that the title of the song got initially rejected from streaming platforms for being too long lol I've been so lucky in my career in VTubing that so many of my dreams have already come true. But there were some that, this year, I was determined to make a reality 1 - I wanted to do a live show as WUNDER RiKU 2 - I wanted to release a traditional group idol song 3 - I wanted to appear at VeXpo, Europe's biggest VTuber con that happens right in my home town Somehow, all of these things managed to come true all in one go Next Sunday, I'll be performing onstage at VeXpo as WUNDER RiKU, having written the group idol theme song for the event The theme for VeXpo this year was a Y2K aesthetic, so I wanted to write something that felt both classic and timeless in it's composition, but aesthetically leaning into the R&B/Pop group sound from all the music I grew up listening to The title "World Wide Wonder" came from the "World Wide Web", the explosion of the internet that happened around the year 2000s. I thought about what the internet meant to people then, and what it means to us now. Many of us wouldn't have these beautiful passions, friends, communities and livelihoods without it, and I really wanted to capture the earnest hopefulness and connection to others that the internet can bring at it's best. And with the word 'Wonder' in the title, I had to sneak 'Starlight' in there too hehe~ There's a line in the chorus about "we'll shine wider still" that is a subtle nod to British patriotic anthem 'Land of Hope and Glory'. As VeXpo is a British VTuber event, I wanted to sneak in a lyric that was a nod to something from our culture, but also has an important meaning for me. A lot of British anthems were born in the colonial era, and the lyric "wider still, and wider" refers to spreading Britains empire across the world. These words always angered me, as they position concepts of globalisation purely from the perspective of imperial expansion and conquering, instead of connection, broadening our minds and learning about the wider world we live in outside of our tiny bubbles. But the concept of 'wider still' can mean so much more than that. We can spread VTubing wider still. We can share our passions wider still. We can open our hearts wider still. We'll shine wider still. I wanted to take something from our culture that upsets me (the division, the legacy of empire) and create something new, hopeful and inspiring. In the verses, I wanted to tell the story that so many VTubers share- one of going from loneliness and having no sense of purpose, to finding a home, a community, and a love for life once thought lost. I have felt this too. Thank you, every single friend, colleague, WUNDERLiNG and fellow human I've met along this 6 year journey. I wouldn't be here doing this without any of you. Whilst so many dreams have come true this year, it's also been by far one of the most awful years of my life. Even today, I've been crying, feeling betrayed by people who I trusted. But in spite of that, I'll hold on to the message I wrote in this song: "For every broken soul upon the earth Till every lonely voice is heard We won't stop now We'll shine brighter still Till this world wide wonder Of starlight comes our way"

WUNDER RiKU ๐ŸŽต๐Ÿชฝ Songwriter | โœˆ๏ธCyprus Comic Con

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This is a story that everyone is speaking about in China right now. A Chinese actor - Wang Xing ๐Ÿ‘‡ - was lured to Thailand by a fake movie production company that told him they wanted him to star in a movie. When he arrived in the airport in Bangkok he was greeted by a chauffeur, arranged by the so-called production team, who later drove him to Myawaddy โ€“ a city in Myanmar known for being a hub of scam operations. He was of course being abducted by one of these numerous gangs that operate in largely lawless Myanmar. They have huge scam operations going on there, typically trying to scam Chinese nationals in various ways and often operated by various Chinese mafias. Which is why you're seeing the Chinese government being so involved in trying to ensure Myanmar gets its act together (they for instance notoriously managed to bring down the "Ming family" mafia gang who owned the notorious Crouching Tiger Villa scam centre in Kokang, near the Chinese border in Myanmar's Shan State: These scam operations are often staffed by people like Wang Xing who were abducted into it and are forced to work for free (i.e. slavery) until they scam enough money for the gangs. Sometimes, if they're rich enough, they are also held for ransom. Luckily in Wang Xing's case, on the way there he managed to keep sending his location to his girlfriend in China, until his phone was taken away from him at the Myanmar border. His girlfriend then created so much buzz about it in social media, shared by some of China's biggest celebrities (like singer Lay Zhang and actor Qin Lan), that it alerted the Chinese and Thai authorities. We don't know exactly how his rescue occurred, just that within less than 48 hours he'd been freed (apparently by the Thai army, although it's unclear). The case shows how sophisticated these mafias have become in their targeting methods. They're specifically crafting schemes to trap entertainment industry professionals. And Wang Xing's case is far from isolated: the China Federation of Radio and Television Association revealed in a statement on Tuesday that "many actors" have fallen victim to these fake overseas film shoot promises, suffering "serious damage to their personal and financial security." According to Wang Xing there were approximately 50 other Chinese nationals being held at the same facility as him. At this stage I don't believe we know if they were rescued alongside with him (I'm reading conflicting reports on this). All in all, victims are likely in the thousands: a group of Chinese families have started a petition urging the government to help find their missing relatives - the number of cases has already climbed to more than 600, and continues to rise. Some estimates - for instance by the UN - mention that as many as 120,000 people may "have been potentially trafficked into scam compounds [in Myanmar]" ( The case is also extremely embarrassing for Thailand which increasingly relies on Chinese tourism, which is probably why the Thai authorities were so quick to act. Thai officials, eager to contain potential damage ahead of Chinese New Year, have emphasized that no Thai nationals were involved in Wang's trafficking. But even as they dealt with his case, they were already investigating the disappearance of another Chinese model in the same border region. Wang's case has brought unprecedented attention to these scam operations, but it also raises several uncomfortable questions: will the thousands of others victims be saved too, and how many more will be trafficked before these criminal networks are shut down?

Arnaud Bertrand

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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke): What happened in Yemen is a revolution, not a tit-for-tat over a blockade. Ansar Allah spent seven to nine years preparing it. The fight is with the Saudi state the British and Americans built on a narrow Wahhabi pillar. โ€œWhat happened in Yemen is not just a sort of tit-for-tat against Saudi Arabia or about a certain blockade. It is a revolution. I think it should be understood as a revolution. It has been planned for at least 7 years, more like 9 years. They have been working on this. It is thought through by Ansar Allah, who are always deprecated in the West because theyโ€™re barefooted tribesmen and things, but it has been well planned. And so Saudi Arabia, if it goes down the path of conceding to Ansar Allah, it means theyโ€™ll have to return the three provinces that they stole in the 1930s. In 1934, they stole three provinces of the Yemenis. And the Houthis have strong tribal connections with those provinces, which are now generally sort of assumed to be within Saudi Arabia, but they will want them back. They will want an end to the blockade, and they will also want payments which were due to them on certain transactions. And they will demand the end of the UAE and the Saudi forces in the south. In fact, they are being destroyed anyway. Theyโ€™ve been literally driven out because theyโ€™re mercenaries. Theyโ€™re not Saudi forces; theyโ€™re mercenary forces. And the mercenary forces have all been fleeing as the Houthis have used ballistic missiles against them. And you can see theyโ€™ve just fled from the area. Thereโ€™s a slight interaction: actually, the UAE mercenaries are not letting the Saudi mercenaries pass at the moment until they pay them. But I mean, theyโ€™re both mercenaries, and the Houthis will drop a few ballistic missiles on them just to make up their mind more quickly. So why do I say itโ€™s a revolution? Because really it goes back to: what is Saudi Arabia? Saudi has been imposing on Yemen really for all these years since the founding of Saudi Arabia, trying to change its style of Islam, which is an esoteric either Ismaili or Zaidi type of Islam, but itโ€™s an esoteric type of Islam. Iโ€™m not talking sectarianism. Iโ€™m just talking about the nature of Islam in Yemen being much more esoteric. Itโ€™s much more inwardness rather than the literal extremist Puritan idea of the Wahhabi of the Najd form of Islam that was weaponized by Abdulaziz and by Ibn Saud in the 1930s. They were a Puritan sort of militia that ran amok through the Middle East. They attacked Mecca; they attacked Karbala; they killed thousandsโ€”tens of thousands in Karbala. And eventually Abdulaziz was forced to try to contain them and to stop this because, first of all, it was the beginnings of the petrolโ€”the fuel oil bonanza taking place in Saudi Arabia and he wanted to convince the British and the Americans that it could become a state. But that movement was never entirely retired. It was just put on standby. But this was the sort of incompatibility, the contradiction that takes place in Saudi Arabia. It claims to represent all of Sunni Islam. But actually it is based on the very narrow pillar of this very violently Puritan componentโ€”desert Islamโ€”that regarded any change from their tradition as bidโ€˜a, as heresy by innovation. And that anyone who did not subscribe to their view of Islam deserved death. This was the progenitor of ISIS, just to make clear. Whatโ€™s the difference between this Wahhabism from the desert and ISIS? Nothing. They were the same. It was just a different formulation of them. So what happened with this was that eventually he had to take on these people because they were threatening the whole of the project of building a Saudi power that would be acceptable to Britain and to the United States and the outside world. So the British machine-gunned them for him. And they killed most of them. But the point is they never represented the main tribes of Saudi Arabia, who also were attacked and destroyed. And then Ibn Saud then married all their wivesโ€”married a wife from each tribe that he had defeated. So he ended up with 22 wives. Because he thought this was a way of preventing them from attacking him further. But theyโ€™re still there. And they still remain resentful of the sort of one-family formula which guides Saudi Arabia, because thatโ€™s what it is. There were old sort of traditions that riches had to be spread in some sort of way that was fair between the tribes, that their territories and their perquisites were respected. Some of the tribes, like the Shammar, have more than a million members. Theyโ€™re not just tiny little militias. These are big tribes. They extend beyond the boundaries of Saudi Arabia. All the finance, all the money, all the essence of the Saudisโ€™ kingdom project was all focused in one family. And so the resentment still continues about that. So the idea that Saudi Arabia is a sort of a strong modern political state is, to a certain extent, a myth. Yes, it had money. It doesnโ€™t today. But also, it either makes concessions to the Houthis and risks the revolution gaining more oxygen and becoming bigger and spreading to Iraq and to other parts, which is happening. There is a real sense, a feeling in the air of revolution in the Middle East at the moment. Because a small group of people have just taken over and shown the hollowness of Saudi power, much as Iran has shown the hollowness of US power during this period. And of course this is animating people. And donโ€™t forget Iraq. Weโ€™ve had Iran; now the shoe has dropped in Yemen. And remember that when the last supreme leader was assassinated by Israel, the funeral that followed in Iraq, millions turned out there in Karbala, even in Najaf, which is more conservative. Millions turned out. Across Iran, people walked miles to pay their respects to this. So what weโ€™re playing with is revolutionary fire. Iโ€™m emphasizing it because it all tends to be viewed from the Western perspective that this is all about Saudi relations and Gulf relations with the United States, and itโ€™s all about oil, and are we going to have to pay so much for diesel. But actually, what is happening is thereโ€™s a big reversion taking place. The whole region is sort of on the cusp of reverting to the old power paradigm that used to exist until the fall of the Shah, in which the big civilizational powers historically have always been Mesopotamia and Persia/Iran, whatever you want to call it. But these were real powers in the real sense. I mean, functional, functioning powers with big populations and riches, and were the powers in the region really until, first of all, the Clean Break document, which was written by Richard Perle and David Wurmser in โ€™96, recommended this inversion. Weโ€™re going to change the whole power structure, and the new pillars of American energy dominance and power are going to be Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and all of the allies of Iran are going to be eliminated, and this new power structure would then also be the basis for normalization with Israel, i.e. the beginnings of the Abraham Accords. And then in 2006, after the war of Israel against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Dick Cheney was complaining bitterly that the war was supposed to weaken Iran and instead it strengthened Iran. And he was talking with Prince Bandar, who was then the intelligence leader, and we have the details of this meeting exactly because John Hannah, who was the aide of Cheney wrote it and even published it. And what Bandar said was, listen, the king believes that the weak point of Iran is Syria. Syria is the pipeline, their emergency routes. We take out Syria, and Iran is weakened, if not lost. And Cheney, at that point, said, well, hold on. Hold on. How are you going to take out Syria? And Bandar replied to him with one word: Islamism, extreme Islamism. And that was the Wahhabis coming back in. And what Cheney was doing was legitimizing the use of this extreme current of Najdi Islam, Wahhabism, which then transformed into the various components of ISIS and Nusra and everything else as a sectarian tool to weaken Iran and to complete the power shift that now the Sunni Gulf states were the pillar of power and the pillar of Israeli substance in the region and Iran was kicked out. And thatโ€™s why this thing is so important, because what weโ€™re seeing with Iran and now with the Houthis, and we may see more components to this happening, is a complete turnaround back to the old system. Iran has power and the Houthis have power.โ€ The City and Washington built a garrison on a desert militia and called it a pillar of order. Ansar Allah is treating that construction as what it was: colonial. The exit is development and a settlement the dollar cannot switch off. More garrisons will not restore 1934.

๐Ÿ…ฐpocalypsis ๐Ÿ…ฐpocalypseos ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ…‰

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