Author: Jmedia Manager
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‘How much can you lie?’ Witness challenged in Netanyahu’s day in court
Jerusalem: An Israeli prosecutor has told a court that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped a business couple clinch deals worth hundreds of millions of shekels in exchange for favourable coverage of him on a news website they controlled. Speaking at the opening of Netanyahu’s corruption trial, state prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari said: “The relationship between Netanyahu and…
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Neo-Nazi group social posts call for Jewish women to be raped
Disgusting anti-Semitic posts calling for violence and sexual assault against Jewish women have appeared on social media. A Melbourne-based neo-Nazi group has called on its followers to go on the prowl for Jewish women and gang rape them to “breed out the Jewish”. The National Socialist Network (NSN) labelled the hate-filled mission Operation Ashkenazi Strange…
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Tasmanian urged to report Nazi imagery as more graffiti and symbols spotted around Launceston
A Jewish community leader has urged Tasmanians to report Nazi imagery to authorities after more instances of graffiti and symbols were spotted in the Launceston area. A ute was seen on a highway north of the city displaying a Nazi swastika, while graffiti promoting far-right group the National Socialist Network was reported near an overpass…
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World powers meet over Iran nuclear deal
Officials from five world powers have begun a new effort to try to bring the United States back into the foundering 2015 nuclear deal they signed with Iran, a delicate diplomatic dance that needs to balance the concerns and interests of both Washington and Tehran. The meeting in Vienna of envoys from Russia, China, Germany,…
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Jordan accuses Prince Hamzah of ‘malicious plot’ against kingdom
Jerusalem: A senior Jordanian official on Sunday accused the country’s former crown prince of conspiring with foreign elements in a “malicious plot” that threatened national security. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters that the plot had been foiled at the “zero hour.” “Then it was clear they moved from design and planning into action,” Safadi said.…
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‘We pray these restrictions may be lifted’: Pope celebrates Easter in pandemic-weary world
Vatican City: Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through masks on a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions. From vast Roman Catholic cathedrals to Protestant churches, worshippers followed regulations on the coronavirus. In some European countries, citizens lined up on Easter…
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Netanyahu corruption trial resumes
Israeli prosecutors have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of treating favours as “currency” at the opening of a corruption trial which, along with an inconclusive election, has clouded his prospects of remaining in office. Netanyahu, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, breach of trust and fraud, came to Jerusalem District Court on…
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Who Was the Most Evil Scientist in History?
The majority of scientists are, I’d wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon, or kidneys, or whatever. Conduct little experiments, marginally expand the stockpile of verifiable human truths, that kind of thing. Then there are the eugenicists, weapons/biowarfare specialists, corporate toadies, and genocide technicians who give those other scientists…
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Ordinary Nazis
Book review: Robert Gellately, Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2020) In the end, it was all about The Idea. Thus, the historian Robert Gellately explains why so many Germans passionately attached themselves to National Socialism. In his new book, Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis, Gellately argues that Hitler succeeded…
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Stranger, in this short life of yours, choose kindness
Things like a one-in-100-year pandemic, and a rising tide of neo-Nazism, racism, anti-Semitism and violence against women and children, have made me question the meaning of life during the months we endured strict lockdowns in Melbourne. Is there any point to the struggle? What is the “better” way (if any) to shuffle through this mortal coil before we…