Aussie federal court finds conservative senator’s 2022 tweet racially discriminated against deputy Greens leader
A judge ruled that Pauline Hanson, the head of One Nation, racially discriminated against fellow senator Mehreen Faruqi in a tweet in which she told her to “piss off back to Pakistan.”
She took Hanson to court, claiming the comment violated the Racial Discrimination Act. The tweet, posted in September 2022 in response to Queen Elizabeth’s death, referenced Faruqi's statement that she couldn’t mourn someone “as leader of a racist empire.”
Hanson has been ordered to delete the tweet and pay Faruqi’s legal costs. She expressed her “disappointment” with the judgment and announced that she would appeal it.
Is this the erosion of free speech Down Under?
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Israeli airstrikes kill two, injure four near Beirut in renewed night attack
The Israeli Air Force conducted fresh raids of approximately ten strikes on the outskirts of Beirut, Al Jazeera reports.
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Pentagon audit claims Boeing overcharged the Air Force, even soap dispensers marked up 8,000% — AP
Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts including an 8,000% markup on soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general.
The Defense Department’s auditor reviewed prices paid for 2018 to 2022 and found that 12 products were overpriced. The Office of the Inspector General said it reviewed the soap dispenser prices after getting a hotline tip, according to AP News.
#Boeing - Boost
UPDATE: Death toll in Spain's floods rises to 158 — Reuters
Death toll from devastating flash floods in eastern Spain climbed to 158 on Thursday. Rescue teams are still searching for survivors.
Deemed Europe's worst storm-related disaster in over five decades.
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Kamala Harris puts the spin on Biden’s 'garbage' comments — Reuters
Six days from the election, Kamala Harris begins to distance herself from the uproar sparked by President Joe Biden appearing to refer to Trump supporters as "garbage”, according to Reuters. The VP told reporters, she “strongly disagrees with any criticism of people based on who they vote for".
Biden posted on X, that it was directed at comic ‘Kill Tony’ who made a controversial joke ,not all Trump supporters. Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump seized the moment dressed in garbage man outfits and pulled out Trump campaign garbage trucks.
This election is sinking fast…
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⚡️Trump sues CBS News for $10 billion, ‘election interference’
Trump campaign alleges 'deceptive doctoring' of CBS’ 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
Calling it ‘election interference’.
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❗Iran preparing to launch major offensive from Iraqi territory against Israel in days — Axios
#Iran #Israel- Boost
Kamala Harris has been a ‘Soros OP’ for years: Judge Joe Brown drops her true IDENTITY
Kamala was backed by Soros throughout her career up to the WH. The ‘Soros backed operative’, according to Judge Joe Brown dropped 5,200 fraud charges against his bank, OneWest. Just weeks later, Soros sold OneWest Bank for over $3 billion, according to Brown.
Her real identity: “She was sworn in as Indian, she wasn’t talking about being black,” Judge Joe Brown.
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South Korea puts new export clamps on DPRK targeting materials for missiles — Reuters
South Korea announced Thursday, a new export controls requirement on materials are needed to produce solid-fuel missiles, according to Reuters. This is in order to restrict DPRK’s ballistic missile program.
The export controls will cover 15 items that DPRK find difficult to produce on its own, and is expected to tighten the sanctions by reinforcing "existing international export controls", the ministry said in a statement.
#DPRK #Seoul - Boost
North Korea conducts longest-ever ICBM test
North Korea has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a warning to its regional adversaries, according to the state-run KCNA news agency.
In a statement on Thursday, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry in Pyongyang described the test as “crucial,” adding that it was ordered by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The missile launch “updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and creditability of its world’s most powerful strategic deterrent,” the spokesman added.
North Korean officials did not specify the type of ICBM or provide any technical details.
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Nigeria must look to its own culture and history, instead of ‘western democracy’ – ex-president
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged his country to consider adopting a government system based on African cultural principles, claiming that Western democracy has failed, local media reported.
Obasanjo made the statement at a farewell ceremony for Chrisland University’s outgoing vice-chancellor, Chinedum Babalola, in the southwestern Ogun State, according to the local daily Punch.
“I have always been talking about Western liberal democracy. It is not working for us. It is not even working for those who gave it to us. The British were complaining. We must rethink democracy,” Obasanjo was quoted as saying. “We must bring our own culture into democracy. African culture does not talk about opposition; it talks about communalism; you come together, reason together, iron it out, and then you work together,” he added.
#Africa #Nigeria - Boost
Tightening Russian oil sanctions threatens global economy – Le Monde
Attempts to further tighten Western sanctions on Russian oil could undermine the global economy, French newspaper Le Monde reported. The article indicated that tightening sanctions on one of the major oil-producing countries could send fertilizer prices soaring and would ultimately lead to higher global food prices.
“The rise in oil prices would disproportionately affect the poorest countries, potentially pushing them into a humanitarian crisis,” US economist Catherine Wolfram was quoted as saying. Such a scenario could discredit the West in the eyes of the Global South and encourage them to strengthen ties with Russia, she suggested.
#Russia #Sanctions - Boost
NATO's week-long Neptune Strike drills end
The exercises involving some 15,000 troops, sailors, surface combat ships, submarines and fighter jets were staged across Europe - from the North & Baltic Seas to the Mediterranean and Adriatic.
A Swedish pilot explained the alliance has been planning larger aerial operations along with the US Navy. Purely 'defensive'... of course.
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Kong-ray became the biggest typhoon to hit Taiwan in 30 years, with a radius of 320 km, the island's Central News Agency reported
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🚨AIPAC HAS BOUGHT CONGRESS, IS SPENDING MILLIONS TO DESTROY THE FEW THAT OPPOSE ISRAEL
'It's the money that buys the Congress, everybody sees that. Trump received $100 million from the widow of Sheldon Adelson...you can just see how much money the pro-Israel lobby has decided to spend in order to destroy the few people of Congress who are not totally following the line of Israel.'
-Prof. Jean Bricmont, author of ‘Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War’
FULL SHOW: https://rumble.com/v5kcnm5-zelensky-and-netanyahu-monsters-created-by-the-west-now-eating-the-west-pro.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
ICYMI: Photos show DPRK’s ‘most powerful’ Hwasong-19 ICBM in latest test
On October 31, Pyongyang successfully test-fired a Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile, which it described as the "latest version" and "the most powerful strategic missile in the world."
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ICYMI: Another mass layoff for Dorsey’s Tidal — Fortune
The former Twitter CEO which owns the music streaming platform Tidal had to do another round of layoffs. Dorsey did not provide a number of the amount of people to be affected by the job cuts, according to Fortune.
Tidal needs to operate “like a startup again.” This requires organizations to work with a “much smaller team,” Dorsey said.
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Brazil's labor market may pop the bubble, inflation fears run high — Reuters
Brazil's jobless rate fell to 6.4% in the three months through September, statistics agency IBGE said. Thursday, below market expectations and scoring the second-lowest unemployment, has economists fearful, according to Reuters.
The jobless rate was down from 6.9% in the April-June period and 7.7% a year earlier, according to IBGE. Brazil's jobless rate raises serious fears that inflation could overrun job returns.
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‘If you call Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner that’s hate speech’: Joe Rogan and JD Vance breaking down censorship
JD Vance: “They’ve gotten really comfortable with the idea of silencing people.”
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‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong?’: Economist's new cover ahead of the US Presidential Elections, takes a pot shot at Trump
Economist saying if you have a vote, “cast it for Kamala Harris”. A dark endorsement right before the US Elections.
Boo…
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Halloween special: Clinton comes out of the crypt to stump for Kamala, pushing pro-Israeli agenda
Bill Clinton: "…People in Michigan are thinking about not voting bc they're mad at the Biden admin…that's a mistake."
"I got news for [Hamas]—[Israelis] were there first before their faith existed."
Who let this guy out of the senior home?
#Election2024 - Boost
❗‘US is going to beef up its military presence on the Korean Peninsula’ — Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense
#US #Korea - Boost
Daring rescue in Valencia, a man nearly swept away by raging waters
The dramatic video shows massive floods in the suburbs of Valencia, Spain.
Good samaritans pulled a man from danger and into the window of a house using a rope.
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⚡️DPRK soldiers to deploy against Ukrainian forces in coming days — Blinken
He warns they would become legitimate military targets if they engaged in combat against Kiev, according to Reuters.
Russia has repeatedly refuted these claims.
#DPRK #Russia - Boost
❗UPDATE: At least 140 people dead after floods in eastern Spain, dozens still missing — local media
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US drone makes decries Chinese sanctions
As Beijing sanctioned US drone maker Skydio, the company said the rstrictions will disrupt its supply chain for months.
Skydio says the sanctions aim to "deepen dependence" on Chinese drone firms.
China's foreign ministry announced earlier this month sanctions against the company, Skydio, two other defense firms and 10 individuals, following the United States approving $567 million in defense assistance for self-ruled Taiwan. Skydio noted its only Taiwan customer is the National Fire Agency.
#US #China - Boost
Illegal NATO spy plot to arm Ukraine thwarted – Hungary
Foreign intelligence services have attempted to organize a delivery of Hungarian weapons to Ukraine, but Budapest’s counterintelligence stopped them, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff has claimed.
Gergely Gulyas revealed the illegal weapons deal at a press briefing on Wednesday, in response to a question from the newspaper Magyar Nemzet.
“Indeed, there were attempts to use the Hungarian military industry to send weapons to Ukraine, but our counterintelligence discovered and stopped them,” Gulyas said. “Hungary will not deliver any of its weapons or ammunition to Ukraine,” the official added, noting that Budapest’s position remains firm on this point.
#Hungary #Ukraine - Boost
Russia in talks on new cargo line with Tanzania
Russia is in talks with Tanzania to establish a regular maritime cargo line, Minister of Economic Development Maksim Reshetnikov has stated.
He was speaking at the Russia-Tanzania Business Forum on Tuesday, held as part of a Russian delegation’s visit to the country, which focused on expanding logistics and trade links between the two countries.
Reshetnikov stated that logistics is at the forefront of Russia’s strategic priorities. “Tanzania’s advantageous location on the eastern coast of the Indian Ocean and connectivity with other African countries offers Russia substantial opportunities. The republic could serve as a primary entry point for Russian products onto the African continent, extending the North-South Transport Corridor. Likewise, Russia could become an ‘entryway’ for Tanzania to access the Eurasian Economic Union market,” he said.
#Russia #Africa - Boost
❗️If the opposition parties in Georgia won the recent elections, Brussels would praise ‘fantastic’ democracy — Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto
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Huge blaze at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery facilities
Authorities have reportedly asked residents to evacuate the area or remain sheltered after a fire broke out at the lithium battery recycling center in Fredericktown, Missouri.
#Alarm - Boost
