4PR: Can you please introduce yourself?

Caroline Kennedy: My name is Caroline Kennedy and I am the United States Ambassador to Australia.

4PR:  Are you aware that former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating says that the United States geo-political policy in our region ‘would make a cat laugh’?… Go to Article

“The United States departure from Kabul after 20 years of fighting has been chaotic and is now almost over. The situation in the country remains fraught, though, after a terrorist attack on the airport being used for evacuations by the U.S. military. And that attack was followed by a retaliatory U.S.… Go to Article

Duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses – Juvenal
Only two things does he long for, bread and circuses – Juvenal.

They left only his hat
On Thursday 16 October 2014 at 10 am I arrived at the Sunnybank home of my friend, Ross, a man of 80 years. I had told Ross through other friends (Bernie and Rosslyn) to expect me.… Go to Article

In August 2014, Adie Mormech got a Facebook message he will never forget. It was from Wafaa, one of his former students in Gaza. “Adie do u remember Huda that was in your class in Afaq she was my friend”. Of course he remembered Huda: her humour; her quirkiness; how she’d come to class early to tell him stories; the gifts she gave him when he left; her excitement about her upcoming wedding.… Go to Article

Here’s the Covid management info from Royal Australian College of GPs if you get sick and have to isolate at home.

Cheers

Trevor Berrill

Sustainable Energy Systems Consultant & Educator

www.trevolution.com.au

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On 21 July 1971 there was a statewide stoppage against the Apartheid State of South Africa and the whitewashing by having the Springboks tour Australia to play football.

The President of the Qld Trades and Labour Council, Jack Egerton, said:

“It was disgraceful that the Queensland government saw fit to declare a state of emergency for a football match to support a racist and fascist regime in South Africa, while primary industries in the state were depressed and there was serious unemployment in the central northern and western parts of the state.… Go to Article

The story they told men was a cunningly devised fable; the gospels they preached to them were not an account of man’s real position in this world, but an incoherent fabrication, of dead ghosts and unborn shadows, of traditions, cants, indolences, cowardices,—a falsity of falsities, which at last ceases to stick together.… Go to Article

Review of “Ironing” by Navajo

Ironing is a promising debut novella by “Navajo” but the author, whom I think is a male, needs to bone up on his craft so as not to spoil his future fiction with bad writing. The title is catchy and it suggests irony which indeed turns out to be the case as ordinary Londoners face small and large challenges in an uncertain contemporary world.… Go to Article

‘There are a lot of working class people in prison’ – Jimmy McGovern

Having been put in prison on four occasions* in two countries of the British Commonwealth I can attest to the authenticity of Time, a 2021 three-part prison drama written by Jimmy McGovern, directed by Lewis Arnold, and starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.… Go to Article

“One thing is sure, not everything here costs money.” – Cuban rumbero [rumba musician] from Suave, Suave
by Gerardo Alfonso

Anyone who has attended Foco Neuvo concerts over the past decade would be familiar with Sue Monk, the author of ‘Looking through a prism …’ and leading member of Jumping Fences.… Go to Article

WBT has received this notice from Just Peace and the Quakers:

Dear friends,

We warmly invite you to our first yearly planning event. Brisbane Quakers Friends House, 10 Hampson Street, Kelvin Grove, on Saturday January 15th 2 pm – 4:30 pm. 

PLEASE SHARE TO ALL INTERESTED PEOPLE-RSVP WELCOME
The focus and issues we will discuss can be found on the flyer below. … Go to Article

We have the state, so where’s the power? – Nelson Mandela

I always used to think that Desmond Tutu was a bit of a sell out. When placed alongside Steve Biko, Chris Haney and Nelson Mandela who saw past Christianity and embraced socialism. I felt this most when Desmond Tutu chaired the truth and reconciliation commission after they let Nelson Mandela out of jail after 27 years.… Go to Article

It would be interesting to hear what Kennedy has to say about the US blockade of Cuba given that her father brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction over Cuba during the October Crisis of 1962. – Ed.

Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F Kennedy, to be the US ambassador to Australia.… Go to Article

Interview with CEO of Arrow Energy

4PR: Can you please introduce yourself?

Arrow Energy: My name is Cecile Wake I am the CEO of Arrow Energy, a subsidiary of Shell.

4PR: What are you doing in Queensland?

Cecile Wake: I am from Queensland … I graduated from University of Queensland in Economics and Law in the 1990s.… Go to Article

Join us to mark the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and launch ‘From Australia to Cuba with Love’ where we aim to collectively travel the distance between Australia and Cuba and highlight the injustice of the US blockade. Sign up on the day! Tee-shirts, badges, and more. We’ll have a short walk and/or ride to kick off our campaign.Bring… Go to Article

This is a Palestinian film that shows another side of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Israeli Sarah and Palestinian Saleem have an affair. Both are interrogated and Saleem is imprisoned. Sarah is called a traitor. Sarah is forced to testify that Saleem recruited her to obtain information about military raids in Bethlehem and Ramallah conducted by her husband who is a colonel in the Israeli army.… Go to Article

Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the closure of International Memorial, Russia’s oldest human rights group.

Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era.… Go to Article

Believe me if you don’t see me and I don’t tell you anything
If one day I get lost and never return.
Believe me, I want to be a machete in the middle of the harvest
A fierce bullet in the centre of combat.
Believe me that my doves have rainbows,
My hands of fine songs.… Go to Article

One of our readers is concerned about Israel’s close military ties to Australia. He writes: This is what we have to combat! Australia is up to its neck in complicity with terrorist apartheid Israel. IDF Palestinian child killers are living amongst us. Border Force urgently needs to impose the strongest possible vetting for all Israeli visa applications and ASIO needs to track down those already here so they can be booted out.”… Go to Article

At a recent rally opposing the Australian government’s acquisition of nuclear submarines Marianne Hanson told us that QSuper had investments in nuclear weapons. Marianne Hanson teaches and researches in the field of international politics. She is also Vice-Chair of ICAN Australia – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons, and she spoke about the problems that nuclear submarines will pose to our efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons.… Go to Article

In the Sixties, when we were kids we had a dog who got into a fight with a blue tongue lizard. After that she always had scars on her nose. Our beloved dog would come with us when we rode our bikes along the bitumen against the express orders of our parents.… Go to Article

Some people may be allergic to Covid Vaccine. We post this research paper as a guide to those people who may (or whose friends or family members) may suffer from allergies.

Have you (or the person in question) had any of the following symptoms after having PEG or aluminium oxide?

1.… Go to Article

Commonwealth of Australia

Aborigines Protection Act 1909 – 1943, Section 18c

This document entitles the bearer to leave the reservation or mission at which they live – to go to work.

Additional benefits include:
To walk freely through town without being arrested.
Note: curfews apply
Into a shop or hotel (you may or may not be served – at the proprietor’s discretion)

Special conditions
Speaking in native language – prohibited
Engaging in dance rituals native customs – prohibited
Associating with fellow indigenous people (including family) – prohibited

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We post the first chapter of his book A World to Win by the International Socialist, Tony Cliff, about growing up in Palestine where he later worked with little success as a full time revolutionary before his migration to England in the 1940s. This memoir makes for compelling reading for those interested in Zionism.… Go to Article

But we Arabs hold a principle. We believe that if we buy Israeli products the profit will end up with their army. They might buy bullets and those bullets will kill Palestinians. – Marwaan, young Palestinian boy living under occupation in Hebron in Palestine.

Growing up Palestinian in occupied West Bank

Three Palestinian boys grow up in the divided heart of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.… Go to Article