A 2025 Retrospective.

 

There feels to be a quickening, forces combining and headed in a dark direction, the destination unknown, moving away from the light.  

On a personal level, this year ended, fraught with change. Health, finances, living conditions and relationships all in a state of flux. Some good, some bad. That’s life, right?  

The world seemingly feels a lot more dangerous. The European “leaders” pushing military action against Mother Russia. The money continues to flow, the arms continue to flow, and the killing continues. Most western leaders are fine with spending money on destruction, and fine with allowing their own countries to fall into economic turmoil. I’ve lived somewhat of a long life, getting ‘long in the tooth,’ and there has not been a time when our respective governments push austerity on the people, but there is always money for war. Only if those negotiating ‘peace’ on the European stage, would grant Russia their national security needs, that is Ukraine as a neutral state, and the buffer zone created in the Donbass to remain. In simple terms, NATO should simply ‘bug out’ and begin proper relations. Though it is almost guaranteed that what is preventing this from happening is a small group of individuals who want to keep the money flowing.  

Remember, war is a racket. And those in charge do not care about human life, only the bottom line - cynical but true.  

In a different part of the planet, we have the on-going genocide in Gaza. The ethnic cleansing and slaughter of the Palestinian people goes unabated; the Israelis do not care and are intent on their expansion, known as the Greater Israel Project. We have not seen such a blatant disregard of International Law broadcast live on our devices. It’s morally reprehensible to do such harm to our fellow human beings. What should be commonly known, Israel is an ethno-supremacist state, and view the Palestinians as vermin, not more than insects to be swatted and destroyed. What is even more disgusting is that western governments around the world have been supporting this “project” all along.  

December 14 was the Bondi Beach shooting killing 15 and injuring 40 others. Common sense dictates that this was a Zionist act, a false flag, to crack down on Australia’s mass protests of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The opposition government used the tragedy to gain political traction, vying for a Royal Commission on antisemitism. Israel has done more than any person or country to create antisemitism with their 2-year extermination of the Palestinian people. There should be a Royal Commission into the extent of Zionist infiltration in the Australian government.  

From June 13 to June 24 was the Israel-Iran war. (12-day war) Israel struck first and Iran retaliated. The “peace” was brokered by the US, ending in the US bombing “underground nuclear facilities” in Iran. Considering the relationship between Israel and the US, and President Trump’s bromance and subservience to Israel’s PM Netanyahu, many experts predict a full-scale war in Iran. Another war to look forward to in 2026.  

When writing my end of year retrospective, I usually want to finish on a positive note, promoting peace and good fortune for my fellow human beings. This year, however, 2026 looks to escalate in conflict and major war.  

Our planet is run by sociopaths, who view the planet as their chess board, people as pawns where human life means nothing. I believe this has always been the case, but now ‘they’ are shouting their destructive intent from the rooftops. What is most disgusting is that many of the sheep are following along over the precipice.  

Hang tight and be strong.  

 

 

Israel/Zionist efforts to quash Free Speech in Australia.

 

Opinion.

Since two ISIS affiliated gun men opened fire on a crowd of Jewish people celebrating their holiday, with Seal Team Six professional accuracy, murdering 15 and wounding more on Bondi Beach last week, the Australian opposition government has gone into a frenzy, calling for PM Albanese to resign, and blatantly using the tragedy as a springboard to score political points. We have Murdoch media, The Australian and Sky News fueling the frenzy, with divisive language, backing the Polish Israeli PM Netanyahu to make illegal pro-Palestinian protest and on-line opinion calling out Israel’s 2-year genocide in Gaza.  

As many level-headed Jewish leaders and independent writers have stated, calling out Israel’s crimes against humanity is not antisemitism.  

The Zionist infiltration into the Australian government has become apparent. A foreign leader, a war criminal, Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu, directly after the shootings at Bondi, declared the hero who tackled one of the shooters, as a Jewish man. Blatantly false. The actual hero was a Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who stated in an interview with the BBC, that “My soul asked me to do that.” The Polish Israeli PM went on to make demands of Australia’s PM Albanese, stating that the reason for the attack was Australia’s recognition of the Palestinian State. Since the 2 year on going genocide in Gaza, lying, and making demands on other nations, including Australia, is a common occurrence for this man and his cronies.  

There’s no doubt that the American government is under Zionist rule, and the UK government for that matter, but I never imagined the Australian government to be so entrenched in this brutal ideology as well.  

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post, Articles, Essays & Consideration: Is Australia’s u16 Ban on social media a Prelude to Full Censorship? my purpose was to list arguments against the new censorship law. In the back of my mind was the UK Terrorist laws, currently jailing any one from teenagers to pensioners, for pro-Palestinian protest and social media posts. Most free speech advocates view the UK’s draconian/Orwellian actions against its citizens who are merely stating their disagreement with a genocide, as next-level fascist. As Australia at times follows the UK on many issues, particularly war, it was only a matter of time for Australian’s to be punished for their opinions on the actions of another country.  

It continues to astonish how a small country of 9 million people holds so much sway in the modern world. Israel is an ethnic supremacist state, a war mongering state, performing a mass genocide in plain sight for all to see, and giving the planet the middle finger, arrogantly saying, ‘We are superior to all of you, we can do what we want, and you can’t stop us!’  

This is 1939 all over again.  

Will it only be a matter of time that Australian citizens will be imprisoned for criticizing Israel and protesting a genocide? 

Since the terror attack at Bondi, this is the perfect excuse for the Australian government to suppress the rights of its citizens to voice their opinions about an important issue.  

We’ll have to see what they do in 2026.   

It doesn’t look good.  

 

 

Is Australia’s u16 Ban on social media a Prelude to Full Censorship?

 

Australia’s social media ban for u16’s went into effect on December 10 of this year. The reason(s) given by our government and specifically PM Albanese, was to protect our young from online sexual predators and bullies, ensuring their “safety” from these online criminals.  

Generally, as a retired teacher and a father of a young man who was born into the advent of the internet, on the surface, this sounded like a good idea. My second thought was knowing the young at that age, they will undoubtedly find a way around the censorship. This of course defeats the whole purpose of the new law. My next thought was much more cynical. Observing the Australian government over the last two years, there has been many attempts to censor certain content, and going into battle with social media platforms. It is a fact that ‘censorship’ or the suppression of ‘free speech’ is a central tool of authoritarian governments. Let’s face it; governments always lie. One must ask: Is this u16 ban on social media a prelude to blanket censorship for all?  

There are many reasons against the u16 social media ban.  

By imposing this unpreceded new u16 ban, we can admit at its core; it undermines parental rights and authority. Our all-knowing government, “big brother”, has essentially called parents incompetent, and is unable to educate our children about social media. As a retired schoolteacher, I know that the age around 12, peer influence grows. I believe Australian parents are quite capable guiding their young and learning from their mistakes. 

This new law may also drive children to unmonitored platforms that could well pose equal or greater risks. It is obvious that these politicians did not think this through... 

This follows that this new law lacks robust scientific evidence. There is insufficient data linking social media to harm.  

I have worked with children at this age and am entirely aware that this law will deprive these children from the positive benefit of support networking – LGBTQ. Autistic youth support and of course anonymous sharing. Banning access to social media is an insult to their maturity and autonomy. Leading them to believe they can’t discern between right and wrong.  

Lastly, there are privacy concerns that are intrusive about age verification, that leads to serious privacy issues for adults.  

This Australian government have always pushed for new censorship laws. For a detailed comment, see my piece in September 2024,Articles, Essays & Consideration: Australia’s Authoritarian attempts to Punish Free Speech.  

This new law appears to be a steppingstone for outright censorship and free speech. Indeed, rather than a law of full-blown censorship for the entire citizenry, they have started with our young. Soon the government could reinforce their ‘all knowing status” and begin a ban on all social media. The Australian people are not intelligent and mature enough to decern true from false, right from wrong, and must be spoon fed vital information from a single source – the government.  

Censorship is a tool for tyrants.