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mandates for that substance ruled unlawful by the Queensland Supreme Court

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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Victims of vaccine mandates have finally been vindicated via a landmark ruling.

The Queensland Supreme Court has ruled that Vaccine mandates are and always were unlawful under s58 of the Human Rights Act 2019.

The United Australia Party has relentlessly pursued this issue. Our Chairman Clive Palmer stepped up to fund this case against tyranny, with the support of an outstanding legal team and a resounding judgement by justice Martin.

We applaud every worker who held the line and stand in solidarity with every Australian who was coerced to take an experimental gene therapy vaccine.

Shame on the politicians, media and bureaucrats who pushed these inhumane mandates.

May justice be served. The tide is turning.

United Australia Party Clive Palmer

An article on the implication for other Australian states in the Guardian

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29 Thursday Feb 2024

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A gentle reminder — we don’t allow criticism of people simply because of their skin colour, ancestry, bloodlines or national origin. Criticism of religions and belief systems is fine.

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Manu Grove garden

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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One of this year’s Garden Trail participants.

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movie review: ‘The Zone of Interest’

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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by Geoffrey Churchman

While there have been several movies made about the Nazi concentration camps of World War 2 — the standout being Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List from 20 years ago — this one has a distinctly novel focus as it dwells on the daily life of one of their most notable Commandants, Rudolf Höss, and the personal lives of his family who lived with him.

The Nazis created camps around occupied Europe, but primarily in Germany and Poland, some as penal and slave labour operations, and others that were specifically intended to eliminate deplorables as Hillary Clinton would say, and went about doing that on an industrial scale.

Auschwitz in the Polish town of Oswiecim, about 70 km west of Krakow, was in all three categories as there were three main camps — the original, Auschwitz 1, the extermination camp at Birkenau, Auschwitz 2, built a couple of years later about 3 km away and a slave labour camp: Monowitz or Auschwitz 3 which was created to make synthetic rubber.

Rudolf Höss had a wife and 5 children and they took over a villa near a corner of Auschwitz 1. Frau Höss set about making it as pleasant an abode as she could with an impressive outside garden of flowers and vegetables, a gazebo and even a swimming pool. The result, as it appears in the movie, could easily have had a place in Waikanae’s annual garden trail. However, there is that wall close-by topped with barbed wire.

To supplement what they could enjoy in their garden, the family made excursions to the countryside and the opening scene shows the 7 of them on the shore of a lake (below).

Höss was the first and longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz: from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945 when the Nazis fled before the Russians arrived.

It’s clear that Höss was highly regarded by the Nazi leadership. A member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Deaths Head Regiments) which ran the concentration camps, initially he was assigned to the Dachau concentration camp in December 1934, north of Munich. After a brief stint in the Waffen-SS during the invasion of Poland, he rejoined the Totenkopfverbande and was given the task of creating Auschwitz around an old Austro-Hungarian (and later Polish) army barracks.

After his capture in 1946 he wrote his memoirs in prison. He also appeared as a witness at the Nürnberg (Nuremberg) trials that year. Allied interrogators found him cooperative and willing to answer everything that was asked of him. The following year he was tried for war crimes in Poland and hung in the grounds of Auschwitz.

The overall picture that emerges from both his biography and his autobiography (which I have a copy of) is of a dedicated functionary who believed all the indoctrination given him by the totalitarian regime and did his best to carry out the leadership’s orders. Nevertheless, although cruel at times he does not come across as monstrous; he saw his role to kill rather than torment victims of the Nazis and wasn’t into torture.

The movie presents the contrast and contradictions between a loving family life (he also had a Polish mistress in the camp, however, which is allocated a scene) and the odious nature of his work. It also appears he was fond of animals, and again there are a couple of scenes to show that. When the Nazi heirachy wanted to transfer him to an Inspektorat post in Oranienburg north of Berlin (which he fought) the rest of the family stayed put.

The movie’s director sought to make the family interactions authentic wth up to 5 cameras without crew present influencing their acting.

The obvious intent of the film is to examine the issue of whether being fully aware of what was happening on the other side of the wall (we hear the sounds from there only) also made the wife and children brutes and neurotics. The Nazis generally made clear that in their ‘Thousand Year Reich’ there would be no place for inferior bloodlines. Nevertheless, Jewish workers the Hösses used seem to have been treated properly. Although the actual house used by the family still stands, it has been a private residence since 1945 and the crew recreated a similar house, even closer to the actual Auschwitz wall.

The actual house as it is today, the buildings of the camp to the left.

The general effect is both a subtle and powerful character study, and manages to be disturbing without being too negative and depressing — which is the impact of visiting the two Auschwitz complexes as I discovered myself in 2007. Some ‘creative construction’ was inevitable as it always is, but the director and scriptwriter did a lot of actual archive research to give an authentic portrayal as they could.

I had mixed feelings about the occasional ‘artistic interludes’ of black and red colours, and thermal imaging with sounds, but they don’t last too long.

Nominated for 5 Oscars this year, including Best Picture, The Zone of Interest (105 minutes) is screening at the Shoreline.

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Joe should become an ice-cream advertiser

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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Here he stops to order a mint chip cone at a Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Parlor in New York City — Fox News video which has an accompanying story about Gaza.

Perhaps Van Leeuwen could create some flavours for Joe — for example, Kiev Krumble, Yemen Yummy, Lebanon Licky and Gaza Bomb?

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self-styled elites dismantling democracy wasn’t confined to Jacindaland

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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Neil Oliver says the ‘self described elite’ have been carefully and deliberately dismantling Western democracies and holding on to power for too long

In the aftermath of the English Civil War and the execution of King Charles, the first self appointed scourge of government corruption, Oliver Cromwell stood in Parliament.

He told the MPs sitting there, MPs who had been squatting in place for 12 years by then: “It’s not fit that you should sit here any longer. You’ve sat here too long for any good you’ve been doing lately”.

In the name of God he put them out and locked the doors behind them.

That was April 20, in the 1600s. But I say the time has come again, that the day is long overdue in fact, to be rid of the whole rotten lot of them. Really the only question is whether we the people should pay for their taxis home one last time or just put them out on the street and let them get on with it.

People ask me what’s the solution to the problem, though I’ll tell you where that solution is not to be found and that’s the next general election or any other.

Our democracy has been gelded and the Uniparty is in control instead.

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Tulsi Gabbard’s full speech at CPAC in DC

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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She’s one of the names being mentioned as a potential running mate for Donald Trump. (Ron DeSantis has ruled himself out.)

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Germany says ‘nein’ to its troops in Ukraine, Poland likewise

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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The last time Germany took on Russia it didn’t work out so well.

Germany says that there is “no chance” that NATO countries will send troops to Ukraine but the Financial Times reports that there are already “special forces” from NATO countries there and “everyone knows it.”

Germany’s deputy chancellor Robert Habecksaid there was “no chance” of sending ground troops to Ukraine and, in a rebuff to President Macron of France, told Paris it should instead supply Kyiv with more weapons.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk maintained that Warsaw “does not plan to send its troops to Ukraine”, adding that the focus should instead be “on supporting Ukraine as much as possible in its military effort”.

But a senior European defence official said Macron’s statement was about creating deterrence and ambiguity towards Russia, adding: “Everyone knows there are western special forces in Ukraine — they’ve just not acknowledged it officially.”

The Kremlin has said a conflict between Russia and NATO would be inevitable if the western alliance sent troops to fight in Ukraine. “In that case, it wouldn’t be likely, but inevitable. That’s how we assess it,” Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, told reporters on Tuesday.


It seems from the above that Joe’s war and with it the enormous waste of money, infrastructure and lives will continue as long as he is President, which hopefully has less than 11 months to go. —Eds

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the Leftist Legacy in Health

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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Does anyone think the situation is better than it was in 2017 after 6 years of Labour?

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Lesson for Leftist Presstitutes

29 Thursday Feb 2024

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(thanks to Chris Walker)

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