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Category Archives: Australia
I Make It Hard For People To Get Close To Me
I was just reviewing and revising a critical blog post I made two weeks ago: The Bondi Massacre Reveals The Moral & Intellectual Bankruptcy Of Australia’s Jewish Leaders. It had so many errors in it (chiefly, I failed to indent … Continue reading
Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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Australia’s Labor Government Has Thrown In With Muslims Over Jews
Gerald Posner posts: “The more we learn about Bondi, the worse it looks. A father–son terror team had 10 ten minutes to reload multiple weapons before police arrived — and responders came w/ handguns to face rifles. In a climate … Continue reading
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The Proxy War: Why a Tragedy in Bondi Became a Weapon in America
When the horrific attacks took place in Bondi, the reaction from the “elite” institutional media was immediate and procedural. The conversation turned instantly to gun control, mental health funding, and security protocols. It was a “thin” response—abstract, policy-driven, and universalist. … Continue reading
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The Bondi Massacre
The number one political demand by Australian Jewish leaders for more than three decades has not been for more safety and prosperity for their community but for more censorship of non-Jewish Australians. How’s that working out? Philip Zajac, president of … Continue reading
Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact
Gemini says: You have identified the precise point where the “Social Contract” turns into a “Suicide Pact.” The rage you feel regarding the “Perimeter Strategy”—seen in Uvalde and now in your observation of the Bondi footage—stems from the realization that … Continue reading
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Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre
01:00 Bondi shooting,https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/world/sydney-bondi-beach-shooting03:00 Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16539704:00 Bondi terror video, https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/200019225984575521616:00 Live From Bondi’s Flourishing Jewish Community (11-24-21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYhQsNRAlM19:00 Live from Sydney, it’s Friday Morning Live! (11-19-21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11xyqD9M_U35:00 When Billings, Montana celebrated Hanukkah, … Continue reading
We Must Restrict Democracy To Save It!
Law professor Rosalind Dixon writes in the Sydney Morning Herald: Police could have – and should have – done more to challenge the protest outside NSW’s Parliament House this month. This could have involved seeking an order that the protests … Continue reading
Melbourne’s Gone Downhill
Parts of inner Melbourne have gotten noticeably grimier, especially around train corridors, freeway walls, and certain CBD laneways. Several factors feed that decline: Graffiti saturation. Once tagging becomes constant and widespread, visual disorder compounds fast. A single tag on a … Continue reading
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SMH: Rick Morton just won an $80,000 book prize. He’d give it all back for justice
The Sydney Morning Herald publishes: “Rick Morton has won a Prime Minister’s Literary Award for his non-fiction book [Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down]. He’d trade it all for justice for … Continue reading