Holding a space for sometimes angry people and a confused country that is still in denial.
When Tasmanian mother-of-three Selkie started the Forest of the Fallen in 2021, she didn't anticipate the surprising power of acknowledgement.
"There are some out there who have experienced the loss of a loved one or are injured by the vaccines. They also set up the forests now and this gives them a sense of purpose, knowing that they are far from alone and can at least help to stop the perpetuation of deaths and injuries."
Speaking at the Australians for Science and Freedom conference at University of NSW on November 18, Selkie explained the magic of Forest of the Fallen which has now grown to 131 pop-up displays across Australia with more than 550 stories.
"Having a sense of their story being validated by a tactile, optical display - this alone is so healing for them as many have had no recognition at all," she said.
"Some are completely left alone."
It's a silent vigil open to any passer-by to wander in and quietly find out what has happened.
The stories sway in the wind, each one a person killed or injured by the covid gene-vaccines.
The Forest of the Fallen is the exact opposite of a protest.
It's free from politics, it doesn't try to change people's minds. It only has one message: stop looking away.
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hello RB, TW. This lady is truly remarkable - there have been so many gene-vaccine injured here, don't know if it's the same in the US or if people are aware. Two Texans came past and they seemed to get it.
Many are aware here, an accelerating trend. The Powers That Be are trying to gin up demand for a new round of vaccinations alongside the annual flu vaccine, but few are interested.
[BLAZE] Secretary of State Antony Blinken is a despicable con artist who is organizing Arab and European countries, along with the United Nations, around the backs of our Congress and Israel to carve up the Jewish state and gift the Palestinians massive swaths of Israel’s country, including Judea and Samaria. That is his response to the Palestinians’ murderous slaughter of Israelis!
Blinken is using Israel’s need for weapons to threaten and blackmail Israel diplomatically and impose his policies and will. Utterly contemptible.
This is not how foreign policy is conducted — as a weapon against our great ally in the middle of a war.
Blinken is driving the Barack Obama-Thomas Friedman agenda in the Middle East, continuing to rearm Iran, prop up Palestinian terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank, sabotage Israel’s war effort, and deceive the American people.
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[REGNUM] Derek Chauvin, a former police officer from Minnesota who is currently serving time for the murder of black man George Floyd, suddenly became the center of attention across America. In an Arizona prison, an attempt was made on Chauvin - they tried to stab him to death. Chauvin's lawyers believe he faces serious danger behind bars. And many people are afraid that Chauvin will simply be killed in the end, making him some kind of sacred victim on the altar of BLM.
[NYPOST] It’s not just those Queens high-school kids: A lot of "pro-Paleostine" demonstrations strike us as remarkably juvenile — not so much reaching out to persuade fellow Americans as acting out in ways guaranteed to annoy the rest of us.
That is, the approach is the exact opposite of the one taken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who aimed at orderly and utterly peaceful protests to appeal to the better angels of Americans’ souls — even as the brutality of Bull Connor and other defenders of the status quo exposed the system’s profound injustice.
As for the Queens kids: We fear that riot has more to say about the state of New York City’s public-education system than anything larger: It’s evident those students are profoundly ignorant when it comes to the Middle East (and probably everything else), and were more seeking an excuse to rampage than to say anything much.
Yes, their riot was fundamentally antisemitic — they pounced on a Jewish teacher’s support for Israel as their grievance, after all.
But that mainly reflects how rank antisemitism is the favorite hate of the ignorant these days. (Elites express their Jew-hate a bit more subtly, in good measure by making excuses for the ignorant.)
Yet what of the idiots who keep shutting down bridges, subway stations and the like, or the morons who glued themselves to the street to disrupt the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the ones who vandalized the New York Public Library?
Part of it, plainly, is that these "protesters" aren’t motivated especially by the Israel-Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... war, except that it’s now a huge issue: These are the same lefties who show up ready to riot in the name of cause after cause.
That is: They’re close cousins (or former classmates) of the Climate Extinction
...yet another tentacle of the violent Antifa/Black Bloc anarcho-communist octopus that has been attempting to strangle the West since Stalin commissioned them to fight the Nazis in the streets of German back in the 1930s...
fools who aim to make commuters miserable (or mar great works of art) on the apparent theory that this will somehow catalyze a drastic shift in public opinion — as if making a spectacle of how upset you are is the way to make the adults feel sorry.
These murderous Moslems are convinced that most people are basically on their side, but dark forces (The Corporations! Rich Jews!) have them fooled or cowed or whatever — so it’s just a matter of deploying enough disorder (via glue, fake blood and so on) to wake them up, and soon we’ll all be storming the Bastille together.
Similar thinking over on the other side of the spectrum was what motivated the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: When you spend enough of your free time talking to people who share your particular outrage, it gets easier to delude yourself this way.
But the left is especially prone to this handicapped thinking precisely because it’s succeeded massively in marching through the institutions these last few decades . . . . and dumbing them down in the process.
It’s not just that they’ve got so much of the media cowed (or recruited) that the evidence that most of America doesn’t buy the same nonsense gets suppressed or explained away for them.
[Jpost] Israeli sources state that the promise of Qatar as a haven may be true, but that doesn’t mean they’re free.
It is hard to say what is most unusual about the Mossad and its potential plans to assassinate Hamas leadership: that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly declared the Mossad would go after them anywhere around the world (usually the order is given secretly), that a story leaked that they would not be targeted in Qatar….where many of them currently reside, or that they might be killed anyway.
Last Wednesday, Netanyahu held a press conference together with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and National Unity Party and War Minister Benny Gantz, publicly stating that he had ordered the Mossad to act against the leaders of Hamas, including outside of Gaza. Referring to the then-impending temporary ceasefire deal, he claimed that "there is no commitment in the agreement to not act in a truce against the leaders of Hamas, whoever they are."
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Better to not assassinate them in Qatar - ‘Eichmann’ them.
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it's better to ask forgiveness for something you may or may not have done and are not at liberty to discuss than to ask permission for something you may or may not do and are not at liberty to discuss.
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Ahhh, the wonders of contractors....hey, some people killed Hamas leaders in Quatar? Wow, that sucks...no, no wasn't us. Probably some internal squabble.
[PJMedia] 13 Israeli hostages are now under Israeli supervision and on their way home, and 39 criminals are returning to Gaza. Israel made this exchange because of the Jewish value of treasuring each individual life. But given that Hamas repeatedly demonstrates that they have no respect for life, even for their own civilians whom they use as human shields, why is Hamas actually making this exchange?
There is the obvious reason that it gives Hamas days to recover and regroup, but there is another, more insidious and dangerous reason for Hamas to make this exchange. A reason that has nothing to do with the military war against Israel that they cannot win. This is regarding the war that they can, God forbid, win: the war to hurt the world’s opinion of Israel.
Hamas has been winning that war of public opinion since the moment Israel started going into Gaza after the depravities of October 7. Quickly, the world forgot and ignored the horrors they perpetrated in favor of focusing on the "innocent victims in Gaza" who were being killed in the crossfire with Israel. The images of beheaded babies and raped women were replaced by images of Gazan children crying; all of which prompted demonstrations and protests against Israel around the world. These demonstrations put pressure on governments like the United States to apply pressure on Israel to have a ceasefire. The more "innocent victims" in Gaza, the more worldwide pressure has been put on Israel to only defeat, and not totally destroy Hamas. And anything less than a total destruction of Hamas allows Hamas, God forbid, to fulfill their promise of repeating the horrors of October 7 again and again.
That is their goal: to win the war of public relations and manipulate the world to force Israel to back down from their stated and necessary goal of destroying Hamas. Remembering that truth in combination with looking at the actions that are taking place right now in Gaza allows us to see why Hamas wanted this ceasefire time and how this hostage exchange is part of a larger plan. It also shows us the truth about Gaza’s "innocents".
From the moment the ceasefire started, hours before the hostages were exchanged, Hamas revealed its real goal of this ceasefire time if we only look at their actions. It is a setup to increase demonstrations for Gazan "civilians" after Israel recommences the war.
Thousands of Gazan "civilians" are moving frim the safety of the south back to the battlefield of the north, including women and children. On Thursday night, Hamas urged that all "civilians" who support them go back to the north. Why would they do this? Why would any family consciously put themselves back in harm’s way when they could stay safely in the south?
It is because they are not "innocent civilians" at all. They are simply Hamas terrorists and supporters without physical weapons. These "civilians" are not forced human shields being abused by Hamas, they are willing and active cogs in the Hamas war effort, willing to die for their cause of destroying Israel and repeating the horrors of October 7, which they celebrated in the streets of Gaza at that time. They are unarmed soldiers whose only goal is to protect Hamas against Israel when the war is restarted in a few days. These "innocents" are anything but innocent, and are returning to the north with the intent of stopping Israel from destroying Hamas bases, tunnels, and weapons.
These thousands of unarmed soldiers are not being forced to be human shields. They are returning to the north so that they can become martyrs. They hope to die for their cause, and in so doing, create more images of "innocents" dying to negatively affect world opinion of Israel. They are hoping that their presence as "civilians" will protect Hamas bases from Israeli attacks; that it will lead to more IDF deaths, God forbid, and that if they die, they will have sacrificed themselves as brave soldiers for Hamas in the effort to get the world to allow Hamas to survive this war.
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[WordOnFire] There was once a time when morally serious people used morally serious words—words like "freedom," "equality," "justice," and "goodness"—to engage in morally serious debate, a debate that was premised on the shared belief that objective truth was possible, if painfully complex, to identify and abide by. But then came the liberators—that’s what they called themselves, though they had other designs in mind—who began announcing, first from university lecture halls, then in public squares, and eventually in boardrooms, that these "values" were nothing more than the machinations of hate-filled, power-ravenous religious men whose only desire was to control the minds and bodies of the people by preventing them from being their true selves. That message, it turns out, sold itself, and so the people turned their backs on those once-hallowed words, setting off in pursuit of money and pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, all expediently redefined as "their dreams."
The liberators, however, were shrewd; they knew that those words, still preserved in the books of old, remained a threat to their goals. And they understood that, though necessary, it wouldn’t be enough simply to destroy the old books by sprinkling them with ideological poison ("These are the tools of your oppressors, dear ones. Stay away!"). There would also need to be new books, books that not only contained new words—words like "heteronormativity" and "cisgendered" and "anti-racism" and "cultural appropriation"—but also books (and this is the twist of devilish genius) that had all the old words, as well, but now with entirely new meanings.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
[Jpost] Israeli sources state that the promise of Qatar as a haven may be true, but that doesn’t mean they’re free.
