#Australian leaders are hypocrites

[duckpaddling]

"We are aghast with horror and condemnation but it mirrors what we do ourselves. Espionage and security cases are not usually held in open courts, outsiders are not permitted to observe, evidence is covered by a shroud of ‘secrecy’ and sentences are often draconian."

[kelluinox]

Oh are people mad at JKR again and calling out her antisemitism? That's funny. No, it is! It's funny when people suddenly care about antisemitism after these 5 months we've had. It's funny when people who threw a grand ol party on October 7th suddenly care about being antisemitic. It's funny when the people who called the kidnapping and rape and largest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust justified resistance... suddenly care about the Holocaust. It's funny to hear their "very angry very loud very righteous outrage against antisemitism" when they have:

1) said and done nothing about the hostages being held by Hamas, among which there is a baby and a 4 yo and women being subjected to sexual torture

2) done nothing to pressure the embarrassment called the Red Cross to pass vital medicine to the hostages and actually do its job

3) have gone full Holocaust denial with their denial of the 7th... despite eagerly sharing videos of Shani Louk and Naama Levy and Noa Argamani and the Nova Festival massacre as it was happening, asking Hamas to film their slaughter horizontally and calling victims "hipsters" as the massacre was actually happening

4) called for the murder and expulsion of half the world's jews from the Levant, labeling them all colonizers despite us being indigenous... which is ironic because they certainly don't seem eager to move their own ass and go back to wherever they came from (looking at you Americans, Canadians, Australians - shut the fuck up you hypocritical bitches)

5) attacked, and harassed, and bullied, and even murdered jews all over the world since the 7th. Jewish students were told to hide in the attic from an angry mob, have been unable to walk to class without verbal or physical attacks, have been unable to mourn the biggest massacre of jews since the Holocaust, have had posters of the kidnapped jews that they put up torn down, have had all their attempts at talks about antisemitism and peace derailed and have even been unable to wear their magen david without harassment. Jewish business have been targeted and defaced. And Paul Kessler and Samantha Woll were murdered. Murdered!

6) refused to listen to jews about antisemitism and have eagerly repeated antisemitic conspiracy theories as old as the middle ages like the gullible bigoted little idiots that they are: Jews control the media by distracting Americans from Gaza by using Spotify Wrapped, the Superbowl, and making a Stop Jewish Hate ad (wow do I 'love' it when Americans make fun of their own intelligence by admitting that they're so easily distracted). Jews poison wells - they poison Palestinian land. Jews steal Christian kids and drink their blood - Jews kidnap blond Palestinian children and steal organs from Palestinian corpses. Jews love killing and are bloodthirsty monsters - Jews intentionally target civilians, have killed 0 terrorists whatsoever, and are rubbing their hands in glee watching mass starvation unfold. Oh, and they also do all this on Ramadan because they're evil like that. Beyond that we also have had: Jewish doctors are not to be trusted - straight out Stalin's doctor's plot. And Zionists are racists - straight out of Imperial Russia's Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Wow, congrats on quoting Imperial Russia and the leader of the Soviet Union, fuckers. Though frankly you don't seem embarrassed about that considering your genocidal intifada posters display the hammer and sickle, do you?

7) have ignored literally everything Hamas has done. From the rape and brutal murders and kidnapping (videos of which they published themselves!). To the tunnels. To the theft of aid. To the execution of civilians following humanitarian corridors to safe zones. To using hospitals to hide weaponry, terrorists and hostages. To forcefully keeping civilians in said hospitals even as they try to evacuate, using them as human shields. To shooting at civilians who try to get some aid before it's stolen. To sending 4 yo children to Israeli soldier camps to assess their preparedness. To keeping weapons beneath a child's bed. To enlisting child soldiers. To programming children with Mein Kampf. To launching rockets from next to kindergartens and across the street from a building belonging to the joke we call the UN. To breaking the November ceasefire 15 minutes in because even an hour without killing jews was too difficult for them to accomplish. To separating families despite the hostage deal being that families will not be separated. To branding the Jewish boys they took hostage (sound familiar to you yet?). To forcing child hostages to watch their October 7 videos and threatening to shoot them if they cry. To raping female hostages. To depriving elderly and chronically ill hostages of life saving medicine. To forcibly converting female hostages. To not releasing the Bibas family despite the deal being that all children be returned. To executing hostages and then lying they died in air strikes despite the cause of death being a bullet. To creating sick games where they publish photos of hostages and dare psychopaths on the internet to guess which are dead and which alive. The list goes on and on and on and you lot stick your fingers in your ears every single time and go "lalala not listening".

8) Have supported the Houthis who literally have "a curse upon the jews" in their slogan

9) Have supported Bin Laden

10) Have supported Iran by supporting its proxy - Hamas.

11) Have shamed Ukrainians for trying to remind them that Russia is still attacking them, and told them that they should support Palestine when... Hamas and the Houthis have literally visited Moscow and Iran are Russia's allies. Good job, guys. Good job.

12) Have done everything to exaggerate what's happening, twist the facts and demonize Israel, all the while portraying it as "criticism". A war is suddenly not bad enough on its own - it has to be a genocide to get people to care. Displacement caused by a war is not bad enough - it has to be ethnic cleansing. Israel is suddenly a fascist Nazi state... despite being democratic and Jewish (where have all the people who laughed at Putin for calling Zelensky a nazi despite Zelensky being a jew gone? I wonder). The war in Gaza has to be the worst conflict on Earth, despite there being ongoing genocides in Sudan and China and the goddamn invasion of Ukraine.

And before any of you antisemitic goyim start furiously typing that it is a genocide and I'm a genocide apologist, please do keep in mind that jews know more about genocide than you ever will. And being a Russian jew I will know more about fascism than you ever will. So do us all a favor, shut up and listen to people more educated on the matter than you.

13) Have tried to define Zionism and Judaism and Jewish history to jews. Thanks for the goysplaining, I guess

14) Have mocked released hostages and their testimonies. Falsely claimed that they were not mistreated and actually written fanfics of them falling in love with the terrorists who murdered their families and kidnapped them

15) Have defaced the statue of Amy Winehouse

16) Have made lists of jews. Oh, sorry, "zionists"

17) Have devolved into race science

And to conclude my post, here are just a few photos of the shit goyim have done since october:

[nando161mando]

Australia’s PM demands ‘full accountability’ over death of Gaza aid worker, yet Albanese has funded israels genocide of palestinians, what a fucking hypocrite!

[sw4gf1sh]

Rwby OCs Masterpost :P

Starting with team SMKE since I have them done, I will add JAAM later in a reblog or something :]

SMKE (smoke)

☀️Sunshine Glaze

🌑Moonlight Glaze

🪸Koral Atoll

🦌Olive Everglade

~

Sunshine:

Leader of team SMKE, Sunshine is stubborn and tries too hard to get approval from everyone. Also a bit judgmental at first. She has a dagger named “Venus” which glows in low light. Her semblance is opposite of her sister’s, and is called “speed time”, with it she speeds herself up while opponents move in regular speed. Speed time is activated by staring into the opponent’s eyes. Eyes glow gold when semblance is in use. Eye contact must be kept uninterrupted while the semblance is in use. If the contact is broken, the effects break down immediately, leaving the user vulnerable. Sunshine can also get jealous, mostly over her older sister. She has spent most of her life feeling like she had to be just as good as Moon or better, and never felt like she measured up compared to her.

The Crown has been seeking her out, but she refuses to join them.

Under her cold and somewhat tough exterior, she is passionate about what she does and her beliefs. Although it would be easy to just see her as a grumpy impatient woman, she’s a strong independent person who will always stand by those she loves and cares about. Loyalty is important to her! Even though she’s been hypocritical of that in the past…

Aura color: orange

Semblance: speed time

Weapon: Dagger/pistol/boomerang

5’7

She/her

Thick Australian accent.

~

Moonlight:

Older twin sister of Sunshine. Moonlight is patient and sweet, and somewhat unlike Sunshine, accepting of others. Moonlight is critiqued by her younger twin sister, saying she’s a pushover and more loved by their parents. Has a giant pair of scissors codenamed “Lune”(meaning moon in French) that can be taken apart and used as two swords. Her semblance is called “slow time”, where she slows the opponent(s) and moves around them at regular speed. The semblance is activated by a deep stare into the opponent’s eyes, which will glow silver when the semblance is in use. This semblance has the same weaknesses as Sunshine’s. She loves and supports her sister, but is unaware of the jealousy until a later time.

Sunshine and Moonlight are from Vacuo!

Aura color: gray

Semblance: slow time

Weapon: giant pair of scissors (dualswords)

5’8 (5’9 in heels)

She/her

Slight Australian accent.

~

Koral:

One of two faunus in team SMKE. Koral is an outgoing fun loving girl who is from the Kingdom of Atlantia (made up by me lol), off the coast of Menagerie. She is the princess of the Atoll kingdom. She doesn’t really like her heritage and being associated with it, and wants to be free and protect her family from the front lines. She finds being royalty boring, and her mom doesn’t want her to become a huntress, because she is worried about something happening to her daughter. Koral left her kingdom anyway, and hopes she won’t disappoint her family.

Personality wise, she can be a little reckless, but still understands her limits. Due to her upbringing of being sheltered in a faunus royal family, she initially isn’t as used to constantly being around humans, but is never against them. Olive being a faunus as well helps bring the two closer together. Koral also loves telling stories, often about her life growing up in Atlantia. She is a tropical fish faunus. Her weapon, a trident/rifle combo named “Riptide” is her pride and joy. Her semblance is the ability to breathe underwater. Riptide can be adapted for carrying.

Aura color: magenta

Semblance: underwater breathing

Weapon: trident/rifle

4’11

She/her.

~

Olive:

The second faunus in team SMKE, a reindeer faunus. She comes from a family of huntsmen. Olive uses her surname (Everglade) to complete the team’s name. She is shy and quiet, but a fierce fighter. However, she doesn’t have too much faith in herself. She is from a small village near Vale and comes from a line of siblings who have become huntsmen and huntresses. Her weapon “Marrow” has dust-infused arrows. She has a crush on Koral, but the latter is oblivious. Her semblance silences noises she makes, like footsteps. It can also mask other’s sounds if they are close enough in her bubble (like May Marigold’s invisibility). This can be used against her, like if an opponent gets close enough to her in battle.

Aura color: olive green

Semblance: soundlessness

Weapon: bow & arrows, arrows are all dust infused. Bow can also be infused with hard light dust to be used as a shield

5’10

She/they

TBC!!

[xtruss]

George Galloway Is Not A Threat To Democracy – Only To The Elite Hypocrites Running The UK

The Returning Politician’s Recent Electoral Win on the Back of the Gaza-Israel Debate is Rightfully Alarming For Both Labour and Tories

— Graham Hryce is an Australian Journalist and Former Media Lawyer, Whose Work Has Been Published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.

The new Workers Party MP for Rochdale, George Galloway, outside his campaign HQ in Rochdale, England, March 1, 2024. © Oli SCARFF/AFP

Last week’s exchange of insults between newly elected MP George Galloway and Unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted the festering political divisions that have recently emerged in Western democracies over the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Their vituperative exchange also made clear that rational debate over Gaza is virtually impossible in those Western nations in which both major political parties uncritically support America’s pro-Israel foreign policy in Gaza.

Debates over domestic culture war issues in the West have for decades been characterized by irrationality, demonization of opponents, the abolition of history, and the refusal to acknowledge the right to express a view contrary to dominant woke ideologies.

Within such a neo-totalitarian intellectual culture, it would be foolish to expect that a debate over a historically contentious issue like Gaza could be conducted rationally.

Nevertheless, last week, Galloway won a by-election in Rochdale, a poor Midlands electorate in the UK formerly held by the Labour Party.

It was an astounding and comprehensive victory. Galloway Received 12,335 Votes – over 40% of the votes cast – while the Conservatives gained 3,731 Votes, and Labour, 2,402.

Galloway labeled his win as “A Thumping Victory” over both major parties – and he described Keir Starmer and Sunak, in characteristically provocative fashion, as “Two Cheeks Of The Same Backside” that he had just “Spanked.”

Galloway is a controversial and charismatic political figure. He is a former Labour and Independent MP who courageously opposed Tony Blair and George Bush’s war against Iraq, and he has been a trenchant defender of the Palestinian cause for decades.

In the Rochdale by-election – an electorate with a Muslim Population of Around 30% – Galloway focused his campaign on calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

In the UK, the Gaza conflict has become a deeply divisive political issue over the past six months. During that time, more than 30,000 people have been killed by the Israeli military, most of them civilians and many of them women and children.

Many citizens in the West – to their credit – have refused to turn a blind eye to the Distinction between Terrorists and Civilians, and the humanitarian crisis that America’s continuing support for the Terrorist & Genocidal Satan-Yahu Government has created in Gaza.

It cannot be disputed that America’s persistent refusal to support a ceasefire in Gaza has resulted in the Deaths of Thousands of Innocent Palestinian Civilians.

In the UK and Australia, the governments and major opposition parties have, up until now, resolutely supported America’s stance and refused to call for an immediate ceasefire. In these countries, it has fallen to minor left-wing parties to oppose America’s position – in the UK, it has been Galloway’ Workers Party, and in Australia, it has been the Greens.

But principled opposition to America’s Gaza policy does not end there.

Deep-seated divisions have emerged within the Democratic Party in America, the Labour Party in the UK, and the Labor government in Australia – as a result of significant segments of these parties strongly opposing the stance on Gaza taken by US President Joe Biden, UK Labour leader Keir Starmer, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The British parliament recently descended into complete chaos when Starmer pressured the speaker of the House of Commons to breach parliamentary convention and prevent debate over a Scottish National Party (SNP) motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

If the SNP motion had been permitted to proceed, at least 60 Labour MPs would have voted in favor of it – thereby provoking a serious political crisis for Starmer and his Labour Party.

Recent polls in the UK suggest that 65% of voters are in favor of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It is this popular sentiment – together with the large number of Muslim voters in the electorate – that enabled George Galloway to achieve his stunning victory in Rochdale last week.

In his victory speech, Galloway said, “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza. You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling the catastrophe presently going on in Gaza.”

He went on to say that “The Misnamed Labour Party” has “Lost the Confidence of Millions of Their Voters,” and that “The Plates Have Shifted Tonight.”

Galloway took pride in the fact that both major parties had been “Well and Truly Spanked” and “Thoroughly and Soundly Beaten” on the issue of Gaza.

He vowed to get rid of the Rochdale Labour Council in the council elections next month, and foreshadowed standing candidates in the upcoming general election with the aim of defeating Labour candidates.

Whether Galloway will be able to win other seats in the general election is doubtful – Rochdale is an atypical electorate, which is why he ran there – but he has certainly tapped into widespread popular discontent with the major parties’ position on Gaza.

Galloway also won over traditional Labour voters disenchanted with Starmer’s elite, woke-oriented Labour party – which has spent the last few years driving old-style working-class leaders like Jeremy Corbyn out of the party.

In an interview with Sky News after his victory, Galloway turned his attention to Sunak, who he described as “a rather diminutive, diminished and degraded politician” who is “in the fag end of his Prime Ministership.”

He said bluntly, “I despise the Prime Minister… as do millions of people in this country.”

Galloway reiterated that he had “a democratic mandate” and that he looked forward to taking his place in the House of Commons.

The following day, in an extraordinary address to the nation delivered outside 10 Downing Street, Sunak responded to Galloway’s electoral victory.

He began by describing Galloway’s win as “beyond alarming” – an odd comment from an unelected prime minister who is supposedly committed to democracy.

Sunak painted a picture of pro-Palestinian protesters engaging in “extremist disruption and criminality.” These people, according to Sunak, were “spreading a poison” and “trying to tear us apart.” Democracy itself is apparently “under threat” from extremists who “want to destroy our confidence and hope.”

He claimed that “MPs do not feel safe in their homes” and vowed to order the police to clamp down on extremism. “The time has now come for us all to stand together to combat the forces of division,” he urged. The hypocrisy and cynicism are simply breathtaking.

For decades, the Conservative Party has promoted cultural diversity as a positive good, in order to win over ethnic groups to the Conservative cause, and stave off much needed economic and political reform.

But acceptance by the Tories was never absolute – it was always conditional upon ethnic groups uncritically adopting the values and world view of the elites that govern the UK, many of whom have been sitting on the Tory benches for the past decade or so.

Benefits and privileges were showered on talented individuals from ethnic groups who acquiesced in this sordid arrangement. The Conservative Party today is full of such people – Sunak himself is a classic example, as is former Home Secretary Suella Bitch Braverman.

Those ethnic groups, however, who oppose elite ideologies – even by dint of exercising their democratic right to vote in elections – soon find themselves demonized and cast out of what Sunak calls Britain’s “multi-ethnic and multi-faith democracy.”

Sunak and his Conservative supporters have now cynically decided that it is time to cast British Muslims out of the fold – for daring to protest over what is happening in Gaza.

Yesterday, Conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg criticized the Muslim voters of Rochdale for “allowing religion to determine votes in UK politics.”

Is the Church of England no longer the established church in the UK? Do 26 of its bishops no longer sit by appointment – rather than election – in the House of Lords? Don’t Rees-Mogg and other Conservative politicians bang on about Judeo-Christian values in political argument on a regular basis?

Conservative politicians also bemoaned the fact that a foreign policy issue has now seemingly defiled domestic politics for the first time in British history. Did the Crimean War not become a domestic political issue? The Boer War? World Wars I and II? Suez? Vietnam? Kosovo? Iraq? Afghanistan? It appears not.

And are we to seriously believe that, up until the recent Pro-Palestinian protests, Political Protests in Britain have never attracted some extremist elements.

A former Conservative politician yesterday quite correctly described the Conservative Party’s response to Galloway’s electoral victory as “A Toxification of Political Culture.”

Not surprisingly, more Pro-Palestinian Protests have been scheduled for this weekend.

Sunak’s belated and cynical embrace of the politics of division will not save him. Committed right-wing members of his own party who have nothing but contempt for him, the most notable being Bitch Braverman, as well as minor parties further to the right of the Conservatives, have already condemned him for his hypocrisy and for not going far enough. Sunak does, however, have a staunch supporter in Starmer, who said that he was “right to advocate unity.”

Sunak’s ill-advised and pathetic speech can only create further division and social unrest within the UK. Precisely how Demonizing British Muslims and spreading rank prejudice will promote ‘Unity’ is not readily apparent.

Weak governments and political parties that uncritically support flawed American foreign policies very often pay a heavy price for doing so.

Sunak’s Conservative Party has been slowly cannibalizing itself for over a decade, and Gaza has just sped up the process of its self-destruction. As for Starmer’s Labour Party, it remains to be seen what price it will pay for cravenly supporting the collapsing American Empire and one of its proxy states.

Galloway has resurrected his political career by opposing America’s policy on Gaza on a principled basis.

Whether he will be able to engender a rational debate in the House of Commons over Gaza – and bring about a change in UK policy – are open questions at the moment. One thing is certain however – George Galloway will definitely give it his best shot.

[ljones41]

"The Deconstruction of Dr. Jack Shephard"

"THE DECONSTRUCTION OF DR. JACK SHEPHARD" I have a confession to make. I must be one of the few fans of the ABC series "LOST" (2004-2010) who did not dislike the series' lead character, Dr. Jack Shephard. Before anyone makes the assumption that he is a favorite character of mine, let me make one thing clear. He is not. But for some strange reason, I never disliked Jack.  I still do not.

Throughout most of the series’ run, many "LOST" fans had consistently ranted against Jack’s faults. Mind you, he was not the only flawed character in the series. In fact, most of the major characters seemed to possess some very serious flaws. Jack Shephard seemed to be one of very few characters that had drawn a considerable amount of ire from the fans. I do not know why he was been specifically targeted by these fans. But I cannot help but wonder if the combination of Jack’s role as the series' lead character and his flawed personality had set fans against him. Now, someone might claim that my last remark sounds ridiculous. As I had earlier pointed out, most of the major characters are also seriously flawed or have committed some serious crimes. Extremely flawed characters like John Locke, Jin Kwon, Michael Dawson, Kate Austen, Miles Strume, Ana-Lucia Cortez, Charlie Pace, Sayid Jarrah, James "Sawyer" Ford, Sun Kwon, Boone Carlyle, Mr. Eko, Juliet Burke and Shannon Rutherford. Hell, the list was practically endless. And yet, the only other character who had received as much criticism or hate as Jack was Ana-Lucia Cortez. Why? Well, I have my theories. Both Jack and Ana-Lucia had assumed leadership among the castaways at one time or the other, due to their personalities, circumstances and professions. Ana-Lucia assumed leadership of the Tail Section passengers that crashed on one side of the island and remained stuck there for forty-eight (48) days. Since Day One of the Oceanic 815 crash, Ana-Lucia had stepped up and utilized her skills as a police officer to save lives and make decisions when no one else would. Jack, a spinal surgeon, did the same with the surviving passengers from the Fuselage Section on the other side of the island. In one early Season One episode, (1.05) "White Rabbit", he seemed willing to back away from the role of leader, until John Locke convinced him to resume it. Jack remained the leader even after Ana-Lucia and the remaining Tail Section passengers joined the Fuselage camp by the end of Season Two’s (2.08) "Collision". And it was not until after his departure from the island in the Season Four finale, (4.13/4.14) "There's No Place Like Home, Part II" with Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Sun Kwon, Sayid Jurrah, Kate Austen and Aaron Littleton (the Oceanic Six) that he finally relinquished the position. Recalling the above made me realize something. Human beings – for some reason or other – expect leaders to know everything and always do the right thing. Always. And without fail. Humans seemed to have little tolerance toward the imperfections of our leaders. This certainly seemed to be the case for fictional characters who are leaders. And many fans of "LOST" had harbored a deep lack of tolerance toward Jack and Ana-Lucia’s personal failings. In the case of the former L.A.P.D. police officer, many fans had complained of Ana-Lucia's aggressive personality. They also accused her of being a bitch. In other words, being aggressive and hard – traits many have claimed are more suited for a man - is a sure sign that a woman is a bitch. And unlike other female characters on the series, Ana-Lucia lacked the svelte, feminine looks prevalent in productions such as the 2001-2003 "LORD OF THE RINGS" saga. Actually, gender (and racial) politics may have played a role in the fans' opinion of Jack. His main crime seemed to be that he did not fit the image of a heroic leading white male character. Physically, he looked the part. Unfortunately for Jack, he had failed to live up to those looks. He made the wrong choices on several occasions – choices that included his decision to continue Daniel Farraday's plan to set off the nuclear bomb Jughead in the Season Five finale, (5.16/5.17) "The Incident". It is interesting that many fans had dumped most the blame upon Jack’s shoulders regarding that bomb. And he was partially to blame. But those same fans had failed to remember it was Daniel Faraday who had first insisted upon setting off the bomb to reset time back to the day of Flight 815’s crash – September 22, 2004. And they also failed to recall that Dr. Juliet Burke's decision to set off the bomb for her own reasons was the final action that led to her death. Many had accused Jack of failing to be a proper parent figure to his nephew, Aaron Littleton, during his three years off the island. And at the same time, many had praised Kate Austen for pretending to be the boy’s mother. I found this rather perverse and a little disgusting, considering that Kate had set in motion the lie about her being Aaron’s mother. Jack (along with the remaining members of the Oceanic Six) was guilty of supporting Kate’s lie. But instead of criticizing both for lying about Aaron and keeping him from his Australian grandmother Carole Littleton for nearly three years, many fans had criticized Jack for not being an effective father figure to Aaron and praised a kidnapper like Kate for being a good mother. Ah, the ironies of life. Many fans had accused Jack of being emotionally abusive toward Kate. And yes, they would have every reason to criticize his behavior in episodes like (1.11) “All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”. But Kate’s own behavior in episodes like (1.12) “Whatever the Case May Be”, which featured her constant lies and attempts to manipulate him and others, occasionally triggered his temper. If one character is going to be criticized for the situations I have previously described, the other character involved should be criticized for his or her own questionable behavior. Some of Jack's other mistakes included sanctioning Sayid’s torture of Sawyer, failure to organize a genuine search for the only child passenger from Oceanic 815′s Fuselage Section, the kidnapped Walt Lloyd, instigating that ludicrous search for Walt’s dad Michael Dawson and communicating with Martin Keamy and the other hired mercenaries aboard the S.S. Kahana. Yet, he had received more complaints about his relationship with Kate, along with his tendencies to get emotional and shed tears than for anything else. Once again, many “LOST”  fans managed to prove that we still live in a patriarchal society. It was okay for female characters to shed tears in very emotional moments, but not male characters. Especially if that one male character happened to be the series’ leading character. Jack's penchant for tears was not the only sign of how some fans can be hypocritical. I have written articles criticizing some of the series' other characters. Most of my articles have criticized Kate Austen. I will be honest. I used to dislike Kate very much. However, my dislike of her has finally abated - somewhat. Most of my dislike had stemmed from her past flaky behavior and especially from the fans’ tendency to excuse her mistakes and crimes . . . or pretend that she had never done anything wrong. However, Kate was not the only character given this leeway. James “Sawyer” Ford had murdered three people – one in Australia and two on the island - within a space of two to three months. Yet, many fans had made constant excuses for his actions. I never disliked Sawyer.  But I have complained about his flaws, mistakes and crimes on numerous occasions. When I did, many fans had pretended that he had done anything wrong. And to this day, I still find this frustrating. Sometime back in Season Two or Season Three, actor Matthew Fox and the show’s producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, made it known to the media and viewers that they were doing something different with the Jack Shephard character. They took a superficially heroic type – a brilliant surgeon that assumed leadership of a group of stranded castaways – and deconstructed him. In other words, they slowly but surely exposed his flaws and took the character to what could be viewed as the nadir of his existence. Jack eventually climbed out of that existence by the series’ last season.  But certain fans on  many "LOST" message boards and forums made it clear this was not a path they had wanted Jack to take. Instead, these fans had wanted – or demanded that Jack behave like a conventional hero. During most of Season Six, Jack had managed to avoid indulging in self-destructive behavior. He also refrained from displaying any inclination to pursue a romance with Kate. The worst he had done was engage in a temper tantrum over his discovery that the island’s spiritual "man" Jacob had been observing and possibly interfering in the lives of several castaways. Another personality change I noticed was that he had passively allowed others to take the lead without questioning their decisions. I must be honest. I never liked that particular period in Jack's emotional makeup.  It made him seem like a mindless moron. Did Jack finally become the hero that so many had demanded, when he saved the island in the series finale?  Apparently, those responsible for the Emmy nominations believed he had. Why else did they finally nominate Matthew Fox for a Best Actor in a Drama award, after the series' final season. Mind you, Fox had been giving outstanding performances since the first season. But when Jack finally became a likable and somewhat conventional hero, they deemed Fox worthy of an Emmy nomination. Dear God. Personally, I never did care about Jack Shephard's status as a hero. Nor did I really care for his passive behavior in Season Six. But I did hope that he had  finally discovered some inner peace for himself. And I believe that he did during the series’ final moments.

[aegon]

I live in the Western world and it's just amazing to me how we have elected such awful people into office. I do not understand it at all. Australia is on fire and the PM decided to go to Hawaii for holiday instead of funding the RFS to fight the fires. Trump is over here starting a war with Iran to get himself re-elected (him saying in 2011 Obama would start a war with Iran to get re-elected and not to fall for it just shows that is why he did it and he's a huge hypocrite who doesn't care).

Oh, I get you. I live in England, and our nation of idiots voted the worst possible candidate in charge. I mean....our government just gave a knighthood to a man responsible for creating one of the cruellest welfare reforms in this country. And they were elected by the majority of the working class. The disconnect is incredible, I’m starting to think that democracy is dead only because most people are selfish dumbfucks who can’t think for themselves.

I can’t get over the apathy of the Australian PM. It’s inhumane. The photos are something out of a dystopian film, it’s mind-boggling and terrifying. I don’t know how he looks at the red skies, at the firefighters who refused to shake his hand, at everyone yelling at him that they’ve lost their homes, and feels nothing. That’s not just a selfish man, that’s a fucking psychopath. It’s a horrible situation and you’d think the world would stop and stay stock that one of their one is surrounded by a literal hellfire but no, no, let’s start another war!! Fucking bullshit.

Also Trump threatening to target Iranian cultural sites is literally the tactic that ISIS used when they destroyed our historical sites. Oh wow, would you look at that, the American government acting like the terrorists they created?? Colour me shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

I can’t wait for Trump to get another slap on the wrist, a wagging finger from other world leaders, some sulky article from the NYT about how “he’s gone too far this time,” and then the unanimous support from half the nation that voted him into power.

[temmie-loony]

I would love some Karivarry headcanons, with or without the kids if you have them.

*cracks knuckles* I love getting this kind of ask.

Also since I’ve already made a lot of headcanons primarily without kids, I’mma do this one purely with the kids.

We all know that Dawn is Oliver’s favorite kid

William is Barry’s favorite 

Connor is Kara’s 

She tends to joke that he isn’t, but they all know better 

William doesn’t live with his family anymore

He originally planned on moving back to Star to help Felicity with her company but decided to stay in Central because of his mess of a family

The excuse he used, however, is that he stayed for his grandparents (Samantha’s parents) but c’mon, who is he kidding? 

Besides, what kind of team leader would he be if he moved away?

So he’s still in Central, somewhere in the outskirts, with a decent amount of space

Connor is engaged

Prior to letting the world in on his relationship, he had the whole nation fooled by letting them think he’s like his dad was prior to being shipwrecked; he was almost always seen with a girl in each arm

The world was absolutely shook when he posted on Instagram a picture of him kissing his boyfriend fiancé, holding his face with his left hand adorning a silver band on his ring finger

“Douchebag stole my thunder and proposed first. God I love him so much.”

Dawn primarily trains with Team Flash, but back when she was still starting and Barry had been pushing her just a bit too much, she would go running off to Oliver, who would later yell at Barry 

“Hypocrite,” Barry would say under his breath

She doesn’t do that anymore mostly

Now that Oliver has retired from being the Green Arrow and he’s no longer mayor, he mostly spends his time either traveling, exercising, chilling or heading to his kids’ base to watch them

Sometimes William kicks him out though because he gets stressed from Oliver being stressed from watching Dawn and Connor risk their lives despite being half-Kryptonian (and half-meta in Dawn’s case) and well-trained

So he ends up heading to STAR Labs/CCPD to see what Barry’s doing or head over to Earth-38 with his own interdimensional extrapolator and surprise Kara

It’s not that he doesn’t have anything better to do but because he’s spent the better part of his life constantly fighting for something and now he gets to do nothing

He doesn’t have to worry about a lot anymore and he’s enjoying his time relaxing

He does put his old gear back on whenever the world needs him too, which is a lot less than he expected

Barry isn’t really allowed to babysit any of Wally’s kids without some other adult with him

“But--”

“Last time we left the twins with you, they ended up in 1912. And one of them don’t even have powers!”

Despite Kara being from an entirely different Earth, the kids never really lived there

They spent the summers there sometimes but would almost always need to hop back to Earth-1 because there’s always something bad going on that they need to stop

William stole has one of his sister’s dogs and one of her cats that he insists are actually his

The dog is a big Australian Shepherd called Lightning

The cat is a little Ragdoll called Bug

Connor grew up wearing lead-lined glasses because his parents assumed he had x-ray vision

It wasn’t until he was in his late teens that Alex revealed that he didn’t have the power

He ditched the glasses as soon as he heard it 

Because he wouldn’t wear his glasses when he was younger, Oliver and Barry started wearing glasses (fake ones though) so Connor (and also Dawn) would wear glasses too

When they have time, feel like it and there’s no imminent danger that the others can’t handle, Dawn, Irey and Liv go dimension-hopping

Mostly to see if they have doppelgangers and see what their lives are like

A lot of the worlds don’t have their parents together

When they do find some doppelgangers, it’s either their siblings and not them, or them without their siblings because, a lot of the time, only a pair of their parents would be together

So far they’ve only seen two Earths that has all of Dawn’s parents together and one that has Irey and Liv’s parents together

Also, they visit the Disney Worlds of every Earth they go to because duh

When Oliver wants to rest or sleep in the middle of the day and he’s home alone, he has to keep the door closed to keep all five four of Dawn’s dogs out

He’s okay with them but the last time he left the door open, her giant Samoyed nearly smothered him to death

The cats... he’s good with the cats

When they’re not pawing at his face to feed them

Other than that, he’s okay

When the kids were younger, Barry wouldn’t bring them to the CCPD on “Bring Your Kid to Work Day”

Dawn and Connor were still getting a grip on their powers --thus were unpredictable-- and William was too old anyway

When Singh told him to bring his kids, Barry gave some excuse about them having important exams

That lie would’ve been believable had Barry not stuttered

Or if it wasn’t summer vacation

Earth-38 has three Supers: Superman, Supergirl and the youngest Superboy

Cat Grant was the one who found out that Superboy is Superman’s son

The world knows Supergirl is slowly bowing out, seeing less and less of her and with Superboy showing up more and more

As Clark and Kara, the latter had told Clark that she’s been thinking about moving to Earth-1, with her family instead of having to go back and forth

Clark had smiled, “You took over completely when I left to Argo and start a family. And you still stayed even after you had yours. Go be with your family, Kara. I have Jon. Not to mention the Justice League. We’ll be fine.”

Kara hadn’t left immediately obviously but she’s making the world slowly get used to the lack of Supergirl

Earth-1 will just have to get used to seeing more of her

Just so we’re clear, I thought about these headcanons before Arrow introduced flash-forward William. My William is straight. Connor was always meant to be bi.

Also is anyone interested in more kids? Two from canon ships in the shows (kids being John Thomas Diggle Jr. and Jonathan Samuel Kent) and one from a non-canon ship (ship being SnowWest? :)

[theculturedmarxist]

Following the March 15 terrorist attack by Australian fascist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 50 people in two Christchurch mosques motivated by hatred of immigrants and Muslims, the political establishment and media in New Zealand, Australia, the US and Europe have sought to wash their hands of any responsibility for the massacre.

The gunman is being falsely presented as someone who acted alone and whose extremism had nothing to do with the right-wing, anti-immigrant policies advocated for decades by the media and capitalist politicians. Seeking to cover its tracks, New Zealand’s opposition National Party removed a link from its website to a petition opposing the recent UN Migration agreement. Media outlets such as Newstalk ZB have reportedly been removing articles from website archives demonising Muslims. The media and government are largely blaming the tragedy on social media and demanding a crackdown on the ability to upload live videos.

A major element of the campaign to divert attention from the real causes of the terrorist attack is the near-universal glorification of NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “inspirational” leadership. A nationalist personality cult is being promoted around Ardern in order to drown out any discussion of the role played by the Labour Party, and every party in parliament, in promoting anti-immigrant xenophobia to divide the working class and deflect blame for the social crisis created by capitalism.

On Tuesday the New York Times, the US newspaper of record, aligned with the Democrats, published an article by Sushil Aaron, “Why Jacinda Ardern Matters,” which declared that Ardern’s “moral clarity is inspiring the world.” New Zealand’s prime minister, Aaron declared, “is emerging as the definitive progressive antithesis to the crowded field of right-wing strongmen like President Trump, Viktor Orban of Hungary and Narendra Modi of India, whose careers thrive on illiberal, anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

As evidence, Aaron pointed to Ardern’s expressions of sympathy at vigils and meetings with victims’ families. He also cited the prime minister’s suggestion that Trump should show “sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” This lame comment is being falsely depicted as a major rebuke to Trump, a fascistic figure who has deliberately stoked anti-Muslim bigotry and was seen by the Christchurch terrorist as a “symbol of white renewal.”

The Times article largely resembles a travel advertisement for New Zealand, depicting the country as a liberal paradise with “a national culture unlike any other in Europe or the Americas,” beautiful scenery, parks, libraries and “modest” healthcare and education costs.

Outrageously, Aaron claims that migrants face only “subtle forms of exclusion” in New Zealand and “there is a vibrant political debate on immigration and about the need to import skilled labor without provoking domestic tensions—all conducted without rancor or vitriol.”

The entire article is a pack of lies and distortions. Like similar articles in the UK Guardian and the New Zealand and Australian media, the New York Times does not mention the fact that the Labour Party has for years worked in an alliance with the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, the main promoter of anti-immigrant, anti-Chinese and anti-Muslim demagogy.

Labour has adopted NZ First’s policies, including demands for major reductions in immigration. As in Europe, India and the US, right-wing nationalists have been actively promoted within New Zealand and are now at the centre of the government.

The Labour Party and the Greens contested the 2014 and 2017 elections in an alliance with NZ First and the three parties formed a coalition government in October 2017. Far from being the antithesis of the Trump administration, as the Times would have it, the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition deal was backed by Washington. Following the election, Trump’s appointed ambassador Scott Brown publicly criticised the previous National Party government for its reluctance to fully endorse Trump’s threats against North Korea, and made clear that the next government should align more strongly with the US build-up to war against China.

NZ First, which only received 7.2 percent of the votes, was given unprecedented power by Ardern. Its leader Winston Peters was made foreign minister and deputy prime minister. NZ First’s Ron Mark became the defence minister.

The Ardern government significantly strengthened the alliance with the US. Its 2018 defence policy statement adopted the Trump administration’s description of Russia and China as the main “threats” to global stability. Peters has called on the US to increase its military presence in the Pacific to push back against China, while supporting a media-led witch-hunt against Chinese “influence” in New Zealand.

Peters told the media on Tuesday that the Christchurch atrocity was “committed by a person who is not a New Zealander, is utterly contrary to our core beliefs.” On the same day, however, he refused to retract his past anti-Muslim statements, including a 2005 speech in which he said “New Zealand has never been a nation of Islamic immigrants,” and accused moderate Muslims of working “hand and glove” with “militants” who threatened “the Christian faith.” Labour and the Greens made no criticism of Peters’ stance.

In June 2016, after Peters delivered another chauvinist rant accusing the Islamic community of harbouring “extremists,” Green and Labour MPs hypocritically denounced his statements as “shameful” and “disgraceful.” At the same time, however, Greens leader James Shaw told TVNZ: “I feel very comfortable with the idea that we may end up working with NZ First” in government.

The climate of anti-Muslim racism which helped produce the fascist attack in Christchurch has been deliberately created to justify the US-led “war on terror,” which successive Australian and New Zealand governments have supported over the past two decades. The Ardern government has kept soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have been implicated in massacres of civilians. More than a million people have died in these brutal imperialist wars.

The Labour Party has always used nationalism and anti-immigrant policies to divide the working class. Following the 2008 financial crash, Labour supported the then-National Party government’s austerity measures, which led to soaring social inequality, and repeatedly sought to divert blame onto immigrants.

In 2015, Labour notoriously scapegoated people with “Chinese sounding names” for New Zealand’s lack of affordable housing, caused by rampant speculation. The Ardern government banned foreigners from buying houses. It also restricted the ability of foreign students to work in New Zealand, after NZ First and the trade unions attacked them for “taking” jobs from “Kiwi workers.”

Then-Labour leader Andrew Little declared in 2017 it was too “easy [for employers] to get somebody from overseas and keep locals out of work.” Such nationalist rhetoric failed to boost the party’s support in the working class, where it is widely seen as a party of war and big business, just like National. The working class is increasingly international in character, with one in four New Zealand residents born overseas.

Ardern was made leader just two months before the 2017 election in a desperate bid to save the party from a disastrous defeat. Despite a media campaign to promote her as progressive, based on her youth and her gender, Labour only received 36 percent of the votes and could only form a government with NZ First and the Greens.

Since then, Ardern has been glorified in the international media, including for having a baby while in office, which was ludicrously presented as a major step forward for “women workers.” A September 8, 2018 article in the New York Times described Ardern’s victory as a “preview of what could be possible” in the US, “where a stampede of women—including young mothers—is seeking office in 2018.” The right-wing character of such identity politics, central to the Democratic Party, is revealed in New Zealand, where the purpose of Ardern’s feminism is to provide a progressive façade to a pro-war, anti-working class government.

The posturing of Ardern and the Labour Party as opponents of anti-Muslim xenophobia and racism is an attempt to cover up the fact that every establishment party in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the US has helped to create the foul political atmosphere in which fascists and right-wing nationalists have grown. Fascism can only be defeated by the international working class, united in a socialist struggle against the capitalist system, which is the source of austerity, nationalism and imperialist war.

[satvaonlineacademy]

Is Surgery a Monopoly?

In a notification issued on November 19 by the Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM), the legal entity of the Ministry of AYUSH, which regulates the Indian medical system, Ayurvedic doctors were ordered by giving permission to perform a total of 58 surgical procedures, this includes 39 general surgical procedures and 19 specialised surgeries on eye, nose, ear and throat.

However, the Indian Medical Association, an organisation of allopathic doctors, has, as usual, come out in protest against the notification.

By this order the whole of modern medicine is being deceived, adversely affecting the current global acceptance of medical degrees in India, and they have begun the war by raising tactical arguments such as that the amalgamation of medical sciences is a fraudulent move.

Similar organised attempt was seen Years ago when the Ayurvedic education curriculum was modernised and the degree of "Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery" was introduced.

IMA had come out with protest when Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsha Vardhan, announced the Ayurvedic protocol for the treatment of Covid, and repeatedly said that there is no cure for the virus in modern medicine.It is illogical to interpret the reforms in the field of Ayurveda as an attempt to shake the foundations of the health standards (?) Achieved by the modern world; Rather, it is intolerance to other medical sciences and it is a medical extremism, It is a fact that these surgeries have been performed on a small scale in Ayurvedic institutes and hospitals for the last twenty five years.

CCIM spokespersons explain that the current notification is only to give legal protection to this and therefore there is no basis for this objection.

The Ministry of AYUSH has further clarified that technical terms and modern developments in science are the common property of mankind and no one can be prevented from using them. Dr.Jayant Pujari, Chairman, CCIM Ayurveda Regulatory Board, points out that the IMA's opposition is merely hypocritical.

About 95% of ICUs across the country are managed by AYUSH doctors. They are trained by allopathic doctors itself. This is done to make money. These same doctors are the ones that sit in the IMA and oppose AYUSH doctors.

Isn't this hypocrisy? He also said that the IMA should not despise Ayurveda, which has been traditionally practiced in India for a long time and has proven to be very effective. They must be prepared to show a broad mindset for accepting ancient Indian scientific knowledge. Dr. Poojary also demanded that the IMA should get rid of the narrow selfishness and intolerance that is now being expressed in this regard.

It can be said without any doubt that the organisational leaders who oppose this order are those who have a factual misunderstanding.

It has been many years since, started teaching the theory of surgery to Ayurvedic doctors who are pursuing postgraduate degrees in Shalya Tantra and Shalakya Tantra. However, there was an inadequacy of practical training in this regard.

The new notification aims to address this and provide practical training.

Historical records show that many therapies that claim to belong to modern medicine, such as surgery, existed in Ayurveda for millennia.

The "Sushruta Samhita" describing surgeries, written by Sushruta, an ancient Indian medical scholar is a textbook for Ayurvedic graduate and postgraduate studies. This treatise describes over 300 surgical procedures and over 120 surgical instruments. At first glance it may seem surprising to know that modern medicine is still dealing with a modified version of these devices.

The Royal Australian College of Surgeons (RCS) is responsible for training surgeons and raising the standard of surgery in Australia and New Zealand. In their headquarters, a statue of Sushruta, a great Indian physician, can be seen. There is also an inscription on the plaque describing him as the "Father of Surgery". An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita describing Sushruta's treatment is also kept there as a treasure.

The treatise describes Sushruta's opinion of the best surgeon as follows. “Must be of good courage, always with a presence of mind, with a hand free from sweat, one who select sharp and sure instruments, and one who uses surgery only for the success and achievement of the patient.

He must be conscious of the fact that the patient that lie ahead is the one who has entrusted his life to the surgeon, and must respect the patient's complete surrender and regard the patient undergoing surgery as his own son. "

If the history of science is traced back to origins, it will reach a time which cannot be marked in ancient time period.

Starting from there, the science of medicine and surgery has made great strides today. But it can be observed that many of the techniques practiced today has its origins from practices of ancient Indian scholars.

It is still a wonder that all the surgeries in general are summarised under the eight headings of Chhedana (excision), Bhedana (incision), Lekhana (scrapping/debridement), Eshana (probing), Aharana (extraction), Visravana (drianage), Seevana (suturing).

In his writings, Sushruta describes the basic principles of surgery, such as planning accuracy, prevention of hemorrhage, and completeness, as well as various reconstructive procedures for various disorders.

Sushruta gives a detailed description of 60 types of sub-procedures for the treatment of wounds, details of treatment for 12 types of fractures and six types of dislocation. This is what orthopedic surgeons still do today. This treatise also mentions the principles of traction, manipulation, apposition, stabilisation and post-operative physiotherapy.

Sushruta has also performed NasaSandhan (Rhinoplasty) KarnaSandhan (Otoplasty) and Oshtha Sandhan (Lobuloplasty).

Similar organized attempt was seen Years ago when the Ayurvedic education curriculum was modernised and the degree of "Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery" was introduced.

The Rhinoplasty, described in 600 BC, has been described as the Indian flap and the pioneer of plastic surgery.

Injuries to the body caused by accidents are described in six categories - Chhinna ( Excised ) Bhinna (Incised ) Viddha (Punctured ) Kshat (Crushed ) Picchit (Contused) and Ghrishta (Abrased).

Bloodletting was also done for some diseases. Intoxicants such as wine, cannabis indica and opium were used to make the operation painless and successful.

Prior to the advent of antibiotics, allopathic medicine adopted these same methods; IMAs are forgetting all that.

Plastic surgery and dental surgery were practiced in India even in ancient times.The students were properly trained in the models. It was also stipulated that new students must have at least six years of training before starting practice.

Sushruta was one of the first in human history to suggest that a student pursuing dissection surgery should study the human body and its organs.

For Sushruta, health was not just physical well-being, but also mental well-being.

Equilibrium of Tridosha (three humors), good nutrition, proper elimination of waste, and comfortable maintenance of body and mind were all portrayed as the four pillars of health care.

He notes that the "surgical department" is the first and most important branch of medicine, because it gives immediate results; So it has its own value.

Surgery becomes inevitable in certain cases as it prolongs lifespan and improves the quality of life. From the above information, it is crystal clear that surgery is not the monopoly of modern medicine.

How to prevent post-surgery infections; how treat it? An organisation leader expressed concern that all of this exist only in modern medicine.

An essay will be required to clarify this matter with reason. Instead, here is a summary of the case report of an article written by Dr. Sanjay Jain in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medicine (2017 Oct -Dec 8 (4) 263-265) entitled "The Role of Ayurvedic Management in Preventing Surgical Site Infections Instead of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis".

The 83-year-old man, a retired law professor and a former soldier, of lean body nature and 50kg weight, came in with complaints of prostate inflammation. No history of diabetes, hypertension or any cardiovascular disease. He had led a very disciplined life.

He could not take any antibiotics in his lifetime, because his body would react strongly whenever he tried. So he had been using Ayurvedic medicines for years. But later, surgery became inevitable. The challenge was to perform this unavoidable surgery without the use of antibiotics.

This challenge was undertaken in the great interest of the patient. Holmium laser nucleation of prostate (HOLEP) surgery was performed under spinal anesthesia. The surgery took four hours.No antibiotics were given before or after the surgery. Instead, Ayurvedic medicines were started 3 days before the surgery and was continued after the surgery. The patient recovered and regained health fastly in a shorter time than with the usual antibiotic.

The Ayurvedic medicines were prescribed by a team comprising Dr. GG Gangadharan (Bangalore).

• Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia)• Neem (Azadirachta indica)• Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum)

• Shigru (Moringa oleifera)• Amla (Emblica officinalis)• Haldi extract (Curcuma longa)

• Panchtikta ghrita guggulu (combination of many herbs and ghee).

This was the combination of drugs used ( from the Article by Dr. Sanjay Jain -Orthopaedic Surgeon).

Modern medicine, in the form of antibiotic resistance, is facing the worst existential crisis ever, threatening bacterial infections and the very operation of surgery.This is because modern medicine relies heavily on antibiotics for treatment and prevention.

How was surgery performed before Joseph Lister invented the "antiseptic principle" in 1867, and then until the invention of the antibiotic in 1928?

With the availability of antibiotics in the market, the health problems that existed until then, actually changed to another level.

It is only recently that we have come to realize that the harms, disasters, and the diseases caused by the use of antibiotics are far greater than the diseases they cure.Aware of the impending catastrophe in near future, for the past several years, the World Health Organization has been celebrating November 13-19 as Awareness Week with the message "antibiotic; handle with care".

The case report mentioned above suggests that Ayurveda is capable of performing surgery during this era even without antibiotics.

In the early nineteenth century, Hessler published the first European translation of the Sushruta Samhita in Latin and Muller in German. The first complete English translation was done by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna in three volumes in 1907 in Calcutta. In Tibetan literature, Sushruta is known as the medical authority.

It can be seen that even the basic concept of vaccination is a part of Ayurveda. This system was used in Ayurveda as early as the seventeenth century.

It was in the name of 'Charaka', the author of the oldest work on Indian medicine that a club was found by Medical professionals who deal with the literary, artistic, and historical aspects of medicine in New York in 1894.This is made clear in Girindranath Mukhopadhyay's book "History of Indian Medicine" (Part One, Page 32).Discovery of Herophilus in the fourth century BC confirmed the perspective of the great Indian physicians who understood the interrelationship between heart and nerve pulse through Nadi Pareeksha.

The "Haritha Samhita" of Haritha and the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad, states that the heart is a fleshy organ in the shape of a lotus and that blood circulates through the ten veins. William Harvey gave the same account to the world in 1616 AD, thousands of years after India came to know this information.

Physicians of that time used tubes made from animal horns to hear the heartbeat. A similar principle was used in 1816 by Rene Stephen Hales on a stethoscope. The scientific approach of our ancestral medical resources can be understood by listing several such examples.

Many of the things described in Ayurveda were discovered by modern science thousands of years later; It’s just that it has changed over time.

The classification between Tridosha and genes was that what Dr. MS Valyathan and his team found through research. List of undiscovered is more than that of discovered. The development of Ayurveda has been hampered for centuries; But even then, modern medicine continued to develop.

The barriers that the IMA is now raising are a continuation of that distorted culture.

Covid 19 reminds us that the rise of Ayurveda, the Indian medical science, is a necessity of the times.

It is the duty of a government that believes in Indian culture to bring back to full strength the surgical department that has been removed by stakeholders from the Ayurvedic treatment system.

The first thing to be done after regaining independence is to respect those who have preserved the former wealth that was lost or forcibly lost in the flood of external tradition, and to work diligently to rectify the shortcomings of that wealth and restore it to its former state.

It is due to intellectual slavery, bankruptcy and arrogance adorned by IMA officials in India, that they are not able to consciously appreciate or be proud of the greatness of one's own heritage. The same was what The chairman of the CCIM Ayurveda Regulatory Board, Dr.Jayant Pujari asked to change.

It is common for the representative of an organisation to organize strikes or protests with special demands. But the IMA is the first organization in the world to protest against giving something to others.

Claiming a monopoly on surgery, the IMA's attempt to oppose the timely reforms in the field of Ayurveda is futile and will be ruthlessly rejected by those who believe in Indian culture.

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said that food is your medicine; Medicine is your food. But what about today? A condition in which you consume dangerous drugs just like you eat food.!!!

The goal of education in India today is to spread and perpetuate Western sciences and culture. An exception to this is the handful of disciplines, including Ayurveda.

Seven decades after independence, our education system has not changed much supportive of Indian culture, because those responsible are in Meckel's intrigue and under intoxication by Western culture.

Their knowledge and thoughts are against Indian cultures. There are evil minds even in our country who join hands with their enemies to oppose their own mother.

While denigrating Ayurveda and glorifying allopathy, one thing to keep in mind is that in 1540 CE (Common era) a barber-surgeons company was formed by English barbers and surgeons of the time.

They did tooth extraction and bloodletting together !!

Can any truth be untrue for the sole reason that it is a few years old?

You may be more qualified than your ancestors and possess technically superior talent, but never dare to despise your ancestors and the past because your real owners are the ancestors and the past.

[askchua]

Society and civil leaders advocate for liberty of conscience and inclusiveness but seem increasingly intolerant of people with opposing views. Freedom of religion to a growing number of people requires religion to follow the changing values of society. Why are ‘Christian' churches expected to demonstrate their inclusivity while nobody would ask or demand a leader of another large faith group to come out declaring a pro-homosexual stance… in fact, some football codes praising a player/s for making a stand?

Jesus is widely recognised by both those within and outside the church as a model of unconditional love, crossing cultural, gender, bodily, economic and other societal expectations and laws to embrace those often forgotten, powerless or hated. Jesus was radically inclusive, choosing unexpected people as his 12 named male disciples and other women in his regular entourage. Coming seemingly from nowhere special, Jesus was a viral sensation of his time.

Jesus also showed continued intolerance towards a certain group of people, being highly critical about certain views they held and often publicly viciously slagging/insulting them (even inventing the term hypocrite to slam them). His targeted group were various privileged and entitled sectarian religious leaders within his ‘religion’ - the Pharisees, Sadducees, other teachers of the law and the executive priests (and at times their agents). However, Jesus didn’t paint these religious leader all as one-dimensional villains, but encouraged others to emulate some of their examples, and Jesus accepted their social invitations, welcomed interactions with them and even gave them some personal blessings/miracles. But there is no hypocrisy or disconnect between Jesus being wholly inclusive and still finding the views and practices of these people offensive, especially when they impacts the rights and freedoms of others and how others view who God favours.

Beginning as a land that was first populated by the ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians, and then much later invaded/colonised by the British, who brought their colonial form of Christianity with them, contemporary Australia is now a democratic, secular, liberal and aspiring-pluralist country with laws, governance structures and expectations evolved from that British base. As such, Australia has many differences to other countries like the US, for example, Australia does not have an explicit statement protecting freedom of speech.

Think about a state school as an analogy for the state and the principal akin to the Prime Minister or a state premier. Despite the claims made sometimes by the private school sector, state schools are not value-free nor value-denying places but promote and enforce certain values based on the common laws of society and have aligned behavioural expectations of all those within their school.

Whereas most private schools have exclusionary selection of students and staff and idiosyncratic value systems depending on their main donor bases, state schools are open to all that wish to attend it (zoning pending). As a pluralist community, consideration to allow freedom for the expressions and practices of various beliefs and ideologies are usually accommodated (e.g. personal choices to pray at certain times in a private setting, clothing choices, celebration of certain festivals). Students can hold and express whatever views they wish as individuals and also practice them… but not everything is acceptable.

The freedom to express also means the freedom to disagree. You can express any views in a school but don’t always expect to have a ready audience nor be applauded. Particularly for certain individuals not used to others disagree with them, being in a pluralist community can be a difficult adjustment.

And then there are certain views and practices - especially if they are unaligned to common law - that just will not be tolerated by the leadership of the school. As such, state schools are not permissive about everything.

An example of this is with the ‘traditional misogynistic views’ often expressed by certain boys regarding sexual consent. It doesn’t matter whether those views/beliefs are rooted in long-standing sporting traditions or certain religions, in most/all state schools, they are no longer approved of nor tolerated.

Now certainly the school does not require everyone to personally believe in line with the school’s views/practices, but everyone has to acknowledge them and accommodate themselves to them. And the common values of the school are expected to be espoused and promoted by their leaders. Of course, school leaderships can and do make mistakes but these are often resolved in the court of public consensus.

Similarly, government leaders never claimed to be value-free and often are expected by the public to make comments on whether government decisions or other organisations/corporations are acting in the ‘public interest’ and consistent with expected values of modern society and laws. In fact, politicians and government leaders - such as the current prime minister and the opposition leader - are voted in precisely because of their stated values and priorities (even if they only cater to certain sectors of the Australian population). In their leadership roles, however, whatever their personal beliefs, they need to act consistent again with society’s common laws or trajectories.

The AFL and the NRL (and all other organisations) are brands focused on selling products that carries certain values. Sporting organisations have not been value-free for a long time but instead promote themselves as an all-aged unifying-society-force where all is welcomed and included (hence the public scorn for a club’s racist practices). Every paid AFL/NRL player and leader is an employee/ambassador that has to assent to the values of the corporation they choose to work for - they don't have to believe in it themselves but they have to acknowledge that is what they have signed up with. For many employees and volunteers, we often treat code of conducts or our organisation’s values statements like online account signup agreements, that is, we just want to get what they offer rather than always read what we have actually pledged our lives to, but that still doesn’t mean we can claim ignorance if we suddenly find ourselves on the wrong side of that agreement.

In our secular pluralist society, there is freedom of religion - that is, everyone is able to believe and practice whatever they want as long as it is consistent with the law of the land. Accommodations have been and continue to be made to how the legal and other system operates for certain cultural and religious groups, but as long as the overall intentions of the law are largely maintained. Allowance is also often made for conscientious objectors, that is, someone can excuse themselves from participating. These do not oppose the community, they merely step to one side to allow that community to proceed.

Because of the British base of law, Christian organisations have been traditionally favoured but increasing efforts to equalise opportunities for other religions and diverse beliefs have resulted in losses of previous exclusive privileges. Additionally, allowing others to have an equal voice in contrast to traditional bases of power, means that those claiming to speak for Christianity are increasingly finding vocal disagreement by others that previously didn’t have a voice or platform. Additionally, where secular government funding is involved, greater demands for accountability and transparency means any body that wishes to receive public funding needs to be more aligned with public expectations for their practices and who they serve. When Christian figures are questioned about what practices core to their faith are being lost (that are not related to exclusionary practices or imposing their beliefs on those outside their membership), very few specifics are given. To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

In a pluralist secular society, all religions are not required to be pro-something that is against their core beliefs. But if a religion continues to promote certain beliefs and practices (whether core or not) that violate others’ legal rights or standing and they receive public funding/accommodations, that religion might not want to go out of their way to actively promote those practices nor expect public approval if they do. And particularly when it comes to sexual diversity, there is no universal agreement across Christianity that it is a core aspect of their faith, that is, central to the gospel of Jesus, nor has historical emphasis (unlike Christianity’s greater continuous targets against the sins of idolatry, pride, greed, inhospitality or lacking compassion for the powerless, shunned and despised).

Historically, all modern-day religions have evolved since their initial founding. The Apostle Paul would be very shocked and find the experience and life of any contemporary Australian church unfamiliar.

The God of the Bible, in fact, seems to continually push all God’s people from the first couple to the various New Testament churches, into new cultural contexts and is pleased with the evolution of expressions and practices and trajectories of inclusiveness for more and more people and practices previously shunned and condemned. In fact, until relatively more recently the Christian Church and theology were widely credited for the many victories of increasing freedoms and rights for all, especially those outside its membership. These days, society tends to view the Church as prioritising its membership and its privileges over the rights of others.

In some ways, one could say the church is returning to the also pluralist liberal days and circumstances of the New Testament society in which the Christian Church was birthed and had limited standing, influence or favour. Maybe God has ordained once again the circumstances so that God’s people can return to resembling the humility of a rural tradie’s bastard son in an urban metropolis without privilege, entitlement or institutional authority to engage once again with radical inclusiveness and proclaim the good news that God is focused and interested in people anew no matter their identity, standing, circumstances or behaviours, and whose only main intolerance is against those that deny that God wants the very best fullness of life for every single human and the rest of creation.

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Why did Solomon Island's Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare not attend the war memorial ceremony?

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Well, the USA and Australian political leaders hypocritically bemoaned his non attendance. The Guadalcanal ceremony memorial service was organised by USA, and attended by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and ministers and officials from Japan, Australia and New Zealand China didn’t get a guernsey. It’s because Solomon Islands have made a security deal with China (not a military-base…

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Australia PM Morrison's deputy sorry for calling leader a 'liar' | Politics News

Australia PM Morrison’s deputy sorry for calling leader a ‘liar’ | Politics News

Barnaby Joyce’s remarks further shake the political position of the prime minister, who must call a federal election by May. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has apologized to Prime Minister Scott Morrison for calling him “a hypocrite and a liar” and said Morrison had rejected his offer to resign. Morrison said in a statement on Saturday that he accepted Joyce’s apology. In a…

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Australia PM Morrison’s deputy sorry for calling leader a ‘liar’ | Politics News

Australia PM Morrison’s deputy sorry for calling leader a ‘liar’ | Politics News

Barnaby Joyce’s remarks further shake the political position of the prime minister, who must call a federal election by May. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has apologised to Prime Minister Scott Morrison for calling him “a hypocrite and a liar” and said Morrison had rejected his offer to resign. Morrison said in a statement on Saturday that he accepted Joyce’s apology. In a…

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'Hypocrites on Parade': John Pilger Calls Out World Leaders for Ignoring Donbass Shelling For Years

President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visit during a bilateral meeting ahead of the G-7 summit, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Carbis Bay, England. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pilger, based in the UK, took to Twitter to voice his view of the West’s condemnation of Russia’s special military operation aiming to defend the people of Donbass as well as "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.

The European and US leaderships have been called out on their “hypocrisy” by a veteran investigative journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger.

Pilger, who is known for his critical outlook on the UK, US, and Australian foreign policy, referred to the situation in the Eastern Ukraine, where the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have been fighting for self-determination for the past eight years, suffering from a violent conflict with the Kiev regime.

The republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in the Donbass region (LPR and DPR) declared independence after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev that saw democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych overthrown.

The coup government subsequently passed anti-Russian language laws, affecting the largely Russian-speaking population of the two Donbass republics.

Donbass has since then been fighting against the Ukrainian government, defending their right to vote, as a majority of the region voted for Yanukovych in an election certified by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Kiev branded the regions as separatist, launching a civil war against their own people that has now lasted for eight years.

In reference to the situation, Pilger posed a question in his tweet:

“Would this be tolerated by the rulers of the world?”

The US heavily supported the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which eventually led to years of internal fighting in the Eastern European country.

The US’ current position on Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has been reflected in statements made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who called off a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that was set to be held on Thursday.

“It does not make sense to go forward that meeting at this time", Blinken said.

In a similarly critical estimation of Russia’s position on the defence of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Vladimir Putin of choosing the “path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack on Ukraine”.

According to award-winning journalist Pilger, it is “absurd” for, (GOONS) Johnson and Biden “to lecture us on the ethics of world affairs”.

“Biden is currently stealing Afghanistan's cash reserves and condemning millions to starvation. The West could have brought peace to Ukraine, but chose not to”, he said.

In the eight years since the conflict began, as many as 14,000 people have been killed in the fighting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recognised the independence of the DPR and LPR as violence in the region continues to escalate.

On Thursday, he announced the beginning of a special operation in Ukraine aimed at the demilitarisation and denazification of the country, which neighbours Russia.

The decision was prompted by the deteriorating situation on the line of contact between Kiev's forces and the Donbass republics, with the Ukrainian Army intensifying the shelling of cities and positions of the DPR and LPR last week.

A monitoring mission of the OSCE spotted over 2,000 ceasefire violations, with the LPR saying that the organisation recorded Kiev violating humanitarian law.