Nel’s New Day

The U.S. media is consumed with reports from Israel, detailed interviews of suffering from those attacked by the Hamas. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is paralyzed by no Speaker in the House after eight far-right Republicans voted Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) out of the office a week ago. The proposed new leadership has one goal—burn down the government. While the media concentrates on the exciting visuals of Israelis dying, it ignores the people who the GOP House leadership may kill through its radical approach to ruling, not governing.

The disaster came to a head began last November when a majority of eight Republicans were elected for the House. The election for the 118^th congressional House Speaker began on January 3 and lasted four days and 15 ballots. McCarthy got the job by making a deal with the devil, but he failed to pay the piper. Despite all the right-wing promises he made, he let Democrats vote to stop a government shutdown in October, a cardinal sin for the “Freedom” Caucus. On October 2, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), joined by seven other far-right House members, succeeded in their desire to remove McCarthy from leadership.

Three conservatives want to fill the void:

Deposed Donald Trump (DDT), who is not a member of the House, has offered to help the country by taking the position although the rules ban anyone indicted of a felony from being a member of the leadership.

Jim Jordan (R-OH), part of the January 6 insurrection, thinks his “weaponization” reputation will get him the Speaker position. Turning from what Republicans call a moderate to a radical rightist, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), is one of his strong supporters, accidentally brought back Jordan’s refusal to report the sexual assaults on his wrestling athletes while he coached at Ohio State University. Mace said she was unfamiliar with the allegations despite public testimony and on-the-record reports and called Jordan “a strong voice for women.” She also claimed ignorance about allegations of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, and public corruption being investigated by the House after she voted to send them to the ethics committee. More about Margaret Brennan’s Face the Nation interview with Mace and statements with other journalists.

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Jordan promises to cause a shutdown unless Democrats support his extreme, unworkable restrictions on asylum-seeking. The next deadline for the congressional budget agreement is November 17. His declaration of no funding for processing or releasing new migrants into the U.S. is “non-negotiable” although the law mandates the requests. Detaining all the migrants, too, would cost billions of dollars.

[Note: Mace also called Joe Biden “the most corrupt president in U.S. history” and accused him of bribery, money laundering, and orchestrating a prostitution ring. Last weekend, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo asked her for “specific policy decisions that Biden made that he was paid for.” Mace said she hadn’t had “the ability to research that.”]

Steve Scalise (R-LA), perhaps the most benign candidate after the others—including Oklahoma’s Kevin Hern—dropped out, is known for his ties to white supremacy. He spoke at one of their conferences and called himself “[ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard] David Duke without the baggage” but denied knowing anything about white supremacy. Duke said Scalise was “friendly” with Kenny Knight, Duke’s “longtime political adviser.” Like Jordan, Scalise voted against Biden’s legal electoral vote on January 6. Scalise may be the weakest candidate because of his recent diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer in the bone marrow.

McCarthy  changed his mind today for the fifth time when he asked Republicans not to nominate him for Speaker after he said he was willing to run for Speaker again to show strength after Hamas attacked Israel. Earlier, McCarthy told Hugh Hewitt that he would do anything the conference wants him to do if he were elected. And that was after he promised he wouldn’t run again in his California seat after saying he would resign. All in the span of one week.

Therefore, the choice, as it stands, for the second in line to the presidency is among an insurrectionist, an insurrection supporter, and a white supremacist. (Probably between the insurrection supporter and white supremacist as the third one gos back to his presidential campaigning and legal issues.)

Jordan’s scandal regarding his refusal to report sexual assaults puts him in accord with former Speaker Dennis Hastert who served from 1999 to 2007. Indicted in 2015 and serving 13 months in prison, the evangelical Christian advancing “family values” committed financial offenses relating to the sexual molestation of five of his teenage wrestling athletes, 14 to 17 years old, in the 1960s and 70s. The statute of limitation had run out on the charge of sexual assault. Jordan’s Ohio congressional district is only a few hours’ drive from Hastert’s Illinois home.

Several House Republicans laid red lines in the sand to vote for a speaker. The current chaos came because the far-right insisted that one person could initiate a motion to remove a Speaker. A movement under foot is that this could not happen again without at least 50 percent of each party’s conference agreeing with Republicans that they won’t support a candidate without a pledge to change the rule. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) tweeted that she would “ditch” the rule so long as Jordan is elected Speaker, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) won’t vote for a speaker without the promise of an anti-transgender bill. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said she would only support a speaker willing to defund DDT’s prosecution.

GOP senators are split over the choice of Speaker; mainstays want Scalise with a fast transition. They also don’t want Jordan’s impeachment inquiry, calling it a “political loser,” and think they can count on him to avoid a government shutdown and provide more funding for Ukraine. Others who want DDT to shake up the party prefer his endorsement, Jordan. Mike Braun (R-IN) endorsed Jordan because he is a “fighter.” All the senators, however, are keeping their distance to avoid the impression of meddling in House business.

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If Republicans elect Scalise, he would be the most conservative House speaker in history, and Jordan is far to his right. That gives Jordan a better chance to win the contest.

Speaker candidates quickly unplugged Fox’s idea to televise the debate among them. Bret Baier said on air that Jordan, Scalise, and Hern had all agreed to the event, but they were pressured to change their minds. Instead, the candidate forum will be a closed-door debate.

The “festivities” kicked off Monday night when the House GOP conference huddled and vented their anger and recriminations for the first of many closed-door meetings. At the lengthy Tuesday closed-door meeting, candidates outlined their vision,  but the vote was split. Republicans want unanimity for one of the candidates before he is presented to the entire House for a public vote. After the Tuesday meeting, Rep Troy Nehls (R-TX) said, “I don’t know how the hell you get to 218,” adding that “it could be a long week.” Some of those leaving the meeting said they want to get McCarthy back

On Wednesday, candidates return to give more pitches.

Via https://nelsnewday.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/the-house-cagefight-continues-for-speaker/

Hildegard of Bingen

Episode 20 The Status of Women in 2015

1215: Years That Changed History

Dr Dorsey Armstrong (2019)

Film Review

Armstrong makes an interesting contrast between women’s rights in Europe and those in the Mongol Empire during the 13th century. European women had some political rights prior to 1215, they lost them with Fourth Lateran Council* and the rise of the persecutory society. In contrast Mongol women, who previously were viewed as commodities, gained significant status under Genghis Khan. He used the first kuritai he called in 1216 to ban women from being bought, sold or traded. He also appointed his wives and daughters to rule over newly conquered steppes territories while he and his sons went off to conquer new kingdoms.

He appointed

• his first wife Börte to rule the Tatar region around the Kherlen River
• his second wife Kulan to rule the Kentil Mountain region
• his third wife Yeshi to rule the Tuul River region
• his fourth wife Yesugen to rule the Khangai mountain range

He had seven (or eight daughters), which he married off to his most trusted allies. They, too, would rule in their husbands’ place when they went off to battle.

After Genghis Khan died, women were largely pushed aside in favor of male rulers (whether they were qualified or not), and Armstrong believes this was a major factor in the decline of the Mongol empire.

Armstrong uses the last half of this lecture to trace the lives of three of Europe’s most powerful and influential women during the early Middle ages: Hildegarde of Bingen, Eloise and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

• Hildegarde of Bingen (1098 -1179) – nun and “doctor” of the Catholic church. Her parents dedicated her to the church at birth, and she entered a convent to begin religious study at age eight. She engaged in preaching tours around Germany, and both church and government officials frequently sought her advice. She preached openly against church corruption, wrote theological books, authored the  first morality play, composed music and wrote scientific papers on sexuality and gynecology.
• Eloise – best known for her love affair with her tutor Abelad, she was a renowned scholar, who could read and write Latin, Greek and Hebrew and was a skilled physician and mathematician. After her uncle castrated Abelard for impregnating her, the former lovers both founded separate religious orders.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine – after marrying Louis VII of France and giving birth to two daughters, she somehow obtained an papal annulment and married Henry II of England. Bringing Aquitaine as her dowry, she continued to rule there in place of Henry. After she backed Henry’s sons Richard the Lionhearted and John in a revolt against him, Henry put her on house arrest between 1173-90 (Richard released her following Henry’s death). While serving house arrest, she continued to direct her own network of spies and followers.

After women came under the total control of their fathers and husbands following the Fourth Lateran Council, European women lost the ability to achieve this level of advanced education and social influence.

*See 1215: How the First Lateran Council Legitimatized Persecution

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/12392969/12393011

The Blogging Hounds

A savvy Costco shopper showed how food prices have gone up way more than the inflation rate reported by the government, hitting consumers with devastatingly high food costs.

In a video going viral on social media, the Costco customer films as he walks around the wholesale retailer observing price spikes sometimes 75% more than previous prices.

“I’m walking around Costco here and I’m noticing prices, for example these Madras Lentils, for $15.99 — I bought those a year ago for $6.99,” the man says.

“I keep getting told that we got 6, 7% inflation — you gotta be kidding me,” he says, going on to show photos he snapped just months ago of the same items with lower prices.

The video has been viewed over 14 million times.

Popular X user Wall Street Silver noted: “Overall, many people know intuitively that food inflation is way higher than the official number of 4.3% from August 2022 thru August 2023.”

Everyone is aware that prices on just about everything have risen during Biden’s tenure, but hopefully enough Americans will remember this as they head to the ballot box in November 2024 to counteract potential cheating by the corrupt uniparty establishment.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2023/10/09/watch-before-and-after-photos-show-skyrocketing-food-prices-at-costco-proving-inflation-way-worse-than-reported-by-gov/

Political Film Blog

Israelis are saying this could not have happened that way without a decision from above.

Brian Berletic describes Hamas as a tool of US/Israel, perhaps manipulated, infiltrated, and allowed to attack in order to justify the overwhelming genocidal response.

Israel has long wanted to attack Iran, or to have the USA attack on their behalf.

Iran has supplied drones to Russia for use against Ukraine, and so the US/Nato has reason to want to attack Iran, if simply to bomb its military production infrastructure.

See Al Jazeera: Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran

Egypt claims they warned Israel repeatedly but Israel deliberately ignored the warnings.

Via https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/the-theory-gaza-was-allowed-to-happen-to-launch-a-larger-war-on-iran/#like-52899

Gloria Guillo

Internationalist 360°

During the early 2000s, only a few left-wing magazines with limited circulation warned about the threat of Global Warming. Now mainstream news media link virtually every weather disaster to global Climate Change.^[1]

Groups like Extinction Rebellion get international coverage for their publicity stunts, and supranational organizations like the United Nations as well as presidents and even King Charles offer support through lip service and radical energy policy changes.

The New York Times hosted a “Climate Event with Bill Gates, Marie Kondo and Others” on September 21^st. Gates’s environmental stewardship plans involve chopping down forests and burying trees to combat climate change, and blocking out sunlight with dust to prevent global warming.

To analyze this shift in positive press coverage for Climate Change, it is necessary to understand how the carbon tax policy creates new exploitable markets, benefits the fossil fuel industry, hides polluters, and promotes energy policies that are in effect hazardous to the environment and negatively impact the working class and developing nations.

Fossil Fuel’s Big Bonanza

Within this context, the latest industry giveaway is President Biden’s $500 billion in new spending and tax breaks under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which is slated to go into effect in tax year 2023, according to the IRS. It is the third piece of environmental-related legislation passed by Biden since late 2021.

It is considered by analysts as a “Bonanza for the Carbon Capture Industry.” Accordingly, its intent is to increase government subsidy for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from polluting sources from $50 to $85 per metric ton and to simplify the process of receiving tax credits. The net result is a bigger handout to oil companies.

The fossil fuel industry views emerging CO2 capture technology as a revenue stream. This costly and experimental technology is intended to vacuum CO2 out of the air so it can be collected and buried in the ground. Scientists argue that a cleaner and more cost-effective solution might be found at the front end with better processing methods and filtering.

Carbon Credit Global Compliance Market

The charts below show the ideological shift in the fossil fuel industry that took place in the mid to late 1990s as increased subsidies and international protocols, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris Agreement of 2015 took effect. Additionally, the histogram depicts the steep transactional

Scientists and Politicians Split Between Climate Deniers and Climate Alarmists

The scientific and political debate over man-made Climate Change has been heated, with both sides accusing the other of being either climate “deniers” or “alarmists.” While all scientists believe in global Climate Change, the root cause of it is the sticking point.

The alarmists blame it on “man-made” CO2 emissions and the deniers blame it on natural events that emanate from our solar system, such as sunspot activity, cosmic rays, and resulting cloud formations. Scientists in the denier camp do not discount the effects of regional or local man-made ecological disturbances caused by weapons of mass destruction, mismanagement and neglect.

There is a political side to this debate as well. Members of the Democratic and Green Parties mostly fall into the alarmist camp and deniers mostly fall into the Libertarian and Republican camp.

Climate Change deniers are accused of being paid by the fossil fuel industry, which may be true in some cases, although that does not nullify rigorous scientific research and well-documented conclusions. All industries fund research in their specific fields from aviation to pharmaceuticals. Should it all be invalidated? We think not.

Geologist Gregory Wrightstone provided an informative webinar for the Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement (GRSRM) on El Nino and La Nina. He serves as the executive director for the CO2 Coalition—whose mission is to promote education about CO2 emissions into the environment. The CO2 Coalition takes a critical view of climate change alarmism because its members disagree with the science it is based on and the policy decisions that it generates.

While Mr. Wrightstone has worked for the gas industry, the CO2 Coalition consists of many distinguished scientists, including Nobel laureates, who have not.

The fossil fuel industry ironically appears to be playing both sides of the debate. It donates to both the Democratic and Republican Parties and is hedging its bets because of the tax subsidies.

Shifting Sun Patterns and Nuclear Winter

Theodore Postol is an MIT physicist and weapons specialist who draws on the research of Dr. Henrik Svensmark, professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) who has found that climate change has resulted largely from shifting sun patterns and a flux in cosmic rays.

According to Postol, the Earth may soon enter a period of cooling, followed by a heightened period of warming 20 or 30 years from now.

At a webinar that he gave for the GRSRM on Climate Change and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Dr. Postol strongly reminded his audience that the greatest existential threat to humankind is nuclear war and not man-made global Climate

ing increase in their profits.”

He chides “new or old celebs generating large carbon footprints by attending ‘Save-The-Planet’ stunts where they tell us all to not fly, not eat meat, not drive cars, not breathe, etc.” Apparently, there are two sets of rules for carbon usage that are based on class status.

Corbyn asserts that deindustrialization and rising energy costs, due to the prevailing CO2 global warming narrative, disproportionately affect the impoverished and working class and that “millions die of fuel poverty-related causes due to climate policies every year” and that the largest victimized group is “African women suffering and dying from smoke inhalation due to open cooking fires because ‘sustainable’ climate policies hold back coal-fired power station electrification of Africa (and thus hold back economic development)– effectively, UN-EU Climate policy is racist.”

Corbyn also argues that scientific consensus does not equal truth. Consensus is often achieved through the targeted distribution of grant money that promotes topical politically advantageous positions.

Corbyn points out that CO2 in the oceans is 50 times more abundant than in the atmosphere, although he neglects to mention pollution that is leading to acidification that affects the capacity of crustaceans and mollusks to form shells.

Hijacked Environmental Movement, Amped Up Fear, Deindustrialization and Depopulation

While it is generally accepted that unbridled mass combustion of fossil fuels causes environmental and public health concerns, other underreported factors require consideration as well. However, the environmental movement has been hijacked, public fears are amped up, and all are hyper-focused on the carbon footprint of eight billion individuals. Since all life on Earth is carbon-based, this theory promotes not only deindustrialization but also depopulation.

Henry Kissinger linked overpopulation to U.S. national security in 1974 while he was President Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser through National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200). Once he became secretary of state, NSSM 200 became Washington’s covert policy on population matters. It is important to note that Henry Kissinger’s work has been supported by elite eugenicist families such as the Rockefellers, Fords, Turners and Gates.

Kissinger has been closely involved with the development of the World Economic Forum (WEF). A spokesperson for the WEF, Yuval Noah Harari is emboldened to say the quiet part out loud. He disdainfully refers to the working class, displaced by technological advances, as “useless people” and he recommends “drugs and computer games” to occupy this “worthless/meaningless” grouping.

CO2 Climate Change Narrative Deflects Energy Away from Environmental Stewardship

The media and government’s hyper-focus on CO2 emissions deflects attention away from geo-engineering, big industrial polluters, the military-industrial complex, nuclear detonations and power plant waste, rocket launches into space, depleted uranium in weaponry, worldwide bombing campaigns, the use of defoliants, pesticides, napalm, fracking, open-pit and strip mining methods, non-regenerative mono-crop and Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) agribusiness farming practices, and the destruction of the Amazon jungle.

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Further, climate change hype is being used to rationalize more detailed surveillance that accomplishes greater socioeconomic control over the public.

Need for Better Designs

It is important to note the failure of big industry and government to support the design of cost-efficient, effective, scalable, and renewable energy options. Instead, technological designs favor centralized and monopolistic control and military applications, such as those funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and In-Q-Tel (the CIA’s Silicon Valley venture capital entity), etc.

Without controversy, hydroelectric and geothermal technologies can be expanded in addition to solar energy. Discussions that Tesla’s Tower also produced wireless decentralized electricity are interesting but remain speculative.

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Alternate Influences on Localized Climate Change/Return to Environmental Protection

While reusing or avoiding plastic, recycling glass and metal, and turning off lights when not in use are still important, these measures are inconsequential compared to the fallout from bombs, industrial pollutants, nuclear explosions, and faulty nuclear reactors such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. Despite the opposition of nearby countries, Fukushima will again release its stored radioactive water into the ocean.

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Also contributing to localized climate change and vast deforestation is the use of mono-crop agriculture on an industrial scale in huge territories, including, most unfortunately, tropical rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia.  The destruction of these long-evolved ecosystems by cutting down thousands of square miles of forests and dislocating animal life is an environmental hazard.

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Researchers Claim Global Warming Distracts from Ecology and Promotes Neo-Liberal Agenda

As early as 1952, Murray Bookchin, an ecological revolutionary, warned about the problem of chemicals in food and the dangers to the environment and society by industrialization.

In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring which cataloged the horrors of chemical pollution on bird populations. Bookchin’s Our Synthetic Environment was published a few months earlier. Earth Day was started in 1970 and sought to draw attention to the problem of the environmental degradation of the planet and the need to enact safeguards.

Of particular concern is the genuine issue of our natural well-being. Environmental protection is necessary to keep water, air and land clear of toxic contamination, and to reserve natural space for the preservation of species.

These fundamental needs for ecological action are being undermined, according to skeptics who believe that the environmental movement was usurped in the 1990s and greenwashed, as shown here and here.

Several researchers, such as Peter Koenig, Dr. Claudia von Werlhof, and James Corbett, believe the environmental movement has been hyped by fear to advance a neo-liberal agenda and totalitarian objectives.

They look cynically at the “solutions” proposed by international organizations, ranging from the United Nations, World Health Organization (WHO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), to networking entities such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Bilderberg.

Further, “carbon-neutral” solutions greenwash corporate polluters and shift blame and responsibility onto individuals. They seek to restrict the movement of the working class through the required use of electric-powered smart technologies.

Biased Greta Thunberg

While Greta Thunberg’s commitment to environmental activism may be perceived as honorable, Western leaders have used her youthful and innocent, appealing image to advance policies designed to keep the Global South in check and to criticize Russia for ecological damage in Ukraine. Notably missing from Thunberg’s analysis is any criticism against the United States for prolonging its proxy war against Russia by supplying Ukraine with weapons that include depleted uranium and its hand in the massive ecological damage that was caused by blowing up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-came-to-love-climate-change/

RT

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claims the arms used to attack Israel may have come from Afghanistan or Ukraine.

Washington must work with Israel to investigate the origins of US-made weaponry used by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in its ongoing attack against the country, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday.

The congresswoman claimed that some of the weapons used by Hamas may have originated from Ukraine or Afghanistan, and these must be tracked to determine their source.

“We need to work with Israel to track serial numbers on any US weapons used by Hamas against Israel. Did they come from Afghanistan? Did they come from Ukraine? Highly likely the answer is both,” the congresswoman wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Thus far, no solid evidence has emerged to support these claims. However, at least one unverified video circulating online showed a Hamas militant “thanking” Ukrainians for weaponry while showcasing assorted US-made pieces, including a standard-issue M136 anti-tank grenade launcher.

The US has been pouring military aid into Ukraine for over a year and a half, propping up Kiev in its fight against Moscow. Ukraine has faced repeated allegations of misusing and selling off weaponry, with items ranging from firearms to mines and guided anti-tank missiles repeatedly surfacing for sale on the dark net.

In Afghanistan, the entire arsenal of its now-defunct army, created with the direct and years-long involvement of the Pentagon, fell into the hands of the Taliban after the Islamist group took over the country in August 2021.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/584370-greene-us-weaponry-probe/

A Liberal Senator believes there is another rally pro-Palestine rally planned in Sydney on Monday night. Picture: Supplied 

Adriana Mageros

Sky News Australia

The shadow home affairs minister has issued a firm warning to anyone planning to attend pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney that “very serious criminal penalties” can apply for associating with terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Hamas’ “horrific attack” on Israel was “unprovoked”. This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israel was at war following a surprise attack from Hamas. “This is a horrific attack – it’s unprovoked, it is certainly the targeting of people as a definition of a terror,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia.Liberal Senator James Paterson has issued a firm warning to Australians ahead of a pro-Palestine rally planned in Sydney on Monday night, following a mass incursion of Hamas militants on Israel.

More than 700 people have been killed and thousands injured after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday night, storming the country by land, sea and sky.

There are reports that more than 100 Israelis have been taken hostage by the terrorist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, as Israel continues its major counter offensive to regain control.

The attack on Israel has sparked a number of protests around the world, including a pro-Palestine rally at Sydney’s Lakemba Station on Sunday night.

It is understood another rally has been advertised on social media which is due to be held at Sydney Town Hall on Monday evening.

Speaking to Sky News Australia about the conflict in Israel, Mr Paterson shared an important message for any Australians planning to attend pro-Palestine protests in Sydney.

The Liberal Senator warned that both Hamas and Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, are listed in their entirety as terrorist organisations.

He cited the decision by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security last year, which made the recommendation to list both bodies in their entirety as terrorist groups.

Mr Paterson urged anyone attending pro-Palestine rallies to remember that it is a crime to associate with listed terrorist organisations.

“The important thing about that for Australians is, that the legal affect of that means, that it is now a crime under the Commonwealth Criminal Code to associate with a terrorist organisation and that includes all of Hamas and Hezbollah,” he told Sky News host Kieran Gilbert.

Sheikh Ibrahim Dadoun praised the attacks on Israel as a “day of victory” after a Palestinian rally was held in western Sydney on Sunday night.
Mr Paterson also flagged the parading of paraphernalia connected to terrorist groups.

“Now to be clear, it is unlikely to meet the legal threshold for prosecution for simply attending a rally or even holding a flag as offensive and stupid as that would be,” he continued.

“But, providing material assistance to either of these organisations, particularly in the terms of fundraising or recruitment or in fact incitement to violence could meet that threshold and it’s a very serious crime that attracts serious penalties.”

People in their hundreds converged on Sydney’s Lakemba Station on Sunday night for a pro-Palestine rally where demonstrators expressed their support of Hamas’ efforts.

Shocking footage from the event captured the crowd cheering and shouting in celebration of the violent attacks on Israel, with fireworks seen shooting out from a vehicle.

Among those supporters praising the Palestinian attacks was prominent Muslim Sheikh Ibrahim Dadoun who described it as a “day of victory”.

“I’m elated, it’s a day of courage, it’s a day of happiness, it’s a day of pride, it’s a day of victory. This is the day we’ve been waiting for,” he shouted at the rally.

Mr Paterson condemned the scenes at the protest on Sunday evening and the words of praise from Sheikh Dadoun.

“What’s particularly troubling about these comments… is that it was not in response to an Israeli retaliatory attack on Gaza that might have had some incidental or accidental civilian deaths,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia.

“This was just in response to those first images that we all saw of Hamas terrorists getting into Israel kidnapping men, women and children including the elderly, taking them back into Gaza and in many instances executing them and other instances abusing them, documenting it and putting it up on social media.

“These are unquestionably crimes against humanity and (to) have any Australian person celebrating that is an abhorrent thing.”

“That Imam should be ashamed of himself and those who went along and cheered him should be ashamed of themselves as well and people like that have no position, have no place in community leadership in this country at all.”

A Liberal Senator believes there is another rally pro-Palestine rally planned in Sydney on Monday night. Picture: Supplied

Also speaking about the issue on Sydney’s 2GB radio on Monday morning, Senator Paterson declared there was “absolutely nothing” that justifies the conflict in Israel.

“Whatever your views are on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Nothing justifies the targeting of innocent civilians in the way it was yesterday,” he told host Ray Hadley.

He again warned that providing material assistance to terrorist organisations, whether that be financial or recruitment, can attract “very serious criminal penalties”.

As stated on the the Attorney-General Department’s website, it is an offence to associate with a listed terrorist organisation.

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Via https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/senator-warns-of-very-serious-criminal-penalties-ahead-of-propalestine-protest-in-sydney-in-response-to-israel-conflict/news-story/62dc4887c2bde9fcbfc31817d6775713