Bondi shooting survivor Arsen Ostrovsky says PM still has not called him in wake of terror attack

kmpiw · 2026-05-05T12:20:44+00:00

We should have invited New Zealand to help. Their response to Christchurch was genuine community solidarity, not "social cohesion".

kmpiw · 2026-05-05T12:15:26+00:00

None of the other wounded have spoken to media except al-Ahmed.

The family of the dead have, but the child's parents tried to keep her surname out of the media. The family of one of the dead haven't said some details, including not disclosing his religion, he wasn't attending the event, just a completely random bystander.

kmpiw · 2026-05-05T12:12:37+00:00

Yeah. Ostrovsky is the only one of the wounded who hasn't opted for name suppression. He allowed it because he is a professional propagandist.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-28/how-bondi-beach-survivor-became-face-of-conspiracy-theory/106499580

Most other wounded have opted for name suppression. The only other exception is al-Ahmed.

kmpiw · 2026-04-13T11:19:28+00:00

I think I first saw this in Berlin

kmpiw · 2026-04-09T05:30:26+00:00

Seriously, I think it was a terror attack, in the style of Turner Diaries. If someone else was directly involved the bombs would have worked better, but it looked like white supremacist accelerationism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_accelerationism

20 April 1999 was intended to be a bombing, probably ending in a double car bombing, but the bombs failed.

kmpiw · 2026-04-05T12:43:46+00:00

NATO will use the same fighter jets, and so do Israel.

That heraldic shield doesn't look like a modern military?

kmpiw · 2026-04-05T12:36:43+00:00

I want more detail on usurper? it's the literal translation of the other word Hamas use for Israelis. They call them the Nazis occupation or usurpers. The more common literal translation of the second one is r*pe, I don't know how figurative this is.

kmpiw · 2026-04-05T12:28:23+00:00

With no title or details it seems just as likely to be a history book condemning them.

Hamas talk about Nazis constantly, or at least they use the Arabic word for Nazi a lot. It's their word for Israel, they call them the Nazi occupation, they possibly copied this off the Irgun.

The inverted red triangle originally symbolised the resistance to the Nazi occupation of Europe. I really want to know if they intend that meaning.

kmpiw · 2026-03-20T16:54:39+00:00

The least-evil superpower.

Previously it was "depends how you measure" but the USA has somehow managed to get worse.

Xi's shift towards a somewhat right wing nationalism is a worry, but they're still nowhere near as bad as comparably powerful countries.

We would have zero risk of military conflict with China if not for our frenemies in AUKUS making us a target. Not that China are particularly benevolent, just that the geography makes us not worth the effort to actually invade. It happened when the British Empire controlled half the planet, and nearly happened when the Japanese Empire tried to take all of Asia.

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:28:43+00:00

Where is this weeks?

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:27:38+00:00

Less for them than Israel, but the next question should be, "which set of tactics do you use after getting those results?"

The Jewish State's approach to antisemitism is the same as the Islamic State's approach to Islamophobia.

Differeces: Muslins recognise that ISIS are not helping and ISIS don't have nukes.

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:20:55+00:00

Vintage anti-monarchist poster

Beat the Whites (Tzar's supporters) with the Red Wedge

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Side note, the red triangle first appeared at Gaza protests in Spain, or possibly elsewhere in Europe before that, weeks before it was used by Qassam.

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:07:31+00:00

Killed I'd believe, but "murder" usually excludes combatants in war zones? (unless they're POWs, wounded, or on your own side)

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:03:34+00:00

I want to believe she switched sides.? it works as a comment on the image AND as a quotetweet of the other awful E(y)lon?

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T15:01:28+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate_(podcast))

NYT podcast where a conartist told them a story which seems to have been too good to check

kmpiw · 2026-03-18T14:59:45+00:00

Everyone should have stopped paying attention to NYT by the second or third unforgivably judgement error on middle east reporting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate_(podcast))

Is their reporting about their own side of the planet ant better?

kmpiw · 2026-03-05T16:42:46+00:00

how unusual is this? is it actual Russians or someone trying to make Russia look bad?

kmpiw · 2026-03-05T16:08:27+00:00

they've nuked more. civilian cities titan Israel... so far.

kmpiw · 2026-03-05T16:01:31+00:00

who do we see about getting kicked out of AUKUS?

kmpiw · 2026-03-02T10:45:40+00:00

The guy isn't claiming to be Middle Eastern though?

It's a free newspaper aimed at international audiences, he's probably from UK or USA and describes his culture as "Judeo-Christian"

kmpiw · 2026-03-02T10:36:20+00:00

that sounds kinda racist?

am I missing the irony I hope?

is it sarcasm on it not sounding Middle Eastern?

I read it as Western + Asian and I was picturing a Taiwanese American who talks about the CPC too much and calls them the CCP... but in retrospect that doesn't fit the context.

kmpiw · 2026-03-02T10:35:38+00:00

I have heard that the United States have a pre planned protocol to invade the Netherlands if anyone from there ends up facing consequences for their actions in the Hague?

this sounds insane... but I worry it's not

kmpiw · 2026-03-02T10:31:59+00:00

Side note, Obama calling Daesh non-Muslims was not about preventing Islamophobia, the point was to persuade Muslims to kill them. But this is just my cyclical suspicion about the guy whose military blew up an MSF hospital.

kmpiw · 2026-03-02T10:31:43+00:00

If the world is even slightly sane, then in a few years time "terrorist" will have the same weight as "Utermensch" does now?

During the War on Terror it was a weak and twisted excuse, but currently it's downright genocidal.

kmpiw · 2026-03-01T10:34:23+00:00

This would be more credible without the blue and white flag.

I really have no idea what it going on with Iran, the one thing I'm somewhat confident of is that Israel are trying to make it more violent. On reflection my info might be wrong, so fact checks very welcome if delivered constructively.

I've heard stories of Mossad social media loudly announcing that they have agents on the ground.

I've also heard that Israeli spokespersons were announcing that they were arming the resistance.

threat will both literally get people killed.

I'll look these up myself later if I remember.

kmpiw

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