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  1. Racism is tool of Plutocracy

    A racist pogrom in Belfast followed a violent crime by a person of colour against a white person. Same in Southampton last week. And all across England in August 2024. Each time, right-wing media and politicians have fanned the flames of hatred and sowed the seeds of violence. Yet they consistently ignore the far more common violent crimes that don't fit this pattern.

    This is a deliberate program of social division, aided by much of the billionaire-owned media in order to facilitate the transformation of UK politics via the age-old strategy of divide and conquer. It is also a case-study of an approach that helped drive the rise and return of Trump, and a strategy being employed in many contexts around the world.

    The Belfast protest/riot/pogrom was an actual 'hate march', yet those who have spent years decrying peaceful protest against genocide as hate marches have nothing to say.

    A wise man once said: by their fruit shall you know them.
    youtube.com/watch?v=mERePXFEUvk

    #racism #WhiteSupremacy #Media #MediaBias #UKpol #OwenJones #SocialCohesion #DivideAndConquer #plutocracy

  2. Insightful piece here seeing the community value of DunsPlayfest showing how it is so much more than it's tagline "Bringing brand new theatre to the Borders"

    #DunsPlayfest #Theatre #NewWriting #SocialCohesion #community

    staciereflects.com/2026/05/28/

  3. The new uncomfortable normality
    No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

    "For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
    nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-wor

    #PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

  4. The new uncomfortable normality
    No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

    "For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
    nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-wor

    #PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

  5. The new uncomfortable normality
    No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

    "For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
    nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-wor

    #PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

  6. The new uncomfortable normality
    No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

    "For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
    nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-wor

    #PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

  7. The new uncomfortable normality
    No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

    "For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
    nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-wor

    #PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

  8. Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

    "In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

    She delivered a powerful speech last November:

    "Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

    'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

    your celebrations are colourful, and

    your music is present to the ears.’"

    "But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
    theguardian.com/society/ng-int

    Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
    ministers.treasury.gov.au/mini

    #SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture