Sunday 15 June 2025
“Today, what stuns the world isn’t the thunder of Israel’s precision strikes, it’s the cheers rising from within Iran, not from palaces of power but from the prisons, kitchens, and graveyards of its victims. The same Islamist regime that once forced silence now watches its own people applaud the fall of their oppressors.”
“…And yet, in London and New York, the left mourns. Not for the victims. But for the butchers. That’s how you know they don’t understand the Middle East and never did.”
“Iranian women are celebrating because the regime that flogged them, raped them, killed their sons, and erased their names is finally being held to account. This is the same regime that spilled 2 million lives in Iraq, starved Yemen, launched chemical hell on Syrians and armed Hamas to carry out the massacre of October 7th.”
“Look closely. Iran’s missiles don’t aim for soldiers. They aim for civilians. Homes. Hospitals. Schools. Israel, on the other hand strikes the architects of death, precisely and surgically. Israel values its people more than its weapons. Iran values weapons more than its people.”
So, obviously these words have come from an Israeli or at least Jew, right?
Wrong.
These are excerpts from the writings of Amjad Taha, an Arab Muslim. He has been described as a political strategist and analyst from the UAE and a luminary in the realm of global politics. His expertise, honed through rigorous research and advisory roles, has shaped and fostered understanding across diverse cultural and political landscapes.
Penny Wong, Australia’s Foreign Minister might like to take note.
In your dreams.
Monday 16 June 2025
If you look hard enough you will find a lengthy, detailed in-depth piece by senior fellow of the Australian Menzies Research Centre, Nick Cater, timed at 5:00 am today titled “Liberals need to deliver tough love policy on welfare reform as Australians grapple with recent rise in food insecurity”. It contains an analysis of the welfare system and the misguided attempts by governments, particularly in Australia to deal with it.
I will just highlight a few key issues.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke lived to regret the moment he went off-script at Labor’s 1987 campaign launch and declared that no Australian child would live in poverty by 1990 — it is a mathematically impossible goal if we insist on pegging poverty to median incomes.
Poverty is not merely an absence of money, as the Centre for Social Justice recognised in its groundbreaking 2007 report, “Breakthrough Britain”.
The report’s conclusion cannot be cured by doling out money.
Instead, policymakers should focus on the pathways to poverty, of which the report highlights six: family breakdown, educational failure, worklessness, addictions, problem debt and insecure housing.
Bob Hawke at least acknowledged that the goal of welfare policy should be to reduce poverty, not merely to serve it by handing out cash
The true measure of a fair society is not how much money is distributed but whether it is effective
Former Labor opposition leader, Mark Latham was one of the few Labor leaders to acknowledge that the best form of welfare is a job.
In the 2021-22 financial year, Australia spent $212.4 billion on welfare ($186.2 billion by the federal government, the balance by the states and territories).
Notice any positive changes in society as a result?
No, me neither.
Tuesday 17 June 2025
I mentioned Amjad Taha in my note of Sunday. Here’s a few excerpts from this Muslim Arab today while the world, including Australia’s shameful Labor government, castigates Israel for having the temerity to single-handedly strangle Iran’s progress to atomic weapons:
“Congratulations, Israel. You stood alone…you have proven once again: the Jewish spirit does not break, it builds.”
“And as the Book of Psalms declares: ‘The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy…but their sword shall pierce their own heart’ — Psalm 37:14-15.’”
“This is not just Israel’s battle. It is the world’s reckoning with a regime that sanctified terror and weaponised faith…As it is written in the Torah: ‘When you go out to battle against your enemies…do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you’. (Deuteronomy 20:1).”
“Congratulations. Today, the Middle East, including the brave and silenced people of Iran, celebrates and stands firmly with Israel as it strikes the heart of the Islamic regime’s nuclear ambitions and long-range missile arsenals. This regime has not only targeted Tel Aviv. It has bled Yemen, poisoned Syria, bullied Iraq, and bombed its own people. It turned the name of Islam into threat and diplomacy into blackmail. It traded prayers for payloads.”
Amen to that.
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Israel has confirmed that its conflict with the despotic Iranian regime will not end until that country’s underground uranium enrichment facility is damaged.
The plant is said to be at Fordow, almost 100 metres underground and guarded in the mountains north-east of the city of Qom. That makes it impenetrable by conventional aircraft.
It is the world’s worst kept secret that Iran is extremely close to a nuclear bomb which is why Israel, whose existence depends on a non-nuclear Iran, attacked its facilities and senior military leaders in the first place. The precision and restraint shown by Israel’s military has been remarkable and can only be held in awe by our own military leaders and those of many other countries who are more concerned with the proper use of pronouns and diversity in its ranks than keeping us defended from tyranny.
There is an aircraft, though, that can deliver payloads that could penetrate this facility. It is the U.S. Stealth bomber armed with bunker busting bombs.
U.S. president, Donald Trump has, overnight suggested that the Iranian regime is on the brink of being overthrown, that the U.S. knows the location of Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and that Iran has lost control of its airspace. He has called for its unconditional surrender, which is unlikely to come.
One can only hope that this time, the president will be true to his word, that the Stealth bomber will be let loose, that the head of the snake will be taken out and that the people of Iran will be free again. And, of course, that Israel can continue its existence.
We live in hope.
Thursday 19 June 2025
British retired colonel, Richard Kemp has spent most of his life fighting terrorism and insurgency, commanding British troops on the front line of some of the world’s toughest hot spots, including Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans and Northern Ireland. He is now a writer, a prolific journalist, media commentator and motivational speaker and provides strategic consultancy services on leadership, security, intelligence, counter-terrorism and defence.
Wearing his journalist hat, when he reports on conflicts, he is there, on the ground, in the thick of it.
Yesterday found him in Gaza. Overnight he posted a number of photos and videos on Instagram. They showed hundreds or even thousands of happy, well-fed Gazans who had just received food handed out by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The accompanying note read: “Visiting Gaza Humanitarian Foundation inside Gaza today. A huge number of happy Gazans. Many said, ‘I love America’ and ‘I love Trump’. Even more said, ‘Kill Hamas’ and ‘Hamas Go’, both of the latter raising cheers.
No sign of genocide here. But don’t tell the world’s media. It wouldn’t fit their narrative.
Friday 20 June 2025
Since Israel was forced to take out leading Iranian military leaders and uranium enrichment plants in precision strikes that other countries’ military can only marvel at, never targeting civilians, Iran has rained down on Israel thousands of ballistic missiles all aimed at civilians and not military targets.
Now they have struck a hospital, Soroka Hospital, a civilian hospital and the largest in southern Israel. This is a hospital that treats everyone: Jews, Arabs, Israelis, Palestinians, even Hamas terrorists. It is not a military base, there are no tunnels or military installations under it.
Iran used a 400kg warhead, packed with cluster munitions, a banned weapon and a war crime.
In targeting this hospital, years of innovation and research that would have benefited not only Israel but its neighbours and indeed, the world have been destroyed.
This says all you need to know about this conflict.
Whose side are you on?
Saturday 21 June 2025
In its relentless march towards higher taxes and spending on rubbish — like “renewables” — the Australian federal Labor government is now toying with the idea of taxing family trusts.
Positive Economics Advisory’s David Williams-Chen is reported as saying that imposing a flat rate on family trusts could be a “net negative” for the economy. Many Australian families and businesses use trusts to protect their assets and split income between beneficiaries to reap the benefits of lower tax rates.
As Williams-Chen points out, if a flat rate of 30% were applied, as is mooted by Labor, Australians would find a way to avoid it.
Since coming to power four years ago, Labor has done everything in its power to trash the Australian economy.
But of course they can.
They’ve got a “mandate”.
Thanks, Sharmayne. Yes, they won't give up until we're a third world country.
A very informative read. Next week's should be very interesting.
A govt seems to be going out of their way to send most people below the poverty line.