news that stuck in my head.
news that stuck in my head...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-06/violence-resumes-at-jerusalem-al-aqsa-mosque/102195294
Highlights include (My emphasis added):
In the second instance, late at night, police entered the compound and tried to evacuate worshippers, using stun grenades and firing rubber bullets..
"Evacuate" worshippers. Using stun grenades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Al-Aqsa compound ... is Islam's third-holiest site ... is also Judaism's most sacred site...
Far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for a harsh response.
"Hamas rockets require more than blasting dunes and empty sites. It's time to rip heads off in Gaza," he said in a tweet
... in preparation for his Wrestlemania showdown?
Seriously? Just wow.
This is just below that glorious moment in 2004?? where Israel assassinated a quadraplegic with helicopter gunships. Yes. Gunships. Two. Procedure i guess? Can't just send one on it's own.
Elsewhere...
Britain has announced plans to house around 500 asylum seekers on a barge, as the government seeks cost-cutting measures and deterrents for arrivals crossing the Channel.
This sounds vaguely familiar to me. Barges housing the dispossessed in the middle of the Thames.
Half an hour later...
Oh yes! The prison hulks where most of the first white australians came from. Cool. Yeah, that's retro as! Way to go, Rishi. Lean, right on in. My mother would hate him, but love this i'm sure.
Must sleep.