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Muslims Should Not Trust Australian Courts!

Muslims Should Not Trust Australian Courts!

This week two Australian hospital nurses, Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir, will begin the process of becoming convicted criminals because of what they said – “hate speech” — only because they are Muslims! If Jewish nurses said similar things they would be given a free pass and even lauded by a Murdoch media that Russia’s Putin would admire!

In February 2025 the nurses, who worked at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, made emotional and exaggerated comments about murdering Jewish patients under their care and sending them to hell in a private – and I emphasis private — video conversation after being goaded by Israeli online provocateur named Max Veifer who was looking for Muslim targets that he could boost his profile on social media. The nurses are charged with a number of offences including threatening violence to a group and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

These convictions will occur because the courts will feel pressured to punish Muslims — particularly after the Bondi shootings in which many Jewish people were killed!

At the same time police took no action against Murdoch owned newspaper, “The Telegraph”, which sent journalist Danielle Gusmaroli to the Cairo Takeaway in Sydney’s Newtown suburb in an attempt to create a physical confrontation involving a “Jewish” man and Muslims.

Several years ago, similar media obsessions led to Cardinal George Pell being convicted in several lower courts of child sex offences which were later overturned in the High Court by a seven to zero decision. Some of the accusations against Pell were almost impossible, but a “secret” accuser was accepted by the Victorian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. According to some claims, Cardinal Pell’s accuser may have received money from Pell opponents in the Vatican, a typical Putin Russia trick – yet the Australian courts do not want to know about such secrets!

Things might not go so well for the two Muslim nurses if they appeal to the Australin High Court! Jayne Jagot, a virtue signaling High Court Judge, gave the 2023 “Sir Zelman Cowen Lecture entitled “Trying to understand antisemitism today”. Jagot’s main talent seems to have been passing exams and winning various prizes rather than any particular qualities as a person. Acording to Wikipedia, “at her Federal Court swearing-in ceremony, it was remarked that during her time at university, “she appears to have won every available prize in law”. None of these law prizes had anything to do with people psychology. All were about administrative law. And her career followed the same path. She is the sort of word processing mind that can be replaced by AI spewing out discovered word combinations!

Now, in early 2026, Phillip Boulten SC, a criminal barrister, is only being allowed elevation to the New South Wales Supreme Court because the Chief Justice Andrew Bell has promised that Boulton will not deal with cases if Israeli aligned Jewish organizations and individuals object.

Why ICE agents continue shooting & shooting!

Why ICE agents continue shooting & shooting!

Why did ICE agents continue shooting at Alex Pretti and Renee Good after it was clear that they were not threats?

At least part of the reason is that they enjoyed shooting at a human being!

5.10.1941 “There’s still something else I have to tell you. I was in fact also present at the enormous mass killings the day before yesterday. For the first truckload my hand trembled slightly when shooting, but one gets used to it. By the time the tenth truck arrived I was already aiming steadily and fired surely at the many women, children and infants. Bear in mind that I also have two babies at home, to whom these hordes would do the same, if not ten times worse. The death we gave them was a nice, short death, compared to the hellish torture meted out to thousands upon thousands in the dungeons of the GPU. Infants flew in a wide arch through the air and we blew them away while still in flight, before they then fell into the pit and the water. Let’s get rid of this brood which has plunged the whole of Europe into war and is still mongering in America until it drags them into the war as well. Hitler’s words are coming true, what he once said before the war began: if Jewry believes to be able to incite a war in Europe again, it won’t be the Jews who’ll triumph, but it will herald the end of Jewry in Europe. […] M.[ogilev] has now lost a number with 3 zeroes, but that’s of no consequence here. I’m already looking forward to it, and many here are saying that when we return home, then it’s the turn of our local Jews.

Letters sent by the police secretary Walter Mattner, an administrative officer for the SS and Police Garrison Commander at Mogilev, to his wife (excerpts), 22 September 1941 – 19 April 1942
From: https://lnkd.in/gd4wgSgf

EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies https://lnkd.in/gXP4Syt7

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Appointment of Greg Moriarty as Ambassador to the USA will damage Australia’s national security.

Appointment of Greg Moriarty as Ambassador to the USA will damage Australia's national security.

Appointment of Greg Moriarty as next Australian Ambassador to the USA, to replace Kevin Rudd, will damage Australia’s national security.

Prime Minister Albanese said: “He’s been secretary of the Department of Defence and the AUKUS deal is central to our relationship with the US. And he’s in a very strong position to be on top of all of that detail.”

Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of “The Australian”, is a very strong supporter of the Australia-US alliance, but on 9 December he wrote about the reality of AUKUS under the heading, “AUK-ward truth: the sinking feeling behind our subs pact”:

“AUKUS is adrift, and even if everyone on the planet says ‘full steam ahead’, it doesn’t change the underlying realities.” “The US companies involved have been stubbornly unable to meaningfully lift the rate of production of nuclear-powered submarines. By 2032, when Australia is scheduled to get its first Virginia-class submarine, the US will be gravely short of such boats.” “Elbridge Colby, the Under Secretary for Policy at the Pentagon, is inclined to face that reality now and talk about it clearly. But doing that explodes the happy fantasies of AUKUS, which for now suit all the players. So Colby was overruled in the report he could write.”

In Britain, the third member of AUKUS, Rear Admiral Philip Mathias, who was at one time head of ­nuclear policy at the Ministry of Defence, has said the UK was no longer capable of running a fleet of nuclear submarines. The latest British nuclear sub to enter service, HMS Agamemnon, took a catastrophic 13 years to build. Admiral Mathias said: “The SSN-AUKUS is a submarine which is not going to deliver what the UK or Australia needs in terms of capability or timescale.” (Mathias has actually called for the UK to pull out of the AUKUS deal.)

Sheridan added: “It’s also virtually inconceivable that the Brits will actually be building nuclear subs with Australia in Adelaide in the 2040s” and “nothing much is happening in Pillar Two of AUKUS – defence technology co-operation.” “Given how irrelevant we’ve become, the Americans are willing to continue to accept our money with good grace. That’s the summit of Albanese defence achievement so far.”

Albanese said that Kevin Rudd “can look back with real pride on taking AUKUS from an idea in to a reality”. I do not know if Rudd is a true believer in AUKUS or just a dutiful public servant, but Moriarty appears to be a religious true believer! Albanese, on the other hand, is little more than an idiot!

Read more on AUKUS here:
https://www.jeffschubert.com/foreign-affairs-magazine-on-aukus/

Trump will Not give up Power – A Scenario!

Trump will Not give up Power – A Scenario!

I have written much about historical dictators – and their rise to power — and lived for many years in Russia under Putin. In my view, Trump will increasingly reject limits of his power by any decisions of the Supreme Court, Congress, or election results!

While there may be more instances of this in coming months the biggest test may be the November mid-term Congressional elections. If they go badly for Trump he may use his physical control of Washington DC to prevent Congress meeting – probably by use of the Insurrection Act combined with claims of a foreign threat to the USA.

He would also use ICE! Words and actions of Trump and his officials following the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis suggest the shooter will not be prosecuted and ICE agents – who are likely to be strong supporters of Trump – will become more loyal to him and willing to be his enforcers.

The alternative would be for Trump to wait for likely impeachment, but he – like historical dictators in my book — and Putin tend to act proactively. Moreover, people around Trump will be urging him to do this while he has the chance.

Some will argue that this scenario is unlikely because traditional US lawful institutions would eventually exert themselves. But Trump, more than Putin or any historical dictator in my book, increasingly lives for the moment of his personal vanity and longer-term details are often not part of his thinking. He will just believe that because he has ploughed through many difficult situations in the past things will turn out OK!

Louis Bourreinne, Napoleon’s first secretary, later wrote about such accumulation of power: “Without any shock, and in the short space of four years, there arose above the ruins of the short-lived Republic a Government more absolute than ever was Louis XIV’s. (While) this extraordinary change is to be assigned to many causes. I had the opportunity of observing the influence which the determined will of one man exercised over his fellow men.”

Trump seems to have the same effect on much of the USA population as Napoleon’s Minister of Navy, Denis Decres, recalled: Napoleon “enslaved us all” because “he held our imagination in his hand, sometimes a hand of steel, sometimes a hand of velvet; one never knew how it was going to be from day to day, so that there was no means of escaping.”

This video presentation and text considers the way many dictators obtain and keep power. The are two main factors: good use of PR to convince many people that they are necessary for the future of their country; and the elimination of alternative sources of power — be it individuals, groups or institutions. This is what Trump is attempting to do.

https://www.jeffschubert.com/video-and-text-comparing-putins-rise-and-consolidation-of-power-to-other-historical-dictators/

 

Cognitive blind spots

Cognitive Blind Spots

Gillian Tett wrote in Financial Times (2 January 2026) that the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) has published a manual about “cognitive blind spots” which says: “Many people have little to no knowledge of how human thinking works”.

Here I use several Tett examples to consider Trump’s cognitive blind spots in foreign policy.

Group think (“adhering to the cosy assumptions of our tribe”)

Trump has now surrounded himself with enthusiastic “yes” officials who compete in their shows of devotion. This makes group-think inevitable. Trump supporters would argue that everyone is focussed on the same goals and thus make success more likely. However, group think can lead to major mistakes (such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003).

Anchoring (“relying exclusively on whatever information we see first, say on social media”)

Trump is notorious for changing his public utterances on issues, but it is unclear to what degree his basic view – which he will mostly come back to – is determined by what information he first heard or saw.

Confirmation bias: (“only seeing data that reinforces pre-existing views”)

Trump will always seek information that reinforces his existing views irrespective of whether they are a result of “anchoring”. We see this in his dealings with Vladimir Putin which reflects his view of a special relationship with certain strong personalities.

Mirror imaging (“assuming others think like us”)

Trump assumes that leaders of other countries are driven mainly by money and personal vanity. Trump seems incapable of understanding things like nationalism even as he claims that he is working to make the USA “great” again mainly based on financial and business aspects of tariffs. Trump’s personal vanity, rather than any understanding of defence technology and its capabilities, is the driving the idea of a “Trump-class battleship” and “Golden Dome” missile defence system.

Absence of evidence (“failing to think about the data we lack”)

In a narrow business sense in a specific industry, such as real-estate, this may not be a major disadvantage, but in international relations it is a recipe for disaster. Trump’s claim that the US would “run” the government of Venezuela after the overthrow of Nicolas Maduro reflected an absence of knowledge of the complexities of such a task.

Survivor bias: (“judging data only with success stories, not failures”)

Trump has had many notable successes as president, including reduced fighting in a number of places like Gaza, bombing of Iran, and the capture of Maduro. These successes are not the result of intrinsic Trump talents but are the result of existing US financial and military power. Trump mostly defines success in PR terms and the risk is that he will increasingly see himself as a genius in foreign policy — and will disregard more cautious voices!

My report, “Trump Psychology and Capability compared to Famous Dictators”, can be read here:

https://www.jeffschubert.com/trump-as-ceo-compared-to-famous-dictators/