John Pilger on Obama, Australia, Palestine, the media - Melbourne 2009 (Part 2 of 6)

Part 2: John Pilger answers questions during a talk in Melbourne in April 2009. Subjects include:
Aboriginal Australia, the Northern Territory Intervention, Barack Obama, Israel/Palestine, Journalism and the Media, the Internet, the Financial Crisis and more...

Many thanks to SocialistAlternative who organised the event and provided a platform for Pilger as well as Barbara Shaw to speak. We will be uploading excerpts from Barbara Shaw's talk asap - stay tuned!

Venue: University of Melbourne, 09 April, 2009
Filmed & edited by: Sheryl, Felipe & Daniel - PlugInTV (www.plugintv.net)

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[Inconvenientruths]

@casting4325 Mate this takes the cake, I worked in the Aboriginal Industry for years and it was heartening to see the intervention., yes its upsetting becuase the grog is now harder to get.

I saw the results of sexual and physical abuse of the Aboriginal children on a wholesale scale.

John Pilger and the Do Gooders just want to be seen as nice, this and all the apology stuff just makes Aboriginals feel like victims when so few of the kids the government tried to save are still alive anyway.

[Inconvenientruths]

The tragedy here is that educated idiots, do-gooders, druggos etc like do this poor sad Aboriginal thing. I worked in the Aboriginal Industry and in all but one community the nepotism/ fraud was shocking where atmore than 1/2 of the money evaporated.

Aboriginal "Councils" just look after thier own groups

At Bentinck Island the locals used to fly backwards and forwards on " funeral flights"to see friends and do shopping.

People should not mouth off until they have lived in the industry.

[72Yonatan]

@trollfinger

So-called "Palestinians" are Arabs from various places outside of Israel, who mostly came here from Syria, from Iraq, from Lebanon, from Egypt, etc. The British encouraged them to come and turned their heads the other way, in order to defeat the attempts of Jews to reclaim their homeland. Muslims are the usurpers and occupiers of a land which is not their inheritance. And the western nations (Edom) use them to make life miserable for Jews. The game will be up soon, don't worry.

[webaroos]

@72Yonatan Typical jew liar, this is what jews use as a retort, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian" there is no such thing as a true jew from the ME, most are from Europe, Poland, Russia & the US and they have never been nor their ancestors in the ME yet they steal land from the rightful owners with blasphemous lies. 1900 90% of the population of Palestine were Palestinians, 1915 the Australian AIF saved the Palestinians from the Turks.

[trollfinger]

@flyhead2

Yeah, you're right. I think it must be a slip of memory. I mean if he changed numbers in the data you could say he was "lying" but there's nothing to gain from changing "blan d" to "plan b"...It's just wrong.

[trollfinger]

@72Yonatan

I think every Palestinian may argue with you about that one... Americans have no history, would it be ok for millions of refugees to go and take that land ?

[72Yonatan]

"Palestinians" do not have any history; they are a fictional people who are really Arabs, not a "nationality" per se.

On the other hand, Australian aboriginals are a distinct ethnicity. The history of how Australians have dealt with the original native Australians is pathetic. But trying to compare the situation of Israel with the European colonials is mismatched and morally bankrupt. The Left is morally bankrupt, and John Pilger leads his comrades in false propaganda against Israel.

[blowflybasher]

again google censored truth by pulling comment. in my last comment "the quandry is "what is an aboriginie" Both sides use that confusion to advance their strategies.. The idealisation of aboriginies, as though they were moral and great guardians of the land has created massive problems and both sides have an interest in maintaining the disfunction. In the meantime aboriginie children are raised in hatred and frustration whilst propellor heads waffle. Resolution requires confrontation with truth

[blowflybasher]

Aboriginies are used as political point scorers and distractions.The quandry is an, initiated and funded by a criminal banker and Murder Inc's jewish overlord was created as it is now by the Reich. Together they resolved the "Jewish question" and colluded militarily,that's a fact.Israel has a history of sociopathic behaviour and assassination world wide, funded by USA by over $400 billion. USA, supplies the weapons of mass destruction. Trotsky Lenin and Stalin were also atheist zionists. voila

[mixmatt]

Great Speech.