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Ep 103: New Year, New Horrors: America Israelified, Sam Harris’ Woke Derangement Syndrome & an Adelaide Literary Festival.

Join me for a quick chat about some recent stories in our increasingly fascist world. The erosion of International law, ICE murdering its own citizens, the Western world’s silence, double standards and complicity, Sam Harris’ Woke Derangement Syndrome ….and the removal of an Australian-Palestinian author from a writers festival.


If you enjoy the show pls consider supporting via patreon.com/nicemangos


Links:


Jonathan Ross ICE pov video https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mbz5bf7vbk2t

ICE agents deliberately prevented medical care https://bsky.app/profile/nxthompson.bsky.social/post/3mbucrrt3k523

Ross was a firearms trainer: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-agent-jonathan-ross-renee-good-shooting-firearms-trainer-testimony/

Sam Harris’ recent Wokeness episode https://bsky.app/profile/nicemangos.bsky.social/post/3mbxf2njnds25

Amy Wax is racist/white supremacist https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-penn-law-professor-wants-to-make-america-white-again

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/us-law-professor-racist-comments-amy-wax-condemned

Australian antisemitism envoy’s ties to the far right https://apan.org.au/media_release/segals-family-ties-to-far-right-group/

Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/adelaide-writers-week-in-disarray-as-38-writers-boycott-over-boards-censorship-of-randa-abdel-fattah-2836629/

Some New Year’s thoughts for Patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/147587161

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