….. the ‘imperial boomerang effect’ is a term for the way in which empires use their colonies as laboratories for methods of counter-insurgency, social control and repression, methods which can then be brought back to the imperial metropolis and deployed against the marginalised, subjugated and subaltern within. With weak moral and legal restrictions, empires are gifted a free hand to test new technologies and social hierarchies on colonised populations. Once honed, the circulation of personnel and knowledge through the empire spreads these repressive methods across colonies – and back into the domestic heartland.
Not too unrelated to Winston Peters’ dog and broken window, which Peters has tried to whip into a pogrom against the Left. With his toxic attacks on the Green Party and Chloe Swarbrick in particular. And the restrictions on the right to protest currently working their way through parliament.
Transcript beginning @30:13 minutes: ….It’s not going to be the lack of pretext that will stop Netanyahu from finishing off the Palestinian question.
It is the global complicity, the sort of convenience of hiding behind pretexts and fancy words and whatever excuses that they’ve been throwing at us for the last two years…..
…….I try to keep telling people in Europe or in the US is, we as Palestinians, don’t look at us only as victims or as oppressed people. Look at us as canaries in a coal mine, screaming.
We’re screaming of a major warning of what’s about to come your way.
When you have a media [and] political class that’s relishing, delighting in the murder of our children, do you think they’re going to care about yours?
When you have all of those tools that have been experimented on us throughout the genocide for two years, population crowd control, starvation, testing the limits.
Like Gaza was turned into the most major experimental zone in human history, testing how much does it take for people to rise up, how much can they take before they get angry, how much can they take before the media is focusing on them.
And all of those experiments, all of those weapons, the drones, the surveillance system, the like.
There’s been a lot of talk for years about China’s credit scoring system. And it was seen as an End of Times, dystopia kind of thing, that China would create its own God that surveills every human being and sees what is their mathematical score in terms of good doing or bad doing. Israel implemented this in Gaza with lethal consequences. They had this artificial intelligence system called Gospel that would scope everything that you’ve ever done on the internet, public information. They would scope all of this, and private information that Israel monitors by virtue of being the provider of the internet to Palestinians in Gaza. And they would give all of this giant data to an AI to analyze without any human element in it, and give each single person in Gaza a score. The score, let’s say from one to 100. If your score is above a certain level, then it’s okay to murder you.
Do you think that it’s not going to come your way?
And that is basically the way the message that should be hammered over and over and over again moving forward, about everything that’s been done to us.
You now have Larry Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is the largest donor, the largest single donor to the IDF.
They would hold all these fundraisers in the US for the IDF, throughout its wars and assaults or genocide in Gaza. And Larry Ellison would usually be the largest individualdonor to the IDF. At Oracle, he’s a billionaire, second richest man in the world. And at Oracle, he literally told his staff, or his people told het staff, ‘if you are not loving Israel enough, you need to seek psychological help. You need to seek a psychiatric intervention.’
And that guy is now about to buy CNN with the entire universe that comes with it. The Warner Brother universe.
He already bought Paramount, CBS, and now he’s putting Barry Weiss in charge.
When that person that’s so delighted about Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza, is buying most of the media, the mainstream media in the US. and becoming in charge also of Tik Tok, and becoming in charge of what Americans see and hear. Do you think that person will be kinder to you than he was to us?
The imperial boomerang
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/4383-the-imperial-boomerang-how-colonial-methods-of-repression-migrate-back-to-the-metropolis?
….. the ‘imperial boomerang effect’ is a term for the way in which empires use their colonies as laboratories for methods of counter-insurgency, social control and repression, methods which can then be brought back to the imperial metropolis and deployed against the marginalised, subjugated and subaltern within. With weak moral and legal restrictions, empires are gifted a free hand to test new technologies and social hierarchies on colonised populations. Once honed, the circulation of personnel and knowledge through the empire spreads these repressive methods across colonies – and back into the domestic heartland.
Not too unrelated to Winston Peters’ dog and broken window, which Peters has tried to whip into a pogrom against the Left. With his toxic attacks on the Green Party and Chloe Swarbrick in particular. And the restrictions on the right to protest currently working their way through parliament.
From Youtube:
Is Gaza Genocide FINALLY OVER? – A Masterclass From Palestinian Analyst Muhammad Shehada
Owen Jones
801K subscribers
39,098 views Oct 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1vGQ2HHj3w&t=1994s
Transcript beginning @30:13 minutes:
….It’s not going to be the lack of pretext that will stop Netanyahu from finishing off the Palestinian question.
It is the global complicity, the sort of convenience of hiding behind pretexts and fancy words and whatever excuses that they’ve been throwing at us for the last two years…..
…….I try to keep telling people in Europe or in the US is, we as Palestinians, don’t look at us only as victims or as oppressed people. Look at us as canaries in a coal mine, screaming.
We’re screaming of a major warning of what’s about to come your way.
When you have a media [and] political class that’s relishing, delighting in the murder of our children, do you think they’re going to care about yours?
When you have all of those tools that have been experimented on us throughout the genocide for two years, population crowd control, starvation, testing the limits.
Like Gaza was turned into the most major experimental zone in human history, testing how much does it take for people to rise up, how much can they take before they get angry, how much can they take before the media is focusing on them.
And all of those experiments, all of those weapons, the drones, the surveillance system, the like.
There’s been a lot of talk for years about China’s credit scoring system. And it was seen as an End of Times, dystopia kind of thing, that China would create its own God that surveills every human being and sees what is their mathematical score in terms of good doing or bad doing. Israel implemented this in Gaza with lethal consequences. They had this artificial intelligence system called Gospel that would scope everything that you’ve ever done on the internet, public information. They would scope all of this, and private information that Israel monitors by virtue of being the provider of the internet to Palestinians in Gaza. And they would give all of this giant data to an AI to analyze without any human element in it, and give each single person in Gaza a score. The score, let’s say from one to 100. If your score is above a certain level, then it’s okay to murder you.
Do you think that it’s not going to come your way?
And that is basically the way the message that should be hammered over and over and over again moving forward, about everything that’s been done to us.
You now have Larry Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is the largest donor, the largest single donor to the IDF.
They would hold all these fundraisers in the US for the IDF, throughout its wars and assaults or genocide in Gaza. And Larry Ellison would usually be the largest individualdonor to the IDF. At Oracle, he’s a billionaire, second richest man in the world. And at Oracle, he literally told his staff, or his people told het staff, ‘if you are not loving Israel enough, you need to seek psychological help. You need to seek a psychiatric intervention.’
And that guy is now about to buy CNN with the entire universe that comes with it. The Warner Brother universe.
He already bought Paramount, CBS, and now he’s putting Barry Weiss in charge.
When that person that’s so delighted about Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza, is buying most of the media, the mainstream media in the US. and becoming in charge also of Tik Tok, and becoming in charge of what Americans see and hear. Do you think that person will be kinder to you than he was to us?
ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
“The far right through a bomb at my house and sadly it’s the inescapable truth”
THREW a fucking bomb
“I’m laughing behind this colour-covering because, if I don’t, too many Peters will accuse me of hysteria.”