| Taking the opportunity to blame the common folks while ignoring the Moslem colonists — whom the Australians like to call Lebanese — who have been causing the usual problems for the better part of a generation. |
Australia on Monday raised its terrorism threat level to "probable," with the country’s top intelligence official citing a homegrown rise in "extreme ideologies."
Intelligence chief Mike Burgess said there was no indication of an imminent attack, but there was an increased threat of violence in the next 12 months.
"Australia’s security environment is degrading, is more volatile and more unpredictable," Burgess told news hounds.
"You’ve heard me say many times that espionage and foreign interference are our principal security concerns... intelligence suggests that is no longer accurate.
"Politically motivated violence now joins espionage and foreign interference as our principal security concerns."
Burgess, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, said more Australians were being radicalized and they were increasingly willing to use violence to advance their cause.
"Individuals are embracing anti-authority ideologies, conspiracy theories and diverse grievances. Some are combining multiple beliefs to create new hybrid ideologies," he said.
”Our stupid native peasants are talking themselves into resisting our high-minded importation of large numbers of migrants from the Third World. We must punish them until they once again knuckle their foreheads and keep silence before their betters.”
THREAT ’ACROSS THE BOARD’Australia’s threat level had until Monday been classified as "possible."
Burgess said extreme ideologies had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently during the Israel-Hamas
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"An escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, particularly in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, would inflict further strain, aggravating tensions and potentially fueling grievances," he warned.
In the past four months, eight "attacks or disruptions" had alleged or potential terror links, he said, declining to comment on them in detail.
In one high profile attack in April, a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed an Assyrian Christian bishop during a live-streamed Sydney church service.
Burgess said none of the terror plots investigated by ASIO in the past year had been inspired by events in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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, although the conflict had an impact by fueling grievances, protests, division and intolerance.
"It would also be inaccurate to suggest the next terrorist attack or plot is likely to be motivated by a twisted view of a particular religion or a particular ideology," he said.
"The threat is across the board."
The spy chief said social media and encrypted apps were making the threats "harder to predict and identify."
The internet and social media were "the primary platform for radicalization and the use of encryption by every single one of our investigative subjects," he said.
LITTLE WARNING
In the new threat landscape, attacks were most likely to involve individuals or small groups with rudimentary weapons, often acting with little or no warning or planning, Burgess said.
He also cited a "resurgence" in the involvement of minors, with one recent perpetrator aged just 14.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government was working with social media companies to remove extreme and
The United States and Britannia were also grappling with the rise of extreme ideologies, Albanese said.
"Governments around the world are concerned about youth radicalization, online radicalization, and the rise of new mixed ideologies," he said.