Mehreen Faruqi
@MehreenFaruqi
Climate-induced floods have devastated Pakistan. Millions of people have been affected. The community has come together to provide support. Please donate if you can.

The Australian government must pay their fair share and increase aid to Pakistan.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MehreenFaruqi/status/1571005544365981703
Must pay, no less.




Mehreen Faruqi
@MehreenFaruqi
People who look like me have been told to go back to where they come from at one point or another. I’ve copped it more times than I can count, but the hurt & sorrow it causes never lessens.

When Parliament sits on the 26th Sept, the Greens will move to censure Pauline Hanson.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MehreenFaruqi/status/1570210241723379712

Stupid, mouthy git - what Hanson said had NOTHING to do with Faruqi's appearance but with what she stated.



Mehreen Faruqi
@MehreenFaruqi
Condolences to those who knew the Queen.

I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.

We are reminded of the urgency of Treaty with First Nations, justice & reparations for British colonies & becoming a republic.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MehreenFaruqi/status/1568054570169024514


Pace Said (and Faruqi, FTLWT, Livid Thorpe et al)  Cannadine claims it as 'a substantial, a significant and a neglected truth' that 'the British did regard the dark-skinned members of their empire as more admirable, more important and more noble than white men'. Since this is a top-down examination of the sources, paying special attention to the captains and the kings, not their batmen or valets, this claim is hard to verify, except by a repetition of the Englishman's fascination with the toys of empire.

Not all his evidence is unequivocal. Cannadine cites the story of King Kalakaua's visit to England in 1881 as evidence of an obsession with hierarchy. When the Hawaiian king, a friend of RL Stevenson's, attended a society do, the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) insisted on his guest's precedence over the future Kaiser Wilhelm II with the words: 'Either the brute is a king or he's a common-or-garden niqqer; and if the latter, what's he doing here?'

[Ornamentalism: How the British saw their Empire
David Cannadine]

chimera wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 4:26pm:


Top 10 riches Pakistsnis

Rank      Name      Net worth (USD)      As of      Source(s) of wealth      Ref(s)
1      Shahid Khan      $8.5 billion      2020      Jacksonville Jaguars, Fulham F.C., Flex-N-Gate, LLC, Toronto Four Seasons, All Elite Wrestling      [1]
2      Anwar Pervez      $4.6 billion      2020      Bestway Group, United Bank Limited      [1]
3      Mian Muhammad Mansha      $3.7 billion      2019      Nishat Group, Nishat hotels, Nishat Hyundai Motors Plant in Faisalabad, MCB Bank, DG Khan Cement, Owner of Emporium Mall, Adamjee Group, Nishat Chunian Group Textile mills      [2]
4      Sadruddin Hashwani      $3.4 billion      2020      Hashoo Group, PC Hotels and Marriot Hotels, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical      [1]
5      Asif Ali Zardari      $1.8 billion      2020      corruption, Extortion, land mafia and used his wife ;"|[3]

6      Malik Riaz      $1.5 billion      2020      Bahria Town      [1]
7      M. Habibullah Khan      $1.25 billion      2018      Hub Power Company, Pioneer Cement, Habib Dairy Company, DP Pakistan Terminal      [4]
8      Syed Nasir Hussain Schon      $1 billion      2020      Schön Properties      
9      Mohammad Zahoor      $1 billion      2015      ISTIL Group, Kyiv Post      [5][6]
10      Rafiq M. Habib      $950 million      2020      House of Habib      


About 30 billion. There are many others worth hundreds of millions.

Well, the average gross salary of a person working in Pakistan is $611/month or $7,330/year, while the average hourly rate is $3.52. After taxes, this figure comes down to about $222/month. Salaries differ between locations, professions, employer, and an employee’s qualifications.

There are 220 million Pakistanis in Pakistan, PLUS the expats like Faruqi, annual salary with electoral allowance AUD 250,000 p.a., about US$170,000. So she earns 23 times the average Pakistani salary in this racist colony.

You no like da Queen or da King - go live somewhere that doesn't recognise them...

It's no skin off our nose if you leave.....

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 6:54pm:



Have you ever come across anyone on your ward who took you seriously?
What was their diagnosis?

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 6:58pm:


Sooo... nobody, then.

Not surprised at all.

Frank wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 6:59pm:


Just because no one who would ever talk to you is intelligent, does not mean intelligent people do not exist lol

Honestly, all of society hates you.  The far right are a radical fringe that is despised by most people  The liberals were kicked out, the Republicans were kicked out.  The right won't ever win in the USA again, it remains to be seen if they can here.  Either way, you are fading away.  Only filthy elderly racists support the right wing, and a few mentally ill people.  Every election, more right wing voters die, and more left wing voters vote for the first time.  Accept your fate

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 7:01pm:


Successive governments, both Lab and Lib, have given you your "progressive" dream policies ... how come you don't go out and enjoy them instead of hanging around on message boards?

Every time you get banned, it seems you can't wait to get back in here ... can't you step out your door and get in your car and drive around the multicultural suburbs savouring the sweetness of We are One ... remove your shoes and tour through a mosque, why can't you do that? Volunteer to help a refugee family get settled, have you done that yet? You don't need message boards when you've got everything you desire from the government ... give it up and enjoy the utopian life the government has given you

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 17^th, 2022 at 6:54pm:


Wassa madda you, turkey?  I say LIKE the Queen... you wanna talk recognition - go for it.... you don' wanna recognise your government... hokay..... we put you on da boat to Nowhere.

You no like da Queen or da King - go live somewhere that doesn't recognise them... at this time Charles is the King of Australia.... duzzen mean much, but there it is...

Saw a bit of that interview with Ray Martin long ago.... where he said:-  "I'm not the boss!  It doesn't work that way!"

Maybe you need to get your head outcha arse....