Commonwealth Bank posts $5billion cash profit after closing down more than 350 branches in the past five years

$5billion profit short of market expectations

Inflation and cost of living pressures blamed

The Commonwealth Bank has announced a cash profit of $5billion after closing 354 branches and removing 2,297 ATMs in just five years.

The half-year result for Australia's biggest home lender disappointed financial markets, with CBA warning higher interest rates were likely to see more borrowers struggle to repay their mortgage in 2024.

The net cash profit of $5.019billion, covering July to December 2023, was three per cent weaker compared with the same, six-month period in 2022, and included the Reserve Bank in November raising interest rates for the 13th time in 18 months.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13080141/Commonwealth-Bank-posts-5billion-cash-profit-closing-350-branches-past-five-years.html

Terrorist ‘sexually assaulted hostage at gunpoint’: Freed captive recounts testimony

Fresh account by Agam Goldstein-Almog excerpted from forthcoming documentary by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg on sexual violence perpetrated by terror group

Released hostage Agam Goldstein-Almog described a harrowing case of sexual violence suffered by another hostage in Hamas captivity in a clip released Tuesday from an in-production documentary fronted by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Goldstein-Almog, 17, said she was sitting with the hostage one evening while they were still in Gaza and had asked her what she had been through.

“She started crying, and I cried with her,” she said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/terrorist-sexually-assaulted-hostage-at-gunpoint-freed-captive-recounts-testimony/

More Hearsay she didn't even witness it - but she didn't get raped???!!!

>>20408498

I'll have a vindaloo and Rice with garlic Naan bread thanks!

Every western nation that has bowed down to

the Rothschild's Zionist state of Israel must

have leaders that are blackmailed through the

Rothschild's Mossad Epstein blackmail operation or another similar operation as there are more. Along with the complicit Mossad run

M ain S tream M edia and its useful idiots are all equally guilty of crimes against humanity and crimes against children!

>>20408633

https://www.removepaywall.com/

Last year, John Durham, a special prosecutor for the Department of Justice (DOJ), concluded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should never have opened its investigation of alleged collusion by then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and Russia in late July of 2016.

Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.

The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.

If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.

So we now have Jewish reporters reporting on what Anon's uncovered years ago

Faggotry increases

>>20408675

DOJ Releases Photos From Hunter Biden’s iPhone Showing Crack Cocaine, Drug Paraphernalia

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.68.0.pdf

Israeli Al Jazeera claim triggers move to ban foreign media

The Knesset has advanced a censorship bill prepared back in October

Israel has taken a step closer to banning Al Jazeera, after accusing a reporter for the Qatar-based network of working for Hamas.

The Israeli parliament voted 25-4 on Monday to advance a bill that would let West Jerusalem temporarily outlaw foreign media outlets the defense ministry designates as harmful to state security. It is colloquially known as the ‘Al Jazeera Law,’ in recognition of specifically targeting the outlet.

The measure advanced shortly after an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman accused Al Jazeera reporter Mohamed Washah of being a terrorist.

“In the morning, he’s a journalist on the Al Jazeera channel, and in the evening, a terrorist in Hamas!” Lieutenant Colonel Avichay Adraee said on X (formerly Twitter), posting photos allegedly showing Washah wielding a variety of weapons.

The ‘Al Jazeera Law’ was drafted by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi last year, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas in the aftermath of the Palestinian group’s deadly October 7 raid into Israel. Karhi argued that Al Jazeera’s reporting constitutes “incitement against Israel, help [for] Hamas-ISIS and the terror organizations with their propaganda, and encourage violence against Israel.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly asked the government of Qatar to have the network “turn down the volume” of its coverage of the Gaza conflict.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reacted to the Knesset vote by accusing Israel of “using national security as an excuse to restrict critical media that do not confirm its narrative of the war,” and of attempting to censor media coverage of what was going on in Gaza.

Two Al Jazeera employees were seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza on Tuesday. According to the network, reporter Ismail Abu Omar had to have his leg amputated while cameraman Ahmed Matar suffered “critical injuries to his face.”

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller offered “sincere condolences” to the network and said the US “continue[s] to engage with the government of Israel to make clear that journalists ought to be protected.”

An estimated 1,200 Israelis died in the October 7 Hamas raids. Since then, Israeli forces have killed over 28,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run enclave’s health ministry.

https://www.rt.com/news/592399-israel-foreign-media-ban/