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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1h

You wish!

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1h

Amerikans ...

I'll just let these two headlines sink in .. they'll tell you everything you need to know ...

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1h

Jumbled nonsense but dangerous because it’s taken seriously

Still, in billionaire tech circles this is taken very seriously

This book explains it very clearly - worth reading and realising just how arrogant and dismissive they are of everything and everybody ..

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 2h

A dense body of research most voters will never read but it does show very thoroughly the immense global forces at work designed to infiltrate democracies and break them down - including through the duopoly in Australia - both Labor and the LNP IPA

We’re at a critical point

PAY ATTENTION VOTERS!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

That’s going to have to start with a revolution

A revolution by voters

It’s not happened election after election - no one’s ready to talk about climate

It is going to require a TOTAL CHANGE in our body politic - not a single duopoly politician

A total, engineered transformation of everything

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks David!

A great article - seems we’re living on a hope and a prayer precariously

We don’t produce these long read, deep articles in our media do we!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 7h

Not pretending - just reinforcing common sense!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

ARE relics!

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

More millionaires leave Parliament than enter Parliament

That should say something to every voter!

Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 8h

The political class think that public money is there to make them all rich.

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

More millionaires leave Parliament than enter Parliament

That should say something to every voter!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t need defending thank you

Like you, I have my voice and use it … I don’t predominantly repost other people’s words

I know what I stand for

We’re all in different jurisdictions but we’re all facing the same existential issues - political, social, environmental and economic

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 8h

A very powerful meme isn’t it!

It only tells half the story though

Voters elect those politicians precisely to kick the can into the long grass

The silent costs of doing so have yet to hit home it seems

So not many yet are indeed ready to talk - or vote - for addressing climate change

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 9h

Especially when the last 3 years showed Australian voters exactly what Labor were never going to do!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 9h

A sweeping generalisation that doesn't reflect the many "boomers" here warning about the dangers of a duopoly

I didn't see you raging against GENOCIDE, confronting the extreme right here or noting that the duopoly has already hijacked democracy by defunding Indys and minor parties

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 9h

Climate warming

The cost of extreme weather in Europe has doubled this decade

Worsening climate impacts could cut EU GDP by 7% by the end of the century if warming surpasses 1.5°C

A LESSON FOR ALL OF US as we face summer

𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄?

www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Cost of Europe's extreme weather has doubled this decade

Europe is being forced to foot an ever-growing bill as damage from weather and climate-related extremes exceeded €44.5 billion in recent years.

www.euronews.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 10h

The "Albanese issue" is in fact part of the bigger issue of the Duopoly - and that is the real issue

If voters lack the courage to confront the Duopoly and remove it totally from our body politic then we are NEVER going to have a democracy and a society that acts for Australians or Australia

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 11h

Personal enrichment is NOT what taxpayer money is for

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 11h

"We need to remember people hold the power and use it"

A pity Australian voters refuse to be the people and custodians of our democracy and use that power to empower community representation and a focus on solutions communities need - not ideology

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 11h

"𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 .. 𝘕𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 [𝘩𝘪𝘮]"

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭!

time.com/7324832/trum...

time.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 11h

ALBANESE needs to solve this issue fast

Israel detaining - indefinitely - an Australian in an Israeli jail for being part of the flotilla

The total lack of action by Albanese in the face of Israeli aggression and GENOCIDE is appalling - Labor values at work

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 12h

See the paternalism here?

Both dangerous, one the protege of the other, with "expectations"

They're career politicians - not REPRESENTATIVES working for voters. These are men who hijack votes, and, like cuckoos, hijack solutions to issues and replace them with ideology

Men absorbed in themselves

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 1d

AUKUS?

... or "group think" that's going to cost us $1TRILLION+ for nothing?

theconversation.com/ai-drone-shi...

AI, drone ships and new sensors could leave submarines with few places to hide in the ocean

New technology could leave few places for submarines to hide.

theconversation.com

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

Will Netanyahu torpedo the ‘Gaza peace plan’ sooner rather than later?

Here’s Noam Chomsky explaining the cyclical pattern of Israel reaching a ceasefire with Hamas, and then openly breaking the ceasefire and resuming the slaughter.

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