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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 1h

The ALP govt has approved coal/gas projects that will emit a cumulative 6.5B tonnes of CO2 - roughly equal to 15 yrs of Australia’s total annual emissions.

There are more in the pipeline with another 38 new or expanded coal projects seeking approval

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 2h

There is no shortage of failed peace plans going back to Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what it wants while it ignores and violates, until it resumes its attacks.

Israel’s goals remain unchanged: the dispossession & erasure of Palestinians from their land.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

chrishedges.substack.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

absolute legends

Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 4h

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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OnePath Network

Israel Kills Journalist Motasem Dalloul’s Third Son In yet another harrowing example of Israel’s campaign against the press in Gaza, journalist Motasem A. Dalloul has reportedly lost his third son...

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 1d

"There is a strong public interest in not releasing the information" FOI response to @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social

We pay politicians and they are refusing to tell how much of our money they are spending to bury nuclear waste for the US & UK

#AUKUS #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/aukus-nuclea...

AUKUS nuclear waste costs? Government: we know but we're not saying - Michael West

The Government has calculated preliminary costs for the treatment and storage of high-level radioactive waste from AUKUS submarines.

michaelwest.com.au

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 10h

Note Thiel’s four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. We’re not in “normal” business times.

His extreme Christian culture war operations are at work in #auspol, and his surveillance state is here.

Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 11h

Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection. A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it.

#auspol
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Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection

A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it

open.substack.com

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 10h

Share and spread and share and spread and share and spread and share and spread. .

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14h

These are the names and faces of the 254 Journalists Killed in Gaza

They were Silenced for Exposing Israel's Crimes

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 10h

Not to mention that Milei, like David Seymour ( #NZpol Dep PM), Liz Truss, Sunak & many UK Tories, much of Trump, Milei is an #AtlasNetwork operator. These networks bail each other out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 8h

People really need to stop taking the Nobel Peace Prize seriously.

e.g. Kissinger won in 1973.
He orchestrated Secret US bombings in Cambodia killing 100,000s
He prolonged the Vietnam war for political gain — 100,000s more dead
He orchestrated covert ops to overthrow Chile’s democracy.

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 11h

Isn't neoliberal ideology so efficient and productive?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11h

chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-sha...

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

chrishedges.substack.com

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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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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 1d

Finally a member of the Australian Government calling for Australia to reassert our sovereignty over our own resources, rather than letting Japan dictate our energy policy and endlessly rip us off.

Thank you @edhusicmp.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d

RIP
Ahmad Khdeirat, held since May without charge . . .

Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 2d

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23d

The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... Wealth and power hid from view in a castle yesterday, too frightened to be seen by the population at large. Any society where those in charge realise that has to happen cannot last for long.

The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge

Something quite extraordinary happened yesterday. A state visit took place, with all the associated pomp and ceremony, and no one was allowed to witness it, or to wave the required flags, or to cheer,...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed. In my many random conversations, I often comment that most people are time poor and stressed. It suits the top 1%.

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 1d

How can anyone have any optimism about the world?

Actual realisable optimism?

Forgetting elections & impeachments & all that nonsense

Actual plausible possibilities?

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