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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

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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.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 6h

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.

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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

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 5h

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

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 4h

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 · 2h

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 · 6h

Isn't neoliberal ideology so efficient and productive?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 6h

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Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

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

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 20h

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

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 22h

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

Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22d

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,...

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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

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 21h

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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Modern Money Lab @modernmoneylab.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think most other Masters degrees in economics have quite the same student feedback as ours. Here is a small sample, from last trimester - modernmoneylab.org.au/courses/:

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 1d

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 1d

An example of how insular and paranoid the halls of power in Canberra have become. This is the kind of thing that occurs in tin-pot authoritarian states.

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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

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Astute work by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has finding an affordable home in Australia just gotten harder? | Fiona Katauskas

Thanks climate change

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

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