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Mona Lisa Melbourne
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Against injustice and persecution. I stand with 🇵🇸 and against genocide.
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lucyham.bsky.social
A piece from Progressive International focused on the embeddedness of Maria Machado, Nobel Prize winner 🙄, in the #AtlasNetwork.
See what Atlas partners have been doing to Venezuela after Chavez challenged Exxon & its profits, and the neoliberal consensus.

progressive.international/wire/2025-12...
PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Chávez's government sought not only to reduce the profits of an Atlas patron but to challenge the neoliberal consensus itself. For the destabilization operation, the network relied on Cedice, a Venezuelan think tank listed in the ranks of the Atlas Network. Well watered with U.S. funding through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Cedice led initiatives of all kinds in opposition to Chávez, and even Rocío Guijarro, its president, signed the decree with which the coup d'état of April 2002 was intended to be consolidated. The name of María Corina Machado appears among those attending the swearing-in of the governing board on April 12, 2002, as a result of the coup. She attended as a member of Cedice, but she would soon begin to stand out on her own. In July of that same year, she founded the civil organization Súmate, whose anti-Chávez activities received US backing from its beginning, again via NED. A document from the agency itself shows that Súmate received at least $53,400 directly from the NED in 2003. From that moment on, Machado has been an important figure within the enormous network of Atlas Network. Her name appears in virtually every disinformation campaign aimed at destabilizing Venezuela's political situation, and Atlas, in turn, has fervently promoted her in its events and publications. The connection is explicit and undeniable: in 2014, Machado publicly thanked Atlas Network for its "support and inspiration." More recently, on October 10, 2025, Atlas Network's official account on X celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize win, highlighting its "long professional relationship with Machado, who delivered a speech at the organization's annual Freedom Dinner in 2009."
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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alangnixon.bsky.social
#Consequences of #Fascism, #NSW #Australia.

You caused this @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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erincook.bsky.social
The scenes out of Sydney have police acting in a way that if and when it happens in other countries in the region, we consider it a frightening sign of democracy backsliding. And then the impunity that comes with it, which I'm sure we'll see plenty of!, further compounds that
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Sickening!
#auspol #gazagenocide
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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psynubs.bsky.social
I think it’s interesting to note Sydney was the only state that descended into a shit show.
Minns put the mayhem out there and followed up with the assistance of the Australian police against the Australian people.

I will not be told that what I see is not what I saw.
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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lukefoley.me
This is pathetic and misleading from our national broadcaster. It makes out that the people protesting weren’t peaceful when it was NSW police who were attacking them and being violent. Disgraceful headline from the ABC.
Nine charged after violent clashes between protesters and police
Police said they are currently in the process of charging six more people with a range of offences after the Palestine Action Group protest on Monday night turned ugly.
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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robertjoscribe.bsky.social
Step 1. Invite a genocidal war criminal to lecture us on why terrorism is bad

Step 2. Send cops to beat up and arrest peaceful protestors

Step 3. Results?????

I wonder where the lack of cohesion is coming from? The call is coming from inside the house.
rachelwithers.bsky.social Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 11h
Huh. Almost like absolutely everyone saw this coming from the minute the government invited the Israeli head of state and told Sydneysiders they couldn't protest about it.

Another win for Social Cohesion™
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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the-russell.bsky.social
To his own discredit and shame, @albomp.bsky.social doubles down and comes out in support of the violent police attack on peaceful demonstrators.
#FFS!
#auspol #nswpol
February 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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wnhy.bsky.social
It’s time for @australianlabor.bsky.social to decide if it’s pro genocide or not. If not then dump @albomp.bsky.social and @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social they are now on the nose with anyone left of Hitler #auspol @tonyburkemp.bsky.social #Rishworth
February 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
7/ Alasdair Pal/Reuters win the prize with this line:

'Australian leaders on Tuesday urged calm and called on protests to remain peaceful after clashes between police and demonstrators opposing Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia erupted in Sydney.'

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Australia urges calm after violent clashes in Sydney during Israeli President's visit
Australian leaders on Tuesday urged calm and called on protests to remain peaceful after clashes between police and demonstrators opposing Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia erupted i...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
6/ Deutsche Welle:

www.dw.com/en/israeli-p...
Israeli President Herzog's visit met with protests in Sydney
Demonstrators blamed the president for the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. His trip to Australia was aimed at showing solidarity with the Jewish community following an antisemitic mass shoot...
www.dw.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
5/ Al Jazeera collates, you decide:

www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026...
Photos: Australians rally against Israeli president’s visit
Protests in Sydney and Melbourne call for an end to Israeli occupation as Isaac Herzog meets Bondi Beach attack victims.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
4/ The BBC reports on the 'remarkable restraint' (Mal Lanyon) shown by police &, to be fair, while police broke many bones, they didn't kill anybody, so the same force that granted neo-Nazis permission to happily assemble on the steps of the parliament have a point.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia police defend actions after violence at protest over Israeli president visit
Videos from the rally appear to show officers punching protesters and dragging praying men away.
www.bbc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
2/ 'One vid from the protests appears to show police forcibly dispersing a group of Muslims praying in the street. In response, the AUS National Imams Council released a statement calling the police conduct “shocking, deeply disturbing, & entirely unacceptable.”'

edition.cnn.com/2026/02/07/a...
Clashes in Sydney over Israeli president’s visit as police disperse mass protests | CNN
Israeli President Isaac Herzog received two very different receptions in Australia on Monday – a warm welcome by a government determined to show solidarity with its grieving Jewish community, and mass...
edition.cnn.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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slackbastard.bsky.social
1/ The Australian Labor Party's dedication to s0ciAL c0hEsi0n by way of unleashing NSW Police on thousands of protesters against alleged war criminal Isaac Herzog's visit has won it headlines around the world eh.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Israeli President’s Visit to Australia Prompts Protests and Arrests
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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matthaggis666.bsky.social
Police investigating themselves. What a joke. #auspol
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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ingridvaughan.bsky.social
Excellent words, great article. Social cohesion isn’t a buzz word, it’s a political tactic.

“If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official of the state, not protection.”

#AusPol
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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emergencybk.bsky.social
(Vid includes slowed down section)
Man in light coloured shirt, hands up or by his side as multiple police pull at lanyard around his neck &/or repeatedly punch him.
Police brutality? Or just utter fucked up misconduct and is a civil rights violation?
#Auspol #HerzogNotWelcome #PoliceBrutality
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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meckeringboy.bsky.social
It looks like the violent, cop, punching is deliberately trying to break the nonviolent man’s ribs.
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social
siriusstar3.bsky.social Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 5h
“We cannot ignore what we can see with our own eyes.

This was state violence.

And the blame lies with the NSW Labor government for attempting to shut down legitimate protest, and the federal Labor government who invited the head of a state committing
genocide to our shores.”
#Auspol #Genocide
We cannot ignore what we can see with our own eyes. This was state violence. And the blame lies with the NSW Labor government for attempting to shut down legitimate protest, and the federal Labor government who invited the head of a state committing genocide to our shores. Shame on Labor. Shame on the NSW Police. The Greens remain in solidarity with the thousands of peaceful protesters who turned out across the country yesterday to say Australia stands against genocide. Photo: The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted? Photo: @jack_toohey
February 10, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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hublai.bsky.social
#GazaGenocide
metaphorman.bsky.social Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 4h
"Yet genocide is not measured solely by the number of those born, but by those never born, those born struggling to survive, and those who died before their first cry

In Gaza, the womb is no longer a safe place for life

It has become another battlefield, and childhood itself stands as evidence”
All the Zionists do is lie
And kill Palestinians and steal their land and lie and lie and lie
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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rachelwithers.bsky.social
"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."
Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion'
NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.
www.crikey.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights
February 10, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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damonyoung.com.au
This is maddening nonsense from Albanese.

Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews.

This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.
PM defends decision to invite Herzog to Australia Nick Newling Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed his decision to invite Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying it was appropriate to allow the Jewish community to mourn with the leader. "He was [invited] because he's the head of state. He's the equivalent of the governor-general, and when the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit. I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn and to do so respectfully," Albanese told Triple M radio in Hobart.
February 10, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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alangnixon.bsky.social
Indeed, Rob. I said this yesterday. I am supportive of Police despite a family history that gives me chills when they're around... Because I recognise their worth.

But #NSWPolice have broken that trust yesterday. You punched Australians for a foreign power. I can't support that. Ever.
robertarnol.bsky.social Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 6h
I am a former cop, and until recently I’d support police when they did the right things. No more. If you wear that uniform and give an oath to a foreign king/queen you are no different from the forces that committed genocide in Tasmania. That makes you my enemy and you will be treated as such.
February 10, 2026 at 6:15 AM