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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 21h

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

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‘Ruthless terror’ – When Labour aided genocide in Indonesia

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

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

Some of the clients of the lobbying firm the Prime Minister is currently the President of include:

Ampol Australia Petroleum P/L (fossil fuels)

Lion P/L (brewing, alcohol)

Pfizer Australia P/L (pharmaceuticals)

Serco Australia P/L (defence, immigration)

Responsible Wagering Aust (gambling)

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 21h

Australia's potato capital is facing a threat never-before-seen in the country | SBS News share.google/uXaDkutbhJoG...

Australia's potato capital is facing a threat never-before-seen in the country

With eradication off the table, Australia is looking to New Zealand for lessons on how to manage potato mop top virus as planting begins in Tasmania.

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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 3d

The distance between voters and their elected representatives is too vast, allowing them to shovel dodgy policy down our throats with impunity. Let's have mandatory town hall confrontations with their constituents televised live so they have to answer for their stupidities and corruption. #auspol

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Alan Berry @trueblueberry.bsky.social · 3d

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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Saji Weerasingham @sajilicious.bsky.social · 4d

Successive Australian governments since and including the Howard government have treated housing as an investment asset class and not a basic need...and they have no intention to fix things

#auspol #housingcrisis

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Australian housing crash 2025 explained: Top Economist warns

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

"He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian. Pretty despicable."

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is “abhorrent.”

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 5d

Watching 4 Corners on Gambling endemic in AUS.

I am ashamed of the Albanese Gov for not implementing the Peta Murphy Report ‼️‼️‼️

#auspol #StopGamblingAdvertising
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Losing Streak

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

www.abc.net.au

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Alan Berry @trueblueberry.bsky.social · 6d

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White Culture Has No Culture: What Racism Really Is, And Why So Many White People Don’t Understand It

By Christian ZacaTechO Ortiz

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 6d

“Kennedy is known for many things: vaccine scepticism, substance abuse, grandiose overconfidence in his own convictions. These qualities are overrepresented in individuals who possess a triad of toxic personality traits, known as the dark Triad.”
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The malignant minds taking over the American health sector

“He enjoyed showing people how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks.” It was a striking description of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., written by his cousin, Ambassador Caroline Kenn...

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 6d

#AustraliaNotAmerica

‘A risk we cannot take’: Police seize 135 guns amid sovereign citizen raids

More than 100 firearms are seized in a WA Police operation targeting 'sovereign citizens' in the wake of the fatal shooting of two Victorian officers.

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Alan Berry @trueblueberry.bsky.social · 6d

The big stuff is starting now

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 6d

It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to propagandize the world into liking Israel again.

Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-reall...

They Really Think They'll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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Alan Berry @trueblueberry.bsky.social · 8d

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Chris Sidoti's prescription for action on Palestine

At the National Press Club this week with Ben Saul, Chris Sidoti argues that recognition of Palestine is important, but that Australia must also comply with international law obligations, including ac...

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 8d

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 8d

Discretionary capital is running about 25-30 times. Welcome to the new inevitable - small amounts of people using a slightly larger amount of people's money to piss up the wall on the Next Big Thing, before it implodes to industrial rationality. Like every boom before it, the patterns continue

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
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