Vern Veitch 1952 AU
@vernv.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Retired ecologist. Dad to 2 adult daughters & 2 adult puppies.
Humanity, anti genocide & ecocide.
Polite conversation including criticism welcome.
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Humanity, anti genocide & ecocide.
Polite conversation including criticism welcome.
Abuse, porn, religious radicals & bots 🚫.
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Vern Veitch 1952 AU
@vernv.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Just a quick reminder to all who have either followed me or intend to and that I haven't followed back. If you don't have either a profile or at least a few posts to provide some indication of your interests, I'll just put a follow back on hold until I see something.
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Meanwhile Australia just gave the greenlight for 3 more devastatingly huge fossil fuel plants and opened up the Kimberely watertables to fracking. Fracking is forever and poisons water.
Yes it's necessary to prepare, but there's no adapting to a 3C world
This is such a dangerous message
This is such a dangerous message
‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Meanwhile Australia just gave the greenlight for 3 more devastatingly huge fossil fuel plants and opened up the Kimberely watertables to fracking. Fracking is forever and poisons water.
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Grassgate Angus is stating he has not seen the documents. He telling porkies, again...🤥...
"Migrants from Gaza and Somalia among those to be banned from Australia under unreleased Liberal plan"...
C/- The Guardian
Krishani Dhanji; Mon 16 Feb 2026 14.18 AEDT
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Migrants from Gaza and Somalia among those to be banned from Australia under unreleased Liberal plan"...
C/- The Guardian
Krishani Dhanji; Mon 16 Feb 2026 14.18 AEDT
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
February 16, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Grassgate Angus is stating he has not seen the documents. He telling porkies, again...🤥...
"Migrants from Gaza and Somalia among those to be banned from Australia under unreleased Liberal plan"...
C/- The Guardian
Krishani Dhanji; Mon 16 Feb 2026 14.18 AEDT
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Migrants from Gaza and Somalia among those to be banned from Australia under unreleased Liberal plan"...
C/- The Guardian
Krishani Dhanji; Mon 16 Feb 2026 14.18 AEDT
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Over 50,000 Israeli soldiers who participated in and killed over 72,000 Palestinians in its genocide on Gaza are dual nationals, with a majority holding US or European passports, according to reports by Israeli NGO Hatzlacha
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
Thousands of Western nationals fought Israel’s war on Gaza: What to know
Thousands of Western citizens joined the Israeli military in its war on Gaza that killed over 72,000 Palestinians.
www.aljazeera.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Over 50,000 Israeli soldiers who participated in and killed over 72,000 Palestinians in its genocide on Gaza are dual nationals, with a majority holding US or European passports, according to reports by Israeli NGO Hatzlacha
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
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Exports from an oil field off WA's Pilbara are at a standstill after an oil spill in December. The regulator says it has identified "systemic failures" at the Canadian-owned Wandoo facility.
Vermilion's Wandoo gas field halted by regulator after December oil spill
Exports from an oil field off WA's Pilbara are at a standstill after an oil spill in December. The regulator says it has identified "systemic failures" at the Canadian-owned Wandoo facility.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Exports from an oil field off WA's Pilbara are at a standstill after an oil spill in December. The regulator says it has identified "systemic failures" at the Canadian-owned Wandoo facility.
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Nothing to see here, just Israeli land thieving criminals at their dirty work again. Note, #Netolini has absolutely no intention of permitting a Palestinian state. So why aren't you boycotting #Israel, @albomp.bsky.social ?
www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #BDS #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy
www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #BDS #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy
Israel's approval of West Bank land registration condemned as 'de facto annexation'
The land registration adds to a series of measures taken earlier this month to expand control.
www.sbs.com.au
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Nothing to see here, just Israeli land thieving criminals at their dirty work again. Note, #Netolini has absolutely no intention of permitting a Palestinian state. So why aren't you boycotting #Israel, @albomp.bsky.social ?
www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #BDS #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy
www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #BDS #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy
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How can anyone buy his cars?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
How can anyone buy his cars?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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“Europe’s Leaders Wonder if They Can Ever Trust America Again”
From Athens to Rome if history has taught us anything It Is that a nation without allies is an endangered species.
No Allies = No Future
🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
From Athens to Rome if history has taught us anything It Is that a nation without allies is an endangered species.
No Allies = No Future
🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
“Europe’s Leaders Wonder if They Can Ever Trust America Again”
From Athens to Rome if history has taught us anything It Is that a nation without allies is an endangered species.
No Allies = No Future
🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
From Athens to Rome if history has taught us anything It Is that a nation without allies is an endangered species.
No Allies = No Future
🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
Just another day in the genocide of Palestinians.
An Israeli settler sanctioned by both the US and EU drove an excavator into a Palestinian man, then shot and killed his cousin who was filming it. He was put on house arrest and released days later. Israel allowed a funeral of no more than 15 people mondoweiss.net/2026/02/life...
Life and loss in Umm al-Khair, an island within a settlement
The West Bank community of Umm al-Khair has been consumed by the illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel. But despite losing land and loved ones, Palestinians there refuse to leave. “This is my land,”…
mondoweiss.net
February 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Just another day in the genocide of Palestinians.
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Anyone who wants freedom of speech, thought & expression can NEVER vote “Labor” again
They ae totally beholden to the evil zio lobby
We must vote ONLY for independents & minor parties or lose our democracy the way the Americans have
#Auspol
#GenocidebyIsrael
They ae totally beholden to the evil zio lobby
We must vote ONLY for independents & minor parties or lose our democracy the way the Americans have
#Auspol
#GenocidebyIsrael
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Anyone who wants freedom of speech, thought & expression can NEVER vote “Labor” again
They ae totally beholden to the evil zio lobby
We must vote ONLY for independents & minor parties or lose our democracy the way the Americans have
#Auspol
#GenocidebyIsrael
They ae totally beholden to the evil zio lobby
We must vote ONLY for independents & minor parties or lose our democracy the way the Americans have
#Auspol
#GenocidebyIsrael
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Utterly heartbreaking news from Ukraine, where an overnight attack killed two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and their one-year-old sister Myroslava, when their house was hit in the town of Bohodukhiv. Their father was also killed and their pregnant mother injured.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russian strike kills 3 Ukrainian toddlers and father, with pregnant mother injured
The bodies of two brothers, aged two, their one-year-old sister and father were pulled from the wreckage of a house in north-eastern Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Utterly heartbreaking news from Ukraine, where an overnight attack killed two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and their one-year-old sister Myroslava, when their house was hit in the town of Bohodukhiv. Their father was also killed and their pregnant mother injured.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is not good enough Australia. We have to clean up our own mess and set an example for other countries as well as industry both on our mainland AND our offshore islands.
The ABC has been given rare access to an abandoned Australian base in Antarctica that continues to pose a threat to the environment.
Australia's frozen ghost town leaves behind a toxic legacy
The ABC has been given rare access to an abandoned Australian base in Antarctica that continues to pose a threat to the environment.
www.abc.net.au
February 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
This is not good enough Australia. We have to clean up our own mess and set an example for other countries as well as industry both on our mainland AND our offshore islands.
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Australia is running security for the President of a country that has committed indisputable genocide, and Aussie taxpayers are funding this gross Australian government misconduct. #auspol #opinion
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Australia is running security for the President of a country that has committed indisputable genocide, and Aussie taxpayers are funding this gross Australian government misconduct. #auspol #opinion
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Israel could not commit these ghastly crimes against humanity without high-tech weaponry supplied by the United States.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Israel could not commit these ghastly crimes against humanity without high-tech weaponry supplied by the United States.
Is this being used a template in parts of Australia?
Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level
NYT Editorial Board
Gift Article
ICYMI from 2/6/26
Updates of the Autocracy Index tracking 12 categories of democratic erosion based on historical patterns and interviews with experts
Step back from today's news & read
It's sobering
nyti.ms/3MAEAe7
NYT Editorial Board
Gift Article
ICYMI from 2/6/26
Updates of the Autocracy Index tracking 12 categories of democratic erosion based on historical patterns and interviews with experts
Step back from today's news & read
It's sobering
nyti.ms/3MAEAe7
Opinion | Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level (Gift Article)
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Is this being used a template in parts of Australia?
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Just like the USA, a bunch of Israeli's have set up a bunch of supposedly Jewish lobbies pretending to be protecting Jews but whose only agenda is stopping criticism of Israel.
AIJAC, ZFA, ICC Australia, Parliamentary Friends of Israel, StandWithUs Australia, UIA... it's a long list of morons.
AIJAC, ZFA, ICC Australia, Parliamentary Friends of Israel, StandWithUs Australia, UIA... it's a long list of morons.
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Just like the USA, a bunch of Israeli's have set up a bunch of supposedly Jewish lobbies pretending to be protecting Jews but whose only agenda is stopping criticism of Israel.
AIJAC, ZFA, ICC Australia, Parliamentary Friends of Israel, StandWithUs Australia, UIA... it's a long list of morons.
AIJAC, ZFA, ICC Australia, Parliamentary Friends of Israel, StandWithUs Australia, UIA... it's a long list of morons.
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Mr police commissioner I seem to miss the context ,when is it ok to punch multiple times, a man fully restrained ? Social cohesion??
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Mr police commissioner I seem to miss the context ,when is it ok to punch multiple times, a man fully restrained ? Social cohesion??
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Actual journalist reports from front line of protest against Israel president Herzog in Sydney: how a peaceful protest was disrupted and violently attacked in concerted police action michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
February 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Actual journalist reports from front line of protest against Israel president Herzog in Sydney: how a peaceful protest was disrupted and violently attacked in concerted police action michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
At the moment, it would be a toss-up in Australia.
February 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM
At the moment, it would be a toss-up in Australia.
An exercise in how NOT to achieve social cohesion. They will try to spin that the protesters were the problem. The problem was inviting the leaders of a country committing genocide. I wonder how many votes Albo, Minns & Labor have lost with this inept decision.
Albo-Nazi is responsible for this violence. It will be remembered at the voting booth!
Albo-Nazi will follow Abbott and Howard as serving Prime Ministers who lost their own seats at an election. He’s more on the nose than the decomposition of the Australian equality.
Albo-Nazi will follow Abbott and Howard as serving Prime Ministers who lost their own seats at an election. He’s more on the nose than the decomposition of the Australian equality.
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 AM
An exercise in how NOT to achieve social cohesion. They will try to spin that the protesters were the problem. The problem was inviting the leaders of a country committing genocide. I wonder how many votes Albo, Minns & Labor have lost with this inept decision.
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Herzog says demonstrations undermine his and Israel’s rights.
There is no right to commit genocide.
No right to slaughter civilians and children.
No right to starve people.
No right to breach international law.
No right to use apartheid.
No right to silence concerned Australians.
There is no right to commit genocide.
No right to slaughter civilians and children.
No right to starve people.
No right to breach international law.
No right to use apartheid.
No right to silence concerned Australians.
February 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Herzog says demonstrations undermine his and Israel’s rights.
There is no right to commit genocide.
No right to slaughter civilians and children.
No right to starve people.
No right to breach international law.
No right to use apartheid.
No right to silence concerned Australians.
There is no right to commit genocide.
No right to slaughter civilians and children.
No right to starve people.
No right to breach international law.
No right to use apartheid.
No right to silence concerned Australians.
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“We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product as a measure of human progress and wellbeing. Let us not forget that when we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP.”
Hard to disagree.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hard to disagree.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
“We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product as a measure of human progress and wellbeing. Let us not forget that when we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP.”
Hard to disagree.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hard to disagree.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#BREAKING 🚨 Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas says NSW premier Chris Minns "is responsible for every single injury" at the Sydney march against Isaac Herzog
Protesters were pepper-sprayed and punches thrown, with Thomas saying it "felt like war being waged on us by police"
Protesters were pepper-sprayed and punches thrown, with Thomas saying it "felt like war being waged on us by police"
February 9, 2026 at 10:42 AM
#BREAKING 🚨 Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas says NSW premier Chris Minns "is responsible for every single injury" at the Sydney march against Isaac Herzog
Protesters were pepper-sprayed and punches thrown, with Thomas saying it "felt like war being waged on us by police"
Protesters were pepper-sprayed and punches thrown, with Thomas saying it "felt like war being waged on us by police"
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So...
The day**before** Epstein died in jail, the DOJ already had the press release ready?????
The day**before** Epstein died in jail, the DOJ already had the press release ready?????
If you look at the original document that was dated on Friday, it has a code on the bottom right hand corner. Standard in every PDF that is released by DOJ. They also typically release a PDF with every press release. 1/2
February 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
So...
The day**before** Epstein died in jail, the DOJ already had the press release ready?????
The day**before** Epstein died in jail, the DOJ already had the press release ready?????