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Codger, Chris Davis, legend in own west Vic Oz shopfront, seeking to untie the historic and linguistic entanglements before there's only cockroaches.
US govt breaking their own & international law by stealing & seeking to steal the oil of foreign countries - gone to war over it before under BS auspices. This time T-Rump & his flunkies & admin are brazen in their attacks against the liquidity of the 'Pink Tide'. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
US pursues third oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
US coastguard 'in active pursuit' of a dark fleet vessel trying to evade sanctions on Venezuela, an official says.
www.aljazeera.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
US govt breaking their own & international law by stealing & seeking to steal the oil of foreign countries - gone to war over it before under BS auspices. This time T-Rump & his flunkies & admin are brazen in their attacks against the liquidity of the 'Pink Tide'. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
The operations and actions of the new Chancellor of the University of Woolongong (UOW) seem highly suspicious, and have now been referred to NSW ICAC, who have raided the UOW. Yet another of OZ unis in the spotlight for executive largesse & corruption. michaelwest.com.au/icac-investi...
ICAC investigating University of Wollongong as chancellor grilled at Inquiry - Michael West
Documents seen by MWM indicate that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is investigating the University of Wollongong.
michaelwest.com.au
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The operations and actions of the new Chancellor of the University of Woolongong (UOW) seem highly suspicious, and have now been referred to NSW ICAC, who have raided the UOW. Yet another of OZ unis in the spotlight for executive largesse & corruption. michaelwest.com.au/icac-investi...
Suppressing and/or banning peaceful public protest is utterly counter-productive. theaimn.net/indiscrimina...
Indiscriminate Suppression: Attacking pro-Palestinian Protests After the Bondi Killings
It has become a wallowing cringe. The extolling of multi-culti values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism, only to then impose, in the name of such values, a restricti...
theaimn.net
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Suppressing and/or banning peaceful public protest is utterly counter-productive. theaimn.net/indiscrimina...
Will we keep funding failure-mills, hosting vulture feasts, and herding numb crowds into danger? Or will we mandate red-flag interventions, demand donor transparency, and reform attention economies to rewire caution over clicks? theaimn.net/the-factory-...
“The Factory We Built: How Economic Violence, Digital Addiction, and Institutional Neglect Manufacture Mass Killers”
In Part 1, we examined the paradox of a godless society where emptying churches still wield outsized power; granting exemptions to discriminate in hiring, for example, while Australian media elevates ...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Will we keep funding failure-mills, hosting vulture feasts, and herding numb crowds into danger? Or will we mandate red-flag interventions, demand donor transparency, and reform attention economies to rewire caution over clicks? theaimn.net/the-factory-...
Good story. If you don't believe it, ask yourself "Why?" I do believe it, yet I still asked myself, "Why?" theaimn.net/what-does-co...
What does “common security” really mean today
By Niu Honglin As a podcaster, I work on shows with different themes. Some are analytical. Some are historical. Some are very entertaining. But this one stayed with me in a different way. This article...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Good story. If you don't believe it, ask yourself "Why?" I do believe it, yet I still asked myself, "Why?" theaimn.net/what-does-co...
How true it is. All ought focus on ridding the world of the 'Gorgon's stare'. theaimn.net/the-gorgons-...
The Gorgon's Stare: Deconstructing the Enduring Machinery of War
War is not a natural disaster. It is a system – a complex, enduring machinery with distinct, interlocking parts that have been refined over centuries. To understand why humanity remains trapped in cyc...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
How true it is. All ought focus on ridding the world of the 'Gorgon's stare'. theaimn.net/the-gorgons-...
Not only for the Gobi bear, let's hope that green development cooperation can bring ALL LIFE together. theaimn.net/can-green-de...
Can green development really bring us together?
By Niu Honglin This article comes from a podcast series I’ve been working on that looks at global governance through a simple but demanding idea: a shared future for humanity. Each episode focuses on ...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Not only for the Gobi bear, let's hope that green development cooperation can bring ALL LIFE together. theaimn.net/can-green-de...
Having read very recent appalling US '2025 National Security Strategy' (which champions the 'Monroe Doctrine') there could be little doubt that T-Rump & his flunkies are at war with the 'Pink Tide', & certainly stealing Venezuelan crude. Next, the rest in Sth America. theaimn.net/instead-of-b...
Instead of buying Venezuelan heavy crude… Trump just steals it
By Walt Zlotow The US desperately needs Venezuelan heavy crude oil to run its Gulf Coast refineries. But 20 years of failed US sanctions to overthrow last two Venezuelan socialist presidents has cause...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Having read very recent appalling US '2025 National Security Strategy' (which champions the 'Monroe Doctrine') there could be little doubt that T-Rump & his flunkies are at war with the 'Pink Tide', & certainly stealing Venezuelan crude. Next, the rest in Sth America. theaimn.net/instead-of-b...
Rather than what's really going on, are we deliberately being frightened, misdirected, encouraged to forget, and to not inquire too deeply into matters that govts & institutions cover up? theaimn.net/the-blind-sp...
The Blind Spot That Reveals Everything
In Part 1, we examined how Australian media venerates religious identity. Now we explore how that veneration becomes weaponised, and reveal the deeper economic forces that make extremism predictable. ...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Rather than what's really going on, are we deliberately being frightened, misdirected, encouraged to forget, and to not inquire too deeply into matters that govts & institutions cover up? theaimn.net/the-blind-sp...
Oh really. Are you sure now? theaimn.net/whos-got-rel...
Who’s Got Religion? Part One: The Myth of the Religious Nation
Australia likes to think of itself as a fun-loving, secular, easygoing democracy that has drifted gently away from church and creed but still offers a fair go for everyone. We are dreaming. Our laws, ...
theaimn.net
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Oh really. Are you sure now? theaimn.net/whos-got-rel...
A brief Oz history on the Israel / Palestine question. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
This one’s on Netanyahu, not Albanese
The Bondi massacre sits within a wider international context that has reshaped public attitudes to Israel, antisemitism and protest, complicating how grief, fear and responsibility are understood in A...
johnmenadue.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A brief Oz history on the Israel / Palestine question. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Sensible, non-inflammatory, and well said. Will Oz wake up in 2026? It's up to each and every one of us. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
2025 in Review: The fading West, a cautious Labor win and an uncertain world
From the erosion of Western authority to Australia’s election result, 2025 exposed deep shifts in global power, alliance politics and the limits of domestic reform.
johnmenadue.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Sensible, non-inflammatory, and well said. Will Oz wake up in 2026? It's up to each and every one of us. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
A few things to think deeply about over the current Oz season of celebration and renewal. And to make a resolution to stop participating in harms caused by falling for convenience, to instead, choose the least harmful of everything. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Environment: More good recycling is needed – emphasis on good
Low levels of plastic recycling are bad for human health and the environment. For lead, high levels of dangerous recycling are doing the damage. Northern Australia’s vast, ecologically relatively inta...
johnmenadue.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A few things to think deeply about over the current Oz season of celebration and renewal. And to make a resolution to stop participating in harms caused by falling for convenience, to instead, choose the least harmful of everything. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The Nobel Foundation corrupted? Assange correct. Machado's praise & urging Trump will see more death, destruction & poverty in Venezuela. See Trump's appalling brutal supremacist '2025 National Security Strategy' embedding the 'Monroe Doctrine' vs the Pink Tide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Assange sues Nobel Foundation to stop war-promoting Machado from receiving Peace prize cash
Julian Assange has filed a legal complaint seeking to block Nobel Peace Prize funds from being paid to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado over her support for US military actions.
johnmenadue.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Nobel Foundation corrupted? Assange correct. Machado's praise & urging Trump will see more death, destruction & poverty in Venezuela. See Trump's appalling brutal supremacist '2025 National Security Strategy' embedding the 'Monroe Doctrine' vs the Pink Tide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Probably fear & reactivity is an inevitable result of the objectives & m.o. of strident political pronouncements – a haze around reality. A haze that many abdicate themselves to. A phenomenon that sensation-driving mainstream media & assoc corporations thrive on. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
A defence of 'doing nothing'
Public safety can be strengthened without turning fear into a political performance. When protection becomes theatre, institutions weaken and social division deepens.
johnmenadue.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Probably fear & reactivity is an inevitable result of the objectives & m.o. of strident political pronouncements – a haze around reality. A haze that many abdicate themselves to. A phenomenon that sensation-driving mainstream media & assoc corporations thrive on. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Salutary reminder of possibility. With rise of climate change & energy/resource wars, warrior denizens are dividing opinion & political & diplomatic resolve. The 'west' has become economically & culturally febrile, with T-Rump's USA resorting to old brutality. theconversation.com/this-peace-d...
This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world
The Dayton Accords were not perfect. But they stopped the Bosnian war, enabled accountability for atrocities, and offered millions the chance to rebuild their lives.
theconversation.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Salutary reminder of possibility. With rise of climate change & energy/resource wars, warrior denizens are dividing opinion & political & diplomatic resolve. The 'west' has become economically & culturally febrile, with T-Rump's USA resorting to old brutality. theconversation.com/this-peace-d...
Albo booed - Bondi vigil 20/12. For reasons, valid, invalid, good, bad - a mess. The divisiveness of today's opportunistic politics = 'invalid' & 'bad'. He needs to boot Burgess' arse. Action & national Royal Commission into fed/state intelligence/policing needed. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Bondi raises questions about ASIO’s community intelligence reach
The Bondi attack has renewed scrutiny of whether Australia’s domestic intelligence agencies have sufficient cultural reach and human intelligence within the communities they monitor.
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Albo booed - Bondi vigil 20/12. For reasons, valid, invalid, good, bad - a mess. The divisiveness of today's opportunistic politics = 'invalid' & 'bad'. He needs to boot Burgess' arse. Action & national Royal Commission into fed/state intelligence/policing needed. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The usual 'Angry Tide' of the crumbling, greedy xenophobic America's T-Rumpian brutal militarist authoritarian reach. A quest to capture all resources and the minds of Sth American states (and their 'Pink Tide') against the US neo-conservative/neo-liberal scourge johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?
As US pressure on Venezuela intensifies, Washington is reviving an openly interventionist approach to Latin America. The targets extend beyond Caracas to the region as a whole.
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The usual 'Angry Tide' of the crumbling, greedy xenophobic America's T-Rumpian brutal militarist authoritarian reach. A quest to capture all resources and the minds of Sth American states (and their 'Pink Tide') against the US neo-conservative/neo-liberal scourge johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Asia as a whole is at a turning point, old autocracies & corruptions are being dealt with. The successful China is turning to domestic stimulation to benefit its populace. Eg; opening all Hainan Island & ports as a free-trade & eco-development tax-incentive zone. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Beijing makes domestic spending its top priority – Asian Media Report
From China’s new investing in people strategy to Thailand’s threat to continue border fighting, revelations about Korea’s martial law bid, South Asia’s climate emergencies, the restoration of democrac...
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Asia as a whole is at a turning point, old autocracies & corruptions are being dealt with. The successful China is turning to domestic stimulation to benefit its populace. Eg; opening all Hainan Island & ports as a free-trade & eco-development tax-incentive zone. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Rather than timidly hanging onto tired old European & US imperial apron strings & hegemonic rhetoric, it's beyond time Oz stood on its own feet, & relied on its own experience & information to properly assess & maintain its relationship with China. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
China has neither the intent nor the capability to attack us
Australia faces no credible military threat from China. The real danger lies in uncritical alignment with US strategy, fear-driven rhetoric and the steady erosion of national sovereignty.
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Rather than timidly hanging onto tired old European & US imperial apron strings & hegemonic rhetoric, it's beyond time Oz stood on its own feet, & relied on its own experience & information to properly assess & maintain its relationship with China. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Bondi is that tragic & serious, given the evident current huge gaps in information sharing & coordinated action both federally & state, there is indeed a need for a NATIONAL Royal Commission, not just 'internal reviews' or a NSW-only Royal Commission. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Bondi demands answers – and a Royal Commission
Revelations about overseas training, intelligence failures and police responses raise urgent questions that cannot be left to internal reviews.
johnmenadue.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Bondi is that tragic & serious, given the evident current huge gaps in information sharing & coordinated action both federally & state, there is indeed a need for a NATIONAL Royal Commission, not just 'internal reviews' or a NSW-only Royal Commission. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Where is Albo at, adopting IHRA definition of anti-semitism? Internationally, incl. many Jews in Oz, eg; Jewish Council of Australia, do not support it, as it entangles & conflates criticism of any State of Israel (incl Netanyahu's) with hatred of Jews www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
An attack on our way of life
On Sunday, the lifesavers at Australia’s most iconic beach turned surfboards into stretchers and ferried wounded victims of this country’s worst terrorist attack to waiting ambulances. According to an...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Where is Albo at, adopting IHRA definition of anti-semitism? Internationally, incl. many Jews in Oz, eg; Jewish Council of Australia, do not support it, as it entangles & conflates criticism of any State of Israel (incl Netanyahu's) with hatred of Jews www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
Will Albo allow Labor to take the big reform bit between the teeth to take on deficits and improve the lot of ordinary folk? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
The fight Chalmers has to have
ANALYSIS: Having finally persuaded most voters that it is the better economic manager, Labor is well placed to pursue an obvious solution to the problems to come.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Will Albo allow Labor to take the big reform bit between the teeth to take on deficits and improve the lot of ordinary folk? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Listening & assisting children & youth in self-mangement, understanding psycho-social enrichment & navigation of fruitful pathways - childhood to adulthood ought be a pinnacle objective of all societies, is not yet embedded in Oz institutions & politics www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Youth crime is ‘not in a crisis’
The new National Children’s Commissioner cites among her top concerns an increasingly draconian criminal justice system and improvements to the youth social media ban.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Listening & assisting children & youth in self-mangement, understanding psycho-social enrichment & navigation of fruitful pathways - childhood to adulthood ought be a pinnacle objective of all societies, is not yet embedded in Oz institutions & politics www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
The Oz Uni sector is in a crisis of leadership incompetence, arrogance, coercion, managerialism, conflicts of interest & ivory-tower building, all to the cost & detriment of teaching staff & students. Senate inquiries reveal urgent changes are needed. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Inside the Senate’s university inquiry
The Senate’s year-long inquiry into the governance of universities has concluded with a grim picture of flawed and avoidant leadership and serious questions about conduct and accountability.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Oz Uni sector is in a crisis of leadership incompetence, arrogance, coercion, managerialism, conflicts of interest & ivory-tower building, all to the cost & detriment of teaching staff & students. Senate inquiries reveal urgent changes are needed. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...