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Nigel Kirwan 🇪🇭🇺🇦🇮🇳🇮🇩🇮🇪Niall Cairdubhain - Shiva Hridaya Gaudapada

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Reject left / right & any other droll myopic dogmatic polarising worldview. Shaivite Advaitan acknowledging Ved Vidya, the Sanatana Dharma & traditional owners globally🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇩🇮🇳

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Nigel Kirwan 🇪🇭🇺🇦🇮🇳🇮🇩🇮🇪Niall Cairdubhain - Shiva Hridaya Gaudapada @npkirwan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Preferential (Ranked Choice) Voting for Dummies…

Dr Verity Cooper for Sturt @drveritycooper.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our preferential voting system, explained with the use of ... schooners of beer! How relatable! ⤵️

Moral of the story:
✳️ Preferences matter, even if you vote for an outside chance!
✳️ Number every square (after 1️⃣ for me, of course!)
#election25 #auspol

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 1d

Rudd had principles.
1. Rudd shall be the whole of the law.
2. Rudd shall blame others, and others shall accept the blame for actions Rudd never actually took
3. Rudd shall not be spoken poorly of, and shall fail upwards
4. The Life and Times of Rudd will be pre-eminently to help Rudd.

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Could be verses from a Midnight Oil song … hang on!

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

So that's a 'no' from him. #GazaGenocide #auspol

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 1d

I asked if the Government would take steps to stop Australians fighting in the IDF while it is perpetrating a genocide

The Minister says he wishes for peace. What??

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Patricia Pouncey @patpouncey.bsky.social · 1d

www.thenorthstar.com/p/the-larges...

🚨 The Largest Kidnapping in West Bank History. 2,000 Palestinian Boys and Men Were Just Taken Hostage by Israel

If even one Israeli had been kidnapped, it would be global breaking news. But Palestinians? Silence.

www.thenorthstar.com

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How careless of him to take the stairs

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Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 1d

How Netanyahu Saved Himself by Destroying Gaza

Two years ago today, the Israeli prime minister was a dead man walking, writes former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy.

Daniel Levy

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How Netanyahu Saved Himself by Destroying Gaza

Two years ago today, the Israeli prime minister was a dead man walking, writes former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy.

substack.com

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Ryuma Sakamoto @ryuma21.bsky.social · 2d

🛑 UNCONSCIONABLE! This #Gaza #GENOCIDE rages on. STOP THE STARVATION TACTIC! DEMAND immediate, unconditional CEASEFIRE NOW.

Systematically starved despite talks. Tufts' Alex de Waal: "It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them."

Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Risks Normalizing the Weaponization of Food

Palestinians are still being systematically starved in Gaza even as ceasefire talks are underway this week. “It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them,” says...

www.democracynow.org

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At the level of the singularity we all always did it anyhow

Nigel Kirwan 🇪🇭🇺🇦🇮🇳🇮🇩🇮🇪Niall Cairdubhain - Shiva Hridaya Gaudapada @npkirwan.bsky.social · 1d

50 yrs of failure with austerity globally yet they’ll never get it that strangling the public sector only makes the perceived problem worse, plus much more… demonstrably growing GDP & increased productivity is the solution!

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 7th was a horrific war crime but it is quite something that the best funded & most sophisticated defence & intelligence agency on the planet, knew nothing about oct 7th before it happened.

Billions of USD$ goes into the Israeli intelligence agency.

from the Times of Israel newspaper👇

Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big’

Cairo official says Israel focused on West Bank instead of Gaza; Egypt's spy chief said to warn PM of 'terrible operation,' Netanyahu denies it

www.timesofisrael.com

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Trust @ronnisalt.bsky.social doesn’t mind me copying this from the other place to here…

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 2d

Raytheon is the world's 2nd largest military company. It is a major supplier to Israel.

It is also a major corporate sponsor of the National Press Club of Australia. As are other large weapons companies, Thales, & BAE.

Raytheon's shares have pretty much doubled in price since October 2023.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

In Trump’s sewer of a brain,
child sex trafficking is not a crime.
It’s a relaxing weekend for the wealthy and powerful.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2d

Secret cargo: Inside Australia's covert F-35 parts pipeline to Israel

At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.

johnmenadue.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2d

‘Ban Israeli football’: Scholars urge UEFA to bar Israel over Gaza horrors

In a letter, legal experts have underscored the killing of Palestinian footballers and a UN panel’s finding that Israel is committing genocide.

johnmenadue.com

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 2d

7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no

A new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Road to October 7 - a brief history of Palestinian Islamism, by Erik Skare, shows how the seeds of the Gaza war were sown over decades.

johnmenadue.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not:

It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days.

It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

An angry Jacinta Price claims she received correspondence from Jewish ppl saying they’re “considering leave Australia” as it’s not a “safe place to live”
Says to make them feel safe, anti-genocide rallies at Syd Opera House “should not be allowed!”
So full of shit. #SkyAfterDark

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

This 'peace deal' is “a neocolonial plan designed to enrich Tony Blair and a few other people.”
...Gaza would be rendered “a fiefdom for other overlords to manage”.

penelopepiztov @penelopepiztov.bsky.social · 2d

theintercept.com/2025/10/01/t...

The Trump–Netanyahu Gaza Peace Deal Promises Indefinite Occupation

“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means.”

theintercept.com

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 2d

Actually Albo .. didn't Australia abstain from a ceasefire vote in Oct 2023, saying "We can affirm Israel's right to defend itself"?

Just saying bc your second last par says "consistently part of intl pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza"

Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 2d

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Be fair, Michael.
It's tricky for Albo to consistently demonstrate global leadership,
when he is busy being a US lapdog. #GazaGenocide #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

“We urge politicians not to weaponise the memory of the victims of October 7 to justify Israel’s ongoing genocide or to silence voices in support of Palestinian human rights.
As Jewish people, we mourn all lives lost...and refuse to allow our grief to be weaponised” @sarahschwartz.bsky.social

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 2d

Chantelle Al-Khouri reports on shocking violence/abuse by Israel on illegally detained Australians
“Head slammed into the ground”
“Held in a large cage with 80 other ppl” while Far Right MP Ben-Gvir “yelled at them”
“Forced to dance like a monkey naked”😳
Makes my blood boil🤬 #Abc

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