Chris Burns
@rmlockley.bsky.social
Semi retired Luddite/Systems Librarian
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A point that Wallerestein made often: as overall US power declines, it overplays its best card—military force. But each time it does so, it accelerates the decline of its overall power. SeeVietnam, Iraq. Violent coercion is the strength of the weak.
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
A point that Wallerestein made often: as overall US power declines, it overplays its best card—military force. But each time it does so, it accelerates the decline of its overall power. SeeVietnam, Iraq. Violent coercion is the strength of the weak.
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She was also president of the WA Liberal Party. I’m guessing the SMH aren’t mentioning that.
The Sydney/Israeli Morning Herald is getting desperate.
Lorraine Finlay was a Coalition political pick. She wanted s18 C repealed amount other shockers including gender quotas.
Human Rights Commissioner backs royal commission into antisemitism smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
Lorraine Finlay was a Coalition political pick. She wanted s18 C repealed amount other shockers including gender quotas.
Human Rights Commissioner backs royal commission into antisemitism smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
Human Rights Commissioner backs royal commission into antisemitism
Australia’s current Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay is the first government-appointed official to publicly back demands from the Jewish community and more than 200 former judges and barriste...
smh.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 AM
She was also president of the WA Liberal Party. I’m guessing the SMH aren’t mentioning that.
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I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.
In the next contribution to our series on the Rise & Fall of the BRD, @dirkmoses.bsky.social explores the incipient end of Holocaust memory, and identifies German political and media institutions as the culprits: thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
thediasporist.de
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.
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NSW Premier Minns has always been anti protest. His latest ban on peaceful assemblies & protests is racist & divisive. We will resist - silence on #genocide is unethical. Read this piece by Nick Riemer
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West
Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.
michaelwest.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
NSW Premier Minns has always been anti protest. His latest ban on peaceful assemblies & protests is racist & divisive. We will resist - silence on #genocide is unethical. Read this piece by Nick Riemer
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
Following on from @jennaprice.bsky.social's SMH article about Bondi, where she laments the appointment of Jillian Segal as Antisemitism Envoy, has anyone seen detailed coverage of how it came to pass, if any others were in contention etc etc? #auspol
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Following on from @jennaprice.bsky.social's SMH article about Bondi, where she laments the appointment of Jillian Segal as Antisemitism Envoy, has anyone seen detailed coverage of how it came to pass, if any others were in contention etc etc? #auspol
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What do we want? - "Social cohesion!"
When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!"
That one might need a bit more work.
When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!"
That one might need a bit more work.
December 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
What do we want? - "Social cohesion!"
When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!"
That one might need a bit more work.
When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!"
That one might need a bit more work.
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I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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Seeing a lot of thoughts about the Bondi shooting and guns, especially from Americans. Some context: guns are not a fact of life in Australia. So much so it is hard to put into words how weird their presence is. The total lack of firearms in everyday life means we don't think about guns. Ever.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Seeing a lot of thoughts about the Bondi shooting and guns, especially from Americans. Some context: guns are not a fact of life in Australia. So much so it is hard to put into words how weird their presence is. The total lack of firearms in everyday life means we don't think about guns. Ever.
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Too young for Instagram, not too young for an ankle monitor...
The legislation removes the requirement for either the child, or their parent or guardian, to consent to wearing the device.
Children as young as 10 to be fitted with ankle monitors under proposed laws
The legislation removes the requirement for either the child, or their parent or guardian, to consent to wearing the device.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Too young for Instagram, not too young for an ankle monitor...
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Boycott Elsevier!
A call to arms for the research and repository worlds. For the benefit of all of us, really!
A call to arms for the research and repository worlds. For the benefit of all of us, really!
Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Boycott Elsevier!
A call to arms for the research and repository worlds. For the benefit of all of us, really!
A call to arms for the research and repository worlds. For the benefit of all of us, really!
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Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Don't you think the public has a reasonable expectation that the Commissioner of the NACC being paid well above $800,000 would consider this a full time job and not also seek to freelance outside of it?
If there's a better image of Teal political impotence, I haven't seen it yet.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If there's a better image of Teal political impotence, I haven't seen it yet.
It's either moral cowardice or collusion , no other choices.
NSW Minns gov: 'No Pride in Genocide' is a statement that's too political and that we can't be seen choosing sides on genocide
Already have 🙄
Jayden Kitchener-Waters: "we won't be going away until he stands in front of the camera and admits that there's a genocide happening in Gaza right now"
Already have 🙄
Jayden Kitchener-Waters: "we won't be going away until he stands in front of the camera and admits that there's a genocide happening in Gaza right now"
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It's either moral cowardice or collusion , no other choices.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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This is insane
"Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is 'almost certain' she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw her current books because of the banning of Palestine Action under terrorism laws."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is insane
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The moral vacuity of signing up to "a “just, orderly and equitable” transition away from fossil fuels" because fossil fuel GHG emissions are incompatible with the 1.5°C goal, then immediately reaffirming that Australia will "continue to develop new fossil fuel projects"
JFC
JFC
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge
Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields
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The Albanese government is being urged to explain how it will drive a fossil fuel phase-out, after it joined dozens of countries at a UN climate summit to back a declaration that the world should quickly wean off coal, gas and oil.
Australia signed up to the declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels at a side event at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belem, which finished on Saturday night local time, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The moral vacuity of signing up to "a “just, orderly and equitable” transition away from fossil fuels" because fossil fuel GHG emissions are incompatible with the 1.5°C goal, then immediately reaffirming that Australia will "continue to develop new fossil fuel projects"
JFC
JFC
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This guy's position became untenable years ago. And yet here we still are, where everytime someone looks at something it just gets worse.
A previous disclosure that the head of the federal corruption watchdog had been consulted 11 times has been corrected to 21 following questions from the ABC.
Defence inspector inadvertently omitted 10 consultations with NACC chief
A previous disclosure that the head of the federal corruption watchdog had been consulted 11 times has been corrected to 21 following questions from the ABC.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This guy's position became untenable years ago. And yet here we still are, where everytime someone looks at something it just gets worse.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you would like to support APHEDA in their good work in Palestine you can sponsor me in the Big Ride for Palestine here big-ride-4-pal.raiselysite.com/kym-chapple
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Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!
1. If America were fascist right now, I would not be posting here. Neither would you.
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!
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The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
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CCS magick! Subsidised coal! Private mini nukes!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
CCS magick! Subsidised coal! Private mini nukes!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
It's all just made up and will never even have to try and survive contact with the reality of an actual political or investment decision. But let's keep talking about it for weeks like it matters!
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@jennaprice.bsky.social is right. This is much more than dumb incompetence. WTF is wrong with @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social that he doesn’t see the problem with the NSW Police + the man he has just appointed as commissioner
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@jennaprice.bsky.social is right. This is much more than dumb incompetence. WTF is wrong with @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social that he doesn’t see the problem with the NSW Police + the man he has just appointed as commissioner
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www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
The remedy for this is not new laws, but for the @nswpolice.bsky.social to administer + enforce the laws we have. Also for Catley to be replaced by someone at least half competent #nswpol
The remedy for this is not new laws, but for the @nswpolice.bsky.social to administer + enforce the laws we have. Also for Catley to be replaced by someone at least half competent #nswpol
The key MP who tried and failed to stop Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
Speaker Greg Piper sounded the alarm on Friday, while Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane and Wentworth MP Allegra Spender have been subjected to threats after a neo-Nazi protest on Saturday.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
The remedy for this is not new laws, but for the @nswpolice.bsky.social to administer + enforce the laws we have. Also for Catley to be replaced by someone at least half competent #nswpol
The remedy for this is not new laws, but for the @nswpolice.bsky.social to administer + enforce the laws we have. Also for Catley to be replaced by someone at least half competent #nswpol