Proportional representation We don't have it, instead we have problems: the rise of PHON, & the ability for 'major' politicians to disrespect democracy because they align with power more than the public. 34% isn't a large *popular vote* #auspol #ICYMI independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

The debate Australia's two-party system won't allow

Australia's adversarial two-party system is stifling democratic reform, making the case for proportional representation stronger than ever.

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Investors in Japan collectively own about $1 trillion in US Treasuries - no wonder the US had to intervene to save itself

US buys yen to stop Japan from wrecking America's bond market

Investors in Japan collectively own about $1 trillion in US Treasuries - no wonder the US had to intervene to save itself

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'The resistance decided to call their bluff with reciprocity: Weapons would be relinquished gradually if Israel withdrew and guarantors enforced the deal. Israel's rejection of the deal came within 24 hours' interesting thread ↓

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 21h ago

💢The Resistance Calls Israel’s Bluff Dr. Sami Al-Arian tells Jeremy Scahill that Palestinian factions accepted a deeply contentious weapons decommissioning roadmap to put Israel, the Trump-led Board of Peace, regional mediators & the broader international community on the spot. “It was a bitter...

"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations

Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office.

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Study: methane gas emissions would be reduced by about 20 % in ten years if stopping bovine livestock. A climate policy could be to generalize the current practice of turning male calves into steers. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Dr. James Hansen: "If we want the accelerated warming to slow down, we must get Earth’s energy imbalance to decrease. That means the world needs to get serious about reducing the human made climate forcing, and the world has not got very serious yet."

Climate forcing: some activities force the climate to drift. Forcing activities include fossil energies, mining, bovine husbandry, tree plantations, etc. 🧵

People build in forests because they love forests. But forests also burn. What is happening near Spokane is a tragedy—and a warning about decades of allowing homes to spread through fire-prone landscapes. Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint may face an even greater reckoning.

More than 700 structures lost as 65,000 evacuate in Washington state wildfires

Officials have yet to determine how many of the destroyed structures were homes, businesses or schools. No injuries have been reported.

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'Renters' have abandoned the coalition They'll now look for candidates from the left who will help them Max Chandler-Maher's recommendations were more limited than NYC's Zohran Mamdani's. All that propaganda was a complete waste of time .. if effective #auspol theconversation.com/new-study-sh...

Why still lie? Murdoch press: 'How green policies fuel fires in Europe' and 'Burned areas are disproportionately nature-protected lands' Meanwhile in the same media: "As wildfires rage, Britain isn't ready for its boiling hot future".. #Pitchforks #auspol #WTF www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/08/0...

Right-wing press blame anything but human-made climate change for deadly wildfires

Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe's blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes.

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Jillian Segal & Mark Leibler will be unhappy. Legal rulings are noticed elsewhere (the colonies). And yes, it is a coherent argument when someone says Zionism is 'a racist ideology' and can also be described as "colonial and imperialistic" =/ #auspol www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-appe...

'Coherent to describe Zionism as racist': UK tribunal upholds protection for anti-Zionist beliefs

Court says Zionism could also be described as imperialistic as University of Bristol loses appeal over professor's dismissal

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Moving rubble destroys evidence of genocide. Israel is doing it on an industrial scale. 10 million tons of rubble have been moved by “approximately 400 heavy pieces of excavation, demolition, crushing, and transport machinery” consortiumnews.com/2026/08/04/i...

Israel ‘Destroying Crucial Evidence of Genocide’ in Gaza

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces, by moving millions of tons of rubble that belong to Palestinians, are apparently violating a World Court order to preserve criminal evi...

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They refused to leave when Israel told them to. Israel bombed the mosque and their bodies have finally been found 1/2

sounds like now is a good time for non fascists to visit and support camp sovereignty in melbourne www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Police hunt for offenders after alleged assault on Camp Sovereignty

Victoria Police are investigating an allegation of assault at Camp Sovereignty with a 37-year-old victim treated for facial injuries.

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4/8 2026 #Gaza #begraver 112 #palæstinensere næsten tre år efter Israels massakre #Palæstina #eupol #dkpol www.puls48.dk?post_type=se...

Gaza begraver 112 palæstinensere næsten tre år efter Israels massakre

Gaza begraver tirsdag 112 palæstinensere fra familierne Abu Sharia og al-Hassayna, næsten tre år efter at Israel bombede deres boligområde i Sabra-kvarteret i Gaza City. Blandt de dræbte er 40 børn…

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Some toddlers in Gaza have no family, have lost limbs. The murder hasn’t stopped, nor has hunger and death. Here? Anthony Albanese’s gutlessness is an affirmation of Israel’s intention to kill Palestinians. Lots and lots of them, of all ages. #fuckIsrael #fuckLabor #auspol

If you don’t want a head full of slop Don’t read garbage media Don’t support crap media Support accurate Indi media

"There will be no end to this war unless there us a complete and unquestionable defeat" @freepalestinetv.bsky.social's Laith Marouf joins the latest episode to give an accurate analysis on the war in the ME removed from the propaganda that blurs this reality. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIb...

"The only thing stopping Australia from introducing new taxes on the gas industry is the insecurity of our elected leaders." Read an excerpt from co-CEO Richard Denniss' latest Vantage Point essay 'More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia', in Crikey! #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

Australian sodium battery start-up claims world-first milestones as storage industry looks beyond lithium, but the technology is excluded from home battery rebate scheme https://ow.ly/48t850Zw17q

Australian sodium battery start-up claims major milestones as storage industry starts to look beyond lithium

Australian sodium battery start-up claims world-first milestones as storage industry looks beyond lithium, but the technology is excluded from home battery rebate scheme.

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#auspol We need the heavy lifting AIR CRANES, Elvis, Erickson S-64 Air-Crane heavy-lift helicopters in time for 2027 and to start training pilots now www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907321...

Aircraft debate rages ahead of summer bushfire threat

Experts are calling on the government to urgently invest in its own firefighting aircraft as the planes are...

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#auspol We really only have one year to prepare, that potentially could be a big one. As with Global Warming the time to act is NOW! michaelwest.com.au/aerial-firef...

No money for aerial fire figthing, lots for overseas shipyards. - Michael West

Government failing to fund aerial firefighting capability. Plenty of AUKUS cash to invest overseas but nothing for firefighting planes.

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According to the statement, Trumps targeting criteria mean they have likely killed civilians. I doubt this is the first time he’s ordered death www.alternet.org/boat-strike/we

Classified documents reveal Trump Pentagon committed 'murder': senator

A U.S. senator revealed that he's seen the official “execute order” signed by President Donald Trump that outlines the criteria for oat strikes in the Caribbean. In a letter to the White House, Sen. T...

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This'll work !! Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor .. while neighbouring Hungary said it may be able to eke out two more days of power from its only atomic plant." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor

Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output

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The Cradle publishes one piece of analysis most days. They have a high standard. This one is unforgettable. Trump now has his name on a highway in the Western Sahara thecradle.co/articles/his...

His Majesty's plunder: The royal machine behind the Trump Highway and Western Sahara's phosphate wealth

Trump's naming of a highway in occupied Western Sahara exposes the network of political, economic, and royal interests linking Morocco, Israel, and the US through phosphate, trade, and occupation.

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This is a really good outcome: when comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany are used to criticise Israel.. "Germany cannot automatically criminalise them when they form part of an unmistakable condemnation of Israeli violence" www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-...

German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'

The court also rejected the suggestion that comparing Israel’s conduct with Nazi Germany automatically trivialised the Holocaust or incited hatred

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Ten months after a 400-page legal petition demanded an apology for the Balfour Declaration & its aftermath, Downing Street has said nothing Victor Kattan - One principle runs through all of it: legal obligations do not lapse because they become inconvenient www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/refu...

As the Refugee Convention turns 75, Britain owes Palestine an answer

Ten months after a 400-page legal petition demanded an apology for the Balfour Declaration and its aftermath, Downing Street has said nothing

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Antony Loewenstein; "sraeli electoral manipulation services are for sale to the highest bidder"

Twelve years ago. Listen.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is Dr James Hansen, the then NASA scientist who woke the world up to climate change in 1988. He warns here that climate change will be the equivalent devastation to a direct hit from an asteroid. The media doesn’t believe this and so won’t make it clear to you.