Peter Davidson 🇦🇺 Peadar MacDhaibhidh 🏴
@petedavo.bsky.social
Retired in Western Australia 🇦🇺 Get your popcorn and enjoy the ride. Scrutiny, exposure, truths, juxtapositions, and scepticism. Tracking extremists, South East Asian terrorism and insurgency threats. Was on X as petedavo_au and petedavo_world
Lisa Millar visits the Western Australian town of Augusta and meets Zac and Dr Wayne Webb, a father and son who work together to preserve a 73,000-year-old cave. youtube.com/watch?v=oqXs...
This cave holds the hidden clues to an ancient civilisation | Back Roads | ABC Australia
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Plane Hijacker Circles Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Plant — Gripen Fighters Scrambled to Intercept https://www.byteseu.com/2318421/ In Hungary, a young man hijacked a light aircraft and flew it into restricted airspace over the country’s only nuclear power plant, Paks. The incident was confirmed by …
Plane Hijacker Circles Hungary's Paks Nuclear Plant — Gripen Fighters Scrambled to Intercept - Bytes Europe
In Hungary, a young man hijacked a light aircraft and flew it into restricted airspace over the country's only nuclear power plant, Paks. The incident was
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So far this year, Hegseth has removed at least 45 officers, selected by boards made up of peers, from promotion lists. More than half of those officers have been female or Black. These actions appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is meant to be apolitical and merit-based.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 11h agoHow many rounds of "purge widens" headlines is this?
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
Mount Kailash, Sacred to 4 Faiths, Drew Pilgrims Lost in Nepal and Tibet Floods (Gift Article)
The peak is revered by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and those belonging to the pre-Buddhist Bon religion.
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Imagine talking to anyone in media and choosing to be identified as an ally of Vance. Baffling. Anyway why would you bother putting effort into convincing anyone that Vance is a weird friendless loser. No wonder his mother tried to trade him for opiates.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 23h ago"Do you think we're fucking stupid?" Allies of JD Vance say an "op" is underway to sabotage his 2028 prospects. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-plot-t...
omg. This is how a society devours itself. We can’t be cowards. We need to stand up to bullies. (Gift article ) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/b...
Roy Cohn, Robert Mapplethorpe and a Trump-Era Dilemma Over Free Speech (Gift Article)
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.
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Homeland Security said Monday he'd stay in custody pending removal. He was home Tuesday. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
This is an entire generation’s work of molding senior leaders. Now, instead of leveraging them, we’re just firing them.
Imagine spending many millions of dollars to train and develop personnel for senior leadership. You spend decades selecting the best, promoting them, selecting the best from that smaller group, and so on, for decades. Then, when you’ve selected the very best of the best… you summarily fire them.
“Many of the senior Army officers fired or forced out by Mr. Hegseth gathered Thursday at Fort Bragg, N.C., for General Donahue’s retirement ceremony. The tone at the gathering was somber — one former military official in attendance described it as a ‘state funeral.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens (Gift Article)
The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.
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"Fired more missiles in 15 months than in the last 30 years" is an incredible sentence, brought to you be incredible reporting by Jeff Schogol.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · last yr.The Navy has been firing a lot of missiles lately, and they're starting to run out
www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/st... Only a third of the count reported so far. Some booths haven't even had their count recorded at all. So far though looks like it's going PHONs way. But with 2/3 of the count yet to be added and each booth being wildly divergent it's too early to call
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Fired Stars and Stripes Journalists Hit Pentagon With a Federal Lawsuit, Alleging Their Termination Aimed To Bury a USS Abraham Lincoln Report www.themarysue.com/fired-stars-...
Fired Stars and Stripes journalists hit Pentagon with a federal lawsuit, alleging their termination aimed to bury a USS Abraham Lincoln report
Fired Stars and Stripes journalists hit Pentagon with federal lawsuit, alleging their termination aimed to bury a USS Abraham Lincoln report
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Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. 1. Crosby Stills & Nash 2. Mondo Rock 3. Renee Geyer 4. The Wiggles 5. John Butler 6. Eskimo Joe 7. Mucky Duck Bush Band 8. VCapri 9. Kevin Bloody Wilson 10. The Settlers
It's completely Labor's fault. They run a candidate that was former Woodside spoke person and who openly declared herself as pro-gas candidate, at the moment when taxing gas has overwhelming support among all voters youtu.be/zA5lonT0WfI
She Really Thought Nobody Would Notice | Punters Politics
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As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel's government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/isra...
Israel just took another major step towards West Bank annexation
As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel’s government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli…
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Dave Hughes's 'common sense' is just another rich person whining, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "Hughes’ wealth is neither common, nor his complaints based in sense." www.deepcutnews.com/p/dave-hughe...
Dave Hughes’s ‘common sense’ is just another rich person whining – Amy Remeikis
We hear too often about the concerns of the rich, and not enough about the concerns of Australia’s silenced majority
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Bird flu signage is popping up. This is at Thompson Beach. I have the hotline number in my phone, just in case.
“So much of what our frontline staff do is navigating systems,” Katie Wynn says. “The systems aren’t listening to each other. Only two weeks ago we had to move someone after a government department disclosed our location to the user of violence.” trib.al/lZkHSHl
Housing shortages worsen abuse crisis
Frontline workers in overflowing refuges say women and children escaping abuse desperately need more housing to be funded in the federal government’s upcoming action plan.
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Palantir's Gotham tech helped to kill 25k kids in Gaza, & also behind the 'precision targeting' of the 150 Minab schoolgirls in Iran So naturally the Aus govt thought it was a top idea to bring them onboard the NDIS! #auspol youtu.be/Z7yQVfg9OKo?...
How Palantir has infiltrated the Government | Michael West
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India-China competition in the Indian Ocean: stability is not a reset ->Asia Times | More on "India-China relations and competition" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ocean
India-China competition in the Indian Ocean: stability is not a reset
This article first appeared in Pacific Forum and is republished with permission. Read the original here. There are multiple interpretations of where the India-China relationship stands today. Is there a thaw? Are the two sides gradually moving toward a reset? Or are ties still tense? The reality lies somewhere in between. Since the Galwan Valley clashes in 2020, India has sought to manage ties with China, and there has been some momentum. The August 2025 meeting between Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, along with some easing of restrictions on Chinese investment, suggests that both sides are now inclined toward preventing bilateral tensions from escalating further. However, stabilization should not be confused with a reset. The fundamental sources of tension, including the boundary dispute, trade imbalance, security competition in South Asia, and broader strategic contest in the Indo-Pacific remain. The disengagement along parts of the border has reduced the immediate risk of another confrontation but has not resolved the underlying differences and strategic mistrust that has deepened since 2020. The developments of recent years have created a sense of normality, but not normalization. In this context, the current situation could only be described as fragile stabilization alongside continued strategic competition. That...
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I wrote a thesis on how H5N1 could spillovet into other animals. It consists of a title that is, coincidentally, also the content. "Birds crap everywhere" The End
For generations, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were portrayed as an isolated people who vanished with the death of Truganini in 1876. But genetics, historical records, oral traditions, and modern research reveal a dramatically different story. youtube.com/watch?v=rcz2...
Geneticists Revealed The Tasmanian Aboriginals Were Never Who We Thought | Here's What The DNA Shows
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NOAA Map Shows States Bracing for 110-Degree Heat as September Begins www.mensjournal.com/news/noaa-ma...
NOAA Map Shows States Bracing for 110-Degree Heat as September Begins
September is almost here, but NOAA’s latest map shows a sprawling extreme-heat threat may only be getting started.
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“Forgive the thought: There probably isn’t enough sildenafil in the world that could help at this point. The Trumpists’ claim that Ossoff was suggesting hanky-panky was a diversion from what they know the real problem to be: Trump’s diseased mental state.” gtconway.substack.com/p/1-a-note-o...
1. A note on the President’s psychosis
Trump lives in his own world—not a good place for someone with nuclear weapons to be
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The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”