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An Israeli military probe found that friendly fire may have killed the settler in last month’s deadly clash with West Bank residents, which led to a major escalation by Israeli forces. The IDF only needed an excuse to take over the West Bank, even if it was based on a false narrative.
The Australian Labor Party now stands for nothing except the self-interest of its professional politicians and their backers. It places the interests of the mining industry, gambling and the American Empire above that of current and future ordinary Australians. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Gambling ad reforms at risk as Labor draws line on major changes
Labor is unlikely to entertain major changes to its gambling ad crackdown despite the bill being friendless in parliament.
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“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Andrew Brown on the Royal Commission into Antisemitism. michaelwest.com.au/royal-commis...
Royal Commission into Antisemitism a "$131 Million Whinge" - Michael West
Royal Commission into Antisemitism will not defeat antisemitism. It is a government buying absolution with $131m of public money
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Wasn't privatising Qantas/TAA a wonderful deal for Australia? 😡
Senator David Shoebridge@davidshoebridge.bsky.social · yesterdayThey’re using AI to justify slashing and offshoring even more Australian jobs and the Government is standing by and watching it happen. Ask yourself who profits from this? We need a system that delivers for the 99% who need jobs not the 1% who live off profits.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
ABC News: "Anti-Defamation League chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt is on the frontline of fighting antisemitism in the United States and has turned his attention to Australia during a visit this week." So apparently he's not a shill for Israel at all!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'Get this right': Top US Jewish leader's stark warning for Australia
The leader of one of the world's most high-profile Jewish organisations says Australia faces a crucial test on how it tackles the rise of antisemitism.
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Global warming has sped up since around 2015, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) STOP SUBSIDISING & BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ‼️ You too, AUS‼️ #ClimateCrisis More #BlackSummers
RFK jr has finally been forced to tell people to vaccinate against Measles after infection numbers for 2026 are higher than all of the 21st Century combined and every year since 1991. The stupid anti-vax movement is dead.
AGREE with one exception: The time to remove “centrist Dems” is NOW IN PRIMARIES. In November our choice is binary - Democrats V Republicans, as we have no multi-party system. Now is NOT a time for far Left (divide the Left) 3rd Party like DSA, as Putin & RU trolls know! UNITE USA with DEMS TO WIN!
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Temps in the Arctic circle of more that 100F. Europe on fire... Now where was that article I was reading about why Gen Z and Millennials aren't having kids... oh yes... a "cultural shift" hmmm. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires
Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.
abc.net.au
Tim Costello shocks the Senate after revealing a young man in prison who had his life turned upside down from gambling was being offered drugs & escorts by TAB & SportsBet as inducements “He was given escorts” & “asked, ‘what drugs you like?’” And we’re still just debating ads?
So we are now left with a question: what lies ahead for our nation when even the most electorally secure and least conservative of the major political parties cannot brook any public discussion of one of the most divisive policies it has ever sought to implement. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/03/l...
The public loses — twice — when media and Labor leadership play cat and mouse
Labor managed to dodge any drama at its national conference, partly thanks to a defensive relationship with the media. But with matters like AUKUS, dissent is waiting in the wings.
crikey.com.au
Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.
Hey, get in line behind *millions* of people, including Native Americans driven from their land and slaughtered, kidnapped Africans who were enslaved and lynched, women treated like property, LGBTQ people demeaned and treated like they didn’t matter, you crybaby, self-indulgent loser.
They Fought Back Against Violent Settlers. Now They're Branded as Terrorists. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
They fought back against violent settlers. Now they're branded as terrorists
Settlers have a method: They establish an outpost, provoke Palestinians and try to provoke a violent response on the path to dispossession. That's what happened in Tell, and the next day in the remote...
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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
Unsealed court files revealed earlier this year that the company [Anthropic] was engaging in the practice of “destructive scanning” – buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
theguardian.com
Gaza authorities recover another 112 bodies buried under rubble
Gaza authorities recover another 112 bodies buried under rubble
After more than two years of Israeli strikes, authorities in Gaza continue to recover human remains buried under rubble, twisted metal and destroyed concrete. Thousands of people's remains are still unaccounted for in Gaza, many of them similarly believed to be buried under rubble after intense Israeli air strikes.
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
Kim Carr: A strong ALP is not one in which nobody asks difficult questions. It is one in which difficult questions are asked early, answered seriously and converted into better collective decisions. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/07...
Labor needs debate, not managed unanimity
Long-term Labor governments need discipline, but unity becomes brittle when caucus is reduced to managed unanimity and MPs cannot test decisions before they harden.
pearlsandirritations.com
I am such a geek! I saw the International Space Station passing over Perth this morning before dawn (walking the dog). I got such a rush. 🤪
Israeli occupiers, under army protection, raided areas west of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby town of Tell on Friday morning, while the army arrested 14 Palestinians and injured 11 others during multiple raids in multiple cities. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260731-isr...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel is conducting pogroms in the West Bank. Israel is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" in Lebanon, Syria. Israel lit an unprovoked war against Iran. OF COURSE ALL OF ISRAEL SHOULD BE BOYCOTTED. You need a name change: Labour Friends of GENOCIDE. #ukpolitics
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
