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Tookie Gill

@tookiegill.bsky.social

Dr Supatra Gill. Writer, poet, bogwitch, biodiversity and land manager on the unceded mountain lands of the Wolgalu people, Snowy Valleys NSW. she/her. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 DoB 315 CO2

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Maranoa Girl@maranoagirl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Western governments, including Australia and New Zealand, have backed US and Israeli strikes on Iran. But the decision risks economic catastrophe, regional escalation and the further erosion of international law. 🙋‍♀️👋 I. Do. Not. Support. US-Israeli Racist-Religious-Rapacious-War. I. Do. NOT.

Wendy Harmer@wendyharmer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Re-watching 'Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich' on Netflix. It is profoundly shocking the victims, ingnored by AG Pam Bondi, have still not found true justice. And so many more stories not told.

God@thegodshow.com · 9mo ago

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

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Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve attached a chapter here from a 2004 book that describes the revving up of the US Atlas Network & linked operations that set out to change America for the dark money donors, controversial industries & everyone who hated modernity. Think of #Auspol #NZpol for the parallels.

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...

THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... Powell then laid out the strategy that the Right would follow in the coming decades, whereby conservative business interests would create and underwrite a "movement" to front its agenda in the media. Under Powell's plan, heavily subsidized "scholars, writers, and thinkers" speaking "for the movement" would press for "balance" and "equal time" to penetrate the media, thereby shaping news coverage, reframing issues, influencing the views of political elites, and changing mass public opinion. These would be the manufactured "intellectuals" referenced by Efron, marketed in the media to "expand the spectrum." They would be housed in new "national organizations" in an effort "undertaken long term" with "generous financial support." Appended to Powell's original copy of the memo was a column by conservative writer John Chamberlain from the Richmond Times-Dispatch summarizing the findings of Edith Efron from The News Twisters. While it was well circulated in the business community, the Powell document remained a secret until columnist Jack Anderson wrote about its recommendations for "confrontational politics" in the context of Powell's fitness for the Supreme Court, to which he was nominated shortly after writing the memo and where justices were supposed to be strictly impartial. 2 In the White House, Powell's patron Richard Nixon already had broached the subject of building a privately funded parallel political establishment that could further the conservative ideological cause, and attack his political enemies, while remaining nominally independent of the GOP. According to the diaries of his White House aide H. R. Haldeman, on September 12, 1970, Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc." Buchanan had sent Nixon a memo urging him to establish "a conservative counterpoint to Brookings." A second major document establishing plans for the Right's media…