VacuousNess

@vacuousness.bsky.social

Escapee from the now 🏴‍☠️🦅 Free Speech is never 'free'. It aways comes with responsibility and consequences. #Auspol Addict.

Chilling, indeed. And, an incredibly accurate explanation of what is happening now. The thing is, there's far more of us than there are of them. And, they know it. When we 'get' that, will we continue to allow division, or seek to trust each other, & work with a shared set of ethics & values?

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 22h ago

🤯CHILLING: In 1967, a woman who escaped the Nazis wrote one sentence that explains 2026 better than any headline today. Hannah Arendt saw it coming 60 years early. Here's the warning everyone ignored:

“I've reported 18 wars over 35 years. I've been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I've lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I'd seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza, or the complicity letting it happen.” – Janine di Giovanni #Gaza #FreePalestine

“I've reported 18 wars over 35 years. I've been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I've lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I'd seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen.”
– Janine di Giovanni
CEO and Executive Director,
The Reckoning Project

"How do you broker UN climate talks when your own country is a big coal & gas exporter?" You don't. End of story. (You stand there looking & sounding like the bald-faced hypocrite that you actually are.) Jesus! Have you NO SHAME, Bowen? Sending the planet to its death for ... what? More money?!

How do you broker UN climate talks when your own country is a big coal and gas exporter? Chris Bowen is about to find out

The climate change minister dismisses concerns about whether Australia as a major producer can keep the world moving away from fossil fuels

theguardian.com

Ditto Australia and around the world, in fact ... 'cept for Albo, who hasn't figured that out yet - that he doesn't need to - & should not - drag us kicking & screaming backwards into that old belief system that does not work for anyone ... except the old blokes touting it ... & killing to get it.

American Jews are quietly divorcing the Zionist consensus

A growing number of American Jews no longer identify with Zionism, and the old assumption that Jewish identity demands loyalty to Israel's government is coming apart

pearlsandirritations.com

Texas was told it was for sale, and voted otherwise. Musk's record midterm spending didn't buy the result, Palmer's three campaigns bought no House seats, and the harder question is now the quiet influence the voters can't see. blakandblack.com/2026/11/08/n...

Not for Sale: The Voters Who Refused to Be Bought

The mid-term elections in the USA have shown that voters are aware of the manipulation of sentiments by large donors and will vote contrary to donor wishes.

blakandblack.com

Not unsurprising but still disappointing how the Press Gallery has swallowed whole the story that the government needs to cut spending. Saw one even say unemployment going up to 5% is fine. So many sheep