Trump's next announcement imminent

Veteran oil economist Michael Hudson explains how the Trump-Israel war on Iran is drastically transforming the global economy & how this is the culmination of a decades-old plan to maintain US hegemony, wth esp implications for China mronline.org/2026/03/31/t... Compulsory viewing

Apocalypse ... soon? www.facebook.com/reel/1276069...

If Trump and his goons proceed to destroy electricity & desalination plants for Iran's 93m people, the sale of the genocide that will follow may be unprecedented. Republicans & MAGA zealots stood by. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Am I the only one very curious why there seem to be no photos of the rescued airman? @lintonbesser.bsky.social

One Nation,Canavan & Hastie to announce new policy on mandatory subject for girls in schools when they come to power. Here's the textbook from Dorothy Carnegie 1954 & sample contents. @janecaro.bsky.social @vanbadham.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social @deemadigan.bsky.social @mfwitches.bsky.social

We all constantly worry about our kids & grandkids. I've made it to 74 unscathed. But this cat's had (at least) 9 lives. Here they are. simonchapman6.com/2022/01/23/t...

My annual excuse to post this

In the pantheon of 20-21st century barbarians, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Amin, the leaders of the Rwandan genocide are all in the front rank. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin have now cemented their legacies among these ghouls www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

BEWARE of this purportedly AMAZING Facebook site on renewable energy and scientifc breakthroughs/developments. Do your own fact check on any one of its posts. Absolute BB www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

This wind farm is on the Gobi Desert. One day's wind power generation in Gansu reached 227 GWh. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #RenewableEnergy #GreenNewDeal

Those delightful people in the ecigarette industry have developed a potential entirely synthetic nicotine analogue not derived from nicotine to allow them to evade any regs on nicotine & describe ecigs as nicotine free. Whatever it takes .... www.at-schweiz.ch/en/at-blog/6...

RFK Jr has one thing right about vaccines: there's nothing available for foot-in-mouth disease x.com/i/status/203...

Human taxonomists reporting that oil crisis has seen emergence of new human sub-species: Insufferabilis EVmobilus simonchapman6.com/2026/04/02/o...

“We’re announcing the deployment of an extra 12,000 troops to help finalise how completely we’ve already won and bring the already finalised mission to a final conclusion,” a White House spokesperson said. theshovel.com.au/2026/04/01/w...

@msf.ca reporting barbaric Israel targeting of medical workers & facilities in south Lebanon. With the genocide in Gaza and now this, Netanyahu has indelibly cemented Israel as a shameless pariah state, daily reconfiguring global understanding of disproportionality.

Asked on ABC radio if smuggled illegal cigs worse for health than "proper" cigs, a perennial BigTobacco talking point.The latter kill 2 in 3 long term users,(theconversation.com/smoking-new-...) so if illegals "worse", a bit like being worried in hell that temperature will be turned up 1-2 degrees.

No more credit & debit card surcharges. Thx RBA. Hope lots of monitoring of price rises locked in ... www.smh.com.au/business/con...

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Vaping theologians whip out their talismanic creed "But nearly all vapers used to/still smoke ... so vaping can't possibly cause any serious disease. It's all down to smoking" Oh ... wait www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @martinmckee.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

Don’t let this fly under the radar: the Trump administration wants to kick ~6 million more people off of food assistance programs, including nearly 2 million children. That would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

“World energy markets have changed forever." Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest turns Pilbara mining clean with $1.5B spend this year. Iran War speeds up the renewables transition #auspol michaelwest.com.au/climate-wars...

This brilliant speech by an arrested man in Queensland as he was hauled i to a police car has wonderfully been immortalised is Australia's National Sound Archive by popular vote. "A succulent Chinese meal" . Just perfect. youtu.be/PeihcfYft9w?...

Australians watch aghast at the shredding of women's rights in US

Massive No Kings rally in Washington, D.C.

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.

Breaking: A panicking Trump to stand down the wittering boy wonder Hesgeth and replace with seasoned legend in cold steel, don't panic homeland security www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0l...

At last week's illegal tobacco summit, the very impressive Julian Hill MP and the highly informed Commissioner Amber Shuhyta both put a pox on the "lower the tax" magic thinking as an antidote to illegal cigs. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=216...

It's nice that baristas take the trouble to make little foam pictures on our lattes, but I'm getting this one so often I'm beginning to wonder ....

The Californian verdict against Meta & Google has quickly been named their "BigTobacco" moment, long the index case & shorthand for corporate malfeasance. Google "just like the tobacco industry" & be buried in the breadth of the neme. See also tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/17/1...

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

🛜 Big tech’s big tobacco moment? #Meta and #Google found liable in landmark #SocialMedia #addiction trial A Los Angeles jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and Google over her childhood addiction to social media. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The crusades took place about five hundred years before the US was founded, and they were brutal and unsuccessful. The United States was not founded on Christian principles.

The El Fasher (Darfur) genocide. 10000 killed 40k missing. Almost unreported except by @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Donald Trump has told aides he has finished playing the Iran game now and someone else can clean it up. theshovel.com.au/2026/03/24/b...

Who benefited from yesterday's announcement by Trump that a ceasefire deal with Iran was close (soon denied by Iran). CLUE: those who played it on the stock market 15 mins before the announcement was made. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

I'm often asked by tentative EV purchasers "have you had much trouble having to queue for charging?" Well, actually NEVER. We charge 90% of time from our roof & when travelling from superchargers. Never once had to wait in 5yrs, even in school holidays. eg: outside Berry NSW south coast

Worried about EVs catching fire? Get a grip! Here's the Australian data -- and look at the causes

Irving Berlin's song about Hitler. Call radio stations & ask them to play it and click this to send it viral www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...

The wayback machine (internet archive) is down globally. Seriously hope it has not been hacked. Many fake news tellers & scoundrels would love to see its demise. www.isitdownrightnow.com/archive.org....

Nauseating to see tobacco companies carrying on their decades-old campaign in 2026 that THEIR lovely cigarettes are just "risky" but illicit cigs are lethal. Smoking kills 2 in 3 long term smokers with nicotine the irresistible cheese that baits mousetrap.

42y ago (1984) I helped display rejected portrait of 34yo smoker Jack Filbert,dying from lung cancer, at John Player exhibition at London Nat Portrait Gallery. Moments later Thatcher walked past to open it. My 50yr (free) career memoir full of similar stories ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

I've seldom read a more powerful piece than this one - on what it is like to know you have an incurable, fatal disease but, with modern immuno & targeted therapies -- not knowing with any vague precision, how long you have left. Highly recommended www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Imagine if you are the richest billionaire in Australia and the best political candidate you can bankroll is this muppet

The "lower tobacco tax" nonsense gets another walk around the block in today's Sydney Morning Herald. Here's why it fails primary school level arithmetic. simonchapman6.com/2026/03/20/a...