Australia: a vast country with a small population and huge natural resources. It could not possibly defend itself from an attack by a rapacious super power. This has always been Australia's existential nightmare. #Auspol

Kidnapping Venezuela's dictator then dismissing the leader of its democratic opposition then declaring ourselves in charge then pledging to work with the dictatorship then threatening it then threatening other nations is top-tier stabilization.

www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor... According to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), an independent conflict monitor, from January 1 to December 5, Israel carried out at least 10,631 attacks, marking one of the broadest geographic military offensives in a single year.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol Why does the Jewish community need its own special armed militia? If an armed CSG is the answer why was it that an unarmed 60 year-old couple, a shop keeper and a elderly man tackled these terrorists? Where was the CSG?

Australia beat England in the first Test in two days, but took four days to beat them in the second Test. At this rate, Australia will soon be needing all five days to beat England. Matthew Hamilton, Kew The Age letters

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... It is getting to the stage in Europe that if one side thinks that the other side might outpace them in military capacity in a couple of years it might be a "smart" manoeuvre to strike first. It's also worth pointing out that Russia has a smaller GDP than Canada.

I can't wait for the Hanson Joyce diumverate. It will be a political movement laser focused on grafting, focus pulling and sheer incompetence. #Auspol

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet... “They’re killing civilians in the first place, and then if you assume they’re combatants, it’s also unlawful—under the law of armed conflict, if somebody is ‘hors de combat’ and no longer able to fight, then they have to be treated humanely.”

How adorable that he thinks he will live that long.

Come on research nerds! Someone should do an Australian version. What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. #Auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... After gaining some traction because she is NOT the liberal party Hanson has decided to go full-bore with her moronic brand of racism. She has simply reminded people that she does not lead a vote-worthy party.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... #Auspol Why is this reported like some sort of random calamity and not a government decision? This is squarely an Albanese ALP government choice. And they are just as bad as the anti-science Liberal government they replaced!

At the behest of Pope Leo from the Southside, U.S. Catholic bishops voted 216–5 to condemn Trump and his Catholic VP JD Vance’s immigration raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing.” The vote represents one of the strongest rebukes the Church has ever given to a US president.

"A Nation that celebrates plunder" Ken Henry. #Auspol

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... So much for the government story that we had no defence ties with Israel. #Auspol

I don't think Australia is immune to fascism but I do think that this joining, unjoining, mutation, hybridisation that's going on with the rightwing parties is a road to nowhere. They need an Australian Trump. Someone who is a clean skin when it comes to politics. #Auspol

Tony Abbott; yesterday's man campaigning for yesterday's men so we can go back to yesterday. #Auspol

The end is in sight for coal. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

America is unravelling. The rest of the world can't help them and they can't seem to help themselves.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article... This is on par with Trump's pick of RFK junior as the Secretary of Health. Blair's tendency to "exaggerate" when dealing with the Arab world was called out by a 2016 UK government report on the Iraq war. This is a disaster waiting to happen

Strong man Trump: Let's Israel lead him around by his nose. Has a summit with Putin and Russia tests NATO defences within a few weeks Has a public shitfit about escalator malfunction. Gets mean comedians taken off the air.

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The headlines should be, but won't be: "Trump embarrasses himself and the US in incoherent, rambling, shameful speech at the UN"

"The response to the latest attempt to impose a terrorist state in the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States. Wait for it." -Netanyahu What a two bit gangster is Netanyahu. What's he going to do to Australia? Bomb us? #Auspol

"There are no evident examples of a UN member country ceding recognised, independent territory to another UN member following a war or invasion"...."since the end of World War Two" theconversation.com/since-wwii-i...

Opposing the Italian state's war aims in the 1930s would not make one an anti-Italian racist just as opposing Israel actions in Gaza today does not make one antisemitic. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's now obvious that the far right of the Liberal Party is stalking Sussan Ley. Expect more resignations and provocations. Sky News and The Australian will start spewing their hate towards her as if on cue. #Auspol

I believe firmly in gun control. This is meant as no disrespect to Charlie Kirk.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Guns are the answer to political disagreement?

Israel is hellbent on a generalised regional conflict. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

America looks feeble to the rest of the world. It lets Israel lead it around by the nose. Killing negotiators in an allied country that it had invited for talks is despicable and counter productive. Israel wants this war to drag on and it does not care about consequences. Because there are none.

Evidence! Why do we need it when it does not confirm our beliefs/prejudice? It would seem that immigration has not caused the housing crisis in Australia. #auspol #housing crisis australiainstitute.org.au/post/is-popu...

It looks as though the conflating of anti-Semitic incidents and pro-Palestinian activism was pure bullshit. Don't expect any reflection from the usual suspects. #Auspol

I wonder why most of the Western world's governments have turned on the Netanyahu government only now? Israel has behaved with the utmost contempt for Palestinian lives and international law for years. It sounds conspiratorial but I don't think we are being told the truth about this change of heart.

BREAKING: Six GOP-led states are sending a total of 1,200 National Guard troops to assist Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown. But the states those troops came from have higher crime rates than the nation’s capital. The New Republic has investigated the numbers: trib.al/T87rByh

The Organic Gardening Podcast: S2 Ep34: December: how to grow the perfect Brussel sprout, plus Helen Browning's organic farm Starting from: 00:00:00 Episode webpage: audioboom.com/posts/7990504 Media file: op3.dev/e/audioboom....

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... At last some trenchant criticism of Israel by the national broadcaster. I wonder how long this will stay on the ABC news site? #auspol #Gaza

Don't get me wrong Australia recognising Palestine as a state is a step forward but it will do nothing to solve the immediate, planned famine and genocide being commited by Israel. Australia must force the issue when it comes to lifting the siege and blockade of Gaza.

#auspol #Gaza Why does Marles play such puerile word games when it comes to banning the supply of Australian defence materiel to Israel? He's arguing we shouldn't do it because we don't. Why not just yeah we'll ban the sales but hey folks we don't sell anything to Israel anyway.

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

The lessons of WWII's Dutch Hunger Winter are stark: Famine like what's happening in Gaza will have effect children for generations to come. “I really feel the generations before me urging me to speak out,” Dr. Tessa Roseboom told Reveal/Mother Jones in 2024. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israel has an insatiable appetite for the destruction of Palestine.

It's only in the last few years that the population of Ireland has recovered after the Potato Famine. It's taken 170 years to get back to the pre-famine population figures. Just like the famine in Ireland the famine in Gaza is a premeditated political act.

What Israel is doing in Gaza has nothing to do with fighting a war. Did the allies continue to bomb and strafe Berlin after they won the war? I'm sure Berlin was still full of Nazi sympathisers in 1946.

I've come to the realisation when states commit genocide they are not necessarily out to kill every last member of a despised people. They want to kill enough for whatever outcome is desired. In Australia and America it was about killing enough of the indigenous peoples to take their land. #auspol