We set up our own off grid power and built a heap of small desalination plants for irrigation purposes. After 3 years the results are so good it would be a crime not to share the knowledge with other communities.

Australian media is like ' actually Venezuelans are stoked America bombed them....... Unreadable drivel, from all of them.

This is the best citation of my work yet www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Rich Berman is suuuuch a cunt

At least Pravda doesn't pretend to be anything other than state media propaganda.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

More and more AUKUS as a defence policy is essentially “our best way to stop being invaded is to keep bribing the USA”

End AUKUS

Ha! The “sports stars” petition for an Antisemitism Royal Commission was signed by Sam Newman. Yes, this guy, who platformed Nazis.

Now more than ever climate people should be talking about solar panels and wind turbines as tools of liberation. Break the hydrocarbon chain.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

This new era of American expansionism will fundamentally recast the global order. The UN is over. Any country that remains allied to the US through this era will be complicit in the collapse of democratic freedom as a concept.

Using democracy against democracy, you say?

Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance

Pure gangsterism. The US is in full empire mode now. They will take what they want when they want it. If you think this new era of American adventurism stops with Venezuela, you're probably a fool. The UN will twiddle its thumbs & consign itself to the same page of history as the League of Nations.

ABC news crossing now to the Rooty Hill RSL to gauge the mood in Western Sydney on the situation in Venezuela.

Absolute praxis

Leaders in Taiwan would be nervous tonight.

2/ ~old jk is best jk~

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

I wonder what's happening at Pine Gap tonight? I don't know for sure, but I have a fair idea, so Australia is already involved in Trump's bombing of Venezuela by default, simple as that. Pine Gap will be doing SIGINT, MILINT, RADSIG, etc as I type this, so Australia is already involved.

As per @amywestervelt.bsky.social's thesis, though, this isn't about Venezuela's oil but Guyana's.

If I recall, Venezuela paid out every oil company the value of their assets when they were nationalised.

Rules-Based International Order : 1 def. Nicolas Maduro : 0

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

ABC reporting a “period of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela” Venezuela hasn’t done anything. There is no rising tension, it’s just Trump.

The Australian government must unequivocally condemn the lawless aggression of the US if its position in the international community is to be taken seriously.

Well … the lesson is don’t Nationalise your oil unless you can beat America in a gun fight.

Trump is claiming they've captured Maduro. VP is apparently still safe? No idea what to expect if this is all true but certainly this is one of those days where weeks happen

Just a bottomless pit of corruption and grift.

This from 2024, we could just re-issue without a change. “An expansion of the already troubled AUKUS deal is yet another example of how Australia’s alliance with the United States makes our country less safe, the Australia Institute has said.” australiainstitute.org.au/post/aukus-e...

Uh, why are these mfers *masked*? (Pic from linked story)

Too bad, slopguy

Just imagining a world where the ALP had dumped AUKUS and the LNP alone were still clinging to the view that the US was the great protector. “Small target” oppositions lead to bad government policies.

Cool times

Our AUKUS partner showing off the shared values Richard Marles loves to talk about

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Your reminder that Australia's e-Safety Commissioner has said Roblox is a fine online place for kids to hang out and has exempted it from the under 16 ban. GitHub, however, is considered to be a social network and potentially subject to the ban. It all makes perfect sense.

So the Australian Banking Association and the Insurance Council of Australia want a Royal Commission do they? Interesting.

This is appalling. Criminals are targeting, and stealing from, Meta's own users using Meta's own tools and Meta's chief concern is how to hide that fact, rather than to actually stop them. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

We need this in Australia. Does e-safety want to do something genuinely useful with its remit, or is it just for tilting at windmills?

You would think one fucking Very Serious Commentator would’ve realised this by now, but seems no

Please when, Australia?

Trump’s new immigration push shows a concerning shift: language from Europe’s neo-Nazi fringe is now shaping U.S. policy. As DHS embraces “remigration” — a term designed to justify mass expulsion — the administration is turning white nationalist fantasy into the machinery of the U.S. government.

When the Q&A arrived, I asked "How many of the 50,000 attacks per hour are real attacks, versus ICMP Ping messages?" Well, not only did I never get an answer to that question - I was asked to leave by the PR who organised the event. /4

I wrote this in 2018. We are now seeing the fruits of that change. And unfortunately the lesson that it will eventually lead to antisemitism is happening in real time, with still very little awareness of their role in it.

A really good example of how right wing pro-Israel rhetoric often bleeds into antisemitism. The concept of defending "Western Civilization" is rooted in white nationalist antisemitism, but since many right wing Jews have bought into white nationalism they can't see what they're saying.

When 15 people are massacred by terrorists in Bondi, Netanyahu blames Albanese - and the media follows his cue. But Netanyahu commits mass murder and enforced starvation every day, and it’s silence from Albanese and our media (oh, except for a ceremonial invitation to Israel’s pres). Pretty stark.