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Mario Bono
Mario Bono
@mbono.bsky.social
Healthy Living | ANTI-FAscist | #liveclean #health #nutrition #science #environment | Italophile | Turrbal land, Australia | “from the river to the sea”
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Every family has one …. but RFK,Jr must be the effing worst CFO. (My acronym: C#&* of the First Order)
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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@albomp.bsky.social #aupol #auspol The #AUKUS deal and #ANZUS treaty now appear to be not worth the paper they’re written on.
In this @phillipspobrien.bsky.social makes the excellent point, that Starlink dependency is as much as a threat to the US as it is globally. A malevolent operator, making political donations in the hundreds of millions, could easily use the on/off switch to impact domestic political opponents.
When will the Australian government stop the kowtowing to the current US criminal administration? @albomp.bsky.social #aupol
From The Australian Greens:
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raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Here’s some advice from an Aussie, who can’t vote in US elections, but who has a vested interest in their outcomes… If you vote Republican for *any* office in your elections…. YOU ARE A DUMB F*#K! #uspol
If it wasn’t already crystal clear, they are going to use the military to remain in power. This is the purging of the remaining pockets of resistance within the military’s senior ranks. thehill.com/policy/defen...
Memo to @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social #aupol #auspol
"Too often, centre-left governments force themselves into the role of defender of the status quo, taking the blame for failures that often aren’t even their fault, being the one to explain why things are bad, instead of being the people making them better."
Trumpflation is the US export that no nation ever asked for, and which every nation is receiving.
"Trumpflation, the inflation tied to President Donald Trump's tariffs and the Iran war, has entered a more entrenched phase. Core inflation held near 3.3% through the summer even as headline prices cooled sharply" finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
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Since 2001, the USA has waged a ‘war on terrorism’, and made the world less safe. This is what happens when you don’t learn lessons from history.
The Human Cost of 25 Years of US Wars Powerful @aljazeera.com piece (incl. superb infographics) of lives lost to US militarism, the human displacement crisis from countries attacked by the US, and the impact on US soldiers too. US war crimes across the globe. #USA #USPolitics #war aje.news/qpqwvu
And Australia is still clinging to the #AUKUS illusion! 🤦♂️ Why? @albomp.bsky.social #aupol
The USA has not only lost its war against Iran, it has been defeated so decisively that being its ally is effectively worthless. This was unthinkable a mere 3 years ago.
This is the anthem that the USA (& the world) needs right now. #revolution youtu.be/Xv8FBjo1Y8I?...
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I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read. 1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped. dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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This guy put himself in considerable danger (not just from sewell but from the inevitable goons that will dox him) but managed to say his bit and get a little soundbite in after. We all need to be this brave. No risk, no reward.
To our political leaders, left to right …. grow some balls. #auspol
"The only thing stopping Australia from introducing new taxes on the gas industry is the insecurity of our elected leaders." Read an excerpt from co-CEO Richard Denniss' latest Vantage Point essay 'More Fool Me: How the gas industry tricked Australia', in Crikey! #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Who could have guessed that JD Vance was also referring to our Pauline and PHON? Or rather “No Notion”. #PHON #aupol
"Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump 'cultural heroin' in The Atlantic . . . " “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t . . . " MADE IN USA 2016 ANOTHER SUMMER www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Fabulous. The tide has turned in the US. Democrats who call out Israel's crimes are getting nominated and will be elected in November. Democrats who are still taking AIPAC bribes are toast. Time to ensure Australia's Israel lobby loses their inordinate influence on our politics. #auspol
Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️
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Shell is avoiding Australian tax on an massive scale. It is using a simple transfer pricing scheme youtu.be/0mV_1J69Bno?...
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To journalists in Australia…, Will you fight for the truth? #aupol #auspol
Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.
This is an object lesson for us in Australia. When you have political capital - @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social - use it. The social/economic changes will quickly transform how people interact with each other, and the wider community. #aupol #auspol
Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.