Peter Relph ᴀᴜ

America Once So Proud now so piteous Where to from here? a fragging a military coup a civil war Then where? #uspol

Websites are either safe from external corruption or they are not & none of them are But let us put our faith in the Internet & all the corrupt arseholes who own it How could we (not) have known?

Australian Signals Directorate says AI-powered cyber attacks are inevitable. What are we supposed to do with that, pray tell?! Adding it to my ever-growing list of things I have no control over but need to worry about. 🫤

David Shoebridge calls out Jillian Segal after she admits she failed due diligence with CAM—hosts of the antisemitism summit she’s speaking at—as Shoebridge reveals CAM awarded a racist US Republican who called for Gaza to "overflow with blood” Who is she partnering with? 🚩

We The People make rich & keep rich billionaires & millionaires & we can humble & bankrupt them. Quit acting & thinking as if they are somehow divinely anointed. WE buy their services and products. Simply boycott their products and services. They are nothing, nobody without us giving them our money.

What will happen when Trump or some later subsequent billionaire fascist regime puppet is faced with an election result which even the fascist's full technical abilities cannot overcome? This time, next time, or the time after? And what will the military do about it? They are your only slim hope

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Democracy seemed a good idea to those greedy capitalists looking for a skilled workforce for them to exploit They now think that that need has passed

Things seemed almost fixable back when it was only “under siege”. Even the film could barely fathom where democracy is at right now.

Capitalism used Democracy to provide it with willing educated slaves Then the most successful capitalists decided that they didn't need the slaves any more Soon the very most successful capitalists will decide they don't need the slightly less successful capitalists You've played Monopoly?

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Americans: "If we are to escape & recover from this fascist mess that we have gotten ourselves into, then we must put our faith in the very system that got us here, parties & elections" Hmmm

#auspol 🇦🇺 “An ancient Aboriginal rock shelter in the gorge was destroyed in a mining blast by Rio Tinto in 2020. The ABC was invited on site by traditional owners to witness what remains and the thousands of archaeological artefacts that have been found.”

Optimist: "It's always darkest just before the dawn" Pessimist: "That assumes that there is going to be a dawn"

Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, videotaped it, and mailed the tape to his sister. Trump pardoned him and made him Ambassador to France and Monaco. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

“Politics should be a contest of ideas, not who can whip up the most hate or spread the most misinformation,” said @davidpocock.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/o08O1AhL

"a genocide live streamed for three years, civil liberties decimated, a terror attack, more than one woman killed by her partner each week" ...and the PM is asking *us* to turn the temperature down? "We don't control the thermostat." @ettemedia.bsky.social #auspol shows.acast.com/we-used-to-b...

“Unlike any technology we’ve ever dealt with, the business model of AI is to generate mass unemployment. That is not an unintended consequence; it is the business model" said @richarddenniss.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/SLTqXFbC

"Religiosity (whatever its form) & decency are unrelated. Any degree or none of each can co-exist with any degree or none of the other. Neither derives from nor causes the other."

while causing extreme harm to this Aboriginal girl the police charged the girl with failing to protect a child from harm. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Joel Fitzgibbon has been lobbying for Ben Roberts-Smith since at least April. He appeared on Murdoch News 24 multiple times and called 2GB at least twice. Never once did the media tell their audience that Fitzgibbon is being paid by the weapons industry, and this is a coordinated campaign. #auspol

Greta Thunberg comes out to support Lula "If Bolsonaro wins, it will be a disaster for the entire planet... Latin America is not for sale. The eyes of the world are on you Brazil, we are counting on you."

“And you have fucking stupid governments saying, ‘We’ll give more subsidies.’ Don’t give any more fucking subsidies. Supply is a problem, not demand. Build the fucking houses. Build the houses. Why can’t you build the houses? We’ve got all these policy papers, but we’re not building fucking houses.”

I wouldn't give tuppence for the thoughts of any of the Hawke/Keating crowd which unleashed their own brand of Thatcherism/Reaganomics and called it "economic rationalism".

Jordon Steele-John says ‘I’m not on leave’ and accuses Greens leader of making ‘bad call’ regarding complaints www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

A Horsfield's bronze cuckoo. Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

As the last, as in both the most recent, & also the final, Labor Prime Minister said: "Maintain the rage" #auspol

At some point Albanese is going to pathetically bleat about how he had no choice but to concede sovereignty to the USA, to partner with self serving corporations and to betray all humanitarian principle by aiding and abetting Israels genocide program but wasn't allowed to tell us, isn't he ?

My father was a member of the old Miners' Federation at the time. The union newsletter "Common Cause" (aka The Red Rag) said Hawke was the most Liberal (big L) PM since Menzies.

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

Macron's speech was especially odd, all things considered.

"Nuclear weapons have existed since 1945 & have only been used in anger twice, both in 1945" At that time they were owned by only one nation Now? Several nations who have longlasting disagreements with their neighbours, who in some cases also have nuclear weapons It can't continue ...

"We're fucked" Convince me otherwise

National Geographic names Melbourne as the best place in the entire solar system. One for the cookers to chew on. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

Well at least Australia has to count these emissions, even if the government tries to dodge counting all the emissions when the stuff we sell overseas is burnt

Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Buy now, pay later company’s shares crash on US fraud. Zip Co shares have plummeted by 29 per cent after the Australian fintech player was hit by a co-ordinated attack from US fraudsters....

Taiwan’s stock exchange will shut Friday as Typhoon Champi approaches the island, bringing heavy rainfall and strong winds and prompting authorities to shut offices and schools

This company Metrea has never worked in Australia before. It's a US-based military contractor, and last year it crashed one of the same aircraft it's planning to acquire for us, killing 4 people. I'd love to know which former minister is lobbying for them...

I don't know how it works (yet), but it's very weird that a handful of companies that don't even own their own planes somehow land MOST of the large govt contracts, while operators that could win them aren't even asked to tender. The game of mates is very strong. If you know more: nickfeik@proton.me

The National Debt is not your debt, unless you are a national government with the monopoly ability to issue the currency, & incidentally is unconstrained on what it can create/spend

Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Greenhouse gas plume at massive Aussie gas plant. Satellite monitoring has detected a massive methane cloud coming from one of the world's largest oil and gas complexes in Western Australia....

There are a number of players in the so-called “dirt sheet” the government kept on Helen Haines. In this first article we look at Pauline Hanson’s efforts at political opportunism. In the next article we look at Albanese’s role. theaimn.net/the-dirt-she...

"Who says inequality's a bad thing?" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social See the cartoon on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/261022-who-says-inequalitys-a-bad-thing