Vermontmelbguy

Vermontmelbguy

@vermontmelbguy.bsky.social

🇮🇪 🇦🇺 Irish Australian in Melbourne, Australia

820 followers2.7K following457 posts

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Replying to @matthew.flux.community

And podcasts have been warping newer generations in very similar ways, even if they are generally less angry than AM radio.

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"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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Shoebridge unloads on Labor for ditching the UK, Canada & France on new settlement sanctions on Israel, despite claiming to work with 'likeminded countries' “Does this govt really think the Aus public is just stupid?” “Trump, Netanyahu, they’re your partners!”💥 #auspol

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Phil Haines confirms that Helen has tragically now also lost her second leg 😢 but she is stable and alive.🩵 #auspol

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Replying to @strangerous.bsky.social

Brethren leader Bruce Hales says he “sympathises” with those intimidated by his Brethrens at elections, but refuses to apologise. Andrew Gee “Do you think you should apologise? Do you think that would be the descent & Christian thing to do?” Hales “not necessarily”🙄 Shameless.

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Replying to @demwar.bsky.social

I’m told this latest story has been circulating behind the scenes for a while now, and that the journos felt that with Shoebridge as leader there was a window of opportunity, i.e. Shoey wouldn’t dismiss the allegations out of hand. But yeah, there’s doubtless an element of what you say in the mix.

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Replying to @julibluesky.bsky.social

In Australia, the fascist far-right party (One Nation) are gaining traction, too. For 30 years they've held 5% of the votes, now they're nearing 30%. Not a coincidence this also aligns with the rise of AI.

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Replying to @peterjukes.bsky.social

It was *not* just Russia The US Heritage Foundation / ATLAS Network together with their EU arm, the Austrian Nazi FPÖ Party ( who have a contract of co-operation with Putin) colluded with the UKs right wing to orchestrate Brexit to weaken the EU

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Replying to @jbecole.bsky.social

The strategy was in plain site for years. bsky.app/profile/iain...

Iain Clucas@iain.clucas.uk

1997: Aleksandr Dugin wrote in Foundations of Geopolitics "The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union." It's been the plan for years.

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Replying to @peterjukes.bsky.social

Which raises the question, how has all your extremely hard and diligent work not been able to expose the bigger picture here? Russia was working WITH the US Heritage Foundation via their criminally ignored intermediary, the Austrian Nazi FPÖ party - who have a contract of co-operation with Putin

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Replying to @segyges.bsky.social

do you value markets? believe in research? think elon is evil? care about geopolitical competition with china? fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, we are going to bribe as many CEOs and politicians as we can and impose Complete Effective Altruist Hegemony by installing our friends as regulators

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🧵 What does it mean that CPAC Aus has rebranded as NatCon? It’s worse than you think. See the transatlantic warnings here. (With IPA as main sponsor. Is that you, Gina?) #Auspol

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social

Well I’ve reached peak relevance. 😂 CPAC Aus next month looks dire. *But* it has rebranded as NatCon. [Alt Taylor Hanson Canavan listed as speakers at CPAC NatCon 2026] Tell me if you need my primer. #Auspo

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NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

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Neo Nazi interacting Hugo Lennon (Scotch College alumnus) & The Noticer (Neo Nazi-linked News) are both receiving money from FB’s owner as content creators. #Auspol

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This is Australian scumbag Nick Adams who does MAGA “comedy” about “Alpha males” at Hooters. 🤢 He is on the Council for National Policy (Christian Nationalism &”free market”) with some *big* contacts from that network illustrated in this research. #Auspol

ProPublica@propublica.org

MAGA influencer and Trump appointee Nick Adams’ FLAG nonprofit has raised much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 — a prize FLAG’s records show no evidence of ever paying.

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Or at least was a shoppie when working for Kmart as a youngster, before entering parliament as a ShortCon (closer to Conroy), and now backing Richard Marles, which is not much of an improvement over the faction that kept Labor out of power for 20 years federally and in Victoria and Queensland.

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As part of understanding the backstory to my doctoral research, I’ve been trying to understand how ultra “free market” ideas became blended with coercive “Christianity” in the US. They seem opposite but apparently blend. Help me build the story: lucyham29.substack.com/p/how-did-fr...

lucyham29.substack.comHow did "free market" extremists and "Christian" extremists merge?There is a network of networks largely focused in the US but spilling out into the world. Their roots are in a particular mix of global and US forces that emerged from the mid 20th century.

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This is interesting, #Auspol Two names familiar to those alert to political media in 🇦🇺 from junktank IPA have moved to extremist culture war religious organisations. Gideon Rozner to 😬 AJA (fake peak body, radicalised Right) John Roskam to Campion College w Gina 💰library & 2 white nationalist staff

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social

I knew Gideon Rozner left the Atlas Network partner IPA to fringe Right AJA in 2023. Had a sudden thought it might have been provoked by 7/10. That would suggest valid trauma reaction? It was February. Fascinating that his exec dir John Roskam has gone to fringe Right Catholic Campion College… 🤔

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Apartheid ended in 1994, but its germ escaped in the fractured psyche of several boys who hated the world around them almost as much as they hated themselves. I took a deep look at how the PayPal Mafia reanimated apartheid—and what they really want. www.mind-war.com/p/swart-geva...

mind-war.comSwart Gevaar: How the PayPal Mafia Reanimated ApartheidWhile it formally ended in 1994, it has now been firmly replanted in America.

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I've been saying for years that predators work in packs. They're very open with each other in private and cooperate to accomplish their goals.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

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🧵1/20. Breaking down my latest essay for you. Atlas Network is the global coalition of 500ish junktanks in over 100 countries managing democratic projects so they don’t impede multinational profits. The Mont Pelerin Society is the Atlas “steering committee” of intellectuals+ who made neoliberalism.

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If the left even thought about blocking traffic to this extent the entire town would smell like tear gas and the NYT would already have written two op-eds about this Not Being The Right Way Instead, ambulances are creeping through at like 2mph, sirens blaring, as everyone gets soaked