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Now is the time to be disruptive - to be silent is to be complicit! ✊ Engage with me on issues in climate change, politics, technology and global affairs Melbourne/Narrm, Australia
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Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedic Asaad al-Nasasra survived a 15 March attack on a convoy of emergency vehicles in Gaza that killed 15 other medics and rescue workers. He heard Israeli troops shoot first responders while they were still alive. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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WETWARE A biological computer using human brain cells for "research" A step too far? Imagine if it became sentient, imagine the ethics involved in that!

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On cue .. As if tornadoes, fires, floods, extreme heat waves and the defunding of FEMA aren't enough grief for Americans .. They're about to be hit by dust from the Sahara

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What's really at stake when one man capriciously decides to blow up global trade with tariffs? Other world leaders must work together to ring fence America and maintain global trade and economies Because very few nations can truly survive on their own www.sciencealert.com/just-one-nat...

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Reminds me of documentaries of the Warsaw Ghetto in WWII Read this out loud .. the exact commentary in documentaries about the Ghetto " .. fenced queues, intense screenings and segregated entry and exit lanes .. huge deprivation .. facing starvation .." It was GENOCIDE then. Its GENOCIDE now.

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Notice how China and EU "negotiate" with tRump? They don't crawl to the Oval Office seeking national exceptionalism They keep tRump at a distance, stall and importantly, build new trade arrangements that ring fence America. They don't engage to be played, they act proactively in their interests

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Excellent column by Ross Gittins "If you want to govern Australia effectively – you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to stand up, but still wants to enjoy the spoils of office." www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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Musk does it, TIMMY's back on it - now Pooorlean does it How to be a grifter living off the public teat You don't have to be honest, have integrity or even accomplish anything You too could be a winner (better than the Lotto!) if you only had gall

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There's a strong growing mistrust about Labor based on the last 3 years and, looking ahead into a volatile international future Marles is increasingly seen to be one source of mistrust johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

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STARLINK Telstra uses Musk's STARLINK technology Telstra does this on the assumption that paying a grifter who would be a HUGE security risk is far better than finding Australians who can develop our own technology bsky.app/profile/gekk... cybernews.com/tech/solar-s...

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Don't be fooled! Believing Musk is "disgusted" with tRump is a ploy Musk is desperately trying to satisfy investors who have finally noticed that their investments with Musk are plummeting due mainly to his vicious work in DOGE destroying American jobs and institutions He is a grifter

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Russia is unsettling Europe and that is being reflected in very sharp rises in defence spending and rearmament to increase security Albanese very likely to be pressured to do the same here given Hegserth has already romanced Marles on the idea

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AI Law Enforcement? AI chatbots primed to automatically contact authorities if they detect wrong-doing by users - a trait likely to become more powerful and dangerous as AI develops! Imagine a home robot watching your every move, listening to everything you say - quietly dobbing you in to police!

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De-coupling America from trade networks is becoming urgent World leaders must do more together to ring-fence America to preserve the global economy and insulate from the erratic, capricious behaviour of a mad man Countries like Australia seeking national exceptionalism endanger global action

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WHERE'RE OUR POLITICIANS? Where's a united voice against GENOCIDE and the targeting of Palestinians seeking urgent aid? Is the LNP IPA unable to say anything. because TIMMY now in the shadow cabinet campaigned on GENOCIDE issuing the LNP IPA logo? Is Labor too afraid of tRump? WHY THE SILENCE?

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Labor acknowledges the devastation that climate change is wreaking but refuses to do anything, locking in a devastating present and future - and is increasingly willing to kill the environment and people through deliberate inaction CLIMATE ACTION IS URGENT www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/02/n...

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MAKING AMERICA IGNORANT Trump’s authoritarian attack involves rewriting history, gutting education, dismantling science, suppressing the media, and attacking the arts. Actions to control information, limit critical thinking, and create blind allegiance A Cult open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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The UK readying for war - ramping up to wartime military production It will be interesting to hear what Albanese agrees to doing after seeing trump He’s told us WE make our defence decisions I don’t think we can be sure that’s the case - it hasn’t been under AUKUS

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