Trickle-up economics.
Trickle-up economics.
Makes sense.
Microsoft is being used by Israel to monitor a million calls an hour in the Gaza strip. How else do you reckon they are managing to kill so many journalists and social media activists? Now that tech is coming to America: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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What happened to 'State Rights' I wonder?
The term: 'Coalition of the Willing' was first used by the U.S. when its allies supported it in its insane forever wars after 9/11. That should be amplified. Australia, Canada, the U.K., France, Germany, Denmark etc all lost citizens in the U.S. initiated campaigns. Trump has no honour or loyalty.
This moron & his cohort have no authority or influence outside of the U.S. The fact that the delusion that they do is so pervasive is evidence of their hubris.
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Israel uses Microsoft to monitor a million calls an hour in Gaza. Which is, of course, how they know where journalists & social media activists who disseminate information out of the strip to the rest of the world are at any given time. That technology is now coming to the U.S.
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Yoda Lives!!!!
"Technology platforms have become weapons of mass destruction to democracy. Lies laced with fear, anger and hate spread faster than facts. The business model that rewards engagement over facts has made us all complicit in tearing apart our societies." Maria Ressa has a voice worth amplifying.
Hahahaha! Yessee, the theocrat waiting in the wings... ...breathless with impatience.
He's missing in action.
Putin. Must. Be. Stopped. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Thank you.
Yeah, neo-Nazis all gussied up in fancy dress in order to seduce poor people into thinking they are legit.
Woah, Didn't see the date until the poem had sunk right into my bones. Sad times afoot again. Powerful.
Love it!
...and dumbass Trump slighted Modi all the way into his & Xi's arms.
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...and the antidote to the last post I put up. Love Wins I reckon... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Anti-immigration rally morons, who cannot have roots that go back to this nation beyond a couple of hundred years, attack First Nations camp & Aboriginal people whose roots to Australia goes back 65,000 years. Haters ain't that bright...
Just in case you had any doubts about the deranged nature of anti-woke evangelism, this should dispel them... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kids doing what kids do best. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Meanwhile, whilst Trump doubles down on his economy busting tariffs; his expulsion of the brains trust from his administration; & his inept meddling in global conflicts... ...this is happening in China this week. thediplomat.com/2025/08/whos...
The conservative party of the U.S. has traditionally favoured small government and a free market. There is nothing conservative about the current version of the Republican Party. State Directed Capitalism is the antithesis of everything those suspicious of the 'deep state' supported.
Trump's big beautiful idea that he can be the a global peacekeeper by excluding the significant other in global conflicts is about as logical as all his other big beautiful ideas. I guess a bully only knows one way of seeing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The only way to stop Putin is to defeat him in Ukraine. He is now sending hapless lads on dirt bikes on suicide missions into Ukrainian trenches. We need to give Ukraine planes. Lots of them. We need to give them robotic devices. Lots of them. We need to do much, much more.
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I wonder what happens when one superpower closes down all intellectual & scientific endeavours & another one invests expansively in such endeavours? Hmmmmm?
The fact that I read this first only in November of last year entirely freaks me out! It feels like a lifetime ago.
...& vote as if you understand what will happen when the government jettisons every single civil servant with that indispensable combination of qualities for responsible leadership - intellect & integrity.
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The ship of fools jettisoning anyone with intellect & integrity. I wonder what those on the Titanic with even the slightest understanding on the behaviour of large bodies of frozen water were thinking as they sailed into the unknown? I guess we can ask that of Americans now.
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This is what happens when tone deaf politicians bestowing largess to the political class amongst growing societal inequality comes to a head. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
What will be the result of limiting access to vaccines to people with underlying health conditions. And those who have the ready cash to pay for them, d'you reckon? A whole lot of poor people at risk of death or permanent disability, is what. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is how a multi-billionaire who isn't a sociopath behaves. Find a creative way to inform a leader flirting with the idea of embracing a policy of climate science denial with his cash. I like it! Muchly! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
10 more people starved to death yesterday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The lawless are getting restless. Those that value predictability in international affairs had better get their act together and unite against this chaotic despotic trend before it is too late.
Brute force only knows one answer.
I guess they haven't got anything else to do other than to outdo each other with prostrating themselves before the most narcissistic monarch to plague this planet in multiple centuries. D'you reckon he ever tires of all the arse licking? It's sooooo embarrassing & infinitely boring to watch.
The same beautiful clouds that paint our skies. Cะพะปัะดะฐัะฝัััั!
Thank heavens there are some balsy Democrats left. I was beginning to wonder until you and Governor Newsom made yourself heard. Defy, Defy, Defy.
Yes, it is the quickest way to privatise public moneys. Such a tragedy unfolding in your country.
Putin & Trump are absolute gifts to the rest of the world. Australia is also enjoying overwhelming public support for the most reformist government in nearly half a century.
Hahaha! Perfect.
Truth tellers are the first targets of any corrupt, despotic & amoral regime. Silencing truth tellers is THE definitive characteristic that is common to all tyrants. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
I guess collective insanity is nothing new. How else to explain useless wars. Nevertheless, there is something infinitely tragic about this level of insanity: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How's supporting him going for you? question from the rest of the world.
What a poignant image. Everywoman's son. Infinitely sad.
Thank you. Why anyone imagines that our children's welfare can be handled with anything remotely like common sense and decency by a bunch of idiot savants with the developmental age of a 12-year-old is beyond my ken.
The U.S. will very soon be entirely run by a ship of fools. I wonder whether the eejits who support the Trump regime ever consider what the inevitable outcome of that will be? The rest of the world is recalibrating at speed.
Strategists should look to how you Fins have stood up to the tyranny of Russia multiple times and survived. It can absolutely be done. I subscribe to your wonderful organisation that is a world leader in combatting hybrid threats. Kudos: www.hybridcoe.fi
I don't know about the photo being a poor choice. Zelenskyy looks like an honest broker whilst Trump looks like a man assessing what advantage he can get out of breaking the Ukrainian.
What a powerful story. Thank you for sharing this information. Humans can also be astonishingly admirable.
Validating someone who ruined countless children's future lives. The Trump regime has sunk to a new level of depravity.
Both Netanyahu & Ali Khamenei have recently called the Australian Prime Minister 'weak'. If I were Anthony Albanese, I'd take that as a win. Tyrants' ideas of 'weak' sounds like the kind of leader I would prefer to have. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The implications of Trump's submission to Putin for the global world order next, perhaps? The fact that the world's despots now feel emboldened to flex their muscles on their neighbours. Not only neighbours. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
U.S. weak knees with Putin have implications that reverberate around the globe. Kim Jong Un is salivating over South Korean territory. Xi, over Taiwan territory. Ali Khamenei feels comfortable conducting terrorist attacks on Australian soil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Iran has conducted two violent & destructive acts of terrorism on Australian soil. What they don't understand is that an attack on any Australian, no matter what their faith, is an attack on us all. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
...while the orange one did all of those things.
Delusional.
Australia is not the only country where their postal service is ceasing postal services to the U.S. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Quite like this notion of 'Hard Hope' as a way of looking at ways of moving beyond any relational impasse. theconversation.com/forget-the-w...
Finland are world leaders in hybrid warfare tactics including outing leaders who excel in pushing the Overton window. Trump & Putin are masters of this technique. Love Finland's Center for Hybrid warfare: www.hybridcoe.fi
Mark Rutte knows that this moron only understands flattery and grift. Meanwhile, Europe is now more united than ever thanks to this eejit. With a GDP twice that of the U.S. they are fully aware that Trump is leading the U.S. into irrelevancy.
...and the policy initiatives. Prospera is impressive: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Wonderful secrets that destroy wonderful children's lives.
Love this fella. He's got what it takes.
Let me guess - being kicked off depends upon your expressed political beliefs. The U.S. is becoming more & more like Hungary by the day.
Clearly, the only way to stop Netanyahu is from within Israel. Thankfully, Israelis are starting to show their muscle. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ha! love the pedos swimmers. Excellent touch.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
When over half the population has a literacy comprehension level of a 4th grader, keeping it simple is a winning strategy.
That's how it worked. In a nutshell.
Love your work btw. You are insightful, thorough & tireless.
Yes, we have a choice. Kamma means 'action' after all.
Does it? Homo sapiens sapiens have been on this planet for a bare split second in the grand scheme of things. There is no divine plan that directs the track of our future. Obsolescence is just as likely as not considering our trajectory.
"Yet another outrage". So say the international community of leaders. What does Netanyahu really think will happen to the place of Israel in the global geopolitical space? Is he like Trump, entirely devoid of the capacity to reason or is it something else going on?
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This is how you do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rule no. 1 when dealing with bullies. Defy, Defy, Defy. "...It is appropriate that Kharkivโs proud epiphet โ โunbreakableโ โ is seen on signs everywhere..." theconversation.com/kharkiv-what...
Is the correlate of that the fact that people of a different certain age have the attention span of a gnat I wonder?
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putinโs war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
This habit of shooting the messenger is whittling away truth telling in the U.S. It won't be long before doublespeak is the new normal. Commiserations to all truth lovers out there in America. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Clearly the Israeli lobby is not as well established in the political class in Australia as it is in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
Strategists are finally realising that they need a workaround strategy in global geopolitical policy rather than a 'working with' strategy. Countries that value the rules-based order and free trade are coalescing. Without the U.S. www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/flux...
A united Europe. The new center of gravity. How refreshing. theconversation.com/ukraine-war-...
Just how much has the Trump family monetised the Presidency? More Bigly than we could possibly imagine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpOE...
A worthy analysis of Putin's objectives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Stunning.
"It's like saying the Titanic maiden voyage was a success because it made it over halfway to New York."
Perfect.
Trump prostrated himself before a bully more vicious and single-minded than himself, thereby opening the door to an ever more united Europe to become the new pivot around which liberal democracies bend. World leaders are increasingly becoming aware that the U.S. hegemonic world order is over.
Yeah. Just consider all those doctors treating genital conditions hacking away with their scalpel without a map until just over 27 years ago...
Deliberately attacking maternity hospitals in order to scare the bejesus out of people considering starting a family. Let that sink in. Now, consider the fact that Trump rolled out the red carpet on U.S. soil to the man behind that decision. And then prostrated himself to that man.