Canoeing, camping, carpentry, a pacifist. Carpentry website: https://t.co/5amjZEGIW9 Respect for Nature now my "religion".
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“This cover-up is a national scandal. It confirms that Australia’s key regulators are either incompetent or captured by the gas industry, or both,” said @markogge.bsky.social. “That there are no consequences for gas companies failing to act on a major leak of methane for 20 years is a disgrace."
Freeman left home lightly clothed & carrying numerous firearms. He needs shelter (from Mnt Buffalo's winter conditions), water & food to survive. I've no doubt there are people in the area who will accommodate him.
Thatcher actually said "There is, as you know, ... no society ...". The "as you know" is predeterminative, suggesting you know this to be a fact so there's no point in disputing it.
Hitler started out small too. The Australian govt needs to be vigilant, rather than deflecting responsibility to the people. Many Aust govts hv deferred action on many things, waiting to find themselves in midst of crisis, looking for someone to blame.
Raises the question of how come White people are not migrating en masse here, there & elsewhere, seeking refuge & asylum from heinous, intolerable & non-caring govts.
Nazis are not Australian patriots Australians fought and many died to rid the world of their racist toxic ideology - they dishonour and disrespect the Veterans and Fallen
Donald Trump has sd the same abt some of the rat bags who tangled with peaceful rallies in the USA: "There were some good people too." He was referring to neo-Nazis, Proud Boys & MAGA supporters.
Bizarre plans floating around Washington dealing with future of Gaza. Trump sd to be offering Gazans $US5,000 to leave for 10 years, plus rent & food money. Might get a 'token' to live in one of his new apartments in his Mediterranean paradise. Any Trump deal likely rip off.
Fascinating i'view with veteran (60 years in news) journo Dan Rather yesty. Said Western world has gone downhill since Vietnam war. I agree with him. Also said Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the politician he respected the most.
For several weeks Australian Police have gone out of their way to try to stop Palestinian Peace Marches in this country - this week they practically rolled out the red carpet for neo-nazis nation wide - something is deeply wrong with the culture of law enforcement in Australia
So far, political & police action against Australian Nazis is pathetic (flags, salute & insignia banned). Once Hitler won control of German parliament he assigned city & regional police control to two of his top henchmen. Don't repeat this hideous history.
You know how Hitler, the Brown shirts & his Nazis rose to power in Germany nearly a century ago because it's bn on tv for years. Were these shows a warning or an instruction manual? How & why the fuck is Nazism being allowed to flower in Australia? Do you want to go through all of that again?
What's DSP? He's used another name as well.
RFK Jnr more likely to cause a nationwide mental health crisis than to prevent one. How come a nut case is best choice for Health Secretary?
Trump can speak clearly, plainly & correctly when he wants to. When he speaks to the masses he acts as if he's addressing children, or the uninformed & illiterate.
Luxurious hotels on the foreshore (built at enormous expense), but behind that ready-made tourist attraction of previous civilisation reduce to rubble. *Come stay in Trump Gaza Mediterranean. Visit fresh ruins of old civilisation, easier access than Pompeii or Machu Picchu.*
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society leads the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. www.bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Agai...
Liberals' problems go beyond their policies. I can't stomach many of their politicians due to their expressed attitudes. That is something the Libs cannot fix. They're genetically incapable of balanced governance due to upbringing or attitude.
Victoria's wanted fugitive Dezi Freeman (free man) was previously known as Desmond Filby. New name reflected his political convictions.
A WA cop who laughed at Indigenous prisoner's suicide threat has been suspended. What is wrong with these people? War on Australia's Indigenous people must be world's longest running war (began with Whitefella invasion from 1788).
ABC News' one-time favourite LNP spruiker Jane Hume was on the telly this morning rattling on abt a new energy policy (that includes renewables) & saying Labor's plan won't work (predictable). Can't find any reference to it on ABC News or RN channels. Strange, eh.
It's a real thing. I see it in the cafe daily. Some children well behaved others tearing around, throwing toys around, screaming when they're denied anything. The difference is due to parenting (or not parenting).
Phew! Viewers of Alone: Norway just survived a whole episode without any contestant stabbing themselves with a knife or hacking some body part with their axe or saw. I saw some close shaves but.
We have some specialists in that field in Australia. They mainly belong to the "Liberal" party, Murdoch media & the stink tank The Institute of Public Affairs.
Why are some of those bars out of date order?
Curiously, the LNP scored well on economic management. The lie abt LNP being "Always best managers of the economy" has well & truly stuck with voters.
Think tank says Australian voters are deserting Liberal National Party (LNP) coalition in droves -- millions, in fact. Policies not fit for world of today & tomorrow. www.msn.com/en-au/news/a...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the killing of journalists in Gaza has to stop. Does he think he's done enough? Will that do the job? It won't deter Israel's IDF one bit & Guterres knows it because he's been saying it for months. The targeting & killing continues.
Yes, but I've bn encouraged by the savaging the Liberal part of the LNP hs bn getting in recent federal elections. It seems many voters hv finally seen the light. I don't believe the Liberals can find a new direction. They're more likely to split.
I might start writing directly to some world "leaders". I'm not sure if they know we are onto them. I'm not sure of they care. Pretty cushy ride for most of them. A few carefully chosen words & facts might hit home. Nothing rude. Wouldn't want to spoil their day (or sleep). 😉
It's getting warmer. I bought ice cream today. Got to get through Spring & hay fever season yet, but, you know, ice cream. Yum yum.
In some part of England people hv bn told to abandon their coastal homes. The local council has given up on coastal defences against rising sea levels.
I can't be sympathetic with people who rebuild or refurbish homes destroyed by (almost) annual floods. Especially when the floods are becoming more severe.
Also electricity, rent & some foodstuff. Indonesians rioting over living allowance paid to MPs, more than most citizens earn. Many citizens being gamed by systems they can't control or influence.
So far Phil, the ones suffering the most (drought, famine, rising coastline) are the ones causing the least amount of Global Warming leading to Climate Change. Wealthy least affected, so far. Ten years ago, someone sd when Wall Street says it's time to act we will see some action.
Trump & his Project 25 mania, or madness, will prove to be the dumbest thing that ever happened to the USA.
TV stuff. Beyond Paradise, "family didn't leave home by car", wrong. Left in blue car, car left behind was white. Midsomer Murders & Beyond Paradise (both Sat, Aug 30) ended in same scenario. Did you notice?
Don't tell me the Orange man who stops wars is going to start one. Of course, there would be a difference between the ones he stops (none, incidentally) & the ones he starts. Like *My wars are the biggest, always the best, perfect wars*.
Science, Astrophysics, reckons time began with the instant of Big Bang (Big Expansion, whatever). I disagree because nothing just happens, there's always a cause, a build-up. You can't exclude time before BB or BE simply because you can't figure out what was happening beforehand.
Tourism, governments & business promote it, everyone wants it, until you can't get a seat on the bus, book a taxi, or find a place to rent. And the Japanese want you to stop staring at their sacred Mount Fuji & taking your sacred snaps of it. Just cut it out!
I hope Ukraine can continue to wear down Russian military assets while the West cuts off access to finance. Ukraine cd then seize Russian territory again & force Putin to the negotiation table.
Republicans hv governed before, but the USA has never gone so far backwards & so quickly before. I say Republicans, but maybe they're merely Trumpsters from the dumpsters or Magats from the bins.
Let's see now. Was the atomic bomb the product of science or the fetid imagination of someone like RKF Jnr? Did science put first man on our moon, or was it due to a concoction of cabbage juice? HTF did Kennedy get to be where he is, doing what he does?
Totally agree Phil. In addition to all the wilful killing that goes on, the majority doesn't seem to be too interested in saving their collective arses, other critters or the planet itself.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
Dysfunctional Victorian Liberal party needs to get its act together & get a handle on far Right before it gets out of hand & the party finds itself carrying the blame.
Refugees go home! Immigrants go home! Tourists go home! Rallies everywhere, some countries railing against all three. Xenophobia rules, okay? What's wrong with people?
Sometimes people I know reasonably well turn up in my dreams. Some of the characters I've never met but appear to be just as familiar to me. They could be manifestations of past experiences. People guilty of nasty behaviour deeply embedded in my sub-conscious (& conscious) mind.
Fell asleep while listening to a science show supposedly about pre-Big Bang (Big Expansion) theory. The conversation continued by characters in my dream! Some unrelated & ludicrous things happened within that dream The subconscious mind (a dream factory) is a strange place. Wish I knew more.
One reason it's based in New York is when UN was formed the USA is one country that signed on to an agreement to provide cost-free visas for diplomats & others attending UN sessions. Trump Admin has broken that agreement (like many others).
Japan's self-defence force (limited to homeland action) has been itching to be let off the leash for some time now.
🇩🇰Denmark plans to invest about €1.4 billion directly in Ukrainian defense companies by the end of 2025. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/denm...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/western-ci...
Change to our selfish & cynical syndrome of a society can only be made gradually. It's unlikely the Western world, or Capitalism, will stage a world-wide French Revolution. Talking about it helps.
Advocates for secular public education are stepping up the pressure on the WA government to put an end to the funding of religious chaplains after the state’s public school communities made their voices clear on the issue last weekend. Read more: rationalist.com.au/secular-advo... #WApol
What sort of peace & settlement does USA want in Israel/Gaza war? It has refused visas to Palestinian representatives for September's UN meeting that will discuss Statehood for Palestine. Link to various stories: www.bing.com/search?q=US+...
Thanks, but I didn't see your comment as approval.
Two economists debunk Trump's tariffs. Links below story to more comments on dangers in Trump's "economics". www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
ATSE & Fortescue have joined the OECD in calling for an end to Australia's biggest fossil fuel subsidy, the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme. The FTCS costs over $10 bn/yr, discourages transition to cleaner fuels & overwhelmingly benefits the mining industry. ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/fossil-...
Where was Vance's god when yet another nutcase shooter attacked children praying in a US church school? If the world rid itself of religious belief bullshit would it lead to more peace or more chaos? Which is best: Reality or Fantasy?
All religions are inventions. Pretty much full of hypocrites too.
It was an idiotic mistake to create a new Israel as 3 isolated territories within lands occupied by Palestinians & with hardly a decent road connecting the 3 'territories'. This bureaucratic madness (& Zionist ambition) is to blame for all that has followed.
Tribalism in most cases. Automatic unconscious follow-on.
Behaviour as a govt, not as a nation. Netanyahu's Zionist govt does not have 100% support in Israel.
Those Israeli's are not anti-Semites. They are opposed to an out-of-control Zionist govt & its heartless leader who has contempt for his country's legal system & for international law. The plan is to expand into Israel's biblical territory. No-one prepared to stop them.
We'll expel an ambassador from one country based on secret 'credible evidence'; but not the ambassador of another country openly committing a genocide. Tell me our government is compromised without telling me our government is compromised.
Look, I get sending home the ambassador of a country you believe was responsible for hate crimes in your soil. But why the fuck is the ambassador of the country literally committing genocide still here? Do we somehow care about hate crimes when... #DoubleStandards #auspol #SanctionTheWarCriminal
No I'm not racist. I don't care if Israel is run by Catholics or the Archangel Gabriel Israel is a terrorist state that starves children, deliberately bombs hospitals and burns people alive in refugee tents It's a disgusting excuse for a nation and your religion has nothing to do with my disgust
Wetlands no barrier to drones & missiles. Tanks are not the problem they used to be, due to drones & missiles.
Well that just feeds into the myth that people of a certain skin colour are a lawless bunch. For various reasons, Indigenous people might encounter problems trying to buy the spray from licenced firearms dealers.
British surgeon accuses IDF of using Palestinians seeking food for "target practice". www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
Might as well end it. Last time Israel invaded southern Lebanon It told the UN *peacekeepers* to keep out of the way -- or else. Israel can do as it pleases. No nation or organisation can stop them.
To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands
Unquestionably a war crime. I know we all have fatigue about this, but we have to keep saying it where we can until enough people get it.
Crazy man in White House must be costing Amerika billions with his blustering bungling & anti-Woke Project 25 schemes to re-make Amerika in the image of Disneyland meets Hollywood.
Correct. The Security Council's veto power has rendered the UN a useless artifact, just like the League of Nations it was designed to replace.
Listening to the first hand accounts of heath and aid workers and, of course, the Palestinian people is gut wrenching and has more meaning than politicians weasel words. But of course they have no impact on the world’s “leaders” who continue to pretend that polite diplomacy will stop the slaughter
You cd argue the world knew little abt Warsaw ghetto & Nazi concentration camps during WWII, due to preoccupation with war fronts. You can't argue that in relation to Ukraine, Gaza or parts of Africa because, like Vietnam, it's on tv every night. But our *leaders* are incapable of stopping it.
A health worker, an English Dr, on France 24 this morning had more impact on me than all of Guterres' grandstanding put together. This man (missed his name, sorry) hs bn there, patching up the wounded & noting the nature of the injuries. He knows the score. Guterres is all hot air & no substance.
Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made another pathetic grandstanding speech abt starvation in Gaza & how this hideous war must stop immediately. Well done Antonio! But you know damn well that nothing will change while you go on preaching & actually doing nothing to end Netanyahu's war.
NT govt may allow citizens to carry & use a pepper spray for personal defence during 12-month trial. Already allowed in WA. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Former health worker in Gaza says Israel's IDF appears to have 'targeting days', concentrating on shooting Palestinians in certain parts of the body, different day different body parts targeted. I'view on France 24 contained details I've heard of before.
I have nothing to thank my parents (one a step-parent) for. The second union had many of their own to worry about. I agree on Gough Whitlam.
America can't afford America. Trump's tariffs imposed to pay for past budgeting mistakes. World doesn't need a single policeman. It needs the UN to get real & get off its arse to prevent & stop wars.
Three Americans linked to the White House are reportedly conducting influence ops in Greenland, mapping locals’ loyalties to the US. Danish officials, alarmed, have summoned US diplomats over possible interference.-AP
Trump has a Blue States fetish. His megalomania knows no bounds.
You now them Swiss army knives, yeah. Very popular. They need an easily removable tool to open the other tools so they can be used. Most times you risk losing a fingernail trying to access any of the numerous useful tools.
Justice was seen to be done. You're scraping the barrel now.
Iran is expelled, meanwhile the Israel Ambassador is sitting back, taking the credit, while his boss is busy murdering journalists, health workers, aid volunteers & children in his bid to distract from his crimes against humanity, charges of corruption & illegal activity. What a beautiful World eh?
"How many strongly worded statements" indeed. Time for strong or irate statements long gone. What's needed is some actual on the ground physical action. Or another statement followed by "or else".
Donald Trump is so far up himself (Aussie expression for those enormously impressed with themselves) he thinks he can fire people neither he nor his govt employs. Carried away with his "You're fired!" act from his phony reality show. How did this clown convince people to vote for him?
Michael, please check the link. "Page not found".
Shrink-flation is also affecting clothing design. I'm not growing any bigger, or fatter, or taller, but buying clothes today involves a lot of guesswork. Going by standard size on labels is a risky business. Men's trouser legs are becoming narrower, saving material, increasing profits.
Cd be. Inadequate training of AI trouser designer. I hv another pair with a coin pocket so narrow & so deep you'd hv to be mad to put any coins in it.
Nope. The internal design prevents access to the pocket. I don't know why someone designed & provided a pocket that can't be accessed.
No. No way in.
Australia hs bn an ATM for USA govts & arms manufacturers for some decades now. With our Dpt of Defence hinting & Morrison's affirmative action, the USA really hit the jackpot with AUKUS. UK benefits by billion$$$ too.
The USA pushed Australian forces aside in WWII's war in the Pacific, preferring to do the job themselves. USA did not physically support Australian troops in cleaning up & protecting East Timor (Timor-Leste), but is rumoured to hv hd a submarine in the area in case Indonesia tried to land troops.
Anti-Semitic acts are suspected of being carried out by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in other countries. But Iran's govt denies IRGC involvement in Australian incidents. Denial, even implausible denial, always first reaction of scoundrels.