Andy
@vicozandy.bsky.social
Ex software developer, now more interested in science, food, art, cats, bad CAD, 3D printing, and gardening.
Watching politics and climate change with horror.
Living in Yorta Yorta country, Australia
Eclectic...don't expect a theme!
Not a Theist
Watching politics and climate change with horror.
Living in Yorta Yorta country, Australia
Eclectic...don't expect a theme!
Not a Theist
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Australia’s survival as a sovereign, democratic nation is what is at stake here.
The alternative Trump vision is to make Australia another US/Israel Ethnocracy colonised State. The front line in their war with China.
Another Gaza, Ukraine levelled to a rubble. Another killing field.
#auspol.
The alternative Trump vision is to make Australia another US/Israel Ethnocracy colonised State. The front line in their war with China.
Another Gaza, Ukraine levelled to a rubble. Another killing field.
#auspol.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Australia’s survival as a sovereign, democratic nation is what is at stake here.
The alternative Trump vision is to make Australia another US/Israel Ethnocracy colonised State. The front line in their war with China.
Another Gaza, Ukraine levelled to a rubble. Another killing field.
#auspol.
The alternative Trump vision is to make Australia another US/Israel Ethnocracy colonised State. The front line in their war with China.
Another Gaza, Ukraine levelled to a rubble. Another killing field.
#auspol.
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Haven’t any faith in @albomp.bsky.social appointments whatsoever.
His secrecy and game playing has proved very harmful for the people and Australian nation.
His secrecy and game playing has proved very harmful for the people and Australian nation.
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Haven’t any faith in @albomp.bsky.social appointments whatsoever.
His secrecy and game playing has proved very harmful for the people and Australian nation.
His secrecy and game playing has proved very harmful for the people and Australian nation.
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Opinion | New hate speech legislation gives the executive government a power properly reserved for the courts: adjudging criminal guilt, @marquelawyers.com.au writes.
New hate speech laws help seed corrosive division and the destruction of human rights
www.crikey.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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This update is brought to you by Woodside
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 AM
This update is brought to you by Woodside
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Rex Patrick: “Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends a lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains.”
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Rex Patrick: “Israel’s reputation is treated as a strategic asset to be managed in Western media and political domains. The Israeli ‘machine’ spends a lot of money and effort doing it. The passing of hate laws in the Parliament just switched some of the cost to us. Rex Patrick explains.”
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“Australia, among many allies, has arrived at fulcrum at which it is irresponsible not to acknowledge that further membership, active or passive, in alliance with United States would be irresponsible, an inexcusable betrayal of the country’s interests, values.” johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01....
Beyond the ruptured alliance: an outline for Plan B
Australia’s alliance with the United States is no longer reliable, and clinging to it now risks Australia’s interests and values. The case for a deliberate, staged Plan B begins with strategic autonom...
johnmenadue.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 AM
“Australia, among many allies, has arrived at fulcrum at which it is irresponsible not to acknowledge that further membership, active or passive, in alliance with United States would be irresponsible, an inexcusable betrayal of the country’s interests, values.” johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01....
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Trump calls himself a man of peace.
His aid cuts have already killed about 600,000 people, mostly children, with projections topping 1 million deaths a year.
No bombs. No headlines.
Just mass death by budget spreadsheet.
His aid cuts have already killed about 600,000 people, mostly children, with projections topping 1 million deaths a year.
No bombs. No headlines.
Just mass death by budget spreadsheet.
January 26, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Trump calls himself a man of peace.
His aid cuts have already killed about 600,000 people, mostly children, with projections topping 1 million deaths a year.
No bombs. No headlines.
Just mass death by budget spreadsheet.
His aid cuts have already killed about 600,000 people, mostly children, with projections topping 1 million deaths a year.
No bombs. No headlines.
Just mass death by budget spreadsheet.
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Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations
January 25, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Looking forward to the AFR's column on how people on Newstart can avoid mutual obligations
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"The Global South is no longer willing to fund, facilitate, or remain vulnerable to an imperial system that serves its own economic subjugation.
The monetary order that emerges next will not be dictated from Washington, but forged in the shared interest of those long excluded from its spoils."
The monetary order that emerges next will not be dictated from Washington, but forged in the shared interest of those long excluded from its spoils."
New currency of power: How the Global South is dismantling dollar supremacy
A coordinated rebellion is quietly reshaping global finance – one that aims not just to escape dollar tyranny, but to bury it.
thecradle.co
January 25, 2026 at 11:58 PM
"The Global South is no longer willing to fund, facilitate, or remain vulnerable to an imperial system that serves its own economic subjugation.
The monetary order that emerges next will not be dictated from Washington, but forged in the shared interest of those long excluded from its spoils."
The monetary order that emerges next will not be dictated from Washington, but forged in the shared interest of those long excluded from its spoils."
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As nothing compared to what Fox “News” viewers have done to themselves
www.sciencealert.com/shrews-can-s...
www.sciencealert.com/shrews-can-s...
Shrews Can Shrink Their Brains by 30%. Here's How They Grow It Back.
In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy.
www.sciencealert.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:41 AM
As nothing compared to what Fox “News” viewers have done to themselves
www.sciencealert.com/shrews-can-s...
www.sciencealert.com/shrews-can-s...
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Remember Gina’s mines are going renewable because it’s cheaper at the same time as she works tirelessly to wreck the transition.
January 26, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Remember Gina’s mines are going renewable because it’s cheaper at the same time as she works tirelessly to wreck the transition.
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👌 My reading is that the traction gained by climate protests 2019/2020 plus covid were last straws for science for plutocrats’ operations. It had been getting in the way since tobacco-cancer pandemic findings in 1950s. They’re breaking it now, led by (ex?) Atlas Heritage & current Atlas partners.
January 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
👌 My reading is that the traction gained by climate protests 2019/2020 plus covid were last straws for science for plutocrats’ operations. It had been getting in the way since tobacco-cancer pandemic findings in 1950s. They’re breaking it now, led by (ex?) Atlas Heritage & current Atlas partners.
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For anyone who wants to know more about how the neoliberal architecture of influence that gelled into the Atlas Network carried out war on science since the 50s & tobacco. www.bloomsbury.com/au/merchants...
Merchants of Doubt
Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Important and timely. We ignore this message at ou…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
For anyone who wants to know more about how the neoliberal architecture of influence that gelled into the Atlas Network carried out war on science since the 50s & tobacco. www.bloomsbury.com/au/merchants...
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More detail: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The atlas network: a “strategic ally” of the tobacco industry
Amid growing academic and policy interest in the influence of think tanks in public policy processes, this article demonstrates the extent of tobacco industry partnerships with think tanks in the USA, and analyzes how collaborating with a network of ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
More detail: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Lots of folks in Hyde Park today. #changethedate.
January 25, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Lots of folks in Hyde Park today. #changethedate.
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Invasion day rally. #Changethedate.
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Invasion day rally. #Changethedate.
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Abolish UN Security Council's veto power. Things will then get done, making UN useful again.
No veto, no need for Donald Trump's money magnet Board of Peace.
Incidentally, Trump holds sole veto power on his Board of Peace.
So-called peace seeker threatens several countries, including US allies!
No veto, no need for Donald Trump's money magnet Board of Peace.
Incidentally, Trump holds sole veto power on his Board of Peace.
So-called peace seeker threatens several countries, including US allies!
January 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Abolish UN Security Council's veto power. Things will then get done, making UN useful again.
No veto, no need for Donald Trump's money magnet Board of Peace.
Incidentally, Trump holds sole veto power on his Board of Peace.
So-called peace seeker threatens several countries, including US allies!
No veto, no need for Donald Trump's money magnet Board of Peace.
Incidentally, Trump holds sole veto power on his Board of Peace.
So-called peace seeker threatens several countries, including US allies!
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Brilliant reporting here by Gareth Hutchens on the Atlas Network and its insidious work across the world, including Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
www.abc.net.au
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Brilliant reporting here by Gareth Hutchens on the Atlas Network and its insidious work across the world, including Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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We can’t know how much other tanks like the Claremont Institute (gone absolutely MAGA wild) still belong to Atlas while fostering fascistic politics. Is this a part of a new Atlas direction? Or are the many Atlas people in the Trump space genuine breakaways creating new overtly fascistic networks?
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 PM
We can’t know how much other tanks like the Claremont Institute (gone absolutely MAGA wild) still belong to Atlas while fostering fascistic politics. Is this a part of a new Atlas direction? Or are the many Atlas people in the Trump space genuine breakaways creating new overtly fascistic networks?
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Truly. The breakdown of the US into chaos & violence is in quite a large part to do with the Atlas Network’s partners’ work over the years. Now fmr partner Heritage wrote the Ronald Reagan playbook detailing his reforms that made current massive inequality and wrote Project 2025 as latest iteration
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Truly. The breakdown of the US into chaos & violence is in quite a large part to do with the Atlas Network’s partners’ work over the years. Now fmr partner Heritage wrote the Ronald Reagan playbook detailing his reforms that made current massive inequality and wrote Project 2025 as latest iteration
Finally some relief in the forecast. No rain though, and I hope the prefrontal winds aren't too horrible. Everything is going to be very, very crispy by then. (if it happens, 7 days out is 🤷♂️)
January 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Finally some relief in the forecast. No rain though, and I hope the prefrontal winds aren't too horrible. Everything is going to be very, very crispy by then. (if it happens, 7 days out is 🤷♂️)