aussieinterest.bsky.social
@aussieinterest.bsky.social
70+yo with usual D.O.B related problems. Shouting into the democracy void
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Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Congress can just FRO, in my view.

"I'm answerable to the communications minister here and to the Australian parliament, and not to the US Congress," Ms Inman Grant said on Wednesday afternoon.

Australia's eSafety commissioner called to testify before US Congress and labelled a 'zealot'
eSafety commissioner labelled 'zealot' and beckoned before US Congress
Australia's online safety regulator, Julie Inman Grant, has been labelled a "zealot" and called to testify before US Congress over concerns her office is censoring the internet for Americans.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Cynicism is high.
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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one of the things I really do not understand is why so much of the development of robots seems to be focused on making them bipedal like humans. Why? It's an insane allocation of resources when it would be much easier to give them three or four "legs" or come up with some new system
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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FEIK: "Despite the growing number of allegations involving massive corruption in Australia’s offshore detention regime, there are still few signs that the government or any of its authorities will seriously investigate them."

nickfeik.substack.com/p/life-as-a-...
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the government's response has left him unwell and in financial turmoil.
nickfeik.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Blaming the Coalition for starting offshore detention doesn’t excuse Labor spending 6× more than Dutton’s $423m Paladin rortand refusing to release the details. No one forced them to out-corrupt the most corrupt. That was voluntary #auspol
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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"decades of research — including a large study published today in the US — conclude that consuming fluoride at recommended levels in drinking water has no adverse effects"

www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Can fluoride in water affect kids' brains? Here's what research tells us
Large studies conclude there is no evidence to back up community concerns that fluoride in water at recommended levels may affect the cognition or IQ of children.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Home insurance is in crisis, and Big Oil's lies are to blame.

"We’re never going to bend the curve of ever-rising insurance costs without addressing the core driver of higher prices: the worsening climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly made a reality," explains CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The collapse of civilisation is on the horizon, but it’s never on the front pages.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Yeah dude, it was totally the commitment to net zero that caused the economy to fall in the late 2020-2021 period

Nothing else of note happened that impacted the economy
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I am amazed how Australia, a land considered arid, and marginal agriculturally, is now suddenly a fertile heaven that can’t be touched by renewables. Feel free to bulldoze entire valleys and mountains for fossil fuels. That’s ok.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Dave Rowe golden bone saw..
Financial Review
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:

1982-83 = 0.17

2024-25 = 0.03

...

Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Who would think that at this point in Australia’s economic transition we should be spending more, not less, on research and development…

Imagine if we taxed the gas industry and pant more on R&D…crazy talk … #cliamte
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Al Gore on Saudi Arabia at #COP30 climate summit

“Saudi Arabia appears to be determined to veto the effort to solve the #climatecrisis"

“I hope that the rest of the world will stand up to this obscene greed and recklessness on the part of the kingdom”

www.ft.com/content/f165...
Home - Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Epstein’s brother has said this repeatedly
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Perhaps the ACT Gov. could spend millions less on supporting AFL matches each year for starters.
ACT ambulance officer shortages could be 'difference between life and death'
An internal review has revealed the service needs at least 80 additional ambulance officers, response times are worsening, and night shifts are failing to meet minimum staffing levels 96 per cent of t...
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Donny lashing oul. More deflection or is that slimy toad Farage winding him up
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Save this post:

I predict that when the vote to release the Epstein Files goes ahead, dozens of Republicans will break ranks and vote for it cos they know that if they don't, they're fucked in the 2026 mid-terms.

Rats on a sinking ship! Trump is FUCKED!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A MUST READ! Like it or not, homo sapiens ARE a species of animal.

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision.

"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs are bastards.

I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.

"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs Are B*stards
On the need to "Defund the COPs" The ACAB slogan has always jarred with me somewhat. I understand (and respect) it as a systemic critique, intended to reveal that it's impossible for any individual,...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Worth a re-post.
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM