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Codger, Chris Davis, legend in own western Vic Oz shopfront, seeking to untie the historic and linguistic entanglements before there's only cockroaches.
Still today, Oz shrugs its shoulders while the MSM corrupts itself further & further. It's so predictably neo-liberal / neo-conservative anodyne. Its cynical grumpy old men dwelling in an arcane world view. The voting generations from Gen Z & younger ignore it. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The press and the Dismissal – Part III
Television had come to the fore in elections during the Whitlam campaign of 1972 when increased funds were spent on advertising with slogans (It’s time was backed by a catchy jingle) and mainly short ...
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Still today, Oz shrugs its shoulders while the MSM corrupts itself further & further. It's so predictably neo-liberal / neo-conservative anodyne. Its cynical grumpy old men dwelling in an arcane world view. The voting generations from Gen Z & younger ignore it. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
What to expect from sooky NewsCorpse trash, zilch socially, economically, technically or culturally innovative. Just the same old grumpy-man sooky handbrake à la Trump. Uncle Sam & the 'west' going down the gurgler by suicide, China bending over to prop em up johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
When in doubt, blame China (every News Corp headline needs a villain)
If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the out...
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What to expect from sooky NewsCorpse trash, zilch socially, economically, technically or culturally innovative. Just the same old grumpy-man sooky handbrake à la Trump. Uncle Sam & the 'west' going down the gurgler by suicide, China bending over to prop em up johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
DPPs Oz-wide appear to be in thrall of American puritanical excesses in prosecutional pile-ons. We don't do that in Oz. We don't indulge in fantasies bringing arcane hell's fire into our courts. DDP fantasies in ACT have been slapped down by the Court of Appeal johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'We don't do that in this country': judge slams DPP
An appeal by ACT director of Public Prosecutions, Victoria Engel, SC, has been dismissed by a Full Bench of the ACT Court of Appeal after only three minutes of deliberation.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
DPPs Oz-wide appear to be in thrall of American puritanical excesses in prosecutional pile-ons. We don't do that in Oz. We don't indulge in fantasies bringing arcane hell's fire into our courts. DDP fantasies in ACT have been slapped down by the Court of Appeal johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Netanyahu's Israel is indeed a 'rogue state'. New mandatory death sentence for 'terrorists convicted of murder' surely directed at Palestinians the likes of Marwan Barghouti et al, who have been convicted in a closed 'kangaroo court' without transparency of evidence johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
OFFICIAL – Israel’s proposed death-penalty law is a war crime
Not satisfied it seems with the continued genocide of Palestinians, Israel is now looking to execute Palestinian prisoners by introducing a death penalty law.
johnmenadue.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Netanyahu's Israel is indeed a 'rogue state'. New mandatory death sentence for 'terrorists convicted of murder' surely directed at Palestinians the likes of Marwan Barghouti et al, who have been convicted in a closed 'kangaroo court' without transparency of evidence johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
In the face of the onrush of new green hi-tech, the Oz 'blather' of fossil fuel 'transition' to renewables seems only so that we can foist our LNG to East Asia. theaimn.net/leaked-repor...
Leaked report confirms WA gas is derailing the clean energy transition in Asia
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by dela...
theaimn.net
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
In the face of the onrush of new green hi-tech, the Oz 'blather' of fossil fuel 'transition' to renewables seems only so that we can foist our LNG to East Asia. theaimn.net/leaked-repor...
National Press Club brought live to Oz by ABC. So Oz public can be brought unhindered transparency for their edification. There's no 'conflicts of interest' - not allowed by either the NPC or ABC. Ha ha haar, hilarious - websites & policies written by satirists! michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West
More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.
michaelwest.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
National Press Club brought live to Oz by ABC. So Oz public can be brought unhindered transparency for their edification. There's no 'conflicts of interest' - not allowed by either the NPC or ABC. Ha ha haar, hilarious - websites & policies written by satirists! michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...
Defensive jitters in the sandpit - it's an AUKUS mess. Don't worry about Blind Freddy nor the international warrior-class, they know about our deterrence before we do. But whatever you do, don't let the Oz voting public know! michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-subs...
Subs base enigma. NSW Government doesn't know what to hide or why - Michael West
Getting access to documents on NSW nuclear subs base has become an FOI riddle wrapped in a submarine mystery inside a nuclear enigma.
michaelwest.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Defensive jitters in the sandpit - it's an AUKUS mess. Don't worry about Blind Freddy nor the international warrior-class, they know about our deterrence before we do. But whatever you do, don't let the Oz voting public know! michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-subs...
The oldest elect-trick in the book. Do govt costings based on chaff fed by stable-hands. Gain commitments before the barriers, draft rolling contracts, get blown out by the hungry progeny. Another example the Inland Rail project, but that's called railroading michaelwest.com.au/spring-racin...
Spring racing fever. EPIC Cup unbackable favourite revealed - Michael West
Spring racing fever is in the air, and nowhere is the excitement more electrifying than at the starting gates of the 2025 EPIC Cup.
michaelwest.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The oldest elect-trick in the book. Do govt costings based on chaff fed by stable-hands. Gain commitments before the barriers, draft rolling contracts, get blown out by the hungry progeny. Another example the Inland Rail project, but that's called railroading michaelwest.com.au/spring-racin...
Albo, what is RBA gonna do when we win the resource / energy wars, the FIRB flakes & foreign investment burgeons, all 'Future Funds' start dishing out & immigration to build houses & defense infrastructure bulges? Introduce a body-slam nightmare to the dreams? michaelwest.com.au/interest-rat...
Interest rates stay. The Reserve Bank penguins are back. - Michael West
While most of the nation was concentrating on a horse race, the Reserve Bank trotted out a surprise by not surprising and kept rates steady.
michaelwest.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Albo, what is RBA gonna do when we win the resource / energy wars, the FIRB flakes & foreign investment burgeons, all 'Future Funds' start dishing out & immigration to build houses & defense infrastructure bulges? Introduce a body-slam nightmare to the dreams? michaelwest.com.au/interest-rat...
We all know. Fransesca Albanese has reported the detail. As have independent media outlets. We all know the Albo Labor govt & LNP opposition using weasel words & duplicity to avoid their obligations. All the 'west' toadying to the US hegemon & smashing the UN michaelwest.com.au/navi-pillay-...
Navi Pillay. Don't be complicit in genocide Australia, warns former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Michael West
Former UN human rights chief Judge Navi Pillay has warned that Australia and other states risk complicity in genocide
michaelwest.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We all know. Fransesca Albanese has reported the detail. As have independent media outlets. We all know the Albo Labor govt & LNP opposition using weasel words & duplicity to avoid their obligations. All the 'west' toadying to the US hegemon & smashing the UN michaelwest.com.au/navi-pillay-...
Concerns capture of the Levant. For clearance early, 'west' invited home the Jews, then Balfour wanted rid of them, so a deal with Zionists convenient to create a suzerain in Israel. Like all British did it increasingly went awry. It's written in Palestinian blood johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
108 years since the Balfour Declaration – a promise written in ink, fulfilled in blood
On 2 November 1917, Britain wrote with the ink of politics what it had no right to write with the ink of history.
johnmenadue.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Concerns capture of the Levant. For clearance early, 'west' invited home the Jews, then Balfour wanted rid of them, so a deal with Zionists convenient to create a suzerain in Israel. Like all British did it increasingly went awry. It's written in Palestinian blood johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Zombies must act together. Sth Korea fiercely culturally proud, the further America imposed / assisted they decried them, now it's China they decry. Global North living a Zombie apocalypse as complexity overcomes leaders who resort to inertia or arcane brutality. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Zombie multilateralism: The undead world of APEC
After 20 years, APEC returned to Korea, but it feels different.
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Zombies must act together. Sth Korea fiercely culturally proud, the further America imposed / assisted they decried them, now it's China they decry. Global North living a Zombie apocalypse as complexity overcomes leaders who resort to inertia or arcane brutality. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'Global South' a tenuous concept, as Gen-Z issues & prerogative also permeate 'Global North'. Brilliant article with 7 bona fide theses a likely reality. Crumbling of North's hegemonies & propped wealth, & population growth of the South indicate a flip is in play. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Gen Z uprisings in the Global South
Here are seven theses to begin to understand the protests that young people have led across the world and perhaps channel them in a progressive direction.
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
'Global South' a tenuous concept, as Gen-Z issues & prerogative also permeate 'Global North'. Brilliant article with 7 bona fide theses a likely reality. Crumbling of North's hegemonies & propped wealth, & population growth of the South indicate a flip is in play. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Oz, US et al toady China hawks continue until reality renders their bellows to a whimper. Inextricable global interdependence prevails. As Western hegemony crumbles due to war waste, alliances via trade & cultural freedom strengthen, & old blocs like QUAD dissolve johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
In memoriam: The slow death of the Quad
Quietly, but surely, life is ebbing away from the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad).
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Oz, US et al toady China hawks continue until reality renders their bellows to a whimper. Inextricable global interdependence prevails. As Western hegemony crumbles due to war waste, alliances via trade & cultural freedom strengthen, & old blocs like QUAD dissolve johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Look out! Pop go the weasels, then who'll eat the rats & the cockroaches. Should we then put out the garbage? Whoa, perhaps we gotta stop having food for thought? Yeeesh johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A dangerous trifecta
Amid the world’s many troubles is the growing possibility of a combination of the bursting of a bubble, a major government and corporate debt crisis and the possibility that a popular investment strat...
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Look out! Pop go the weasels, then who'll eat the rats & the cockroaches. Should we then put out the garbage? Whoa, perhaps we gotta stop having food for thought? Yeeesh johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Disgruntled, Netanyahu's Israel has withdrawn its ambassador and closed down its embassy. Sounds like a big win for Ireland. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The left wins the Irish presidential election in a landslide
Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stan...
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Disgruntled, Netanyahu's Israel has withdrawn its ambassador and closed down its embassy. Sounds like a big win for Ireland. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
After centuries of re-emergent christo-fascist lunacy, the US skypilot militant mercantilist glitterati drafted PROJECT2025 plan sans outcome. Its exceptional suicidal ideation, isolationist inspired Armaggedon, requires labile bellicosity, no strategy = Trump & Co. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia
The second Trump administration has transformed US foreign policy, with immediate implications for economic and security ties with Asia and long-term implications for regional and global order.
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
After centuries of re-emergent christo-fascist lunacy, the US skypilot militant mercantilist glitterati drafted PROJECT2025 plan sans outcome. Its exceptional suicidal ideation, isolationist inspired Armaggedon, requires labile bellicosity, no strategy = Trump & Co. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Barrett may've been honing with Burgess the art of pumping public fear-n-loathing performance at the behest of puppeteer ministerial masters who should be doing the talking - we're used to their BS - they can't vanish nor abrogate their parliamentary responsibilities. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
AFP set to fight the devil among our children
The new AFP Commissioner, Krissy Barrett, would not be the first AFP Commissioner or statutory head to think that she can reinvent her job and its functions with the help of a savvy media unit.
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Barrett may've been honing with Burgess the art of pumping public fear-n-loathing performance at the behest of puppeteer ministerial masters who should be doing the talking - we're used to their BS - they can't vanish nor abrogate their parliamentary responsibilities. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
It's not just Hancock & CSR at Wittenoon. There's about 80,000 pits / mines across Oz that spread ill-health & remain to be encapsulated / rehabilitated, but are run by the perennial 3D (dig dump depart) behavior of extractors & the blind-eye of successive govts. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Clean your room
During 1937, Lang Hancock from the Mulga Downs pastoral station in Western Australia began mining and milling activities for blue asbestos (crocidolite) at the nearby Yampire Gorge.
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's not just Hancock & CSR at Wittenoon. There's about 80,000 pits / mines across Oz that spread ill-health & remain to be encapsulated / rehabilitated, but are run by the perennial 3D (dig dump depart) behavior of extractors & the blind-eye of successive govts. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
And who are the ones pulling down the truth with lies? The Liberal & Nationals & PHON & their Advance / Atlas & MSM backers hell bent on Zionist & christo-nationalist white supremacy. As Paul Keating well said, "Monoculture is a myth." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The pearling past and the multicultural present: A story of connection and contribution
In the late 1990s, during a field study in Wyndham, a remote town in Western Australia, I met a small tourism operator whose story has stayed with me ever since.
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
And who are the ones pulling down the truth with lies? The Liberal & Nationals & PHON & their Advance / Atlas & MSM backers hell bent on Zionist & christo-nationalist white supremacy. As Paul Keating well said, "Monoculture is a myth." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
MPs - the root of all deceptions & corruption. They imbue it in children of elite & aspiring elite from a very early age. Despite recipes for universal equity in schooling, they act with guile & bias against ordinary public whilst favoring the elite power-brokers. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
It’s official! Accounting tricks denied public schools more than $2b in funding in 2023
A new report by the National School Resourcing Board reveals that public schools lost more than $2 billion in funding in 2023 because of accounting tricks used by state governments under the Commonwea...
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MPs - the root of all deceptions & corruption. They imbue it in children of elite & aspiring elite from a very early age. Despite recipes for universal equity in schooling, they act with guile & bias against ordinary public whilst favoring the elite power-brokers. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A blizzard of lies out of White House daily, we witness propaganda a stepping stone to imperial violence. How long will gullible populations believe the river of lies the Pentagon & State Department pour into ears via MSM? Is it Venezuela’s turn to get the treatment? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Will the US do to Venezuela’s Maduro what they did to Gaddafi?
Something truly horrific is being planned for Venezuela. Generals are being bought and paid for, death squads are being organised and a major regime change operation is slowly gathering steam that, if...
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A blizzard of lies out of White House daily, we witness propaganda a stepping stone to imperial violence. How long will gullible populations believe the river of lies the Pentagon & State Department pour into ears via MSM? Is it Venezuela’s turn to get the treatment? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Seems the techbro cyber megaliths will do anything to help themselves. And that their standard international Ts&Cs aren't worth the paper they're written on if they constrain them from 'helping themselves'. Seems they'll soon be busted. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a j...
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Seems the techbro cyber megaliths will do anything to help themselves. And that their standard international Ts&Cs aren't worth the paper they're written on if they constrain them from 'helping themselves'. Seems they'll soon be busted. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
For goodness sake, govt asap get rid of the blockages, & biases & loopholes peddled by the 'powerful players' extant. theaimn.net/new-teleheal...
New telehealth rules set to undermine access to advanced nurses
New telehealth rules starting today will restrict nurse practitioners’ (NP) ability to deliver high-quality healthcare – a loss to Australians, particularly in remote and regional areas. Patients of i...
theaimn.net
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For goodness sake, govt asap get rid of the blockages, & biases & loopholes peddled by the 'powerful players' extant. theaimn.net/new-teleheal...
Hear hear! Instead of the obsessive quest for money & power (incl in Oz Uni management), a focus on peace, justice & equity is becoming prevalent. But needs to be backed by multi-disciplined academic R&D like the 'Peace & Conflict' studies once at USyd. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A collective voice for peace with justice
Earlier this year, the Sydney Peace Foundation separated from the University of Sydney after 27 years.
johnmenadue.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hear hear! Instead of the obsessive quest for money & power (incl in Oz Uni management), a focus on peace, justice & equity is becoming prevalent. But needs to be backed by multi-disciplined academic R&D like the 'Peace & Conflict' studies once at USyd. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...