Belinda Weaver
@longtimeleftie.bsky.social
Pro-Palestine 🍉🍉🍉, anti-Murdoch Australian greenie. A lifelong leftie who thinks billionaires should be fired into the sun and that Israel's committing genocide. 'Retired' by Covid-19 before my time.
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1000%
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
1000%
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Which also answers the current question, "How did we get here?"
Well, over half the country has literacy skills below the sixth grade, and one in five people (21 %, FFS) cannot read at all. And that just blows my mind.
www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-...
Well, over half the country has literacy skills below the sixth grade, and one in five people (21 %, FFS) cannot read at all. And that just blows my mind.
www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-...
Map reveals US adult literacy rates by state
The National Literary Institute reported that low literacy levels cost the country up to $2.2 trillion a year.
www.newsweek.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I guess you could say that the US is certainly *one of* the greatest countries in the world for:
- inequality & poverty
- billionaires directing public policy
- gun violence against children
- billionaires directing disinformation
- bad health
- crap electoral system
- delusions of self-importance
- inequality & poverty
- billionaires directing public policy
- gun violence against children
- billionaires directing disinformation
- bad health
- crap electoral system
- delusions of self-importance
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I guess you could say that the US is certainly *one of* the greatest countries in the world for:
- inequality & poverty
- billionaires directing public policy
- gun violence against children
- billionaires directing disinformation
- bad health
- crap electoral system
- delusions of self-importance
- inequality & poverty
- billionaires directing public policy
- gun violence against children
- billionaires directing disinformation
- bad health
- crap electoral system
- delusions of self-importance
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The greatest country in the world?
Not only is that demonstrably rubbish, it's precisely the insular, parochial, ill-educated and ignorant mindset that led to the US electing Trump.
Twice.
Trump is America's id.
Not only is that demonstrably rubbish, it's precisely the insular, parochial, ill-educated and ignorant mindset that led to the US electing Trump.
Twice.
Trump is America's id.
It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The greatest country in the world?
Not only is that demonstrably rubbish, it's precisely the insular, parochial, ill-educated and ignorant mindset that led to the US electing Trump.
Twice.
Trump is America's id.
Not only is that demonstrably rubbish, it's precisely the insular, parochial, ill-educated and ignorant mindset that led to the US electing Trump.
Twice.
Trump is America's id.
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The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
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Trump’s ploy at the UN is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Trump’s ploy at the UN is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process
The Trump administration is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council aimed at eliminating the possibility of a State of Palestine.
johnmenadue.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trump’s ploy at the UN is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Our return would require admitting that Israel is a settler colony built on ethnic cleansing that has spent 77 years making indigenous people disappear. It would require acknowledging that the “only democracy in the Middle East” is actually an apartheid state.
open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibs...
open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibs...
On the Right to Return,
forever and always
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Our return would require admitting that Israel is a settler colony built on ethnic cleansing that has spent 77 years making indigenous people disappear. It would require acknowledging that the “only democracy in the Middle East” is actually an apartheid state.
open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibs...
open.substack.com/pub/ahmadibs...
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www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.”
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.”
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.”
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.”
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Activism is the antidote to failing governments. Get active. Talk to friends and family. Join activist groups or start one of your own. Ring, write to and meet your MPs. Don’t accept inaction on climate, education, healthcare, aged care, corruption, lack of housing, NACC…
I get that the govt is failing in its responsibility to fill its job description but if we do nothing and just allow them to keep going are we any better?
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Activism is the antidote to failing governments. Get active. Talk to friends and family. Join activist groups or start one of your own. Ring, write to and meet your MPs. Don’t accept inaction on climate, education, healthcare, aged care, corruption, lack of housing, NACC…
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They’re eating the solar panels, they’re eating the wind turbines…
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
They’re eating the solar panels, they’re eating the wind turbines…
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I find it astonishing that the entire world knows Trump is a pedophile and yet the entire world chooses to ignore it so that the sexual predator still roams free 🤔
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I find it astonishing that the entire world knows Trump is a pedophile and yet the entire world chooses to ignore it so that the sexual predator still roams free 🤔
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So many whistleblowers wickedly persecuted in Australia that it is getting easier every day to see those wielding such power as little more than racketeers.
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So many whistleblowers wickedly persecuted in Australia that it is getting easier every day to see those wielding such power as little more than racketeers.
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As usual those who have a moral sense are the ones punished while the perpetrators and corrupt go free.
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
As usual those who have a moral sense are the ones punished while the perpetrators and corrupt go free.
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My new piece on the alarming story of a Home Affairs whistleblower:
Derek Elias is still technically employed by Home Affairs, but he hasn’t worked full-time since July 2021, when he walked out on his role in Operation Sovereign Borders following what he describes as “a significant probity breach” involving lucrative contracts in Nauru. satpa.pe/nzO9RiX
Life as a Home Affairs whistleblower: ‘I’m just falling over’
Four years ago, Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias attempted to report corruption in offshore contracts – the department’s response has left him mentally unwell and in financial turmoil.
satpa.pe
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My new piece on the alarming story of a Home Affairs whistleblower:
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What passes for "analysis" of climate policy by today's ABC:
- all politics, little policy
- an alleged expose of the "conundrum" in Liberals' position, when NONE of it makes any sense
- no mention of the role of powerful vested interests like the fossil fuel lobby, Gina Rinehart, Advance... #auspol
- all politics, little policy
- an alleged expose of the "conundrum" in Liberals' position, when NONE of it makes any sense
- no mention of the role of powerful vested interests like the fossil fuel lobby, Gina Rinehart, Advance... #auspol
Liberal shadow cabinet members landed on a plan that has left many inside and outside the party bewildered and confused.
The Paris conundrum at the heart of the Coalition's net zero backflip
Liberal shadow cabinet members landed on a plan that has left many inside and outside the party bewildered and confused.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What passes for "analysis" of climate policy by today's ABC:
- all politics, little policy
- an alleged expose of the "conundrum" in Liberals' position, when NONE of it makes any sense
- no mention of the role of powerful vested interests like the fossil fuel lobby, Gina Rinehart, Advance... #auspol
- all politics, little policy
- an alleged expose of the "conundrum" in Liberals' position, when NONE of it makes any sense
- no mention of the role of powerful vested interests like the fossil fuel lobby, Gina Rinehart, Advance... #auspol
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@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
#FreePalestine
How's that warm friendship going with the genocide state of Israel governed by a polish mass murderer a wanted international war criminal for crimes against humanity.
Israel is an illegal occupation that murders Palestinians.
@australianlabor.bsky.social
#FreePalestine
How's that warm friendship going with the genocide state of Israel governed by a polish mass murderer a wanted international war criminal for crimes against humanity.
Israel is an illegal occupation that murders Palestinians.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social
#FreePalestine
How's that warm friendship going with the genocide state of Israel governed by a polish mass murderer a wanted international war criminal for crimes against humanity.
Israel is an illegal occupation that murders Palestinians.
@australianlabor.bsky.social
#FreePalestine
How's that warm friendship going with the genocide state of Israel governed by a polish mass murderer a wanted international war criminal for crimes against humanity.
Israel is an illegal occupation that murders Palestinians.
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Growing up in Australia we were told BHP was "The Big Australian".
In Brazil, the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests & polluted the length of the Doce River. michaelwest.com.au/bhp-liable-f...
In Brazil, the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests & polluted the length of the Doce River. michaelwest.com.au/bhp-liable-f...
BHP liable for 2015 Brazil dam collapse, UK court rules - Michael West
BHP can be held liable over the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London's High Court has ruled.
michaelwest.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Growing up in Australia we were told BHP was "The Big Australian".
In Brazil, the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests & polluted the length of the Doce River. michaelwest.com.au/bhp-liable-f...
In Brazil, the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests & polluted the length of the Doce River. michaelwest.com.au/bhp-liable-f...
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#StopIsrael #IsraelisADeathCult #IsraeliButchers #internationalinterventionNOW #SanctionIsraelNow #ExpelIsraeliAmbassador
#BREAKING | The IDF is refusing to get out of Syrian Territory: "we no longer defend from the border"
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case
A new White House memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the White House says so!
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
The US has revived the blunt instrument of the “War on Drugs” to pressure countries that are not yielding to its threats or that stubbornly refuse to elect right-wing governments.
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5 Options for Attacking Venezuela
Chávez Once Said, “Let the Dogs of the Empire Bark. That Is Their Role: To Bark"
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November 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The US has revived the blunt instrument of the “War on Drugs” to pressure countries that are not yielding to its threats or that stubbornly refuse to elect right-wing governments.
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
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