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Saturday read #1. Make time for Harry Vanda. While you gear up to listen to a podcast tracing his career/Australian music since the early '60s (& you should), & a new song from his pen+guitar, WindBackWednesday dips in to a time when the devil was inside.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/harry-v...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/harry-v...
HARRY VANDA LETS THE DEVIL LOOSE IN WIND BACK WEDNESDAY
One of the giants of Australian music, Harry Vanda, is old enough to know better than to release music these days. Not just because it’s a different world from when he was writing some of the biggest ...
www.bernardzuel.net
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Saturday read #1. Make time for Harry Vanda. While you gear up to listen to a podcast tracing his career/Australian music since the early '60s (& you should), & a new song from his pen+guitar, WindBackWednesday dips in to a time when the devil was inside.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/harry-v...
www.bernardzuel.net/post/harry-v...
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This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
johnmenadue.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
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For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man
For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man
When I got a word in edgeways, finally, I wondered why Dublin’s rapacious seagulls never came near him
www.irishtimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man
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Speak up - Speak out 🇵🇸
September 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Speak up - Speak out 🇵🇸
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
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#WestPapua: decades of persecution, armed by the West, blessed by silence. Colonialism’s alive—just rebranded as “business as usual.”
Read more: moderntokyotimes.com/west-papua-a...
#colonialism
Read more: moderntokyotimes.com/west-papua-a...
#colonialism
West Papua and Pity the Indigenous: Endless International Failure – Modern Tokyo Times
moderntokyotimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#WestPapua: decades of persecution, armed by the West, blessed by silence. Colonialism’s alive—just rebranded as “business as usual.”
Read more: moderntokyotimes.com/west-papua-a...
#colonialism
Read more: moderntokyotimes.com/west-papua-a...
#colonialism
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Over 80,700 remain displaced in #WestPapua as conflict escalates. New displacements in Puncak Jaya & Pegunungan Bintang. Security forces deploy jets, mortars, bombs & drones, hitting civilian sites. Diocese of Timika urges urgent aid & ceasefire.
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/reports/idp-...
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/reports/idp-...
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Over 80,700 remain displaced in #WestPapua as conflict escalates. New displacements in Puncak Jaya & Pegunungan Bintang. Security forces deploy jets, mortars, bombs & drones, hitting civilian sites. Diocese of Timika urges urgent aid & ceasefire.
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/reports/idp-...
Read more: humanrightsmonitor.org/reports/idp-...
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#WestPapua & the planet’s biggest rainforest destruction operation
One-World elites? Blind, deaf, and silent—complicit in this crime. This is genocide against nature and people. And no one bats an eye !
#deforestation #ecocide #ForestDestruction #palmoil
One-World elites? Blind, deaf, and silent—complicit in this crime. This is genocide against nature and people. And no one bats an eye !
#deforestation #ecocide #ForestDestruction #palmoil
Douglas Gerrard | The World’s Largest Deforestation Project
In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land in...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#WestPapua & the planet’s biggest rainforest destruction operation
One-World elites? Blind, deaf, and silent—complicit in this crime. This is genocide against nature and people. And no one bats an eye !
#deforestation #ecocide #ForestDestruction #palmoil
One-World elites? Blind, deaf, and silent—complicit in this crime. This is genocide against nature and people. And no one bats an eye !
#deforestation #ecocide #ForestDestruction #palmoil
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This is what happens when a woman runs a country.
August 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
This is what happens when a woman runs a country.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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"Real men burn stuff": America's acts of self-harm while China - a ruthless autocracy - builds the future. This week's column for the ABC
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
'Real men burn stuff': America's embrace of coal just one in a series of colossal acts of self-harm
It's entirely appropriate that Albanese is meeting Xi again before he meets Trump for the first time. Xi is more important than Trump now.
www.abc.net.au
July 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"Real men burn stuff": America's acts of self-harm while China - a ruthless autocracy - builds the future. This week's column for the ABC
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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Próvaí with some leap...🔥
GRMA Finsbury Park
GRMA Finsbury Park
July 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Próvaí with some leap...🔥
GRMA Finsbury Park
GRMA Finsbury Park
It’s more than a coat: An ode to Antoinette Lattouf’s meaningful courtroom fashion www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/27/a...
It's more than a coat: An ode to Antoinette Lattouf's meaningful courtroom fashion
The journalist's courtroom fashion sent a strong message, without her having to say a word.
www.crikey.com.au
June 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s more than a coat: An ode to Antoinette Lattouf’s meaningful courtroom fashion www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/27/a...
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CBS News anchor Scott Pelley asked all of the pivotal questions during his commencement address at Wake Forest this weekend, mainly:
Who are you?
Who are you in this moment?
Worth a read below:
Who are you?
Who are you in this moment?
Worth a read below:
2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive
Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...
commencement.news.wfu.edu
May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley asked all of the pivotal questions during his commencement address at Wake Forest this weekend, mainly:
Who are you?
Who are you in this moment?
Worth a read below:
Who are you?
Who are you in this moment?
Worth a read below:
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Oh joy, watching the ABC's flagship current affairs show where Sarah Ferguson ask s"Is there any proportion of the Palestinian people in Gaza who would welcome the chance to be relocated?"
How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730
How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730
February 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Oh joy, watching the ABC's flagship current affairs show where Sarah Ferguson ask s"Is there any proportion of the Palestinian people in Gaza who would welcome the chance to be relocated?"
How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730
How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730
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Taranaki Mounga, New Zealand’s second-highest mountain, granted same legal rights as a person
Taranaki Mounga, New Zealand’s second-highest mountain, granted same legal rights as a person
Second-highest peak in Aotearoa, formerly called Mount Egmont by European settlers, has its spiritual status formally recognised by government
New Zealand’s second-highest mountain and its surrounding peaks have been granted legal personhood, becoming…
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Taranaki Mounga, New Zealand’s second-highest mountain, granted same legal rights as a person
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song of the day: youtu.be/0JrlKcoD1Qw?...
Wake Up | Rage Against the Machine cover | ft. Sophia Urista
YouTube video by Brass Against
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January 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
song of the day: youtu.be/0JrlKcoD1Qw?...
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Australia has a colonial history and its impact is still being felt by First Nations communities today. We can't shy away from these uncomfortable conversations, we need to uphold and support truth-telling.
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Australia has a colonial history and its impact is still being felt by First Nations communities today. We can't shy away from these uncomfortable conversations, we need to uphold and support truth-telling.