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The Albanese Government's Trump-inspired travel ban is draconian and hypocritical By Jane McAdam and Regina Jefferies

How sickening is this? open.substack.com/pub/cheekmed...

Ok, let me get this straight.

The Australian Government is backing a war that most Americans think their president started as a distraction from the Epstein files.

Cool and normal.

#RealHeroes Vs #FascistFluffers and #WarCriminals of #auspol.

Does any Football Association or fan really feel safe travelling to America with current Middle East war?
Really! Safe! Safe to travel and not be detained & sent to South America.
Safe to travel and not be attacked by a bomb or gunmen to watch a game.
#FIFAWorldCup truly seems cooked.

The ABC is becoming more untrustworthy by the hour.
The same selective (Lebanese) 'truth' is used about Iran.
Every disgruntled Iranian diaspora person
(often a monarchist) is treated like an absolute truth-teller.

Ponder this as you fill up with $$$ petrol

The Aus Gov has acted on 0/10 of the International Energy Agency recommendations on increasing fuel security...four years after they came out.

Both major parties just leave all the decisions up to big business.

The patron saint of neoliberalism, Francis Fukuyama, whose ridiculous book argued liberal capitalist "democracy" was the "end of history", has now come to admit that North Korea was right about nuclear weapons, which are the only reason the US empire hasn't bombed and invaded it.

This is not Iran.
This is not Lebanon.

This is Gaza tonight.

Israel is currently raining bombs on 3 different countries, targeting civilians and vital infrastructure.

This is not the behavior of a “victim.”

This is terrorism.

It’s more than alarming, how Australian politicians have slowly capitulated to Israel/Zionist lobby over time — bringing us to where we are today — criminalising freedom of expression and speech at the behest of a genocidal, racist ethnostate.

Police arrest woman wearing t-shirt reading 'From The River To The Sea'.

'QLD Teenager Arrested For Displaying Lack Of Social Cohesion.'

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Where is the outrage? Where is the calls for accountability? Where are the calls for the arrest and capture of Netanyahu and 45 for their blatant disregard of ethical combat and engagement? Demand the arrest of the two old white men behind these atrocities.

As a refugee, I have lived in limbo for 13 years. Why are only some Iranian women worthy of Australia’s protection? | Fatemeh Lahmidi First we were put in offshore detention on Nauru. Even now in Australia, my family live on short-term bridging visas, with constant uncertainty about our future

"As a refugee, I have lived in limbo for 13 years. Why are only some Iranian women worthy of Australia’s protection?"

- Powerful words by Fatemeh Lahmidi, an Iranian refugee living in Australia
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The US has never had any regard for international law or any other nation (cough Whitlam cough) standing between them and their own interests. They just used to be more covert about it /2

We support genocide committed by Israel’s govt and US but punish a kid for a shirt WTAF is going on

"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

Isn't Trump just speeding up the process of breakdown?

It's the system that has been on this trajectory for ages.

Terror cell smashed as police pounce on 18 year old girl wearing a t-shirt with “uncaring words”.

Murdoch’s top headline on the same day Scott Morrison, LNP’s 5 x Secret Minister PM and overlord of the unlawful Robodebt scheme which cruelly targeted over half a million innocent Australians, yet again, escaped any accountability by the pointless NACC

"It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest. Nor is it true that self-interest generally is enlightened."

-John Maynard Keynes

Meanwhile, prominent Democrats like Senator Warren emerged from a classified briefing about the attack on Iran, saying they had gained no clarity whatsoever about why it was happening. "It's so much worse than you thought," she said. Senator Chris Van Hollen called the classified justifications "complete incoherence". And yet, our Foreign Affairs Minister feels comfortable asserting total faith in America and Israel's "intelligence". I've been saying this over and over: the contempt the Labor administration has for the Australian public is truly extreme. We have Lindsay Graham openly saying, "this is a religious war", and US soldiers complaining that they've been told that these strikes are part of "God's divine plan". One officer said that 'President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth". The NCO's complaint was filed on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jewish person.

I don’t know if you have been paying attention but the US has effectively gone full Christian Crusades on this war - it is explicitly religious, racist, and malignant, and not a single journalist in Australia has questioned our politicians about backing this war in light of this.

Disgusting cowardice from our governments.

Nobody truly believes these phrases are anti-Semitic. They just don’t want to allow you to criticise Israel.

Because if you acknowledge the reality of genocide, it by extension admits the Australian government is complicit.

Murdered..murdered is the word you are looking for.

McDonald and key members of the DOGE team bypassed authorized record preservation requirements and violated the Federal Records Act by conducting official government business regarding the cuts using Signal, a messaging application unauthorized for federal employees, and intentionally set to automatically delete messages. DOGE fed grant descriptions into OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, asking it to decide if grants were “DEI.” They then entered ChatGPT’s responses into a spreadsheet compiling all NEH grants, including its “DEI rationale” and “Yes / No DEI?” replies. This ChatGPT-generated list was used in place of the list created by NEH staffers to identify which grants to cut. Projects Grants that were flagged as “DEI” and then terminated included a documentary sharing the story of Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust; an archival project on the lives of Italian Americans; a project to digitize photograph collections of Appalachian residents; and multiple projects to preserve endangered Native American languages and cultures. DOGE staffers violated the Federal Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment by flagging grant descriptions as “DEI” solely because they included “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “homosexual,” “LGBTQ,” and “Tribal,” among other terms. DOGE staffers also flagged grants that NEH leaders concede had no connection to DEI, including grants that had been awarded for collections management after a natural disaster, preservation training, and improving HVAC systems. After the termination of previously awarded grants, Michael McDonald asked an NEH staff member to solicit the Tikvah Fund’s application for a single-source award; the NEH ultimately granted it $10 million.

“The principle that knowledge of history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts is necessary to sustain a strong and resilient nation drove Congress to establish the NEH,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “Our lawsuit reveals this administration’s contempt for that principle and for public investment in research for the common good. DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking.”

Details on DOGE staffers using random text output from a chatbot to justify cuts >

"DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking"

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