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Obama On Too-Big-To-Fail Bank Rescues: 'Never Again' In his continued effort to be on the right side of the populist outrage in the U.S. against bank bailouts, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced plans to limit the operations of the nation's la...

Nope

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Gee if only someone had presidential type powers to do something about it when they could. Luckily the banks got saved though and all the executives got to keep their jobs and get raises.

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

YouTube video by retrooldcommercials Holeproof Underdaks (Australian ad) 1985

🎤One day you’re gonna get caught with your Pantsir down
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Jacinta Price, Tony Abbott, John Howard, John Anderson, Amanda Stoker, Andrew Hastie.

🧵The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is a conference org based in the UK that is Christian Nationalist: it wants their version of God’s law running your government. It’s also fossil fuel sector money. Who are these #Auspol figures on the Advisory Board alongside?

Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party? The Victorian senator’s elevation may help mitigate the effects of the party dumping its first female leader after only nine months. It also suggests the moderates still hold influence

Drive a nail into its coffin?
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Surely this has gotta put the myth of meritocracy to bed. This decidedly unimpressive clown got to where he is on the back of an old boys network. Money may not buy brains but it’ll give you outsized confidence inversely proportional to your ability and the dumb luck to fall upwards regardless.

•Q THEJERUSALEM POST By HERB KEINON FEBRUARY 12, 2026 08:10 Updated: FEBRUARY 12, 2026 08:45 MELBOURNE — President Isaac Herzog quietly met with some 12 former lone soldiers serving and their parents on Thursday, in a closed-door gathering where no names were released and no photographs were permitted because of growing fears of repercussions and an emerging movement to publicly hound lone soldiers abroad. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the last day of Herzog's visit to Australia, underscored both the pride and the unease felt by Diaspora families whose children chose to join the IDF.

I can’t find any links to Aust media reporting the prayers for Israeli genocidaires but the Jerusalem Post, which has remarkably immediate access to all things zionism here, published a predictably persecution complex-coded account www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...

YouTube video by atomikn00b Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (HQ)

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Function Venues Southbank Melbourne | Atlantic Group

According to WACA, Israeli President & alleged war criminal Isaac Herzog will be appearing at CIEL The Venue @ 408 City Road, Southbank in Melbourne/Naarm @ 2:30pm today ...

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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

I asked Defence where Major General King now works having recently left his job in the Department overseeing billions in contracts for companies like Lockheed Martin... can you guess where he went too?

Israel undermines two-state solution while Herzog visits Australia While Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney, his government was taking concrete actions in the West Bank designed to "continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state".

Laura Tingle remains one of the few journalists who is able to state basic facts about Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, and how it shows the utter hypocrisy of our own government (in inviting Herzog)

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Single frame. Chris Minns stands beside a massive tonne weight marked NSW POLICE being lowered by a crane. Visible sticking out from under the weight are hands, legs, a woman’s face, a keffiyeh and placards saying “NO TO GENOCIDE”, “FREE PALESTINE”, “HERZOG OUT”, “NO TO VIOLENCE” Minns says, “Thst should socially cohere them nicely.”

Cohesion.
My @smh cartoon.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

You don't need a thousand words for this. "Social Cohesion" means someone is required to shut the fuck up, and it's never the powerful.

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

NSW police make Israeli president feel at home by mercilessly attacking anyone with a Palestine flag

"Luckily the police seemed more than excited to step in and get as violent as needed to make sure he doesn't feel homesick" - Premier Minns chaser.com.au/national/nsw...

I feel Jon wouldn’t mind my showing you the first draft of this, because I thought it great, but he knew the language needed to be toned down just a smidge :-)

He really knew how to stab a finger right into the chest of those who needed it

Something to remember as you watch this footage is that NSW Police approved the antisemitic National Socialist Network demonstration outside of NSW Parliament House.

Cops beating a man after bike cop fell off his bike and grabbed the man’s shirt on his way down

Who’s this thug laying into this poor bloke? And compare to the treatment the NSN get. For shame.

Comic of an underwater Parliament house, with submarines above. Speech bubble text: "Sure, we could have done more to prevent the ice caps melting, but luckily we spent the money on these submarines instead."

Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change. 

His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive. 

Australia has lost a great today.

red carpet..

An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014

Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.

It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.

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RIP Television bassist Fred Smith, the thoughtful glue beneath those twining riffs

UK Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson – Thiel visited Johnson and Cummings at No 10 in 2019, a month after Johnson became prime minister. Under Johnson, Palantir was awarded contracts for Covid, monitoring Brexit Borders, the MoD and more. Peter Mandelson and Keir Starmer – On his 2025 US state visit, Starmer went to two places: the White House and Palantir’s offices. Starmer was taken to Palantir by Mandelson, then the US ambassador, whose PR company, Global Counsel, counts Palantir as a client. Louis Mosley – UK head of Palantir. Former Conservative councillor, ex-research advisor to Rory Stewart, and grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. James Orr – Orr, a Cambridge University philosophy professor, is a friend of Thiel and a mentor to JD Vance. Orr invited Thiel to speak at Cambridge in 2024. Nigel Farage – The Reform UK leader calls Thiel “my friend”. Farage appointed Orr as senior adviser to Reform in October 2025.

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Graphic caption (2) WASHINGTON Donald Trump Jr – Close ally of Thiel; together they guide some of the major venture capital funds behind Maga-aligned projects. Thiel has been closely involved in setting up Trump Jr’s $2bn fund 1789 Capital – which invests in “patriotic capitalism”. JD Vance – Thiel is Vance’s mentor. The two met in 2011. Thiel hired Vance as a partner at Mithril Capital in 2015 and later paved the way for his political career with the biggest political donation ever made in a Senate race. Thiel introduced Trump to Vance. Donald Trump – Thiel was one of the first Silicon Valley billionaires to back Trump in 2016 and has since donated millions to Maga Republicans. Thiel fed Trump ideas from a Silicon Valley “brain trust” during his first term. Steve Bannon – Bannon and Thiel were close, powerful advisers during Trump’s first term. Thiel considered investing in Bannon’s new venture after Bannon left the White House, but instead put his money into Rumble: the self-styled “freedom first” streaming platform that hosts Bannon’s show.

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Caption info for graphic (1) SILICON VALLEY Mark Zuckerberg – Thiel was Facebook’s first outside investor, giving Zuckerberg $500,000 for 10% of the company in 2004. They have remained close friends and allies since. Alex Karp – Thiel and Karp first met at Stanford University and have been friends for 30 years. Karp has been CEO of Palantir Technologies since 2004. Larry Ellison – the US billionaire’s business relationship with Thiel dates back to 2017. Ellison’s tech company Oracle announced a strategic AI partnership with Palantir in July 2024 to deliver AI military "solutions". Sam Altman – Thiel is a longstanding mentor and supporter of Altman. He was a prominent backer of Y Combinator, Altman’s previous outfit, and co-founded OpenAI. The two men are “very close friends”. Elon Musk – Musk and Thiel merged their businesses in 2000 to create PayPal. Thiel was a key early investor in many of Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and xAI.

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