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Nathan Laurent

@theannualrant.bsky.social

MA (res.) political & environmental journalism, QUT (Australia). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Laurent,_Nathan.html

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If a hundred people wore Joy Division t-shirts at a peaceful political rally, would they all be arrested?

13.01.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document Exclusive: Possible revision of guidance for prosecutors in England and Wales comes amid safety concerns from courts

Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

10.01.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Scent of Decay Futures at the End of Industrial Economism

"Every mafia... depends on a fragile substrate: fear, yes, but also a residue of trust... What happens when that trust evaporates? When it becomes clear that the 'protection' on offer cannot even shield the centre from its own converging crises?" richarddavidhames.substack.com/p/the-scent-...

09.01.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greta Thunberg is a warning to parents raising ideologically captured kids Greta Thunberg has become a weaponized vessel of the far left, deployed against Jews, against Israel, against Western democracy itself.

Never mind tens of thousands of starving Palestinian refugee children... let's consider the mental health of one vegan activist instead.
nypost.com/2026/01/05/o...

09.01.2026 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.

Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...

22.12.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 8
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Gaza Diary: They Bulldozed Mass Graves and Called It Peace A synecdoche is a figure of speech where an individual event is used to represent the whole story. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more exact and unnerving synecdoche for the Israeli genocide in Gaza ...

A synecdoche is a figure of speech where an individual event is used to represent the whole story. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more exact synecdoche for the Israeli genocide in Gaza than turning the strip’s largest hospital into an unmarked mass grave.

12.12.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast: Reports

Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast: Reports

Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast: Reports https://aje.io/huyzdd

10.12.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 21
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And Fox releases first pictures of the tanker raid.

10.12.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Piracy! Stop trading with the USA.

10.12.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: β€˜serious ethical concerns’ Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: β€˜serious ethical concerns’

05.12.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

what if the Europeans wouldn't mind a bit of cocaine?

02.12.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn Exclusive: Many industries on new council are β€˜associated with significant health harms’, one academic says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Cheap and unhealthy foods are set to become further entrenched in the Australian diet, according to health experts, who warn the federal government is developing a national food policy with heavy influence from profit-driven food and agriculture industries. Dr Matt Fisher from the University of Adelaide’s Stretton Institute’s health equity department said the policy could β€œcompromise crucial public health considerations”. Continue reading...

Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn

27.11.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Prepare for refrigerant shortages - Climate Control News Refrigerants Australia has warned of widespread refrigerant shortages and significant price increases over the upcoming summer period.

β€œIn 2017, the Aust. Gov. introduced legislation to phase down refrigerants with a high global warming impact, on the assumption that industry would gradually transition to newer, lower-impact alternatives”. The only problem? It really didn’t happen. www.climatecontrolnews.com.au/refrigeratio...

12.11.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is β€œhighly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood. Continue reading...

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

09.11.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 12
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Record-breaking COβ‚‚ rise shows the Amazon is faltering β€” yet the satellite that spotted this may soon be shut down The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

The US is set to shut down a crucial satellite that monitors how much carbon is in the atmosphere.

21.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5
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Documents reveal Australia's F-35 jet fighter export details 'quietly' disappeared

Documents reveal Australia's F-35 jet fighter export details 'quietly' disappeared
->Australian Broadcasting Corporation | More from BigEarthData.ai

05.10.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SECRET CARGO: INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S COVERT F-35 PARTS PIPELINE TO ISRAELΒ  - Declassified Australia At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal.

The direct trade in F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is substantial and continuing.

Declassified Australia’s new investigation lifts the lid…

declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/01/s...

01.10.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 10
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The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My 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.

The silencing continues...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israel lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

04.10.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn't a psychopath.

30.09.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6
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Propaganda model - Wikipedia

Maybe they could operationalize Herman & Chomsky's propaganda model at the Ministry of Truth... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaga... (They'd need a theory to guide them, wouldn't they?)

14.09.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel kills 25 journalists in Yemen newspaper bombing, Hundreds detained in forced march in the West Bank, Alleged Kirk shooter in custody Drop Site Daily: September 12, 2025

Israel has killed 26 more journalists, this time in Yemen, @dropsitenews.com reports.

Israel launched airstrikes at two newspaper offices in Yemen's capital city Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people total and wounding at least 165.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-kil...

12.09.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Weird that in Melbourne some neo-nazis went from an anti-immigration march to Camp Sovereignty, where they represented colonial era immigrants.

01.09.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia

6. Please explain how orchestrating antisemitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, say, just for example, Israel?
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/21-questio...

27.08.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 15
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Iranian ambassador expelled over β€˜credible intelligence’ Iran directed antisemitic attacks on Australian soil Australia’s spy agency finds Iran behind incidents including arson attack on Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne

Seems odd: out of all the synogogues in Melbourne to choose from, Adass Israel had a lot of members opposed to Zionism/Settlers & the creation of a Jewish state. For these reasons, you'd think Iran (if behind it) would have chosen a different target.

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

26.08.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
List of synagogues in Iran - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

26.08.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Press all outraged at Iran stoking anti-Semitism in Australia....

Meanwhile, the IDF use classic terrorist tactics to double tap a hospital and kill journalists
...and our journos take the fauxrage bait and gloss over the murder of their colleagues...what a cowardly pack of sniveling shitbirds

26.08.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lot of media organisations and journalists glad they now can move on from having to talk about Israel bombing another hospital.

26.08.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Palestine: At least 217 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza / IFJ [UPDATED 25.08.2025] At least 217 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed, several have been injured and others are missing during the war in Gaza. The International Federation of J...

#Palestine: We strongly condemn the latest war crime perpetrated by Israel. To date, the #IFJ has recorded at least 217 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces since the war started on 7 October 2023. We demand JUSTICE and an end to this unprecedented massacre.

25.08.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0