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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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Documents reveal Australia's F-35 jet fighter export details 'quietly' disappeared

Documents reveal Australia's F-35 jet fighter export details 'quietly' disappeared
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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‘ 77    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8
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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‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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‘ 396    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 11    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‘ 135    πŸ” 68    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‘ 235    πŸ” 61    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
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β€œFrankly, I’m losing words to describe the horror of this. The worst conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented, and the abject failure of the international community to do anything to address it,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @aljazeera.com.

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cpj.org/2025/08/at-l...

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The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas The Heart of Voh is a symbol of New Caledonia’s pristine environment but its outline is changing due to the climate crisis

The heart-shaped mangrove formation fading due to rising seas

15.08.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it Australia’s future nuclear submarines will produce highly radioactive waste, and allies in the UK and the US still don’t have a safe place to store their own

The lethal legacy of Aukus nuclear submarines will remain for millennia – and there’s no plan to deal with it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

10.08.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people coolβ€”without electricity

Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat www.scientificamerican.com/article/terr...

05.08.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Legal dust-up as asbestos industry sues Indonesian activists In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued for defamation by a global industry lobby group representing the world's biggest asbestos producers, including those in Russia and China.

In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued for defamation by a global industry lobby group representing the world's biggest asbestos producers, including those in Russia and China.

06.08.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought β€˜advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for β€˜potential impacts of an adverse decision’

For the sake of Australia’s much-loved wildlife, we need to move to a post-RFA world. Environment minister Murray Watt should bring native forest logging under the national nature law as part of his reform of the Act. No more industry carve-outs. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

24.07.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The New York Times' Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide ...

An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...

25.07.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Maybe the point is that one's tendency to exploit ppl & the environment is reduced as one's empathy increases.

26.07.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How much world healing can a broken heart make room for?

26.07.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This fuel is 50% plastic β€” and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of β€œrefuse-derived fuel.”

This fuel is 50% plastic β€” and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Plastic #Energy #Climate #Fuel #Climate #Environment

15.07.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In an age of failing economies and a neofascist backlash, what we need is Marxism. To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations are asset-stripping our brains, but we can take back control. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.07.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
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Domino's pizzas allegedly cooked using woodchips from endangered possum habitat A Victorian sawmill has harvested wood from endangered mountain ash forests and sold it to Domino's as woodchips to smoke meat for pizzas.

Woodchips used for smoking Dominos’ pizzas came from endangered Mountain Ash in a state forest less than 200m of a sighting of a Leadbeater’s possum in a nesting zone, breaching sustainability certification requirements in seven different ways www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

25.06.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means. The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

15.06.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 27

"Class, as defined by education level, is now a bigger dividing line than race in US politics". Whether or not that assertion is true, defining class by education level misses the point that the economic interests of classes are the reason for class being a dividing line in politics.

10.06.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess we should have expected that a single rubber bullet hitting a tv journo in LA would be a bigger concern.

10.06.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Safeguard Mechanism helps gas companies take the piss - The Australia Institute The Government's Safeguard Mechanism is supposed to limit emissions; instead it just lets companies cheat.

Labor has installed many bits of policy infrastructure designed specifically to ease the approval of new fossil fuel projects, but the Safeguard Mechanism is among the most infuriating, because it presents itself as a 'climate policy'

(I guess it is, just that it makes climate worse????)

28.05.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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