YouTube video by MontyPython OfTheAir I'm So Worried

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YouTube video by MontyPython OfTheAir I'm So Worried

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

🎼I'm so worried about what's happening today
In the Middle East, you know
And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval
System they've got at Heathrow

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Given the puerility of the LNP in Question Time, I imagine “difficult” will be flavour of the day.

Fact-checking Trump's State of the Union address Throughout Trump's remarks Tuesday, ABC News is live fact-checking some of the president's statements for exaggerations, falsehoods and points that need more context.

Fact checking the State of the Union address.

“TRUMP CLAIM: “The cheating is rampant in our elections, it's rampant.”

FACT CHECK: False”

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From the sublime to the ridiculous.

Concurrently National Press Club address on the promise and dangers of AI by Professor Toby Walsh versus a sycophantic cult who can’t decide to sit or stand, but clap everything including all the lies from a dotard felon.

An unrivalled edifice of bad taste planned for the Gold Coast. Is there ever been a better reason for NIMBY?

Jeffrey Epstein stashed secret files in storage units across US that may include never-before-seen evidence: report Epstein paid private detectives to move the material around as investigators closed in on him, according to email correspondences.

EPSTEIN COVERUP
Jeffrey Epstein stashed secret files in storage units across US that may include unseen evidence: report nypost.com/2026/02/23/u...

Russia soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops in Ukraine war executed on commanders' orders Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

Putin’s legacy.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

British billionaire’s land grab hits new peak with holding now the size of Tasmania A foreign billionaire has been snapping up Aussie farmland at a staggering pace – and his empire now covers almost the same area as Tasmania.

Nothing to see here.
www.realcommercial.com.au/news/british...

Ping #mediawatch

This isn't a teaser—it's just an acknowledgment that the next PROOF report is taking a while and there's a good reason. The Epstein Scandal isn't primarily a sex scandal. You don't understand how powerful and well-connected this man was.

This is a global scandal and it is scary.

Some can feel the heat from a hot stove and avoid it altogether.

Some need to touch it to be sure.

Some will keep their hand on the stove and get singed before admitting it was hot.

Some would rather burn to death than admit it.

Trump is down to the last group.

Jane Hume on Liberal Party ‘misogyny’: ‘Plenty of those blokes supported me’ As her Liberal colleagues criticise the ‘macho ingrained misogyny’ of their party, the deputy leader dismisses the ‘catchcries’ that drew women voters away.

Spoke to @kjbar.bsky.social about the Liberal Party's problem with women (i.e. misogyny) after deposing Ley as leader:

“The Liberal Party’s problem is a “toxic blokey culture” that started in the 1980s and ’90s and is now at critical levels, says UNSW Canberra academic Blair Williams."

#AusPol

Everybody knows, everybody knows.

Next it will be the cartoonists being persecuted as anti fascism correctness runs amok.

Even better because they didn’t edit out the “red eye” from the flash.

Meanwhile in the festering fascism hotpot of Canberra, police took down five political posters in a bar. I feel safer already.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

China is building submarines faster than ever, think tank says. Why that’s a problem for Washington | CNN China has ramped up its production of nuclear-powered submarines over the past five years to the point where it is launching subs faster than the United States, threatening to negate a sea-power advan...

US first. Australia getting any submarines delivered from AUKUS fades even more.

“During the years 2021 to 2025, China’s submarine building surpassed that of the US in both numbers of subs launched – 10 to 7 – and tonnage – 79,000 to 55,500, says the report”

www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/c...

The light in the cinema was on, but nobody was home.

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

🧵. "it really matters that these #auspol figures are networking with some of the more toxic establishment forces in the transnational Right."

More excellent investigative work from Lucy H.

Cathy Wilcox.

“Family man” and Republican Senator from Ohio accepted money from Epstein's co-conspirator before working to bury the files.

How do these people live with themselves?

ICE will be at 2026 World Cup games in Seattle, director says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be at this summer FIFA 2026 Men’s World Cup games, including those held in Seattle.

Jesus fucking Christ. #abolishice

ICE will be at 2026 World Cup games in Seattle, director says

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

More Malcolm Turnbull: “Sky News and the Murdoch media are the best thing that’s ever happened to the Labor Party.”

One Nation already has the votes of the far right (anti climate/ anti immigration) and the Libs seeking to occupy that territory at the behest of Sky After Dark will be their demise.

Malcolm Turnbull on ABC News. “Angus Tailor is the most qualified idiot you’ll ever meet”.

Everything he touches turns to “custard” as described by Labor in QT this week. Putting another middle aged, RM Williams bloke as their Leader, is no answer because the electorate has moved: younger, greener, fluid, and questioning, and in the round holes of the suburbs,the Libs are square pegs.