Big Gav

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.

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Britons in Israel told to notify Foreign Office to receive instructions on how to leave David Lammy says British nationals asked to register presence as country closes airspace amid escalating conflict

Genuine question here: and Britons in Iran? Or is it implied that there are none?

We've seen how worthless the lives of Brits who are also Egyptian (Alaa) or Palestinian (too many to name) are to the British government, so what's the situation here?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We kept being told that journalism was a bulwark against fascism, a "fourth estate". This is the liberal frame for perceiving the industry's worth. But the reality is the polar opposite: fascism has been allowed to thrive, and could not have done so, without journalism.

Unsurprising given how homogeneous and biased corporate media has become.

Why bother when you know it's at best slanted and at worst outright lies ?

Societies can't let oligarchs get this rich. That's the problem. Tax their wealth and their influence on the rest of is diminished. Media would improve as a byproduct of limper oligarchs, and more connected, informed communities would result.

Nothing’s changed John.
Half a century later, and the madmen still write the script.

A gas cartel funded study finds that the Govt should stop getting in the way of them price gouging the life out of Aussie businesses and households. And The Australian indulges the cartel - even declaring the story an exclusive 🤦‍♂️. #GasReservationSchemeNow #auspol

Sea surface temperatures are through the roof off the west coast of Ireland.

(It’s been over a century now since the Republic of Ireland left the UK).

Western Australia public bus fleet ditches diesel, goes all electric Diesel government bus manufacturing in Western Australia has been replaced by all-electric alternatives in an effort to reduce the state's reliance on fossil fuels and cut emissions.

#WesternAustralia public bus fleet ditches diesel, goes all electric
#EV #renewables #PublicTransport
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/05/23/w...

Recently learned that traders were making what they called TACO trades, which is placing money based on the logic that Trump Always Chickens Out

Israeli strike in Gaza kills dozens, including children in tent The strikes come on the same day European and Arab nations gather in Madrid to discuss the conflict, with Spain's foreign minister urging allies to consider sanctions against Israel.

I don't know if it'll last, or if so for how long, but the fact the ABC isn't passive-voicing Israel's murderous acts in these articles suggests something has shifted.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

How BYD’s Five-Minute Charging Stacks Up Against the Competition Chinese automaking juggernaut BYD Co. is taking things to even greater heights, now staking claim to a system it says will make it as quick to charge an electric vehicle as to refuel a gasoline car.

China's BYD has unveiled a new battery system it says can charge an electric vehicle in just five minutes, which could help it capture further share from direct rivals like Tesla.

Here's what to know ⤵

It would be great if Musk could just get to his 'weird recluse floating around his mansion yelling at staffers about germs' phase already.

Less Traffic, Faster Buses: Congestion Pricing’s First Week Early data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suggests that traffic has dropped around Manhattan’s core.

There was less gridlock and fewer drivers traveling into the core of Manhattan, new data from the first week of New York City’s new congestion pricing program showed.

NACC finds “no corruption” – spends $140m to date The embattled National Anti-Corruption Commission has completed its first three investigations – and found zero corruption.

After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what?

It has found no corruption.

The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment.

👇🏽
theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...

Global surface temperatures set a new record in 2024, exceeding 1.5C above preindustrial levels in the majority of datasets.

It was more than 0.1C warmer than the prior record set in 2023, and more than 0.25C warmer than any year prior to that: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"

Counterpoint: Do

So we already have a well paid & resourced Special Envoy to combat anti-semitism and now a special AFP Task Force … for an incident depicted as “terrorism” before any investigation reports evidence. OTT in my opinion.

All those US movies and tv shows we’ve watched over the years where there’s always a happy ending, good triumphs over evil, justice always prevails.

All of it is US propaganda.

The US is finished.

And there’s nothing we can do about it - but we can make sure it doesn’t happen here #auspol

Legislation to make every Australian, 16yrs+, provide ID & real DOB to each social media platform, or use VPN’s to fake they’re in another country, passed in Parliament yesterday.

Cost of living crisis, solved. #Auspol #FuckingFuckheads

YouTube video by The West Report Sky News and the Qantas Pin!

Now (anti-doxing legislation just passed) that you can go to jail for 7 years for doxing, we nominate the Sky News team and The Australian to wear the striped jarmies for doxing the Qantas flight attendant who wore a lapel pin

youtu.be/9gQO0JBrv34?...

Plibersek had nature positive deal in writing before Albanese vetoed without her knowledge Exclusive: Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners

Plibersek has been served up a diet of shit sandwiches all term, and Albanese decided to give her a side dish of roasted shit just to make sure she understood what her role is.

This is very damaging stuff by Albanese. Won't help them in WA but will hurt elsewhere
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If a world without imperialism, colonialism, apartheid and ethnic cleansing are seen as unrealistic by liberals who enable this behaviour, then we need to build a new reality, because this one is broken

Plot showing baseload contract prices across the mainland NEM regions for calendar year 2025. Shows an uptick in prices over last few weeks (corresponding to period with increased coal availability issues).

Good news everyone! Forward price of electricity also been heading upwards in last couple of weeks, corresponding with the coal availability issues.

So not only are we getting increased reliability concerns, and emissions - electricity prices are on the rise too!

One of the great natural-advantages the major English-speaking countries ended up with in the global economy was in relation to higher education - and we all seem to be systemically dynamiting the systems.

There's a chrome plugin that does it (I forget the name but I'm sure a quick search will find it).

Manly beach

And they’re all in denial about how disgusted we are. A corrupt, corruption body.

A photograph of a small sea slug that has a white and yellow base colour but is covered in nodules that are predominantly pink tipped. It’s sitting on a white sponge.

Another one of my favourite #Nudibranch - Aegires villosus - which roughly translates as the Hairy Norse God Nudibranch. I always used to find these on a very specific white calcerous sponge.
#Nudivember #MarineLife #Inverts

This one is hilarious: the US ceded global climate leadership to China long ago...

China literally has an 70-80% global market share in most green industries and installs more renewable energy each year than the rest of the world combined.

The level of delusion is crazy...