Raymond Wilton

Southern Europe bakes and burns, turning holiday hotspots into infernos Black smoke is darkening blood-red skies across the continent – devastating residents and forcing travellers to start searching for ‘coolcations’ further north. Plus, the latest on Ukraine

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Tourists who hoped to idle on Croatian beaches this week will have instead singed their feet on scorching sand. Families on a break in Madrid will have choked on smoke from a deadly wildfire that ripped through a suburb of the Spanish capital.

Scott Farquhar thinks Australia should let AI train for free on creative content. He overlooks one key point CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder’s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something ‘new and novel’

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Farquhar’s claim overlooks this is not a settled issue in the US, & could have devastating effects on creative industries.Companies developing AI, including Atlassian, Google & Meta, want a text & data mining exemption put into copyright law without paying

Argentina rocked as contaminated medical fentanyl kills up to 96 patients Dozens of hospital patients treated with opioid for unrelated conditions suffered serious bacterial infections

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Tests carried out by Argentina’s drug regulator, Anmat, confirmed bacterial contamination in the deceased & in ampoules from two fentanyl batches prepared by the company – one “widely circulated”, according to the federal judge Ernesto Kreplak

Bezalel Smotrich outlines plan for 3,000 new housing units in controversial West Bank settlement, reports say – Middle East crisis live Israel’s far-right finance minister announces plan to advance tenders for housing which international community says would split West Bank in half, reports Times of Israel

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... The Ministry views these tenders as an extension of the crimes of genocide, displacement, and annexation, and as an echo of Netanyahu’s statements regarding what he called ‘Greater Israel’.

🇩🇪🇺🇦President Zelenskyy has arrived in Berlin, Germany.

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started.

📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship' Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel

Whats going on?

Then there is the Israel lobby holding an all expenses paid conference for all Mayors & local councils.

Where is the Race Duscrimibation Commissioner? www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Writers festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “The book is all about how their voices are repressed and censored and how their voices are managed through the language of policies, through the language of civility and politeness and not offending others,” she said.

DC’s homeless have nowhere to go. Trump might send them to jail. The president's crackdown is causing fear and uncertainty among the city's unhoused and their advocates.

“You can sweep away an encampment, but you’re not sweeping away homelessness. The person is still homeless, they’re just in a different spot.”

The ZioNazi’s behave in such an egregious manner AND question why they elicit such negative responses?! 🤬

Fucking push notifications too. Scumbags.

Looks like toilet paper attracts a GST . If Teals want to increase GST to 15% what part of them doesn’t understand this will adversely affect anybody on a low income ?

RBA discussion paper Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2025-05 How Costly are Mark-ups in Australia? The Effect of Declining Competition on Misallocation and Productivity Jonathan Hambur and Owen Freestone August 2025

A reminder that the RBA and other compliant economists spent a couple years telling @australiainstitute.org.au that companies were not marking up prices in 2022-23.

The failure of Australia’s economic establishment was truly embarrassing

I doubt Israel will see peace after this? It is a Pariah state.
Its expansion for a Greater Israel will continue.

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Would love to see this instead of the usual burns that (often) get out of control and start bushfires
#auspol

Oh, it was a beat up ?

Noone is at all surprised, was suspected from first reading , #LNP bullshit has that stink about it ALL THE TIME !

Sussan Ley says the Productivity Roundtable is a “stitch up” and those attending will be “wasting their time”

Then why is her party attending?🤨🤦‍♂️
#auspol

Explainer: What is cultural burning? Cultural burning is a traditional Aboriginal land management practice using low-intensity, carefully timed fires to care for Country. The method maintains healthy ecosystems, protects culturally significant sites, and reduces the risk of destructive bushfires.

Cultural burning is a traditional Aboriginal land management practice using low-intensity, carefully timed fires to care for Country. The method maintains healthy ecosystems, protects culturally significant sites, and reduces the risk of destructive bushfires.

Listen: The West is in panic as Israel's plan for 'full control' of Gaza heralds a new Nakba Read by Matthew Alford

jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the... Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West's cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution.

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Trump is flailing. He is desperately trying to recapture the (in his mind) sweet nostalgia of the Right Wing backlash vs. the BLM/George Floyd protests, including masked goons at the Capitol &his walk to the DC church where he held the Bible upside down. It won’t work.
Release the Epstein files!

Trump: "There will be some changes in land ... Russia has taken some very prime territory. They've taken largely ocean -- in real estate we call it oceanfront property. That's always the most valuable property."

Washington DC.

If Trump is using the National Guard against peaceful protests, what do you think he'll do on January 6, 2029?