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one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:

Read and share all over..he nails it

Glorious morning. Took a moment to follow the rhythms of the waves…breathe in and breathe out. Namaste 🙏

A wee clip of calm.

Cramond beach, Edinburgh.

#Scotland #Edinburgh

he doesn't look authentic without the coal dust smeared on his face, just saying :)

looks like the goal for Angus is to get the liberals to 12% by July; his nebulous policy, which is more ideology as policy requires math, is certainly charting that path :)

This week I launched History Never Ended, a new Substack to make sense of the chaotic present by delving more deeply into the past.

This moment feels so urgent and alarming. Old orders are crumbling and we’re not ready for the future. Have a read.

open.substack.com/pub/historyn...

A brief history of crazy leadership ideas

sorry but your AI bot got that backwards !

Good investigative work from ABC journos, but a gutless 'both-sides' headline and lead para.

The preliminary evidence from these three incidents seems clear:
police acted with excessive and brutal force.

And on the face of it, created a serious threat to public safety. #nswpol

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We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

that is how you justify the powers granted to the police, create the violence and generate the narrative !!

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too "Disunity is death" is a phrase often used in Labor circles, but it’s rarely discussed how government unity at all costs fragments society.

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

This is superb. Shakespeare is superb with it. 400 years ago. And McKellen is superb with it right now.

He called on the audience, "to set it up, we really need somebody to shout that 'The strangers should be removed!'"

not that expensive and one of the best is in Deakin; book today !

is he pretending he can read, the room ?

agree; raising rates just puts more money in the pockets of those that have money to spend. ie those folks that earn interest and have no debt which is a growing cohort as the population ages. raising rates will just fuel private domestic demand not dampen it

love Chicago :)

Why the looming visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog may backfire on Anthony Albanese - ABC Religion & Ethics The Prime Minister is not known for taking big risks — but the visit of Isaac Herzog risks jeopardising his government’s efforts to address escalating tensions within the Australian community over Gaz...

The folly of inviting Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, to Australia.
My column for the ABC.

it was always protection money to a mafia, sadly the mafia will always want more for less,
"make him an offer he can't refuse"
and we swallowed when we should have....

what morrison is suggesting and what Andrew Bragg backed in this morning on RN breakfast is essentially religious apartheid which does nothing to support social cohesion. reprehensible statements from both and not a pathway way back to the sensible centre for the liberal party !

Jewish Council calls on Albanese to rescind Herzog invitation The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has confirmed today that he will visit Australia from 8 to 12 February and […]

"This should be a moment for collective mourning, reflection and care. It is not a moment to host the head of a state which has been found to have committed a genocide in Gaza."

Albo is more focused with placating the Israel lobby, than 'social cohesion'.
www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/01/jewi...

It’s that time again #libspill

I'm your +∞ Simon :)

Also something that the Australian political and media establishment refuses to acknowledge: the existence of anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine Jews.

Whenever mainstream media talks glibly of "the Jewish community", they are excluding those who absolutely oppose the Israel lobby.

Randa Abdel-Fattah on the collapse of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival | We Used to be Journos

ICYMI, Randa Abdel-Fattah with Jan Fran.

Must listen. Especially given how the Israel lobby, most mainstream media, Malinauskas, the AF Board and other genocide apologists have done all they can to silence Randa, while trying to demonize her.
shows.acast.com/we-used-to-b...

"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

I'm hoping that David and Greg will still do an arvo on how cool their cuff links are; and they do have beer in Adelaide and perhaps a day trip to Snowtown, fun times :))) :P