James Boyce

Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn’t notified, officials say

While cruelty has always been the point of Trump's whole Administration, nothing highlights that more than dropping a nearly blind elderly man 5 miles from nowhere in freezing weather so that he die alone, afraid, and abandoned.

This is Trump's America.
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Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say

Perhaps the Israeli President could be asked about the crimes of these settler soldier units of the IDF while he Australia?

Inviting the Israeli President to visit Australia as a supposed act of solidarity with Jewish Australians directly conflates people of the Jewish faith with the Israeli state. This is exactly the conflation everyone fighting anti semitism is trying to overcome.

Another forgotten story from the past week …

There is a case before Tasmanian court in relation to mistreatment of eels. Hopefully the poor salmon will be next

Small but serious question . Did Tony Abbott use the staff and resources provided to him as an ex PM to help write his best selling history of Australia for which he is now receiving large royalties? And would he consider repaying taxpayer monies to help unfunded writers & historians?

If four million pigs or chooks died on farms in a year, questions would be asked. Last year's death toll of Tas #salmon sparks calls for companies to be fined under animal welfare law, to avoid 2025 mortality rates becoming the "new normal". #politas #auspol

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More than 4 million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, Tasmanian government data reveals At least four million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, with new Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) data suggesting about 500,000 fish died in November and December as ocean temperatu...

More than four million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms in 2025, government data reveals

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Interesting stats from OECD report on Israel. Exports falling. Economy being held up by big increase in govt spending which can’t be sustained. Not only can ordinary folk supporting the boycott help stop the genocide. Based on the international political reality, right now its probably all that can

Also killed were two 13 year old boys. One was collecting sticks of wood for his mother so she could cook her family dinner

“in light of serious and credible criminal allegations of incitement to genocide and advocating genocide” by President Isaac Herzog during Israel’s “military onslaught” in Gaza

Tasmania to introduce new gambling reforms, including mandatory facial recognition The Tasmanian government has announced a suite of new harm minimisation measures to be implemented across hotels, clubs, and casinos, aiming to "reduce red tape and regulation".

The Lib/Lab/gambling barons partnership will soon celebrate its 60th birthday in Tasmania . Australia’s first legal casino in Hobart began the rot that turned Australians into the biggest losers in the world. Poorest state in nation, massive state debt, but Lib/Lab looks after the gangsters still

Come on @albomp.bsky.social . Old mate is mad. It’s time. Break up now

One murdered boy was out collecting firewood for his mother so she was able to cook for her homeless family. When I pause to remember the victims of hate on our shores, I will also light a candle for this family today X

Am I missing something? Surely what the Israeli President has said about the Palestinians is the very definition of ‘hate speech’ and violent extremism under the legislation going through parliament today?

Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister

“There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago”. The President of the United States challenges the legitimacy of the European colonial project since Columbus

I think it could be a moment to reflect on all innocent lives lost , especially forgotten ones. As can be done in how we remember the Holocaust, Anzac Day etc But will delete as can be seen how it can be misconstrued and my apologies if I caused hurt

What I mean is innocent people are being killed with our military support, very little political concern and almost no mm interest . This could be a moment to reflect that every murdered Palestinian also has a story, also has loved ones. But will delete as don’t want to unintentionally offend

Just that we are all , first and foremost, human beings

Author's lawyer serves second concerns notice to SA premier Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah says her lawyer has served a second concerns notice for defamation on South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.

There is so much ignorance on Zionism after decades of well funded propaganda that I suspect the Premier really didn’t now that many Jewish people are not Zionists and the majority of Zionists are not Jews.

"Ambassadors of Truth": Scott Morrison to speak in Israel as Gazans keep dying - Michael West Former PM Scott Morrison is a keynote speaker at a controversial Israeli government-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month.

Morrison believes the restoration of biblical Israel, ie including the West Bank, is foretold in the Book of Revelation and will prefigure the return of Christ when almost all Jews, like the rest of us, will die. To give such offensive nonsense special protection in Australian law is totally bizarre

McKenzie is not an unusual Zionist but a typical one. Many Jewish people are not Zionists. Some Israelis are not either. The most influential global supporters of this political movement are actually right wing evangelical Christians who bizarrely associate Zionism with the imminent return of Christ

It is extraordinary how similar the arguments used to defend the slave trade in the British Parliament in 1800 were to those who are defending the coal trade in the Australian parliament now. If not us, others will fill the void & be worse; need a gradual transition, regulation best option etc etc

Ever since I learnt Clara Ford, Henry’s wife, preferred electric cars because they were quieter & cleaner, the current EV ‘revolution’ has looked less revolutionary. The model T didn’t triumph because it was a better car but because of the power of the petrol lobby. Whats changed?

The past three years were the world’s hottest on record The world is likely to miss the Paris Agreement goals to limit global heating to between 1.5 and 2 degrees above the pre-industrial average, making climate adaptation and “net negative” policies incre...

We've just lived through the three hottest years ever recorded. The climate emergency has arrived. It’s coming for everything we hold dear.

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

If the pro Israel lobby in Australia could at least condemn the criminal and accelerating state supported ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, it might become possible to take seriously their claim that Zionism does not necessarily mean support for genocide and apartheid.

All art is politics: acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance All art is politics: Acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance.

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Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent

Until very recently, it was unimaginable that American evangelicals would not oppose the porn industry. Their abandonment of a centuries long social agenda, which for all its many limitations, confronted big money running the alcohol, gambling & sex industries, is now complete

One of the many problems of having marketing men and corporate executives run arts festivals is they assume human beings are always motivated by self interest. It’s unimaginable to them that writers could sacrifice their own interests for the common good.