Iain Davidson AU

All backed up by the Bored with Peace

This Iran deal is BS

Obama already had a nuclear deal in place, and Trump canceled it his first term.

It started with Trump , and it's ending with Trump. Trump is the cause not the solution.

ANYBODY SAYING OTHERWISE IS LYING.

The idea that fighting an illegal war might be a way to wedge the opposition is just terrifying.

While bombs are falling on Iran, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are arguing about process instead of clearly saying this war shouldn’t be happening, and that’s not leadership.

I served in the military for 20 years. Afterwards, I devoted another 25 years directly supporting the military, as contractor and civilian.

For those serving now, you are either participating in or supporting an illegal war. The orders to commit were illegal. You have an obligation to resist.

A magical moment on the trail yesterday: an unexpectedly close encounter with a great blue heron creekside. Usually we just see them as they fly away like at the end of this video but this one gave a few moment to take in its beauty first.

#GreatBlueHeron #SlowHike #NatureMiracle #HopeandHealong

And Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Currently trending on X.

Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.

Oh dear. Yet again a gross inequality in the numbers killed in this unnecessary war. 3 US troops v 200 defenceless girls.

Wouldn't it be nice if the oil companies recognised that the days of oil are over and that we all want to go towards renewables. In that way they oil-rich countries like Iran would not be such jewels in the crown of Israel and the US

Meanwhile
A sceptical note from within the Coalition came from Nationals senator Matt Canavan. He told The Conversation “not a single regime change war has left the world a better place in my lifetime – not sure why this would be any different”.

Strange bedfellows

Greens leader, Larissa Waters, said: “The Greens condemn these illegal, abhorrent and unilateral attacks. Australians do not want to be dragged into another US-Israeli war.

"Australia’s support of Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal attack last night was disgraceful. We cannot bomb our way to peace.”

Bipartisan support for US attack on Iran, but Greens says it is ‘abhorrent’ The Albanese government has backed the American strike on Iran, while confirming Australia was not given prior warning.

theconversation.com/bipartisan-s...

Several of the statements by the Australian government do not hold up to scrutiny. I am with the Greens, and who'd have thought that I'd side with Canavan? Has it been established in a court of law that the attacker on the synagogue was related to Iran or is this another unsupported claim by Israel?

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say Ben Saul says ‘rolling over’ after Israel and US attack is counterproductive for middle powers because it undermines rules-based order

Absolutely. We become responsible for a whole lot of outcomes that are entirely unknowable. The worst sort of reckless gambling, with innocent people (always) the losers.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Yet another great piece.

Maybe the media in Israel/US cannot conceive of a supreme leader who is not surrounded by young children, so there must have been lots killed.

I will take a time to absorb all of this. My reading of Wolfe is that there were many different variations on Aboriginal beliefs across Australia. Anthropologists, at the beginning of the discipline, loved the word "Dreaming" so when they found a religious belief they used that name.

I was once on a tourist trip in Tiananmen Square with a bunch of other heritage people. Of course my interest in the heritage was WHERE the bloke with the bags had stood. My question was ignored. I don't know why.

The English Patient was an archaeologist

How can they offer to take over yet another country when they cannot run America?

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

fell for it again award

Nice photo and nice to see it is in the museum where it should be

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Breaking: Key figure in the Epstein Files, known for his friendship with Epstein, launches a war in a bid to distract from Epstein Files.

Unserious Q: do any Labor MPs *ever* criticise *any* of Albanese’s comments? [apart from Ed Husic]

Serious Q: did any Labor MPs criticise Albanese’s “difficult” comment?