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War with China in three years? Paul Keating unleashes on Nine's 'Red Alert' hysteria In March 2023, Nine newspapers unleashed an extraordinary series warning of war with China within three years and our unpreparedness for it. On the third anniversary, former prime minister Paul Keating has made some trenchant observations about it.

Nine's date for war with China passes, unobserved except by thoseof us who called it out at the time. Peter Hartcher is silent #auspol

"Freedom Boy" Wilson continues to be a preposterous goose ... Long may he continue.

It's a terribly provocation inviting writers to a writers festival.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Bells & Whistles

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Fresh hypocrisy … The Australian kvetching about Nine’s secret $700,000 settlement with Roberts-Smith’s former mistress … Yet, hush money is standard practice for the Murdochs to avoid embarrassments emerging in public … viz. phone hacking www.theaustralian.com.au/business/med...

Randy Rainbow (@randyrainbow) on Threads What the world needs now is… whatever this is. 💘

A Love Song for the Apocalypse www.threads.com/@randyrainbo...

And then there were 6 #auspol

Tony Abbott tweet: A big thank you to the New South Wales police for their strong actions last night. It's about time the police took control of the streets from intimidatory protesters. Well done premier Chris Minns for showing the strength needed against the kind of pro-terrorist protests we've seen too often. As the chants showed, these ratbags are against Australia as much as they’re against Israel.

Chris Minns get a shout out from his idol

Former Labor MP Mike Kelly, an executive of Palantir, defends Herzog in the Murdoch Press and accuses opponents of Israeli genocide in Gaza of hypocrisy. His employer Palantir is central to the Israeli killing machine and the death of civilians and aid workers.
Hypocrisy?
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Murdoch In The News ... From spilledink.au

Fresh issue of spilledink.au

As far as I know he still owns the business, and the senior people seem to toe the line on Israel.

Morry Schwartz attacking Louise Adler and in the process damaging the credibility and independence of his media products ...

The paper's coverage of Israel's actions in Palestine has been noticeably thin. This week's paper has an inscrutable letter that seems to say that reporting about Israel's action is antisemitic.

SA premier has exposed himself as a first class dill

An unfortunate intervention by Morry Schwartz and his lopsided criticism of Louise Adler and her AWW invitation to Randa Abdel-Fattah ... It's enough to prompt cancellation of my subscription to The Saturday Paper.
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Israeli forces raided a Palestinian wedding ceremony in occupied East Jerusalem, firing live ammunition and stun grenades at attendees. Several men, including the groom, were detained.

Latest from the cohesion battleground
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I’m still amazed that the sub judice aspect has been ignored in the rolling media campaign for a Bondi royal commission.
In case you’ve not read about it (and why would you) I’ve written about it here:

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Not really …

Quite possibly, Maduro has been captured so that he can be pardoned by the Orange Jesus in exchange for a handsome settlement ... He wouldn't be the first "narcoterrorist" to be set free.

Sussan Ley says Ukraine occupied by ‘Soviet Union’ In a slip of the tongue, the opposition leader said Ukraine was illegally occupied by “the USSR”, which was formally dissolved over 34 years ago.

“Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 415 Palestinians and injured 1,152.

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers aje.io/nt2f3u via @AJEnglish

Under Chris Minns' proposed ban on protests, I assume these people would be arrested. #nswpol #auspol

Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned | Richard Ackland Lehrmann failed to retrieve what was left of his well-munched hat when he appealed against the defamation judgment that found he raped Brittany Higgins

Bruce Lehrmann’s mission has been to expand the boundaries of inspiration-hood. He’s holding a torch for all of us. (says Richard Ackland)
And he seems to be doing it with little personal financial exposure!

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Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned | Richard Ackland Lehrmann failed to retrieve what was left of his well-munched hat when he appealed against the defamation judgment that found he raped Brittany Higgins

Defeated, broke, and damaged beyond repair ... But never say die for Australia's most hated, inspirational man ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Poor Brucie ... Another disaster ... Appeal burnt to the ground ... More distress for his PR brigade at Murdoch media ... 👎

This is really bad!
First - it seems some kind of monitoring and/or database is being kept on community independent volunteers - and then there's the refusal to serve a constituent based on their political views.
This is REALLY bad!!! #auspol

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal says she hasn’t even bothered to ask NSW police how on earth they let a bunch of Neo Nazi grubs parade outside parliament, but promises she will.
David Shoebridge “now I’ve raised it with you, you’re going to put on your next agenda meeting”💥🙄 #Estimates