I wish the entire leadership of the nation that's the greatest cause of instability and inhumanity in the world, and the entire leadership of their 5 most craven vassals, and all who support them, vanished into thin air.
Who'd object to that?
Go on, object, admit your sins.
This tweet will never age - that particular leopard will never change its spots until the maggots eat them.
Israel could drop a load of nukes and western governments like Australia would still say, ("regretfully" of course), that it was justifiable to help stop the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
And their following "shared values" and "long and valued friendship" statements wouldn't be lies.
*chef's kiss*
Traitor Trump. Reps enable him. art by @deadder.bsky.social
To be fair, Israel wouldn't request our assistance.
It would command it.
The only problem Australia would have obeying that order is if Israel and America demanded the same Australian in different places at the same time.
Yes that is the US President wearing a campaign merchandise baseball cap to receive dead soldiers home.
Meanwhile China throws SE Asia a partial lifeline for rising diesel cost/availability problems via electric freight: increased BRI rail journeys, and zero-down vendor-financed EV freight trucks - out of big inventory because of overcapacity.
Like China expected the US to blow up the middle east.
Meanwhile, Chinese BRI electric trains, and massive surge of vendor-financed EV freight trucks and battery-swap sites into friendly neighbors (esp Vietnam) so friendlies can kinda cope with diesel freight crisis ... nice to have stock on hand isn't it?
It's the best version. Brick wall/clock bit is brilliant - the iconic scene in a tense film. Nature v nurture debate is maybe the "easiest" of the themes, and no easy answers given. It's as if Hitchcock got a pitch for B grade SF horror and developed it into a classic.
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Australia's helicopters don't want to cause trouble.
No, of course not.
Last thing on they wanted.
see 2001 when it came out, when you were that nerd kid who knew everything about the gemini and apollo missions, AND a fair bit about neanderthals, australopithecus, etc ...
mind ... blown.
It's still the only way to build a space station properly. And that it wasn't finished. *chef's kiss*
Village of the Damned. (just pipping Spartacus)
Qui supra legem se ponunt, extra legis praesidium se ponunt. Those who put themselves above the law, put themselves outside the law's protection.
You know who I'm talking about.
Yep. And all those aiding and abetting and expecting to get away with it scot-free.
Qui supra legem se ponunt,
extra legis praesidium se ponunt.
Those who put themselves above the law,
put themselves outside the law's protection.
Does a spotter for an assassin or terrorist get considered an accomplice? Are they legitimately taken out by police in a helicopter?
Do getaway drivers for bank robberies in which people are killed get charged as an accessory to murder?
Mar-a-lago isn't a private enough location for an exclusive club.
Once you've joined the club of those complicit in genocide, war crimes, and not even bothering to make up convincing pretexts, there's no llne you won't cross.
And look at those already in the Epstein class he sucks up to.
If Albo was at least as honest as Trump who renamed the Dept of Defense to the Dept of War, he'd rename ours as well.
Although Dept of Auxiliary Belligerence would better reflect our vassalage to US and Israel.
But Albo's less honest than Trump, so it's the Orwellian "Defence"
Picture of Anthony Albanese, with the headline underneath "It's time" and the subheading "to go, traitor."
Albo is a right wing traitor to the left, and to all Australians, who he puts at risk for the sake of Israel and America.
Yeah, oil prices are jacking up. But have you looked at fertilizer? We're as dependent on fertilizer out of the gulf as we are on gulf oil - but no country has strategic fertilizer reserves like their strategic oil reserves. And farmers gotta plant when they gotta plant. So crop yields will be smaller, or more expensive, or probably both. Supermarket prices will rise before the harvests, probably much higher than farmgate prices, because the corporates gotta profiteer.
Even a short Iran war screws fertilizer supplies which farmers need right now for the food we eat at Xmas, so expect a ~10% supermarket food price hike (mainly chicken/vegies/dairy) by Dec. (add gouging)
And the RBA will treat this like inflation ...
Thanks, warmongers.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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You might be worried about oil - but have you looked at urea and fertilizer? No strategic stocks, and farmers can't wait for later. But Coles and Woolies will profiteer when prices rise when food availability drops.
Melania chairing a UN Security Council meeting?
Trump is definitely taking the piss.
"Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Spain would not allow its military bases, which are jointly operated by the U.S. and Spain but under Spanish sovereignty, to be used for attacks on Iran, which Spain has condemned."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Over to you Albo.
I always said using buses/trams etc was the best way to judge a school, especially non-government schools, and parents should do that a LOT before choosing a school.
If you're a hero for stopping two murderous arseholes with guns killing 15 people in an unprovoked attack, what are you if you stop two murderous arseholes with armies killing hundreds of people in an unprovoked attack?
You mean having US bases on your soil or providing assistance to the US when it does its usual unprovoked attack thing increases the risk of having bombs coming your way?
Whodathunkit?
(looking at you Pine Gap, Tindal, Howard Holt, North West Cape, Stirling ...)
