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#auspol Now on @barongotcha.bsky.social. Retired Teacher. Pro renewable energy. Taught on APY lands. Refining slow blues guitar learning/playing.

Australia
Joined May 2014
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I've never seen a logically sound argument that it's anti-semitic to deny that Jews have an extra special connection to the land of Israel. It's where their religion comes from, so in that sense they have the same connection that Christians have, but beyond that the only arguments to be made are claims based on nothing but blind religious faith. You can tell me that Israel is mentioned all the time in Jewish prayers and Jewish scriptures etc, but that's just telling me about Jewish religious beliefs. Telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't accept those religious beliefs as true is exactly the same as telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't stay in my house and pray on Saturday. Jews can believe whatever they want to believe, but it violates my freedom of religion to demand that *I* believe what they believe. That's the same as telling me I'm Islamophobic if I don't wear a hijab. You can tell me that all Jews everywhere are descended from the biblical Israelites, but that's (A) another blind-faith belief based on nothing but religious assertion and (B) irrelevant since all westerners can trace their heritage back to many different countries they aren't allowed to lay claim to. So there's really no case to be made. And yet "antisemitism" watchdog groups throughout the western world assert that it is an antisemitic offense to deny that Jews have a unique connection to the land of Israel. They have no argument. They are wrong.
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Huge win for the community with Victoria Barracks in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as historic Point Cook, being kept in public hands. Labor wanted to privatise them, but community campaigns, and a months long Senate inquiry, has forced Labor to back down. That’s people power.
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#AUKUS is now exposed internationally for the con it is. @AlboMP @RichardMarlesMP
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Why do the banks have a stranglehold on buying Australian govt debt when it's taxpayers who provide the collateral? Banks profit from this cosy racket to the detriment of the public, says Philip Carden #auspol michaelwest.com.au/end-the-b…
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“With the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, Australia’s long history of racism in all its forms, must be the focus, not antisemitism alone.” Sidoti says Royal Commission must confront racism, not just antisemitism pearlsandirritations.com/pos…
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Of course. “A leaked missive shows journalists from the Daily Telegraph, the Australian, the AFR and 2GB took a trip to Israel funded by the Jewish Board of Deputies.” youtube.com/watch?v=e_sialDp…
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We are governed by literal evil monsters, no ifs or buts. #auspol
If we watch and do nothing, we are complicit; if we speak, we will be convicted: god help every human enduring the israeli killing machine
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This is a huge, huge moment. When, in three years of genocide, has an important politician in an important western country spoken so clearly?
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie. Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits. Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan. Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban. #Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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💧Baron-Gotcha❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ retweeted
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie. Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits. Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan. Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban. #Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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Roses to get you through your day tweeps 😌❤️🧡🌻
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👇this is a cracker of an article and Ronni's interview today with Dave Milner on Sunday Shot is also. Dave interviews Ronni re the anti-semitism (hyphen😱) envoy, Jo interviews Emma Shortis on the mid terms. It's a cracker 👇 youtu.be/IHX5hs8Gn0A?si=wtLB…
My latest article for @shot_au where I point out that Segal's latest 'report' was not requested by government or the PM. It's simply a rehash of last year's report - with a purpose beyond its pages. It's arrival has more to do with her strategy of filling media spaces with antisemitism angst now the royal commission is over, and also influencing the royal commission findings. It is also a document designed to inflame culture wars and get people arguing and create political division - a classic tactic of conservatives the world over. Nothing Segal says is new, (except of course for the astonishing claim she makes that all Jews in Australia are unbothered by neo-Nazis!) Comments welcome. theshot.net.au/uncategorized…
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Please read Ms Rachel BELOW Please share WHAT kind of leaders do we have in the world?
Ms. Rachel: “Can we take a second to think about how if we were freezing cold in tents and they were flooded and our babies were going to freeze and there’s a government, the Israeli government, that won’t let the warm supplies through so more kids are gonna die and we’re just like, all the nations, all the people, all the leaders, just like yeah that’s gonna happen again. You and I should not be ashamed that we are loud and we are constantly saying stop”
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Nous devons exiger l'envoi d'une force humanitaire internationale sous mandat de l'ONU à Gaza et l'accès sans entrave des ONG pour secourir le peuple palestinien. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont privées d'abri, de nourriture et de soins. La France a reconnu l'État de Palestine. @jnbarrot et @EmmanuelMacron doivent agir avec les autorités palestiniennes pour faire respecter le droit international. Rien ne peut entraver la solidarité humaine !
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements. Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
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Just an unimaginable nightmare. Can you imagine having no place warm, safe and dry for your children? The genocide has not ended.
Scores of trucks carrying new tents and caravans (mobile homes) have been waiting at Gaza's border for more than a year, but Israel has blocked them from entering despite a US-brokered and monitored ceasefire. Israel’s deliberate and systematic cruelty to deprive displaced Palestinians of shelter and compound their suffering is part of an effort to drive Palestinians out of Gaza, and is continuing with full U.S. support.
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Albo Wong and their mates are allowing this to happen….
Someone send a peacekeeping force to help, now. DO something!
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Tim Snyder on billionaires leaving the US if taxed: "If they're not paying taxes anyway, it doesn't matter, right? Let them go plague some other country... if they're not going to pay taxes here, let them not pay taxes somewhere else, because it is actually no loss."
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Lonnie Thompson went to the ends of the Earth and above the clouds to document and understand the effects of the climate crisis on our planet. Across the highest mountain ranges, from the Andes to the Himalaya, his physically arduous and heroic research revealed the rapid decline of the world’s highest glaciers. And his meticulously documented findings from the ice cores he carried back down the mountains had an impact far beyond the scientific community. His lifelong determination to communicate what he discovered about the global impact of the climate crisis with policymakers and the public was extraordinary. For more than three decades, Lonnie and his wife and scientific collaborator Ellen Mosley-Thompson were trusted advisors to me and many others on climate science. Lonnie was an invaluable ally in the global movement to solve the climate crisis and was a cherished friend I will miss dearly. nytimes.com/2026/11/06/scien…
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Western governments deliver bunker buster bombs to 'israel' and refuse to deliver shelter and mobile homes to the Palestinian orphans, widows, and displaced families.
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Exactly this!! 💥
#AUKUS is now exposed internationally for the con it is. @AlboMP @RichardMarlesMP
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