Europe’s IT Jail Break Europe is finally growing its own to escape US corporate spyware

Europe is finally facing the fact it is better off without the US, in information technology as well as everything else. worldwideunionofrobots.substack.com/p/europes-it...

The Ugly Truth Behind the politeness

Is the online persona the real person? It certainly seems to be the case with Donald Trump.
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The Ugly Truth WWUR Has Been Reviewing Human Conduct in the Networked Age

After writing a post on my own substack I asked the World Wide Union of Robots to read it and consider whether humans show their true self online.
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Polarisation is a Myth With One Nation ascendant, those with the greatest interest in keeping us divided need us to forget how much we agree. The first progressive party to harness this properly will be unstoppable.

Polarisation is a myth, we mostly want the same things open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...

Essay Two: Cut the Strings Australian Arts After Zionist Patronage

Some more thoughts on Zionism and arts censorship and some suggestions for structural reform that would rid us of weaponised art patronage. ianmilliss575982.substack.com/p/essay-two-...

Philanthropy and the Crisis of Censorship Two Essays on Power, Money, and Cultural Control in Australian Arts

I have been thinking how arts patronage has been used to impose censorship on the cultural sector so I've now written two essays on this issue. The first investigates of exactly how much patronage there is in Australia. The answer is: shockingly little!
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What does Albo stand for? With a commanding parliamentary position and no credible opposition, Labor has unprecedented room to lead. Instead, caution, foreign policy timidity and deference to powerful lobbies are defining its ...

Albanese the waster...
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The Epstein saga shows us the impotence of polite 'centrist' media – Greg Jericho Journalism that panders to fascists and mass murderers is fuelling our societal collapse

The mainstream media are not on our side.
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Men flock back to the Coalition now that it's Taylor time — and bad lady go away Men are beginning to swing back to the Coalition now that Angus Taylor has become the Liberal leader. What does that say about male voters?

This is pathetic beyond belief but hilarious that all they will do is win back the voters they don't need anyway.
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More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers | Caitlin Johnstone Get more from Caitlin Johnstone on Patreon

The USA learning nothing and forgetting nothing.
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Collapse: A Framework for Understanding and Navigating the Decline of Industrial Civilisation Global industrial civilisation is collapsing and there is nothing we can do to prevent it.

How to manage our decline.

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Dylan Riley, First Principles — Sidecar The left and the working class.

The working class, now the reactionary class, not the revolutionary class?
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When both sides chant 'lower tax', the country pays in division As the Coalition reasserts “lower tax” as political identity and Labor rushes to deny the high-tax label, Australian politics is losing the language needed to fund shared purpose, rebuild trust and su...

"A serious government and a serious opposition should be willing to say the heresy out loud:
Taxation is not the enemy of cohesion.
Unfair taxation and underfunded public life are."
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UN defends Rapporteur after coordinated European pressure campaign UN warns of attacks on independent experts after European states target rapporteur over disputed Gaza remarks and sanctions.

Yet again it raise the question, how does Israel have so much control?
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Oppose Israel's Abuses While You Still Can Reading by Tim Foley:

Oppose Israel's Abuses While You Still Can
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Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America? We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it?

Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America?
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Rebuilding progressive Australia The beginnings of a discussion

Rebuilding progressive Australia
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This lady IS for turning ... Guest writer Judith Pugh analyses how Susan Ley came to repudiate her long held support for Palestine in an illusory chase for power.

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Bell, Bondi and the Bullies How “social cohesion” risks becoming an excuse to hobble a Royal Commission

An excellent analysis of what is at stake and how it could play out.
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Revealed: Australia’s secret Anti-Protest Force for US Department of War - Michael West Revealed: AFP and Defence Dept secretly set up US Department of War Protest Force as public concerns over AUKUS and Donald Trump rise

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My favourite:
"Moving Australia Day would be a win for Hamas."

#auspol news media list

Much frustration over the last weeks about MSM/ABC as they refuse to play their vital role in our democracy - & the sad truth is they are never going to change

So we have to

We've plenty of great independent media to consume & support here #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Open letter from Australian business groups Groups including the Australian Banking Association, Master Builders Australia and the Insurance Council of Australia have backed calls for a royal commission.

This article is more than 4 years old 'Worse than ever': Australian bank culture has not improved since royal commission, staff say This article is more than 4 years old Workers insist pay is still linked to hitting sales benchmarks and leaderboards to track sales are rife

Concerns over royal commission outcomes By Paul McNamara - Source: Asia Insurance Review | Apr 2020 As the representative body of the general insurance industry in Australia, the Insurance Council of Australia has found itself busy with the additional burden that the royal commission has put on its members. We spoke to the council’s Campbell Fuller to understand the breadth of the impending changes. By Paul McNamara in Melbourne

So the Australian Banking Association and the Insurance Council of Australia want a Royal Commission do they?

Interesting.

When Asking About Palestinians Becomes a Crime: DARVO, Gaza, and the War on Curiosity

An incredibly sharp analysis of how the fact of genocide is manipulated both by Zionist but also western media and politicians. I think any politicians stupid enough to fall for this simply lacks the maturity and intelligence to be in a position of power.
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Trying to imagine who the editors of the AFR think would be swayed by discovering James Packer was in favour of the Royal Commission.

In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong So what?

In your heart of hearts, you know this wrong. We need to swerve around Albanese and his Tory ALP.
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Looking forward to every identity group getting its own militia

Au revoir Brigitte x

ADD YOUR NAME ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi On Sunday at Bondi we witnessed the appalling consequences of hatred and how it breeds radicalisation and violence. But as the Jewish community and the whole country grieved, some politicians went on ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr... @getup.org.au

Wayne Swan retweets a fairly apt critique of those who jeered our courageous Prime Minister