That was funny stuff.

How badly does the war have to be going in the Middle East for Trump to want to distract us with the Epstein Files?

Leo is totally going to excommunicate him.

Israeli politicians wore golden NOOSE pins to support the passing of the death penalty bill in the Knesset, making it Israeli Govt policy to hang any Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli. The law does NOT apply to Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians.

Israeli politicians wore golden NOOSE pins to support the passing of the death penalty bill in the Knesset, making it Israeli Govt policy to hang any Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli. The law does NOT apply to Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians. #Israel #apartheid #racism #justice

He said he was the best since McEwan! Numerous times. I thought I'd bumped the remote to CNN.

One day, in the middle of the night, a fire broke out on the sea. The blind man saw it, the deaf man heard it. The man with no legs ran to call the fire brigade. The fire brigade came drawn by 2 dead horses who ran over 2 dead cats and half killed them.

Oil and gas lobbyist in line for Angus Taylor’s lead role The Australian Energy Producers advisor Sam Riordan appears odds-on to head the opposition leader’s office.

Changing political leaders means staffers getting hauled on and off like an ice hockey changeover. Angus Taylor is preparing his new opposition leader’s office, with oil and gas lobbyist Sam Riordan set to be made his chief of staff. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

But hey, let's pretend you can, to mislead a few for potential votes.

MEDIA ALERT: ACCR v Santos Ltd - Judgment Judgment will be delivered at 9.30am, Tuesday 17 February 2026 at the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney.

MEDIA ALERT: ACCR v Santos Ltd
Judgment will be delivered at 9.30am, Tuesday 17 February 2026 at the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney.
www.accr.org.au/news/media-a...

Investors use new tactics to pressure BP on climate change Business strategy to be questioned at annual meeting after renewable energy plans were ditched

BP is being challenged over its surge in upstream oil and gas spending by a group of shareholder activists and pension funds as they switch tactics on climate change to question the sector’s business strategy. www.ft.com/content/ffe4...

I wonder if Meta knows the Submit button doesn't work for referrals to their independent Oversight Board...

There's Something About Melanie

Australian governments willing to contribute billions of dollars for some future nuclear submarine fantasy are complicit in the brutality of United States authoritarianism. End AUKUS now.

World oil market faces significant surplus in first quarter, IEA says By Robert Harvey LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The global oil market will be in deep surplus in the first quarter of 2026, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, as so far excess supplies

The IEA, in its monthly oil report, projected global oil supply would exceed demand by 4.25 ‌million barrels per day in the first quarter. A surplus of that size would be about 4% of world demand and is larger than other predictions. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/world-o...

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Emmett Connaire, of the thinktank InfluenceMap, who led the report, said: “Each year, global emissions become increasingly concentrated among a shrinking group of high-emitting producers, while overall production continues to grow.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every country is warming.
The last three years have recorded annual temperatures at or above 1.5°C
Some reports show an 86% probability of exceeding 1.5°C for at least one year before 2030
There is also a 70% chance that the average temperature between 2025–2029 will exceed 1.5°C

Australia’s largest coal power plant to operate an extra two years to support national grid Life of Eraring power station in Lake Macquarie extended to April 2029, Origin Energy says

Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant, Eraring, will stay open until 2029. The move was a “disaster for NSW and Australia’s climate targets”. Abigail Boyd said “keeping any coal power station open longer is a cost-of-living and human health disaster” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How is associating a random Palestinian writer with the Bondi attack different to blaming any Australian Jew for the actions of the Israeli government? #racism

Exactly. They'd still want parliament recalled, and all the political dressings.

Some of them may regret it. Ley is all about govt responsibility for this, not the broader picture. I think there will be one, and a scrum over TOR.

Surely they should be used to being asked to support things...

Amazingky no Russians hey. Almost like they knew.

Here's a thought. The Venezuelan Deputy President was in Russia when it all went down, and zero Russian operatives were casualties in the assault. So who was involved in planning exactly? Also, the Cubans have clearly been abandoned by their allies. The deal is not hard to see.

This campaign is sadly not about what peoole say it is.

Jeez he's awful.

I think not enough, but imagine pulling out under this administration vs the next one. I think there could be a calculation under consideration because we are basically a vassal state in the making. But yeah. No time to kick it down the road. We see what the relationship is.

I wonder how it could be done under the current administration without craziness but you'd have to hope contingency plans and timeframes are advanced by now. Surely?

They own the strategic underpinnings of ally relationships. Countries have ceded their autonomy gradually and now realise how difficult it is to extricate from the country that we allowed to write the rules.

Getting the feeling Greenland will be the NATO demise and excuse to abandon Ukraine.