Will voters EVER understand the big lie about "scary democratic (small D) socialist policies?!" Bernie has told us for decades, and Mamdani is showing us now. We can instantly fund a WAR but have TO DEBATE for decades about healthcare for all - GEEZUS!
They've LIED TO US FOR PROFIT for decades.
“If the Strait of Hormuz opens after April, … This will have been the largest oil supply outage in the history of the oil market by a magnitude of 4x.”
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#FossilFuels #war
Konrad Benjamin on fire in today’s gas tax inquiry, says those claiming “we can’t afford anything” are full of it, we have plenty of resources to benefit from
“This gas issue is the perfect eg of how it’s a lie”
“We’ve been sold out”🔥 #auspol @punterspolitics.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au
The honeymoon is over.
A party with no plan during a fuel crisis, with a blind devotion to the man driving it: Trump. And with a leader believing convicted rapists deserve a "second chance" in her office.
The One Nation bubble hasn't just leaked—it’s burst. #auspol
This is precisely why if I could live in any other country besides Australia… I’d choose Spain 🇪🇸.
"The price of gas paid by Japan will not increase when we impose this tax."
"The profits made by the people selling the gas will fall."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Fossil fuel companies have switched their narrative in the last few years from greenwashing to straight up gaslighting.
Great report by Clean Creatives outlining the tricks to look out for.
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Love it
"AFR’s admission that $2m is out of reach for virtually everyone is a good example of how conservative forces wield their power.
The scare campaigns are relentless & predict utter doom - tax on Super or the end of negative gearing or a tax on gas exports.
But the doom and fears are make-believe."
The 'illustrious' AFR doesn't know what it's talking about? Or, it does & it's full of mistruths (or the stretching of them?) And/or their platform is used to undermine ALP financial policies & to 'manufacture fear'.
As if there's not enough going on already, they weigh in with manufactured sh*t.
As the govt weighs options to raise revenue, balance the budget & confront the global energy crisis, one solution is staring them in the face: replace the broken PRRT with a fair tax on gas exports. It's long overdue, and has widespread support… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
New Australia Institute research shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing Australian gas than the Australian Government!
"They're taxing our gas. There's no reason we can't."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
You’re an ultra-rich CEO who thinks there’s going to be 20-30% unemployment within 5 years while refusing to create a universal basic income…in a heavily-armed society…and your plan is to tell folks now and hope they don’t eventually hunt you down if your prediction comes true?
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I hope this news is having an effect on everyone?
Awake to the danger of DJT?
No more schlepping along thinking this’ll blow over soon
It’s getting more and more dangerous every day you move towards the midterms
As has been predicted by so many pundits & Mary Trump
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Donald Trump pardoned a businessman who owes a grieving family $19 million. They're still chasing justice. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/21/d...
“It is hard to imagine how you could “overcorrect” the Holocaust and what the Third Reich did to the world, but that’s what the good folks at Palantir would have us believe has happened. Pacifism and restraint are recoded as mistakes; rearmament as common sense.”
#USpol #Palantir #authoritarianism
A terrific discussion about a mess of Trump’s own making. Amazingly, there is a diplomatic solution if this Admin is smart enough to take it.
2/2 If the first role of government is to keep its citizens safe, the Albanese govt's growing contractual entangling with Palantir will deliver the opposite. #auspol
1/2 "What is being offered is not simply a foreign policy doctrine or a tech strategy, but a political settlement in which democracy survives only to the extent that it consents to be led by this software‑building aristocracy."
Must read from Tim Dunlop.
These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.
On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe.
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Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol
Oh FFS 🤦♀️
Listening to some of Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources and repeating the above often
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#auspol
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Weird how we never hear things like "AUKUS is growing too fast for Australians to afford" or "negative gearing is growing too fast" or anything similar, huh
If he took hallucinogenics, could we even tell?
