Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs@mastox.eu RT: @jasonhickel For people in Europe, one of the most important objectives for political mobilisation now is to remove the US military bases. They are a menace to humanity, they are a threat to popular sovereignty, and every one of them must be closed. Apr 11, 2026, 12:35 PM

How can Australia meet this aim?
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The Albanese Labor Government has chosen to work hand-in-hand with One Nation and the Liberals to push through extreme anti-migrant and anti-refugee policies. These policies were always going to be challenged in the courts because they are so contrary to basic human rights.

Graves being prepared for the victims of an airstrike on a school in Minab in southern Iran, 2 March 2026. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters

Ask Gemini, the AI service powered by Google, and the answer you receive is no – in fact, Gemini claims the photograph is from two years earlier and more than 2,000km (1,240 miles) away. Rather than graves for small girls killed by a missile, the image “depicts a mass burial site in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey” after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in 2023. “This specific aerial perspective became one of the most widely shared images of the disaster,” Gemini says, “illustrating the sheer scale of the loss.” Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as…

This is a real image of a graveyard being prepared for the victims of a mass murder of schoolchildren enacted by the racist governments of Israel and America.

Ask a text generation program, and it'll output sentences that say the photo is fake

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Choices about lunch or…

Rogue nations gonna rogue…

Such a giggle from this miscalculation and the joy that they can laugh at themselves (and learn from a mistake)

May all of us #difficult women rise up against the misogynist mediocre men who ruin our lives #auspol

Not exactly a new take, just new tools. Military industrial complex gonna military industrial complex.

New Australia Institute research shows that state and federal governments will provide $16.3 billion in subsidies in 2025/26 to some of the biggest, most profitable companies in Australia, an increase of 9.4 per cent on last financial year.

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wow how expensive is zionism. Whole nations recalibrating entire supply chains and whole fossil fuel economies, impacting everyone, negatively, because US Israel aggression.

The Albanese Labor Government's new law is designed to stop people seeking asylum who come from places like Iran.

In fact, this new power seeks to prevent people like the Iranian women's football players from seeking asylum in the future.

Excellent idea.

It’s time to stop rewarding those who do not have our interests in mind.

"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system"

Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable

Thanks for the reply, Matt.

Absolutely hear you - particularly with 30 minutes to work with.

Hopefully you get there again with a follow up to the ep from last year on the program, which was solid when it dropped. I’ll certainly go back and listen again, and look forward to more reporting.

Exactly.

Why is it so hard for independent thought and leadership in this country?

Currently the concept of us as a sovereign nation just feels like kids dress ups; we’re wearing adult size clothes and clomping around in shoes which no longer fit.

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Iran conflict: Rubio says US launched war on Iran after learning Israel planned to attack Secretary of state says US had to move ‘preemptively’ to stop Iranian retaliation against American forces

so let me get this straight. attacking iran is justified because iran was going to attack US bases, only after israel attacked iran first. so instead of stopping israel from carrying out the attack, the US just had to bomb iran too.

Great episode from @lamestream - calling out the ridiculous hypocrisy from #ausgov

@mattbevan.bsky.social this was disappointing and missed the mark by ignoring Israel, a rogue state with nuclear weapons no-one wants to talk about; this wasn’t Trump’s attack on Iran, and horrifyingly, #Albo is ok with #Israel-US continuing to bomb schools and hospitals.

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Australia Announces Support for US Invasion of [INSERT COUNTRY HERE] — The Shovel While details of the conflict remain unclear – including a motive or exit strategy – the Prime Minister said Australia would agree with those details once they were filled in.

“If the US has concerns about <INSERT COUNTRY HERE>, then we also have concerns about <INSERT COUNTRY HERE>.

“For too long, <INSERT COUNTRY’S LEADER> has been able to get away with <INSERT REASON FROM WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE>. Enough is enough,” PM Albanese said.
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Fun fact…the term ‘useful idiot’ exists in a number of languages, including Russian and Hebrew.

A recent hack resulted in a data dump on DDOS secrets.

@micahflee.com consistently does the tough work to expose truth and organise data in an accessible way.

#ice #investigativejournalism #democracy

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Independent news media are excelling in their coverage & commentary of the US attack on Iran. You won't see this in MSM!

I've got it all in TrueNorth's newsletter this afternoon

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So the #WarCriminals have started bombing Iranian hospitals now. All supported by the weak @albomp.bsky.social government. #Shame #auspol

I mean, it’s not hard to stand on the side of international law #albo

Gracias for your sanity Spain, and use of the word ‘belligerent’ to describe this insane period of human existence.

#auspol #iran #spain #geopolitics #internationallaw #roguestate #israel #us

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So far, no.

This. All of this.

As an Iranian in exile as some call it, I want nothing more than a regime change in Iran.

But what I don't want is my country destroyed, people killed, and all looted by Americans!

#FuckYourWar

Sadly, the Australian PM is still standing (somehow despite lacking a spine) in solidarity with whatever fuckery the WH gets up to. Australians on the other hand, do not. We want the murderous 🍊 rapist pedophile ousted as much as you do.