Trump’s Iran fiasco has led him into the gravest territory | Sidney Blumenthal As the president spirals over his disastrous war, his threats have escalated beyond the red line of international law

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Exmouth isolated and inundated in wake of Cyclone Narelle as Chevron works to restart stalled gas plants Roofs torn off buildings in Exmouth, power lost and homes flooded

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Is.this.normal? One cyclone travelled round about half of the entire continent hitting 3 huge state's coastlines from Arnem Land to Perth! And Woodside! Lol! #extremeweather #australia #cyclonenarelle #hurricanes #climateemergency #climatecrisis

Time to buy local: war fuel price shocks reveal the folly of a long food supply chain

This shock to our food system is not the first, and won’t be the last. A focus on band-aid solutions that prop up the current system undermines long-term resilience.

The second fuel shock this decade proves you can't blockade the sun From UN leaders to former Australian Defence Force chiefs, a growing chorus of voices argues that dependence on fossil f

"You can’t choke off wind or block the sun." ABC explains how renewables are not just a climate solution, but an off-ramp to fuel price shocks. "Once the equipment is shipped to Australia and installed, it can last decades without needing a steady stream of fuels burnt to create electricity."

The Albanese Government has just approved a new gas export project, directly exposing Australians to more climate damage, price hikes and rising costs of living.

The project is approved until 2081 – more than THREE DECADES after Australia plans to finish its switch to clean energy.

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP

Governments sit and watch while oligarchs purchase our politics, as if it were just another asset to be monopolised. For the sake of democracy and our own survival, we need to get the money out. Our political systems must belong to us and us alone.
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If the Albanese Government had introduced a 25% gas export tax when it was first elected, it would have raised more than $63 billion!

Free childcare or free uni shouldn't be a pipe dream.

If big gas paid its fair share, Australians would be better off.

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'It can be hard for many Australians to fully grasp how drastically our weather patterns are changing....when extremes now strike, they strike from a hotter, more dangerous starting point.' #climateemergency #climatecrisis #Australia #climatecouncil #climatewhiplash

The Australia Institute has proposed a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports to ensure the companies exporting fossil fuels from Australia pay for some of the damage they are causing, rather than leaving Australians to foot the bill.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/3N6vLt1

The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately In this affecting documentary, an epidemiologist asks six couples struggling to conceive to reduce their exposure to plastics and see if it helps. The results are startling – and prove that we should ...

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Petition: Launch a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS

The AUKUS deal will cost taxpayers at least $368bn to build nuclear submarines for the U.S. with zero guarantee of a single submarine for Australia. Join me in signing the @australiainstitute.org.au petition demanding more scrutiny nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia... #australia #AUKUS

Petition: Launch a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS

The AUKUS deal will cost taxpayers at least $368bn to build nuclear submarines for the U.S. with zero guarantee of a submarine for Australia. Sign the @australiainstitute.org.au petition demanding more scrutiny nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parlia... #australia #aukus #submarines #ausinstitute

Make it make sense 🫠

Photo of Anthony Albanese in the House of Representatives NEW EPISODE | FFS: fossil fuel subsidies cost Australia $30,000 a minute Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of.

Yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in subsidies for fossil fuels.

@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss why on this episode of Dollars & Sense.

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‘Beggars belief’: calls for federal intervention after extension to ‘carbon bomb’ open-cut coalmine approved by Queensland government Hail Creek is responsible for about 20% of Australia’s coalmine methane, while only producing 1% of the country’s coal

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Parliament: this House urgently needs more plumbers Britain’s ailing construction industry should be embracing high-profile figures like builder-turned-MP Hannah Spencer. And why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks ...

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#construction #builders #plumbers #tradies #tradespeople #parliament #ukvotes

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

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“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies ...

"The Voice of Hind Rajab," nominated for best international film at this year's Oscars, uses the real audio of 6-year-old Hind Rajab as she begged rescuers for help following an attack by Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"When you hear her voice, you can't unhear it," says director Kaouther Ben Hania.

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

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Antarctica has lost 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles in ice over 30 years, satellite data reveal A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of…

Science as ideology:

Keep calm and look on the bright side.

"The flip side is that we should perhaps feel fortunate that all of Antarctica isn't reacting right now, because we would be in far more trouble," Rignot said. "But that could be the next step.”

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Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce Developers argue that eco-tourism helps ‘underfunded’ parks but former Greens leader Bob Brown says the idea of wilderness lodges is an ‘oxymoron’

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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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Honest CEO Recruitment Ad | Woodside YouTube video by thejuicemedia

We relocated to Western Australia for a school term in Jan and thought we’d make ourselves useful by covering some local shitfuckery with help from local talent, so we’re stoked to have folksinger, writer, educator and all-round WA legend Lucy Peach guest-hosting our latest episode! ✨

It took 68 years to reach the first terawatt of solar power - then just two years to hit the second.

To put that into context, 2TW is equal to the whole power capacity of India, the US, and the UK combined, and enough to power 1 billion households worldwide!

Let’s hear it for solar power!

Labor has so many reasons to get Australia out of AUKUS.

Canada sees it’s a dud deal and doesn’t want to join any more.

There’s another illegal Trump & Netanyahu war in the Middle East that Australia should not be supporting.

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Trump’s bored of peace At 7:15 this evening, the President of the United States gripped the handrails as he stepped off Marine One and onto the South Lawn of the White House. His body moved slowly across the lawn, his legs ...

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‘Liberty Vans’ appear across US to help immigrants – and document ICE raids Volunteers offer moral and legal support, and document ICE actions with the aim of holding people accountable

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‘Liberty Vans’ appear across US to help immigrants – and document ICE raids Volunteers offer moral and legal support, and document ICE actions with the aim of holding people accountable

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