@flickytill
🇦🇺💙decidedly left leaning. Migrating after a long time on the other platform. Will block RWnuts. Old enough to know better. Will not answer DM’s. Love all animals but especially dogs. Fight inequality. #RaiseTheRate #TaxReform #FixHomelessness #Auspol
Music book
Boy playing with Lego and dog sleeping on sofa.
Slow Sunday morning. Minding 6 yo grandson. He’s building Lego and I can hear him whispering - fantasy and imagination is huge! Meanwhile I looked through my daughter’s music books to see what I could play… after 20 yrs!🤣
I’ve had to settle for Hanon finger exercises. The 1st page, separate hands!
In a week, petrol has gone up around 30 cents a litre. And it’s going to get even higher when we run out of our reserve fuel.
This is going to put prices of everything up and drastically increase inflation.
So @jimchalmers.bsky.social, what are you going to do to protect us from this???
Penny Wong says the reason the war on Iran is worth supporting is it will
“keep Australians safe”
Supporting an illegal war for regime change with no evidence of a threat will not keep us safe. It will create a new wave of terrorist groups & who hate us like after Iraq. #auspol
Imagine being led by a six time Draft Dodger who has secret service security and doesn't care who dies in his Epstein War
Just btw, Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is 70 km, less than an hour via the huge 6-lane motorway.
Israel is a *tiny* place relative to Australian perspectives.
There has been little rumbling from ALP representatives about the war in Iran, except maybe Ed Husic. Marles, has enormous power over the party room because of his control of the powerful Victorian right faction, many who are in Cabinet.
He worships the US - I kid you not!
Time for you to resign from political office @senatorwong.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social
And take that drip Richard Marles with you.
Will any of you ever learn!
➡️ Vietnam…disaster
➡️ Iraq…disaster
➡️ Afghanistan…disaster
WE are not America’s lap dogs.
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Brock was part of the junktank-> media/publishing conduit, as a Heritage Foundation fellow, writing several books attacking the Clintons & Anita Hill in the 90s.
The 2004 book is a whistleblower goldmine.
Luckily Brock became appalled, set up Media Matters for America, helping expose the machine.
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... the media. Unlike his father, William earned a PhD; but, like his father, he soon concluded, "I just wasn't cut out to do serious academic work," he told the Washington Post. Although he did not serve in Vietnam, while at Harvard he praised Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of the North Vietnamese capital as "one of the greatest moments in American history." The younger Kristol came to Washington in the mid-1980s to work for William Bennett, Irving's protégé, in the Reagan administration's Education Department and went on to serve Vice President Dan Quayle as chief of staff. In the White House, he forged close ties to the Christian Right and was credited as the architect of Quayle's attack on Candice Bergen's TV sitcom character, single mother Murphy Brown. Kristol told Republicans to denounce homosexuality as "the disease it is" and saw overturning Roe v. Wade as "the key to conservative reformation." Out of a job when Bush was defeated by Clinton and relying on the relationships his father, Irving, had forged with the Four Sisters foundations, William played in the 1990s the role his father had played in the 1970s: fixer, agitator, and commissar in chief for the GOP. Backed by the Bradley Foundation and by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Kristol set up a small strategy center he called the Project for the Republican Future, headquartered in the AEI building in Washington. Soon he set his sights on wrecking the Clinton plan to reform the health care system by advising Republicans to kill it outright for partisan gain rather than working with the administration to produce a bipartisan bill. When the reform effort was defeated and the Republicans took control of the House in 1994, Kristol persuaded Murdoch to pony up millions to finance a new magazine, The Weekly Standard, which became Kristol's vehicle for
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... continuing the assault on the Clinton administration, while at the same time experimenting with formulas for a Republican comeback. Though Kristol's academic mien provided cover, The Weekly Standard began to print scurrilous insinuations about Clinton's private behavior that might have been more fitting for Murdoch's tabloid New York Post. According to Nina Easton, author of the book Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy, "If not for Kristol's obsessive marshalling of the pro-impeachment forces, said a number of conservatives, independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation might have petered out, and House Republicans might have allowed the public's disapproval of their course dissuade them from voting to impeach the president." When the strategy came a cropper, causing Republicans to lose House seats in 1998, Kristol disingenuously tried to distance himself from the whole business. 28 Seeking another strategy to revive GOP political fortunes, Kristol and his senior editor, David Brooks, developed and promoted what they called National Greatness Conservatism, which counseled Republicans to find useful purposes for government and deploy patriotism for partisan ends. For some years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kristol had been casting about for a way to politicize national security and thereby resurrect a Republican advantage vis-à-vis the Democrats. He thought he had found an issue in confronting China, but Republican business interests quickly shot it down. (Murdoch has significant holdings in China.) Because there was no appetite among Republicans to use government to solve domestic problems, National Greatness Conservatism needed a foreign policy crisis to work. With grants from the Bradley Foundation, Kristol established the Project for the New American Century
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... (PNAC), where in the late 1990s the doctrine of American military preemption to project American power around the globe with or without international support and the idea of deposing Saddam Hussein were developed and then road-tested in The Weekly Standard. In 1997, a Weekly Standard cover story announced SADDAM MUST GO. While denouncing the press when it suits them (Richard Perle referred to New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh as a "terrorist"), Kristol, Perle, and other neocons are renowned for their ability to "work" it. In the run-up to the Iraq war, several think tank neocons, including Michael Ledeen of AEI, employed a Manhattan media booking agency (Benador Associates) to put them on television. Appearing on NPR on September 11, 2001, following the terrorist attacks, Kristol said, "I think Iraq is, actually, the big unspoken sort of elephant in the room today." On September 20, PNAC published a letter to Bush in the Washington Times, signed by Perle, Gaffney, Bennett, Kirkpatrick, and columnists Robert W. Kagan and Charles Krauthammer, among others, calling for Saddam's overthrow. 29 In July 2002, The Weekly Standard published a piece titled "The Coming War with Saddam," providing the script for right-wing commentators. In August, George Will wrote a syndicated column pressing the case for war. Krauthammer weighed in with "The Raines Campaign," an attack on the reportage of the New York Times, under then-executive editor Howell Raines, which revealed doubts about the war felt by leading Republicans. For the next seven weeks, Krauthammer beat the war drums in every syndicated column he filed. Also in early August, Kristol's messaging was picked up by Rush Limbaugh ("We want to destabilize the Middle East") and on the FOX News Channel by Bill O'Reilly, who attacked "America's alleged allies." 30 Result 1 of 3 X
In this @bylinetimes.bsky.social piece by Nafeez Ahmed, PNAC & the neocons are shown to be back advising Trump on militarism in the Middle East.
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
Republican Noise Machine (Brock, 2004) shows neocons funded by the main Atlas donors, Murdoch, from AEI (Atlas) into WH.
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol
Expanding Middle East war to loom over domestic economy.
Petrol prices have already surged following conflict in the Middle East, raising the possibility of a hike in inflation....
michaelwest.com.au/expanding-mi...
Snap!
Scene is a room at the White House. On the left, Pete Hegseth is lifting a weight with a macho posture. Marco Rubio saying "who says we DON"T have a plan?" while standing next to a whiteboard that has "Operation EPIC FURY 1. Kill Leader 2. Win War 3. Collect spoils and peace prizes" On the far right Trump is sitting on a throne dressed as a King, holding a diet coke and burger
ICYMI- yesterday's #Iran cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com
Oh God! They’re all MAD!
Penny Wong’s bullshit claim supporting an illegal war against Iran keeps Australian’s safe.
She needs to clearly identify how that works.
In detail - I’ll wait. I have a full fridge.
seeing references to the ON candidate for Farrer being a 'Harvard graduate'. He IS NOT!!! He attended seminars with Harvard.
Also not he made water management central to his pitch y'day. Note that he was CEO of AAC, the biggest water 'thief'/exploiter in the country
The first draft of history. Today’s Age cartoon
Millions and millions in donations leave Australian charities each year and go to the Israeli Defence Fund.
It should be illegal to use Australian Charities and the Australian tax system to fund a foreign military.
#AusPol
Israel is behaving like a medieval state.
This is fucking insane.
"Donald Trump’s nine foreign military actions of his second term"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Saddest news ever. Agro’s handler has passed to an off camera position. Heaven (if it exists) is now a much happier, funnier place.
Forget IWD. I want DWD. #DifficultWomensDay.
@australianlabor.bsky.social supported AUKUS in opposition when Morrison brainfarted it, they’ve since taken it to two elections as policy.
We won’t see a defence policy that reflects what Australians want unless we cease voting for the major parties.
#AusPol
#CancelAUKUS
Extraordinary to be reading in the media about our chances of surviving a global nuclear war... 43 years post "The Day After" and terrifying another generation.
We are the dumbest species to ever walk the planet, and that includes cockroaches.
Are we surviving the next 12 months?
#Humanity
What’s going on, @support.bsky.team? Marie Coleman AO @mariecolemanao.bsky.social is a former Australian of the Year and a widely respected public servant and journalist. Why has her account been suspended?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_C...
US bases about to get pushed out
More disturbing still were two international speakers. One of them, Bradley Thayer, was introduced to the audience as representing the American Freedom Alliance (AFA). That body is a Southern Poverty Law Center-listed Islamophobic hate group. It has decades of involvement in the network of operations fostering the demonisation of Muslims and Islam. The Fairbrook Foundation behind it was named as one of the top funders of Islamophobic activity twice in the Center for American Progress's 2009 and 2015 Fear inc. reports. The network is no joke: the white supremacist functioning as Trump's Prime Minister to fill pop-up concentration camps learnt his trade in one of its junktanks.
🧵🚨The moneyed classes have been most effective for a century at imposing their goals & worldviews on us ever since the science of propaganda took off in WW1. This sign of what Advance has planned for🇦🇺 must be immunised against by seeing it coming. theshot.net.au/uncategorize... #Auspol
This is the story of the pivotal Islamophobic (and anti-Black racist) node of the network that made Stephen Miller from an aggrieved schoolboy racist into the Nazi running the White House & its emerging archipelago of gulags. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s President and Commissioners for children and women’s rights have called on the Australian Government to support efforts to enable 34 Australian women and children held in the al-Roj camp in Syria to return to Australia humanrights.gov.au/about-us/med...
As @keanebernard.bsky.social speculated on the latest #7ampodcast, has Albo transformed his position on the US since the Iraq War,
or was his 2003 speech an ambitious performance?
Either way, he can't be trusted to keep us safe from the Mango Mussolini. #auspol
7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/dep...