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@wjf55

I live on the Central Coast of NSW. “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”:-)

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BYD just killed your EV argument with a battery that competes with gas engines The Chinese carmaker's new batteries feature a 5-minute charge and 621-mile range, plus a 620,000-mile lifespan and lower prices.

Imagine if you could buy an electric vehicle which gave you 600+ miles off a 5 minute charge. For most of the world, it's not a dream. For buyers in the US though, we're being left in the fossil fueled dust of our own idiotic policies.

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Are We The Baddies? The USA is Emerging as the New Leader of the Axis of Chaos

From Global Policeman to Brazen Belligerent: Unpacking the New Era of Perpetual War

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Withheld Jeffrey Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department The Department of Justice said the released files had been

'FBI documents summarising interviews with a woman who made unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault against Donald Trump have been released as part of the...Epstein files.'

Might we, in 2026, just have a wee bit of a think about how and why claims of sexual assault might be "unsubstantiated"?

06.03.2026 21:44 👍 229 🔁 82 💬 14 📌 9
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UN human rights experts warned Friday that "irreparable harm" is being inflicted on Jerusalem as violence escalates across the region and the war in Gaza spills into the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260306-un-...

06.03.2026 20:16 👍 85 🔁 48 💬 9 📌 3
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Another day on the property. Another day without fossil fuels for anything. Electric getting the job done.

07.03.2026 01:13 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Seems Trump and Epstein weren't sexist about the gender of their child victims.

07.03.2026 01:46 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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So what was the reason for bombing Tehran, again? I don’t recall ever hearing any sort of legitimate, straightforward justification. This is literally racially-motivated Genocide of Persians at this point…

But Kamala’s laugh, amirite? Fml…

06.03.2026 21:39 👍 194 🔁 59 💬 25 📌 2
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The US-Israeli War on Iran Is Based on Lies. Here Is the Truth. The United States and Israel are waging a war of aggression against Iran. This is not about nuclear weapons; it's about imperialism. Trump and Netanyahu

znetwork.org/zvideo/the-u...

07.03.2026 00:20 👍 395 🔁 171 💬 24 📌 7

BREAKING: The US has liberated more children in Iran by bombing another school ♥️

06.03.2026 18:17 👍 914 🔁 312 💬 83 📌 16

My 18 yr old has told me many times that its been a reckoning to really understand that the world does not value children at all. Honestly, her generation is not optimistic about the future (according to them + friends)

Police brutality
School shootings
Genocide
Esptein
Climate change

06.03.2026 22:05 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

06.03.2026 20:09 👍 24276 🔁 6972 💬 523 📌 417
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Holy crap! He brought a gas powered battery charger for his electric truck.

06.03.2026 19:51 👍 2402 🔁 596 💬 388 📌 126
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U.S. proposal to change safety measure for endangered whales draws criticism from Canada Environmental groups in the United States and Canada are sounding the alarm about a U.S. government proposal to change a regulation that was introduced to protect a critically endangered species of wh...

I am so sick of the BS from the US government.

Environmental groups in the United States and Canada are sounding the alarm about a U.S. government proposal to change a federal regulation introduced in 2008 to protect a critically endangered species of whale. #Canada

www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

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06.03.2026 21:29 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 22531 🔁 5516 💬 615 📌 358
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DOJ #CoverUp

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

06.03.2026 12:36 👍 4949 🔁 1606 💬 89 📌 52
Address by the Right Honourable Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada
Address by the Right Honourable Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada YouTube video by Australian House of Representatives

Watch the PM Carney speech 🇨🇦 to Australian parliament
Here

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5S...

06.03.2026 21:27 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

06.03.2026 12:26 👍 11720 🔁 2300 💬 225 📌 126
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No doubt she will be accused of anti semitism…if only people understood that it is the Zionists who have caused this utter carnage. Netanyahu and his government and Starmer the enabler, should all be dragged to The Hague and face the highest punishment.

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 115 🔁 59 💬 9 📌 2
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These red chevrons are oil tankers. Less than 20% of them are held up in the straight of Hormuz. And there are alternate routes. The radical rise in oil prices and nothing more than a corporate greedy excuse for a quick cash grab. I also point out Trump has lifted the sanctions on Russian oil.

06.03.2026 17:56 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 1
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Why Albert Camus still matters in an age of authoritarianism Albert Camus wrote in the shadow of fascism, war and ideological violence. His defence of truth, democratic dialogue and human limits remains strikingly relevant in today’s era of authoritarian politi...

"After the Stalinist gulags & Auschwitz, Camus argued, people needed to enshrine forms of politics founded on the prohibition of systematic deceit, enslavement & killing in the name of ideologies, of whatever stripe."

That would rule out Zionism then. Let's do it.
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

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Albanese offers Sandilands support, "Sorry to hear that Jackie O is being difficult" – The Chaser Following backlash, Albanese claims he meant that she had a 'difficult life' having worked with Kyle

Albanese offers Sandilands support, “Sorry to hear that Jackie O is being difficult” chaser.com.au/general-news...

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BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.

On a 1,500-kilowatt charger, these batteries added over 500 miles of indicated range in ten minutes.

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 364 🔁 114 💬 18 📌 31
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Would love to see Francesca Albanese destroy Jillian Segal in a debate.

06.03.2026 09:24 👍 103 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 5
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Protesters defy Queensland government’s attacks on free speech More than 100 people rallied outside Queensland parliament, with fewer than 24 hours notice, against the Liberal-National government’s planned attacks on free speech. Kerry Smith reports.

Protesters held signs reading “From the River to the Sea” — a Palestine freedom slogan and one of the phrases the government wants banned in its bill presented to parliament that day. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1448/ne...

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