Lachlan Macquarie

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Raff who?

The arrogance of *Homo sapiens* is beyond boundless.

Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

"The U.S. Navy sent no surface warship to (big-deal Indian naval exercise 'MILAN'). The guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney had been slated to attend, but was diverted to Singapore on Feb. 15 before the exercise began, for reasons the Navy has not disclosed. "

As predicted...

breaks my heart, 'F #TACO and Netanyahu

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

'Sustainable oil palm' is a lie, but you knew that.

Background; the one they're calling 'ring-tailed glider' (not the cover photo): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's a dead one, from another site.

As you'd expect, the Flannery (et al) paper is long and very readable: journals.australian.museum/flannery-202...

Why do we need new quarries? To build infrastructure, mostly new infrastructure. And why do we need that?
1. To provide new, better things
2. Population growth.

It's for 2., nearly all.

And why do we need 2.? That is never explained.

Power station still running.

But no!

"It’s prompted urgent calls from former Spurs player Jamie O’Hara, one of Postecoglou’s harshest critics, for another manager change. And he isn’t ruling out Postecoglou," Fox.

All Ange's fault...

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

Déjà vu all over again.

They bombed a sports stadium. Remember this sense of incredulity, 2 years ago, from Gaza?

Beginnings of an answer to Question 1.?

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Most e-publishing crops are easily circumvented.
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Pic carefully cropped so you don't see the log dump / palm oil clearing.

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia - The Shot There is a transnational Islamophobia Industry of massive family foundations and “think tank” operations that have been generating fear and loathing of Muslims since the 1990s.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social with a great piece of research about the local right-wing establishment social engineering operation occurring of late.

"Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia"

Because that was moderately obvious, a year ago:
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We need a new descriptor: 'government-mandated scientific reticence'.

super impressed .

Were submariners from any other country present? Betcha not.

Exactly.
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Tweet today from Ryan Grim of Drop Site. "An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. "The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. "I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit."

Decent summary from Drop Site News. Misses the Australian 'contribution' (three of the submariners were Royal Australian Navy).

Side event explores “Human Rights in Indonesia – The Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment” During the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Switzerland, WCC convened a side event on 4 March, titled “Human Rights in Indonesia – The Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable ...

Indonesia calls it development.

In West Papua it means this:
cut the forest, poison the rivers, erase the people.

The Merauke “Food & Energy Zone” will turn vast rainforest into industrial plantations.
The Grasberg mine already bleeds copper, gold, and toxic waste into Papuan land.

TBF, ABC News did run this one this morning, guess because is a little more robust, less 'sensitive', and has that essential ingredient, 'the Australian angle'.

Our closest neighbour. It's there on the wire. You can pick it up and run it, maybe with a 'Minister Wong's office declined to comment'. Easy; done.

We are not interested in our region at all, unless for a new furry possum angle.