@t-russell
History, politics, environment and media analysis all illuminate the path to a fairer world and a richer life. Enjoy the journey. Let it take you far from your lounge room. Mix it with sweat and mud.
Beautiful helmet. I hope it saved the wearer's life.
Sometimes it seems that the wondrous archaeological artefacts found in fields should have a living museum built around them rather than being shipped off to some stale, sanitised, 4-walled museum far away.
Maybe the UN doesn't view Iran's Government as a terrorist regime.
In the past 2.5 years, the Israeli Government has killed at least 20x more civilians than Iran did.
Maybe the label 'terrorist' better applies to Israel.
Congratulations to voters in NJ's 11th District.
We may not have people of conscience leading our political parties but we do have them in the public and campaigning for office.
Sea cucumbers were a big part of Indonesia's first contact with Australia.
Before the arrival of Europeans in Australia, sea-farers from islands in the north (now Indonesia) travelled with the monsoon winds down to northern Australia to collect sea cucumbers. They intermixed with some local tribes.
If that's all the professor said, that's not blackmailable. Not in the same ball park as some of the other revelations in the Epstein Files.
But the professor should be further investigated due to his Epstein connections.
Some versions of Christianity do indeed make things worse.
Some versions of Judaism (the supremacist stuff) and Islam (militants being sucked in by false leaders in Syria) are also part of the problem.
There are also extremists in the secular world.
Let's not blame one religion.
In 10 years' time, it'll be more about tech superiority than manpower.
It'll be about drones, anti-drones, all kinds of sabotage (cyber, currency, debt calling), supply line restrictions, psycho-warfare, remote controlled tanks, etc.
China will be a threat but we'll need large consortia to resist.
Protection racket.
They drum up fear of China and argue that they'll save us.
We pay billions to maintain relations with the US, which in turn damages our relations with China.
Much cheaper if we just helped re-build a UN that can impose sanctions on aggressors.
Including the human rights violations they are arming and committing in Gaza.
Against kids, medics, journos and POWs.
Does it come replete with affirmation of Zionism, the war industry and out-of-control corporatism?
The two parties are not as different as they pretend to be.
Palestine has already sent tidal waves across the western world.
We've become despised as morally corrupt. Our free speech and democracy have been shredded by Zionists. Confidence in our institutions has shattered. Our Christianity seems even more helpless to prevent this than the UN.
The global public demands answers for everyone named in the files, including those whose names have been redacted and those in files that haven't yet been released.
The people still being hidden are probably the worst offenders.
Which country?
Good news.
But is $5 million enough to make these large companies change their practices?
If you are trying to pretend that Kamala or Hillary cared for working class Americans, or for human rights, or for Palestinians, that is your internal mental problem.
Americans were given a choice between war mongering, Zionist pro-corporate or war mongering, Zionist pro-corporate. US 'democracy'.
Even if Kristi Noem is impeached, the same power base is still there. They'll just appoint another Kristi Noem.
But I guess the feeling of impunity won't be as strong.
Mandelson, whose father was Jewish, supported the rise of Tony Blair and Keir Starmer in the British Labour Party. He also was a long term opponent of Jeremy Corbyn.
I wonder if he was blackmailed or otherwise pressured to favour pro-Zionist politicians over Corbyn in the Labour Party?
You mention Labor, Liberal and the Greens.
What about One Nation?
There seem to be some billionaires trying to do with Hanson what Elon did with Trump. X is full of One Nation propaganda.
As the Epstein Files reveal blackmailable acts by many leaders of the Western and Arab world, there's a positive side.
Law and democracy in the US are wounded but not dead. Two politicians from opposing parties, Massie and Khanna, are making progress in using law to release the Epstein Files.
Regarding those 2 proposed restrictions, who decides?
Who decides which group should be banned?
Who decides what is a lie?
The US is being destroyed (some might say deliberately divided) by home-grown American groups, without Putin's help.
Repression cannot go unanswered... except when it's done in Gaza and Minneapolis.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web in 1989, feels control of the internet has been seized by commercial interests.
Compounding the problem is monopolisation.
If it’s not too late to fix it, what would a pro-humanity internet look like?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Which holocaust?
Google AI:
'Historical and archaeological theories suggest the existence of a second, now-lost, Great Sphinx at the Giza Plateau, potentially destroyed between 1000 and 1200 AD. While not formally confirmed by mainstream Egyptologists...'
Grok re Edelman:
'Martin Edelman (the New York-based real estate lawyer & advisor to UAE entities, often called Marty Edelman) is Jewish. Reliable reporting describes him as a Jewish-American lawyer born into a liberal Jewish family in New York.'
Still no Palestinians on Trump's "Board of Peace."
Iran is free in the sense that it hasn't been captured by the Transatlantic Finance Cartel.
Iran is unfree in the sense that it's ruled by an autocratic government (but if it were to loosen control, it'd be overrun by a proxy of the Cartel or of Turkey; or worse, end up like Libya).
There are extremists in every religion.
They're the ones trying to spread their religion through violence and oppression. They're the ones saying God views them more favourably than other humans.
The world needs moderates, especially today.
Australia Day - a day that should unite us - is actually dividing us.
We need a different date.
True: even if I had sources and a video, I would still question it. Because there are different figures.
Marandi says < 3,000 dead and many were Mossad agents or people (police) killed by Mossad agents. No source is apolitical.
We still don't really know how many died in Tiananmen Square in 1989.