Karen Christensen

Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

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Perhaps why Francesca Albanese wasn't permitted to speak at Adelaide University? But, definitely, imo, why she should have been.

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"Essential reading" on how greed and policy failure entrenched commercial gambling in Australia

"Essential reading" on how greed and policy failure entrenched commercial gambling in Australia www.croakey.org/essential-re... #publichealth

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."

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𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 “𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧”

The message is exactly the same, crafted by Israel charged by Albanese to oversee our thinking, speech and interpret what we see - the ideology that clothes western governments

𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨

What scares me most about Paramount buying Warner Bros Discovery From enshrining political favoritism in the process of approving big media deals to the death of incisive journalism at CNN, there's lots to worry about in this $110 billion deal.

Took a minute. But here's my column on Substack on what I fear most about Paramount's successful purchase of Warner Bros Discovery, including enshrining political favoritism in media deals, a repeat of past, failed deals and the domination of media by favor-currying oligarchs. READ: loom.ly/-ACuGpw

EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Murdoch make AI pact and push Pauline's polls Meta and News Corp spread fake news to promote Pauline Hanson and provide an overblown impression of her party's polling. Founder David Donovan exposes a dangerous deception.

Meta and News Corp spread fake news to promote Pauline Hanson and provide an overblown impression of her party's polling.

EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Murdoch make AI pact and push Pauline's polls
~ @davrosz.bsky.social

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All with impunity

A bulldozer and an excavator clear rubble as emergency personnel search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential compound in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. [Nidal Solh/AFP]

Families displaced by Israeli strikes from southern Lebanon seek refuge at a school transformed into a shelter in Sidon. [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

An ambulance is parked near a sweeping blaze following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. [Kawnat Haju/AFP]

A man passes by a destroyed car and shop on a commercial street that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Israel kills more than 100 Lebanese as it commands Beirut residents to flee https://aje.news/bauwid

Kristi Noem spotted house hunting.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Liberal government keeping racism alive this is appalling

Single frame. Karoline Leavitt on the press briefing lectern with a US flag and a large “chocolate wheel” with coloured panels showing: “REGIME CHANGE -YAY!; THEY’RE TERRORISTS!; THEY HAVE NUKES!; THEY DOT HAVE NUKES YET; WE WANT TO REPLACE THE LEADER; WE KILLED THE REPLACEMENTS; ARMAGEDDON!!!; PRE-EMPTIVE SELF-DEFENCE; BIBI IS OUR FRIEND; (SOME SCHOOLGIRLS MAY HAVE DIED); WHAT OIL?!; MID-TERMS - YIKES!” Leavitt says, “Next question?”

Spin.
My @smh cartoon.

My god, this is mind-numbing. The callousness, cruelness and insensitivity of these monsters is…I can’t find the words. Trump and his fascist regime is joking, making flip and glib remarks, and comparing the deaths of military Americans to killings in a video game. Man, this is really fucked up.

Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation Details of flight come as One Nation leader faces scrutiny over her use of taxpayer-funded entitlements

#auspol

Is this prick a shoppy? Why not just denounce freemasonry and the perfidious chineeman while we’re here.

He’s a supporter of genocide

TRUMP & MAGA: TRAITORS ALL!!!

Stop Trump Tower on the Gold Coast! If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting!

If you, like me, are concerned about the direction our country will go if a Trump Tower is built in our country, then join me in objecting! petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au

🔽🔽🔽 Fucking hell! What do we (as a society) have to do?
#BelieveHer

Sorry USians. No Jamon for you!! More for us. Yum. Mmmm jamon.

The City of Churches continues to be all about the Synagogue it seems 🤔

Filthy dirty industry

Antibiotic licence for salmon farming revoked over 'unacceptable risk' The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends an emergency licence for the antibiotic.

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If you look at the history of UK and US oil companies' intervention in Iranian politics (and US interventions in other countries over many decades) I'm beginning to think neither the UK nor the USA have EVER adhered to the "int'l rules-based order" or international law. 🤔 #auspol #USA #Israel #Iran

Piss weak

Uni criticised for reneging on hosting writers' week replacement event A panel discussion, as part of the replacement Adelaide Writers' Week, says it was forced to change its location after Adelaide University reneged on hosting the event at Elder Hall due to "health and...

Cancelling an event with Francesca Albanese is an act of cowardice on the part of Adelaide Uni. Universities must be places that foster rigorous debate & exchange of ideas, not a vehicle for the whims of a conservative administration. Where's the courage?

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NSW electorates with the most solar panels. They are not the ones you’d expect One-third of all homes in NSW now have rooftop solar, making the state the leader in Australia for the clean energy source.

It would be difficult to find a home across the country that doesn’t want lower power bills – regional and rural Australians are leading the way with the take up of solar systems!

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Stranded Aussies pay thousands in desperate dash home from overseas Australian travellers stuck overseas take extraordinary measures to get home amid the escalating war in the Middle East.

When you travel anywhere, you do so at your own risk. The government will do what it can, but it isn't incumbent on the government, i.e., the taxpayer, to bail you out. Overseas travel these days is a fraught exercise, and travellers need to accept that.