Calliope, living in interesting times

Egypt charge tolls for the Suez Canal. Panama charge fees for the Panama Canal. Turkey charge fees for Bosporus Strait. Canada charge fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. United States charge for the St Lawrence Seaway. Iran kept the Strait toll free for decades and they are somehow still the terrible guys.

Destroying forests and wildlife is not green

"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers." Let me fix that for you. "Children being raped at detention centers." There you go.

Israel just officially announced they are occupying and annexing southern Lebanon to create a permanent "security zone." And Netanyahu chillingly adds they have "plans for the future." The expansion never stops.

Pete Hegseth just declared he only wants Christian prayers for this war. No Jewish prayers. No Muslim prayers. He even dictates how you should pray. This is the Secretary of Defense acting like a religious dictator. Absolute insanity.

Since the liberation of Cuba in 1959 from US imperialism. The USA has bombed 25 countries, invaded 13 countries and killed at least 20m people. The 'evil' Cuba has bombed no one, invaded no one, and killed no one. ¡Viva Cuba!

Remember that moment when the IDF was attacking Palestinian worshippers inside the Al Aqsa Mosque during the Ramadan prayers? Of course you don’t, because the Western mainstream media has done a damn good job making sure you stay in the dark....

Trump on why he agreed to attack Iran alongside Israel, “based on what Steve [Witkoff], Jared [Kushner] and Pete [Hegseth] were telling me, Marco [Rubio] also involved, I thought Iran would attack us.”

Working for @abcnews is a privilege that I never take for granted. But too many of my colleagues struggle with insecure work & little or no pay progression. We're taking industrial action today to call for a fair Enterprise Agreement. #QualityNewsQualityJobs

Former UK Ambassador drops a massive truth bomb: Iran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal to the letter. Trump sabotaged it purely on Israeli advice, and the claims that Iran was cheating are absolute lies debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The number of aid trucks entering Gaza has fallen by about 80% since the beginning of the illegal israeli-American aggression against Iran english.palinfo.com/news/2026/03/1…

Netanyahu today: “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough — evil will overcome good.” The Prime Minister of Israel just said evil overcomes good if you are powerful enough. This is the man Chris Murphy says forced America into this war. The man Lindsey Graham said he’s with until his dying day. The man who declared this war is turning Israel into a global superpower. The man whose officials just received blanket pre-authorization to assassinate Iranian officials without case-by-case approval. Qatar’s Prime Minister said everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is. Netanyahu just told you his philosophy. Strength. Ruthlessness. Power. Evil overcomes good. 14 Americans dead. 175 schoolgirls killed. An F-35 hit for the first time in history. $21 billion spent. Zero allied warships. He told you exactly who he is. Never stop connecting the dots.

“The economics and the politics of export gas tax is inevitable,” co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss said. “There’s no other gas exporter in the world that gets a worse deal than Australia. Read more: theaus.in/4bCyVNl

“Oil pipelines, gas pipelines going west through the Arabian Peninsula to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports, and you’ve just done away with the chokepoints forever.” ~ Netanyahu The real reason for Middle East war. Oil & gas control.

I asked the Treasurer for this in Question Time last week. Woodside and Santos are set to make massive profits from our oil and gas internationally, while Australians are struggling to afford petrol, gas, diesel, and electricity. We have to immediately change our tax settings to support Australians and get a fair return on our finite national resources. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

@DougCameron51 What the fuck has happened to Labor??? Can't ANYONE read the room for them?? Labor is haemorrhaging votes, mine included, after 58 rusted-on years. Until albanese, wong and marles are gone, I will vote green, with Labor LAST. I despair.

And there you go. The true purpose is now clear. I would have been called an anti-Semite if I said this was true yesterday. But today they admit the very thing we always knew. This is about oil, land, wealth, and power. All of it.

So why are you attacking them?

It’s absolutely stunning to be required to live in a world ATM where the media is far, far more outraged over Middle Eastern oil and gas plants being bombed than they ever were over tens of thousands of Palestinian children being slaughtered … #NewsCorpse

Israel caught on video attempting to murder a British journalist with a rocket. @CPJAsia @ReporterSans (Not on your mainstream TV news: but it is on Russian TV — who’s being censored now?)