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@MooYar345
Maori Mumma, living in Oz. 💜 all things space, old growth forests, Sustainable Growth & Foreign Policy. NOTE: You won't agree with everything I post.
Boonwurrung Country Victoria Katılım Mart 2018
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Giving China, or any other country for that matter, a 99 year lease on a strategic port with access to Europe, Africa & Asia was never a good idea in the first place. 99 years. Not fussed about Panama - mass illegal migration. Not fussed about Australia taking back its own port.
MediaUnlocked@MediaUnlock
This is a blatant betrayal of contractual principles. On January 28, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese openly declared that the Chinese-operated Port of Darwin should be taken back. Just one day later, Panama's Supreme Court abruptly ruled that contracts for Chinese-operated ports at the Panama Canal were "unconstitutional". Is this really a coincidence? Behind both moves lies sustained pressure from the United States. Since 2015, China's Landbridge Group has invested over 1 billion Australian dollars to upgrade the port, boosting annual throughput from 5 million tons to more than 30 million tons and significantly enhancing its commercial value. But now Australia suddenly wants to tear the contract up — not for economic reasons, but for political calculations under sustained US pressure. Panama's so-called "judicial ruling" is even more revealing. Before the court decision, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama, openly warning its government to distance itself from China and explicitly expressing Washington's dissatisfaction with Chinese-operated ports along the Panama Canal. Washington wants to wrest profitable, well-run ports away from Chinese companies, turning other people's investments into its own gains. This is not competition. This is commercial plunder. And it is a textbook display of American hegemony. #MediaUnlocked
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@dark_impromptu @WeShuggie @MediaUnlock Giving China, or any other country for that matter, a 99 year lease on a strategic port with access to Europe, Africa and Asia was never a good idea in the first place. The libs sold us out. 99 years.
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@WeShuggie @MediaUnlock Really, who has China invaded since 2015?
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This is a blatant betrayal of contractual principles. On January 28, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese openly declared that the Chinese-operated Port of Darwin should be taken back. Just one day later, Panama's Supreme Court abruptly ruled that contracts for Chinese-operated ports at the Panama Canal were "unconstitutional". Is this really a coincidence? Behind both moves lies sustained pressure from the United States.
Since 2015, China's Landbridge Group has invested over 1 billion Australian dollars to upgrade the port, boosting annual throughput from 5 million tons to more than 30 million tons and significantly enhancing its commercial value. But now Australia suddenly wants to tear the contract up — not for economic reasons, but for political calculations under sustained US pressure.
Panama's so-called "judicial ruling" is even more revealing. Before the court decision, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama, openly warning its government to distance itself from China and explicitly expressing Washington's dissatisfaction with Chinese-operated ports along the Panama Canal.
Washington wants to wrest profitable, well-run ports away from Chinese companies, turning other people's investments into its own gains. This is not competition. This is commercial plunder. And it is a textbook display of American hegemony. #MediaUnlocked
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@MediaUnlock Not fussed about Panama - they facilitated mass illegal migration. Not really fussed about Australia taking back its ports either.
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@terryrus99 @battleforeurope @Telegraph 💯- notice that every western leader presents speeches to their people & the world as if they're all reading from the same playbook? Their influence has now gone from open to covert in the last 2 years.
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@MooYar345 @battleforeurope @Telegraph The WEF seems to be a mechanism where the TransAtlantic Finance Cabal tries to extend its reach to other countries.
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New piece of mine in @Telegraph on how the European rhetoric of autonomy and resistance to Trump appears less like a geopolitical turning point than a rebranding of empire, where the language of sovereignty is increasingly invoked even as the structures of dependency remain or even intensify.
How can one credibly claim to seek “independence” from the US while remaining firmly embedded in NATO — the primary instrument through which Washington has long militarily subordinated its Western “allies” — and actively supporting the continuation of the proxy war in Ukraine that has been the central driver of Europe’s economic degradation and geopolitical hyper-vassalisation?
Read here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/0…
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@JohnWight1 They've funded, along with Turkie & the UAE, mass slaughrer of humans across the Middle East and Africa since the Iranian Islamic project began.
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How many countries has 'thuggish Iran' invaded and destroyed over the past three decades?
And how many has 'non thuggish Britain'?
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
When people in Britain are chanting support for the thuggish regime in Iran, we are in serious trouble as a nation.
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@Inu_Loki @RockChartrand It was a combination of Social organisations raising awareness, mandatory school laws, the industrial revolution - machinery, and economic factors prioritising adults for jobs over children, during the depression.
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@RockChartrand Funny you speak about child labor when the industrial revolution only upscaled it.
Capitalism didnt end it in any shape or form, it was public education that got the job done by forcing kids out of factories and into schools.
And yes, people fought for those rights.
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They show up after incentives, technology, and productivity have already made something possible, then claim credit for “fighting” for it. It’s post-hoc moral theft.
Shorter hours and weekends didn’t appear because someone waved a red flag. They became viable because productivity rose. When one worker can produce more value per hour, employers can offer fewer hours without collapsing the business.
Same with child labor. It didn’t end because of slogans. It ended because rising capital, mechanization, and wages made child labor inefficient, unnecessary, and socially intolerable. Poor societies use child labor because they’re poor. Wealthy societies can afford not to.
Unions and activists love to retell history as if employers were holding back paradise until dragged kicking and screaming into decency. In reality, they rode the wave after capitalism created the conditions that made those outcomes sustainable.
The pattern is always the same:
Capitalism creates abundance.
Abundance makes humane choices affordable.
The left takes credit and demands force to “protect” what no longer needed force in the first place.
They don’t create progress. They parasitize it rhetorically, then try to freeze it in place with law, regulation, and coercion, long after the original incentive has already done the work.
It’s not just dishonest. It’s how they end up strangling the very process that made those gains possible.
🇰🇵단일성 Commie on the Rez 단일성 🇰🇵@patriach2051
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@battleforeurope @Telegraph Is the primary problem Europe's dependence on NATO?
Or Europe being controlled by the same TransAtlantic Finance Cabal that controls the US?
Even if Europe left NATO, it would still have Rothschilds (Macron), Black Rock (Merz) and Goldman Sachs (Kukies) running its politics.
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I would argue that the EU has spent decades manipulating the US ego to do their bidding on the global stage. Only to end up with the most incompetent EU leadership Europe has ever seen.
Thomas Fazi@battleforeurope
New piece of mine in @Telegraph on how the European rhetoric of autonomy and resistance to Trump appears less like a geopolitical turning point than a rebranding of empire, where the language of sovereignty is increasingly invoked even as the structures of dependency remain or even intensify. How can one credibly claim to seek “independence” from the US while remaining firmly embedded in NATO — the primary instrument through which Washington has long militarily subordinated its Western “allies” — and actively supporting the continuation of the proxy war in Ukraine that has been the central driver of Europe’s economic degradation and geopolitical hyper-vassalisation? Read here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/0…
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@battleforeurope @Telegraph I would argue that the EU has spent decades manipulating the US ego to do their bidding on the global stage. Only to end up with the most incompetent EU leadership Europe has ever seen.
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Iran has almost limitless assets compared to what we have at sea and is almost limitless compared to what Israel has got to throw at us.
Here lies the danger, does someone, especially Israel, turn to the use of a nuclear weapon?
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Posted this picture of my book chapter on Facebook, exactly 10 years ago today: “Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Constructing a Eurasian State in a Multipolar World.”
I argued that Russia’s dream of an inclusive Greater Europe, based on Gorbachev’s Common European Home, had died, as NATO expansionism and the coup in Ukraine had the aim of creating a hegemonic format for Europe. As the efforts to create a Europe without Russia would inevitably mean creating a Europe against Russia, the overwhelming incentive for Russia was to reorganise its entire economy to the East. Once the geoeconomic architecture for Eurasia was established (technology, industries, transportation corridors, and financial instruments of power), the collective hegemony of the West would be balanced, and the political West itself would fragment as economic and security interests became too divergent.
*** This argument was difficult to make back in 2015, as the Russia–China partnership was denounced as a “marriage of convenience,” BRICS was a “talking club,” de-dollarisation was considered science fiction, and there was a religious conviction that the West would forever be unified by “common values.” A weakness in human nature is to assume that the conditions of the present time are permanent, as opposed to a temporary state resting on a weak foundation. Much of what is happening in the world now should have been very predictable, but it demands that we first recognise the legitimate security concerns of our adversaries in order to calibrate our economic and security policies accordingly. In Europe, recognising the security concerns of adversaries is denounced as “legitimising” or supporting the opponent, which is considered treason. We thus walk deaf, blind, and dumb into the future—and believe it is patriotic.
If Europe had adjusted to multipolarity and accommodated Russia in Europe, there would have been an access to cheap and reliable energy resources and a huge export market, the Arctic would have been primarily a European region, Europe would have diversified its economic connectivity and been less reliant on the US, and the frontline states in a re-divided Europe (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova) could have prospered and been in peace. However, the ideological fundamentalism is out of control in Europe, and even recognising the realities of a multipolar distribution of power is largely considered to be "Russian propaganda".
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@DSchwammenthal Reminds me of Gunnar Bergstrom & Jan Mydral who dined with the Khmer Rouge and ignored the atrocities surrounding them, because "west bad". At least Gunnar came back to Cambodia to apologise to the Cambodians 20 years later.
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There is something uniquely grotesque about watching people on the streets of London waving the flag of the Iranian regime-smiling, even laughing-when confronted with evidence of its atrocities. Not denying them. Not disputing them. Simply not caring.
The Western left has a long and dishonourable tradition of excusing evil. In the 20th century, this usually came wrapped in self-deception. Stalin’s gulags were dismissed as capitalist propaganda. Mao’s famines were minimised as unfortunate growing pains. Pol Pot’s killing fields were relativised, explained away, or quietly ignored. The excuse-if one can call it that-was utopianism. These were misguided people who believed that communism would usher in a just and peaceful society, and that any reported horrors were either fake, exaggerated or grim necessities on the road to paradise.
That excuse no longer exists.
The protesters cheering on Tehran are not Shiite Islamists awaiting the return of the Hidden Imam. They are not converts to clerical rule, revolutionary martyrdom, or theocratic repression. They do not believe in Iran’s ideology. They believe in one thing only: the destruction of the Jewish state.
That is the point. That is the whole point.
Iran is waved like a banner not because of what it stands for, but because of what it opposes. A regime that jails and rapes women for removing headscarves, executes gay men, tortures dissidents, and shoots protesters in the streets is deemed acceptable- admirable, even-because it backs Hamas and Hezbollah, and openly calls for Israel’s annihilation.
The suffering of Iranians is immaterial when the goal is Israel's end.
Unlike earlier generations of Western radicals, today’s far-left extremists cannot plead naivety. They are not blinded by dreams of equality or brotherhood. They are animated by hatred. There is no emancipatory vision here, no promised future that might-however delusionally-explain moral blindness. There is only the cold calculation that any force opposing Israel is worthy of support, no matter how brutal, reactionary, or murderous.
How any mainstream political party can imagine courting, indulging, or appeasing these kinds of voters is beyond comprehension.
There is nothing redeemable to work with. No shared values to appeal to. No common moral language.
Heidi Bachram@HeidiBachram
One of the more insidious things I saw yesterday was the hateful response when the counter protesters showed Hamas and IRGC atrocities on a huge screen. They shouted “shame”. They laughed. They yelled “Zio-Nazis”. These ppl have lost their morality and humanity.
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@IhabHassane Peace in the Middle East requires more than just Palestine.
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The key to real stability in the Middle East is a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, living side by side with Israel.
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@ProfBillMcGuire @pleassavemykids Communism has led to deforestation, slavery, serfdom and extreme agricultural practices that destroy soil and land. There is no such thing as a pure capitalist country. All practice a mixture of socialism & capitalism. Populations increasing demands & globalisation is the problem
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@pleassavemykids Capitalism has destroyed our world
As the societal and economic breakdown beckons, only a socialist system that works for the many will have any chance of ameliorating a wild west free-for-all
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Either climate breakdown brings down capitalism or the entire planet will look like this
A system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction will NEVER voluntarily rein itself in
theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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@ProfBillMcGuire 1990s arguments. The world has achieved a huge advancement in goals, only the solution has turned out to be 100 x more environmentally destructive than the original. Greed & Capitalism is not the problem. Mass populations, increased energy demand & globalism is the problem
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@Jaybefaunt Capitalism has never existed without slavery, exploitation, and coercion of some sort. The theory of capitalism is in fact slavery in practice, using fascistic reforms to gain greater efficiency and near total inclusion.
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"We don't have real capitalism this is just cronyism"
Michael Parenti debunks what real capitalism is. RIP Michael Parenti
Sizwe SikaMusi@SizweLo
Michael Parenti on what pure capitalism looks like
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@Jaybefaunt There is no country in the world that practices pure capitalism. Not even the USA. They are mixed economies of both Capitalism & Socialism. Some lean more socialist, some more capitalist. But ALL are mixed bags. Your fight against one or the other is based on lies.
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They dont really care about anything. They have no idea what they stand for.
Hen Mazzig@HenMazzig
In Iran, tens of thousands of teenagers are being shot for fighting Tehran’s regime. In London, teenagers are glorifying their executioners. How can the Free Palestine crowd still claim to be on the right side of history?
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