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this week, Sydney Katılım Kasım 2011
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@UN @UNLazzarini @UNRWA The displacement, torture, slaughter & #genocide of the Palestinian people is now common place. It’s accepted by the USA & @POTUS It’s is accepted by the UK & @RishiSunak It’s is accepted by Australia & @AlboMP They are not after ‘Hamas’, they are after the Palestinian land.
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Coalition Tea Lady@ItsBouquet·
"Sarah Hanson-Young has watered down her demand for a royal commission examining the role of the Murdoch media in Australia, now describing it as a “trusted” news provider compared with unregulated social media platforms." theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…
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@metaryuk @RnaudBertrand China, a communist nation, has succeeded in mastering capitalism and pulling a billion people out of poverty. The USA, the leading “free trade” capitalist country, is now showing its frailty by all its failed policies, internationally and domestic.
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MetaRyuk@metaryuk·
@RnaudBertrand Economically speaking, China can survive without US but US cannot survive without China. I highly doubt any American billionaire CEOs, with hundreds of factories in China are planning to open/move any in the US.
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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
People don't realize just how dangerous this rhetoric is. This is in effect the US demanding China become hostile to Russia by stopping to supply items that "power its industrial base"... meaning asking China to join the West in trying to weaken Russia as a country. As a reminder this is exactly the reason why during WW2 Japan went to war with the US: the US at some point stopped supplying oil to Japan and this directly led to Pearl Harbor. Countries typically don't take it very constructively when you're trying to strangle them economically... The worst part is that the only rational they give China for doing this is 100% stick and 0% carrot: "if you don't do this we in turn will be even more aggressive towards you than we've been to date". With of course, in the back of China's mind the knowledge that the US's calculus is that they want to be done with Russia in order to fully concentrate on containing them. So they're presenting China with a completely lose-lose proposition: be hostile to your neighbor now so we can contain you faster down the line, or don't be hostile to your neighbor and we'll ramp up our containment now. How attractive is that? 🙃 China will of course not start being hostile to Russia, in fact if anything this will convince them that the US is even more unhinged and unreasonable that they thought. It's very hard to predict what they'll do... An ideal scenario for China would be to secure peace in Ukraine on terms that are agreeable to all except the US, weakens the transatlantic alliance and unites Eurasia. By the way, objectively speaking this would also be the best scenario for Europe's interests because it stands to reason that a long-term Korea-style divide with Russia would be a complete disaster. President Xi is going to Europe shortly and I am ready to bet he'll argue for something along these lines. But the thing is that he'll be speaking to Europeans who, if anything, are even less reasonable than Americans so I don't think we can be very optimistic about that prospect... The more realistic scenario is that China does nothing and reacts to additional hostile measures against it in ways that weaken the US more than it weakens them. Some sort of Kung Fu move where you use your opponent's strength against them. For instance the US floated the idea of expelling Chinese banks from the global financial system: China, the biggest trading partner of almost all countries, can then say "from now on to trade with us, you need to use our system", which would be a big blow to the US dollar's status as the world's preeminent currency. All in all, we're well and truly in Cold War 2, which is pretty sad. Just like WW1 was really different from WW2, Cold War 2 is different from the first one: this time it's not an ideological competition between 2 blocs, but it is still a war in all respects except a direct military fight between the world's 2 largest great powers, which is what makes it a cold war. The key cause is because the US cannot bear to lose its global hegemony and wants to restore a unipolar order where they call the shots and try to transform the world in their own image... which is the very reason why it's a 100% certainty they won't succeed: to win a cold war you need to convince a significant share of the world that your cause is worthy and this is anything but. The whole world saw what happens when the US achieves unipolarity: insane hubris where they don't hesitate to destroy entire nations and kill millions in the process. No-one wants to get back to that, except maybe a few die-hard vassals in the West. China's cause on the other hand is a multipolar world order, an order where the US simply doesn't call the shots, something a good 80% of the world's countries can get behind. Furthermore China can point to 1,800 years out of the past 2,000 years when it was the world's preeminent power and never tried to submit the whole world: colonialism, transforming the world in their own image or being "the world's policeman" is just not in their DNA. So I think we can safely predict that this transition towards a multipolar world order is unavoidable, in fact we're probably already there. The question now is when will the US stop challenging this reality and start being a constructive actor in this new world as opposed to waging war and sowing conflict everywhere. And I'm afraid we can wait a long time for that... In fact it's already a de-facto characteristic of the new order: it's a multipolar world order with a revisionist power in its midst that wants to restore its former hegemonic imperial status.
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Blinken threatening China with actions if it continues to support Russia after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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@caitoz This is what happens when you have people with limited brain capacities running the most powerful nation in the world. .@POTUS the wordsmith now it’s election time but his actions are guns-a-blazing to kill off Palestinians. USA & Biden supply Israel. USA & Biden fund Israel.
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Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz·
Saying "Hamas Just Needs To Surrender" Is Saying "We'll Kill Kids Until We Get What We Want" "Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders." Reading by Tim Foley.
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@Peter_Fitz Scrolling through the media across the USA during the Vegas Games and there was minute reporting...until the racist slur gained some traction. That’s rugby league for ya!!
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Peter FitzSimons@Peter_Fitz·
Calling all #Dunkley by-election electors. What is the vibe? Who will win? What do you expect in terms of swing? #auspol
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@Archie25555 @Raven_Satanas @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Probably nothing, but there’s no way I will sell out my values & beliefs to ANY politician who supports genocide & antagonises for war - especially when they don’t do their due diligence & rely on American propaganda. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait etc, all based on USA lies
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Raven (Kwaagum)@Raven_Satanas·
Time to take the temperature lol. If the election was held tomorrow, who would you vote for?
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@OzFacts @jxlawler @Raven_Satanas @AlboMP @AustralianLabor So now you have to wait for the replies telling you just how bad the LNP are, I haven't renewed my ALP membership as AUKUS, Stage 3 tax cuts (now amended) and their inhumane stance on Gaza do not reflect traditional Labor values, but I'd never, ever, ever vote LNP, I like people
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Mark Dreyfus
Mark Dreyfus@MarkDreyfusKCMP·
It was a pleasure to meet Minister of the Interior and Overseas France @GDarmanin to reaffirm Australia’s commitment to engaging with France on key law enforcement issues and acknowledge the establishment of the new @AusFedPolice Post in Paris. 🇦🇺🇫🇷
Gérald DARMANIN@GDarmanin

🇫🇷🇦🇺Avec @MarkDreyfusKCMP, Attorney General d’Australie (ministre de la Justice), pour échanger sur la création d’une Académie de police du pacifique, projet soutenu par la France et l’Australie, mais également sur la lutte contre le trafic de drogue et la radicalisation.

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David Pocock@DavidPocock·
Not being able to feed your children & keep them safe must be every parent’s worst nightmare. There is a real risk of even more children dying in Gaza - this time from malnutrition. The world can't continue to stand by in the face of this horror. abc.net.au/news/2024-02-2…
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@BazzaCC I’m fed up too. Parents went through a life of misery because of war and it continues to this day. A revolution is needed in many countries. I’m fed up with these dehumanising old rich wo/men manipulating the people. Fed up!
Middle East Eye@MiddleEastEye

During an interview with the BBC aired on 16 February, Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef criticised the West’s support for Israel and emphasised that he wants US President Joe Biden to lose the 2024 presidential election over his pro-Israel policies.

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@SteedmanRod The problem comes when one acts like a person of the left before an election, and then his/her actions are just as far to the right as the extremist right. Here’s just one example that @AlboMP can be thrown into.
Middle East Eye@MiddleEastEye

During an interview with the BBC aired on 16 February, Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef criticised the West’s support for Israel and emphasised that he wants US President Joe Biden to lose the 2024 presidential election over his pro-Israel policies.

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Rod Steedman@SteedmanRod·
A person once asked what is the difference between a Labor person & a Liberal person or a lefty and a righty. I told them if a Labor Person found a cure for Covid they would give it to the world. if Liberal person did the same they would patent it and make billions from it.
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