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The threat of withdrawal from Australia by the gas giants is hollow, given the billions here they still hope to plunder. “Ignore ‘self-serving’ claims from gas giants and implement 100% tax on windfall profits, Ken Henry says” theguardian.com/australia-news…

When neoliberals see this chart -😭 "It's not fair!" When I see this chart - 😭"This is what Australia used to do with the Commonwealth Bank, when manufacturing reached 30% of GDP". More "below market borrowings" please - bring back a national bank!

🇺🇸🇮🇱 An American activist: “Prison for my children is more honorable than them fighting for Israel.” She confirms: “Zionism has brought nothing to America but wars and destruction.”

My enemies are not in Iran. My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra. My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with the help of my tax dollars. My enemies are the tyrants who are turning our civilization into a mind-controlled dystopia where it is increasingly illegal to criticize the abuses of my government and its allies, and increasingly difficult to find information which runs counter to the imperial narrative. My enemies are the empire apologists and the hasbarists. The propagandists and spinmeisters. Those who side with Israel and the United States against basic human interests. Imperial bootlickers always accuse me of writing “propaganda” for the “enemy”, with “enemy” meaning whoever the US-centralized empire happens to be attacking or preparing to attack on any given day. I always want to tell them “Motherfucker YOU are my enemy. YOU. You and the empire you simp for.” The Iranians have never done anything to me. The Iranians pose no threat to me. They didn’t bring war to my country. The empire I live under brought war to theirs. The Iranians haven’t robbed me and my fellow westerners of all democratic political agency to create an oligarchy run by megalomaniacal plutocrats and psychopathic government agencies. The Iranians haven’t locked down all political systems throughout western society making it impossible to vote our way into peace, economic justice, and government transparency. The Iranians aren’t working tirelessly to brainwash and manipulate everyone in my society to turn us all into apathetic flag-waving morons who care more about sports and celebrities than the fact that their government is committing horrifying war crimes. The Iranians aren’t trying to make it illegal for me to criticize Israel and its abuses, or working to imprison my countrymen for uttering normal political slogans in opposition to a genocidal apartheid state. The Iranians aren’t making my society crazy, stupid and evil while we hurtle toward ecological disaster, nuclear armageddon and AI tech dystopia. I haven’t spent years watching a live-streamed genocide in Gaza being perpetrated by the Iranians. I’m not frightened that the Iranians will try to draft my son to fight and die in a crazy, evil war. The Iranians are not doing any of these things to me. These are things the western power structure is doing. I have no loyalty to that power structure. I have loyalty to my species, to my family, and to the values I hold sacred in my heart of hearts. The US empire can get fucked.

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system We are reporting this because British media can not

One common feature in western empire propaganda is that we are always given reasons for the empire's violence, while the violence of those who resist the empire gets framed as happening for no reason at all. We've all been fed reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, and we all know what those reasons are. Even less-informed members of the western public have heard something about the Iranians being a nuclear threat, having a tyrannical government, and maybe something about sponsoring terrorist groups. But the so-called "peaceful protesters" who were killed in an uprising fomented and facilitated by the United States? They were killed for no reason, simply because the Iranian government is evil and hates dissent. All the Iranian police officers who died in the uprising perished for no reason, perhaps of natural causes. It is only by pure coincidence that this happened at the exact same time the US empire was making the decision to try to topple the Iranian government. We've all been given the official reasons why Israel has spent years blanketing the Gaza Strip with military explosives: Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7 2023, so it needs to get rid of Hamas for its own security. But why did the Hamas attack happen? It happened for no reason. If you look to the propagandists in the western press for answers, October 7 happened solely because Hamas are evil and wanted to kill Jews because of their religion. Absolutely no mention of Israel's savage treatment of Palestinians for generations, or the dreadful living conditions imposed upon the giant concentration camp that Gaza had become. We've been told why the western empire is pouring weapons into Ukraine: Ukraine was invaded by Russia. The empire wants to protect the freedom and democracy of the Ukrainian people, and to deter future expansionism by Vladimir Putin. Why did Russia invade Ukraine? No reason. Putin's just evil and hates freedom, that's all. Sure, countless western experts and analysts had been warning for years that NATO aggressions were going to lead to a war on Russia's border, but they were just rambling lunatics whose forecasts of war were proven correct by pure coincidence. Our entire understanding of history is framed in this way. Fidel Castro killed people in Cuba. Why did he kill them? No reason; he was just a mean jerk. All the violence of the socialist revolutionaries around the world overthrowing the abusive governments which preceded them is framed as causeless genocidal carnage inflicted by murderous tyrants who simply loved killing people. The desperation caused by the capitalist exploitation that had been imposed upon those populations is completely redacted from our history books. A mature understanding of our world begins with a curiosity about why the violence is happening. Violence is not always justified, but there is always a reason why it happens. Western pundits, politicians and newscasters will very seldom tell you what those reasons are unless it advances the interests of the western empire, so if you want to have a truth-based understanding of what's really going on in our world, you need to actively seek out the answers for yourself.

No surprise here. The Australian - The Israelian - is not a newspaper. It is a propaganda rag where the business model is whipping up fear, envy and loathing. Particularly against prominent women.

@Glenn_Diesen The target is the entire world. These guys are basically the fourth Reich.

The US threatens to sanction Chinese banks for buying Iranian oil. The target is China.

Why do journalists slavishly follow ‘expert’ analysts who unapologetically ignore Australia’s interests, to be pro-American power? “The myth of Australia’s powerlessness to stop the war hasn’t come from nowhere — It has been deliberately cultivated, often by the very same people who have been wrong about the war every step of the way. “The narrative of sensible support for American wars has been pushed by advocates of American power, positioning themselves as “experts” on war and foreign policy, who feed journalists wrongful analysis after wrongful analysis without ever being scrutinised.” ‘Anti-Journalism: Why the Media Keeps Downplaying Australia’s Role in the War’ lamestream.com.au/anti-journalis…

@stochasthickat @QuentinDempster You're clearly not that bright. It's our gas, you don't like that? Tough. Now go bother someone else, dimwit.

@jeffb724 @QuentinDempster You are a cretin. Wherever this is tried it fails. Morons like you are why the economy is down the toilet. There was a 24.1% increase in average unemployed persons from 2022 to 2025. GDP decreased by 7.7% in the last three years. Thank you. You f****** retard.

Recession, stagflation ahead. Here's Michael Keating's (Ex PM&C) solutions: reduce the deficit, tighter budgets whole-of-government; reduce CGT property tax break from 50% to 30%; scrap negative gearing from now on; 80% LNG export tax + a carbon tax. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/s…

@richimedhurst It's why they wanted a sub base in Perth. It's why they want upgraded airfields across Australia's north. #AUKUS was always about getting US bases into Australia. The submarines, that the Americans can't supply, were only ever a smokescreen. #auspol

Mark my words: AUKUS will be instrumental in maintaining this oil blockade in the Pacific. The US are sowing the seeds of a world war. China and Russia haven't responded thus far and that's probably why.

@stochasthickat @QuentinDempster No, we don't set world prices, but we do set the percentage the gas companies pay back to us for our gas. Maintaining gas company profit margins isn't our problem, that's their problem. If they can't pay their bills, or their taxes, we nationalize them and keep the lot. #auspol

@jeffb724 @QuentinDempster Let me explain it to you like the Cretin you are. Australia does not set World prices for gas. If you put a tax on it you will sell less. Total tax revenue will actually fall. The lost sales mean lost jobs... less disposable income.

@snekotron How many of these things are there again?

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes again

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NYT CONCEDES MOSSAD BEHIND IRAN RIOTS The NYT joins a long list of institutions, influencers, and politicians that concede that the riots in Iran at the start of the year were a result of foreign meddling - particularly, by the CIA and Mossad. Marketed as organic to generate public consent for war on Iran, the riots that spread across Iran were exposed as foreign meddling operations well before they reached their peak. Now, the same media institutions that peddled the riots as organic are now admitting the role of imperialist intelligence agencies in sparking them - as part of a larger plan to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

Trump confirms that the US (and Israel, by definition) armed anti-government protesters in Iran. This is what the Iranian government responded to in January, just as any other government would have done.

@OlgaBazova @DrEliDavid

The Chinese navy has clearly stated that it would respond severely and immediately if Chinese ships were hindered in their international shipping. The US didn't want to begin World War 3 as the bad guys. So first a false flag attack "by Russia" or "by China" will have to be staged.