Florence
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Florence
@Sugar1tas1
Observer of humans and our environs. Researcher, colleague, commentator, collaborator. Speaks the lingua franca. Unverified
Australia Tham gia Mayıs 2012
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How the fuck do we live in a country where our federal government had all the time in the world to lock in billions of dollars in AUKUS payments to suck up to Trump but no time at all to ensure Australia had at least 90 days of fuel security in case of a serious oil crisis?
#NewsCorpse
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Virgin Australia
Melbourne Airport
Photo taken Easter Saturday
Only toilet option for women and children is this 👇
Virgin Australia - pedophile and up-skirter enablers
Of course it would be Melbourne, the heart of darkness.
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What would Trump do if we break ties with the United States of America so we can get the oil tankers to deliver to Australia tomorrow ?. Trump would probably try to hurt us big time, might be freaking worse what's people's thoughts?
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#BREAKING Its 8:30am in the morning and there is still no Easter Sunday message from Anthony Albanese.
If it was any other religion, he would be in their place of worship posting relentlessly.
It’s obvious now.
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@BrianDu90631959 @PaulApp0505 @jkd1969 @Shirley82829043 @shirley_good @StephB_BTR @BrianHayes757 @irishjoeld @smithkc21 @Emma48998116 @KillerJoe67 Candy’s Room. To die for….
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This has always been my favourite Bruce album. Listened to it again today and it was like listening for the first time. Absolutely sublime.
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Peter FitzSimons talks to Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers about tax reform, unemployment, and losing 17kg smh.com.au/politics/feder…
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Heath Ledger & Philip Seymour Hoffman are two actors I’ll never let go of for as long as I live. I don’t care if I’m 90 years old & everyone else on this planet forgets about them- I won’t. Ledger lost the Oscar for Best Actor to PSH back in ‘05. They were both so excellent.
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Sunday April 5th and the moon doesn't care about daylight savings at all.
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Doncha just love Saturday TV, seeing where really rich people go for holidays?
For us it was a tent in Stuart Park Wollongong ... hang on ... that is where we lived.
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@Sugar1tas1 To be fair, you didn't kill the wasps. The Hazmat team did, so you are note responsible.
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My mum and dad get household help paid for by the NZ govt. A lovely Sri Lankan guy who came by earlier to do some housework.
He mentioned he's returning home soon to become a Buddhist monk. I slipped him $50 and thanked him for looking after my mum and dad.
Karma 'n all that.
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From threatening to invade Greenland to calling Canada "the 51st state" and slapping tariffs on everyone—this isn't "America First," it’s a massive self-inflicted wound. Now Trump wants to abandon NATO. That would be an all-time own goal.
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Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month, reporting the following:
“Key Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, were surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched against U.S. and Israeli targets across the region, including in countries long assumed to be off-limits: Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, a state that had both harbored Iran’s terrorist proxies and served as a conduit for backchannel diplomacy between the U.S. and Hamas. The response shattered the assumption that Tehran would confine itself to performative retaliation. In internal deliberations before the war’s launch, Hegseth had pointed to Iran’s muted reaction to Trump’s past attacks as evidence that calibrated force could impose costs on Tehran without triggering a broader war. Hegseth ‘was caught off guard. There’s no question,’ says a person familiar with his thinking.”
It’s so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran’s retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I’ve been paying attention to this issue I’ve been reading experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region.
A few examples:
A 2006 Oxford Research Group paper titled “Iran: Consequences of a War” warned that Iran has numerous options at its disposal in the event of a US attack, and that the “most significant of these would be any possible retaliatory Iranian action to affect the transport of oil and liquefied natural gas through the Straits of Hormuz,” adding that stopping Iran from doing this “would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, leading to a fear of attack which alone would have a formidable impact on oil markets.”
A 2007 Cato Institute paper titled “The Iraq War and Iranian Power” warns that “Iran possesses the largest ballistic-missile inventory in the Persian Gulf — missiles which can reach Israel, Saudi Arabia and US military bases in Iraq,” and that “experts argue Iran could also use the ’oil weapon’: blocking the 34km-wide Strait of Hormuz and conducting submarine and anti-ship missile attacks against ports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf Cooperation Council states.”
A 2012 NPR article titled “Can Iran Close The World’s Most Important Oil Route?” features then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledging that Iran absolutely can block the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tehran has “invested in capabilities” which specifically enable them to do so.
A paper from the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy and the Center for a New American Security titled “IN DIRE STRAITS? IMPLICATIONS OF US-IRAN TENSIONS FOR THE GLOBAL OIL MARKET” warns of a potential scenario “that includes damage to Gulf oil infrastructure and a temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”
These weren’t a bunch of keffiyeh-wearing peaceniks making these assessments, they were deeply entrenched swamp monsters entirely loyal to the US empire. They opposed war with Iran not because it would be an evil act of unforgivable mass murder, but because it would be bad for the imperial power structure.
Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton recently tweeted that other administration officials had warned the president to dismiss Bolton’s urging to attack Iran because of the easily foreseeable consequences of that war, saying “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare.”
I have zero military training or expertise — on military matters I’m just some schmuck with internet access — and yet nothing Iran has done has surprised me. It’s playing out exactly how the experts warned it would play out. There’s no way any literate, thinking person didn’t see this coming; when they say they didn’t, it’s because they’re either lying or amazingly stupid.
Trump’s war machine is either made up of liars, morons, lying morons, or (most likely), an eclectic mixture of all three.
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Experts Warned For Years That A War With Iran Would Happen This Way
Trump’s war machine is either made up of liars, morons, lying morons, or (most likely), an eclectic mixture of all three.
Reading by Tim Foley.
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The only people dumber than Americans who bought into Trump’s “ending the wars” shtick are the Iranians who believed America was going to bring freedom to their people.
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Notice how quickly all that bullshit about liberating Iranians disappeared, and now it's all about bombing them back to the Stone Age, destroying their bridges and universities, poisoning their air and water, and stealing their oil.
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No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department than Pam Bondi. Her successor could be even more dangerous. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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