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@CarltonFC supporter. Love heavy metal and extreme music, art, technology, free thinking. The world is an amazing place and can be saved..

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If moir was able to start reaching his potential the blues would have a hell of a dynamic forward line with ison and Byrne in there too. #AFLPowerBlues

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@CarltonFC They didn't look like a bottom 4 team tonight. They looked like a 8 to 12 ladder team, which was about right for where they should be. Good work fellas. Keep building.

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@CarltonFC The idea that these guys are full time professional footballers is unbelievable.

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@bet365_aus Goodbye

[Neoptolemus @NeoptolemusX]

It’s one thing to see a graph saying, “12 million illegal migrants entered Europe since 2008.”

It’s another thing to actually see it.

Every blip in this animation represents 100 people.

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

A 2020 interview with @AlboMP just provided the campaign ad for every other party. The then Opposition Leader slammed the Government for not having adequate fuel reserves or domestic refining capacity in case of overseas conflict.

He identified the risk to national security and asked why the government had done nothing in 7 years.

Albanese knew about this problem 7 years ago...

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@The_PrenderCast Your chronicling of the last few years of good starts ending in defeat in the last podcast would be worth posting as a clip on YT or other. Deserves more attention.

[Yet another commodity guy @tleilax___]

Trump is casually proposing one of the biggest strategic own-goals imaginable: NATO more or less done, and any country that wants Persian Gulf crude can go secure it for itself. That is a spectacularly reckless thing for an American president to say. It is a half-drunken invitation to roll the clock back toward the old colonial game, where every great power armed itself around resource access and shipping lanes.

The whole reason the U.S.-led order worked is that Washington took the military question off the table for its allies. Europe and East Asia could think about trade, industry, growth, supply chains, and cheap energy. They did not need to wake up every morning thinking about convoy protection, choke points, naval escorts, forward bases, and who might try to cut their oil line. That was the deal, and for all its flaws it was an unbelievably powerful one.

Put that burden back on every importing state and you do not get some elegant new realism. You get the old imperial logic creeping back in. The barrel is no longer just a barrel. It comes with freight risk, insurance risk, naval risk, basing risk, and eventually war risk. The whole achievement of the postwar order was that America suppressed a lot of that rivalry by sitting on top of the system and making the security decisions for the wider alliance.

The Gulf is particularly ugly terrain for this kind of thinking. The infrastructure is concentrated, the sea lanes are narrow, and much of the population depends on fragile physical systems like desalination. Once states decide energy security is too important to leave to markets, they start looking at places like this in very hard terms. Somewhere in Paris, one of the old colonial ghosts is probably already unfolding a map of the Gulf and reminiscing about protectorates in embarrassingly enthusiastic detail.

History is full of great powers making exactly this kind of mistake. The cleanest analogy is Germany after Bismarck. Bismarck built a diplomatic architecture that kept Germany secure and prevented hostile coalitions from forming. Kaiser Wilhelm II inherited that system, got impatient with its constraints, started freelancing, and slowly turned a position of strength into encirclement. He did not lose Germany in one move. He set in motion a process that made Germany less secure with every passing year.

There is also an interwar British echo here. Britain remained enormously important, but it no longer wanted to fully bear the burden of policing the wider order it depended on. That did not produce a neat handoff. It produced opportunism, rearmament, and eventually a much nastier bill. And if you want the broadest analogy, it is the breakdown of the old European concert system: once the central restraining architecture weakens, states go back to fleets, blocs, balancing, and military planning around economic survival.

What is so deranged about this is that it weakens the U.S. first. America’s edge was never just the size of the Navy. It was that nearly every major industrial power operated inside an American security architecture. Tear that up and over time you get fewer reliable bases, fewer aligned allies, larger independent militaries, more hedging against Washington, and much more room for China and every ambitious regional power. That is how dominant positions are squandered in history: not all at once, but by dismantling the very order that made you dominant in the first place.

[Matt Barrie @matt_barrie]

Australia will spend more on disability this year the sum of:
Super tax $22.81B
Diesel $17.39B
Petrol $7.25B
Tobacco $7.4B
Fringe benefits $4.95B
Visas $4.13B
Spirits $3.28B
Beer $2.75B
Wine $1.11B
Luxury cars $1.17B
Bank levy $1.77B
Petroleum rent tax $1.45B
Total: $74.4B

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@CarltonFC gawd, it's like green shoots all over again.

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@ColdFusion_TV Microsoft will completely ingest it into their ecosystem.

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@Dr_M_Davis @sentdefender a bit of web traffic saying jets on their way there now

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@stats_feed @queensryche chris degarmo

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@Mix_Magazine all 10 inputs are Hi-z????!

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@BikoKonstantin1 Won't be soon. But it is inevitable..

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@The_PrenderCast Often do. Just need conversion. Like ummm jack Martin right now for the cats.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇳🇬 While Nigerian and international media do their best not to cover Islamist Fulani militia massacres on Christians, there’s one influencer who visits every crime scene.

VeryDarkMan gives victims a voice

This is Yelaweta village (200 killed on June 13)

[Neff @Daniel_Neff78]

@CarltonFC It's all just become very sad really.

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@CarltonFC Moir in Motlop out for starting squad... For every game... From now on.

[Manhattan Institute @ManhattanInst]

.@DouglasKMurray: Choose life, not the death cult.

We were honored to award Douglas Murray the 2024 Hamilton Award for his unwavering defense of Western values.