Tremlett Woodstar

Bookkeeper extraordinaire, family man, lover of fine wines (not any more, too d) and replica beatle boots

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨 ALERT! 🚨 Mainstream media must have missed this story.

Provocative Chinese missile test?
That’s a big accusation.

How many nuclear-capable missiles has the US fired into the Pacific — did Australia protest even one of those?

🚀 Here are the dates that the US test fired about 80 nuclear-capable ICBM missiles 7,000kms into the mid-Pacific.

Incidentally fired to a target in the Marshall Islands, a signatory to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga):

•2026: March 5, June tbc.
•2025: February 19, May 21, November 4.
•2024: June 4, June 6, September 4.
•2023: February 9, April 19, September 6, November 1.
•2022: August 16, September 7.
•2021: February 23, August 11.
•2020: February 5, August 4, September 2, October 29.
•2019: February 5, May 1, May 9, October 2.
•2018: April 25, May 14, July 31, November 7.
•2017: February 8, April 26, May 3, August 2.
•2016: February 20, February 25, September 5.
•2015: March 23, March 27, May 20, August 19, October 21.
•2014: May 22, September 23.
•2013: May 22, September 22, September 26.
•2012: February 25, November 14.
•2011: June 22, July 27.
•2010: June 16, September 17.
•2009: June 29, August 23.
•2008: May 22, August 13.
•2007: February 7, May 15, August 8.
•2006: February 16, June 14, July 20.
•2005: August 25, September 14.
•2004: July 23, September 15.
•2003: June 11, September 10.
•2002: September 18.
•2001: February 7, June 13.
•2000: June 8, September 27.

They must have slipped under the mainstream media’s China-focussed radar.

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[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

What happened to Lebanon’s right to defend itself? Does any country have the right to defend itself from Israel? Who’s going to stop this terrorist state?

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The UN has warned of total collapse in Cuba. This is deliberate punishment imposed by the most powerful nation on earth on one of its poorest neighbours that dares to have a different political system. Australia should not stay silent while bully USA starves the people of Cuba.

[Safety First @djt1940]

@PeterCronau @QuentinDempster Break up the bank monopoly by having a retail arm of the Reserve bank ie a people’s bank. All profits stay here & are used to set standards in eg housing finance.

[karma @karma44921039]

Edward Snowden, speaking in 2015:

"When you say I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that's no different than saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say, or freedom of the press because I have nothing to write."

[Tremlett Woodstar @GeoffinAround]

WTF

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

I don’t think our PM should be telling any citizen their mourning is “inappropriate”

I don’t think the shadow foreign minister should be demanding those mourners be investigated as terrorists.

I think we are on an alarming trajectory, driven by totally unworthy men & women in our parliament.

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The crossbench does, in fact, have a shopping list of important and thorny topics to raise this week, because Australians want action on gambling, they want action on integrity in politics and lobbying reform, and they want answers to committee reports that are well overdue.

This government needs to be held to account, and while the Coalition has its mind elsewhere, it will be the crossbench holding them to account on issues of importance this week!
https://t.co/IFKtGsopYe

[Ben Davison @Ben_Davison1]

Federal funding of private schools started when states wouldn’t build public schools in some areas due to sectarianism

Now it’s a MASSIVE transfer of funds from schools that need it to schools that don’t

It’s time to stop “topping up” private schools while public schools suffer

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

Why has Albo sold us and our environment out to Trump? Forget EPBC/Nature laws, Albo delivers for US megalomaniac. Too frightened to reject ‘Peace Board’, too sycophantic to even examine AUKUS, too cowardly to even reject Murdoch invitation to opening of propaganda machine. #WEAK

[Christine Milne AO @ChristineMilne]

Australia’s Future Fund must divest from Palantir. All talk from PM and Angus Taylor about Australian values is just hot air if they continue to allow the community’s Future Fund to invest in Peter Thiel’s surveillance company. Greg Combet and his Board need to step up. #auspol

[The Cockatoo @DarcyAmaroo]

The Greens and Independents will take over from Labor.
They talk sense and aren’t ruled by the Zionist Lobby and Israeli Terrorists.
Albanese, Marles, Wong and Minns have damaged the party beyond repair.
Its pathetic to hear them make excuses to cover for their incompetence.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

The muted response from authorities & politicians to an explosive device being thrown into an Invasion Day march, is terrifying.

What the hell is going on in this country?

Why are the only people whose lives matter Zionists?

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

For the un-zombified, the news will be painful today. I was stuck in a car listening to 774 and had to endure a lengthy glowing eulogy for this man, about what a humanitarian hero he was, and not a single inch of push back from @Raf_Epstein. We're all the "good Germans" now.

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

How much longer is the Australian government going to keep its silence on the behaviour of the United States? It’s a rogue state, causing too much damage in the world, and that seems obvious to everyone except to Albanese, Wong and Marles. Speak up! #AUSPOL

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

All Peter Malinauskas' words about @RandaAFattah are a false equivalence, ignoring the dynamic of oppressed and oppressor. Palestinian resistance is legal and justified. Israeli genocide is not. I've seen far too many dead kids to tolerate any of this racist, moronic dribble

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A lot of people seem unaware of the achievements of the socialists in Venezuela 🇻🇪 before US sanctions wrecked the economy. Here's a rundown by the numbers (taken from the United Nations and quoted in my book, "Bad News From Venezuela, 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting"):

GDP per capita:

1999: $5150
2012: $6434

Poverty:

1999: 49.4%
2012: 25.4%

Extreme Poverty:

1999: 17.9%
2012: 7.1%

Unemployment:

1999: 15.0%
2012: 8.1%

School Enrollment:

1999: under 50%
2012: Almost 75%

Undernourished population:

2000-2002: 3.8 million
2010-2012: "Not statistically significant number" [i.e.: close to zero]

Doctors per 10,000 inhabitants:

1998: 18
2012: 58

Number of free health clinics built, 1999-2012:

7,000

Number of people receiving old age pensions:

1999: 0.39 million
2012: 2.1 million

During the years of Hugo Chavez (1999-2012/2013), the government built a nationalized healthcare and education system from scratch. In 2005, UNESCO declared Venezuela free of illiteracy.

This doesn't mean everything was perfect by any means, but the gigantic and extraordinary successes the country was making attracted academics, statisticians, and epidemiologists from around the world to study it. Indeed, in 2013, the UN awarded Venezuela special recognition in combatting poverty and achieving rapid human development.

They were able to do this because Chavez nationalized the country's resources (oil) and used the profits to fund social programs, rather than enrich foreign billionaires.

It was precisely this threat of a good example that precipitated a massive US economic blockade of the country, which crippled the economy, and led to mass emigration and hardship. The United States is and was terrified that such a successful example of socialism would inspire people across the planet into believing a better world is possible.

[💧Bee - Difficult 🐝🌿❤ @BelindaJones68]

Australia no longer has 'shared values' with the USA

It is a fascist state.

Cancel #AUKUS & #ANZUS & tell the US military to get the fuck out of Australia - they're not welcome here
🐝
#auspol

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

Is Australia really going to invite an Israeli President who signed bombs being sent off to kill children in Gaza? Supporter of an apartheid and genocidal state. There will be massive protests, no question. I will be there. #auspol

[bradpsychology @bradpsychology]

David Southwick, Victoria’s Shadow Minister for Planning, Housing and Building, doesn’t like anyone saying he owns 17 properties.