Wayne Rand

I’m The best Wayne Rand around these parts.

[Jennifer Gai Lambie @JenLambie @JenGLambie]

You little beauty.... 👏👏👏 ✨️ @NickMcKim

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Mal Frankcom, brother of Zomi Frankcom in 2024 asked Australian investigator Binskin why he didn’t access the withheld Israeli audio of the attack operators.

He received an extraordinary answer:

“I asked him about that and he said that he was told that it was in Hebrew, and it wouldn’t be understood.”

EVIDENCE WITHHELD IN ISRAELI KILLINGS OF AID WORKERS https://t.co/vB84zFnRhw

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

About time. I suspect the Israeli ambassador in Canberra is not going to have a great day today.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israel just blew up the public water reservoir in Mansouri, South Lebanon — cutting off the town’s water supply.

Not a military target.

A water reservoir.
Essential civilian infrastructure.

This is a war crime.
This is an act of genocide.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.

They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.

Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Haha, hilarious.
The con is exposed!

The whole #AUKUS scam is now stripped bare.

It has always been a con to enable the US to get its hands on more Australian territory for their US military bases.

Bases for their subs, ships, bombers, marines, drones, spy bases, weapons storage, and getting an extra flag for their forced anti-China alliance.

Australia has been conned big time — and was taken there by a pack of traitorous collaborators. You know who I mean.

#AUKUS is dead in the water — but the occupation of Australia continues.

@ICAN_australia
@NuclearBan
@IPAusNet
@WagePeaceAU
@BaseWatchAU
@OzAntiBases
@MAPW_Australia @WarPowersReform @DeclassifiedAus

https://t.co/gXctg1HYKP

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

For shame. Australia flying weapons parts to Israel via the US on passenger aircraft. And sprung.
A big yawn for the MSM?
Congratulations @PeterCronau and thank you to whoever leaked these docs.
Please share the story widely

[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

Great news that ADF whistleblower David McBride has been released on parole today. But he should never have been gaoled. His case highlights the weak protections whistleblowers face & gov’s too often punishing those who speak up against wrongdoing #auspol #politas

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

IMPORTANT.

A CNN journalist witnessed Israeli settlers abduct and blindfold a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his land, as IDF soldiers stood guard.

He was later shot, while the IDF blocked the road to prevent anyone from coming to his aid, making sure he would die.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

David McBride released from prison after serving his full 2 years 3 months non-parole. The only one to be jailed for Afghan war crimes was the guy who objected
#auspol
https://t.co/tUfp7Vj4Nf

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

And so the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank accelerates against the backdrop of the never-ending genocide in Gaza

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The Federal Court has today ruled that Australian citizen Dan Duggan will be extradited to the United States, where he faces up to 65 years in prison for conduct that wasn’t even an offence under Australian law. It's deeply distressing news for so many.

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

She didn’t turn up for last week’s Senate sitting but managed to attend a weekend protest in Canberra. She’s missed Senate Estimates this week. She earns a $211K salary + allowances + super but doesn’t turn up for work. Is she Australia’s most expensive dole bludger? #auspol

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

An unelected, unaccountable shadow government is spending public money without democratic oversight. Jillian Segal and her gravy train must go.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Powerful speech by Naturalist Chris Packham speaking alongside Zack Polanski on the subject of Climate Change,

"To the disappointment of many, football didn’t come home this summer, but to the pain and suffering of millions, climate breakdown has. And our government and media response has displayed a total dereliction of duty in a time of extreme crisis."

"As we’ve heard, in May and June there were 3,000 deaths attributed to the heat domes that have hung over the UK. Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, stress on the heart and kidneys, and of course those mental health issues that you’ve just talked about."

"In Europe, the figure is somewhere between 14,000 and 20,000 up until the end of July, and it’s expected to double by the end of this summer. So we’re looking at potentially 50,000 deaths across Europe."

"If these deaths had been the result of terrorism or a pandemic, the government would have cancelled its summer holiday, it would have held COBRA meetings, and there would be public information campaigns the likes of which we saw during COVID, designed to protect us in this time of crisis."

"And yet what do we get? We get rumours of possibly more drilling for oil and gas, and we get articles in the Telegraph which suggest that we ought to adapt to a Mediterranean climate. If that isn’t reckless and irresponsible, I don’t know what is."

"What we do need at this point is to listen to the science, not to the ongoing malevolent raft of mis- and disinformation that’s perpetuated in politics, in public life and certainly across social media."

"If we listen to the science, we see that the climate models that were devised in the 1990s have actually proved to be pretty accurate. But those who do try and transmit the information to us, people like the IPCC, which are often derided as alarmists by the right and the far right, have actually been too cautious."

"What we see, for instance, when it comes to the heatwaves, is that they are occurring more quickly and more regularly than those models suggest. We’re updating the science as it happens. What we also see is that it’s not just a lack of water which is leading to the drought, although that might seem painfully obvious. It’s actually being exacerbated by extremely high temperatures."

"And that has an impact on the environment, the environment that I care so much about and we are all dependent upon. Across the world, there have been 35,000 wildfires. In the UK, there have been 66 major wildfires. But let’s not focus on 66, because that sounds quite a small number. In one fire and rescue service, Berkshire, they’ve attended over 250 outdoor fires so far this summer. So the number of grass fires and so forth is going to be significantly higher than that."

"Drawing upon an underfunded, under-resourced organisation at the front line of dealing with a crisis that is impacting all of us. So lives have been lost, homes have been destroyed, businesses have been ruined. The clean-up cost – just look at Palisades in America – is incomprehensible. We simply can’t afford it."

"And then from my perspective, the damage to wildlife, which has got scant mention, of course, because as ever we put human interest first because they’re most immediate. And you might think, well, Chris is bound to bang on about the wildlife because he loves the birds and the bees. Yes, the birds and the bees, which form resilient ecosystems which allow us to produce the food that we eat. We have to protect nature in order to protect ourselves."

"So you might think, okay, the UK, the wildfires – they’ve all been out there on the heaths in Suffolk, they’ve been burning patches of heathland on the Isle of Wight. Not many homes have been destroyed. Well, the Ordnance Survey say that 1.8 million homes are at risk in the UK by looking at their maps and seeing which homes are adjacent to areas which have significant wildfire risk. 1.8 million homes at risk. So far, compared to Europe, we’ve just got away lightly and we’ve just been lucky."

"How many firefighting planes do you think that we’ve got in the UK? How many firefighting planes in the UK, exactly? Zero planes. Which is why, as Zack said, when that fire was burning at Dunwich, the National Trust had to hire a helicopter and pay for it to drag water out of the sea and dump it on that precious piece of habitat, because there are no firefighting planes."

"Is there a public warning system in place which will tell people when there’s a risk of wildfire so that they can be prepared to evacuate and have evacuation plans in place? Well, do you know what? There is. It’s available to the fire and rescue service, but it isn’t available to the public because it’s deemed to be unreliable. Is it unreliable, or is it just a bit too scary? We couldn’t even instigate a ban on disposable barbecues."

"Okay, there are the problems. What about the solutions? Because look, there’s no point in just pointing out the problems. What we must do at this point is offer people real and accessible opportunities to be part of a solution rather than an ongoing part of the problem."

"Well, the first thing already: we’ve got to enact far more rapidly that transition to renewable energy for energy security, to reduce the cost of energy and its volatility that we’ve seen constantly across the world this year, which is having a significant impact not just on the cost of oil, but on the cost of living and global economic stability. It would also generate jobs, as it has in those countries that have invested significantly in those industries, most notably China. Talk of drilling oil – Rosebank, Blackbird, Jackdaw – is simply madness. We’ve got to just stop oil."

"We also need a transition in the way that we eat. This is intricately important when it comes to protecting the environment, everything that lives there, and ourselves. We need a transition to a plant-based diet. It’s healthier for people. If any of you have had bacon or sausage for breakfast this morning, do you know that you’ve ingested a category A carcinogen? That’s it – as toxic as tobacco. You may not. You may have just enjoyed your sausage and bacon. Why do you not know that processed red meat is actually really bad for you?"

"Animal agriculture is responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. It is also the leading driver of biodiversity loss. That biodiversity, that richness of life, that resilience in those ecological communities which we use to produce our food – we’ve got to change the way that we eat and produce that food, and we’ve got to provide sufficient support for farmers through that transition. And at the moment, they’re not getting that. In fact, they’re getting less and less and their life is becoming increasingly difficult."

"We’ve got to address the mis- and disinformation, and we’ve got to do that with positive information campaigns. We’ve got to have people’s minds on the front foot so they know what’s true before they hear the lies. Then they will question the lies. Otherwise we know what happens. If you tell a lie frequently enough, it eventually becomes the truth, and that’s what we’re suffering from. We can’t afford net zero? We can’t not afford net zero. And we’re beginning to see that that’s the case."

"We’ve got to sort out the media. I’ve been fantasising this year that we could perhaps criminalise climate denial. We should certainly criminalise irresponsible journalism. I’ve highlighted the Telegraph, but I’m going to leave you with something that I read on the BBC yesterday: ‘How to survive a heatwave wedding.’ How to survive a heatwave wedding. Point number five: beware of buttercream. This popular wedding cake ingredient is likely to melt if not kept cool. Likely to melt? A bit like my patience and all of our hope."

"It’s time for bold, brave, informed leadership. And we are not getting it. We need Andy Burnham to step up before we and our only home burn down. Thank you."

[Wayne Rand @WayneRand7]

@JohnRowsthorne this is most egregious. they should be told to f off with their plan.

[Amnesty MENA @AmnestyMENA]

Amnesty International’s investigation concludes that the attack that killed prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, and seriously wounded camerawoman Zeinab Faraj in south Lebanon on 22 April 2026, violated international humanitarian law by carrying out a direct attack which failed to distinguish between civilians and military objectives. The attack must be investigated as a war crime.
Journalists are civilians.
They are protected under international humanitarian law.
Amal Khalil spent her life documenting the human cost of war.
On that day, she became part of the story herself.
The question now is not what happened.
The evidence is there.
The question is whether there will finally be accountability.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

In 1988, the US Navy shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 civilians on board.

Recently declassified files show how the UK government offered immediate support to the US, and assisted in the cover-up.
https://t.co/UH8R7hSEOc

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

Micaela Cronin is Australia's National Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner. She's been working in the sector for decades, but very few people know of the woman who motivates her. Micaela's aunt Sue was killed in Geelong, Victoria, in 1992. The man was never charged and - as for many women lost to violence - there were no vigils, no marches and no headlines. Micaela speaks publicly about Sue for the first time on the She Matters Podcast. As always, Sue's story is as moving as it is maddening. Episode one is out today.
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