🍉🔻💧 David Allen 🇵🇸

From the river to the sea.

[🍉🔻💧 David Allen 🇵🇸 @dapto_dogs]

@hippyygoat Madness.

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@DanielLDavis1 Yes, "upfront" will be a key part of any future agreement with the entire west.

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@MichaelWestBiz Too early maybe, but it's coming. And it'll be a doozy.

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@PeterWMurphy1 More like burning them.

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@Baumann_Mac Go Carlos !!

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@NoContextBrits A proper kebab shop with actual lamb or one of those that uses a kind of manufactured meat blob?

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

The stoush between journalist, Sarah Ferguson, and @s_m_marandi on ABC's 730 on Thursday evening has attracted international as well as local interest, primarily because of Professor Marandi's refusal to accept loaded expressions and assumptive questions without challenge, his clear statements of factual and historical backgrounds and his direct calling out of Ferguson's journalism.

It's interesting watching the interview but the personal stoush shouldn't be permitted to overshadow the very real significance of some of Professor Marandi's comments.

Although he does not speak officially for the Iranian government he mentioned the illegality of the US/Israeli war on Iran and inferentially of the US holding of Iran's stolen assets; the US violations of the MOU on the one hand and the legality of Iran's actions in accordance with it on the other, and on more than one occasion emphasised Australia's support for the illegal war on Iran and the genocide in Palestine.

There can be no doubt that Iran, the rest of the Muslim world and probably the whole world, observed with raised eyebrows PM Albanese's plunge over the cliff as the first leader of any country to publicly support the illegal US/Israeli invasion of Iran, our supply of a spyplane and missiles to the UAE and our ongoing diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, as well as supplying it with at least parts of military equipment or materiel – in contravention of our legal obligations under international law - throughout its genocide in Gaza and possibly the West Bank and Lebanon.

Now couple that with Pat Conroy’s recent announcement to the world at the NATO summit, that Australia should relinquish its position of relatively secure geographical isolation to join unmeritorious overseas wars in which it has no direct interest and you can see Australia's continuing fall from grace as an international actor of integrity and credibility.

When the current conflict subsides Iran is likely to retain control of the Strait of Hormuz and a chokehold on the world's supply of oil and petrochemical products, including to the refineries in Southeast Asia that provide Australia with fuel. How Iran might exercise its power to control these resources might be open to question but one can clearly infer from Professor Marandi's comments that Iran will not be doing Australia any favours.

Whether we like it or not, we reap what our political classes sow. Little wonder that Linda Reynolds said in her evidence before the AUKUS Public Inquiry that parliament can never be permitted to decide whether the country should go to war because the parliament would never say yes.

#auspol

https://t.co/POBEVGVNw2

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

"Scenes of a Labor member bring jeered by the party faithful as he is forcibly ejected from the NSW Labor conference for supporting Palestine, exemplifies the ideological transformation of the modern Labor Party"

My latest:

“Solidarity Forever?”
#auspol
https://t.co/WJR0oGJiDd

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Kayo quality for the last month looks like vhs. What's happened to hi def vision? #aflpiesnorth

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Today some DSA person told me the best way to make changes in US politics is to work within the Democratic Party to elect left-wing candidates and advance progressive agendas.

I said, "You guys have been trying that for ten years with nothing to show for it."

I mean, how much longer is it going to take before people admit that the "change the party from within" strategy isn't working? Do you want another twenty years? Another fifty? Do you need to spend the next century watching a handful of vaguely progressive imperialists get elected to Congress and then getting primaried out by opponents with mountains of special interest funding before you admit that you're not making any meaningful gains? Our planet could be lifeless before then.

The Bernie Sanders "revolution" was ten years ago. Large factions of the American left took up his call to take over the Democratic Party using primary elections throughout the nation, and ever since then it's been a two-steps-forward, two-steps-back addition of zeros. The people never got President Bernie, and the few progressive gains made on Capitol Hill were either kicked out like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman or went full pro-establishment like John Fetterman. The few who stuck around have turned out to be perpetually disappointing empire managers like AOC who know how to straddle the line between left-wing lip service and status quo swamp monster.

It's time to admit the commies were right, kids. The factions on the so-called "far left" who've been rejecting electoral politics and calling for real revolution against a system designed to suppress leftward movement have been completely vindicated over the last decade. You cannot change the system using a political party that is designed to prevent change.

The Atlantic has an article out by David Brooks titled "Democrats Became Great by Fighting the Left," and in a sense this claim is absolutely correct. It's not correct for the reasons David Brooks suggests, but it is correct that the reason the Democratic Party has been allowed to remain so dominant is because it is such an effective tool for thwarting all leftward political movement in the United States.

In the article, Brooks (who last year published an article titled "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" shortly before showing up in the Epstein Files) begins by rehashing the same tired old Hillary 2016 talking points arguing that the loony left is full of communists who must be forcefully opposed by the sensible center. What's more interesting is the brief history lesson that comes later, in which Brooks notes that after World War II the Democratic Party leadership took action deliberately "in order to block the leftward advance" toward socialism within its ranks.

That's all the Democratic Party has ever existed to do. If it wasn't such a successful tool for suppressing leftward advancement, the party would not be permitted to exist as a mainstream political force by the capitalist oligarchs who run the country.

It is the Democratic Party's job to prevent peace, equality, justice and socialism. That's the only reason it is permitted to exist in the hub of the capitalist empire, and that is the only reason why ten years of effort to change the party from within has produced no meaningful results.

The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can't conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established.

It's time to find another way.

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@DanielDumbrill Where do you stay overnight? Side of the road? What is allowed/not allowed?

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@RnaudBertrand Don't forget youtiao !!

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How many of these could Australia get instead of submarines we'll never get and don't need?

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The Chinese have just opened the biggest railway station ever built. Anywhere.

Chongqing East Station's area is 1.22 million square meters, construction involved 40,000 people, and the entire complex, with 15 platforms and 29 tracks, was completed in just 38 months.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's @boganintel. "Updates from the Royal Commission into the selective outrage of Zionists"

https://t.co/5ZxlUYw33I

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@EddyJokovich ...some of the facts, when pushed, when gaslighting no longer flies...

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

The Economist has published a revealing little story about the US’s clean-energy sector that neatly captures the whole logic of the tech war.

Over 2022–24, Chinese firms poured some $15.5 billion into US solar and battery manufacturing, building state-of-the-art factories that Americans could not build themselves. Then, in July 2025, Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” barred any company with Chinese links from the subsidies that make the sector viable, and designated Chinese firms “Foreign Entities of Concern”, alongside Iran, North Korea and Russia.

As a result, Chinese investors have been forced into fire sales: nearly $9 billion of assets cancelled, paused or sold off, some at massive discounts, snapped up by North American financiers.

So a Chinese-built solar plant in Dallas now flies the stars and stripes, while an executive effuses: “Never bet against the United States’ engineering and innovation.” It’s quite a boast to make about a factory you didn’t design, built with technology you didn’t invent, on assembly lines – as the Economist notes – “full of Chinese technology”.

US media never stops going on about Chinese companies “stealing” American technology, but the reality is the opposite. And of course it won’t have the desired effect. You can expropriate a factory, but you can’t expropriate the decades of patient state investment, industrial planning and accumulated know-how that produced it. The proof is in the detail the article can’t avoid: China still makes 95 percent of the world’s polysilicon, and the very executives celebrating US “innovation” are now demanding higher tariffs on Chinese inputs so they can “be globally competitive”.

Incredible. Having helped themselves to the fruits of Chinese investment, they now need protection from Chinese competition. That is not the confidence of a technological leader; it is the anxiety of a rentier.

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@pretentiouswhat "bazaar" style is a good description.

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@ctindale See also political elites.

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@BowesChay At some point a "high quality fake" becomes a real note.

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@HawthornFC Not many off a full team.