Frederika Jones

A believer in an egalitarian society: a place of dignity & respect for us all.

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

Multi-millionaire pubs and pokies baron Michael O’Hara was a founding funder of both the “NSW Reformers” and of far-right lobby group “Advance”, he tells ICAC. First on the stand...
https://t.co/TIvRXVGae2

[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

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Too far away to recognise genocide but close enough for our weapons parts to reach them, close enough for hundreds of Australians to join the IDF on murder holidays, close enough for billions to flow from here to there, supporting the apartheid state's daily massacres.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Food just doesn’t taste the same anymore. Subway tastes different. McDonald’s isn’t the same. Oreos don’t taste like they used to. Even chips like Pringles, spices, and fresh produce all seem different. Has anyone else noticed this?

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

We don’t need flock cameras.
We don't need data centers.
We need clean produce.
We need clean water.

[💧MurphsMum @gramazzy4]

Such dignity.She has done a lot of good for Victoria and women.
Sorry mysogyny in the press for one thing has won .Now Victory has a test.Are we still a progressive state or have we succumbed to Liberal lies and ON drivel.?

[Daisy_B @DaisyB_77]

AUKUS has always been a squalidly dishonest project, sold by the most self-interested US sycophants, to install US bases, particularly Sterling, for the US’s longed for war with China, paid for by Aus taxpayers, ensuring we are a nuclear target & dump site https://t.co/whPKWmGAHR

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The thing about watching a superpower decline in real time is that it is not dramatic.

People expect drama.

The fall of the Berlin Wall. The helicopter leaving Saigon. A moment.

Decline is not a moment.

It is Walmart shelves that were stocked with Chinese manufacturing for so long that when the tariffs came there was no American factory to replace the supply chain because the factory closed in 1987 and the people who worked there are in their seventies.

It is allies who say the right things in the communiqué and then go home and make other arrangements.

It is a currency that is still dominant but whose dominance is for the first time in eighty years a subject of active international planning to reduce.

It is a military that has not won a major war since 1945 but whose budget keeps growing because the budget is not about winning wars, it is about the domestic economy of the congressional districts where the weapons are built.

It is a political class so consumed by the internal contradictions the empire generates at home, the inequality, the racial reckoning, the infrastructure crisis, the opioid epidemic, the debt, that it cannot maintain the sustained attention that running the world actually requires.

It is slow. It is administrative.

It is the texture of daily life changing at a pace that is visible only in retrospect.

And in the middle of it, making it loud and visible and impossible to ignore, is Trump.

The decline did not produce him.

The decline is him.

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

Chad becomes the fifth country to withdraw from the ICC recently amid rising US pressure.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that the US would wage a campaign to “systematically disable” the ICC’s ability to function.
https://t.co/Mj4vZAzjOZ

[BazzaCC @bazzacc2]

America is fucked

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The fact that you can’t check into a hotel until 4pm when the day is basically over but have to check out by 10am the next morning should honestly be illegal.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

“We have entered an era of fires that cannot be extinguished. These are fires that burn with the intensity of several atomic bombs and, as such, putting them out is extremely complex”

Thank you Big Oil for spending 40+ years, and billions, blocking climate action at every turn

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Recovery teams recovered the remains of 99 Palestinians from beneath the rubble of a home in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood, while around 8,000 Palestinians are still believed to be trapped under the rubble across the Gaza Strip due to ongoing destruction and limited rescue resources.

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Corruption.

Reinhardt owns Hanson.

If anyone thinks Reinhardt is throwing money at Hanson and not expecting big favours in return is absolutely delusional and in a cult like MAGA.

“One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has confirmed mining magnate Gina Rinehart paid for her flights from London to Sicily, via Rome, and for her to attend a high-end fashion parade on the luxurious Italian island.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israel has no right to occupy Palestinian land (ICJ 2024). These soldiers are acting illegally, as part of a larger illegal endeavour.

That's why Israeli soldiers, leaders, settlers should be investigated- and if so warranted prosecuted - wherever they go.

No room for Genocide.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

You won't hear this often.

“AIPAC isn’t about Peace. it’s about securing U.S. support for whatever the Israeli government wants.”

— Jimmy Carter 🇺🇸

What are your thoughts on this?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Lebanon is the second most-documented genocide in history after Palestine, yet the most denied.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

In a rare and unexpected plot twist, @mattjcan momentarily told the truth: renewable energy is very cheap.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by @AbbyMartin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before.

The film breaks down how the US military has become the single most environmentally destructive institution on our planet by an extremely massive margin, walking the audience through the many ways the Pentagon and its global metastases have been churning out carbon emissions, pouring toxins into the air and water, wiping out precious ecosystems for gratuitous military bases, and pummeling our sea life with sonar and noise pollution, all while gleefully salivating at the prospect of plundering the resources which lay hidden beneath our planet’s rapidly thawing polar ice caps.

Martin skillfully ties the planet-devouring behavior of the US military to the global systems of capitalism and imperialism it was built to uphold. The viewer is left with a crystal clear picture of the ways ecocide, militarism and capitalism are inseparably intertwined, and an understanding that meaningfully opposing any of these malignancies necessarily entails opposing them all. The liberal fiction that one can be pro-environment while also supporting the US military is forcefully exposed for the absurdity that it is.

It’s a jarring film with extremely dark subject matter, but it also manages to be a work of transcendent beauty and optimism. A deep love of humans and all of earth’s creatures shines through in shot after shot, while slick editing and an inspired soundtrack allow the movie to zip along at a lively and entertaining pace. Martin concludes with a galvanizing call to use our outrage to loosen the empire’s already weakening grip on humanity’s collective consciousness, because our entire world depends on it.

Perhaps the most touching aspect of the documentary is the personal element Martin chose to bring in to her overarching narrative. She discusses how she and her husband (antiwar activist Mike Prysner, who co-directed the film) had their lives forever altered when they had kids and experienced a new level of urgency to help give rise to a brighter future. Their family of four becomes a microcosm of humanity’s struggle to liberate itself from the tyranny of the machine to create a better world for our children, and we see Martin’s love for her son and daughter reflected in a great tenderness for the world as a whole.

Anyway, I’ve never felt inclined to write a film review before so I don’t know if I’ve done a good job of encouraging people to watch this thing, but for my own audience I truly cannot recommend Earth’s Greatest Enemy enough. It’s available streaming on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Watermelon Pictures. Screening tour dates and further information can be found on the Earth’s Greatest Enemy website. Be sure to leave a review on Letterboxed or IMDB if you can.

Enjoy!

[Tracey Spicer AM GAICD @TraceySpicer]

I find this quite sickening.

AI labs need quality training data. But destroying millions of books...?

"A US judge approved Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement over pirated books, and ruled that training on purchased, scanned books counts as fair use."

https://t.co/QyBkKWGzMO