Australia was not established as a nation-building project.
It was established as an extraction platform.
The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization.
They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas.
The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it.
You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly.
Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector.
It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens.
Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC.
The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals.
The profits get distributed to global shareholders.
The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture.
The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve.
Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly,
just not for Australians.
@DeanJC420@marijuanacomau Late Cannatrek investor here since 2020.
I haven’t read the full 130pg investor doc from yesterday but im happy about the merger and def not laughing my way to the bank.
Covid took a lot of wind from the sails for medical cannabis companies in aus at a crucial time of expansion
We’re releasing the Epstein Files day one. There are no Epstein Files. Here’s video proof nothing happened. Ok we had to edit it. There are no Epstein Files. There are Epstein Files, but the Democrats made them. Why do you care so much about this Epstein guy? What are “Files”?
“It makes aid conditional on political and military aims. It makes starvation a bargaining chip.”
TRIAL International has filed legal complaints in Switzerland, urging an investigation into the Swiss-incorporated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Despite having no disclosed funding sources or any documented expertise in aid delivery, the GHF has been backed by the US to begin distributing aid into hubs in Gaza controlled by the Israeli military. TRIAL warns that the GHF risks undermining genuine humanitarian relief and violating international law.
GHF has been condemned by leading aid and human rights groups as a politicised sham, dependent on Israeli control. “The GHF board includes former senior U.S. military and security officials with no roots in Gaza, no accountability to Palestinian civil society, and a clear record of working in coordination with the Israeli and U.S. Governments,” according to a statement signed by 11 international aid and human rights organisations. “Aid does not need rebranding. It needs to be allowed in.”
Earlier in May, Israel's cabinet signed off on a plan to impose biometric data collection as a condition of aid distribution: "Palestinians would be coming to these places, registered and screened through facial recognition technology," according to journalist Daniel Estrin.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said: “It makes aid conditional on political and military aims. It makes starvation a bargaining chip. It is cynical sideshow. A deliberate distraction. A fig leaf for further violence and displacement.”
Google Insider Breaks Silence on Tech Giant’s Military Ties
“Two months ago, in order to take advantage of the federal contracts the corporation can gain under Trump, Google abandoned its pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance. In rapid succession, Google then acquired Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, pursued partnerships with US Customs and Border Patrol to update towers by Israeli war contractor Elbit Systems with AI at the US-Mexico border, and launched an AI partnership with the largest war profiteer in the world: Lockheed Martin."
https://t.co/jyYIQpAG8v