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- Explosions heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem as Iran retaliates for Israel's strikes on nuclear siteswww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 1 day ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Israel carries out strikes on Iran 1 day ago:
Well, Israel/USA has been hostile to Iran for a long time. Iran is the last state in the region that stands against US interests. There’s a lot of people who want a war against them.
It could also serve in misdirecting attention while Israel escalate their crimes in Gaza. Israel took out Gaza’s last internet cable in the day before their attacks on Iran: reuters.com/…/un-says-full-internet-blackout-gaza…
- Submitted 2 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 11 comments
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- Comment on U.S. to Withdraw Diplomats From Iraq Amid Iran Tensions 3 days ago:
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- Comment on US condemns Australia's joint sanctions on Israeli ministers 4 days ago:
Finally our government has done something which technically constitutes action. I’m amazed!
- Submitted 5 days ago to news@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on 9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests 5 days ago:
Yeah, when I posted this the extended longer video appeared at the top of the page on load. They’ve since added more videos, so now the footage of the reporter being shot with a rubber bullet is video 3 (or there’s just the YouTube link in the post body which is better quality anyway).
- 9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protestswww.9news.com.au ↗Submitted 5 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 30 comments
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- Comment on Israeli army 'boards' Freedom Flotilla Coalition's Gaza-bound ship, group says 6 days ago:
Updates can be found via…
‘Free Gaza Australia’, which is member organisation of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition
www.instagram.com/freegazaaustralia/Freedom Flotilla Coalition
www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/Al Jazeera live blog (and probably on their live TV stream intermittently)
aljazeera.com/…/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-… - Submitted 6 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- LA protests live: teargas and rubber bullets fired as Trump deployment of national guard branded ‘alarming abuse of power’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 2 comments
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- Comment on You can now donate to at least one food bank via Coles order (ASRC Foodbank) 1 week ago:
But if the drop off part of things is a challenge at least there’s the option to use this.
You can also just donate money (donate.asrc.org.au/donate). I don’t know the pros and cons compared to a Coles delivery.
- Comment on HMAS Canberra accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand 1 week ago:
Well, how is it untypical?
- HMAS Canberra accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealandwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event 1 week ago:
Both have been used as alternative names for Brisbane, I couldn’t tell you if one is better than the other, seems like it’s disputed:
Part of the Brisbane conurbation is located on traditional indigenous land known also as Meanjin, Meaanjin, Maganjin or Magandjin amongst other spellings.[32] There is a difference of opinion between local traditional owners over the spelling, provenance and pronunciation of indigenous names for Brisbane.[33] Tom Petrie in 1901 stated that the name Meeannjin referred to the area that Brisbane CBD now straddles. Some sources state that the name means ‘place shaped as a spike’ or ‘the spearhead’ referencing the shape of the Brisbane River along the area of the Brisbane CBD.[34][35][36][37] A contemporary Turrbal organisation has also suggested it means ‘the place of the blue water lilies’.[38] Local Elder Gaja Kerry Charlton posits that Meanjin is based on a European understanding of ‘spike’, and that the phonetically similar Yagara name Magandjin — after the native tulipwood trees (magan) at Gardens Point — is a more accurate and appropriate Aboriginal name for Brisbane.[39]
- Submitted 1 week ago to news@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event 1 week ago:
$2,000 was the goal, yeah
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- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
I often downvote Hotznplozn’s posts because those posts are exclusively warmongering propaganda. That is literally the only posts they make here, so I’m usually downvoting them whenever they appear here. Other users have reported them, and their previous aliases, in the Overseas News comm so I’m not alone in thinking this.
I’ve avoided mentioning them by name in my comments in this thread and elsewhere, but I agree on this.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
Geez, putting me on blast a bit 😆
For the record, I only downvoted two of the linked posts (once each!)
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
What, @eureka? ‘Eureka’ isn’t a right-wing dogwhistle, if that’s what you mean. @eureka is a good leftist - the red variant of the flag for their avatar is a bit of a giveaway.
Right-wingers and racists who uses the Eureka flag (any colour) can get fucked, it’s a union flag.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 1 week ago:
I just checked and I only downvoted two of those posts.
My reason would have been some combination of a) I thought the posts didn’t belong in the comm, b) I thought the news source was low quality, or c) for reasons covered in previous threads regarding “Objectification of our community":
I had noticed and was surprised by the significant downvotes on the posts mentioned in the OP. I figured either people were sick of it like I was, or the accounts were just under attack by accounts that serve the same function for the other side(s).
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- Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why? 1 week ago:
Can you imagine if we let companies poor waste into a river and taxed you if you swam in it?
I get your point, but we can regulate against dumping waste into a river without anyone except the polluters cracking the shits about it.
What would the equivalent look like for junk food? Regulation where they set a maximum sugar level for every category of product? That could maybe work, but it’d be a big and contested undertaking, and I’m guessing some portion of the voting population would crack the shits about not being able to get exactly what they used to get, and how the limits in place are arbitrary and unfair in some way.
The UK tax on sugar content in soft drinks did result in manufacturers reformulating drinks to have less sugar (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11156274/), so that’s an example where a tax reduced the ‘dumping waste into the river’.
Or are you just suggesting banning advertising of junk food? I agree that seems totally viable and should be pursued.
Personally, I think the first priority should be fixing the Health Star Rating system. It was ruined by the liberals making it a relative rating within each category of product, not an absolute rating that actually helps people make healthier choices overall (e.g. it might encourage people to buy a healthier variety of biscuits, but it doesn’t encourage them to not buy biscuits at all). They should also make it mandatory.
I’m surprised this article doesn’t mention the Health Star Rating, actually. The first step for consumers making good choices is to give consumers good information. I get the article is trying to highlight economic and geographic factors, but still.
- ‘The insidious normalisation of horror’: Australian emergency doctor says nowhere in Gaza is safewww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments