Gorgritch_umie_killa
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- Australia is selling arms at a weapons fair in Dubai. Are they destined to be used in Sudan atrocities?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Did anyone catch Amyl and the Sniffers last night? 2 days ago:
What happened? Did they say what the safety concern was?
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 3 days ago:
Gina Rinehart’s oil and gas investments include private firms Warrego Energy in Western Australia and Senex Energy in Queensland
Na, she does. In her defense I think her investments aren’t the causal driver behind her whacko beliefs, i think it’s the contextual bubble she has always lived within.
- Comment on Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero target 5 days ago:
Yep, thats the guy. He says he’s moderate, which as you highlight is interesting considering his background. He won last time by the skin of his teeth, he should be putting his money where his mouth and his electorate should duly take note of his choices here.
- Comment on Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero target 6 days ago:
This should be a line in the sand for moderate liberals like Maria Kovacic and Andrew Bragg, even Tim Wilson.
They shouldn’t be considering quitting the front bench. If their Liberal colleagues are happily trotting down to eat more policy chum out of the National party hands, then theres not really a Liberal party anymore. Let the conservative Liberals skip down the lane with their sheep herders; leave the Party; sit on the cross-bench; get friendly with the teals; Apologise to your electorate, then serve them well; and advocate for them for the rest of the term.
Its the only sane choice moderates have now, otherwise they’re an absolute joke of a puppet faction.
- Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero targetwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 4 comments
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- Comment on Revealed: Secret plans to introduce media censorship in Australia 1 week ago:
There are two parts of this system Peter Greste is chasing that make it a non-starter for me.
Before I go on, I definitely believe sometimes it is in the best interests of the Nation that information the media picks up isn’t publicly disclosed, names of active agents in the field would be one narrow example of that. And the impotous behind Peter Greste’s involvement seems like a genuine failing of our current system.
First part,
The DSMA Committee in Britain is run by the UK’s Ministry of Defence’s Director General for Security Policy comprised of senior representatives of the security services, former military staff, high-ranking government officials, press association chiefs, senior editors and journalists, which meets every six months. Representatives of the BBC, ITV, Sky News, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Register as well as Harper Collins UK, are all members.
If Australia follows this model, then it, like the news-media bargaining code, favours and increases the power of establishment media/journalism over smaller independent media/journalism. Anything that backs in the incumbents of news-media in Australia has to be avoided. After-all there is probably about as much trust in the establishment media as there is in government in this country… so not much trust.
Secondly,
You say the same thing: we’ve got a document and we’re intending to publish it. [The D-Notice person] won’t be the expert in this field. So you can’t have the direct conversation that we did in America
Speaking to intermediaries is a surefire way for mistakes in both directions to occur, likely leading to habitual over-censoring. In a case where the ‘d-notice person’ is faced with the possibility of halting an important news story, or protecting perceived national security, the perceived national security will win each time.
Any system Peter Greste, et al advocates for should be like the US system, decentralised to the expert agencies who are far better placed to know the improtance of certain details.
- Comment on The Together for Palestine Concert Was Gutting but Necessary 1 week ago:
I hadn’t heard anything about this. Amidst the latest soiled nappy of political outrage from the US. Its good to see people are trying something, somewhere.
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- European markets down and Asian chipmakers tumble in global stock sell-off amid worries over AI bubble – business livewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Request for bonzai plant community 3 weeks ago:
There could be a weekly bonsai thread.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Sunday 26 October 2025 3 weeks ago:
So did a dinosaur eat the server?
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Yeah sure, the UN is USeLeSs keep living that dystopian WW3 fantasy if you want.
Did you look up the work the UN actually does yet? Na? Its a shame you’re not going to, theres lots of stuff they do that really makes a difference to people’s lives. Sorry they can’t solve all the world’s problems. Talk to ya another time mate.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Strongly worded letters lead to actions and reactions. Its foolish to think otherwise, the power of the UN in that regard is great, look at the news who isbquoted more often the Pope or the General Secretary? Hard to pick which isn’t it.
The UN does a lot more than words,
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it adjudicates where no other party can legitimately claim such a role.
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it delivers aid all over the world, often in record time after disasters or war. And importantly the people they’re trying to help, aren’t shot.
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the General Assembly provides a platform of relatively equal footing where the nations of the world coordinate, interact, and communicate the desires and directions. Communication on such a scale is key for stability in this world, where inconsistencies arise catastrophic blunders can soon follow.
I don’t know IKT, go read some of the UN agencies websites for yourself, see the projects they do, the help they render. This stuff is incredibly transparent and easy to look up.
Lastly, comedians can be great for observations that challenge common understandings, but you shouldn’t draw your understanding of the world from them, they should inspire you to learn more about the subjects they highlight. Dave Chappelle certainly did that for me.
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- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
A might makes right world in a geopolitical sense doesn’t exist now. The post war consensus exist, it means nations are self limiting with a floor under which they do not sink. Israel has sunk below that floor, the West’s inability to even recognise that has dealt untold damage to faith in the current world order, but the only other viable option ‘might makes right’ is unpalatable to most powers.
The UN oversees and impartially adjudicates, its track record from the earliest years on leading interventions was patchy at best, a catastrophe at worst. The UN only assembles military force if there is truly no alternative. Haiti might be one upcoming example. So no, i and the UN don’t advocate for some international UN police, it is nation states that make up this world order, it is nation states who must steer it together. The UN is a fantastic, and peaceful tool for that multi state mission, facilitating all with a chance to convince and guide.
In the zero sum ‘might is right’ world everybody loses a little all the time. You have to remember zero sum thinking assumes winner takes all, but it rarely accounts for the costs of a victory. A lesson hard learned with millions of lives.
The rise of zero sum thinking that is implicitly advocated by ‘might makes right’ or Chappelle’s sketch leads to instability, fear and greater amounts of stagnation. A middle power will be a mere play thing in the hands of the great powers, Australia’s growth will be retarded, our freedoms curtailed in service to great power competitions. We aren’t really in that now, and we can avoid that outcome, but not by buying into an ‘us or them’ mentality.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
‘Might is right’ is the world your wishing for. It isn’t the world you’ve lived in. ‘Might is right’ means Australia will fall under the extreme coercive control that you saw of a client state in such power relations as the USSR. The Post War American led consensus was not that, we are now at risk of it becoming that, and the actions of Israel have help along that emergent future.
You know i’m no fan of many of the USA’s activities, not only under this latest administration, but up until now there has been a self imposed, self limitation by powers like the US that allowed for the freedoms Australians have enjoyed in living memory. The impunity with which Israel has been treated also breaks that dynamic.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Australia’s freedom as it is today relies on the rules courts like these attempt to uphold. When Israel pisses on these conventions and courts, they piss on our freedom as well.
- Comment on ICJ rules Israel must allow aid groups unimpeded access to Gaza 3 weeks ago:
In case you’re not acting in bad faith and wish to begin understanding the reasons Israel is a pariah State, listen to this interview with James Elder (spotify), just one of the many stories that still manage to get out of Gaza although Israel still doesn’t allow international journalists free access for the rest of the world.
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- Comment on 'Fit for purpose': How a Labor veteran helped create Fraser's vision of a new political party 3 weeks ago:
Its such a different world to the petty scrooges that lead this country now. From Billionaire daddy’s girls (The big G), to the fearful, or ideologically dogged politicians, to the media who are so bankrupt of their journalistic values.
- Could ‘trash fashion’ save this Nairobi neighbourhood from drowning in discarded western clothes?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to worldnews@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’ 5 weeks ago:
Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, said: “Israel’s capacity to maintain its authoritarian system of control of the Palestinians, instead of cutting against the grain of politics in other countries, in some ways is actually at the vanguard of the rise of ethno-nationalist authoritarians around the world.
“South Africa was not a model for anybody in the late 1980s. But Israel is a model, whether it’s for Modi [in India] or Orbán [in Hungary] or the AfD [in Germany] or the Republican party in the United States to some degree. For all of those reasons it’s a much more uphill struggle, even though we are seeing shifts in public opinion.”
This is a very salutary point.
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- Comment on 'He doesn't feel like a normal child': War's toll on Gaza's babies 5 weeks ago:
“Statistically, the sheer number of children as a percentage of the population that have been killed or wounded is huge, so Gaza’s different because of the level of indiscriminate attacks.”
The majority are growing up in tents and ruins, deprived of food and safety.
Nearly 40,000 children have lost one or both of their parents, Gazan authorities say.
According to the UN, there are more child amputees per capita in Gaza than anywhere else in the world.
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- Comment on Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel complain of ‘degrading and humiliating’ treatment 1 month ago:
Well said.
- Comment on Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel complain of ‘degrading and humiliating’ treatment 1 month ago:
I saw this lastnight on wider lemmy. The Israelis are a lost and sorry people it seems, if they think these acts are in any way acceptable or intelligent. It seems they’re driven by haye and spite at this point. And too few of their number speak out against it.
- ‘Don’t panic’ could be Albanese’s mantra but that doesn’t mean we aren’t concerned about life, the universe and everything | Peter Lewiswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
