📰 Featured #oped - "After 60 days of the fake ceasefire in #gaza and the plans of the #US and its allies for the Palestinians, the underlying structural forces in #palestine and the region continue to drive Israel toward collapse (..)"
Over recent days, Israeli extremist settler groups have flooded #socialmedia platforms with inflammatory messages targeting Hassan Mleihat, Al-Baidar organisation’s General Supervisor, some amounting to open calls for harm
🔹 Al-Baidar Organisation for the Defense of Bedouins and Targeted Villages has emerged as a primary target of extremist Israeli settlers in the #westbank
“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.
The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative#technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage
"As an American economics professor in China, I often tell my students that the problems facing the US and Chinese economies are like puzzle pieces, but opposite in shape..."
"Realistically, the discussion should center on whether deterrence works and, if so, how to regulate possession of nuclear weapons to avoid their accidental or intentional use."
— "Ellis S. Krauss is professor emeritus at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego." #NuclearDeterrence#OpEd
Day 15 #OpEd reminder of who benefits from #LNP ☢️ policy
Thu 31 Oct, 2024.
“#PeterDutton says his office asked whether billionaire (Oligarch) #GinaRinehart's jet was available for event: #OppositionLeader Peter Dutton has admitted his own error after saying he had never requested access to billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart's #PrivateJet in his travels.”
Mr Dutton has previously #declared flights provided by #HancockProspecting, owned by Ms #Rinehart, but on Tuesday said "no" when asked if he had ever personally asked to be flown courtesy of the nation's #richest woman.
“One is left to wonder, why do parties of both major #political persuasions keep doing things which they know will put upward pressure on #house#prices, and thus exacerbate the #problem they say they are trying to solve?
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the reason is that they know there are only about 110,000 people who each year succeed in becoming first home buyers. And even if you assume that for every one who does, there are five or six who don’t, that’s still only 700,000 or so votes, tops, for policies that might restrain the rate of house price inflation or halt it altogether.
Politicians also know that at any point in time there are more than 11 million voters who own their own homes, and more than 2.25 million who own at least one investment property. The last thing those 11 million to 13 million voters want is anything that might restrain – let alone halt – the rate of property price #inflation.” — #SaulEslake
“I’m in jail because I stood up to Government who has lost respect for #truth and #law, and the nation of Australia, and sacrifices our nation for their own selfish re-election campaigns”
“Probably only one thing is guaranteed about this election: that in three years time #Australia will be in worse shape that it is now.
That is because our system promotes ‘window-dressing’: pretending to do good things with expensive #PR and #media campaigns, while actually doing the opposite. The party which tells the biggest boldest lies, and makes promises that it has no intention of keeping, will win. Australia will lose. A hung parliament is our only hope for progress.
If you want to understand the concept of #WindowDressing, all you have to do is consider how #Labor came in on a promise of more transparent government, a better deal for #women and #ClimateAction. Its hard not to smile in a black-humoured way when those three things are now considered in light of the last three years.” — #DavidMcBride