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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

Silly old twit!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

Whatever could be the main cause of this? 😲😉

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

Qld a bit slow catching up with the rest of the states.

Victorians knew this when my son was a baby, nearly 60 years ago.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 6h

US has at least 128 military bases in 55 countries.

China has one, in Djibouti, Eastern Africa.

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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 7h

Don't be discouraged.
That's life experience for most people. 🙂

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly, only as expected.

Ceasefires and peace talks are inspirational affairs, often without real results on the battlefields.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

From the other place. No peace without justice.

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 8h

Choreography by master showman Trump.

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 20h

It is true that authoritarians manufacture crisis so they can consolidate power.

The gov shutdown isn’t chaos — it’s choreography. Agencies gutted, public trust eroded, then rebuilt under more control.

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alflow.bsky.social @alflow.bsky.social · 12h

I have gone from using cash to credit card and now back to cash (where I can) as credit card surcharges would have cost me about $500.00 per annum.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 19h

If there is any justice, Trump’s name will stand not among peacemakers but among those who proved how easily the language of peace can be turned inside out; how empire dresses its crimes in the robes of virtue. #auspol #Trump #NobelPrize

Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield

Donald Trump’s pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize has been one of the most grotesque spectacles of the modern era – a man trying to win a peace prize by promoting war.

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elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 1d

He was later deemed unfit for sea duty and referred for assessment, where a psychologist described traits "in the psychotic direction" and a high level of amorality.

"The Navy knew he had a problem, and they did nothing," Ms Davey said.

'My daughter wasn’t protected’: a Kimberley mother’s fight for justice reaches the United Nations

'It makes me feel angry,' says Bardi Elder Irene Davey, after lodging a United Nations complaint alleging discrimination by WA Police and the Australian Navy in the investigation into her daughter Sar...

nit.com.au

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gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 13h

Mostly his friends?

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 13h

Smile! You're on camera!

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 13h

They mightn't say so, but their ideas (no policies!) and actions make it obvious.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 13h

Sneer not at good old pen, pencil and paper. Nor cash.

The modern electronic world is quickly paralysed when power is interrupted.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · Sep 3

An extraordinary situation has arisen in NSW, and inland rivers and internationally significant wetlands will miss out on vital watering this season.

Essentially the rivers are being persecuted as if they are stealing their own water.
#waterislife
#biodiversity

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