John Kennedy
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John Kennedy
@john-in-geraldton.bsky.social
Retired IT Manager, Sailor, Biker, Traveller, Reader
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.

It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Minns knows this is untrue. NSW Police do not need more powers, they need to stop providing police protection to Nazis. Same applies to Victoria Police.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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The NSW Police could have stopped it. They didn't want to. Someone should ask them why.
It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
www.crikey.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The biggest threats to our democracy come from the right.

And yet human rights, pro Palestine, and climate activists get greater restrictions and punitive actions than alt right fascists.
Female NSW MPs Allegra Spender and Kellie Sloane report death and rape threats after condemning neo-Nazi rally in Sydney
Allegra Spender and Kellie Sloane report threats to police, as premier says government is investigating whether ban on Nazi symbols should be expanded
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Fair Dinkum, The Establishment's legacy news media can't acknowledge involvement & influence on G-G Sir John Kerr of spy agencies in relation to sacking of Whitlam's Labor fedgovt in 1975.

They missed Kerr's close ties to CIA, M16 & Australian agencies in first place, so can't acknowledge it now.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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"The Murdoch papers played a major role in the events leading to the Dismissal."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Murdoch, the Dismissal and my job in Japan
Rupert Murdoch played a critical role in the Dismissal. He knew how to bring pressure on Kerr and provided strong support for Malcolm Fraser.
johnmenadue.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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“The Whitlam Program contained 3 main objectives:

- to promote equality;
- to involve the people of Australia in the decision-making processes of our land; &
- to liberate the talents and uplift the horizons of the Australian people.”

We’re overdue for another Gough.

theaimn.net/the-anglo-am...
The Anglo-American ambush of the Whitlam Government - 11.11.1975 (Part 4)
The Dismissal at Fifty: Who Pulled the Strings? Half a century after 11 November 1975, the questions still burn. Who orchestrated the fall of Gough Whitlam’s government? In this four-part series – fir...
theaimn.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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China just extended its lending facility to Tesla by $2.38 billion last quarter.

Now he disses them right after getting his $1 trillion pay package approved.

Tesla shareholders are stupider than followers of Jim Jones.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Freedom of speech for some, rubber bullets for others.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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After two backflips by the NSW Govt and a backflip by Defence Dept at @NCATNSW today, the public will now get to see all the NSW #AUKUS sub base docs I requested.

A win for transparency, but only after needless and costly #FOI obstruction. #secrecy #waste #auspol #NSWpol
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don't understand how anyone with an IQ bigger than their shoe size can believe this legislation will be effective!

theaimn.net/australias-s...
Australia’s Social Media Ban: A Billion-Dollar Theatre of the Absurd
Cop this: Australia’s government has just handed Mark Zuckerberg a sheriff’s badge and asked him to keep teens off his own casino floor. That’s not policy; that’s a Monty Python sketch with cabinet ap...
theaimn.net
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Alice M. writes that the Whitlam Dismissal was a coup for American control of Australia. cpaml.org/post4.php?id... #auspol
The Whitlam Dismissal: America's coup for the control of Australia
<p><strong>11th November marks the 50th anniversary of the bloodless semi-coup of the popularly elected Whitlam government in 1975.  As the tide for an anti-imperialist independent Australia is buildi...
cpaml.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Australian Liberals (complicit with UK & US)
divided the Nation.
For their own selfish ends.

From John Menandue
The second Dismissal – the loans affair and meetings with Kerr johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The second Dismissal – the loans affair and meetings with Kerr
The second part in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue.
johnmenadue.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Sir John Kerr's dismissal of democratically elected Labor fedgovt.

Kerr, QEII, Prince Charles, Opp'n Leader Malcolm Fraser & others hv bn blamed for it.

You won't hear or read anything like this insider's story:

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...
johnmenadue.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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OPINION: At this hour, enough Senate Democrats seem willing to cave to give Republicans the 60 votes they need to end the shutdown without agreeing to Democratic demands to restore Obamacare subsidies starting next January.
Democrats hold all the cards — and they're being really stupid
At this hour, enough Senate Democrats seem willing to cave to give Republicans the 60 votes they need to end the shutdown without agreeing to Democratic demands to restore Obamacare subsidies starting next January.IMHO, this is really stupid.Democrats hold all the cards. As even Trump admitted after...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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If politicians knew what they were doing how could we be in this mess?
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Special Envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal has a fully staffed office in Parliament to speak truth to power.
Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, doesn't appear to have his own dedicated office with staff there.
& First People of Australia have no voice & no office.
Why?
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Dave Rowe the dismissal..
Financial Review
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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the liberals ran a government shutdown . cost us a great government www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1d...
Governor-General slams predecessor’s handling of Whitlam dismissal | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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You can’t elect cockheads for decades then blame democracy for the poor outcomes.

#AusPol
Confidence in democracy lower outside major cities, study finds
Experts warn Australia's democratic institutions need more protection as confidence falls.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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50 years on from the dismissal. The US government actively destabilising the Australian democracy. Pine Gap should be suspended and a full report made to the Australian & American people on all activities conducted there. #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans
I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...
johnmenadue.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Police authorisation of Sydney neo-Nazi demonstration sparks calls for protest law review
A neo-Nazi protest received NSW Police authorisation to go ahead outside NSW parliament on Saturday morning.
www.sbs.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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In its spate of extrajudicial killings the US has now murdered at least 70 people. Neither Trump, Hegseth nor anyone else has provided the public, or Congress, any evidence that its targets were smuggling drugs or posed a threat to the United States in any way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM