Farewell, good companion

You have to see this Linton Besser and hopefully cover this on Monday night's show. Is this practice widespread with Australia online media? If so it's disturbing to say the least, especially with a topic so gravely serious as this one. #mediawatch Media Watch #auspol

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After astro-turfing that cost Antoinette Lattouf her job & the censorship saga at Bendigo Writers Festival, the stakes are clear: Knott & the SMH owe full transparency. Without it, their credibility remains under a cloud. Today's Lamestream Podcast👇lamestream.com.au/podcast/ /2

Media Watch Oh no re-used snake footage. Now imagine if a journo from the SMH faked a statement from a member of Hamas who has been illegally detained in Israel and then the newspaper tried to cover it up and the national broadcaster didn't even blush but deflected with snake stories?

Hossam al-Masri, Reuters cameraman, took this heart-shattering video of himself near his destroyed house a year and a half ago. Israel slaughtered al-Masri along with other distinguished journalists and first responders today at Nasser Hospital.

Just getting this devastating story of this photo: This man is named Abdullah Amer. After Israel assassinated Rueters’ cameraman, Hossam al-Masri, Abdullah hurried to the scene. He held Hossam’s camera and vest. A few moments later, Israel struck the place again, killing

We are not children — we deserve some actual clarity. ASIO and PM have a duty to explain their odd statements made yesterday: ▪️ASIO saying it “suspects” the IRGC. ▪️ASIO saying attacks are “linked” to the IRGC. ▪️ASIO saying that it is “likely” IRGC directed other

Honestly, they need to create a different temperature scale for Melbourne. Though I like the attempt to translate our cold into recognisable terms.

Israel’s smear campaign against the flotilla is escalating. First, they called it the Hamas Flotilla, deploying the usual tactic of slapping the Hamas logo on anyone whom they are about to murder, maim or mutilate. Now, with the full cooperation of Google, they are ensuring that

The UN says 1.3 million Palestinians urgently need shelter, and tents, tarps, and basic materials for all of them have were pre-positioned for entry just outside Gaza’s borders two months ago. But Israel is deliberately blocking any of it from entering for a third straight

When will this end? #Gaza

“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.” Jordy Silverstein on the logic of violence that permeates Australia. overland.org.au/2025/12/yes-th…

Agree that Bondi mustn't be made the pretext for restricting protest in NSW? Believe that preventing people demonstrating is the *opposite* of what is needed? Let state MPs know through our email campaign. Defend civil liberties, or lose them. palestinejusticemovement.good.do/lettertonswmps…

France seemingly wants to be an actually sovereign country.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

Hear, hear Let it collapse

All this Australian savagery so that “Israel” can starve and murder Palestinian babies in peace.

Whenever I hear “AI is inevitable” I am reminded of J. Weizenbaum’s comment: “The myth of technological & political & social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes it.”