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Albanese’s pilgrimage to pay homage at the feet of our lords and masters, the United States of America, is over and he’s back on our selection at the Lodge. Yes, he’s finally come home with cattle now, our Anthony who’s gone a-droving, and he’s returned to enjoying the usual perks of office he loves so…

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that use leafblowers, to parents that habitually scream at their kids, to pompous prats that unquestioningly lie about a genocide while posing as pure arbiters of reason, honesty, truth and intellectual rigour. This is Dave’s Theorem…

In societies which call themselves open and free, where elites cannot easily control the general population with violence, opinion management by other means remains the holy grail.  This is despite the fact that state propaganda and indoctrination are supposed to be exclusive characteristics of unfree and totalitarian states at both ends of the ideological spectrum.…

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a June 2016 interview. “We’re seeing a massive increase, as I’ve said, on both pictures and video. So I think, yeah, if I was having a bet, I would say: Video, video, video.” It’s the ten…

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands doctrine simply means that if you want equitable treatment on an issue, you must have acted ethically and in good faith yourself on the same issue. In other words, don’t come at me with lectures…

At no other moment in history has the leader of the world’s most powerful empire, mid-genocide, addressed a gathering of global dignitaries and boasted of the merch sales of a personal line of baseball hats. “I’m really good at predicting things,” Trump said to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. “During the campaign they had…

Unless you’re on the crew on the International Space Station or you dwell permanently inside an opal-mine, you may have missed the news this month about Shooting Death No: 31,239 in the USA this year (by the time of reading, results may vary). Unremarkably, the shooting of an American male was committed by yet another…

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza was hit by a suspected Israeli drone attack on Tuesday while docked at the Sidi Bou Said port in Tunisian waters. Video footage from multiple sources confirm that a boat was struck from above with an incendiary device, causing the vessel to ignite with crew on board, damaging the…

Summary for flaky, attention-span deficient types: First Nations and Palestinian allies stood strong against Nazi assaults in the Melbourne CBD, and at Camp Sovereignty, while the “Anti-semitism envoy” Jillian Segal refused to condemn the Nazi terror attack and rallies. *** This is a tale of two cities and two gatherings of racist, genocidal supremacists: one…

ASIO Chief Mike Burgess stood next to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke as they delivered a “disturbing discovery” to the Australian public. The announcement revealed that two of the antisemitic attacks, including the Adass Synagogue arson attack, were the responsibility of foreign actors connected to Iran.…