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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
Magoo Has Blood on His Hands
Australian PM is still trying to distract from anti-Semitism.
Labour Has Gone Beyond Lying To Bullshitting
At some point over the last 18 months, I suspect the government moved from lying to bullshitting without giving fair warning. We thought we were playing football then it began to play rugby, and since it has the ball on loan until 2029 there isn’t much we can do about it.
New Years Massacre Plot Foiled
The members are said to have self-identified as part of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group driven by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology.
Sleeping at the Wheel Gets People Killed
The Bondi killer’s links to a jihad centre police refused to do anything about.
This Debt, Borrow and Bust Cycle
The debt on the interest the Victorian government has racked up over the past decade is over $100,000 per hour, though it may be as much as $791,000 per hour based on ABC calculations (if the Australians Broadcasting Communism can’t even hide how bad it is, it must be absolutely catastrophic).
Calm the Farm and Don’t Fall for This
A ‘Cronulla 2.0’ is just what the Establishment wants.
Bondi Beach and the conflicts New Zealand can still keep out
New Zealand’s distance and discretionary borders give it a unique ability to decide which conflicts it absorbs and which it refuses to import.
Can We Look Back in Anger Yet?
Tolerance must not be a suicide pact. Every time a politician chooses comfort over clarity and a journalist downplays jihadist violence they are laundering ideology. This is how a society talks itself into paralysis.
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Barry Young and This Failure of Evidence
This very hot potato is now in their court – getting in a mixed metaphor before they’re banned for changing the weather – and, whilst we worry how the report will land in February, we must all get on board the patriot train now and resist the over-reach like our lives depend on it.