Rescuer of Greyhounds #auspol junkie N A F O. Slava Ukraini Russia is a Terrorist State

Langley, Western Australia
I am Australian and russia is EVERYONE'S FUCKING ENEMY.
In Oleshky, Kherson region, temporarily occupied by Russia, people are facing a horrific humanitarian crisis. Reports say residents are searching for food scraps and collecting grass simply to survive. Russia is cutting off supplies of food, medicine and other basic necessities, while denying humanitarian organisations access and blocking efforts to evacuate civilians. Russian FPV drones are hunting people in the streets. Oleshky had around 24,000 residents before the full-scale war. Today, only about 2,000 remain, including around 50 children. There is no electricity or gas, while food, medicine and other essential supplies have been unavailable for the past month. Ukraine is working to organise an evacuation. The ICRC has confirmed that it is ready to take part, and international humanitarian organisations are prepared to provide life-saving aid. Yet Russia is preventing these efforts from reaching people. The suffering in Oleshky and other occupied communities of the Kherson region is a direct consequence of Russia’s actions. The international community must put pressure on Russia to allow humanitarian organisations access, establish a humanitarian corridor, and ensure civilians can leave safely. "We will not allow these crimes to remain hidden behind the frontline and Russia’s refusal to grant access to the occupied territories," Ukraine's Foreign Minister @andrii_sybiha has stressed.
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Now where have I heard this before.... #onenation #trump
Here we go again. 😬
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Anti-vax logic blown to bits.
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That's the neat part. I actually really do understand and work with networks.
Replying to @Cheffo987
Tell me you don't
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Replying to @DHughesy
Thank you, Dave. I appreciate you reaching out to ask what you got wrong. The clip we’re discussing is less than 90 seconds long. What I’m about to do demonstrates Brandolini's Law: where the amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that required to produce it. Or, in this case, it takes around 600 words to correct 90 seconds of your economic fan fiction. 1⃣ Between 0 and 30 seconds You begin by confusing government debt with the Future Fund and appear to suggest that the Future Fund can't exist along side Govt debt. They’re different things. One can exist without the other, and in Australia they do. Australia's Future Fund was established in 2006 with an initial govt investment of about $60B. Its first annual report, in 2008, showed assets of around $64 billion - not the $100B you suggested. Then, at around 27 seconds, you talk about the Future Fund as though it ceased to exist (you used the word 'had' as in past tense). It still very much exists Dave. In fact, it's grown every single year since it was created. Today it's worth around $270 billion, or over $330 billion once the other funds under management are included (eg Medical Research / Housing Australia / Drought). So before we're even 30 seconds into the clip you've managed to confuse government debt, the Future Fund, its size, and whether it still exists. That’s a lot of economic history to get wrong in under 30 seconds. 2⃣ Around 32 seconds You then claim Kevin Rudd used the Future Fund to "flush money through the economy". Again, that’s simply false. The Future Fund wasn't used to fund the stimulus. It wasn't used to build school halls. It wasn’t used for any of the things you’re describing. In your defence, you do briefly flirt with the possibility that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about. Sadly, it was a very short-lived relationship. The GFC stimulus was funded through government borrowing. For context, construction approvals were collapsing, more than a million Australians worked in construction, and the objective was to stop unemployment exploding during the worst global financial crisis in generations. You're welcome to argue that was the wrong policy (but you didn't). You’re not entitled to rewrite where the money came from. 3⃣ At about 44 seconds You say, "I might be wrong". I concede you were correct during this part of the video. 4⃣ From 44 seconds onwards You make a series of broad claims about the GFC response. Yes, government debt increased. That's true. What you omit is that Australia's stimulus largely went directly to households rather than primarily rescuing financial institutions, as happened in many other countries. The aim was simple: keep people spending, businesses operating and Australians employed while global demand collapsed. It's known as counter-cyclical fiscal policy. Whether you agree with it politically is your business. The specific outcome for Australia isn't contested though - Australia was one of only two economies in the OECD to avoid recession during the Global Financial Crisis. There's no reality where that wasn’t a comparatively impressive outcome. The money didn’t need to "trickle down". The entire point was that it started at the bottom. 5⃣ Government debt Throughout the clip (and in life generally) you repeatedly return to the theme Labor is responsible for Australia’s debt (which btw is comparatively low). Here are the actual numbers of net debt added by each Govt since 2007. > Rudd/Gillard: about $190 billion over six years. > Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison: about $366 billion over nine years, around two-thirds of which pre-dated COVID. > Albanese: about $75 billion over four years. Those figures don’t support the story you've been telling people. And that’s really the issue. This isn't about getting one date wrong or misremembering one statistic. Nearly every claim in your 90-second clip turns out to be either wrong or misleading. If you're going to publicly lecture Australians about economic history, the bare minimum expectation is that you’ve first acquainted yourself with it. Because once the errors have been pointed out, as they have been to you multiple times, every repetition stops looking like an accident and starts looking like a strategy. Given your very public coffee with Angus Taylor last week, perhaps people are entitled to ask what that strategy might be.
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“What stands out most to him about NAFO hasn’t happened yet: “One day, when the war is over and history is written, this movement will be remembered as something legendary, a moment when ordinary people stood up and said: ‘We were there. We helped. And we were right.’”united24media.com/life-in-uk…
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Criticism mounts as @iocmedia faces questions over favoring Russia. 🧵 1/9 ⬇️
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Fellas. We’re considering a campaign against the IOC for admitting Russia into the 2028 Olympics. Can I get your thoughts on the possible campaign hashtag - #Ovatniks28 Which is a play on #Olympics28 And a double entendre for “Zero Vatniks 28”.
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Good morning! 1250 KWIA 3 Tanks 9 AFVs 63 Artillery systems 2 MLRS 7 Air defense systems 1889 UAVs 14 UGVs 501 Vehicles & fuel tanks 7 Special Equipment Slava Ukraini #Ukraine
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Hey @NetflixANZ you better NOT be making this russian propaganda bullshit available in Australia... #russiaisaterroriststate
⚡️ @Netflix has acquired rights to the Russian series Masha and the Bear, which incorporates pro-Kremlin, militaristic propaganda aimed at children. 🧵 1/15 ⬇️
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A landfill facility. The "Donald Trump Dump" has a nice ring to it. Or maybe just "Donald Dump".
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Its been trumpified. Next up: exterior gets painted GOLD!
In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.
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🛻 1,000 trucks delivered to Ukraine by the fellas! Thanks to everyone! 🙏
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This is how we can fix some of our problems. Not fast-tracking more drilling. Not abandoning net-zero. Just making the extraction companies pay us fairly for our resources. Gas companies need to pay their fair share farmersforclimateaction.org.…
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RT @ShiannonC: Liam Bartlett, sometime so-called reporter on shonky 7 Spotlight and sometime employee of Shell International in 2013 - has…
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Vance is proud of assisting putin and russia. Fuck this maga administration shitshow.
JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.
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🔥 Day 1511 of russia’s war against Ukraine — here’s what’s happening 🧵 1/12
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Happy Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself Day! Yes, a country that effectively had no navy managed, for the first time since the Russian-Japanese war of 1905, to send the flagship of a Russian fleet to the bottom -- a massive, pompous missile cruiser -- with just two half-baked, pretty simple missiles.
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HIMARS for Australia. OK #NAFO who remembers this banger? piped.video/watch?v=c7mnbLEr…
The first Australian made Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles have been successfully test-fired at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. The successful firing expands the long-range strike capability of the @AustralianArmy, with the surface-to-surface missile capable of precisely striking targets beyond traditional artillery range. The GMLRS were launched from the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) acquired under the Australian Army’s long-range fires program. #YourADF #AusArmy
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