Capitalism is a grotesquely failed political system that makes the lives of most people worse, leaving illness, stress, extreme poverty, homelessness, violence and crime in its wake.
In Australia, the figures show the situation is acute. 🧵
(Thx Ian)
/2 Australia’s economy is dominated by a handful of large, powerful, excessively profitable big businesses.
The facts are alarming.

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A pincer movement seems underway to spring #Assange before #Biden gets to Sydney—as hostility rises in Australia.

* Pressure from State Dept via Embassy on Assange camp
* Now pressure from Albanese for an Assange concession
* Hicks-style deal in prospect?

& #AUKUS unpopular
🧵 2. And note the unpopularity of #AUKUS subs deal—seen as wastage of $360billion in face of collapse of public services, NDIS, Medicare, public education, slow disaster recovery, housing prices, rent rises, welfare payment real decline, rising homelessness.
Hence, pro-US PR…
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Pia Klemp, the German ship captain who rescued migrants in the Mediterranean, has refused a medal from the mayor of Paris.

"I'm not a humanitarian. I am not there to 'aid'. I stand in solidarity. We do not need medals.”
…/2 “We do not need authorities deciding about who is a 'hero' and who is 'illegal'. In fact they are in no position to make this call, because we are all equal. What we need are freedom and rights.”
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A murdered journalist, after five were murdered 2 months before, attracted little media attention - with the post-coup election on in Australia in 1975 & the US wanting us to ignore the #Timor invasion. We mostly complied - only his family, friends, & colleagues to bat away. ../2 No #DFAT investigation, no #AFP witness statements, no government interest, but just words. Our government maintained the Indonesians cover story that he’d fled to the hills - despite knowing he was summarily shot in public in front of dozens of living witnesses in December 8.
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Links between the organisers &groups behind anti-#lockdown protests are VERY interesting.
Project Veritas is a far-right political dirty tricks operation &disinformation group linked to ultraconservative Republicans, mercenary head Erik Prince, a former MI-6 spy, &is well funded. Read more. esquire.com/news-politics/…

How news media manage the narrative on Assange using the ‘limited hangout’:
*Finally 2wks in, the @washingtonpost mentions a witness lied
*Buried in parag 20
No mention of
*He was an FBI plant
*He lied JA hacked Iceland
*Judge quoted him as important to establish JA a ’hacker’
👇 *Witness is a convicted pedophile, fraudster
* He got full immunity for helping FBI
Further, the article
*Takes the side of the US prosecution by declaring JA is a ‘hacktivist’
*Places Assange journalist publisher in context of jailed US whistleblowers
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Beautiful eyes, snuffed out by an Indonesian military bullet. Nothing was done really to bring the shooter to justice.
An eyewitness I interviewed in 1995 described the shooter as having a goatee and wearing a blue scarf, an army provost.
Roger East, murdered but not forgotten. Roger East was an Australian journalist, murdered 45 years ago today. Trying to report the truth of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. He took cover in a flat the day of the invasion but was grabbed when he went outside, with his camera and notepad, ready to report. ...

There was a pandemic before Covid - it’s called Neoliberalism. It had already taken a toll.
It deindustrialised our economy - it propelled income inequality - it impoverished our public schools - it corporatised our universities - it privatised the profit-making services.
#auspol Neoliberalism has dynamited the foundations of a fair society. Far more effectively as any Japanese dive bomber or vengeful Middle Eastern terrorist.