Tag: politics
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Australia is building a deep surveillance infrastructure.
Michael West Media reports on the adoption of invasive surveillance technology by the Australian Government. Palantir (US based) and Cellebrite (Israel based) give our government the means to extract and analyse everything you do in the digital space. Everything. They are not building this for you. They are building it around you. And the person…
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Poem: The din.
A poem by Caitlin Johnstone They’re designing park benchesso that homeless people can’t sleep on themand placing metal spikes beneath overpassesso they can’t be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn’t existand that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer,wocka wockaha ha hait’s funny because it’s a witty observationabout life’s everyday little goofy goofs.…
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This is what collapse looks like.
Notes from a burning Paris. People are dying – 55 people died in Paris alone in the past 24 hours. Festivals, school, gym classes are cancelled. Hundreds of thousands of chickens have perished across France. I just read an alert: a bus driver passed out from heatstroke and crashed into a tree in central Paris. I’m not…
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Flag shagging is a thing now.
This is where “flag shagging” becomes useful language. It describes the performative, possessive, almost erotic obsession that some right-wing nationalists have with flags. They don’t treat the flag as a symbol of shared democratic values. They treat it as their property. And as weapon to wave at migrants, First Nations people, climate protesters, students, Muslims,…
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Yes, there are dogshit people in this world.
Fair warning, the following excerpt is a little strong. But, in the context of the world right now, I find myself agreeing with the sentiment of it. The inexcusable, the unspeakable, is being normalised and post-rationalised. And in the case of Israel’s “Greater Israel” project, dissent has become non-negotiable antisemitism. One caveat I would add,…