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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Trump's not the only one. Biden also thinks he rules the world. He said so unironically in that recent interview he did...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i haven’t needed one for years because i use their app on my phone and i can see their announcements as a notification and i can also kill off most of its tracking by DNS. unfortunately my parents don’t understand this

Sounds like you have a reasonable, compatible alternative on your phone already. Will they even notice if you continue using this and never plug the new alexa in?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd really like to know what else was in the bags of documents David McBride handed the AFP and what else was in the documents he gave to journalists including ABC's Dan Oakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boyboy are obviously comedians. I doubt they're actually best friends with David.

If you're looking for 'serious journalism' type independent reporting, this is a good place to start: https://michaelwest.com.au/david-mcbride-sentencing-reserved-as-defence-pushes-for-jail/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The boyboy video you linked is probably the best explainer of the whole situation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've commented the exact same thing in a previous post on this. Please actually engage with the counter-arguments and materials I responded with here .

That is some twisted narrative the abc has been spinning about their own source.

If David hadn’t wanted to expose the murders, he wouldn’t have leaked evidence of it. What’s more, he leaked evidence of their cover-up up to the highest ranks, which could be argued is he graver war-crime, since it fosters a culture of impunity.

It is true that David saw some soldiers, who served in Afghanistan the year after a lot of those murders took place, prosecuted unfairly, the way he saw it. He believes the Defence leadership were scape-goating these soldiers to be seen to be doing something about war crimes when in reality they continued the cover-up for the murderers. This flauting of command responsibility is the bigger story which the abc continues to ignore.

Edit: also, motive was never discussed during trial. Trial only ever got as far as pre-trial, where the justice ruled on the meaning of ‘duty’ (just follow your orders) and in a closed session allowed the govt to scoop away David’s evidence, leading him to plead guilty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🚨 News hit today that David is in maximum security prison! He has no natural sunlight and restricted contact with his daughters.

I’ve posted about it here https://feddit.nl/post/18277656

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🚨 News hit today that David is in maximum security prison! He has no natural sunlight and restricted contact with his daughters.

I’ve posted about it here https://feddit.nl/post/18277656

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🚨 News hit today that David is in maximum security prison! He has no natural sunlight and restricted contact with his daughters.

I've posted about it here https://feddit.nl/post/18277656

 

A multi-party delegation of federal MPs and senators will travel to Washington DC this month as part of the campaign to release WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The United States is seeking to extradite Mr Assange from the United Kingdom on 18 charges related to the publication of thousands of military and diplomatic documents.

He has been detained in the Belmarsh Prison in London for more than four years, and is currently appealing the UK's decision to agree to his extradition.

The parliamentary delegation will include former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, Labor MP Tony Zappia, Liberal senator Alex Antic, independent MP Monique Ryan, and Greens senators David Shoebridge and Peter Whish-Wilson.

 

Australian MPs from across the political spectrum will travel to Washington this month in a bid to recruit American politicians to the campaign to pressure the Biden administration to drop its pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

 

In a letter sent to Albanese last week, [nine] former attorneys-general contrasted the treatment of Australian journalists who have been lauded for their work exposing alleged war crimes by Australian Defence Force personnel to Assange, who exposed wrongdoing by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“... the United States is applying extra-territorial reach by charging Assange, who is not a US citizen and did not commit alleged crimes in the US, under its Espionage Act.

“We believe that this sets a very dangerous precedent and has the potential to put at risk anyone, anywhere in the world, who publishes information that the US unilaterally deems to be classified for security reasons.

 

Due more to the courts than politicians, native forest logging may be nearing an end. Recent court judgements in Victorian Supreme and and Federal courts don’t augur well for the logging industry. Sue Arnold reports.

Legal battles waged by Victorian grassroots conservation organisations have brought the Precautionary Principle (PP) out of the political closet. It is a principle that has long been ignored by governments as it gets in the way of forestry and development projects.

Put simply, the PP means that if logging is likely to cause serious or irreversible harm then it should not happen. Any harvest planning has to take the PP into account. They haven’t to date but the courts are forcing their hand, at least in Victoria, and federally, if not in NSW as yet.

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