Oh, Happy Days!
April 2024 is not a happy time in the world Gaza and its people are being bombed and starved out of existence1, the money pit of AUKUS is consuming our children’s wealth before they even earnt it2, the wealth gap between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of us has been turbo-charged 3 and here […]
Who are the deranged scumbags killing innocent people all over the world?
On 13 March 2026, the Satsuma Baby declared that “These deranged scumbags have been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years”. He then added “I am killing them. What a great honour it is to kill them”. Well, of course, the Satsuma Baby isn’t killing anyone himself. No, the bone spurs that […]
Remember the General Belgrano?
In a different worldin 1982the empire of the Britishwas defendedby sinking the General Belgranoin International waters8,000 miles away from England320 dead Fast forward to 2026a different world againthe brutality of the Americansis demonstratedby sinking the Iris Denain International waters8,000 miles away from Washington140 dead Both sunk by nuclear submarinesa long way from their homeson the […]
The existential threat of children
“Bombs will be dropping everywhere”declares the satsuma baby.Violence is necessary to “address an existential threat”declares butcher Bibi.While both are safe aboard their planes,where they cannot be harmed,others willingly doing their dirty work ofkilling on demand. The existential threat is children,or at least so you would think,as Israel and America bomb the Sharjareh Tayyebeh Girls Elementary […]
G.A.R.I and Crustifarianism
Thank god for AI! Now that’s something you don’t hear people say very often. To be honest, it’s probably not something you’ll hear me say again. Each day brings a new caution of the existential threat of AI. And some of them are so real. The ability to not only manipulate words, images and videos […]
Herzog’s Mirror (a children’s fairy tale)
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsthe Evil Witchhas a magic mirrorof which she asks each day“Mirror Mirror on the wallWho’s the fairest of them all” Imagine if we could each have a mirrorone that took our wordsand repeated them to usas though they were the words of othersapplied to usso that we might experience […]
26.01.26
238 years ago, todaythe 11 ships of the First Fleetcame towards Port Jackson cove.Soldiers came ashore.Day’s earlier, in Botany Bay,shots had been firedat Aboriginal men standing on the shore,their shore,just as 18 years earlierCook had fired at Gweagal men,wounding one,they perhaps proclaimingas their Inuit brothers in Greenland do today“Are they going to bring their violence […]
Love Actually
There are many things about the present state of the world that mystify me – the violence, the hypocrisy, the ludicrous conflation of support for the Palestinian people and an Independent Palestinian nation and antisemitism. As Zack Polanski, leader of the English Green Party, opines “conflating Antisemitism with criticism of the Israeli government is dangerous”. […]
Pirates of the Caribbean
In 1856 the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Lawabolished piracy.The United States was never party to the declaration. In the golden age of piracyAmerican portswere safe haven for pirates,just as they are now,those pirates now comfortably installedin the White House,Trump, a modern-day Henry Morgan,responsible for death and destruction, yetrewarded with political power,his salivating lieutenant Miller,as savage […]
Hate Speech
This week our Federal Parliament is recalled to debate rapidly prepared “hate speech” laws. A defence to an allegation of hate speech will be that the speaker is quoting religious texts. Hence, I pose the question to you of whether the speaker in the attached clip is or is not engaging in hate speech (all […]
What is a ceasefire?
“Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world” Albert Camus Many might define a ceasefireas an agreement for the cessation of hostilities.But they are plainly wrong. A ceasefire is a Public Relations term for “ending”Ending negative commentsEnding divestment and trade prohibitionsEnding adverse publicityEnding media coverageEnding criticismEnding scrutiny. For a ceasefire […]