Fluffy beetle discovered in Australia may be the world's hairiest | New Scientist
Australians have a new pet!
Haha!
#science #australia
#australia
It has been claimed that the first "modern" CC was in Tully Queensland #Australia.
#cropcircle
Farmer George sees a #UFO rising from a swampy area, soon he finds the CC left behind.
Blueberry grown in Australia smashes Guinness World Record as world's heaviest | World News | Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/blueberry-grown-in-australia-smashes-guinness-world-record-as-worlds-heaviest-13095073?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
The 20.4g fruit, which measures 39.31mm across, was grown in New South Wales, and is of the Eterna variety, known for its large size, crisp texture and long shelf life.
Om nom nom
#blueberry #australia
Always gotta take an umbrella for the weather #melbourne #australia #melbournefoodie #coffeeculture - YouTube
Now I am prepared if I ever have the chance to visit you! @Muse
Growing Up #Aboriginal in #Australia - The Wheeler Centre ( #2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpS8rzBIyQo
a book i’m pleased is now read in schools and universities (there are quite a few youtubio vids by students in regards to the book, if one wants to take a lookit)
What is it like to be Aboriginal - Tui Raven (Writer, Curator, Presenter, Cultural Advisor) at TedX UWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1T3JfzRGE
and What Aboriginal knowledge can teach us about happiness - Sheree Cairney (Neuroscientist) at TEDxStKilda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-dK8HFP2c
#education #racism #bullying #strength #happiness #well-being
Over 100 Australian lawyers referred Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the International Criminal Court as an accomplice to the #genocide in #Gaza on the basis of his military, intelligence, and political support for the Israel under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.
Albanese is the first western leader to be referred to the ICC for being an "accessory to genocide." Australia has provided F-35 warplane parts and military intelligence to the Israel since October. Albanese also froze $6 million to #UNRWA and deployed Australian military to the region without disclosing their location or role.
#Australia #ICC #WarCrome #Israel #Gaza #Politics
https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICC-Referral-Australian-Government-Ministers-and-Opposition-Leader-04032024_BLG.pdf
KPMG Corporate Anthem
The anthem that KPMG doesn't want you to hear
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/02/macedoine/#the-public-option
They first came on my radar in 2001 when they sent a legal threat to a blogger for linking to their website without permission
The actual link was to KPMG's corporate anthem, which remains, to this day, a banger
KPMG's Corporate Anthem
https://web.archive.org/web/20040428063826/http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/uknewsita/http://anthems.zdnet.co.uk/anthems/kpmg.mp3
The time is now to lead the way,
We share the same the idea
That may win by the end of the day.
Our strength is here to stay.
Identity, one energy,
One strategy, with sympathy.
These are the words that will lead us into a new world.
Notice the link is to a page on the Wayback Machine.
more about KPMG from Cory's blog
They're the architects of Microsoft's tax-evasion plot:
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougherAnd they were behind Canada's dysfunctional covid contact-tracing app, which never worked, but generated tens of millions in billings to the government of Canada, who used KPMG to hire programmers at $1,500/day, plus KPMG's 30% commission:
KPMG's most bizarre scandal is literally stranger than fiction. The company bribed SEC personnel help its own accountants cheat on ethics exams. The corrupt officials were then given high-paid jobs at KPMG:
https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-professional/article/sec-probe-finds-kpmg-auditors-cheating-on-training-exams-061819But all of that is just scene-setting (and a gratuitous plug for my book) for the latest KPMG scandal, which is, possibly, the most KPMG scandal of all KPMG scandals. The Australian government hired KPMG to audit Paladin, a security contractor that oversees the asylum seekers the country locks up on one of its island gulags (yes, gulags, plural).\
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Ever since, Paladin has been the subject of a string of ghastly human rights scandals – the worst stuff imaginable, rape and torture and murder of adults and children. Paladin made AU423 million on this contract.\
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And here's the scandal: KPMG audited the wrong company. The Paladin that the Australia government paid KPMG to audit was based in Singapore. The Paladin that KPMG audited was a totally different company, based in Papua New Guinea, who already had a commercial relationship with KPMG. It was this colossal fuckup that led to the manifestly unfit Singaporean company getting nearly half a billion dollars in public funds:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/24/incredible-failure-kpmg-rejects-claims-it-assessed-the-wrong-company-before-423m-payment-to-paladin
#kpmg #cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #corporate-anthem #corporation #corporations #scandal #paladin #canada #australia #singapore #bezzle #corruption #dishonesty #scum-bags #brunchlords #gulags #australian-gulags
Copernicus EU on X: "#ImageOfTheDay Melbourne🇦🇺 is one of the #Top10 more sustainable cities in the world It is leading the way in urban sustainability, focusing on clean transport like trams & bike lanes, and lush green spaces to fight rising temperatures #Sentinel2🛰️🇪🇺 image of 4 February https://t.co/V6KWGyhBrh" / X
@Muse
#australia
Nordic Questions in Australia #funny #nordics #australia #norway #sweden #denmark - YouTube
Haha! This is great!
#australia
@clarice overhere
Australia Approves Motion Urging Britain To Return Julian Assange
Above photo: Australia’s Prime Minister and federal MP’s have voted to return #Wikileaks founder Julian #Assange to #Australia rather than extradite him to the United States. Facundo Arrizabalaga/ EPA-EFE.
Australia’s prime minister and federal members of #Parliament approved a motion Wednesday to return Wikileaks founder #Julian Assange to Australia.
https://popularresistance.org/australia-approves-motion-urging-britain-to-return-julian-assange/
I'm done. #nordics #funny #vacation #language #austria #australia https://youtube.com/shorts/kkpYl-uGz5A?si=zECUMKK1aafXBwoe
Hahaha that's dedication
#music #post_noisy #Australia #experimental
[fr] J'm'emmerde grave, alors pour me venger avoir dû entendre du Mike Brandt ce matin, je m'écoute ça sur le smartphone :
Severed Heads / The Big Bigot
@kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de wrote the following post 2 years ago.
As a result of the wars unleashed by the U.S. after September 11, 2001, 38,000,000 civilians were displaced.
This is the second highest result in world history. Only World War II resulted in more refugees.
Direct military aggressions, the so-called "war on terror" which led to the creation of ISIS, and economic strangulation have all led to disastrous consequences for the people of a number of states in the Middle East and North Africa, forcing ordinary people to flee their homes, cities, villages and states to other countries.
According to a report https://t.co/MLXyekTZTQ by the Watson Institute for International Studies (an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) and with the assistance of Boston University:
- #Afghanistan - 5.9 million refugees
- #Pakistan - 3.7 million refugees
- #Yemen - 4.6 million refugees
- #Somalia - 4.3 million refugees
- #Philippines - 1.8 million refugees
- #Libya - 1.2 million refugees
- #Syria - 7.1 million refugees
The report is based on data from 2001 to 2020 + some data collected in 2021.
It is based on the UN data, U.S. documents and information from public sources.
However, the report itself states that 38,000,000 is a very conservative estimate and in reality, the figure can reach from 49,000,000 to 60,000,000, which actually reaches the figures of World War II.
...
To these processes can be added the huge number of refugees from #Ukraine after the U.S.-backed coup d'état and civil war that broke out there.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7341586.html
#nato #NATO #military #occupation #war #europe #eu #poland #USA #us #britain #germany #france #italy #canada #australia #qatar #refugees #poverty #Iraq #Libya #Afghanistan #western #warmongers #deepstate #history
#Australia Prepares to Roll Out WEF's #Digital IDs for Public
Canada has invested $100 million in taxpayer money into incorporating the system.
The public system is an expansion of the European Union’s “digital vaccine passport.”
Banks and other financial institutions have expressed interest in registering an accredited digital ID but are not part of the system yet.
https://slaynews.com/news/australia-prepares-roll-out-wef-digital-id-public/
Dance Hall - Day’s
The building on the right is the Bank of New South Wales,
designed by Edmund Blacket, which opened in Bathurst
in 1856 in rented premises (see below) and moved to this
site in 1860.
The firm of E.Webb & Co, one of Bathurst’s most successful, was
established in 1852 by Edmund Webb, an immigrant from
Cornwall. He started in a small rented shop in George Street and
built the store with the white front and side in 1862, naming it the
Western Warehouse. In 1870 he enlarged his business by
erecting the large edifice next door. Webb manufactured some
of his stock such as clothing and saddlery and sold his goods as
far away as Western Australia and New Zealand.
The next building, with the small white sign, is the Court House
Hotel which began in 1850 as the Elephant and Castle, was used
as the Bank of New South Wales for a few years in the fifties,
became the Court House Hotel in 1872 and from 1876 was known
to Bathurstians as the Metropolitan Hotel. The site is now
occupied by the Tavern Hotel (1997).
#Architecture #photography #myphoto #imperial #colonial #Britishimperial #Australia
Occupied lands. (the Wiradjuri peoples.)
About the refuges and warmongers
As a result of the wars unleashed by the U.S. after September 11, 2001, 38,000,000 civilians were displaced.
This is the second highest result in world history. Only World War II resulted in more refugees.
Direct military aggressions, the so-called "war on terror" which led to the creation of ISIS, and economic strangulation have all led to disastrous consequences for the people of a number of states in the Middle East and North Africa, forcing ordinary people to flee their homes, cities, villages and states to other countries.
According to a report https://t.co/MLXyekTZTQ by the Watson Institute for International Studies (an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) and with the assistance of Boston University:
- #Afghanistan - 5.9 million refugees
- #Pakistan - 3.7 million refugees
- #Yemen - 4.6 million refugees
- #Somalia - 4.3 million refugees
- #Philippines - 1.8 million refugees
- #Libya - 1.2 million refugees
- #Syria - 7.1 million refugees
The report is based on data from 2001 to 2020 + some data collected in 2021.
It is based on the UN data, U.S. documents and information from public sources.
However, the report itself states that 38,000,000 is a very conservative estimate and in reality, the figure can reach from 49,000,000 to 60,000,000, which actually reaches the figures of World War II.
...
To these processes can be added the huge number of refugees from #Ukraine after the U.S.-backed coup d'état and civil war that broke out there.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7341586.html
#nato #NATO #military #occupation #war #europe #eu #poland #USA #us #britain #germany #france #italy #canada #australia #qatar #refugees #poverty #Iraq #Libya #Afghanistan #western #warmongers #deepstate
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