Trump's UN General Assembly Speech in under 10 minutes-Swollen Pickles

Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a speech that drew widespread global attention. Here is his rambling, hour long address cut down to 10 minutes, covering the main points.

Hastie's Rising, UK's Digital ID and Trump comes after our drugs | Scam of the Week

Scams don’t take a holiday and this week has been overflowing with them. First, Anthony Albanese heads to the UN, and Murdoch’s media machine has a meltdown. If he skips Trump, it’s “disgraceful.” If he takes a photo with Trump, it’s “humiliating.” Damned if you do, damned if you don’t all while Rupert keeps pulling the strings. 

Meanwhile, Susan Ley is busy bootlicking foreign powers, writing apologies to US Congress for Australia recognising Palestine, while her own party tears itself apart at CPAC with Matt Canavan, Jacinta Price, and Tony Abbott sharing the stage with Liz Truss and Rowan Dean. Comedy or politics? Hard to tell. 

Over in the UK, Keir Starmer pushes a mandatory digital ID for anyone to work by 2029, sparking fierce backlash over civil liberties. And in the US, Trump’s chaos only deepens: honoring war criminals at Wounded Knee, joking with Erdogan about rigged elections, and claiming Tylenol in pregnancy causes autism a claim his allies’ supplement companies stand to profit from. But it doesn’t stop there. 

Trump has now slapped a 100% tariff on Australian pharmaceuticals, directly targeting our PBS system to please American drug giants. That means higher costs for taxpayers, less stability in our health system, and more profits for his billionaire backers. 

And through it all, the Liberal Party is auditioning Andrew Hastie as their next leader. With Jacinta Price, Angus Taylor, and Matt Canavan lining up behind him, he’s selling nostalgia about “bringing back Aussie manufacturing” while ignoring the fact his own party killed it in the first place. Add in his contradictions on net zero, and Hastie’s pitch looks less like policy, more like theatre. 

This week’s Scam of the Week award goes to Andrew Hastie the Liberals’ would-be Trump, wrapped in Murdoch’s headlines and serving up old ideas as if they’re new.

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Gas Lobbyist RESPONDS To My Rant In Parliament House | Punters Politics

'I attended a tax roundtable in Parliament House where I gave my first amateur lobbying speech calling out gas companies only to discover that a professional gas industry lobbyist was sitting right behind me ... he responds.'

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Israel’s TERRIFYING Threat Against Flotilla by Owen Jones

As the Flotilla heads towards Gaza from Crete, the Israel propaganda machine has cranked up the volume saying that they are Hamas supporters as they continue their Genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza. Israel has said they will impound all the boats and imprison all of the Flotilla crews and members. Here Owen Jones interviews one of the Flotilla’s organisers.

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Leaking War Crimes Got Him 5 Years in Jail | The West Report

 ‘This week we bring you exclusive interview with David McBride, the former Australian Army lawyer now serving a five-year sentence for leaking classified documents that exposed alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

From inside prison, McBride speaks openly about why he risked everything, why he believes his case will shape Australian law, and what it means for whistleblowers, justice, and accountability in this country.

This is more than just a story it’s about the principle at the heart of democracy: that “just following orders” is never an excuse for covering up crimes.

You’ll hear directly from McBride himself, thanks to months of work from our team to get access to him in Canberra. This is the kind of journalism that would never happen without your support.’

Michael West 

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Netanyahu Just BLACKMAILED The West - His INSANE Response To Palestine Recognition by Owen Jones

‘As Palestinians in the West Bank told me that Western countries recognising Palestine is decades too late, and purely symbolic action rather than decisive action to end the genocide.’

Owen Jones

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"THE FALL OF AMERICA" - Ben Lee

I'm glued to my phone, watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol.

It's coming to an end.

And to all of my friends, well, I am not forgetting you.

When this whole thing is over, we will dance again.

Disneyland, Spike Lee, Kir Cabain and Lou Reed, Patty Smith, Muhammad Ali.

I still hear them speak to me.

Poets with a conscience.

Insecure and confident.

They had what I wanted.

What would happen if I got it?

Harry Frell, culture breakers, Bosi up the contemplators, freedom fighters, belly acres, all the movers and the shakers circling the wagon, screaming round Manhattan.

Parties in the canyon. It's so strange to watch it happen.

Now I'm glued to my phone, watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol.

It's coming to an end.

And to all of my friends, well, I am not forgetting you.

When this whole thing is over, we will dance again.

Amphetamines and Mary Jane, Iggy Pop and John Coltrane. Breaking hearts and bending brains.

Put it straight into my veins. R E M L S D N W A Easy.

Read it all in magazines.

I'm leaving home.

Please pray for me.

Ramblers and drifters, rackers and grifters, depressives and uplifters,shape shifters, shop lifters.

It starts to feel naive. Yeah. That I ever believe.

Yeah. Heart upon my sleeve.

Yeah. But that was just a dream. Yeah.

Teenage lust. Paul Westerberg. Rock and roll will have you heard.

Tina Turner. She survived. She always kept the flame alive.

Anyone I adore you. I've been shaken to my core.

What was all that dreaming for? I loved you more.

I lovedyou more. I'm glued to my phone.

Watching the fall of America.

One last call for alcohol. It's coming to an end.

And do all of my friends.

Well, I am not forgetting you when this whole thing is over.

We will dance. We will dance. We will dance.We will dance.

Trump DECLARES WAR On Democracy - This Is Not A Drill by Owen Jones

‘Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to use the assassination of Charlie Kirk to accelerate their plans to destroy democracy, destroy the opposition, and build an overtly authoritarian state. Now, whether they succeed or not isn't certain, but it is clearly their plan. Going even further than the regime in Hungary, which is a blueprint for the international far right, where Victor Orban has destroyed democracy in a meaningful sense. Remember when the far right claimed to be champions of free speech? Yeah, this was a lie. We said it was a lie and we were right. It is always the case. Has always been the case that it's a lie. It's a nonsense, a ruse to protect hateful incendiary speech against minorities from even being challenged because they would portray even verbal push back against such speech as an attack on free speech….’ Owen Jones

Owen Jones plays a powerful role in exposing the great lies of our times.  His analysis of the Charlie Kirk’s death here is through on how Trump will use it to further build his dictatorial power in the United States. I support Owen Jones on Patreon. If you can afford to so please do likewise, if you can’t please share.

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Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla by The Juice Media

'The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.'

'The Juice Media – 98.9% “genuine satire”: covering Government shitfuckery and the most pressing issues of our time  – written & created by Giordano in a backyard home-studio in suburban Melbourne, Australia – on Wurundjeri lands.'

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Trump Supporters Threaten CIVIL WAR After Charlie Kirk Killed by Owen Jones

As I write this, we don’t know who killed Charlie Kirk,. The Wall Street Journal claim that ammunition found was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology. But The New York Times report:

A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other sum‘A moment of terrible danger. Before the assassination of Donald Trump ally and far right US commentator Charlie Kirk, there were already big questions about whether an already deeply compromised US democracy will survive Trumpism. The looming possible violence and repression is frightening to contemplate.

On a moral level, there’s no justification for killing anyone except in cases of unavoidable self defence on an individual or collective level. I don’t support the death penalty in any circumstances, and certainly not for people with extreme views. Individual terrorism with such a motive is morally and rationally bankrupt. That doesn’t mean pretending Kirk was something he was not.

BattleLines maries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.

Therefore we have to wait until motive is identified.

We know that the two would-be assassins of Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, were not left-wing in any meaningful way. Crooks was a registered Republican. Routh had voted for Trump in 2016 then ended up backing politicians who belong to both parties.

Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO, wasn’t left-wing either: he seemed to have an eccentric mishmash of “centrist” views.

That hasn’t stopped Trump supporters lying about these acts of violence, however.

If this shooter happens to be someone purporting to have left-wing opinions, then - morality aside - they are completely and utterly insane if they think this would somehow advance the interests of the left. In what scenario can anyone imagine this happening? It simply strengthens the power of the state at the very moment it is under far right control. It has placed left-wing public figures and activists in great danger. That is very obvious…...’

Owen Jones plays a powerful role in exposing the great lies of our times.  His analysis of the Charlie Kirk’s death here is through on how Trump will use it to further build his dictatorial power in the United States. I support Owen Jones on Patreon. If you can afford to so please do likewise, if you can’t please share.

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A timeline of the attack on Camp Sovereignty on 31/8. by Tom Tanuki

Tom Tanuki brilliantly shows the timeline for the Cowardly Nazi Attack on the Aboriginal Camp Sovereignty, and he shows Nazi Hugo Lennon,whose family owns over thirty thousand homes, telling lies about it on TikTok.

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The Albanese Governments FOI Bill: What happened to the promises of Transparency-Swollen Pickles

Anthony Albanese promised integrity and transparency before the 2022 federal election, in fact, he campaigned on it. But now, deep into Labor’s second term, has the Albanese Government delivered — or simply carried on the same culture of secrecy we saw with the Morrison Government?  

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How neo-Nazis captured the March for Australia. Tom Tanuki

'Documenting the crowd manipulation tricks deployed by the National Socialist Network to transform nationalist 'Marches for Australia' into, effectively, national socialist marches.

It's a problem for migrants, it's a problem for the wider community, it's a problem for us on the left, and it's even a problem for the people they're using at those Marches.' Tom Tanuki

 

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I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live On Jools Holland Hootenanny / 2006)

The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop 1977 

Lyrics

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn

Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?
The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more

Whatever happened to all the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?

No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: David Greenfield / Jean Jacques Burnel / Brian John Duffy / Hugh A