It's really not appropriate for a politician, the police minister to boot, to be calling anyone an 'idiot' in the same breath as demanding respect for the police. It's the sort of language I'd accept from a truck driver, not from a top politician.

He is setting the tone of the discussion in an extremely problematic way by dehumanising/othering those desparately trying to stop lethal weapons sales used in crimes against humanity, while he normalises the gathering of war profiteers.

I'm extremely disappainted by this government's policing policy.

"There's nothing but disrespect being shown from some protesters who want to behave like idiots and police will deal with you," he said.

our police minister, everyone.

PSA: respect has to be earned. An industry that arms crimes against humanity and genocide does not deserve respect.

The vic govt is funding this arms expo.

A lot of anti-protest rhetoric from the goverment here. Protesting is a fundamental democratic right.

Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.

agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.

Does this mean the articles will read less like a tabloid and more like news again?

Ian should be replaced.

AFP child abusers. Who cares about the cost. This operation was harmful to the community and to the child, who has a right to/needed proper education around ethics & morals not this cloak & dagger manipulation.

Good boy.

Unforgivable.

More like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYYIVoCvsM&t=779

It's not a choice between blaming the scooter or the truck driver. It's a choice between building safe light-vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or car-centric urban planning.

Cars and trucks are linked with injuries and hospital visits [edit: and deaths] of pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters – but let's just blame the victim, shall we?

Photos presented as news should be real, not computer generated fakes.

This case is more controversial within the US government than you might think.

Pfft his tweet is more than half a year old.

https://nitter.net/mtaibbi/status/1672657600276471808

Agree. We don’t need hsr, we need more services on the existing normal-speed tracks. Adelaide-Melbourne is currently only 2x per week on a tourist train. Sydney-Melbourne 2x day. All you’d need to do is build more trains. You wouldn’t need to build hundreds of km’s of expensive high-speed track. We could run some trains Melbourne through Albury all the way to Canberra while we’re at it.

For years the appeals process was dominated by the factor of Julian's mental health and whether or not he would survive US prison condition. Then after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal of the High Court ruling allowing flimsy US assurances, his application for a cross appeal of the ruling by the first instance court was finally allowed to be submitted - a document I highly recommend reading (Craig Murray published it this year). The judge then sat on it for the most part of a year before lazily rejecting it half a year ago in a 3 page document. His legal team immediately filed to have this decision appealed and have been waiting for a court date to be set for the past half year. It was said to be just a 30 minute sitting. This 2-judge panel court-date is the last avenue of appeal in the UK justice system to stop extradition to the US. Imagine being up in the air for year after year, always inching closer towards your biggest fear. This travesty must be stopped.

Will the High Court finally let freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, due process, and other essential human and legal rights take centre stage in this UK-US extradition case? That is the question to be decided at this February hearing.

While I'm glad this post did so well, I do apologies to anyone I may have offended by posting a barely 1yr old article in a news community. Please let me explain. My understanding is that news is information about current events. The letter written by the editors and publishers of: The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El País, which were WikiLeaks' media partners, attempts to protect investigative journalism as an institution, which is still threatened by the persecution of Julian Assange is a current event: in fact, now is a critical moment, with his last-gasp UK appeal in the extradition-fight set for 2 months from now. When an event happens in slow-motion, such as this slow-motion torture-to-death, we have to widen our field of vision to get a clear picture of what's going on. If you want more recent criticism of the case by prominent journalists, the US just had another Belmarsh Tribunal. I posted about it here: https://aussie.zone/post/5092162

Funny. The post didn't show up until now.

walk about the cabin.

I don't follow. What cabin?

Thank you.

"Secure homeland"

That's a lie. Of course they didn't. Nobody says they did.

Those newspapers did not sign a legally binding SF312 CLASSIFIED INFORMATION NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT of which every single person who holds a clearance must sign.

Neither did WikiLeaks doi

(Swedish =/= Swiss.)

Publishing classified information is treason

Tell that to the Guardian and the New York Times, who publish classified information routinely.

Oh, wait, seems like they got the message when they read the Assange indictment and wrote a whole editorial about how it threatens the 1st Amendment of (I'll assume you're from the US) your constitution.

Until the US drops the charges it's relevant to Julian's imminent extradition from the UK. Was it posted here when it was published? It might be news to some. Where do you suggest I post it instead?

Pretty sure the main ethos of the Nazis was wars of conquest with the aim of German imperialism and white supremacy. 3rd Reich and the myth/pseudo-science of the Arian race and all that. Their anti-jewish propaganda and genocide was a means to that end, as was their anti-Roma anti-communist, anti-gay persecutions and propaganda.