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Information Isolation from Down Under

by Kym Robinson | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles

"Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy”– Communications Minister Michelle Rowland The Australian government is looking to further control speech and information online, deciding what its citizens may consume through stricter social media laws. The proposal is that social media platforms will be fined 5% of their global revenue should undesired posts or information be seen by Australians. This in conjunction with a South Australian ban on children under fourteen from social media....

Anti-War Blog – The Powerful and the Powerless

by Kym Robinson | Sep 17, 2024 | Blog

There is an indecency in forcing someones home open, to be pillaged, then celebrating in such behaviour by showing of what was found. Personal items. Men, relishing in the intimate secrets of a woman. Lingerie and other personal apparel to be strewn and displayed for a voyeurs gaze. A final victory of indignity that the powerful express over those who are ruled and dominated. Among the mass murder and starvation we witnessed more viral footage of Israeli soldiers parading their victims lingerie as an expression of victory in Palestine. The former owner of the lingerie, either dead or living,...

Pragmatic Genocide

by Kym Robinson | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics

The lesser of two or many evils is a line of reasoning that tends to favor the status quo. It compromises principles and human dignity to a point where we are made to understand the benefits of injustice and less freedom. We are told, it could always be worse. If one ruler is a better option than another, the compromise is that we should be ruled, but by a less bad gang of murderous thieves. Such pragmatic reasoning can also expand to acts of mass murder; a genocide is a lesser evil in particular contexts. For those who consider themselves principled, it can be a seduction to drop their...

Anti-War Blog – A Razz Through X

by Kym Robinson | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog

I log onto X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in awhile. The news feed is aghast with Trump vs Harris post debate ‘analysis’ and ‘9/11’ ‘evidence’ and memes. The Truther stuff, central bankers planned the sinking of the Titanic sort of thing. The usual George Bush or Mossad and perhaps alien reptiles detonated the towers and Pentagon. It was an insurance scam while Bush kept reading with the little kids. Among them are strewn accounts of comedy memes and rage bait to invoke racial or partisan hate. Then I see an account I actually follow, Dave DeCamp re-posting an Antiwar.com article...

Movie Bob’d

by Kym Robinson | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog

In the time just before the rise of Pewidepie as the most popular YouTuber there were the angry and nostalgic reviewers. The Angry Video Game Nerd formally Nintendo, Nostalgia Critic, Spoonyone, Cinemasnob and so on all were prominent on the platform. Mostly in their homes putting together reviews with skits that either missed or hit, while inventing characters to make a point. In that age the intended audience was not little children but rather teens and adults. Some of the reviewers became famous enough to inspire copy cats, or motivate others to take up the webcam and angrily criticise a...

Shut It Down

by Kym Robinson | Aug 28, 2024 | Featured Articles

The recent protests in Bangladesh have led to another example of a national government shutting down the internet and telecommunications. The Bangladeshi government claimed that the shutdown was implemented to stop misinformation. In 2023 the internet was shut down in Libya after a natural disaster to prevent criticism of the local authorities and their response to the emergency. At this time, thirty-nine nations across the world at some time have shut down the internet for one reason or the other. What was once a speculative concept has now become a practice that will soon be accepted. The...

Anti-War Blog “Won’t somebody think of the children!”

by Kym Robinson | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog

The French government has recently arrested and detained Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram. The alleged offence is that the messaging app is not policing and governing what it’s users do. So a national government has kidnapped and demands that the CEO give up access to the app. Currently Telegram is used to get information out of Gaza, with many on the ground reporting from the Palestinian side. It is also where most of the accurate reporting from both Russian and Ukrainian sources can be found from that ongoing war as individuals are sharing information and personal ordeals. It has been the...

The Veteran Cry

by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Usually boys and men, that’s who is required to make war, to kill, maim, kidnap, torture and destroy. And in turn they can be killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured, and destroyed even after they return, though they never really do. They are required to make the wars happen and to keep them going on. One million needed now, and a million more later on. Hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured and destroyed. Then afterwards society will cry, “Lest we Forget.” But it seems we always forget all of that, each and every time. The government needs them all, from Audie...