From the creek to the brine, Palestine, free and fine. Do you reckon they'd censor this too?
arbilp3
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Thank you. Signed.
Great news!
Could you cross post this great contribution with Aussie Enviro please?
Btw, this website might come in handy at some point: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/
The fact that Michael West Media reported the deaths of Iranians during the protests without fear or favour and quoted Human Rights Watch tells us that MWM were not covering for anyone and were doing their job as journalists. https://michaelwest.com.au/death-toll-in-iran-protest-crackdown-is-5000/
You seem to contradict yourself. You mention upwards of 30,000 yet your clip says 5,000.
If you don't read any further then you are not truly interested in the Iranian people either. You just want to follow a particular stance promulgated by legacy media. Journalists from Michael West Media won multiple awards a few months ago in the Walkey Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The above article is not by some 'leftist' rabble but by respected investigative journalists.
Theres so many options to fix the current, artificially created crisis.> I agree with you.
As to your question re housing and the effect of oil price rising, I think you answered it when you mentioned supply chains. Imo, construction, like all business, will be affected by a rise in petrol costs e.g. obtaining materials, tools, machinery from overseas, local travel and freight costs. All will be passed on to buyers so I imagine that it will become even more expensive to buy a new home unless govt helps out. In addition, the cost of kitting out a home will be more expensive as all appliances, imported furniture and miscellaneous items will also rise in price. These old men and their wars and power mongering are hurting young people in so many ways. No wonder so many don't want to have children.
Rose petals? Have you heard of sarcasm?
Here is the reply I got from GetUp:
It’s true that councillors can’t simply cancel a development because of a petition. Planning decisions still have to go through a formal approval process and be assessed against planning rules.
But that doesn’t mean petitions are useless.
What petitions do is show the scale of community concern before and during that process. When councillors, planners and governments see that thousands of people are paying attention, it often leads to much closer scrutiny of a proposal and can influence how decisions are made, what conditions are applied, or whether projects move forward at all.
Community pressure has played a role in many planning debates in Australia. Petitions are one way people can make sure their voices are part of that conversation.
So the honest answer is: a petition won’t decide the project on its own, but it helps demonstrate that the community cares and wants decision-makers to take a careful look. We're also considering delivering the petition directly to the mayor – we've got over 15,000 signatures already and climbing, we're sure this will show the community doesn't want the tower to go ahead.
Ok, we'll just have to stick to our points of view. Just wanted to add that Change.org gets a lot of air play because it is the largest petition platform, to my knowledge, in the English-speaking world. Also that petitions can be very useful and effective as part of broader campaigns.
I learnt a lot myself as I was responding to you, so thank you for the exchange.
Seems we've become a Mini-me with a veneer of civility.