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Cathy Olsson retweeted
Attacks directed against civilians are prohibited under international law.
Yet, from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan, we are seeing civilians & civilian infrastructure deliberately thrust into the line of fire.
Nothing seems to be off-limits: homes, hospitals, schools, airports, power stations & energy facilities.
These attacks must stop.
#NotATarget
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Senior CSIRO scientists discussed how to have an “open conversation” about the rising threats from a warming world before “it’s too late”
reneweconomy.com.au/wanderin…
Cathy Olsson retweeted
While the 2,500 jobs cuts are horrific enough for the workers and their families, worse still is the commentary that this is due to increased use of AI. The productivity “benefits” of AI are about cutting jobs and raising profits rather than living standards for Australians.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Australia is one of only two economies in the world with triple A credit ratings, with both the jobless rate and inflation below 5% and government debt below 19% of GDP. The other is Switzerland.
Australia is the only triple-A economy with interest rates in the optimum band of 3.75% to 5% and wealth per adult above $865,000.
Yet the media companies which happily supported the re-election of the disastrous former Coalition are now mercilessly attacking Labor.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Despite decades of progress, our global food system is under immense strain & hunger remains unacceptably high.
Food is a fundamental human right.
Let’s turn shared commitments into action & deliver sustainable, healthy & equitable food systems for all.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Huge factory ships are taking the Krill in Antarctica that whales, penguins, seals and seabirds depend on to survive
Krill is used to feed farmed fish and for Omega-3 supplements and pet food
BAN KRILL PRODUCTS NOW and do not buy them please insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Watching journalists cover a BS flying Tesla car instead of the deaths of women and children in Ukraine because Starlink was slowed down is disgusting.
It's absolutely disgusting.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Antarctic’s ‘doomsday’ Thwaites glacier is melting twice as fast as scientists believed, a new study shows. It is expected eventually to raise sea levels two feet by itself, and
could unleash other melting that could bring them up a full 10 feet.
edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/c…
Cathy Olsson retweeted
Cathy Olsson retweeted
We’ve had five decades of neoliberal governments pretending that economic growth = what’s best for the people they are elected to serve.
It’s a brain disease, a self-delusion set to come crashing down in the next few years, as their growthist fantasy slams into physical reality.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
END THE SHACKLING OF PEOPLE GIVING BIRTH.
END THE VIOLENCE.
LET EVERY PERSON GIVE BIRTH WITH DIGNITY.
#EndTheShackling #stopBlackDeathsInCustody #FreeHer #BirthWithDignity #SistersInside #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
@AustralianLabor @LNPQLD @Greens @AlboMP @SenatorWong
Cathy Olsson retweeted
💥WHO’S WITH ME - BOYCOTT PALMOIL 💥
Product categories to avoid
•Chocolate, candy and biscuits: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Oreo, Cadbury, Toblerone, Hershey’s products, M&M’s and similar confectionery often contain palm oil.[greenpeace +2]
•Crisps and savoury snacks: Doritos, Ritz crackers, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos and other PepsiCo/Frito-Lay or Mondelez snack brands.[greenpeace +2]
•Margarine, bakery goods and processed foods: many margarines, cookies, pastries, frozen foods, instant noodles and ready meals use palm oil or palm-derived fats.[rainforest-rescue +1]
•Shampoo, conditioner and body wash: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders, Dove, Johnson’s Baby Lotion and many mass-market personal-care products.[greenpeace +1]
•Toothpaste and soap: Colgate toothpaste and Colgate-Palmolive personal-care lines have been named in palm-oil campaigns.[greenpeace +1]
•Cosmetics and skincare: L’Oréal, Avon and many lipsticks, creams, foundations and sunscreens can contain palm-derived emollients and surfactants.[londontheinside +1]
•Laundry detergent, cleaning products and dish soap: many conventional detergents and household cleaners use palm-derived surfactants.[rainforest-rescue +1]
•Candles: many cheap paraffin/vegetable-wax candles use palm wax or palm-oil derivatives.[rainforest-rescue]
•“Biofuels” and palm-oil-based energy products: palm oil is also used in fuels and energy applications.[rainforest-rescue]
•Meat and dairy from industrial systems: these are not always direct palm-oil products, but palm and soy feed can link industrial animal agriculture to tropical-deforestation pressure.[regeneration +1]
Companies often named in campaigns
•Mondelez: Oreo, Ritz, Cadbury, Toblerone, Philadelphia.[londontheinside +1]
•Nestlé: KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Nespresso and other confectionery/coffee products.[ethicalconsumer +1]
•PepsiCo: Pepsi, Doritos, Walkers/Lay’s, Cheetos, Tropicana, Gatorade.[londontheinside +1]
•Unilever: Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, many soaps and shampoos.[greenpeace +1]
•Procter & Gamble: Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders and household brands.[greenpeace +1]
•Colgate-Palmolive: Colgate, Palmolive and related oral/personal-care products.[greenpeace +1]
•Kellogg’s: Pop-Tarts and other cereal/snack brands.[greenpeace +1]
•Mars: M&M’s, Snickers and other chocolate/confectionery products.[greenpeace +1]
•Hershey: chocolate and candy products.[ethicalconsumer +1]
•L’Oréal and Avon: cosmetics and personal-care products.[londontheinside +1]
Read labels for hidden palm oil
Look beyond “palm oil” for these common ingredient names: palmitate, palmate, palmitic acid, palm olein, palm stearine, stearic acid, stearate, glyceryl, cetyl/cetearyl alcohol, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), sodium laureth sulfate, and ingredients beginning with laur-, stear-, glyc- or palm-.
🍃S 🌳H 🌳A 🌳R 🌳E 🍃
For them:
Cathy Olsson retweeted
We also get to build 1000 new homes to house US service people. At a time when we have massive homelessness in this country.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
What happened starting in 1980?
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
Cathy Olsson retweeted
On 16Oct1975, 51 years ago today, 5 journalists were murdered by Indonesian troops in Balibo, East Timor (now Timor Leste).
• Greg Shackleton
• Tony Stewart
• Gary Cunningham
• Malcolm Rennie
• Brian Peters
Remember the #BaliboFive. #auspol
#JournalismIsNotACrime
ALT The Balibo Five journalists murdered by Indonesian soldiers: Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters
Cathy Olsson retweeted
An important study that deserves to be shared as widely as possible within the English-speaking world.
Last night, our friends at the *Militarnyi* portal published an English-language article containing a technical analysis of the onboard computer from a Russian jet-powered drone—the "Geran-4."
Of the 105 components identified, 80 come from American companies; Texas Instruments alone (including components from National Semiconductor, which was acquired by TI in 2011) accounts for 58.1% of the total.
In short: this points to a systemic reliance on Western electronics in this Russian attack drone.
For this reason, we have created a separate English-language "quote tweet" with commentary, in which we have tagged @TXInstruments directly.
We would appreciate it if you could share this post. 😉
Please tag journalists, American politicians, experts, and organizations involved in sanctions and export controls in the comments.
Our experience in disseminating such investigations shows that it is crucial to bring these findings to light beyond the Ukrainian "information bubble." They need to be seen by the manufacturers themselves, as well as by journalists, analysts, sanctions experts, American policymakers, and export control specialists.
Regardless of the current policy of the White House, the United States is much more than just a single administration or a single president. They include Congress, the media, industry experts, manufacturers, and government institutions—all of whom can raise the question of how American electronics end up in Russian attack drones on such a large scale. Therefore, such revelations must continue.
@informnapalm xitter.cf/InformNapalm/status/21…
Russia calls this “domestic production.”
Yet in the Geran-4 flight controller examined by Ukrainian specialists, no Russian-made electronics were found at all. Of 105 identified components, 80 came from 🇺🇸 U.S. companies — with @TXInstruments, including components from National Semiconductor acquired by TI in 2011, accounting for 58.1%.
#Russia #US #ExportControls
