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Shadow flights: Australia’s F-35 parts pipeline to Israel now runs through the US

According to new shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia, the first F-35 fighter jet part flown out of Sydney on the new airline and the new route was described obscurely as a ‘Clamp’.

It was however clearly labelled as being for the ‘JSF’, the Joint Strike Fighter, and was marked as having been sent to Israel from ‘2314 Williamtown’, which is the unique postcode address of RAAF Base Williamtown, home of Australia’s fleet of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters. Williamtown is also home to BAE Systems’ Regional Sustainment Depot, which provides repairs and maintenance for the F-35s...

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u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 — 1 day ago
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Atna, Salma, Hananeh, Esra. All four first-grade students of the class were killed in the Minab school bombing.

u/RickyOzzy — 3 days ago

'How To Sell A Genocide' by Adam Johnson has been removed from Sydney's Waverley Library shelves due to an unverified complaint from the Israel lobby's professional paranoid's squad. If you're interested in pushing back against the lobby's insidious push to take over Australia, you can order book👇

https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-sell-a-genocide-the-media-s-complicity-in-the-destruction-of-gaza-adam-h-johnson/199b8436eb0a250a

You can also put your name down to reserve, 'How To Sell A Genocide' at the Waverley Library (if you or someone you know lives there) either by calling the library on (02) 9083 8777, or online at the link below. The more people who reserve the book, the more copies of it the library needs to buy to meet the demand.

https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/library_services/join_the_library

Alternatively, you can reserve or request a copy at your local library near you - something all of you can do today. If you want to do something about Israeli censorship and a foreign government's disgraceful attempt to control what Australians read, then go online today and either borrow, reserve or purchase Adam Johnson's book (pssst - pass this message on through your networks and friends. People power!)

https://preview.redd.it/28wcj9hohakh1.png?width=2188&format=png&auto=webp&s=b86a9ca92a3e603ca133c704ff3499291abcfe36

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

u/RickyOzzy — 1 day ago

"I asked Penny Wong why a former ASIO source with direct knowledge of the Bondi gunman is being denied a visa to give evidence to the Royal Commission. Let's be clear: the ones who benefit from him not giving evidence are those in ASIO with something to hide." - David Shoebridge

u/RickyOzzy — 2 days ago

Why won't Labor pass a Human Rights Act? Because they care more about protecting the state's power to surveil you than your right to privacy. I say enough.

u/RickyOzzy — 3 days ago

Labor is now against what they themselves advocated for when they set up the NDIS: choice and control, community participation. Completely sickening as a government.

u/RickyOzzy — 3 days ago