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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My friends look forward to their picnics on the beach Yes, everybody loves the summertime... 1960s song by Carole King

Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Now England are through to the next round of the World Cup, King Charles should contact FIFA and demand that Quansah's red card be suspended for a year. This competition is becoming a circus with Infantino and Trump the chief clowns.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On the day US Secretary of Defence Hegseth hijacked Europe’s D-Day Commemoration to pontificate on the continent’s supposed failings on migration, 12 people were injured in yet another mass shooting in America. Time to tend your own garden before interfering elsewhere Pete.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The actions of Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and his like are one of the reasons (if not the main reason) why antisemitism is spreading around the world.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Orban accepts “painful but clear” defeat in Hungarian election, while Trump still rants over the result of his 2020 loss to Joe Biden. A European lesson on the civilised transfer of power.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The breathtaking hypocrisy of United States Vice President, JD Vance in standing before an audience in support of Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban to (falsely) criticise the European Union for interference in the Hungarian election.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While I accept that not everyone believes in the value of space exploration, I have found stories about the brave astronauts of the Artemis II’s Moon mission to be a refreshing change from the incoherent rants of the US President over his unnecessary and illegal attacks on Iran.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If the Yemeni Houthis can hurl missiles 2000 kilometres into Israel, what protection is the 30-kilometre so-called Israeli buffer zone in Southern Lebanon? Call it for what it is: Another Israeli land grab.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Despite spending vast amounts on advertising, meal delivery service Lite n Easy makes no provision for the one in 80 Australians who have celiac disease or severe gluten intolerance. In fact, their website offers no immediate dietary warnings as it rushes to design the ideal personalised meal.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I spend time thinking about how best to defend America against threats to her values and society, but my greatest fear is that when we finish paying for defending ourselves with military forces, we will have very little left to defend. - Condoleezza Rice, former Republican Secretary of State.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies...a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, cold and not clothed. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: A modern brick school in more than 30 cities.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Mexico’s ‘social fabric coming apart’ - An Australian academic says the United States policy of sending illegal immigrants and asylum seekers across the border into Mexico should be reconsidered as “Mexico is no longer a safe place to go”. - towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Let’s be clear, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a total sleaze who deserves all he gets – but it does appear he is being set up to take the Epstein flak while prominent US figures are being carefully piloted under the radar by the Trump-controlled Department of Justice.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This is evolving into a pattern: Trump and Vance mouth off with ridiculous and damaging statements that get everyone offside, then the adults come along (in this case Marco Rubio at the European Security Conference) and smooth things over with “what they really meant was…”

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants" – founding father Alexander Hamilton 1787.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Can this get any worse? Trump is virtually accusing the troops of his NATO allies of cowardice on the battlefield during the post 9/11 invasion of Afghanistan. Three facts: UK suffered 457 dead; Australia 41; Danish losses of 43 were the highest per capita of the coalition forces.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Trump’s Davos Envoy, billionaire businessman Howard Lutnik claims globalisation has failed and urges a return to individual countries looking after their interests within sovereign borders – a situation that led to endless wars in the past and, if pursued, would do so again.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A snowless Kashmiri winter, once unheard of, is becoming all too common as climate change bites ever harder in the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A remote island of which we now know a lot towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Does anyone seriously expect the US ICE Agent force to be disbanded after its work is done? Trump is creating a private army, with none of the usual law enforcement restrictions, to be used against those who oppose his will.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Trump official Stephen Miller may wear a blue suit and tie, but his beliefs in a world governed by strength, force and power shows he has not come far from his paleolithic ancestors. His attitude might be right for the days when the weapon of destruction was a stone club, but not in the nuclear era.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

On this day 12 months ago I posted that 2024 had been a terrible year, but there was worse to come. I don't get everything right, but I reckon I was spot on with that.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Trump's newly released National Security Strategy is a clear attack on Europe's institutions and way of life. In the short term it must be resisted. Longer term: A discussion on the possibility the US can no longer be considered a consistent ally in confronting the forces of authoritarianism.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The US justice system has prevailed with Judge Cameron Currie ruling that Trump stooge Lindsey Halligan (pictured) was unqualified to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James — and that Halligan’s very appointment was unlawful.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Given the savage acts of repression Russian forces have meted out to Ukrainian civilians in the areas they have occupied (remember Bucha) can we really expect Kyiv to meekly withdraw its forces from land it still holds in the eastern provinces?

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What a wonderful world: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' on the same day that Israel launches strikes on Gaza killing at least nine.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

James, Comey and now Bolton. We are entering a dark chapter in international affairs.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A dangerous dose of positivity? A report from Big Four accounting firm KPMG has found that 90 per cent of Australia’s top bosses are optimistic on the growth prospects of the country’s economies. - towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

In order to counter the repeated incursion of Russian drones into its territories, NATO should impose a 20 kilometre 'buffer zone' along its borders with Ukraine, in which any unauthorised aircraft/drones will be shot down.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Tragically, Charlie Kirk has become a victim of the very philosophy he upheld. While US gun laws continue to be lax to non-existent, politically motivated assassinations and attempted assassinations are only going to become more frequent.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Time for a new Iron Curtain? towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Government by gerontocracy in a suffering world Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946. I was born on September 19 in that same year. That makes Trump two months and five days older than me.... towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Bannon: Musk isn't an American - deport him. Musk: Bannon is a fat, drunken slob who should be in jail. This is what happens when thieves fall out.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Contrary to White House claims, Trump has not brought peace between Israel and Iran. He has engineered a ceasefire between two antagonistic countries. Peace will come only with a normalisation of relations and an exchange of ambassadors, which would certainly be worthy of a Nobel Prize.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The only 'incitement' in California results from the Trump Administration's draconian round-up of migrants, robbing farmers of labour and businesses of the employees they need to keep operating.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

So sad to see that Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been slapped with another trumped-up charge - four years after he was first jailed - obviously authorities are determined to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Trump-Musk row would be funny, if it did not involve people with so much power to do harm to the rest of the world. The US Administration is a chaotic disgrace - and heaven knows what it will do next.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Trump's assault on Harvard and other US universities is just a 21st Century version of the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Spare us this Coalition chaos - I find it difficult to understand all the hand-wringing that has been going on over the on-again-off-again split in the Coalition in the wake of the Federal Election. towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Irish PM calls for curb on Hungary’s EU veto towardsabetterday.blogspot.com

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In Australia's election, the loser congratulated the winner; the winner thanked the loser for his campaign and wished him well. Contrast this with the vulgar lout who sits in the White House - his constant slurs against his predecessor and his bald lies about how well he is doing for his country.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"Journalism has become a dangerous profession...more than 1,800 journalists and media workers have been killed while pursuing a story since 1992" - actor Maxine Peake speaking about her role as slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the film Words of War.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We must reluctantly begin to accept that the US, under Trump, is no longer on the side of liberal democracies. His siding with the dictator, Putin, over Ukraine is just one example. At home, the free press is under attack though bans, lawsuits and the hand-picking of favourable news outlets.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Trump is using Executive Orders to instruct the Justice Department to investigate two officials in his first Administration who have since rejected his claims that Joe Biden's win is 2020 was fraudulent. He has called one a 'traitor'. This terrible Administration is going from bad to worse.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Sky News reports that millions of dollars in US taxpayers' money has gone to fake social security accounts. Their evidence? A post by Musk on his X account. Not a scrap of follow-up investigation or questioning. Maybe one day Sky News journalists will learn to practice journalism...maybe.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Elon Musk's abusive comment about another Trump official being a 'moron' and 'dumb as a sack of bricks' is another indication he is on the spectrum. He has little idea of the hurt or anger resulting from what he does, marked by his celebration of upending the lives of thousands of Public Servants.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The fools in the White House have totally misjudged the Chinese character which regards 'losing face' as the worst that can happen to an individual/country. They will indeed 'fight to the end' and Trump will not win the trade war he began with Beijing.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The Singapore PM spells it out: The last time we had these protectionist policies was in the 1930s. Trade wars escalated into armed conflict and eventually World War II.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trump seeks to take possession of Ukraine's mineral assets until they have paid for the support the US has provided in the war with Russia - with interest!!!. The so-called peacemaker in the White House seeks to make a profit from war and the misery it inflicts on millions.

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Graham Cooke @grahamcooke1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Is the uninvited visit to Greenland of US Vice President JD Vance, his wife Usha and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz a prelude to a forced takeover of the island? There is little Greenland, or Denmark, could do if this visit is backed by a contingent of Marines.

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