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A Friday Rave
by Jacob Grech & Mercedes Zanker
A Friday Rave looks at the ever-increasing influence of the military industrial complex in Australian society and attempts to document the who's who that's swindling you!
Episodes
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Interview with Rawan Arraf - Australian Centre for Internattional Justice
A Friday Rave is joined by Rawan Arraf, Principal Lawyer and Executive Director of the Australian Centre for International Justice to discuss the Federal Court Order against Defence Minister Richard Marles to disclose the list of documents pertaining to export permits and actual exports to Israel...
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Gina's One-Woman Supply Chain and Data Centres
This week we explore Gina's lastest investments in critical minerals projects and her MAGA-style courtship of Pauline and Elon. We talk about data centres, semiconductors, bottle-necks and the South China Sea. And a quick run through of the companies that the cops are using to get data from your...
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Flying Under the Radar: Australian sole-source F-35 suppliers you may not have heard of
Today we talk about the 11th hour adjournment of the case brought by AL-HAQ against Richard Marles for documents pertaining to defence exports to Israel in the Federal Court. And we look at some of the lesser known Australian companies that are sole-source suppliers to the global F-35 program......
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Department of Defence doing the Investor's bidding
Defence has announced increased private investment to bolster the multi billion dollar defence budget. We look into the Advanced Capabilities Investment Fund and some of the companies poised and ready to take up the cash cow. It becomes blindingly obvious that defence decisions are all about the...
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78th Nakba Day, the catastrophe has never ended
It's the 78th year since the first Nakba, but the catasrophe has never ended. The defence budget, the whole of government approach, israel's impunity and australian surveillance planes are all part of the genocidal project. None of us are free until Palestine is free
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A National Stage for Lobbying: Lynas at the National Press Club, Oh and there's a new defence bank
Outgoing CEO of Lynas Rare Earths addressed the National Press Club, so we dig into that as an exercise in lobbying, and trying to convince kids that mining is excellent, nothing to see here. And we have a quick yarn about the recently announced multinational defence bank.
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Everyday is May Day
It all comes back to May Day.... It has always been about workers having a say in how we live.. from when we will and won't work, and what we will do with our time, the dignity of working people. So where are we today? A May Day perspective of working people and our lives today, from the…
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Clinton Fernandes on gas companies winning big from publicly funded surverying, the IMF and impending food crises in Indonesia
We are joined by Clinton Fernandes to discuss the ramifications for food security by the war on Iran, debt as a mechanism for control and how Geoscience Australia conducted the publicly funded gas surveys only to sell the information to private companies to make a killing, and how we are seeing…
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2026 National Defence Strategy: 98 Pages of the same old spin; Pete Hegseth can't tell scripture from film script
We go over Richard Marles' (yes, he's still defence minister) National Press Club address announcing the 2026 National Defence Stategy and Intergrated Investment Policy... A couple of hours of spin to say not a whole lot, but we did it so you don't have to. $53 billion more bucks for defence...
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Ben Roberts Smith and a Government that cares more about authority than atrocity
We talk about the arrest of Ben Roberts Smith on allegations of war crimes, the government seeming to care more about maintaining the authority in the conduct of atrocities rather than the atrocity themselves. And how war is the theft of childhood.
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Albanese the Cringeworthy, War for Extraction and Corporatisation
The pitiful address to the nation.. and all the rest of it
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"We have what you need": Zelensky in Saudi Arabia... and the tech industry is surviving on war
This week we revisit Brave1 in the context of Zelensky's visit to Saudi Arabia to talk weapons transfers. Jumping off of our conversation about the war economy last week, we have a bit of a rave about the tech industry and how war and defence contracts are the only thing propping it up... making...
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An Aberration or Business As Usual? The War Economy.. oh and no need for audits any more
This week we discuss the business as usual that is the US empire; regardless of who's at the healm, it commits the same atrocities but change how they spin it. And the Australian Government goes hand over fist to please them. This is what the war economy is.We also look at what will be the final...
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Sovereignty... in Australia.... yeah, right!
Mercedes is away today, but Jacob raves on about Australian Sovereignty... almost as if it exists.
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Yep: The West is back on Crusade
The first Friday Rave since the War started in earnest.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine... Remember Ukraine?
The War in Ukraine continues.
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What can we say about the Epstein Files that no-one else has already?
The Eptein Files revealed a lot of awful stuff that was illegal... but its the awful stuff that's legal that we talk highlight today
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So, Isaac Herzog was in town... and don't forget to subscribe!
Apologies dear listener for the technical issues with last week's broadcast... no we weren't being intercepted, it was human error on AFR's end...But of course, we discussed Albanese and Herzog's blood-soaked handshakes and how this is exemplary of politics as normal at the helm of global…
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Nuke Subs- Not today, not next decade, not ever... and the Board of Peace Charter
We take a look at the Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine (Pillar 1) Project: Background and Issues for Congress.... 116 pages about the division of labour for the nuke subs that Australia isn't getting. And the abomination that is the Board of Peace Charter, doing away with...
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Revisiting the G.R.E.A.T Plan in the Context of the Board of Peace
Jacob and Mercedes are out of action this week so we chopped together a show about the G.R.E.A.T Plan, the first iteration of the Board of Peace, which we will be dicussing in more detail next week.
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A Friday Rave - Omnibus or Ominous: The New Bill and where it'll lead us... Into the hands of Palantir
This week we go other the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 that was rubber stamped in Parliament this week, and just a few of the glaring issues. We also go back to Palantir, who are waiting in the wings with the technology to aid and abet ASIO, the AFP and other government...
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Saturday Kick Ons - Prediction Markets; A Life or Death Gamble
For the final Saturday Kick Ons of the Summer Series, we go into the dark depths of predictions markets, and the sites that let you gamble on pretty much anything, regardless of how macabre. We dive into how they work, how they are legislated and how they are rife for insider trading while...
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Saturday Kick Ons: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era with Clinton Fernandes
We talk to Clinton Ferndandes about his latest book, 'Turblulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era'. Deep insight into the current and future geopolitical situation and Australia's role in it. You can purchase Turbulence from most booksellers, or ask your local library to get a copy....
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A Friday Rave 9th Jan 2026: Venezuela and the 'International Rules Based Order'; AUKUS Command
This week we discuss Venezuela, the US military incursion and abduction of Maduro, the quest for control of resources and the normalisation of breaking international law, or what remains of it, in the context of the International Rules Based Order championed by the US and Australia. We also have…
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Rotations: with Leon Rosselson
Jacob from A Friday Rave interviewing legendery singer songwriter Leon Rosselson from his home in London
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Saturday Kick Ons: The Post Bondi Enquiry into Intelligence Failures
Today we have a look at who's watching the man that's watching you.
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A Friday Rave: The end/start of the year
Just Jacob having a rave at the start of the year
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Saturday Kick Ons - The Atlas Network - Discussion with Scott Ludlam
The first installment of Saturday Kick Ons, we talk to Scott Ludlam about the murky world of the Atlas Network, and the grip it has on political discourse. The following 3CR programs also feature important discussions on the Atlas Newtork, as mentioned in the episode.Lucy Hamilton on Yeah Nah...
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Throwing Down, New Laws and the State of Exception
A good old fashioned rave about rushed new laws in NSW and Victoria, plus some extra commentary.
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A Friday Rave 12 December 2025 Palantir, Parts & Pricks
A Big Week: F35 parts, the US NDAA and AUSMIN, Palantir and all the rest!Riding roughshod through our brains.
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A Friday Rave 19 December 2025 Bondi
Today, of course we talk about the Bondi Shooting
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Allround Murdering Scumbags - From Impunity for War Crimes to Making Missiles for the US
We discuss the sleight of hand at the War Memorial to hide the war crimes of Ben Roberts-Smith, how impunity for war crimes carries on in the chambers of parliament and of course, the opening of Lockheed Martin's new missile facility in Port Wakefield.
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Venezuela
Venezuela
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West Mallee Protection - Interview with Aunty Sue and information about Southern Launch
We catch up with Googotha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine to hear the latest on impending rocket launches on her Country at the Koonibba Test Range, threatening the safety of her, her family and friends, and the Country. Jacob and Mercedes do a deep dive into Southern Launch, the company conducting the...
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The Whitlam Coup - Global Capital Against the People
We dive into the Whitlam dismissal, not as an anomaly, but a coup carried out by global capital against the people.
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Repeat - Hiroshima and the Companies that Built the Bomb
Due to... reasons, we were unable to do a shw this week so repeated our Hiroshima Day Special from August.worth a relisten.
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Critical Minerals Framework, Venezuela, D Notices and AUKUS Pillar 2
Today, Venezuela, AUKUS Pillar2 and D Notices
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All about Critical Minerals
We look at the deals being made around critical minerals
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F-35s... Again, FOI Laws and an update on Kashmir from Hukus Bukus
Saffron Kingdom on KashmirF35s (again)FOI laws
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The 'Ceasfire', AFP's National Security Investigations and Satellite Launches on Googotha Country
The 'ceasefire'Satellite launches in SA
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The "Great* Trust" Plan for Gaza and the US Department of War
Gaza: The Plan.The Department of War
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US 'Weapons Resupply, Stockpile, and Alliance–Israel Act', the UN, and OPTUS
US: War Reserve Stockpile Allies Israel BillAustralia: Optus.
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eSafety Commisioner Report - Social Media Age Ban, and Weapons Exports
Analysing some key areas of concern in recent Australian eSafety Commissioner report.Jacob's naïveté: Israel's actions and the situation in Palestine worse than any of us could have predicted.
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Two Sides of the Same Coin - Fascism and the Support for the state of israel
the rise of fascism and the continued support of Israel are not two seperate issues.
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The Rise of Australian Fascism
Mercedes is having a breather today, so Jacob is talking about the rise in Australian fascism
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His Gormlessness' Geelong Treaty and UK Submarines
The Geelong Treatythe UK sub industry andwho the hell is Fergus McLachlan?
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"For Your Safety" - More Drones with LAND156 .... and AUKUS
The new type of drone that will soon be everywhere... guarding your safety.oh... and AUKUS
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A Friday Rave looks at the ever-increasing influence of the military industrial complex in Australian society and attempts to document the who's who that's swindling you!
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A Friday Rave is created and hosted by Jacob Grech & Mercedes Zanker.
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