“You would expect the Brexit camp to have some pretty solid arguments. Unfortunately, many of them are bullshit.”
Source: John Oliver Slams “Absolutely Insane” Brexit Campaign | Mother Jones
Month: June 2016
The former governor targets Obama after Orlando, while Chachi has some thoughts on the president’s intelligence
Source: 6 worst right-wing moments of the week — Sarah Palin’s bizarre new Facebook rant – Salon.com
In the lead-up to the 2004 election, Health Minister Tony Abbott promised there would be no changes to the Medicare safety net. TICKY FULLERTON: Will this Government commit to keeping the Medicare-plus-safety-net as it is now in place after the election? TONY ABBOTT: Yes. TICKY FULLERTON: That’s a cast-iron commitment? TONY ABBOTT: Cast-iron commitment. Absolutely.…
Source: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Drastic corporate tax cuts have one corporate CEO in the Midwest ready to move his company to another state.
Source: CEO Eviscerates Trickle-Down Taxes in Viral Open Letter
The so-called “dissent channel” cable urges attacks against Bashir al-Assad’s regime for its persistent violations of a shaky ceasefire aimed at bringing an end to
Source: Dissident US diplomats criticize Syria policy – Your Middle East
Speaker of House says delegates ‘write the rules, make the decisions’ as divisions in party threaten hopes of White House and Congress majority
Source: Dump Trump? Paul Ryan leaves door open to Republican convention revolt | US news | The Guardian
Indigenous groups are calling for governments to finally act on the crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment. Friday marks 25 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody tabled its 339 recommendations – among them that imprisonment should be used as a last resort. Since then, the number of Indigenous prisoners behind bars has doubled and their risk of being put there is 13 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians.
Source: ‘A national crisis’: Indigenous incarceration rates worse 25 years on | SBS News
Labor accuses Coalition of abandoning commitment to closing the gap after $500,000 of funding withdrawn
Source: Aboriginal Legal Service to lose federal funding from July | World news | The Guardian
“Treaty yeah, treaty now.” The words of Yothu Yindi’s hit song of two decades since may have been premature but they have proven prophetic. The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has said a treaty is way overdue. He has begun a process to drafting such a settlement with Victoria’s Indigenous people. It is an historic moment.
Source: Stan Grant: Without a treaty and constitutional recognition, no Australian is truly free | NITV
Trump’s modus operandi is to lend his name to a project that others fund, but it’s not working in politics.
Source: Slow-motion train wreck as Donald Trump’s poll numbers sink through the floor
Changing the word ‘racist’ to ‘sexist’, and ‘last Friday’ to ‘last Sunday’, media personality Eddie McGuire has given his apology template a nip and tuck before tomorrow morning’s radio show.
“There are really only a few words to change,” McGuire told reporters. “My secretary has set up a Word document with drop down boxes so I can choose the appropriate word to use in the key places. It’s really quite easy”. He conceded, however, that the term ‘drowning a female journalist’ wasn’t on the list. “She had to add that one in!”
McGuire said the majority of the speech remained unchanged. “The bit about ‘if anyone was offended’ – that stays the same’. And I’ve kept in the terms ‘out of character’, ‘brain fade’ and ‘let the footy club down’ in there as well. So I’m feeling pretty good about it really”.
McGuire’s apology will air on Triple M on Monday morning, and then again next month on a date to be confirmed.
The Exclusive Brethren church has denied that it is “resolutely anti-gay”, even though it mistreats its gay members, and has launched political campaigns against the rights of LGBTI people for over a decade.
Source: Liberal donors the Exclusive Brethren deny being anti-gay. Here’s proof they are
Ana Kasparian, Brett Erlich, Kenny Hamilton, & Meredith Planko | (Young Turks Video) | – – “FBI director, James Comey, …
Source: FBI Director Schools Trump On American Muslims | Informed Comment
Radicalised and radicalising, Hanson represents a crop of anti-Muslim agitators currently running for Parliament. Incredibly, in a video released in the wake of the Orlando tragedy, her rhetoric has extended anti-Muslim politics to an even darker place, writes Max Chalmers. If Pauline Hanson was brown, there would be government taskforces trying to make connections withMore
Source: After Orlando, The Danger Of Pauline Hanson Becomes Apparent – New Matilda
Donald Trump declares that the Orlando nightclub massacre shows that he “was right on Islamic terrorism” all along, once again chiding Obama for avoiding that label. Hillary Clinton for the first t…
Receipts and invoices show shooter’s links to the US-based National Alliance.
Source: Alleged Killer of British MP Jo Cox Had Ties to a Neo-Nazi Party | Mother Jones
Thomas Mair appears in court charged with the murder of MP Jo Cox.
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis . . . Disdain for the importance of human rights (continued) The Report provided unprecedented direct evidence of the negative effect of immigration detention on children. Prolonged detention was clearly and unequivocally shown to have serious negative effects on the mental and emotional health, as well as the…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott (Part 17)
British documentary maker Louis Theroux hits out at Donald Trump, Westboro Baptist Church for sowing fear, hate.
His drawing says it all.
But there was one missing, of course.
Source: Everybody Lost Their Collective Shit For Labor’s Former Prime Ministers – BuzzFeed News
A plebiscite on same-sex marriage risks being a national catastrophe.
Source: Australia’s same-sex marriage plebiscite is unnecessary, wasteful and dangerous
Either way it goes, there’ll be repercussions.
Source: Britain’s Brexit Battle To Reverberate Around The World
The stories of the British aristocrats who converted to Islam.
Source: The Victorian Muslims of Britain – News from Al Jazeera
At a meeting in Vienna, Europe’s major far-right parties rant against EU, “radical Islam” and asylum immigrants.
Source: Europe far-right leaders join forces against Islam, EU – News from Al Jazeera
A humane member of parliament has been murdered for the sanctified cause of Britain First – and immigrants last.
CIA Director John Brennan has told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen had “no direct link” to the self-proclaimed Islamic State or any other extremist network, although Brennan said Mateen was inspired by ISIS. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for data from multiple Facebook accounts allegedly associated with Omar Mateen. In the letter, Senator Johnson claimed Mateen had posted on Facebook calls for the U.S. and Russia to stop bombing campaigns against ISIS.
Source: CIA Director: No “Direct Link” Between Omar Mateen and ISIS | Democracy Now!
In a live-streamed speech, the Vermont senator made it clear he is no longer actively challenging Clinton and that the goal is to ‘defeat Trump badly’
Source: Bernie Sanders says he will work with Hillary Clinton to stop Donald Trump | US news | The Guardian
A journalist’s recent Facebook status update destroying the myths about the Orlando shooter is quickly going viral.
Source: The Shortest and Most Powerful Explanation of the Orlando Shooter I Have Ever Seen
We know the Orlando shooter was employed by a company with sensitive Homeland Security contracts. He was also interviewed by the FBI twice, so we must ask if he was goaded on like many others, said Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute.
Source: ‘Majority of terrorist attacks in US initiated by FBI, not terrorists’ — RT Op-Edge
On the idyllic island of Lindau, in 2014, everything looked fine. But 15 Nobel Laureates warned otherwise.
Source: When 15 Genius Economists Sound the Alarm, We Should Listen | POV | OZY
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis (continued) 2 (Disdain for the importance of human rights) Demonisation and marginalisation of those who are ‘different’ – ‘difference’ being an important concept which has a particular meaning in everyday’s language as spoken in Australia – may lead to the acceptance in war and even in peace that…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott (Part 15)
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott .( Part 14)
By Peter McCarthy In political history Australia generally follows America by about a decade, although that distance may have shortened up more recently. And by watching the US we have avoided the more extreme outcomes like undue influence from religious elements or other extreme lobbyists. We started to head in the same direction but pulled…
Source: Australia shows America what you get with a Trump – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The answer to the question “Who’s your daddy?” has never been more important.
1 As if to support my contention yesterday that if the Coalition wins the election Tony Abbott will at some time challenge for the leadership of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton confirms it. Dutton says that Turnbull will be under pressure to give Abbott a portfolio. If Turnbull was to consider it, it would raise…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | “American attitudes on refugees from the Middle East”: A Public Opinion Poll by …
Source: Despite Terrorism fears, 59% of Americans Welcome Syrian, Iraqi Refugees | Informed Comment
By Christian Marx Australia is rapidly heading towards a completely stupefied populace. This is no accident! Rather, it is a concerted effort by the vested corporate interests that own all our mainstream media, and control the LNP, via their hardline, crypto Fascist organisation, the Institute of Public Affairs. If one believed the media narrative, one…
Source: 2 + 2 = 5. AKA: The Dumbing Down of Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Andrew Bolt projectile vomit in print
Turnbull dines with pet Muslims
People who like money too much ought to be kicked out of politics, Uruguayan President José Mujica told CNN en Español in an interview. “We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” Mujica said in the interview. “So it seems to me that we [heads of state] should […]
Source: ‘World’s Poorest President’ Clearly Explains Why It’s MANDATORY To Kick Rich People Out Of Politics!
Uruguay’s departing leader, Jose Mujica, has acquired almost celebrity status, not just for his political achievements, but also for his humble lifestyle, writes the BBC’s Wyre Davies.
Source: Uruguay bids farewell to Jose Mujica, its pauper president – BBC News
High-profile English fans have been targeted by Russian gangs who want to remove them as the perceived “top dogs” of football hooliganism, intelligence sources have told the Independent, as more supporters gather in Lille ahead of Roy Hodgson’s side’s match against Wales.
By Ken Wolff Late in the 1970s Keynesian economics was largely abandoned when it failed to explain the stagflation that had occurred during that decade. Recently, in my piece ‘What economic plan?’, I quoted an Australian analyst with the CBA who suggested that recent national data released by the ABS was showing ‘bizarre’ results, an…
Source: Time for a new economic model – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
Source: Election 2016: Behind the battlelines there’s surprising agreement on climate change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando …
Source: Omar Mateen and Rightwing Homophobia: Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism? | Informed Comment
Progressives need to find the intellectual dexterity to conceive of Muslims as both victims and perpetrators of dangerous bigotry.
Source: Unpicking radical Islam’s pathological obsession with sex
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regulars at Pulse Nightclub are saying that Omar Mateen, the alleged …
Source: Top 7 ways to tell if Someone is lying about being a ‘Salafi Jihadi’
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