Tuesday 12 July 2012 I really couldn’t let this pass. You know when you are watching someone make a fool of themselves and you find yourself cringing. Such a time was while in bed on Monday night Q&A. My wife was so affronted I had to quieten her down because our dog started going off…
A teenager who was fatally shot in Melbourne’s north is being remembered by the football club who embraced the “passionate sportsman” after he arrived from Afghanistan.
Source: ‘Real family kid’: Footy club pays tribute to slain teen Rahat Khan
Labor senator Sam Dastyari has warned there is something “fundamentally wrong and rotten” with Australia’s entire political system, claiming there are 10 huge companies with so much power and influence they have killed proper democratic process at the federal level in this country.
Source: Labor senator Sam Dastyari claims 10 companies have taken control of Australian politics
Saturday 16 July 2016 1 I was walking through our local newsagency this week when I happened to notice a book titled “Worth Fighting For”. The author’s name was Andrew Bolt. Not knowing that it was a new title I thought it must have been the original book he had written. Anyway I picked it…
Source: Day to Day: Politics: The book that never Bolted. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
As a military helicopter was downed in Syria by Islamic State, resulting in the deaths of two Russian pilots, RT sits down with political analyst Catherine Shakdam, who says that while soldiers die fighting terror, some governments continue pushing for their political agendas.
Source: ISIS downs chopper in Syria: Where do their weapons & intelligence come from? — RT Op-Edge
By John Scales Avery | (Inter Press Service) | – – COPENHAGEN, (IPS) – As many observers around the world …
Source: Can Americans get back their Democracy from the Oligarchy? | Informed Comment
Back in 2007, scientists reported that a French man in his mid-40s had walked into a clinic complaining of a pain in his leg. As a child, he’d had this sam
Palestinian Jerusalemites face growing danger in their hometown.
Black Lives Matter supporters marched the streets of Philadelphia for the sixth day in a row on Monday. This time, most of the participants were white.
Source: Chanting ‘Black Lives Matter,’ White Protesters Take Philadelphia Streets
Basically, a bloke called Graham decided it.
Source: Why Britain Suddenly Has A New Prime Minister, Explained For Americans
Fox News host Sean Hannity, in the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack that killed at least 77 in Nice, France, claimed that “no-go zones actually do exist in France,” where only Muslims are allowed and the government has no control.In January 2015, after Steve Emerson claimed on Fox News that there are parts of France and England “
Source: Hannity Uses Attack In France To Push Muslim “No-Go Zones” Myth That Fox Previously Apologized For
Australia has been issued with an unusually blunt warning from China.
“It’s not as difficult as people think it is.”
Source: Transgender Guys Are Finding Acceptance In This Australian Country Town – BuzzFeed News
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis . . . Obsession with crime and punishment (continued) There are, it seems, no active union organisers – only “union thugs”. In 1998, during a protracted waterfront dispute, the Australian stevedoring workers were accused of costing the economy billions of dollars a year and to be denying others…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment (Part 42) –
France has a long history of protest and terror attacks from a range of different groups.
Source: Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: why France?
It is a nation built on the abolition of slavery, but there are at least 40,000 slaves in the US today.
Are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African and Spanish descent discriminated against in Israel?
Conversative Party’s May has driven extreme policies that surveil and criminalize Muslims, migrants and refugees
Yeonmi Park, 22, is in the rare position of being able to contrast Western societies with the secretive, authoritarian state of North Korea. Park, who grew up in the North Korean city of Hyesan, told Business Insider that her childhood was dominated by hunger pangs — especially when she was 9 and her father was imprisoned after being accused of trading goods on the black market.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly turned down an offer from the Trump campaign to be the presumptive Republican nominee’s vice-presidential running mate. Sources told CNN reporters Dana Bash and Elise LaBott that Donald Trump’s team had “reached out to Condi Rice in [the] last few days,” Ms Bash tweeted, adding that Dr Rice “had no interest” in the role.
The Liberal Democrats have denounced the decision to appoint Boris Johnson as foreign secretary – saying Theresa May has “lost credibility after 90 minutes as Prime Minister”. The party, which has pledged to campaign on a platform of remaining in the EU at the next election, said the appointment showed Ms May was “not serious” about negotiating a deal with with Europe and the rest of the world.
The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center and released last week, also shows that 9 percent of Sanders supporters intend to vote for Donald Trump.
After Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox CEO Roger Ailes, Fox News personalities have rushed to defend Ailes while disparaging Carlson’s character, dismissing her allegations, and accusing her of having ulterior motives. Their response mirrors the false tropes the network hosts push in their sexual assault coverage.
Schools associated with the Church of Scientology are receiving more government funding per student than hundreds of Australian public schools.
Source: Public funding for schools associated with Church of Scientology revealed
China says its armed forces will defend its sovereignty and maritime interests.
Source: Tribunal Rules Chinese Have No Legal Claims Over South China Sea
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Pew Research has released a report saying that “As a whole, …
Source: Is Religion really Driving Middle East Violence? | Informed Comment
We need to create human societies from people of many different backgrounds.
Former Liberal Pauline Hanson would be readily at home in modern LNP.
Source: Andrew Bartlett: Pauline Hanson would be at home in modern Liberal Party
I wanted to make the point to Australia’s attorney general that cuts to legal centres abandon women who need help the most. I never got to make that point
Broadcaster Steve Price has told The Project’s Carrie Bickmore that he stands by his comments against ‘hysterical’ Van Badham ‘because I think I accurately described how Van Badham was behaving’.
Source: Steve Price claims on The Project that he was ‘ambushed’ in controversial Q&A comments
The Israeli army sprayed herbicides in the Gaza Strip late last year, causing damage to hundreds of acres of Palestinian farmland. Now the farmers want an investigation — and compensation. A number of Palestinian farmers are demanding compensation from the State of Israel for damage their crops and land sustained as a result of the IDF aerially spraying herbicides inside the Gaza Strip last year, a practice first confirmed by +972 Magazine. [tmwinpost] In late December, the IDF confirmed to +972 that it used crop-dusters to kill off vegetation — and perhaps inadvertently, agricultural crops — inside the Gaza Strip.…
Source: Gaza farmers demand IDF compensation for herbicide spraying | +972 Magazine
Colombia’s government and rebel commanders hope Farc will become a leftist political party but members fear giving up weapons will make them vulnerable
Source: ‘Unarmed, we are nothing’: Farc guerrillas wary of future without guns | World news | The Guardian
TeleSur | – – U.S. state and local spending on prisons and jails grew at three times the rate of …
Source: White House Admits Prison spending has grown 3x as fast as Education for Decades | Informed Comment
Media mogul, who was gung-ho for the invasion of Iraq, now wants us to believe he – and the Sun – were taken in by Britain’s prime minister
Source: Was Rupert Murdoch fooled by Tony Blair’s pro-war ‘silky oratory’? | Media | The Guardian
In June, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump far outpaced presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in interview airtime on cable and broadcast news programs. Trump also held a wide lead in the number of mentions on the three major cable news networks.Trump essentially clinched the Republican nomination in May, and
Source: STUDY: As The General Election Looms, Trump Retreats To Fox News
“How do you stop a lunatic? … This is not a political issue.” Andrea Tantaros on Fox News in 2012 after a racist skinhead shot a police officer in Wisconsin during a rampage.Stampeding their way to the Blame Game starting gate, Fox News commentators have been relentless in their recent claims that President Barack Obama himself des
Source: For Fox News, There’s No Collective Blame When Political Cop Killers Are White
Investigative journalist Michael West takes a look at the masterminds of multinational tax avoidance, the “Big Four” global accounting firms of PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young.
Source: Tax havens and the “Big Four”
Reminding women not to talk over him when he’s interrupting them, radio broadcaster Steve Price today made it clear that he will be the one who decides when he’s being degrading towards women or not.
Mr Price said it was time for women to calm down and let him handle the situation. “I am very close friends with several people who know women. So please just be quiet and wait for me to let you know if what I’ve said is offensive,” Mr Price is believed to have said.
“There’s a time and a place for you to speak up about these things. And I’ll be more than happy to tell you when that time and place is. Until then, please, don’t lecture me about this. There’s nothing you need to worry about. I’ve got this under control”.
After Steve Price dismissed a woman as being “hysterical”, literally while she was explaining how dismissive attitudes to women feed into a culture of gender-violence, Van Badham delivered the coup de grace.
Source: Q&A recap: Steve Price’s ‘hysterical’ insult prompts a mic drop from Van Badham
The right-wing politician and her One Nation Party have been voted into Australia’s senate.
Source: Australia’s Pauline Hanson wins on anti-Islam ticket – News from Al Jazeera
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis . . . Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts (continued) In 1987 Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, the Country Party (Agrarian Socialists) longest-serving Premier of Queensland, delivered himself as follows: “The greatest thing that could happen to the state and the nation is when we can get rid of…
Roger Ailes biographer and New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman is reporting statements from six more women detailing alleged sexual harassment by Ailes.Earlier this week, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit in civil court in New Jersey accusing Ailes of repeatedly sexually harassing her, dismissing her complaints
Source: An Additional Six Women Detail Alleged Sexual Harassment By Fox News Chief Roger Ailes
While right-wing media would want us to believe that there’s a “war on cops,” no statement could be further from the truth.
Source: 4 Facts Debunking the Media’s Lies About the ‘War on Cops’
The Netherlands has so many empty prisons that many of them are now being used to house refugees or store prisoners for Norway and Belgium.
Source: The Netherlands Has a Unique Problem — Empty Prisons
The man who was instrumental to publicizing the Alton Sterling video was arrested less than 24 hours later on charges of “assault and battery.”
Source: Police Arrest Man Who Posted Video of Alton Sterling’s Death
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