Hanson has tried time and time again to return to parliament. Her success this time around is a reflection of the broader political environment, one in which elite racism has flourished, writes Michael Brull. Now that Pauline Hanson is back in the Senate, we can expect ridicule of her in the mainstream media for theMore
Source: Trickle Down Racism: Without Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson Couldn’t Have Returned – New Matilda
One of Malcolm Turnbull’s strongest supporters has hit out at people unhappy with the PM’s performance.
Source: Election 2016 results: Christopher Pyne condemns ‘cowardly’ anonymous leakers
Hanson’s resurgence combined with a Coalition Government and a renewed racialised right in the Reclaim Australia movement, signal dangerous times for Australian politics, writes John Passant.
Source: The Coalition, Hanson’s resurrection and the rise of racism
Of all the billions ever born, it is we who share the blood of the world’s oldest civilisation on the planet – we have survived, now we must thrive
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis (continued) 11 (Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts) As Bernard Smith, well known academic and art critic, wrote just after the second world war, “support of rich industrialists, post-war chaos, world depression, rising resentment and radicalism, capitalist crisis were present in Australia as in other countries…
BATON ROUGE – (CT&P) – Tanya “Hep C” McGhee, a Trump delegate from Syphilis Springs, Louisiana told CNN last week that she hopes to “land a real man” when she travels to Cleveland in less than two weeks.
“There just ain’t too many guys to choose from down here. All the good ones is taken and the few that are left just want to take advantage of me for my body,” said McGhee, as she wiped tobacco juice from her chin.
When asked why she supported Trump, she said that he really told it like it was and would help run off “all them slant-eyed devils” coming in from southeast Asia and stealing all the good jobs at all the hair salons and “toenail trimmers.”
“Trump is gonna make America great again like it was before we let all them black folks and foreigners come in and take over,” said McGhee. “Obama has done destroyed this country and it’s gonna take a straight talkin’ businessman like Trump to rebuild ‘Murica.”
McGhee said that while she was in Cleveland she’d be staying at the Motel 6 out by the airport and that any ‘real man’ interested in a loving, long-term relationship should make plans to drop by.
McGhee said that she’s optimistic that out of all the neo-Nazis and white nationalists that are planning to attend, there’d be at least one who would make a good husband and dad to her seven young kids.
“There’s got to be at least one guy out there that’ll appreciate a hard-workin’, fun-lovin’, gal like me,” said McGhee.
McGhee said that whoever comes by her room better damn sure bring his own Budweiser because she’s “had it up to here” with freeloaders.
Fourth time in seven years that Britain has intervened to protect Tzipi Livni.
Source: UK thwarts war crimes probe of former Israeli minister | The Electronic Intifada
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out …
Source: 8,124 Murders by Firearm in US vs. 29 (144 equiv.) in UK | Informed Comment
State-owned newspaper says police could not control attackers in Kachin state, the second attack in little over a week.
Source: Mob burns down mosque in Myanmar – News from Al Jazeera
After decades of murky state-mafia relations, many Italians are now used to living with mafias.
Source: The new face of the mafia in Italy – Al Jazeera English
A new book tries to explain how it may be possible to view moral judgements as objective truths.
This is how I know I’m an idiot. This week I bought a Popcorn Maker. You can also find them in the “Pointless Appliances You Don’t Need” section of any department store.
The Iraq War was illegal, according to Lord Prescott, the deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion. The Labour heavyweight used his strongest language yet to condemn Tony Blair’s decision to take part in the Iraq War, a decision he supported at the time. Lord Prescott’s comments come just days after the publication of the long-awaited Iraq Inquiry report by Sir John Chilcot. Writing in The Sunday Mirror the peer said: “I will live with the decision of going to war and its catastrophic consequences for the rest of my life.
If future military disasters are to be avoided, the media must also face up to its mistakes.
Source: Chilcot lets media off hook for selling Iraq war – Al Jazeera English
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has claimed victory in the federal election, as the Coalition edges towards a slim majority in federal parliament.
The last time The Saturday Paper editorialised against Cory Bernardi, the piece carried a Lifeline number. This is some indication of the poison in his politics. At the time, Bernardi was campaigning against the Safe Schools program. The collateral damage in his campaign was among the most vulnerable and mentally at-risk in society: transgendered and same-sex attracted children.
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis (continued) 10 (Power of labour suppressed or eliminated) During most of the twentieth century unions were the dominant force of Australian industrial life. For most of that time they were the point of convergence of many employees. Between 1914 and 1990 at least two in five workers were…
The final moments of a black man shot by US police after being pulled over while driving are captured in a video.
The gunman in a deadly ambush on police was a US military veteran who appeared to be a black nationalist who supported violent black militant movements and expressed fury towards white people, authorities say.
Five police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of recent police killings.
Source: The Shooting of Dallas Police Shouldn’t Surprise You
For the very first time, a drone has been used on US soil to kill an American without trial or charges. Let that sink in hard and long.
Source: A Drone Was Used to Blow up a US Citizen Without Trial Yesterday
Former Prime Minister John Howard addressed the media today telling reporters he does not regret his decision to paint his face orange.
Mr Howard said he disagreed with the assertion that he had lied about tanning his 76 year-old face. “There was no lie. There were errors in intelligence but there was no lie,” he said.
“Were there mistakes in the way I applied the tan? Probably. Should I have thought more carefully about instinctively following the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee’s choice in face-colour? Perhaps. But that’s all very easy to say in hindsight. It was the right thing to do at the time”.
Mr Howard said while he respected people’s varying views, he stood behind his decision. “Of course I defend it. I don’t retreat from it. I don’t believe, based on the information available to me, that it was the wrong decision. I really don’t.”
In unrelated news, Mr Howard admitted his decision to invade Iraq wasn’t based on any intelligence at all.
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s concession speech, which began after his 2013 election loss and was still ongoing at the time of publication, may not be finished before Bill Shorten takes to the stage to concede defeat in the 2016 election.
“The good people of Griffith, the good people of Brisbane, the good people of Queensland, the good people of Australia. To you I say this: I have been honoured to serve as your local member, as a Broncos supporter, and as your Prime Minister. But the time for me to serve you, to serve all of you, is now coming to an end,” Mr Rudd could be heard saying this morning as his speech entered its 33rd month.
Staffers for Mr Shorten said they had given Mr Rudd the wind-up last month and had been given assurances that his speech would be finished by last week. But that timeline is now looking shaky. “He hasn’t even got to thanking his family yet, and there are rumours that he’ll do the whole speech in Mandarin once he’s finished in English. So there’s a real risk of a clash here,” one Shorten staffer said.
Describing the instability in Australia and Britain as ‘cute’ and ‘a good effort’, Americans say they are looking forward to their turn, when they’ll have the chance to tear their country apart properly.
“It’s been really great to see the little things you guys have been doing to inject a bit of unpredictability into your system. You guys are crazy! Now stand back and watch while we totally destroy the fabric of our nation,” one excited American said.
To Australia, one American said, “The little arguments your political parties have amongst themselves are adorable. But I’d like to see you guys step it up a little a find someone who can properly split a party in half”.
He said that Britain could learn from the US experience too. “You guys left the EU. Great start. We’re about to leave reality”.
Bolt says threats came from Islamic State supporter and follows his newspaper column for Herald Sun which suggested if ‘we criticise Islam … we risk death’
Source: Andrew Bolt says he has moved children out of family home after death threats | Media | The Guardian
Barnaby Joyce, quite possibly deputy prime minister.
A reminder that the victims of Jewish and Palestinian violence never encounter the same system of justice. On Thursday Israel’s High Court of Justice rejected a petition to stop the demolition of a home to a Palestinian man accused of aiding three Palestinians in a shooting attack that killed Border Police officer Hadar Cohen in February. The appeal was filed by the father of Bilal Ahmed Abu Zeid, the Palestinian who is accused of providing weapons and transportation to the three men in the attack. In his appeal, Abu Zeid’s father claims that the demolition of homes is an illegal…
Source: What does justice look like for victims of Jewish terrorism? | +972 Magazine
This has been a week of avoidable tragedies. The causes are an abundance of deadly weapons and a society structured to disadvantage millions of citizens
Calls for national unity after sniper, identified as 25-year-old army reservist Micah Johnson, kills five police officers and injures seven others during protest
Source: Dallas shooting suspect stated he wanted to ‘kill white officers’ | US news | The Guardian
A cold-blooded and methodical killer took a casual approach to life and death in the streets of Dallas.
Source: Dallas shootings: How a peaceful protest became a crazed massacre of policemen
The three buccaneers took leave of their senses in invading Iraq – George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard.
Source: Chilcot Report: The mind-boggling incompetence of Bush, Blair and Howard laid bare
Former British PM Tony Blair defends his place in history after the damning inquiry into the Iraq war.
A haggard-looking Tony Blair spent two hours struggling to rescue his reputation from the ruins of Iraq. In his protracted press conference, the former Prime Minister expressed sorrow for the British soldiers killed or maimed after the invasion of March 2003 and offered an apology – but insisted that the world was a better place for the removal of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and the Chilcot report proved he had acted in good faith.
Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry has made a career out of following Hillary Clinton around on the campaign trail – and trying to get a rise out of her on anything and everyth…
Source: ‘Anti-Hillary’ Fox News Host In Hot Water, Mistress Comes Forward With ‘Career Ending’ Texts
Eric Abetz, George Christensen and Andrew Nikolic do not like that pesky GetUp one bit.
Source: Eric Abetz threatens ‘charity status’ of GetUp – Crikey
The first Indigenous woman elected into the House of Representatives labels Pauline Hanson ignorant.
There’s no evidence that South Australia or any other state will “benefit enormously from the free trade agreements the Coalition has signed”, in large part because the Coalition has ensured there isn’t.
Source: The election campaign’s other big lie: the Coalition hasn’t delivered ‘export agreements’
One of the most interesting post-election whinges we’ve seen from the Liberals is Perth MP, Andrew Hastie’s confession that he found it hard to stay on message with Turnbull’s ‘jobs and growth’ campaign, so ended up, in his words, basically running his own show. He explains that he realised he couldn’t keep up the party-line…
Source: The Liberal’s ‘unsellable’ agenda – » The Australian Independent Media Network
A hand grenade is about to enter the House and its name is James Ashby, writes Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones.
The 2016 election has revealed just how compliant Australia’s media landscape has become. In some cases, it’s hardly a surprise. But the failure of the ABC to challenge narratives run by the Coalition is of serious concern, writes Sean Hosking. As the outcome of the federal election has illustrated, we are currently experiencing a crisisMore
Source: Decades Of Conservative Pressure On The ABC Are Paying Off – New Matilda
The prime minister has finally recovered from his nation building tantrum on Sunday morning when he blamed his loss on the Mediscare campaign
Source: I love the smell of recriminations in the morning … | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian
Between 2004 and 2013, around 4,500 children under the age of 18 got married in the state of Virginia. Of these girls, more than 200 of them were aged 15 or under.
We live in a world where people still associate the brutality and cowardice of ISIS with the same people who die at the militant group’s hands.
Source: Despite ISIS Attacks, I’m A Muslim Journalist With Hope
Islam, as many major religions, already teaches peace as a rule — and the Qur’an states that killing one person would be akin to slaying all of humanity.
Ali Abbas still remembers the day his childhood changed forever, however much he might wish to forget. It was March 30 2003. He was 12 “Just a little kid, enjoying my life, going to school, playing football, with lots of friends…” He had fallen asleep with mum Azhar, dad Ismaeel, and ten-year-old brother Abbas all sleeping reassuringly close to him in the same room.
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