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via Why you should stop saying “all lives matter,” explained in 9 different ways – Vox
Month: June 2020
With nowhere to park their money companies are buying shares back and the Stock Market is rising just as it did before the Great Depression which saw the greatest crash since the Dutch Tulips failed. (ODT)
Trump allies back away from his response to the protests
Perhaps the surest sign that the President’s actions over the past week may be backfiring are the Republican politicians who are now distancing themselves from Donald Trump.
via Donald Trump’s Bible photo opportunity during the George Floyd protests could cost him – ABC News
We saw Bashar, Saddam, Qaddafi, do it and now Trump is following in their footsteps (ODT)
via Trump’s Plan to Use the Military to “Dominate” American Cities Must Be Stopped
News Corp is sliding down the line (ODT)
Stan Grant can’t not but see that 200 years have passed but Colonial thought and the systems that came with it haven’t changed that much in Australia. To our shame we aren’t able to face the truth of our history which remains an unhealed wound scabbed over rather than pealed back and aired, (ODT)
Trump could sit on live TV, peeing his pants and whimpering that the protesters are coming for him, and his base would stick by him and claim to see courage in the urine puddles below his chair, just so long as he keeps the racism and the lib-triggering coming. They know he’s a “Bunker Boy,” but will pretend they don’t see it until the bitter end.
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There is apparently no limit to what the United States and Israel can get away with without any consequences. The United States has been waging devastating economic warfare against Iran and Venezuela while also blaming China for a global health crisis that it is unwilling to help address due to its withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Israel meanwhile is planning on illegally annexing significant parts of the Palestinian West Bank in July, with a green light from the Trump Administration, and no one in Europe or elsewhere is even interested in initiating serious sanctions that might lead to the postponing of that decision. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has even stated flatly that the remaining Palestinians who would be annexed will not become Israeli citizens – they will instead be “subjects” of the Jewish state with no guaranteed rights or privileges.
The response of socialist Cuba to the global SARS-CoV2 pandemic has been outstanding both domestically and for its international contribution. That a small island nation, subjected to hundreds of years of colonialism and imperialism and, since the Revolution of 1959, six decades of the criminal United States blockade, can play such an exemplary role is due to Cuba’s socialist system. The central plan directs national resources according to a development strategy which prioritises human welfare and community participation, not private profit.
Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic – CounterPunch.org
Consider this — 58 per cent of American registered voters support “calling in the US military to supplement city police forces” in addressing the George Floyd protests across America. Only 30 per cent oppose.
That’s according to independent polling this week by Morning Consult.
Probably the most chilling thing about watching that video of George Floyd die — or for that matter, the video of that Indigenous Sydney teen — is the supreme confidence and surety with which the police acted. There’s not a moment’s hesitation or restraint.
In the Floyd case, even the passage of eight minutes, with time to realise the gravity of the situation, with bystanders pleading for the officer to stop, makes no difference. Nor does the fact of being filmed. There’s no sense of shame, contrition or even uncontrolled excess. It’s all done with a kind of moral lightness. There is only power, violence and a sense of entitlement to both. It is the conduct of the secure, the unquestioned. That only underscores the monumental task of these protests: to mount a blasphemous argument and win.
A cursory glance at the government’s recent activities leaves a clear – and unsavoury – impression that the Coalition is intent on ignoring any immediate need to make rapid steps to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Quite the contrary.
They are avoiding listening to any dissenting voices, by excluding any involvement, other than by manufacturing and fossil fuel magnates, in the COVID-19 Commission.
via Democracy or Dictatorship? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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In the technology sector, sleep apnea company ResMed and hearing implant maker Cochlear dominate their global niches, while tna Solutions is a global success story in the manufacture of food machinery.
But to make more of the enormous potential of Australian manufacturing, our policy settings need a complete reset.
We can no longer rely on our natural comparative advantaged in raw materials for prosperity, or even for survival. We must build national competitive advantages.
And that means we have to learn to make things again.
via Pandemic reveals Australia vulnerable from narrow, fragile manufacturing base
Reich recounted the Trump non-response to pandemic, protests and a collapsing economy, concluding that the president is not a president at all. Some might feel uncomfortable with that idea. After all, like him or not, he has the title. But Reich’s argument is that the title doesn’t make you a president; being a public servant requires performing your duties for the common good.
via Resisting Rotten Leadership: from Mencius to Robert Reich
Guys, we found an instance of voter fraud and it is pretty blatant! This person tried to use an out-of-state address to get a mail in ballot for Florida. You can’t do that – it is FRAUD! VOTER FRAUD! The exact thing that Donald Trump and the Republicans warned us about.
But wait. Who was this criminal? This scammer? This evil liar who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? This person trying to stuff the ballot box from afar?
IT IS NONE OTHER THAN DONALD J. TRUMP!
via Guess Who Got Caught Trying To Commit Voter Fraud? | Crooks and Liars
Few people are as responsible for the state America is in as Lachlan Murdoch and his family. Don’t let this new statement persuade you otherwise. Fox News viewers for sure will not.
Trump denies use of tear gas on Washington DC protesters
When you push people beyond their capacity to understand their victimisation you can hardly expect them, during demonstrations, to behave rationally.
The greatest showman, or the greatest threat? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
One of my close friends was a flight attendant. I was staying at her place when, late one night, a high-profile sports celebrity rang to say he was in town overnight and would send over a taxi to pick her up.
The classic booty call.
And this is exactly how our government behaves and expects us to be grateful.
You have a crippling drought? They fly in, have their photo taken, offer you a gift which may or may not eventuate, and then head off into the sunset.
Same with bushfires. Ignore you, then turn up wanting a cuddle, before they move on to their next photo opportunity.
But in the case of the George Floyd protests, right-wing attempts to blame everything on antifa – perceived by many to be predominantly white – evince a kind of racism that assumes that black people couldn’t organise on this deep and wide of a scale. Trump and his allies also have a more specific motive: If the flames and broken glass were simply blamed on “antifa” or “outsiders” – as if anyone had to travel very far to protest – then the urgency would shift from addressing the root causes of Floyd’s death to figuring out how to stop the shadowy boogeyman Trump rails against. Even if you disagree with property destruction, it’s easy to see the chain of events between Floyd’s death and burning police cars. Trump’s misinformation aims to mislead us all.
via What is antifa and why does Donald Trump want to blame it for the violence in the US?
Donald Trump is attempting to drum up hysteria about antifa to clamp down on protest and dissent in the United States. Don’t let him.
via Donald Trump’s “Antifa” Hysteria Is Absurd. But It’s Also Very Dangerous.
Republicans have, as I said, spent decades exploiting racial hostility to win elections despite a policy agenda that hurts workers. But Trump is now pushing that cynical strategy towards a kind of apotheosis.
On one side, he’s effectively inciting violence by his supporters. On the other, he’s very close to calling for a military response to social protest. And at this point, nobody expects any significant pushback from other Republicans.
Now, I don’t think Trump will actually succeed in provoking a race war in the near future, even though he’s clearly itching for an excuse to use force. But the months ahead are still likely to be very, very ugly.
After all, if Trump is encouraging violence and talking about military solutions to overwhelmingly peaceful protests, what will he and his supporters do if he looks likely to lose November’s election?
via ‘A terrifying performance’: Donald Trump is close to inciting civil war
Now more and more people can finally see what few of us have been repeating for years: The entire world has its neck squashed by the U.S. boot. The entire world “cannot breathe”! And the entire world has to fight for its right to be able to breathe!
via ‘The world cannot breathe!’ Squashed by the USA – a country built on genocide and slavery
Trump’s excuse that Antifa is behind the mass uprising is just that a moronic excuse.(ODT)
A total of some 400 cities in all 50 US states – as well as in the territories of Guam and North Mariana Islands – witnessed protest actions over the weekend. And even though most of the rallies were peaceful, some American cities turned into real riot hotspots as angry crowds attacked police officers, who responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters.
via Almost 400 cities in EVERY US state join wave of protest over George Floyd death — RT USA News
Trump represented, and represents, an unadulterated evil that not only transcends politics, but even the rudiments of human decency. Underneath all his puerile rantings the media so love to dissect resides a sociopath who, if not for his money, would have been incarcerated, instead of idolized, long ago.
Someone else Trump will without question blame. (ODT)
That brings us to the present day. On the one hand, this history doesn’t mean that the FBI or local police are currently acting as provocateurs during the current unrest. But it does mean that such activity is clearly one avenue that is open to U.S. police forces looking to undermine protests and escalate violence.
via A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests
The Australian embassy in Washington, DC will investigate an apparent assault by the US police against two Aussie journalists. The pair were roughed up live on air while covering a protest outside the White House.
A crew working for the outlet 7News was targeted on Tuesday while reporting from a demonstration in the US capital against police brutality. Correspondent Amelia Brace and cameraman Tim Myers were battered as the police cleared a protesting crowd, footage of the incident showed. Brace was hit with a baton, while Myers was attacked with a riot shield.
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