Month: June 2022

Informed Comment

A Final Thought on the Hearings: How Trump Will Be Held Accountable | The Smirking Chimp

In other words, even if he avoids prosecution, even if he is never formally deemed a criminal under the law, Trump will be accountable to history. That is not as satisfying a form of accountability as a criminal judgment, to be sure. But it is a form of accountability that is inescapable. If the committee does its work properly — and I have every confidence it will — it will create a clear record. Which means that for our children and our children’s children — for as far as future generations will know of our recorded history — Donald Trump will live in infamy.

Source: A Final Thought on the Hearings: How Trump Will Be Held Accountable | The Smirking Chimp

Jan 6th

Liz Cheney to GOP and America: Trump did it, and we’re coming for him | Salon.com

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivers remarks during a hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation on June 9, 2022. ( Win McNamee/Getty Images)

 

Thursday night’s public hearing by the House Jan. 6 committee made one thing very clear: Donald Trump is personally in the crosshairs. They are coming for him with receipts, in the form of testimony from some of his closest aides and allies. The committee seems prepared to destroy any pretense that Trump was a casual bystander to the insurrection. In fact, its members are building a case that he actively encouraged it, and that by refusing to take action for many hours that day, he was an actual accomplice.

Source: Liz Cheney to GOP and America: Trump did it, and we’re coming for him | Salon.com

Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon Seems Very, Very Worried Trump Will Be Indicted | Crooks and Liars

Steve Bannon Seems Very, Very Worried Trump Will Be Indicted

Julian Assange has been imprisoned for a decade for publishing the truth he didn’t steal. How is this guy still walking free?

By NewsHound Ellen — June 11, 2022 Bannon’s fever dreams of impeaching President Joe Biden and destroying American institutions is nothing new. But on his podcast (he hates having it called a podcast), he sounded especially triggered by the hearings.

BANNON: Trump won the presidency and he is the legitimate president of the United States and your guy’s illegitimate and the American people are awakening to that. And we don’t care what you have to say and I dare Merrick Garland to take that crap there last night and try to indict Donald J. Trump. We dare you, ’cause we will impeach. We’re winning in November, and we’re gonna impeach you and everybody around you. F**k – screw the White House. We’re going to impeach you and everybody at DOJ.

So what has Bannon so worried? Was it Ivanka saying she “accepted” Trump’s attorney general calling “bulls**t” on the stolen election claims? Liz Cheney teasing that “multiple” congressmen sought pardons from Trump over their role in the January 6th insurrection?

Or are we going to learn some very interesting information about Bannon, who got a suspicious pardon from Donald Trump after swindling millions of their supporters over the “non profit” that promised to build the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for?

Source: Steve Bannon Seems Very, Very Worried Trump Will Be Indicted | Crooks and Liars

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Old Dog Thought- Point of difference. Dutton says they are a danger to Australia

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 12/06/22; Julian Assange, Biloela, “The Mad Left”;

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese shows he’s a big-picture empath – more like Hawke than Rudd or Gillard | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Anthony Albanese takes a selfie with students after delivering a speech at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Bringing people together not apart Anthony Albanese

People tend to think of Albanese as a veteran of the Rudd-Gillard era, and of course he is. But his sensibility and political identity was formed in the Hawke-Keating period.

Source: Anthony Albanese shows he’s a big-picture empath – more like Hawke than Rudd or Gillard | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Informed Comment

Why is Scott Morrison remaining in the Parliament? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So, what could be Morrison’s motivation for staying on? Perhaps his ego is telling him to be patient for another opportunity. Maybe he believes God’s will is for him to fulfil his destiny. Maybe there is another reason. Maybe it’s for the money (though I’m not suggesting it is).

Source: Why is Scott Morrison remaining in the Parliament? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Treasury boss Steven Kennedy’s cure for debt and deficit

Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy says inflation pressures will persist into 2023 “at the very least”.

Albanese has to do what Morrison and Frydenberg didn’t. Have the guts to do and fix that which led us to, and created the crisis we find ourselves in now. Make those that profited from the LNP’s gross generosity pay, and take those steps immediately rather than later….increase their taxes and collect what they haven’t paid.

 Anthony Albanese and his Treasurer, Dr Jim Chalmers, have inherited many problems that won’t be solved quickly or easily. Nor will they be solved without the new government being willing to persuade voters to accept the sort of tax changes no pollie wants to talk about in an election campaign.

Source: Treasury boss Steven Kennedy’s cure for debt and deficit

Peter Dutton

Facebook-Dutton Divulges Defence Secrets to China

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's "loose" comments. (ABC News: Matt Roberts'

National Times 23h ·

Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1613237225725113&id=731244863924358

Banks, Banks Profit

RBA’s rate rise gives free billions to Aussie banks – Michael West

‘’There are two ways to reside in a house. Rent the house from a landlord or rent the money from a bank and become your own landlord. What happens when these prices are out of whack prices will change in the housing market to make them equal again. So if you put interest rates up, the cost of renting money goes up compared to the cost of renting a house and to make them equal again the price of the house must drop”. So any way you cut it, the cost of residing in a house is likely to remain the same before and after these interest rate rises.

Higher interest rates are on their way

Further interest rate rises are expected, with Governor Lowe saying that: “The Board is committed to doing what is necessary to ensure that inflation in Australia returns to target over time. This will require a further lift in interest rates over the period ahead.” With these rises, banks with billions in their exchange settlement accounts will see higher and higher risk-free profits.

Source: RBA’s rate rise gives free billions to Aussie banks – Michael West

Informed Comment

The Two Biggest Questions About Last Night’s Hearings on Trump’s Attempted Coup | The Smirking Chimp

Last night, we learned several things from the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol:

Source: The Two Biggest Questions About Last Night’s Hearings on Trump’s Attempted Coup | The Smirking Chimp

Jan 6th

Jan. 6 Hearings Seek to Remind U.S. That Trump Almost Engineered a Coup

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. President Biden plans a blistering critique of Donald Trump as he marks the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol with a speech that will warn of the dangers of misinformation and subverting democracy. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fox News continues to deny Jan 6th ever happened. It’s a lie, so they won’t broadcast ignorance to America. But, they continue to call themselves the leading corporate agents of news and information in the nation. Just as 88% of America wants gun control  Fox News continues to tell America that’s also a lie.

For a country where few people remember what happened before last week’s verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard case, Thursday night’s hearing provided a gut-punch reminder of the violence of the insurrection.

Source: Jan. 6 Hearings Seek to Remind U.S. That Trump Almost Engineered a Coup

Trump

Truth Social Is Banning Anyone Who Mentions The Jan. 6 Hearing | Crooks and Liars

Truth Social Is Banning Anyone Who Mentions The Jan. 6 Hearing

Former President Donald Trump’s social site describes itself as “Truth Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.” However, unsurprisingly, that’s not true.

Conservatives pretend they are staunch First Amendment supporters, but that isn’t true either. Trump exploded on Truth Social last night during the first of a series of Jan. 6 hearings which revealed that even Bloaty McBatshit’s daughter, Ivanka, didn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen. And over Bill Barr’s testimony. So, Trump’s site started banning anyone that mentioned the hearing because he has tender feelings.

Source: Truth Social Is Banning Anyone Who Mentions The Jan. 6 Hearing | Crooks and Liars

Uncategorized

Tucker Carlson’s counterprogramming for the January 6 hearing spread rapidly on Facebook | Media Matters for America

Jan 6th facebook

What one needs to remember 88% of Americans believe in strict gun control but 88% don’t get that programming they should. The majority of Americans believe there was an attempted coup on Jan 6th with Pence doing his job to prevent it and Trump doing nothing to stop that mayhem. Yet the minority voice is being programmed to megaphone and counter that majority’s voice to that truth as well. American media no longer is the best fit to protect the Constitution and Murdoch leads the revolution to tear it apart.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that Rupert Murdoch fled the UK because he was almost jailed for his transgressions against British media standards. He became an American citizen not for the love of America but the love of his already corrupt business model. He was kicked out of China, Not allowed into Canada or NZ. But has been welcomed into Putin’s Russia.

 

Facebook is bolstering right-wing media attempts to distract audiences from the first televised hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Media Matters compiled and analyzed more than 3,200 Facebook posts from U.S. news and politics pages from June 9 and 10 and found that a video from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight is the top video post about the January 6 committee hearing. The video is also the top performing post overall among right-leaning pages.

Source: Tucker Carlson’s counterprogramming for the January 6 hearing spread rapidly on Facebook | Media Matters for America

Fox News

Fox News refuses to air Jan. 6 violence while trashing hearing as “boring” and “propaganda” | Salon.com

Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Sean Hannity (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Fox News was the only news network not to carry the first day of the Jan. 6 committee hearings as its hosts repeatedly trashed the two-hour hearing without providing their audience any of the content.

Source: Fox News refuses to air Jan. 6 violence while trashing hearing as “boring” and “propaganda” | Salon.com

Racism USA

Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

Central to Jan 6th the Proud Boys admit to the Call of Donald Trump on Jan 6th to Stop the Steal by preventing the certification of the new Government. The Proud Boy’s support for Trump was full aligned with their mutual interest even though Trump’s was more pragmatic self-interest than Nationalistic

Source: Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

Russia

Alexei Navalny poisoning: Documentary captures confession by agents

Alexei Navalny flew back from Germany to Moscow even though he knew he would be arrested immediately in January last year.

Russian agents reveal the their plot to kill Navalny

While Roher filmed, Navalny starts phoning the agents one by one to ask why they wanted to kill him. They hang up immediately so he decides to pass himself off as an investigating official asking why the operation failed.

 Another agent, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, falls for the ruse and spends more than 45 minutes discussing the murder plot.

“We did it just as planned,” he says. “The way we rehearsed it many times.”

Kudryavtsev reveals the poison had been smeared inside Navalny’s blue underpants. He thought the operation failed because the emergency landing allowed Russian medics to treat him quickly with an antidote.

After Navalny revealed the phone conversation on social media, Kudryavtsev disappeared and is presumed dead. While he feels for Kudryavtsev’s family, Roher has no sympathy for the agent.

Source: Alexei Navalny poisoning: Documentary captures confession by agents

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Any notion of “Government Responsibility” to the Nation was fiction for 16 years of this century.

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Australia

Requiem for a lost country | The Shot

Scott Morrison is gone. Although he isn’t dead, something is gone all the same.

He’s alive, but he is gone. Gone from our television screens. Gone to pack the barbecued barramundi lifestyle of Kirribilli House he lived in at our expense. Gone from our news cycle. Gone from the front pages of his fawning tabloids. Gone from our mouths.

Gone from the Australian government. Gone from the Prime Minister’s plane that will never carry his swindling, lying, masquerading bulk again. Gone from our conscience. Gone from our lives, from our daily grind. Gone from our souls. Gone.

A greater fraud and malcontent never disgraced the mantle of Prime Minister. That he was disliked throughout Australia goes without saying. That he was despised as well is truly extraordinary.

Source: Requiem for a lost country | The Shot

Scott Morrison

The Failure of a Faux PM

Looking back at Scott Morrison and the legacy he left behind.

Where do we go from here with a pulpit-loving, personalized-prosperity preaching Pentecostal prime minister who habitually shirks responsibility, who refuses to apologise for even the most minor infraction to avoid accountability and is quite content to allow his ministers to fly under the radar without the threat of a federal ICAC hanging over their heads? A prime minister who increases the secrecy of government, often legislating or introducing bills to avoid scrutiny of cabinet while reducing the freedom of others, silencing them through litigation and costly secret trials that could result in gaol time for speaking out?

Source: The Failure of a Faux PM

Australia

Climate, deportations on Aust-NZ agenda

New Zealand Australia agenda

Watch Dutton keep the divide he and Morrison created between Aus and NZ

International and regional concerns will be on the agenda as NZ’s Jacinda Ardern becomes the first world leader to visit Anthony Albanese as Australian PM.

Should the Australian government cede ground, they can expect a fiery pushback from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who as immigration and home affairs minister oversaw increased deportations.

“It was right to deport them and we’re safer because of having done so,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB on Thursday.

“I don’t want to see the Albanese government walk it back.”

Another major shift is that climate change is back on the agenda, with senior NZ government figures telling AAP the issue was declared a no-go zone under the previous coalition government.

“It’s a huge relief,” one source said. “It hasn’t caused problems in the relationship per se, but it’s just been such an anomaly in that Australia hasn’t been interested.”

Source: Climate, deportations on Aust-NZ agenda

LNP Corruption

Did the Morrison government try to suppress voting in the Northern Territory? | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

Did they restrict voting?

In October 2021, the Coalition introduced a bill to require the electoral commission to ask voters for identification.

Turnout in Lingiari is down from 73.70% in 2016, to 72.85% in 2019, to 66.8% in 2022 (although this may increase slightly as final declaration votes are counted).

Verdict

While some criticism of the Coalition’s attempted voter ID bill is justified,

Source: Did the Morrison government try to suppress voting in the Northern Territory? | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

Australia's Shame

As children, Steve and Noel weren’t counted as citizens, but that didn’t stop them joining the army and heading to Vietnam – ABC News

Indigenous man in a suit with medals watching an unveiling of a statue.

Queensland is unveiling its first monument dedicated to Indigenous servicemen and women, many of whom fought for a country that did not recognise them as citizens.

Source: As children, Steve and Noel weren’t counted as citizens, but that didn’t stop them joining the army and heading to Vietnam – ABC News

Fossil Fuel Industry

Oil Companies Around the World Are Suing to Block Climate Action

Fossil fuel companies are suing countries that enact climate change policies, arguing that they are illegally cutting into their profits — and they’re winning 72 percent of the time. Now governments risk being sued for billions when enacting climate policies.

Source: Oil Companies Around the World Are Suing to Block Climate Action

Informed Comment

Why the televised hearings on the January 6 insurrection will be historic | Robert Reich | The Guardian

‘No president in history has staged an attempted coup to change the outcome of an election.’

They will mark a milestone in the battle between democracy and autocracy. Everyone should tune in and watch them

Those who claim that a president cannot be criminally liable for acts committed while in office apparently forget that Richard Nixon avoided prosecution only because he was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.

Those who argue that Trump should not be criminally liable because no president in American history has been criminally liable, overlook the fact that no president in history has staged an attempted coup to change the outcome of an election.

Without accountability for these acts, Trump’s criminality opens wide the door to future presidents and candidates disputing election outcomes and seeking to change them – along with ensuing public distrust, paranoia and divisiveness.

Source: Why the televised hearings on the January 6 insurrection will be historic | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Fox News

Fox News Viewers Have No Clue: Network Blocks Nearly All Critical Coverage of Donald Trump | The Smirking Chimp

The selling of “Alternative Facts as News”= Fake Product

Ingraham:

They’re all upset that Fox isn’t covering it live. We actually do something called, you know, cater to our audience…

Their audience doesn’t want to hear any news that makes them unhappy so Fox will keep giving them what they want: owning the libs, Dr. Suess and Mr. Potatohead — and white nationalism. ( As you can see, they’ve even got the beloved, charismatic, superstar Steven Miller on as a regular these days.) If “the news” was a person, it could sue Fox News for fraud and win.

 

Source: Fox News Viewers Have No Clue: Network Blocks Nearly All Critical Coverage of Donald Trump | The Smirking Chimp

Fox, Fox News

Capitol crime as Fox News cancels the greatest show in town

Protesters scale a wall at the US Capitol on January 6 last year.

It’s an Orwellian and cowardly move – suppressing rather than heralding the news.

a band of racists, goons, gun-nuts and thugs invading the seat of freedom and democracy, egged on by a malevolent and reckless conman –how this all happened should be of interest to most Americans. Yes?

Well, no. At least that’s a “no” from Fox News. That’s right, the nation’s most-watched news network and the in-house news source for the American right, announced it would not carry the hearings live. Instead, it will run its usual evening line-up of hate-mongering political commentators, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. The network says it will run the hearings on its sister channel, the Fox Business Network, which has a fraction of the viewers, and on its streaming service.

This is plainly a move to minimise the import of the hearing. It’s a political decision, not a news one. It’s designed to reduce any cauterising effect a true account of how the insurrection unfolded might have on Fox’s core viewership.

 

Source: Capitol crime as Fox News cancels the greatest show in town

America's Shame, American Politics

Republican Congressional Candidate: We Need A Leader Like Hitler | Crooks and Liars

Carl Paladino on Fox News

The legitimization of American Neo- Nazis is real and in plain sight

Carl Paladino apparently loves Trump rallies and finds them similar to another foreign leader in history. So do we, but not in a good way.

Paladino was asked by host Peter Hunt how to rile up the people for change.

“I was thinking the other day about somebody had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds. And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him. That’s, I guess, I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational. We need somebody that is a doer, has been there and done it.”

It used to be verboten to even mention the Nazi leader when bashing a political rival in Congress, but Paladino is using Hitler as his inspiration.

With the rise of white supremacy throughout the Republican party and Fox News because of Trump, his comparison will be celebrated.

Source: Republican Congressional Candidate: We Need A Leader Like Hitler | Crooks and Liars

Russia

Russia-Ukraine war: Polish president Andrzej Duda says calls with Vladimir Putin ‘like speaking to Hitler’

Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Duda, in an interview with Bild first released on its YouTube channel late on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), said such discussions only legitimised an illegal war in Ukraine.

“Did anyone speak like this with Adolf Hitler during World War II?” Duda said. “Did anyone say that Adolf Hitler must save face? That we should proceed in such a way that it is not humiliating for Adolf Hitler? I have not heard such voices.”

The conflict in Ukraine, described by Moscow as a “special military operation” to stamp out perceived threats to its security, has flattened cities, killed thousands of civilians and forced more than 7 million people to flee the country.

Ukraine and its Western allies say Russia is waging an unprovoked war to grab territory.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has slammed the leaders of France and Germany over their phone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Source: Russia-Ukraine war: Polish president Andrzej Duda says calls with Vladimir Putin ‘like speaking to Hitler’

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Old Dog Thought- Mates Rates
AUKUS

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Informed Comment

9 Coalition years equal 50 years regression, Dutton notwithstanding

Have you heard the one about how the Liberal leopard changed his spots? He moved from the Government spot to a spot in the shadows to pounce on progress at a future date. (Michelle Pini)

THE MORE the Liberal and National parties talk of change, the more things stay the same.

Apart from the front men (for they are usually men) who are quite regularly replaced or recycled, this is true no matter which Coalition yardstick you care to examine: health, gender equality, education, climate change, Indigenous affairs, the economy, cost of living pressures or corruption.

While the regression in these areas certainly fluctuates in terms of severity, the fact that they remain largely unaddressed by the previous Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison Government is testament to the degree to which the Coalition entrenches inequity across most social parameters.

Source: 9 Coalition years equal 50 years regression, Dutton notwithstanding

ALP Government,

O Lucky Man? Albo out to break the Labor hoodoo – Michael West

Labor is back in power. It is a rare gift. The ALP has held the reins of government for less than a third of the time in Australia’s history. And the party seems doomed to get the call from the electorate just as trouble is brewing.

Source: O Lucky Man? Albo out to break the Labor hoodoo – Michael West

LNP Government

As the world turned to shit, the Coalition turned to religion – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If this didn’t tell you what Morrison and the Pentecostalists were intent on doing then nothing will. They wanted the end to the separation of powers, go the way of Israel and turn Australia into an Apartheid White Christian State. More so they were intent on doing it by stealth. It’s why the religious discrimination bill was their priority if they had won the election.

With all that’s going on in the world – a pointless war, a global pandemic, rampant global heating leading to increasingly severe and compounding natural disasters, superpowers competing over our region, soaring cost of living, rising inflation, unaffordable housing, poverty, social unrest – the last government spent its dying days fighting for a religious discrimination bill we didn’t need and arguing over trans women playing sport.

Source: As the world turned to shit, the Coalition turned to religion – » The Australian Independent Media Network

social welfare

Fear and confusion from jobseekers as ‘dramatic’ changes to Centrelink mutual obligations loom – ABC News

A woman in a blue top standing at a balcony

Major ( LNP ) changes to unemployment services begin in under a month – but many of the 800,000 jobseekers who’ll be affected are still unclear on exactly how.

Source: Fear and confusion from jobseekers as ‘dramatic’ changes to Centrelink mutual obligations loom – ABC News

Informed Opinion

Opinion | When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late | Thom Hartmann

Reasons not to be American Australia.

We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped—the question is what we will do about it.

Source: Opinion | When the US Is Truly Run by These Fascists It Will Be Too Late | Thom Hartmann

American Brainstorm

A Spanish Court Calls: Mike Pompeo, We Want You – » The Australian Independent Media Network

According to the report from Yahoo!News last September, a former Trump national security official claimed that the administration saw “blood” in the aftermath of the release. Ideas and plans were exchanged among various officials to abduct Assange, and even, given the chance, assassinate him.

Source: A Spanish Court Calls: Mike Pompeo, We Want You – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Fox News

Fox News’ ongoing complicity in the January 6 insurrection | Media Matters for America

U.S. Capitol building with Fox logo

Fox’s vaunted “straight news” team will instead provide coverage on its lightly watched sister network, Fox Business. On the main channel, it will be business as usual, with prime-time propagandists Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham airing their regular shows and providing counterprogramming for the Trumpist faithful until 11 p.m. ET, when the “straight news” team will air special coverage of the hearing once much of the audience has gone to sleep.

Source: Fox News’ ongoing complicity in the January 6 insurrection | Media Matters for America

Republican Hell, Republicans

Both Sides Don’t: 44% Of GOP Says ‘Accept Mass Shootings’ | Crooks and Liars

Mass shootings are just a part of life in America and we’ll all just have to get used to it, say 44% of Republicans. Never call them “pro-life” again.

Informed Comment

WATCH: AOC Rips Lax Gun Laws, NRA ‘Blood Money’ During House Hearing

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“For all the billions and trillions that this body authorizes in the name of national security, we can’t even keep our kids safe from their schools being turned into a war zone.”

Source: WATCH: AOC Rips Lax Gun Laws, NRA ‘Blood Money’ During House Hearing

Israel

Israel’s Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

A Coalition of Disagreement about the West Bank’s Apartheid Rule. Israel relies on the fact that the holocaust will never be forgotten but their involvement in acts of State-sponsored genocide like that committed under their supervision at the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon 1983 will.

The “Judea and Samaria Emergency Regulations, Governance and Legal Aid Act,” passed soon after the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories in 1967, put Israelis who squatted on Palestinian land under Israeli law but put the Palestinians under military rule.

Source: Israel’s Crisis in Parliament is a Crisis for its Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank

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Old Dog Thought- At least Dutton back benched the Pentecostalists but not Sky News.

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Informed Comment

Albo’s to-do list: There’s a lot for the new government to fix – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day Labor will deliver a future where no one is held back, and no one is left behind (Anthony Albanese). ( John Lord )

Source: Albo’s to-do list: There’s a lot for the new government to fix – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Media

I watched all of Sky After Dark’s election coverage and have some fucking concerns | The Shot

By cruel editors, I was tasked with watching Sky After Dark’s election coverage. All of it. As if this election wasn’t painful enough on its own. After a four-week long mental breakdown we decided I had seen more than enough horror.

From Rita Panahi’s ‘exclusives’ that are just her ripping stories from Qanon websites in America, to Chris Kenny’s crying about ‘ABC virtue signallers’, to Andrew Bolt’s ramblings about ‘the woke brigade’, to Paul Murray yelling about the ‘mad left’, to Peta Credlin’s constant name dropping of Tony Abbott, to Cory Bernardi’s hosting with all the sense and charisma of a wet Klan hood, to Piers Morgan’s nightly rants about Meghan Markle, to Joe Hildebrand existing; I suffered through it all.

 

Source: I watched all of Sky After Dark’s election coverage and have some fucking concerns | The Shot

Informed Comment

Dutton and Trump politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The mainstream media in Australia is currently whitewashing fascist politics. It is not just sycophantic, or lazy, journalism. It is dangerous.

Without a strong news media, Australia faces a clouded future. Albanese’s government may be able to repair our Rule of Law protections adequately to protect us into the future from the international right’s authoritarian games. The radical right might lose their hold on the Liberal and National parties. We have seen in America, however, that this form of the right is prepared to play the long game. Journalists that help them whitewash their cruellest actions aid them in this plan.

Source: Dutton and Trump politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Peter Dutton

Skilled migration: Business wants the benefit but not the burden

Not just the Worst Health Minister but the Worst Immigration Minister as well. Dutton also noted as the Worst Homeland Minister needless to say he was also the first. But now he’s going for the Quadrella as the Worst Opposition leader. But like Morrison he doesn’t care. He has the job, and that’s what it’s all about not how well it’s done. He’s a step closer to being the Worst PM and outdoing Morrison.

Dutton made Australia’s skilled temporary visa internationally uncompetitive in a world where competition for skilled migrants will only intensify. It was a classic case of Dutton again shooting Australia in the foot.

Source: Skilled migration: Business wants the benefit but not the burden

Education

Indigenous education: New resource seeks to teach Victorian history through Aboriginal eyes

Worawa Aboriginal College principal Lois Peeler and students arrive at the launch of the Aboriginal Change Makers resource.

What the LNP and Peter Dutton want stopped

When Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man Tiriki Onus was a schoolboy, he recalls a year 10 teacher telling the class “that the Aboriginal people of south-east Australia were extinct”.

Source: Indigenous education: New resource seeks to teach Victorian history through Aboriginal eyes

ALP Government,

Assange is still in jail – what can the new government do? – Michael West

Julian Assange, Wikileaks

There are signs that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seems more interested in dealing with the plight of Julian Assange than was the Morrison government. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has to decide whether or not to sign off on Assange’s extradition to the US by the middle of this month. Albanese must act now, writes Greg Barns.

Source: Assange is still in jail – what can the new government do? – Michael West

Informed Comment

The CEO-to-Worker Pay Gap Is Climbing to Truly Obscene Levels

We in Australia have been following American Capitalism blindly for the past decade with the help of the LNP government

A new report finds that the gap between worker pay and CEO compensation continues to grow at some of the United States’ lowest-paying firms. At dozens of companies, the ratio exceeds one thousand to one.

Source: The CEO-to-Worker Pay Gap Is Climbing to Truly Obscene Levels

ALP Government,

Defence faces budget blowout with Aukus nuclear submarines to cost more than scrapped French project | Australia news | The Guardian

American nuclear-powered submarine

The Albanese government faces the prospect of a blowout in defence spending, with analysts warning that the nuclear-powered submarines will cost “significantly more” than the cancelled $90bn French project.

Source: Defence faces budget blowout with Aukus nuclear submarines to cost more than scrapped French project | Australia news | The Guardian

Victorian Election

Energy crisis ‘perfect storm’ requires serious climate action

The State of Victoria

VOTERS will be looking for a party able to ramp up Victoria’s renewables capacity, provide transition certainty to energy workers in the Latrobe Valley, and prove to the world that our state is both serious and ambitious as a leader in meeting the global challenge to mitigate climate change.

Source: Energy crisis ‘perfect storm’ requires serious climate action

Police, What Police Do

The Alternative to Police That Is Proven to Reduce Violence – Mother Jones

“We’ve had an overreliance on policing for decades, so it’s really good to see responses that are not as reactionary.”

Source: The Alternative to Police That Is Proven to Reduce Violence – Mother Jones