Month: September 2022

Murdoch Media

A case study in hypocrisy from Tucker Carlson | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson standards are set and approved by by Lachlan Murdoch and News Corp. Otherwise he’d simply not be there.

here’s a telling example involving Tucker Carlson, the Fox News prime-time host who stands above all others as the face of that network.

While other networks were carrying Biden’s speech on Thursday, Carlson lashed out at him, then mischaracterized the remarks to his viewers as the president claiming “anyone who disagrees with him is a threat to the country.” Based on that false characterization, Carlson termed Biden’s remarks “very dangerous,” “totally immoral,” and “truly nuts and threatening to the future of the United States.”

Carlson was still using his fabricated version of Biden’s comments to frighten and anger his viewers five nights later. On Tuesday, he lashed out at cable news commentators who had praised the speech.

Source: A case study in hypocrisy from Tucker Carlson | Media Matters for America

Polls

Poll: Biden now leads Trump by widest margin in 6 months

President Biden sits at a desk during a Cabinet meeting.

The poll found that if the next presidential election “were held today,” 48% of registered voters would choose Biden, while 42% would choose Trump. Biden’s new 6-point lead is 3 points larger than his edge in the previous Yahoo News/YouGov survey from late August (Biden 45%, Trump 42%) and 4 points better than his average lead across all Yahoo News/YouGov surveys conducted between April and July (Biden 44%, Trump 42%). The poll’s margin of error is approximately 2.6%.

President Biden sits at a desk during a Cabinet meeting. President Biden during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The last time Biden led Trump in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll by 6 percentage points or more among registered voters was in March 2022 (Biden 47% to Trump 39%). The time before that was in May 2021 (Biden 48% to Trump 39%). Notably, Biden’s support today (48%) matches those previous highs.

Source: Poll: Biden now leads Trump by widest margin in 6 months

Trump

Ex-FBI Official Says Trump’s Nuclear Information Had High ‘Price Tag’
Show me the Money

Last month, Trump dismissed the idea that there were any nuclear documents in his possession. However, The Washington Post reported this week that the files seized from Mar-a-Lago included information about a foreign government’s nuclear defense capabilities.

Ex-FBI Official Says Trump’s Nuclear Information Had High ‘Price Tag’
Fascism

Trump Judge’s Ruling in Mar-a-Lago Case Proves Biden Was Right: MAGA Is Fascism | The Smirking Chimp

It had been little over a week since President Joe Biden called Donald Trump and his supporters “semi-fascist” when a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon of Florida, proved Biden’s point. While most Americans were too busy enjoying Labor Day cookouts to pay much attention to the news, Cannon let loose with a decision breathtaking in its disregard for both the law and the judicial branch’s legitimacy.

Source: Trump Judge’s Ruling in Mar-a-Lago Case Proves Biden Was Right: MAGA Is Fascism | The Smirking Chimp

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- The Dutton Plan Americanise Aus Politics

Fighting Fake News with REAL 8/9/22; USA Implosion; Dutton intends to Americanize Aus Politics, Timber Mafia,Permanent decline of Aus Coal Disaster Costs 2022;

Bye bye Democracy, Democracy, Democracy Now

Australians must not ignore the Religious Right’s global warnings – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A man stands praying against a cross in front of Congress in Washington

Australians have begun to see the new face of extreme religion in our “conservative” politics.

It is not just the rights of individuals but the (flawed) democracies that have gradually made room for civil rights for more groups than just property-owning White men that is at stake in the rise of the authoritarian Religious Right. These democracies are more likely than authoritarian regimes to protect the equality of Others, preventing the persecution and even the atrocities that religion-infused extremism can foster. Without data-driven secular governments, our capacity to tackle the climate emergency is crippled. It is critical that we perceive the risk that is reflected in the speeches of Scott Morrison to his Pentecostal audiences. It is not merely a foreign faith movement uncomfortably shoe-horned into our secular state; it is a threat of incalculable scope. We must work together to keep authoritarian religious radicalism out of our government.

Nor is this limited to the West or is Christianity the only faith drawn into the nativist nationalist trend. In India, the Hindutva movement aims to subdue all Indians within a Hindu nation with one faith and language. Shinto is central to a Japanese nationalist movement. Buddhism is key to Myanmar and Sri Lanka’s nationalist movements. Israel is self defining as a Jewish nation and imposing second class status on non-Jews within its borders.

Source: Australians must not ignore the Religious Right’s global warnings – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Victoria

Liberals throw cash at teal-targeted Victorian seats

A pattern is emerging in Victoria. Almost every time a teal candidate is announced, a Liberal spending promise follows soon afterwards.

Source: Liberals throw cash at teal-targeted Victorian seats

Informed Comment

Stage three tax cuts: Are they justified? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

My thought for the day

The basic test of any nation surely must be the manner in which it treats its most vulnerable.( John Lord )

Source: Stage three tax cuts: Are they justified? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Raise the corporate tax rate and kill three birds with one stone

Among proposals for tax reform considered by the Albanese Government, lifting the corporate tax rate should be included, as Alan Austin reports.

Source: Raise the corporate tax rate and kill three birds with one stone

Australia's Shame

We pay billions to subsidise Australia’s fossil fuel industry. This makes absolutely no economic sense

Fossil fuel subsidies from major economies including Australia reached close to US$700 billion in 2021, almost doubling from 2020, according to new analysis by the International Energy Agency and OECD.

Source: We pay billions to subsidise Australia’s fossil fuel industry. This makes absolutely no economic sense

UK

Casting Malevolent Shadows: Liz Truss Wins the Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Sunday Mirror has reported that 12 Tory MPs are willing to submit letters to the 1922 Committee to express no confidence in the incoming prime minister – and this, even before Truss sets foot in 10 Downing Street. For Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire, such a move was “certainly suicidal”, while former Conservative chancellor Lord Hammond warned Johnson not to linger like a “malevolent shadow”.

The Truss factor has also given British Labour a boost of seven percentage points. Party strategists, as part of this bounce, have already readied a campaign in the so-called Red Wall seats, using previous, leaked remarks from Truss about how British workers produced “less per hour” than their foreign equivalents, “and that’s a combination of, kind of, skill and application.” But opinion polls do not deliver election victories. The Tory party machine, cunning, ruthless and mendacious, does at least know something about that.

 

Source: Casting Malevolent Shadows: Liz Truss Wins the Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Despite Israeli Whitewash, Its Killing of US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a War Crime

The Israeli military issued a brazen whitewash of its killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and its shooting of her colleague Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samoudi, on May 11 of this year. Using weasel words, the report admitted that it was “likely” that an Israeli sniper shot her dead. Since extensive video and eyewitness evidence proves that there were no militants in the area at the time of her killing, CNN had already concluded after an extensive investigation that the Israeli military killed Shireen “in a targeted attack.”

Source: Despite Israeli Whitewash, Its Killing of US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was a War Crime

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thoughts- Turning the clock back to darker times

Fighting Fake News with REAL 7/9/22; Global Shambles of Politics; The Religious Right dancing on what they hope will be the graves of Democracies.

Scott Morrison

Morrison without remorse as he hints at injustice over ministries scandal

Mr Morrison was steely eyed in the face of condemnation.

Morrison speaks on Paul Murray’s Murdoch platform to less than 50,000 Australians and remains symbolically and seemingly blameless and shameless but we know the opposite to be the case. His Pentecostal invasion of the Australian Liberal Party will have long-lasting effects all of which were triggered by John Howard. What has taken over 2 decades will now take just as long if not more to repair. Democracy is a multicultural and secular value. Morrison, the Pentecostalists and LNP betrayed that.

Morrison’s whole employment history has been a closed book. The pages of which he doesn’t want read let alone discussed. What we do know is it’s been one of blunder after blunder, and broken contracts due to failed promise. The failure on Morrison’s side rather than on those who employed him and were left painfully disappointed holding NDAs.

Despite three weeks in which his political legacy has collapsed and his personal character condemned, Scott Morrison is showing no signs of remorse.

Source: Morrison without remorse as he hints at injustice over ministries scandal

and our reply

Guardian Essential poll: majority say Scott Morrison should resign over secret ministries | Essential poll | The Guardian

Australia's Shame

Asylum seekers languish through the job summit – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Anthony Albanese at the Job Summit

It is heartwarming to watch the stories of people embracing the Canadian nation which has worked so efficiently to grant them safe haven, to reunite them with their family, to make them part of community. As an Australian, it hurts to see our failures thrown into stark relief by the contrast.

Source: Asylum seekers languish through the job summit – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP, LNP Government

Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller releases details of $650,000 settlement – ABC News

A former Coalition staffer who claimed she was abused while working for the former government has released details of her settlement, as she writes to the new parliament.

Source: Former Coalition staffer Rachelle Miller releases details of $650,000 settlement – ABC News

ALP Government,

Albanese Government favours jobs and growth over biodiversity

The Labor Government seems focused on the mantra of jobs and growth, failing to observe the detrimental effects on biodiversity, writes Sue Arnold.

Source: Albanese Government favours jobs and growth over biodiversity

Australia's Shame

‘Tragic legacy of extinction’: Australia graded F in biodiversity by WWF

Federal electorates have been given a scorecard on their response to the biodiversity crisis.

Some federal electorates contain more than 200 threatened species and that number is increasing, according to WWF.

Source: ‘Tragic legacy of extinction’: Australia graded F in biodiversity by WWF

Climate Change

New Study Warns Swaths of Amazon Have Already Passed Key ‘Tipping Point’

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“The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present in some areas of the region,” note researchers.

Source: New Study Warns Swaths of Amazon Have Already Passed Key ‘Tipping Point’

Saudi Arabia

The Harlot’s Score: Blood Money and the LIV Golf Tournament – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Sports figures the world over should be soul wary about a regime that uses cash to conceal the bodies of protesters thrown into prison, activists tormented and disappeared, and murdered journalists. But Riyadh have their number, cunningly seductive, and aware of perennial weakness. With its vast sovereign wealth fund, the Kingdom is willing to splash out, and sports figures are willing to be bought. They know the harlot’s score.

Source: The Harlot’s Score: Blood Money and the LIV Golf Tournament – » The Australian Independent Media Network

UK

Who is Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister?

Members of the Conservative party – the approximately 180,000 people who elected the new leader – will be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. Similarly, strategists for the opposition parties – Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party – will also be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. In electing Truss as leader, Conservative members have increased their party’s chances of losing the next general election.

Source: Who is Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister?

France

Emmanuel Macron hires Murdoch spin doctor as French voter discontent grows

Emmanuel Macron celebrates winning a second term back in April.

Murdoch presence is his “business model” of “gun for hire” and it’s being applied in France

Emmanuel Macron has hired a spin doctor to Rupert Murdoch and former adviser to Sir Tony Blair as a top aide, tasking him with selling the French president’s vision to voters amid fears of rising discontent.

Source: Emmanuel Macron hires Murdoch spin doctor as French voter discontent grows

Russia

Journalist jailed for 22 years in Russia | The New Daily

Opponents of Putin are not just accident prone they’re dead shot in the streets assassinated and have fatal or near-fatal accidents. If they happen to survive they are simply jailed until at least another leader comes along.

Russia has jailed a journalist for “treason”, in a case widely viewed as politically motivated and designed to silence the media and Kremlin critics.

Source: Journalist jailed for 22 years in Russia | The New Daily

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- This isn’t driven by the choice of individuals but a runaway system out of control

Fighting Fake News with REAL 6/9/22; 23rd Century Dickensian world; Branch Stacking and non-Labor Unions are invading the LNP;

Uncategorized

UK Prime Minister: Liz Truss wins Britain’s top job

Margaret Thatcher in 1986 and Liz Truss earlier this year.

Truss is noted for being against and then for Brexit, and then for and against Climate change. She’s nobody’s Truss. The UK is lost more than it realises.

Channelling Margaret Thatcher, her political idol, Truss donned a helmet and radio headset in images reminiscent of the former prime minister taking a spin in a tank while visiting British forces in West Germany in 1986.

In the months since, the 47-year-old has even been accused of deliberately dressing like Thatcher, the first woman to become British prime minister, whose decade-long reign in Downing Street remains divisive across the union decades on.

Source: UK Prime Minister: Liz Truss wins Britain’s top job

Coalition support

Coalition hits record low as Labor extends lead to 53-47 in latest Newspoll

Just how much can they bear and for how long?

Support for the Peter Dutton-led Coalition is at its lowest point since 2008 having fallen again since the May 21 election in the latest Newspoll.

Source: Coalition hits record low as Labor extends lead to 53-47 in latest Newspoll

Fundamentalist Recruits

Victorian Liberal Party branch stacking claims as Pentecostal church ‘infiltrates’ branches – ABC News

A group of people gathered around a man sitting in an inflatable pool.

Unions are infiltrating the LNP and they aren’t Labor Unions . They are fundamentalist church groups recruited and welcomed by John Howard and are now an infestation. A threat to Democracy’s separation of powers and the notion of the Australian and Victorian Liberal Party being a broad secular party welcome to all. Traditional Liberals are abandoning the ship. Remember what the DLP did to the Labor Party in the 50s. Fundamentalists are doing it to the Liberal Party in the 2000s and they are stacking the branches..

long-serving Liberal Party member said she knew of 15 other members who had departed from the party in Victoria’s east in response to growing “infiltration” by church groups.

She resigned from the party last month after 30 years and said she sent an email to the party headquarters alleging that it was due to branch stacking by religious groups in eastern Victoria.

Source: Victorian Liberal Party branch stacking claims as Pentecostal church ‘infiltrates’ branches – ABC News

Climate Science

Call for urgent climate-health action plan – Michael West

Yes, News Corpse’s Andrew Bolt tells us the very opposite. Warming is good it doesn’t kill

Health leaders are calling for the rapid roll out of a climate-health action plan as floods and extreme heat kill Australians.

Forty health and medical organisations warn pressure on the health system from climate change is growing as additional deaths add to the strain of a global pandemic.

Nurses, midwives, psychologists, the Australian Medical Association, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and others on Monday issued a set of urgent recommendations.

RACP president Jacqueline Small said doctors had a unique view and considerable experience of how climate health and human health fit together, and knew their communities.

“We see the impacts of climate change all the time, on our patients, and on our staff who are at the front line dealing with crises every day,” Dr Small said.

Source: Call for urgent climate-health action plan – Michael West

Uncategorized

Keep that umbrella handy, it’s going to be a wet spring and summer

Eastern Australia rain

Bolt and Dean will continue to claim it’s normal “nothing to see here” 4 La Ninas in a row

Flood and severe weather warnings are in place across parts of Victoria, Queensland and NSW as Australia’s east coast braces for another wet spring and summer.

Source: Keep that umbrella handy, it’s going to be a wet spring and summer

Climate Change

Pakistan floods: what role did climate change play?

Proactive is far cheaper than reactive

Pakistan is undoubtedly on the front lines of climate change. In the ongoing flooding, it is clear that climate change has at minimum played a role in amplifying this event. At worst, it created a compounding set of circumstances causing millions of additional people to suffer than otherwise might have.

Source: Pakistan floods: what role did climate change play?

Turkey

In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

In a tweet Gülşen shared hours before she was sent to an all-women prison, the singer said:

A joke I made about a friend I have worked with for many years was published by those whose goal is to further polarize the society. I am sorry for letting these people use my words for ill intentions. As I thrive to protect the freedoms I believe in, I have been swept by the radicals I am critical of. I apologize to anyone who got offended watching the video. I should have found a different language; I will find it.

Source: In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

Israel

Now Israel is Occupying the Hearts of Lovers in the Palestinian West Bank

 In a creepy policy out of a Kafka or Joseph Heller novel, Israeli Intrusian, Individual authorities have decreed that if a foreign visitor to the Palestinian West Bank develops a romantic relationship with a local Palestinian, they must report the relationship to the military Occupation authorities within 30 days. So reports the BBC, based on official Israeli documents.

It was inevitable that the day would come when the massive Israeli colonial apparatus, which journalist Michael Jansen called “the stalker state,” would finally occupy the human heart itself.

Source: Now Israel is Occupying the Hearts of Lovers in the Palestinian West Bank

Informed Comment

Democracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’ | Robert Reich | The Guardian

‘It is dangerous to believe that “balanced journalism” gives equal weight to liars and to truth-tellers, to those intent on destroying democracy and those seeking to protect it.’

But the media treated the speech as if it were just another in an endless series of partisan vollies instead of what it was – a declaration by the president of the United States that America must choose between democracy and authoritarianism.

The major networks didn’t broadcast the speech.

Why must we wait until some of America’s ablest journalists are sacked before they are willing and able to tell America the truth?

It is not “partisan” to explain what Trump and his anti-democracy movement are seeking.

It is not “taking sides” to point out that the Trump Republicans are trying to establish an authoritarian government in America.

It is not “violating journalistic standards” to tell the unvarnished truth about what America is facing today.

In fact, a failure to call out the Trump Republicans for what they are – liars, enablers, and accessories to crimes against the constitution – itself violates the most basic canons of journalistic ethics.

“Balanced journalism” does not exist halfway between facts and lies.

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Source: Democracy is under attack – and reporting that isn’t ‘violating journalistic standards’ | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Trump

Trump Calls Biden ‘Enemy of the State’ in ‘Fully Unhinged’ Speech

Trump speech Pennsylvania

The ex-president—who stands accused of inciting the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol—said the investigation will spark “a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen. S

” Reacting to that remark by Trump, Abramson said that “everything he is saying bespeaks future violence.”

Source: Trump Calls Biden ‘Enemy of the State’ in ‘Fully Unhinged’ Speech

Uncategorized

Old Dog Thought- Dutton thinks Menzies was a Commie

Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/9/22; Russia Gorbachev and Putin; Say it with memes;

Informed Comment

What Must We Expect of Journalism in This Crisis? | The Smirking Chimp

Why do the LNP, IPA, and Murdoch want us Americanised?

Why must we wait until some of our ablest journalists are sacked before they are willing and able to tell America the truth?

It is not “partisan” to explain what Trump and his anti-democracy movement are seeking. It is not “taking sides” to point out that the Trump Republicans are trying to establish an authoritarian government in America. It is not “violating journalistic standards” to tell the unvarnished truth about what we are facing today.

In fact, a failure to call out the Trump Republicans for what they are — liars, enablers, and accessories to crimes against the Constitution — itself violates the most basic canons of journalistic ethics.

Source: What Must We Expect of Journalism in This Crisis? | The Smirking Chimp

Murdoch Media

The Murdoch media is in a class of its own with news replaced by propaganda – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In declining order of trust: The Age, SMH, Guardian online, News com.au, Sky News, Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph come below the 50% mark with Sky News boasting the highest don’t trust rating. Would someone please remind us who owns the four at the bottom of the trust scale?

Source: The Murdoch media is in a class of its own with news replaced by propaganda – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Uncategorized

Lachlan Murdoch Crikey defamation suit: Malcolm Turnbull slams ‘hypocritical’ News Corp boss

Andrew Bolt said it years ago, that he preferred writing Obituaries because journalism was too disiplined, too professional, and hard work. He then moved on to be what Justice Mordecai Bromberg called a “lazy journalist” with no respect for facts and guilty of racial vilification, fake news and discrimination under the Act.

Andrew Bolt, Rowan Dean et al all cry foul and declare their right to “freedom of speech”. It’s their yardstick which relativises everything.The flat earth society beliefs are as valid as any other. It justifies these idiots saying they are experts on anything and everything the chose. That they are equal to any professional, scientist or journalist whose work and process standards Bolt once declared he found far too difficult to be interested in. Yes two neanderthals Bolt and Dean have levitated themselves to being experts in anything they chose science, economics, sex, disciplines no more relevant than what Bolt and Dean say because speech is free.

What is held as truth for them is the Goebellian power of distributed opinion and thats what fuels News Corp’s business model whose destination is profit not truth. The title News Corp is in fact an oxymoron the corporation isn’t a harbinger of news or truth. It manufactures whatever it wants propaganda for profit operating in the marketplace of wealth and among those with the most money and doesn’t waste its time informing the majority at all but rather influencing them. It’s no coincidence their business model aligns them with the IPA, the LNP and the interests and ideology of 1% of the nation.

University of Western Australia law professor Michael Douglas said that “Lachlan Keith Murdoch v Private Media Pty Ltd” would be the first high-profile test of amendments to Australia’s defamation law passed last year.

Lachlan Murdoch Crikey defamation suit: Malcolm Turnbull slams ‘hypocritical’ News Corp boss
American Dream

US Life Expectancy Has Declined Again. Neoliberalism and Antidemocratic Rule Are to Blame.

Earlier this week, the National Center for Health Statistics revealed in a study that the average life expectancy in the United States suffered a noticeable decline in 2021, from 77 to 76.1 years. It marks the second year in a row US life expectancy has fallen, according to the New York Times: in 2020, the average lifespan dipped from 78.8 to 77.

Source: US Life Expectancy Has Declined Again. Neoliberalism and Antidemocratic Rule Are to Blame.

America

The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid

We’d be a much healthier nation if we paid more attention to our life expectancy and less to the Gross National Product. A big part of our lousy performance as a country is we measure the wrong things to plot our success. Sadly, whether it be education, healthcare or housing, our system is all about preserving and amassing great wealth — and if you happen to deliver on those three, well, that’s just a happy coincidence.

Source: The steep decline in U.S. life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Australian Shame

You can’t oppose settler colonialism in Australia while endorsing it in Palestine

Protesters march in support of indigenous rights at the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2020. (Flickr/Matt Hrkac/CC BY 2.0)

Do they know or recognize their own hypocrisy?

Last October, an Australian Zionist youth movement opened a Zoom call for its young leaders with an “Acknowledgement of Country.” The group, in which I’d been active as a teenager and which had invited me to speak about my anti-occupation activism in the U.K. and Palestine-Israel, recognized the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the land, paid tribute to elders past and present, and affirmed that “sovereignty was never ceded.”

Source: You can’t oppose settler colonialism in Australia while endorsing it in Palestine

Future Shock

Does Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities — foretell our Dystopian Future?

It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects, to detect any hint of dissent, to control their movements, to influence their thinking and even to peer into their minds. That dream has hardly ever been achieved, no matter their efforts and determination, not because of any moral qualms or principles holding them back, but simply because they lacked the tools to do so.In this decade leading up to 2030, however, things have changed.

Does Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities — foretell our Dystopian Future?
Russia, Uncategorized

Russia farewells Mikhail Gorbachev but state honours and Vladimir Putin are missing – ABC News

The man affectionately known as ‘Gorby’ in the West and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the Cold War is buried at Moscow’s famous Novodevichy cemetery alongside his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.

Some 8 influential Russians against Putin have now died under suspicious circumstances and others are incarcerated, Gorbachev ex-President hasn’t been awarded a State Funeral and Putin didn’t bother to attend. Nevertheless, Trump still is in awe of the Russian State and Putin’s power.

Source: Russia farewells Mikhail Gorbachev but state honours and Vladimir Putin are missing – ABC News

Trump

Folder Marked ‘Classified’ On Display In Bar At Trump Tower | Crooks and Liars

Incredibly, it appears that our esteemed twice impeached one-term President, under investigation for espionage, has a folder marked “classified” behind glass at his tacky bar in Trump Tower. On Friday, it was revealed that among the folders found at Donald Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, were 48 empty folders marked “classified.”

Folder Marked ‘Classified’ On Display In Bar At Trump Tower | Crooks and Liars
Podcast

Deconstructed: Aboard the Trump Train- Podcast

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally on August 05, 2022 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Inexplicably, Trump allowed a camera crew to follow him around throughout his 2020 campaign and well past January 6. Here’s what they saw.

Source: Deconstructed: Aboard the Trump Train

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- LNP sole measurement of success “The Economy” Health, Education and Housing don’t count. Dutton went to America where life expectancy is falling for advice

Fighting Fake News with REAL 4/9/22; Robert Reich- Journalism, Murdouch-Least Trusted; Cash comments; Life expectancy’s decline; Podcast the Trump Train 2020;

Scott Morrison

How Scott Morrison’s JobMaker played politics with $1.3 billion

Elections, Promises, and Bribes

Only now have the details been uncovered to show how long it took for the former government to decide the grants. The results are another reminder of the way political ambition now distorts the use of taxpayer funds on policies that are meant to be about the national interest – and why it is important that Anthony Albanese has vowed not to repeat this pattern now he sits in the prime minister’s suite.

How Scott Morrison’s JobMaker played politics with $1.3 billion
LNP Corruption, LNP Policy

Confused,Memory loss or does Morrison’s once Assistant Treasurer reminds us of the application of the Alan Bond and Rupert Murdoch defence of can’t remember?
Informed Comment

Restoring trust in the political system after a political hatchet job – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Re-establishing trust in Government is one of the essential things the Albanese Government can do.

Until Morrison came along, I considered Tony Abbott to be the most extraordinary liar ever to walk the plush green carpet of the House of Representatives. He, however, proved to be amateurish alongside Morrison. So good was his lying that he took it to heights never before witnessed in Australian politics.

Now with an inquiry into the duplicate ministries scandal and a Royal Commission into Robodebt, the Coalition thinks it’s all a hunt to discredit Scott Morrison, and we should “move on” from all the cock ups they ever made.

John Howard advised Tony Abbott that it would be foolhardy to implement Royal Commissions into Pink Batts and the Unions because, in the future, such actions might turn around and bite you on the bum. That is precisely what has happened.

 

Source: Restoring trust in the political system after a political hatchet job – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Truth in Humor

The horse’s doovers – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Not Mainstream News

Arch-monarchist Tony Abbott, the red-sluggoed, forelock-tugging, groom of the stool candidate and technophobic visionary who was ejected by his party from the PM chair and rejected by otherwise reliable Tory voters from his own seat has been recruited by the Victorian Liberals to improve their own electoral palatability. Which reminds me of Piggy Mudloon’s crack about Kiwi immigrants to Oz improving the average IQ of both countries.

The other key plank in the southern Tories’ clever pre-election PR campaign is to shorten their leader’s name from Matthew to Matt in a cunning reprise of the ScoMo™ strategy. As a distraction from previous proclivities such as sharing lobster & Grange with a mobster and drunkenly crashing their prestige motor into a child’s bedroom it may not be as effective as they may hope given the ALP in Victoria increased its large election-winning lead from a month ago: ALP 60.5%, L-NP 39.5%.

Source: The horse’s doovers – » The Australian Independent Media Network