Author: peterimrich
Morrison Deserves this and more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison here. How good are me and my team? Here are just a few of my accomplishments during my first term (ticks all the boxes for leadership — as I know it):
Source: HOW GOOD IS SCO-MO?! The comprehensive Scott Morrison leadership checklist
We don’t pat ourselves on the back but MWM placed a mole (totally legit) inside Canberra and sniffed out some rotten deals. Jommy Tee continues his exposé of the rorts for the regions.
Source: Scraping the bottom of the (pork) barrel as big swill nears – Michael West Media
Peter Dutton runs a Go Fund Me Campaign for flood victims in order to try to save the Government. That’s standard for an IQ like his.
Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. As climate change intensifies, we are now seeing cascading and compounding impacts and risks, including where extreme events coincide. These are placing even greater pressure on our ability to respond. While the work of adaptation has begun, we have found the progress is uneven and insufficient, given the risks we face. These findings are from our work as co-authors of the new Australia and New Zealand chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, released today.
Independent Zoe Daniel has appealed against a council ruling that political signs cannot be erected until the election is called, arguing it is inconsistent with its own advice and neighbouring councils which have allowed Josh Frydenberg signs.
At a time like this Morrison bought and stored our emergency oil deposits in Texas and said renewables aren’t his priority. Meanwhile families are paying for his lack of forward planning and action. A tank that cost $80 is now nearing $160. He should have his photo taken next to a bowser!!
1.7 million barrels of oil, purchased last year, is stored in Texas while we now scramble to build more domestic storage, and this comes after years of the International Energy Agency warning us that our stocks had fallen below safe levels. It took the Coalition government well into its third term to find a solution that depends on tanker availability to deliver our stocks from America during an international crisis. The extent of our oil dependence is enormous. It costs $29 billion in annual imports to keep Australia moving and yet we have readily available an abundance of renewable energy sources in solar, wind and hydro. The Coalition government not only dragged the chain on fossil fuel security, but its decade-and-a-half-old internal power struggles over climate change has been a major obstacle to implementing a speedier transition to electric transport. Who can forget Scott Morrison ridiculing electric vehicles in the 2019 election campaign?
Source: Vladimir Putin makes renewable energy security an urgent no-brainer
Will Putin now invade Finland as Stalin did in 1939 because they are now too, considering joining NATO?
An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but an agreement to keep talking. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted photos of himself signing the EU application, a largely symbolic move for now that could take years to become reality and is unlikely to sit well with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long accused the West of trying to pull Ukraine into its orbit.
Source: Ukraine Seeks To Join EU As Round Of Talks With Russia Ends | HuffPost Latest News
If Ukranians came by boat would Morrison “turn them back”? He’s already guaranteed they can “jump the queue” over and above Afghanis that fought for and with us. He’s already calling Ukrainians “refugees” and not “illegals” or “Asylum Seekers”.
Some European and American commentators on Russia’s war against Ukraine have covered themselves in shame by implying that because Ukrainians are “European” or “civilized” it is harder to see them hit by artillery and made refugees than it had been with regard to Iraqis or Syrians. While in 2015 Syrians and Afghans who came to Europe were called “migrants” and were seen as a dire problem, Ukrainians fleeing their country for European states have been welcomed and called refugees. But the Syrians were also fleeing a war, and from fall of 2016 were even fleeing the same Russian bombers that the Ukrainians are.
Source: Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)
Contrast this with the toadies at the Republican National Committee who in February censured Republican Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for participating in Congress’s select committee investigating the events of January 6, and who called the January 6 attack on the Capitol “legitimate political discourse.” Also contrast Zelensky’s courage with most elected Republicans who still refuse to stand up to Trump. Just yesterday on national television, Senator Tom Cotton refused four times to condemn Trump for calling Putin “smart” and “savvy” and NATO and the US “dumb.”
Vanity Fair’s Joe Hagan says Trump is a “Small, weak, powerless man facing multiple lawsuits, enormous bank loans, fast-shrinking political clout and a world leaving him behind faster than he can possibly realize.” Former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski sounds stunned: “Even by Trump’s standards, this is utterly repulsive. There has never been any former president, at any time in our history, who has ever said things like this about our country during time of conflict. Just vile.”
Barr writes, “The absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill,”
Source: Bill Barr Blames Trump For January 6 Insurrection | Crooks and Liars
Former President Donald Trump met with sharp criticism on Monday after he released a new statement taking credit for the success of NATO and claiming to have helped arm Ukraine.
Critics of Trump quickly condemned this statement, noting his historic opposition to NATO and pointing out that his administration previously withheld military assistance from Ukraine in order to seek information on Joe Biden.
Source: Donald Trump Slammed After Claiming Credit for NATO, Arming Ukraine
Peter Dutton is Australia’s wanna be Putin ex-KGB officer. Peter Dutton never really an ex- cop he is one in the very worst of traditions. A liar, thug and domestic spook he doesn’t serve his electorate it serves him. .
Home affairs minister Peter Dutton also refuted the claim but said the ASD spying internally was a good idea. He then appeared on the ABC in July 2019 to again deny the proposal existed but also suggested it would be advantageous and the nation should have a “sensible discussion” about it. Dutton was dismissing the claim a second time, as the month prior to his appearance, the AFP had raided journalist Annika Smethurst’s home in relation to her publishing the content of the leaked documents. This was an attempt to catch the whistleblower, as well as to send a warning to all. But most of the confusion around the proposal that obviously was being discussed by the two departmental secretaries was put to an end when Dutton told the ABC in early 2020 that the Morrison government’s plan to turn the ASD on its own citizens was almost to fruition. So, two years later, the question is, where is Dutton’s promised ADS domestic spying regime? Well, if you thumb through a few recently passed pieces of federal national security legislation, you’ll find it’s already in action and it’s expanding.
Source: Multiple National Security Bills Facilitate Dutton’s ASD Domestic Target Wet Dream
The challenge of professing to be a religious politician professing adherence to the Judeo-Christian faith, their responsibilities are clear. They must always tell the truth, serve the poor first and foremost, redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, welcome migrants and refugees, prosecute those who engage in corruption and refrain from self-aggrandizing attention-seeking. If ministers live by these teachings, there will be no question about the validity of their religious faith.
This week, last week, no matter what week, Morrison gave 45 minutes of his personally very busy,and valuable time to Murdoch’s new star, and employee to be, on Sky News Pierce Morgan. Morrison had no time for the women of Australia who wanted to meet with him last year. He was “too busy”. No time for Brittany Higgins, and only forced time with Grace Tame which he wished never happened. There was plenty of time for his own 60 Minute Show being glorified by wife Jen of course.
Scott Morrison showed proof positive that he was subservient to Rupert Murdoch his puppet master but always the,lights and cameras. “Are you ready Mr Morrison Lights Cameras action” He’s our own political Gloria Swanson totally self-interested and absorbed with no time available for his constituents unless they’re useful extras in one of endless photo-shoots.
The happy snap sparked an immediate barrage of criticism online. That prompted a hasty clarification from Morgan that the photo – despite being posted on Monday morning – was actually taken last week.“Here’s me with Labor leader & wannabe PM Anthony Albanese the night before. Both meetings occurred before Ukraine invasion & Queensland floods… so cool your indignant jets, Oz media,” he followed up later on Monday.Morgan and Mr Albanese reportedly met at a Sky News bash last week.
Source: Morrison roasted after British broadcaster’s ill-timed happy snap
If truth is the first casualty of war, it is also under constant attack in the Morrison-Joyce regime’s love-in with spin enabled by Murdoch and a media oligarchy who help the Coalition demonise China and Russia, “shape the narrative” of foreign affairs, to distract us from its terminal, internal disunity and its own catastrophic incompetence.
Shout? You can hear him in Beijing. Or Kharkiv.
No-one will ever teach Morrison that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. Not that he cares just how awful he is with his harangue of the Opposition Leader for “being a small target” “or just small”?
But it won’t be his reducing of Question Time to howling abuse, that decides this election, nor will it be his despicable treatment of women, particularly his office backgrounding against Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame, although that could play a big part.
It is unlikely that any of Morrison’s chest-beating posturing on foreign affairs, reciting US talking points, will convince anyone that a PM who can’t control his own party is a strong man who will keep the nation safe. Nor will the happy family man fantasy even begin to atone for the leaked texts which reveal how much he is reviled by his party including his deputy PM.
The decider could be the sixteen billion dollar election war chest. Unless, of course, voters worry where the money’s coming from.
Source: The First Casualty – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Who’s to blame? Us. Russians. And we’ll now have to bear this guilt until Putin’s regime collapses. For it surely will collapse and the attack on a free Ukraine is the beginning of the end. Putinism is doomed because it’s an enemy of freedom and an enemy of democracy. People have finally understood this today. He attacked a free and democratic country precisely because it is a free and democratic country. But he’s the one who’s doomed because the world of freedom and democracy is far bigger than his dark and gloomy lair. Doomed because what he wants is a new Middle Ages, corruption, lies, and trampling on human freedoms. Because he is the past. And we must do everything in our power to make this monster remain there – in the past – for all time, together with his Pyramid of Power.
Source: Vladimir Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power | Vladimir Sorokin | The Guardian
In today’s Russia, feminists form one of the most active social movements defying state repression. Now they’re uniting to resist Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Source: Russia’s Feminists Are in the Streets Protesting Putin’s War
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In the Streets of Moscow, Russians Are Shocked by Putin’s War
One Man’s Legacy, Putin’s threat of a nuclear winter.
Kyiv: In a dramatic escalation of tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. The directive came just minutes before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed a delegation from Kyiv would meet Russian representatives on the Belarusian border for peace talks, and as Russian troops drew closer to the capital, Kyiv, a city of almost 3 million people.
How can Russia, a country scarcely any richer than Australia and far less legitimate, get away with what it’s doing?Look at this chart of GDP in Russia and Australia. They are essentially on par with us — perhaps more when oil revenues are high, less at other times. Russia is not a big force in the global economy. Like us, it has few global brands that matter. Like us, it exports some raw materials. The way it is unlike us is you don’t see us destabilising the global economy by launching cruise missiles at our neighbours.
Source: Russia: a run of the mill nation with a nuclear ace up its sleeve
This is a Capitalist Democracy where any notion of a greater good is built on myth of great men as being the drivers of history.
Trump praised Putin for four years, made excuses for his Crimea invasion, and tried to extort Ukraine’s president while holding hostage $391 million in aid.
Source: After 4 Years Of Helping Putin, Trump Claims He Was Tough On Russian Dictator | HuffPost Latest News
Decarbonization won’t be achieved through market-led solutions. It’s only by democratizing the economy and resisting privatization that a meaningful and sustainable transition to green energy can be won.
Source: The Free Market Can’t Lead a Clean Energy Transition
‘He has lied, deceived, fabricated’: Australia to slap direct sanctions on Putin
Let’s not take things at face value too quickly Marissa Payne. John Howard, along with Bush and Blair, lied, deceived, fabricated, and took us into Iraq. The Americans allied themselves with Osama Bin Laden to get the Russians out of Afghanistan and install a puppet government. Weren’t they doing what Putin is? Or is Putin doing what is the American norm. Under the Monroe Doctrine and the “Domino Theory”, they ” took care of their interests” anywhere on the planet?
Finland is a Socialist Democracy bordering Russia but is not declaring it wants to be a part of NATO. It’s not threatening or being threatened by Putin or being invaded. It too historically was once a part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. The Russians took missiles to Cuba and there was an immediate and imminent threat of nuclear war as a consequence America has sanctioned them for over 60 years.
What seems significant is that governments that aren’t “servants of their people” and lead from the top down all suffer the same disease the paranoiac fear of the personal loss of power. The very opposite of any real Social Democracy, any real democratization of power. When the shit hits the fan they then ask why didn’t the people do anything? Where do Morrison and Albo lie on that continuum of power, servants of or servicing Australian citizens?
Australia will look to impose direct sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, while Australia’s top diplomat Marise Payne has left the door open to the possible expulsion of Canberra-based Russian diplomats. Senator Payne said Putin was being targeted because he was “personally responsible for the deaths and the suffering of innocent Ukrainians”. Marise Payne, Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks about Australia’s personal sanctions against Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Full Steam ahead on RENEWABLES
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In the meantime STOP the embargo on Venezuela sending oil to Germany
End the strangulation of Venezuela and tankers full of LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) from the South American nation could cut Putin’s pipeline noose from around Europe’s neck. So there’s your choice, President Biden: Is maintaining Trump’s embargo of Venezuela so important that you will continue to let Germany fund this invasion?
Source: Venezuela Can Bring Putin to His Knees | The Smirking Chimp
Vladimir Putin was facing growing international isolation and the prospect of pariah status on Saturday night as long-term allies dramatically turned against him following the invasion of Ukraine, and western nations planned further decisive military and financial action against Moscow.As his hopes of a quick victory evaporated in the face of fierce resistance by Ukrainian soldiers and armies of citizen volunteers, Russia’s president was deserted by his key ally, China, and had his ultimatum demanding Kyiv’s surrender defiantly brushed aside by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.In perhaps the most striking development, Germany announced on Saturday night that it would supply Ukrainian troops with 1,000 anti-tank weapons as well as 500 Stinger missiles from its own military reserves.
Source: Putin shunned by world as his hopes of quick victory evaporate | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian
With Ukraine under attack, a Russian labor confederation boasting an estimated two million members on Friday called for a “cessation of military action” and “renewal of peaceful dialogue” between officials in Moscow and Kyiv, arguing that workers in both countries are the victims of war.
Source: Russian Labor Confederation Demands Peace in Ukraine
It’s surprising just how quickly politicians ask when civilians on both sides to find an answer when politicians created the problem in the first place and not civilians.
Helmut Schmidt, a Social Democrat West German Chancellor, possibly exasperated, reportedly said Russia was the “Third World with missiles”. It highlighted the vulnerability to economic pressure, ill-matched with high-end technology, including war technology and the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. It might take nervous awareness of that danger and hard times to bring civilians on both sides – whether Russians with no money, Europeans unable to get fuel for the last weeks of winter – to bring on the pressure, if only they can, to end the conflict.
Source: Ukraine: Three decades after the Cold War, back to open conflict
Regular people need to understand that their real enemies are not each other, but the powerful who play with the rules.
Source: Ukraine and Stopping the Powerful From Making the Rules
What would Senator Joe McCarthy and J E Hoover have said and done with a Putin loving Trump?
Trump’s fawning admiration of Vladimir Putin is well known, but it has often been brushed off as a quirk. We should have known how dangerous Putin was when he praised Trump as “impressive.” Trump is impressive the way spoiled butter left out too long is, rancid and foul-smelling. Now Trump is calling Putin “smart” and “savvy” and a “genius” for his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
America’s Leninist’s and Trump’s view of change was to trash the old and rebuild a new Bureacracy in America from the ground up. However first and foremost was to take over the election process itself. Trump never stopped taking Bannon’s advice and still does today. Putin Orban Erdogen all dictators control elections.Thats what saved America in 2020.
On Thursday, Steve Bannon, the former Trump administration official and 2020 election results denier, turned his podcast into a litany of grievances against President Joe Biden, the Clintons, and the other usual targets. Then he called for impeachment and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Source: Putin Invaded Ukraine, and Steve Bannon Says That’s a Good Reason to Impeach Biden – Mother Jones
Has Morrison stepped away from Murdoch? Will he? The ALP did years ago and Albo certainly has. Don’t be fooled. The Left isn’t cheering Russia. Murdoch’s Fox News certainly is and Morrison is showering him with money as is Australian Oligarch Clive Palmer and the many other non-progressive transactional interests and their dark money. Australia has dropped on the International Corruption Ladder under Morrison who won’t deliver an ICAC because it will damn him and his team. Vote for the common good not for the pigs with their heads in the trough.
My thought for the day In times of national security fears, the propagandists have successfully promoted the LNP as being best able to handle those fears. Or have they? ( John Lord )
This is what is meant by the expression ” Wagging the Dog”. A totally manufactured and produced hi-viz photo shot accompanied by a totally fabricated fact, a lie about the NSW train strike on TV and in the media. Solely designed to turn Morrison’s dwindling chances of an election win around. Morrison and his team must have watched the 1997 movie “Wag the Dog” starring Di Niro and Dustin Hoffman who showed them how to come back from the dead. It was about a failing President’s (PM) election chances needing to be turned around in 11 days by the application of Fake News. Morrison has been mirroring the same tactics to a tee. Should anyone of Morrison’s media production team reveal the truth they too might go the way of Dustin Hoffman in the end.
Scott Morrison campaigning in Tasmania this week. He attacked unions over the shutdown of Sydney’s network even as it was clear the state government had shut out its workforce.
Source: Federal election 2022: Will wage growth play into the polls?
On that final point, I have to stop writing. I was going to list Morrison’s non-achievements, but the list of things he hasn’t done is far too long for the one article. However, if any publisher would like to offer me a book deal I already have a title. “I’d rather spend my time in the prayer room than holding a hose!” ( Rossleigh )
There is a Murdoch/Russian Coalition in America and a Morrison /Murdoch one here. Will it be ignored and kept under wraps?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a disaster for more than 40 million people, a threat to Europe, a challenge to the US and a catastrophe for the world. It’s hard to imagine that Vladimir Putin’s war, while just about as far away from Australia as any world event could be, would have no bearing on the thoughts of voters in the expected May election. And it’s clear we were already gearing for a security election.
The Coalition has installed one of its head-kickers, Peter Dutton, in the Defence post and his warnings are as much about the dangers of a Labor government as any foreign foe. The government has stooped to describing Labor leader Anthony Albanese as China’s preferred Australian leader and deputy Labor leader Richard Marles as the Manchurian candidate.
Hey Morrison you want to shirt-front Putin?
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables
Source: This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats | Bill McKibben | The Guardian
Here is someone Fox News doesn’t give voice to and someone that has no regard for Murdoch
Hillary Clinton was the actual expert in international diplomacy, war, law, and foreign policy but you chose the corrupt casino fake university guy. Remember now Republicans. #morningjoe #HillaryClinton
Source: Guess Who Sounds Smart And Savvy About Not Kowtowing To Putin? | Crooks and Liars
Remember Bush Blair and Howard and the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” Putin figures he’s justified do the same in the Ukraine and not be charged with war crimes. He’s not invading Finland a Democracy that’s promised not to be a part of NATO. He can turn to history and America’s Monroe Doctrine Cuba and a number of countries whose governments they have tried to change or made fall over the years simply because they were seen as a danger to American interests. Cuba stands out with the Russian missile crisis only 90 kms off their coast. They have been punishing Cuba ever since. Nothin is ever simple. Zelensky is prepared to negotiate.
Bush’s willful act of aggression, his invasion and eight-and-a-half-year military occupation of Iraq, has deeply hindered effective policy-making by the U.S. regarding Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Here are some of the ways it matters:
Source: How Bush’s Iraq Fiasco ruined US Credibility and Enabled Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Several tensions run deep in Russian society: Politics are decided by elections without democracy. A growing number of Russian billionaires have outlandish wealth but no political power. And Putin is a populist without the people.
Source: The Putin Regime Is Straining Under Its Own Contradictions
Remember Trump’s phone call to Zelensky and his “quid pro quo” threat not to supply arms? Fox was praising Trump for WITHHOLDING THOSE WEAPONS IF ZELENSKY DIDN”T DO WHAT HE WANTED. TO FALSELY ACCUSE BIDEN AND HIS SON!!
Hannity’s concern for Ukrainians’ struggle for freedom against Russian aggression was not evident back in 2019 and 2020, when he and his colleagues were excusing – and even applauding – former President Donald Trump’s plot to condition military aid to that country for personal political gain.
Two-faced Dutton and Morrison are in rapture over Putin’s gift to their political chances but will it stick and are they doing a Rumpelstiltskin dance behind closed doors that will see their undoing ?
In Australia, Defence Minister Dutton and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are madly wagging the dog trying to repeat John Howard’s rise from the ashes on the back of a burning refugee boat in 2001. There is no doubt that if the US and UK did go to war with Russia, Dutton and Morrison would do what Australian governments have always done: follow blindly.
Source: The West has three options in response to Ukraine. None are good
MURDOCH MEDIA AND SCOTT MORRISON DANCE TOGETHER
Fox News clips of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard trashing Ukraine and the Biden administration were a mainstay of news coverage this week on Russian state television.
Source: Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War
Will the ALP take advantage of Murdoch’s support of Russia and Morrison’s love fest with Murdoch?
Democrats decried Trump’s praise for Putin as “undermining national security” and “near treasonous.” But his comments also represent “a great opportunity for Democrats,” one pollster said. Americans, and particularly those who are older, will not side with Russia, the pollster added.
Real Facts
Unlike the rest of the world, Australia had come through the GFC without suffering a recession. At the end of August, net debt was a bit over $161 billion and monthly hours worked per employed person averaged 141.42. After three terms of a Coalition government, we have endured our first recession in thirty years, net debt is $606 billion, and monthly hours worked per employed person have plummeted to 125.16. Wages are stagnant- adjusted for inflation, Australian wages actually declined in 2021 by 0.3% – the worst outcome in 7.5 years. Penalty rates have been abolished for many low paid workers, and casual and contract work is increasingly the norm. In 2013, the rollout of the nation-building fibre to the premises national broadband network was underway. Then along came Tony Abbott who thought the interwebby thingy was an expensive white elephant only used for playing games and watching videos – and trashed it. On Thursday, the Minister for the Digital Economy, the hapless Jane Hume, announced in an address to CEDA, “The Morrison Government has set a goal and is unrolling a plan for Australia to be a top 10 digital economy and society by 2030.” Good luck with that – we currently
The Reds are back. Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National government has recently launched an offensive of “red-baiting”, a practice long thought consigned to the history books, in preparation for an anticipated May 2022 election. Last November, Defence Minister Peter Dutton hounded Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, charging her with “not standing up for [Australian] values” in comments on the China-Taiwan dispute. This week, News Corp has targeted Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese after the Chinese Global Times offered him some backhanded compliments. A video also emerged of Albanese speaking Mandarin at an economic summit, and he was found to have participated in a forum for Tribune, newspaper of the defunct Communist Party of Australia. (This interview, it should be noted, was 31 years ago.) Such claims have long plagued the progressive side of politics. Since the first news of the Bolshevik victory in the 1917 Russian Revolution reached our shores, fears of Australia following Vladimir Lenin’s lead have been used and abused by conservative politicians for electoral gain. But, how successful have these “moral panics” been? And do they still pass muster with today’s electorate?
1% of the global sanctioning of Russia by Australia is a flea on an elephant’s back. The bellowing roar is however is for Morrison’s political sake folks. Our 1% only as a global emitter of CO2 was his excuse for doing nothing about being one of the biggest exporters of carbon. He wanted to be as quiet as a church mouse. That again has been for his donors interests and his domestic political sake. His even bigger silence at present is not to sanction but to reward Rupert Murdoch whose media org Fox is the biggest Putin lover and Russian propagandist in America and that silence is also for Morrison’s own political sake. Because as I write he’s dishing out a share of his current advertising war-chest of $680M on News Corp, Foxtel and Sky News. The Putin lover Murdoch’s are in fact the LNP’s media voice in Australia and he has the gall to call Albo “a Red under the bed”!
As Russia’s attack on Ukraine unfolds dramatically, Australia is in the choir stalls, not centre stage, when it comes to the West’s response. But Scott Morrison is determined its voice be loud. His denunciation of the Russian “thugs” and “bullies” has been cast in the most forceful language. After announcing sanctions on Wednesday, he assured Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal that Australia, working with its partners, was prepared to do more.
Source: Russia-Ukraine: How Scott Morrison will use crisis to shape 2022 federal election outcome
Not a word that Morrison’s media ally Rupert Murdoch is in America supporting Trump and Putin or that Morrison continues to follow GOP policies down the autocratic road. His cultural war on trans-gender children is straight from the GOP playbook. Meanwhile those he aligns with are actively supporting Russia.
The Australian prime minister has promised “further waves of sanctions” against Russians including hundreds of members of parliament as he condemned Vladimir Putin for the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Source: Australia condemns Russia’s ‘brutal and unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian
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