We know what a cunt is but we have to have a Government define “a troll”. America defined Julian Assange as a type of troll and Morrison simply shut up watched and, stayed silent. Morrison wants us to “Shaddup our face” and more, stay silent. But heaven help us if anything happens in China. Then we should all be upfront vocal and yell as if the world is falling apart.
People around the country have reacted to the news by saying absolutely nothing, just in case it costs them $35,000.
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Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar military, which is accused of crimes against humanity.
Some anti-vaxxers are infected by narcissism that refuses even to consider the risks and costs they’re imposing on others. If we blame the far Right-Wing and the culture that produced them, we’re missing a character trait that may offer a fuller explanation. In fact, I think it’s a stubborn, selfish, me-first individualism. One that ignores family, community, or anything social.
Source: Trump stoked Covid in red states – but there are blue anti-vaxxers too | Robert Reich | The Guardian
Even once Trump started receiving the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), a daily summary of high-level national security and intelligence issues, Trump chose not to read it, according to Ted Gistaro, a career CIA analyst who frequently briefed Trump. This backed up earlier reports that Trump did not read the PDB. “He touched it,” Gistaro said when asked how closely Trump read the briefs. “He doesn’t really read anything.”
Source: Trump Was ‘Fact Free’ During Briefings, Says Former Intel. Director – Rolling Stone
While the WEST is distracted Israel acts
The European Union on Friday joined a prominent Israeli human rights group in condemning last week’s demolition of multiple homes in occupied East Jerusalem, an illegal action that displaced 22 Palestinians including 15 children. “We reiterate our call to halt demolitions and any other unlawful practices that coerce Palestinians out of their homes,” the European Union Delegation to the Palestinians (DPAL) tweeted. “Demolitions are illegal under international law and significantly undermine the prospects for peace,” DPAL added.
Source: EU Joins Rights Group in Condemning Israel’s ‘Day of Destruction’ of Palestinian Homes
The 1947 Partition Plan is a crucial point in understanding Israel’s constant aggressions and violations today. Even though resisting the incessant onslaught of Zionism bears a high cost from a human, social and economic point of view, the Palestinian people continue to resist bravely to protect their lands, history and culture. The world owes the Palestinian people a debt. Respect for rights and justice demands from the UN the realisation of an entirely sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its eternal and ecumenical capital, with the right of return for refugees, and with compensation and permanence of all on Palestinian land.
Source: 74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians’ Country from Them
Relieving Israel of responsibilities Aid to the Palestinian Authority – which, on paper, is intended to serve as an interim body towards the establishment of a Palestinian state but in reality serves as a policing arm for Israel’s occupation – relieves Israel of its financial responsibilities towards Palestinians living under its occupation. Funds used before the signing of the Oslo accords in the 1990s to provide for the basic welfare of Palestinians living under occupation are available to Israel to fuel its settlement-building in the West Bank in violation of international law. According to Eldar, Israel’s spending on settlements “has increased fourfold” in the years since the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee was established. Zvi Bar’el, another Haaretz commentator, writes that “one could argue that every dollar given to the Palestinians freed up an Israeli dollar for investment in settlements.” And so Israel approved plans to build more than 3,000 new homes in West Bank settlements two weeks before the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee conference. And still, the same parties that micromanage aid to the Palestinian Authority impose no conditions on Israel, which continues to enjoy a seat a
Source: Israel begs world to keep paying its occupation bills | The Electronic Intifada
With the resurgence in the EU, UK, USA bigger than the first wave, coupled with the coming of the Sth African strain Omnicron mutation Matthew Guy has planted “a Lie in waiting”. Dan Andrew is a world-leader ahead of the game, a collaborative forward thinker and an attentive witness to what lies over the horizon. He is preparing for the worst possible outcome. Matthew Guy is on the bleachers in Dandenong, not in the City, vaccinated, bantering to the cries of a very mixed minority of the self-indulgent far-right QAnon, the Base, Proud Boys Australia Party Nazis and totally misguided extremists who aren’t all “unvaxxed”. When more than 90% of Victorians have been jabbed 60% have openly said they support Dan and the rest obviously LNP supporters do too. How thick is Mr Guy?
As a vast crowd assembled in Melbourne’s CBD to protest vaccine mandates and the Labor government’s stalled Pandemic Bill, state Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has vowed there will be no more lockdowns under a government led by him.
Source: Vic opposition leader pledges ‘No more lockdowns, not ever‘
Research shows giving more money to people isn’t “squandered” like JobKeeper was but in the case of JobSeeker was spent on “needs” and not as the LNP keeps saying wasted. This totally false argument accusing the unemployed of being “dole bludgers” has been used by conservatives for as long as I can remember and I’m 75
Source: Next Pandemic — Hell, All the Time — Let’s Just Give People Money | The Smirking Chimp
The LNP are sure as hell not leaders Omicron is here and Greg Hunt is Captain Yo-Yo. Is it any wonder it’s rumoured he won’t be contesting the next election? The Mornington Peninsula has been a Covid hotspot.
The announcement, made by the federal health minister, Greg Hunt, on Saturday afternoon, followed travel restrictions imposed by the United States, United Kingdom and European Union. The new measures were discussed in a series of meetings, including between the prime minister, Scott Morrison, and the chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, early on MinisterSaturday morning. The previous day, Hunt had said Australia had no intention of closing its border to South Africa and surrounding nations. Omicron: everything you need to know about new Covid variant Read more The restrictions apply to nine African countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, the Seychelles, Malawi and Mozambique.
Just when you think this government can’t get any more sneaky. In a Human Rights Denied,virtually unnoticed move, the Coalition government has snuck an alarming last-minute amendment into an aged care bill before Parliament that removes the legal and human rights of aged care residents. The amendment removes the civil and criminal protections to which all other Australians are entitled. If a member of the public is restrained without their consent, the perpetrator can be charged. In contrast, an aged care resident who is restrained without their consent will have no legal recourse. Then the government has the gall to try to claim that this amendment relates to a recommendation of the Aged Care Royal Commission, when it is the complete opposite of what the royal commissioners recommended.
Source: Amended dignity: our elders denied their human rights again – Michael West Media
The Morrison Government recently managed to scuttle debate of Helen Haines’ proposed bill for forming a Federal ICAC, by way of a technicality, writes Ross Jones. THE PROSPECT of a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) terrifies Scott Morrison. What skeletons might tumble out is anyone’s guess. On Thursday afternoon in Parliament, the prime minister was reduced to a cartoon-spitting monster at the very thought of such a thing. But that little outburst came near the end of a long and trying day at the coalface of democracy.
The strength of our Federal Government has been diminished by its response to the rise of right-wing extremism and accusations of corruption, writes Bilal Cleland. WE ARE CONFRONTED in Western countries with an increasingly extreme right-wing reactionary political movement posing as conservatives. Conservatives are by nature opposed to radical change, wanting to gradually build upon already established foundations of society. Radical reactionaries want to halt change – perceived as threatening – and seek to return to an imagined Golden Age. In Western society, unfortunately, that Golden Age is the age of dominance by the White man, in the family, in society and in the world. A voting system restricted to White property-owning males of mature age and a world divided amongst the European powers as at the height of imperialism is their idea of perfection.
Source: Corruption and extremism threaten government legitimacy
Last year, Oregon became the first US state to decriminalize the possession of most drugs and to create a legal system for supervised psilocybin experiences. California, Vermont and Hawaii are actively considering new legal frameworks for psychedelics; Texas is directing state funding to research. In the face of an epidemic of veteran suicide, the US veterans administration is hosting small psychedelic-assisted therapy trials. Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle support federal funding. Lawmakers, regulators, funders, insurance providers and therapists who take a clear-eyed look at the research may be surprised to find their fears dissolving.
It’s why Mini T- Morrison gets the support from the Australian Christian minority for a Bill that’s really a mandate against LGBTQIs. It’s no coincidence that it came immediately after 75% of Australians voted for Marriage Equality and liberated a minority of us from hundreds of years of oppression.
That’s why Donald Trump became their hero. Rubin writes: In this context, White evangelical Christians’ attraction to the thrice-married philanderer Trump is understandable, as is their support for the cruelest immigration policies (e.g., child separation) and the anti-Muslim travel ban. It’s all about race and religious identity, not policies founded in Christian values and certainly not about finding a role model for civic virtues. Trump was determined to protect White evangelicals against people of color and the decline in Christian identification; that was all they could hope for in a politician. For these voters, government is a means of enforcing (they would say “preserving”) domination of Whites and Christianity as essential to America’s identity. That’s why they support politicians who demonize Black Lives Matter, demand that corporations meekly accept voter suppression, express outrage over a publisher’s decision about Dr. Seuss titles or fixate on saying “Merry Christmas.” It’s also why insurrectionists marauded through the Capitol on Jan. 6 bearing Confederate flags and wearing T-shirts mocking the Holocaust. They keep telling us who they are and what they want
Source: The Only Value Left For ‘Values Voters’ Is White Christian Identity | Crooks and Liars
All signs now point to a full-court press by the GOP to rig state election rules in a bid to stay in power permanently. So far, Democrats have barely put up a fight.
Source: Is Wisconsin Still a Democracy?
Labor pulled us out of that one in 72 and is doing the same for this one and 60% support Dan while over 90% have been willingly vaccinated. On the scale of things mandates haven’t resulted in the sackings of hundreds but have made work enviroments safer. Morrison isn’t “against mandates and for freedom” in fact he wants to pass a Bill and mandate against LGBTQIs
Scott Morrison’s chant over “people wanting their lives back” recalled some 200 young men dead in Vietnam, conscripted by his political Party, the Liberals, who cannot have their lives back. Prime Minister Scott Mo
Source: Liberal Party’s bloody history forgotten as Morrison cries freedom
With 95% of Victorians vaccinated and 60% in support of Dan Andrews Matthew Guy is attempting what Custer did HIS LAST STAND. Like Morrison he sympathises with the misdirected “me” crowd. The crowd currently walking the street yelling “fuck you” to 95% of Victorians that support this state. “We” you see don’t want our hospitals over run by Pandemic lovers and spreaders. “We” who for thier sake got vaccinated so “we” won’t come running and banging on our hospital ED doors expecting to be treated before those that are vaccinated. “We” that don’t want to witness the ramping that their selfishness creates.
Matthew guy, and how many like him are simply weaponising lockdowns and vaccine mandates for political gain? How many of these limp dicks marching are are actually but secretly vaccinated. Credlin, Kelly and the 5 members of the LNP seen at a previous demonstration certainly were. Yes, Matthew Guy seems born to lose out on the fringe in Dandenong away from the centre of town were The Base, Proud Boys, Nazis, and misguided drops of water are that will over time simply evaporate leaving Victorian ocean without really altering it.
Meanwhile the EU, UK,USA are suffering a resurgence and are returning to the actions that Dan Andrews has taken and will continue to take to make all Victorians not just feel but be safer, and ensure that our Frederally under-financed Public Health System keeps working for all of us. LNP mandated 18 year olds force and sent to Vietnam to save us and “free” us and we marched and demonstrated. This is certainly not any “freedom” march to liberate us or anyone from government oppression that’s for sure. Greg Hunt is resigning…wonder why?
Mr Guy made the promise as health authorities around the country debated how to respond to the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 and a daily “freedom” protest at the Victorian Parliament swelled to thousands.
Source: ‘No ifs, no buts, no more lockdowns’: Matthew Guy launches campaign
“The data is clear,” he reported, “of the extra $550 a fortnight — the Coronavirus Supplement — the largest amount, $85, was spent on household bills, electricity, phone, water; $70 of that extra money was spent on food; around $60 was spent on clothing and household goods; around $175 was saved or used to pay down debt.” “What we saw is that for the people who received that extra money, it was life-changing. Hundreds of thousands of people were lifted out of poverty. “They didn’t spend that money on frivolous or discretionary items. They didn’t withdraw from the labour market. They spent it well on their families and bills. “And they spent it quickly, which made it a good stimulus that’s supported the economy.”
Morrison our servant wants “out of our life”
I also have to sound a small note of warning for our ‘nothing-to-do-with-me-mate’ Prime Minister. He may run the risk of being too successful. As tweeter @demirophil put it most succinctly – ‘Lots of people want this government out of their lives for good.’ Careful what you wish for, Scomo.
Source: We need this do-nothing government out of our lives – The Big Smoke
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the current crisis and unrest engulfing the islands is “influenced and encouraged by other powers”. He is referring, of course, to the China situation, and he said as much: countries which don’t like his country’s Belt and Road ties with Beijing were behind the current crisis. But we haven’t heard the name of that nation uttered by our own Prime Minister as to the motivations for so quickly responding to the Solomon Island PM’s request for assistance. The request came after several days of rioting in the capital of Honiara which saw protestors descend on the national parliament building and call for the prime minister’s resignation.
Source: The one-word reason the PM sent troops to Honiara: ‘China’
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has pledged allegiance to the U.S. in defending Taiwan against attacks from China, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.
Source: Dutton commits to following U.S. into war for Taiwan
Rolling Stone obtained text messages that show the coordination between Jan. 6 attackers of the U.S. Capitol and to former President Donald Trump’s White House.
Source: Leaked text messages: Right-wing group coordinated with Trump for Jan 6 rally | Salon.com
It has become obvious that our Prime Minister suffers from the “Medusa complex”, a syndrome typified by the inability to address any issue directly.
Source: Scott Morrison’s Medusa complex
It takes a village to raze a country, no one man could do it alone and here at The Shot, we want to salute the Coalition for forming a united front with a single vision for Australia, straight out of the Mad Max franchise.
Source: Morrison’s vision is not about technology, nor taxes. Just lots and lots of gaslighting. | The Shot
Australians had some world-class news coverage this month when Scott Morrison slumped in a barber’s chair before thrusting a limp sausage at unsuspecting RSL veterans, all in the name of political journalism. Unlike other times in his career, however, this time Morrison knew where the sharp blade was coming from.I’m no expert in newsroom ratings, but I’m pretty sure watching a Prime Minister’s haircut is right up there with televised earwax moulding and people who post script-font quotes on Instagram. But, lols, it’s theatre guys, colour and movement for all those reality-telly-Facebook comment votes, designed to drown out that feeling of dread you get when you realise the Australian government went to the world climate change conference to save the planet with some Year 12 PowerPoint graphs and a gas company paying for the coffee stand.
Source: Scott Morrison: not with a bang, but a whimper | The Shot
With so many LNP ministers demoted for corrupt financial rorts, lies and morally scandalous misbehaviors not just to be now recalled but even promoted this second time around proves the electorate’s demand for an Integrity commission is an essential. Yet, the Morrison government, supposed servant of the electorate, has intentionally avoided establishing what was promised 3years before and he claims he’s not a liar.
What all this suggests is that this has all been just a “Trial Run” for an even bigger Scam, set of lies, and flow of corrupt money this time around because they feel they have got away with it. What’s worse today’s LNP politicians are laughing in the face of the electorates belief in Democracy and they’re behaving as if the electorate works for them and a tsunami money will keep them in power. How Trump are they?
Federal cabinet has not signed off on a much-criticised integrity commission proposal that Attorney-General Michaelia Cash indicates is unlikely to be introduced to parliament this year.
Victoria’s anti-lockdown campaigners are spreading misinformation that people, including children, in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are being forcibly detained by the defence force and coerced into receiving the COVID-19 vaccines.
Source: COVID misinformation spreading about Aboriginal community lockdown
Planning is a necessity in preparation for war and Dan Andrews is doing just that and he’s doing it for all Victorians and setting an example for the rest of the country. No matter the protestors screaming “what about “me” they are largely drops, stains, in the larger ocean of “we”. Over 90% of Victorians are vaccinated. Ask just how many of the protestors were. The LNP politicians were, Credlin and Kelly most likely are. How many of those protestors were false flags?
A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province, Health Minister Joe Phaahla announced Thursday.
Source: South African scientists detect new virus variant amid spike | The State
There are so many questions. Although it now seems clear that we won’t be invading Taiwan to keep it safe from China. Instead we’re sending people to the Solomon Islands which is almost as good as a war because we can ramp up the rhetoric and find a way to suggest that not supporting the government at this time of conflict would be unpatriotic. Of course, when I say time of conflict, I’m not suggesting that the Coalition is at war with itself…most of them will tell you that they’re completely united and there’s a general consensus on just about everything!
The average monthly cost in 2021 is $358,646 for every refugee and asylum seeker held on the island, equal to $4.3m per person each year, a Guardian Australia analysis of government figures provided to the Senate shows.
Sword rattler, Minister of Defence Peter Dutton is regarded as Australia’s worst-ever Minister of Health vying for the same title when Immigration Minister with Scott Morrison and possibly Kevin Andrews. Here he appears to want to sound like our leading drum beater. However, Dutton really is the Tin Man,a heartless rusted politician, but unlike the one in The Wizard of Oz, he doesn’t seem to want a heart just ticker. He’s the Squakus in today’s AUKUS with America and China cooperating on coal reduction and releasing strategic oil reserves to battle inflation. How much oil is the LNP releasing to lower our price? Did America release our oil? The oil we paid America to store for the war Dutton is rushing to preparing for?
In this, the Taiwan fetish becomes a Cold War iteration in the haunted, twisted imagination of certain policy makers, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute to the war drummers in the Morrison government. Nonsense flows easily when abstractions and hypotheticals can be passed around with such ease. Sweetly and pathetically, Australian politicians are again reminding us that blood lust, especially from those who have the least reason to fight, remains unquenchable.
Source: The Taiwan Foreign Policy Fetish – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dominic Perrottet’s controversial hedge fund is lending to Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Cayman Islands. What is the NSW Premier doing funding dictators with NSW taxpayers’ money? Michael West reports on the New Generations Fund.
Source: Perrottet invests in Putin not Parramatta – Michael West Media
Australian historian Stuart Macintyre passed away on Monday. A veteran of the New Left and the Communist Party of Australia, as a historian, writer, and political activist, Macintyre exemplified the spirit of solidarity at the heart of the workers’ movement.
Source: Stuart Macintyre Was Australia’s Foremost Left-Wing Historian
Why is it we don’t hear of these disasters at solar or wind farms? Oh yes, Trump said that wind was America’s biggest bird killer on Fox this week without a word of pushback from Fox’s Hannity. Coal mines are dirty, dangerous, and destroying the planet and have asked people to die to dig the stuff out. It’s fast becoming a rapidly obsolete energy source that the electorate “doesn’t want” but the government and it’s donors do. Who works for who in a Democracy? Morrison has made it clear he’s got his foot on the brake of any trnsition.
Moscow: A fire at a coal mine in Russia’s Siberia has killed at least 14 people and injured more than 40, with dozens of others remaining trapped, authorities said. Unconfirmed Russian news reports have raised the death toll to 52. At least 11 miners died in the initial accident, when coal dust ignited in a ventilation shaft in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the snowbound Kemerovo region, filling the mine with smoke, the TASS news agency cited local emergency services as saying.
Source: Dozens trapped underground after fatal coal mine fire in Siberia
Protests by right-wing groups over vaccine mandates have seen a rise in extremist behaviour, with death threats carried out against politicians, writes Bilal Cleland.
Source: Conspiracy cults breeding terrorism through protests
Pol Pot, Hitler couldn’t and Christensen can’t come to grips with the fact that they were and are just drops of water in a social ocean. The state of the ocean determines their relevance not them. In the case of George C that’s none. He’s little more than an oil stain hoping to spread before being washed away. Pity about the media seagulls that for a second yell Farrk and check him out.
Queensland Nationals federal MP George Christensen has been a vocal opponent of COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccinations He’s compared state leaders’ pandemic responses to Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot Labor is accusing Mr Christensen of using a social media post to incite violence
Source: George Christensen likens COVID-19 restrictions to Hitler, Pol Pot regimes – ABC News
This is ANTIFA, Anti-Fascism activism without a head or organizations competing for attention. No fake unionists, Proud Boys. Nazis or The Base to be found here.
THE CAMPAIGN Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) held a successful and peaceful protest against the anti-vaxxer Far-Right and the fascists in their ranks. It’s well documented now that organised Nazi groups are attempting to hijack the anti-vax protests for their own violent and racist ends.
Making fools of those claiming Victoria is to blame for everything, demonstrators and the general rabble are trying to convince and blame Andrews for the nation’s failure and ScaMo’s there to help “sympathising” and understanding their frustration.” Yes there’s good an wisdom on both sides. Nevertheless we need to thank Victoria’s Unions for their service to the nation for sure as hell Morrison and Matthew Guy won’t.
Victoria’s building sector has shrugged off the effects of Melbourne’s sixth lockdown to lead the nation in activity for the first time, according to the latest data, with more than $15 billion of work done between July and September. A leading economist says the performance of the state’s building industry, often at the eye of a storm of controversy during lockdowns, may have saved the national economy from a harder landing than expected in the September quarter.
The Religious Discrimination Bill is back, this time in its third iteration. The Coalition party room unanimously endorsed the bill on Tuesday, but a number of Liberal MPs voiced concerns about what it could mean for LGBTQ+ students and teachers at faith-based schools and universities. Attorney General Michaelia Cash has said no child should be “suspended or expelled from school on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity”, and that discrimination against students is “unacceptable”. However, the bill does nothing to protect LGBTQ+ students and teachers. It allows more, not less, discrimination by religious schools.
Source: Schools can still expel LGBTQ+ kids. The Religious Discrimination Bill only makes it worse
Australians’ lived experiences show the PM can’t even convince his own base that he can manage their rising household expenses
“At the federal level the position is really dreadful, because donations do not include money that’s paid to fundraisers and events where people pay to sit at the same table as politicians. I think therefore it does mean that we’ve got to absolutely reappraise the whole system to avoid those sorts of perceptions of undue influence and too much access.” (former judge Anthony Whealy, QC.)
Source: Revealed: Rupert Murdoch’s crack team of Liberal Party fundraisers – Michael West Media
CUBA LIBRE
“Cuba knew it would be hard to obtain Covid vaccines, so it made its own… and they could be key to vaccinating the world.”
Source: Cuba’s Homegrown Covid-19 Vaccines Poised to Protect Millions in Poor Nations
New research into life expectancy across England’s richest and poorest areas reveals the real cost of social inequality: a decade of life.
Source: Poverty Shortens Your Life
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