Author: peterimrich

Dear Gladys – » The Australian Independent Media Network

But you are still in Parliament, you are still charging the State taxpayer for your legal fees, and you haven’t left yet. As a result, most days lately, we hear about your memory loss, despite a previous reputation for maintaining a detailed memory with “meticulous focus on every minor policy detail “. You said you were going, Gladys. Put the money back you have taken from the State coffers and leave! There is only so much corruption, pork barrelling and taking advantage of us that we can stomach. Curiously wondering for how much longer before you pick up your toothbrush and go! Regretfully, The NSW Public.

Source: Dear Gladys – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Old Dog Thought- Morrison’s 2 daughters have more in common with Greta than their father and she nailed Scatty with her “Bla Bla Bla”

Greta Thunberg addresses protesters outside the climate summit in Glasgow on Friday, local time.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 7/11/21;

The Morrison Government gave $38 billion to businesses – major companies included – that didn’t need it. How can they justify that? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day One of the oddities of political polling is trying to understand how 48% to 50% of the voting public would willingly return a party that has governed so abysmally. ( John Lord )

Source: The Morrison Government gave $38 billion to businesses – major companies included – that didn’t need it. How can they justify that? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Correction, Minister: democracy’s roots are neither Christian nor Western

Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on  Friday 22 October 2021. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Unlike Tim Smith Alan Tudge survived his car crash moment simply by refusing to go. Is it any wonder he supported Smith to stay because it once again reminded us just how self serving a prick he was. A man with little class morals or manners Tudge was appointed as Minister for Education by Morrison.

Tudge now also believes in greater Voter ID just as he believes history shows there are people out there in his electorate who want to “steal” his position.

History recognises distinctions between fact and fallacy. Tudge tells us he wants history teaching that “recognises our democracy is based on our Christian and Western origins, with a reference to the importance of the values of patriotism and freedom”. Any well-educated history student would know that in the first part he is simply wrong. The origins of democracy lie in classical and pagan Greece, not Christianity or the West, both later inventions. In the second part, he offers his opinions and, as he says, his values, but not historical understanding.

Source: Correction, Minister: democracy’s roots are neither Christian nor Western

Tim Smith and the death of political accountability

Tim Smith will be judged in the eyes of the Law, in the eyes of his Insurance Company. In the eyes of parents whose children walk our streets. However, he doesn’t want to be accountable to his political party or any piss-weak LNP idiot politician not prepared to back him. Frydenberg, Tudge, Sukkar are some examples of who is. Those who claim this is all just a personal decision and it’s up to Tim to decide not the Party. Tim Smith is calling for money donors to join his Fight Club of which the first rule is not to talk about fight club but to talk about “poor Tim” who had a stationary car and kid’s bedroom attack him.

If there ever was a sign that the personal responsibility of the political class had evaporated, then the sorry show of Victoria Liberal Tim Smith provided it.

UPDATE

Mr Smith spent Saturday night calling supporters to tell them of his decision and apologise again for what he had done.

“It has been an honour to have served the people of Kew as their Liberal MP and the Liberal Party,” he said. “I thank everyone who has supported me in good times and bad. I have let many people down and I apologise again for causing this mess.”

Mr Smith will serve the remaining year of the current parliamentary term on the backbench. Nominations for Liberal

Is he waiting to be returned as Caesar? All we can say is that nothing surprises when it comes to Tim Smith.

Party preselection in Kew close on November 12.

Source: Tim Smith and the death of political accountability

We Need a Socialist Spotify

Streaming services like Spotify shamelessly exploit musicians. But there is an alternative to corporate monopoly music: a music streaming platform built for the common good.

Source: We Need a Socialist Spotify

The last squawk? Alan Jones finally seems to have nowhere to go

Alan Jones

Whatever his talents, and however impressive his record, he has been a canker on Australian democracy. Finally he seems to have run out of platforms, not because of the harm he has done to the social fabric but because he is no longer rating well and bringing in big advertising dollars. That is the way it was always going to end.

Source: The last squawk? Alan Jones finally seems to have nowhere to go

Ex-WH Staffer Fears What Trump Would Do if Reelected: It’s ‘Different in the Second Term’

Ex-Trump Staffer Fears Another Trump Term

If Morrison’s LNP are now calling for greater voter ID as Trumpsters are in America will we see them crying out ” Stop the Steal” here as well? Don’t be surprised what lays ahead!!

Hill said in another October interview that Trump wanted to “stay in power forever” like Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He saw Putin as the kind of [the] epitome of the badass populist, frankly, you know, the kind of person that he wanted to be: super-rich, super-powerful, no checks and balances, and essentially being able to stay in power forever,” she told the Daily Beast.

Source: Ex-WH Staffer Fears What Trump Would Do if Reelected: It’s ‘Different in the Second Term’

Trump shows no sign of going quietly

Back on the trail: Donald Trump speaks during a Save America rally in Iowa last month.

What a surprise that Australia’s LNP are pushing for the same policy here. Do they have an original thought among them?

This year, Republicans have used these seeds of doubt to push through more than 30 laws in 19 states to restrict voting, which in many instances largely impact Latino, African-American and Asian citizens.

Source: Trump shows no sign of going quietly

Old Dog Thought- Murdoch and the IPA altered the mood of a nation in less than 8 years. Australia we have been Yanked

Fighting Fake News with REAL 6/11/21 China, Tim Smith Idiot;

How much more of this incompetence and stupid arrogance do we have to endure? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Aus and NZ governments arrived at the awnser to the question once before and sacked him. It’s time the people did the same again. We couldn’t possibly have 4 more years of Morrison up ending Australia’s  reputation. Genuine tourists and students will simply stop coming to see an once admired world. Immigration will be driven by desperation for casual work in the salt mines of this nation. Hunger Games seem to be the vision for this country.

Haven’t we suffered enough? How much more of this incompetence and stupid arrogance do we have to endure before we can finally get a government in this country that works for the benefit of the nation, and not just to the advantage of its tin-pot leader?

Source: How much more of this incompetence and stupid arrogance do we have to endure? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

IPA targets key Coalition seats with net zero Facebook ad campaign described by experts as ‘fear mongering’ | Institute of Public Affairs | The Guardian

Bodangora wind farm near Wellington, New South Wales

The LNP, IPA, News Corp and Sky News  are part of a global Murdochian franchise and can be found in many forms in the UK and USA. The form a marriage to keep new barbarians, clean and cheaper energy from the gates. The planet, well that’s a secondary thought that can always be tweaked with money and spin spin as long as independent rational scientific information is kept under control. Information isn’t free but today it needs to be kept divided and anarchic. That’s their Art of the Deal. They sell division.

The Institute of Public Affairs paid to push targeted Facebook ads based on a “faulty analysis” claiming net zero would cause massive job losses in key Liberal and National seats during last month’s Coalition infighting. Last month, as the Coalition debated a net zero 2050 policy, the IPA paid for a series of Facebook and Instagram ads targeting the electorates of Nationals Barnaby Joyce, David Littleproud, Mark Coulton, Ken O’Dowd and Anne Webster, as well as the Liberal trade minister, Dan Tehan. The ads warned the policy “will destroy” huge numbers of jobs in each electorate. In Flynn, O’Dowd’s electorate, the ads warned “net zero emissions will destroy one in four jobs”. Other electorates would lose one in five, one in six or one in seven jobs, the ads claimed.

Source: IPA targets key Coalition seats with net zero Facebook ad campaign described by experts as ‘fear mongering’ | Institute of Public Affairs | The Guardian

Morrison Government continues to trash Australia’s reputation on climate

The Government’s refusal to sign up to the global methane pledge is another example of how it’s a laggard on climate change, writes Dr Graeme McLeay. THE GLOBAL METHANE pledge which 104 countries have agreed to in Glasgow, including the European Union and the United States, aims to cut global methane caused by human activity by 30% this decade.

Source: Morrison Government continues to trash Australia’s reputation on climate

Israel Dossier on Palestinian “Terror” Groups Offers No Proof

A Palestinian protester facing Israeli security forces, waves a national flag during a demonstration against the establishment of Israeli outposts on their lands, in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on October 22, 2021. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

When presented with the dossier, which was produced by Israel’s Shin Bet, European governments declined to cut funding to the groups.

Source: Israel Dossier on Palestinian “Terror” Groups Offers No Proof

Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

Like Greta’s School Strike for the Climate, the climate movement in the streets of Glasgow is informed by the recognition that the science is clear and the solutions to the climate crisis are readily available. It is only political will that is lacking. This must be supplied by ordinary people, from all walks of life, through creative, dramatic action and mass mobilization, to demand the political and economic transformation we so desperately need. The usually mild-mannered UN Secretary General Guterres made it clear that “street heat” will be key to saving humanity. “The climate action army – led by young people – is unstoppable,” he told world leaders in Glasgow. “They are larger. They are louder. And, I assure you, they are not going away.”

Source: Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

Informed Comment- Robert Reich- Wealth-Inequality

New Grand Jury Seated As Trump Criminal Probe Continues | HuffPost Latest News

New York prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s business dealings have convened a new grand jury to hear evidence in the probe.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s business dealings have convened a new grand jury to hear evidence in the probe as the previous panel’s term was set to run out, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Thursday.

Source: New Grand Jury Seated As Trump Criminal Probe Continues | HuffPost Latest News

Tucker Carlson’s revisionist January 6 series is fascist propaganda | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson Originals / Patriot Purge

Goebbels divides America

Tucker Carlson’s revisionist January 6 series is fascist propaganda | Media Matters for America

Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events – CNNPolitics

Fact-checking Kari Lake, serial promoter of election lies and early frontrunner in GOP primary for Arizona governor

Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy, a CNN KFile review of her appearances has found.

Source: Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events – CNNPolitics

Old Dog Thought- The LNP are anti-Australia’s Compulsory Vote and for Voter ID. Now that’s an elitist move to a Voting Pantomime, Authoritarian Rule and a rigged election. Think GOP, Republicans, Trump. Think Orban in Hungary, Erdogen in Turkey.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/11/21; CO2, COP26, UK, LNP has become the Trump Party Australia

The three climate claims these experts want Scott Morrison to stop making

Scott Morrison artwork

The Santos sponsored Australian Pavillion at COP26 was a hidden embarrassment to Australia. An old Tobacco Company trick to sell more tobacco. Yes Philip Morris is about to UNSMOKE THE WORLD to sell more tobacco and Santos is about to SELL MORE GAS to produce Hydrogen when renewables can do the same job without increased emissions and unproved carbon capture technology.

1 ‘We will continue to meet and beat our targets’

Our targets aren’t Federal Government’s they are the target action of the States and private citizens stolen by Morrison and Taylor as if theirs. They have in fact done NOTHING

2 ‘Australians’ bills will skyrocket’ 

False threats of bills sky rocketing with a Carbon Tax. They didn’t. Last week Morrison claimed “His Plan” would lower bills with no Carbon Tax.

“But the funny thing is, we actually did have a carbon price for a number of years, and it didn’t increase electricity bills.”

“There’s an opportunity for you to be a lot better off by switching to renewables.”

Since beginning a new job as head of the OECD, former coalition finance minister Mathias Cormann – who was fiercely opposed to carbon pricing mechanisms – has encouraged governments across the world to adopt more “stringent” carbon prices.

The current subs offered the fossil fuel industry is our money it’s a TAX

3 ‘Australians’ jobs will be put at risk’

the job opportunities in the renewable sector outweigh those in the fossil fuel industries.

Alongside the “mammoth growth opportunity”, a report  authored for the Climate Council found political inertia could instead cost New South Wales and Queensland up to 70,000 jobs if G7 nations and others decide to tax emissions-intensive imports from Australia.

“The rest of the world is saying that over time, not tomorrow, or next week, but over the next coming decade, we’re going to reduce our demand for fossil fuels.” 

“So whatever Australia thinks it can or can’t do, the rest of the world is telling us: ‘we don’t want your dirty energy’.”

Source: The three climate claims these experts want Scott Morrison to stop making

How Scott Morrison’s climate action wishlist was cobbled together

The PR and Damage Control an Emergency   ” Look  I’m holding the solution”. Unfortunately there is nothing between the pages. It’s Morrison’s Dead Moggie.

Having faced criticism over lack of climate action, Scott Morrison unveiled an emissions reduction plan containing passages written at the last minute, writes Steve Bishop. PRIME MINISTER Scott Morrison’s emissions reduction wishlist was cobbled together in such haste that it contains three passages allegedly obtained on 26 October, the day the PM waved it Chamberlain-style in triumph.

Source: How Scott Morrison’s climate action wishlist was cobbled together

The Macron spat over Aukus submarines has taught world leaders a lot about Scott Morrison | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness, right, attend a meeting during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow.

By the time Morrison touched down in the desert, the French ambassador had landed a potent extrapolation. If Scott Morrison’s operation was prepared to leak private text messages from world leaders to settle diplomatic scores, who could trust Australia? Jean-Pierre Thebault French ambassador says leak of Macron text ‘new low’ as submarines rift deepens Read more “You don’t behave like this on personal exchanges of leaders,” Thébault said in Canberra. “Doing this also sends a very worrying signal for all heads of state. Beware, in Australia, there will be leaks, and what you say in confidence to your partners will eventually be used and weaponised against you.” I doubt you’ve missed the saga of the text messages, but just in case – the morning after Emmanuel Macron told Australian journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome that Morrison had lied to him during the fracas, one of the president’s private texts turned up in some Australian media outlets.

Source: The Macron spat over Aukus submarines has taught world leaders a lot about Scott Morrison | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Lies, Lies and Nuclear Submarines – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison also suggested “publicly” that it was the American Administration that was “incompetent” after President Biden said the treatment of France in the AUKUS matter had been “clumsy”. We saw no email leaks refuting him did we? Morrison has a well-documented history of never saying sorry and yelling “look over there” when the shit hits the fan. Or simply saying ” I don’t agree  I’m done with this” and leaving others to deal with his mess. Nuclear subs are dangerous weapons they say. Will they cost Morrison his job? The certainly have brought about an unwanted focus.

The Morrison government has also taken to the distasteful practice of selective leaking in bolstering its quicksand position, a tactic which further suggests a diminution of an already less than impressive political office. A prodding text from Macron to Morrison sent two days prior to the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the contract involved a query as to whether good or bad news could be expected about the French submarines. The vulgar insinuation here is that Macron supposedly had an inkling that something was afoot from the Australian side, which hardly counts as fully informed awareness. Naturally, Morrison’s response is not noted. The Elysée further denies suggestions that Canberra made several warning efforts regarding the AUKUS announcement.

Source: Lies, Lies and Nuclear Submarines – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Branded a ‘liar’ by the French, Scott Morrison’s slipperiness is now on show for the world to see | Hugh Riminton | The Guardian

Scott Morrison

Sacked by NZ, Sacked by the LNP, Sack him again Australia. He hasn’t changed and never will.

All ridiculously trivial, but not quite innocent. When cornered, the Australian prime minister breaks the glass and reaches for distraction…. on Sky News, warning about “glass houses”. “Right now, you would be aware that in your own organisation there is a person who had had a complaint made against them for harassment of a woman in a women’s toilet,” thundered Morrison. Not true, said Sky’s owners at News Corp. The prime minister issued a late night withdrawal. 

“I have a lot of respect for your country,” Macron said, making plain he blamed Morrison specifically for what he contends was a lie. “A lot of respect and friendship for your people.” How the story unfolded: Scott Morrison and Emmanuel Macron’s submarine stoush  Morrison’s response was to defend Australia’s honour, citing his own “broad shoulders” “I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia. I am not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”

Source: Branded a ‘liar’ by the French, Scott Morrison’s slipperiness is now on show for the world to see | Hugh Riminton | The Guardian

Scott Morrison really should resign, oui?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison must resign. The fact he won’t and will not be forced to do so illustrates, more than ever, the desultory state of Australian democracy and its ostensible guardians — the Fourth Estate. Why should he resign? Is it because of the laughable “plan” he took to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, which involved nothing more than a press conference repeating the word “plan” 71 times (maybe more) in 25 minutes, while brandishing a small blue pamphlet in his hammy fist?

Source: Scott Morrison really should resign, oui?

Our top 1% of income earners is an increasingly entrenched elite

The share of total income collected by the top 1% of Australia’s income earners has been trending upwards since the 1980s. It is now about 9% of total income. How concerned should we be about this? To some extent it depends on fluidity of membership of the top 1% (which in Australia means earning a pretax income of at least A$246,000). If someone is part of the 1% this year but not last year, this would suggest income inequality is a fact of life but at least we still have social mobility: people have good and bad years, with the top 1% largely comprising people who happen to be having a good year. It won’t bother the other 99% of us so much. But if the top 1% comprises the same people every year, we will be more concerned about an entrenched elite moving ever further away from the rest of us.

Source: Our top 1% of income earners is an increasingly entrenched elite

Watch Tony Abbott throws help behind Liberal MP Tim Smith – Nationwide News Youtube HD Video – Latest Breaking News

He didn’t lift a finger to help Peter Slipper did he? In fact he threw him under a bus for a $900 cabcharge misappropriation allegation for which he was later found innocent. This supposed close friend  watched Slipper’s life unrevel while he saved dozens of others from far, far worse offences, including one of his own. Abbott’s appearance in Murdoch’s papers and on Sky seem more an excercise in distraction rather than ‘real’ news. An attempt to get Morrison off the front pages and in some weird way boost Abbott’s stocks for a distant comeback at much the same time. That’s all Australia needs.

Watch Tony Abbott throws help behind Liberal MP Tim Smith – Nationwide News – Watch Youtube HD Video Online. Watch latest video online from official Youtube channel.

Source: Watch Tony Abbott throws help behind Liberal MP Tim Smith – Nationwide News Youtube HD Video – Latest Breaking News

Right-wing media claim New Jersey mail-in votes are illegitimate, repeating the 2020 election lies | Media Matters for America

image — January 6 committee — officers testifying

Source: Right-wing media claim New Jersey mail-in votes are illegitimate, repeating the 2020 election lies | Media Matters for America

Old Dog Thought- The LNP WAY = The Australian Way. Any Democracy’s foundation is based on the acceptance of loss and not just a win at all cost short term and self-serving careerist thinking.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 4/11/21, The LNP Way is the Australian Way according to Morrison;

Would you please explain, Prime Minister, just what is the Australian way? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day Life is about perception. Not what it is but what we perceive it to be. ( John Lord )

Source: Would you please explain, Prime Minister, just what is the Australian way? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Dig up, prime minister | The Monthly

Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News

When the Artful Dodger proved to be Artless

Today Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Dig up, prime minister By Nick Feik Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Morrison is in a hole, and making things worse In response to the comments that French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at Scott Morrison yesterday (“Do you think he lied to you?” a journalist asked Macron. “I don’t think, I know,” Macron replied), Morrison has proceeded to dig himself in deeper. First the PM’s staff leaked a text message from Macron to the Coalition’s favourite propaganda outlet, The Daily Telegraph, which dutifully ran a story around it. (Funnily enough, the Tele was one of the few mastheads that hadn’t run a major story on the fact that the French president had accused the Australian PM of lying.) The Tele proposed that the text message from Macron (“Should I expect good or bad news for our joint submarines ambitions?”) somehow proved that he had been told that Australia was cancelling its submarine contract – and that the Frenchman “just didn’t want to hear it”. It proved nothing of the sort, and there was no evidence to support this contention other than the single text message and the assertions of “sources familiar with talks between the two men”. (Gee, who could they be?)

Not content with the diplomatically disastrous ploy of leaking private messages and backgrounding against foreign leaders to the press, Morrison then took a public shot at Macron, accusing him of attacking Australia’s integrity. What’s more, Morrison added, “I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia, I’m not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”

To be clear: Macron had not sledged Australians generally. He had sledged Morrison personally. (“I have a lot of respect for your country,” Macron said. “I have a lot of respect – and a lot of friendship – for your people.”)

Source: Dig up, prime minister | The Monthly

Malcolm Turnbull joins Emmanuel Macron in rebuking Scott Morrison on submarines deal

Malcolm Turnbull, who is in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit, said Scott Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government.

Morrison’s History is that of a liar and spin doctor and like Trump thinks he has the backing to get away with the bullshit

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined French President Emmanuel Macron in calling Scott Morrison a liar over the cancellation of a $90 billion submarine contract, saying the Prime Minister had a reputation for being dishonest. In a fierce criticism of his former colleague, Mr Turnbull said Mr Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.

Source: Malcolm Turnbull joins Emmanuel Macron in rebuking Scott Morrison on submarines deal

French ambassador accuses Australia of deceit over submarine deal | Reuters

French Ambassador in charge of the G7 summit preparations Jean-Pierre Thebault speaks on his mobile phone while working in Biarritz, France August 25, 2019. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS/Files

“The deceit was intentional,” Thebault told media in Canberra on Wednesday. “And because there was far more at stake than providing submarines, because it was a common agreement on sovereignty, sealed with the transmission of highly classified data, the way it was handled was a stab in the back.”

Source: French ambassador accuses Australia of deceit over submarine deal | Reuters

COP26 omits biodiversity loss from agenda

A glaring omission from media releases and political statements relevant to the Glasgow COP26 meeting is biodiversity loss, writes Sue Arnold.

Source: COP26 omits biodiversity loss from agenda

Josh Frydenberg was alerted less than three months into JobKeeper that unqualified companies were receiving support – ABC News

Josh Frydenberg opens his mouth to speak

The Treasurer knew billions in JobKeeper were going to businesses with increased turnover Businesses that no longer qualified for JobKeeper continued to receive support for six months Josh Frydenberg said Treasury did not advise on any changes to JobKeeper at the time

Source: Josh Frydenberg was alerted less than three months into JobKeeper that unqualified companies were receiving support – ABC News

Australia is about to be hit by a carbon tax whether the prime minister likes it or not, except the proceeds will go overseas

Ten years ago, in the lead-up to Australia’s short-lived carbon price or “carbon tax” (either description is valid), the deepest fear on the part of businesses was that they would lose out to untaxed firms overseas. Instead of buying Australian carbon-taxed products, Australian and export customers would buy untaxed (possibly dirtier) products from somewhere else. It would give late-movers (countries that hadn’t yet adopted a carbon tax) a “free kick” in industries from coal and steel to aluminium to liquefied natural gas to cement, to wine, to meat and dairy products, even to copy paper. It’s why the Gillard government handed out free permits to so-called trade-exposed industries, so they wouldn’t face unfair competition.

Source: Australia is about to be hit by a carbon tax whether the prime minister likes it or not, except the proceeds will go overseas

Australia refuses to join global pledge led by US and EU to cut methane emissions – ABC News

A power plant emits steam from cooling towers.

More than 100 countries have joined the US and EU in committing to cutting methane emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 Australia, China, Russia, India and Iran refused to join the global push to cut methane emissions Former PM Malcolm Turnbull said Australia’s climate position was “a joke”

Source: Australia refuses to join global pledge led by US and EU to cut methane emissions – ABC News

JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange is justice for all

The injustice brought against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is an affront to not only truth in journalism but human rights for all, writes John Pilger.

Source: JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange is justice for all

Rudy Giuliani Gets His Right-Wing Grievances Confused | Crooks and Liars

Rudy Giuliani Gets His Right-Wing Grievances Confused

While talking to Steve Bannon’s anti-American War Room, the lying personal attorney got his right-wing grievances mixed up. Jumping on the bogus critical race theory bandwagon, Rudy claimed teachers are actually teaching it and parents say their kids are wondering if they are girls or boys. What? Giuliani played the same trick of getting testimonials from people that are MAGA cultists who didn’t mind lying during the 2020 election to claim a fraud was perpetrated. “We got a hundred teachers claiming they’re teaching it in school. We got a thousand parents saying their kids come home and say. ‘mommy, am I a boy? So of course they’re teaching it…” What are they teaching, Rudy? Critical race theory has nothing to do with gender. Liars gotta lie. It appears sometimes it’s really difficult juggling so many lies at once and they all blend in together for right wing liars like Rudy. The only way Republicans can function in today’s world is with misinformation, conspiracy theories, and racist, homophobic tropes. Rudy is at the head of the table, if he can only remember his name.

Source: Rudy Giuliani Gets His Right-Wing Grievances Confused | Crooks and Liars

Old Dog Thought- Morrison has always thought the role of the “Artful Dodger” was made for him. Sacked time and again for never being “Charismatic or Endearing”

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 3/11/21 Morrison has played, rehearsed and practised the role of the Artful Dodger all his life but has never been “Endearing” or “Charismatic”

At least $38b in JobKeeper went to companies where turnover did not fall below thresholds, data finds – ABC News

Josh Frydenberg in a suit and tie standing in front of a lecturn in a blue room in front of an australian flag

If the problem was an ALP one do we for one moment think this wouldn’t be continuously in our MSM News, on 2GB, On Sky, Ch7, Ch9 and Ch10?

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) found at least $38 billion in JobKeeper went to companies where turnover did not fall below the thresholds The PBO found $1.3 billion went to companies where turnover tripled during the quarter for which they claimed JobKeeper It found a further $1.3 billion was paid to companies that doubled their quarterly turnover

Source: At least $38b in JobKeeper went to companies where turnover did not fall below thresholds, data finds – ABC News

Do the crime – do the time – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The reason Dominic Perrottet became Premier of New South Wales is Gladys Berejiklian chose to join the select group of Liberal Party New South Wales Premiers that resigned before undergoing the scrutiny of a New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption public hearing. Of course, Berejiklian had her supporters, they are the ones that were questioning why ICAC was investigating her, rather than the correct question – why did she resign as a Member of Parliament prior to ICAC passing judgement on her actions? The answer to the ‘correct’ question will come out in due course and we’re not even going to hazard a guess what the final outcome is

Source: Do the crime – do the time – » The Australian Independent Media Network

APM promoters exit jobless profits in ASX float, turn to profiteering from disabled – Michael West Media

APM float, JobActive

In March 2020, as the pandemic began to grip, American investment firm Madison Dearborn acquired a controlling 55% stake in APM; the price it paid reflected a $1.5 billion valuation This takeover made American controlled firms the two largest profiteers from government contracts in the jobactive program. APM’s biggest rival, Max Solutions, is also US-controlled. Together, these two American controlled companies, along with another smaller provider, Atwork Australia, have pulled in $2 billion in government JobActive contracts. This equates to 60% of all taxpayer money spent on the scheme. Other notable APM shareholders are

Megan Wynne herself, who still retains a $254 million, 27.2% stake,

and her husband Bruce Bellinge who owns a $132 million, 14.1% stake through his company Bellinge Holdings.

The next and only other large shareholders are Michael and Sandy Anghie. Michael Anghie owns an $8.47 million stake directly while

Sandy Anghie (the Deputy Lord Mayor of Perth) owns another $6.15 million stake as joint shareholders of Wattle (WA) Pty Ltd.

Entity Value of shares Percentage Madison Dearborn Capital Partners $512 million 54.7% Megan Wynne $254 million 27.2% Bellinge Holding

Source: APM promoters exit jobless profits in ASX float, turn to profiteering from disabled – Michael West Media

Dodgicel: Andy Penn given more billions, this time to beat China to a telco takeover – Michael West Media

Barnaby Joyce, Keith Pitt, coal

Why the blazes was Telstra slotted $1.6bn by Scott Morrison’s government to buy Digicel, and how is it Telstra shares slumped by one-third during the bull market when they are raking in billions in NBN money? Kim Wingerei checks on the charmed existence of chief executive Andy Penn.

Source: Dodgicel: Andy Penn given more billions, this time to beat China to a telco takeover – Michael West Media

War With France Is Inevitable, And Other Obvious Things That Morrison Will Soon Say! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

No, it’s all been about whether we let the French know. And this is where the old Morrison MO comes into play. The initial response when things go wrong is that it’s someone else’s fault.

“I tried to ring but Macron didn’t take the call.” (Nobody told me or somebody else didn’t do the right thing. Think Brittany Higgins or the vaccines not arriving as early as promised.) Then,

it wasn’t my fault, but we’ll work it out and I’ll contact them and we’ll have a bit of a natter and it’ll all be ok. (Think Brittany Higgins again.)

If neither of these works, we may need Phil Gaetjens who works for the PM to launch an independent inquiry. Of course, by “independent” we don’t mean independent of the PMO, we mean independent of actually telling anyone else what he discovered or independent of actually asking anyone who might know anything.

(And again) Finally, background against the person or start an argument about some minor detail in the whole fiasco.

You’ll notice that we’ve hit that last point with the French president in the past day or so. Biden may have said that it was “clumsy” but we’ll just ignore that and create the distraction of accusing the President of knowing and, by the way, has he forgotten about the war and how we helped. Ungrateful foreigner! He’s slandered all Australians by calling me a liar.

Yes, this is Morrison using diplomacy to repair the relationship. No, not the one with France. That’s basically stuffed and, even though he’s risking any free trade agreement with the EU, he’ll double down and up the rhetoric because – just as he did with China – the issue isn’t getting a good outcome, the issue is ensuring that he’s in an election winning position.

He hasn’t suggested that war with France is inevitable, but I guess that’ll be Dutton’s job as Defence Minister.

Source: War With France Is Inevitable, And Other Obvious Things That Morrison Will Soon Say! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As Australians gamble on the Melbourne Cup, Prime Minister makes each-way bet on climate change at COP26 – ABC News

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson share the stage at COP26

He claims he’s not a liar but then he claime Macron insulted the Australian Public an immediate lie to boost his claim he’s not a liar. He’s a dud a real dud. Tim Smith was merely DUI. Morrison is a serial bullshitter who was sacked by NZ and Australia for his inexcusable “clumsiness”, poor judgement, and communication skills. We have witnessed all of it for the past  3 years.

In failing to offer more action this decade — the main objective of COP26 — Scott Morrison needed to make a case for Australian exceptionalism. In some sense he succeeded, but not as hoped. “The Australian Way” seems to have highlighted that this nation, as in past COP meetings, is acting as a brake on climate action, not a ready participant. Which makes it all the harder to convince ‘developing’ countries — which includes the likes of China and India — to follow suit. Scott Morrison will depart Glasgow with Australia’s six-year-old 2030 target unchanged. He may be able to brush off the criticism Australia is copping at COP26, but it is likely to follow him. Frank Bainimarama, the strong man and powerful voice of the Pacific, made it clear that success in limiting climate change should not be left to chance. “We have moral authority,” he said. “You have a moral obligation.”

Source: As Australians gamble on the Melbourne Cup, Prime Minister makes each-way bet on climate change at COP26 – ABC News

COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

America and The UK have left Australia eating their dust

Biden is the first president to take the climate emergency seriously as an emergency. He has many levers of power to begin turning the USS America around on this issue, and if he can get us headed in the right direction, that will have enormous downstream impacts on our future and the future of the globe.

Source: COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

Texas is being covered with billboards saying Trump lost – funded by fed up Republicans | The Independent

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It is part of multibillion-dollar Republicans for Voting Rights campaign, which calls on state lawmakers to ‘reject frivolous audits of 2020 election results’

Source: Texas is being covered with billboards saying Trump lost – funded by fed up Republicans | The Independent

Key moments from part one of Tucker’s pro-insurrection propaganda reel, “Patriot Purge” | Media Matters for America

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Carlson uses a deranged montage to imply the Biden administration wants to put Trump supporters in Guantanamo Bay

“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander fraudulently absolves himself of guilt

Carlson’s guests push conspiracy theories that January 6 was a set-up executed by antifa or other “troublemakers”

 

Source: Key moments from part one of Tucker’s pro-insurrection propaganda reel, “Patriot Purge” | Media Matters for America