The rustic oiks bent Scooter over a pork barrel
Source: The bastards from the bush – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Author: peterimrich
In fact, leading climate scientists who form the Climate Targets Panel calculate that Australia’s greenhouse emissions need to be reduced by 74% by 2030 (from 2005 levels) and to net zero by 2035 to keep global heating to below 1.5C and avert the destruction of Torres Strait Islander communities.
Is the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence Committee is on a mission of discovery. Its subject: a Yahoo News report disclosing much material that was already in the public domain on the plot to kidnap or, failing that, poison Julian Assange. Given that such ideas were aired by officials within the Central Intelligence Agency, this struck home. On the Yahoo News “Skulduggery” podcast, Committee chairman and Democratic Representative Adam Schiff said, “We are seeking information about it now.” Making sure to put himself in the clear of having any knowledge of plans against Assange, Schiff claimed that the committee had sought a response from “the agencies” (the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) after the publication of the Yahoo News piece. As to whether the agencies had responded, Schiff was not forthcoming. “I can’t comment on what we’ve heard back yet.”
Source: Congress, Skulduggery and the Assange Case – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“What if it was your family starving to death?”
To put this extraordinary wealth growth in perspective, the $2.1 trillion gain over 19 months by U.S. billionaires is equal to: 60 percent of the $3.5 trillion ten-year cost of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. The entire $2.1 trillion in new revenues over ten years approved by the House Ways and Means Committee to help pay for President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) investment plan.
Source: U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70 Percent, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic
Scott Morrison gave millions to an Irish billionaire and built him a 4500km digital cable across the pacific. He called it “Foreign Aid”. Now that billionaire wants to sell his company Digicel and China is very interested. So Morrison has now given Telstra a “No Recourse $2.1bn Loan” of public money, our money, to Telstra a private corporation outbid China. How about that for Corporate Welfare? Yes, that’s a $2.1bn Australian dollar boost to shareholders who don’t need to pay it back. Does Australia even know about Morrison’s lagesse?
President Joe Biden and Democrats have been circling a plan to tax billionaires, and right-wing media are furious.
Source: Right-wing media furious over Democratic proposal to tax billionaires | Media Matters for America
America’s real moral crisis has nothing to do with people deciding to end their pregnancies, or consenting adults choosing to use contraceptives, or trans young people choosing one bathroom or sports team over another. It has to do with the actions of people in boardrooms and legislative cloakrooms, and the failures of so many who occupy positions of power and public trust to honor the public good. What do you think?
My thought day In terms of the environment I wonder what price the people of tomorrow will pay for the stupidity of today.
Source: Fools rush in where wise men never go – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his long-awaited net-zero plan will lower power bills, create 100,000 jobs, and leave Australians thousands of dollars better off by increasing the gross national income by 1.6 per cent.
But his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull has been scathing of a key pillar of the plan, calling carbon capture and storage – which the government is relying on to cut emissions in manufacturing and mining – as a “con” and “distraction” by the coal industry. Scott Morrison announces the net zero plan. “It is a proven failure and it keeps getting run up the flagpole by the fossil fuel sector as a way to defer action,” Mr Turnbull told The New Daily. Mr Morrison will take the net-zero plan, and a projection that Australia will comfortably beat its Paris agreement goals, to Glasgow’s COP26 climate summit this week.
Source: Malcolm Turnbull blasts key part of government’s net zero plan
Leunig…Cancelled….not Shot. Was his humour punching up, down left, right or just a 76 year old being AGE-ist?
On January 7, 2015, the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo found themselves facing a form of cancel culture before it became fashionable in the Twaddle sphere. It was of the most severe, lethal sort. Twelve people were butchered, and the fanatic’s credo asserted. The assailants Chérif and Saïd Kouachi had been offended…
Source: Cancelling Cartoonists – » The Australian Independent Media Network
If anyone in your personal circle or professional relationships lied to you as much as this LNP government has since 2013, if anyone was found to have behaved as badly or kept as many secrets as the LNP has you’d have turned your back on them and simply walked away years ago. So why do we accept it of our politicians?
The government has scrapped the local build of a Pacific support vessel promised in 2018 A ship will be purchased overseas instead for faster delivery Defence has also detailed it is unlikely to purchase a hybrid design for its nuclear submarine fleet
It warned of “weak promises, not yet delivered” just days before representatives of world governments gather for the key UN climate summit in Glasgow, which has been described as a “last-chance saloon” for the planet.
Supremacists ran towards the car shouting, ‘Antifa’, court told A composite of two blurred photos Jacob Hersant, left, and Thomas Sewell are facing a number of charges, including armed robbery and unlawful assault.(Supplied)
Source: Two Australian neo-Nazis face court over alleged assault in Cathedral Ranges State Park – ABC News
Understanding Scott Morrison and Aland Tudge’s ideological purification, “the intellectual blockade,” Their underlying dream of a a One Party LNP State in Australia by taking over every cultural institution and controling citizen;s thoughts. In simple terms their approach is not original but historically known as Fascism and Mussolini’s dream.
CRT is not is a disease or a conspiracy hovering behind any teacher or book that suggests that racism is a problem in the 21st century.
Even if critical race theory were exerting some massive influence on K–12 education in America (it isn’t), and even if critical race theory had as its aim the instilling of shame in white students (it doesn’t), none of its efforts would compare in scope the determination with the systematic and successful 75-year campaign by Virginia and other southern states to control what was taught to students, and what students, Black and white, were allowed to read and think about race and racism. When we consider Virginia parents complaining that they “weren’t raised that way,” this history needs to be considered.
In fact, a rigorous program of ideological conformity has been a part of southern culture since the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion in Virginia. On the excuse of preventing more slave revolts, not only were antebellum schools and universities purged of antislavery teachers and books, the very mails were censored to ensure that no antislavery publications reached Dixie.
The Tudge plan is to do just that for White Christian British history and do away with any notion that the historic truth lies elsewhere.
Yet senate Republicans, along with Sinema and West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, say we can’t afford to spend what’s needed for childcare, education, or paid leave, and we can’t afford to reduce climate change? My friends, this is truly nuts.
Yet it hasn’t won over the Australian LNP which remain the industry’s performing monkies.
New polling data shows two-thirds of Republicans do not want to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the climate crisis
Source: Fossil fuel messaging has won over Republican voters, poll reveals | Environment | The Guardian
Ironically the Prime Minister and his fellow converts in the News Corp tabloids around the nation on Monday were trumpeting the opportunities net zero will present for jobs and growth something they all decried as reckless at the 2019 election. Mr Morrison in question time ridiculed Labor for not having a plan to reach the 30-year target apparently oblivious to the fact that so far he hasn’t taken the nation into his confidence about his hitherto secret plan. Hopefully before he boards his plane on Thursday all will be revealed. Either way he won’t be asking the Parliament to do anything about it.
Source: Paul Bongiorno: Morrison’s win over Nationals looking like a pyrrhic victory
While the National Party holds Australia’s future to ransom with climate demands, Scott Morrison’s future as Prime Minister looks increasingly dim, writes Andrew P Street. THERE ARE PLENTY of reasons to be cynical – indeed, deeply suspicious – about the secret deal that the National Party has presented to Prime Minister Scott Morrison as conditional on their begrudging and far-from-unanimous support for the very existence of an emissions target.
Source: Nationals ridiculous net zero deal doesn’t even matter
By design the Accountancy Industry is tasked no paid to protect and not distribute money. A no pay no service industry.
After public outrage that the NSW government had ruled out trying to pursue the $30m, the state crime commissioner, Michael Barnes, on Friday committed the agency to revisiting its previous investigation into whether it could confiscate any of the Obeid family’s assets as the proceeds of crime.
White retrenchment theory. By a practicing white male misogynist preaching values he doesn’t practice.
Education Minister Alan Tudge continues to argue that an obscure version of our history – one that students “can be proud of” – is the only one worth teaching, writes Dechlan Brennan.
Source: Tudge flags freedom of speech while whitewashing Australia’s past
Halyna Hutchins’s death during the filming of Rust is a tragic consequence of studios prioritizing profit and speed over crew members’ lives. Alec Baldwin’s culpability isn’t about him pulling the trigger on a prop gun — it’s about his and his fellow producers’ cost-cutting decisions.
Source: Halyna Hutchins’s Death on the Set of Rust Was “Not a Freak Accident”
Who is the LNP fighting for when you aren’t the emitters even causing the planet to burn.
Modern environmental messaging stresses changes in individual behavior. But most CO2 emissions come from the rich
Source: How the 1% tricks you into thinking climate change is your fault | Salon.com
Biden’s appeal of the denial of extradition should be dismissed. Julian Assange should be released and celebrated for his courage.
Will Israel now call these 21 of it’s own citizen organizations “Domestic Terrorists”? They don’t call Israeli settlers illegally occupying Palestinian land terrorists. Israel insults the intelligence of a planet.
Twenty-one Israel-based civil society groups on Sunday joined Palestine defenders around the world in condemning the Israeli government’s labeling of six Palestinian advocacy groups as terrorist organizations, calling the move “an act of cowardice.”
Source: ‘An Act of Cowardice’: 21 Israel-Based Groups Condemn Terror Label for Palestine NGOs
Despite reportedly being part of a media consortium behind the Facebook Papers, the project analyzing a trove of documents released by whistleblower Francis Haugen, Fox News is spreading a false narrative about the project’s findings to its audience – even misleading about a news article on Facebook in its sister publication The Wall Street Journal. Fox is still claiming that Facebook discriminates against conservatives, when in fact the platform is dominated by right-wing content, and the company has gone out of its way to coddle right-wing actors spreading misinformation. Fox News’ coverage of the company’s internal document has predictably become just another extension of the right-wing playbook in which they claim anti-conservative bias on part of tech companies even though the facts do not support it.
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There is no bottom to how low Don Jr. will go for a buck. Like father, like son.
Source: Don Jr Sells Disgusting Alec Baldwin T-shirts | Crooks and Liars
What Frydenberg, the Harvard whiz, doesn’t mention is why he’s been nominated for the prize for Australia’s worst-ever Treasurer
The Independent Australia Ranking on Economic Management (IAREM) for 2021 reveals Ireland leading the world and Australia still languishing outside the top twenty, reports Alan Austin.
Source: Australian economy languishes while Ireland, Singapore, NZ soar
Accountants are there to ensure compliance or is that to avoid compliance to rules so complex compliance is nigh on impossible ? Their clients happily spend money to avoid spending money on rules constructed by accountants and are willing to spend whatever it takes to increase their bottom line. JobKeeper was a perfect storm where in Australia the government and the accounting industry aligned in the a process of corporate welfare sold as an essential for the Nation.
So much so disguised foxes are employed to watch the foxes in the henhouse. Why does ATO bother to train investigators, who when let go by the ATO like thousands were when Tony Abbott was PM so easily find jobs in the tax minimization industry?
Last month a regulatory body from the US censured and fined KPMG Australia over professional standards. The findings raise a pressing question: how widespread is this poor culture within the accounting industry? On September 13, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) of the US made an order that (1) censures KPMG Australia; (2) fines KPMG Australia $450,000; and (3) requires KPMG Australia to undertake remedial actions. The board’s website explains that its mission is to oversee audits of public companies in order to protect investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports. This body investigates and, if necessary, disciplines registered public accounting firms and their associated persons for violations of specified laws, rules, or professional standards. So why do investors in public companies need protection from KPMG Australia? What ghastly behaviour has attracted the ire of the Americans?
Source: Bad apples or bad orchard? KPMG Australia fails ethics test – Michael West Media
The LNP are going it alone even when the ALP says zero coal-fired power plants aren’t their target.
Labor has extended its lead to 54-46 in the latest Newspoll, days before Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to head to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit. The results of the exclusive poll, which is conducted for The Australian newspaper and released on Sunday night, shows support for the Coalition at its lowest level in three years as talk of action on reducing emissions dominates the political landscape. It highlighted increasing community support for greater climate action, with 47 per cent of voters saying the goal of reducing emissions should be prioritised over lower energy costs (40 per cent). It is a stark reversal from 2018 when 64 per cent of voters said energy prices should be the priority and only 24 per cent said reducing greenhouse gas emissions was more important.
Source: Labor takes 54-46 Newspoll lead as PM prepares for Glasgow climate summit | The New Daily
The Embarrassment of it all! Is we have one LNP but seemingly two governments that for 8 years have been in step and still march to the same silent tune. However their public performance has left us all aghast!
A week before a major international meeting aimed at saving life on Earth, the Morrison government has apparently seen the light. Granted, it’s a start. But the new targets are less than the bare minimum required. The government’s last-minute jump on the bandwagon is not quite the Damascene conversion it would have the public believe. Will Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash towards climate respectability be well-received in Glasgow? Don’t hold your breath.
What the world really thinks of Australia and why Morrison is reluctant to attend COP26. Morrison sees no space for a positive photoshoot.
In a world racing to reduce pollution, Australia is a stark outlier. It is one of the dirtiest countries per head of population and a massive global supplier of fossil fuels. Unusually for a rich nation, it also still burns coal for most of its electricity. Australia’s 2030 emissions target – a 26% cut on 2005 levels – is half the US and UK benchmarks. Canberra has also resisted joining the two-thirds of countries who have pledged net zero emissions by 2050. And instead of phasing out coal – the worst fossil fuel – it’s committed to digging for more. So it’s no surprise that Australia is being viewed as a “bad guy” going into the COP26 global climate talks in Glasgow, analysts say. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is under huge pressure to do more.
Source: Climate change: Why Australia refuses to give up coal – BBC News
Health authorities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia are dealing with a surge of coronavirus cases amid talk of curbs returning to stem the spread of infections. The UK recorded the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 since July over the past week, government figures showed on Saturday, just one day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson played down the prospect of a return to lockdown. Data showed 333,465 people in the UK tested positive for COVID-19 over the past seven days, up 15 per cent on the previous week and the highest total since the seven days to July 21.
Source: Alarming wave of fresh COVID cases rolls across Europe
My warning to the oligarchy: There’s more anti-establishment anger in America today than at any time in the last century. Some of that anger fueled Donald Trump’s vicious racist nationalism, and continues to do so. Some of it fueled Bernie Sanders’s reform candidacy, and progressives remain the the most energized part of the Democratic Party. Four weeks paid leave is better than no paid leave, and $1.75 trillion for social infrastructure is better than nothing. The question is whether it’s enough. Americans want better pay and more economic security. The oligarchy wants them to be insecure, which will only stoke more anger. If that anger finds its ways into constructive reforms, we’ll all be the better for it. But if those reforms are stymied, that anger could threaten everything in coming years: our economy, our democracy, our future.
Source: The Incredible Shrinking Biden Plan | The Smirking Chimp
Australia without shame or any embarrassment of its hypocrisy is one of the loudest. While it records the existence of the most incarcerated indigenous population in the world who are 3% of the country’s population. If compared on any social metric health, education, housing, jobs Australia’s Aborigines suffer the worlds worst conditions while living in a first world nation something we don’t hear said about China’s Uighurs.
More than 40 mainly Western countries have criticised China at the United Nations over the reported torture and repression of the mostly Muslim Uighurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, keeping a spotlight on a region where foreign governments and researchers say one million people or more have been confined in camps.
More countries criticise China at UN for repression of Uighurs | Uighur News | Al Jazeera
Exclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in ‘shocking’ web of surveillance
Source: Oil Giant BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners
Beijing and Moscow hold a second series of exercises in October Japan said a group of 10 vessels from the two nations sailed through the Tsugaru Strait The patrols are maintaining “peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region”, according to the Russian defence ministry
A neverending creeping disease not seen on the front pages of the Western media.
Israel has announced plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, drawing immediate condemnation from Palestinians, peace activists and neighboring Jordan.
Source: Israel to build 1,300 new West Bank settler homes | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
Importing Scab Labour to break the backs of Australia’s Unions
The Government is contemplating a substantial increase in immigration, boosting the Pacific Australian Labour Mobility Scheme and introducing the new Agriculture Visa, so it’s worth reflecting on where things are at with Australia’s biggest ever labour trafficking scam.
Source: Update of Australia’s biggest ever labour trafficking scam
Sam Dastyari was gifted a plane fare not a $1mill+ and didn’t hide it nor did he attempt to call it a “Blind Trust”
30 View all comments Advertisement Don’t call it a blind trust. Call it a trick, an attempted sleight of hand, a work-around by someone who knows the rules well enough to skirt them adeptly. When former attorney-general Christian Porter accepted more than $1 million to cover the legal bills he racked up suing the ABC, the first trick he played was to call the vehicle by which he took the cash a “blind trust”.
Source: A blind trust? Certainly, the government is keeping voters blind as to Porter’s secret donors
In the last 8 years the LNP began with Abbott’s “No cuts to the ABC”, blatantly lied to our face, have taken $1bn dollars from it’s budget, restructured its board, and poisoned the fundamental charter on which it was constituted. An Independent and public owned body to hold governments accountable. The ABC was never meant to be “balanced” but meant to be vigilant, critically questioning, and holding light on whether the government was performing for and of the people. The LNP killed the canary.
Designed to discipline workers into producing clickable and profitable content, newsroom analytics are radically changing the nature of media work — and hastening journalism’s ugly decline.
Leftist critics have been quick to indict corporate media, but less adept at articulating a new kind of media system, one that’s truly democratized under public ownership. This disconnect is surprising, given how the Left historically has seen the press as a crucial terrain for struggle. Social movements have long relied on various types of journalism, even within mainstream corporate media, to advance progressive causes. Reliable journalism and a functional news media system are vital components of any effort for progressive social change, from fighting fascism to halting climate change.
Source: Management by Metrics Is Upending Newsrooms and Killing Journalism
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Within just a few days, the United States will once again make its case in a UK court that it has a right to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be tried under the Espionage Act, in what remains this century’s most dangerous attack on global press freedom.
Source: Fate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings | The Smirking Chimp
As the Los Angeles Times reported late Friday, the accidental shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of “Rust” took place six hours after several union crew members left the location and were replaced by non-union workers.
Source: Fatal Film Set Shooting Followed Outcry by Union Crew Members Over Safety Protocols
Before his stint as ruler of the free world, former President Donald Trump made a fortune slapping his name on buildings other people had built. Now, he’s being accused of doing the same thing with his social media platform. Users who were able to access and create accounts on a beta version of Trump’s “TRUTH Social” through a backdoor immediately noticed that it bore an uncanny resemblance to Mastodon, an alternative social network known for its focus on privacy and “free speech” values. The company’s founder and lead developer, Eugen Rochko, pointed out to VICE News’ Motherboard that the error message on Trump’s new social platform used his site’s elephant mascot. In fact, one user even snapped a screenshot of the site’s HTML code that explicitly mentioned Mastodon, leading many to surmise that it had lifted the company’s code directly.
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