Author: peterimrich

Scott Morrison’s devolution of democracy

No matter how you look at it, this is a sorry saga of secrecy, deceit and manipulation by Scott Morrison and one that has become all too familiar domestically. Although, this is the first time the Prime Minister’s preferred methods of operation have been demonstrated on the world stage. It appears that the U.S. expected Morrison would advise the French in a timely manner of his change of plans. This is a reasonable expectation of a reasonable leader, but the Americans had not yet realised the duplicitous and, some would say, cowardly nature of the man they are working with.

Source: Scott Morrison’s devolution of democracy

Is US-Australia Nuclear Sub Deal a Proliferation Danger, and does it Justify Iran’s Civilian Enrichment Program?

It seems to me that the only difference between Australians and Iranians in this regard is that Australia is part of the white Anglophone diaspora. It is also part of the Five Eyes intelligence program, which groups the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Australia (hmm, I wonder what they have in common)? Race is so central to US politics that it even comes into nuclear policy!

Source: Is US-Australia Nuclear Sub Deal a Proliferation Danger, and does it Justify Iran’s Civilian Enrichment Program?

Dutton does defence – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In his maiden speech, Dutton said “I have seen the sickening behaviour displayed by people who, frankly, barely justify their existence in our sometimes over tolerant society.” Having watched Dutton enhance his personal fortune for twenty years, I have seen nothing to justify his existence in our parliament or the support of his over tolerant constituents and colleagues.

Source: Dutton does defence – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Paul Bongiorno: Scott Morrison’s credibility torpedoed by the French

Scott Morrison’s three ring circus last week unveiling an awkwardly named pact with the United States and Britain, at the expense of France, isn’t looking quite like the winner he had hoped. The greatest collateral damage of AUKUS is to the Prime Minister’s personal credibility.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Scott Morrison’s credibility torpedoed by the French

Old Dog Thought- From the Depth of Despair Barnaby Joyce is our PM

Fighting Fake News with REAL 21/9/21; A Periscope view of the Media’s opinions

The Great Silencing | The Smirking Chimp

That’s how terrorism works and how the silence grows wherever the forces of zealotry and fanaticism dominate a culture. It’s beginning to seem a bit Brown Shirt-y in this country, verging on Third Reichian, a place where neighbors fear neighbors and teachers teach warily, succumbing to fear as the great silencing settles over us.

Source: The Great Silencing | The Smirking Chimp

House Democrats are scared to tax billionaires – that’s a costly mistake | Robert Reich | The Guardian

Democrats seemed cowed by their donors’ gaze.

Political cowardice means those funding Joe Biden’s ambitious social policy plan want to leave the mega-rich unscathed

Source: House Democrats are scared to tax billionaires – that’s a costly mistake | Robert Reich | The Guardian

US admits that Hellfire Strike on Kabul, killing 10, was a “Mistake” – But US often does not know Whom it is Droning

The US lets lose the most powerful weapons on the planet to effectively kill indiscriminately. Julian Assange released a video showing just that and for 7 years he’s suffered for it. America’s reign of collateral damage and even the killing of allies in it’s eagerly reckless slaughter of the dreamed-up enemy from a distance has never stopped. Australia has joined them in the formation of AUKUS overlooking the slaughter of innocents by their newly formed commander and chief diminishing our sovereignty at one and the same time. Scott Morrison is certainly not holding the hose.

But civilian casualties from massive and continual US bombing raids on the country increased 330% from 2017, according to the BBC citing the Costs of War Project at Brown University. The rising death toll was owing to Trump having relaxed the rules of engagement. The Military Times writes of Afghanistan, “According to U.S. Air Forces Central Command, U.S. aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions in 2019 — that’s the highest number of bombs released in nearly a decade. In 2018, U.S. warplanes dropped 7,362 bombs — the second highest total in a year thus far since AFCENT began publishing the number of munitions released in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the height of America’s participation in Afghan war, coalition aircraft dropped 5,100 and 5,411 bombs respectively.” That is an enormous tonnage of explosives to drop on a poor, rural country annually, and it had been getting worse.

Source: US admits that Hellfire Strike on Kabul, killing 10, was a “Mistake” – But US often does not know Whom it is Droning

Abbott Suggests Following Britain By Reintroducing Imperial Measurements! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Speaking of submarines, Christian Porter has resigned. I know that previous sentence may not seem to make sense to those of you who don’t follow politics closely but the current modus operandi of the government is to distract us from the previous disaster by pointing us in the direction of another disaster until one of them has something that we can focus on where there is more than one side of the argument. To demonstrate with a complete hypothetical:

Source: Abbott Suggests Following Britain By Reintroducing Imperial Measurements! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Tudge sore over suggestion we question Anzac Day

Education Minister Alan Tudge should look closely at history before criticising expert’s proposed curriculum changes, suggesting school students challenge ideas about Anzac Day, writes Dechlan Brennan.

Source: Tudge sore over suggestion we question Anzac Day

Climate education is essential for a better future

We need to teach future generations how to properly understand the effects of fossil fuel power and become more efficient energy consumers, writes Howard Morrison.

Source: Climate education is essential for a better future

Michael Pascoe: Who sold the nuclear submarines – and our sovereignty?

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The last time a major Australian political party professed independent foreign policy was 18 years ago when Labor, led by Simon Crean, opposed involvement in the Iraq invasion without a UN mandate. Since then, “sovereignty” has been little more than a word used to talk up national security fears. And fear sells.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Who sold the nuclear submarines – and our sovereignty?

View From The Hill: For Morrison, AUKUS is all about the deal, never mind the niceties | The New Daily

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Scott Morrison, whose COVID face masks have the Australian flag emblazoned on them, likes to talk about “the Australian way” of doing things and Australian values. But it is not “the Australian way” to secretly plan, over a very long time, to deceive a close friend of this country, and then to treat them in a most humiliating and disdainful manner. That does not align with “Australian values” of honesty and fair dealing.

Source: View From The Hill: For Morrison, AUKUS is all about the deal, never mind the niceties | The New Daily

Submarine fiasco the latest in a long list of Coalition military failures

Modern history shows Australia’s Coalition is incapable of effective defence planning and military hardware procurement, writes Alan Austin. THE LATEST FAILED attempt to upgrade Australia’s submarines – which has wasted multiple billions of borrowed dollars and eight years – follows a string of Coalition disasters.

Source: Submarine fiasco the latest in a long list of Coalition military failures

Old Dog Thought- Morrison has been summoned and Barnaby Joyce is Deputy PM– Nudge Nudge Wink Wink Say No More

Fighting Fake News with REAL 20/9/21; Who is in charge of AUKUS?;

Deconstructed: Tax the Rich

The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation package would reshape the American economy.

Source: Deconstructed: Tax the Rich

The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck

Trump knew he had a very short time to break everything and he did. Because he knew it takes much longer to fix things. However he was the one who did it.

Trump was a true rule-breaker who did manage to do quite a lot in the international arena, where he had far greater leeway to make changes beyond congressional control. Much of that activity was destructive, because Trump proved quite adept at smashing things. Indeed, Trump smashed things—the Iran nuclear deal, détente with Cuba—not just because of a peevish desire to destroy his predecessor’s legacy but as part of a scorched-earth policy to FUBAR the federal government for generations to come. As a result, Biden will spend much of his term picking up the pieces—and that’s a whole lot harder when you’re in handcuffs.

Source: The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck

Washington rally in support of 6 January rioters falls short of expectations | US Capitol attack | The Guardian

‘Kentucky Phil’, a US Coast Guard veteran, protests during the rally in Washington DC.

THE TRUMP RALLY FLOPPED AND WAS A NO SHOW

As a protest, it was a flop. Turnout was at best half of the 700 predicted by organisers, which in itself fell well short of the many thousands who stormed Congress in January. The event organiser, Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign operative, blamed the poor attendance on government intimidation and press scaremongering.

Source: Washington rally in support of 6 January rioters falls short of expectations | US Capitol attack | The Guardian

You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.

Contrary to claims about “fascist” vaccine mandates currently circulating on the Right, the Nazis actually relaxed German vaccine mandates — and hoped doing the same for people they conquered would kill them faster.

Source: You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.

‘What Betrayal Looks Like’: UN Report Says World on Track for 2.7°C of Warming by 2100

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Politics and Short Term Thinking

The IPCC also estimated that keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would require a 45% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030—a mark that the international community is currently on track to miss badly, according to the new U.N. report. António Guterres, the secretary-general of the U.N., said in a statement Friday that 2.7°C of planetary heating would be “catastrophic” and that world leaders are “rapidly running out of time” to act. “This is breaking the promise made six years ago to pursue the 1.5°C goal of the Paris agreement,” said Guterres. “Failure to meet this goal will be measured in the massive loss of lives and livelihoods.”

Source: ‘What Betrayal Looks Like’: UN Report Says World on Track for 2.7°C of Warming by 2100

Larrikins, bogans and bullshit artists: is Australia ripe for a blue-collar revolution? | Australia news | The Guardian

Australia prime minister Scott Morrison at a Cronulla Sharks game in Sydney in 2019. ‘Around 2016, Scott John Morrison – a Pentecostal rugby union fan from the eastern suburbs of Sydney – reinvented himself as “ScoMo”, a rugby league loving everyman from the Sutherland Shire.’

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When a minority uses fake culture wars to blindside an election. It didn’t work in Warringa did it? The biker surfer volunteer fire fighter lost by a country mile.

Australia – a nation of self-proclaimed straight shooters – has been hijacked by a pack of fabricated larrikins and bona fide bullshit artists. For a quarter-century, Australia’s conservative establishment has profited from pitting working-class battlers against the inner-city elite, coalmines against universities, larrikins against feminists and gays, patriots against Aboriginals, Muslims and asylum seekers.

Source: Larrikins, bogans and bullshit artists: is Australia ripe for a blue-collar revolution? | Australia news | The Guardian

Morrison creating tensions with Asia and New Zealand – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Paul Keating added further concern with Australia’s current strategy in relation to China and military escalation in the South china sea if we have a situation is another reckless style Donald Trump leader is elected in the next US elections. The tensions in Scott Morrison’s move in the public and political realm in the Pacific is evident, in what appears to be very little discussion or debate with Australia’s most important Pacific partner before making his submarine buying deal which will give fresh indigestion to others.

Source: Morrison creating tensions with Asia and New Zealand – » The Australian Independent Media Network

‘Lies and treason’: France could suspend military co-operation and trade talks

‘Lies and treason’: France could halt talks on trade, military co-operation

“For us clearly, such a decision announced without any prior consultation – not just a phone call, but real consultation due to the scope of the consequences – marks a real breach of trust,” he said.

Source: ‘Lies and treason’: France could suspend military co-operation and trade talks

Old Dog Thought- Dutton Did It, Morrison gives the French the Finger and brown eye’s EU Trade. Will Abbott’s monuments be trashed?

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Fighting Fake News with REAL 19/9/21; Morrison Shows the French the Finger; Trashes EU Trade and Abbot’s War Monuments all in one;

FAA contradicts Fox News’ claims of censorship over coverage at a Texas bridge | Media Matters for America

Fox News runs with baseless claim that the Federal Aviation Administration is censoring the network’s reporting

The Fox correspondent claimed to have reached out to the FAA for clarification on the reason for the flight restriction. However, the FAA directly contradicted Fox News’ story. An FAA spokesperson told Media Matters, “FOX News never reached out to the FAA’s press office yesterday at any point. The first contact between FOX News and the FAA was after the FAA press office saw the report. A statement was sent about an hour after the report aired.” Nevertheless, Fox immediately began weaving a conspiracy theory that the FAA is “trying to keep Fox News from covering what is happening” at the Texas bridge:

Source: FAA contradicts Fox News’ claims of censorship over coverage at a Texas bridge | Media Matters for America

Drone attack killed 10 civilians in Kabul, US acknowledges | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

Amnesty International welcomed the acknowledgement of civil casualties by the US military on Friday but called for prosecuting those “suspected of criminal responsibility” in the attack. “Survivors and families of the victims should be kept informed of the progress of the investigation and be given full reparation,” Brian Castner, senior crisis adviser with Amnesty’s crisis response programme, said in a statement. “It should be noted that the US military was only forced to admit to its failure in this strike because of the current global scrutiny on Afghanistan.”

Source: Drone attack killed 10 civilians in Kabul, US acknowledges | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

Assuming all truth passes through the same three stages, looking at the current stage of Israel’s occupation it’s safe to presume that the truth and nature of its reality is coming to the end of the second phase. It’s thus entering the third stage where the Zionist state’s practice of apartheid is accepted as self-evident.

Source: Israel’s future is apartheid in a ‘solution of the three classes’

Australia to oppose China’s bid to join trade pact until it halts strikes against exports | Australian politics | The Guardian

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and trade minister Dan Tehan

“We are a proud democracy in our region. We stand with our neighbours in the Indo-Pacific to ensure enduring peace and this collaboration makes it a safer region. That’s the reality and no amount of propaganda can dismiss the facts.”

Source: Australia to oppose China’s bid to join trade pact until it halts strikes against exports | Australian politics | The Guardian

That Fella Down Under! Scott Morrison’s AUKUS deal designed to win election, not make Australia safe – Michael West Media

AUKUS, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, submarines

Strap in for a media blitz on the threat from China. Prime Minister #ThatFellaDownUnder Scott Morrison and his merry band are about to take a war to the election. Michael West reports.

The PM’s army of propagandists has been working around the clock over the past two days marketing the latest announcement to a fawning press: AUKUS, a new “Alliance for the Ages as China Threat Grows”, according to The Australian. And what results!

Christian Porter’s secret legal payments are off the front pages, as is the JobKeeper mega-rort, the biggest transfer of wealth in history from working Australians to wealthy Australians and foreign corporations.

Early Thursday morning there was no AUKUS. The AFR did have a scoop though, splashing with: “PM to announce $90b French submarine deal is dead”.

Source: That Fella Down Under! Scott Morrison’s AUKUS deal designed to win election, not make Australia safe – Michael West Media

Informed Comment- Michelle Grattan a Week in Politics

Australia’s nuclear submarine deal fundamentally changes our relationship with the world – ABC News

Scott Morrison and Emmanuel Macron bump elbows at a press conference.

Guess who was wearing a mask

With Australia under pressure from China, the French President declared: “You are at the forefront of the tensions that exist in the region, of the threats, and sometimes of the intimidation. I want to reiterate here how much we stand by your side.” “We are good friends, we are good partners”, Morrison told Macron later in remarks over an official dinner. “We share common goals and we share common values and that’s why our partnership with liberty and affinity I think is one that we’ll be able to progress further this evening.” ‘It’s a stab in the back’ What the PM didn’t mention was that he had just held talks in Cornwall with US President Joe Biden and UK PM Boris Johnson about a proposal for a tripartite alliance, the most spectacular immediate element of which would be dumping the $90 billion plan underway to build French submarines in Australia in favour of some (yet to be worked out) plan to build American (or British) ones (for some unspecified amount of money). In fact, nobody bothered mentioning this rather significant change of heart to the French until hours before the announcement was made jointly, with much pomp early on Thursday morning Australian time, with Morris

Source: Australia’s nuclear submarine deal fundamentally changes our relationship with the world – ABC News

‘Lies and treason’: France could suspend military co-operation and trade talks

France’s ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault is on his way back to Paris.

MORRISON GIVES THE FRENCH THE FINGER

Recalled ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault, speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age hours before leaving Canberra for Paris, said Australia had engaged in “lies and treason” for 18 months behind his nation’s back. He said there was an “intentional breach of trust” and “when something serious happens between two countries, really serious, there is a need for reassessment, and obviously consultation at high levels”. “For us clearly, such a decision announced without any prior consultation – not just a phone call, but real consultation due to the scope of the consequences – marks a real breach of trust,” he said. Mr Macron’s decision to recall US ambassador Philippe Etienne to Paris for consultations was the first time that action had been taken in the history of their alliance, which dates back to 1778

Source: ‘Lies and treason’: France could suspend military co-operation and trade talks

France withdraws ambassadors to Australia and US over submarines deal – ABC News

French submarine FNS Amethyste passes a bridge as officers stand onto of the vessel.

China didn’t create this division among allies. But it goes to show just how much this is a new trade deal masquerading as the necessity for defence. For fuck sake the French have a presence in the Pacific but because the are EU have been abandoned with backs turned. Good one Mr Morrison.

A recall of ambassadors is highly unusual between allied countries France said it was unable to trust Australia in talks on a trade deal with the EU The EU is Australia’s third-biggest trading partner

Source: France withdraws ambassadors to Australia and US over submarines deal – ABC News

Old Dog Thought- Australia/NZ/France have all sacked Morrison. We need to!

Fighting Fake News with REAL 18/9/21; The Industrial Military Complex; Three Amigo’s; Scott Junior Morrison, Submarines, Gladys,

Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars

Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.

Source: Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars

International doctors endure hardship in COVID Australia

Sabrina is a foreign-trained doctor, or international medical graduate (IMG), as the Australian Medical Council (AMC) refers to her. She landed in Australia in 2018 and completed her AMC MCQ in 2019, less than a year later. She began studying for her AMC clinical exam, which she was planned to take in early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia. All of a sudden, all the scheduled examinations were cancelled and she has been attempting to book one ever since, as this is the only way to get into the Australian employment market. This isn’t just her tale. It’s about an entire community of highly skilled people who are being held back by a system.

Source: International doctors endure hardship in COVID Australia

ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the UK and US might not be all it seems

Having remained committed to the Five Eyes security agreement and having put boots on the ground in Afghanistan for the duration, “NZ” appears to have been taken out of ANZUS and replaced with “UK”.

Source: ANZUS without NZ? Why the new security pact between Australia, the UK and US might not be all it seems

Blind trust gift to Porter undermines faith in democracy

Industry Minister Christian Porter has faced intense criticism for accepting an undisclosed sum of money through a blind trust.

Threats to Australia’s democracy come in many forms but none is so insidious as the one posed by the power of corrupt money. The perception that politicians are open to influence by cash has the effect of sapping voters’ faith in the system and pushes them towards, on the one hand, extreme views and, on the other, apathy and disengagement.

Source: Blind trust gift to Porter undermines faith in democracy

Massive Decisions – Zero Transparency – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In addition to the lack of consultation AWPR has several serious concerns about the new pact. These include: The plan is likely to inflame tensions with China thereby increasing the risk of conflict. Prospective visits by US & UK nuclear-powered vessels to Australian ports for repair and resupply further militarises our region. The pact could far more readily draw Australia directly into any conflict between the US and China over Taiwan. The new pact could have an adverse impact on Australia’s relationship with New Zealand. The plan keeps Australia tied to a world dominated by superpowers and takes us away from a genuinely independent foreign policy. The submarine decision breaks the long held and accepted understanding that Australia is nuclear free. This decision alone requires serious discussion within the parliament and community.

Source: Massive Decisions – Zero Transparency – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It does not get any messier or more chaotic than this. Since 2009, when Australia’s Future Submarine Program (FSP) known as Project SEA 1000, began to take shape, strategists and policy makers have been keen to pursue the next big White Elephant of defence spending. And few areas of an already wasteful area of public expenditure are more costly – often mindlessly so – than submarines. The Australian effort here is particularly impressive. Pick a real winner by signing a contract for a yet to be designed attack class submarine, supposedly necessary in an increasingly dangerous region. Ensure that this design is based on a nuclear model and remove that attribute, aptly described as “dumbing down a nuclear submarine by removing the whole basis of its superior capability, and then charging at least twice as much for a far less capable submarine.”

Source: Nuclear White Elephants: Australia’s New Submarine Deal – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia-US submarine deal: Scott Morrison, the third amigo, speaks loudly to Xi

Illustration: John Shakespeare

Let’s face it this is an economic trade off and appeasement to the Anglo/ Industrial Military Complex for the business lost in Afghanistan,Iraq and Syria. Morrison was simply the Indo-Pacific smokescreen in the arrangement. The Age for once puts up an extended and reasoned opinion about about the slyness of a move that has Dutton’s fingerprints all over it.

The three amigos – an Aussie marketing huckster, an English buffoon and an American senior citizen. Fresh from being chased out of Afghanistan and humiliated by barbarian terrorists they’d set out to defeat 20 years earlier. Their marquee initiative – for Washington and London to supply nuclear propulsion technology for Australian submarines – is serious. But Canberra has no ability to make use of it in a deployable submarine for at least another 20 years. What’s the point of giving an engine to someone without a car?

Source: Australia-US submarine deal: Scott Morrison, the third amigo, speaks loudly to Xi

Australia-US submarine deal: France recalls its ambassadors to Australia and United States amid submarine fury

French President Emmanuel Macron has been angered by Australia’s decision.

Morrison, liar, salesman and diplomat the third amigo in SQAUKUS told the nation he’d smoothed it over with France beforehand. Is there any wonder he’d been sacked by Australia and  NZ once before?

France will take the extraordinary step of recalling its ambassadors from Australia and the United States, as the fallout grows from a new defence pact that has infuriated French President Emmanuel Macron. The unprecedented move follows the Morrison government’s decision to tear up a $90 billion contract to buy 12 French submarines in favour of a new nuclear-powered fleet using technology from the US and United Kingdom.

Source: Australia-US submarine deal: France recalls its ambassadors to Australia and United States amid submarine fury

Old Dog Thought- AUKUS Now is that a new Asian State within Australia. Note who had whose backs in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. The Kurd’s thought their’s were covered too and now Morrison has our bridges to the wider world.

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Fighting Fake News with REAL; 17.9.21 Morrison Captain of SS Australia; America and the UK have our backs;

Joe Biden forgets Scott Morrison’s name in awkward AUKUS call

Anglo American Alamo on Asia renting Fort Australia from from from a fella…. The SQAUKUS

They were appearing to talk up their close friendship, but Scott Morrison and Joe Biden’s AUKUS announcement quickly turned awkward when the US President appeared to forget our Prime Minister’s name. Mr Biden thanked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but then paused as he addressed Mr Morrison. “Thank you, Boris … I want to thank, ah, that fella down under,” Mr Biden said.

Source: Joe Biden forgets Scott Morrison’s name in awkward AUKUS call

Dirty Work Shows the Toll Bad Jobs Take on the People Who Do Them

Capitalism has created a world full of bad and brutal jobs, from meatpackers to drone operators. Capitalists created these jobs — only organized workers can get rid of them.

Source: Dirty Work Shows the Toll Bad Jobs Take on the People Who Do Them

Fox News Has A Very Strict Vaccine Mandate | Crooks and Liars

Fox News Has A Very Strict Vaccine Mandate

Now all their hosts have to quit in protest, right? Right?

Source: Fox News Has A Very Strict Vaccine Mandate | Crooks and Liars

Western fires are burning higher in the mountains and at unprecedented rates as we heat the climate

The Western U.S. is experiencing another severe fire season, and a recent study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as the climate warms. With more than 5 million acres already burned by early September, the 2021 U.S. fire season is about on pace with the extreme fire season of 2020. This summer has been the hottest on record and one of the driest in the region, with 80% of the Western U.S. in severe to exceptional drought. That combination of heat and dryness is a recipe for disastrous wildfires.

Source: Western fires are burning higher in the mountains and at unprecedented rates as we heat the climate

News Corp Turns Climate Change Inactivist – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Phillip Morris also announced it was to become the world’s foremost Anti-Smoking Corporation far surpassing any government QUIT campaigns

The calculated change of heart within Murdoch’s non-news machine will do little to editorially rein in the likes of Bolt and his merry denialists, many of whom have promised to keep the cannons firing and the fires burning. As they do, climate change inactivism, code to preserve fossil fuel orthodoxy, promises to bloom.

Source: News Corp Turns Climate Change Inactivist – » The Australian Independent Media Network

US, UK and Australia agree new Asia Pacific security pact | Military News | Al Jazeera

Doing Business with LNP Australia and “That Fella Down Under ”

Australia signed a multi-billion dollar contract to buy French submarines in 2016. The new agreement effectively ends that deal. “This is a decision contrary to the letter and the spirit of the cooperation that prevailed between France and Australia,” France’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “The American choice, which leads to the removal of an ally and a European partner like France from a longstanding partnership with Australia, at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region… marks a lack of consistency that France cannot but note and regret,” it added.

Source: US, UK and Australia agree new Asia Pacific security pact | Military News | Al Jazeera

Government asked to set up open process to pick human rights commissioners

Newly appointed human rights commissioner Lorraine Finlay’s views have drawn fire.

Human rights experts and Amnesty International are demanding the government commits to transparent and open appointments to the Australian Human Rights Council after it gave a plum posting to a law lecturer with strong ties to the Liberal Party.

Source: Government asked to set up open process to pick human rights commissioners