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Informed Comment

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: Uncaring Billionaires Lost in Space | The Smirking Chimp

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to colonize outer space to save humanity, but they couldn’t care less about protecting the rights of workers here on earth. Musk’s SpaceX just won a $2.9 billion NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Bezos. The money isn’t a big deal for either of them. Musk is worth $179.7 billion. Bezos, $197.8 billion. Together, that’s almost as much as the bottom 40 percent of Americans combined. And the moon is only their stepping-stone. Musk says SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026 and wants to establish a colony by 2050. Its purpose, he says, will be to ensure the continued survival of our species. “If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants and animals die out on Earth but are still alive on Mars,” he tweeted.

Source: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: Uncaring Billionaires Lost in Space | The Smirking Chimp

Coal

Where’s Wally: find your favourite taxpayer subsidy to the fossil fuel giants – Michael West

Fossil fuel subsidies

At almost $20,000 per minute, the Government spends more on fossil fuel subsidies than on the Australian Army, writes Rod Campbell.

Source: Where’s Wally: find your favourite taxpayer subsidy to the fossil fuel giants – Michael West

New Zealand

New Zealand’s vaccination program is built on Pfizer and a plan to take it slow – ABC News

Manurewa Marae vaccination clinic

New Zealand COVID-19 vaccination rollout built around the Pfizer vaccine Experts say the rollout is slow, but the government has “delivered on what they promised” so far The rollout ramps up in July when vaccinations are to be offered to the general population

Source: New Zealand’s vaccination program is built on Pfizer and a plan to take it slow – ABC News

Peter Dutton

Home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo urged to ‘tone it down’ after ‘drums of war’ speech | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian

Michael Pezzullo

Pezzullo is tipped to follow Dutton to become defence department secretary, a move that would cement the trend of China hawks being appointed to top defence jobs, despite the Morrison government’s claims it is attempting to reset the relationship.

Source: Home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo urged to ‘tone it down’ after ‘drums of war’ speech | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison Knows Someone Who Can Change The World! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ‘- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Ok, consider this: your friend, Jane tells you about her new relationship. “It’s the real thing but we’re not ready to move in together or anything. We both want to lead independent lives.” Fair enough you think, but when you meet her again a few months later and ask how it’s going, she tells you that they’ve been talking about living together but there’s no rush. After a few years of this, she eventually tells you that moving in together isn’t all that important, but Scott is inching his way towards a commitment because he told her that a formal arrangement wasn’t necessary; the important thing is the relationship itself which is better than most people’s, and she’s sure that he’ll be happy to make some sort

Source: Scott Morrison Knows Someone Who Can Change The World! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Old Dog Thought- Is there anything Morrison hasn’t screwed

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Was ‘Fake News’ a Natural Outcome of Our ‘Give the People What They Want’ Corporate Media System? | The Smirking Chimp

SAVE THE ABC

As has been well documented, the violent incursion of the Capitol by thousands of white nationalists, armed militiamen, and a who’s who of MAGA-faithful was sparked by widespread, yet false claims about a stolen election, promoted for months by the most powerful man in the world in his public pronouncements and his social media channels. These lies found a reliable echo chamber in the right-wing corporate media ecosystem—Fox, affiliates of Sinclair Broadcasting, One America News, and a countless array of local and national voices that rhetorically agitate listeners every day on political talk radio. Nevertheless, it was social media that received the majority of the public backlash after the riot.

Source: Was ‘Fake News’ a Natural Outcome of Our ‘Give the People What They Want’ Corporate Media System? | The Smirking Chimp

Trumpland

Traitor Trump Demands National Guard During AZ’s Third Recount | Crooks and Liars

Lying is all TraitorTrump knows and understands.

Source: Traitor Trump Demands National Guard During AZ’s Third Recount | Crooks and Liars

Global Shame

Thinking Globally About Racial Justice

For example, the Biden administration has moved aggressively to roll out vaccines here in the United States. But it has rejected global appeals to waive patent rights for vaccines, to share vaccine technology, and to require transparency from pharmaceutical companies about their pricing. The result is “vaccine apartheid” on a global scale. As of early April, 20 percent of the population in North America had received at least one dose of a vaccine, compared to less than 1 percent in Africa. Global inequalities play out on so many issues like these that it is no exaggeration to talk of a more general “global apartheid.” This global system is structured not only by race, but also by class, gender, and national origin. There are many different levels of privilege and vulnerability. But similar patterns are repeated from the local to the global levels.

Source: Thinking Globally About Racial Justice

Israel

Israeli Police injure 12 Palestinians in Continued Iron Fist Crackdown on Jerusalem Ramadan Crowds

Israeli security forces on Saturday night attacked Palestinian worshipers at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem with batons and teargas, leaving 12 Jerusalemites wounded, according to the Palestinian Red Cross.

Source: Israeli Police injure 12 Palestinians in Continued Iron Fist Crackdown on Jerusalem Ramadan Crowds

India

‘Not a Surprise, But Terrifying’: At India’s Request, Twitter Blocks Posts Critical of Modi Covid Response | Common Dreams News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures at the gathering during a public rally for West Bengal Assembly Election at Barasat on April 12, 2021 in North 24 Parganas, India. (Photo by Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India’s handling of the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. These tweets, which are now inaccessible to Indian users of the social media website, include posts by Revanth Reddy, a sitting Member of Parliament; Moloy Ghatak, a West Bengal state minister; actor Vineet Kumar Singh; and two filmmakers, Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das.

Source: ‘Not a Surprise, But Terrifying’: At India’s Request, Twitter Blocks Posts Critical of Modi Covid Response | Common Dreams News

Cultural Marxism, Marxism

John Desmond Bernal, Marxism, and the Scientific Revolution

J. D. Bernal was one of the twentieth century’s great scientific minds, whose work nurtured the imagination of science-fiction writers. In a world where capitalist priorities distort scientific research, Bernal’s Marxist perspective on science is more relevant than ever.

Source: John Desmond Bernal, Marxism, and the Scientific Revolution

Informed Comment

Spermageddon: everyday chemicals lead to 50% drop in sperm count in Western men – Michael West

sperm count

Women will struggle to get pregnant naturally in the next few decades without stronger regulation of chemicals. Rates of miscarriages, abnormalities in penis development and intersexuality are all increasing at alarming levels. Professors Alex Ford and Gary Hutchison report.

Source: Spermageddon: everyday chemicals lead to 50% drop in sperm count in Western men – Michael West

Australian Politics

Progressive Populism Has Transformed Australia Before — It Could Do It Again

In Australian politics today, the neoliberal consensus seems unshakable. But the experience of the Curtin and Whitlam Labor governments shows the potential of progressive populism to deliver social change — a potential we can also glimpse in the recent growth of the Greens.

Source: Progressive Populism Has Transformed Australia Before — It Could Do It Again

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Old Dog Thought- Private Media is The LNP’s sweetheart because they keep this PRIVATE
Close up shot of Michael Blake holding one of his southern rock lobsters. 
This Morrison’s cost to just one Industry

Fighting Fake News with REAL 26/4/21; 20 LNP lies; China, The cost of the LNP’s China policy;

Republicans

Corporations Forced To Back Away From GOP | Crooks and Liars

Corporations Forced To Back Away From GOP

As the Republican Party takes more and more UNPOPULAR positions, corporations have little choice but to distance themselves from that political party.

Source: Corporations Forced To Back Away From GOP | Crooks and Liars

Policing

Police officers killed six people in 24 hours after Chauvin verdict.

Demonstrators gather outside a government building during an emergency city council meeting April 23, 2021 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

” And the beat goes on”

The guilty verdict in the murder trial former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin shone a spotlight on killings by law enforcement officers. But the vast majority of police killings across the United States go largely unnoticed. To exemplify that fact, the Associated Press details how at least six people died at the hands of the police in the 24 hours after a verdict was reached in the Chauvin trial. Some of those deaths led to even more calls for accountability, while others have remained so under the radar that the name of the person who was killed isn’t even known. “In several cases, little is known about the lives of those killed and what happened in their final moments,” notes the Associated Press.

Source: Police officers killed six people in 24 hours after Chauvin verdict.

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Prosecuting individual police officers won’t deliver racial justice | Race | The Guardian

Kill the Bill and BLM protesters in London, 17 April.

The protests of summer 2020, as well as the people who gathered this year to protest over the death of Sarah Everard and the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, brought together people from a wide range of backgrounds. Police and prison violence has shown itself to be a problem that can’t be solved through self-regulation; the criminal justice system cannot put itself on trial. Despite what the government may think, the harm caused by police, prison and border systems is both a racist and a British problem. The outcome of the Chauvin trial, despite its political cheerleaders, reaffirms the necessity of finding alternatives to the criminal justice system as we know it.

Source: Prosecuting individual police officers won’t deliver racial justice | Race | The Guardian

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Trump Is Gone (For Now), But Right-Wing Populism Is Still a Global Curse | Washington Monthly

Trump was not the only rightwing populist on the world stage. A combination of unregulated social media disinformation, backlashes against modernism, efforts to retain undue privilege by domestic ethnic majorities at the expense of disadvantaged minorities, and the elevation advantage-taking con artists have all contributed to the a disturbing global alliance of incompetent authoritarians. Nations as diverse as Brazil, Hungary, India, Russia, Turkey, Poland, Israel, the United Kingdom and the Philippines have all empowered far-right leaders, most with clownish conservative temperaments and a habit of doing more to troll the orthodoxy of international decency than to serve their own people.

Source: Trump Is Gone (For Now), But Right-Wing Populism Is Still a Global Curse | Washington Monthly

Israel

Jerusalem Pogrom: Extremist Jewish Mobs injure 100 Palestinians, chanting “Death to Arabs”

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as ‘a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority’. That is exactly what is happening today against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem. Middle East Eye: ‘Hundreds of far-right Israeli activists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in East Jerusalem’ Palestinians are not a minority in Palestine – the country that lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. But due to Israel’s apartheid regime that has ruled the country since 1948, the majority of Palestinians were

Source: Jerusalem Pogrom: Extremist Jewish Mobs injure 100 Palestinians, chanting “Death to Arabs”

India

In Delhi alone, COVID kills another Indian every 4 minutes

India coronavirus

Overwhelmed hospitals in India are begging for oxygen supplies as the country’s coronavirus infections soars again in a “tsunami” of disease, setting a world record for cases for the third consecutive day.

Source: In Delhi alone, COVID kills another Indian every 4 minutes

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New Zealand’s trading relationship with China is worth $19b and experts say that leaves the country ‘significantly exposed’ – ABC News

NZ dairy cows

“They would be the first to say, ‘look let’s not insult China. Yes, let’s quietly object to their human rights practices, but don’t confront them to the point where they lose face and patience with New Zealand and carry out reprisals,” Mr Hoadley said. “The Australian situation is a kind of lesson to New Zealand of what to avoid.” For those people who rely on trade with China to pay their bills, the feeling is one of pragmatism. “If they were to ever shut their doors, it would have a massive impact,” Chris said. “They’re a major player in dairy exports for New Zealand and we want to keep them on-side.” The expectation among producers in New Zealand is that the Government will maintain the status quo with their Chinese customers. “They’re the face of the country, so we need them to be doing the right role for us,” he said. “All those decisions are out of our control. We just have to ride the wave.”

Source: New Zealand’s trading relationship with China is worth $19b and experts say that leaves the country ‘significantly exposed’ – ABC News

Informed Comment

The polls are in search of some lasting credibility – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Under Abbott, Turnbull and now Morrison, they, by any standard, have governed abysmally. So much so that they really don’t deserve to win. It would be fair to say that a vote for the Coalition would be a reward for governance that doesn’t even approach mediocrity. One then has to ask how come they are still favourites to win. Why is it so, one might ask?

Source: The polls are in search of some lasting credibility – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia's Shame

Australia’s climate-criminal status is on global display. What now?

It was entirely appropriate that Scott Morrison was on mute when he began his address to Joe Biden’s climate summit overnight. He had nothing to say or offer, and although Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said “Mr Prime Minister I’m not sure we’re hearing you,” the message Morrison was sending the world was clear enough. Morrison may as well just have stuck his middle finger up at the camera. Australia’s already woefully inadequate 26-28% emissions reduction target from 2005 levels by 2030 — set by arch-climate denialist Tony Abbott — now looks irrelevant at best and misleading at worst, regardless of how often Morrison and his ministers say that we will “meet and beat it”. The United States is committed to reductions of 50-52% compared with 2005. The UK is committed to a 78% cut on 1990 levels by 2035. Canada — a resource economy very similar to Australia’s — is committed to 40-45% of 2005 levels by 2030. Norway’s is 50-55% by 2030. Japan is committed to 46% from 2013 levels by 2030. South Korea lifted its target to a 24.4% reduction on 2017 levels by 2030. And the European Union this week ratified its commitment to a 55% cut by 2030.

Source: Australia’s climate-criminal status is on global display. What now?

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Old Dog Thought. Changing individual behaviour without addressing the system changes nothing
China Country Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock

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Power

The Power of the Myths Many White People Believe About Policing—and America – Mother Jones

Of course, “justice system” was simply shorthand for much of what many white people unquestionably believe about their beloved country. Cops fear for their lives; Kyle Rittenhouse was just protecting small businesses; there were good people on both sides of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville; and the Capitol insurrectionists were legitimately upset over an election (unless, of course, they were Antifa in disguise). To that they might want to add: Derek Chauvin was just doing his job. But a jury decided that he wasn’t, and that verdict challenged the most dangerous and pervasive myth in America: White violence can usually be justified, especially when the perpetrator happens to be wearing a uniform.

Source: The Power of the Myths Many White People Believe About Policing—and America – Mother Jones

Informed Comment

Journalism Is in Crisis. Only Public Funding Can Save It.

For the Left, it’s easy to hate the media, with its entrenched centrist biases and loyalty to the status quo. But a world without high-quality news is a world where meaningful democracy is impossible. That’s the message of media scholar Victor Pickard, who argues for a transformation of our media system away from the model of commercial news and toward a “public option.”

Source: Journalism Is in Crisis. Only Public Funding Can Save It.

Fox News

Fox’s “War on Earth Day” | Media Matters for America

Fox’s “War on Earth Day” v3

Fox attacks any effort to act on the climate crisis

Coverage across Fox programming on and around Earth Day was rife with climate deniers pushing climate misformation and bad-faith arguments against efforts to decarbonize our economy and work collectively with world leaders to address the global climate crisis. The vast majority of coverage specifically focused on Biden’s summit — which involved 40 world leaders and aimed at discussing stronger climate action — was centered not on the need for climate action or good-faith critiques about how to achieve Biden’s ambitious goal to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Instead, it focused on the well-worn myths that climate action will hurt the U.S. economy and its workers.

Source: Fox’s “War on Earth Day” | Media Matters for America

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Government

“Scientifically Indefensible”: how a $13 billion political fix is killing the Murray Darling Basin – Michael West
The federal government continues to squander $13 billion of taxpayers’ money in an unlawful mess that was supposed to fix this country’s greatest environmental catastrophe – the destruction of the Murray Darling Basin. It is a tale of political interference, scientific censorship and deception, pressure from lobbyists and bureaucratic cowardice. Richard Beasley SC reports.

Source: “Scientifically Indefensible”: how a $13 billion political fix is killing the Murray Darling Basin – Michael West

Australia's Shame

Australian Government quiet over Japan’s nuclear waste condemnation

While Japan faces international backlash over its decision to dump contaminated wastewater, Australia remains quiet due to its part in the Fukushima disaster.

Source: Australian Government quiet over Japan’s nuclear waste condemnation

Informed Comment

Taking out the trash – » The Australian Independent Media Network

I was prompted to start writing about politics when the spectre of the highly inadequate Tony Abbott as Prime Minister was first being seriously considered.

Having known Tony at university, it was completely unfathomable to me. We had always dismissed him as an inconsequential bovver boy, an overconfident loudmouth who spouted his indoctrinated views, a young man with anachronistic opinions and an overinflated sense of his own ability – a ‘second-grade footballer, third-rate academic and fourth-class politician.’

When the unthinkable happened, it didn’t take the country, or his own party, long to realise they had given the job to a man who wasn’t up to it, and Tony was disempowered. The people of Warringah then completed the disengagement.

Sadly, for all his high and mighty words, both before and after, Malcolm Turnbull turned out to be a Fizza, unable to lead a party that always viewed him with suspicion.

Source: Taking out the trash – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Spot the difference: As world leaders rose to the occasion at the Biden climate summit, Morrison faltered

Scott Morrison in front of Sydney harbour backdrop and Australian flags

Expectations of Australia heading into the summit were low – a fact perhaps reflected in the summit’s agenda. Morrison’s address was way down in the running order – he was 21st of 27 speakers. Biden was reportedly not in the room when Morrison spoke. And in an unfortunate glitch, Morrison’s microphone was on mute at the start of his speech.

The summit did deliver some major gains. There was palpable relief as Biden brought the US back to the table on global climate efforts, committing to an emissions-reduction target twice the ambition of Australia’s. Other nations including Japan, Canada and Britain also outlined major new commitments.

But sadly for Australians, the summit revealed the stark contrast in climate policy leadership between Morrison and his international peers.

Source: Spot the difference: As world leaders rose to the occasion at the Biden climate summit, Morrison faltered

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Old Dog Thought- Morrison turns the mute button as a sign of his government is an “On the Water Matter”

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Media

The Making of a Right-wing Martyr: Conservatives Treat Derek Chauvin’s Conviction as an Act of War | The Smirking Chimp

Throwing Derek Chauvin under the bus should have been a no-brainer for the “I’m not a racist” crowd. The pretense behind “blue lives matter” has been that it’s not that conservatives are racist but that Black Lives Matter goes “too far.” They argue that most police killings are unfortunate accidents to be tolerated in the name of greater social safety and that the “few bad apples” who do it on purpose can be held to account without widespread reform.

Source: The Making of a Right-wing Martyr: Conservatives Treat Derek Chauvin’s Conviction as an Act of War | The Smirking Chimp

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Tucker Carlson’s immigration bait-and-switch betrays his desperation | Salon.com

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Source: Tucker Carlson’s immigration bait-and-switch betrays his desperation | Salon.com

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On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

Source: On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

Climate

When You Reduce Emissions By Preferring Your Own Milkshake! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Whether this is true or not, I think we can all agree that it’s an amazing achievement by an Australian PM to have almost achieved the remarkable accomplishment of announcing a target for 2050. With the current rate of progress we may actually have one before the year itself!

Source: When You Reduce Emissions By Preferring Your Own Milkshake! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia's pride, Australia's Shame

“Our national identity has become defined by our participation in wars” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Anzac Day’s evolution as a national obsession has been cleverly manipulated by politicians, companies, organizations and clubs all trading on the lucrative Anzac brand.

In recent years Prime Ministers of both persuasions have seen political gain in the Anzac legend.

Prime Ministers from Hawke to Howard and beyond have seen political gain in promoting the Anzac myth. An exception was Keating, who rejected the obsession with Gallipoli and turned his attention to Kokoda.

With the heavy pall of the Brereton report’s disturbing revelations of gross misconduct by our elite force in Afghanistan, commemorations should return to quiet reflection; not the noisy spectacles with jingoistic overtones at a time when serious soul searching, beyond the easy clichés, is needed.

Source: “Our national identity has become defined by our participation in wars” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern savaged as UK Parliament declares treatment of Uighurs genocide

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

London: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been savaged for allegedly sucking up to China and turning her back on the Five Eyes alliance during a historic debate in which British MPs unanimously declared that China was carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity.

Source: Jacinda Ardern savaged as UK Parliament declares treatment of Uighurs genocide

Australia's Shame

Australia’s longest war is within its own shores – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A few facts about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People today:

Source: Australia’s longest war is within its own shores – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

ANDREW P STREET: Questioning Angus Taylor’s sci-fi emissions plan

A glance at Angus Taylor’s track record somewhat explains the lunacy behind his latest plans for climate action.

Source: ANDREW P STREET: Questioning Angus Taylor’s sci-fi emissions plan

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Old Dog Thought- fascist thug enablers are all well dressed well paid and talk of manners

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Informed Comment

Who’s Rising and Falling on Planet Earth? | The Smirking Chimp

Source: Who’s Rising and Falling on Planet Earth? | The Smirking Chimp

America's Shame

Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

Source: Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

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Despite Derek Chauvin’s Conviction, Courts Can’t Deliver Racial Justice

A crowd gathers to protest in the neighborhood where a Columbus police officer fatally shot a teenage girl on April 20, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio.

Source: Despite Derek Chauvin’s Conviction, Courts Can’t Deliver Racial Justice

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Policy

Red alert for the planet: UN chief’s call to phase out coal by 2030

The steelworks and coal loading facility at Port Kembla. Coal mining operations are set to expand in the Illawarra region following Wollongong Coal’s successful application to reopen the Russell Vale colliery.

Source: Red alert for the planet: UN chief’s call to phase out coal by 2030

LNP Economic Management

Crooked Consulting: EY and Deloitte spruik climate on one hand, the explosion in new coal projects on the other – Michael West

Australia is building a slew of new coal projects just as global demand for coal is in retreat. It’s justified by “independent expert” reports from the likes of Big Four firms Deloitte and EY. Luke Stacey and Michael West report on the flawed economics and compromised reports of the consultants.

Source: Crooked Consulting: EY and Deloitte spruik climate on one hand, the explosion in new coal projects on the other – Michael West

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No, Left-Wing Activists Aren’t the Same As Fascist Thugs

Spain’s far-right Vox party began its Madrid election campaign with a rally in the multiracial working-class suburb of Vallecas, prompting clashes with locals. Media responded with a condemnation of the “twin extremisms” — showing how those who defend the poor and marginalized are falsely equated with those who abuse them.

Source: No, Left-Wing Activists Aren’t the Same As Fascist Thugs

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Policy

Crocodile tears no mask for Coalition’s economic war on women – Michael West

March 4 Women

Well may Scott Morrison tear up as he relates how his daughters, wife and widowed mother drive his every decision. The facts are that every move of the Coalition government ensures women are poorer, more insecure at work and more vulnerable to violence on the job. The Industrial Relations bill pushed through last week is a final nail in the coffin for women. Alison Pennington reports.

Source: Crocodile tears no mask for Coalition’s economic war on women – Michael West