Author: peterimrich

Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s myriad messes put re-election in jeopardy

The conflicting, contradictory pressures on Scott Morrison’s government and his grasp on the prime ministership were graphically displayed these past seven days.

This week was indeed a long time in politics.

Morrison started his latest horror stretch by losing control completely of his signature, self-styled “one job” for 2021 – the seamless, successful and rain-making rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.

After deploying the usual suite of absurdist over-promising, self-congratulatory, look-at-me promises and targets, Morrison was left without a feather to hide his immodesty, let alone fly with, as everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

Source: Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s myriad messes put re-election in jeopardy

Old Dog Thought- Murdoch is actually killing his audience

Microphones on a red baackground

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 17/4/21 Morrison’s hall of messes; The Murdoch’s are killing their audience; Sky Zero is Calorie free News

Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo | HuffPost

Body camera video shows 13-year-old Adam Toledo raising his hands as directed just before a Chicago police officer shot him d

Source: Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo | HuffPost

Never Trust a CEO Who Says They Want to Help

The Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs of major corporations, was lauded by mainstream media in 2019 for pledging to prioritize the common good over shareholders. Well, now they’re demanding to protect tax cuts that disproportionately enrich CEOs.

Source: Never Trust a CEO Who Says They Want to Help

Maxine Waters snaps at Jim Jordan as COVID hearing with Fauci erupts into shouting match: ‘Shut your mouth’ | Fox News

Source: Maxine Waters snaps at Jim Jordan as COVID hearing with Fauci erupts into shouting match: ‘Shut your mouth’ | Fox News

Tucker Carlson lies about his record of undermining confidence in coronavirus vaccines | Media Matters for America

Tucker Carlson

Source: Tucker Carlson lies about his record of undermining confidence in coronavirus vaccines | Media Matters for America

Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden | Salon.com

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Source: Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden | Salon.com

Poll: Most Americans Want Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Waived

CAMBRIDGE, MA - MARCH 11: Chris Noble, with People Before Profit calls for the suspension of all Intellectual Property restrictions so that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine can be made accessible to all as scientists, community members, and activists rally outside of Moderna's Cambridge headquarters as part of a global action day for fair access to vaccines in Cambridge, MA on March 11, 2021. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Source: Poll: Most Americans Want Covid-19 Vaccine Patents Waived

“This is what collusion with Russia looks like”: Feds say Manafort pal gave campaign info to spies | Salon.com

Source: “This is what collusion with Russia looks like”: Feds say Manafort pal gave campaign info to spies | Salon.com

Coronavirus: India’s daily COVID-19 cases hit 200,000, biggest cities shut down

Municipal workers in protective suits sanitise themselves after cremating a COVID-19 victim in Mumbai on Thursday.

Source: Coronavirus: India’s daily COVID-19 cases hit 200,000, biggest cities shut down

Farewell Afghanistan, mission unaccomplished

A mother weeps at her daughter’s grave on the outskirts of Kabul. An estimated 150,000 Afghans have died in the 20-year war.

Source: Farewell Afghanistan, mission unaccomplished

Old Dog Thought- Republican Poll Posturing. Remember the Edsel!!

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Fighting Fake News with Real, 16/4/21; Australia’s Racist shame; First Dog; Republicans America’s Psychos; Cobweb Scotty just keeps spinning them;

Australia could join UK-led international alliance, abandoning Asia

The British Government seems intent on sustaining its international prominence through deepened links with its former colonies.

Source: Australia could join UK-led international alliance, abandoning Asia

No amount of “official” photography can hide the man beneath the baseball cap – » The Australian Independent Media Network

No amount of photo shoots and image massaging or efforts to silence dissent and exhortations to all row together along the Kakoda Trail (or some such inane analogy) can hide the man beneath the baseball cap.

How good is Scott?

Not very.

Source: No amount of “official” photography can hide the man beneath the baseball cap – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Republicans take trolling to “trigger the libs” to the next level | Salon.com

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But these kinds of tactics from conservatives shouldn’t be understood as arguments. Instead, it’s all just flat-out trolling. None of these “arguments” are offered in good faith. The point is, as Steve Bannon once famously said, “to flood the zone with shit,” which is to say to derail efforts to inform and engage the public by pumping out so many dumb arguments, trolling tactics, and other distractions that few people can pay attention to what really matters.

Source: Republicans take trolling to “trigger the libs” to the next level | Salon.com

If CEOs Really Want to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting, Say Progressives, They’d Support the For the People Act | Common Dreams News

A man wearing a mask walks past a "vote to exist" sign displayed on the windows of Kenneth Cole on September 22, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

“While it’s great that these executives and their companies oppose the Jim Crow-style laws that GOP lawmakers are pushing across the country, this kind of talk is cheap without action.”

Source: If CEOs Really Want to Stop GOP Attacks on Voting, Say Progressives, They’d Support the For the People Act | Common Dreams News

One Trial Can’t Change American Policing – Mother Jones

Source: One Trial Can’t Change American Policing – Mother Jones

Denmark dumps AstraZeneca while Johnson & Johnson divisions emerge

Source: Denmark dumps AstraZeneca while Johnson & Johnson divisions emerge

Poll: Majority of Labour supports BDS | The Electronic Intifada

Source: Poll: Majority of Labour supports BDS | The Electronic Intifada

Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence

Source: Indigenous deaths in custody: inquests can be sites of justice or administrative violence

Australian Conservatives Are Using Religious Faith as a Cover for Misogyny

Source: Australian Conservatives Are Using Religious Faith as a Cover for Misogyny

State Capture: Nationals’ corporate funders revealed, tobacco giant Phillip Morris a party member – Michael West

National Party membership, Phillip Morris

Source: State Capture: Nationals’ corporate funders revealed, tobacco giant Phillip Morris a party member – Michael West

Morrison’s premature vaccine rollout an anticlimax

This week, the PM shunned the media and took to social media to defend his Government’s bungled vaccine rollout.

Source: Morrison’s premature vaccine rollout an anticlimax

Old Dog Thought- What would Morrison have done if Laming was Christine?

Fighting Fake News with REAL,15/4/21; Morrison, Laming,Holgate an wrath;

How to deal with the problem of far-right extremism

The rise of White supremacist and right-wing extremist movements in Western culture is a nasty feature of our pandemic world.

Source: How to deal with the problem of far-right extremism

Trump’s enablers want us to forget what they did. We can’t let that happen | Donald Trump | The Guardian

John Boehner, the former House speaker, at the US capitol in Washington

Source: Trump’s enablers want us to forget what they did. We can’t let that happen | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo | Salon.com

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Source: Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo | Salon.com

Not sleepwalking but marching with eyes wide open to war

While the USA moves towards war, anti-China rhetoric grows on a daily basis and the idea of war is being sold as the ‘right’ thing.

Source: Not sleepwalking but marching with eyes wide open to war

Israeli repression aims to silence Palestinian journalists | The Electronic Intifada

A wounded man wearing a press helmet and flak jacket is carried on a stretcher

Source: Israeli repression aims to silence Palestinian journalists | The Electronic Intifada

With Cyber-Attack on Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility, is Israel’s Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail?

Source: With Cyber-Attack on Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility, is Israel’s Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail?

Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Source: Beautiful Plots: Israel Sabotages the Natanz Nuclear Facility – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Cases Like Reality Winner’s Show Press Needs to Protect Whistleblowers

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Source: Cases Like Reality Winner’s Show Press Needs to Protect Whistleblowers

The cycle must be broken – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Source: The cycle must be broken – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Labor to target jobs growth with clean energy, avoids gas fired recovery

Labor’s climate change and energy spokesman Chris Bowen says clean energy investment can grow regional industrial jobs.

Source: Labor to target jobs growth with clean energy, avoids gas fired recovery

Old Dog Thought- A Pandemic of another sort, man made.

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 14/4/21; Lets go full tilt Fukishima; Class Society;Morrison’s next blunder; Women just won’t go away;

Capitalists Have Never Been Friends of Democracy

Source: Capitalists Have Never Been Friends of Democracy

Trump’s example playing out in Asia, the world has to intervene

Aung San Suu Kyi, left, walks with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, right, in 2016

Source: Trump’s example playing out in Asia, the world has to intervene

TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On ‘Too Many Channels’ | Crooks and Liars

TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On 'Too Many Channels'

Source: TraitorTrump Complains Baseball Is On ‘Too Many Channels’ | Crooks and Liars

The Basic Deal Between Corporate America and the GOP is Alive and Well | The Smirking Chimp

Source: The Basic Deal Between Corporate America and the GOP is Alive and Well | The Smirking Chimp

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch endorses Tucker Carlson’s white replacement theory | Media Matters for America

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Source: Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch endorses Tucker Carlson’s white replacement theory | Media Matters for America

Say what you want, Murdoch. Exaggerate according to your own conscience. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Think television, newspapers, public speeches, movies, sport, news, advertising, entertainment, radio and above all, politics. Think about what you see, read and hear. Now think about the word “exaggeration.”

We have the best firefighters in the world, the best law enforcement agencies, the best health experts. We have “the best” of so many and so much it’s a wonder we aren’t the best in the world. Whoops, I’m sorry, we are the best in the world.

“We have the best people in the world looking at these issues,” said Scott Morrison on ABC Insiders last Sunday. He was referring to the problem of obtaining vaccines.

For me, l must say that l find all the exaggeration rather appalling and unnecessary. It is lying dressed in the clothes of fools.

Source: Say what you want, Murdoch. Exaggerate according to your own conscience. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy – report – Michael West

The heavy concentration of media ownership in Australia corrodes democracy. The antidote is a thriving public broadcaster, but by 2023, Coalition cuts to the ABC will add up to $1 billion. Elizabeth Minter reports.

Source: Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy – report – Michael West

Turnbull claims News Corp ‘doing the work of terrorists’

Source: Turnbull claims News Corp ‘doing the work of terrorists’

Andrew Laming blocked from recontesting next election after backflip on pledge to quit politics | Andrew Laming | The Guardian

Andrew Laming

Source: Andrew Laming blocked from recontesting next election after backflip on pledge to quit politics | Andrew Laming | The Guardian

Scott Morrison is making important vaccine announcements on Facebook

Source: Scott Morrison is making important vaccine announcements on Facebook

Old Dog Thought- The Cabal, LNP Murdoch and the IPA orchestrated tax cuts to the tune of $1 Billion and diluted our Democracy

Media concentration by Murdoch, Nine and Stokes, and ABC cuts, a danger to democracy – report

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 13/4/21; Media, Dutton, The Shovel; Trump’s donors are backing away;

Trump’s Big Lie and Hitler’s: Is this how America’s slide into totalitarianism begins? | Salon.com

main article imageSource: Trump’s Big Lie and Hitler’s: Is this how America’s slide into totalitarianism begins? | Salon.com

‘The Time Is Now to Go Forward’: Sanders Says Dems Can’t Waste Time Catering to Obstructionist GOP | Common Dreams News

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks with reporters in the Senate subway on Tuesday, December 8, 2020.Source: ‘The Time Is Now to Go Forward’: Sanders Says Dems Can’t Waste Time Catering to Obstructionist GOP | Common Dreams News

Greening Earth and creating Jobs, Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits

Source: Greening Earth and creating Jobs, Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits