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Trump

‘He’s Going To Be More Unleashed And Unhinged Than Ever’ | HuffPost Australia
President Donald Trump had been laying the groundwork for the insurrection at the Capitol for years,...
In how many ways must it be said Mary Trump is right

He’ll have some kind of rally. It will be like the victimhood rally, depending on what happens to him, but if he’s just allowed to stay there, he’ll have some kind of rally, and that will help to kick off this next phase that we’re talking about. And it’ll be like super-dangerous grievance stuff, because now that he’s out of power, he’s going to be more unleashed and unhinged than ever. I hope people are realizing that. You know, I feel bad because people want to relax, because Biden’s coming in and we didn’t even get to enjoy the victories in Georgia, and instead they have to prepare themselves, to be ever more vigilant. That feels like an argument for arresting him. Yeah. He has to be removed. For the good of everyone.

‘He’s Going To Be More Unleashed And Unhinged Than Ever’ | HuffPost Australia
News Corp

News Corp’s unanswered questions about the Geoffrey Rush case

As the dust settles on News Corp’s Geoffrey Rush defamation battle, Inq put some questions to The Daily Telegraph to find out what, if anything, has been learned.

News Corp’s unanswered questions about the Geoffrey Rush case
Uncategorized

Zero Attribution: Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology keeps silent on climate science – Michael West

Meteorological services around the world have embraced climate attribution science, which ascertains the effect of climate change on extreme weather events. Not so Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, which is remarkably coy about its work in this field. Sandi Keane and Tasha May report.

Zero Attribution: Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology keeps silent on climate science – Michael West
Bernie Sanders

Why Impeach Trump at This Late Date? One Word, Says Bernie Sanders: ‘Precedent’ | Common Dreams News
Bill Zawacki carries a banner that reads "impeach" near the U.S. Capitol two days after a pro-Trump mob broke into the building on January 8, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“It must be made clear that no president, now or in the future, can lead an insurrection against the U.S. government.”

Why Impeach Trump at This Late Date? One Word, Says Bernie Sanders: ‘Precedent’ | Common Dreams News
Republicans

Insurrection by Trump Mob and Republicans in Congress

Protesters wave American and Confederate flags during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - RC2N2L9I7JHI
Hawley and Cruz It’s time to go

Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the leaders of the coup attempt in the Senate, might as well have been personally leading the Trump cultists as they rampaged through the Capitol’s corridors. There are no political subtleties, no nuanced hot takes about what happened in Washington on January 6, 2021. It was an insurrection, period. It was an insurrection by a Trump mob, and later by their confederates in the House and Senate.

Insurrection by Trump Mob and Republicans in Congress
American Brainstorm, American Dream, American Hypocrisy, American Politics

Trump admitted a “new administration” is coming into office. QAnon supporters claim he’s staying in office anyways. | Media Matters for America
Trump QAnon

Supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory claimed that a video of President Donald Trump admitting his presidency is ending is actually a sign that he will stay in office. In reality, it’s more of a sign that the community is dedicated to its delusion of a Trump second term in office regardless of the facts.

Trump admitted a “new administration” is coming into office. QAnon supporters claim he’s staying in office anyways. | Media Matters for America
Republicans

Trump Forced the Ultimate Loyalty Test on Congressional Republicans | Washington Monthly

Screenshot_2021-01-09 Trump Forced the Ultimate Loyalty Test on Congressional Republicans Washington Monthly

Even after the president incited an insurrection against Congress, six senators and 121 representatives voted to proclaimed that the GOP is his party.

Trump Forced the Ultimate Loyalty Test on Congressional Republicans | Washington Monthly

Allies

Allies Alarmed at Capitol Mob — but Not Undemocratic Ones
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 07: In this photo illustration, Newspaper front pages show yesterday's storming by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump of the U.S. Capitol on January 7, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Politicians across the world have reacted with shock and dismay at the events in Washington, D.C., in which Trump supporters, egged on by Trump at a rally nearby earlier in the day, converged on the Capitol, broke into the building, challenged law enforcement officers and forced lawmakers, who were debating the electoral college count to certify the U.S. presidential victory of Joe Biden, to flee to safety. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Picking up the shattered pieces of the U.S. Capitol building, it would be worth reflecting on which countries are America’s real friends and which have been merely feeding off, and pushing for, the U.S.’s democratic decay.

Allies Alarmed at Capitol Mob — but Not Undemocratic Ones
Murdoch Media

Fox News looks vulnerable with Donald Trump set to depart
Fox News Trump

Now the US president is on his way out, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News is looking more and more vulnerable.

Fox News looks vulnerable with Donald Trump set to depart
Trumpland Revealed, Trumpsters

Dear Rats deserting Trump’s Sinking Ship: All those Times you didn’t Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds

Lord Beaverbrook is at a cocktail party conversing with an attractive woman, and the conversation turns to ethics. He asks her if she would sleep with someone for a million pounds. She says that she would. He asks her, “Would you sleep with someone for five pounds?” She says, “Certainly not, what sort of woman do you think I am?” He observes drily, “Madame, we have already established that. Now we are just haggling about the price.” I have some questions for the resignees:

Dear Rats deserting Trump’s Sinking Ship: All those Times you didn’t Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds
Real News

Why I Don’t Believe Anything Unless It’s From Some Conspiracy Theorist On The Internet… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It’s sort of like when Craig Kelly speaks and Scott Morrison says that we have free speech so I can’t disagree with him because we have free speech and I certainly can’t say that he’s an embarrassment to the party because I’m the PM and we can’t tell you our views on anything apart from our right to holiday. Gee, when this didn’t age well!

Why I Don’t Believe Anything Unless It’s From Some Conspiracy Theorist On The Internet… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Murdoch Media

Threats and Seductions: John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch’s handling of politicians – Michael West

hat Foxtel has been double dipping by charging the ABC up to $105,000 to broadcast three Matildas matches while receiving $40 million from the federal government to increase coverage of women’s, niche and community sport is just business as usual for Rupert Murdoch. John Menadue explains Murdoch’s modus operandi, going back decades, and how he always gets what he wants.

Threats and Seductions: John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch’s handling of politicians – Michael West
Australia's Shame

Australian Liberal MP Craig Kelly stands by US Capitol ‘antifa’ claim, despite discredited evidence | Craig Kelly | The Guardian
George Christensen and Craig Kelly

The Liberal MP Craig Kelly is standing by unsubstantiated claims antifa may have been present in the US Capitol mob, even though the article on which they were based has been corrected.

Australian Liberal MP Craig Kelly stands by US Capitol ‘antifa’ claim, despite discredited evidence | Craig Kelly | The Guardian
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Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Trump

Old Dog Thought- You can be arrested for Jay Walking

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 9/1/2021; You get arrested for a traffic offence in America

Meet the Trumps

US protests: democracy dies in daylight as symbols of insurrection fly

Donald Trump’s supporters call themselves patriots, but the flags they fly, and the symbols they use, show us where their loyalties really lie.

US protests: democracy dies in daylight as symbols of insurrection fly
White Terrorism

Look at the Capitol Hill rioters. Now imagine if they had been black | Donald Trump | The Guardian

The events in Washington DC reveal much about how power works in the United States – and for whom

Look at the Capitol Hill rioters. Now imagine if they had been black | Donald Trump | The Guardian
White Terrorism

Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the Middle East and America

Thousands of members of Proud Bois, Boogaloo, QAnon (who believe that Democrats are Satan incarnate) and other dangerous militia-like groups gathered at the capitol, and at 2:30 pm, as Ted Cruz (R-TX) was trying to overthrow the government by talking it to death, the leaner, meaner versions of Cruz climbed walls, broke windows and invaded the Capitol for the first time since the Redcoats occupied and burned it in 1814.

Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the Middle East and America
Republicans

Poll Shows Nearly Half of GOP Voters—Lied to by Right-Wing Media—Approve of US Capitol Ransacking | Common Dreams News
A worker cleans broken glass from one of the entrances to the U.S. Capitol the day after a pro-Trump mob broke into the building on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Invade Canada and simply call it the Americas the politics are much the same. The Republican Cartel is determined to take over (ODT)

“Among Republican voters, 45% approve of the storming of Capitol, 30% think the perpetrators are ‘patriots’, 52% think Biden is at least partly to blame for it, and 85% think it would be inappropriate to remove Trump from office after this.”

Poll Shows Nearly Half of GOP Voters—Lied to by Right-Wing Media—Approve of US Capitol Ransacking | Common Dreams News
Uncategorized

Law And Order Takes Over The Speaker’s Chair! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Law And Order Takes Over The Speaker’s Chair! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

I felt that I should make sure that I didn’t resort to the echo chambers of my own like minds, so I did the unthinkable and I watched Fox News for a while.

Law And Order Takes Over The Speaker’s Chair! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Julian Assange

Proxy Jailor: Denying Assange Bail – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The UK, having adopted a position as Washington’s proxy jailor, is not about to quit its sordid role. Assange’s wellbeing and health continue to be jeopardised by his stay in Britain’s most notorious prison, where determined despair, as Baraitser herself has acknowledged, can take their toll.

Proxy Jailor: Denying Assange Bail – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Mary Trump Made the Perfect Call but nobody listened. 5 Years ago Rupert Murdoch predicted a failed nation

Fighting Fake News with HUMOUR 8/1/2021;

Trumpland, Trumpland Revealed

‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’: what’s behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol

‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’: what’s behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’: what’s behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol

‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’: what’s behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol
Meet the Trumps

Trump’s latest crime “shocks” the media: His niece, Mary Trump, is not surprised | Salon.com
main article image

When it comes to Donald Trump, too many people in the mainstream media and elsewhere have tried to impose complexity onto simplicity. For many such observers there must always be some other explanation for Trump and his movement’s anti-democratic behavior and overall evil. Therefore, we must ride the hamster wheel of shock and surprise at each new example of Trump’s ignominious behavior.

Trump’s latest crime “shocks” the media: His niece, Mary Trump, is not surprised | Salon.com
America's Shame

Trump Unleashes Mob to Disrupt U.S. Government
Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Dr Mary Trump Made The Perfect Call

The defeated president called for chaos and his supporters responded by storming the Capitol in Washington, disrupting the counting of electoral votes. Robert MackeyRobert Mackey January 7 2021, 9:44 a.m.

Trump Unleashes Mob to Disrupt U.S. Government
Uncategorized

Cairo on the Potomac: The siege on US Capitol was the election violence of a fragile democracy
TRUMP TURNED THE USA INTO A SHITHOLE NATION TODAY

Supporters of President Donald Trump, following his encouragement, stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. Waving Trump banners, hundreds of people broke through barricades and smashed windows to enter the building where Congress convenes. One rioter died and several police officers were hospitalized in the clash. Congress went on lockdown. While violent and shocking, what happened on Jan. 6 wasn’t a coup. This Trumpist insurrection was election violence, much like the election violence that plagues many fragile democracies.

Cairo on the Potomac: The siege on US Capitol was the election violence of a fragile democracy
LNP, LNP Government

Australia, China and the weaponising of trade

Australia seems hell-bent of damaging its economic security in the interests of being in the vanguard of a growing international anti-China “cabal”, writes William Briggs.

Australia, China and the weaponising of trade
Informed Comment

The baggage the Morrison government has lugged from one year to the next means that 2021 will be a hard slog – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day Wouldn’t it be good if in our parliament, regardless of ideology, we had politicians whose first interest was the peoples’ and not their own. Eg: Wage stagnation. Massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Australians and foreign corporations. Attempts to undermine Medicare. More expensive university degrees. Shrinking homeownership. The everyday cost of living up. Higher debt. ( John Lord)

The baggage the Morrison government has lugged from one year to the next means that 2021 will be a hard slog – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Murdoch kickstarted the Trump attempted Coup
Threats and Seductions: John Menadue on Rupert Murdoch’s handling of politicians

Fighting Fake News with REAL 7/1/2021; A PM who comes to us from Wonderland not Marketing: Murdoch kick started the Trump Coup

Trump

Why Is Trump Flogging the Election Dead Horse? | The Smirking Chimp
Mary Trump was Right she knows her uncle

Is it just a coincidence that today all ten living former Secretaries of Defense released a letter asking the military to ignore any illegal orders from Trump?

Why Is Trump Flogging the Election Dead Horse? | The Smirking Chimp
Trump

Democracy’s Night of the Living Dead: Trump’s GOP Zombies Lost by a Landslide, but they’re back to eat our Brains

Like a political remake of Night of the Living Dead, the Republican Party — put to death by the Lame Duck’s poisonous presidency — has reanimated as the Zombie Party. This hollowed out duplicate looks the same, but has been implanted with the traitorous delusions of the demented ex-President. Denying the basic assumption of electoral democracy that the minority accepts the legitimacy of the majority winner, most Republicans supported or cowered quietly as the loser president engaged in a buffoonish but criminal attempt to overthrow the will of the people and sabotage the transfer of power.

Democracy’s Night of the Living Dead: Trump’s GOP Zombies Lost by a Landslide, but they’re back to eat our Brains
Shame

Just Give Us the Damn Checks

Opponents of the $2,000 survival checks claim they’re poorly targeted. That’s nonsense. They would help the working class and poor far more than the rich.

Just Give Us the Damn Checks
Murdoch Media

After repeatedly telling people that the election was stolen, Fox News now justifies efforts to overturn it because Republicans “feel” it was rigged | Media Matters for America
The Fox News logo alongside an "I Voted" sticker

Fox News helped create a problem that it is now exploiting

After repeatedly telling people that the election was stolen, Fox News now justifies efforts to overturn it because Republicans “feel” it was rigged | Media Matters for America
American Hypocrisy, American Politics

Project Veritas’ last-ditch effort to fearmonger about Georgia voter fraud targets the homeless | Media Matters for America
James O'Keefe 1/5/2020

Discredited right-wing video producer James O’Keefe and his organization Project Veritas have released a new video spreading voter fraud conspiracy theories by targeting some of the most vulnerable Americans and their right to vote. The two-minute video from January 4 fearmongers about homelessness advocacy groups in Georgia allowing unhoused people to use the groups’ mailing addresses for voter registration in the lead-up to Tuesday’s Senate runoff election in the state. O’Keefe’s group is known for infiltrating progressive organizations and campaigns and secretly recording people connected to them, then heavily editing the footage to suggest wrongdoing.

Project Veritas’ last-ditch effort to fearmonger about Georgia voter fraud targets the homeless | Media Matters for America
Julian Assange

The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange | The Smirking Chimp

Whether you call it the sweep of history or the sweep of revolution, in the end, the surveillance state cannot stop people from moving toward the kind of change that will make their lives better.”

The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange | The Smirking Chimp
Australia's Shame

Pressure mounting on Scott Morrison to ask US to drop Assange charges

Calls are growing for the Morrison government to fight for the release of Julian Assange and bring him home after the Queensland-born whistleblower narrowly avoided extradition to the United States on Monday night.

Pressure mounting on Scott Morrison to ask US to drop Assange charges
Julian Assange

How Julian Assange Beat Extradition

Julian Assange’s defeat of extradition to the United States was a huge victory — one that couldn’t have been achieved without a public pressure campaign. That same public pressure will now be needed to free Assange from prison.

How Julian Assange Beat Extradition
Extremists

Far-Right Violence Will Continue With or Without Trump
Trump supporters gather for the Stop the Steal rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on December 12, 2020. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

The far right is focused on “Stop the Steal” nonsense, but violence driven by white supremacy won’t disappear even if Trump does.

Far-Right Violence Will Continue With or Without Trump
Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- If Assange was leader of Hillsong he’d might try to have him invited to a White House dinner wouldn’t he?
Julian Assange's fate should be of considerable concern to the Australian government.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 6/1/2021 Morrison our PM says “I Don’t Know Because I’ve Done Nothing and Didn’t Intend to Do Anything!!

Trump

Georgia election: Donald Trump’s phone call fact-checked – BBC News
Georgia's voting systems manager Gabriel Sterling

US President Donald Trump spent more than an hour on the phone to election officials in Georgia, as he continues to try to overturn the result in the state. He made a number of accusations of fraud for which he did not provide evidence. We’ve fact-checked some of his claims.

Georgia election: Donald Trump’s phone call fact-checked – BBC News
Donald Trump, Trump

Trump May Face Prosecution but Not for War Crimes
Members of the Irish Anti-War Movement organisation during a protest against Donald Trump's unlawful targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani along with six others and the subsequent escalation of pro-war rhetoric including threatening war crimes against Iranian cultural sites.On Thursday, 9 January 2020, Leinster house, Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

For U.S. presidents, the torture and killing of civilians is forgivable but mafia-style accounting and hush money payments are not.

Trump May Face Prosecution but Not for War Crimes
Trump

Impeach Donald Trump — Again | The Smirking Chimp
How many holes has he in his foot?

Today, the Washington Post released what Donald Trump would call a “perfect phone call.” Most other people, though, would call it a high crime and abuse of power. On the call, Trump abused and threatened Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger in an attempt to have him “find” the votes needed to overturn the will of the voters. The conversation should be listened to in its entirety, but a few key quotes illustrate the severity of the offense:

Impeach Donald Trump — Again | The Smirking Chimp
failed leader, Failure

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas spent 2020 trying to undermine the election. They failed. | Media Matters for America
James O'Keefe
Making money out of failure

Right-wing grifter James O’Keefe and his organization Project Veritas — along with its more political arm Project Veritas Action — are known for infiltrating progressive organizations, campaigns, and nonpartisan institutions and heavily editing recorded undercover footage to allege wrongdoing. In 2020, in a repeat of their efforts from past election seasons, O’Keefe and his group tried to spread various narratives about supposed voter fraud through dozens of videos released before and after the presidential election. Most of these claims were debunked quickly, but not before they were picked up by right-wing media and viewed millions of times on Twitter and YouTube.

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas spent 2020 trying to undermine the election. They failed. | Media Matters for America
Julian Assange

The Julian Assange extradition ruling: right result, wrong reason | Julian Assange | The Guardian
Julian Assange pictured in May 2019.

Refusing to extradite Assange to the US on mental health grounds is humane, but it doesn’t protect future whistleblowers

The Julian Assange extradition ruling: right result, wrong reason | Julian Assange | The Guardian
LNP, LNP Government

Not Just Careless: Australian weapons part turns up on Armenian battlefield – Michael West
Drone, Microair, Defence

How did an Australian-made transponder, a key part of drone technology, end up in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan where human rights abuses are prolific? Michelle Fahy investigates the murky trail of the drone bit and the cagey response of the Defence establishment from DFAT to DoD to Minister Marise Payne.

Not Just Careless: Australian weapons part turns up on Armenian battlefield – Michael West
Informed Comment

Why You’re Wrong About Journalists And If You Disagree You’re Toxic! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Some of you may have avoided the toxic cesspool of Twitter, but let me tell you it’s been rough on some of the journalists because, well, sometimes people disagree with them.

Why You’re Wrong About Journalists And If You Disagree You’re Toxic! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

The Morrison Government and the biggest withdrawal of spending since World War 2

As Jobkeeper, JobSeeker and other stimulus measures are wound back in 2021, it is doubtful the Morrison Government will rise to the enormous economic challenges ahead, writes Tarric Brooker.

The Morrison Government and the biggest withdrawal of spending since World War 2
Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- They want to jail Julian for 171 years for helping Trump to be President
US vows to appeal after British court rejects bid to extradite Julian Assange

Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/1/2021; JULIAN

Trump

Trump Accused of ‘Criminal Extortion’ After Asking Georgia Officials to ‘Find’ 11,000 Votes for Him | Common Dreams News

“Knowing what Trump has said in leaked phone calls, just imagine what he’s said in calls that weren’t.”

Trump Accused of ‘Criminal Extortion’ After Asking Georgia Officials to ‘Find’ 11,000 Votes for Him | Common Dreams News
Informed Comment

Sedition! | The Smirking Chimp

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half century now, and I never imagined how low and looney the Republican Party would become. Eleven Republican senators and senators-elect said today they will vote to reject President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory next Wednesday when Congress meets to formally certify it.

Sedition! | The Smirking Chimp