Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he’s not receiving one in Britain either.
The Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
Author: peterimrich
We’re not ‘all in this together’ — Morrison and his government are back to their ideological worst. And we had a chance to create a new and better normal. What do you think?
Trust me, I’m a Deregulated Banker – » The Australian Independent Media Network
If a mother tells her son not to touch a hot stove, and the kid does it anyway, and gets burnt, this isn’t irony. It’s the behaviour we expect from a young boy, and the result we all know will happen. Trump was told by many people that mask-wearing and social distancing would inhibit the spread of the disease; he ignored the advice, and the expected result has occurred. When the subjects are a young boy and his mother, there is a lesson to be imparted when he burns his fingers. But what do we do when the young boy is a septuagenarian, and incapable of learning? Someone who is indolent, resentful, reckless and seemingly incapable of experiencing empathy?
US election: How Trump infantilised the presidency and infected the White House
You don’t need me to tell you this: The Trump campaign gaslights you every day. That’s even more the case with a president holed up in hospital signing blank pieces of paper. On Sunday morning, the campaign took to TV in an attempt to wave its hands and make reality, poof, disappear.
Trump’s Campaign: Screw What You’ve Seen With Your Own Eyes, We’ve Been Super Safe – Mother Jones
His Narcissism can’t allow him to admit he is wrong
The entirely self-inflicted nature of this tragedy is one of its central elements, as is the way Trump’s incredible irresponsibility and arrogance was mimicked by his supporters, significantly exacerbating the pandemic. It’s a hugely important element of what’s going on here.
Never forget: All of this was his own damn fault | Salon.com
“The moral of the story is, he lied to you for months and encouraged you to live recklessly during a pandemic, and when it got to him he received every top tier treatment and medication to ensure his survival while your friends and family died alone.”
As Covid-Positive GOP Politicians Enjoy Healthcare They ‘Would Deny Others,’ Coronavirus Pandemic Again Makes Case for Medicare for All | Common Dreams News
“A thing that happens when you lie compulsively for years…is that NO ONE F***ING BELIEVES YOU.”
But unless you say BULLSHIT he gets away with it and reinforces his behaviour. Why isn’t he being charged fro “Wilful Murder”? (ODT)
Timeline of Trump’s Illness Confounds Experts, But Critics Say What’s Clear Is President ‘Knowingly Exposed People’ to Covid-19 | Common Dreams News
As the pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, new information keeps coming out about how the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans to protect themselves.
How Trump gave $1 bn allocated for Masks for Troops, Families, to Arms Firms Instead
Biden is praying for him – and yet the Trump campaign’s negative ads continue. There’s an asymmetry of decency here
Trump, Covid and empathy for the world’s least empathetic man | Donald Trump | The Guardian
The risk of death is substantially higher under Right-wing regimes, according to coronavirus facts and figures. Alan Austin examines the latest outcomes. CITIZENS ARE at greater risk of dying from preventable disease in places with macho Right-wing governments than with Leftist or progressive administrations.
Right-wing politics costs lives, data shows
So, the man who has spread more misinformation about COVID-19 than any other individual on the planet has caught the coronavirus. The fact that he will now not be able to campaign personally will, ironically, perhaps save some lives.
POTUS and FLOTUS getting it together – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Locking out visitors has made it difficult for staff to meet the daily care needs of residents. What an indictment on aged care providers. They receive billions a year in funding, yet rely on the unpaid work of family/friends and volunteers. Surely it is time for complete accountability for their government funding, writes Dr Sarah Russell.
No strings attached: aged care providers have the Coalition wrapped around their little fingers – Michael West
Fox News made him sick. For months, Fox has pumped poisonous, anti-science rhetoric into the airwaves, ensuring a sizeable portion of the population, including Trump, will refuse to do its part to help America heal. Fox has worked hard to divide the country and make it impossible to have a common sense conversation in times of crisis.
Trump Has Covid-19: How Fox News Infected America | Crooks and Liars
With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump. These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet.
Donald Trump has COVID-19. How might this affect his chances of re-election?
A Portland police officer has been filmed dragging a Black Lives Matter protester several feet as demonstrators blocked his motorcycle after a vehicle fled a traffic stop.
Cop drives motorcycle into Portland BLM protester after being surrounded by crowd at traffic stop (VIDEO) — RT USA News
Trump’s shift from demonizing immigrants to targeting leftists is straight out of the fascist playbook.
Trump’s Turn From Immigration to the Enemy Within
Donald Trump has been taken to hospital following a series of tests that confirmed he is an arsehole.
Trump Hospitalised After Testing Positive For Racism, Sexism, Bullying And Pathological Lying | The Shovel
The best we can hope for when picking up our daily paper is that an attempt has been made to present opinions with at least a passing nod to objectivity. That should not be too much to ask but increasingly opinion is clearly just that: opinion. What happens when propaganda replaces journalism?
Mainstream media chastises China, ignoring U.S. crimes
Offshore processing has caused extreme trauma and cost billions that could have gone towards more effective, humane alternatives
Australia’s offshore asylum centres have been a cruel disaster. They must not be replicated by the UK | Jane McAdam and Madeline Gleeson | Opinion | The Guardian
John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
JOHN PILGER: Eyewitness to the agony of Julian Assange
The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
Assange Case: Government “Hacking” Charges Are Weak
President’s doctor reveals treatment with experimental antibody cocktail REGN-COV2
Donald Trump receiving Covid-19 treatment yet to be peer-reviewed | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Will we now see policy discussions and debates in the media? No Effen way. (ODT
Donny SuperSpreader can’t benefit from catching a virus he has claimed affects “virtually nobody”
Trump has COVID-19: More evidence that he’s always put his ego ahead of public health | Salon.com
And, given Trump’s need for a new electoral “hook” that conforms with the new political reality surrounding his illness, the possibility of an ‘October surprise’ in the form of an arms control agreement that is widely seen as benefiting US national security interests may be the best opportunity for a sick president to appear presidential at a critical time in his bid for re-election.
Trump will surely use his Covid for election advantage, it also opens door for unthinkable… such as breakthrough on New START — RT Op-ed
For months, the president recklessly disregarded mask-wearing, and aides and supporters followed his lead.
Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19 After Mocking Biden’s Mask
“It’s not about being a tough guy,” the former vice president said during the speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan—a Friday afternoon appearance only made possible by his own negative result. “It’s about playing your part. Wearing a mask is not only gonna protect you, but it will also protect those around you.”
Biden Makes a Direct and Heartfelt Call for Common Sense After Trump Tests Positive – Mother Jones
Yes Trump was an amplifier trivializing Covid-19 but never forget he was amplifying Murdoch media his primary PR company. Include Sinclair Breitbart and others in the excercise
The president of the United States is one of those members of the Republican base. He learned about the virus through Fox’s dismissive coverage and refused to take steps to protect himself and those around him from it. And now he has it.
Fox News systematically attacked coronavirus public health recommendations. Now its most famous viewer has it. | Media Matters for America
So if I were forced to pick between this being real and something Trump made up, I’d pick the scenario that he has actually been diagnosed with Covid-19 for a few simple Occam’s Razor-like reasons: 1) He’s been trying to play down Covid-19 all year, so to now tell people it’s something that can disrupt his election campaign suggests that he might have got it wrong. 2) Disappearing for a few days or weeks disrupts his narrative that he’s a strong man and nothing can stop him. 3) The fact that Hope Hicks was diagnosed first and then he and Melanie got tested indicates a level of planning that I suspect would be too difficult for Trump as it involves a two-step plan. 4) It’s been suggested that the Republicans told him to hide away so that he didn’t have to do any more debates because he lost. Trump never listens to anyone so it’s unlikely he’d believe them about either losing the debate or the necessity of hiding so that he didn’t need to do more. 5) This puts Covid-19 front and centre when Trump has been trying to shift the campaign chatter to the economy. While he could theoretically argue that the big drop in markets when he tested positive shows how much he’s needed, that’s not the sort of argument that sways many people. It’s sort of like when your partner turns up late when you’ve been trying to prepare for guests and says, “Wow, look at the mess you’re in. This just shows how important I am!” If you really wanted to impress, it would have been better to have been there.
Trump, Conspiracies And Occam’s Razor! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The most important press freedom case in a generation is unfolding in London.
Deconstructed: Why You Should Care About Assange’s Extradition
Australia will suffer its first reversal in net migration in more than seven decades in a hit to growth to be revealed in next week’s federal budget, as the pandemic also cuts the nation’s birth rate. With thousands of people leaving the country and fewer returning, the net result will be negative for the first time since 1946 and the country is at risk of a population slump not seen since the Great Depression.
Budget 2020 to reveal first negative migration since 1946
Whether a snail, an octopus, a magpie or an ant, the evidence is mounting: being alert to the world makes us happier to be in it.
Want an awesome life? Meet an octopus and watch yourself shrink
The lesson of Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis is not that he deserved it or that anyone should celebrate — it’s that you can’t pretend that the basic laws governing the universe don’t apply to you forever.
Trump Could Only Ignore the Reality of Coronavirus for So Long
Trump’s motives could not be more transparent. If he does not win the Electoral College, he’ll muddy the results so that the outcome can be decided only by the Supreme Court or the House of Representatives (where each state delegation gets one vote). Trump has advantages in both right now, which he has boasted about for the past week. I can’t say this any more clearly: Our democracy is in terrible danger — more danger than it has been since the Civil War, more danger than after Pearl Harbor, more danger than during the Cuban missile crisis and more danger than during Watergate. Advertisement
Trump shows American democracy is in terrible danger
Trump calls foul someone untied Biden’s tongue(ODT)
US President Donald Trump has signalled he might not accept rule changes for upcoming presidential debates, which organisers have said will be needed to reign in unruly behaviour.
US Presidential debate: Trump signals he might not accept changes to format
Republican Governor Greg Abbott, an ally of the President, today announced that counties in Texas can only have one location to collect completed mail ballots from voters – a move that critics say amounts to voter suppression in populous left-leaning cities such as Austin and Houston.
2020 US Election: Republicans accused of voter suppression to help Trump in Texas
Attacking Trump as a “Fake Billionaire” Is a Dead End
The real scandal isn’t that Donald Trump is secretly poor — it’s that our system let such an obvious fraud get so rich.
Attacking Trump as a “Fake Billionaire” Is a Dead End
And let’s put the $1.5 billion in perspective. Just last month $1.9 billion was announced for a 10-year plan to invest in technologies to lower emissions, while far more is to be given away in futile tax cuts to the already-well off.
Manufacturing Announceables: malaise needs more than a bag of goodies – Michael West
My thought for the day We would be a much better society if we took the risk of thinking for ourselves unhindered by the unadulterated crap served up by the government, the media, and self-interest groups.( John Lord)
Who protects us from the Government? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Now, I know some of you will be pointing out that Morrison and his band of merry men aren’t one of those who’ve agreed to a pay freeze/reduction, but remember they’re all struggling on upwards of $200,000 a year and Josh hasn’t even announced the tax cut for people like that yet… Mm, if not receiving promised increases are cuts, should reducing the tax you pay in the future be considered a tax cut?
Scott Morrison Giving People The Ships! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
By locking down residents, it seems aged care providers are worried about claims for negligence. They should be more worried about being sued for illegal detention. Senior lawyer John W. Wallace reports.
Aged care facilities are homes, not prisons – Michael West
They try to blame Dan Andrews (ODT)
The Federal Government isn’t doing enough to adequately look after our elderly and reform in aged care is urgently needed, writes Lyn Bender.
Reform in uncaring aged care is needed
Joe Biden in their work, but while he made a few statements that registered as not quite right, he was well within the norm of accuracy for 90 minutes of speaking without notes. Trump, on the other hand, was off the charts. According to Dale, “There were times, particularly during the conclusion of the debate, when almost every comment from Trump was inaccurate.”
Debate Fact-Checks Show Trump Lied And Lied, But One Group Of Lies Is By Far The Most Damaging | Crooks and Liars
The Russians are POLISHING THE TURD (ODT)
Pressed to clarify his debate comment about Proud Boys, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday they need to get out of law enforcement’s way, and insisted he has always denounced white supremacists and vigilantism.
Trump says Proud Boys need to ‘STAND DOWN’ and let police do their job – but he ‘doesn’t KNOW’ who they are — RT USA News
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