One man’s step closer to a Fascist State. Twitter didn’t block or stop Trump’s Tweets (ODT)
via Trump Signs Social Media Executive Order | HuffPost Australia
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The World’s dirtiest President Making America Dirtier AgainĀ MADA (ODT)
Unfortunately for America during this national health crisis, people are dying because of his behavior. The Wall Street Journal is noticing because Trump’s behavior is taking down the Republican Party, and Rupert Murdoch’s as cuts, with him.
via Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: ‘Mr. Trump Is Debasing His Office’ | Crooks and Liars
This only occurs when The Administration fails to realise they work for the people and Americans don’t work for them (ODT)
āOur capital stock hasnāt been destroyed,ā he said of the damage done by COVID. āOur human capital stock is ready to get back to work. There are lots of reasons to believe that we can get going way faster than we have in previous crises.ā
āOur human capital stock is ready to get back to work.ā
Stock (noun): farm animals such as cattle, pigs and sheep, bred and kept for their meat or milk; livestock.
Let that sink in good and deep, down through the skin and into the marrow within your bones. Hassettās remarkable statement on Sunday puts into stark relief the reason why this disaster has unfolded as it has.
It is far more than mere gross incompetence. This White House does not see us as human beings with intrinsic value and rights of our own. We are cattle who exist only for the profit of the few, sheep to be sheared, pigs to be hung up for slaughter. To them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.
via Trump Adviser Says āHuman Capital Stockā Should Get Back to Work | The Smirking Chimp
THE VIRUS WE CALL THE LNP
Australia has a virus epidemic that is one thousand times worse than Corona virus. This virus is going to affect this once great country for at least a decade. The virus is the Liberal National party.
A broad overview of a planned Job Maker scheme will be unveiled against a backdrop of grim economic predictions including a record deficit, debt exceeding 30 per cent of GDP, unemployment “around 10 per cent”, and a fall in foreign investment by up to …
Trump is smashing China and needs a war (ODT)
via Trumpās āUncreative Destructionā of the U.S.-China Relationship
In a seven-paragraph press release issued late on Monday afternoon, Frydenberg said the change would protect companies from āopportunistic class actionsā during the coronavirus crisis and allow them to raise much-needed capital. But experts say there is no evidence any such problem exists.
Labor also slammed the move for undermining confidence in the markets.
The change, which followed heavy lobbying by industry groups, is supposed to last for six months, but there are already calls for it to be made permanent.
It drew immediate fire from class-action lawyers, who described it as ācronyismā and a āgreen light for company directors to hide information from the people who actually own a companyā.
This man calls for co-operation and sharing the load but locks out 1.5 mill workers.(ODT)
Tens of millions of Americans are cashless, many desperate to feed their children. Meanwhile the richest Americans merrily float on a rapidly rising tide of money thanks mainly to Trump & Co.
This is our āFriends for Lifeā we go to war and die for (ODT)
This could and should be great news for the Left. Working-class voters donāt want candidates to use ultra-liberal rhetoric but neither do they want them to tear up the important gains of the 1960s Rights Revolution. They do want health care, a decent job and pro-worker policies that make it easier to unionize ā it would be wise to pitch campaigns that meet those demands. A simple message built around destroying the obscenity of inequality and providing universal public goods would likely do well to unite workers across race, gender, region, and ideology; it just canāt be paired with an alienating āwokeā aesthetic.
That means we should avoid the culture war and battles over online discourse and get back to the business of organizing within our unions and beyond to build an institutionally vibrant and working-class public sphere.
When US propaganda overtakes any notion of necessary truth America is on the path of war no matter the cost. Trump is the man to take them there.(ODT)
When it comes to foreign policy, Pompeoās penchant for undermining Americaās credibility is top-notch
via Mike Pompeo is the number one evangelist of Trumpism in the world | Mike Pompeo | The Guardian
This is our “Friends for Life” we go to war and die for (ODT)
The Murdochs and Packers have got their fingers in the taxpayer honeypot again, this time winning nearly $6 million without a tender from the Department of Health. Michael West reports on Mable and the latest in corporate welfare.
via News Corp and Packer aged care “win” is tip of corporate welfare iceberg – Michael West
Abbott’s legacy NBN. Trailer trashing regional areas but they won’t have a bar of it any longer. (ODT)
Communities are not going to sit and wait for what might or might not happen and regional towns know that they will not be first to get better broadband from NBN Co. Consequently, more and more cities will start developing their own plans in collaboration with their own state governments.
Unfortunately, this will mean overbuilding and wasting money, but with the Morrison Government ā purely for party political reasons ā stubbornly refusing to talk about fibre optic network, it is clear that many towns in Australia are not going to wait for the Federal Government to take a lead here. The economic and social future of their communities is simply too important to wait for politicians to finally get their act together on these issues.
via Regional Australia secures own digital success despite Coalition’s woeful NBN
He said China was āopenā to international scientific cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus, but stressed that the process must be professional, impartial and constructive.
By being āprofessional,ā it means that the process should be based on science, led by the World Health Organization, and conducted on a global scale by scientists and medical experts. The goal should be to enhance the scientific understanding of this type of virus so that people can deal more effectively with major infectious diseases in the future, he said.
By being āimpartial,ā Wang said source identifying should be free from political interference, respect the sovereign equality of nations, and oppose any presumption of guilt. The research should cover all countries closely related to the virus. The whole process should be open, transparent, objective and rational, he said.
By being āconstructive,ā it means that the research should not hamper the work of saving lives, which clearly is the top priority at the moment. It should not harm the international cooperation against COVID-19 or undermine the statutory role of the WHO, Wang said.
Instead, it should be conducive to enhancing performances of various UN systems, to strengthening international solidarity and cooperation among countries, and to improving the global public health system and governance capacity, Wang said.
Regarding Chinaās aid to the global fight against the pandemic, Wang said China has never pursued geopolitical goals and economic gains, or attached any political strings.
āWe Chinese are always ready to reciprocate acts of friendship and kindness from others,ā Wang said.
Even the right-wing pollsters Rasmussen and Fox show Trump is losing (ODT)
via What the Polls Say About Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden in Key 2020 Swing States
President Donald Trump over the weekend used his massive platform on Twitter to again spread the outrageous and unsupported insinuation that Joe Scarborough ā one of his most vocal critics on TV āmurdered someone.
via Trump Spreads Baseless Conspiracy Theory Accusing MSNBC Host Of Murder | HuffPost Australia
Can you see whatās going on?
The fact that tens of thousands of people are dying and the nationās economy has been reduced to rubble, doesnāt matter to the tech giants. For them the crisis is a āgolden opportunityā, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to further subsume the government, to garner more government funding for their futuristic projects, to assert greater influence over public policy, and to wrap their tentacles more tightly around the levers of state power.
The tech giants are using the pandemic as a vehicle for imposing their own vision on the country and for promoting their own malign police state agenda. Just as Corporate America is using the crisis to restructure the labor market, and Wall Street is using the crisis to garner lavish multi-trillion dollar bailouts, and Fauci and Co are using the crisis to push for universal vaccines, so too, the tech giants are using the crisis to grab more power, more money and more integration with the state until the US government is nothing more than a trifling subsidiary of the ever-expanding Google octopus. Thatās the ultimate goal, privatizing the state so the corporations rule the world. It is a Mission (that is nearly) Accomplished!
Quid Pro Quo and the real America raises its imperialistic head with a threat.(ODT)
A factor in the Coalitionās winning of the 2019 election could well have been the ā dare I call it corrupt ā pork barrelling through the sports grants.
All attempts, however feeble, by the Coalition to establish an anti-corruption watch dog have so far gone nowhere, but ā praise be ā religious discrimination laws seem to have been assigned to the dustbin!
The picture is not pretty ā and even if our actions on climate change pale into insignificance beside those needing to be made by the really big polluters, USA, China and India ā showing willing, added to efforts in Europe and elsewhere, would do much more good than harm.
I strongly feel that the actions of too many of our politicians go way beyond self-interest ā ignoring their duties to electors ā and actually move substantially into the realm of corruption.
Another facet of the governmentās lack of consistency is the unspent $60 billion!
Millions were left without substantial help, while businesses were given first priority to be able to continue in existence.
If Morrison was prepared to spend the money for employees who, it transpires, do not exist, then he should use if for those who do exist, but who were abandoned because they fell outside his arbitrary criteria.
Morrison currently has a one seat majority and even if Eden Monaro turns that into a 2-seat majority, it is not an overwhelming mandate ā particularly as he gained fewer than half the votes.
To ignore social distancing by inciting a revolution, out on the streets en masse, demanding attention to climate change action, would be irresponsible.
But come the end of the lock-down, we need to be prepared for action.
This probably corrupt and definitely uncaring government must be brought to heel!
via How deep does corruption in high places go? – Ā» The Australian Independent Media Network
Thereās one way out, by the way, if youāve followed me closely. Give people money. No strings attached, no questions asked, now, on a large-scale, more or less permanently, forget how much needs to be borrowed to make it happen. So people can fund a working society again. Or else. Thatās the big question for America. The rest is noise. Until something along those lines begins to take shape ā my answer is simple: Americans made themselves too poor to now afford to have the luxury of a functioning, civilized, modern society. Or is all that a necessity?
via Itās Not that Iām Negative, America Really is Screwed
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