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Murdoch and Fox Corp Profit Trumps Common Good (ODT)
via Americans want an End to Fossil Fuels, but Corporate Media won’t Tell You So
The LNP, IPA, Corporate Donors and News Corp (ODT)
An Excuse for a PM (ODT
When our accidental-Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, took office, he swore an oath to ‘be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors according to law.’
No mention of his duties to his wife and daughters. They are a private matter and, as long as he remains Prime Minister, his duties lie to the high office to which he has (sadly) been elected, and for which it appears he totally lacks competence!
Prime Minister – this is not all about you.
You really don’t have a clue, do you?
It is not about your promises to your daughters.
It is not about sharing the grief of people whom you have let down.
It is not about getting a few more photo ops, showing the caring Prime Minister comforting the distraught property owner who has lost everything.
Or the grieving widow with a young family whose partner died fighting the fires because he cared about his community.
That is all hypocritical flim-flam which highlights your failings.
Australia, along with all inhabitants of this planet, is facing an existential crisis.
The Coalition climate deniers have also been denying their country the ability to take actions which might have – at least to some extent – mitigated the current catastrophic conditions, and without which we can guarantee this is not the end but the beginning of a growing disaster.
Yes – we are not the only country needing to take action – but we are the developed country with the highest per capita level of emissions of greenhouse gases.
Yes – countries like China, India and the USA are lagging behind in taking action, but that does not give us licence to do nothing. Instead it gives us an obligation to put them to shame by showing how a relatively small country can rapidly become carbon neutral.
via Scott Morrison should resign – » The Australian Independent Media Network
His lie about doing nothing illegal continues (ODT)
President Donald Trump has criticised House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi for holding off on sending the articles of impeachment against him to the Senate.
“It’s so unfair,” Trump said on Saturday, days after he was impeached by the House, during a speech to conservative student group Turning Point USA, saying that Pelosi adopted the strategy because she has “no case”.
About 90 minutes after US President Donald Trump spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the White House ordered the Pentagon to suspend all military aid to Ukraine, according to emails released following a freedom of information request.
via Ukraine military aid frozen 90 minutes after Trump spoke to Zelensky
Trump regime actions against the country exceed the high crimes of his predecessors, wanting its economy crushed, its people immiserated, including by banning imports of essentials to life and welfare.
Healthcare industry companies were warned not to sell drugs and medical equipment to the country.
Iran’s Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi said Trump regime actions are violations of international humanitarian law.
No nation in world history did more harm to more people over a longer duration than the US, responsible for tens of millions of deaths, vast destruction, torture, along with virtually all other imaginable high crimes and indignities against humanity — blaming victims for its viciousness.
via World’s Leading Human Rights Abuser USA Blames Others for Its High Crimes – Stephen Lendman
LNP Government, Murdoch Media have all declared this as JUST WEATHER (ODT)
India at war wit 200 mill of it’s own Citizens (ODT)
via India’s Government Is Going to War Against Its Own People | The Smirking Chimp
It seems clear that [Attorney General William Barr] will do or enable anything to keep Trump in office. And Trump will do anything to stay there. Suspension of the election, negation of the results, declaration of martial law are not simply fanciful, alarmist or crazy things to throw out there or to contemplate. Members of Congress, governors and state legislators, leaders in civil society, lawyers, law enforcement figures and the military need to be thinking now about how they might respond”
Tearing up the Constitution Mitch McConnel declares if a Senate trial is to be held he and the R-Senators are not there to swear they will be impartial (ODT)
Already, we know what Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has promised. “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There’s not anything judicial about it.” For Senator McConnell, the entire episode regarding Trump has been a matter of highest and most venomous partisanship. “The House made a partisan political decision to impeach. I would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the Senate.”
The Politics of Trump’s Impeachment – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This is what Murdochians call normal weather (ODT)
via Climate Crisis Rages in Australia, with 14 of 15 hottest Places in World and Sydney Fire-Besieged
“I deeply regret any offence caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time,” he said in a statement. It came after the deaths of two fire fighters and the injury of others, and Morrison’s decision to cut short his Hawaiian holiday.
But the prime minister still remained quite focused on why he’d taken leave just now, telling 2GB how he’d had to bring his holiday forward because of his commitments to visit India and Japan in January, missing a break at the coast. So he’d wanted to give his girls a surprise with this family trip to Hawaii. Etc. Etc.
He didn’t seem to grasp that while he likes to emphasise his relationship with the ordinary Australian, as prime minister he is not an ordinary Australian.
“Framing is everything,” Barrett added. “Relying on the premise of ‘people choose to be tracked so our project has to be talking them out of it, not arguing that the surveillers need more accountability’ gives tech lobbyists who make those self-serving arguments credibility they don’t deserve.”
‘Is the Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.’ The New York Times published the first piece in its “One Nation, Tracked” investigation based on a data set with over 50 billion location pings. by Jessica Corbett, The New York Times’ The data, from 2016 and 2017, “was provided to Times Opinion by sources “The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public
Australia’s Idiot Minister
The Eagles in their classic Hotel California – and now part of settled Australian asylum seeker law :
‘You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave!’
Fast forward to Melbourne today and we find that there are around 45 asylum seekers who had previously been detained in PNG but who had, under the Medevac Laws, been brought to Australia for urgent medical attention. The men are currently, following their medical treatment, detained on one floor of the $180-a-night Mantra on Bell in Preston, which is off-limits to other guests and patrolled by private security guards.
The difficulty facing Spud Dutton is that he cannot easily return these folk to detention in PNG as – unlike Australia – it is unconstitutional under PNG law to hold people against their will unless they have been charged and convicted of a crime and sentenced in a properly constituted court of law; always remembering that seeking asylum is not a crime. So PNG is unlikely to take them back, as to issue them with a tourist visa would be taking migration law into the realms of Monty Python.
So, in between cameo appearances on 2GB and Sky and television ads with uniformed AFP personnel, minister Dutton is pondering his next move having effectively painted himself into a corner with little room to maneuver.
via That’s another Fine Mess you’ve gotten us into, Spud! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
538 Polls Show Donald Trump Winning In A Landside in 2020
via 538 Polls Show Donald Trump Winning In A Landside in 2020 | Trump supporters fail at spelling.
The have’s ensure the have nots are either blocked or have to pay for the excessive indulgences of the haves (ODT)
There’s a rumour going around that Scott Morrison is in Hawaii staying in a Trump hotel with his wife and family, which includes the Hillsong guy who may or may not have been uninvited to the Whitehouse. This has caused some criticism from people who think he should be providing some sort of leadership because there are one or two fires burning round the country.
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