Isn’t this what Trump is doing currently and is going to do in 2020 along with the Russians, Nth Koreans and any other donations he can muster. Fox has a Quid pro Quo arrangement withhim under the guise of “news” and “opinion” Trump has excluded other media agency access to the White House even cancelling subscriptions. Is domestic Quid pro Quo not required to be declared as a political donation? (ODT)
“If you pay them, Facebook will run any ‘political’ ad you want, even if it’s a lie. And they’ll even help you micro target those lies to their users for maximum effect,” he said.
“Under this twisted logic, if Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ‘solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem’.”
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The word “aggression” seems so out of place here when you consider the ADF is present in Afghanistan, Iraq,and Syria and China has only 1 overseas deployment. Throughout our history we have been more suspicious of China than China has been of us. While we are ever increasing the “Blanket of National Security” over our own citizens China has been loosening it over theirs. If we wish to go on an overseas junket we used to prepare ourselves for running into brash Americans, or groups of Russians today it’s the Chinese so much so we prefer to go off season because there is a tsunami of Chinese tourists everywhere.
It strikes us that our AFP, ASIO, Security Services along with think tanks and other advisors are short of work or there just too many, They have gone off warning us to the threat of Muslims and Africans terrorising the country and with little or nothing to do have now focused on the Chinese. But currently with an ever increasing public intensity since the LNP took over the government and Peter Dutton became head of the mega-bumbling Homeland Department particularly now with the coming of Morrison. Abbott was named the Pivot of the Pacific in the eyes of the Americans but oops, he wanted to be a part of NATO. He gave away Radio Australia the heart beat of the region for 75 years in places like Vanuatu. He more than anyone opened the doors to China without the current atmosphere of suspicion and that wasn’t so long ago. He cut Foreign Aid allowing the Chinese to help develop the region. The Pivot was seen as the Pillock who created the vacuum. While Tasmania begs the Federal Government for money to run 62% of it’s economy whose there to help the Chinese boogie man in whose eyes the LNPs
The Americans seemed to have whispered in somebody’s ear and the whole nature of friendship changed and we are back to the old paranoia that two wongs don’t make a white. That’s LNP diplomacy ASIO and the AFP are in the forefront again and the National surveillance a necessity and secrecy a must… Blame the Chinese. (ODT)
How China and the CCP aggressively push beyond their borders
It’s not hard to guess what this government has in mind (ODT
Proponents of renewable energy raised concerns that using hydrogen to store fossil fuel-generated energy could support the coal sector and prolong the operation of the nation’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations.
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Battlelines drawn over Australia’s hydrogen ‘fork in the road’
ACT Energy Minister Shane Rattenbury argued before the meeting that Australia faced a “fork in the road” that could set the direction of hydrogen as either a forward-looking renewables industry or a mechanism to “prop up” coal.
via Hydrogen stimulus package to power Australian energy exports
Globally in 2018, coal-fired electricity generation accounted for 30% of CO2 emissions and coal power facilities were the single largest contributor to the growth in emissions. Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world and is responsible for more than a quarter of world trade.
So, it is fair to say that coal is the single greatest driver of the climate emergency that has led to Australia’s catastrophic spring fire season.
Is this climate change in action?
No fire can be blamed on climate change alone, but Bowman says the rise in higher temperatures, extreme dryness, worsening fire seasons, extreme bursts of fire weather and behaviour and the spread of fire across the country all align with scenarios painted by climate change projections.
Greenhouse gas emissions have a clear impact on rising temperatures and, through that, an indirect link on increased dryness in eastern Australia. A recent study found the extreme temperatures that drove historic 2018 bushfires in northern Queensland were four times more likely to have happened because of human-caused climate change
In short, climate change can and does makes bushfires worse.
via Australia bushfires factcheck: are this year’s fires unprecedented? | Australia news | The Guardian
You will never hear a Coalition politician say we caused this problem, we must fix it. You will never hear them say this approach hasn’t worked, we must change it.
Since John Howard unexpectedly won the 2001 election, wedge politics is the Coalition MO and Scott Morrison is a devotee.
But when you use that approach, you can never take responsibility for anything, as demonstrated so pitiably by the climate change debacle.
Yesterday, Scott Morrison trotted out this old chestnut.
“To suggest that with just 1.3 per cent of global emissions that Australia doing something differently, more or less, would have changed the fire outcome this season, I don’t think that stands up to any credible scientific evidence at all. If anything Australia is an over-achiever on global commitments.”
How Morrison can continue to make this claim flabbergasts me.
via Man up, Morrison – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“When I saw my photo crossed out in a secret government database, I realized the secondary screening and interrogation wasn’t random. I was being targeted by my own government for reporting on conditions at the border.”
—Bing Guan, photojournalistFive journalists who were tracked, detained, and interrogated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for reporting on conditions at the southern border in 2018 and 2019 brought a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday for what the ACLU called an “unprecedented, coordinated attack on the freedom of the press.”
The crime that can’t be remembered (ODT)
Key points:
According to the indictment, Mr Netanyahu accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts
The indictment does not require Mr Netanyahu to resign but is expected to raise pressure on him to step down
Two close aides to Mr Netanyahu turned state’s witness and testified against him
Conclusion: Debunking a Myth
It used to be said that people became more conservative in their political outlook as they aged. This was a sort of conventional wisdom, and like many forms of conventional wisdom, it is a load of crap. The reality is that age often correlates with the accumulation of wealth, which usually generates less uncertainty, and with it less need for change. I am doing just fine, thank you, nothing needs to change. This is, once again, an example of class over generation. Typically, each generation winds up better off financially than their parents were, and successive generations of this increase in wealth, and the associated tory turn that goes with it, generated this myth. Once more, it is not generation, it is class.
No evidence Smoking causes Cancer Scomo is going to crack down on the QUIT campaign as well is he? Apparently Insurance Company Actuaries that study these extremes for commercial reasons think otherwise. Morrison is our PM but sound like a Tobacco Company salesman (ODT)
PM suggests Australia could increase emissions without worsening current fire season, and says government finalising plans to crack down on environmental protests
Frydenberg the Parrot named Galah ” The fundamentals are good ” “Suffering some headwinds” Has any Trasurer since Swann got economic management right? These idiots laughed when Wayne was voted the “World’s Best” (ODT)
Matching this with the same numbers for all 36 wealthy members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shows Australia now ranks a miserable 21st in this group. That is the lowest ranking since records have been kept.
I don’t know the man very well NOW (ODT)
via Trump Holds Bonkers Press Briefing With Sharpie Notes | Crooks and Liars
GOP Ambassador cuts GOP down (ODT)
via Gordon Sondland Directly Implicates Trump, Top Aides In Ukraine Shakedown | HuffPost Australia
Murdoch’s America (ODT)
via Fox News’ take on Sondland’s testimony: nothing to see here | US news | The Guardian
As mothers and grandmothers, our spirits are crying. We want to meet with the NT commissioner of police
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a decorated military veteran responsible for co-ordinating US policy on Ukraine, said he reported the call because he feared that Ukraine was being drawn into a “partisan play” to benefit Trump politically.
via Impeachment: Alexander Vindman alarmed by Trump’s ‘improper’ Ukraine call
In Tony Abbott did Australia ever elect a Prime Minister so ignorant of technology, the environment and science? So oblivious of the needs of women and so out of touch with a modern pluralist society.
“Got me beat why Tony Abbott is being feted so much. Remember, he ordered the destruction of our NBN. How much productivity has been lost because of it? How many tens of billions will it cost to repair? Remember also he tore up the price on carbon, at an immeasurable cost to us.”( M.Taylor)
What this government has tried to avoid factoring in (ODT)
The fact is that the proportion of older people who cannot find a job is going to increase, and increase, and increase. It is not going to increase because we are burdens, or bludgers, or light-weight lifters, or any of the other crap mantras that this Government throws towards our aged bones. The number of older people out of work will increase because employers have made it brutally obvious to us that we are not wanted.
via We older ‘burdens’ on society – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Frydenberg hasn’t a Holistic clue what’s going on. Clutching at straws for excuses he’s failing Australia (ODT)
He might control the Senate and SCOTUS but not the House (ODT)
Trump refused to agree to an in-person interview with Mueller’s team. The president’s attorneys said that was because Trump feared a perjury trap—in other words, that he would be unable to testify without lying. When Trump eventually agreed to answer some questions in writing, he still refused to answer queries about allegations that he had obstructed justice.
via Congress Is Now Investigating Whether Trump Lied to Mueller – Mother Jones
Fox News Rewriting History (ODT)
via Fox And Friends Guest Says Watergate Was Partisan Witchhunt | Crooks and Liars
rather than making room for the others, and helping those floundering around in the sea, Donald Trump beats them with the oars – he unilaterally takes his country out of the Paris climate change Agreement because he thinks that doing so will damage the US economy.This ridiculous assumption is like hogging the set of waves on his surfboard while a monstrous tsunami lurks menacingly on the horizon.
Four decades of Israeli “occupation reversed and legalised by Trump and his Administration but not in the eyes of the rest of the World (ODT)
via US says Israeli settlements are no longer illegal – BBC News
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