Mm, and then there’s Gladys Liu. While she may not be a card carrying member of the Chinese Communist Party, she’s certainly belonged to organisations which are meant to advance China’s interests in other countries. When Scottie hears this, does he announce that he’ll ask the security forces to check it out? No, he calls her a great Australian and accuses people of racism for even suggesting that there are questions to answer.
Good on him, says the Chinese newspaper. (This is real, I’m not making it up).
Now imagine if Jeremy Corbyn or Bill Shorten had introduced a card to control people’s spending, presided over raids on journalists and then was praised by the Communists for standing up for a possible Chinese propaganda stooge. Yeah, I can see the Murdoch press calling for their extradition to Guatanamo Bay as a threat to the nation.
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via How Good Is Communism? OR ScoMo The Trotskyist – » The Australian Independent Media Network
So here comes Sinclair, and Breitbart (ODT)
So while I do not doubt that Trump is unpopular at Fox and that his detractors have become more audacious, it’s also true that his supporters are sticking by him as strongly as ever, if not more so.
In other words, Fox News civil war. Grab the popcorn!
via Stable Genius Reportedly Very Unpopular Among Fox News Personnel | Crooks and Liars
All this is not to mention US support for the Saudi-UAE war on Yemen. Although Iran is not deeply entangled in that largely local conflict, it does side with the Houthis, which the war aims at destroying– at the cost of some 80,000 Yemeni lives, millions displaced, ten million food insecure– a modern apocalypse.
Maximum pressure was supposed to make the Iranians fold. But there was always another possibility.
via Trump Has been Waging a Brutal War on Iran for over a Year, in Alliance with Saudi Arabia & Israel
Remember the Weapons of Mass Deception and how they convinced the world to invade Iraq. John Howard insisted on Weapons of Mass Destruction despite the Intelligence Service. Goes to show how far politicians will go and how little respect they have fot the electorate (ODT)
It only takes 30% of the population to change a governments policies. In the case of the LNP it was less than 30% of it’s members to hold policies of the moderates back,(ODT)
Despite warnings and scientific advice, our Government hasn’t budged on the issue of climate change so it’s time to strike back, writes David Ritter.
Pro Israel? Rupert Murdoch is a Director of Genie Oil illegally exploring in Syria’s occupiedGolan Heights for an oil discovery believed to be bigger than the Saudi’s. Why isn’t this promoted on his global front pages? Support, however of Israel is but not it’s criminal support of terrorist groups in that war. Why is Australia ready to jail and silence anybody talking about their criminal bugging of the East Timor governments offices simply to screw them out of oil. Commercial espionage by our government and no politicians brought to account, how did they not believe they were working on sound princples of International Crime? Even now they are doing what they can to shut any inquiry down. (ODT)
We all know what these wars have been about. Even those who don’t know the specifics can all see oil dripping from between the lines. Oil seeping from the writing on the wall. You pretty much taste petroleum in every mouthful of bullshit we are served. But soon, unfortunately, we will be feeling the crunch ourselves, rather than offshoring the destructiveness associated with our lucky country to the war-torn Middle East. We may want to blame others. We may want to jump on the US bandwagon and point the finger at Iran. But make no mistake, we are not the victims, we are minor villains in this story. Sycophants sucking up to the big boss in the hopes of maintaining our supply of crumbs. Crumbs we are willing to trade millions of lives and the fate of our world for.
via Petroleum Crumbs – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Abbott/Trunbull/Morrison and America;s Cold War took us to war against Vietnam. Now they are asking Australians to sacrify their relationships in the Pacific again. (ODT)
Key points:
Scott Morrison hasn’t been able to secure a bilateral meeting with Xi Jinping
He has however been invited to a state dinner with US President Donald Trump
The failure to net a bilateral meeting with Mr Xi stems from Australia and China’s icy relations
While the authenticity verifiers marshalled across platoons of fact checkers might well be thinking they are doing us a service, nothing ever replaces the sceptical reader who covers multiple sources to identify an account and question it. Never just read lines, but between them; never just accept news, but monitor its content and those who produce it. To the informed sceptic go the spoils of enlightenment.
via Fake Arguments on Fake News – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The wealthy can delay the legal process for a lifetime. The US justice system is becoming Indian. (ODT)
via Manhattan DA Subpoenas 8 Years Of Trump Taxes | Crooks and Liars
The USA seems to stand alone and in opposition to any efforts of peace in the Middle East (ODT)
Erdogan also noted that there had been no “positive steps” in working out a role for the United States in the process, adding that Russia, Turkey and Iran would, therefore, proceed on their own.
Productivity has tanked under this Government and Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is floundering. Result? Australia is providing a classic study in how not to build a productive economy. Alan Austin reports.
The way forward
The critical issues Australia must address in light of its glaring productivity failures include:
Australia a classic study in how not to build a productive economy – Michael West
No president has ever been sent packing. Nixon resigned because he saw it coming. Trump would sooner start a civil war
Trump is the puppet of darker forceshere at play (ODT)
via Pompeo Manipulatively blames Iran as Saudi Arabia loses 58% of Oil Production to Houthi Attack
The one-sided pact Morrison has reinforced. America can do what it wants.(ODT)
via Trump ends talk with Taliban leaving Aussie troops in limbo in Afghanistan – Michael West
The major reason the US wants nothing to do with Climate Change (ODT)
via How Military Build-up and War Contribute to Climate Emergency
Australia the biggest coal exporter is the biggest enabler that’s a plan (ODT)
via Australia to attend climate summit empty-handed despite UN pleas to ‘come with a plan’
I am not very optimistic that the world’s major powers will wake up in time from their wars and bickerings and genocide, to take sufficient action for us to avoid any but the most serious outcomes of the climate catastrophe which we are facing.
Asking the cost of taking the suggested measures is a futile exercise. More futile then ignoring the cost of not taking them!
It has long been established that mankind is the world’s most dangerous predator. It would be an enormous pity if our stupidity were to lead to the demise of all life on earth!
There is no Planet B, and, even if there were, we have not earned the right to live on it.
If you believe in a life after death – good luck to you! No one has yet come back to establish its existence!
via The growth of knowledge is getting away from us – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Channel 9, when not hosting Liberal fundraisers, are one of the nation’s top investigative units. Take “A Current Affair”. More than twenty years after they found the Paxton family and managed to portray them to the nation as work-shy bludgers, they’ve found another candidate for the public pillory.
The promo for tomorrow’s episode tells us: “HE’S UNEMPLOYED, 30, ON WELFARE AND HE SPENDS IT ON DRUGS!”
via The Wonderfully Compliant Druggie Dole Bludger! – » The Australian Independent Media Network
As for Trump himself, German sees in the president a man whose entire life and business history, not to mention his associates, reeks of potential criminal liability. And still, he seemed to generate a considerable amount of wealth and obtain the most powerful position in the world without a serious look from the FBI along the way. “The practical immunity Trump and his retinue enjoyed as they amassed wealth and power also gives lie to his supporters’ contention that Mueller, Comey, and the FBI somehow had it in for Trump and manufactured a case against him,” German writes. “The failure to prioritize the economic crimes of the politically powerful left the nation vulnerable to a hostile foreign nation’s effort to delegitimize U.S. elections. This is exactly the sort of threat a domestic intelligence agency is supposed to protect against.”
How FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Put Trump in Office
This the role model nation that all nations are expected to follow(ODT)
US military has just recently returned to Guyana for the first time in a decade. The purpose of this detachment, according to Military.com, is to “shore up relationships amid growing tensions in neighboring Venezuela.”
“the United States has a clear objective in Venezuela: regime change and the restoration of democracy and the rule of law.” A basic understanding of the English language would require that this sentence poses an oxymoron, as US-enforced regime change could never ever amount to the implementation of democracy and the rule of law.
there are at least five US military bases and a number of US military advisers in Colombia, which a simple glance at a globe will tell you is on the other side of Venezuela. By “shoring up relationships” to the east of Venezuela in Guyana, the US military will almost have the Latin American rival completely surrounded. The south is covered by Brazil, which is another stalwart Washington ally.
It bears to remind oneself that as part of this foreign policy playbook, right-wing, nationalist and/or populist ideologies are almost never opposed or rejected by the US, but welcomed warmly with open arms.
According to the Nation, the US has over 800 formal military bases in 80 countries, “a number that could exceed 1,000 if you count troops stationed at embassies and missions and so-called ‘lily-pond’ bases, with some 138,000 soldiers stationed around the globe.”
Collectively, some other 11 countries including Russia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, China, France and India, have barely some 70 bases between them.
US military encircling Venezuela: Regime change preparations? — RT Op-ed
“there are some important gaps in China’s climate policies. Currently they only target carbon dioxide emissions, although China also generates significant quantities of other greenhouse gases, including methane and black carbon.
And China is contributing to emissions outside of its borders by exporting coal equipment and directly financing overseas coal plants through its Belt and Road Initiative. No nation, including China, currently reports emissions generated abroad in its national emissions inventory.”
Imagine if Australia included it’s contribution to emmissionsoutside of it’s borders. It would rise to be the biggest polluter in the planet something this LNP government would be proud of.(ODT)
via China is positioned to lead on climate change as the US rolls back its policies
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