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A new law in the Democratic Republic of Congo will exempt victims of sexual violence from paying court fees – Missing Perspectives

Australia’s Shame, We cut back on Legal Aid, Foriegn Aid, and Welfare under a decade of LNP Government.

After 16 months of work and under pressure from civil society organizations, the law exempting survivors of sexual violence from legal fees has just been passed by the National Assembly (lower house) of Parliament. According to Article 123 of the law, victims of sexual violence are now no longer liable to the payment of the costs of consignments, justice, enforcement and proportional rights, therefore modifying the Code of Criminal Procedure of August 6, 1959, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Source: A new law in the Democratic Republic of Congo will exempt victims of sexual violence from paying court fees – Missing Perspectives

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Who will Control Africa?
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The more things change, the more they stay the same – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Compare those at CPAC  with those at the ALP Conference and note the difference.

Standards are important, especially standards of honesty and decency. Politics is supposed to be a contest of ideas and ways to improve the country articulated and advertised by those aspiring to be our leaders, not a bear pit where anything goes. If politicians can’t self-regulate, we should regulate for them. South Australia has had ‘truth in political advertising’ laws since 1985. Maybe the rest of the country should catch up.

Source: The more things change, the more they stay the same – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Patents were meant to reward inventions. It’s time to talk about how they might not

They are meant to be a bargain between the inventor and the public: tell us how your invention works, and we’ll give you a fixed time – a patent protection period – in which you’re the only person who can make use of it.

Source: Patents were meant to reward inventions. It’s time to talk about how they might not

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Caitlin Johnstone: US Department of Hypocrisy

After his department was caught pushing the ouster of the democratically elected Imran Khan, the U.S. secretary of state is now praising Pakistan’s preparations for “free and fair elections.”

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: US Department of Hypocrisy

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Media and the Voice – the campaign’s descent into darkness

As an Aboriginal journalist who contributes to a range of media publications, here are six themes that I believe have contributed to the malaise.

Source: Media and the Voice – the campaign’s descent into darkness

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Reconstructing Australia’s economy from the wreckage left by the Coalition – Weekly Roundup – Pearls and Irritations

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Beyond rent controls: can we have a market where tenants are treated with respect? On of the subjects of Ian McAuley’s weekly round up.

Source: Reconstructing Australia’s economy from the wreckage left by the Coalition – Weekly Roundup – Pearls and Irritations

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Could Trump really win against multiple indictments? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If the following words sound familiar, the reason is that l have posted them before. However, it may be best to reread them to understand my thoughts. Again, I had better pause lest you fail to grasp where I am heading. In Australia, we have a saying, “Only in America.” It’s a phrase we use when… ( John Lord )

Source: Could Trump really win against multiple indictments? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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How Private Equity Is Destroying the Labors of Love | The Smirking Chimp

When I published my first book decades ago, the purpose of most publishing houses was to publish books. Publishers made money in order to publish books. They earned enough on their big bestsellers to take chances on unknown authors like me and put out books that delighted small numbers of enthusiastic readers but never showed a profit.

Source: How Private Equity Is Destroying the Labors of Love | The Smirking Chimp

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ABC’s Kitchen Cabinet in need of a good clean

This isn’t The Chaser. It’s a reflection of what the ABC was forced to become during those past 13 years of the LNP and now for Peter Dutton “Lets Humanise the @#$%$#. They are going to try to Normalise him Fuck you very much!!

Crabb is adept at using humour not to satirise, but to minimise. It can’t be so bad if we can have a good laugh about it together over lunch, can it?

Source: ABC’s Kitchen Cabinet in need of a good clean

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The insurgency within the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The panel at the Caroline Springs Liberal branch fundraiser

What does a Liberal vote mean if the ultraconservatives take over the party’s mechanisms?

Source: The insurgency within the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Fourth Indictment, and Trump’s Willful Refusal To Stop Intimidating Witnesses | The Smirking Chimp

Hours later, Trump called Judge Chutkan “highly partisan” and “very biased and unfair,” adding, “She obviously wants me behind bars.”

Friends, Trump is daring Judge Chutkan and other judges involved (or soon to be involved) in these four proceedings to revoke his release pending trial. He believes he can get away with intimidating and harassing potential witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, and judges. He is confident he is above the law.

He must be shown he is not above the law. His release pending trial must be revoked.

What do you think?

Source: The Fourth Indictment, and Trump’s Willful Refusal To Stop Intimidating Witnesses | The Smirking Chimp

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US Move to Secure Minerals Risks Australia’s Sovereignty

U.S. efforts to secure strategic mineral supply chains may squeeze China out of the Australian market with the Antipodean nation being used as a raw materials supplier like the days of the British empire, writes Tony Kevin.

Source: US Move to Secure Minerals Risks Australia’s Sovereignty

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Inglorious Politics: The Hunter Biden Problem – » The Australian Independent Media Network

OBSESSION WRIT LARGE BY THE GOP TO PROVE A POINT TO- FUCK AMERICA FIRST

While those in the US worried “about such things as inflation and the war in Ukraine, the top concerns of congressional Republicans can be ranked roughly as follows: 1) Hunter Biden; 2) Hunter Biden; 3) Hunter Biden; 4) Hunter Biden.”

Source: Inglorious Politics: The Hunter Biden Problem – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Donald Trump, Samuel Bankman-Fried, and the Rule of Law | The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump Screams He’s America’s Number One Victim

A prominent billionaire is arrested on criminal charges. At his arraignment, the presiding judge releases him pending trial on condition he not to try to influence potential witnesses and orders him not to speak with the media about the pending trial. He repeatedly violates the order. Eventually, the judge has had enough. He revokes bail and orders him jailed pending trial.

Source: Donald Trump, Samuel Bankman-Fried, and the Rule of Law | The Smirking Chimp

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Dodgy governments, corrupt institutions and shadow states lurking beneath our democracy

The Sofronoff shambles, Robodebt Royal Commission, hijacking of the Voice Referendum and permeation by PwC (among others) of the public service cannot recur, write Dave Donovan and Michelle Pini.

Source: Dodgy governments, corrupt institutions and shadow states lurking beneath our democracy

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If Bosses Are Raking It In, Shouldn’t Employees, Too? | The Smirking Chimp

In Australia and in Victoria the Fire Fighters want a 25% rise over 4 years. The CEOs have no Union so we really have no global systemic comparisons. How is it the big three American automakers don’t have boards equally represented by Shareholders, Labor, Men, Women, and other interested parties to resolve company issues less adversarially? Germany and Italy do. They manage to offer worker’s conditions far, better, and at a greater cost, but these companies were able to negotiate it more equitably and peacefully. Without a comparison of these differing structures, nothing will change.

The new leadership of the United Auto Workers is demanding that the Big Three automakers give its members a 40 percent raise over the four years of its next contract. The demand stems from the 40 percent increase in compensation raked in by the corporations’ CEOs over the past four years.

Only fair, right?

Source: If Bosses Are Raking It In, Shouldn’t Employees, Too? | The Smirking Chimp

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Getting Scalier: David A. Collard’s creditors, lawsuits, now a thing of Scale – Michael West

Scale Facilitation, David Collard, PwC

Australian entrepreneur and ex-PwC partner David A. Collard is being sued for rent on both his fancy apartment in Manhattan as well as Scale’s 88th floor World Trade Centre head quarters. That’s on top of an ATO tax raid, unpaid staff and creditors, and defaulting on the purchase of Britishvolt in the UK. Sean Johnson of Open Politics reports. 

 

Source: Getting Scalier: David A. Collard’s creditors, lawsuits, now a thing of Scale – Michael West

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Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff was bribed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to leak ACT Inquiry Report to Janet AlbrechtsenKangaroo Court of Australia

Rupert Murdoch bribed Walter Sofronoff

Has a crime been committed? Doesn’t this alone warrant an inquiry into News Corp? Shouldn’t charges be laid? Who is being made out to look like Lady Macbeth in this saga about “poor Bruce”

At the same time Walter Sofronoff was illegally leaking the ACT Inquiry Report, to propagandist Janet Albrechtsen, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp was negotiating with Sofronoff to cash in on the dodgy ACT Inquiry findings.

Source: Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff was bribed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to leak ACT Inquiry Report to Janet AlbrechtsenKangaroo Court of Australia

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Crackdown! Better watch out you Big 4, we’ll wave a stern finger at yers – Michael West

Crackdown! Better watch out you Big 4, we’ll wave a stern finger at yers

“Eye-watering”, “fines jump 10,000% in huge crackdown”! The Big 4 crackdown has arrived in the most cracking down fashion. But what is it really? Michael West reports.

Source: Crackdown! Better watch out you Big 4, we’ll wave a stern finger at yers – Michael West

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Will Donald Trump Go to Jail Before His Trial Even Begins? | The Smirking Chimp

One might well ask why Stuart Robert has never been charged with corruption after the number of times he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar?

That’s what the rule of law is all about. At this moment, 400,000 criminal defendants in the United States are awaiting trial in jail because they didn’t meet a condition of their release.

Source: Will Donald Trump Go to Jail Before His Trial Even Begins? | The Smirking Chimp

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“A Gold Digger yes, a Gang Leader or Pawn? – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
Investor linked to Stuart Robert is still a director of 10 companies despite ‘severing ties’ with Australia
The Scam is in and Australia has been Stung
“A Gold Coast businessman with ties to former Liberal MP Stuart Robert remains listed as a director in at least 10 Australian companies despite “severing ties” and living abroad.
John Margerison had been called as a key witness for a parliamentary hearing in July into contracts awarded by Services Australia and the National Disability Insurance Agency.
But public accounts and audits committee chair Julian Hill said the hearing could no longer go ahead after Margerison’s lawyer informed him the businessman had severed all ties with Australia and was now living overseas, outside the jurisdiction of parliament.
Guardian Australia can reveal, however, Margerison remains a director of at least 10 Australian companies, including four linked to the DJ Group associated with NDIS providers.

Source: Margerison Escapes Jurisdiction Of Parliament Inquiry into Stuart Robert – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff, who faces up to 6 months jail and owns a plane at Toowoomba airport, has gone into hidingKangaroo Court of Australia

Walter Sofronoff has gone into hiding after illegally leaking the ACT Inquiry Report to Bruce Lehrmann’s favourite propagandist at News Corp’s The Australian Janet Albrechtsen and the ABC even before he handed the Report to the ACT government.

Source: Corrupt judge Walter Sofronoff, who faces up to 6 months jail and owns a plane at Toowoomba airport, has gone into hidingKangaroo Court of Australia

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Allegations of corruption keep coming for a party on its knees – » The Australian Independent Media Network

After all the conniving corruption of the Coalition’s Luddite term of office, one might have reasonably concluded that they had drained the swamp of their own making. But more alleged corruption has surfaced from the residue left behind.

Source: Allegations of corruption keep coming for a party on its knees – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz ‘Very Worried’ AI Could Supercharge Inequality

Economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks during an event

“I’m hopeful that if we did the right thing, AI would be great. But the question is: Will we be doing the right thing in our policy space? And I think that’s much more problematic.”

Source: Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz ‘Very Worried’ AI Could Supercharge Inequality

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“The Constitution v The Voice – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

The constitution v the Voice

The constitution is a profoundly racist document, an expression of White Australia, of settler history, with the concepts of Australia having been “discovered” by Europeans under the fiction of terra nullius. Implicit in it is “the passing of the Aborigines”.
The one issue on which all parties in the Australian colonies agreed in 1901 was White Australia. The Australian Labor Party was zealous on this. The Australian way of dealing with racism was to deny it existed.
Failure to recognize the suffering and marginalization of First Nations people was the core of what anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner, in his important Boyer Lectures for the ABC in 1968, called “the great Australian silence”.
Indian soldiers were invited to the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia in Sydney at 10am on January 1, 1901, but no Aboriginal Australians. The omission may not have been deliberate – perhaps it never occurred to the organizers to ask any.
It is egregious cynicism to argue in 2023 that a positive reference to First Nations people would bring a divisive racist element into the Constitution.

The constitution v the Voice

Source: “The… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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It’s Not Corrupt If Both Sides Do It! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

According to Greg Sheridan who insists he’s a Great Catholic, he contradicts himself when saying there are no “universal truths”. According to Sheridan, good and evil are just socially relative terms. He agrees with Trump who after the death in Charlottesville tried to tell Americans that there’s good and evil on “both sides” and they’re equivalent.

Greg Sheridan made an interesting comment on “Insiders” where he told us that if the Voice fails to get up that means that Peter Dutton is not a racist because most people agree with him.

Interesting logic. Does that mean that the American South weren’t racist for excluding African-Americans from certain places because most people there agreed with it? Or that Hitler wasn’t anti-Semitic because most Nazis agreed with him… (No, I’m not comparing Dutton to Hitler before you start invoking Godwin’s Law. That would be unfair. For a start, Hitler managed to successfully seize power, while Dutton couldn’t even get his own party to pick him ahead of Scott Morrison.)

Source: It’s Not Corrupt If Both Sides Do It! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Caymans-owned Northern Beaches Hospital performs world-first “Headinthesandectomy” – Michael West

Northern Beaches Hospital

Doctor and Teal rep for Mackellar, Sophie Scamps, has called on Northern Beaches Hospital boss to resign if he can’t deliver on youth mental health

The broader question is whether essential public services should be privatised at all, especially sold to chronic tax avoiders operating in the Cayman Islands. Scamps is not the only one being snubbed for answers.
Royal North Shore Hospital charges $1m per public bed ($750m per year for 750 beds) and Northern Beaches $2.5m per bed ($600m for 250 beds). Numerous approaches have been made to the Northern Sydney Local Health District authorities – the regulator – by this publication for financial disclosures. Also to the hospital management and corporate overlords. All approaches have been rebuffed. What are they hiding?

Source: Caymans-owned Northern Beaches Hospital performs world-first “Headinthesandectomy” – Michael West

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Australia’s media watchdog not holding News Corp to account

Australia’s official media watchdog is no longer fulfilling its intended purpose, reports Alan Austin.

 

Source: Australia’s media watchdog not holding News Corp to account

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AUSMIN and Assange: The Great Vassal Smackdown – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As a terrible omen for the Australians, four defence personnel seem to have perished in waters near Hamilton Island through an accident with their MRH-90 Taipan helicopter as part of the Talisman Sabre war games. The US overlords were paternal and benevolent; their Australian counterparts were grateful for the interest. Blinken soppily suggested how the sacrifice was appreciated. “They have been on our minds throughout today; they remain very much on our minds right now.” But the message was clear: Australia, you are now less a state than a protectorate, territory to exploit, a resource basket to appropriate. Why not just make it official?

Source: AUSMIN and Assange: The Great Vassal Smackdown – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Barbie Pathologies: It’s All About a Doll – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The absurd nature of the whole doll business reached a highwater mark on Australia’s ABC network in Gruen, a program dedicated to demystifying the world of advertising. On the panel, hardboiled advertising veterans dissect the entrails of their industry, including its ruthless manipulations. For one of the panellists, Russel Howcroft, Barbie was something of a modern Joan of Arc, a figure who really ought to think deeply about who she will eventually marry. “She’s just a toy, Russel!” came the mocking response from a fellow panellist.

Source: Barbie Pathologies: It’s All About a Doll – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Conservatives are masters of scare because they have experience in it – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In the United States, the advertising industry employs more psychologists than the health industry. It is all calculated to take power over your decision-making. And it works. The same can be said for Australian mainstream media; it also wants your brand loyalty and the power to coerce you into its way of thinking. It uses techniques similar to the advertising industry; the main ingredients are untruth and creating perceptions with subliminal messages.

Source: Conservatives are masters of scare because they have experience in it – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Caitlin Johnstone: The Star-Spangled Kangaroo

A U.S. warship has been ushered into service in Sydney. The ship is called the U.S.S. Canberra to honor the military union of the United States and Australia, and, if that’s still too subtle for you, it has a literal star-spangled kangaroo affixed to its side.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: The Star-Spangled Kangaroo

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Governor-General David Hurley, his $18 million fraud and his mate NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

David Hurley, Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell

Governor-General David Hurley and the $18 million fraud scam

I published an article in August 2022 titled “G-G David Hurley had more meetings in 2021/2022 with the CEO of the fraudulent $18 million charity than Scott Morrison” which says is part:

Scott Morrison was exposed on Thursday (7/4/2022) as being the key decision maker, in collusion with Governor-General David Hurley, for giving $18 million of taxpayer’s money to a charity, The Australian Future Leaders Foundation, that doesn’t exist except on paper.

The Australian Future Leaders Foundation is reported to “have no office, website or staff, apart from three directors” (Click here to read the article)

 

Source: Governor-General David Hurley, his $18 million fraud and his mate NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

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Hello? You Can’t Be President if You’ve Tried To Overthrow the U.S. Government | The Smirking Chimp

Secretaries of state and other state election officials should not allow Trump on the ballot in their states. If you agree, please consider signing the petition to tell election officials to keep Trump off the ballot now. (Just click on this link.)

No one is above the law, including Donald Trump.

What do you think?

Source: Hello? You Can’t Be President if You’ve Tried To Overthrow the U.S. Government | The Smirking Chimp

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Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

ANY SECURITY arrangement with too many variables and multiple contingencies, risks stuttering and keeling over.

Source: Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

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Trump vs. Democracy: Let the Final Battle Begin | The Smirking Chimp

The pustule of Trump has been growing since 2016, and the authoritarian impulses underlying this infection have been allowed to fester for decades.

Folks, it is finally time to lance this boil. It is time to decisively rescue democracy and the rule of law. It is time to defeat Trump and his enablers, who are determined to defy the core values of America.

Let the battle begin.

Source: Trump vs. Democracy: Let the Final Battle Begin | The Smirking Chimp

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OECD accused of pressuring Albanese Government to weaken tax evasion laws

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A brawl over Australia’s tax collection policies has erupted between two giants of global economics, reports Alan Austin.

Source: OECD accused of pressuring Albanese Government to weaken tax evasion laws

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(1) Julia… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Donald Trump and the Liberal Party

If we don’t wake up to a “Yes” vote the morning after the referendum, we might well see a resurgence of red baseball caps, and a victory for the Trumpists in Australia.”

Source: (1) Julia… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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Kathryn Campbell’s Robodebt lies on video and her friendship with NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

How is it that she’s suspended with pay rather than without after the report? It seems justice moves so slowly that her paid suspension might last until her retirement.

Kathryn Campbell, advisor to the AUKUS program on $900,000 per year, has been suspended for her role in the fraudulent Robodebt Scheme and is possibly facing criminal charges. Most people would not know whether her suspension is justified or not but in the video below she is in full flight lying, deceiving and showing contempt for a Senate hearing into Robodebt.

Source: Kathryn Campbell’s Robodebt lies on video and her friendship with NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

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Whoever wins, we lose – The Shot

A world drowning in misinformation, depression, existential isolation, conspiracy cults, wellness circuses, creeping fascism, resurgent white supremacy, and the degradation of humanity’s collective attention span isn’t exactly crying out for more social media. That’s like turning to booze to deal with a drinking problem. Or capitalism to fix the climate crisis. You see this thing ruining all this important stuff? Perhaps we need more of it? It’s a fucking wonder we get our pants on each morning.

Today, the world’s actually powerful – read: the obscenely wealthy – do not need to do this (fight over bodies) because they instead own the levers to our scattered, atomised minds. 

Source: Whoever wins, we lose – The Shot

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Trump’s Path to Dictatorship | The Smirking Chimp

Trump allies have threatened that if he regains the presidency, he will invoke the “unitary executive” theory as the basis for using the Justice Department to persecute his political enemies, take over the FBI, usurp the authority of independent agencies like the FTC and even the Federal Reserve, and substitute loyalists for independent civil servants.

Source: Trump’s Path to Dictatorship | The Smirking Chimp

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A Robodebt response from a leader full of loathing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So incensed was I with the Leader of the Opposition’s response to the Royal Commissions report into the Robodebt Scheme that for a brief moment, I actually felt sorry for him.

However, in an equally brief deliberation, I realised that it was us, the people, that my sorrow was better directed. We deserved more than what Peter Dutton gave us. The Leader of the Opposition’s standing is fundamental to our democracy because he leads the alternative Government and therefore represents its philosophy and policies.

But alas, when responding to matters of importance, he attacks with all the ferocity of an angry Abbott or a lying Morrison. Let me explain his reaction to the Commission’s report in four instances.

Source: A Robodebt response from a leader full of loathing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

Taxpayer-funded finance groups hit with Federal Court law suit over support for fossil fuel industry projects

Environmental lobby group takes two Federal government finance bodies to court over concerns they are funding destructive projects — and not being upfront about the consequences, Zacharias Szumer reports.

Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent

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I Knew Robert F. Kennedy, and You’re No Robert F. Kennedy | The Smirking Chimp

Source: I Knew Robert F. Kennedy, and You’re No Robert F. Kennedy | The Smirking Chimp

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Israel Moves toward “Dictatorship” and Polarization, as one Likud Activist lauds the Targeting of Ashkenazi Jews in the Holocaust

On the eve of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s controversial visit to the United States, which several members of Congress say they will boycott, Israeli society is coming apart at the seams. The presidency in Israel is a purely symbolic post. Power resides with the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu and his extremist cabinet, which comprises open racists and fascists. His government’s expansion of Israeli squatter-settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank has drawn a rebuke from President Joe Biden, who says he’s never seen such a far-right government in Israel in all his years in office (which is a lot of years).

Source: Israel Moves toward “Dictatorship” and Polarization, as one Likud Activist lauds the Targeting of Ashkenazi Jews in the Holocaust

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The BBC Falls for Murdoch’s Bait – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The story made its debut in that king of rags, The Sun. The howls followed. As an article headline read: “Top BBC star who ‘paid child for sex pictures’ could be charged by cops and face years in prison, expert says.”

Source: The BBC Falls for Murdoch’s Bait – » The Australian Independent Media Network