via Poll wrap: Newspoll and Ipsos have contrasting leaders’ ratings trends; Abbott trails in Warringah
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Many of the accounts affected by Thursday’s announcement had already been banned from other social media sites. For instance, pages relating to Infowars were removed from Facebook but until now the conspiracist news site had been allowed to maintain an account on sister service Instagram.
Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart News employee, had already been banned by Twitter and Facebook but the decision to remove his Instagram account means his only mainstream social media outlet will now be on YouTube.
The change in attitudes suggests Facebook is adopting a more consistent approach across all its platforms. The company has recently specifically banned white supremacist material from its service and has come under increased pressure to act against such content following the Christchurch terror attack, which was livestreamed on its network.
Trump tweets support for far-right figures banned by Facebook | US news | The Guardian
and
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/02/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos
There is a divide between Free Speech and Propaganda. Not all Advertising is deemed Free in the USA. The Freedom and responsibility is Facebook’s and Instagram’s to choose. If Rupert Murdoch has that right so then does Zuckerberg. Advertisers also have an equal right to stop advertising on the Tucker Carlson show when they come to realize what it is he’s advertising off their backs. (ODT)
Many of the accounts affected by Thursday’s announcement had already been banned from other social media sites. For instance, pages relating to Infowars were removed from Facebook but until now the conspiracist news site had been allowed to maintain an account on sister service Instagram.
Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart News employee, had already been banned by Twitter and Facebook but the decision to remove his Instagram account means his only mainstream social media outlet will now be on YouTube.
The change in attitudes suggests Facebook is adopting a more consistent approach across all its platforms. The company has recently specifically banned white supremacist material from its service and has come under increased pressure to act against such content following the Christchurch terror attack, which was livestreamed on its network.
Twitter should ban Trump (ODT)
President Donald Trump has criticised social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring it was getting “worse and worse for Conservatives on social media!” and he was “monitoring and watching, closely!!”
via Trump attacks social media companies after Facebook bans
The policies Republicans smear as Stalinist are a good deal more popular than their own. By Jim Hightower | May 1, 2019
“Socialism,” snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. The obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back in unison: So-sh’ll-izz-ummm!
There you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump: Slap Democrats with a scurrilous campaign branding them as Lenin-Trotsky-Stalin re-incarnate.
It’s not just Trump hissing out the socialist label in a frantic McCarthyesque attempt to make it stick by mindless repetition, but also Republican lawmakers. Unfortunately for them, they’re overplaying a weak hand and bumbling over their own ignorance.
Texas Senator John Cornyn, for example, compared Democrats who support ideas like Medicare-for-All to Mussolini.
Apparently, Cornyn is unaware that the brutish Italian dictator was no socialist, but a fascist. Mussolini’s ideology of ultra-nationalism, masculine authoritarianism, suppression of democratic rights, and rule by wealthy elites is the opposite of the progressive agenda. Indeed, it describes the policies of — guess who? — Trump and his acolytes, including Cornyn!
via The GOP is Demonizing the Left in New Red Scare, but US Public wants . . . Socialism
With Assange being treated as a felon of grave importance; and Manning’s continued detention for her ongoing refusal to cooperate with the investigative grand jury in the United States, the press corps of the world should be both revolted and alarmed. What a delightful World Press Freedom Day it turned out to be.
What has been done to correct this —Nothing.
In the aftermath of the PanamaPapers what was done—- Nothing
Banking theft, crime,aiding and abetting Drug running, Arms sales, Terrorism, Money laundering was revealed—- Nothing (ODT)
Five pillars of financial crime (part 1) – » The Australian Independent Media Network
But is there a hidden motive behind the Murdoch media’s pro-Coalition frenzy? According to the Friends of the ABC, the secret agenda of News Corp and the Liberals is the post-election privatisation of the ABC.
Given the Coalition’s historical dislike of the national broadcaster, privatisation may well be the fate of the AB
Taylor told the Murdoch tabloid that: “Labor is not only proposing a new tax on your new car but also on your new home. There’s a whole raft of costs that Labor have not even considered that come with this policy.”
A spokeswoman for Labor described the suggestion of a housing tax as a desperate lie. “The Liberals will say and do anything to try to distract from their Clive Palmer-Pauline Hanson coalition of chaos”.
“Truly ludicrous”: EV Council angered by Angus Taylor’s “housing tax” lie | The Driven
A former Commonwealth Bank executive alleges he was bullied and sacked after blowing the whistle on a system that allowed staff to artificially boost their bonus pay by making false claims about introducing bank products to customers.
Timothy Richard Cradock was employed as an executive manager overseeing group strategy and international financial services and received a salary of $221,470 plus an incentive payment of $143,500 in his final year of work. His contract provided incentives potentially worth up to $205,000 in 2012. He was also general manager for migrant and multicultural, retail banking services
via CBA executive allegedly bullied and sacked after blowing whistle
When WAR is his business MAGA (ODT)
The election of Donald Trump had given the disgraced Blackwater founder a new opportunity to prove himself. After years of trying and failing to peddle a sweeping vision of mercenary warfare around the world, Erik Prince was back in the game.
“Politics to Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon he moves peices flaps and just shits all over the board” (Ece Temel Kuran) More that anyone on a global scale has normalised lying. (ODT)
So give it up for Trump. Over 10,000 lies racked up in such a short time, told with rare indifference to getting caught and a craftsman’s skill in the selection of detail. Another notch in his belt, another milestone, another claim to greatness–best brain, best vocabulary, a stable genius, a young and vibrant man, and a liar without peer.
There would have been no questions asked if Trump University hadn’t closed (ODT)
via Stanford Students Admit It Was Pretty Obvious Billionaire’s Dog Didn’t Get In By Itself
Extremist groups are presenting themselves as legitimate entities in a way that threatens to reshape Australian politics
Since 2006 Australian studies showed anti-Muslim sentiment increased from 9% to 30% a new Study indicates it has increased even more to 50%. Why the change? Far -right conservatives have created this widened gap with the rise of Tony Abbott as PM along with the help of the Murdoch media. All however refuse to accept responsibility for being that primary cause of this change. They claim they simply reflect what is.
Over 3000 anti- Islam articles were written in the Herald Sun alone in 2017. We saw the media involvement in the 2005 Cronulla Riots. Andrew Bolt like Alan Jones Pauline Hanson has been a leading Islamophobic voice. Their religious, racist, ethnic, and cultural vilification can’t be denied any longer as a spurr and enablement of right-wing terrorist and racist behaviour by Australians towards those of the Islmic faith.
Theirs is an action not of free speech but an action of hate a concerted action in the form of speech to alter peoples political behaviors. They are recruiters of far right extremism and ought to be named and treated as such. They are just as responsible a ISIS media is in enabling terror. They have had a greater impact here in Australia than seen elsewhere, Shame on us!! (ODT)
Islam and other religions
51% of Australians had unfavourable sentiments towards Islam, and only 10% looked upon the religion positively, making Australia more negative than 17 of the other 22 countries surveyed.
In fact, 37% of people said they were “very unfavourable”– the most negative response available. This was far higher than the milder option of “fairly unfavourable” (14%), and made it the single most common response to the religion. 23% of people were neutral.
via Australians accepting of migrants but negative towards Islam, poll finds | World news | The Guardian
I invest in my health and don’t regard it as a cost. The cost is what happens if I don’t (ODT)
Think about this. If we fail to act and disaster results, then massive suffering will have been aggravated by stupidity.
The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on societies around the world is that it’s about costs. About which parties policy will cost less. It is not. It is about who has the best policy.
We all incur a cost for the upkeep of our health. Why then should we not be liable for the cost of a healthy planet?
We should first acknowledge that the science tells us that we need at least a 45% or more reduction.
Secondly, we need to ask ourselves what party has the most efficient and effective way of reaching the target.
via The Poll Bludger
The problem with the Liberals and Nationals lining up with ‘crackpots and cranks’ is it’s not a cost-free exercise
Key points:
A US State Department official said the China is America’s first great competitor that is “not Caucasian”
Senior Australian government officials have been scathing of the comments
Analysts have warned this plays into China’s “race” narrative
Goodbye to the Hippocratic Oath after 2000 years (ODT)
Doctors, nurses and other health workers can opt out of procedures such as abortions and sterilizations which violate their personal or religious beliefs, under a rule issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday.
These are not Australians nor interested in Australia and it’s not anything due to colour religion or ethnicity ()DT
via Macquarie chief’s pay packet leaves big four rivals in the shade
When testifying before Congress, Barr was asked if he knew Mueller and what the latter thought of Barr’s summary. He pleaded ignorance, which we now know is a falsehood. Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe wonders whether the lie makes Barr himself eligible for impeachment.
via Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied
US Attorney-General William Barr is facing calls to resign for orchestrating a “public relations effort” to minimise the political damage of the Mueller report to President Donald Trump and providing misleading answers to Congress.
On Tuesday, local time, it was revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller had written to Barr objecting to the way he had summarised his report into Russian election interference in an initial four-page memo released to the public in March.
via ‘History will judge you harshly’: Trump’s Attorney-General faces calls to resign
By aligning himself with nationalist leaders who foster white supremacy, Netanyahu has abandoned world Jewry in a bid to bolster his own nationalist machinations.
via Netanyahu’s embrace of far-right leaders leaves Jews vulnerable to anti-Semitism | +972 Magazine
Penny Wong says Australia will send a powerful symbolic message to the region if she becomes the first Asian-Australian appointed foreign minister.
Conclusion: The False Victim Narrative
Senator Hanson is, in a supreme irony, attempting to play the victim in order to distract from the fundamental political incompetence that she displayed in selecting her candidates. The media exposing these clowns as unfit for office is not, contrary to your victim narrative, kicking you in the guts. This rant was clearly not thought through (like much else that she says) and is even wrong on simple facts.
Three more years of this? Senate voting changes now!
via Deconstructing Pauline Hanson’s ACA Interview – » The Australian Independent Media Network
In simple terms, the interaction rate is a calculation of how many likes and retweets you get compared with your number of tweets and followers.
Think of it as a proxy for how much people are vibing with your content.
And Mr Trump is going backwards — dropping from 0.27 per cent over the previous 12-month period.
So as the President racks up followers, he’s not necessarily gaining new supporters.
In all, Mr Trump comes 16th for interaction rate compared with all the declared Democrat candidates.
In a country like the United States that doesn’t have compulsory voting, one of the key challenges for a candidate is to get voters engaged and to the ballot box.
Mr Trump might enjoy having millions of followers, but that doesn’t mean much if they’re peppered across the world and made up of looky-loos and journalists on the POTUS beat.
If a rival politician with even a fraction of the followers can mobilise an engaged base on social media, it could build.
Mike Pence tweeted: “To (US convenient stooge) @jguaido, the National Assembly and all the freedom-loving people of Venezuela (sic) (involved in the latest Trump regime coup plot chapter): We are with you! America will stand with you until” fascist tyranny replaces Venezuelan social democracy — my truth-telling reality check correcting his Big Lies.
Pompeo tweeted the following: “Today interim president Juan Guaido (sic) announced start of Operacion Libertad (sic). The US Government fully supports the Venezuelan people in their quest for freedom and democracy (sic). Democracy cannot be defeated (sic).”
Not to be left out, John Bolton tweeted: “Venezuelans have made clear that the current path toward democracy is irreversible (sic). Venezuela’s military has a choice: embrace democracy (sic), protect civilians and members of the democratically-elected National Assembly (sic), or face more man-made suffering and isolation (sic).”
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza denounced the Trump regime’s latest coup plot chapter, especially remarks by Pompeo, saying he “makes a spectacle of diplomacy, by promoting and financing a violent coup in Venezuela. Washington’s obsession with controlling Venezuela’s oil wealth leads them to clumsiness.”
On Tuesday, over two dozen police blocked the entrance to Venezuela’s Washington embassy, intending to forcefully seize it and arrest defenders inside.
The assault on the embassy is happening on the same day as the Trump regime latest coup attempt efforts in Venezuela.
What’s going on in both countries reflects what the scourge of US imperial viciousness is all about.
via Venezuelan Chavistas v. US Coup Plotters – Stephen Lendman
Remember the biggest crowd of any presidency (ODT)
The White House incumbent has told a staggering 10,000 lies since taking office, some big, some trifling. Here’s a selection
via Lies, damned lies and Donald Trump: the pick of the president’s untruths | US news | The Guardian
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