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History Repeats: Lessons From Another Political Suicide Party – New Matilda

Sco Mos most embarrassing moment Boomgate Dutton’s tasteless joke and Abbott’s laughter (ODT)

In truth, the move by Dutton is more about ambition and payback on Turnbull than shoring up the conservative base, with polling consistently showing that the punters don’t hate Turnbull – they just hate the instability of the Liberal Party… i.e. they don’t like Tony Abbott, or his brand of wrecking politics.

Had Abbott had left politics gracefully, it’s entirely possible Turnbull could have enjoyed a Howard-esque like domination of Australian politics, such was his broad appeal when he first took the reigns.

Instead, Abbott stuck around and sniped, and wrecked, and plotted and schemed. And Peter Dutton is now poised to exact Abbott’s revenge, and pave the former PM’s way for a return to the front bench.

via History Repeats: Lessons From Another Political Suicide Party – New Matilda

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Liberal Party’s civil war isn’t over — it’s part of a global battle – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Its report, Freedom in the World 2015 — Discarding Democracy: the Return of the Iron Fist, found a resurgence of strongman autocratic leaders, an erosion of civil liberties and rule of law.

Freedom House concluded democracy was “under greater threat than at any point in the last 25 years”.

Since then, two more events have shaken global politics: Brexit and the Trump presidency.

As Goodhart puts it: “We are in a border war between nationalists, mainly on the right, and multicultural globalists mainly on the left.”

We are one of the shining lights in a pall of gloom. Compulsory voting is a critical factor in our favour; it inoculates us against some of the voter apathy or extremism of other countries.

Last year, the OECD economic survey of Australia found “inclusiveness has been eroded”. The earnings of the top households grew by more than 40 per cent between 2004 and 2014: the lowest by 25 per cent.

via Liberal Party’s civil war isn’t over — it’s part of a global battle – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

New Prime Minister Scott Morrison will bring no end to mad dance for Liberal Party

Above the most unintegrated Immigrant in Australia. How wrong he was!!

Bob Hawke and John Howard find themselves in agreement in recent years that one of the greatest blights of Australian politics is that the major parties are represented by career apparatchiks, people who enter politics at university and never leave it.

They end up in Parliament with no real-world experience. To them, the factional interest and the partisan interest overrides the public interest and the national interest. Turnbull this week called the irresistible pull of factional vendettas a kind of “madness”.

via New Prime Minister Scott Morrison will bring no end to mad dance for Liberal Party

Inside the disastrous attempt to install Peter Dutton as prime minister

In toppling Turnbull, the architects of the coup finished a project that began when Tony Abbott was deposed almost three years ago: to drag the party back to the right at any cost. But they nearly didn’t get their chance.

via Inside the disastrous attempt to install Peter Dutton as prime minister

Don ‘The Con’ Trump Say Flipping Should Be ‘Almost Illegal’ | Crooks and Liars

When truth is just relative in the game of personal interest justice irigged against the elite according to Trump. “It’s not a fair thing” in Trumpland (ODT)

Donald Trump doesn’t like flippers, you know, people who cooperate with law enforcement to uncover crimes.

“It’s called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal … they go from 10 years to they’re a national hero. They have a statue erected in their honor. It’s not a fair thing.”

via Don ‘The Con’ Trump Say Flipping Should Be ‘Almost Illegal’ | Crooks and Liars

Trump says ‘flipping’ in criminal cases should be illegal and warns against impeachment | US news | The Guardian

Trump is the perfect model of truth in Capitalism. The media and executive alliance is the business model.(ODT)

Trump commented on his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleading guilty in federal court, and warned that impeaching him would cause an economic cras

via Trump says ‘flipping’ in criminal cases should be illegal and warns against impeachment | US news | The Guardian

Fossil Fuel Industry Evokes Fury for Seeking Taxpayer Funds for Protection Against Climate Crisis It Created

An oil refinery is seen before the arrival of Hurricane Harvey on August 25, 2017 in Corpus Christi, Texas. As Hurricane Harvey comes ashore many of the countries oil refineries are in its path and have had to shut down. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The me before we in the crazy Capitalist structure.  Free market  unregulated competition forces me to oversupply, cause a major problem that then we have to pay and fix. Ergo I can’t lose in that never ending denier’s cycle.(ODT)

“Big Oil is asking tax payers to pay for protecting their refineries from sea level rise that they caused by keeping us addicted to oil? Yeah…no.”
by
Jon Queally, staff writer

via Fossil Fuel Industry Evokes Fury for Seeking Taxpayer Funds for Protection Against Climate Crisis It Created

Liberal Party Chooses Scott Morrison To Lose Next Election – The Shovel

via Liberal Party Chooses Scott Morrison To Lose Next Election – The Shovel

The breaking of Australian politics: why and how we got here

The BBC has long called Australia “the coup capital of the democratic world”.

Short-termism and political expediency is trumping long-term policy development in the interest of the country.

“… it is especially dismaying when science-denying hacks and self-serving industries block action that is in the obvious and urgent interest of all humanity. That should not be happening in Australia,” the Times’ editorial board tartly opined.

“Fundamentally the rise of right-wing populism is because of the rampant wealth and income inequality and the right exploiting race and gender politics to camouflage their wealth-concentration agenda,” he says.

“They use the politics of division to override their trickle-down agenda.”

via The breaking of Australian politics: why and how we got here

A new direction: The truth about the economy they don’t want you to know

Buried truth leaves a party throwing dead moggies on the table, Immigration, Climate Change, Gender etc.(ODT)

But maybe not. Back then, 5.3% ranked equal sixth lowest out of the 35 wealthy member countries of the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). In November 2012, Germany and Australia both had 5.3% of their workforce unemployed. Only South Korea, Switzerland, Norway, Japan and Mexico had lower jobless rates.

Today, four years into the strongest global boom in trade, jobs and profits in decades, 5.3% ranks 18th. That is in the bottom half of the table. Thirteen countries now have their jobless rate below 4.0%.

If Australia still ranked sixth in the OECD, its rate would be 3.5% and another 243,000 Australians would be off welfare and earning a salary

via A new direction: The truth about the economy they don’t want you to know

How the right-wing media have given a megaphone to reactionary forces in the Liberal Party

Media,Business,and Recruitment to the Dark Side is normal Murdochian practice in Toryland,Trumpland and OZ. Logic and economy of scale in the Capitalist Angloshere demands it (ODT)

On Channel Nine’s Today show, the network’s political editor Chris Uhlmann accused elements of the media of “waging a war against the prime minister of Australia”.

For this, he singled out the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation newspapers such as The Australian and The Daily Telegraph, the Murdoch-owned pay TV channel Sky News, and the Fairfax-owned Sydney radio station 2GB.

via How the right-wing media have given a megaphone to reactionary forces in the Liberal Party

Australia, you asked for it – » The Australian Independent Media Network

When Abbott went into the mode that I recognised so well from our uni days – the personal attacks, the bullying, the need for an audience, the misogyny, the homophobia – I got worried and figured I needed to do my bit to show the real Abbott because it seemed others couldn’t see it.

But it wasn’t Abbott I should have been focusing on. The Labor Party imploded and handed this inadequate man the reins of the country.

via Australia, you asked for it – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Liberal Party is teetering on the brink of extinction

Economic beliefs abandoned dog whistling is all that’s left (ODT)

Although it is tempting to focus on the personalities, the betrayals and the poisonous personal feuds, there is much more at stake amid the current chaos within the federal Coalition. The government of the nation is paralysed. And the Liberal Party is teetering on the brink of permanent schism or even extinction.

Dog-whistling on race and gender can trump economic self-interest when living standards are rising. Despite their shrill squealing about “identity” politics, that is all that is left to conservatives like Dutton and their base. Their economic model is discredited. They no longer even believe in themselves. The game is up. Maybe even the party is over.

via The Liberal Party is teetering on the brink of extinction

By Double-Digit Margin, Poll Shows Sanders Mopping the Floor With Trump in Latest 2020 Matchup

Trump trails Dems

Polling results released Wednesday by Politico/Morning Consult show that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is widely speculated to make another run for the Oval Office in 2020, would beat President Donald Trump by double digits.

In a face-off between Sanders and Trump, the senator garnered a 12-point lead, with 44 percent of respondents favoring Sanders, 32 percent who said they would vote to re-elect the president, and 24 percent who didn’t know or had no opinion.

via By Double-Digit Margin, Poll Shows Sanders Mopping the Floor With Trump in Latest 2020 Matchup

Fox News host: People who earn the minimum wage “don’t plan on raising a family” so we should keep it low

The minimum wage is the low — it’s a low temporary rung, you’re not supposed to hang out there. And that — and especially at restaurants. The big problem with restaurants is turnover, because everybody in New York is an actor or an actress so they — they’re just working on tips anyway, so you don’t need the high minimum wage there, and they don’t plan on raising a family.

via Fox News host: People who earn the minimum wage “don’t plan on raising a family” so we should keep it low

Woolworths (ASX: WOW) workers claim alleged $1 billion in underpayments

A Woolworths worker has applied to terminate a national agreement on wages and conditions and claim back an alleged $1 billion in underpayments for up to 100,000 employees.

via Woolworths (ASX: WOW) workers claim alleged $1 billion in underpayments

Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor – BBC News

Santa Fe, Mexico City.

via Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor – BBC News

A Handy Guide To Understanding Peter Dutton’s Body Language – The Shovel

A Handy Guide To Understanding Peter Dutton’s Body Language – The Shovel

Wet Cardboard Box Announces It Will Run As Third, More Charismatic Consensus Candidate – The Shovel

Wet Cardboard Box Announces It Will Run As Third, More Charismatic Consensus Candidate – The Shovel

We all know Rupert Murdoch runs the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We all know Rupert Murdoch runs the Liberal Party. Can we all agree it is time he stopped running the country too?

No matter who wins the ultimate cage fight victory, we all know who the real leader of the Liberal Party is. Whether Turnbull prevails to limp wet-lettuce-leaf-like to defeat at the next election, whether ScoMo blusters and lectures his way into high office, or whether the potato-man leaps triumphant from the boiling pot without being skinned, we know none of them hold any authority. No, the real leader all along is Rupert Murdoch. Always was.

via We all know Rupert Murdoch runs the Liberal Party – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Turnbull demolition and the Murdoch coincidence

Just over a week ago, on Friday 10 August, U.S. media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s private jet touched down in Sydney and unloaded him back in the land whose citizenship he’d spurned years before for reasons of rank ambition and untrammelled greed.

Rupert Murdoch owns a very big business — News Corp, which produces 60 per cent of the newspapers in Australia by circulation and operates the only cable network. He would have also seen Turnbull emerge from the Party room last Tuesday, overjoyed his caucus had endorsed his centrepiece energy policy, the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). Much of the media declared this a triumph for the (current) Prime Minister. Murdoch probably wouldn’t have agreed, being not only a climate change denier, but also an oil-man.

via The Turnbull demolition and the Murdoch coincidence

Australians ‘crying out for election’ after leadership turmoil: Turnbull

The Coalition faces the prospect of fighting a snap election with a severely depleted bank account and a raft of seats still without a Liberal candidate, compared to a cashed-up and energised Australian Labor Party.

A besieged Malcolm Turnbull said Australian voters “will be crying out for an election” following tumult over the prime ministership.

via Australians ‘crying out for election’ after leadership turmoil: Turnbull

‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies — RT Op-ed

‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies

As a young man I remember back in 1964 the American government announcing that one of their battleships has been attacked by North Vietnam and this led to their mass bombing and full-scale war leading to the deaths of over three and a half million people. Twenty years later the truth came out that there had never been an attack on that American ship.

The earliest lie I remember was when I was just eleven years old and Britain and France announced they were invading Egypt to stop the war between Egypt and Israel. All the politicians behind that lie were dead long before the truth emerged that Britain and France had asked Israel to invade Egypt so that this would give Britain and France the chance to overthrow Nasser’s Egyptian government and take back control of the Suez Canal.

Always be careful about what you believe.

via ‘Be careful about what you believe’ – Ken Livingstone on US, UK media bias & lies — RT Op-ed

Dramatic day for the Trump presidency as Cohen and Manafort both guilty

IN TRUMPLAND TODAY

When will Trump show his Tax Returns?

In one of the most dramatic days of the Trump presidency, the President’s former campaign chief was found guilty of eight charges including bank fraud and filing false tax returns while, in a separate case, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer pleaded guilty to eight charges including breaking campaign finance rules.

However, on Tuesday Senate leader Mitch McConnell said there was an unlikely to be a vote any time soon on legislation imposing heavy sanctions on Russia if it were found interfering in November’s congressional elections.

via Dramatic day for the Trump presidency as Cohen and Manafort both guilty

Donald Trump: ‘worst hour’ for president as Manafort and Cohen guilty | US news | The Guardian

‘These are witch hunts and it’s a disgrace,’ Trump told reporters in Charleston on Tuesday night.

Donald Trump has suffered a huge double blow after one of his former associates pleaded guilty and another was convicted of financial crimes, potentially leaving the president himself in legal jeopardy.

Michael Cohen, his longtime lawyer and “fixer”, pleaded guilty to eight charges including campaign finance violations and directly implicated Trump in paying “hush money” to women with whom he allegedly had affairs.

Just minutes earlier, Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on eight charges of bank and tax fraud. The dual courtroom dramas set up a moment of rare peril for the president.

Donald Trump: ‘worst hour’ for president as Manafort and Cohen guilty | US news | The Guardian

Michael Cohen Says Trump Ordered Him To Illegally Interfere In Election | HuffPost

Michael Cohen used to be intensely loyal to President Donald Trump.

via Michael Cohen Says Trump Ordered Him To Illegally Interfere In Election | HuffPost

Labor now does politics better than the Liberals – here’s why

via Labor now does politics better than the Liberals – here’s why

Dutton: “I Have What It Takes To One Day Get Dumped As PM” – The Shovel

via Dutton: “I Have What It Takes To One Day Get Dumped As PM” – The Shovel

#LibSpill, NEG or NBN? It’s not poor MALsplaining Malcolm Turnbull’s fault

The Malsplaining has to stop!

Some of the dire problems we are currently facing include:

vast swathes of the nation suffering extreme drought conditions;
growing homelessness;
rampant domestic violence;
people literally starving on welfare — when they are not being punished by this Coalition Government;
the Great Barrier Reef in trouble;
increasing youth unemployment;
kids in danger and dying in offshore camps; and
a gap that is not closing, it is getting worse.

The list goes on. How are these things addressed? They aren’t! None of this is being addressed — none of it!

So Turnbull rolled the dice with a spill, being half-smart as he normally is. Funny thing is he only won by seven votes (48-35). Dutton didn’t have time to prepare and still got 35 votes? That will have emboldened Turnbull’s enemies, so my money is on three more weeks of turmoil before we see #LibSpill2 — at the most.

As the saying goes, piss or get off the pot!

Call an election now!

via #LibSpill, NEG or NBN? It’s not poor MALsplaining Malcolm Turnbull’s fault

The Turnbull Government is all but finished, and the Liberals now need to work out who they are – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Malcolm Turnbull as portrayed by Kirsten Button in Friends And Romans (Rainbow Flavour), .

Early expectations among some that he would use his ascension to drag the federal Coalition towards the centre and some sort of meaningful relationship with the contemporary world gradually expired. Moderate swinging voters became disillusioned.

Mr Abbott’s vengeful policy terrorism and Liberal frontbencher Peter Dutton’s prime ministerial ambitions, meanwhile, dragged internal Liberal party politics further and further to the extreme.

In choosing to remain hostage to this right-wing lunge in conservative politics in Australia, rather than standing and fighting to move it back to the mainstream, Mr Turnbull erased his moderate face, destroying his only utility — electoral utility — to the Liberals. He wrecked his prime ministership in the process.

via The Turnbull Government is all but finished, and the Liberals now need to work out who they are – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Malcolm Turnbull is at the mercy of a small, ruthless rump determined to destroy him – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Implicit in much of the agitation of the past week is the idea that the conservative base has abandoned the Coalition for One Nation and must be won back by a shift to the right.

That has ominous overtones of Trumpian politics and more race-baiting.

Others, like Mr Joyce, argue it is as simple as making clear you understand the financial pain people are feeling on soaring energy prices.

Pollsters say a reading that Longman suggests the Coalition should move to the right would be completely wrong.

They say the potency of the company tax debate reflects the fact that, if anything, the push should be to the left: people are concerned about equity and getting a greater share of the pie.

Finally, there is the issue of personalities. Tony Abbott’s campaign against Malcolm Turnbull is relentless and this has meant it has kept shifting and morphing every time his apparent demands have been met.

So what happens next?

Malcolm Turnbull is at the mercy of a small, ruthless rump determined to destroy him – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Leadership twist as report claims Peter Dutton could be ineligible to sit in Parliament

Dutton is a reliable buffoon always guaranteed to trip up (ODT)

Network 10 on Monday night reported Mr Dutton could be in breach of the constitution, which rules ineligible anyone who “has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth”.

Mr Dutton’s register of financial interests shows he is a beneficiary of the RHT Family Trust, alongside his wife. The trust owns his wife’s company, RHT Investments, which runs two childcare centres in Brisbane: Bald Hills and Camelia Avenue.

Since July 2, the centres have been receiving direct financial subsidies from the Commonwealth government, according to the Network 10 report. The trust of which Mr Dutton is a beneficiary profits from the childcare centres, giving rise to a potential breach of section 44.

via Leadership twist as report claims Peter Dutton could be ineligible to sit in Parliament

Coalition MP calls for ‘wrecker’ Abbott to quit as Turnbull prepares to address party room

 

Coalition MP calls for ‘wrecker’ Abbott to quit as Turnbull prepares to address party room

 

Tony Abbott is shirtfronted by his own side, with Nationals backbencher and former AFL player Damien Drum taking the former prime minister on, as leadership tensions build in the Government

Key points:

  • Mr Turnbull will today address the Coalition party room to try again to win over Mr Abbott’s so-called “coalsheviks”
  • Internal divisions over energy have become a proxy for leadership tensions in the Government
  • Supporters of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said he commands at least 30 votes for the Liberal leadership, within striking distance of the required 43

 

Malcolm Turnbull should put his authority on the line over NEG – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Image result for Cartoon Tony Abbott

 Some sources do say there is leadership stirring going on in Liberal ranks. (Certainly, News Corp appears to be helping fuel the situation — it’s a nice irony that a lot of trouble is coming from the Government’s favourite media organisation, not the one it so dislikes, the ABC.)

Are they going to allow a toxic combination of revenge politics, anti-climate change ideology, panic over the Longman result, and sheer muddle-headedness kill the chance of giving certainty to energy investment and tear down or mortally wound their Prime Minister?

Tony Abbott says “Emissions targets that made sense three years ago when all countries were supposed to be in Paris and we didn’t need policy change and wouldn’t face economic dislocation do not make sense now. @TurnbullMalcolm take note.

Sureley this in itself reveals that all Abbott is doing is stirring the pot of personal political revenge. Here he’s calling for flexibility in the National Interest which would best be by regulation. Any change by Legislation would lock Australia in to a far more rigid position.The man’s simply out to destrot the LNP and if he wins this it will be for a very long time.(ODT)

 

via Malcolm Turnbull should put his authority on the line over NEG – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

What’s More Likely? (A Post Concerning Unicorns, Shark Attacks And Peter Dutton’s Leadership) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Peter Dutton was once Shadow Health Minister. He distinguished himself by not asking any questions on Health Policy during Question Time, so it’s clear that a portfolio where he says nothing suits him. Once he became actual Health Minister, he started saying things. While Greg Hunt won an award as “Best Minister in The World”, there was no actual award for the worst. If there was, Dutton would have won convincingly. as he was considered the Worst Health Minister ever, by the medical profession, the media, his own party and just about everybody except for the Peter Dutton fan club, which at the time, had a membership of one.

So, I leave you with the question. What’s more likely? Will the Liberals stick with Malcolm Turnbull because to change leaders again makes them look inept? Or will they all get behind someone with a terrible track record and ensure a wipeout at the next election simply because the NEG doesn’t have a section specifically demanding that we all install a coal-fired power station in our living room?

Mm, might be time to buy that unicorn insurance…

via What’s More Likely? (A Post Concerning Unicorns, Shark Attacks And Peter Dutton’s Leadership) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Indian Scientist Make 6.3M Liters of Drinking Water a Day From Sea Water | MRCTV

Indian Scientist Make 6.3M Liters of Drinking Water a Day From Sea Water | MRCTV

Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

And with that in mind, almost 17 years later, don’t think that victory is out of the question either. Every day that the U.S. military stays in Afghanistan is indeed a victory for… well, not George W. Bush, or Barack Obama, and certainly not Donald Trump, but the now long-dead Osama bin Laden. The calculation couldn’t be simpler. Thanks to his “precision” weaponry — those 19 suicidal hijackers in commercial jets — the nearly 17 years of wars he’s sparked across much of the Muslim world cost a man from one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families a mere $400,000 to $500,000. They’ve cost American taxpayers, minimally, $5.6 trillion dollars with no end in sight. And every day the Afghan War and the others that have followed from it continue is but another triumphant day for him and his followers.

via Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century

A showdown is looming between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull

Obviously Andrew Bolt hasn’t the inside rail when it comes to what’s going on in politics. While he flounders with “unnamed conservatives” and “rumours” the Fairfax papers don’t and aren’t afraid to name those men Bolt prefers to keep hidden (ODT)

Abbott still suffers from the wounds inflicted on him when Malcolm Turnbull toppled him as prime minister in September 2015, which means the pain from the past shapes the Liberal Party’s looming decision over its future.

via A showdown is looming between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull

‘No way to run a government’: Abbott slams Turnbull’s revised energy plan

Abbott hasn’t changed. Since when is flexibility and the ability to change according to the circumstances not in the  National Interest? Since when is blind winning at all costs not the tyrannical mind of a rabid self absorbed zealot, a sociopath? Wars don’t end with annhilation but compromise. Not with destruction but elected solutions in which Abbott hasn’t any interest, thats obvious. Winning at all cost is a game not a service to others. Politics isn’t a game it’s a duty of service and Abbott seems to have lost that. I suspect he never had it. He’d rather take the country over a cliff than give an inch.Australia seems to be his personal Jones Town, Waco Texas and the Liberal Party cult central that needs a hiding to hell from Abbott. He’s back to being a climate denier not because he believes it’s a solution to a greater problem but it’s the only imagined KO punch he has for turnbull Turnbull,stuff the country. Let’s ride to hell in a hand basket. The man a sociopath a crazed pittbull.  ASPD diagnosis is only given when symptoms happen for an extended period and don’t change because of punishment or lifestyle changes. Someone who’s selfish may show these behaviors for a short while, but feel bad about them or change their behavior over time or because of punishment. ” Abbott’s never changed.(ODT)

“Let Labor be the people who rabbit on about emissions and renewable power and saving the planet,” he said.

“I say no, no, no. Let’s create a real contest, not a false consensus. Let’s fight the Labor Party on this – it’s the only way to win the election,” Mr Abbott said.

‘No way to run a government’: Abbott slams Turnbull’s revised energy plan

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Australia is still the 51st state of the USA – time for Australian independence from all big powers.

Time we the working people took control of our country, our resources, our wealth, our public utilities and our foreign policies out of the hands of multinational corporations.

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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker’s wage, figures show | Business | The Guardian

Astronomical gap between the pay of workers and bosses exposed in report on earnings of America’s top 350 CEOs

The Maoist Revolution in China was inspired by tesesorts of numbers. (ODT)

US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker’s wage, figures show | Business | The Guardian

Antifa clashes debate: Same as ‘Batman using violence to prevent greater violence’? (VIDEO) — RT US News

Antifa clashes debate: Same as ‘Batman using violence to prevent greater violence’? (VIDEO)

 

Following CNN host Chris Cuomo’s controversial statement that “all punches are not equal,” which prompted accusations that he supports Antifa violence, RT has hosted a debate on whether brute force is sometimes justified.

Antifa clashes debate: Same as ‘Batman using violence to prevent greater violence’? (VIDEO) — RT US News

The Trump Administration Is Seeking To Restart Thousands Of Closed Deportation Cases

“For the over 355,000 immigrants whose cases have been administratively closed, this is frightening.”

via The Trump Administration Is Seeking To Restart Thousands Of Closed Deportation Cases

Trump lashes out against US news outlets defending press freedom | US news | The Guardian

Donald Trump has lashed out against hundreds of US newspapers that published editorials on Thursday defending press freedom and denouncing his constant attacks on the media.

Tweeting in all capitals, the president wrote: “THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country.” He added: “BUT WE ARE WINNING!”
More than 350 newspapers across America, large and small, responded to Trump’s relentless attacks on much of the mainstream media as “fake news” and the “enemy of the people”.

The US Senate unanimously adopted a resolution on Thursday affirming support for a free press and declaring that “the press is not the enemy of the people”.

The non-binding resolution approved by voice vote was a rebuke to Trump who for more than 18 months has frequently called reporters “the enemy of the people”.

via Trump lashes out against US news outlets defending press freedom | US news | The Guardian

How to get away with fraud: the successful techniques of scamming

this year, Australians have reported losing more than AU$76 million to all types of fraud, with phishing scams being the most prevalent. Given fraud has one of the lowest reporting rates, this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

Too often, we focus our attention on the culpability of victims in these situations. But it’s the offenders and their actions we should be focusing on. How exactly do fraudsters get victims to do such outlandish things?

via How to get away with fraud: the successful techniques of scamming

Politicians Relieved: Anning’s ‘Final Solution’ Distracts Public From Canberra’s Lack of Actual Solutions – The Shovel

via Politicians Relieved: Anning’s ‘Final Solution’ Distracts Public From Canberra’s Lack of Actual Solutions – The Shovel

CBA still in denial as fraudsters sentenced to a decade in jail

The Commonwealth Bank has spent seven years denying and covering up the role of its staff in a $76 million loan fraud that has left unwitting customers homeless.

via CBA still in denial as fraudsters sentenced to a decade in jail

Turnbull may be standing in front of the orchestra pit but Abbott composed the cacophony they are playing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Tony Abbott is being widely dismissed in the media as having little influence in the Liberal Party today but I beg to differ.

Abbott is, in fact, very much the architect of today’s Liberal Party strategy.

Malcolm had a go at telling us there was never a more exciting time to be us and that innovation would solve all our problems.

But he failed dismally to excite the nation. Talk of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and innovation hubs meant nothing to an electorate struggling to get by with stagnant wages, insecure employment and inadequate welfare.

So Malcolm ripped up the science playbook and adopted the well-honed Abbott strategy of going for character assassination instead, with a fishing expedition hoping to find some mud that would stick.

via Turnbull may be standing in front of the orchestra pit but Abbott composed the cacophony they are playing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Josh Frydenberg and Ed Husic: Inside the Labor and Liberal MPs’ unlikely friendship

Liberal cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg and Labor rising star Ed Husic have long had each other’s backs.

When Husic was criticised for swearing his oath of office on the Koran, Frydenberg went on radio to defend him. A few years later, it was Husic’s turn. When others in his party suggested Frydenberg had questions to answer regarding his citizenship, Husic – publicly – told them to pull their heads in.

Both men know a bit about not fitting in.

via Josh Frydenberg and Ed Husic: Inside the Labor and Liberal MPs’ unlikely friendship

Beware of rabid zealots – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Let’s remind ourselves of the meaning of ‘zealot’. Historically, it denoted a member of a fanatical sect in Judea during the first century AD that militantly opposed the Roman domination of Palestine. Today it describes a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals.

We still have zealots in our midst. This piece exemplifies two instances of zealotry: the zealots that deny the reality of anthropogenic global warming, and those that cling tenaciously to trickle down economics.

via Beware of rabid zealots – » The Australian Independent Media Network