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Simply call them Fake
“UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem. It also perpetuates the narrative of the right of return, as it were, in order to eliminate the State of Israel; therefore, UNRWA needs to pass from the world,” Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting.
The Israeli prime minister urged that UNRWA support funds be gradually shifted to UNHCR – the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “This is how to rid the world of UNRWA and deal with genuine refugee problems, to the extent that such remain,” Netanyahu added, calling most Palestinian refugees “fictitious refugees.”
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a more Machiavellian explanation: clearing the path for the 100 per cent takeover of Britain’s Sky, given that the major sticking point has been the Murdochs’ character and fitness.
“So could this ‘Mickey Mouse’ merger simply be a feint in order to ease the Sky bid approval process?” Mangan says.
Advertisement“Once the Sky bid is approved might some problem appear derailing the likely 18-month process that is the ‘Mickey + Homer’ show? Sure, it will cost him. The break fee Rupe (actually his shareholders), will owe Mickey Mouse is $US1.5bn. But if it secures him 100 per cent of Sky, that price might just be worth paying.
Australia’s fixed broadband is below Kazakhstan on a global ranking of internet speeds, with performance continuing to be below the global average.
The Ookla Speed Test Global Index ranked Australia as 55th in the world for fixed broadband in December, with an average download speed of 25.88 Mbps.
More BS from the LNP declaring 25mbs “is all Australian’s ever wanted for the Money” 2018 sees the LNP lying on the NBN, Housing, Climate, and Youth Crime. (Old Dog)
To back his claim accusing Trump of high misdemeanors, Green cited incidents such as Trump’s blaming both sides for violence at a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and his sharing of hateful, anti-Muslim videos posted online by a fringe British extremist group.
Ever since the Cronulla riots, the conservatives in the Liberal Party have insisted on using and targeting ethnic minorities for political purposes. The Muslim Lebanese in Sydney and then the most obvious black Africans in Melbourne. Andrew Bolt proved just how confused these conservatives were. Totally confused they were calling Islanders Africans Christians Muslims all for the purpose of a political narrative a reality and pattern that didn’t exist. Facts ignored by MSM are being fed to a misinformed public as if they were a trend rather than a series of individual events and are being treated as if teenagers, kids as young as 13 and 14 are reigniting the gangs that walked the streets during the infamous drug wars in Melbourne. We have always had youth crime but it wasn’t always reported. We have always had kids running amok and it existed not just among migrants or the working class. Wake up Australia our Politicians and media are running a con and it’s a highly racist one all for the purpose of diminishing and manipulating our democracy. Fearmongering of the Howard and Abbott kind is not new to the city the world regards as the most livable. How is it we have to suffer the pall of neo-conservative extreme right wing politicians and a lazy MSM media that gives them voice (Old Dog Thought)“While law and order have been a longstanding problem for the Andrews Government, the majority of perpetrators are Australian adults, and the overall rate of youth crime has been gradually declining over the past decade.”
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“Peter Dutton has blasted the Victorian Labor government over African street crime, claiming residents of Australia’s second-largest city were scared to go out to restaurants at night.” The Age
Dutton is a perfect example of why we ought to be ashamed of our government. Democracy is diminished when Australia’s media play to and deliver this degree of misinformation by a leading Cabinet MP. Dutton an ex cop from Qld is basically calling Victorian police the Premier’s marionettes. In fact he’s calling all of Victoria’s educated experts on crime liars.
Dutton should refer to their Royal Commission on Youth Justice and the Australian ABS before opening their mouths and delivering BS and false facts. Potato Head Dutton ex Sargent it seems is ignorant about his own states crime stats when discussing Melbourne. It is shameful and represents the quality of the man who was once a cop and is now in charge of Homeland Security. He didn’t know what was going on during b\”Boomgate” and seems to know even less now.
From ABS the Australian Beareau of Statistics shows Victoria’s criminal offenders decreased by 3,442 less than Qld’s Mr Dutton going down in numbers. While Dutton’s LNP cut funding to the state by $75 mill.
OFFENDER NUMBERS INCREASED IN ALMOST ALL STATES AND TERRITORIES
- Victoria was the only state or territory in which the number of offenders decreased between 2014–15 and 2015–16, with a decrease of 3,163 offenders (or 4%).
- Over the same period the number of offenders increased in:
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- New South Wales (by 3,905 offenders or 3%)
- South Australia (by 2,254 offenders or 5%)
- Western Australia (by 1,322 or 3%)
- Northern Territory (by 279 offenders or 2%)
- Queensland (by 245 offenders or 0.2%)
- Australian Capital Territory (by 125 offenders or 5%)
- Tasmania (by 49 offenders or 0.5%)
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Victorians scared to go to restaurants at night because of street gang violence: Peter Dutton
Bolt successfully mobilizes and enables anti-Muslim and racist extremists. His far-right media, and fake news sites are coordinated campaigns to promote misinformation. Their motivation may stem from an ideological agenda, the desire to create chaos, And though his misinformation is usually later debunked, the truth generally fails to travel as far or penetrate as deep as his original story, allowing a steady drumbeat of misinformation to continue.
Andrew Bolt’s approach to penetration of mass media is rape of the psyche, the promotion and enablement of hate
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![Qatar will buy 72 F-15s from the United States in a deal worth $12bn [File: Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/12/23/829d18fb6a044dfca0e311888c353e9c_18.jpg "Pentagon: Boeing wins $6.2bn contract for Qatar's F-15")
Pentagon: Boeing wins $6.2bn contract for Qatar’s F-15 | Qatar News | Al Jazeera
World’s largest arms exporters
| 2012–2016 Rank |
Supplier | Arms Exp |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States |
47,169 |
| 2 |  Russia |
33,186 |
| 3 |  China |
9,132 |
| 4 |  France |
8,564 |
| 5 |  Germany |
7,946 |
| 6 |  United Kingdom |
6,586 |
| 7 |  Spain |
3,958 |
| 8 |  Italy |
3,823 |
| 9 |  Ukraine |
3,677 |
| 10 |  Israel |
3,233 |
Also on Turnbull’s wish-list is the departure of Tony Abbott. While there is no material sign of this happening, there was a sense at year’s end, after his emphatic same-sex reversal – at the hands of the Australian people – and another reshuffle in which he was not even discussed, that his era had truly passed.
via Tony Abbott to quit in 2018, and other Malcolm Turnbull dreams
Netanyahu and Liberman are already preparing a law that will sentence to death any Palestinian who dares to resist.
Army arrests Palestinian teen for hurting soldiers’ masculinity | +972 Magazine
And
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Free market principles over regulated process ?
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But how much tax revenue is bleeding? The answer is, almost exactly the same quantum as the $30-40 billion annual deficit.
via Austerity, deficits and the tax the Coalition won’t collect
The secret wages deal comes after a 12-month Fairfax Media investigation revealed how big employers and the SDA struck deals that left more than 250,000 workers paid less than the award – the wages safety net.
“It really does require a sentence to be imposed that will provide adequate deterrence to ensure that investors, who these days often are retired people who have no other means of earning a livelihood except for their investments … are adequately protected,” McLennan told a gobsmacked court.
Sam Dastyari’s case has given Australia the opportunity to take this essential step in stopping corruption and restoring public trust in democracy. Now Turnbull has to seize the opportunity. Sam’s shame can be Australia’s gain.
the bandwagon of economic growth. That bandwagon desperately depends on an ever increasing population. As long as that dependency is there, it will be very hard for governments and the corporate sector to change course Is the World Full Yet?
Andrew Bolt and the Herald Sun portrayed the UPF at Milo Show as the violent Left and News Corp didn’t mention that they were in fact Erickson’s Right who’d come to do battle to promote Milo. Who funded the United Patriot Front it’s not Toll
‘Damaging it’s brand’: Freight company gets court order against far-right activist
Privelage is hard to justify on a one on one basis and so many societies utilize ethic and religious pretexts in order to establish a social structure of hierarchy. This template establishes an easy to identify division between those of the privileged class and those excluded from these benefits.
The US was a country originally established by bigots, and religious fanatics who had no ethical problem with committing genocide on the native population or capturing black African natives and enalaving them under the direct threat of force. This core of political savagery remains central to the power structure underlying this country, a country largely still dominated by white, Christian men but also the nations of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The Sunni, the Judaic and the Christian preferences are completed by the corresponding Arabic, Jewish and White European ethnic match that forms the core of the power structure in those places. This means that the bigoted organization of these societies is best represented by their most anti-enlightenment ideals of Wahhabism, Zionism and White Supremacy.
The nationwide outrage that Brown’s case inspired played a part in a change in Tennessee law in 2011. Now, anyone under the age of 18 cannot be charged for prostitution; rather, they are seen as too young to consent to sex. Some Tennessee activists are trying to change state laws so that juveniles can no longer be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Brown remains in prison, where she has been called a “model prisoner” and is pursuing higher education.
Ken Clarke has suggested that David Cameron did “some sort of deal” to win the support of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers in the run-up to the 2010 election. According to Clarke, in his evidence to the Competition and Markets Authority, when – at Cameron’s instigation – he held a meeting as justice secretary with Rebekah Brooks, she “described herself as running the government now in partnership with David Cameron”.
\Exit polls in the state’s south-east found up to 70% of respondents were against the billion-dollar rail line loan for Adani
“This is very unhealthy for our democracy. It’s not right, it doesn’t look right, it doesn’t smell right. This is very, very unusual and concerning conduct,” Mr Shorten said.
Mr Joyce – who is fighting a byelection after being booted from Parliament for holding dual citizenship – said on Tuesday night that “all I’m thinking about now is the things I’m going to do on my own farm” with the money.
When handed the novelty oversized cheque, he exclaimed: “Hooley dooley! Rightio.”
Barnaby Joyce scrambles to hand back $40,000 prize awarded by Gina Rinehart
The focus on multiculturalism and identity politics is anti-politics. It is accompanied by sterile reforms—such as more professionalized policing—that never challenges the underlying structures of corporate power, which has turned the workers of deindustrialized communities into surplus or redundant labor. We no longer seek to eradicate poverty; instead we applaud ourselves for not stigmatizing the poor.
With a 79.5 per cent participation rate and a 61.6 per cent “yes” verdict, the survey was a blunt rejection of Tony Abbott and his religious confreres. And crucially, it came via a direct public buy-in they had demanded.
‘He is now irrelevant’: Does Tony Abbott’s defeat on marriage mark his final decline in Canberra?
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