When faced with the choice of being ” progressive ” or an economic squeeze even the most liberal corporations like Vogue turn to the Murdoch model of business when it comes to Palestine. Money is more important than morals ethics or shame.
Like Gigi Hadid, my dad is a Palestinian refugee, and I’ve been harassed for suggesting Palestinians deserve human rights
Peter Dutton handed over $82 million of taxpayer’s money to another dodgy company and his alleged cokehead friend made money selling cars to the same company
There is a major error in describing Putin’s “Extreme Patriotism of the State” the term Patriotism generally refers to the ” Love of People” for whom Putin has and shows no regard. Extreme Russian Nationalism more accurately describes Putin’s obsession with the State which controls it’s people. Even that when closely examined he’s bent, twisted, warped to his blinkered KGB and steroid full view of Russian and Soviet empire.
VLADIMIR PUTIN in recent years has drawn strong comparisons to ex-Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin. But what are the parallels between the two?
Source: Putin’s stark similarities to Stalin: 5 key connections explained | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
Australia may not be entering the war in Eastern Europe, but it’s clearer than ever that we are facing our own deadly battle here at home, with lives and livelihoods at stake. What a shame that the culture warriors have decided to use a week positively bursting with examples of why we need to do more on climate to claim that we need to do less.
Given Australia’s L-NP is little more than a carbon copy of GOP policies Putanism is also breeding in their heart. Surveillance of Australians has never been greater than the degree to which it has under Peter Dutton and he wants it increased. He wants politician’s parliamentary privilege extended beyond Parliament to be able to defend and sue defamation cases at will and taxpayers’ expense.
The L-NP wants criticism stifled by putting restrictions in place on social media for individuals, disallowing the ABC and Independent media a source of income but ensuring the corporate MSM has theirs. Basically guaranteeing their quid pro quo relationship is in tact and will continue. Lets face it, Murdoch is currently Putin, the GOP’s and the Australian Liberal Party’s biggest supporter and Murdoch is Putin’s in the West. Fox News is even being dubbed and replayed on Russian State Media.
Make no mistake: Putin’s authoritarian neo-fascism has rooted itself in America. It may be possible to prevent Putin’s aggression from spreading to the rest of Europe. But it is not possible to win a cold civil war inside America without destroying the United States – another of Putin’s objectives when he ordered his spy agencies to help Trump.
Source: Putinism is breeding in the heart of the Republican party | Robert Reich | The Guardian
Peter Dutton runs a Go Fund Me Campaign for flood victims in order to try to save the Government. That’s standard for an IQ like his.
Climatic trends, extreme conditions and sea level rise are already hitting many of Australia’s ecosystems, industries and cities hard. As climate change intensifies, we are now seeing cascading and compounding impacts and risks, including where extreme events coincide. These are placing even greater pressure on our ability to respond. While the work of adaptation has begun, we have found the progress is uneven and insufficient, given the risks we face. These findings are from our work as co-authors of the new Australia and New Zealand chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, released today.
Independent Zoe Daniel has appealed against a council ruling that political signs cannot be erected until the election is called, arguing it is inconsistent with its own advice and neighbouring councils which have allowed Josh Frydenberg signs.
Regular people need to understand that their real enemies are not each other, but the powerful who play with the rules.
Source: Ukraine and Stopping the Powerful From Making the Rules
Big difference between the money spent by Clive Palmer and the total number of independents offering a diverse range of options on social media is huge. Palmer a single billionaire gorilla is allowed to drown out an election,and Morrison isn’t saying anything about the new L-NP-UAP Party.
Rules around political advertising remain in the pre-internet era, experts say, raising a “democratic dilemma” as Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) blankets social media, newspapers and television with ads. Political communication experts say the sheer volume of ads, particularly those that are hyper-targeted on social media with little transparency, creates too much noise for voters.
Morrison is a powerless parrot barking and has made Australia a standing joke in front of 1.3B Chinese people but to the rest of the world. After all, he and the LNP leased the port of Darwin to China and proudly signed CHAFTA delivering a speech of absolute praise. We knew of China’s complaints back then about the Murdoch Press. They were clear and valid but do we actually know what Morrison’s complaints about China are today? They seem to be what Morrison says his bestie in 2019 XI is doing in 2022. Xi seems to be watching, telling Morrison to get a grip and calm down. Bring back China Sam Dastyari knows!!
Scott Morrison’s ramping up of a scare campaign against Labor’s Anthony Albanese has shone a laser-like focus on just how defenceless Australia is against any military threat China might pose. To listen to the Prime Minister, you would think it is in Australia’s power to force an explanation from China about an alleged laser attack on a RAAF surveillance aircraft in the Arafura Sea to our immediate north on Thursday. Three days later, Beijing has rejected Australia’s claims, demanding Canberra stop its “groundless accusations” against them.
Source: Paul Bongiorno: Hardball politics exposes a defenceless scare campaign
OOPS! The ” Idiot PM” got it wrong again 1) Blinded by the light 2) The State L-NP stopped the trains not the unions Scumo.
Morrison was quick to jump into the fray this morning, as the NSW government attempted to point the finger at the Rail, Tram and Bus Union for network suspensions that, it soon became apparent, the state government itself had ordered following a breakdown in negotiations. Reports soon began to emerge that it was the government agency, Transport for NSW, that had called off services at around midnight last night, throwing morning commutes into chaos, while union reps made it clear that workers had shown up for their shifts, many in the early hours of the morning. (The best justification the premier could offer for the aggressive shutdown was that it wouldn’t have been “safe” to run the trains.) But that didn’t stop the PM weighing in, echoing several of the outrageous comments made by Coalition figures throughout the day
Source: Tool time | The Monthly
Morrison deserves absolutely no respect for his fantasy smearing of Albo!
His schoolyard abuse just amplifies his and Dutton’s incapacity for leadership. Dutton turns to his typical Boomgate slagging when he has nothing intelligent to offer.
The theory that opposition leader Anthony Albanese is actually a secret Chinese operative is gaining traction, after a photo emerged of the Labor leader eating a spring roll nineteen years ago, in what appears to be a dedicated Chinese district. It comes just days after a video emerged of him attempting to speak a foreign language, which is against Australian law.
Source: SHOCKING IMAGES! Albo caught buying a spring roll in 2003 | The Shovel
A whistleblower leak to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media led to reporting on Sunday revealing that Credit Suisse—one of the world’s biggest private banks—knowingly accepted “corrupt autocrats, suspected war criminals and human traffickers, drug dealers and other criminals” as customers. Data on more than 18,000 bank accounts, holding more than $100 billion was leaked. The accounts Corporateincluded personal, shared and corporate accounts with opened as far back as the 1940s. Nearly 50 media outlets have spent months investigating the data. The German daily said it received the leaked data anonymously through a secure digital mailbox over a year ago. The newspaper says it didn’t make any payment or promises for the leak.
Source: Massive Credit Suisse Data Leak Reveals Criminals, Corrupt Autocrats, Human Traffickers
Morrison’s ” Free Market I have to do nothing” is talking back but Morrison isn’t listening.It’s talking back in a way totally unintended by Morrison who talks the talk but never walks the walk. He promises the world but commits to nothing and the market simply disregards the “fool on the hill”
Canadian fund manager Brookfield and tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes have launched a bid to take over Australian energy giant AGL and set stronger emissions-reduction targets that would force earlier closures of its remaining coal-fired power stations.
Source: Mike Cannon-Brookes, Brookfield launch bid for AGL to ‘accelerate coal exit’
Russian State Media models itself on Fox News. Fox now declares, along with their favorite President Trump, that the likes of Vlad and Orban run model governments and are model leaders of political systems that should be envied. That they are merely misunderstood and maligned by Biden.
98% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and their unions do not support the stupidly named “freedom convoy” which is both highly organized and funded by the likes of the Oath Keepers. They are armed, and are using their children as shields. How free is that?
Yes, Fox News has gone the Full Monty in declaring Justin Trudeau “Red” when Murdoch media is actually acting as a support agent for the Russians in their efforts to reelect Trump just as they did in 2016 and 2021 when they encouraged the Jan 6th riots. Murdoch Media is so blinded by the opportunity to profit it is constantly caught out as unfit for having a media license anywhere in the world. Murdoch was caught 1) Illegally bugging the phones of British citizens forcing the News of the World to be closed and his CEO and editor jailed. He then fled the country for the USA 2) Broadcasting live the NZ Christchurch massacre so much so the NZ government shut him down. 3) The Murdoch’s are the basis of 65% of all complaints directed to the Australian Press Council yet remain the nation’s biggest Fake News provider. 4) They are the shadow behind the conservative efforts to shut down both the BBC and the ABC and become the voice of right-wing government in the anglo world.
Today has been a wild one over in Fox News propaganda land, even by their standards. This morning, anchor Jesse Watters urged the United States to annex Canada to save it from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom Watters suggested is a communist. And he was serious.“We have to finish the wall and build a fresh one in the north if this keeps up. Or we could just liberate the Canadians from their dictatorship,” said Watters. “It’s not like America hasn’t done that before. There’s room for a few more stars on the flag.”The full eight-minute segment is below:
Source: Fox News Descended into Utter Insanity on Wednesday | The Smirking Chimp
For years Andrew Bolt turned to Roy Spencer a renowned Meteorologist to tell us the planet was Cooling. That eventually changed to “it’s not warming as fast as Climate Science is saying or predicting” If you take that single year 1998 as ground zero you get a false impression from the 30year average. Even Andrew Bolt was forced to change his tune denying he ever said the planet was cooling. Science has moved on and left Spencer and Bolt in it’s wake as has the global media except for Murdoch media, Andrew Bolt and the likes of Roy Spencer. Yet again he’s been provided the platform by Andrew Bolt for a reunion.
However, this time it’s about money and not really anything new about climate science. It’s about how Google has “victimised” Spencer. If you Google Roy Spencer he’s all over Google like sunburn is after a 36 degree day lying naked in the sun. He’s neither a victim nor been cancelled. In fact you’d be hard pressed to find any arguments against him. He’s been forgotten!! Being demonetized just means he’s dropped below Google’s threshold for payment. Well. it’s long after his hey day and the attention he got in the years after 1998 are over. Furthermore the attention Bolt tried to grab for himself as a contrarian are over too. They are both obviously cooling while the planet is not. Andrew Bolt back in the day was promoted as an “expert” back then when the IPA published a book of “false facts”. Today they too have been demonetized and am sure nobody is buying or paying attention to the book.
Yes, Andrew Bolt and Roy Spencer are reliving their gory days of undeserved attention. The graph above makes no reference to the 10 hottest years on record and those being in the last decade. Besides Bolt and Spencer pay absolutely no attention to any data or the average after 1998. Spencer says he’s been treated like a “Liberal Arts Major” and not as a scientist. Well he is standing with Andrew Bolt who is less than one and has no “Major” at all other than contrarian.
Andrew Bolt doesn’t invite any scientists that have argued against what was once the Christie and Spencer show. Christie left. The only people Bolt invites to trumpet their ideas on Climate Science tend to be unqualified anti-science sceptics on along with a sprinkling of scientists are are generally not experts in the field but are monetised and associated with well known wealthy organizations like the Koch Bros andthe Heartland Foundation that argue against warming, News Corp also being one.
Still the very fact that today Industry, Banks, and Investors around the world have all turned against man made CO2 emmissions found to be the major cause of global warming speaks to the fact that Andrew Bolt and Roy Spencer were simply talking to themselves.
Social media giants are increasingly censoring debate – and now Google is punishing one of the world’s top climate experts. Professor Roy Spencer runs one of the five big measurements of world temperature, some say the most authoritative, at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. His work has been widely cited in the scientific literature and has won him the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award.
Source: ROY SPENCER ON GOOGLE PUNSIHING HIM FOR REP | Herald Sun
Morrison Government is ready to throw money at Carbon Capture, or any technology that might delay the process of transition but not accelerate it to clean energy. Rather to a politicized position of a slightly “cleaner energy”, will do. Then promote and have that heralded as the LNP’s great. With a focus on gas and technologies widely spread rather than a concentration on what we already know works delay has become their goal. A delay for donations their preference.
For both types of capture to achieve their stated purpose, the additional energy used must not emit any carbon — it must come from renewable energy sources. If it weren’t being used here, this zero-carbon energy could otherwise be used to directly meet our energy needs, making carbon capture technology inefficient and highly expensive.
Source: We need to cut Carbon, not fall for the Scam of Trying to Capture it
Australia’s LNP Government fully supported the action and then took us to Vietnam
Under the leadership of Sukarno, postcolonial Indonesia was an optimistic country finding its place on the world stage. Suharto’s 1965 coup drowned that experiment in blood, with US politicians and media cheering on his campaign of mass killings.
Source: Suharto’s US-Backed Coup in Indonesia Supplied a Template for Worldwide Mass Murder
All show for dough in Murdochville
News Corp columnist David Penberthy says he thinks many Australians regard the Prime Minister as “expendable”. “The bigger danger is that he hasn’t looked… More from federal election news and photos How ScoMo’s pact with rebel MPs backfired How ScoMo’s pact with rebel MPs backfired ‘Staggering’: ScoMo roasted for ukulele stunt ‘Staggering’: ScoMo roasted for ukulele stunt Dutton causes parliament to erupt Dutton causes parliament to erupt Sky News host Peta Credlin has lashed Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pleading with him to “do better” or abandon his chances at the next election. In an opinion piece for The Australian, Credlin said Mr Morrison needed to give voters “a reason to vote for you” and said the performance of the Liberal part was leaving people “politically homeless”. “The government that’s going into this election is almost unrecognisable from the one elected in 2013,” Credlin wrote. The former Liberal staffer said the actions of Mr Morrison had led to a lot of “disillusionment among many Liberal supporters”, especially on policy related to lowered taxes and more support for big businesses. “There’s no big political party that’s rock-solid for lower taxes, smaller government and greater freedom, plus support for the family, small business and the institutions that have made this country what it is,” she wrote.
Presented as largesse and generosity on the part of the LNP it is in fact nothing of the sort. All that has happened is that the L-NP has given back less than what they took away in the first place. When they illegally failed to fund “our” ABC. If they win this unwinnable election they will return to that regular practice of shredding and neutering the ABC from auditing commenting on their governance for us. Lets no forget Abbott promised, “no cuts” then simply cut Aunty’s budget. Morrison the spin doctor called it an “efficiency review”. He doesn’t lie does he just rearranges the language? This ” faux win” is returning the ABC to behind where it should have been 3 Years ago. If the L-NP win it will be taken away again and our ABC will continue to be shackled in PUNISHMENT PARK. There is only one true Democratic Party in a Capitalist system run by Oligarchs and currently they are in opposition a vote for the ALP is a step to a better Democracy.
The ABC’s $3.3 billion in funding includes $45.8 million under its Enhanced News Gathering program for journalism in regional communities. This is an increase of $87.2 million over the current triennium. The indexation freeze – which was in place for three years and was blamed for widespread cuts to programming and redundancies in 2020 – will be lifted. The funding boost comes despite a souring in the relationship between the federal government and the ABC last year due to multiple lawsuits and an attempt by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg to launch an inquiry into the broadcaster’s complaints handling system.
Source: Australian TV: ABC, SBS win funding reprieve as government outlines Netflix reforms
L-NP wants to prioritize Religious Discrimination having lost the referendum on Marriage Equality. They see the utmost urgency in policing freedom of speech online because they regard any negative murmur or commentary on their performance as “online abuse”. These Free Speech Advocates feel the need to close down any “leaks” not in their control. Then they want to introduce laws that entitle their Ministers to sue for defamation at taxpayer expense and if sued defend themselves at ours as well. To do what Peter Dutton did at absolutely “no cost”. Forget ICAC because the LNP has lowered us on the International Corruption Index by 50%. So why on earth would a Morrison Government want an ICAC or anyone investigating or judging them?
Senator Cash said the first priority of the Prime Minister was to ensure passage of the Religious Discrimination Act and to remove the right of faith-based educational institutions to expel gay students under section 38(3) of the Sex Discrimination Act. The next priority was to amend privacy laws to help combat online abuse.
Source: No time for federal ICAC: Cash
The problem is that darkness has spread across progressive discourse, sucking light and color and fun out of everything. Liberalism has focused so long on subtraction that we forgot that our main appeal is additive. Equality and justice aren’t just about bodies surviving, but granting all people the opportunity to feel good, to feel fulfilled, to have a chance to use their precious years on earth actually living. We don’t just want people to survive. We want them to thrive. Well, 2022 is the year to get our groove back. The right has opened the door, by inviting us to debate whether sex should be fun and reading should be pleasurable. That’s a fight that the left can win, easily. We just have to remember that fun matters, beauty matters, and people are drawn more to the light than the dark. We used to be people who knew this. We can get back to who we once were.
The peaceful Washington protests according to Trump weren’t “legitimate”. he had them violently closed down. The generals who accompanied him on his walk to the Baptist Church for his photo op were shamed.
“January 6th was not ‘legitimate political discourse’—it was a violent insurrection on our Capitol,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal retorted. “I didn’t know if I’d make it out alive. Some didn’t. We cannot let the GOP whitewash what happened.”
Source: GOP Declares Deadly Capitol Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
Saying they distinctly remember writing in a text that the Prime Minister was a ‘complete psycho’, millions of Australians were this morning trying to work out how the fuck Channel 10 journalist Peter van Onselen was able to access the private messages on their phone.
So this is the quality of our navy hardware. We will be waiting until 2040 for subs, which by then will be obsolete, to replace it. Is this Dutton’s rapid transportation ship for his 121 tanks.
The truth is that Dutton has to be vying for the Grand Slam. of the worst Health, Immigration, Homeland, and now Defence Minister we ever had. He was the central figure in Boomgate which publicly shamed us and made us look the fools we currently are. Abbott PM actually defended Dutton who showed the world his attitude to our Pacific neighbours and the LNP’s attitude to our region. Australia has become a pariah among the world’s nations. Nations run by clowns like Trump and Johnson who Morrison are seen as circuses and as a consequence less respected. Johnson apologized to the British today and then in Simon says fashion so did Morrison to us at the NPC. Dumb and Dumber they are leaders they’re not.
Exhausted naval technicians claim they’re battling temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius as they work around the clock to repair a power failure that’s crippled Australia’s largest warship, HMAS Adelaide, in the Pacific.
“Toxic Femininity?” Guess whose back the standard-bearer of “toxic disgusting masculinity. The self-proclaimed role model for males. An ageist adult who claims to lead the way on manners and how we should present ourselves in public, the troll, Andrew Bolt.
Andrew Bolt who’d prefer to live in the Netherlands a nation far more socialist than Australia. A nation with a more shameful history of the genocidal treatment of Jews. Yes, even though born Australian tells us how he’d prefer to live in a country that today represents everything he hates. Yet he insists we should respect the worst of our history on Australia Day.
Bolt the braggart male with the swinging dick once crowed he worked as a ” belly dancer’s minder”. It turned out she was his ex- fiancee who was supporting him when he was unemployed. A fact, he kept hidden from his wife and family. Bolt even tried to excuse his silence by actually claiming he was Sir Galahad and was “protecting them”?
When challenged by the lady, his latter-day bride-to-be about the “truth” of their relationship that little prick who was doing a Walter Mitty to grandiose himself in the eyes of his readers called her the liar. When challenged with court action big man Andrew Bolt folded like a cheap suit. He was forced to admit he was the ill-mannered, lout, cad, dirtbag and was everything she said he was. In fact a low-life, toxic male.
History will be forget Andrew Bolt very quickly but not Grace Tame. Her photo with Scott Morrison is the historic kill-shot that will be remembered in years to come. The shot that will be talked about in the classrooms of the future long after the suit-wearing tent preacher behind the desk at Murdoch’s Sky News, Andrew Bolt is replaced and forgotten.
Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott also had a lot to criticize Morrison’s L-NP for stood shoulder to shoulder with Grace on so many issues but Andrew Bolt ignores him. Is it because he’s a real man?
I never expected class from Grace Tame. She was too young and thoughtless to handle being Australian of the Year. No, the real problem with her pathetic rudeness to Scott Morrison is that it was cheered by so many people – especially women. Time we talked about toxic femininity.
We hear so much about “toxic masculinity”. After Grace Tame’s tantrum on Tuesday, dare we finally ask if there’s also a “toxic femininity”?
I’ve seen toddlers with better manners than Tame showed Prime Minister Scott Morrison at an event to mark the end of her term as Australian of the Year.
She glowered at him. She pulled faces. She returned his politeness – and that of wife Jenny – with a contempt meant to be seen from the moon.
Pathetic, yet many people actually praised her rudeness.
Source: Toxic Tame shows grace is no longer a virtue | Herald Sun
Two things are clear. First, this debate is not going away. Indigenous and non-Indigenous advocates for change are part of an activist heritage that is intergenerational. Second, it is clear to us from our campaign that many Australians won’t be marching for change today – but they still reject the woefully inadequate status quo for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in 2022. These Australians are tired of hearing the same promises and plans by governments to ‘close the gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians without seeing real change in peoples’ lives.
Source: A vote for an Indigenous Voice could unlock path to unity
Idiots like Parnell highlight Morrison’s declaration ” I never look in the rear vision” nor does Parnell it seems. Morrison strikes and runs and those he acts badly towards are props quickly forgotten and he likes it that way. Any history and any context in which Grace and Morrison have previously met are far more important than just the nice photo Morrison is out to get. Parnell’s the same, the propagandist who drains history from a photo for the advertising shot “they will see a polite couple trying to make the best of welcoming a rude young woman into their home.”
What bullshit! Grace Tame is not there to promote Scott Morrison. This photo will be historic, a statement, and what’s more not just unique but a truthful one that will be talked about for years to come. Parnell prefers pretence for “Morrison’s sake” which simply put is a lie. It’s not for Morrison’s sake at all. It is a shot looking back a rear vision shot, an historical one that will continue to be discussed time and time again and allowing the truth to be told. Parnell, won’t be remembered and if she is only badly as someone who once worked for Murdoch media.
When the images of her last official engagement are beamed into the lounge rooms of normal people, they will see a polite couple trying to make the best of welcoming a rude young woman into their home. (Parnell)
Source: Australia Day 2022: Grace Tame squanders her moment by scowling at Scott Morrison
From kids driving forklifts to crippling foreign relations, Scott Morrison has made some truly questionable decisions of late, writes Paul Begley.
This could be a chapter out of a John Grisham novel. Will American justice ever be served or will the legal industry simply prefer to profit from a never-ending game? Will Trump ever pay his lawyers? No doubt the public purse is paying the investigators and the N.Y AG and the judges. How can Trump even be allowed to run for a 2nd term when he hasn’t fulfilled the obligations of his first. Tax returns have yet to be submitted a requirement of all eligible Presidents.
Only three of more than 5 million documents the company handed over in the two years since were actually produced by Trump, according to James’ office. Trump led the company for decades before his presidential inauguration in January 2017.
There is no Independent bipartisan system in the USA and the Republicans know that while the Democrats still dream of Democracy. Actual rule is from the top down and that needs to be guaranteed Republican no matter who is in government. Trump merely ensured that was welded into the system and all its major institutions. SCOTUS, the ultimate system’s safety switch.
It’s very hard to fathom why the right seems so determined to prolong the deadly COVID-19 pandemic but it’s obvious that they are. From politicians banning mask requirements to media celebrities pushing disinformation about vaccines, there is no escaping the fact that Republicans and their allies simply do not care that more than 850,000 thousand Americans are dead in less than two years from this scourge and that hundreds of thousands of them are still dying because they refuse to take life-saving vaccines. That the majority of them are their own constituents who have died because they believe right-wing conspiracy theories is just mind-boggling, but apparently they are convinced that this is good for them politically and gives them great ratings.
Source: The radical right’s takeover of the Supreme Court is complete | Salon.com
Many claimed early in the pandemic that COVID-19 would flatten inequality in a deeply unequal world. Luckily for the ultrarich, central banks stepped in, making the global elite richer than ever.
Source: The Central Banks Made the Superrich Even Richer During the Pandemic
Save the ABC! Improve Internet Freedom! Increase Media Diversity. While the LNP attacks the ABC, wants to control the Internet and rejects media diversity the MSM have his back. They supports their current quid pro quo arrangement with Murdoch Costello and Stokes but are certainly pissed at the way he zig zags them on a daily basis forcing their editors to play “Scotty Says”.
The mainstream media has eschewed objectivity in favouring the Liberal Party’s “let it rip” pandemic strategy, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.
Source: Mainstream media applauds Morrison’s ‘let it rip’ strategy
Morrison, the ‘ad man’, has gone from “Where the bloody hell are you?” to “Your not Welcome and never will be!” in selling Australia to the rest of the world. Now is it any wonder he was sacked as NZ and Australia’s CEO of Tourism.
The global media frenzy over Australia’s temporary detention of anti-vaccine tennis star Novak Djokovic has inadvertently drawn attention to the cruel mistreatment of refugees imprisoned in the same run-down, bug-infested facility in Melbourne. News reports showing Djokovic’s fans, and local anti-vaxxers, rallying in his support outside the Park Hotel, a makeshift detention center, have included images of protesters decrying the suffering of the dozens of refugees who are also there. Some of those people have been in Australian detention facilities for close to nine years, just for arriving in the country by boat, seeking asylum.
Source: Refugees Held With Djokovic in Australia Briefly in Spotlight
My thought for the day We would be a much better society if we took the risk of thinking for ourselves unhindered by the unadulterated crap served up by the government, the media and self-interest groups. PS: Contribute to my diary by making a comment. ( John Lord)
The decision to grant Novak Djokovic an exemption from Covid-19 vaccination requirements to play in the Australian Open in Melbourne has been labelled “appalling”, with some players expressing surprise at the late decision. On Tuesday night, the defending Australian Open champion posted on Instagram that he was coming to Melbourne to participate in the tennis tournament with an “exemption permission”. All Australian Open participants must either be fully vaccinated or apply for and secure a medical exemption in order to enter Victoria without undertaking the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
“Donald Trump’s January 6 press event should be recognized for what it is: an opportunity for Trump to lie to downplay the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and set up his 2024 presidential campaign,” said Angelo Carusone, president of watchdog Media Matters for America, in a Monday statement. He stressed that “it is critical that news networks do the right thing—refuse to carry it live, so they do not uncritically promote the lies and disinformation that is generated from Trump’s speech in real time.” “Trump has a well-established pattern of lying every time he opens his mouth,” Carusone noted. “He has also had ample opportunities to weigh in on the insurrection—including when Fox hosts begged Trump to take action in real time to stop the riot. To give Trump a platform to spread lies and misinformation on this tragic anniversary would be to repeat the very mistakes that helped foment the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in the first place.”
Source: Media Watchdogs Warn Networks Against Uncritical Airing of ‘Big Lie’ Trump Event
There’s bad news for Scott Morrison, with polling predicting a heavy defeat for the prime minister at the upcoming federal election.The results of the latest quarterly Newspoll analysis show Labor has increased its advantage and the number of seats it would win from the Coalition has lifted from nine to 12 based on the state two-party preferred swings.
It has been a tough 12 months, and it was sometimes hard to find a silver lining. But AusPol in 2021 also offered its share of bizarre, unexpected and downright silly moments, giving rare moments of levity to an otherwise crummy year. In the spirit of looking for the light, here are some of the political happenings that made us giggle, shake our heads, or just stare in befuddlement.
Source: Auspol’s weirdest moments amid the bin fire that was 2021
As a result of yet another “Beulla peal me a grape ” announcement by Morrison, the States are having to mandate another strict program of protections like mask-wearing because all Morrison brings to the table is square dance-callers series of announcements. Which of course Morrison claims is sensible but rather a “personal responsibility” like Sunscreen and not necessarily enforced.
Albo sensibly reminds us that if you don’t put on Sunscreen your children and their friends freinds friends won’t catch your sunburn. Morrison, you’re the stand out example of Australia’s biggest KLUTZ.
Now Morrison wants the states to again step up and open up vaccination hubs to shoulder the burden of a booster program that suddenly looks as much of a race as the initial vaccination effort. Or as his apologists at The Australian put it, he’s “putting the heat on” the states. Meantime, GPs are complaining of a lack of funding and supply to meet the demand purely for those who are deemed eligible for one — which under the federal government’s rules is still only a minority of the population. There are “plenty of doses in the fridge”, Morrison says, but apparently insufficient funding to make it worthwhile for GPs to run vaccinations at scale. It’s early yet, but it looks increasingly like Morrison has again planned a Commonwealth rollout, it has again gone wrong, and he’s again demanding the states and territories save him. What will the price be this time?
But if UK electricity transmission tariffs are a centrifugal force, helping drive Scottish separatism, things like UK investment in wind turbine factories are centripetal, tying Scotland to the UK. Likewise, Scotland exports a good deal of its extra wind-generated electricity to England, and is responsible for 25% of UK wind energy. If I were them, I’d be nervous about losing access to that enormous market for green energy. So in some ways the UK constraints on electricity transmission do impel nationalist politicians to dream of being shut of London. But in other ways the renewables energy industry is binding Scotland more closely to the UK.
Source: As last Coal Chimney Falls, Will Green Energy Issue in Scotland Break up the United Kingdom?
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