Another bravura performance from CNN’s fact-checker who’s been doing yeoman’s service during TrumpFest, aka the 2020 Republican National Convention.

WATCH: CNN’s Daniel Dale’s Rapid-Fire Fact Check Of Trump’s RNC Speech Is Amazing | Crooks and Liars

The new emails show Mr Sukkar was told in 2018 by his brother Paul Sukkar – a former electorate officer for Mr Andrews – as well as Mr Bastiaan that electorate officers were managing a campaign to recruit party members. Mr Sukkar has sought to blame rogue former staffers in his office for the impropriety, but these emails suggest he was aware of the plans. On April 4, 2018, Mr Bastiaan and Paul Sukkar sent emails to Mr Sukkar that showed they were directing an electorate officer called Thilaga “Jessy” Jayakumaran to manage the recruitment of new party members. Mr Sukkar’s office had helped install Ms Jayakumaran in the office of Kevin Andrews.

Liberal branch stacking: Sukkar plots to block the career of James Newbury

Van Badham and Ben Davison discuss the Liberal Party branch stacking scandal, the economic threat to jobs and the Morrison government undermining people’s retirement by making people empty their super to survive the COVID crisis. Van and Ben are joined, from the parliament in Canberra, by Andrew Giles MP, Member for Scullin, Shadow Minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure, Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Shadow Minister assisting for Immigration and Citizenship. They discuss the economic impacts of the crisis, what’s happening during this sitting and a possible cut to environmental protections by the Morrison government.

Source: Episode 2: Branch stacking, superannuation and Andrew Giles reports from Canberra

The media continues to scapegoat China about a pandemic in nature as if China caused the spread of the disease in the UK and USA and what lays ahead. The Plague killed 50% of the world’s population, The Spanish flu (not Spanish more than the two world wars. The German measles weren’t German. Natural disasters happen the blame cast for them simply hides realities we refuse to admit to.

Covid-19 illustrates the difference social and political systems make when facing a universal existential threats. Nicola Smith’s article misses the point entirely. Science might make mistakes but what is done with those errors amplifies something else altogether.The success and/or failure of our management skills and our ability to work together. China, Cuba, Denmark Norway have managed Covid-19 far better than the USA,UK,Spain and Brazil. The plague was followed by the Renaissance and entirely new ways of thinking enlightenment. Will the same follow now? (ODT)

 

Nobody wants to be the bearer of bad news but in the case of local health officials in Wuhan, their reticence in coming forward with the truth in January may have been a decisive factor in allowing the coronavirus to inflict global havoc.

The world may be paying the price for Wuhan’s bungling bureaucrats

As the stock prices of the big five technology companies rise beyond irrational valuations, something is wrong. Retail buyers have gone ‘all in’ at the top and will get slaughtered.

Apple surpasses $2 TRILLION, doubling in value in TWO years. It’s INSANE, amid the worst depression ever, and it will end badly — RT Op-ed

Fighting Fake News with REAL 20/8/20; Scotty leads us to the Promised Land; Where there’s no Shame or Blame; Blainey doesn’t fail Pascoe;

As the shift to clean and renewable energy begins to gain serious momentum, the US is now facing another conundrum: Being too dependent on China for the minerals used to build clean energy systems.

China is the biggest winner of the US renewables boom — RT Business News