That bigoted content about race and immigration is why white nationalists love Carlson’s show and flock to his defense — they know that he is bringing their talking points, previously relegated to the fringe, into the homes of millions of Americans. David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, tweeted just last week that Carlson should replace Vice President Mike Pence on the Republican ticket.
via Tucker Carlson has said enough | Media Matters for America
Trump and the White House traeting Fauci as if he was the OPPOSITION (ODT)
President Donald Trump is reportedly shunning the infectious disease expert, who has been expressing alarm about soaring infections.
via White House Moves To Discredit Fauci Amid Bleak Warnings Over Coronavirus Surge | HuffPost Australia
He’s been in hospitals without a mask up close and personal (ODT)
How many Holes can a President have in his foot?(ODT)
On why the United States should not pull out of the World Health Organization: WHO is not a perfect organization, but it is the only international infrastructure that we currently have that creates the platform on top of which sovereign nations can collaborate, and share data and technical expertise. There is nothing else like that out there. And so, for us to pull out of that basically means that we need to depend on bilateral relationships with countries you know, or regional organizations. It’s just shooting ourselves in the foot.
via The Selfish and Unselfish Case for Sending Scientists and Doctors Abroad – Mother Jones
We don’t have to leave ourselves at the mercy of the most profitable sector on Earth to get the drugs we need. We must nationalize the pharmaceutical industry and turn the medicines millions rely on into public goods.
Prof Peter Gøtzsche, the paper’s third co-author, believes it was about censoring the research. “The medical publishing system is broken. There are far too many financial connections between big publishers and big pharma,” he said. “The system doesn’t ensure that solid research which goes against financial interests can get published without any major obstacles.”Informed Comment
Unfortunately, the damage that Covid-19 causes is almost certainly not confined entirely to the death rate. We may not know for some time exactly what else it causes, but even now we have enough evidence to know that there are other problems out there. Letting everyone get infected is a strategy that, even ignoring the enormous death toll, could leave us much worse off as a society.
The trouble is The LNP aren’t about to kick up a shitstorm about that (ODT)
The Labor Party in Australia speaks a progressive language on climate change that it rarely enacts in policy. Now, under cover of the health crisis, the Victorian branch is expanding deforestation projects and onshore gas exploration.
via After the Bushfires and Amid the Pandemic, Australia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Gaining Steam
Leader ship in Trumpland : Releasing Stone Locking Fauci away (ODT)
But as the Trump administration has strayed further from the advice of many scientists and public health experts, the White House has moved to sideline Fauci, scuttled some of his planned TV appearances and largely kept him out of the Oval Office for more than a month even as coronavirus infections surge in large swathes of the country.
Fauci is sidelined by Trump’s White House as he steps up blunt talk on the pandemic
Pauline Hanson certainly tried. Sky News is supporting her moves (ODT)
via ASIO briefing warns that the far-right is exploiting coronavirus to recruit new members – ABC News
You know he’s desperate when he starts calling a real threat to the lives of our soldiers fighting on foreign soil a “hoax.” Trump is a threat to our national security. He’s not a president. He’s a co-conspirator with dictators who are enemies of this country. He’s a traitor, and he needs to go.
Offenders can intercept payment invoices, or create their own, and funnel victims’ funds into their own accounts. Businesses and individuals make their payments as usual, but unknowingly pay the offender.
via $2.5 billion lost over a decade: Nigerian princes lose their sheen, but scams are on the rise
With the Cormannator’s departure, the LNP loses the only politician in its ranks capable of successfully sooling Paul Keating’s “unrepresentative swill”. And this is a serious problem for a Government financed in part by the Murdoch Shilling. Cormann, who does not blink, is the only senior Government Minister with the smarts to strong arm a Bill through the Senate. This Bill — yet to materialise — would fulfil Murdoch’s goal of selling-off the ABC.
With Cormann’s departure and the status quo in place in the Lower House, the demise of the ABC will not happen in the foreseeable future.
via Hasta la vista, baby! I won’t be back. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
All Aboriginal people suffer in every aspect of their lives from racism. The denial of self-determination is racist (12). Racism is evident in the education system, the legal system and the political structures of Australian society (13). It exists at the legislative and bureaucratic levels and weaves down into public opinion. Aboriginal people have had to contend with the European attitude of white supremacy. The issues I have discussed are all bound together with racism (14).
These major issues indicate that a history of racist views and policies began in Australia in 1788 and still manifests society today. History books account of the struggles of Europeans to claim this continent as their own, whereas a curtain of silence has shielded generations of students from recognising how European expansion swept away the land rights of the original inhabitants.
In the advancing colonisation the Aboriginal people were conveniently treated as part of the country’s past. ‘History,’ proclaimed an old uni lecturer of mine, ‘treated Aboriginal people as little more than impediments standing briefly in the way of inevitable white progress across the nation’ (15).
via Trump has revealed his 2020 campaign strategy (opinion) – CNN
“Voters are understandably upset about the direction of the country,” Rubin emphasizes. “They do not put their hope in the virus simply ‘disappearing.’ They want the government to actually do something about the surging pandemic and mass unemployment, not to mention systemic racism. Like it or not, the buck stops with Trump, whose base seems to be crumbling.”
via ‘Down in the Dumps’: There’s a Dark Cloud Hanging over Trump and the GOP | The Smirking Chimp
The facts
The fact is that the UK has 28 times more deaths from Covid than Portugal (and how many strokes and heart attacks in the UK were registered on death certificates as “stroke” or “heart attack” and not a Covid-related incident?), yet the UK has only six times Portugal’s population.
The fact is that Britain has registered 44,131 deaths from Covid-19 compared with Portugal’s 1,587. The fact is that Britain has registered 284,276 positive tests, compared with Portugal’s 42,782 cases.
Appreciation for Aboriginal art, music and other cultural values has already spread the world over. Might opening these doors wider offset the losses felt by mining giants from denying the destruction of Sacred Sites? Please join your voice to the outcry and help our great country finally save our First Peoples’ Churches, Political Offices, Historical Libraries and Burial Grounds for future generations.
via An Australian Outcry – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Marxist ideas did spread far and wide. And they informed socialist practice. In his famous book Hammer and Hoe: Communists in Alabama During the Great Depression, Robin D.G. Kelley describes a conversation with Lemon Johnson, one of the black leaders of an American Communist Party-led Alabama sharecroppers union. When Kelley asked how they were able to win some of their demands in a 1935 cotton pickers strike, Johnson “pulled out a dog-eared copy of V.I. Lenin’s What Is to Be Done and a box of shotgun shells” and said, “That’s how we did it. Theory and practice.”
To all those concerned with the “elitism” of reading Marxist theory, I think Lemon Johnson and Vera Zasulich, if they were still around today, might reply: are you so arrogant as to think that you have figured out the complexities of the capitalist world and the proper strategies for transforming it all by yourself? Then, as organizers who took the effective communication of socialist ideas seriously, they would probably try to turn this idea into a meme.
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