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Why does Trump tweet such blatant falsehoods?
Don’t Tell Cable Pundits That Bernie Sanders Is Leading Nationally Among Black Voters
via After South Carolina, MSNBC Pundits Write Off Bernie Sanders
Australia now has a record number of underemployed workers, and total hours worked per person per month are also at an all-time low. Alan Austin reports on the latest jobs data ahead what many believe will be a dreadful week for the Government as a slew of economic data is about to be released and two-year bonds have just halved, hitting a record low yield of only 0.4 per cent.
via Record underemployment as Government braces for volatile week, slew of new data – Michael West
Modi and Partition Revisited (ODT)
via Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship
Trump dumped the Kurds for a Judas Deal with Turkey for and Syrian oil. He flipped and supported the biggest friend of Al Qaeda and ISIS in the area for money. Yes, a Judas deal that has now brought on the threat of a global conflict. (ODT)
The cost of doing nothing(ODT)
We need to focus all our efforts on the outcome required because Inaction on climate change will cost the Earth. That is too high a price to pay.
Bernie, not Trump wants to ensure all Americans are safe (ODT)
The invoking of Religion in a Multicultural Democracy (ODT)
Indian citizenship has now been reduced to ‘us’ versus ‘them’
Debt is the time bomb but those that aren’t in debt will be made to pay just as they did in the GFC (ODT)
Other parties are not like this.
Whenever you hear someone say “they’re all the same”, point out they are repeating deliberate Liberal Party propaganda.
The myth of sameness is precisely what enables the Liberals to get away with this corruption.
They are counting on people to believe this crap is business as usual – so One Nation, Palmer and now the Greens – can funnel preferences to them with no one even thinking about how important it is to put the Liberals last on their ballot paper.
Don’t let this country develop a culture of corruption. Kick them out.
A $4 debt can get your right to vote cancelled in the USA and GOP are doing it (ODT)
We have known for years that gentrification has disproportionately displaced black and Latino people from their homes across the US, “excluding existing residents from the benefits of a revitalizing neighborhood,” as one study put it. The statistics prove it, we make cultural statements about it, and there’s rising activism around it.
To help visualize how minority communities are pushed out by white populations, BuzzFeed News ran an analysis of five of the most gentrified US cities. The results show how the demographics changed between 2000 and 2017 and highlight which census tracts have gentrified in that time.
In American Establishment groupthink there is one standard for what Washington does and quite a different standard for everyone else. Does it shock any American to know that the United States has interfered in scores of elections all over the world ever since the Second World War, to include those in places like France and Italy well into the 1980s? And in somewhat more kinetic covert actions, actually removing Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran, Salvador Allende in Chile, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and Mohamed Morsi in Egypt just for starters, not even considering the multiple plots to kill Fidel Castro. And it continues to do so today openly in places like Iran and Venezuela while also claiming hypocritically that the U.S. is “exceptional” and also a “force for good.” That anyone should be genuinely worrying about Russian proxies buying and distributing a couple of hundred thousands of dollars’ worth of ads in an election in which many billions of dollars’ worth of propaganda will be on the table is ridiculous. It is time to stop blaming Russia for the failure of America’s ruling class to provide an honest and accountable government and one that does not go around the world looking for trouble. That is what the 2020 election should really be all about.
Their argument seems the antithesis of rationality and based purely on ensuring a political difference only. (ODT)
In Trump’s and Murdoch’s crosshairs AOC defies death (ODT)
Having dithered on real action to tackle global warming, some in the Coalition are now taking a keen interest in solving it — by going nuclear. Noel Wauchope investigates what’s behind the sudden push to overturn legislation prohibiting the exploration and mining of thorium and uranium and puts a definitive case against a nuclear industry in Australia.
via Nuclear lobby takes aim at Victoria to tackle prohibitions – Michael West
Ok, so it’s Monday. The stock market is in free fall, perhaps temporarily, perhaps not. What with Trump’s tariff games in play, that scary virus from China seems to be one of the few things getting into this country from that country. (Though Ivanka’s line of clothes is exempt from those tariffs.) Meanwhile, it looks like the polar regions , north and south, might soon become Margaritavilles.
But the good news is that most of the polls are positive about Bernie Sanders, my personal choice, winning the Democratic Party nomination to lead the fight against Trump in the fall. Most of the polls also show Bernie beating that rotten bastard, too. It’s also clear that he’d be a most formidable debate opponent against Trump.
via What the Hell is Wrong With Us? Are We Really This Stupid? | The Smirking Chimp
Any exchange between Jim Acosta and Trump is bound to be newsworthy at this stage of the game, but this was a real winner. Rather, Acosta was the real winner.
via Jim Acosta Wallops Trump Over Record Of Truth-telling | Crooks and Liars
During the first six months of 2019 alone, U.S. Africa Command tracked seven reports of American and allied attacks in Somalia that allegedly killed or wounded at least 18 civilians, according to internal AFRICOM documents obtained by The Intercept. But the U.S. does not acknowledge killing or wounding a single civilian in Somalia last year, according to AFRICOM spokesperson John Manley.
via U.S. Military Is Undercounting Civilian Casualties in Somalia
The Angus Taylor Plan of Economic Management (ODT)
The Heartland Institute and the Koch Bros are so “imaginative” They tried Dr Bjorn Lomborg and his CCC and sacked him now a new model has been let loose.(ODT)
“The Heartland Institute is funnelling anonymous money from the US to climate denial in other countries. It relies on the media to advance false equivalence strategies to attempt to normalise fringe beliefs. Climate denial is not a victimless crime, and it’s time for the perpetrators to be held accountable.”
via ‘Anti-Greta’ teen activist to speak at biggest US conservatives conference | US news | The Guardian
When Politics gets in the way of rationality (ODT)
via Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it
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Dutton says he was referring to Islamic terrorists when he talked about ‘leftwing lunatics’ – as it happened