USA

The long hand of history: Political Polarisation in the US – Part 2 – Pearls and Irritations

Culture war and cultural wars concept or USA heritage and divided American politics as different philosophy as cultures fighting in conflict in the United States in a 3D illustration style.

The US demonstrates the difficulty of changing historically ingrained cultural mindsets passed down generationally

“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government, everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.” So said Marjorie Taylor Greene in a tweet in February this year. Greene is a Republican Member of Congress and could be running mate for Donald Trump.

Source: The long hand of history: Political Polarisation in the US – Part 2 – Pearls and Irritations

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Truth in Humor

Dudded: Peter Dutton in No-man’s land – The Shot

Don’t wait for Peter Dutton to tell you what Peter Dutton thinks, he’s still waiting on his “Advisors”, they’re feeding him the bullets. Meanwhile the real history of the Dutton years in Australian politics will be that new lows can always be found and regardless of the question, No is always the answer.

Source: Dudded: Peter Dutton in No-man’s land – The Shot

Australia, Australia's pride

Voice Referendum a step closer to an Australian republic

With Australia boasting one of the world’s most progressive societies, the upcoming Voice Referendum is a chance to make history, writes Kaijin Solo.

Source: Voice Referendum a step closer to an Australian republic

Aboriginal affairs

‘Business as usual’: Closing the Gap efforts inadequate

indigenous closing the gap

Dutton says he’ll get it right if voted in. He just showed 10 years of failure to be his best

Australian governments are taking a “business as usual” approach to Indigenous policy and risk making disadvantage and discrimination worse.

Source: ‘Business as usual’: Closing the Gap efforts inadequate

Informed Comment

Governor-General David Hurley, his $18 million fraud and his mate NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

David Hurley, Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell

Governor-General David Hurley and the $18 million fraud scam

I published an article in August 2022 titled “G-G David Hurley had more meetings in 2021/2022 with the CEO of the fraudulent $18 million charity than Scott Morrison” which says is part:

Scott Morrison was exposed on Thursday (7/4/2022) as being the key decision maker, in collusion with Governor-General David Hurley, for giving $18 million of taxpayer’s money to a charity, The Australian Future Leaders Foundation, that doesn’t exist except on paper.

The Australian Future Leaders Foundation is reported to “have no office, website or staff, apart from three directors” (Click here to read the article)

 

Source: Governor-General David Hurley, his $18 million fraud and his mate NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

Pollution

Wireless technology poses credible risk on wildlife

Research has exposed the risks posed by electromagnetic radiation from Wi-Fi and cell towers to birds, mammals, insects and even plants, writes Reynard Loki.

THERE IS GROWING evidence that our addiction to cell phones could be impacting brain functionality and be the cause of stress, anxiety, insomnia, and a lack of attention and focus.

Source: Wireless technology poses credible risk on wildlife

Protest

As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

As Hollywood executives insist it is “just not realistic” to pay actors — 87 percent of whom earn less than $26,000 — more, they are spending lavishly on AI programs.

While entertainment firms like Disney have declined to go into specifics about the nature of their investments in artificial intelligence, job postings and financial disclosures reviewed by The Intercept reveal new details about the extent of these companies’ embrace of the technology.

In one case, Netflix is offering as much as $900,000 for a single AI product manager.

Hollywood actors and writers unions are jointly striking this summer for the first time since 1960, calling for better wages and regulations on studios’ use of artificial intelligence.

Source: As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

Truth in Humor

Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Yes, Philip Morris is the world’s biggest Quit campaigner and BP is the world’s biggest anti-fossil fuel campaigner, and the world is expected to drink this Kool-Aid and join the theatre of the absurd?

Safran identifies an absurdist language at play, a vulgar negation of meaning. Philip Morris, for instance, envisages a future without cigarettes and intends to “unsmoke” the world.

Source: Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Israel protests: doctors strike, army reservists ask to stand down amid fury over judiciary changes

Riot police tries to clear demonstrators with a water cannon during a protest against plans by Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu promised “In the future he will do things differently and look for a measure consensus”. Yes,at one and the same time he passed a Bill to form a Specialist Domestic National Guard to deal with domestic situations just like this, and in particular any Israeli or Palestinian protest. A specialist SS force, is his wants rather than an ineffective police force. Doesn’t it remind you of another place and another time in history where a force of head kickers was established?

Key points Prime Minister Netanyahu faces his biggest domestic crisis. Medics are on strike, and all-black ads cover newspapers. Two reservists have been punished for not heeding the training call-up. An officer has warned that absent reservists could damage military readiness. Netanyahu says he will seek political consensus in the future. Advertisement Jerusalem: Israeli doctors declared a strike and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government’s ratification of the first stage of a judicial overhaul that critics say endangers democracy.

Source: Israel protests: doctors strike, army reservists ask to stand down amid fury over judiciary changes

USA

Political polarisation in the US – Part 1: How real is the problem? – Pearls and Irritations

Red arrow and blue arrow point in opposite directions.

There is no doubt that polarisation between Democrats and Republicans is real and increasing. Not since the 1930s has there been such a bitter divide. Pernicious polarisation has reached levels unseen in democracies in Europe, Asia, Oceania or in Canada since World War 2. This is already having consequences for the “governability” of America, its social cohesion and its ability sustainably to deliver Presidential programs. But the impacts don’t stop there – they also affect the attitudes of allies and competitors and influence views of the value of democracy versus strongman autocracy.

Source: Political polarisation in the US – Part 1: How real is the problem? – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Chaos as Israel departs the Ranks of Democracies, Adopting the Hungarian Model of Elective Dictatorship

Elective Dictatorship? Is this by way of a polite description and calling Israel a state bordering on Apartheid and  Fascism in fear of being accused of being antisemitic? Jews in and out of Israel are protesting while Netanyahu is in the process of creating a unitary executive and doing away with the separation of powers. The Knesset has said yes to a specialized Domestic National Guard trained to focus on Israeli Palestinians and anti-government protestors, an SS force. Compared with Israel Palestine is UNITED nation.

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday, the Israeli parliament or Knesset passed the article removing the power of review from Israeli courts on grounds of “reasonability” in light of the country’s basic laws. The measure passed 64-0 in the 120-seat body, with the far right wing coalition of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unanimously in favor and the opposition having left the chamber in protest. The country was thrown into chaos.

Source: Chaos as Israel departs the Ranks of Democracies, Adopting the Hungarian Model of Elective Dictatorship

United Nations

If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations? – scheerpost.com

Where is the Democracy in NATO when a minority rules the planet by discarding the UN

NATO is positioning itself as a substitute for the UN, suggesting that it – and not the actual international community – is the arbiter and guardian of the world’s ‘interests, security, and values’. This view is contested by the vast majority of the world’s peoples, seven billion of whom do not even reside in NATO’s member countries (whose total population is less than one billion). Those billions wonder why it is that NATO wants to supplant the United Nations.

Source: If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations? – scheerpost.com

Informed Comment

Hello? You Can’t Be President if You’ve Tried To Overthrow the U.S. Government | The Smirking Chimp

Secretaries of state and other state election officials should not allow Trump on the ballot in their states. If you agree, please consider signing the petition to tell election officials to keep Trump off the ballot now. (Just click on this link.)

No one is above the law, including Donald Trump.

What do you think?

Source: Hello? You Can’t Be President if You’ve Tried To Overthrow the U.S. Government | The Smirking Chimp

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Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton warned that Nauru contractor was under investigation weeks before Home Affairs Department awarded $9 million deal

Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani.

You don’t get to be the worst Health Minister, the worst Immigration Minister,the worst Homeland Minister unless you’re the best hard-arse shit-kicker in the LNP. Tony Abbot once got that job ready to do what others aren’t. That’s why Dutton is the current leader today as he’s currently regarded as the best of the worst. Dutton like Abbott however was never any good without  Murdoch’s donation in return for killing the ABC.

The Home Affairs Department handed a multimillion-dollar offshore detention contract to an Australian businessman just one month after federal police told then-minister Peter Dutton that the man was under investigation for bribery. Documents tabled in federal parliament reveal that the AFP’s acting commissioner told Dutton in July 2018 that Sydney-based Mozammil Bhojani was under investigation over suspected bribes to Nauruan politicians. The payments were made to secure preferential access to millions of dollars worth of phosphate for his company Radiance International.

Source: Peter Dutton warned that Nauru contractor was under investigation weeks before Home Affairs Department awarded $9 million deal

Police State

Defending Bodily Autonomy Is Real Child Protection

Screenshot 2023-07-26 at 08-23-14 Defending Bodily Autonomy Is Real Child Protection

This month, Ohio reproductive freedom advocates delivered 42 boxes of petitions — over 700,000 signatures — to state officials to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. The proposed amendment guarantees every individual the right “to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion,” until fetal viability. It also prohibits the state from interfering with or penalizing “a person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right.” Both clauses contain exceptions for medical necessity. And neither limits these rights to adults.

Source: Defending Bodily Autonomy Is Real Child Protection

ALP Government,

Review into SBS and ABC independence launched

The LNP more than any government before abused and misused its authority over the ABC and SBS.  It began with a frontal assault by Tony Abbott in a quid pro quo return for favors provided by Rupert Murdoch the most dominant supporter of the Liberal, party, and its personal benefactor. It simply became policy to “Get the ABC” for free News Corp boosting.

A government review will attempt to resolve two long-running problems for Australia’s national broadcasters: How funding can be protected from government interference and how to avoid political “captain’s picks” stacking the boards.

Source: Review into SBS and ABC independence launched

UK

Craig Murray: Democracy’s Demise

A Labour government in the U.K. under Starmer will bring no significant changes in economic or foreign policy and will make no difference whatsoever to the lives of working class people.

If dividends were taxed at the same rate as wages, that alone would bring in very many times the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap. But that would hurt the owners of capital and be redistributive, so it is firmly off Starmer’s agenda.

Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Wes Streeting, shadow health minister, and Starmer have no intention of attempting to bridge society’s stunning and ever-growing wealth gap.

Rather they seek to emphasise “wealth creation” and return to trickledown theory. Alongside “wealth creation” they talk of “reform”, by which they mean more deregulation and more private, for profit provision of public services.

The Labour Party has not only abandoned all thought of securing a capital interest for the worker in the enterprise where they work. The Labour Party has also abandoned the ideas both of state intervention in the unequal dynamic between worker and employer, and of facilitating and supporting self-organisation of Labour.

Tory anti-union legislation is to remain, and who can forget Starmer banning Labour MPs from official union picket lines?

The Labour Party in power is also not going to repeal the hostile environment for immigrants legislation, or the Tory attacks on civil liberties and the right to protest.

What precisely therefore is the purpose of the Labour Party? An extension to which question is, what then is the purpose of the next U.K. general election?

To register disgust at the rule of the Tories by voting in an alternative set of Tories?

What we had from roughly 1920 to 1990, when voting really could make a difference, is not what we have now. We live instead in a post-democratic society. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk British Labour leader Keir Starmer’s determination to use his refusal to alleviate child poverty a

Source: Craig Murray: Democracy’s Demise

Democracy

Untangling the deep and troubled roots of democracy can help define its future | Salon.com

Painting of leaders presenting the Declaration of Independence | African Slave Trade (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Where Europeans formed a majority, or a substantial minority, they could control the outcome of the democratic process. That allowed them to effectively exclude specific groups of people: Indigenous people, slaves and the descendants of slaves could not vote. Women could not vote.”

I’m not necessarily meaning to portray a pessimistic narrative, but the fact that we’re having this conversation at all indicates that maybe we need some kind of reboot, maybe we need to consider alternatives to these long-established institutions. I can’t say too much about these kind of deliberative assemblies, the James Fishkin model of democracy (Salon stories here). I know about that, but I haven’t studied it, and I am a little dubious about how much legitimacy these assemblies might have. Are ordinary citizens going to regard their decisions as more legitimate, let’s say, then the elected assembly? I think that’s the crucial question, because governance by lot does have something to recommended it, but only if people believe that they’re a source of authority.

Source: Untangling the deep and troubled roots of democracy can help define its future | Salon.com

Israel

Military Protests against Neutering of Courts threaten Israel’s Security, Say Officials

Despite the protest, the Bill was passed but now Israel has an internal problem

The reservists wrote in their letter: “Legislation that allows the government to act in an extremely unreasonable manner will harm the security of the State of Israel, will cause a loss of trust and violate my consent to continue risking my life – and will lead, with deep sorrow and no choice, to a suspension of my volunteer reserve duty.”

Source: Military Protests against Neutering of Courts threaten Israel’s Security, Say Officials

Israel

Israel’s New National Guard: A Tool for Palestinian Erasure

Is this the creation of the Israeli SS. An internal specialist domestic security force to be used on Palestinian Israeli’s and their sympathisers? YES

In March 2023, after months of protests over Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overhaul, Israel gave far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir the go-ahead to establish a national guard. The force, to be composed of an initial 1,800 officers and with an operating budget of one billion NIS ($273 million), will primarily assist Israeli police during “security” emergencies. Approval of the national guard has stirred wide-ranging opposition, from a former Israeli police chief to Palestinian human rights organizations.1

Unlike other Israeli forces, the national guard is designed primarily to target Palestinian citizens of Israel. This policy memo examines the emergence of the national guard in order to understand its implications for Palestinian citizens of Israel. It proposes recommendations to relevant stakeholders for how to challenge the new force and protect Palestinians.

Source: Israel’s New National Guard: A Tool for Palestinian Erasure

Informed Comment

Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.Not everyone is on board with the terms of the AUKUS arrangement, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

ANY SECURITY arrangement with too many variables and multiple contingencies, risks stuttering and keeling over.

Source: Fractures within the newly formed AUKUS ‘alliance’

Australia's Shame

Cover up: The Australian Government’s secret list of US bases – Pearls and Irritations

Australia flag on Eagle eye with dispalce and mask.

What do the governments of other US allies, including Hungary, Norway, the Philippines, and the former puppet government of Afghanistan, possess that Australian governments do not? The answer is a conception of genuine sovereignty, and obligations to transparency that are foreign to Australian governments, particularly the incumbent Albanese government.

Source: Cover up: The Australian Government’s secret list of US bases – Pearls and Irritations

Bernie Sanders

The War Grifters’ Legal Larceny League | The Smirking Chimp

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog, Bernie Sanders has put forth a bill (doomed to fail, alas) that would impose a 10% budgeting penalty on the Pentagon for each year it fails to pass an annual audit, something that big throbbing heart of capitalist exploitation and thievery so frequently fails to do.

Source: The War Grifters’ Legal Larceny League | The Smirking Chimp

Informed Comment

Trump vs. Democracy: Let the Final Battle Begin | The Smirking Chimp

The pustule of Trump has been growing since 2016, and the authoritarian impulses underlying this infection have been allowed to fester for decades.

Folks, it is finally time to lance this boil. It is time to decisively rescue democracy and the rule of law. It is time to defeat Trump and his enablers, who are determined to defy the core values of America.

Let the battle begin.

Source: Trump vs. Democracy: Let the Final Battle Begin | The Smirking Chimp

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LNP

Kindergarten mentality: a higher standard required from those who govern us – Pearls and Irritations

Politician male and female speakers behind rostrum

Some politicians have decided to do what is better for them and their re-election and position rather than what’s good for Australia. They think the smart thing to do is trash the whole idea the Voice. Ego, power, position and privilege have nothing to do with the Voice. It has to do with Australian citizens and how best we can be inclusive and move forward.

Source: Kindergarten mentality: a higher standard required from those who govern us – Pearls and Irritations

LNP

Dutton’s Nuclear Folly: Small Modular Reactors a political mirage – Michael West

Nuclear SMRs

As Peter Dutton talks up nuclear power, it is not surprising to see Andrew Liveris shifting his pitch from a ‘gas led recovery’ to a call for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to be considered for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. Dutton is engaged in politics, Liveris in fantasy. Rex Patrick reports on the nuclear distraction.

Source: Dutton’s Nuclear Folly: Small Modular Reactors a political mirage – Michael West

LNP, LNP Corruption

Stuart Robert backer John Margerison has left the country and ‘severed all ties with Australia’

Synergy 360 part-owner David Milo, former MP Stuart Robert and Synergy 360 co-owner, John Margerison.

“That Mr Margerison’s lawyer now claims he has left and severed all ties with Australia is a somewhat surprising turn of events indeed. Mr Margerison’s whereabouts remains a matter of great mystery.”

Source: Stuart Robert backer John Margerison has left the country and ‘severed all ties with Australia’

Uncategorized

Paladin, Canstruct, Broadspectrum implicated in suspect payments to Pacific politicians

Ian Stewart says he was pressured to pay bribes and tried to report it to the government.

It’s significant that Ministers seem to remain unnamed Morrison and Dutton obviously spring to mind. The buck seems to have stopped with Dept head M. Pezzullo a significantly vocal spokesperson when Peter Dutton was the Minister.

Dutton’s track record of incompetence in all the ministries he held stands alone as a record achievement. So much so one might wonder if he was actually the most competent of LNP politicians achieving exactly what was asked of him by his LNP leaders at the time, particularly Tony Abbott and the party’s backroom. It’s is why he believes he’s been rewarded as today’s leader of the opposition.

Australia’s Home Affairs Department oversaw the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to powerful Pacific Island politicians through a chain of suspect contracts as it sought to maintain controversial offshore asylum seeker processing centres.

Home Affairs secretary Pezzullo told a parliamentary committee in April 2019: “We’re not aware of … any demonstrable instances of likely, possible or reasonably suspected corruption.”

Source: Paladin, Canstruct, Broadspectrum implicated in suspect payments to Pacific politicians

Trump

Analysis finds swing voters will sink Trump in Biden rematch, pro-DeSantis PAC claims

According to an analysis of swing voters, right-leaning independent voters fear that former President Donald Trump will lose a general election rematch with President Biden if he gets the Republican nomination in 2024.

“What has changed is the number of right leaning independents expressing grave concern that Trump cannot beat Biden. For them this is a simple pragmatic realization, if Trump wins the GOP nomination, Biden gets re-elected. Importantly, DeSantis is the most preferred alternative by far,” the online monitoring firm Impact Social said in its analysis provided for the pro-DeSantis Ready to Win PAC.

Source: Analysis finds swing voters will sink Trump in Biden rematch, pro-DeSantis PAC claims

Informed Comment

OECD accused of pressuring Albanese Government to weaken tax evasion laws

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A brawl over Australia’s tax collection policies has erupted between two giants of global economics, reports Alan Austin.

Source: OECD accused of pressuring Albanese Government to weaken tax evasion laws

Climate Change

The climate emergency is real – with hope going up in smoke

Carbon dioxide must be removed from the atmosphere to avoid the horrible consequences of 2 degrees of warming, or more, and the only way to do that is with trees.

Source: The climate emergency is real – with hope going up in smoke

ALP Government,

Congressional Concerns: Stalling Nuclear Submarines for Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The reality ignored by our ALP-Government

As US lawmakers wrestle over funds and the need to increase submarine production, the Australian side of the bargain looks flimsy, weak, and dispensable. With cap waiting to be filled, Canberra’s undistinguished begging is qualified by what, exactly, will be provided. What the US president promises, Congress taketh. Wise heads might see this as a chance to disentangle, extricate, and cancel an agreement monumentally absurd, costly and filled with folly. It might even go some way to preserve peace rather than stimulate Indo-Pacific militarism.

Source: Congressional Concerns: Stalling Nuclear Submarines for Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

‘We are winning’: Are US Jews who oppose Israeli settlements finally getting somewhere? | New York | The Guardian

Demonstrators march in support of Palestine in New York City on 20 July 2023.

Is this Anti Semitism? Israel would like us to believe it is

American Jews are growing sceptical of Israeli policies towards Palestinians and want limits on aid to prevent settlement growth

Source: ‘We are winning’: Are US Jews who oppose Israeli settlements finally getting somewhere? | New York | The Guardian

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Old Dog Thought- When Dutton says Mate why does seem a threat rather than a greeting?

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Racism Australia

Racism, the ‘No’ campaign and the Americanisation of Australian politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Uluru Statement against FN art background

Category: Politics permalink Lucy Hamilton There may be some Coalition politicians and Murdoch employees who are motivated by genuine racism to oppose the Voice to Parliament. Some might believe First Nations Australians are unworthy. Some probably believe in “reverse racism.” That, of course, is the belief that there is a correct direction for racism to travel.

Source: Racism, the ‘No’ campaign and the Americanisation of Australian politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Media

Voice to parliament: Peter Dutton’s divisive language must not derail Australia’s 1967 moment

Peter Dutton wants a No vote in the 2023 referendum. In 1967, 90 per cent of Australians said yes to Indigenous rights.

Yes, Peter Costello’s The AGE  puts Massola’s by-line  on the front page that the “Yes Vote is Unlikely to win”  as “News”, rather than Opinion, setting the mood for the No Campaign

So, yes; some individual First Nations peoples are against the Voice, and for widely differing reasons, but the vast majority – currently 83 per cent – are for it. Eighty-three per cent that’s a lot of voices. I hope the rest of us can hear them.

Source: Voice to parliament: Peter Dutton’s divisive language must not derail Australia’s 1967 moment

Propaganda

Anti-Voice Propaganda: A Response – » The Australian Independent Media Network

pseudo-arguments put forward in this remarkable piece of political propaganda are the best that those opposed to the Voice can muster at this point, the campaign is dead. Simple application of basic logic and critical thinking exposes the ‘case’ against the Voice as quite ineffectual. It is standard Conservative fare: fear the unknown (despite there being ample detail about the Voice). I do find it interesting that they tipped their hand so blatantly with the ‘this is permanent’ argument. They are clearly desperate, and that argument was not thought through. Their petulance thus exposed, let us hope the electorate sees through this nonsense and votes for True National Unity with a Voice.

Source: Anti-Voice Propaganda: A Response – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

(1) Julia… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Donald Trump and the Liberal Party

If we don’t wake up to a “Yes” vote the morning after the referendum, we might well see a resurgence of red baseball caps, and a victory for the Trumpists in Australia.”

Source: (1) Julia… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Truth in Humor

We All Like Democracy Until The Voters Get It Wrong! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Gladys Berejiklian shows she knows Morrison will push her under a bus.

As I mentioned at the start, I’m out of the country but we did receive our energy bill while away making us wonder if it would be cheaper to extend our holiday indefinitely even if it meant moving to a five-star hotel. I do remember sometime last century, Jeff Kennett privatising everything he could manage in order to make it all more efficient and cheaper. Imagine how expensive it would be if it were still in public hands…

Source: We All Like Democracy Until The Voters Get It Wrong! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Kathryn Campbell’s Robodebt lies on video and her friendship with NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

How is it that she’s suspended with pay rather than without after the report? It seems justice moves so slowly that her paid suspension might last until her retirement.

Kathryn Campbell, advisor to the AUKUS program on $900,000 per year, has been suspended for her role in the fraudulent Robodebt Scheme and is possibly facing criminal charges. Most people would not know whether her suspension is justified or not but in the video below she is in full flight lying, deceiving and showing contempt for a Senate hearing into Robodebt.

Source: Kathryn Campbell’s Robodebt lies on video and her friendship with NACC Commissioner Paul BreretonKangaroo Court of Australia

Fox News

The Smirking Chimp | News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

The Best of Fox News reveals News Corp and Rupert Murdoch’s Logic and agenda: According to Laura Ingraham the CIA’s protecting of the vote is a “trick” to stop Trump

“But if all else fails, if the endless indictments of Trump don’t do the job, Democrats could have another trick up their sleeve. And, naturally, the CIA is involved. Remember, they’re only here to protect the vote, of course,” Ingraham said.

Source: The Smirking Chimp | News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

UK

The Privatization of Water Is a Scam

We saw it under the LNP how profits were made when will we recognize water is a public not private asset? We can only save it not increase it and keep it out of private hands.

British water companies have loaded up with debt while pumping sewage into waterways, raising bills and delivering huge profits to shareholders. This can only end by the government taking water back from these corporations.

Source: The Privatization of Water Is a Scam

Prisons

‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison – scheerpost.com

Politicians in Texas denied air conditioning for prisons in May. Now temperatures of 100 F and higher are killing incarcerated people.

Source: ‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison – scheerpost.com

Israel

The “Destruction of the Third Temple”? Israel’s Apocalyptic Civil War Weakens State, Military

Israel’s Netanyahu Government wants the application of “Unitary Executive Theory” and do away with the “Separation of Powers”. In simple terms establish a Fascist State disguised as a  Democracy in name only. Simply because it will still have  ” show elections”. Guess Russia is a Democracy in the eyes of Netanyahu. A unitary executive would also keep him from being jailed for corruption.

The country does not have a formal constitution, but some laws, on human rights issues, have been taken as the basis for overturning subsequent legislation that contradicts the basic laws. Removing the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review would make Israel an elective dictatorship, where the ruling party can pass retrograde laws permitting discrimination against women, Christians, Muslims, secularists and gays, in accordance with the principles of the Israeli Religious Right.

The Supreme Court has also branded some squatter-settlements by Israelis on Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank as illegal, and extremists Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir want to prevent the court from so ruling in the future.

Source: The “Destruction of the Third Temple”? Israel’s Apocalyptic Civil War Weakens State, Military

Israel

Massive Crowds of Israelis Are Protesting Netanyahu’s Supreme Court Power Play, Again – Mother Jones

Fascism is the application of ” Unitary Executive Theory” and a negation of the “Separation of Powers” Netanyahu, Trump along with current and would be dictators all want to action it.

Tens of thousands of Israelis marched into Jerusalem on Saturday, completing a four-day hike from Tel Aviv to the ancient capital city to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s renewed effort to increase his control over Israel’s Supreme Court.

Source: Massive Crowds of Israelis Are Protesting Netanyahu’s Supreme Court Power Play, Again – Mother Jones

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An Old Dog Thought- The LNP and No voters are such short term thinkers. The world is watching.

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Voice to parliament: NSW’s move into No camp puts Voice on track for defeat, Resolve Political Monitor finds

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has conceded support for the Voice is trending down just as the Yes and No campaigns ramp up.

The quality of Australia’s mainstream media like Fordham set a tone that is bullying and impossible to believe. A tone for us all insisting we are not racist but are against The Voice. We lead the world  while all other colonial nations have agreed, either in their Constitutions or by Treaty to listen to the Voice of their First peoples. These curmudgeons proudly stand with Israel, Russia China and the UK, with no  Universal Human Rights Bill and even support Dutton’s wannabe LNP government that wishes to rid us of the UN’s AHRC.

Our Mainstream media is not reporting polls but interpreting them in a way to influence the public and set a mood. A mood, that is significantly less generous to what Australians want. There’s little or no attention given to the “undecided” who seem to have been cobbled together with the no voters.  An easier option when forced to give a Yes or No answer when surrounded by the mis and disinformation the media has also chosen to publish.

Australia has truly become Americanised politically and with media adopting only one side. It’s certainly not the side of the Government we Australians chose in a landslide for better integrity and improved management of progress to show the world we truly are the land of a “fair go”. The media seem to be a sounding board for a U-turn back to the 50s with their moronic chant “don’t take the risk Albo”

The Indigenous Voice to parliament is headed towards a referendum defeat, with most NSW voters supporting the No campaign for the first time and just 31 per cent of Australians expecting the Yes vote to succeed.

Source: Voice to parliament: NSW’s move into No camp puts Voice on track for defeat, Resolve Political Monitor finds

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Peter Dutton wants a No vote in the 2023 referendum. In 1967, 90 per cent of Australians said yes to Indigenous rights.

Yes, Peter Costello’s The AGE  puts Massola’s by-line  on the front page “Yes Vote is Unlikely” to win  as “News” rather than Opinion setting the mood for the No Campaign

So, yes; some individual First Nations people are against the Voice, and for widely differing reasons, but the vast majority – currently 82 per cent – are for it. Eighty-two per cent. That’s a lot of voices. I hope the rest of us can hear them.

Source: Voice to parliament: Peter Dutton’s divisive language must not derail Australia’s 1967 moment