As global temperatures keep rising toward uninhabitable levels and a nuclear doomsday machine is threatening life on Earth, is it too early, or is it already too late, to hold advance Nuremberg trials for those who keep poisoning the planetary atmosphere and promote nuclear war?
Source: The present risks to life on earth – Pearls and Irritations
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Of course, it is hard to say how corporate boards would respond, and maybe CEOs really are worth their eight-figure paychecks, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. But it seems worth a try. We know that under the current system, there is no one who has the job of keeping CEO pay in check, and we pay a high price in the form of inequality, and less money for everyone else, as a result of the bloated pay structure at the top.
Source: Imagine a World Where CEOs Get Paid $3 Million a Year – CounterPunch.org
Lachlan Murdoch was forced to abandon his own defamation case against Crikey. Using the excuse of their very own phishing for subscriptions as Crikey’s business tactic. Attention-seeking actions like the one he employed against Crikey was to be used to sell his own subs. However, the case was dropped because he needed the Dominion Systems’ evidence against Fox News buried. That evidence showed the Murdoch’s extremely malicious and intentional media malpractices which had to be swept under the carpet from widespread public knowledge. The Australian case against Crikey threatened to shine a light on them if the case went ahead.
Individuals can’t claim Tax Deductions. When we lose defamation cases or suffer unintended costs. However, Fox News can and who other than us, individual Taxpayers, lose out when the corporation makes a ginormous tax claim?
Furthermore, surely Crikey has a right to recoup the legal costs suffered against Murdoch’s failed vexatious attack and return the Go Fund Me donations received?
“Mr Murdoch remains confident that the court would ultimately find in his favour, however, he does not wish to further enable Crikey’s use of the court to litigate a case from another jurisdiction that has already been settled and facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers and boost their profits,” he said.
The “case from another jurisdiction” referenced above is the defamation claim Fox News and Fox Corp were facing from Dominion Voting Systems. The case settled this week for US$787.5 million (just over a billion in Australian dollars), roughly half the damages Dominion was seeking.
Crikey
Source: Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation lawsuit against Crikey
Murdoch’s Settlement is no longer News
If that rate goes up to $3 per subscriber, Fox News would be earning more than $1.8 billion annually from affiliate revenue alone
After its hosts repeatedly lied about voting machine company Dominion rigging the 2020 elections, Fox News agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion to settle a defamation lawsuit. Fox can deduct over $200 million in taxes because of the settlement payment.
Source: Fox News Can Claim a Massive Tax Deduction for Its Settlement Over Election Lies
She has been given a Voice that simply isn’t recognized by Indigenous Australia it simply LOUDER
Senator Price does not speak for us or most Aboriginal people:
Senator Price speaks for herself and is entitled to as any individual is. However, she doesn’t speak for Indigenous Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders peoples and ignores their place in the history of this Nation.
The very fact she’s an MP doesn’t make her special or guarantee that she is operating in the best interests of Australia. Her Voice will not only correct our history or improve it by resisting the necessary changes to the past 240 years of racist decision-making for and about the First Peoples of this Nation. Australia remains the only Colonial nation on this planet that fails to acknowledge the history and the people here before 1788.
The new coalition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians says the voice referendum will divide Australians along racial lines in a new advertisement
Billions for AUKUS submarines are not a good look in light of Welfare Report showing rising poverty. Ben Phillips reports on Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Budget conundrum.
Source: Poverty conundrum for Jim Chalmers as welfare report lands, Budget looms – Michael West
One of the most hated aspects of the Morrison government was the secrecy. Over and again, we continue to shock to revelations of hidden wrongdoing long after their defeat last May
The question needs asking given Israeli’s are persecuting Christians in Israel
Why are tens of millions of Christians supporting the expansion of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinians? It’s an important question because the answer has serious consequences for the stability of the Middle East.
Source: “It’s armageddon, but not as we know it” – Pearls and Irritations
The cost to a Nation
This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Source: Ordinary Americans Are Being Forced to Subsidize the Military-Industrial Complex
Murdoch won against Dominion do we really believe he’ll lose to Smartmatic? The precedent has been set he paid a cost and will continue the business. Lawyers dream they have made a progressive impact that alone is fake.
Fox News agreed to pay over $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle its defamation lawsuit but the network’s legal troubles are far from over.
Proclaiming that it would never lie to its audience, Fox News has told viewers that Dominion Voting Systems has dropped its defamation case, issued an apology and agreed to pay the news network $787.5 million.
Source: Dominion agrees to pay Fox News $787 million, Fox News reports | The Shovel
Even though their traitorous behavior has brought America to the cusp of civil war — including an attack on the U.S. Capitol — they’ll continue to do whatever is necessary (short of defaming a deep-pocketed voting machine company) to keep the money flowing in their direction.
Source: The Settlement: “Accountability” Is Just Another Cost of Doing Business | The Smirking Chimp
Dowling’s got one thing wrong Murdoch’s share price hasn’t budged. It’s business as usual in the USA. The settlement is just a cost of doing business. However, a Murdoch Royal Commission would emphasise the facts of Murdoch’s corporate modus operandi in this country and insure that it operates differently here. The UK investigation cost Murdoch the News of the World. The China investigation had him run out of the Country. Surely that demands an investigation here?
Nothing undermines democracy more than when a large media organisation lies about an election being stolen which Murdoch’s Fox News has admitted doing in the US. On that basis the Australian government should being moving swiftly to set up the long called for Murdoch Royal Commission to make sure it never happens in Australia.
It’s business as usual
If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.
Meanwhile, Fox’s stock price took a brief three percent dip when the settlement was announced on Tuesday. Within 24 hours, it was back to where it had been beforehand and indeed was trading at almost exactly where it had been on Election Day 2020.
Source: Who’s Paying Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement With Dominion?
Dominion is still going after Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, but their incompetence, as manifest as it is, appears more comical than dangerous. We may get to see them twist and sweat dark bullets down their foreheads, but they’ll both claim bankruptcy and neither of them has a reputation left to be destroyed. My hope now is that Smartmatic, which has the next defamation suit up, gets the empty suits of FOX News on the stand and we can get a better grasp of the horror show that is that network. If they take a big enough chunk of cash in a settlement from FOX, instead of pushing onto the courtroom at all costs, perhaps the double hits will do fatal harm to the network, or, even better, corporate advertisers will be embarrassed to be associated with determined liars.
Doesn’t seem like much to ask.
Source: Deport Murdoch – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dutton, Price and the Cabinet are all at odds with each other. Dutton left the Cabinet’s meeting on the Voice in a quandary when he said he wanted local voices on the ground and a National Voice legislated but “Not in the Constitution”. He agreed that Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders had a special place in history. However after he left he told the mainstream media he was against a National Voice and that the Voice was solely a local and State matter as far as the LNP were concerned, throwing a cat among the pigeons.
Price and Dutton seem to be on the same page and agree to local voices legislated, but not a National Voice. Somehow by magic, those many diverse local and state voices would still be heard in the Capital. Price is the example as to why a single Indigenous MP isn’t representative of the First Nation people. She remains a lone spokesperson for herself. It seems she’s been appointed to Cabinet to support Dutton’s argument against the notion of a National Voice by becoming Dutton’s idea of a National Voice. She’s the Voice he supported behind closed doors and lead the Cabinet to believe he was in favor of then did a presser to publicly say didn’t. Are we confused enough by the worst Opposition leader yet? The Liberal has appointed 2 more Nationals to his front bench turning the LNP into and NLP.
Watch these twits confuse not only each other, but the Public as well, and betray the true history of Australia and it’s First Nation’s Peoples.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled his reshuffled frontbench, with Jacinta Price the new opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman.
Source: Women promoted in Liberal frontbench reshuffle – Michael West
In Australia, public universities face a crisis that threatens the future of this country.
Source: The crisis of academic values and governance in Australian universities – Pearls and Irritations
One of the most hated aspects of the Morrison government was the secrecy. Over and again, we continue to shock to revelations of hidden wrongdoing long after their defeat last May.
Source: Secrecy is our enemy: whistleblowers must be defended – Pearls and Irritations
Australian foreign minister Penny Wong claims she wants peace in the Asia-Pacific. At the same time, she is doubling down on Australia’s role in maintaining the global dominance of US capitalism — and threatening war in the region.
Source: The Australian Government Is Selling War Under the Guise of Peace
Many countries of the Global South are now seeing more value in creating structures that take their interests into account — not just as pawns of the United States, writes Roger McKenzie.
Source: The Global South will not wait for the UN to solve humanity’s challenges
What is going on in Sudan?
Source: Sudan crisis Explained: What’s behind the latest Fighting and its Roots in the Past
The Dominion lawsuit has always posed a much greater threat to Fox’s bottom line than just a settlement
Source: Fox News Settles Dominion Defamation Lawsuit With No Admission Of Their Lies | Crooks and Liars
The stain this leaves on Fox can’t be wiped out with money,” he said. “Fox News lied about the 2020 election; they all knew it was a lie, right up to the Murdochs themselves. What the Dominion trial offered was a keyhole view into the day-to-day industrial-scale deceit that takes place at Fox. It helped illustrate why the company is such a uniquely destructive force.”
Source: ‘Not Surprised, But Disgusted’: Fox Avoids Trial by Settling With Dominion for $787.5 Million
Source: Here Are the Winners and Losers of Fox News Settlement With Dominion
With a $787.5 million settlement for its election lies, Fox News has avoided the legal and moral punishment of a court verdict.
Source: Fox News Settlement: Dominion Was Not Going to Save Democracy
Country Australians will benefit the least from the stage 3 tax cuts, a new analysis based on tax data shows.
Source: Stage 3 tax cuts to benefit rural Australia the least, analysis shows – ABC News
The slogan of “Don’t know? Vote No” is the sort of thing that Scotty From Mad Men would have come up with: that wonderful trick of advertising companies of helping something to stick in your brain by making it rhyme, because when something sticks, it clicks. Slogans like “Be Wise, Alkalise!” or “Beanz means Heinz” (which only partly rhymes even though they’ve deliberately spelled Beans incorrectly to make it look like it rhymes with Heinz…)
The point is that the Voice will either do some good or, in the worst case, do not much at all. Either way, it’s worth a chance.
What are we left with, if those who have No idea were to succeed? We’d have to the garbled mess that Jacinta Nampijinpa Price argued for on Insiders which was a lot of local voices that wouldn’t have a central voice in Canberra because once it went to Canberra then people would have to listen to them and that wouldn’t be right because once they were in Canberra then they’d be part of the elite and not worth listening to. You know, they’d be a Canberra voice like her and all the other politicians, so we need to just do something else.
Basically, the poverty of the No case is in their slogan. In general, I’d argue: “If you don’t know, FIND OUT before you open your mouth and make a fool of yourself!”
Source: The No Case – Which Is A Little Ambiguous, I Know… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Mr Albanese said Mr Dutton was raising questions and doubts “by not having any substance to his opposition” to the voice.
The Liberal Party has called for a legislated, but not constitutionally enshrined, voice process involving representative local and regional bodies.
Mr Albanese said he had made it clear there would be local and regional bodies, which may differ across the states and territories.
He pointed to South Australia’s decision to set up a state voice.
“It’s quite clear that the national voice would work with state voices, were they to be established as well,” he said.
“So clearly we want to hear from local communities, working the way up. But you need a national voice as well.”
Source: Solicitor-General’s advice on voice to be made public – Michael West
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil admits the country’s migration system is broken and not delivering, ahead of a long-awaited review.
Source: Migration system broken, not delivering, says minister
The media frenzy appeared unanimous in its focus on identifying the leaker more than reporting on the newsworthy content of the material.
In contrast, Assange went to the absolute limits of human endurance for the sake of protecting whistleblowing sources.
Journalists are entrusted by the public to reveal truth, not serve the powerful in a witch-hunt for sources of the truth. Instead, The New York Times and its co-conspirators from Bellingcat appear to have been seeking to punish a leaker who exposed the U.S. government and the corporate media’s lies.
The legacy news media is not simply a second-rate form of journalism in comparison with WikiLeaks, but its intentional opposite.
Fox pleads guilty and ducks for cover saving Rupert fro public testimony and admonishment.
Fox Corp and Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $US787.5 million ($1.17 billion), averting a high-profile trial putting one of the world’s top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 US election.
Source: Fox News, Dominion Voting settle 2020 election claim case for $788 million
The case that starts today raises a fundamental question: Will there be a penalty for profiting from the spread of dangerous misinformation?
Think of the poison Fox has knowingly been pumping into America as analogous to the poison cigarette manufacturers pumped into Americans’ lungs. Part of the remedy for the cigarette poison has been warning disclosures on every pack. Why not an analogous remedy for Fox News’s poison?
Source: What’s the Perfect Punishment for Fox News? | The Smirking Chimp
“Given your call to send the AFP in, was there a time when you, as the Minister in Charge of the AFP thought of doing that yourself?”
You can advise Donkey’s but….
Tupperware have realised their lack of innovation and ability to change with the times has caused a serious problem for the company, and they are attempting to address it. The Coalition under Peter Dutton seem to be deliberately digging in to the past and suggesting it is the way of the future. Another large American company tried that in the early 21st Century and went bankrupt. That company was Kodak. Despite inventing the digital camera, they decided there was more money in selling photographic film than digital cameras. There wasn’t.
Those that forget their history are likely to repeat it.
Source: Those that forget their history … – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Dutton falsely advocates legislated regional Voices – that’s not on offer. Dutton’s purpose is to confuse, and block Aboriginal constitutional recognition. All for benefit of his ‘real constituents’ – the miners, frackers, industrial pastoralists and water-thieves.
Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.
Source: Chris Hedges: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks – scheerpost.com
Amid fossil fuel corporate fury at any move to tax them or cap their soaring price rises, the tax reform moves of the Albanese government have been yet modest. The country-by-country reporting initiative however has drawn international plaudits. Callum Foote and Michael West report on the progress and the challenges in funding Australia’s future.
Billion of dollars worth of Australians’ retirement savings are being invested into new fossil fuel projects although several super funds are starting to push big polluters to act on climate change.
Source: Super funds investing billions into new coal and gas – Michael West
The German nuclear phase-out is a victory of reason over the lust for profit; over powerful corporations and their client politicians.
Source: Opinion | People Power Ends Nuclear Energy Era in Germany | Common Dreams
In a letter on Friday, Fox attorneys apologized to Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis for misrepresenting Rupert Murdoch’s role in court filings. Fox lawyers have repeatedly insisted that Murdoch didn’t have an official title at Fox News, but last week, they disclosed that he was in fact an executive officer. The distinction may have limited which emails and texts Fox turned over during the discovery process. The judge has since launched an investigation into potential legal misconduct by Fox. At a hearing on Wednesday, a seething Davis told Fox lawyers, “I need people to tell me the truth—and, by the way, omission is a lie.”
Source: Here’s What You Need to Know Before the Fox News Trial on Monday – Mother Jones
Unless the two parties reach a last-minute settlement — which seems unlikely — Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems are scheduled for their first day in court Monday. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis is expected to finish the jury selection process in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News before hearing opening statements later in the day.
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