Truth in Humor

Let’s Stop This Woke Agenda In Our Schools… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Woke:

adjective

INFORMAL•US
  1. alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
    “we need to stay angry, and stay woke“

So there you have it!

When certain people talk about their hostility to woke folk, then what they’re actually saying is that they don’t want people to be alert to injustice in society, especially when it comes to racism.

You won’t find this on Sky News After Dark. They appropriated Woke to mean any complaint whatsoever. They intentionally confused it and tried to turn it into a joke by mocking it in an effort to make it meaningless and drain it from any weight of truth.

Staying Woke even means when it’s their unassailable privileges are being threatened. Bolt, Rowan Dean et al simply try to reduce it to a state of meaningless equivalence when reality is great and people complain about it. However, when the facts say otherwise then Woke is to be wise. This is a misogynist world in which women find themselves second class to men who aren’t being attacked underpaid or raped. The hardships the Indigenous face are real and aren’t as Bolt tries to insist victims of their own culture. Woke isn’t simply a term applicable to any complaint he might have about Australian Society because he Dean, Kenny et al simply ain’t….Woke

Source: Let’s Stop This Woke Agenda In Our Schools… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trade Unions

Australia’s New Union for Retail and Fast-Food Workers Is Rebuilding Militancy

In its short existence, the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union has already achieved big wins. As conditions continue to decline for Australian workers, RAFFWU is a model of how to stand up to the bosses.

Source: Australia’s New Union for Retail and Fast-Food Workers Is Rebuilding Militancy

Climate

Blockade Australia unfairly maligned by police, media and the Left

Three factions are conspiring to distort the truth over the matter of Blockade Australia (BA) activists’ recent police persecution.

Source: Blockade Australia unfairly maligned by police, media and the Left

Koch Bros

How Charles Koch Purchased the EPA Supreme Court Decision

FILE - This June 29, 2019, file photo show Charles Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Industries, at The Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colo. Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch's powerful network that's known for influencing state policy is now targeting education issues. He's also taking on school choice as the movement battles a new wave of hostility from Democrats who oppose charter schools and private school vouchers that use taxpayer money. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

It began with the Citizen’s United Act of 2010 allowing corporations to act as individuals in American politics. The Koch bros took full advantage of buying politicians and judges to do their bidding.

Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought the fossil fuel billionaire the ruling he’s always wanted.

Source: How Charles Koch Purchased the EPA Supreme Court Decision

Informed Comment

The Beginning of the End of Regulation | The Smirking Chimp

A final implication of today’s ruling is that the filibuster has to go. If the Supreme Court is going to require that Congress be more active and specific in protecting the environment or anything else, such a goal is implausible when 60 senators are necessary to enact it. Senate Democrats now have it in their power to abolish the filibuster. Today’s case should convince them they must.

Source: The Beginning of the End of Regulation | The Smirking Chimp

America's Shame

Supreme Court ends on a low note: Why we should now be more frightened for their next term | Salon.com

Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The 2021-2022 Supreme Court term will go down in infamy. The right-wing majority behaved as if they were kids in a candy store, stuffing their faces with all their favorite goodies knowing there was no one who could stop them and no one who could hold them accountable for having done it. On gun rights, abortion, religion and the environment they took a wrecking ball to the court’s precedents and created bold new tests out of thin air. It was a breath-taking exercise of sheer institutional power — and they’re just getting started.

Source: Supreme Court ends on a low note: Why we should now be more frightened for their next term | Salon.com

Uncategorized

Tucker Carlson lists Trump’s coup plotters who he says should never be punished for anything, ever | Media Matters for America

Grainy photo of Tucker Carlson

As long as Carlson plays the role of Trump in Media he’s Murdoch’s man, his sock-puppet, and is paid well for it.

It’s worth underlining at the outset that claims by the DOJ, FBI, and police should be treated with skepticism in all cases, including those below. But that’s not what Carlson was doing in his Wednesday segment. He was manufacturing a narrative out of whole cloth that the DOJ is in reality a secret police force bent on repressing and persecuting conservatives. Both historically and currently, the opposite is true. Police at the local and federal level are far more likely to infiltrate, investigate, and prosecute leftist activists than conservatives. But Carlson wants to convince his viewers they’re a persecuted, oppressed group to justify their grievances and stoke election denialism.

Source: Tucker Carlson lists Trump’s coup plotters who he says should never be punished for anything, ever | Media Matters for America

Trump

Donald Trump’s Terrified and Frazzled Newsmax Interview Prompts New Witness Tampering Allegations | The Smirking Chimp

This was once the President of the USA. Just listened to him and the meaning of “whack job” becomes clear, apparent, and self-explanatory.

A visibly agitated Trump complained about Hutchinson’s recounting of his behavior during the insurrection.

Source: Donald Trump’s Terrified and Frazzled Newsmax Interview Prompts New Witness Tampering Allegations | The Smirking Chimp

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- When Woke to Woke isn’t Woke

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Uncategorized

Reset upset? Albanese’s speech puts paid to post-election hopes

It took 9 years for the LNP to turn China from friend to enemy. During whole of Abbott’s Prime Ministership, they simply asked him to have Murdoch Media tone down the anti-China rhetoric, to no avail. It takes 8 years post-graduate work to get a Phd but Dr. Herscovitch of the ANU suggests Albanese is a failure because he hasn’t turned China around in a month, what’s he on about?

One sandwich doesn’t make a picnic and one statement good or bad isn’t a diplomatic failure or pass. You can’t turn 9 years of purposeful negativity around in a month. Yes, Albanese does have a difficult task after Abbott’s celebrating the Sino- FTA ,set up by the ALP, to Dutton’s beating of war drums and saber-rattling along with Murdoch’s revenge as help. China was far wiser than us they dumped Murdoch,

But if anybody can do it it will be this new government and without any help from the LNP. After all, China doesn’t operate on kneejerk reactions or short a term memory. It’s proven that without participating in the number of wars Australia has, and lost since WW2. China still has considerable investment in Australia.

“Albanese in using this kind of language about China using economic coercion against Australia is just reproducing a lot of the language that was used by Scott Morrison,” said Benjamin Herscovitch from the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance.

Source: Reset upset? Albanese’s speech puts paid to post-election hopes

Refugees

Refugees and Changing Political Narratives – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia’s solutions over the last nine years leads one to doubt not just the humanity but the sanity of those who implemented the Morrison solutions. The United Kingdom under the apparently intellectually challenged and spoilt man-child Boris Johnson is merrily heading down the path that Australia created.

The same self-serving populist speak and a rather bizarre solution, sending refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda. What would we find if we followed the money trails, both in Australia and the United Kingdom? There are still many questions left unanswered and the mainstream media is complicit by giving race baiting and populist propaganda oxygen.

ABC

Qantas ditches Sky News from airport lounges as ABC takes flight on 90th birthday | Amanda Meade | The Guardian

The departures board inside the Qantas first class lounge at Sydney airport

The Free Market acts

In what is a fitting 90th birthday present for the ABC, Qantas has inked a new deal with the public broadcaster for ABC news bulletins to screen on Qantas flights and in airport lounges. The arrangement means Sky News Australia will no longer be screened in the airline’s lounges, a development that will please critics of the divisive pay TV channel.

Source: Qantas ditches Sky News from airport lounges as ABC takes flight on 90th birthday | Amanda Meade | The Guardian

Informed Comment

Sky-high mortgages, 7.1% inflation, and a 20% chance of recession. How the Conversation’s panel sees the year ahead

Frydenberg and Morrison said they fixed this shit and put us in the best place possible ahead of the rest of the world. No word has been heard from either of them since.

The panel believes Australia will avoid a recession the year ahead, but is much less certain about the United States. It expects real wages to go backward and economic growth to sink.

Source: Sky-high mortgages, 7.1% inflation, and a 20% chance of recession. How the Conversation’s panel sees the year ahead

TAX

Local nurse pays more tax than mining company | The Shovel

A Brisbane nurse completing her tax return has calculated that she contributed $13,000 in annual tax payments this year, approximately $13,000 more than the average multi-national mining company operating in Australia.

Local nurse pays more tax than mining company | The Shovel
ALP Government,

Bowen slams Morrison legacy as fossil fuels drive jump in Australia emissions

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has criticised the Coalition’s failure to implement effective emissions reduction policies, writes Michael Mazengarb.

Source: Bowen slams Morrison legacy as fossil fuels drive jump in Australia emissions

EPA

The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate Carbon Pollution – and sent a Warning to other Regulators

SCOTUS REBELLION

In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama adminstration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act.

Source: The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate Carbon Pollution – and sent a Warning to other Regulators

Informed Comment

Trumpism and the Myth of the “Free Market” | The Smirking Chimp

The Progressive Era, as it was called, welled up because millions of Americans saw that wealth and power concentrated at the top was undermining American democracy and stacking the economic deck. Millions of Americans overcame their cynicism and began to mobilize.

The central question is whether we can do so again. To answer that, though, we need to examine what has happened to the Democratic Party over the last four decades — and why it has so far failed to mobilize a new progressivism. That’s to come.

Source: Trumpism and the Myth of the “Free Market” | The Smirking Chimp

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Will the LNP demand the ABC be now more critical of government since they neutered it or more supportive?

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Informed Comment

Australian journalists are at war with their audience and the audience says ‘enough’!

Founder and publisher Dave Donovan and managing editor Michelle Pini analyse the widening disconnect between Australia’s concentrated legacy media and its audience.

Australian journalists are at war with their audience and the audience says ‘enough’!
ALP Government,

Scrap the digital workhouse. An open letter to Tony Burke. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We know you are new in your job, Tony and face not only the huge demands of your portfolio but a backlog of catastrophic ineptitude and deceit left you by a Morrison government whose criminal negligence of health and welfare was rivalled only by its pandering to corporate oligarchs and its bent for wholesale corruption, but can you, please, reconsider Pbas?

Pbas is the points based system which the Coalition was keen to inflict on job-seekers, a jobactive revamp it promoted as “more flexible” than mandatory job application. It’s not. It’s Liberal propaganda designed to pillory job seekers for being out of work. Lazy dole-bludgers. Political point-scoring. Baked into it is unconscionable, sadistic cruelty and victim blaming. It’s the antithesis of everything we’ve come to associate with Labor.

Scrap the digital workhouse. An open letter to Tony Burke. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
ALP Government,

New roadmap out of electricity gridlock – Michael West

A new roadmap out of gridlock for the national electricity grid has been developed to fast-track projects that have been on the drawing board for years.

New roadmap out of electricity gridlock – Michael West
Informed Comment

Timor Spy Saga: Rex Patrick pushes Labor to unveil Australia’s dirty secret, end persecution of Bernard Collaery – Michael West
Politics of Persecution

In one of his last moves as a senator, Rex Patrick has advanced his battle against the National Archives to release important documents relating to John Howard and Alexander Downer’s undermining of Timor-Leste in the early 2000s. Callum Foote reports on the latest efforts to end the persecution and secret trials of whistleblower Bernard Collaery.

Timor Spy Saga: Rex Patrick pushes Labor to unveil Australia’s dirty secret, end persecution of Bernard Collaery – Michael West
Informed Comment, Uncategorized

Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension – » The Australian Independent Media Network

American influence isn’t as large as one imagines

The overruling of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has created a sense that those outside the US will somehow draw inspiration from the example of the sacred foetus and the diminished autonomy of its carrier.

Groups such as MSI Reproductive Choices have also drawn a line in the sand of resistance. “To anyone who wants to deny someone’s right to make decisions about what is right for their body and their future, our message is ‘We are not going back’.” Dobbs, in short, may prove on the international stage to be more damp squib than firecracker.

Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Israel

Israeli Squatter-Settlers are Expanding Colonies in Palestinian West Bank in Advance of Biden’s Visit and another Election

Anti- Semitism or Anti- Israel. They are no longer the same. It’s no longer 1967 but 2022 and Jews are turning against Israel.

The settlers are well aware that political parties will be keen to win their votes, and won’t be interested in disputes over the construction of new settlements. That’s why work is already underway to identify new sites and possibilities for new settlements and “facts on the ground” at the expense of the Palestinians and their land.

Source: Israeli Squatter-Settlers are Expanding Colonies in Palestinian West Bank in Advance of Biden’s Visit and another Election

Informed Comment

Cassidy Hutchinson’s Chilling Testimony | The Smirking Chimp

Cassidy Hutchinson’s Chilling Testimony | The Smirking Chimp

Cassidy Hutchinson’s Chilling Testimony | The Smirking Chimp
Jan 6th

Trump Allegedly Attacked His Own Secret Service Agent. That Wasn’t Even Tuesday’s Biggest News. – Mother Jones

Trump Allegedly Attacked His Own Secret Service Agent. That Wasn’t Even Tuesday’s Biggest News. – Mother Jones

Trump Allegedly Attacked His Own Secret Service Agent. That Wasn’t Even Tuesday’s Biggest News. – Mother Jones
Uncategorized

NATO describes Russia as direct threat to security and stability

NATO has agreed on a new strategic concept that describes Russia as “the most significant and direct threat to allies’ security and stability”.

On Wednesday the alliance also formally invited Finland and Sweden to be members, a day after a historic deal in which Turkey dropped its objections to the two nations joining.

The memberships show Russian President Vladimir Putin that his efforts to weaken NATO are failing and have actually instead further inspired the two neutral countries to join the alliance.

“As NATO allies, Finland and Sweden commit to fully support Turkey against threats to its national security,” secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said.

NATO describes Russia as direct threat to security and stabili

Meanwhile, more American soldiers will be sent to Europe in a show of force against the Kremlin.

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Defending Howard and Downer is Australia’s Shame

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LNP

FLASHBACK 2021: Morrison Government sends Australia backward in women’s rights

LEST WE FORGET

The overturning of Roe v Wade in the U.S. has reminded us all of the importance of women’s rights everywhere.

This article from 2021 by Labor MP Graham Perrett examines how the Morrison Government was biased against women and set women’s rights backwards in Australia.

FLASHBACK 2021: Morrison Government sends Australia backward in women’s rights
LNP

Lost and bound – whither the Liberal Party? | The Shot

Peter Dutton lurched around like Barnaby at closing time, barging straight into a narrow, electorally irrelevant topic imported directly from the US Republican playbook. This mantra was repeated a few weeks later by a hyperventilating Sen. Hollie Hughes who told a questioner at the Sydney Institute who asked where the Liberal Party had gone wrong, that essentially it was all the fault of the “Marxist school teachers”.

Source: Lost and bound – whither the Liberal Party? | The Shot

Uncategorized

Stop the culture wars, Senator Hughes – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Senator Hughes’ disgraceful attacks on the teaching profession in this country by labelling them Marxist is divisive and insulting to teachers. Her ignorance about Keynes and Marx is very concerning. Senator Hughes’ behaviour is the worst level of American style cultural war to try to agitate in this country. Senator Hughes should be reprimanded by her leader Peter Dutton, but I suspect there is a greater chance Shakespeare himself will be teaching next term at my daughter’s school than Ms Hughes being pulled into line.

Source: Stop the culture wars, Senator Hughes – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

The difference between manners and civility – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Meanwhile LNP Senator Hughes is outspoken in the media and acting as if it were Question Time calling the Australian Teaching Profession Marxists. Sounding like a an American Republican Trumpster she’s attempting to bring full blown “culture wars” to Australian politics. However, all she is doing is demonstrating her’s and the LNP’s ignorance. In her best un- Woke fashion Huges wants the Australian teaching profession cancelled, demonstrating she hasn’t a clue what even the term Woke means when demanding our children need to be taught what’s right rather than develop the skills of learningand assessing what’s right for themselves.

One of the promises the new Prime Minister made during the election campaign was to create or recreate a more civil parliament and, for that matter, a more tolerant and reasoned society. Most would all agree that we want our politicians to put their better minds to the problems confronting us. We want the screaming and disrespect to end.

The difference between manners and civility – » The Australian Independent Media Network
ALP Government,

Trade discussions ‘stalled’ over climate – Michael West

Negotiations for a “critical” trade deal with the European Union have “stalled” over perceptions Australia isn’t “fair dinkum” on climate change action, and due to a fractured relationship with France, Anthony Albanese says.

Trade discussions ‘stalled’ over climate – Michael West

Trade discussions ‘stalled’ over climate – Michael West
Melbourne

Melbourne is Australia’s most liveable city and I finally understand why | Anna Spargo-Ryan | The Guardian

Degraves St in Melbourne

Melbourne was recently again crowned the most liveable city in Australia and 10th in the world, beating Sydney (13th in the world) and well ahead of everywhere else. Ironically, after the couple of years we’ve had, I think I finally understand why.

Source: Melbourne is Australia’s most liveable city and I finally understand why | Anna Spargo-Ryan | The Guardian

Israel, Israel Crimes

Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution

Chomsky on Israeli apartheid Chomsky believes that calling Israeli policies towards the Palestinians “apartheid” is actually a “gift to Israel”; at least, if by apartheid one refers to South African-style apartheid.

Source: Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution

Jan 6th

Angry, violent, reckless: testimony paints shocking portrait of Trump | January 6 hearings | The Guardian

Donald Trump arrives to speak at the rally in Washington DC on 6 January 2021.

He lunged at a Secret Service agent’s throat. He threw dishes during temper tantrums. And he wanted metal detectors taken away so his fans could march with guns and knives.

An astonishing portrait of Donald Trump as an unhinged and personally violent president emerged at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol.

Source: Angry, violent, reckless: testimony paints shocking portrait of Trump | January 6 hearings | The Guardian

Jan 6th

Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise Jan. 6 testimony exposes the violence that fuels Trumpism | Salon.com

Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 28, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

“Anyone downplaying Cassidy Hutchinson’s role or her access in the West Wing either doesn’t understand how the Trump WH worked or is attempting to discredit her because they’re scared of how damning this testimony is,” tweeted former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, who resigned after Jan. 6. “For those complaining of ‘hearsay,’ I imagine the Jan. 6 committee would welcome any of those involved to deny these allegations under oath.” ( Mick Mulvaney )

As Hutchinson laid out, Trump was not only aware that many in the rally crowd were heavily armed, he seemed to be counting on it. He got angry with the Secret Service for not letting people with AR-15s and body armor clamor to his side during the rally, saying, according to Hutchinson, “I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.” He demanded that the armed thugs that support him “march to the Capitol from here.”

Trump knew they were armed. Yet he directed his supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6. He then repeatedly insisted on being the head of the mob. When Secret Service wouldn’t let him, he yelled, “I’m the f-ing president! Take me up to the Capitol now!” and physically attacked the agent driving th

Source: Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise Jan. 6 testimony exposes the violence that fuels Trumpism | Salon.com

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Old Dog Thought; Senator Hollie Hughes and Peter Dutton are importing American Culture War to Australian Politics

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Informed Comment

Cuddly Pete – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The success of Rupert’s exercise in spraying cologne on a chum bucket is yet to be proven but it is off to a bad start. Leave aside for the moment that Spud, sorry…Cuddles, is a 20 metre swimmer in a 50 metre pool who thinks shit takes are Japanese mushrooms and Feng Shui is a Chinese tennis player – in his first press conference as Lib leader Spuddley Too-right said; “I want to give you this assurance, we’ve heard loud and clear from the [partisanship-weary] Australian public” to be qualified a short time later with “Our job is to make things difficult for the Government“…so, lessons learnt, eh? Back to an obstructionist, Abbottesque future where after only three weeks Cuddles’ troops are laying the blame for nine years of Tory corruption, incompetence and wreckage at Labor’s feet.

Source: Cuddly Pete – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Opinion

Independents spit the dummy over Albanese’s staff cuts proposal

Independents spit the dummy over Albanese’s staff cuts proposal

Independents spit the dummy over Albanese’s staff cuts proposal

Yet again we, the hapless electorate, find ourselves an unwilling and exasperated audience for the performance of melodramatic spats that could and should be resolved by negotiation between the parties involved. The bad faith of the Independents who took this to media as their first, rather than their last resort, cannot be overlooked.

Their threat to block legislation over this matter is unconscionable. MPs and senators would do well to recognise that the electorate has in the main lost patience with belligerence and histrionics of the kind that has wrought so much havoc on our country for the last nine years.

If you’re going to throw all your toys out of the cot at the first obstacle you encounter, maybe you’re in the wrong job and maybe in three years’ time, we’ll sack you like we sacked your predecessors.

Media, Media Wars

Journalists need to listen to media critique before it’s too late

Before journalists can repair their broken institution, they first need to admit they have a problem.

But while journalists behave like they are untouchable and beyond critique, Australian news media standards will continue to degrade, and audience trust will decline.

When journalists are criticised, whether it be instances of bias, misrepresentation, factual errors or terrible ethics on display, we see a familiar pattern. First, they complain of “trolling” and “abuse” from whoever it is who points out their flaws. Then their colleagues jump in to defend them and join in the chorus of criticism against those who complain. Rinse, repeat.

This collective circling of the wagons and in-group defensiveness creates an impenetrable culture that refuses to self-reflect or confront problems from within. Like a snake eating itself, this downward spiral is unsustainable.

Journalists need to listen to media critique before it’s too late

COVID-19

We need to brace for a tsunami of long COVID. But we’re not quite sure the best way to treat it

Australia’s Omicron wave earlier this year was much larger than we thought, recent research has confirmed. We also heard Health Minister Mark Butler acknowledge Australia can expect a “very big wave” of people with long COVID over the next few years.

Source: We need to brace for a tsunami of long COVID. But we’re not quite sure the best way to treat it

Israel

Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians

Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians

“We are now in the sixtieth year of the Nakba. There are those who dance now on our graves, and they consider us their feast. But the Nakba is not a memory; it is a continuous uprooting that makes Palestinians more worried about their existence. The Nakba continues because the occupation continues. Continuing occupation means the continuation of the war. This permanent war waged by Israel against us is not a war to defend its existence; it is a war over our existence. The conflict is not, therefore, a conflict between two existences, as the Israeli discourse promotes . . . You are here, dear friends, to see the facts for how they are. Yesterday we celebrated together the end of apartheid in South Africa. And here you see it thriving . . . in all of its power.”

Apartheid: How a Reluctant UN Official Was convinced to so Describe Israeli Policies toward Palestinians
Russia

Scores Feared Dead and Wounded as Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Shopping Centeriles,

“People just burned alive,” said Ukraine’s interior minister, while the head of the Poltava region stated that “it is too early to talk about the final number of the killed.”

Scores Feared Dead and Wounded as Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Shopping Center
Capitalism

How Corporate America Uses ESG to Polish Its Image

Green-Colored Glasses

Private Prisons Are a Socially Responsible Investment, According to Bizarre Wall Street Measures

“We didn’t change any business practices. It’s a charade, yet no one questions this stuff,” he added. “It sounds good, but it doesn’t do anything.

How Corporate America Uses ESG to Polish Its Image
Trump

Trump Continues To Build the Jan. 6 Committee’s Case Against Him | The Smirking Chimp

Trump is still crying out for War, “stand back” and “stand by”. If nothing untoward occurred why did so many of his activist supporters beg for pardons well before the Committee even came to being?

Carpenter, in a listicle published by the conservative website The Bulwark on June 21, lays out three ways in which Trump continues to prove that the committee’s arguments against him are spot on: (1) “Trump is still targeting Pence,” (2) “Trump is still defending the rioters,” and (3) “Trump is still using inciteful rhetoric.”

Source: Trump Continues To Build the Jan. 6 Committee’s Case Against Him | The Smirking Chimp

Informed Comment

Informed Comment- Robert Reich, Grim State of America
Informed Comment

Poll: SCOTUS Anti-Abortion Ruling Could Motivate Strong Dem Turnout in Midterms

New polling taken directly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned abortion rights that were recognized in Roe v. Wade finds that voters are more likely to back candidates in this year’s midterms who support reestablishing abortion rights through federal legislation.

According to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll conducted over the weekend, 56 percent of Americans do not support the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the conservative majority ruled to undo the abortion protections established in Roe. Fifty-five percent of respondents said that they think of themselves as mostly supporting abortion rights, while only 36 percent said that they opposed those types of rights.

Poll: SCOTUS Anti-Abortion Ruling Could Motivate Strong Dem Turnout in Midterms
Uncategorized

Old Dog Thought- paving the way back to Abbott?

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Informed Comment

The world is now a much better place, not just Australia

Will this trend towards progressive governments continue? With elections later this year in Sweden, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Austria, Israel and Slovenia, we shall soon see.

Source: The world is now a much better place, not just Australia